The 32nd annual Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Awards Viewing Party co-hosted by Elton John, David Furnish, Neil Patrick Harris, David Burtka and Tiffany Haddish raised a record-breaking $10,800,000 million in support of the Foundation’s lifesaving work to end the AIDS epidemic.
Elton John and David Furnish speak onstage at the Elton John AIDS Foundation's 32nd Annual Academy Awards Viewing Party
Credit/Copyright: Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Elton John AIDS Foundation
The star-studded gala took place on Sunday, March 10 at West Hollywood Park in Los Angeles and featured an unforgettable show-stopping performance of “Are You Ready For Love” by R&b-Soul-Pop Trio Gabriels and Elton John. The Foundation extends heartfelt gratitude to the generous donors, sponsors, and supporters whose unwavering commitment made this incredible achievement in the Foundation’s history possible.
Presenting Sponsors of the event include A+E Networks, Chopard, Gilead Sciences, Health Care Advocates International, Robert and Dana Kraft,...
Elton John and David Furnish speak onstage at the Elton John AIDS Foundation's 32nd Annual Academy Awards Viewing Party
Credit/Copyright: Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Elton John AIDS Foundation
The star-studded gala took place on Sunday, March 10 at West Hollywood Park in Los Angeles and featured an unforgettable show-stopping performance of “Are You Ready For Love” by R&b-Soul-Pop Trio Gabriels and Elton John. The Foundation extends heartfelt gratitude to the generous donors, sponsors, and supporters whose unwavering commitment made this incredible achievement in the Foundation’s history possible.
Presenting Sponsors of the event include A+E Networks, Chopard, Gilead Sciences, Health Care Advocates International, Robert and Dana Kraft,...
- 3/12/2024
- Look to the Stars
Warner Bros. Discovery packed in the stars for studio’s 100th anniversary celebration at the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday evening, even if the party itself, co-hosted by Air Mail, was a glamorous yet subdued affair.
Celebrities still came out to toast WB’s centenary at Cannes fete mainstay Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc with Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Scarlett Johansson, Jason Statham with Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, John C. Reilly, Paul Dano, Eva Longoria, Rebel Wilson, pop star Sting and filmmaker wife Trudie Styler, The Weeknd, Eva Longoria, Tom Hanks, Adrien Body, Ari Emanuel, Charlotte Casiraghi, Fan Bingbing, Irina Shayk, Daphne Guinness, Jeremy O.Harris, Ivy Getty and Boy George among the VIPs spotted.
Scorsese arrived with a toddler — later identified as his grandchild — and De Niro with partner Tiffany Chen. Several actors from HBO’s new series The Idol, which had its world premiere at the fest, also turned up for the bash,...
Celebrities still came out to toast WB’s centenary at Cannes fete mainstay Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc with Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Scarlett Johansson, Jason Statham with Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, John C. Reilly, Paul Dano, Eva Longoria, Rebel Wilson, pop star Sting and filmmaker wife Trudie Styler, The Weeknd, Eva Longoria, Tom Hanks, Adrien Body, Ari Emanuel, Charlotte Casiraghi, Fan Bingbing, Irina Shayk, Daphne Guinness, Jeremy O.Harris, Ivy Getty and Boy George among the VIPs spotted.
Scorsese arrived with a toddler — later identified as his grandchild — and De Niro with partner Tiffany Chen. Several actors from HBO’s new series The Idol, which had its world premiere at the fest, also turned up for the bash,...
- 5/24/2023
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Inside Another Fabulous Cannes Party: Dancing David Zaslav, Leonardo DiCaprio and Scarlett Johansson
The upper deck at France’s Hotel Du-Cap-Eden-Roc offers a stunning coastal view of nearby city Cannes, the kind that Jay Gatsby would covet to peep Daisy Buchanan.
On Tuesday, at one of the hottest parties at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, that view belonged to Graydon Carter. Standing alone with his wife Anna Carter, the creator of the digital publication Air Mail and former editor of Vanity Fair observed not a long-lost love but a cliffside full of movie stars, auteur directors and Hollywood power players.
Carter’s Air Mail co-hosted an evening celebrating the 100-year anniversary of Warner Bros. Pictures, the latter represented by Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav and his top content lieutenants. Leonardo DiCaprio, Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost, Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese, Lily-Rose Depp, Sam Levinson, Jason Statham and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Rebel Wilson and more turned up to toast cinema and each other.
On Tuesday, at one of the hottest parties at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, that view belonged to Graydon Carter. Standing alone with his wife Anna Carter, the creator of the digital publication Air Mail and former editor of Vanity Fair observed not a long-lost love but a cliffside full of movie stars, auteur directors and Hollywood power players.
Carter’s Air Mail co-hosted an evening celebrating the 100-year anniversary of Warner Bros. Pictures, the latter represented by Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav and his top content lieutenants. Leonardo DiCaprio, Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost, Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese, Lily-Rose Depp, Sam Levinson, Jason Statham and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Rebel Wilson and more turned up to toast cinema and each other.
