T LOunge for September 4th 2024

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It’s WEDNESDAY! That calls for some good old-fashioned white-linen service, wouldn’t you say? Take a seat, unfold your napkin, and hold out your glass. Someone attractive will be by to fill it instantly.

Queer, with Daniel Craig, Is Many Things: Captivating, Alienating, Sorrowful, and Erotic
Director Luca Guadagnino, working from a William S. Burroughs novel, is at his most enigmatic.
There is the kind of teen-heartache crush so vibrantly rendered in Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name, and then there is the sort of ruinous sexual and romantic obsession depicted in Guadagnino’s new film Queer, which premiered here at the Venice Film Festival on Tuesday. Adapted from the novel by William S. Burroughs, Queer is a strange and despondent look at a man wasting away from desire. It’s about other things, too—the subtle and overt predations of expat life, the search for transcendent experience—but all seems to loop back to one man’s fixation on another, a maddening half-sated hunger.

Keeping Up With Natasha Lyonne: On Her New Hollywood Chapter, Oscar Buzz, and Wanting a Third Boob
The star of His Three Daughters has been thinking about a lot lately—her volatile past, her industry’s perilous state, loneliness, and hitting the red carpet with “one of those metal faces and a little beady red eye.” Allow her to connect the dots.

I asked the experts—these pedicure trends are the only colours to wear on your toes this autumn
New hues for the new season
Sandal season may be coming to an end but, before you get to canceling your pedicure appointments, allow me to explain why autumn pedicures should absolutely be on your radar. You see, while in summer a great pedicure with the latest nail trends feels more like a necessity and in winter our nails become another party season accessory, an autumn pedi is just for you. That means you can experiment with colours you may have shied away from earlier in the year and take risks on pedicure trends you are still undecided about without fear of anyone seeing them if they aren’t quite your style. Plus, autumn is also the perfect time to embrace rich, cosy nail polish colours that would have felt out of place in spring and summer.

Rumour has it ‘terracopper’ is set to be *the* hair colour to ask for this season—and I can totally see why
No, copper hair isn’t going anywhere
Say what you want about the volume of hair trends we’ve seen over the last couple of years (and I’ll agree with you that they have felt like a carousel at times), but copper has endured and remained high on the hair colour trends agenda. It wouldn’t be a total stretch to call it a movement, and the next iteration it’s predicted we’ll all be talking? Terracopper hair.

Greek Goddess nails are the trending manicure to have on your radar
Searches have suddenly gone up.
Type “Greek goddess nails” into TikTok and you’ll see an ocean of gilded metallics, 3D details and flashes of azure blue. The trend takes its cue from the goddesses of Olympus, incorporating elements of ancient Greek art, architecture, armour, jewellery and draped togas, which is why gold, marble, bronze and precious stones feature heavily. Likewise, blue brings in the colour of the greek flag, the domes of Santorini and the waters Aegean sea.

5 best Britney Spears Halloween costumes with pop star potential
As we continue our fashion love affair with Y2K style, it seems only fitting that we follow suit with a search for the best Britney Spears Halloween costumes. No person (Paris Hilton aside) is a noughties style icon quite like Britney Spears. After all, who else could rock a black catsuit, air stewardess outfit and a near-naked bodysuit in one music video? No one, which is why we have plenty of inspiration for the 31st October this year.

To the Manor Born: Candice Bergen’s Effortless Ennui
Reading her memoirs, one gets the sense that the Murphy Brown star was both too smart for Hollywood and too fabulous to make her way anywhere else.
Even though she is most famous today for playing the brilliant, prickly news anchor Murphy Brown, Bergen—daughter of model Frances Bergen and comedian Edgar Bergen—was famous from the time she was born. She was a stiff, beautiful starlet in films like The Sand Pebbles with Steve McQueen and Carnal Knowledge with Jack Nicholson. And one gets the sense that like her great friend Ali MacGraw, she was both too smart for Hollywood and too “perfect” to be anywhere else. “I had no idea how to make an effort,” Bergen writes. “Most things had always come so easily for me that I had developed no discipline or patience for those which did not.”

5 Notable ’90s Hairstyles That Still Turn Heads Today
It’s impossible to talk about most of the iconic haircuts from the ’90s without mentioning the supermodels of that decade. The women who dominated the catwalks back then need no introduction beyond their first names — Christy, Naomi, Linda and Cindy. On and off the runways, they set trends with all kinds of textures and lengths, and an era of crimped hair and fussy perms gave way to shiny, blow-dried manes.
Here we take a look at the haircuts that marked a generation and might just provide some new season inspiration for you too.

