Giana Capialbi '24 Paris Whitney Hilton may be the most iconic person in the 2000s. The heiress it-girl was on every magazine and billboard, and starred in commercials and movies all through the decade. Her impact on 2000s fashion and culture is unmatched by anyone else since then. Her life is so fascinating, being the great-granddaughter of Hilton Hotels Conrad Hilton, and basically being “famous for being famous.” She was at the forefront of basically every 2000s fashion trend, having early access to new hot designer styles. She became known for wearing Juicy Couture tracksuits in every color imaginable, tiny revealing tops, and of course low waisted bottoms, with her famously saying, “Skirts should be the size of a belt.” She didn’t wait for Miu Miu to showcase their now famous ultra micro mini skirts from their Spring 2022 Ready-to-Wear Collection - she did it first. Juicy Couture tracksuits are such an iconic part of 2000s fashion, and Paris really made them into the iconic, ultra-wanted brand they became. She really embraced the brand and is arguably its most iconic ambassador. Paris became a symbol of pop culture, L.A. and the casual luxury that Juicy suits were. She accessorized them perfectly and even carried her dog around in her bag with it. She was the it-girl of the decade and seriously lived the brand. They were even featured on her and Nicole Richie’s show, The Simple Life and became the unofficial uniform for the duo. Paris just came out with her own line of tracksuits, which I think is the best thing to happen ever. As such a big tracksuit fan and ambassador, there is no one better to have their own line. She first announced the collection on Instagram saying, “Since the 2000s, tracksuits have been iconic. Over the years I have collected hundreds of tracksuits, and I am so excited to now launch my own Iconic Tracksuit collection. I've enjoyed every aspect of the design process, from choosing and testing the softest velour fabrics, to ensuring all the finishings, details, and embellishments were just right.” She was even featured in The Bling Ring, a Sofia Coppola movie about fame-obsessed teenagers who used the Internet to track celebrities, then rob their homes. Paris was a victim of the actual Bling Ring Heist (a total number of five times), but she let them film in her actual house and had a cameo in the movie. It was filled with thousands of pairs of shoes, designer clothing, and even throw pillows with her face on them. The best thing about Paris Hilton is that she knows how iconic she is. She is confident and has attitude and doesn't shy away from being herself. It's a rare thing now to see women in Hollywood really own their success, when men do it all the time and get praised for it. She is the embodiment of self-love and respect. I love Paris so much and she will forever be one of the best fashion icons of this century.
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Efstasia Karahalios '24 For many years, fans have been infatuated with the transformation of Bella Hadid’s nose from her teenage years to the start of her modeling career that started in 2014. She started her career by signing with IMG Models at the age of 16 years old.
She is currently on the front cover of American Vogue Magazine, April 2022 edition. In this interview, Hadid covers the real side of modeling: the mental and physical toll it can take on a person as well as the pressure it takes to individually compete to be the best, worldwide and even in her own family. Many models have spoken out about the dangers of not prioritizing your mental health in this line of work, and it only leads them on dangerous paths. She began getting work done at the age of 14. Many were stunned when Hadid spoke about it in her interview with Vogue. This raised many questions from concerned parents and young girls alike. How could someone let their 14-year-old daughter get cosmetic surgery? In the modeling industry, getting cosmetic surgery at a young age is not unheard of. YahooNews reports on the statistics of teens receiving cosmetic surgery. “According to the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, nearly 230,000 cosmetic surgeries were performed on teens ages 13-19 in 2017, and some as young as 15 are even documenting their plastic surgeries on social media.” Hadid admits in this article to always feeling like the uglier or inferior sister to Gigi. The actual procedure would not be deemed “problematic” if lies did not come with it. This created an unrealistic expectation for younger girls needing to look like they have the perfect nose of a 20-year-old. The mental toll of keeping this secret was also very hard on Bella. Having to consistently be the face of “natural perfection” for years as a young impressionable teen girl was something Bella often struggled with. “To have to wake up every morning with this brain – it’s not cute, so now everything that I do in my personal life is literally to make sure that my mental state stays above water. Fashion can make you or break you.” In the early 2000s being unattainably perfect was the goal. Many famous models struggled with mental and physical problems because of this. Now in the later 2020s, models and others in the industry are finally opening up about their struggles and are being open to showing their true authentic selves. It is refreshing to see the beauty standard be displayed and attainable by everyone and not just the perfect model, that is perfectly edited. We love to see Bella embracing who she is! Amanda Marino '24 Encanto is the newest movie Disney released this year, and each of their music videos already surpassed 200 million views on YouTube!