- 5/24/2023
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
John le Carre’s George Smiley would have spotted the tail immediately. He would have noticed the man with an earpiece far to his left move in lockstep with the chap to his right.
The early rather odd conversation with the bloke in the white shirt, exposing chest hair, who identified himself as “head of security” would have put him on his guard and seen it for what it was: a warning.
Let me back up a bit.
Snowy-haired Michel, the head doorman at Eden-Roc, greeted me when I arrived for the Air Mail-Warner Bros. Party hosted by Graydon Carter, founder and co-editor of newsletter Air Mail, and David Zaslav, the CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery.
David Zaslav chatting to a guest at the Air Mail-Warner Bros Party.Photo Bamigboye/Deadline
Guests are finishing dinner, we’re here for the after-party.
The place sure looks swell. There’s a...
The early rather odd conversation with the bloke in the white shirt, exposing chest hair, who identified himself as “head of security” would have put him on his guard and seen it for what it was: a warning.
Let me back up a bit.
Snowy-haired Michel, the head doorman at Eden-Roc, greeted me when I arrived for the Air Mail-Warner Bros. Party hosted by Graydon Carter, founder and co-editor of newsletter Air Mail, and David Zaslav, the CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery.
David Zaslav chatting to a guest at the Air Mail-Warner Bros Party.Photo Bamigboye/Deadline
Guests are finishing dinner, we’re here for the after-party.
The place sure looks swell. There’s a...
- 5/24/2023
- by Baz Bamigboye
- Deadline Film + TV
For this season of “RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars,” RuPaul Charles brought back eight crowned queens to compete again for the chance to be named “Queen of All Queens,” earn a second crown, and take home a cash prize of 200,000. On Friday, May 20, the first two episodes of the new season dropped on Paramount Plus. We were re-introduced to Shea Couleé, Jaida Essence Hall, Yvie Oddly, Trinity the Tuck, Monét X Change, Jinkx Monsoon, Raja, and The Vivienne with the reading mini challenge and two iconic maxi challenges, the Ru-mix and “Snatch Game.”
In episode 2, titled “Snatch Game,” the eight queens participated in the iconic challenge not once, but twice with two different celebrity impersonations. Which queens earned the week’s Legendary Legend Stars and which of the two got to block another queen for the next week? Check out our recap of the episode below:
Following Shea’s win,...
In episode 2, titled “Snatch Game,” the eight queens participated in the iconic challenge not once, but twice with two different celebrity impersonations. Which queens earned the week’s Legendary Legend Stars and which of the two got to block another queen for the next week? Check out our recap of the episode below:
Following Shea’s win,...
- 5/21/2022
- by John Benutty
- Gold Derby
An all-winners season of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars requires an all-winners panel of guest judges, and that’s exactly what we’re getting.
The Season 7 trailer has arrived, revealing a star-studded assemblage of guests: Cameron Diaz, Daphne Guinness, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman, Nikki Glaser, Tove Lo, Betsey Johnson, Janicza Bravo, Ben Platt, Ronan Farrow and Hannah Einbinder.
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We can...
The Season 7 trailer has arrived, revealing a star-studded assemblage of guests: Cameron Diaz, Daphne Guinness, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman, Nikki Glaser, Tove Lo, Betsey Johnson, Janicza Bravo, Ben Platt, Ronan Farrow and Hannah Einbinder.
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We can...
- 4/23/2022
- by Andy Swift
- TVLine.com
Paramount+ has ru-vealed more than just the trailer for the latest RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars, unveiling that Cameron Diaz, Nancy Pelosi, Naomi Campbell and Ronan Farrow will be among the buzzy names set to appear in season 7. During the Drag Race Season 14 Grand Finale on Friday, Paramount+ shared a teaser for the upcoming All Stars season, which will feature an all-winners lineup of contestants. Diaz and Farrow will serve as guest judges during the season alongside Daphne Guinness, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman, Nikki Glaser, Tove Lo, Betsey Johnson, Janicza Bravo, Ben Platt, Ronan Farrow and Hannah Einbinder. United States House Speaker Pelosi and fashion icon Campbell will make special guest appearances throughout the season, as will Wheel of Fortune’s Vanna White. For RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Season 7, former winners compete for the title of “Queen of All Queen”s and a cash prize of 200,000. All Stars will...
- 4/23/2022
- by Alexandra Del Rosario
- Deadline Film + TV
Start your engines, and may the best winner win (again)!
During the season finale of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” on Friday night, fans got an extended first look at Season 7 of “All Stars,” which will feature a cast of eight previous winners for the first time ever. The trailer revealed some of the upcoming season’s celebrity guests, including supermodel Naomi Campbell, “Charlie’s Angels” star Cameron Diaz, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and journalist Ronan Farrow.
The new season is set to premiere May 20 on Paramount+, as the cast competes for the title of “Queen of All Queens” and a cash prize of 200,000, the highest in the franchise’s “herstory.” Additional judges and guests for Season 7 include Daphne Guinness, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman, Nikki Glaser, Tove Lo, Betsey Johnson, Janicza Bravo, Ben Platt, Hannah Einbinder and Vanna White.
