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Kaia Gerber launched a weekly Instagram book club, John Krasinski launched a YouTube show focused on good news, and other headlines from this past week.

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J.K. Rowling knows how to create a killer fantasy novel, but that doesn’t mean she isn’t in tune with the real world. The Harry Potter author has been dealing with negative feedback after voicing her political views about Donald Trump on Twitter. Supporters of the new president have turned on Rowling, despite some having been […]

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Harry Potter fans, prepare to freak out. Canada is about to get a little magical. For those who have been dreaming of going to Los Angeles’s or Orlando’s Universal Studios to visit The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, there’s no need to now because Goderich, a small town in Ontario (a three-hour drive from Toronto), […]

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Another day, another way Harry Potter has made its way into the makeup world. First there were the Harry-themed makeup palettes, then the eyeliner, and now beauty blogger Georgina Ryland has transformed her body into Hogwarts using body paint. Check out the results below. ⚡️ hogwarts ⚡️ . About time I gave Hogwarts a shot! This paint took five […]

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If you’re a Harry Potter fan, then the latest beauty news is for you. After making all our witchy dreams come true with its first-ever makeup palette Witchcraft & Wizardry, Storybook Cosmetics just revealed its next project: Quill & Ink eyeliner duo. In case you’ve never heard of Storybook Cosmetics, the up-and-coming beauty brand is […]

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Harry Potter fans, you should sit down for this. A super-creative Redditor took it upon themselves to design dream makeup palettes that she or he would love to see IRL, and the internet is freaking out over them. Now just to reiterate, these palettes do not exist (yet?). Think of them as fan fiction, the […]

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"Formation" ?????? www.Beyonce.com A photo posted by Beyoncé (@beyonce) on Feb 6, 2016 at 12:50pm PST ICYMI Beyoncé fans, the University of Texas in San Antonio is now offering a class on all things Lemonade. Titled Black Women, Beyoncé & Popular Culture, the course was developed by Professor Kinitra D. Brooks, an associate professor at […]

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With two feature films and a top-rated TV series, Nina Dobrev is taking a bite out of Hollywood. Check out our interview and go behind-the-scenes with our homegrown September cover star.

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We’ve been longing for some spectacular—as in, spectacle-laden—fashion since the days of Alexander McQueen’s Widows of Culloden hologram and Galliano’s snow tunnel. And then came McQ’s Fall 2012 finale starring model and actress Kristen McMenamy (all masterfully caught on video).

The grey-haired fashion doyenne (with her tresses in what we can only describe as a cross between a ‘50s pin-up ‘do and a Twister bagel) closed the show in a white tulle wedding gown. But in true McQueen style, McMenamy does so much more than just strut down the runway; she discovers a rope hidden in the floor and artfully prances around follows it.

As she reaches the end of the catwalk, the brick wall disappears only to be replaced by 60 real-life trees straight out of Harry Potter’s Forbidden Forest (we literally gasped) and a little cottage with pulsing lights and techno music. Now that’s our kind of rave.

We think this is a brilliant PR move for the lesser-known brand, which has been trying to realign itself with its eponymous big sister since the two recoupled in 2010. Both Sarah Burton and François Pinault (chief executive of McQueen’s parent company PPR and, more famously, Salma Hayek’s husband) have acknowledged that they are trying to elevate McQ to new sartorial heights. And wow, have they ever succeeded.

London-based designer Omer Asim got his start freelancing with the wardrobe team of the Harry Potter films, but don’t expect to see capes or sorting hats in any of his collections.

The former architecture student, who also did post-graduate studies at the London School of Economics, learned fashion design during an internship with Maurice Sedwell on Savile Row. Asim prefers to “undesign” his clothes through pattern cutting, or rather, a lack thereof. In his spring collection, for instance, the designer cut pieces linearly, so that signs of construction were barely visible. His architectural background is also present with mixed textures, clean lines on dresses and pants, and panels of pixilated prints that brighten up the white and pastel colour palette that was seen on many spring runways.

Other than fashion, what do 15-year-old blogger Tavi Gevinson and Tyra Banks have in common? They’re both set to release books in the near future. While book launches are nothing new to the fashion world, the typical material is usually limited to collections of glossy photos or instructive style guides. You may (or may not) be shocked to find out that this isn’t the case with either Tavi’s or Tyra’s upcoming ventures.

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For the initiated, Harry Potter is a big deal, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, the film franchise’s finale, is the denouement of many years of adoration. At the post-screening party for the Toronto premiere, Matthew Lewis, who plays Harry’s classmate Neville Longbottom, drew the crowds. Fans were screaming, “We want Matthew!” en masse from behind Casa Loma’s stone walls. (It was like seeing peasants with blowouts dressed in Urban Outfitters chanting the king’s name; such was the effect of the scene outside the Toronto castle.) Lewis happily indulged, breaking away from the black carpet (no red carpet will do for something as darkly magical as Harry Potter) to walk across the castle’s manicured lawn—being chased by scrambling photogs and cameramen—to sign autographs.

The adoration is understandable. Lewis has much of the British charisma and crooked smile of a Clive Owen, and for the occasion he wore a custom-tailored black suit and an Armani shirt and pocket square purchased that day from Harry Rosen. We asked, did he manage to take a keepsake from the set, fully expecting a Hogwarts school tie or that cute blue sweater vest he wore in Order of the Phoenix. “It’s rubbish,” he replied shaking his head. “I took my false teeth.” Okay, do tell? “I didn’t want them, Tom [Felton] got a ring with a snake on it—Slytherin, and they said, ‘Hey, do you want your false teeth?’ and I said ‘No,’ and my mother stepped in said, ‘Yes, we do, we definitely want them.’ So my mom has them at home in this sort of shrine. It’s a bit weird.”