At Wednesday’s premiere of The Five-Year Engagement in New York, actress Leelee Sobieski presented her theory on engagement rings. "It’s a strange thing that before you marry that it’s a custom to give a girl a rock. When you’re married, you should get the rock, and when you get engaged, you
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When we caught up with Carson Kressley at the Top of the Standard after-party for The Hunger Games last night, it felt only right to ask the reality-TV fashion guru about all those outrageous costumes in the movie. But as it turns out, Kressley is a big Hunger Games fan,
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Saturday Night Live head writer Seth Meyers is hosting this year’s CFDA Fashion Awards, and if he wants to liven things up, he need look no further than to one of his Weekend Updaters. When The Cut caught up with Bill Hader at opening night of the Broadway revival of
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In anticipation of the The Hunger Games (out March 23), InStyle asked a dozen designers to sketch Katniss’s “fire dress” from the book. Charlotte Ronson was one of the chosen few — along with Christian Siriano, Tommy Hilfiger, and Nicole Miller — but while her sketch is great, she made one little goof: she has Katniss wearing her weapon of choice, the bow and arrow. The problem is, at this point in the story, Katniss doesn’t want to display her archery skills — it’s part of her survival strategy to keep it a secret since she has to fight the other tributes to the death. The Cut caught up with Ronson Friday night at her after-party at 1OAK and discovered she had a little secret of her own. “I haven’t read it yet. I was going to read it, and I downloaded it on my iPad, but….” she admitted sheepishly. ” I asked around and Googled it, plus they gave me the parameters for the sketch, so I knew she was an archer, but I didn’t know the story behind it.” Don’t worry, Charlotte — only the die-hards will notice. “The cape can hide it, right?” she laughed.
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In anticipation of the The Hunger Games (out March 23), InStyle asked a dozen designers to sketch Katniss’s “fire dress” from the book. Charlotte Ronson was one of the chosen few — along with Christian Siriano, Tommy Hilfiger, and Nicole Miller — but while her sketch is great, she made one little goof: she has Katniss wearing her weapon of choice, the bow and arrow. The problem is, at this point in the story, Katniss doesn’t want to display her archery skills — it’s part of her survival strategy to keep it a secret since she has to fight the other tributes to the death. The Cut caught up with Ronson Friday night at her after-party at 1OAK and discovered she had a little secret of her own. “I haven’t read it yet. I was going to read it, and I downloaded it on my iPad, but….” she admitted sheepishly. ” I asked around and Googled it, plus they gave me the parameters for the sketch, so I knew she was an archer, but I didn’t know the story behind it.” Don’t worry, Charlotte — only the die-hards will notice. “The cape can hide it, right?” she laughed.
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In anticipation of the The Hunger Games (out March 23), InStyle asked a dozen designers to sketch Katniss’s “fire dress” from the book. Charlotte Ronson was one of the chosen few — along with Christian Siriano, Tommy Hilfiger, and Nicole Miller — but while her sketch is great, she made one little goof: she has Katniss wearing her weapon of choice, the bow and arrow. The problem is, at this point in the story, Katniss doesn’t want to display her archery skills — it’s part of her survival strategy to keep it a secret since she has to fight the other tributes to the death. The Cut caught up with Ronson Friday night at her after-party at 1OAK and discovered she had a little secret of her own. “I haven’t read it yet. I was going to read it, and I downloaded it on my iPad, but….” she admitted sheepishly. ” I asked around and Googled it, plus they gave me the parameters for the sketch, so I knew she was an archer, but I didn’t know the story behind it.” Don’t worry, Charlotte — only the die-hards will notice. “The cape can hide it, right?” she laughed.
