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brf-rumortrackinganon · 2 months

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You think Roop won’t even begin? What about all the articles on all the potential merch it will sell? **snickers** I’ve never seen a brand launch without any product!

Roop, and Meghan, has potential.

Meghan has always had the potential to be a success. She's focused, dedicated, and ambitious enough to be successful. I mean, the lady went from an unknown D-List cable TV actress to the fiancee of a British prince in 12 months. That takes serious focus and dedication. Especially considering that they spent much of those 12 months apart from each other (again, according to their own PR).

(It's 12 months if you take Sussex PR at their word - they met in July 2016 and Meghan was leaking/hinting they were engaged in July 2017).

Meghan's problem is that she's obsessed with immediate gratification. Part of it is how she was spoiled by her father growing up. By all accounts from Sam and the Toms, Tom Sr gave Meghan everything she wanted when she wanted it, which led to an expectation in her adulthood that "what Meghan wants, Meghan gets" -- and for the most part, that expectation was validated. She married a producer, she got a cable network show. She posted on social media, and the likes, shares, reposts, and mentions start growng immediately. She wanted luxury travel, she got it comped by Soho House. She wanted Harry to prove how much he loved her, he blew up protocol and wrote a love letter on KP stationery. So on.

Meghan doesn't understand that real success takes time. It's the core root of her problem with the UK and the BRF. She expected everything immediately and was immediately offended when everyone told her (and showed her) that it doesn't work like that. It never has. It never will. So she did the only thing she knew how to do: throw a tantrum nasty enough that the BRF/UK will give in and do what she wants...because it's worked in the past. It worked with Tom Sr. It worked with Trevor. It worked with Harry. It worked (partially) with the press. Rinse and repeat for six years and here we are with Roop.

I've gotten way off-tangent here. Anyway, the point is that Meghan expects instant immediate gratification on everything and anything she does that she can't fathom the idea, or the responsibility, of follow-through.

But she can follow through when it's her own ass on the line. She followed through with marrying Harry, despite how vicious the cyberbullying and media harassment was (per her own PR). She followed through with Megxit, despite a pandemic that drastically and rapidly altered the world as we knew it. She followed through with the Oprah interview on Prince Philip's deathbed. She followed through on "Kate the Racist Royal" narrative despite zero evidence. She followed through on earning Prince/Princess titles for her irrelevant children. She followed through on merchandizing the Sussex brand, despite the Sandringham Agreement.

If she applied that same dedication and that same focus to Roop, it can be successful. Will it, though?

I'm skeptical. Meghan's (and Harry's) own track record shows that the only follow-through they have is in doing photoshoots that lets them take credit for everyone else's work.

So if Roop ends up being more like Invictus Games or Clevr - where Meghan gets paid to be in their social media posts and shake hands with fans at the farmer's markets - the fighting chances are much, much better once they have a product. (And the lackluster reception for Meghan's vanity video should make it clear now that they need real product, not just Meghan's existence.) Because the actual team can fudge the data and stroke her ego to keep her unaware of what's really happening.

But if Roop ends up being more like Pearl or British Vogue - where she's closely involved in the day-to-day management/oversight - there's absolutely no chance. Even with the most gamechanging product in the world, Roop is going to fizzle faster than Blake Lively's attempt did. Because Meghan wants immediate gratification and when she doesn't see those results after one hour of product launch, she's going to take it out on people. In fact we're already seeing this, when she threw Mandana under the bus in the Page Six story.

Unfortunately, I think Roop is going to be a situation more of the latter, since we're already seeing that. And, as everyone has pointed out, it does Meghan absolutely no good to have launched the brand without any tangible product. Even if all she had was a newsletter (like Goop/Gwyneth Paltrow did) or a premiere date for her Martha Stewart show.

So TL;DR - Roop has the potential to be a success but it depends on Meghan and

#ask #brf #sussexes #theories

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skippyv20 · 3 months

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Spotlight on Markus Anderson + SOHO House

Hi Skippy & Friends-Pilgrim here thinking it is ABOUT TIME an intense spotlight unearths the truth of what has been going on at SOHO Houses since their beginning in London. We do know their specially designed wallpaper that looked like flowers was really private body parts up close. We have read and deducted that Markle basically lived in them, having her own place to store luggage in London. Didn’t JH describe in Spare being taken thru secret hallways to get to her door? Together Markus & Markle, who act like friends with hot benefits in photos, enjoy playing gaslighting games together. It seems he can go either way as it has been written he had a fling with Edward Enniful-who did the disastrous Vogue issue with Markle and is just now retiring as the editor-in-chief of British Vogue. As for her, well, she sends wedding rings back in manila envelopes saying it’s over while having been living with the new guy and is in the process of moving onto the next victim. She changes religion with a snap of her fingers. Don’t forget all those foreign business trips to famous playgrounds on yachts in-between, proudly photographed and presented on her Tig site as if she was on her own dime- sure Jan. 6 degrees of separation with this group is more like 2.

We do know that Markus Anderson was born in Ontario, not far from a private school a 17-year-old Randy Andy attended for one semester. (Hmmmmm-dare I wonder about the older, half-brother/cousin possibility?) Anderson started impressing the bosses at Toronto’s SOHO House and is now their global membership director helping drive the company’s international expansion. He was/is? the guy rich patrons called looking for easy, classy, hook-ups. From the U.S. Sun, “He started working for the company as a waiter but quickly moved up through the ranks, turning his hand to practically every position at the company on his way up the ladder. The stylish chap is the right-hand man to company CEO Nick Jones and personally crafts the guest lists to some of the biggest celebrity parties - including an annual Oscars bash. He was named one of Toronto Life’s 50 Most Influential in 2014.”

We do know he and Markle have been in cahoots for years, (she went to Toronto for Suits in 2011) travelling together often. I have so many questions about this man it’s not funny. He was photographed at the Montecito polo fields babysitting a weird acting Markle, seemingly calming down tempers after a huge fight. He was THE one ushering Markle closer to Prince Harry, be it polo matches in the UK, parties with international magnates or the 2017 Invictus Games. He was one of 4 who was in the IG’s suite waiting for the prince to come up and say a formal GOODBYE to Meghan but instead, was met by Doria who told PH what was reeeallly going to happen. He was the one who gladly showed up at her half million-dollar, bogus baby shower in Manhattan to take her out to dinner. She told the paps what door to be at and they were photographed as she walked out NOT wearing the huge baby bump she sported when she arrived! He is the one who babysat her now orphaned dogs staying behind in Canada. He was around so much many said he was living with them starting on Vancouver Island. I even think Archie looks just like HIM! I’m referring to the child shown off with Rev. Tutu and reading the Duck/Rabbit book. This whole dang thing stinks to high heaven.

Yes, shine a big spotlight on this man and company. If short sellers discover there is not enough to sure up the value of their stocks…well then SELL!!!