Naomi Campbell On Her Year Of ‘Rebirth’: ‘I’m Embracing It With Everything I’ve Got’
The British model, entrepreneur and Boss jewellery and watch AW24 brand ambassador reflects on one of her most exciting years to date in her three decade-long career.
If there’s one matriarch in the fashion industry who has paved the way for women owning the ability to be their own boss, it’s Naomi Campbell. Not only has the British model been a force of nature on the catwalk, cementing her name in the archives of sartorial history forever, but she’s worked tirelessly to improve equality in the industry since she was just a teenager. From joining the Black Girls Coalition in 1989 to campaigning for the Diversity Coalition since 2013, Campbell has never shied away from nudging the needle of representation ever closer to equality, and extending the ladder for models of colour beneath her.

Heidi Klum Is Already Teasing Her Halloween Costume
There are 58 days until Halloween.
There’s no official start date for Spooky Season, but whether you use the arrival of the pumpkin spice latte at Starbucks or the ghost-shaped Reese’s peanut butter cups on shelves, there’s no stopping Halloween mega-fan Heidi Klum. The supermodel teased her upcoming costume on Instagram today and for anyone keeping track, there are still 58 days until Halloween 2024, which means anyone hoping for something over-the-top and in keeping with Klum’s usual M.O. won’t be disappointed.

In Lady Pamela, India Hicks Tells the Remarkable Story of Her Mother
Lady Pamela Hicks was in the shadow of Queen Elizabeth her whole life. Now, her daughter is bringing her into the spotlight.
Lady Pamela Hicks has served as witness to key moments in British royal history. The daughter of Lord Mountbatten and a first cousin of Prince Philip, Lady Pamela was a bridesmaid at Queen Elizabeth’s royal wedding, a lady-in-waiting for the Queen, and joined her on many overseas tours of the Commonwealth.
Now, her daughter, India Hicks is telling her full story in a brand-new illustrated biography: Lady Pamela: My Mother’s Extraordinary Years as Daughter to the Viceroy of India, Lady-in-Waiting to the Queen, and Wife of David Hicks. “People perhaps see a very privileged life, which indeed it was,” she tells T&C about her mother’s life. “But there was a lot of extraordinary moments of darkness in there. We should not ever judge before we have a little further look into the lives of people.” Ahead of the publication of Lady Pamela, Hicks spoke with T&C about her mother’s remarkable life and her thoughts on the royals in 2024.

How Beetlejuice Beetlejuice‘s Goth-Glam Costumes Came to Life
In a climactic scene near the end of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice—the much-anticipated sequel to the 1988 cult-classic, releasing on Friday—all of the protagonists find themselves trapped in the “Neitherworld,” a spooky underworld filled with ghosts. Here, everything is exaggerated: Ghoulish beings roam around with severed heads or spears poking out of their chest, exemplifying the moments they passed on from the mortal world. Equally as twisted? All of the wacky, whimsical undead fashions that were brought to life by the master costumer Colleen Atwood. “It was really fun to create each character, and how they died,” Atwood tells Vogue. Turns out, the macabre can be chic.

Cinnamon Toast Crunch-Flavored Bacon Is a Thing — Here’s Where You Can Find It
Who can say no to cinnadusted bacon?
Sure, you’ve probably had a slice of bacon with a bowl of cereal before — but have you had cereal on your bacon? If not, you’re in luck.
Hormel, the Minessota-based food giant behind your favorite canned meats, is launching a new product that combines its Black Label Bacon with General Mills’ Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal to create a sweet-and-salty combo unlike anything you’ve had before. To make the limited-edition product, Cinnadust (yes, that’s the official term) is hand-rubbed onto thick-cut bacon, which is left overnight to reach “optimal flavor.”

