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Yahoo
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
7 times lesbian and sapphic 'Drag Race' guest judges stole the show
Drag Race All Stars 10 is about to premier and the celebrity guest judge list is full of queer women we can't wait to see them critique the queens! Chappell Roan, Ice Spice, and Cynthia Erivo are all stepping up to the judges panel, but Drag Race has hosted lesbian and sapphic guests since the inception of the show and they've always been iconic. There have been hilarious moments, biting critiques, and undercover werkroom capers that have kept us glued to our screens every season. But what were the best moments of the last 17 seasons? s_bukley/Shutterstock Jenny Shimizu Model and former Angelina Jolie paramour Jenny Shimizu set the standard on season 1 when she told BeBe Zahara Benet that she 'would completely be doing coke with you if this was the '90s.' DFree/Shutterstock Lily Tomlin Lesbian comedian Lily Tomlin joined her Grace and Frankie co-star Jane Fonda on All Stars 3, where the two funny ladies judged the queens who dressed up as some of their most iconic characters. The level of camp was high as the girls dressed up as characters from 9 to 5 and Fonda's '80s leotard-clad workout videos. - YouTube When bisexual rapper Doechii was a guest judge on season 17, Lexi Love and Crystal Envy lip-synced to her song 'Alter Ego,' which led to the song surging in the charts. Kathy Hutchins/Shutterstock Cassandra Peterson Cassandra Peterson (AKA Elvira), may not have come out until 2021 when she announced she has been in a 19-year-long relationship with a woman, but she has been a repeat guest on Drag Race for years. In 2019, she joined the judge's panel for the season 11 'Monster Ball' episode where the queens created looks for a Halloween-themed ball and Peterson judged them while dressed in her signature Elvira wig, and plunging black dress. - YouTube Pop star Miley Cyrus was an iconic guest on Drag Race season 11 where she not only critiqued the queens from the judge's table, but she went undercover in the werkroom with short hair and faux facial hair pretending to be a production before Silk Nutmeg Ganache realized who it was. Kathy Hutchins/Shutterstock Fortune Feimster In season 11, comedian Fortune Feimster and fellow guest judge Cheyenne Jackson helped the queens with an improv comedy challenge on the streets of LA, and the results were messy and hilarious, in large part because of Feimster's ability to 'yes, and…' If you haven't seen Silk Nutmeg Ganache running a back-alley butt pad business out of the trunk of her car you need to check it out ASAP! Este es el mejor dia de mi vida #aubreyplaza #dragrace #rupaulsdragrace Agatha All Along star Aubrey Plaza joined RuPaul on the judge's panel for the season 2 episode 'Family that Drags Together,' where the queens had to give members of their drag family makeovers. Plaza used her signature brand of dark humor and flat delivery to have us laughing during her critiques. But it was her line, 'This is the greatest day of my life. I'm killing myself tomorrow,' that people really remember.
South China Morning Post
17-02-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Letters from readers: Joy of playing with slime, AI and celebrating Halloween
Do you have something to share? Send us your letters using this form I want to share my three new slimes with you. The first slime I purchased is pink and comes in a cat-shaped container. It feels soft, similar to clay, and is filled with lots of glitter. You can also use the lid to create shapes with the slime. The second slime is also pink, but this one has plastic jelly beans inside. It comes in a heart-shaped container and is very squishy. The last slime I bought makes a bubbling sound when you wiggle it. It comes in a round container and is very runny and squishy, like jelly. I hope you like my slimes! Charlotte Hui's slime toys. Photo: Handout Moses Leung Chung-kiu (aged 10), St Joseph's Primary School Recently, China released a new artificial intelligence (AI) model named DeepSeek. It is like ChatGPT by OpenAI but uses even lower-priced chips, and it is better in quality, too, which is believed to have a big impact on technological advancements. It is impressive because it uses less advanced chips but tops the global AI leaderboard. AI will never stop improving. If humanity doesn't make a change for good, then we will live in a world where AI controls humans and not the other way around. Moses Leung is impressed with the developments in the world of AI. Photo: Handout Purvi Choudhari (aged 10), Kowloon Junior School Last October, the Parent-Teacher Association hosted a spectacularly scary Monster Ball. Our Monster Ball had an awesome disco party in our school hall related to the spooky vibes of the season. On the ground floor, our student council members organised some scary games, and there were some food stalls with delicious food to enjoy the Monster Ball. Many people were there; everyone had lots of fun and a 'spookalicious' time. Purvi Choudhari enjoyed the Monster Ball held at her school. Photo: Handout
The Guardian
28-01-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Chanel realigns its logo with bridging catwalk at haute couture show
Designers come and go, but the Chanel tweed suit is for ever. That was the message from a show marking the 110th anniversary of haute couture at Chanel. The house is in the middle of more than a year of catwalk shows without a designer to take a bow – Virginie Viard made her final appearance last May, and her successor, Matthieu Blazy, will not make his first until October – so it is working overtime to keep the Chanel name in lights. The catwalk was formed of two broad curving walkways, which together formed the double C that is instantly recognisable as Chanel. But instead of sitting back to back, as in the logo, the two walkways were teased apart into bridges curving up and over each other, interlinking to form a figure of eight in the shape of the infinity symbol. It was an elegant visual allegory for a business strategy that is focused on maintaining sales and profile during an extended interregnum. Conceived by the scenographer Willo Perron, the designer of Lady Gaga's Monster Ball tour and of the floating stage for Rihanna's 2023 Super Bowl half-time show, the catwalk was installed in the giant wrought-iron nave of the Grand Palais – itself a statement of Chanel's status in French culture. The headline look of this collection – a short, cute, Cher-in-Clueless take on the skirt suit – was beamed around the world on social media before the first model stepped on the runway. Kylie Jenner arrived at the Grand Palais in a creamy tweed suit accessorised with oversized black sunglasses and a cross-body bag, Gen Z-coded belly and ankle chains, and several inches of bronzed abs between the cropped, braid-trimmed jacket and its matching box-pleat skirt. The first outfits on the runway followed Jenner's lead: tiny skirt suits in white, then cream, then sorbet pastels, worn with bare legs and easy slingbacks. Hair was loose or in slicked-back buns, and each model wore a red lip picked to suit their skin tone. Sign up to Fashion Statement Style, with substance: what's really trending this week, a roundup of the best fashion journalism and your wardrobe dilemmas solved after newsletter promotion Crystal rock buttons and slender black velvet belts added punctuation. The technical sophistication of the haute couture ateliers was showcased in lace embroidered for a trompe l'oeil tweed effect, and tiered chiffon gowns of gravity-defying lightness. Several of the low-riding skirts came with satin blouses attached, for those clients who prefer not to flash bare skin under a cropped jacket. The youthful spin on Chanel chimed with Taylor Swift's recent choice of a short Chanel tweed playsuit, worn for an NFL game in Kansas last week. The actor Mikey Madison, who is being wooed by major fashion houses as she prepares to appear as a nominee at the Oscars in March, chose a short white Chanel tweed suit for the Toronto film festival's red carpet in October. Blazy, whose appointment was announced in December, is only the fourth designer to have held the creative director post at Chanel, after Coco herself, Karl Lagerfeld, and Viard. He will take up the role in the next few months, but due to the long lead times of large brands, will not show his first Chanel collection until October. The current collection was created by the in-house team, who will also design the main ready-to-wear show during Paris fashion week in March, a show scheduled for the shores of Lake Como in May, and another haute couture show in July.