Thank you Pilgrim! Great post!!!!❤️

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Boris Becker Bankruptcy Bad Investments Nigerian Oil Ghana and Internet scrubbing: Just who is Misan Harriman? by u/Maleficent-Trifle940

Boris Becker, Bankruptcy, Bad Investments, Nigerian Oil, Ghana and Internet scrubbing: Just who is Misan Harriman? Misan Harriman, Lilly Becker, Boris Becker, Photo: Dafydd Jones: Dafjones.comWe've seen enough of his 'photography' to understand 'mild-mannered photographer' isn't really his 'jam'. Sinners familiar with his 'work' won't be surprised he only took up photography in 2019 when his wife gave him a camera for his 40th birthday.A search of the internet will almost exclusively turn up articles about Harriman's now well known connection to Meghan Markle and Harry, he also photographed Beatrice & Edo for their engagement announcement. You might catch wind of his 'groundbreaking' British Vogue cover or his 'photojournalism' of the BLM protests in Britain, perhaps even his involvement with Sistah Space (of the wildly inauthentically costumed and ill-mannered NgoziFulani fame). Maybe even his Disney photocall for real life small children or how Soho house occasionally promotes his work.But what the internet doesn't want you to read about Harriman seems far more interesting. Prior to his royal related re-invention, Harriman was previously described as a 'business partner' of Boris Becker. Such was Harriman's presence in Becker's life he was quoted saying "‘I’m like the other woman in his marriage’". Boris as you may know has run into some money difficulties over the past decade or so, including bankruptcy and losing most of his fortune, resulting in time in prison. In fact, despite their apparent closeness I could only find one photo of Boris & Misan together (above). Articles connecting the two either no longer exist/have had Harriman's name deleted/are behind a paywall.Curiously, Misan-pre-Meghan, is on the record chatting about Nigerian Oil here: Misan Harriman, The Mastermind Behind the Digital Platform What We Seee - Best blogs about lifestyle, #1 Fashion and lifestyle blogs (zezeonline.com) - amongst other things like his time as a club promoter and digital PR strategist. This is a rather curious connection as, wouldn't you know, it has been reported Boris Becker lost his $178 million fortune 'investing in Nigerian oil firms' - NZ Herald. According to Der Spiegel, "a Nigerian employee of Becker's "prepared a deal in which at least ten million dollars should be invested in Nigerian oil wells".Fellow Sinners, over to you. It's time for some serious sleuthing and an answer to the question: Who is Misan Harriman really? post link: https://ift.tt/tiPjl6q author: Maleficent-Trifle940 submitted: October 01, 2023 at 02:03PM via SaintMeghanMarkle on Reddit

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The Chalamet Effect: Timothée Talks Fate, Fashion And Being An Old Soul

At 26, Timothée Chalamet is already a consummate, cool-as-they-come movie star. As he gets set to become the actor of his generation, Giles Hattersley goes in search of the real boy wonder. Photographs by Steven Meisel. Styling by Edward Enninful.

BY GILES HATTERSLEY

15 September 2022

He arrives, a princeling in jeans and a rock-metal T-shirt, bounding sprite-like from one of those blacked-out Cadillac tanks preferred by the famous (reluctant or otherwise). It’s June in New York and Timothée Chalamet’s hometown is gently sweltering. But, for once, the paps are nowhere to be seen and so his body language is a joy to behold, as he bounces into Champs, a vegan diner in Brooklyn, somehow channelling both a street-style star and Buster Keaton.

We’re shooting a Vogue video. He enters with curls un-frizzed, a smile that reaches all the way to his eyes and a head to shoulder ratio rarely glimpsed outside of children’s drawings. In a swift half-decade, this publicity-averse, sensitive, ambitious, inscrutable dreamer has become both art-house stalwart (Call Me by Your Name) and box-office king (Dune). Then something odder (certainly rarer) occurred. A baton was placed in his hand, passed down the decades by dint of James Dean and River Phoenix, David Cassidy and Leonardo DiCaprio: Chalamet became boyfriend to an entire generation. In fact, it was DiCaprio (in a moment of near-literal baton passing when they first met in 2018) who bequeathed Timmy his career rule: “No hard drugs and no superhero movies.” So far, so good. Give or take. Oh, to be 26 and Hollywood’s most wanted.

Timothée wears vintage T-shirt, Contemporary Wardrobe. Leather trousers, Balmain. Steven Meisel

And wow do they want him. “I…” he says, laughing, unsure what to do with that information. It should be noted that Chalamet’s default setting is uncertainty. Thoughtful, courteous, smart? Absolutely. Able to articulate a definite opinion about anything? Absolutely not. Never mind. The charm is very real: “We met before,” he says, recalling some 3am dance floor-adjacent small talk we had a few years ago. Far from the navel-gazing “f**k boy” the internet occasionally likes to paint him as, he’s checked my Instagram and read some past interviews. Immediately he wants to talk about Lady Gaga, who he doesn’t know but finds “fascinating!” He is a rare interviewee – albeit a classic deflector – in that he much prefers to ask the questions: “Where are you staying?” “What did you think of [the London production of] Cabaret?” “How are you feeling?” Of course, once the recorder is running, the fidgeting begins in earnest. “But for Luca, anything,” he says of Luca Guadagnino, auteur supreme, in whose Bones & All Chalamet stars this autumn as cannibal drifter Lee. Part road movie, part addiction allegory, he plays opposite Taylor Russell on a bloodied, nomadic flee through America. It is a performance so pristinely heartbreaking, so tenderly horrific, so violent and vulnerable, it feels – as his work so often does – like he’s carved out a new genre of man.

Call it the Timothée effect. It’s everywhere, bewitching fans, directors, fellow actors, fashion houses and now British Vogue, for whom the half-French, half-American, fourth-generation New Yorker becomes the first man to appear solo on the print cover. We meet again the following day in SoHo. He keeps a rental apartment in the city, and his parents only live uptown, but he prefers staying in hotels, so we head up to the pool deck of The Dominick, his current bolthole, where the hostess leads us to some lounge chairs, her eyes bugging silently at the celebrity angel who has touched down to earth in the middle of her shift.

Eyes bug a lot with Timmy. In return, you occasionally spot a flash of kindly exhaustion in his. His manners are almost comically superb and an antenna attuned to the energy of absolutely everyone around him at all times is a terrific resource for an actor – enervating for a human, though. “I hate talking about this kind of stuff, but like the pressure of, you know, being in the public eye, whatever the f**k that means,” he says, annoyed by the concept even. He finds the world too desperate for answers to questions he doesn’t have answers for. “It’s always like, ‘Who are you?’ ‘Do you know who you are?’” It’s possible he does not. To be honest, after a while in his company you start to wonder if you know who you are either. His small talk has this habit of pulling at the fabric of time and space. “You’re the captain of your fate,” he says excitedly at one point. “Master of your fate and captain of your soul. Like those things where you can, like, draw with both knobs.” An Etch A Sketch? “Exactly. You shake it up and then it’s all gone. You can’t just keep building on the same Etch A Sketch.”

This analogy ends up haunting me for days. Not that there aren’t flashes of more earthly self-reflection: “I had a delusional dream in my early teenage years to have, in my late teenage years, an acting career,” he says. “And in my late teenage years, working on Homeland and starting to do theatre in New York, I felt like I reduced my goal to something more realistic, which was to work in theatre and hopefully make enough money doing either a TV show or something I could sustain myself [with]. And then it felt like every dream came true, exponentially. And then life is moving at six million miles per hour.”

