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The trailer for Meghan Markle’s second season of her Netflix show, With Love, Meghan, just dropped. The first season of the show has garnered 5.3 million views, which seemed modest to me but is apparently pretty good for one of their cooking shows. Under a new deal with Meghan and Harry, Netflix gets a first look at their film and television projects before anyone else, reports the New York Times, “but less investment from Netflix, a sign that the high-profile 2020 deal may not have met expectations.”
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Page Six reports that Chloe Malle is the frontrunner to succeed Anna Wintour as head of editorial content for Vogue. Malle runs Vogue’s website and wrote both the magazine’s profiles of Lauren Sánchez. Like Anna, she’s a nepo baby, daughter of Candace Bergen and French director Louis Malle.
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Apparently anklets are the big jewelry trend of summer. What better way to get in on the trend and bid farewell to And Just Like That this week than with this sterling silver nameplate anklet from Jewelr? It somehow feels like the most aughts accessory I’ve seen all year.
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Has anyone been able to escape the new photos of Travis Kelce in GQ? It’s very “Florida man.”
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Leonardo DiCaprio sat for a photo shoot and interview with Paul Thomas Anderson for Esquire, pegged to their upcoming movie One Battle After Another. Anderson asked hard-hitting questions like, “If you didn’t know how old you are, how old are you right now?” Leo, whose girlfriend Vittoria Ceretti is 27, said, “Thirty-two.”
And now, onto today’s big story…
Earlier in Back Row:
Kate Moss was recently photographed in Ibiza wearing a bathing suit with a belt and stacked bracelets on each wrist, carrying a distressed Kelly as a beach bag. This means two things: one, Kate Moss is, as usual, having a better summer than just about everyone except maybe Lauren Sánchez; and two, we are deep into the slow news month of August.
Thanks to Trump 2.0, the year has felt enormously consequential, both politically and culturally. The rightward vibe shift in the U.S. has even managed to involve Trump praising Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle ad, which contributed to slow-news discourse for weeks. You know it’s not an average year when a sitting U.S. president takes the time to weigh in on advertising for a mall denim brand. Since so much has shifted over the last seven to eight months, I decided to revisit the fashion predictions I made in early January, and came up with five new ones.
But first, a quick temperature read on how some of the January predictions are faring so far:
