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          Focusing on women and celebrating what makes them so unique, Evie Magazine helps women seek truth and find beauty...the kind that really matters.
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        <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 05:42:18 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Woman Who Went Viral for Leaving Her Ex For A Lesbian She Met on a Cruise Now Regrets What She Shared]]></title>
      <link>https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/woman-viral-ex-for-a-lesbian-she-met-on-a-cruise-regrets</link>
      <dc:creator>Meredith Evans</dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[This writer left her long-term partner for a woman 26 years her senior. Now, seven years later, she is questioning whether she should have written about it at all.  ]]></description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Writer Shannon Keating published a messy essay the internet was built to devour in 2019 . The story was indeed scandalous. She met and fell in love with a woman named Lynette on a lesbian cruise; she was 26 years her senior. They fell in love and Keating left her long-term partner to pursue a relationship with her. Seven years later, Keating and Lynette are married.While Keating felt confident writing and publishing the piece seven years ago, she now admits she is no longer sure it was the right move. The Story In a new essay for The Cut , Keating revisits the Olivia cruise where she and Lynette first met and considers what happened after she publicly “blew up” her love life. The original story created opportunities that most freelance writers would have trouble turning down. Keating and Lynette were recognized in New York, Edinburgh, and London. Hollywood producers invited her to Los Angeles to discuss a possible adaptation, while literary and film agents expressed interest in her story. Readers continued contacting her years later to say that her decision had inspired them. However, that glamorous aftermath did not last. The possible film went nowhere, and a memoir proposal failed to secure the lucrative publishing deal Keating hoped for. She now considers both outcomes a blessing. A movie might have left her with little control over the most personal parts of her life, while writing a memoir would have required her to reveal even more about her complicated family and marriage. The attention also came with consequences. Keating writes that she had described what she saw as her former partner’s faults because she feared readers would judge her for leaving. Presenting those details helped her justify her own choices, but it also meant that someone else’s private life became evidence in the case she was making for herself. The response was harsh. One of Keating’s closest friends stopped speaking to her, and acquaintances sent furious messages condemning the essay. I mean, imagine if a man left his long-term girlfriend for another man on a cruise. I can already imagine the hate videos and comments he’d receive, so it makes sense why this was the outcome for Keating. Of course, I’m not justifying it – I’m just saying it’s expected. One person told her to lose their number and never make contact again. Keating also recognizes that the publicity placed pressure on her new relationship. Although Lynette read every draft and supported publication, neither woman could predict the gossip it would cause in Lynette’s small village or the effect it would have on her family while she was going through a painful divorce. This was not Keating’s first warning about the risks of publishing other people’s lives. Years earlier, she wrote about women she had dated after college. One recognized herself despite Keating’s attempt to conceal her identity and emailed to say she felt exposed and violated. Keating admits that she deleted the message without responding. At the time, approval from readers apparently mattered more than an apology to the person who had become material without her permission. That admission is one of the more revealing parts of her new essay. The internet tends to reward a personal story in proportion to how much damage it contains. A clean breakup is rarely as irresistible as a betrayal, a secret, or an ill-advised hookup in a tiny catamaran bathroom , another detail Keating freely volunteers. Writers are encouraged to be vulnerable and candid (at times, almost debaucherous) although those flattering words can obscure a basic problem: Your truth may still contain somebody else’s private business. Keating’s new perspective developed alongside major changes in her marriage. Before their wedding, she and Lynette lived the exciting portion of an unconventional romance, traveling internationally, winning dance competitions at drag shows, and sometimes having strangers recognize their story and buy them drinks. Marriage brought a less cinematic stretch. After moving to the United Kingdom, Keating went from earning close to six figures to piecing together small freelance payments. Lynette supported them on a civil servant’s salary as money grew tight, and both women began feeling as though their peers were moving into more secure stages of life. As for the age difference? Well the age difference once felt exciting and defiant to her, but it now carries practical concerns. Lynette describes herself as entering the final third of her life while Keating is still in its middle. Their relationship must make room for two people facing very different questions about work, money, aging, and the future. It must also make room for disagreement about privacy. Lynette was initially baffled by Keating’s habit of broadcasting mental-health struggles and controversial opinions online. Over time, she has become more relaxed about appearing in posts, while Keating has moved in the opposite direction and become more selective. In the meantime, Keating has not sworn off personal writing or social media. On the recent cruise, she posted videos of their outfits and received affectionate comments from people who remembered the original essay. Keating still believes sharing personal experiences can make others feel less alone, especially people considering an unconventional life change. What has changed is her belief that honesty requires total access. Keating now seems to recognize that oversharing can create more problems than it solves. Maybe strangers do not need access to every intimate detail of your life, and maybe leaving your long-term boyfriend for someone you barely know is not the bold, empowering flex you think it is.]]></content:encoded>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Best Fall Boots To Shop Before They Sell Out]]></title>
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      <dc:creator>Rachel Squier </dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[A good pair of boots can carry an entire fall wardrobe. From classic knee-highs to everyday ankle boots and Western-inspired styles, these are the pairs worth making room for. ]]></description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[There are few things that make getting dressed for fall feel quite as satisfying as pulling on a great pair of boots. Suddenly, your favorite jeans feel more intentional, a simple dress looks like an outfit, and you have an excuse to start wearing all those cozy fall pieces you've been waiting on since August. The only problem is that there are a lot of boots out there. Whether you're looking for an everyday pair you can practically live in, something polished enough for the office, or a statement style to make your outfit a little more interesting, we've rounded up 25 of the best options to shop this season. From classic silhouettes that won't go out of style to a few trendier pairs that are worth having some fun with, there's a boot here for pretty much every fall outfit on your calendar . Now all that's left to decide is which pair you're wearing first. This article may contain affiliate links or paid partnerships. We may earn a commission or compensation at no extra cost to you. All products are chosen independently by our editorial team and reflect our genuine recommendations. Heeled Knee-High Boots For when you want your fall outfit to feel a little more polished, heeled knee-high boots are an easy way to elevate everything from jeans to dresses. A block heel keeps things practical for everyday wear, while a sleek stiletto or kitten heel can make a simple outfit feel instantly more dressed up. Mint Velvet Dakota Suede Knee High Cowboy Boots, $220 Marc Fisher Rilan Boot, $60 Larroude Cindy Hi Boot In Black Leather, $354 By Anthropologie Foldover Suede Ankle Boots, $278 Sam Edelman Porter Knee High Boot, $200 Dolce Vita Lucyle Boots Dk Taupe Suede, $100 Vince Camuto Seshon Boot, $100 Bohme Cleo Ankle Bootie in Brown, $240 Dolce Vita Vergil Boots Camel Suede, $160 Jessica Simpson Emybet Boot, $85 Flat Knee-High Boots Flat knee-high boots are the kind of fall staple you’ll reach for constantly. They’re comfortable enough for everyday wear but still look pulled together with everything from mini skirts and dresses to your favorite denim. And you don’t always have to tuck your jeans into them! Try wearing the boots underneath a looser pair of jeans for a more relaxed, layered look. Christy Dawn The Yoko Boot, $349 Frye Campus Boot, $398 Show Me Your Mumu Billini Jamison Boot, $150 Hunter Women's Original Tall Rain Boots, $190 Overland Women’s Hudson Shearling-Lined Leather Boots, $399 Frye & Co. Irlene Tall Deco Stitch Western Boot, $140 Frye Kate Pull On Boot, $368 Steve Madden Astor Brown Leather Boot, $160 Dr. Scholl's Joplin Boot, $110 Franco Sarto Geralyn Boot, $90 Ankle Boots Ankle boots are a fall wardrobe workhorse for a reason: they go with basically everything. Whether you prefer a low, walkable heel or a completely flat pair, they’re an easy way to transition your summer pieces into cooler weather and give your fall outfits a little more structure. They’re also a low-effort way to make a casual jeans-and-sweater outfit feel more polished without actually trying that hard. Vagabond Leather Blanca Ankle Boots, $210 Bohme Cleo Ankle Bootie in Bambi, $240 Steve Madden Kaplan Camel Suede, $60 Sam Edelman Weatherproof Laguna Chelsea Boot, $170 Dolce Vita Cecela Booties Lt Brown Suede, $170 Dolce Vita Rutger Boots Dk Brown Stella Suede, $150 Steve Madden Lowa Brown Leather, $70 Marc Fisher River Bootie, $100 ASOS DESIGN Reign Square Toe Platform Boots, $49 Put your best boot forward If there’s one thing worth adding to your fall wardrobe, it’s a good pair of boots. Whether you’re dressing up a skirt, wearing them under your favorite jeans, or throwing them on with a sweater for an easy everyday outfit, the right pair can make almost anything look more put-together. And with so many styles to choose from, there’s really no reason to settle for a pair you don’t actually love wearing. Now all that’s left to do is pick your pair and start planning those fall outfits!]]></content:encoded>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Tradwife, The Girlboss, And The Womanhood Cold War]]></title>
      <link>https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/the-tradwife-the-girlboss-and-the-womanhood-cold-war</link>
      <dc:creator>Taylor Ferber</dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[There's an all-out war on our very soil. The war over what the good life for women should look like. The girlboss became a punchline. The tradwife became a counterrevolution. Gather the troops. Because somehow every woman's been drafted.]]></description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[One side warns that chasing a career will leave us childless, lonely, and looking like Tom Hanks in Cast Away . The other looks at a woman carpooling her five kids and assumes her entire personality is a sourdough starter kit. The tradwife must secretly be trapped . The career woman must secretly be empty. And the woman who wants elements of both in her life? Misguided, selfish, and bad at feminism. For years, zillennial women were pushed with emboldened messaging about chasing flights, not feelings, "leaning in" to every boardroom in the continental U.S., and not needing men. It was so potent that I'm pretty sure NASA picked up extraterrestrial life echoing the same sentiments. Our lifestyles have officially become a political battleground. Then came the pandemic, when the tradwives showcased another way of living at a suddenly mainstream level. While everyone was stuck at home, these women showed the appeal of building a life… centering the home. In a twist of events, traditional family values became the rebellion. It was a counterculture swing against the promotion-chasing, hookup-culture no-man's-land. Next thing you know, Harrison Butker gives a speech , Katy Perry revolts , and just like that: It's war. Our lifestyles have officially become a political battleground. This gets particularly interesting when you consider some of pop culture's most prominent women who don't quite fit an army. Ree Drummond is known as the Pioneer Woman, a title alone capable of sending the girlboss caucus into a spiral. People can mock her blender and enthusiasm for feeding the working men all they want. She's also a USC graduate who planned on law school before building her highly publicized family life on the ranch, which is perhaps proof to some that she traded ambition for a spatula. She then turned that optically traditional life into a media legacy reportedly worth $50 million . Nothing says compliant, unambitious doormat like building a multimillion-dollar empire! The irony is that we've recreated the very trap we've accused men of setting for years. Then there's AOC, who, on the surface, appears to hail from an entirely different planet. Yet when recently asked whether her family goals could coexist with her political ones , her answer was Karoline Leavitt–coded, saying she was raised with a "family first" outlook. Hold her multifaceted ambitions beside Drummond's, and suddenly they don't look so different. This is where my personal struggle comes in: between the worlds and deeply called to both like adulthood is playing a ruthless game of Red Rover. The irony is that we've recreated the very trap we've accused men of setting for years: the idea that women must be one thing. Why are we literally snatching our own wigs by boxing ourselves in? This is what the Womanhood Cold War misses. Another woman's lifestyle isn't an existential threat to your own. It's actually a celebration. A testament to our power to choose what fulfillment means for ourselves. Yet we treat a woman's marriage, job, bank account, or cutlery as propaganda, thus surrendering entire traits to either camp. Perhaps the uncomfortable lesson now isn't that women "can't have it all" or were sold the "wrong" dream, but that there is a beautiful spectrum of womanhood choices. A full life comes in blossoming seasons, trade-offs, and shifting priorities. Every path requires its own grit, discipline, and sacrifice. Yet we never have to sacrifice who we are in the process. Who's to say what's more powerful? There's nothing wrong with a woman choosing to focus on her family, or with a woman choosing to focus on her career… or with one choosing any combination in between. But if these are all personal choices that free and empowered women can make for themselves, let them. Abigail Adams was a Revolutionary War force while raising six children. Harriet Tubman adopted a baby girl nearly 15 years after her active work on the Underground Railroad. NASA's Christina Koch, who has no children, just became the first woman to travel around the moon . The real victory in the Womanhood Cold War isn't winning. Hollywood legends Catherine O'Hara and Diane Keaton recently passed away months apart, leaving two very different examples behind. O'Hara said her kids were her proudest accomplishment, while Keaton never married and ultimately adopted two kids later in life. Dolly Parton couldn't have children due to endometriosis, yet through her art, business empire, and philanthropy, she has left a stamp on the world no one could ever replicate. They're all heroes in my eyes. All iconic. None more, or less, of a woman than the other. The beautiful thing unique to womanhood is that we can experience the full range of it without turning any one aspect into our entire identity. Liberation wasn't supposed to mean enlisting in the correct camp or making choices that are approved by strangers on the internet. It's refusing to let either side define us or tell us which parts of ourselves we're allowed to keep. The real victory in the Womanhood Cold War isn't winning. It's laying down the weapons, freely choosing our own lives, and letting other women choose theirs.]]></content:encoded>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Best Labor Day Weekend Sales To Shop Now]]></title>
