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Today, we can finally see Amy, the critically-acclaimed documentary that examines the life, times, and struggles of the artist we lost way too soon. After dying of alcohol poisoning at age 27 in July of 2011, Amy Winehouse’s end seemed both shocking and also not. I mean, since the release of 2006’s “Back to Black,” […]

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A lot can happen in seven days. That’s why every Friday, we’re going to take time to look at three beauty moments we had feelings about that week, and discuss them accordingly. 1. Rihanna is the new face of Dior Did you wake up this morning feeling filled with purpose? Did you throw open the […]

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See the best celebrity #TBT Instagram photos »

It’s #ThrowbackThursday a.k.a. the day people can freely post embarrassing photos of their childhood on Instagram and not be scrutinized for it (we can hope). While mere mortals like us love to share those awkward family portraits and questionable childhood hair cuts with our friends and family, they don’t quite insight the kind of feverish double tapping effect.

While we’re suckers for the adorable childhood photos, we can’t help but love it when celebrities make us reminisce memorable fashion moments. Sharing everything from their first fashion campaigns to magazine covers to some sister bonding snapshots to stop family drama rumours (we’re looking at you Beyoncé and Solange), there is no doubt that the A-lists are jumping on the weekly hashtag bandwagon enthusiastically. From Queen Bey’s Destiny Child era to Betty and Don Draper’s former TV romance, we scan the Instagram accounts of the hottest Hollywood stars and models and round up the 15 best celebrity #TBT Instagram shots. Let the double tapping begin!

Channel your inner Plastic » If you haven’t been alerted to it about 100 times already, today marks the 10th anniversary of Mean Girls. Considered by many as one of the greatest teen comedies of all time, its loyal base of obsessed fans have grown each year, propelling The Plastics into icon territory. As evidenced […]

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Briefly, in the early 1990s, I was a smut peddler. I edited an anthology called The Girl Wants To, which included art and writing about sex and the body, from Roberta Gregory’s “Bitchy Strips” to Barbara Gowdy’s strange, beautiful account of a young necrophiliac, “We So Seldom Look on Love.” The anthology was part of a growing wave of heated discourse by third-wave feminists—women making sense of sex in the ’90s. These were women who felt the need to write about want, desire, pleasure and other taboo information. Taboo because we were talking about our bodies and sexuality in ways we never had, at least publicly and en masse. Think forward, and think of what even the sweetest pop star imaginable, Katy Perry, is saying in virtually all of her songs: that she is a bi-curious, sexy dream-girl/gurl who refuses to “bite [her] tongue” any longer. Having been pushed down to the ground, she is up and roaring in the old-school manner of  “I Am Woman.” She is Helen Reddy 2.0, in other words: no bowl-cut and cardigan, no dulcet tones, but the same fervent desire to tell us that we, as women, need not suffer oppression lightly; that we are a pride of powerful lions.

Lately, there has been a sea change, with a powerful sense of another killer wave coming—a “sexplosion.” Writer and former Variety editor Robert Hofler used the term in his fascinating book of the same name. But while his exhaustive, illuminating book focuses on the period from 1968-1973, the wild time that followed the sexual revolution, Hofler’s theories suggest that the future of sex will become less “man-made.” And it already has, of course. Female performers are busily upsetting ideas about sex and power, about the naked body and their perceived passivity.

In her graphic song “Pour It Up,” Rihanna sings, “That’s how we ball out,” in a voice that is virtually empty of inflection. And in the controversial video for the song—“The really sad thing is that she thinks she’s being edgy and sexy when in fact she is slowly destroying her soul,” commented one disquieted fan—she sings this chorus as she presides over a strip club, sitting on a throne in a diamond bra, collar and Lana Turner wig, talking like a man, acting like a woman and unsettling our idea of what it means to be either.

It has been almost 13 long years since we were blessed with the original Life Size movie, and today, Tyra Banks has announced on her Twitter that she’ll be returning for a sequel. Tyra is coming back to take her place as Eve—the doll turned human—and will also be the producer of the next installment of the movie which will air on the Disney Channel.