The trailer revealed snippets of some of the cast’s runway looks, competitive strategies and tearful exchanges,...
During the season finale of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” on Friday night, fans got an extended first look at Season 7 of “All Stars,” which will feature a cast of eight previous winners for the first time ever. The trailer revealed some of the upcoming season’s celebrity guests, including supermodel Naomi Campbell, “Charlie’s Angels” star Cameron Diaz, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and journalist Ronan Farrow.
The new season is set to premiere May 20 on Paramount+, as the cast competes for the title of “Queen of All Queens” and a cash prize of 200,000, the highest in the franchise’s “herstory.” Additional judges and guests for Season 7 include Daphne Guinness, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman, Nikki Glaser, Tove Lo, Betsey Johnson, Janicza Bravo, Ben Platt, Hannah Einbinder and Vanna White.
The trailer revealed snippets of some of the cast’s runway looks, competitive strategies and tearful exchanges,...
- 4/23/2022
- by Sasha Urban
- Variety Film + TV
Daphne Guinness has released a new music video for “Heaven,” directed by famed visual artist David Lachapelle.
The video tells the tale of a decadent romance between an older woman and a young, angelic man. Guinness and her lover appear in plenty of gilded, campy outfits and environments, fitting for the song’s disco influence. As their love grows, she remains the same age, but the man ages, until he appears close to death at the end of the video. Nevertheless, she remains by his side, taking care of him in his elderly age.
The video tells the tale of a decadent romance between an older woman and a young, angelic man. Guinness and her lover appear in plenty of gilded, campy outfits and environments, fitting for the song’s disco influence. As their love grows, she remains the same age, but the man ages, until he appears close to death at the end of the video. Nevertheless, she remains by his side, taking care of him in his elderly age.
- 10/16/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
Drag fans have latched onto “Schitt’s Creek” character Moira Rose (Catherine O’Hara), whose outfits, hair and makeup are often akin to the styles donned by drag queens around the country.
The show rose to popularity in recent years, and the central family became iconic for both their personalities and their wardrobe choices, much like the “RuPaul’s Drag Race” star, RuPaul. Emmy winning costume designer, Zaldy, joined “Schitt’s Creek” star Dan Levy (who also serves as the show’s producer) and assistant costume designer Darci Cheyne in the Variety Streaming Room, moderated by Variety‘s Jazz Tangcay.
Throughout the conversation, the designers discussed how looks are influenced by the person wearing them, the storytelling power of clothing and the inspiration behind wardrobe evolutions in both shows.
“Oftentimes I feel like costume design is really not prioritized, or it’s not utilized in the way that it could be, because the way we conduct ourselves,...
The show rose to popularity in recent years, and the central family became iconic for both their personalities and their wardrobe choices, much like the “RuPaul’s Drag Race” star, RuPaul. Emmy winning costume designer, Zaldy, joined “Schitt’s Creek” star Dan Levy (who also serves as the show’s producer) and assistant costume designer Darci Cheyne in the Variety Streaming Room, moderated by Variety‘s Jazz Tangcay.
Throughout the conversation, the designers discussed how looks are influenced by the person wearing them, the storytelling power of clothing and the inspiration behind wardrobe evolutions in both shows.
“Oftentimes I feel like costume design is really not prioritized, or it’s not utilized in the way that it could be, because the way we conduct ourselves,...
- 8/26/2020
- by Eli Countryman
- Variety Film + TV
Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara have been collaborating for more than 40 years, first at Second City, the comedy theater troupe that evolved into the sketch television show “Sctv.” Between 1996 and 2006, they shared the screen in four Christopher Guest comedies — “Waiting for Guffman,” “Best in Show,” “A Mighty Wind” and “For Your Consideration” — each co-written by Guest and Levy.
Since 2015, O’Hara and Levy have played Johnny and Moira Rose on “Schitt’s Creek,” as the patriarch and matriarch of a wealthy family forced to relocate after losing their fortune. Over lunch in late February to discuss the sitcom’s final season, the duo quoted liberally from their joint repertoire of work, frequently making each other laugh.
After the meal ended and Levy and O’Hara left the restaurant, a couple at the next table asked whether they were married in real life, and seemed disappointed to hear that they’re not.
Since 2015, O’Hara and Levy have played Johnny and Moira Rose on “Schitt’s Creek,” as the patriarch and matriarch of a wealthy family forced to relocate after losing their fortune. Over lunch in late February to discuss the sitcom’s final season, the duo quoted liberally from their joint repertoire of work, frequently making each other laugh.
After the meal ended and Levy and O’Hara left the restaurant, a couple at the next table asked whether they were married in real life, and seemed disappointed to hear that they’re not.
- 4/7/2020
- by Kate Aurthur
- Variety Film + TV
“The Times They Are a Changin'” pretty well sums up this year’s Emmy craft contenders for production and costume design. The series all deal with social, political and cultural upheaval, which provided creative opportunities in designing and dressing characters on the cusp of change.
