Latest news with #Givenchy
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Fantastic Four Star Vanessa Kirby Keeps Embracing This Daring Maternity Style on the Red Carpet
Vanessa Kirby has always been a modern-day fashion icon, but her maternity style has shown fans a different, daring side of it. It all started on July 21 when Kirby wowed when she arrived in a netted maternity dress at the Marvel Studios' The Fantastic Four: First Steps at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. She made headlines for the mesh Givenchy number, and did it yet again earlier this week. On July 23, 2025, she did an interview with host Seth Meyers, and wowed in yet another mesh number. More from SheKnows Rachael Leigh Cook's Super-Rare Outing With Her Two Kids Shows Which One Is Her Mini-Me As you can see in the photos below, we see Kirby wowing in a navy dress with a black mesh over it; showing she's nailing this bold maternity look. For those who don't know, earlier this year, Kirby revealed she's pregnant with her first child with retired lacrosse player Paul Rabil by showing off her baby bump at The Fantastic Four: First Steps panel event at the CCXPMX Film Festival. In a recent interview with People, she talked about how her character Sue Storm from The Fantastic Four: The First Steps inspired her. 'Sue was never sat down. She was never huffing and puffing about it. It didn't define who she was. She was absolutely a mother, and of course, in the comics, that's so definitively her. But she's also been a team member that defends, that goes up against great threats.' She added, 'I literally had the lived experience of somebody who was doing this incredibly sacred thing and fulfilling what she needed to do at the same time as a woman and a team member, and that changed me.' These capture the beauty, excitement, and power of pregnancy. Best of SheKnows Rocky77, Aquaman, & More Unique Celebrity Baby Names How to Watch These 25 Halloween Movies on Disney+ for Summerween Antics The Dumbest (and Deadliest) TikTok Trends Targeting Teens & Tweens Solve the daily Crossword
The Guardian
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
‘I've long struggled with my identity in pop': Ethel Cain on fandom, first loves, and being inspired by David Lynch
Something strange happened to Hayden Anhedönia in January. The 27-year-old artist known professionally as Ethel Cain was finishing off her upcoming album Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You when she had to go to court. 'I got into some traffic trouble,' she says coyly in her soft southern lilt. The plan was to drive from the courthouse in her home city of Tallahassee, Florida, to Toronto to wrap the album with her longtime collaborator Matthew Tomasi. 'Listen,' she continues, leaning forward into her webcam – a glint behind the eyes, conspiratorial tone in the voice. 'I don't know what happened in that courthouse, but I walked out of there having been put on probation. I couldn't go to Canada. I couldn't go anywhere.' As a result, Tomasi flew down to Tallahassee. They holed up in Anhedönia's tiny home studio and didn't leave until it was done. When they weren't working, they watched Twin Peaks for the first time. 'Every day it was wake up, work, Twin Peaks, work, Twin Peaks, work …' They binged the whole thing in two weeks. Anhedönia even hunted down the synths that composer Angelo Badalamenti used on the soundtrack and sprinkled them on a few of her own tracks. One night they finished working, watched the final episode, and went to bed. She woke up to the news that David Lynch had passed away. 'I was really happy that I finished the show while he was still alive,' she says. The synths 'felt kind of like an homage. A way to keep David and Angelo and Laura [Palmer] alive in some small way.' Lynch's work stages epic battles between darkness and light, pitting the purity of the individual against the corruption of the world; small-town life versus primordial forces of evil. The same battle plays out on Willoughby Tucker, which tells the story of what Anhedönia describes as 'a deeply traumatised love story between two kids who are in love, but the world weighs on them'. It's also present in her debut album, 2022's Preacher's Daughter, a southern gothic tale of a teenage girl named Ethel Cain who flees the confines of her religious upbringing only to be murdered and cannibalised by her boyfriend. The grisly subject matter made for unlikely breakthrough material, but Preacher's Daughter ended up becoming one of 2022's most critically lauded pop breakouts. In the space of a few months, Anhedönia jumped from collaborating with niche SoundCloud rappers to being featured in Forbes' 30 Under 30 and fronting campaigns for Givenchy, Marc Jacobs and Miu Miu. When Preacher's Daughter was rereleased on vinyl this April, it broke into the Top 10 in the UK, Australia, the Netherlands and the US, where Anhedönia made history as the first publicly trans musician to reach the Top 10 of the Billboard albums chart. As far as ascents to fame go, Anhedönia's was a baptism of fire. She has attracted the kind of invasive, obsessive fandom typically reserved for A-list pop stars. Owing to her sharp cultural commentary and eviscerating political takes – in a viral post after Trump's election, she wrote 'If you voted for Trump, I hope that peace never finds you' – her social media accounts are routinely trawled for 'problematic' content, and her criticism of the US healthcare system has been discussed on Fox News. Speaking to the Guardian in July 2023, Anhedönia expressed a desire 'to have a much smaller fanbase'. 'I've long struggled with my identity in pop,' she reasons now. 'I love pop music, but my issue for a while was the way fandoms operate.' Having seen the violence and trauma of Preacher's Daughter spun into flippant memes, she had feared that any future release would be similarly received. 