In case your memories of Life Size are blurry, here’s a refresher course: the original starred Lindsay Lohan and Tyra Banks and was a made for TV movie. Tyra Banks started as Lindsay Lohan’s toy doll and magically turned into a real life size human (get it?). Tyra Banks obviously fell in love with Lindsay Lohan’s faux TV dad, sang a song about shining bright like a star, and they all lived happily ever after.

Lindsay Lohan is no stranger to the spotlight. While the past few years have been all but flattering, it seems that she may have just made her first step towards a fashionable comeback. At the Los Angeles premiere of the TV biopic Liz & Dick in which she plays Elizabeth Taylor, she was fairly successful at upping the Old Hollywood quotient.

Lindsay Lohan opted for a champagne silk floor length gown by Donna Dashini that featured multiple cutouts down her chest with small red beads dangling onto her skin. Lohan accessorized with vintage jewellery and a fur stole. While it may have hugged awkwardly in some places, the dress certainly channeled Taylor’s famed va-va-voom.

Sometimes it seems that nothing can ever go right in Lindsay Lohan’s life. Whether it’s a night out that turns into a screaming match with her mom (featuring an appearance from the police) or a seemingly simple trip to the hair salon that ends with her the wrong shade of red, things aren’t always easy for Lilo.

The star of Liz & Dick (which we’re actually excited to see) walked the red carpet at the Mr. Pink Ginseng Drink launch party last night and debuted a new and extremely uneven dye job. After being a strawberry blonde for most the summer, the actress/singer/paparazzi’s #1 gal showed off a deep auburn colour with an accidental ombré effect. Her roots show a tinge of deep-purple, the middle is washed-out and the ends seem to be doing their own fiery red thing.

See all the party photos from the Fame launch in New York! »

Masks, tattoos and Mother Monster asleep on a couch. The party for Lady Gaga’s new fragrance, Fame ($59, thebay.com), was indeed unlike any other perfume launch. But hours before she hosted a masquerade ball at New York’s Guggenheim that brought out the A-list (Marc Jacobs, Alexander Wang) and the WTF List (Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton), Lady Gaga was wide awake to talk to FASHION about her post-sex rituals (pizza and a movie!), what the colour black means to her and why being a New Yorker makes her pop star perfume better than other celeb scents.

For someone who hasn’t yet smelled Fame, can you describe your fragrance?
“It’s very sexual, it’s very addictive, but it is very chic. The metaphor of the bottle is that when you spray this product, all the good things about fame come out, and all the bad things stay inside. So when you buy this perfume, you can have the lovely smell of it, [while] I’ll be dealing with all the bullshit inside.”

It’s a sign of something sad when we’re not shocked in the least to see these Terry Richardson–lensed images of Lindsay Lohan pointing a gun to her head. Richardson (or someone who knows better) evidently wasn’t crazy about them, because they’ve been stripped from his site just 24 hours after they were uploaded. Thanks to the wonders of the internet, we have one of the disturbing images for your viewing pleasure.

Ed Westwick walked Philipp Plein’s runway in Milan this weekend, proving once and for all that it’s not just the Gossip Girl ladies who get all the fashion industry love. Channeling a withering Blue Steel look that even rivals its creator’s (Derek Zoolander, obviously), the Gossip Girl actor opened and closed the designer’s menswear show, […]

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Right on the heels of the announcement that she is indeed playing Liz Taylor in a made-for-TV biopic, Lindsay Lohan makes a red carpet appearance that actually doesn’t have us questioning the casting choice. In fact, the floor-length gown and bright-eyed smile is enough to almost make us forget her ongoing troubles. (Related: Mean Girls came out eight years ago today, how?!) The real star of Lohan’s look at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, however, is her hair. The cascading, loose curls are flawless and also prove that she really does look best as a redhead. Sure, some well-done extensions deserve a bit of credit—but their undetectable nature is another reason why Lohan looks so good. We’re not the only ones with hair envy, right?

Here are five ways make your long hair look as good as LiLo’s! »