      <link>https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/the-best-labor-day-weekend-sales-to-shop-now</link>
      <dc:creator>Anna Hartman</dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[The second the calendar flips to September my brain switches over to crunchy leaves and a nine-step evening routine I will absolutely abandon by October. ]]></description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Maybe you're doing back-to-school shopping. Maybe you're romanticizing your fall routine, cozying up your apartment, or rewriting your entire personality from the ground up. Wherever you're at this weekend, this list is for you. Labor Day weekend is when you stock up. Go stand in your bathroom right now and take actual inventory. Skincare, makeup, haircare, supplements. Anything scraping the bottom goes on the list, because repurchasing that same serum at full price in November is a choice you are making on purpose. The same thing goes for your wardrobe. What have you been missing while getting dressed in the mornings? What pair of shoes is a little too worn out to survive yet another season? It's also when you splurge on the one thing you've been eyeing since June. You know exactly what it is. Check if the brand is on our list and, if you see it, consider it your personal permission slip from me to you. You deserve it. And pull up your calendar while you're at it. Birthdays, anniversaries, the holidays that will sneak up on you the way they do every single year. Buying a Christmas gift in September feels unhinged in the best possible way. Play this right and you're looking at hundreds, possibly thousands, in savings this weekend, which by girl math means everything you buy is essentially free. Here's every sale we're shopping. Most start today, so move fast, because the best stuff is already selling out. This article may contain affiliate links or paid partnerships. We may earn a commission or compensation at no extra cost to you. All products are chosen independently by our editorial team and reflect our genuine recommendations. HOME Anthropologie — Dates: 8/31–9/7; Up to 40% off home: furniture, décor, candles, bedding & more Avocado Green Mattress — Dates: 8/11–9/14; Up to 20% off sitewide Caraway — Limited-time bundles, plus a free Baking Sheet Duo with orders $675+ Camp Snap — Free shipping on orders $100+ Coyuchi — Dates: 8/27–9/8; 20% off bed basics including mattress, plus new markdowns (select bedding, blankets, bath) Ettitude — Dates: 8/20–9/8; Up to 25% off sitewide, up to 70% off final sale Paddywax — Free candle and shipping on all orders (continental US only), customize your bundle and save up to 20% FASHION 12th Tribe — Up to 70% off Abercrombie & Fitch — Dates: 9/2–9/7; 20-40% off almost everything, plus extra 20% off all clearance Alex + Ani — Dates: 9/3–9/7; 20% off sitewide Alf The Label — 20-60% off Alice + Olivia — Dates: 9/2–9/7; Up to 70% off almost the entire site Anthropologie — Dates: 9/2–9/7 Sale: Up to 40% off clothing & accessories Ariat — Dates: 9/2/26–9/3/26; Extra 20% off sale styles ASTR The Label — Extra 40% off sale BAGSMART — Up to 50% off with free shipping sitewide Bohme — 20% off everything Bombshell Sportswear — Dates: 9/4–9/7; 20% off sitewide Caitlyn Minimalist — Up to 50% off sitewide Charles & Keith — Dates: 8/31–9/7; 10% off selected full-priced items Cynthia Rowley — 20-30% off eligible full-price and sale styles Dean Davidson — Dates: 9/1–9/7; 20% off Dolce Vita — Up to 50% off with code "byesummer" DSW — BOGO 50% off shoes, up to 30% off select styles Gola — 20% off select full price styles, 50% off sale styles Goldie Tees — 25% off with code "GOLDIE25" Guizio — 25% off everything, 30% off $275+, 35% off $400+ For Love & Lemons — 30% off select styles, additional 40% off all previously marked down styles Heartloom — Dates: 9/3–9/8; 25% off select items with code "GOODBYESUMMER25" Hill House Home — Up to 75% off Ivy City Co — Dates: starting 9/3; Entire site on sale J.McLaughlin — Extra 40% off sale items Larroude — Up to 70% off L'Agence — Up to 50% off LSPACE — 40% off select styles Meller — 2 pairs of glasses for $75 Nordstrom Rack — Dates: 9/4/26–9/7/26; Extra 25% off clearance Oak & Luna — Dates: 9/3–9/7 Sale: 15% off sitewide with code "LABORDAY15" Olive & Piper — 20% off sitewide Petal & Pup — Up to 55% off select items Peixoto — 50% off sale items Printfresh — Up to 70% off select styles Reformation — Up to 70% off Show Me Your Mumu — Select styles 50% off, with the sale assortment refreshed with new arrivals Stripe & Stare — Save up to $95 on select clearance items Splendid — 40% off almost everything with code "WEEKEND" Teddy Blake — Dates: 8/28–9/7; Up to 45% off sitewide Valentina Rangoni — Dates: 9/11–9/12; 20% off all styles VICI — 35% off everything, extra 65% off all sale items, use code "EVIEMAG40" WeWoreWhat — 30% off select styles BEAUTY Armani Beauty — 25% off sitewide, plus a 4-piece gift Bluemercury — 30% off M-61 and Lune+Aster Cosmette — 20% off sitewide plus a free fresh awakening cleanser with all orders over $100 Dazzle Dry — 20% off $80+, free shipping on orders $50+ Lacoste — Up to 50% off, plus extra 20% off all sale Grace & Stella — 25% off sitewide, free gift $45+ and another bonus treat at $80+ Omnilux — Dates: 9/1–9/13; $50 off one full-size device, $115 off two, $200 off three; 15% off skincare and mini devices. Bundles and gift cards excluded. Use code "ANNAHARTMAN" Ole Henriksen — Up to 40% off select items, 4 free gifts with orders $100+ Paula's Choice — 20% off sitewide, 30% off orders $100+ with code "SAVE30" Skinfix — Dates: 9/2–9/9; 20% off sitewide WELLNESS Health-Ade — Dates: 9/4–9/7; Extra 10% off subscriptions with code "LONGWKND10" JNH Lifestyles — Up to 40% off infrared saunas with free shipping, plus a free Oxygen Ionizer through the linked offer LEMME — Dates: 8/21–9/8; 25% off sitewide Nutrafol — Up to 25% off sitewide plus free gifts]]></content:encoded>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[None Of The Lindsay Clancy Supporters Wore Pink For Iryna Zarutska]]></title>
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      <dc:creator>Meredith Evans</dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[We're witnessing the trial of the year and perhaps of the entire decade. ]]></description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Lindsay Clancy is a Massachusetts mother and former labor-and-delivery nurse charged with murdering her three children —5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 8-month-old Callan—inside their Duxbury home on January 24, 2023. Lindsay admitted that she strangled the children with exercise bands before cutting herself and jumping from a second-story window, leaving her paralyzed. The central question at trial hasn't been whether she actually killed them, but whether she was legally responsible for her actions. Prosecutors argue that Clancy deliberately planned the killings, arranged for her husband, Patrick, to leave the house, and understood that what she was doing was wrong. Her attorneys contend that she was experiencing postpartum psychosis , even though she was never diagnosed with it, compounded by severe sleep disruption, mental-health struggles, and numerous psychiatric medications, and should be found not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility, or, in other words, due to insanity at the time of the murders. After nearly six weeks of testimony involving more than 80 witnesses and 300 exhibits, both sides delivered closing arguments on August 27 , and the case went to the jury. Jurors are considering several possible outcomes, including first- or second-degree murder, manslaughter, or a finding that Clancy was not criminally responsible because of mental illness. The latest update is that, after more than 17 hours of deliberations across four days, the jury informed Judge William Sullivan on September 1 that it could not reach a unanimous verdict . The judge instructed the jurors to keep trying, but they ended the day still deadlocked and were scheduled to resume deliberations on September 2 . No verdict has been reached; if the impasse continues, the judge could eventually declare a mistrial. In the midst of all of this, the internet has erupted with heated debates about whether this mother should receive empathy and compassion, or whether she should be punished swiftly and forever branded as nothing more than a violent murderer. Everything has trickled down from TikTok, where multiple trends have emerged in which women film themselves crying or enraged, edited with overly emotional background music, with a message such as " Same, Lindsay. " They'll post videos of themselves in a fit of rage, throwing ice into a bathtub, set against the audio of Lindsay's defense attorney reading an excerpt of her diary during the trial. Thousands of Instagram Reels contain extensive explanations as to why Lindsay is part of the "feminine reawakening" and how she represents the struggle that so many mothers endure, silently and unfairly. "We are all Lindsay" was the main message. "We are all Lindsay" was the main message. The outpouring of support didn't stop online, though. Hundreds of women showed up to the courthouse wearing pink , carrying signs of support and shouting words of encouragement: "We love you, Lindsay!" There was no question about it. Lindsay had become a hero for these women. Street interviews with various people across the country reveal the same. Lindsay was sleep-deprived, overworked, and underserved by her husband and community. It's completely understandable that she would wind up strangling her three children because she was lacking the support she really needed from doctors. One could argue that there is room for empathy for Lindsay in regards to her mental health struggles. But that is a very different thing than making a martyr out of her and participating in a huge online movement in which women prop her up as a representative for mothers everywhere. However, when you take a step back and look at these responses on social media, it becomes clear that none of these Lindsay Clancy supporters did anything to show solidarity with the young Iryna Zarutska , the victim of one of the most tragic, senseless murders we have seen in recent years. On August 22, 2025, 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska was fatally stabbed while riding Charlotte, North Carolina's Lynx Blue Line home from work at a pizzeria. Zarutska had fled Ukraine with her family following Russia's invasion and was building a life for herself in the United States. Surveillance footage showed her sitting in front of a stranger, career criminal Decarlos Brown Jr., who attacked her from behind without warning, stabbing her three times. She bled out alone, with no help from any bystanders, and she was pronounced dead at the scene. Brown was arrested on the train platform and charged with first-degree murder, along with a federal mass-transit violence offense . Authorities have not identified a personal connection or motive; it was nothing more than a random act of violence against a beautiful, innocent woman. This story went viral last year, not because feminists everywhere were outraged and demanded justice. Not because actors and celebrities brought awareness to the crime, like they do with issues they claim to be passionate about. It went viral because citizens and independent journalists would not let the story die. We all expressed outrage and horror over this murder, partly due to the fact that Brown was roaming free even though he had been convicted of three felonies and had proven that he was a violent individual. But because so-called progressive judges and prosecutors believe that repeat offenders should be rehabilitated rather than properly punished, he was free to violently kill Iryna on a train. Iryna would have been the perfect victim to choose as the representative for young women everywhere. She was beautiful, vibrant, and working hard to build a life for herself after fleeing a war-torn country. She did nothing wrong. She was commuting home and minding her own business. She really could have been any of us. All of the women who weep publicly for Lindsay and defend her actions had nothing to say about Iryna. But all of the women who weep publicly for Lindsay and defend her actions had nothing to say about Iryna. They refused to stand in solidarity with her because it meant they would have to make a black man the villain, even though he was a sick murderer. It didn't fit their narrative, and so they ignored the death of a woman who actually deserved our support and grief. We live in such a backwards world that a young, innocent woman like Iryna is forgotten while a mother who strangled her own children is given a whole movement of undying support. It feels more and more like our society is upside down, where right is wrong and wrong is right. A judge recently deemed Iryna's murderer incompetent to stand trial ; instead of being sent to prison for his brutal crime, the judge ordered that he spend four months in a prison medical facility to restore his competency. Why is it that Decarlos Brown and Lindsay Clancy receive more empathy and compassion from the public and the legal system than Iryna Zarutska and the Clancy children who were strangled to death? The women who wore pink and screamed in support of Lindsay didn't protest on behalf of Iryna, and that's because they could not care less about women who are real victims of violence or neglect. They only care about the popular trends that sweep TikTok, the ones that they can participate in to make it look like they care. But at the end of the day, appearance is the only thing that matters to them. The women who are actually harmed and killed don't even cross their mind.]]></content:encoded>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Everything You Should Know About Sterling Point’s Breakout Star, Ella Rubin]]></title>
