If you yearn for the heady days of fall 2012, when Hanna Rosin led us in a national conversation about the imminent demise of the male race, you may want to check out a similar debate playing out in the U.K. this week. In a speech at the Demos think ... More »

In an effort to better understand its product — or, you know, to launch a viral-friendly ad campaign — Netflix is now studying "Netflix adultery," a term coined right here on the Cut. In a study of 2000 American adults, 12 percent confessed to watching ahead on TV shows they were supposed to save ... More »

As American garment companies balk on joining an international agreement to prevent more tragedies in Bangladesh, where over a thousand people died in last month's building collapse and yet more in recent fires, today three workers lost their lives when a factory crumbled in Cambodia. Japanese shoe company Asics has already ... More »

Mark Seliger made a name for himself in the nineties with his now iconic portraiture work for Rolling Stone magazine. From that memorable shot of the nude Red Hot Chili Peppers to one of the last portraits of Kurt Cobain, Seliger quickly cemented his status as one of the leading ... More »

Emma Watson would like the world to know she's not a precocious, prim, and proper witch anymore. She can play a partying teen burglar who delivers courthouse speeches that would make Lindsay Lohan's jaw drop. For day two of the Cannes Film Festival, the British actress showed up at a ... More »

Although we may not carry our bags every moment of every day, when we do carry them they contribute to how our overall looks hang together. A simple, neutral bag may blend in, but a bright or eye-catching bag can add another level of interest.

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I may have cried when I heard her stores were closing. Ok, I cried a lot. I cried so much that my husband had to create a special "Betsey Johnson Emergency Fund" that we used to purchase tons of Betsey Johnson items.

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Earlier this week, the Times's public editor, Margaret Sullivan, noticed that several readers had complained about T magazine's latest cover model, Julia Nobis — namely, that she was too skinny. Deborah Needleman, T's editor, issued the following response: Julia Nobis, the model, is a 20-year-old undergraduate studying medicine. We chose ... More »

Yesterday, the Internet exploded after Angelina Jolie wrote an op-ed on her decision to undergo a preventative double mastectomy. She became a sex symbol that redefined femininity (who even managed to continue being a humanitarian while recovering) declaring, "I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no ... More »

The moody-sultry singer showed up at the Cannes premiere of The Great Gatsby in a sweeping black-and-white dress, with her hair pinned up in a faux bob and eyelids artfully drawn upon in a chocolate palette. The overall look is like Liz Taylor's Cleopatra meets Twiggy's mod moment. While her ... More »

'Twas day one of Cannes, and it rained cats and dogs. Celebrities were eager to make a big splash (pun intended) on the first red carpet, so they went all out for Great Gatsby premiere, only to be forced to gather their skirts around their waists and tiptoe past puddles ... More »

   I am tired of the jumpsuit being king. Can the king be dead? Or, you know, comatose for a really long time so that one of his heirs has to step in and really revolutionize things? Read More ...

 Oh, Chloe. I am so glad you’re back on TV — thank you, Mindy Kaling! — and therefore out and about and looking like a disheveled modern dance instructor: Her interpretive dance about the existential angst experienced when you begin to wonder whether or not your city is ACTUALLY sorting the recycling from the trash Read More ...

For GQ's comedy issue, The Office actress Ellie Kemper skewered the late Christopher Hitchens's 2007 essay, "Why Women Aren't Funny." The notorious article eloquently and eruditely argued that women don't need to know how to accost the opposite sex with aggressive half-truths, regardless of their reception, as funny men do, because women evolved prettier ... More »

   I can’t believe anyone from Vogue felt up to another party. I’m still exhausted from the Met Gala and I didn’t even have to change out of my jammies. Read More ...

Allure's highlighting of Saldana's weight reduces this talented performer to a one-dimensional image, reinforcing the strange and fraught relationship women (and men) have with one of the most reviled twentieth-century innovations: the bathroom scale.

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Aerin Lauder's latest addition to the summer collection of her eponymous beauty line is Beach Cream. The floral-scented, bronze-tinted cream is the perfect remedy for parched summer skin and hair. It'll save salt- and pool-water drenched follicles from getting too dehydrated while leaving a glow on complexions.  Once rubbed onto ... More »

Diane Von Furstenberg solves your quandaries for the Cut. To submit a question, e-mail askthecut@nymag.com, or tweet @thecut #DearDVF. Dear Diane: What is the perfect spring color? I'm thinking I need to get rid of a lot of black ...  —@StellePRgirlFor spring, I am loving a bright cobalt blue. It ... More »

   The fully-clothed shenanigans continue apace! Read More ...

In her forthcoming memoir, With Patience and Fortitude, Christine Quinn will explore her past struggles with bulimia and alcoholism, which she disclosed to the Times yesterday. But she'll also address happier, fluffier topics, like her 2012 wedding to her longtime partner Kim M. Catullo, which involved an exhaustive wedding dress search. According to ... More »