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Elle
4 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Elle
Julia Fox and Richie Shazam Are Selling Off Their Designer-Filled Wardrobes To Support Trans Rights
This Pride Month, let your impulse purchases go to a good cause. Cult favorite New York City-based fundraising label Mother, Daughter, Holy Spirit (MDHS) has marshaled the forces (and celebrity power) of the city's fashion industry to raise money and awareness for the Trans Justice Funding Project. Beginning today, you can shop the designer-filled closets of Julia Fox and Richie Shazam, who have donated pieces alongside models and icons including Tommy Dorfman, Chloë Sevigny, and Hari Nef. Founded by Bobbi Salvör Menuez and John Mollett, MDHS has been dedicated to advocating for trans rights. In the process, it has built a fiercely supportive community, attracting stars including Madonna and Alex Consani (who walked the organization's secondhand-filled runway show in Valentino alongside actress Cynthia Nixon earlier this spring). 'I think through the perilous times and the climate that we're living in right now, community support is really vital. Whatever we can do to be of service is important,' model Richie Shazam tells ELLE. According to the ACLU, in the first half of 2025 alone, over 500 anti-LGBT+ bills have been introduced in the United States. She adds of the label, 'This organization operates like a heartbeat in New York, filled with really incredible characters and personalities and people all working with a common goal.' In addition to the celebrity closet sale, from which you can snag archival Jean Paul Gaultier, Marni, Willy Chavarria, Tanner Fletcher, and more, MDHS tapped White Lotus actress Aimee Lou Wood and her sister Emily alongside City Girls rapper JT to design exclusive T-shirts as a part of the brand's Pride Month initiatives. All proceeds of both sales will go directly to the Trans Justice Funding Project. Shazam and Fox's closet items and the Pride Month T-shirts are available online now at
Straits Times
a day ago
- General
- Straits Times
When rich college kids dump designer items worth over $1,000
Ms Lena Geller with a toaster oven left behind when Duke University students moved out of her apartment complex at the end of the semester. PHOTO: CORNELL WATSON/NYTIMES Valentino sneakers that retail for US$980 (S$1,255). A Tovala toaster oven, originally US$390. A Clear Home Design Lucite table, which would have cost US$899 – except in this case, it was free. Ms Lena Geller found those items, and many others, in the dump of her apartment building in Durham, North Carolina, after scores of Duke University students had moved out at the end of the spring semester. Join ST's Telegram channel and get the latest breaking news delivered to you.
Daily Mail
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Naomi Watts and her lookalike daughter Kai Schreiber pose up a storm at Armani Beauty event in New York City
Naomi Watts and her lookalike daughter Kai Schreiber posed up a storm as they attended a Armani Beauty celebrating Luminous Silk Foundation and Concealer. The King Kong actress, 56, and her model daughter, 16, who she shares with actor Liev Schreiber, were among the stars at Wednesday's event, held at Twenty Three Grand in New York City. Naomi looked effortlessly chic as she donned a navy sparkly smock dress, featuring a boat neckline and draping fabric with stilettos. She was joined by her daughter Kai, who had her modelling debut at Paris Fashion Week for Valentino earlier this year. For the occasion, Kai wore a black high-neck sweater covered in multicoloured polka dots with a matching skirt. Naomi was seen helping her daughter with her make-up in sweet snaps from the event. Kai, who is transgender, recently spoke in-depth about how she had struggled 'with gender identity from a young age' and 'always wanted to grow up and be a beautiful, glamorous, influential woman, like Marilyn ' Monroe. She told Interview Magazine she has studied how people in the transgender community navigated stormy waters in the past. The daughter of the Ray Donovan star, 57, and two-time Oscar nominee, 56, named figures she found inspirational 'as a young trans girl' navigating life through turbulent times for the community. 'I'm always going to look up to the older generation of transgender people, especially in fashion,' Kai told the magazine. 'People like Alex Consani, Hunter Schafer, Hari Nef, Dara, Richie Shazam, Colin Jones, and so many more,' Kai said. 'It's so great that there's a strong community of us in the fashion world; it's really a doll takeover.' The nepo baby said that she had a breakthrough earlier this year when working for the fashion house Valentino. 'That job made me realise, 'OK, this is what I want to do,' Kai said. ' I want to be a supermodel. Period.' Kai opened up to the publication about what she's been doing in terms of honing her craft as a regular presence on the catwalk. Naomi looked effortlessly chic as she donned a navy sparkly smock dress, featuring a boat neckline and draping fabric with stilettos 'I've been practising my walks in the kitchen for years; my mom can show you all the videos I forced her to film,' Kai said. Kai also opened up about her fashion preferences in the wide-ranging chat with the publication - joking she's 'basic, but in a chic way.' Kai said of her couture choices: ' I love my low-rise jeans and black cardigan. That's my go-to outfit. I love when people have their own personal style. 'If you're presenting yourself in a unique, cool way, people are immediately drawn in and want to know more. If every person was walking around in the same outfit, fashion wouldn't be a thing.' Kai said that 'the world [is] more fun' with fashion in the mix. She took to Instagram to thank those involved with the feature as she said: 'I can't put into words how excited & grateful I am for this project. Thank you to the Interview team for the opportunity, and thank you Dara & everyone for making it such a fun and comfortable experience for me on set.' Naomi said on her Instagram that Kai was 'continuing to kill it' and that she was 'proud' of her. Kai has received public support from both of her famed folks, as Liev told Variety last month about what he felt was the most impactful moment as the parent of a trans child. 'Kai was always who Kai is,' The Manchurian Candidate actor said. 'But I suppose the most profound moment was her asking us to change her pronouns. 'To be honest with you, it didn't feel like that big of a deal to me only because Kai had been so feminine for so long.'