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      <dc:creator>Emily Osment Davis</dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[The new Gen Z hit show has put its lead star on the map, and for good reason.]]></description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[It was New York City in the summer of 2013. Manhattan was sweltering. Even still, it didn't zap her energy. She expertly wove through a scattered sea of fast-moving locals and paused tourists checking their maps. The air carried a mix of sounds and smells: the aromas of food-truck gyros and cigarettes, while the Alicia Keys hook every Midtown pedicab was blasting that summer rang out from their sound systems. Wielding a metal briefcase, the young woman hopped from audition to audition, determined to book the acting role that would establish her as a serious thespian. Her name: Ella Rubin. Her age: 11 years old. And based on her raw talent, she was bound to achieve stardom, no matter what… briefcase or not. Who is she? Born in 2001 and raised on New York's Upper West Side, Ella Rubin had no intention of becoming a child actress, despite being surrounded by them. Until one day, when her best friend convinced her to participate in an after-school musical, Seussical. That was all it took. Ella was hooked. And from the start, people took notice. An acting agent discovered her , and Ella went from an everyday elementary schooler to a girl with a briefcase booking auditions. Her career No time was wasted. Rubin's professional career began early. At 11, she made her film debut alongside acting heavyweights. Her first film was The Rewrite . British icon Hugh Grant led the cast, while Marisa Tomei played her mother. What a way to begin! Rubin made an impression. For her Broadway debut, she rejoined Tomei. This time, it was for an opportunity every actor dreams about, performing a Tennessee Williams play. She co-starred in The Rose Tattoo . Ella claims Broadway changed her. It gave her a more mature understanding of how to lock in and really work. "I snapped into a new gear and a new understanding of work and how to work." Ella had other noteworthy acting roles like Hulu's The Girl from Plainville and Netflix's The Chair , but nothing could prepare her for the avalanche of success she was about to experience with her latest project. Sterling Point In Ella Rubin's career, there have been many successes, but none as seismic as her role as neurotic New Yorker Annie Jacobson. You could say Rubin's career can be neatly categorized as pre- Sterling Point and post- Sterling Point . This year, Prime Video released the coming-of-age teen drama to much fanfare. It focuses on a big-city sibling duo, twins Annie and Connor Jacobson, who unexpectedly inherit a remote Canadian property through their grandfather's will. Their arrival brings long-buried family secrets to the surface, including a sister they never knew they had. The series explores the newfound bonds between siblings who were kept apart for a lifetime, along with the friendships, romance, and other connections they form along the way. "I was excited to explore the trope of the Type A neurotic girl and to turn it on its head a little," explained Rubin. "People who have it all together famously do not have it all together." The actress loved the opportunity to play someone familiar: a driven New Yorker who is a little messy beneath the surface and deeply understands the bonds of sisterhood. "Every time I had an emotional scene regarding sisterhood, my sister was at the front of my mind … To put sisters onscreen is such a smart way to show love." Rubin believes it was this role, this show, and especially its creator, Megan Park , that helped her come into her own. Park has said she wanted a series that elevated Gen Z and depicted them honestly. In her own words, she rides "so f—ing hard for Gen Z." And Ella certainly can attest to that. Her throwback look The internet cannot get enough of Ella Rubin's natural beauty and vintage aesthetic. Equally discussed, if not more so, are her striking looks. People online are losing their minds over her resemblance to some of the biggest screen stars of the ’90s and 2000s. They're calling Ella a visual mashup of Anne Hathaway, Julia Roberts, and Rachel Weisz. Some, including her own Sterling Point creator , say she's reminiscent of Sandra Bullock. So, what do you get when you combine an Anne Hathaway profile with a Julia Roberts smile, Rachel Weisz's brunette beauty, and Sandra Bullock energy? Well, according to some, the "most beautiful woman in the world." "It's like all the pretty girls from 90s romantic comedies had a daughter," one online fan remarked. People are reveling in Ella Rubin's embrace of her natural, wild curls. "I will not spend money on a haircut. I cut my own hair. Wavy, curly hair is very forgiving when you hack into it the wrong way." It's this love of letting her curls all hang out that has captured people's attention. Don't be surprised if her relaxed, cottagecore curls become one of the year's most copied beauty looks. There are already how-to articles! Her biggest pet peeve Ella wants people to stop pretending they don't care. "Death to nonchalance … Why is it not cool to try or to desire? I want to see yearners onscreen." We couldn't agree more! Favorite movies Rubin loves Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha , co-written by and starring Greta Gerwig, which comes as no surprise considering it focuses on a young aspiring creative woman in New York City. She also loves the massively funny dog-show mockumentary, Christopher Guest's Best in Show . She credits that movie with jolting her "awake to what comedy was." And finally, and undoubtedly one of the coolest facts about Rubin, she wrote a 25-page manifesto as a college paper on Legally Blonde . Her thesis explored how the movie argues that a woman's intellect and femininity are not mutually exclusive. Agreed! As Elle Woods would say, people who think otherwise are "seriously disturbed." From briefcase to breakout For Ella Rubin, Sterling Point feels less like an overnight arrival than the moment a decade of work finally caught up with her. The New York kid with the metal briefcase has become a leading actress. She may have the face of a classic movie star, but her insistence on sincerity, messiness, and "yearning" makes her feel distinctly of the moment. And if Sterling Point is her breakout, it looks very much like she is only getting started.]]></content:encoded>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Only Jacket You Need Between Now and October]]></title>
      <link>https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/the-only-jacket-you-need-between-now-and-october</link>
      <dc:creator>Anna Hartman</dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[Cape coats are back in trench, utility, and knit silhouettes, with embroidery, lace, and plaid doing the heavy lifting. Here are our favorites. ]]></description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[There is a stretch of the calendar between late August through early October where nothing in your closet seems to be the correct choice. It's 85 degrees at noon and 55 by the time you leave dinner. A real coat is absurd, a cardigan is almost never enough, and you end up carrying something you never put on. The cape coat is the answer to that specific problem, and it's back this season in the silhouettes that actually work: the trench and the utility jacket, and the cozy knit. All of these options give you the drape and the coverage without the weight and look deliberate over a slip dress or a white tee and jeans. What's making them feel new is the detailing. Embroidery running down the panels, cutwork and lace along the hem, and plaid in the kind of muted heritage colorways that read as expensive rather than lumberjack. These aren't the shapeless capes of a few years ago. The tailoring is sharper, the fabrics are better, and the trench-inspired versions in particular have real structure through the shoulder. It's also the rare transitional piece that doesn't expire in November. Layer it over a chunky sweater and it carries straight through to the cold. Here are the cape coats we're eyeing right now. This article may contain affiliate links or paid partnerships. We may earn a commission or compensation at no extra cost to you. All products are chosen independently by our editorial team and reflect our genuine recommendations.]]></content:encoded>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Style</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[5 Fall Trend Predictions From a Personal Stylist]]></title>
      <link>https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/5-fall-trend-predictions-from-a-personal-stylist</link>
      <dc:creator>Elson Stewart</dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[Fall's biggest trends are unusually easy to wear this year. Here's how to tell which ones are genuinely a good fit for you.]]></description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[There's a certain magnetism that draws me into trend forecasting each season. I've always liked puzzles and pattern-spotting, and trend predicting feels like a less gamified version of that. I get so excited to look at content from Copenhagen Fashion Week (my favorite of the fashion weeks!) to see what the Scandinavian girls are wearing each season. I find that attendees of CPHFW are on the precipice of what I start to see more and more in the States shortly thereafter, so it's always my mission to identify patterns from Scandi street style that will eventually make their way across the pond. The level of creativity and confidence these girls have is truly unmatched. The best news about fall '26 trends is that the ones we'll see this season are, in my opinion, easily wearable. There is a certain letdown when I see trends that I know my clients will want no part in (looking at you, "no pants" trend), so it was a relief to see some of this year's patterns seem easily accessible to the everyday girl trying to look current. So let's chat trend predictions, but also, and perhaps more importantly, how to decide if you want to partake or not. As a personal stylist, I've seen one too many clients get overwhelmed by trends, spend all their money on trend-forward pieces, and then donate those items by the same time next year because they didn't align with their true personal style. Most people want to look current, and that's not a bad desire at all, but I challenge my clients to also consider what patterns they see in their own style, and if a trend fits into those consistencies. For example, for someone who mostly wears neutrals, adding in turquoise may feel a bit out of left field. But incorporating some animal print feels more natural and accessible—a value-add to what they're already comfortable with. For the five top trends we're clocking, we're also sharing practical ways to incorporate that piece into your existing wardrobe and dressing patterns. This article may contain affiliate links or paid partnerships. We may earn a commission or compensation at no extra cost to you. All products are chosen independently by our editorial team and reflect our genuine recommendations. Turquoise Temptation I saw pops of turquoise on so many of my favorite influencers at Copenhagen Fashion Week, and it immediately felt like an unexpected but also somehow expected evolution of last year's Western-inspired obsession. Last year, fringe, suede, and oversized belt buckles were everywhere, and honestly, they still are. In my stylist opinion, fringe and suede are classics and shouldn't necessarily be considered "trendy," but the emergence of turquoise, from street style at CPHFW to new collections from brands like Jennifer Behr , feels like a fresh extension of this love affair with Western style. What I love about turquoise, though, is that it doesn't have to feel overtly Western if that's not your vibe. It works just as well as a pop of color in a simple cardigan as it does in a pair of seriously cowboy-esque statement earrings. Best For: The girl who loves statement earrings or a colorful wardrobe. Styling Tips: Swap your standard cream or black silk going-out top for turquoise to add an unexpected pop of color. It pairs especially well with yellow, animal print, red, and purple. Or, add a turquoise statement necklace to your jewelry rotation to instantly spice up a monochrome outfit. & Other Stories Mohair-Blend Brushed Cardigan, $129 Jennifer Behr Aneira Earrings, $498 Belk Brahmin Small Mona Bag, $207 Bandana Bonanza Another extension of the Western theme is bandana print. It's everywhere. I've seen it at Madewell and Aviator Nation as well as from designer brands like Prada and Miu Miu. I love that brands are making a more traditional print feel fresh with modern silhouettes like this Nili Lotan silk top . The rise of this traditional print feels like it contributes to the larger breaking away from sleek minimalism. I couldn't escape content surrounding the brand Call It By Your Name this summer, a brand that feels like an ode to the bandana. The return of the bandana feels like a broader beckoning to Americana, vintage, locally sourced, and the art of giving a secondhand item a new lease on life. Best For: Anyone, especially as an accessory because the print comes in virtually all colors and styles. You can get bandana-printed sweatpants as easily as an actual bandana. Styling Tips: If you're hesitant to take the plunge but are bandana-curious, try tying a bandana on your bag or grabbing a chic bag from Call It By Your Name , use it for a while, and see if it feels authentic to you before investing further. GUEST IN RESIDENCE The Wild Rag Cotton and Silk-blend Jacquard Scarf, $145 Call It By Your Name Seau Bag Vintage Red / Real Red, $210 We The Free Good Luck Printed Barrel Jeans, $128 Hair Apparent When I saw searches for "how to tie a bandana in your hair" and related terms had jumped 200–250%, I knew I was onto something with the hair accessory trend I'd been noticing. More and more, consumers seem to be rediscovering the oft-overlooked art of adorning their hair. We've spent the past few years piling on anklets, stacking earrings, and embracing increasingly statement jewelry, so it feels only natural that hair would be the next frontier for maximalists obsessed with accessorizing. I'm seeing everything from head scarves to rhinestones meticulously placed throughout