From award-winning songs such as “Family Madrigal” to “We Don’t Talk About Bruno”, people on TikTok are starting to wonder if this movie is the next Frozen. Looking at the “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” music video on YouTube, the song already has 24 million views in less than 3 months. Frozen’s “Let it Go” has 2.7 billion views. Encanto has nowhere near as many views as “Let it Go” does, but you also have to think of how long they have both been out for. For being fairly new, Encanto’s numbers are pretty impressive. Frozen’s numbers are impressive as well, but they have grown since its peak popularity. Frozen came out in 2013, so it is difficult to compare them accurately. In order to properly compare the numbers, we would have to give Encanto enough time as Frozen had. Frozen had nine years to rack up their views, but Encanto only had three months. It’s interesting to wonder if Encanto will pass 2.7 billion views on their videos in nine years. So, what do you think? Will Encanto be the next Frozen? Kayla Leon ‘24 Celine Dion has postponed her tour due to being diagnosed with muscle spasms. Luckily she has rescheduled it to run from March 9 to April 22, 2022.
These muscle spasms are standing in the way of Dion’s performance. Many of you may know Celine Dion for her singles such as, “Because You Loved Me”and “It's All Coming Back to Me Now.” Even though fans must be upset, Celine is even more upset because her singing and fans mean so much to her. Celine stated, “I was really hoping I'd be good to go by now, but I suppose I just have to be more patient and follow the regimen that my doctors are prescribing.” Dion’s recovery is taking much longer than she expected, and she doesn’t know how long she will be able to go on without performing. Fans are sending Celine get well cards and showing her a lot of love on social media. Dion has won two Grammys, and now that she isn’t able to do what she loves most, she is reminiscing about all her tours. I don’t want to speak for everyone else but I think we can all agree that when Celine performs again in March, her fans will be extremely happy. Celine is a very persistent and passionate person when it comes to her singing and family. Hopefully Celine will recover quickly and give her fans the tour they are wishing for. Victoria Verrecchio '24 20-year-old “Bad Guy” singer Billie Eilish is currently on her “Happier Than Ever” world tour. During her show at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, on February 8, she stopped her entire concert for a fan who didn’t feel right.
If there’s anything we know about Billie Eilish, we know that she is extremely overprotective of her fans and wants them to have the best experience possible at her show. Performing her hit song, “Ocean Eyes,” she noticed a fan that looked like they were about to pass out. She stopped the entire show and screamed to a security guard, “Security, why aren’t you paying attention?” Eilish proceeded to point to a designated area in the crowd and direct security to where she noticed the fan having difficulty breathing. She went on to say, “We’re taking care of our people, hold on. I wait for people to be OK before I keep going,” This caused controversy from the reaction of well-known rapper Kanye West. West automatically accused Eilish of making a shady comment towards “Yosemite” rapper Travis Scott, because of the incident at his Astroworld Festival on Nov. 10, 2021, when over 300 people were injured and 9 were killed. Kanye West is a headliner for Coachella 2022, but he has threatened to pull out if Eilish doesn’t apologize to Travis Scott. “COME ON BILLIE WE LOVE YOU PLEASE APOLOGIZE TO TRAV AND TO THE FAMILIES OF THE PEOPLE WHO LOST THEIR LIVES,” read an Instagram post caption made by West. “NO ONE INTENDED THIS TO HAPPEN TRAV DIDN’T HAVE ANY IDEA OF WHAT WAS HAPPENING WHEN HE WAS ON STAGE AND WAS VERY HURT BY WHAT HAPPENED AND YES TRAV WILL BE WITH ME AT COACHELLA BUT NOW I NEED BILLIE TO APOLOGIZE BEFORE I PERFORM.” “Literally never said a thing about Travis. Was just helping a fan.” Eilish clapped back to West, in response to his Instagram caption. Will this be the last we see of this “feud?” Or are we going to have a repeat of what happened with Taylor Swift in 2009…? Gabrielle Laforest ‘22 Thierry Mugler, one of the most famous fashion designers of all time, died on January 23, 2022 at age 73. Thierry Mugler was a perfumer and fashion designer from France. His impact on the fashion industry worldwide changed the way people thought about themselves, making the world more theatrical, one piece at a time.
