हर लड़की ने कभी न कभी अपनी जिंदगी में मां की साड़ी जरूर पहनी होती है और इसमें फिल्मी दुनिया की हसीनाएं भी शामिल हैं। इस लिस्ट में अब नया नाम साउथ की फिल्मों की ऐक्ट्रेस ऐश्वर्या लक्ष्मी का भी जुड़ गया है। उन्होंने अपने इंस्टाग्राम पर एक तस्वीर शेयर की है, जिसमें वह अपनी मां की बेहद खूबसूरत साड़ी पहनी दिखाई दे रही हैं। शेयर किए गए फोटो में ऐश्वर्या ब्लू सिल्क साड़ी पहनी देखी जा सकती हैं। इस साड़ी पर ओवरऑल सिल्वर थ्रेड से पोल्का डॉट्स डिजाइन्स बनाई गई थीं। वहीं बॉर्डर पर प्लेन सिल्वर थ्रेड स्टिच की गई थी। इस ब्रॉड बॉर्डर से साड़ी का लुक और खास बनता दिखाई दे रहा था। ऐश्वर्या ने इस लुक को पूरा करते हुए नथ और कानों में झुमके पहने थे। इसके अलावा उन्होंने कोई और जूलरी पहनना अवॉइड किया था, जो दिखाता है कि वह सिर्फ उस साड़ी को हाईलाइट करना चाहती थीं। वहीं उन्होंने मेकअप को न्यूड टोन रखते हुए, आईज को हाईलाइट किया है। उन्होंने बालों को लूज बन में स्टाइल किया था। दूसरी तस्वीर में ऐश्वर्या की मां को भी सेम साड़ी में देखा जा सकता है। वैसे आपको बता दें कि, ऐश्वर्या ने एक मैगजीन फोटोशूट के लिए मां की इस साड़ी को पहना था। यह पहली बार नहीं है जब ऐश्वर्या लक्ष्मी ने अपने साड़ी लुक से इम्प्रेस किया हो। इस बाला के पास सिल्क साड़ियों का अच्छा खासा कलेक्शन है। उन्होंने तो सिल्क साड़ियों में फोटोशूट तक करवाया था, जिसमें कई ऐसे शेड्स नजर आए थे, जिन्हें साड़ी लवर लड़कियां अपनी वॉरड्रोब में जरूर शामिल करना चाहेंगी।
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 06: (EXCLUSIVE COVERAGE) (L-R) Kim Kardashian West, Kylie Jenner, Kendall Jenner, and Jeff Bezos attend The 2019 Met Gala Celebrating Camp: Notes on Fashion at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 06, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Kevin Tachman/MG19/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue)
Due to the pandemic, and in turn, the stay-at-home orders mandated by New York officials, there will be no Met Gala tonight. No getting-ready Instagram stories, no behind-the-scenes walk-throughs with designers, no red carpet unveilings, and arguably the most disappointing of all — no bathroom selfies.
Whether or not you follow fashion, if you’re a person who scrolls through the internet, you’ve likely encountered a bathroom selfie from the Met Gala (you just might not have known where it came from, or why all those A-listers were in couture gowns in a bathroom together). But if you are someone who looks forward to the first Monday in May with the same level of obsession as us, you probably have the iconic (be it grainy) image of Armie Hammer vaping in the background of a shot intended to catch Dakota Johnson lighting a cigarette in the Met’s tiled bathroom, framed on your nightstand. Either way, you’ve come to the right place: an archive of the best Met Gala bathroom selfies of all time.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual Costume Institute Benefit has a very strict no phone or social media policy. After all, it’s one of the most exclusive parties in fashion. If you’re not on the list, you’re not getting inside — physically or virtually. But there’s one aspect to the rule — made popular by none other than social media maven and self-made billionaire Kylie Jenner — that attendees love to disregard: the bathroom selfie.
The youngest of the Jenner sisters posted her bathroom selfie during the 2017 Rei Kawakubo/Commes des Garçons-themed Met Gala. In it, you’ll find stars like P. Diddy, Paris Jackson, Elizabeth Chambers, and Slick Woods — all huddled together, posing in front of Jenner’s iPhone. Other leaked photos from the same night feature Bella Hadid kneeling on the ground in a see-through Alexander Wang bodysuit and pumps and blowing out smoke from her cigarette; Alexander Wang making the duck face for a selfie with Zoë Kravitz; and Emily Ratajkowski kissing the cheek of designer Prabal Gurung.
