The Barometer
Cooling down
Meet the red^
carpet’s new
best-dressed man
Is this the best-dressed man on the
red carpet? Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
is certainly reinventing the suit.
Most leading men stick to the
classics, but he has given us white
Alexander McQueen with a
zip-detail longline jacket, navy
and white-flecked Bottega Veneta
cut like double denim, and plush
midnight satin Fendi. His CV of
thrillers and action films gives us
yet more palpitations: he was the
baddie to Jason Momoa’s goodie
in Aquaman, the lead in last year’s
Candyman horror sequel, and stars
opposite Jake Gyllenhaal in the new
heist movie Ambulance. Next he’ll be
teaming up with Michael B Jordan
on Amazon Prime’s whistleblower
thriller I Helped Destroy People.
Whatever keeps him on the red
carpet and front row, we say.God save the Queen (of Versaillles)
Teetering on her teeny-tiny heels and clutching one of many fluffy
mutts, Jackie Siegel was turned into a camp icon in the 2012
documentary The Queen of Versailles. A modern parable about the
trappings of ridiculous wealth, it told the story of her attempt to
recreate the baroque palace of Louis XIV in, erm, Orlando, Florida.
Before Mariah Carey’s wrapping room and Kris Jenner’s crockery
room, Siegel had an in-house bowling alley, a baseball diamond in
the back garden and a separate wing for the kids. At the end of the
surprisingly poignant film she hadn’t finished building the 85,000 sq
ft “home”. A decade later the reality show Queen of Versailles Reigns
Again finds her still with an unfinished abode. But there have been
additions: an in-house pub, cinema and steak house. It’s as if Shiv
from Succession became a Real Housewife with weird taste, and we
can’t wait until the show gets a UK air date.Heating up
▲ BURNT POPCORN
Apparently this sizzling
version of the cinema
favourite is popular in
France — c’est vrai?▲ MUDDY HEMS
Big trouser energy
means the bottom of your
trousers are caked in
muck. Yes, we’re looking
at you, Rihanna and Bella▲ SUN IN BLONDE
Forget subtle, summer’s
hottest shade is a bit like the
one you got from the
spray-in lightener in 1996
(but do consult a
professional this time)▲ ‘DIVORCED DAD ROCK’
The youth’s name for
nu-metal (see: Jack White)▼ DAWN DATING
Is 9am coffee the
new dinner date?
No, no, it is not▼ ‘TOE
TROLLING’
Kendall
Jenner shut
down foot
shamers in
a recent
Instagram
post. Can
these people
be toetally
for real?▼ BALLET FLATS
Did they always give us
shin splints or are we
showing our age?▼ FRANKENPASTAS
Carbonara pizza or
Sunday roast spaghetti?
They’ve created a
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