an extravagant hairstyle. Even the simplest pop of a metallic ponytail cuff can add interest to an otherwise simple look. Best For: Anyone! This is by far the most accessible of the trends. It could not be easier to pop in a metallic claw clip or a funky ponytail cuff for an instantly elevated look. Styling Tips: Look at the brand Lelet NY , the queen of hair accessory brands. From sculptural pieces to simple ponytail cuffs, they provide the perfect jumping-off point for women wanting to expand their hair accessory collections. Lelet Esme Crochet Bandana, $168 Lelet Vega Clip Set of 3, $188 Anthropologie Textured Metal Hair Clips, Set of 5, $34 Cotswolds Countryside Grandma's curtains are so back. The tapestry print craze has hit hard, and it's part of the bigger shift away from quiet luxury and toward pieces that feel personal, inherited, and storied. I'm seeing tassels, florals in muted tones, and really anything that you could imagine seeing in your grandmother's house on a couch or a curtain take center stage. However, this trend feels less about the print itself and more aligned with the continued breaking away from minimalism and quiet luxury. Best For: Girls who gravitate toward plaid or houndstooth and want to freshen up that pattern in their closet. A funky tapestry print blazer is easily swapped for your beloved plaid one. Styling Tips: Starting with a bag or statement top to pair with your favorite jeans feels easiest here. Tessa Fay , a clothing brand based in Nashville, is the literal embodiment of this trend as she started her career by making clothes out of her grandma's curtains. Avec Les Filles Floral Brocade Pleated Mini Skirt, $88 Reformation Matilda Jacket, $428 ASOS LUXE Barrel Leg Pants in Jacquard, $129 Get Wild I'm happiest to report that animal print is not going anywhere, zebra in particular. According to Google Trends, searches for zebra print are up 80% vs. the same period last year. I've loved animal print since I was a little girl and I truly believe that it is a neutral and shouldn't even be considered a trend. However, what I do view as more of a trend is the expansion beyond the typical prints and patterns of cheetah, zebra, and snake, into more unique ones like Bambi, cow, and Dalmatian. Best For: Girls with a slightly edgy style. Perfect also for someone with a mostly neutral wardrobe, adding animal print is an easy way to add interest without adding unnecessary color. Styling Tips: Start small with a bag or shoe. I personally would not buy anything that's not calf hair or sometimes canvas in an animal print accessory. I think the printed-on look can very easily look cheap and unpolished. Veronica Beard Calf Hair Prism Bag, $375 Peppermayo Lirena Fitted Zebra Coat, $165 Margaux The Fonteyn, $375 What's most important to consider when digesting any content related to trends is how that new piece is actually going to complement your existing wardrobe. Trend chasing and mass adopting are not the goal; rather, it's understanding which pieces genuinely add value to your closet, while accepting the fact that you can admire from afar without explicitly partaking. Every piece you bring into your wardrobe should serve a purpose. Ask yourself: "Does this feel authentically me, or can I see myself putting this in the donation pile this time next year?" Other helpful and more practical prompts include thinking about how you would actually style turquoise or animal print in your everyday looks. Don't underestimate the power of spending even just a few dollars on a trend to make your look more interesting. A $3 bandana from your local thrift store can go a long way to update your look without draining your wallet. At the end of the day, the goal isn't to "trendmaxx"; it's to develop the self-trust to determine which ones are worth making your own.]]></content:encoded>
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      <title><![CDATA[You Don't Have a Village Because You're a Flake]]></title>
      <link>https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/the-real-reason-you-dont-have-a-village</link>
      <dc:creator> Aly Dee</dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[If you are a mother who has spent at least five minutes on social media, you've heard of "The Village." You know the one. ]]></description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[The one we're all missing and so desperately need, and if only we had this mythical village, all our maternal problems would be solved. If we had a village of our own, we could be the better mothers we see ourselves stunted and prevented from becoming due to its lack. If only we had a "village." I am here to tell you, as an expecting mother of two who has a village of dozens, precisely why most mothers today do not. Most mothers are bad villagers. Their behavior is such that having them as part of a village would be a liability to group cohesion and success. To invite them into a village would be to destroy the village, and the modern mother's biggest offense barring her from village entry is herself. Her worst quality is that she is a flake. What Does a Village Do? A village provides a mother support in her lowest of lows and her highest of highs, whether that season be postpartum or otherwise. I have seen it firsthand, but this reward does not come without a cost. The village women who serve one another do not necessarily do so out of a desire for reciprocity, because that would mean their good deeds are transactional. However, there is the reality that a long-term lack of service without a reasonable explanation as to why you cannot help others in a group heavily focused on serving others will lead the village women to consider among themselves what the state of your character is. You are consistently demonstrating a lack of behavior that holds the group together, which is service. I would not seek to join a village if you are not a selfless person in this season of your life. It would be like trying to join a group of writers, yet never sitting down and writing pieces yourself for your peers to review, and never taking the time to edit the writings of others. You are violating the fundamental principle of the group: to write. When you fail to serve in a village, you are violating the fundamental principle of the group: to serve women. By women, I mean serving women of all ages. Service is not limited to novice or veteran members of the group. You cannot serve anyone if no one can count on you to show up. In a village, a novice member is someone who is temporally new or someone who is a maiden. For example, a Mom of Many who has just recently expressed an interest in joining the existing village or a young bachelorette who has an appreciation for womanhood, marriage, and motherhood. A veteran member might be a Mom of Many who has been married for several years, may be older, and has been in the village for a few years. These women of differing demographics and life stages are still called to serve one another in a village. A veteran member may do lunch in her home with a novice and chat with her about marriage and motherhood, and the novice can provide a young, vibrant perspective and fresh outlook on life that a veteran sorely needs. Young women and older women of a village pour into one another, even if they do not have everything in common. A novice might bring a meal to a postpartum married mother while the postpartum married mother has a chat with her about physical recovery. Both serve one another, and both gain from one another. As previously mentioned, a village is held together by service, but service requires something even more basic: reliability. You cannot serve anyone if no one can count on you to show up. This is where the modern woman runs into trouble. What Is a Good Villager? First and foremost, a good villager shows up. You cannot establish bonds, trust, and long-term relationships with other women if you make yourself scarce. There is no substitution for giving someone your time. Time is our most depreciating asset, which makes it our most valuable asset. The true cost of a village is your time. This is also why it is so difficult for friendships to thrive in modernity. We do not spend enough time in physical proximity with one another. If someone is a flake, there is no way they will be able to integrate into an existing village of women. A good villager takes the time to go through the integration process of the group. She doesn't ask first what the village can do for her, but rather she asks what she can do for the village. Out of a pure desire for love and companionship, she looks to fill in the gaps of the group. She asks, "What are they missing that I can provide according to my talents and skills?" Then, she exercises conscientiousness in completing her acts of service. They don't stay theorized in her mind or in group discussions. They become deeds performed in reality. A good villager does. Her word is her promise. There is no substitution for giving someone your time. A good villager does not need to be endlessly available. She does not have to say yes to every request, attend every gathering, cook every postpartum meal, babysit every child, or become the communal workhorse. Women have husbands, children, jobs, pregnancies, illnesses, aging parents, financial limitations, and seasons where they simply do not have much to give. A good villager knows her limitations and is honest about them. She is a direct, trustworthy communicator. If she is bringing you dinner Tuesday, dinner arrives Tuesday. If she cannot bring dinner Tuesday, she tells you as soon as she knows. If she commits to watching your children for a few hours so you can go to an appointment, you do not spend the morning wondering whether she's going to come through or not. Reliability has become a rare social virtue. Modern mothers have normalized treating plans as tentative until the moment they occur. Invitations are answered with "maybe" without commentary as to why commitment is not possible. In the privacy of their minds, women allow themselves an invisible escape hatch in case something more appealing comes along. Then we wonder why we do not have community. A community cannot survive if most members behave this way. A village requires some degree of inconvenience because other human beings are inherently inconvenient. Babies arrive when they arrive. Women miscarry without consulting your calendar. A postpartum mother may need dinner during the week you are tired. Your friend may need someone to watch her toddler when you would rather spend Saturday morning in your pajamas. This is the cost of knowing and loving other people. The benefit is that when you are the one bleeding, grieving, exhausted, overwhelmed, newly postpartum, frightened, lonely, or simply unable to carry your normal load, there are women around you who know how to show up because showing up is already part of the culture you built together. You do not magically acquire these women when you become the person in need. You acquire them slowly by becoming one of them. You become a villager, then you get your village. What Is a Flake? A flake is someone you can't count on. If she says she's coming, you know more likely than not she will text you the morning of with some excuse as to why she can't. Obviously, life happens, and there will be numerous reasons why people inevitably cancel, but if you are canceling more than you are completing obligations you agreed to and you are frequently canceling at the last minute, you are a flake. You are not reliable, and you are not dependable. Most people you interact with will conclude your word is not good and eventually stop inviting you to events altogether. They will stop asking you for help. They will also eventually stop offering you help. That is not necessarily because they are transactional individuals. They will stop offering you help because they likely have other friends who pour into their lives more. It is prudent to prioritize friendships based on mutual interest; otherwise, we would never get around to forming deep bonds and the sort of friendships that stand the test of time. If someone you are flaking on has others passionate about loving them and waiting to pour into their lives, they will naturally gravitate toward them and away from you. A flake is someone whose desire to serve others is based on her emotions. She volunteers enthusiastically and disappears when the enthusiasm wears off. She says, "Let me know if you need anything!" but becomes mysteriously difficult to reach when someone actually needs something. She loves the idea of community considerably more than the obligations of community. This woman may desperately want a village. She may repost content about villages, lament that mothers were never meant to do this alone, and sincerely believe modern motherhood has become unnecessarily isolating. And she would be completely correct in declaring modern motherhood is unnecessarily isolating. However, she will do absolutely nothing to change the state of modern motherhood in reality. Therefore, she will perpetuate the very thing she claims mothers lack because she is a flake. She loves the idea of community considerably more than the obligations of community. A village cannot be built of women who all want to be rescued while simultaneously desiring to never be inconvenienced. That is the uncomfortable part of the village discussion that is missing from social media. Everyone discusses what the village is supposed to give the mother. Fewer people discuss what the mother owes the village. The village is supposed to bring you food postpartum. Who did you bring food to? The village is supposed to watch your children when you are overwhelmed. Whose children have you watched? The village is supposed to do a wellness check when you disappear. Who have you checked on that has seemingly faded into the background? The village is supposed to celebrate your pregnancy, remember your birthday, pray for your marriage, visit you after birth, listen when you are struggling, and notice when something is wrong. Whose pregnancy did you celebrate? Whose marriage did you pray for? Whose baby did you visit? Whose suffering did you make room for when it was inconvenient? Asking these questions is not meant to produce a transactional narrative. The point is to inform flakes that people can tell when you do not love them well. Love that exists only in sentiment but rarely manifests in action is of little use to a village. It says, "I may care about you, but I am not conscientious enough to reliably act on that care." It says, "My immediate comfort routinely takes priority over my commitments to you." Everyone is busy. Every adult has responsibilities. A cornerstone in the foundation of a village is understanding this: my busyness is not an excuse to withdraw love and service from others. A good villager makes time, even though we are all short on time. If every villager took more than she gave, there would be nothing left for the village to provide. How Can I Stop Being a Flake? 