This Earthy, Nutty Flour Is the Easiest Way to Transform Your Desserts
Buckwheat flour is the baker’s secret to more depth in your cookies, cakes, and more. Here’s how to use it.
I first fell in love with buckwheat when I tried a buckwheat and hazelnut cake called Buchweizenkuchen at a mountainside bakery in the Dolomites. Each bite had a distinctive earthy-nutty depth punctuated by toasty, buttery hazelnuts and a tart berry jam. Since then, this flavor-forward flour has regularly appeared in my bakes.
Native to Central Asia and related to rhubarb, buckwheat is a pseudocereal that has been cultivated for thousands of years across the globe. Confusingly, buckwheat is not related to wheat at all. In fact, it is gluten-free. (Someone needs to talk to the marketing department.) The caltrop-shaped seeds, known as groats, are rich in protein, fiber, B vitamins, and minerals including manganese and copper.

13 Very Different Takes on the Greek Gods in Film and TV
In honor of “Kaos,” IndieWire looks at 13 wildly different takes on the Greek gods in film and television.
We’ve long been in the midst of a reimagining of Greek myth — these can be conscious of the original setting of the stories of Hesiod and Homer, as is from Emily Wilson’s searing translation of “The Iliad,” as well as the somewhat less faithful raft of novels taking marginalized characters in Greek myth as their protagonists and the platforming perfection of “Hades.” But likewise, the jazz funeral that is “Hadestown,” the apotheosis of fanfic and webcomics that is “Lore Olympus,” and now, several different films and TV shows all play with the Greek gods using bits of our own contemporary context.

Organize your kitchen like a chef, not an influencer
Don’t be taken in by “fridgescaping.”
If you’re a regular on TikTok or Instagram, you may feel your kitchen is under attack.
It started with #CleanTok, wherein cleanliness influencers shared tips for sparkling stainless steel sinks and competed to have the most hygienic kitchen. Then, influencers got more ambitious with “decanting” videos documenting a method of pantry organization involving transferring foodstuffs from the grocery store packaging to clear containers in neat rows. Now it’s “fridgescaping.” […] As someone with a cooking background — my father has been a chef for 35 years, my mother’s side of the family runs a spice business, and I grew up running around commercial kitchens and worked for a year as a line cook, in addition to writing a book on spices — I find myself deeply disturbed by fridgescaping. It is, I believe, the culmination of a series of trends that serve to alienate people from food. It removes all the labor, the mess, the physicality, and the pleasure inherent in eating, and replaces it with public performance. There are better ways to organize a kitchen, techniques that can improve functionality and prioritize goals like reducing food waste — and, yes, that could even lead to eating more fruits and vegetables.

The Truth About Patti LuPone and Mia Farrow
The longtime friends are appearing together in the new Broadway play “The Roommate.” Everything you think you know about them may be wrong.
LuPone was trying to define the yin and yang of the most unexpected double act of the new Broadway season. Farrow (she would be the sweet) and LuPone (salty) are the stars and entire cast of Jen Silverman’s “The Roommate,” which is in previews and opens on Sept. 12 at the Booth Theater, under the direction of Jack O’Brien.
They portray women of radically dissimilar backgrounds and temperaments, who come into intimate and potentially combustible contact. These are roles for which Farrow and LuPone, longtime friends who have homes in the same Connecticut county, would seem to be naturals. “We complement each other, because we are so different,” LuPone said.

Can You Have a Stylish Wedding for Under $5,000? These Couples Did.
The national average wedding expense rose to more than $30,000 in 2024. Here’s how to plan a lovely wedding without breaking the bank.
For Jessica Bishop, who formerly worked in marketing, starting BudgetSavvyBride.com in 2008 was personal. Newly engaged during the Great Recession, she had wondered, “How do I have this dream wedding on the budget that I can actually afford?”
In 2009, she managed to pull off a wedding for 150 guests at a venue in Smyrna, Tenn., for around $10,000, thanks to several cost-cutting measures. Since then, Ms. Bishop, who is based in nearby Nashville, has devoted her career to helping couples on a budget, publishing a book, “The Budget-Savvy Wedding Planner & Organizer,” in 2018.

This European City Was Just Named the No. 1 Solo Travel Destination in the World — and It Has Affordable Hotels and Food
Berlin came in at the top, followed by Vancouver.
Some things are better done alone. While travel is often marketed as something to do with your partner, friends, or family, traveling solo has some real perks. If you book a solo trip to Singapore in April, you know it’s going to happen and don’t have to listen to people’s excuses as they bail. Plus, you don’t have to worry if your travel companion is having fun or explain yourself if you want to change plans at the last minute. The appeal is real: according to a recent report by Kayak and OpenTable, 50 percent of Americans plan to travel alone this year.

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