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Two heads are better than one: From Jessica Lange covering Life on Mars, to Twisty the Clown giving us nightmares, and Evan Peters finger-banging a girl with giant deformed fingers: Freakshow, the fourth season of American Horror Story, looks set to be the best one yet.
Marina Abramovic x Lars von Trier: In an open letter aired on Swedish television, Abramovic expressed her interest in collaborating with the controversial film director: “Dear Mr Lars von Trier, I think you are the most disturbing director on this planet and this is why I’d really, really love to work with you.”
Moon Period Power!: The latest range of tie-in merchandise for the new Sailor Moon anime series has been announced: pads and tampons! Seems like a missed opportunity for a Mooncup collab, but we’re still down for Sailor Mercury to keep us “Super Safe Until Morning”.
Hair apparent: Professional hairbrush Kate Middleton and maggot-eating adventurer Bear Grylls reportedly share a hairdresser. We don’t know what’s more surprising, that Bear Grylls has a hair stylist, or that it’s the same one as the Duchess of Smiles.
Baby trailers: Coco Rocha took to Instagram to announce “BABY CONRAN ARRIVING SPRING 2015” in a 360º Matrix-style video of herself in a nude bodysuit, complete with creepy nursery rhyme. Blake Lively revealed that she too has an artisanal bun in the oven by posting a luxuriantly Sutro-filtered photo of herself gazing at her bump on her lifestyle site, Preserve.
DOWNERS
The Suitsy: “Like the lovechild of a business suit and a onesie.” Gag.
Iggy Azalea for The Princess of R&B: Lifetime’s Aaliyah biopic has most recently come under fire for its non-Aaliyah soundtrack — making a movie about a black artist with music by a white artist who’s been frequently accused of appropriating black culture seems particularly tone-deaf.
#feminismbyKARL: Lagerfeld’s mock feminist protest at PFW has been criticised for cashing in on feminism as a trend, co-opting the movement’s slogans for an empty, unfeeling, and overwhelmingly white show, and effectively selling a palatable version of feminism back to the white Western women who benefit most from it — women who happen to be his target customers.
Skinny jeans on men:We’re all about Shia LaBeouf’s fabulous purple leggings.
Retroactive product placement: Universal will allow advertisers to insert their brands into old music videos on YouTube, then swap them out with different products once a campaign finishes. An Avicii video will be the first to use the technology. Does this mean we could one day find a Beats pill in a Nirvana video?
