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The Verge
3 days ago
- The Verge
Turn your AirPods Max into a masterpiece with Casetify's new headphone wrap
Released as part of a new collection of smartphone, tablet, and earbud cases celebrating the Mauritshuis museum collection in The Hague, Netherlands, Casetify's new AirPods Max accessory can turn you into a 360-year-old work of art. Made from a 'silk-like textile,' according to Designboom, the headphone cover's fabric has been finished with a pleated design mimicking the headscarf worn by the unknown subject in Girl with a Pearl Earring painted by Johannes Vermeer in the Dutch Golden Age style in 1665. The cover does serve to protect the outer finish of the AirPods Max's earcups (while unfortunately blocking the headphone's physical controls) but it also features a dangling pearl on one side that makes the wearer look like the painting's famed subject – assuming they're able to recreate her casual over-the-shoulder glance. The accessory is currently listed as sold out on Casetify's online store, which is surprising given it's priced at a steep $199 – almost half the cost of the $549 AirPods Max themselves. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All by Andrew Liszewski Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Apple Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Gadgets Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Headphones Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All News Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. See All Tech
Vogue
18-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Vogue
From the Archives: Before Scarlett Johansson Was a Cannes Film Festival Regular, She Was in Vogue
'Power Starlet: Scarlett Letters,' by Sally Singer, was originally published in the March 2004 issue of Vogue. For more of the best from Vogue's archive, sign up for our Nostalgia newsletter here. Scarlett Johansson is lounging at New York's Soho House and talking about transitions, by way of explaining her penchant for slicked-back hair on the red carpet. 'I had a severe mullet when I was doing Girl with a Pearl Earring. It just kept getting more severe until I was seriously mulletized,' she states, ruffling her Warholesque shock of peroxided hair. 'I rocked the mullet for a while, which I loved, but then I decided that I wanted long hair. And a mullet is seriously painful to grow out.' The metamorphosis from mullet to mane, an awkward business of patience and improvisation (all those layers, all those spikes), would ordinarily serve as an apt metaphor of the growing pains from youth to adulthood. But the case of Johansson is one of smooth and triumphant maturation from child actress to full-fledged star. In the last year, she has earned critical respect and a popular audience with her telling performances in Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation and Peter Webber's Girl with a Pearl Earring. In both films she plays lonely, silenced young women who experience awakenings in the company of much older men, themselves in the grip of unfamiliar yearnings. This is perhaps Johansson's greatest cinematic quality: With her oversize lips and growling voice and, most important, her stillness (says Coppola, 'She expresses emotion with very little action'), she renews our sense of mystery about the world. In person, Johansson is no more mysterious than any nineteen-year-old has a right to be. She may have starred in five films since she graduated from high school two years ago—look out for her in The Perfect Score, A Love Song for Bobby Long, and A Good Woman—but certain rites of passage are unavoidable. There's learning to drive, as any New York girl who relocates to the West Coast must do: 'Driving changes your whole life there. Your independence is granted at the DMV.' There's squabbling with her architect dad about the decor of her new L.A. home: 'I'm stuck in the fifties. He's stuck in the sixties. I want a bit of kitsch. He's from Denmark and wants things minimal. I always win because it's my apartment and he says, 'I'll do what you want.' ' And there's struggling with the metaphysics of grownup-ness: 'There's so much pressure on you to change when you get out of high school. . . . It's a harsh reality.'