Leather waistcoat and leather trousers, Gucci. Cotton vest, Intimissimi. Leather boots, Miu Miu. Bandana, Rockins. Steven Meisel

“When Covid hit, it required me to take a step back and be humbled to the idea that the greatest rock star…” panic suddenly crinkles his features. “No, I don’t want to use that word, sorry, sorry. Scratch rock star. But [everyone has to] deal with, like, taxes and the dentist and real adulting, you know? I should have been trying to get my adult feet under myself a little bit earlier than I did,” he says. “I found myself having to really, you know, be honest with myself that where I’ve been able to get myself to in life was balls to the wall, like throwing everything at [it] at a young age that, by some miracle, got me to where I am. But to then transition to an adulting mindset…” Taxes and the dentist? He laughs. “I’ve always paid my taxes, I always went to the dentist, but I’m suddenly very aware of that.” It’s classic quarter-life stuff, lived at hyper-speed. “So the ways I feel older than 26 I have always felt,” he says, relaxing. “It’s not like I feel like I’ve had some mental breakthrough that has given me perspective. The perspective that feels ‘old man’, I feel like I was born with it.” Such as? “The empath thing, the thinking for everyone in the room, the sort of misplaced idea, this sort of illusion, of control based on trying to feel for everyone.” In Bones & All, reunited with Guadagnino, who directed him to an Oscar nomination for Call Me by Your Name, he wove elements of himself into the character. “With Lee, the illusion of control is based on feeling for no one and not even interacting with anyone.” That Lee’s affliction is cannibalism, not being very famous, perhaps gives some insight into the extreme head-f**k of the latter. “And I guess that’s where I’m at.”

Does the institutionalisation of a film set suit you? “Yeah. But then no, because I want experiences to be unique.” He likes the immediacy, the rough and readiness, of some social media, he says. “There’s a benefit to the TikTok generation that I feel like I’m a part of too: selfies and stuff, and the comfort with the camera.” Are you talking about the two selfies you post a year, I tease? “Oh, man,” he says, chuckling. “You know, you know.” He is of his generation and yet no two-dimensional exemplar. Confessional Instagram Live rambler Timothée is not. Manifestly shy, self-conscious, perhaps a little scared of what people think of him, he does not find a balm for his issues in forging digital intimacy with millions of followers. To be honest, he doesn’t really like to talk about what he had for breakfast.

Or, heaven forbid, his romantic life. Do you ever imagine yourself as a father one day? As a husband? There follows an almighty pause. “You know what, I’m going to get back to you on that.”

Mostly his love life has been revealed in the grainy pixels of paparazzi long lenses. The twin pillars of young celebrity – dating and deals – have not been cashed in on. Is it true he’s never shot a fashion campaign? “Yeah, I haven’t done any.” Surely you’ve been offered everything? He blinks, politely. “When [success] came my way, I felt very particular that I didn’t want people and I really didn’t want to see myself cashing in,” he says. He adores fashion, is close friends with several designers and has worn floral Alexander McQueen and glittering Louis Vuitton on red carpets to internet-breaking effect. Even today, in perfect denim shorts, a simple tee and a smattering of jewellery, he looks spot on. As for his feelings on being British Vogue’s first solo man cover star? “The nature of the world now, you know... It felt right to not make it too statement-y,” he says. He didn’t want to overthink it or overstep. He just wanted to play some characters, to live the fashion. He loved the shooting process, loved incorporating womenswear into the styling and likens working with Steven Meisel to Denis Villeneuve.

Archive chain-mail top, Stella McCartney. Pearl and palladium-plated necklace, Justine Clenquet. Leather and silver stud bracelet, Chrome Hearts. Steven Meisel

For much of the past year, he’s been living in London, filming the upcoming movie musical Wonka, an origin tale of the early life of the Roald Dahl anti-hero. Directed by Paul King, of Paddington fame (be still my beating heart), he leads a cast of Brits including Olivia Colman, Paterson Joseph and Rowan Atkinson. When a first glimpse of him in costume surfaced online – in crimson velvet, smouldering under a top hat – the internet lost its mind. “In this one, Wonka f**ks” read one memorable tweet. Chalamet starts cracking up. “You know what’s really funny about that is it’s so misleading. This movie is so sincere, it’s so joyous.” How many musical numbers do you have? “Seven!” Making it provided a perfect situation for him: escape. “I hate to say it, but the dream as an artist is to throw whatever the f**k you want at the wall, you know? And I guess what I’m realising is that one’s personal life, one’s adult life, can be quite boring and the artist’s life can still be extraordinary.”

With that he pulls his cap down and puts his defences up, ready to weave through the busying bar area and up to his room. In a few weeks he’ll travel to Budapest to film the second instalment of Dune, then to Venice to launch Bones & All, and then ever onwards, up and up and up. But he worries a key point has been missed. “I’m grateful,” he says. He gives me a hug and asks me to be kind. A man caught in the stasis of life’s first quarter, always looking for the answers.

The October 2022 issue of British Vogue is on newsstands on Tuesday 20 September.

#timmy #timothee chalamet

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2dayihaveaheadache · 1 year

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My very late Valentine’s Gift: Obikin AU, Modern/College Setting, (does a bar still count as Coffee Shop AU-ish?) Bookish Lit professor Kenobi spends a lonely night out drinking Whiskey at a bar in New York City until Anakin, a Twink, comes around with a witty pickup line and changes everything.

“Another round for us!”, Vos shouted, one arm raised, leaning against the bar counter with a cheeky grin.

The tiny bar – Blue Iris– was lit by dimmed lamps and the air smelled like tobacco – sometimes with a slight hint of Jasmine, Obi-Wan loved his perfumed cigarettes. Clouded mirrors with tinged silver frames, Cuban mahogany furniture, a Morris wallpaper, vintage book copies, and an expensive collection of Scottish Whisky completed the image of the bar to be a pivot for intellectuals. It was perfectly located in SoHo, a couple of minutes by foot down Greenwich Village, and fancily atmospheric, British aristocrat-like, snobbish. To Obi-Wan, it sometimes felt elitist. Most of the guests were academics, reading and discussing philosophy, Nihilism, and Existentialism, while sipping on their café brûlot – every coffee was listed in French on the drink’s menu – and felt better than the rest of the entire world.

When Vos had first invited him here, Obi-Wan had made the mistake of googling the bar. The name was a literature reference to Novalis, the prices high, even for New York standards, though they offered a decent variety of beverages – of course, all of them connected to a certain kind of image, French coffee, lonely philosopher gin tonic and mocha in the fashion of Vienna coffee house culture, something they tried to imitate. A rendezvous point for New York’s academics.

“Come on, Obi, it’s time you meet your colleagues.”, Vos had grinned at him, brushing off dust from his jacket. Vos was one of Obi-Wan’s oldest friends and first-ever love – a poetry competition in Salinas, California had brought them together. Back then Obi-Wan had been a only college student, Vos was a couple of years older and an already established name in American literature. His poems had been tender, blinding with dazzling words, a trap – a Dionaea muscipula for Obi-Wan. Nearly fifteen years later and a broken teenage heart later, they had remained close even though Obi-Wan had finished his studies in Great Britain after their breakup and stayed in Oxford for his Ph.D. So, when Columbia University had offered him the position as the dean of their English facility, the two friends were suddenly living in the same city for the first time in years.

It had been quite natural for Vos – a carefree spirit – to try to integrate his friend Obi-Wan into his social circle in New York, so he had invited him for a night out. “You’ll have a good time there. Live Jazz Music on Saturdays, poetry slams, and Absinth.”

Obi-Wan had sighed and raised his hands defeated.

“And you will fit in perfectly. Your charming British accent, your love for cardigans and tweed…”

So, there he was, Obi-Wan Kenobi, an English professor, recently divorced, trying to enjoy himself on a Friday night out with his ex. He had positioned himself next to the bar, sipping on his Whisky – a Single Malt Scotch Whiskey, Chivas Regal – observing his surrounding. The Tobacco smell hung over the entire scenery. Smoking was en vogue in academic circles, it seemed. He nipped one of his jasmine cigarettes between his lips and lit it with a matchstick, an old habit. He took a few breaths before letting his eyes wander over the crowd again. Faintly background music was played, a low saxophone, and a smokey female voice, it had a jazzy feel to it.