Production Design
In the race for production design (fantasy or contemporary), Amazon’s adaptation of Philip K.Dick’s “The Man in the High Castle” is building buzz for its retro-future vision, in which the Nazis and Japanese won World War II.
For production designer Drew Boughton, that meant three distinct looks for New York City (run by the Nazis), San Francisco (occupied by the Japanese) and Canon City, Colorado (the neutral zone). New York offered an austere, concrete, gray vibe reminiscent of the Eastern block, San Francisco went more wood and aqua blue and Canon City was rural, like a Western.
“What are the...
Production Design
In the race for production design (fantasy or contemporary), Amazon’s adaptation of Philip K.Dick’s “The Man in the High Castle” is building buzz for its retro-future vision, in which the Nazis and Japanese won World War II.
For production designer Drew Boughton, that meant three distinct looks for New York City (run by the Nazis), San Francisco (occupied by the Japanese) and Canon City, Colorado (the neutral zone). New York offered an austere, concrete, gray vibe reminiscent of the Eastern block, San Francisco went more wood and aqua blue and Canon City was rural, like a Western.
“What are the...
- 8/12/2016
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Sex on a canvas … check.
Lady Gaga and Taylor Kinney have officially crossed an item off of their bucket list.
As guest editor of V magazine's Pre-Spring Issue (V99) – which features a record number of 16 covers – the singer posed with those "who have kept me and protected me over the years, because they've wanted me to survive" – one being her fiancé, Kinney.
"I could not complete the covers of this issue without relinquishing one to an important cause," Lady Gaga says of the shot, which shows the couple nude and smothered in paint in a mirror selfie taken by Kinney.
Lady Gaga and Taylor Kinney have officially crossed an item off of their bucket list.
As guest editor of V magazine's Pre-Spring Issue (V99) – which features a record number of 16 covers – the singer posed with those "who have kept me and protected me over the years, because they've wanted me to survive" – one being her fiancé, Kinney.
"I could not complete the covers of this issue without relinquishing one to an important cause," Lady Gaga says of the shot, which shows the couple nude and smothered in paint in a mirror selfie taken by Kinney.
- 1/8/2016
- by Nicole Sands, @nicolesands901
- People.com - TV Watch
Sex on a canvas … check. Lady Gaga and Taylor Kinney have officially crossed an item off of their bucket list. As guest editor of V magazine's Pre-Spring Issue (V99) - which features a record number of 16 covers - the singer posed with those "who have kept me and protected me over the years, because they've wanted me to survive" - one being her fiancé, Kinney. "I could not complete the covers of this issue without relinquishing one to an important cause," Lady Gaga says of the shot, which shows the couple nude and smothered in paint in a mirror selfie taken by Kinney.
- 1/8/2016
- by Nicole Sands, @nicolesands901
- PEOPLE.com
Sex on a canvas … check. Lady Gaga and Taylor Kinney have officially crossed an item off of their bucket list. As guest editor of V magazine's Pre-Spring Issue (V99) - which features a record number of 16 covers - the singer posed with those "who have kept me and protected me over the years, because they've wanted me to survive" - one being her fiancé, Kinney. "I could not complete the covers of this issue without relinquishing one to an important cause," Lady Gaga says of the shot, which shows the couple nude and smothered in paint in a mirror selfie taken by Kinney.
- 1/8/2016
- by Nicole Sands, @nicolesands901
- PEOPLE.com
When Philip Treacy took some hats to the Dorchester for the movie star, he didn’t realise they’d spend the day drinking cocktails and she’d end up phoning his sister
Franca Sozzani, editor-in-chief of Vogue Italia, had decided I was to photograph Daphne Guinness for a jewellery calendar. But just as the particular photograph was about to be taken, I got a phone call saying: “Elizabeth Taylor wonders if you’d make her a hat pin?” I said: “Would you ask her if she would like a hat to go with the hat pin?”
“She says yes, and she’d like to see you now.”
Continue reading...
Franca Sozzani, editor-in-chief of Vogue Italia, had decided I was to photograph Daphne Guinness for a jewellery calendar. But just as the particular photograph was about to be taken, I got a phone call saying: “Elizabeth Taylor wonders if you’d make her a hat pin?” I said: “Would you ask her if she would like a hat to go with the hat pin?”
“She says yes, and she’d like to see you now.”
Continue reading...
- 10/4/2015
- by Philip Treacy
- The Guardian - Film News
New Yorkers came alive last night with the sound of Pharrell Williams' original score for Chanel's Paris-Salzburg 2015 Métier d’Art pre-fall collection presentation. With the usual suspects from Cara Delevingne, Kendall Jenner to Karl’s male model muse Brad Kroenig along with his son and Karl's God-son, Hudson walking the runway (which was a recreated Austrian rococo manse with various different salons and Baroque chairs in this case), the collection was just as decorative as the audience themselves from Beyoncé to Daphne Guinness with a major after party to boot.