Elle
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Elle
Selena Gomez Had a One-Word Response to Miley Cyrus's Skintight Leopard-Print Minidress
THE RUNDOWN Even Selena Gomez was floored by Miley Cyrus's wardrobe during the press tour for her new visual album, Something Beautiful. The star posted a public shout-out to Cyrus on Instagram, regramming the shot Cyrus shared of herself in the skintight Valentino leopard-print dress she wore yesterday. Gomez's one-word response said it all: 'Icon.' Cyrus wore a black jeweled minidress with an Eiffel Tower design on it, too: Gomez, a longtime friend of Cyrus's, showed her support in late May as well. She posted a photo of Cyrus in a cropped black suit jacket, a white blouse, and pants to her Instagram Story, writing, 'EVERYTHING,' with a heart-eyes emoji. Cyrus and Gomez both had their breakout roles on the Disney Channel during their adolescence. In 2020, Gomez had a big moment on Cyrus's Instagram series Bright Minded, revealing during the interview that she had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. She went to 'one of the best mental hospitals,' in the U.S., and 'I discussed that after years of going through a lot of different things, I realized that I was bipolar,' Gomez said. 'And so when I go to know more information, it actually helps me. It doesn't scare me once I know it.' Prior to her appearance on the show, the pair reconnected over Instagram DM. Gomez kicked off the conversation by sending Cyrus a butterfly emoji. 'I think you're one of the greatest singers ever,' Gomez told her on Bright Minded. 'And I just was so happy that I even got this opportunity to talk to you about some of the most incredible people.'
Vogue
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Vogue
Valentino Resort 2026 Collection
Alessandro Michele's creations for Valentino speak in their own patois—a babel of idioms framed in cinematic staging and high-pitched ornamentations. Their finesse—the delicate cuts, the intricacies, the craft of the atelier—can sometimes get hushed, overshadowed by the drama. But in bare-boned resort showrooms, stripped of runway spectacle and creative narratives, clothes speak plainly like truth-tellers. Some sing, some whisper, and some just fall silent. Turning a potential cacophony of 132 looks into a symphonic whole demands a designer not only gifted with 'a lot of imagination' (as Michele described himself to my colleague Sarah Mower in her spring couture review), but almost possessed by the djinn of assemblage. Yet even obsessions can apparently be house-trained. Resort proved that Michele can, somehow, resist the siren call of maximal accessorizing—though for him theatricality, being almost a birthright, always lurks in the wings. In the lookbook, models were shot sprawled across a pristine bed draped in pink quilted satin. No hints of dangerous liaisons here, just innocent recreational pastimes: brushing hair, nibbling breakfast, doing crosswords, and engaging in polite tête-à-têtes. The blush-toned tableau stood in stark contrast to the fierce blood-red-public restroom set of the fall show—a sort of calming turning of the page, innocuous and pacifying, the meaning of which, absent the designer to enlighten us, we can only presume. What didn't require explanation, however, was the collection's sheer breadth: a prolific, multifarious range of Michele-isms cutting across day, night, and everything in between. New seasonal additions riffed on the suit, featuring fitted, cinched-waisted, petite jackets worn over cropped flares, or over bermudas as roomy as skirts. Graphic, outlined, neat trapeze silhouettes in black-and-white alternated with the flou of billowing plissé gowns printed with florals or Plus de Pois polka-dots. Eveningwear had a more laid-back edge, a chic standout being a white one-sleeve blouse paired with a sleek floor-length black skirt. There was more rewriting of Valentino Garavani's famed draping playbook, too: Look 1 offered a ruched Valentino-red minidress straight from the archive, its bodice pleats gathered in frontal cutouts. And the bow, another Garavani favorite, dotted everything from hems to heeled mules like a frivolous punctuation mark. On the decorative side, Gobelins tapestries were crafted into boxy waistcoats trimmed with marabou and fringed micro shorts (a Gen Z glow-up perhaps). Elsewhere Michele's urge for embellishment—seen in a series of embroidered and sequined fabulous showstoppers, often paired with matching capelets edged in curled feathers—was interrupted by luscious, slender and elegant evening gowns in plain soft pastels or classic black. Le jeune homme Valentino dialed down the decadence and went more formally tailored, with discreet torchon piping or printed edges as the only indulgence to decoration. Though decoration did eventually return in full for evening, with robe jackets lavishly embellished and cinched with sashes, and floral Gobelin tapestries making maximalist appearances on waistcoats. Sprawled across soft, padded beds in fluffy harlequin cardigans or sweaters jacquarded with tiny felines, the boys seem to doze off, blissfully unbothered by controversy. Reality has turned a bit too sharp around the edges, and with the world growing less hospitable by the hour, who isn'tco tempted to bury their head under a pillow, and call it a catnap? Arrivederci
