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20 Photos of Celebrities Exercising Their Right to Vote

By Judy Berman on

Last week — just like us! — celebrities were weathering Hurricane Sandy. Today, they’re doing something else all regular Americans are (or should be) doing: voting. And since we now live in a “pics or it didn’t happen” culture, everyone from Beyoncé to Tim Gunn to Zooey Deschanel is photographing the process. After the jump, we round up Election Day’s best pictures of famous people in the voting booth, filling out their absentee ballots, and decking themselves out in red, white, and blue for the occasion. … Read More

Comics

Ridiculous Comic Books Featuring Famous People

By Victoria McNally on

Had enough of costume-clad superheroes? A Vancouver-based comic book company called Bluewater Productions specializes in biography books about everyone from Steve Jobs to Stephenie Meyer. When we heard of their plans to release a Saturday Night Live-inspired book in March, we were curious to see some more celebrities, politicians, and historical figures in comic form. What we found is pretty weird, to say the least. … Read More

News

The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories

By Caroline Stanley on

1. “It is with great sadness we announce that Trish Keenan from Broadcast passed away at 9am (GMT) this morning in hospital. She died from complications with pneumonia after battling the illness for two weeks in intensive care. This is an untimely tragic loss and we will miss Trish dearly — a unique voice, an… Read More

Television

What If Talk Show Hosts Embraced the Male Jeggings Trend?

By Caroline Stanley on

As we may have mentioned earlier today, on Wednesday night Tim Gunn talked to Conan O’Brien about men’s jeggings. Which for some reason led Conan to promise that he’d wear jeggings for an entire show. Which he then did, last night. We think that the human race learned more about biology from the resulting big reveal than we did from yesterday’s discovery of arsenic-loving microbes. But it also got us thinking: What if this trend were to catch on? Click through for some interesting visuals of other male talk show hosts bravely rocking jeggings. Who do you think looks the most comfortable? … Read More

Web

10 Inspiring Celebrity It Gets Better Videos

By Judy Berman on

It’s been a tumultuous several weeks for the LGBT community and its allies, from the alarming number of gay teen suicides to the recent spike in homophobic violence to Dan Savage’s deeply inspiring It Gets Better Project. In light of all that, we at Flavorpill would like to celebrate National Coming Out Day with a roundup of our 10 favorite celebrity It Gets Better videos. Our picks range from indie musicians (Scissor Sisters, Sia) to viral video stars (Sassy Gay Friend, Chris Crocker) to world-famous TV personalities (Chris Colfer, Tim Gunn). Check them out after the jump, then head to the It Gets Better Project’s YouTube page to watch more clips or upload your own. … Read More

News

The Morning's Top 5 Pop Culture Stories

By Caroline Stanley on

1. According to a story in Grazia Magazine, Lady Gaga is “terrified of evil spirits and reportedly has every hotel and tour venue scanned by a team of paranormal investigators before she will agree to stay there.” [via This Is London]
2. Project Runway’s Tim Gunn reveals that he tried to take… Read More

Television

Will the Real Tim Gunn Please Stand Up?

By Judy Berman on

We thought we knew Tim Gunn, we really did. He was the kind, gently critical, unfailingly intelligent mentor to the mixed bag of crazies and talented designers on Project Runway. We wished he was our teacher. If you asked us which celebrity we’d most want to have dinner with, he’d be near the top of the list. After hard days at work, we daydreamed about him calling with a pep talk, closing the conversation with his signature derective: “Make it work.”

But these days, Gunn isn’t quite so cute and cuddly anymore. In the past few months, he’s outed Anna Wintour for having bodyguards carry her. He’s called Taylor Momsen “repugnant” and the Salahis “sociopaths.” He flipped out at everyone for not protecting Gretchen after her team showed an awful collection. And now he’s had to remove from Facebook a 12-minute video rant about a challenge he didn’t like. In the words of Sassy Gay Friend, Tim Gunn, what, what, what are you doing? … Read More

Web

What’s on at Flavorpill: The Links That Made the Rounds in Our Office

By Caroline Stanley on

Today at Flavorpill, we laughed out loud while reading a new site called Splitsider — which by the by, we find much easier to pronounce than The Awl. We loved @English50cent, a Twitter feed of 50 Cent’s tweets translated into the Queen’s English. We listened to 9-year-old Willow Smith’s new song,… Read More

Fashion

Photo Diary: New York Fashion Week

By Alia Kahan on

The internet is home to a glut of information on how to fake your way in to New York Fashion Week (seriously, Google it). But for the hundreds who desperately want in there are thousands who don’t understand why this week, or its worldwide counterparts, matter. New York Fashion Week has become an arena housing a spectacle of sartorial gladiators, a place to see and be seen, and a bit of an enigma to those who don’t work within the industry. … Read More

Books

10 Inspirational Fashion Books for Aspiring Designers

By Pauline Pechin on

Project Runway — the reality show with it’s own official avenue — has become a television phenomenon since launching on Bravo in 2004. Similar shows like Launch My Line and The Fashion Show have emerged, but they’ve failed to match the original’s viewership. (We’d blame a lack of Michael Kors’ quips.) Consequently, the show’s popularity has inspired a jump in sewing class rosters, and inspired a new generation of Threadheads — who are currently 35 million strong. Apparently knitting is so… Read More