The crowd had broken up into groups, always gathered around a set of chaise lounges. A low café table in the middle. From the corner of his eye, he spotted Vos talking to a group of people, laughing full-heartedly. A few faces were recognizable. Mace Windu, a professor of Classics & Philosophy and a Hellenist, took a nip from a Gin Tonic. Next to him, dressed up in a black turtleneck with dark-painted nails, sat Depa Billaba, Mace’s TA. The youngest in the group was Aalya Secura, an investigative journalist, and seated next to her was Yoda – his pen name – one of the most famous Dadaism poets of the 21st century. All of them were Obi-Wan’s new colleagues at Columbia.

Still, he felt like the odd one out, the intruder. He emptied his Whiskey. It burned in his throat but he did not care and took another breath from his smoke. Being the new one sucked.

The bartender thumped a shot of Korn down on the bar counter. It clicked against Obi-Wan’s empty drink, glass against glass. Irritated Obi-Wan looked up and raised an eyebrow. The liquid shimmered colorless. Schnapps judging by its smell. Did the bartender pity him? Obi-Wan lowered his head and smiled bitterly, what a night. “Something for you.”, the man in the velvet suit explained, “From a gentlemen admirer.” A wink was added.

Pushing up his horn-rimmed glasses, Obi-Wan turned his head around the room. A new song had started playing. Bass strings were gently plucked and a female singer sang about Le Temps de L’ amour – how fitting. Who in this bar would buy him a drink? Him? A lonely whiskey drinker, that was leaning against the bar counter, bitterly grinning to himself, the hair a mess of copper strands, dressed in a tweed jacket – maybe someone in an Irish Pub would, impressed by his cliché literature professor appearance but here it seemed unlikely. He was one of many, tasteless, nothing like the hipsters with their New York chic, black turtlenecks, vintage military coats, and Dr. Martens.

Vos? After their breakup, the two had never really lost their spark. A few foolish drinks or a night where one felt lonely often led to a shared bed. Obi-Wan glanced at Vos. He was currently occupied discussing with his fellow Columbia professors, a smile plastered on his face. Unlikely. No. Then whose interest had he tickled? A woman had taken a few glances at him, long dark hair, and a red dress with a back neckline hugged her figure. Her smile was quite lovely and it seemed like she had a good taste in whiskey. No. She was out of his league. Then who else? The man with a copy of Nietzsche’s “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” in his hands? He had looked up at Obi-Wan shyly a few times. Maybe.

Something caught his eye. Nearby a man had raised his glass – the same shot of Schnapps that the bartender had given to Obi-Wan – and cheered to him, grinning cheekily. Was he flirting? He looked a couple of years younger than Obi-Wan and smiled with a crooked smile. A Twink. In the dimmed light his hair faintly shimmered golden, the unruly locks tied up in a low bun, and the rest of them framed his boyish face, his angular jaw piercing out, his eyes a midnight blue. He gave Obi-Wan a thumbs up before drowning the shot in one go and then stepping closer to the bar counter.

“Why?”

“You looked lonely.”, said the boy with a more serious expression. His features had hardened, and his eyes darkened. He seemed older, end-twenties. The black inking on his exposed lower wrists caught Obi-Wan’s glance. A Quote was tattooed on his tanned skin. “Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, …”, were the cursive words Obi-Wan could decipher. The rest of them was covered under a black Shirt. The first lines of William Ernest Henley’s poem Invictus. Armor, these words were like armor tattooed on a body. What had the young man endured in his life? Interesting.

“Do you buy drinks for all lonely people?”, asked Obi-Wan.

“Only for the pretty ones.”, explained the man, smiling once again. “There was a beauty in your loneliness Like the Boy with the thorn, an inner turmoil but so tranquil on the outside, behind a masquerade of serenity.”

That was probably one of the strangest pickup lines, Obi-Wan had ever encountered – even though he had to admit, that it tickled his interest. He had felt bitter before, sitting all alone at the bar counter, smoking, and drinking. His friend Vos was nowhere to be found, occupied with his own life and it had been truly a weird dynamic to go out with your ex. Now fate had granted him a chance with this beautiful, infatuating creature, how could he say no to this?

Two sapphires pierced his eyes, tanned skin with a faint touch of copper, goldish curls, and chiseled body. To that, a mind thinking alike. “What’s your name, young gentleman admirer?”

“Anakin Skywalker.”

The other man leaned closer and took Obi-Wan’s smoke. He nipped it between his lips as if he wanted to lead Obi-Wan’s eyes there. They were slightly tinted in a reddish color, like a dark wine, glossy and plush. Intoxicating. Thrilling. Kissable. The jasmine tobacco mixed with the other man’s scent of musk and made it taste sweet and bitter at the same time on Obi-Wan’s tongue as he breathed. The glare meeting Obi-Wan’s eyes was intense, dazzling, thrilling, and filled with something that sparked heat in Obi-Wan’s gut.

Anakin let his head fall back and blew a cloud of smoke at Obi-Wan. He leaned even closer and paused an inch before Obi-Wan’s face, breath warm on the other man’s lips. It was like a silent question for consent. Then he slid forward the last centimeters and tasted Obi-Wan on his tongue.

Maybe being new did not suck that much, thought Obi-Wan and opened his mouth to let himself be devoured by Anakin. Tasted like heaven with a slight hint of Jasmine tobacco.

#obikin #obikin au #obikin fic #sw au #obi wan star wars #Felix's stupid midnight thoughts #art obsessed Obi Wan #philosophy #happens somewhere here #if you look close enough #sw valentines gift #Anakin is Twink #authors was lonely at and wrote this at 2 Am #and is a lit student so way to much lit references #sw fanfic #star wars fic #college au

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nearmidnightannex · 1 year

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Ncuti Gatwa in British Vogue

... Oh, my.

Well, I suppose it’s always in fashion.

Ncuti Gatwa On Barbie, Doctor Who And Baring It All In British Vogue BY RADHIKA SETH 13 June 2023

... The shoot has come right in the middle of a seismic year for Gatwa: when we meet, he is days away from taking the stage at King Charles’s Coronation concert; he has a plum role in the most anticipated film of the summer, Greta Gerwig’s Barbie; is due to play Eric for the final time in the fourth season of the Netflix romp this autumn; and will finally enter the Tardis come Christmas. But, if his rise from promising young talent to industry stalwart feels inevitable, it shouldn’t. Raised in Kigali by a journalist father and bank manager mother, he and his family fled the Rwandan genocide when he was just a toddler, relocating to Scotland. (His dad later moved to Cameroon for work, and Gatwa spent his summers there, which goes some way to explaining his accent, a mellifluous mix of Scottish and West African.) [...]

[...] Gatwa was working on Barbie when it was announced that he’d become the fifteenth Doctor Who. “I remember Ryan Gosling bounding up to my trailer like, ‘Doctor Who is the coolest show in the world man! I’m the biggest fan,’” says Gatwa, collapsing into giggles again. “And I was like, ‘What the hell?’ This show has incredible reach.” He auditioned back in February 2022, but says he felt almost no anxiety around it. “I was just like, ‘There’s no way I’ll get this,’” he tells me with a sly smile. “‘It’s a British institution and there’s no way they’ll cast a Black man.’ So, I just had fun.” It paid off – and left Gatwa in shock. “I felt numb,” he says of landing the part. “And keeping it a secret until the announcement was very difficult. I’d often get a little tipsy in Soho House, make a new best friend in the bathroom, tell them and run off. Thankfully, it never got out.”...