'I've since made my peace with that. At the end of the day, you make what you make and you put it out and people can do what they want with it.' A recent firestorm over screenshots of things posted when she was 19, however, shows how merciless the spotlight can be. A slew of comments, including the use of racial slurs and rape jokes, were dug up from a 'shameful' period during which she tried to be as 'inflammatory and controversial as possible', as she phrased it in a lengthy apology. 'That was my account and those were my words', she wrote, adding that she was now 'truly sorry from the bottom of my heart'. But she hit back at further online speculation that she was 'pedophile, a zoophile, or a porn-addicted incest fetishist'. She had been, she wrote, the target of a 'transphobic/otherwise targeted smear campaign' that had also led to her personal accounts being hacked and family doxed and harrassed. Anhedönia holds several positions that can be hard to reconcile. She's a trans woman who grew up in the conservative southern Baptist community in the Florida panhandle, and still has a deep love affair with the area. She looks like one of the ethereal sisters from The Virgin Suicides, and talks like a girl next door refilling your coffee at a roadside diner, peppering her musings on existentialism and Eraserhead with homely expressions of geez and whatnot. She has experienced sexual trauma and assault, while her music often leans – in her words – 'into sadomasochism' and 'the taboo'. Those nuances are often not acknowledged. 'A lot of people don't know how to interface with media that contains negativity or perversion or sexuality or immorality,' she says. 'It's not the first instinct to engage with these things critically – but when you see a bad character on screen, the movie shouldn't hold your hand and say: Hey, that's the bad guy. That's your job.' In January, Anhedönia released Perverts – an experimental departure from Preacher's Daughter, let alone standard pop fare. Billed as a standalone project, the hour-and-a-half sprawl of ambient, drone and slowcore compositions roots around themes of shame, guilt and pleasure. There are no hooks, no choruses and barely any lyrics. Rather, its unsettling blend of industrial murmurs and desolate spoken word reflects Anhedönia's experience of wandering 'the Great Dark' – her term for a brief but 'scary' winter when she was struggling to adjust to life after coming off tour. Some listeners found it a challenging listen; others considered its references to madness and masturbation alienating. But it successfully reasserted the wide spectrum of Anhedönia's music, which switches from soaring heartland pop-rock to sprawling abstract noise. 'Now that the other end of the Ethel Cain spectrum has been established, I feel like I have a full range,' Anhedönia says. Sign up to Inside Saturday The only way to get a look behind the scenes of the Saturday magazine. Sign up to get the inside story from our top writers as well as all the must-read articles and columns, delivered to your inbox every weekend. after newsletter promotion The second instalment of the Preacher's trilogy, Willoughby Tucker serves as the prequel to Preacher's Daughter, and has a similar structure – a pop-oriented first half full of youthful optimism, which plunges into slow burning instrumentals and thundering power ballads as the hammer of reality comes down. Beginning in the summer of 1986, it finds Ethel Cain as an insecure teenager 'trying to navigate her first love in a broken world and a broken town'. It wasn't the plan to go back in time. Anhedönia intended to move forward, on to more 'mature' things, but something kept nagging at her. 'That Ethel's entire story began with the love that she had for this boy … It felt like it needed telling. And come hell or high water, it was going to get told. It was practically seeping out of me.' Finishing the album was 'honestly really sad, especially knowing where Preacher's Daughter goes. Sometimes it's hard for me to listen to. I tell myself it's all fictional, but sometimes I'll catch a lyric and it'll resonate exactly with how I'm feeling. And I remember that it's coming from me.' Part of the difficulty in making Willoughby Tucker was the fact that Anhedönia had, at 27, recently entered into her first ever relationship. As she worked on this album, all her own 16-year-old anxieties came back. 'Love was always my final frontier,' she says. 'I never explored it. I never processed anything. I never progressed past the idea of love that I had as a teenager.' There were times when she was crying every day, begging for the album to be finished. She's glad of the process now. 'I see Ethel Cain as a piece of me that I separate from myself and discard, so that I can make good decisions in life,' she says. 'If Preacher's Daughter was my learning experience of what not to do with trauma and healing, Willoughby Tucker has been my experience of what not to do in love.' In the real world, bleak as it is, Anhedönia is determined to live well. Smiling between two long curtains of mousey brown hair, she reels off a list of reasons to get up in the morning: 'A great breakfast, a beautiful sunrise, paying for someone's groceries if they can't.' And then there is love – in her view the most 'high-risk, high-reward' feeling in the world. A few days before we speak, she 'hard launched' her new relationship, sharing a video of her new boyfriend lifting her up on a truck parked on a dirt road, and kissing her. 'Ethel Cain lived and died loving and praying to be loved back,' Anhedönia says. 'The entire Preacher's trilogy is centred around love. Love lost, love gained, love perverted, love stolen. Love is everything to us. It doesn't matter what you love or who you love, but that you love something – and that love is what propels you forward every day. For better or worse, I think that is a beautiful thing.' Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You is released on 8 August.
