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When Dakota Fanning first started acting, she tried out for a spot in Quentin Tarantino's movie Kill Bill. She auditioned for the role of daughter of The Bride, played by Uma Thurman—and she didn't end up getting it. But, as the 25-year-old actor explains in this episode of Screen Tests, this exposure to director Tarantino piqued her interest, and the experience stuck with her.

On Wednesday night, an Instagram-famous cat's apparent endorsement of Bernie Sanders caused a bit of a sensation. "I’m feline this guy," read the caption for a photo of the cat watching Sanders's recent debate performance. In and of itself, that might have served as a perfect aggregate of our times, but the story didn't stop there. A certain portion of the Internet believes that the cat in question, Ms. Fluffle Stilt Skin, secretly belongs to the actor Jake Gyllenhaal.

Jeff Klein—the hotelier and restaurateur behind New York City’s Monkey Bar, and Los Angeles’s Sunset Tower Hotel and San Vicente Bungalows—grew up in a peripatetic family. “We went on this little boat down the Nile when I was 13, and it was the chicest thing I’d ever seen,” he says.

The costume designer Sandy Powell spent this awards season armed with a bag of Sharpies, which she took with her everywhere. At the BAFTAs, in England, the Academy Awards, and the Vanity Fair Oscars Party, Powell—known for her work on The Favourite and The Irishman—carried a sack of pens, asking all her famous peers to sign the calico toile suit she wore to each event.

MULTIPLE EXPOSURE 25 Alessandro Micheles (and a few Jared Letos, for good measure).

In this new series from W magazine, an expert dissects the history of a particular, iconic fashion item—then has room to let their mind wander down a path of free association. Here, Colby Mugrabi examines the Burberry TB bag.

The legacy of the designer Karl Lagerfeld lives on—this time, in one of his former homes.

Last night, Issa Rae appeared alongside Lakeith Stanfield on Andy Cohen's nightly talk show Watch What Happens Live to discuss their new romantic drama, The Photograph.

Far too many celebrities, not to mention everyday humans, have fallen into the trap of briefly attempting to be “alt.” But at 18, Billie Eilish has discovered that she has the opposite problem: The enigmatic singer is incapable of deviating from her alt lifestyle. (At least, she insists as much; we have to dock her a few points for retiring the @wherearetheavocados handle, and for pivoting her monogram mania from knockoffs to actual designer goods.) 

It appears that the Jonas empire is once again expanding. On Wednesday, Just Jared reported that Sophie Turner, who is 23, is pregnant with her first child, less than a year after marrying the 30-year-old singer Joe Jonas. (The outlet vaguely credited the news to “multiple sources,” and noted that Turner and Jonas’s representatives declined to comment on their clients’ personal lives.) 

Rafferty Law, the son of actors Jude Law and Sadie Frost, flew into New York City on Tuesday to attend Coach's New York Fashion Week runway show. Then he quickly boarded a plane to go back to his hometown of London.

The artist Calida Rawles in her studio, with the works Reflecting My Grace (left), Radiating My Sovereignty, and Wade, Ride This Wave of Mine, which are in her exhibition “A Dream for My Lilith,” at Various Small Fires in L.A. Rawles wears a Co dress; her own necklaces.

The films of Pedro Almodóvar are an international treasure, and the only real tragedy of the director not working in the English language is that it really limits the actresses he can work with. Imagine the possibilities!

In 1930, Samuel Goldwyn, the film producer who ran United Artists at that time, reached out to Gabrielle Chanel, then 46 years old, and asked her to design costumes for movies.

Debbie Harry wears a Balenciaga coat; Lola Hats hat; Ray-Ban sunglasses; her own earrings. Photographed by Stephen Shore.

On any given weekend, Brooklyn's Barclays Center is typically packed with hypebeasts attending concerts like Travis Scott's carnivalesque Astroworld tour and Ariana Grande's Sweetener World Tour, or basketball aficionados attending sold out Nets games.