- 4/1/2015
- Vanity Fair
Space is getting pretty crowded lately, don’t you think? Shortly after Ariana Grande’s “Break Free,” Irish brewery heiress and fashion icon Daphne Guinness released a space odyssey of her own: “Evening in Space.” And while both videos feature interplanetary chanteuses entering alien territory, that’s where the similarities end. Ariana’s plucky space heroine channels Barbarella (a... Read more »...
- 8/22/2014
- by Jessie Peterson
- MTV Music News
Artist, designer and model Daphne Guinness adds music to her CV with this new single, “Evening in Space,” produced by long-time David Bowie collaborator Tony Visconti. The video is directed by photographer and director David Lachappelle and, according to the notes, “features custom fashion by many of Guinness’ favourite houses, including Iris van Herpen and Noritaka Tatehana, alongside pieces from her own celebrated clothing collection.”...
- 8/15/2014
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Artist, designer and model Daphne Guinness adds music to her CV with this new single, “Evening in Space,” produced by long-time David Bowie collaborator Tony Visconti. The video is directed by photographer and director David Lachappelle and, according to the notes, “features custom fashion by many of Guinness’ favourite houses, including Iris van Herpen and Noritaka Tatehana, alongside pieces from her own celebrated clothing collection.”...
- 8/15/2014
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Holding a scent workshop to launch her latest fragrance, Katy Perry arrived at London’s Rosewood Hotel on last week.
While rocking a teal Versace dress, the "Firework" singer teamed up with perfumer Pierre Negrin to answer fans questions about her new scent and general fragrance knowledge.
“I’m very curious — whenever I do something, I want to know about the whole process, how it happens — do you take those flowers [in the fragrance] and just steam the oil out? How does that happen, how do you get there?”
Perry helped re-create her fragrance from various editorial notes. The scents include pink freesia, jasmine and blackthorn, which Katy chose for its supposed “mystical properties.”
“They used to use it in the Middle Ages to cast spells with it, so I’m all about that,” Perry stated.
Perry also chatted about her fashion icons, “I like Liz Taylor, and I love the spontaneous excitement...
While rocking a teal Versace dress, the "Firework" singer teamed up with perfumer Pierre Negrin to answer fans questions about her new scent and general fragrance knowledge.
“I’m very curious — whenever I do something, I want to know about the whole process, how it happens — do you take those flowers [in the fragrance] and just steam the oil out? How does that happen, how do you get there?”
Perry helped re-create her fragrance from various editorial notes. The scents include pink freesia, jasmine and blackthorn, which Katy chose for its supposed “mystical properties.”
“They used to use it in the Middle Ages to cast spells with it, so I’m all about that,” Perry stated.
Perry also chatted about her fashion icons, “I like Liz Taylor, and I love the spontaneous excitement...
- 6/2/2014
- GossipCenter
Fresh off the exciting release of her brand new Sjp shoe line, Sarah Jessica Parker covers the May 2014 issue of InStyle UK magazine.
While striking a few poses for the Giampaolo Sgura-shot spread, the former "Sex and the City" starlet opened up about everything from her love for fashion to juggling her work and personal schedules.
Check out a few highlights from Miss Parker's interview below. For more, be sure to visit InStyle UK!
On her sense of fashion:
"I think Daphne Guinness or Lady Gaga or Madonna - people like that are daring. But I do love fantasy, color and the idea of no rules. You know, stripes and stripes and stripes, or every blue at once. It's good to take chances. But daring..."
On her return to acting:
"It's great. It's hard - it's a challenging role. I'm with Blythe Danner, whom I adore. We did a play together 19 years ago called 'Sylvia.
While striking a few poses for the Giampaolo Sgura-shot spread, the former "Sex and the City" starlet opened up about everything from her love for fashion to juggling her work and personal schedules.
Check out a few highlights from Miss Parker's interview below. For more, be sure to visit InStyle UK!
On her sense of fashion:
"I think Daphne Guinness or Lady Gaga or Madonna - people like that are daring. But I do love fantasy, color and the idea of no rules. You know, stripes and stripes and stripes, or every blue at once. It's good to take chances. But daring..."
On her return to acting:
"It's great. It's hard - it's a challenging role. I'm with Blythe Danner, whom I adore. We did a play together 19 years ago called 'Sylvia.
- 4/9/2014
- GossipCenter
Art Deco, flapper dresses and pearls are all the rage as fashion takes inspiration from movie set in the Roaring Twenties
When Baz Luhrmann's remake of The Great Gatsby takes the prestigious opening slot at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival in May, style-watchers are predicting a visual feast that will turn many back on to the 1920s.
Every few years, a film comes along that proves to be a source of sartorial inspiration: from Audrey Hepburn's gamine princess in Roman Holiday and Diane Keaton's androgynous style in Annie Hall, to the colonial style that swept the catwalks in the mid-80s, heavily influenced by Karen Blixen's cinematic safari in Out of Africa.
Anticipation of the sixth film adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald's novel has meant Art Deco style has already been filtering into our consciousness as designers and retailers anticipate audiences eager to mimic the opulent...
When Baz Luhrmann's remake of The Great Gatsby takes the prestigious opening slot at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival in May, style-watchers are predicting a visual feast that will turn many back on to the 1920s.