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thaliatraynorlmju · 4 years

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SELF DIRECTED STUDY WEEK RESEARCH TASK

STYLISTS

HISTORIC

GRACE CODDINGTON

Grace Coddington is a former model and the creative director of American Vogue. She is known for styling and creating large, complex and dramatic photoshoots and has produced some of fahsion’s most memorable imagery. She flawlessly creates narratives with her styling that have been described as both jolly and decadant and moody and mysterious. Coddington is one of the most accomplished stylists in fashion and she has collaborated with some incredible creatives, from the legendary likes of Tim Walker, Arthur Elgort and Steven Meisel to rising stars such as Jamie Hawkesworth and Karim Sadli.

RAY PETRI

Ray Petri was a fashion stylist and the creator of the fashion house Buffalo who changed the face of British menswear. Petri was working in the early 80′s, when being seen on the streets of west London and the nightclubs of Soho embracing your own uniqueness was sort of a right of passage. Petri was actually the first person to ever be considered a stylist and was the most influential fashion stylist of the 1980′s. His strongest work was documented in The Face magazine, where his ‘Buffalo Boy’ look was first released. Below is an example of the Buffalo boy.

EDWARD ENNINFUL

Edward Enninful OBE is the editor-in-chief of British Vogue and is one of the most sought after stylists in the industry. Beginning his career at the age of 18, Enninful was appointed as the Fahion Direcror for i-D Magazine, a position he held for two decades. This also made him the youngest ever Fashion Director for an international publication. Edward has been massively influential in the industry, mainly for creating iconic images and shaping numerous advertisising campaigns for brands including Comme des Garcons, Christian Dior, Dolce & Gabbana and Calvin Klein.

CONTEMPORARY

HARRY LAMBERT

Harry Lambert is a young, self employed stylist working in London who has styled numerous editorials for the likes of Beauty papers, Style magazine and up and coming CSM Fashion designer, Harris Reed. While he has worked closely with many magazines and creatives, he currently is known best for being singer Harry Styles’s personal stylist, a position he has held for the majority of Styles’ career. Lambert styles imagery that is uncomfortable and whimsical, they are asymmetric and haunting, they are moody and unsetlting, but they are also so clever and beautiful to look at. Lambert is definitely one of my favourite young stylists in the industry right now.

DORIA SANTLOFER

Doria Santlofer is a stylist born and based in New York. She was previously the Fashion editor at New York Magazine, but is now a freelance stylist. She has worked with all kinds of publications from smaller magazines such as Wonderland and Violet Book, to huge, iconic publications such as Allure and Glamour. She has an eye for high impact colour and volume in her styling. She describes her own style as ‘classic, tailored, teenage’ which is mirrored in her lighthearted, youthful editorials.

EWELINA GRALAK

Another New York stylist Ewelina Gralak was actually born in Poland, where she began styling. Her career has landed her in downtown Manhattan, where she now resides. She is very influential on Instagram and posts outtakes/photos from editorials she has been a part of alongside her own outfits and sources of inspiration. She has worked with brands such as local Polish brand MISBHV, reserved and KPODONOU. She perfectly finds the balance between ugly and pretty in her styling and puts together the most obscure outfits consisting of high end designer brands and brands not many people have evr heard of, making her signature style hard to describe.

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He arrives, of course, trailing a thin miasma of weed fumes. “All right,” says Zayn, holding out his hand as he surveys his rain-lashed roof terrace through a half squint. We are several storeys above SoHo, Manhattan, in the penthouse where, for most of the past year, pop's handsomest prince has been holed up like a gender-flipped 21st-century Rapunzel with a PlayStation, supermodel girlfriend and a recently acquired hairless Sphynx cat called Dobby. Why Dobby, I ask, as he pops open a couple of bottles of Stella. “Like the house elf,” he replies, chuckling at his Harry Potter reference. “We tried to make him a little sock jumper but he won't keep it on.”

British Vogue on Zayn (and his cat).

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Women designers in history

In a world that largely fails to properly recognize the millions of women who lead the way in many fields, here at Webflow, we want to do better for the design community.

Here are fifteen women who have made lasting contributions in their creative fields, whose careers and work should serve as an inspiration to everyone.

1. Paula Scher

“The goal of design is to raise the expectation of what design can be.” - Paula Scher

Paula Scher’s work unleashes the hidden potential of typography. Through positioning, scaling, and space, she takes the tame lines of letters and makes them eclectic. This imaginative rendering of typography, combined with her bold yet tasteful use of color, makes her work instantly recognizable.

Paula’s first major role was working in the music industry as a designer for CBS Records and she would later move on to Atlantic Records. During her tenure in the music business, she would create album covers for such artists as Charles Mingus, Boston, the Yardbirds, and other notable musicians.

Her experience designing album covers would inform the widely recognized work she did for New York’s Public Theater. Where theater is often associated with a stuffy seriousness, she pioneered a branding identity for them that reflected the creative spirit of their productions. The posters she produced for them buzz with the energy of rock and roll and hip-hop.

A good designer can capture — in a microcosm of space — the essence of what makes something unique. Whether it’s on the space of an album cover, a poster, or the cover of a book, Paula’s designs balance experimentation with practicality to communicate messages in a way that captivates. Paula is still a working designer — check out more of her work over at Pentagram.

2. Ray Eames

“What works good is better than what looks good, because what works good lasts.” - Ray Eames

Ray Eames’ roots were in abstract painting, and she was an active member of the art scene in New York during the 1930s. A common criticism of abstract art is that it’s an amorphous mess, lacking any sort of cohesion. But looking at Ray’s paintings shows that, early on, she understood how shape, form, and color worked together.

Her talents in creating visual harmony would serve her well with the work she did with her husband, Charles, in creating furniture and other industrial designs. Ray was a true polymath, whose work as a designer, painter, and filmmaker all display attention to detail as well a high level of artistry.

There’s something timeless about all the work Ray was involved in. From the functional beauty of the chairs she produced to the abstract symbol patterns she crafted for textiles, even those with an untrained eye can recognize the talent behind her designs. She embraced a sense of modernism that has never gone out of style.

3. Louise Fili

One of the things Louise Fili does best is synthesize classic typography in new and unique ways. We can see traces of where she draws her inspiration, but her sense of inventiveness and imagination takes typefaces to places that are uniquely hers.

This flair for typography can be traced back to her time at Pantheon books. She was an art director there for 11 years and designed almost 2,000 book covers. That time spent on looking and arranging text gave her a chance to develop her own typographic sensibilities, as well as give her a keen eye for clean design.

Louise is still designing today. She heads her own agency in NYC and is still creating book designs that have a classic elegance and a slick sense of modernism.

4. Elizabeth Friedländer

Elizabeth Friedländer was born in Berlin, Germany in 1902. As someone of Jewish descent, hostility in Germany and the anti-Semitic Nuremberg laws of 1935 forced her to flee from her home country. Though she only got to spend a short amount of her young adult life in Germany, she managed to become the first woman to create two typefaces — Elizabeth-Antigua and Elizabeth-Kursiv — for Bauer Types in 1927.

After Elizabeth left Germany, she spent much of her time as a designer in England. She worked across various mediums including book covers, packaging, prints, and typography. She had a talent for patterns and texture, which can be seen in much of her work.