On Friday night in Los Angeles, Miley Cyrus and her brother Trace wound their way through the white and cement-colored minimalist compound that is Milk Studios to attend Tom Ford’s fall 2020 show. They stopped for photos on a staircase, (“Don’t show the ratchet ass…” Miley told photographers, pointing to her chest, which was covered precariously by two thin strips of fabric) then made a beeline for the bar, where they stood off to the side and waited for drinks.

Taylor Swift has won plaudits for taking her feud with Scooter Braun public and exposing some of the shadier elements of the music business to her fans, but twenty-five years before Swift, there was TLC.

The actor Antonio Banderas was first told he should pursue acting from an unlikely person: filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar. The director responsible for Volver and Talk to Me passed by the Pain and Glory star on the street, and noted his good looks.

The actress Katherine Langford was in New York on Wednesday night, taking photos and videos of clothing on display inside the Fendi store on Madison Avenue. She ran her phone over the length of silk dresses and blouses, redoing whatever footage didn't fit her taste, feeling the material on a pair of slacks before moving on to a coat covered in the brand's "F" print. "I'm relatively new to the Fendi family," she explained. "But tonight feels extra special."

We're not going to make harsh judgements about fame levels here, but the facts are that Claire Danes was winning her first Golden Globe back in 1994 when Beyoncé was still a member of a group named Girl's Thyme. While certainly Beyoncé has risen to her own private level of renown since then, you'd think if anyone could hold their cool around Beyoncé it might be someone like Danes.

Jacob Elordi took his first step into the fashion world on Wednesday night—and it was none other than director Luca Guadagnino who led him there.

Diplo, né Thomas Wesley Pentz, arrived to the annual amfAR Fashion Week Gala in New York on Wednesday night in something of a daze. “I just landed.

"Actually, a funny thing happened," Margaret Qualley tells Lynn Hirschberg during her Screen Tests interview, while speaking about auditioning for her role as Pussycat in Once Upon a Time...In Hollywood.

When Charlize Theron first encountered the script for Bombshell, the 2019 film that's racked up more than a dozen award nominations, she was instantly hit by the weight of the subject matter—the sexual harassment allegations lodged against Fox News head Roger Ailes.

This year’s Super Bowl was a wild one. First, there were the pre-show shenanigans (some of which were canceled this year because of the weather, much to the chagrin of many Harry Styles fans). Then, there was the actual game, which was certainly not without its controversies this year, the absurd commercials, and the halftime show, in which Jennifer Lopez and Shakira managed to make you realize just how out of shape you probably are compared to either of them.

From left: Margaret Qualley wears a Louis Vuitton coat and top; vintage earrings from Pilgrim New York; stylist’s own ring. Mikey Madison wears a Gucci dress; Jennifer Fisher earrings.

Debbie Harry wears a Balenciaga coat; Lola Hats hat; Ray-Ban sunglasses; her own earrings.

CalArts alumni who are involved in the university’s 50+50 program include (standing, from left) Victoria Fu; Dashiell Manley; Dave Muller; Jim Shaw; Catherine Opie; Lari Pittman; B. Wurtz; Henry Taylor; the late John Baldessari, represented by his self-portrait penguin sculpture, Quack; Naotaka Hiro; Jason Kraus; Liz Glynn; Kaari Upson (seated, from left) Tony Oursler; Andy Robert; Barbara T. Smith; and Kelly Nipper.

The library is open. Reese Witherspoon's book club library, that is.

The new Taylor Swift documentary, Miss Americana, begins with the musician playing a grand piano while a kitten paws her way across the keys. The scene is sweet and childlike—an effect accentuated by the fact that she’s wearing a loose pair of white overalls—much like the persona she’s cultivated since she released her first single at age sixteen. 

Who is your favorite film character ever? J.T.: The ones Laura Dern plays. I love her.

Blake Lively seen arriving at ‘Good Morning America’ on January 28, 2020.

Photograph by Juergen Teller; Creative Partner to Juergen Teller: Dovile Drizyte; Styled by Sara Moonves.

Quentin Tarantino photographed by Colin Dodgson, courtesy of Colin Dodgson and Art Partner.

Brad Pitt is a man who needs no introduction. His reputation precedes him, as an A-list actor who probably couldn't walk five blocks down the street without being spotted and stopped by a fan.