Every few years, a film comes along that proves to be a source of sartorial inspiration: from Audrey Hepburn's gamine princess in Roman Holiday and Diane Keaton's androgynous style in Annie Hall, to the colonial style that swept the catwalks in the mid-80s, heavily influenced by Karen Blixen's cinematic safari in Out of Africa.
Anticipation of the sixth film adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald's novel has meant Art Deco style has already been filtering into our consciousness as designers and retailers anticipate audiences eager to mimic the opulent...
- 3/17/2013
- by Karen Kay
- The Guardian - Film News
Daphne Guinness has been ordered to pay her neighbours substantial damages. A New York judge has ruled the fashion designer responsible for flooding Karim and Tina Samii's £7 million apartment - located below her own property in the former Stanhope Hotel in Manhattan - after allowing her bath water to overflow on three separate occasions. The style icon told the New York Post: ''All I have ever wanted is to make amends and make this right. I've always been happy to pay for their damage, and have already been doing so. I would never intentionally flood their apartment. I by no means...
- 9/27/2012
- Virgin Media - Celebrity
Daphne Guinness has been ordered to pay her neighbours substantial damages. A New York judge has ruled the fashion designer responsible for flooding Karim and Tina Samii's £7 million apartment - located below her own property in the former Stanhope Hotel in Manhattan - after allowing her bath water to overflow on three separate occasions. The style icon told the New York Post: 'All I have ever wanted is to make amends and make this right. I've always been happy to pay for their damage, and have already been doing so. I would never intentionally flood their apartment. I by no means want to be a bad neighbour. I have totally waterproofed the place and now it is the safest...
- 9/27/2012
- Monsters and Critics
Sarah Jessica Parker and Anne Hathaway both donned Valentino for last night's opening of the NYC Ballet. Sarah Jessica is a longtime supporter of the NYC dance organization, and facilitated bringing Valentino in to design costumes for the performers. Valentino spoke to us on the red carpet about the honor of working with the troupe, as well as Sjp. Sarah Jessica, who'd prepped for the night at her home with director Adam Shankman, confided in us about her favorite moment ever wearing Valentino - it was particularly special to her to celebrate Valentino's 45th anniversary in Rome at the Coliseum back in 2007. A fresh-from-la Anne was the last to arrive, and was careful to arrange her train for photographers. After hitting the red carpet, Sjp and Anne headed in for the season debut along with other celebrity guests like Karolina Kurkova, Daphne Guinness, Diane von Furstenberg, Martha Stewart, and Olivia Palermo.
- 9/21/2012
- by Allie Merriam
- Popsugar.com
Sarah Jessica Parker and Anne Hathaway both donned Valentino for last night's opening of the NYC Ballet. Sarah Jessica is a longtime supporter of the NYC dance organization, and facilitated bringing Valentino in to design costumes for the performers. Valentino spoke to us on the red carpet about the honor of working with the troupe, as well as Sjp. Sarah Jessica, who'd prepped for the night at her home with the director Adam Shankman, confided in us about her favorite moment ever wearing Valentino - it was particularly special to her to celebrate Valentino's 45th anniversary in Rome at the Coliseum back in 2007. A fresh-from-la Anne was the last to arrive, was careful to arrange her train for photographers. After hitting the red carpet, Sjp and Anne headed in for the season debut along with other celebrity guests like Karolina Kurkova, Daphne Guinness, Diane Von Furstenberg, Martha Stewart, and Olivia Palermo.
- 9/21/2012
- by Allie Merriam
- Popsugar.com
Lady GaGa reportedly paid the highest ever price for an Alexander Mcqueen design. Fashion icon Daphne Guinness put a huge collection of her haute couture wardrobe up for bidding at Christie's in London, including several items by the late designer. The 'Born This Way' singer, who was a big fan of the couturier's work, gave the charity auction a boost by outbidding rivals to buy a dress. She allegedly spent a record-breaking $136,400 via her telephone bids. The star is now the proud owner of a 2008 ivory silk gown, called 'The Girl Who Lived In The Tree', according to Britain's Associated Press. Socialite Daphne...
- 6/29/2012
- Virgin Media - Celebrity
Lady Gaga reportedly paid the highest ever price for an Alexander McQueen design. Fashion icon Daphne Guinness put a huge collection of her haute couture wardrobe up for bidding at Christie's in London, including several items by the late designer. The 'Born This Way' singer, who was a big fan of the couturier's work, gave the charity auction a boost by outbidding rivals to buy a dress. She allegedly spent a record-breaking $136,400 via her telephone bids. The star is now the proud owner of a 2008 ivory silk gown, called 'The Girl Who Lived In The Tree'. Socialite Daphne sent out a special thank...