Thierry Mugler was born on December 21, 1948 in Strasbourg, France. As he grew up, he always had a passion for fashion. Before launching his own line in 1974, he worked as a freelance designer in Paris. From then on, he revolutionized the fashion industry in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He elevated fashion to haute couture, a state of being defined by what one wears when one wakes up. Haute couture is not something everyone likes or even understands, but Mugler made women and models feel invincible with just pieces of fabric. His first line was called “Cafe de Paris” which was wide shouldered silhouettes, but adding in an urban and youthful style to allow it to speak for itself. Noami Campbell, Cindy Crawford, RuPaul and more would quickly become Mugler fans and so did the rest of the world – at least the fashion world. Some may say his work is “extra,” but it's extravagant. It seems that a lot of students here didn’t really know about Thierry Mugler or what his work was, even though their favorite celebrities have worn Mugler more than once. It is a fact that Mugler was a visionary who empowered everyone. His pieces were creative, unique, artistically involving shapes and science fiction. Anything he imagined, he created. “Fashion is a movie. Every morning when you get dressed, you direct yourself,” as said by Thierry Mugler. Evi Delengos’ 24 The 2022 Winter Olympics is set to take place from the 4th to 20th of February 2022 in Beijing and venues in the adjacent cities of Yanqing and Chongli in the People's Republic of China. The 2022 Winter Olympics are formally known as the XXIV Olympic Winter Games, but are more often referred to as Beijing 2022. The Olympics will be aired live in the United States by NBC, as has been the case for every Olympics this century. Coverage will also be available on the company's different cable networks, as well as on NBCOlympics.com and Peacock, the company's streaming service, among other places. In addition to speed skating and bobsleigh, other sports are being practiced such as snowboarding and ski jumping. Other sports include short track speed skating and nordic combined, as well as ice hockey and freestyle skiing. Athletes will also compete in curling, cross-country skiing, and alpine skiing. The measures to combat Covid will be comparable to those used during the Summer Olympics in Tokyo last summer, although they will be more strict. In order to keep thousands of athletes, coaches, team officials, Olympic staff members, contractors, volunteers, and media contained for the length of the Games, organizers are constructing what they are dubbing a "closed-loop system," commonly known as a bubble. The bubble will consist of competition grounds, hotels and other forms of housing for athletes, media facilities, and an infrastructure for transit. No one else enters and no one else exits the building. Because of the danger posed by the epidemic, organizers have decided to abandon plans to sell tickets to the Chinese public. While it is still feasible for some organizations to be asked to attend, they must first pass through a thorough screening and quarantine process. Examples of such groups include government employees, sponsors, and government officials. Any onlookers will be required to adhere to tight guidelines designed to prevent the transmission of the illness. They will be permitted to applaud, but they will not be permitted to yell. Even while anything is conceivable, the International Olympic Committee and the Beijing Olympic organizers have gone out of their way to stress that the Games would go as scheduled. The response of Juan Antonio Samaranch, a prominent Olympic official, when asked if he could imagine a scenario in which the Games would have to be postponed until early December was unflinching. "The answer is no," he said emphatically. The ability to react quickly to changing situations is essential in a Covid environment." "We have something like that in Beijing." Everyone participating in the Olympics will be obliged to have a vaccination. Efstasia Karahalios ‘24 Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have been one out of the many Kardashian relationships that a lot of people thought would last. The pair met in 2002-2003 and didn’t begin dating until 2012. They got married on May 24, 2012, and had their first child on June 15, 2013, named North West. The couple had another three children, a five-year-old boy Saint, a four-year-old daughter Chicago, and the newest addition two-year-old son Psalm.
