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Meryl Streep is currently promoting her new movie Suffragette in which she plays Emmeline Pankhurst, the British activist who was instrumental in earning women the right to vote. In early September, Streep sent a package to each member of Congress urging him or her to support the Equal Rights Amendment, which would make it illegal to discriminate against women. She whooped when Patricia Arquette spoke about equal pay at the Oscars. She went to Vassar, which is basically just a women’s rights propaganda training center. Читать дальше...

The fall, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London is hosting an exhibition featuring centuries worth of textiles from India. Judging by the preview pictures available, it’s going to be gorgeous.

Welcome to Better Than It Looks, a new series in which we discuss the recipes we tried (and maybe failed) to execute, and the foods that were served to us by someone perhaps more talented than ourselves.

Tuesday night’s episode of WAGS featured a garment that is truly not for the meek. Cast member Natalie Halcro rocked this little number which appears to be a crochet dress with two waist-high slits on either side.

Bad news continues for the magazine formerly known as Lucky, now known as The Lucky Group, a website where you can buy things and also read about fashion a bit: they’re being sued for not paying for renovations on their office in the New York neighborhood of Chelsea.

The “live-musical-as-a-television-event” thing continues to happen, and now that American families have gobbled up The Sound of Music, Peter Pan, and The Wiz, FOX is bringing another classic to the small screen: Grease. And Carly Rae Jepsen’s just been cast as Frenchy.

Welcome to Midweek Madness, where we’re asked to go on HLN and speak to Yasmin Vossoughian about Edward Snowden, but instead talk about Christine Ouzounian without her even realizing it.

Good news, or something: Whole Foods will stop selling goat cheese and tilapia made with prison labor. This news comes after their price-gouging scandal and recent announcement that they’re fire 1,500 staffers in an attempt to lower their prices.

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Ralph Lauren, a designer virtually synonymous with a certain preppy-American country club aesthetic, is stepping down from his post as CEO of the company that bears his name. Stefan Larsson, a former H&M executive and president of Old Navy, will replace Lauren in November.

One frozen January evening in 2010, I shoved a pair of pajama shorts, a decade-old sports bra, worn-down sneakers, and an 8-year-old tee shirt from a dorm dance into a backpack and trudged through the Chicago winter to the nearest gym. I mounted a treadmill, suddenly aware that I’d never been on a treadmill before. I ran to the point of total physical exhaustion: two miles.

Sorry, gals, but soon you’ll have one less place to shop for very expensive “bohemian” skirts to wear to Coachella. Preserve is done—for now, anyway.

Our memory cards are packed with your best point-and-shoot nominations and we’ve rounded up the five most popular. Now it’s time to find a winner. Compose, focus, vote.

It’s no secret that weddings now often cost more than a French chateau, so it’s understandable that some newlyweds would be annoyed by guests canceling at the last minute. No matter how upset a bride and groom are, however, there’s absolutely no excuse to send absent guests a bill for their dinner. But apparently no one mentioned to a newly married couple who invoiced a couple of guests.

Following the allegations made against Bill Cosby by more than 40 women, Brown University has revoked the honorary doctorate it awarded to the comedian. Brown becomes the third university to revoke an honorary degree awarded to Cosby, Marquette and Fordham Universities did so earlier this week .

CBS News is reporting that Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who was jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples, met with Pope Francis. Davis’ attorney, Matt Staver, told CBS that the two met on Thursday at the Vatican Embassy in Washington, DC:

Earlier today, Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Cecile Richards testified before the House Oversight Committee. The hearing was infuriating for a number of reasons, but it was perhaps congressional Republicans’ treatment of Richards that was most appalling. Richards was interrupted on multiple occasions and Rep. John Duncan (R-TN) condescendingly asked her,“Surely you don’t expect us to be easier on you just because you’re a woman?”

An Indiana Subway franchise is being sued in federal court by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for firing an employee for being HIV-positive. Stay classy, Indiana.

Poor Katy Perry got a few handfuls more than she bargained for when she brought a young fan onstage at the Rock in Rio festival last Sunday and the girl—very excited, probably on drugs, and DEFINITELY inappropriate—began kissing Perry all over her face and neck and copping feels wherever she could.

In today’s Tweet Beat, Taylor Swift’s life is far less interesting than people think it is, Edward Snowden joins Twitter and FINALLY CRAIG DAVID IS RETURNING.

Dance music duo Disclosure has just released the video for their song “Magnets,” and beloved witchy woman Lorde figures prominently, both as vocalist and as the video’s protagonist. Indeed, this is Lorde as we haven’t previously experienced her: seductive as patent leather, merciless and consuming as flame. She’s fantastic.

On Monday, artist Sam Larson posted the above photo on his Instagram account where he has 235,000 followers. Retail giant Forever 21, he claimed, had stolen one of his drawings from two years ago, applied some very light photoshopping, and passed it off as its own design.

Men have always played an outsized role in women’s fashion, all things considered. Which is what makes late-seventeenth-century France and its powerful couturières so fascinating. Not to mention refreshing.

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Look jerks, I love pretty rocks as much as the next entitled millennial, but you’ve got to stop using your Bermuda vacations as excuses to pilfer 70 pounds of sea glass. Last January, Pennsylvania jewelry maker Becky Fox committed this precise transgression, and the Bermuda community is PISSED that such disrespectful behavior is becoming a trend.