1. Stop saying yes when you mean maybe There is more dignity in telling someone, "I don't think I can make it because bandwidth is low for me this week due to my other obligations." When you have shown up enough times for your fellow villagers, you build what is called "equity." People understand you would ordinarily make time for them if you had it, but you have more pressing obligations to tend to. They respect when you say no and don't ask for further explanation because they know you're not going to flake for an arbitrary reason. 2. Treat your commitments as obligations rather than aspirations. Once you tell another person you will do something, your decision affects someone else's life. Put it on your calendar. Set a reminder. Prepare the night before. Leave enough time to get there. Do the boring logistical work required to become someone whose word has weight. And you might be thinking to yourself, "Well, what do I do if something actually DOES come up?" Text to cancel as soon as you can. Most people have their phones set on "Do Not Disturb" at night unless they have work that requires a variety of contacts to have them on call. If you wake up at 3 a.m. to a baby who is vomiting out of nowhere, 3 a.m. is a fine time to send a text. Moms will understand the 3 a.m. text. 3. Become comfortable with mild inconvenience. Real friendship means putting pants on when you would rather stay home. Sometimes it means loading up your children into the car when you would rather not. It is easier not to, after all! Sometimes it means making twice as much dinner so half can go into an aluminum pan for a postpartum mother. Doubling dinner requires having the forethought of purchasing twice the amount of ingredients alongside disposable containers. This requires cognitive effort as well as physical effort from potentially doubling your time in the kitchen. Do it anyway. If you want to be loved well, you must first love others well. There is a mom with more children than you making the time to cook for a postpartum friend. Where there is a will, there is a way. You will survive. 4. Serve before you desperately need to be served. Don't wait until pregnancy, postpartum, illness, or crisis to realize relationships have practical value. Work on your relational equity with your friends when life is calm because it will provide you the bandwidth required to serve others. Invite them into your home even when it is imperfect. Bring the meal. Hold the baby (if mom needs hands-on help). Help clean the kitchen. Send the thank-you card. Make introductions between women you think would enjoy one another. Become useful to the people you love. 5. Understand that becoming a good villager takes time. If you are a flake, you're probably low in conscientiousness and have been at this bad habit for a long time. If you have been flaking on others for years, it may take you years to become a dependable person and a good villager. That's the nature of bad habits. They're hard to kick, and we've spent years of our lives enjoying the slothfulness of them. We have bad habits because they're easy to keep. It's easy to send the last-minute cancellation text. It's harder to wake up an hour early, shower, get your clothes on, and show up for a friend. You also cannot force intimacy in a friendship. Women don't like being love-bombed by men, and this principle applies to other women too. If you come on too strong, it can come across as if you are trying to force something or have ulterior motives. Take your time building up your friendships. Trust accumulates through hundreds of small interactions in which people demonstrate their character to one another. Over time, a pattern begins to form: You show up. She shows up. You help her. She helps someone else. Someone helps you. Years pass. Babies are born. That newborn you held is now a preteen. Marriages experience trials. People move, struggle, celebrate, grieve, recover, and return. Then one day you look around and realize the mythical village everyone keeps talking about is standing in your kitchen. The smell of a comfort meal is in the air. Chatter is bouncing off the walls in your home. Smiles and glances are exchanged. You realize the village was never a myth. It was built, brick by brick, and you laid some of those bricks yourself.]]></content:encoded>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Pop Music Is Entering Its Classy Girl Era]]></title>
      <link>https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/pop-music-is-entering-its-classy-girl-era</link>
      <dc:creator>Meredith Evans</dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[Pop has long demanded hypersexuality from its female performers. Now, some of the most exciting women in music are moving in the opposite direction.]]></description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[RAYE commands the stage in glittering gowns with an orchestra behind her. Olivia Dean favors polished silhouettes and the warmth of a classic soul singer. Sienna Spiro has made towering bouffants and 1960s minidresses part of her signature, while Laufey has introduced a generation of young women to orchestral jazz-pop, sweeping ball gowns, and unabashed romance. They belong to different genres, but they represent the same welcome shift. A lot of female performers today are routinely expected to reveal more, provoke more, and turn their private lives into public entertainment. However, these women are proving that glamour does not have to mean exposure. Their appeal comes from strong voices, romantic music, beautiful clothes, and the confidence to be feminine without making sexuality the center of everything. Welcome to the classy girl pop era. Pop Is Ready for Big Voices Again RAYE is probably the most theatrical example of the shift. She sings with the force of someone who spent years being told to make herself more commercially manageable and has finally been given the freedom to do whatever she wants. After separating from her former record label and releasing music independently, she stopped trying to squeeze herself into one marketable identity. Her 2023 debut album, My 21st Century Blues , moved between jazz, R&B, dance music, hip-hop, and blues while addressing sexual violence, addiction, body image, and the music industry’s treatment of young women. Her second album, This Music May Contain Hope , is even more ambitious. The 17-track record is divided into seasons and moves through big-band drama, orchestral pop, gospel, and hip-hop. RAYE described it to Apple Music as music intended to help people through difficult periods of life. The album does not pretend that hope arrives cleanly. RAYE has been honest about depression, addiction, and reaching a point at which she was no longer sure she wanted to live. Faith became part of the way she made it through. The result is music about survival that sounds enormous because the experiences behind it were enormous. The appeal of classy girl pop stretches across genres. Olivia Dean brings warmth and emotional maturity. The women leading this shift know how to create a spectacle, but the spectacle begins with what they can actually do. RAYE performs with orchestras and choirs because her voice can rise above them. Sienna Spiro can hold an audience without elaborate choreography, while Olivia Dean knows when to pull back and allow the meaning of a lyric to settle. Laufey builds lush arrangements around jazz-inspired vocals. Their success is a reminder that audiences still respond to singers who can truly sing. Costume changes, dancers, and stage effects can add to a performance, but they cannot replace a recognizable voice or the ability to communicate emotion. These women do not need manufactured controversy, overtly sexual performances, or flawless digital production to hold people’s attention. Their voices and presence are enough. Femininity Without Constant Sexual Display Fashion is an important part of this movement. The gowns, bouffants, immaculate makeup, vintage silhouettes, and carefully arranged stages work because they complement the richness of the music. Pop culture often treats femininity and sexual availability as though they are interchangeable. A woman can wear a beautiful dress, perform a love song, and enjoy being admired without presenting herself as sexually accessible. The women associated with classy girl pop understand that distinction. Even when their looks are sensual, sexuality remains one part of a larger identity rather than the entire product being sold. This does not make them morally superior to women who prefer more revealing performances, nor does it require every singer to dress modestly. It simply gives female artists another path to relevance. Public sexual expression has been presented as the boldest form of empowerment for so long that restraint can now feel unexpectedly rebellious. Privacy Is Becoming Glamorous Again Classy girl pop also rejects the expectation that audiences must have unlimited access to a woman before they will care about her work . Modern celebrity encourages singers to post constantly, explain every lyric, film their relationships, and turn personal pain into content. Sienna Spiro’s recognizable image tells us who she is artistically without making every detail of her life available for consumption. Olivia Dean writes openly about love while maintaining a sense of composure that prevents vulnerability from becoming spectacle. That separation allows the music to remain the focus. Listeners are invited to pay attention to the voice, writing, and performance rather than searching for clues about an ex-boyfriend or waiting for the next public breakdown. In an industry built around oversharing, a little distance can create far more intrigue than another confessional livestream. Classy girl pop offers an alternative for women who want glamour without constant exposure, romance without irony, and attention rooted in ability rather than controversy. These singers have made polish feel exciting again. They dress as though the occasion matters and perform as though the music deserves our full attention.]]></content:encoded>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Culture</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[The 30-Day Sex Challenge: How to Improve Your Marriage in One Month]]></title>
      <link>https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/the-30-day-sex-challenge-how-to-improve-your-marriage-in-one-month</link>
      <dc:creator>Artemisia Leclair</dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[Humans may not "need" sex, but marriages do.]]></description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Maybe you miss having chemistry, romance, and butterflies, or maybe you just really enjoy sex and are looking for ways to have even more fun with your husband. Either way, whatever end of the spectrum you fall on, you're reading this because you want to level up your marriage, and sex seems like a surprisingly easy (and fun) way to do that. And you're right. Before the challenge itself, though, it's worth asking a simple question: Does sex actually make marriages happier? Or do happier marriages simply have more sex? The answer, unsurprisingly, is a bit of both. Researchers consistently find that sexual satisfaction and marital satisfaction reinforce one another. Couples who report satisfying sex lives also tend to report stronger emotional intimacy, better communication, greater relationship stability, and higher overall happiness. At the same time, emotional intimacy outside the bedroom often improves the intimacy inside it. Researchers consistently find that sexual satisfaction and marital satisfaction reinforce one another. Rather than existing within separate domains, sex and marriage form a feedback loop, with each strengthening the other over time. That's why, for this challenge, you aren't going to wait until you "feel more connected" before prioritizing sex. Though, if you feel your marriage has legitimate structural issues that need to be addressed before resuming intimacy, this challenge is not for you. However, most couples generally fall into the category where both people mean well and have good intent, but life simply got in the way and priorities became misaligned. So, instead of talking about missed opportunities and accidental disconnect to death, this challenge is flipping the script on modern-day therapy-speak and following what relationship data has all but proven for decades: physical intimacy, not beating dead horses, is what creates connection. First Things First There are some things you'll need to commit to before starting this challenge. Radical change means radical changes. And you'll only get out what you put in, so be prepared. This isn't a challenge where you can just go through the motions and still expect results. You have to mean it. Bedroom Bootcamp Here's a quick checklist of all the things you will need to commit to for this challenge: NO PHONES IN BED (move chargers across the room if you have to) NO TV IN THE BEDROOM NO PORN NO MASTURBATION/TOYS WATCH THE SUNRISE EVERY MORNING GET 8 TO 9 HOURS OF SLEEP PER NIGHT EXERCISE AT LEAST 30 MINUTES A DAY Now, let's go over the science behind your new protocol. Couples who have a TV in their bedroom report having less sex than those who don't. Between 40 and 60% of partnered adults say they are sometimes bothered by how often their partner is on the phone, and 51% say their partner is "often or sometimes" distracted by their phone when they are trying to talk. A 2021 study found that "technoference" (computer, phone, TV, tablet use during couple time) is strongly linked with lower relationship and sexual satisfaction. Additionally, a smartphone close to the bed has been shown to decrease the amount and quality of your sleep through multiple mechanisms, such as increased alertness, later bedtimes, and taking longer to fall asleep. All of this is important because female libido, performance, and sexual activity are closely tied to sleep. In a 14-day study of 171 women , it was found that longer sleep time predicted greater next-day sexual desire, and each additional hour of sleep was linked to a 14% higher likelihood of sex. A separate study found that poor sleep quality was associated with significantly higher odds of sexual dysfunction, and good sleep quality was associated with sexual activity the following day. You can't talk yourself into wanting sex. But you can work for it. So, what can be done? After removing all electronics from your bedroom (or at least away from the bed), the best way to heal your circadian rhythm that's been harmed by chronic nighttime screen use is to watch the sunrise. Morning light exposure has been shown to improve sleep quality and, in some cases, increase total sleep duration. So, this needs to become a long-term habit, not just a quick fix. It's your body's natural design for a reason, and it needs to become a health ritual not only for your sex life but for your personal health as well. While you're out watching the sunrise for 10 to 30 minutes, you might as well get your workout in. A 2026 systematic review and meta-analysis concluded that exercise positively affected women's