- 6/29/2012
- Virgin Media - Celebrity
Lady Gaga reportedly paid the highest ever price for an Alexander McQueen design. Fashion icon Daphne Guinness put a huge collection of her haute couture wardrobe up for bidding at Christie's in London, including several items by the late designer. The 'Born This Way' singer, who was a big fan of the couturier's work, gave the charity auction a boost by outbidding rivals to buy a dress. She allegedly spent a record-breaking $136,400 via her telephone bids. The star is now the proud owner of a 2008 ivory silk gown, called 'The Girl Who Lived In The Tree'. Socialite Daphne sent out a special thank you message to Lady Gaga for her huge purchase. Daphne said: 'I'm overwhelmed by how...
- 6/29/2012
- Monsters and Critics
Lady GaGa reportedly paid the highest ever price for an Alexander Mcqueen design. Fashion icon Daphne Guinness put a huge collection of her haute couture wardrobe up for bidding at Christie's in London, including several items by the late designer. The 'Born This Way' singer, who was a big fan of the couturier's work, gave the charity auction a boost by outbidding rivals to buy a dress. She allegedly spent a record-breaking $136,400 via her telephone bids. The star is now the proud owner of a 2008 ivory silk gown, called 'The Girl Who Lived In The Tree', according to Britain's Associated Press. Socialite Daphne sent out a special thank you message to Lady GaGa for her huge purchase. Daphne...
- 6/29/2012
- Monsters and Critics
Lady Gaga broke a world record on Wednesday night, but it had nothing to do with her music career. The famed singer paid $133,075 for a dress from the late designer Alexander McQueen, the highest price ever paid for a McQueen creation at an auction. The auction was held at Christie’s in London and featured the personal collection of artist and fashion collector Daphne Guinness. It raised $744,285, four times the pre-sale estimate, to benefit the Isabella Blow Foundation. Founded by Guinness to honor her friend, the fashion muse and editor who died in 2007, the foundation supports
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- 6/28/2012
- by Brandon Kirby
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
At a record-breaking auction of the wardrobe of heiress and fashion icon Daphne Guinness, Lady Gaga paid $133,075 for a gown made by late British designer Alexander McQueen, setting a world record for the highest price ever paid for a McQueen dress.
The ivory silk tulle empire line gown from McQueen's "The Girl Who Lived in the Tree" collection (autumn/winter 2008-2009) was won by the singer, who called in the bid by phone from the U.S., reports Wwd. Gaga is currently trekking the globe on her "Born This Way" Ball concert tour.
Profits from the sale will go to the Isabella Blow Foundation, which Guinness founded following the death of her friend (Blow) in 2007. The organization offers a range of philanthropic options -- from bankrolling young designers to funding research into depression and mental illness.
Anothr bidder also paid $208,003 for a portrait of Guinness shot by famed photographer Mario Testino.
The ivory silk tulle empire line gown from McQueen's "The Girl Who Lived in the Tree" collection (autumn/winter 2008-2009) was won by the singer, who called in the bid by phone from the U.S., reports Wwd. Gaga is currently trekking the globe on her "Born This Way" Ball concert tour.
Profits from the sale will go to the Isabella Blow Foundation, which Guinness founded following the death of her friend (Blow) in 2007. The organization offers a range of philanthropic options -- from bankrolling young designers to funding research into depression and mental illness.
Anothr bidder also paid $208,003 for a portrait of Guinness shot by famed photographer Mario Testino.
- 6/28/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Boy loses girl, boy loses sleep, boy finds new girl. The trajectory of "Cashback" is boiler-plate basic, but writer-director Sean Ellis infuses it with an imaginative sensibility that engages the viewer -- to a point. Stripped of its flourishes, there's not much going on beyond a routine tale of growing pains, dressed up -- or undressed -- with philosophical fillips and wet-dream fantasy. Lead actor Sean Biggerstaff, who played Quidditch captain Oliver Wood in the first two Harry Potter films, is a definite asset here. Twentysomething male viewers can connect with his character's art-school sensitivity, romantic yearning and comedic fumbles, while enjoying the statuesque females on display.
Taking his feature bow, fashion photographer Ellis has expanded a 2004 short (contained within the feature), and the polished result demonstrates a facility for filmmaking, with able contributions from his production colleagues. Ellis' script, in particular the voiceover narration he's written for his protagonist, is exceptionally literate. Essentially, though, he doesn't have much to say.
Biggerstaff plays genial art student Ben, who's devastated by his breakup with Suzy (Michelle Ryan, soon to topline "Bionic Woman" on the small screen), an event seen in waggish operatic flashback, complete with an Ikea lamp brandished as a weapon. Suzy moves on without pause while Ben, unable to sleep, studies the-way-we-were photos at 4 a.m. by the light of the dented lamp. Thanks to Ellis' eye for offbeat quotidian details, we get a glimpse of the processing lab's quality-advisory label on an out-of-focus snapshot. Ben also receives advice from lifelong friend Sean, a good-looking guy with a talent for being slapped within the first minutes of chatting up any female; he's played with terrifically droll understatement by Shaun Evans.
Turning his extra waking hours into "cashback," the sleepless Ben joins the night shift at the local Sainsbury's supermarket, where he can suffer amid the packaged goods and withstand the idiocy of the self-important manager (Stuart Goodwin) and scooter-racing staffers (Michael Dixon, Michael Lambourne). Increasingly, he's drawn to Sharon (Emilia Fox), a pathologically bored cashier.