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Pedro Pascal Proudly Raves Over Pregnant Vanessa Kirby At 'Fantastic 4' Premiere: 'Stunning'
"The Fantastic 4: First Steps cast may be star-studded, but the scene stealer may just be pregnant Vanessa Kirby's upcoming arrival! A proud Pedro Pascal gave high praise to his on-screen wife at the movie's Los Angeles premiere, where they were joined by co-stars Julia Garner, Joseph Quinn and Ebon Moss-Bachrach. Vanessa highlighted her baby bump in a sheer, vibrant blue Givenchy gown and shared with Access Hollywood's Scott Evans about her character, Sue Storm, also expecting her first child with Pedro's on-screen alter ego, Reed Richards! "The Fantastic 4: First Steps" hits theaters on July 25. Solve the daily Crossword
Daily Mail
5 days ago
- Business
- Daily Mail
Louis Vuitton owner LVMH's sales tumble sales as the gloom in the luxury market deepens
LVMH sales plunged over the spring as the gloom in the luxury market deepened. The French group, whose brands include Givenchy, Celine and Louis Vuitton, posted a 4 per cent slump in sales to £17billion in the three months to the end of June. It was the worst quarterly decline since sales tumbled at the start of 2020 when Covid-19 struck. Sales at LVMH's fashion and leather goods division, which is the biggest part of the business and home to brands such as Louis Vuitton and Dior, fell 9 per cent. The results were worse than analysts feared. LVMH supremo Bernard Arnault had hoped rich Americans splashing out would offset a slowdown in China. But demand has been hit by trade tensions between the US and China. The Frenchman said that the group was approaching the second half of the year 'with great vigilance' – but said he was 'confident of the fantastic long-term potential of LVMH'. The group is looking to open a second factory in Texas by 2027, which would cushion the blow of Donald Trump's tariffs. Chief financial officer Cecile Cabanis said a 15 per cent tariff rate would be a 'good outcome' to emerge from the current trade talks between the EU and Trump. LVMH's flagship fashion brands could offset this rate with higher prices, she said.
Daily Mirror
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Prince William and Harry's cousin claims late Queen was wrong on key Meghan decision
A distant cousin of the Princes has defended a decision made by Meghan Markle that reportedly angered the late Queen Elizabeth A distant cousin of Prince William and Prince Harry has spoken out in defence of Meghan Markle, and a decision she made on her wedding day. Maddison May Brudenell followed in the Duchess of Sussex's footsteps on her own wedding day, in particular, her dress. Maddison - the great-granddaughter of Lord Mountbatten, who is a third cousin to the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Sussex - married her husband in November 2024, opting to wear a white dress on her big day, just as Meghan did when she married Harry at Windsor Castle in 2018, despite being married once before. Sources have long claimed that the late Queen Elizabeth wasn't happy with Meghan's dress choice for the royal wedding, claiming that it 'too white' for a divorcee to wear for a second wedding. Maddison, who previously married DJ Olaoluwa Modupe-Ojo in 2015, claimed she received stern words from her own mother when choosing her wedding dress, and despite the protests, opted for a bespoke white gown to marry Canadian welder Bret Kapetanov. Writing in a lengthy post on Instagram, Brudenell repeated royal commentator Ingrid Seward's famous quote about Meghan: "In the monarch's view, it was not appropriate for a divorcée getting remarried in church to look quite so flamboyantly virginal." Brudenell explained: "Not written about me but about Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex, needless to say when this article was flung in my face last week, I didn't bat an eyelid. "Seward wrote how the late Queen only revealed her opinion to her closest confidantes and the Queen's cousin Lady Elizabeth Anson, who is said to have been among those confidantes, apparently shared that Meghan's dress was improper – considering she had been married prior to Prince Harry. "Why was I unsurprised by reading this article? Because my mother, our late queen's god daughter, had said exactly the same to me. Other family members would agree, she said." Brudenell continued: "As I told my mother, we may as well just splash some muddy water, drip some blood, sweat and tears on it for good measure. "As it happens my dress did have a lot of unique components to it but these were because of what I chose and not in any way what I felt I must choose. My mother listened to my wisdom and respected my style. I am blessed to have had that freedom, the pressures on the immediate Royal family are extreme and we must pray for them." White wedding dresses first became popular during the reign of Queen Victoria, when in 1840, she was one of the first women to wear white on her special day. On May 19, 2018, Meghan wore a beautiful gown designed by Givenchy's Clare Waight Keller for her Windsor church wedding, before changing into a halter-neck dress that featured a daring open back by Stella McCartney for the reception. The royal wedding was Meghan's second marriage, as she was previously married to film producer Trevor Engelson between 2011 and 2014, with the pair separating two years before Meghan met Prince Harry.