From book design for Penguin to counterfeit Nazi documents and materials for the British black propaganda unit of the Political Intelligence Office — she did it all.

Elizabeth’s work is an example of how the creative spirit can shine through, even during some of the darkest days in history.

5. Zaha Hadid

Born in Iraq in 1950, Zaha Hadid was one of the most prominent Iraqi-British architects in history.

She studied mathematics and later went on to the Association School of Architecture in 1972. Though she was adept at the analytical skills that came from her education, she found something lacking in standard architectural illustrations. She developed an approach to loosen up these rigid lines and tapped into the expressiveness of painting to inform her work. We can see this duality — where formality meets artistry — in the curves and lines of her architectural works that can be seen worldwide.

Her professional accomplishments are many. She was the first ever woman to land the Pritzker Architecture Prize, which she received in 2004. Her buildings are undulating waves of glass and concrete, melding into the landscape, instead of the unmoving straight lines of more conventional architecture. Some of her most famous creations include the Broad Art Museum, the Guangzhou Opera House, and Galaxy SOHO.

6. Susan Kare

“Good design’s not about what medium you’re working in, it’s about thinking hard about what you want to do and what you have to work with before you start.” - Susan Kare

Susan Kare’s contributions to design shaped how we interact with computers today. Her work in creating icons for the early Macintosh brought what was once a sterile and cold piece of technology to life.

Susan put much of her time into developing her skills in the fine arts — she pursued sculpture in undergrad and in graduate school. Though her focus was in the malleable medium of clay, she learned graphic design as an intern in high school and would continue to land design gigs in her adult life. Her skills in these two different artistic pursuits — one tactile and the other visual — would be her guide in her work for Apple.

Susan created digital-based icons that reflected the real world. Macintosh’s scissor symbol was instantly recognizable as something used to cut. Instead of boring symbols, she wanted users to feel a personal connection with the machines they were interacting with.

If you’re on a Mac right now, look at the symbol on the command key. This icon was created by Susan. Derived from a Swedish symbol representing “special attraction,” any designer will see the brilliance in this small clover-shaped knot.

Susan has had a long and varied career as a designer, having also worked with Pinterest, Facebook, Intel, and IBM.

7. Bea Feitler

Bea Fetier was a Brazilian graphic designer who worked at the zenith of magazine publishing. At 25, she became an art director at Harper’s Bazaar. She held this role for 10 years, pushing its identity in a more modern direction. After her stint at Harper’s Bazaar, she was the art director at Ms. Magazine, whose feminist-empowering philosophy aligned her own beliefs.

Her work from the late 60s and early 70s captures an aura of excitement and experimentation that seized the art world. Before her death in 1982, her design skills touched Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair, as well as album covers, advertisements, and posters.

Bea was one of the first women in design to give a voice to feminism through her work, showing that graphic design can be more than just an arrangement of text and visuals, but that it can help challenge societal norms and push forward change.

8. Deborah Sussman

Environmental graphic design places a focus on how people interact and process physical spaces. It relies on understanding how disciplines like graphic design, interior and exterior design, and architecture intersect to create spaces that are more than pedestrian experiences.

Deborah Sussman has had a prolific career as an environmental graphic designer for the last thirty years. She’s most famous for the work she did for the 1984 Olympics held in Los Angeles. She developed graphics and signage with a distinct visual language that helped visitors attending.

Whether you’re creating an Olympic Village or a website, both need to have a user experience that’s both engaging and easy to navigate. Looking back on her work has many valuable lessons for designers today.

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9. Cipe Pineles

Cipe Pinele brought fine art into the world of publishing. As the art director for publications such as Mademoiselle, Vogue and Glamour, she commissioned artists to create custom illustrations and other visuals, elevating these magazines from generic consumerism, into artworks of their own right. Her skills as an artist and graphic designer helped her find the appropriate artists who would give these publications a sense of distinction.

She is credited as being the first woman to land the role of art director for a major mass-market publication. Her influence can still be seen in high fashion today.

10. April Greiman

When computers became a viable way to create art and design in the early ’80s some were skeptical of this emerging technology. Others, like April Greiman, saw new dimensions in artistic creation that could be opened up, and jumped into this new medium. April was an early adopter of this brand new way to design.

As a part of the CalArts faculty and a member of the design department, which she joined in 1982, she took advantage of the technology available at the school. It allowed her to experiment with digital and video equipment. She used this technology to innovate new ways of creating designs.

This poster titled “Iris Light” was one of April’s most notable pieces. She took a 35mm photograph of a video image that was displayed on a monitor. The end result was silk-screened, bringing together both old and new technologies for something fresh and exciting.

Forward-thinking designers have a way of seeing the potential in technological advancements. April is an inspiration to any creative for embracing change to help one evolve in their work.

11. Marian Bantjes

Marian Bantjes draws from a deep pool of inspiration in creating stylized lettering, heady patterns, and rendering designs that defy conventions. She spent a decade as a typesetter in book publishing, fostering uniformity and cohesion in her work. Though there’s a strong sense of structural undertone in her designs, there’s an organic feeling and warmth to her creations.

After spending time as an agency cofounder, she now works on her own as a designer and writer. She continues to create work marked with her modern, yet hard-to-classify artistic sensibilities.

12. Margo Chase

We always love hearing stories about those whose paths took a turn or two before landing on their current career. Who would have thought that the woman responsible for the Buffy the Vampire Slayer logo earned her BA in biology?

Margo planned on becoming a veterinarian, and in an effort to boost her GPA for grad school applications, she took an illustration class. It was here that she found her calling as a creative. After graduation, she was accepted into the medical illustration program at UCSF, ultimately discovering that it wasn’t the best fit. She would then move to LA where she started her design career as a freelancer.

Outside of the work she did for Buffy, Margo has also worked with high-profile clients like Pepsi and Procter Gamble. She also worked in the music industry, creating album cover artwork for Prince, Madonna, and Selena. Her personality and flair for typography can be seen across all of her designs.

13. Debbie Millman

“Visual storytelling utilizes both language and art to pass on the essence of who we are.” - Debbie Millman

Debbie Millman isn’t only skilled as a designer. She’s also an artist, writer, and speaker. She also launched the first-ever design-focused podcast, Design Matters, in 2005.

Along with her impressive career as a designer, Debbie is also an accomplished author. She has authored six books touching on various facets branding and design. She’s also an illustrator, whose work has appeared in a variety of publications including Fast Company and The New York Times.

With an impressive skill set, Debbie is a multidisciplinary wonder woman, showing that it’s possible to be successful in a variety of creative realms.

14. Carolyn Davidson

Carolyn Davidson found her way to a career in design after taking a design course as an elective at Portland State University (PSU) in 1972. Her major was journalism, but she enjoyed the class so much that she soon switched to graphic design, earning a bachelor’s degree.

While still a student at PSU, Carolyn had a chance encounter with Nike’s co-founder, Phil Knight, who was an accounting teacher at the time. That encounter led her to a career at Nike, where she would eventually design one of the most widely recognized brand logos in history: the Nike Swoosh.

She started her career at Nike doing grunt work, churning out visual materials for meetings. She eventually moved up, creating marketing collateral, and was tasked with coming up with a logo for a new line of shoes. She came up with a couple different ideas, and the swoosh was chosen. She was paid $35.00 for her work at the time. Phil Knight later gave Carolyn more compensation in the form of Nike stock — 32,000 shares, to be exact.

The Nike swoosh is a simple symbol, but it’s effective in communicating motion — a pure display of Carolyn’s genius as a designer.