But the bathroom was a popular photo locale at the Met Gala long before Kylie posted her infamous shot on Instagram in 2017. In fact, photos taken by photographer Cass Bird were released the year before, at the Manus x Machina Met Gala, which showcase the likes of Lily Rose Depp in all-white Chanel, Hailey Bieber (then Baldwin) in silver and black striped sequins, and Lily Aldridge with what looks like bleached eyebrows. Casual.
So while tonight’s events have been canceled, there’s no reason why we can’t still enjoy the first Monday in May in style — bathroom style, that is. Scroll down for some of our favorite bathroom selfies from Met Galas past. Trust us, you won’t regret it.
These pictures of Lady Gaga just trying to use the bathroom at the Met Gala while everyone is taking photos will never not be funny 😭 pic.twitter.com/KOqOf1OpK9
TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA – 2016/04/27: J. Crew store entrance in downtown. J.Crew Group, Inc., is an American multi-brand, multi-channel, specialty retailer. The company offers an assortment of women’s, men’s and children’s apparel and accessories. (Photo by Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket via Getty Images)
J.Crew filed for bankruptcy on Monday, becoming the first business of its kind to do so since the pandemic began earlier this year. Despite being a household name, the brand came under scrutiny in recent years for failing to put a finger on the pulse of millennial consumer demands, which led to declining sales.
But if you found yourself living a middle- to upper-class lifestyle in the ‘80s, it’s likely that J.Crew played a prevalent role in your wardrobe. Their catalogs were Nantucket prep at its finest, with pages full of handsome couples boating off the Atlantic in chunky knitwear (most of which was tied oh-so-casually around tanned shoulders), striped rugby shirts that looked purposely faded by too many hours spent lounging in the sun, and smiling families in matching flannel pajamas on Christmas morning. Coincidentally, the mass retailer’s once sporty, prep-school vibe is seeing a revival, with hype brands like Noah and Aries now adopting the look.
J.Crew has changed a lot since pioneering the yacht aesthetic, though.
Jenna Lyons started at J.Crew in 1990, where she began as an assistant designer of menswear and worked her way up to President and Creative Director. In total, she worked at the company for 27 years. To know J.Crew is to know Jenna Lyons, and her designs were what kept the brand afloat and popular for most of her tenure. In fact, she dressed Michelle Obama back when Barack Obama was running for President in October of 2008. But in 2017, Lyons announced that she’d be stepping down from her role at J.Crew, followed by chief executive Mickey Drexler. Lyons’ successor, designer Somsack Sikhounmuong, left soon after.
Nowadays, the aesthetic has changed. Rhinestones are encrusted on neon-colored cashmere. Otherwise basic pieces include embroidered-on kitschy phrases or emoticons, at not-so-cheap prices. According to 2019 reports, J.Crew sales decreased 4% to $1.7 billion. Total debt was around the same for the year was similar, at $1.68 billion.
According to a company announcement, J.Crew’s parent company Chinos Holdings filed for Chapter 11 protection in federal bankruptcy court for the Eastern District of Virginia this morning. Chinos Holdings will hold onto its ownership of Madewell for now, and maintain J.Crew’s e-commerce operations throughout the bankruptcy proceedings. Due to coronavirus, J.Crew has closed all 182 of its physical stores, making the brand’s e-commerce platform their only stream of revenue at this time. All Madewell stores are also closed because of shelter-in-place orders.
“This agreement with our lenders represents a critical milestone in the ongoing process to transform our business with the goal of driving long-term, sustainable growth for J.Crew and further enhancing Madewell’s growth momentum,” Jan Singer, J.Crew Group’s Chief Executive Officer said in a statement. “J.Crew and Madewell are two classic American brands with deeply loyal customers,” Kevin Ulrich of Anchorage Capital Group, one of the company’s existing lenders, added. “The significant deleveraging contemplated by this agreement, coupled with J.Crew Group’s strategy to strengthen its robust e-commerce platform to drive continued growth in its direct-to-consumer segment, will position the Company for future success.”
While J.Crew is the first fashion brand to file for bankruptcy in the wake of coronavirus, it is not alone in its financial struggles right now. Both Neiman Marcus and J.C. Penney are said to be considering filing for bankruptcy as well due to overwhelming debts, which have been made significantly worse due to COVID-19. With a rumored second wave of the virus arriving this fall, though, it’s likely that these three heritage companies won’t be the last casualties in the fashion industry.
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