sexual function across domains such as desire, arousal, lubrication, orgasm, satisfaction, and pain. And while the immediate, same-day benefits of exercise are related to improvements in physiological arousal, the benefits of long-term practice are systemic. The endocrine, cardiovascular, and nervous systems that you train to generate optimum performance work together to give you your best orgasms ever. All that being said, a circadian reset, proper sleep hygiene, and exercise will do far more for female libido and sexual performance than any intimacy exercise a therapist could recommend. You can't talk your body into good health and balanced hormones. You generally can't talk yourself into wanting sex. But you can work for it. Bridal Bedroom Reset Now on to the fun part. You are going to re-sexify your bedroom and get set up to ritualize sex. Research suggests that individuals who view sex as sacred have the best sex. Specifically, females who view sex as sacred have higher rates of sexual satisfaction, more sex, and more orgasms. However, this belief in "sexual sanctification" is on a scale. Some may believe sex is sacred logically, whereas others not only believe it but feel it. For this challenge, you are going to feel it. And for that, atmosphere is necessary. Perception is reality, and working "backward" through ambiance is how we get there. Your brain can only get you so far in the metaphysical world. To start, you're going to sex-clean your bedroom. You're going to put away any clutter, and once you think you're through, you're going to go to individual items and ask, "Does this spark arousal? Does this help create an environment where I feel relaxed, open, and happy? Does this feel sexy?" If not, get rid of it or put it away somewhere outside your bedroom. As you do this, it's important to note that this exercise is for you, and you alone. Men don't really care where they're having sex, as long as they're having it, but women do. In a UCLA study , researchers found that cortisol levels remained elevated throughout the entire day instead of declining in women who described their home as cluttered or unfinished. They also reported a more depressed mood when compared to their peers. This is important because cortisol is a libido killer. The bedroom is a sacred place , not just a convenient little box where you happen to sleep. It's a place where some of the most sacred and intimate work of your life takes place, where the generative forces of life and love are free-flowing and abundant. As such, it needs to be beautiful, peaceful, and clean. Make it feel like a retreat. Make it feel opulent. A room devoted to the sole purpose of sleeping next to your husband and having sex. It should feel like a bridal suite. It shouldn't be spiking your cortisol. Next, you're going to buy in to this challenge. Behavioral research consistently shows that people are more likely to complete long-term goals when they invest in them, especially when that investment reduces friction and makes them feel like the process has already started. For this, I recommend buying two things, with an optional third. First, purchase a bottle of body oil. Not only does it smell divine, but many men and women find the scent sexually enlivening. The bedroom is a sacred place. Next, buy some pure beeswax candles and candlesticks . Having sex underneath sterile LEDs doesn't always encourage the relaxation necessary for intimacy, and having sex with the lights off can begin to feel monotonous. However, everyone looks good in candlelight. Not only does it add some novelty to the experience, but the natural red light emitted from the beeswax flame is also calming to the nervous system. These two things, scent and the ritual of lighting a candle, are really all you need to prime your body and your room for good, soul-melding sex. But if you want more, an optional item that I always recommend is a cute pajama set or a new set of lingerie that makes you feel confident and comfortable. What we wear has the power to directly influence our thoughts and behavior. So think about it. How much is a better sex life worth to you? Meeting of Hearts Next, what you're going to need to do is have an open discussion about your sex life with your husband. Let him know that you want to do this challenge with him. Discuss what you both enjoy and would like to improve. Then go over the general schedule together so he knows what to expect and can help with the creativity required. My final challenge to you before we get to the schedule is this: Say yes to sex even if you're not quite "in the mood" yet . Female desire is typically responsive in nature , while male desire is spontaneous. At least attempt each event, and if, during foreplay, you're still not feeling it, you can call it. But at least try. To be completely honest, sometimes the best sex happens in the imperfect moments. Perfection creates pressure to be or achieve the impossible. Allowing imperfection to exist is a kindness to the wisdom in your soul that knows there's no such thing as perfect. Your Romance Rotation For the next 30 days, this is your romance calendar. Sunday – Go to church. Pray out loud or meditate with your husband.* Monday – Novelty activity Tuesday – Intimacy activity Wednesday – Hump Day (new sex position day) Thursday – Intimacy activity Friday – Novelty activity Saturday – Intimacy activity (optional sex dare) * Couples who attend church at least once a week tend to have greater marital satisfaction and lower rates of divorce than their counterparts. For simplicity's sake, we've provided novelty , intimacy, sex position, and sex dare "banks" for you to draw from during the corresponding day. You obviously don't have to do the provided activities; you can use them as creative inspiration instead. But you do have to adhere to the schedule for the challenge. Intimacy activities are designed to help you build chemistry and affection outside of sex, and novelty activities are designed to help refresh your sex life by switching up the normal routine. Hump Day is as it sounds. There's nothing wrong with the missionary position, but new things have a way of creating excitement and memories while strengthening bonds. Here are some ideas for each category: Intimacy Activity Bank – massage, five minutes of knee-to-knee eye contact, wash each other in the shower, take a bath together, self-disclosure questions (Gottman Card Decks app), dance together, cuddle while you watch a movie/play video games/read together, go to bed and sleep naked (husband sleeps naked too), spend the day flirting (or learn how and practice on each other), sext him, write each other love letters Novelty Activity Bank – sex by candlelight, sex outside the bedroom, sex in front of a mirror (if possible), all-about-him night (lingam massage, blow job, finish with sex in whatever position he wants), all-about-her night (long foreplay, oral , chase that double orgasm), morning sex , shower sex , sex on a table or desk, lap dance plus sex, tie her hands up before sex, sex with a blindfold, do-what-you're-told night (for him and her), lingerie reveal night, afternoon quickie (who can get the other off the fastest?) Hump Day Bank – reverse cowgirl, doggy style, lazy dog (prone), corkscrew (man stands beside bed, woman lies on side, knees bent toward chest, propped up on hip and forearm), bent over (woman stands against bed and lays her torso over it, man stands behind), missionary with her legs on his shoulders or her knees drawn outside her shoulders, lotus (he sits cross-legged or on knees, she sits on his lap and wraps her legs around his back), side-lying pretzel (woman lies on side and draws top knee to chest, man straddles woman's bottom leg) Sex Dare Bank – sex at a hotel or in a secluded spot in the car, go to a restaurant and talk increasingly dirty to each other, no-underwear date, send him a nude while he's out, skinny dip (for those who live by a secluded lake/river/beach or own a pool), flash him Conclusion Honestly, the most difficult part of this challenge is the setup. The day-to-day challenges and activities are simple and easy to complete for a reason. It doesn't take much to improve your marriage , but it does require your best. And you and your husband deserve nothing less. Want more? Order our latest print magazine now: The Sex Issue!]]></content:encoded>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Best Fall Wedding Guest Dresses To Wear, For Every Dress Code]]></title>
      <link>https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/the-best-fall-wedding-guest-dresses-to-wear-for-every-dress-code</link>
      <dc:creator>Rachel Squier </dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[Wedding season is fun until you get an invitation that says “formal attire” and suddenly you're questioning every dress in your closet. From white tie to Western chic, here's exactly what to wear so you can show up looking appropriately dressed, and not like you misunderstood the assignment.]]></description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Wedding dress codes are one of those things that seem pretty straightforward until you actually have to get dressed for one. Black tie, cocktail, semi-formal, dressy casual... and then suddenly there’s “tropical” or “Western chic” thrown into the mix. What does any of this actually mean? There’s nothing worse than showing up to a wedding and realizing you’re way too dressed up, or, arguably worse, way too casual. You don't want to be the person in a floor-length gown at a backyard ceremony, but you also don't want to show up in your favorite sundress when everyone else is wearing formal gowns. Luckily, once you know what the dress code is asking for, choosing an outfit gets a whole lot easier. Think of this as your cheat sheet for decoding the invitation and finding a dress that fits the vibe. We've rounded up the most common wedding dress codes, plus a few more creative ones you might see on a fall invitation, so you can spend less time wondering “Is this too much?” and more time figuring out which shoes you're going to wear. This article may contain affiliate links or paid partnerships. We may earn a commission or compensation at no extra cost to you. All products are chosen independently by our editorial team and reflect our genuine recommendations. White Tie If the invitation says white tie, it's time to bring out the big guns. This is the most formal wedding dress code you're likely to encounter, so think full-length evening gowns, elevated fabrics, elegant jewelry, heels, and a sophisticated clutch. This isn't the moment for your favorite little cocktail dress. You're going for old Hollywood gala, not Saturday night out. Birdy Grey Portico Set Hunter, $149 Xscape Evenings Ruffle Detail Organza Gown, $258 Anthropologie BHLDN Isla Scarf Printed Maxi Dress, $298 Betsy & Adam Off-the-Shoulder Tulle Gown, $150 Petal & Pup Frances Halterneck Maxi Dress, $109 Dress The Population Kinley Accordion Pleat Evening Gown, $348 Petal & Pup Delphira Maxi Dress, $119 Michael Costello x REVOLVE Alai Gown, $358 Black Tie Black tie is still seriously formal, but you have a little more breathing room than you would with white tie. A floor-length gown is always a safe bet, especially for an evening wedding, although an especially polished formal dress can work, too. Think rich colors, luxe fabrics, elegant silhouettes, and accessories that make the whole thing feel intentional. Club London Avialee Asymmetric-Neck Maxi Dress, $160 Birdy Grey Sindy Dress Chiffon Berry, $139 Show Me Your Mumu Lady Corset Dress, $298 Meshki Kinsley Slinky Maxi Dress With Hardware, $129 Birdy Grey Patron Dress Light Green, $119 Meshki Martinne Chiffon Cape Maxi Dress, $209 Birdy Grey Sindy Dress Chiffon Rustic Meadows, $149 Show Me Your Mumu ,Rebecca Midi Dress, $298 Anthropologie BHLDN Satin Cowled Scarf-Neck Maxi Dress, $228 Petal & Pup Cecilia Strapless Maxi Dress, $119 Birdy Grey Juju Dress Chiffon Wild Rose, $149 Meshki Jasmine Strapless Satin Maxi Dress, $255 Betsy & Adam Floral Jacquard Off-the-Shoulder Sheath Gown, $269 Formal / Black Tie Optional This dress code basically says, “Get dressed up, but you don't have to go full red carpet.” A floor-length gown is perfectly appropriate, but you can also opt for a sophisticated midi or cocktail dress as long as it feels formal enough for the occasion. If you're deciding between two dresses, consider the venue and time of day. An evening wedding at an upscale venue calls for something a little more glamorous than a daytime garden ceremony. 12th Tribe Reese Espresso Slinky Maxi Dress, $88 Birdy Grey Serena Dress Matte Satin Bright Martini Dreamy Floral, $109 Steve Madden Lara Bias Cut Maxi Dress, $119 Birdy Grey Mia Dress Matte Satin Mocha Whimsical Blooms, $139 Petal & Pup Naira Pleated Maxi Dress, $129 superdown Alessia Maxi Dress, $88 Birdy Grey Veranda Dress Mint Green, $129 ASTR The Label Satin Pleated Drop Waist Maxi Dress, $128 Petal & Pup Jameela Halterneck Maxi Dress, $109 Show Me Your Mumu Dalia Maxi Dress, $198 A&F Bra-Free Embellished Scoop Neck Maxi Dress, $180 Cocktail Cocktail attire is the sweet spot between formal and fun. This is your excuse to wear that gorgeous midi, mini, or knee-length dress you've been waiting for an occasion to pull out. Look for polished silhouettes and elevated fabrics, then have a little fun with color, prints, jewelry, and shoes. It's dressy, but you definitely don't need to look like you're headed to a state dinner. Curaae by Elliatt Roya Asymmetric Mini Dress, $183 Show Me Your Mumu Claire Midi Dress, $68 12th Tribe Vanessa Espresso Satin Midi Dress, $88 Show Me Your Mumu Jasmine Fringe Maxi Dress, $248 ASTR The Label Embellished Rhinestone Ruched Midi Dress, $76 Meshki Mattea Slinky And Mesh Mini Dress With Scarf, $115 12th Tribe Aria Halter Maxi Dress, $88 Semi-Formal or Dressy Casual The name makes it sound more complicated than it actually is. Semi-formal means polished and put-together without getting overly fancy. A midi dress, dressy mini, or a flowy maxi combination can all work. For daytime weddings, lighter colors and fabrics feel right; for an evening celebration, you can lean into darker hues and slightly dressier accessories. Meshki Milasandra Pleated Knit Dress, $175 ASTR the Label Katinka Belted Halter Midi Dress, $188 A&F Giselle 5-in-1 Convertible Maxi Dress, $160 ASTR The Label Abriana Chiffon Ruched Midi Dress, $119 Ivy City Co Rayna Dress in Midnight Cascading Floral, $148 A&F Flutter Sleeve Slash Mini Dress, $70 Birdy Grey Ophelia Dress Chiffon Sangria Whimsical Blooms, $119 Show Me Your Mumu Jasmine Tie Mini Dress, $148 Petal & Pup Blayze Long Sleeve Maxi Dress, $110 Casual Casual doesn't mean literally wear whatever you'd wear to run errands. (Please leave the leggings at home.) Think pretty sundresses, simple midi dresses, and dressy sandals or wedges. The venue matters here, too: A casual outdoor wedding might call for something completely different from a casual wedding at a restaurant, so use the setting as your guide. Miss Selfridge Textured Cami Maxi Dress, $65 Bohme Opal Gingham Maxi Dress, $73 Ivy City Co Jaden Dress in Red, $128 100% Cotton A&F Bra-Free Dylan Midi Dress, $120 ASOS DESIGN Tiered Mesh Midi Dress, $60 Princess Polly Nellie Maxi Sundress, $38 ASOS DESIGN Spliced Tiered Lace Midi Dress, $50 Tropical If you're lucky enough to have a wedding invitation that says tropical, consider that your permission to have a little fun. Lightweight fabrics, colorful prints, breezy silhouettes, and pretty sandals are all fair game. Floral dresses, linen, bold colors, and tropical-inspired patterns work especially well, but remember that you're still dressing for a wedding, not heading straight from the beach to the reception in your cover-up. 12th Tribe Natalia Plum Floral Strapless Maxi Dress, $88 Show Me Your Mumu Jessa Maxi Dress, $98 12th Tribe Maris Plum Floral Maxi Dress, $94 A&F Bra-Free Giselle Drop-Waist Maxi Dress, $160 Steve Madden Atara Dress, $129 Western Chic Western chic is exactly what it sounds like: a little country, a little polished, and very cute. Think flowy dresses with cowboy boots, feminine silhouettes paired with Western accessories, denim details, fringe, turquoise jewelry, or even a subtle Western-inspired print. You don't have to go full rodeo queen, either. The goal is to incorporate a few Western touches without looking like you're wearing a costume. 