15. Muriel Cooper

“Information is only useful when it can be understood.” - Muriel Cooper

Muriel Cooper began her career as a designer in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) publication office. She had a simple job, creating and printing flyers for the office. In the 40 years that followed, she continued working for MIT, where she became the first design director at MIT Press.

Similar to April Greiman, Muriel was another designer who embraced digital technology in its early stages — but she also saw the challenges that technology posed. She was brilliant at figuring out how to navigate the complicated nature of digital technology, using it effectively in her design work.

Her Bauhaus-inspired design graced many covers of books that MIT published. She also created the iconic MIT Press logo, with its minimalist row of lines reminiscent of a row of books.

Muriel is a great example of someone who stayed curious her entire career, whose expertise grew, and who stayed ahead of design trends.

Giving women the recognition they deserve

Women have existed at the top of creative fields for decades. Though much has changed in favor of design becoming a more inclusive space, there will always be room for more awareness and appreciation.

Pear Weerawong, Webflow blog https://webflow.com/blog/women-designers-history?utm_source=iterable&utm_medium=email

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'Elephantasia' is a fashion campaign organised by an environmental fashion group named 'Fashion for Conservation (FFC). FFC was founded by Nazanine Afshar (Art Director, British Vogue), Dr. Samantha Zwicker (Wildlife Conservationist, Hoja Nueva) and Ava Holmes (Fashion Week/Event Producer).

FFC focuses on wildlife conservation through fashion campaigning as well as environmentally friendly and ethical fashion. Elephantasia, their latest campaign, is focused on conservation and preservation of elephants. Elephants are endangered species. Despite the rapidly decreasing population and pretty much worldwide hunting ban, elephants are still being killed by poachers for their ivory. The main ivory markets are in Asia and predominantly China.

Fashion for Conservation reaches out to the fashion audiences. The Eelephantasia show, during London Fashion Week SS18 in September 2017, ended with an educational presentation about elephants and wildlife by Dr. Samantha Zwicker. Ava Holmes introduced the campaign and the FFC mission. The team also introduced donation packages, which individuals can purchase to contribute towards conservation of endangered species.

The show presented a cohesive collection of outfits, each one created by different designer. Elephant inspired silhouettes, motifs, colour palette and styling dominated the runway. The finale piece, created out of upcycled textiles, reflected a sombre y mood. The garment was as majestic as the elephant and the design exhibited elements of grandiose virtuosity. Rene Garza is the designer who created this piece. Rene works for Magpies and Peacocks, a non-profit design house.

VIP guests, models and the production team had a white X symbol painted on their hands. White X symbolises extinction. The show started with shamanic chanting by Colombian shaman Anthar Kharana. Bare feet, he danced on the runway. He also sang live throughout the duration of the show.

Fluorescent orange backpack made an appearance. I found this piece particularly interesting. The backpack was made of Pinatex. Pinatex is created out of reprocessed pineapple husks, made into leather like material. Pineapple husks dry into woodchip like waste material, which is not reused and/or recycled in any way. I saw Pinatex as a concept material with its first prototypes at Royal College of Art students’ exhibition a couple of years ago. It can take an enormous amount of time from research and development and prototyping to actual production of new materials. Hence why it was exciting to see this material being used in production of stylish accessories. Scottish designer C. Nicol created this marvellous piece worn with a jumpsuit by Rachel Allan. C. Nicol’s leather accessories appeal to my taste and I am looking forward to vising her shop in Soho, London.

After the show and the presentations, guests were invited to a cocktail and chocolate tasting reception. The reception focused on further PR of Fashion For Conservation campaign. I attended the reception and chatted to the ‘Elephantasia’ and the FFC team. The chocolate tasting was an interesting and inciteful experience. I got to see cacao beans in real life. These are giant, obolid shapes with a walnut like shell and texture, just much thicker. My designer instinct kicked in immediately and I started dreaming of fashion and textiles ideas inspired by the cacao bean.

I was informed that FFC is organising a fashion show in the rainforest of Peru in 2018. The show will focus on conservation of the rainforests this time. Participating designers will run workshops aimed at the local communities in Peru.

The event and the campaign left an impression. I decided to interview Ava Holmes and talk more about her mission and motivations regarding FFC. I am currently editing the audio from the interview and I will be creating a short video to complement it.

Photography & Editing: Magda Durka Writing: Magda Durka Show space: Vauxal Fashion Scout, Freemasons Hall, London

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Where's the dog bowl?

Robert & Scarlett Lacey ignored the "No one would ever believe it" palace slums memo.

In fact, The Meghans played host & hostess to the Queen of Talk (lies) on the grounds of the KP ghetto. Despite living rent free, they were embarrassed to serve their Santa Barbara queen a cup of tea inside of such sub-standard housing conditions.

Perhaps their leased Cotswolds (Soho touched) Farmhouse was "unavailable" to entertain the queen the same week NOprah visited London for her British Vogue photo shoot & tea party.

How interesting that when Charles proposed to Lady Diana, she told him "yes" before he could even complete the question.

Now where have we heard that proposal story?🧐

#Nottingham Cottage #Trying to roast a chicken #megxit #proposal #Robert Lacey Lied #Scarlett Lacey Lied #worldwide privacy tour #trying to roast a chicken 🧐#Copy-Di #fake engagement story #Suck-It 🍋 Couple

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MA at Enninful's wedding or in SB with Harkels?

10:25 EST 2/23

Hi Skippy & Friends-Pilgrim here putting on the thinking cap. I just saw the photos of the insanely lavish mansion venue where Edward and Alec had their wedding yesterday, 2-22-22 also his 50th birthday. Attending what is called the wedding of the year, stellar personalities in his fashion industry were seen arriving with expensive logo trappings, with many reportedly staying at nearby SOHO Houses.

One just has to ask if his great and good old "buddy" MA-SOHO executive-was there to make sure his company did a perfect job for their guests and members, as well as honor their long-time friendship attending the marriage ceremony. OR was MA having dinner on the other side of the world with deadbeats that used Enninful with their hideous British Vogue issue? You know the one with the copied cover design, honoring the most important women in the world that did not include HMTQ or any other female family member? Maybe that is why there was so much guffawing during the meal as they ridiculed an old friend they used? Or were they toasting the happy couple reminiscing old fun times? Honestly, it seemed to me to be Brooksbanks back at the table but if there is verifiable word it was MA then this really is strange. Hmmmmm Long live the queen.

Thank you Pilgrim….things to ponder indeed! Long Live the Queen😊❤️

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What do you know. Princess B is a big fan of the Soho House Group. www(.)vogue(.)com/article/princess-beatrice-entrepreneurship-education-new-york-city

“Inspiring words, but does Princess Beatrice ever get time to explore New York City? “I’m a big fan of the Soho House group,” she says, when asked about her favorite local spot. “It’s a good British brand that’s doing very well in the U.S.!” True, and therefore yet another example of entrepreneurial success.“

She is not a full time royal and what does that have to with anything, soho house still sucks

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New York’s finest! From burgers to brasseries and espresso to cocktails

Want to see the greatest of New York? Then forget about about the vacationer traps and head to the places that native New Yorkers level the greatest: the bars, the burgers, the brunches and all the things in involving. We’ve pulled all the most up-to-date award-winners together to expose a finest-in-exhibit New York that’s complete of surprises.

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Best Burger Clinton Corridor

No accolade is fought over more fiercely than the one for the city’s most effective burger – and at the New York Wine and Food items Competition, Clinton Hall’s Double Smash ($17, £13.50) romped home with the People’s Selection award for its two beef patties with cheese, cheese sauce and crispy shallots, served on a mountain of fries.