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Shailene Woodley took a lot of criticism from the fashion press for wearing five-toed shoes (pictured) to a Golden Globes after-party last month, but when we caught up with Woodley last night, she shrugged it all off. “I would do it again in a heartbeat,” she told Vulture at Brad Pitt’s Make It Right auction. “I got them from REI, and if people spent as much time thinking about the genocides going on in Africa and around the world as they do the shoes that actors wear to after-parties, the world would be a much more peaceful environment.” Woodley confessed that she doesn’t pay too much attention to the headlines about her, so she missed the recent joke from her The Descendants costar George Clooney that he hoped to adopt Woodley “because she’s 20 and smart, and I figure she has a big career ahead and can support me.” Yelped the actress, “What? I hadn’t heard this until just now.” Not that she’s opposed to the idea! “If George Clooney adopted me, I would be the most brilliant human being on the planet, because he is so frigging smart. I would know everything there is to know about politics.” She laughed, then added, “And I would live in Italy.”
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When we caught up with Paulina Porizkova earlier this week at Ali Wentworth’s book release party, she revealed that she’s writing something “sort of memoir-ish” herself — a chronicle of her problems with anxiety and antidepressants (a topic she’s previously written about for the Huffington Post). She’s only 50 pages into it, and admits she’s struggling to inject humor to her life’s misadventures the way Wentworth did. “She’s brilliant! She’s a brain. I’m a model,” Porizkova said. Plus, Wentworth’s family and friends are a little more forgiving. “Her mother is so cool,” Porizkova said. “Ali can write anything about her mom, and her mom just goes, ‘Oh, Ali! You’re so silly.’ If I wrote that stuff about my mother, she’d probably stab me and kill me. The kind of stuff I would say about people would probably get me hurt.”
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When Amber Tamblyn arrived in Portland to shoot her cameo on the new season of IFC’s Portlandia — she plays an eager intern at the feminist bookstore run by Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein’s Toni and Candace — the actress was presented with some unique fashion accessories to thank her for her participation.
“I got to my hotel room, and they had these huge gift baskets, full of stuff people donate to the show,” Tamblyn told us at last night’s season-two premiere party, held at New York’s American Museum of Natural History. “It was all this crazy stuff, retro things, black glasses, big black boots. I thought, ‘Oh, you guys are so sweet. But what is this stuff? How would they even know I like that?’”
As she was assessing her swag, Tamblyn got a call from the hotel’s concierge. As it turns out, she might have received the wrong basket — and fellow Portlandia guest star Penny Marshall wanted to switch. “They said, ‘Um, Miss Marshall would like to meet you in the hallway and swap gift baskets,’” the actress said. The former Laverne didn’t come in person to claim her retro swag, but the former Joan of Arcadia got some nifty things in exchange, including a handcrafted ring she wore to the show’s second-season premiere Thursday night at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. “I got all this stuff that’s made there [in Portland],” she said, including the most intimate of accessories, hand-rolled tampons: “All the things that young ladies like!”
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Of all people, André Leon Talley doesn’t seem like one to give advice on frugality, but he admitted to us that he’s been watching his budget lately. “You have to find a way to pinch!” he told us at a lunch at Desmond’s on Friday to honor The Help and its awards contenders Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer. He might love movies, for example, but that doesn’t mean he’ll pay for them. “I’m not going to go to the local theater to spend $12 … when I can get a screening copy of a film,” Talley told us. “I don’t get screeners myself, but I can borrow from my friends or go to their house to watch.” For example, he spent this past Thanksgiving at Whoopi Goldberg’s home in New Jersey, where she has a screening room. “Right after dinner on Thanksgiving night, we watched The First Grader. Have you heard of that one? We screened that with its producers, and then we watched a documentary that’s coming out called The Contradictions of Fair Hope. Do you know Epatha [Merkerson], from Law & Order? She’s the producer. It’s about the historical benevolent societies of the South,” he explained. “It’s a brilliant, brilliant documentary.” Lesson learned: Don’t pay money for something you can get for free, and instead use the money you save for something more important. As Talley said, “Why spend money on movies when you can spend it on gas? Or dry cleaning? Or groceries?”
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