Kim and Kanye’s relationship had been on the rocks to the point where they began couples counseling and went to the Bahamas to try to repair their marriage. Divorce rumors are nothing new for this couple. However on January 5, 2020, Page Six announced from an anonymous source that the couple was getting divorced for real this time. It was heard that she had hired the famous celebrity attorney Laura Wasser. It turns out that they were actually living separate lives before the divorce was announced. Kim had told Kanye to go to his $14 million ranch in Wyoming where he spent the holidays, while Kim spent it in LA with her family. Kim has always stuck up for Kanye and his outbursts. But this anonymous source said that she is maturing and cannot do that any longer with Kanye. Kanye made claims saying the Kardashians are “Out of touch with life” and “unbearable” to keep up with.” October was both the month Kim went on SNL and the month of her birthday. Kim celebrated her birthday on October 27, 2020 with a celebration in Tahiti, where onlookers said the relationship looked like it was getting rocky. Kanye was reported to have arrived late and left early. He only came to drop off her gift. Rumors eventually quieted when fans saw Kanye’s gift for Kim’s 40th birthday, which was a hologram of her late father Robert Kardashian. However, on January 6, former Dr. Phil star Eva Louise jumped on TikTok to explain why Kim and Kanye had really split. “Kanye has been hooking up with a very famous beauty guru, a male beauty guru, a lot of people in the scene have known for a while.” [sic] She refused to tell who this male beauty guru was; however , she did drop extremely blatant hints. “I can’t say who he is because he’ll sue me..hint-hint.” She also liked many comments of fans guessing the guru was Jeffree Star. She claims a friend of hers is working with Kim through the divorce. This one video left Twitter buzzing in a series of comments and memes. It made sense to curious fans who had noticed Stars’s recent purchase of a Wyoming ranch - one that during the time of the divorce fans noticed Kanye spending a lot of time at. It also went noticed how Jeffree Star deleted a Twitter comment from 2011 saying. “@kanyewest last night was so fun! Xoxo.” Though nothing was confirmed from either direct party, fans had a fun time making memes and further investigating the situation. Star put out a claim in a YouTube video made on January 7, 2021. “Me and Kanye have never hung out and this whole thing is very funny.” Later on, Kim was accused of having an affair with CNN’s Van Jones however this also had no actual proof. The divorce was finalized on February 19, 2021. Kim appeared on SNL and did an Aladdin skit with Pete Davidson, and dating rumors began speculating about the two. Three weeks later they were caught holding hands. They had back-to-back date nights, and it was confirmed on November 17, 2021, when they were caught holding hands. A week later he was seen driving her Rolls Royce. It has been said from sources that Kim is not ready to incorporate Pete into her family, with her kids, and that side of her life in general. So far that is all that has come out about both of Kim’s relationships. However, Kanye was spotted at Paris Fashion Week with his current girlfriend Julia Fox. Over time, Netflix had continued to cancel and lose the rights to viewers’ favorite shows. However, Netflix still has many shows and movies arriving in 2022. Nevertheless, many people are considering switching streaming sites, or already have.
Netflix numbers have recently been declining. “When I get deep into a show, and it takes off it is annoying because I am unable to finish it and it feels like a waste of time” Gabby Reddan ‘24 claims. One Netflix original show Julie and the Phantoms has not been picked up for a new season. Change.org has a petition with over 162,800 signatures demanding a second season of the show. The Netflix original has won two awards while being nominated for ten awards. This is not the only show that has been canceled. There are many reasons why a show might leave a streaming site. According to Netflix, one of the major reasons for taking down a show is due to licensing availability. If Netflix does not have the power to keep all the shows after the license expires, people begin to wonder if they should switch streaming sites. As of January 2022, Netflix raised all its subscription plans. The highest-quality plan now costs $19.99 a month, while the lowest plan is $9.99. The most popular Netflix plan is now $15.49. The new Netflix prices force people to consider if the service is still worth the cost, especially when some of the most popular shows are being taken off. Some shows that left or are leaving Netflix including Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill, The Office, Friends, and the Twilight Series. Kristen Russo” 24 said “I was so upset that The Twilight series got taken off. It was one of my favorite movies and I watched it so much.” When it got added to Netflix top 10 most popular. But there still may be some reason to keep the streaming service. Netflix released some of the most popular shows including You, Stranger Things, Maid, Julie and the Phantoms, Squid Game etc. Netflix releasing some of the most popular shows is good for gaining new Netflix subscribers. Shannon Rose '24 As many of you may know, the cast of Harry Potter got together for a New Years special on HBO Max.
The reunion had stars such as Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grunt, Helena Bonham Carter and many more stars from the movie reunite and discuss their experiences with the enormously successful franchise. It took place in Britain's Leavesden Studios which is now a museum where fans can visit the original sets from all eight movies. Some secrets were revealed and some special moments as well. Chris Colombus who is the director of the first two Harry Potter movies agreed to take the job after his daughter made him read all of the books. And as it turns out, Daniel Radcliffe's parents originally didn’t want him to take the role, while the others, Rupert and Emma, were easily casted. If you’re a fan of the books and the films, you won’t want to miss it. The reunion is still streaming exclusively on HBO Max. |