How does it function, I request, when I switch up to the Washington Road branch. ‘You locate a flat space and set your butt on it,’ claims the barman cheerfully. The location is noisy, with a financial institution of TVs, in addition an outside the house place with pitch and putt and big Jenga. It’s as a great deal a hangout as a hamburger spot.

Say cheese! A Clinton Corridor Double Smash burger, higher than, has two beef patties with cheese, cheese sauce and crispy shallots and is served on a mountain of fries

Verdict: Filling, but with two burgers, cheese and cheese sauce, it’s a bit significantly. I desire the very simple Corner Bistro burger on W 4th Street (clintonhallny.com).

Finest restaurant Frenchette

Just a calendar year soon after opening, Frenchette in the Tribeca district has scooped a assortment of awards, together with Eater’s Restaurant of the Year for its gutsy Gallic foods. The decor belongs to a Truffaut film. Most effective of all, there’s a bargain prix fixe menu – two programs, a glass of wine and an espresso for $28 (£22).

Verdict: I came anticipating pretension but it is peaceful with a buzz (frenchettenyc.com).

Best Coffee

Coffee Undertaking, East Village

Time Out magazine named this very small espresso bar the very best in the metropolis, and owner Chi Sum Ngai’s signature drink is a deconstructed latte ($8, £6.30). For the uninitiated, that is independent cups of espresso, steamed milk from a farm in Salem in upstate New York, and a latte, which you sip just one at a time. They occur accompanied by a glass of glowing drinking water to cleanse the palate, and a wafer. This may well be a spot of (highly-priced) coffee pilgrimage, but you can even now pop in for a quick cappuccino if you want.

Verdict: Wins on each individual stage – a environment absent from Starbucks (coffeeprojectny.com).

Finest Street Foods Royal Grill Halal

From the pretzels in Central Park to artisanal cookie dough in Brooklyn’s weekly Smorgasburg market, New Yorkers have a whole-throated passion for road food items, and the yearly Vendy Awards reward the finest of the finest. This yr, Royal Grill Halal gained the People’s Selection Cup. On 44th Street in close proximity to Bryant Park, the small metal cart could seem like all the other individuals in the road, but the appreciative queue at its shiny counter tends to make it stand out.

Verdict: One particular of the greatest curries I have at any time eaten. Scrumptious, fresh new and, at $6.99 (£5.50), a cut price (royalgrillhalalfood.com).

Finest Rooftop bar Ophelia

Hipster haunt: The perspective throughout the East River from the rooftop Ophelia bar exactly where Frank Sinatra used to hold out

New York is all about the skyscrapers, and as it is the epitome of huge-town awesome to have a consume at the best of one particular, the race to be awarded the greatest rooftop bar is tough.

The latest Grub Avenue journal winner is Ophelia, and even however it’s future doorway to the no-entertaining UN constructing, this 26th-flooring eyrie has all the hipster bar essentials, together with taxidermy, laid-back charm and very well-manufactured cocktails – favourites include vintage martinis for $28 (£22).

The spot also has a playful heritage – Frank Sinatra hung out in this article when it was known as the Top Of The Tower cafe.

Verdict: It is a charmer of a bar with no frame of mind, despite the altitude (opheliany.com).

The go-to cart: Royal Grill Halal on 44th Road

Most effective New Pizza Mama’s As well

In December, this little pizzeria topped site Gothamist’s greatest pizza record. Based on Broadway, higher on the Upper West Aspect, it was a controversial preference for the reason that owner Frank Tuttolomondo employs a focaccia base rather of a more classic 1. But the queues speak for by themselves, and so do the pizzas. Toppings are loaded with a generous hand and the resulting pizza is charred, inexpensive and scrumptious.

Verdict: A deal at $4.50 (£3.55) for a doorstep-measurement pizza, but the area is a bit out of the way (mamastoo.com).

Finest Keep-as-a-Hangout Hesperios

The Big Apple has produced these a attribute above ‘shops as social places’ that New York journal developed an awards classification for them – and this is the most up-to-date winner. Site visitors roars past, but this all-white shop in SoHo is a haven of serenity.

Inside of, there’s a assortment of ceramics, vogue and guides, a tiny cafe and even a back garden in which to hold out.

My coffee will come with two sprigs of lavender. I’m not absolutely sure why, but I respect the gesture. It is costly at $8 (£6.30) but the serenity is priceless, even if every little thing else in the shop is way out of my league in conditions of selling price.

Verdict: It appears to be a little bit overwhelming but I enjoy it (hesperios.com).

Greatest Chef Missy Robbins

The yearly James Beard awards are America’s foodstuff Oscars and in 2018 it voted Missy Robbins the ideal chef in New York. Her cafe, Lilia, is a gentle and airy warehouse area in the ultra-hip Williamsburg region of Brooklyn. You want a table? Fuggetaboutit. Reservations open up once a thirty day period and disappear inside of minutes, but if you change up with the other foodie faithful at 5.30pm, you can eat at the bar.

Verdict: Sitting down at the bar is good enjoyment and allows you search into the kitchen. My pasta ($21, £16.60) was scrumptious (lilianewyork.com).

Greatest Bar Dante

Cafe Dante has been a landmark in Greenwich Village because 1915, and considering that it opened a bar in 2015 it hasn’t stopped winning awards.

The recent winner of finest bar from Time Out, it has model in spades, with bow-tied barmen at the rear of the counter. The negronis ($14, £11) are breathtaking, and the foodstuff is just as excellent as the cocktails (pastas and salads are very best). Genuine lovers sit at the bar – and get there early as delighted hour runs from 3pm to 6pm.

Verdict: This place does not rest on its award-profitable laurels – it’s welcoming, calm, and the cocktails and food stuff are delightful (dante-nyc.com).

Finest Brunch Madcap Cafe

Grub Avenue says that the minuscule Madcap Cafe in Brooklyn serves the finest brunch in New York. The rave dish is the blueberry pancake, baked in a skillet and it is a light and fluffy winner at $11 (£8.75). The decor is 1940s smaller-city The united states and so is the really feel, with locals perched on seats at the counter. But chef and proprietor Heather Fuller has worked at some of the finest restaurants in town.

Verdict: Madcap, which opened in April 2018, is set to turn into my new New York hangout. Charm and discount rates make it a winner (madcapcafebk.com).

Greatest Resort The Lowell

Aged-faculty luxury: A single of the bedrooms at The Lowell, higher than, which is tucked away on a leafy road close to Central Park

The fashionable readers of Travel & Leisure magazine voted this lodge New York’s greatest. Tucked absent on a leafy avenue in close proximity to Central Park, an understated entrance sales opportunities to a sequence of concealed bars and eating places – some offered only for attendees, many others open to all – and some tiny terraces.

Serving French foods with Moroccan touches, flower-filled Majorelle has been identified as New York’s prettiest cafe.

Upstairs, the appeal and stratospheric services concentrations go on, with 74 pretty roomy rooms and suites, all eau-de-nil peacefulness and outdated-faculty luxurious.

Verdict: Unshowy but pretty polished, The Lowell definitely life up to its billing. It is lower-key but attractive (lowellhotel.com).

Journey FACTS

Flights with British Airways (ba.com) to New York cost from £293 return. Rooms at The Lowell begin at $595 (£470) on a area-only foundation. For much more details on the town, pay a visit to nycgo.com.

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