Yes, I’m still talking about Black Panther this week (rightfully so), and I’m not sorry about it. While last week’s style icon, Shuri, represents the new-age tech-savvy Wakanda, her mother, Queen Ramonda (played by Queen Angela Basset), dons gorgeous, regal looks that are most exemplary of the nation’s traditional culture.
Have you ever seen a makeup collection or palette that you’re not entirely sure you’ll ever use, but you just need to get your hands on it anyway? That’s exactly how I felt when I saw The Marauders, Mugwumps, and Muggles Collection. It’s a collection of Harry Potter-inspired eyeshadows and lip tints by Shiro Cosmetics. The collection in its entirety includes twenty shades of loose powder eyeshadows, three different lip tints, and two different “Chocolate Frog” face powders.
Among dystopian worlds and timelines that show the evils of modern technology, Black Mirror’s “San Junipero” stands alone.
While every other Black Mirror episode left me crippled with fear and anxiety as I shied away from my cell phone and obsessively covered my webcam, “San Junipero” left me in tears. Gorgeous, wonderful, happy-tears. I remember my roommate at the time passing through the living room and shooting me a weird look, to which I pointed at the TV and screamed, “IT’S JUST SO BEAUTIFUL!“
Team Jordandenè has been struggling to keep this awesome news quiet for weeks now. A little while back, we got to hang out at the coolest photo shoot ever: RockLove Jewelry for Marvel Studios’ Black Panther, modeled by our friend Robyn of Geek Girl Strong. Their modern take on a strong, fierce Wakandan warrior woman made for an awesome fitness-inspired photoshoot.
I’ve never had exceptionally high hopes for spin-offs, but when it was announced Freeform picked up grown-ish, a series about black-ish oldest daughter Zoey Johnson going off to college, I was intrigued.
So, I came for my love of Black-ish. I stayed because, in just one episode, Grown-ish proved to be the most arguably fashionable show currently on the air. And along the way, I fell in love with every single one of these insanely talented kids and their stories, living through each of them as someone who didn’t have a traditional college freshman experience (fashion school in the middle of the city with a 90% female population. None of that last 10% was as dreamy as Luka Sabbat.)
Unless every red carpet from now on serves looks as iconic as those that graced the purple carpet at the Black Panther premier, I don’t want to hear about it. The film’s Monday night premier called for “regal attire” fit for Wakandan royalty. Surprising nobody, everyone showed up and showed out.
And because of this, all other red carpets have been ruined for me.
Here are some of my favorites:
Who doesn’t love a good ‘80s teen fashion icon, let alone one played by the ultimate It Girl of her time? Throw in some old-fashioned teenage angst and a dash of murder, and you get one Winona Ryder as Veronica Sawyer of Heathers, the coolest dark comedy of them all.