12th Tribe Isabella Patchwork Maxi Dress, $98 Petal & Pup Elston Maxi Dress, $99 Reclaimed Vintage Midi Tea Dress, $85 ASTR The Label Evelyn Lace Trim Tiered Ruffle Maxi Dress, $131 Petal & Pup Miravelle Maxi Dress, $129 12th Tribe Mirabella Rust Printed Satin Maxi Dress, $98 Themed Dress Codes A themed wedding dress code gives you permission to lean into a specific aesthetic, whether that's 1920s Gatsby glamour, boho romance, disco sparkle, or something completely unexpected. The trick is to actually embrace the theme rather than wearing a completely ordinary wedding guest dress and adding one tiny accessory that technically fits. Look for pieces that capture the mood while still feeling like something you'd genuinely want to wear. ASOS DESIGN Mesh Maxi Dress, $90 12th Tribe Natalia Olive and Rust Abstract Strapless Maxi Dress, $88 Show Me Your Mumu Paros Maxi Dress, $138 Babeyond Geometric Off-Shoulder Mermaid Evening Gown, $103 ASTR The Label Myra V-Neck Halter Maxi Dress, $188 Akira Celeste Ruffle Maxi Dress, $130 Babeyond Art Deco Starburst Beaded Evening Gown, $104 When in doubt, dress it up At the end of the day, wedding guest dressing doesn't have to be quite as complicated as the invitation makes it sound. Once you've figured out the general level of formality, let the venue, time of day, and season help guide the rest. And if you're stuck between two options, it's usually better to be slightly overdressed than sitting at the reception wondering if your sundress was too casual. The real goal is to find something that checks the dress-code box and still feels like you. Whether you're going full black-tie glamour, embracing a Western-inspired look, or keeping things simple for a backyard ceremony, there are plenty of ways to look polished without losing your personal style. Now go RSVP, find the dress, and let someone else worry about the seating chart.]]></content:encoded>
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      <title><![CDATA[Is Rachel Cusk’s Novel "Life Of M" About Natalie Portman? Here’s What We Know]]></title>
      <link>https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/is-rachel-cusks-novel-life-of-m-about-natalie-portman</link>
      <dc:creator>Meredith Evans</dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[Natalie Portman once said she was “forever in awe” of Rachel Cusk. Now the celebrated novelist has published a book that many readers believe paints the actress in a negative light.  ]]></description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Cusk’s slim experimental novel Life of M centers on a writer who sets out to write the autobiography of an internationally famous actress called “M.” The story begins with the actress welcoming the idea. By the end, M tells the writer she does not like how she has been shown. She feels the portrait makes her seem unable to love or connect with people. While a lot of people believe M is Portman, she has said nothing about the book. Cusk has not called it a biography of anyone. Still, enough details line up with what people already know about the actress that literary circles and online readers have spent weeks talking about whether the character is meant to be her. Who the Two Women Are to Each Other Cusk is the author of the Outline trilogy and other novels that explore how people see themselves and each other. Portman, while best known for her films, runs an online book club and has chosen Cusk’s work more than once. In 2022 she interviewed Cusk about Second Place . Later she picked Parade for the club and wrote that she remained “forever in awe” of the author. They both live in Paris and move in some of the same English-speaking literary groups. Coverage has described them as friends, but a person described as close to Portman told The Telegraph the two are only acquaintances who do not know each other well enough for any writer to capture Portman’s inner life. What Makes Readers Think “M” Is Portman The similarities begin with the way M became famous. In the novel, she was a child actress whose first film originally contained scenes suggesting that her young character wanted sexual contact with an adult man. M’s mother objected, and the material was removed. Portman was twelve when Léon: The Professional came out, and her mother reportedly insisted that sexually suggestive scenes involving her daughter and the adult male lead be cut from the script. Portman has since spoken about receiving sexual attention and harassment following the film, saying that the experience affected the way she presented herself as a teenager. The connection grows more obvious as the book moves through M’s adult career. She represents a major luxury brand, and her face appears across advertisements framed by pink flowers. Portman has been the face of Miss Dior since 2011 and has appeared in the fragrance’s flower-filled campaigns around the world. M also trained with dancers for a film about ballet, closely resembling Portman’s role in Black Swan , for which she trained extensively and won an Academy Award. M is known for being interested in books, while Portman runs an online book club and has repeatedly promoted Cusk’s work. Both women live in Paris, and both experienced the end of a marriage under public attention. The novel does not name Portman, and some of these details could apply to other actresses. Taken together, however, the parallels are specific enough that readers immediately began treating M as a fictional version of her. The controversy comes from what Cusk does with those familiar details. M is not portrayed as openly cruel or unpleasant. She is beautiful, charming, polite to staff, and gracious when strangers interrupt her for photographs. She walks her dogs, meets friends, follows the news, and sometimes takes her children to school herself. These details could have made her seem grounded despite her fame. It all sounds normal, but the narrator often treats these activities as evidence that M is trying to imitate an ordinary person. She does these everyday activities because she understands that they are things normal people do, not necessarily because they bring her pleasure or allow her to feel close to anyone. Even her interest in the outside world is presented as part of an effort to learn how to be human after spending most of her life protected from ordinary experience. M lives in a grand home compared to “a big doll’s house,” with herself positioned as the doll inside it. Doors open for her, arrangements are made before she arrives, and workers with specialized jobs exist to carry out her requests. She moves through expensive meeting rooms, carefully designed vacation homes, and exclusive spas without having to deal with many of the inconveniences that shape other people’s lives. The book suggests that M prefers this comfort, even while she wants to think of herself as someone capable of living normally. When a sick caretaker disrupts the atmosphere of a vacation home by coughing, M is privately irritated. When a relative is struck by a car and M must oversee the recovery, the experience does not lead to greater intimacy or compassion. The narrator describes it instead as a confusing intrusion into the controlled life M has built. Her relationships with friends are portrayed with the same coldness. M meets people in cafés and listens to them discuss their lives, but she finds this difficult. When one friend talks about depression, M cannot fully understand what she is being told. According to the narrator, she knows depression through roles she has played but lacks personal proof that it is real. She can feel pity for her friend, though the book compares it to the pity someone might feel for an animal in pain rather than the understanding shared between two close friends. The book’s bleakest suggestion is that M’s career began so early that there may be no original version of her left to recover. Becoming famous as a child brought her childhood to an abrupt end, and adulthood became a continuation of that performance. M wants to feel normal, but the narrator claims there is no earlier, untouched self waiting beneath the celebrity image. The book goes further than saying fame left her lonely. It wonders whether M can ever be truly honest with anyone, even the people she loves most. M can look warm, caring, and even like a devoted mom on the outside, but the narrator keeps wondering if those feelings are real or if she’s mostly just acting the part. This is what has made the Portman comparison feel so harsh. Cusk does not accuse M of a particular act or expose a hidden scandal. She takes recognizable facts from a famous actress’s life and uses them to imagine that woman as emotionally empty, separated from reality, and unable to love with complete sincerity. I don’t like the way you portray me. M initially approves of the autobiography project, but later tells the narrator, “I don’t like the way you portray me.” She says the book makes her appear to lack humanity and be incapable of love. She also complains that the writer has made her identifiable while filling the story with events and traits she does not recognize. The narrator’s response is that the character is not M or anyone else. She argues that the portrait could have been created from M’s films, interviews, and publicly available biography. This exchange closely mirrors the argument now surrounding Life of M : whether a writer can make a character recognizable through real details and then avoid responsibility by insisting that the person on the page is fictional. There is no proof that Portman agreed to let Cusk write about her, read the book before publication, or privately objected to it. Reports that the novel reflects a real friendship breakdown remain speculation. A source described as close to Portman told The Telegraph that the two women are acquaintances rather than close friends and said M’s detached personality does not resemble Portman. The source described Portman as warm, loving, and surrounded by close friends and community. According to that same source, Portman still respects Cusk’s freedom to write what she wants and recognizes Life of M as fiction. Portman herself has not publicly addressed the book, so there is no confirmed feud between the two women. The tension currently exists between Cusk’s fictional portrait and the real actress readers believe they can see inside it. What Cusk Has Said Cusk has long defended the idea that famous people belong to the public imagination and can be interpreted in art. She has pointed to the long tradition of novels and films that draw on recognizable lives. That position leaves an open question: at what point does using public facts become a study of fame, and at what point does it become something else. A lot of readers think the resemblance is deliberate and that the rumors are good for the book (any publicity is good publicity, right?). Meanwhile, others say readers are turning a layered novel into celebrity gossip and mistaking the narrator’s views for Cusk’s own. Cusk still calls M fictional. The novel reminds readers that a portrait made from public material is not the person herself. Yet with so many details taken directly from Portman’s life, calling M purely fictional feels a little too convenient.]]></content:encoded>
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      <title><![CDATA[Is Gen Z Experiencing “Trans Fatigue”?]]></title>
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      <dc:creator>Meredith Evans</dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[One young woman posted about why insurance covers gender-related surgeries but not treatments for her PCOS, and thousands of other women started chiming in with their similar stories.]]