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Time of India
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Aimee Lou Wood shares how 'White Lotus' costar Patrick Schwarzenegger helped her for Met Gala debut
Actress shared how her ' White Lotus ' co-star eased her nervousness for her Met Gala debut . She arrived with her White Lotus costar for the mega fashion event. "When I found out that Patrick and I could go in the car together, 'cause originally we weren't meant to go in the car together, and then we were both like, 'Yeah, we need to go in the car together,' and so we made it work," said Wood said in an interview, reported People. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now She added, "And as soon as I knew that, I thought, 'I can do this.' " Taking to her Instagram handle she posted pictures from the gala night and wrote, in the caption, "@metmuseum Superfine: Tailoring Black Style ..FIRST MET MADE MAGIC AND MEANINGFUL BY:@cartier thank you SO much for having me. @ahluwalia creating this custom wonder which paid beautiful tribute to the theme. @felicitykay you excelled yourself... @shaynagold with @charlottetilbury doing her special witchcraft on my face @garethbromell making me want to chop my hair off because of how cool I felt. Socks are @bombas and they are donating to Rainbow Center on my behalf. @patrickschwarzenegger making even the most nerve-wracking of places feel like home. And the perfect ending to the night was eating chips and having endless chats with @ncutigatwa in my hotel room." The gala with the theme 'Superfine: Tailoring Black Style' was not Schwarzenegger's first time at the event, he also explained why attending with Wood was important to him, as per the outlet. "I texted Aimee. I heard Aimee was coming and I immediately texted her, and I said, 'Can we please go together? I'm so nervous,' " said Patrick. He said she replied, "'I was gonna text you the same thing!'," reported People. For Schwarzenegger, the arrangement was "perfect." "So I went, and we met up. I went to her hotel and we showed up together. It's great. It takes the nerves out of it that you have a real friend to come with," he added. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Schwarzenegger shared that although it was his third Met Gala, he suggested he and Wood go together "because we're both nervous and terrified." He also said that he was able to start getting ready around "5:15 p.m." and able to get to her hotel by 6, meanwhile she started her Met Gala prep at noon. This year's Met theme was inspired by guest curator Monica L. Miller's 2009 book Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity, which explores "the Black dandy as both a concept and an identity signifier," according to People. (ANI)
Yahoo
01-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Tacoma Pride festival will move to new, bigger location this year. Details here
The annual free Tacoma Pride celebration will take place in Wright Park this year on July 12 from noon to 6 p.m., according to the Rainbow Center, the LGBTQ+ organization that runs the event. For the past decade the Pride festival has been held in Fireman's Park in downtown Tacoma, said Troy Christensen, the Rainbow Center's Board President. In the last few years more than 20,000 people attended the event, which pushed the center to look for alternative locations that could accommodate that traffic, he said. The 27-acre Wright Park, 501 S. I St., was found to be the only park in town that could accommodate crowds of that size plus food trucks, Christensen said. The park is also near bus and train lines. 'The parks department is on board, the city's on board, the county executive's excited about the location change,' he said. 'We think it will allow us to continue to expand.' This year attendees can expect musicians, singers, dancers and drag performances on two stages, he said. Although the event is open to all ages, there will likely be a beer garden limited to attendees who are 21 and older, Christensen said. A line-up will be published at a future date on Pride celebrations in Tacoma began in the early 1990s in Lincoln Park before moving to the Theater District downtown and then Fireman's Park, Christensen said. Tacoma's annual Pride celebration is funded primarily through sponsorships from local companies, vendor fees and a grant from Tacoma Creates, as opposed to large corporate sponsors, Christensen said. Although he wasn't aware of any big sponsors pulling their funding this year, Christensen said he is concerned there will not be enough funding for Pride given 'everything that's happening federally.' 'You see companies you would never expect to see pulling their pride flags and decimating their DEI programs and their commitments to equity,' he said. 'We don't know what will happen this year, but assuming that even the LGBTQ population of the South Puget Sound all shows up, it's still going to be huge.' Those looking to sponsor or support Tacoma Pride can reach out to info@ Christensen said the federal government is pushing the message that LGBTQ+ people are 'wrong and bad,' and events like this combat that message and show people they are celebrated, wanted and loved. Every year the Rainbow Center fields threats targeting the LGBTQ+ community, he said. The center will be working with the city to make a security plan for Pride, like it does every year, Christensen said. 'People often confuse Pride with one of the seven deadly sins. That is not what we mean by Pride. We mean Pride as opposed to shame,' Christensen said. 'And it is important because, you know, for most of human history, there has been shame associated with being a member of the LGBTQ community, and there is not any longer. As people come out and they find themselves, they want to say, 'Look, I am here, and I am not ashamed to be who I am.''