In the cold fluorescent atmosphere, the unhinged Ben discovers that he can put the world on pause, the better to indulge his fascination with female beauty. For a few striking -- and mildly creepy -- moments, he turns a shoppers' aisle into a living museum of unclad beauties and wanders, awed, among them. His play with time involves the past, too. Childhood memories seep into the sleep-deprived present, none more indelibly erotic than an incident involving a Swedish au pair.
All of this is quite less than it seems. For all the film's style and energy, its supposed insights are as soft and bland as its romanticized notions of the artist. And in this post-"Office" era, the deadpan workplace comedy feels familiar and overdone. Among Ben's co-workers, only Fox's Sharon nears three dimensions, convincingly coming into focus from put-upon drone to spirited dreamer. Even with his explorations of suspended time, Ben is a standard, barely interesting character, but Biggerstaff's charm and sincerity go a long way, lending flashes of depth not found in the material.
CASHBACK
A Left Turn Films presentation in association with Daphne Guinness of a Bausager/Ellis production
Magnolia Pictures
Credits:
Director-screenwriter: Sean Ellis
Producers: Sean Ellis, Lene Bausager
Executive producers: Daphne Guinness, Vijay Thakur, Peter Hampden, Norman Merry
Director of photography: Angus Hudson
Production designer: Morgan Kennedy
Music: Guy Farley
Costumer designer: Vicki Russell
Editors: Scott Thomas, Carlos Domeque
Cast:
Ben: Sean Biggerstaff
Sharon: Emilia Fox
Sean: Shaun Evans
Suzy: Michelle Ryan
Jenkins: Stuart Goodwin
Barry: Michael Dixon
Matt: Michael Lambourne
Brian: Marc Pickering
Rory: Nick Hancock
Running time 102 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
Taking his feature bow, fashion photographer Ellis has expanded a 2004 short (contained within the feature), and the polished result demonstrates a facility for filmmaking, with able contributions from his production colleagues. Ellis' script, in particular the voiceover narration he's written for his protagonist, is exceptionally literate. Essentially, though, he doesn't have much to say.
Biggerstaff plays genial art student Ben, who's devastated by his breakup with Suzy (Michelle Ryan, soon to topline "Bionic Woman" on the small screen), an event seen in waggish operatic flashback, complete with an Ikea lamp brandished as a weapon. Suzy moves on without pause while Ben, unable to sleep, studies the-way-we-were photos at 4 a.m. by the light of the dented lamp. Thanks to Ellis' eye for offbeat quotidian details, we get a glimpse of the processing lab's quality-advisory label on an out-of-focus snapshot. Ben also receives advice from lifelong friend Sean, a good-looking guy with a talent for being slapped within the first minutes of chatting up any female; he's played with terrifically droll understatement by Shaun Evans.
Turning his extra waking hours into "cashback," the sleepless Ben joins the night shift at the local Sainsbury's supermarket, where he can suffer amid the packaged goods and withstand the idiocy of the self-important manager (Stuart Goodwin) and scooter-racing staffers (Michael Dixon, Michael Lambourne). Increasingly, he's drawn to Sharon (Emilia Fox), a pathologically bored cashier.
In the cold fluorescent atmosphere, the unhinged Ben discovers that he can put the world on pause, the better to indulge his fascination with female beauty. For a few striking -- and mildly creepy -- moments, he turns a shoppers' aisle into a living museum of unclad beauties and wanders, awed, among them. His play with time involves the past, too. Childhood memories seep into the sleep-deprived present, none more indelibly erotic than an incident involving a Swedish au pair.
All of this is quite less than it seems. For all the film's style and energy, its supposed insights are as soft and bland as its romanticized notions of the artist. And in this post-"Office" era, the deadpan workplace comedy feels familiar and overdone. Among Ben's co-workers, only Fox's Sharon nears three dimensions, convincingly coming into focus from put-upon drone to spirited dreamer. Even with his explorations of suspended time, Ben is a standard, barely interesting character, but Biggerstaff's charm and sincerity go a long way, lending flashes of depth not found in the material.
CASHBACK
A Left Turn Films presentation in association with Daphne Guinness of a Bausager/Ellis production
Magnolia Pictures
Credits:
Director-screenwriter: Sean Ellis
Producers: Sean Ellis, Lene Bausager
Executive producers: Daphne Guinness, Vijay Thakur, Peter Hampden, Norman Merry
Director of photography: Angus Hudson
Production designer: Morgan Kennedy
Music: Guy Farley
Costumer designer: Vicki Russell
Editors: Scott Thomas, Carlos Domeque
Cast:
Ben: Sean Biggerstaff
Sharon: Emilia Fox
Sean: Shaun Evans
Suzy: Michelle Ryan
Jenkins: Stuart Goodwin
Barry: Michael Dixon
Matt: Michael Lambourne
Brian: Marc Pickering
Rory: Nick Hancock
Running time 102 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 7/20/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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