></description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[For years, it felt like there was only one acceptable way to talk about transgender issues. You couldn’t criticize any aspect of it. If you questioned anything about healthcare, sports, language , or women’s rights, people were quick to label you as "transphobic" or "bigoted." A viral TikTok suggests that a growing number of Gen Z are no longer willing to follow those rules. TikTok creator @likevanfleet began her video with a careful disclaimer: “Okay, no hate to transgender people whatsoever.” She then expressed her thoughts on a healthcare system that appears to assign medical necessity inconsistently, a system that seemingly favors trans individuals over biological women. “I think that the entire concept of getting hundreds of thousands of dollars of cosmetic surgery , like non-essential surgery, covered by insurance, including universal American health insurance, is unfair,” she said. “There is one prescription that I need that’s a medical necessity that insurance won’t even cover for an actual disorder that I have with my body.” She acknowledged that the American healthcare system itself may be the real problem and added that “maybe both things should be covered.” Still, her larger question remained: If distress about one person’s sexed appearance can make surgery medically necessary, why does similar distress become merely cosmetic when it belongs to a woman? “I also think that gender affirming care should be covered for women if it’s going to be covered for transgender people,” she continued. “For example, if you’re a woman and you feel like your body is too masculine, then you should also be able to get facial feminization surgeries or a breast augmentation, because that also might be affecting you mentally.” The response was enormous. More than 5,000 comments appeared beneath the video, and the most popular ones did not read like conservative talking points borrowed from older generations. They sounded like women comparing notes about what their own insurance companies had denied. “ It’s male privilege but yall don’t wanna say that, ” read one comment with more than 42,000 likes. Another commenter wrote, “they’ll cover a transgender woman’s breast augmentation surgery, but will then deny that same surgery in a woman who just beat breast cancer who HAD TO HAVE a full mastectomy in order to save her life. It’s ridiculous and unfair.” A third asked why insurers may cover laser hair removal for a transgender patient while women with PCOS or other hormonal conditions are told they cannot receive the same benefit. That comment earned more than 28,000 likes. A woman who cannot obtain medication for a diagnosed condition, treatment for PCOS-related hair growth or surgery for a physical feature causing severe distress may reasonably wonder why her suffering is classified as vanity. She is not necessarily asking for a transgender patient to lose coverage. She may be asking why the empathy used to defend that coverage seems to vanish when she describes her own body. The Rules of “Medical Necessity” No Longer Make Sense to Many Women Health insurance has always drawn imperfect lines between reconstructive, cosmetic and medically necessary care. A procedure may involve the same surgeon, technique and part of the body while receiving an entirely different classification based on the patient’s diagnosis. A breast augmentation performed solely to increase breast size is usually considered cosmetic. Breast reconstruction following a mastectomy is protected under federal law when the relevant plan covers mastectomies. An augmentation related to diagnosed gender dysphoria may be covered when an insurance plan recognizes it as medically necessary and the patient meets its criteria. Facial surgery and hair removal can face even greater variation between plans. The contradiction that women sense is therefore not entirely imaginary, although it is rarely as simple as one group receiving anything it requests while another receives nothing. Insurance companies already recognize that a person’s mental health can be affected by the relationship between the body and identity. It’s only fair that women are asking why that principle is applied so selectively. A teenage girl who feels ashamed of a flat chest is usually told that beauty standards are cruel, her body is normal and surgery will not resolve every insecurity. A trans individual expressing distress about the same feature may enter a medical framework in which altering the body can be presented as therapeutic care. There may be clinical reasons for treating those cases differently, yet the cultural messages surrounding them are difficult to reconcile. How come women with PCOS , hormonal disorders, congenital differences, alopecia, mastectomy scars or other conditions don’t get the same coverage or treatment as trans people? Are Gen Z’s Attitudes Actually Changing? Still, we have to ask if Gen Z is indeed experiencing “trans fatigue” as some people believe. A 2025 report titled The Decline of Trans and Queer Identity Among Young Americans argues that transgender, bisexual and queer identification has fallen among recent groups of American college students after climbing earlier in the decade. Eric Kaufmann, a professor at the University of Buckingham and director of its Centre for Heterodox Social Science, analyzed several surveys, including data gathered for the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression’s college free-speech rankings. In that dataset, the share of surveyed students selecting a gender category other than male or female fell from 6.8% in 2022 and 2023 to 3.6% in 2025. Individual schools reportedly showed similar movement. At Brown University, the share identifying as nonbinary declined from approximately 5% in 2022 and 2023 to 2.6% in 2025. At Phillips Academy Andover, the figure fell from roughly 9% in 2023 to 3% in 2025. The report also found changes in sexual identity. Bisexual, queer and other non-heterosexual categories rose from approximately 7% in 2020 to 17% in 2023 within one series of surveys, while heterosexual identification declined from more than 80% to 63.5%. By 2025, the heterosexual share had risen to 77%. Kaufmann concluded that the youngest college students were less likely to identify as bisexual, transgender or queer than the students graduating ahead of them. “To the extent that the youngest represent the leading edge of new trends,” the report states, “this suggests that trans, bisexual and queer identities are declining in popularity with each new cohort.” Gen Z appears to be growing tired of the idea that criticizing the transgender movement means you're bigoted or hateful. Gen Z grew up with corporate Pride campaigns, pronouns in bios, viral coming-out videos, debates over transgender athletes and endless political fights about gender medicine. Young people were encouraged to be open-minded, although that often came with censorship around certain questions that could cost them friends or get them labeled as hateful. Now, some of the young women who stayed quiet are beginning to say what they really think. They do not appreciate being told that those concerns are either imaginary or cruel. Once one woman says it publicly and thousands of others agree, it becomes much harder to pretend no one had noticed the same contradictions before. That is what makes the response to @likevanfleet’s video so interesting. The women in her comments were not repeating broad political slogans or attacking transgender people. They were talking about breast cancer, PCOS, hormonal disorders and prescriptions their insurance companies refused to cover. They wanted to know why distress over someone’s body can be considered a medical issue in one situation and a cosmetic insecurity in another. These women are describing their own experiences of being told that painful or embarrassing conditions are not serious enough for treatment, while hearing that similar procedures can become necessary when they are connected to gender identity. Gen Z is no longer satisfied with being told that fairness requires them to ignore the ways these policies can affect their own lives.]]></content:encoded>
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      <title><![CDATA[Isabel Brown Is Having Another Baby, and She Wants More Gen Z Women To Do The Same]]></title>
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      <dc:creator>Andrea Mew</dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[The Gen Z commentator exclusively opens up about her Mother's Day surprise and gets candid about her marriage, ambitions, and becoming a boy mom. ]]></description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Isabel Brown is pregnant with baby number two, and this time, it's a boy. The 29-year-old conservative commentator and author exclusively revealed to Evie that she and her husband, Brock, are expecting a son, making their daughter, Isla, a big sister and their soon-to-be family of four one of the growing families Brown hopes will become a little less uncommon among her generation. Now a host at The Daily Wire , Brown has built one of the largest female Gen Z audiences in conservative media, with nearly 1.4 million followers on Instagram alone. And Brown is happy about how dramatically motherhood has changed her. "I found that to be so true through this first year and a half or so of motherhood with my daughter, and now getting ready to welcome my son into the world," Brown told me as we talked about how becoming a mother has transformed her understanding of identity and self-sacrifice. "Which is crazy to say out loud. It's the first time I've said that in an interview." The news comes at an interesting moment for Brown, who has spent much of her career speaking directly to a generation of women increasingly unsure whether marriage and children belong at all in the future they're building. Now pregnant again while continuing an ambitious public career, Brown is living out a rather different model of what a woman's twenties can look like. When I met her for Evie 's photo shoot along the waterfront, there was frankly little spectacle around any of it. Brown was warm and chatty, and she kept a close eye on the time, not for herself but to make sure Brock made it to the Oval Office in time. Brock eventually took off, and Brown, her daughter, a couple of her staffers, and I headed to Misha's Coffee to continue the conversation. Isla falls asleep along the way. Brown orders a hot latte despite the warm weather outside, and soon enough we're talking babies. Fittingly, it happened on Mother's Day Brown found out she was pregnant again in the middle of the night on Mother's Day. Isla, who had been sleeping well for the previous few months, suddenly woke up around 3:00 AM. Brown heard her crying and got up to check on her. But when she woke up, she noticed something out of the ordinary: she was drenched in sweat. "Part of me just knew," Brown said. "I took a pregnancy test and my husband was sleeping. It immediately turned positive, and I went and crawled in bed with my daughter, and laid looking at the ceiling for like three hours, thinking about how exciting this was." For three hours, Brown kept the news to herself, lying next to the little girl who had first made her a mother. Then, when Brock later came downstairs for his morning coffee, Brown approached him. "I said, 'Hey, I need to talk to you.' And he said, 'Are you having a baby?' And I said, 'Yep,'" Brown recalled. "It was so funny between the first experience and the second one, just knowing, right? You just know. You know your body pretty well. You're pretty in tune to your instincts, and it was such a wonderful blessing getting to find out on Mother's Day, especially." With her first pregnancy, it was Brown's own mother who seemed to know the news before she even did. Brown had only been married for two months when she traveled to Colorado for a speaking engagement, and since her parents lived nearby, she spent the night with them. As her mother helped her pack, she suddenly asked whether Brown was pregnant. "I said, 'No—why are you even asking me that? That's such a weird question,' but my mom just knew. She had this mom intuition that there was a baby," Brown said. "And so a few days later I went home and I took a pregnancy test and I found out we were having our daughter, which was an amazing, wonderful surprise." But this time around, Brown's own mom intuition kicked in. Brown and Brock were actually quite surprised by how quickly their first pregnancy happened, and as Brown explained it, her husband was apparently incapable of sitting on the secret too long. The two chose to FaceTime their best friends the same day, admitting they were having trouble wrapping their heads around becoming parents so quickly as they figured they'd have another year to think on their future. Yet one of their best friends, Mitchell, broke the tension, saying, as Brown remembers it, "Guys, I don't know what you're so nervous about. There's a word for getting pregnant two months after your wedding." When they asked what, he answered: "Catholic. You're fine." Pregnancy number two hits pretty different Brown was in her second trimester when we met in Alexandria, her growing bump tastefully on display as she, Brock, and Isla stood in the shade of the willow oaks along the waterfront. There has been, of course, one fairly significant difference between being pregnant for the first time and doing it again, Brown admitted: the second time, there's already a toddler running the show. Brown said this pregnancy has occupied considerably less of her mental space, at least until her changing body made it harder to forget. "They don't lie that you just have your mind in so many different places when you're pregnant with a toddler and the level of exhaustion," Brown said. While toddler days are a totally different experience from anything women can prepare for, Brown believes that having Isla by her side has made the experience all the sweeter. "I see my daughter play with her one and only baby doll, and she's starting to hug her baby doll, and getting to see her play with our best friend's son, in particular, this last couple weeks—we were on a vacation together—totally made my heart explode because she's gonna be such a great big sister," Brown gushed. Envisioning what her daughter will be like with her son, Brown first pointed out that Isla is "so caring" and "so sweet" and loves giving hugs or waving, but then immediately joked that as an oldest daughter herself, she expects her daughter will end up a bit bossy, too. "The nice politically correct way of us being bossy was that we had great leadership potential when we were kids," she said. Brown glanced at Isla with a smile, nostalgic for her own childhood as an older sister, and explained how special it is to her to know her own daughter will now share that experience, too. Brown grew up in a family of girls. Brock grew up in a family of boys. Their daughter was, naturally, somewhat of a new frontier for him, but now their son will be one for Brown. "It's exceptionally fun that we're having a boy because my husband had no sisters growing up. It was all boys, and this was his first experience, really, with a little girl. I come from a family of all girls," she said. "So now he gets to have the same experience watching me experience life with a little boy." When Brown was pregnant with Isla, she recalled that her prenatal vitamin made her feel sick. This time around, she researched what ingredients would suit her better, and switched to the brand We Heart Nutrition . She gave the brand extra kudos for donating some of its proceeds to pregnancy resource centers. Brown is staying super hydrated, too, pointing to Ballerina Farm's raspberry lemonade electrolytes as a must-have every day. While she admitted she hasn't really had pregnancy cravings (nor has she had much of an appetite at all, which originally made her suspicious she was carrying a girl, as an old wives' tale says of less-hungry pregnant women), she has been lenient about what she eats. Cold cuts, rare steak, and brie cheese aren't on her restriction list whatsoever, but Brown admitted that she hasn't been quite brave enough to try raw sushi. "I have yet to take the sushi-leap," she said, adding that she has at the very least treated herself to cooked rolls. "Life goes on." And while first-pregnancy Isabel was more inclined to wrap herself in proverbial bubble wrap, second-pregnancy Isabel recently found herself on a racetrack. "I did a ride-along in a Corvette around the Indy 500 or the Indy 250 Grand Prix track," Brown admitted with a laugh. "I had a harness and a helmet on. It was fine. We only went 100 miles an hour. That's not really that big of a deal." It was an answer she knows might absolutely horrify a certain kind of first-time expectant mom. "I do think you tend to put yourself in a lot of bubble wrap pregnancy one because everybody says, 'You can't do that. You're pregnant. You can't do that. You're pregnant,'" Brown said. But as she put it, "Life goes on." What it means to raise a good son Sure, motherhood has changed Brown. But she has watched it transform her husband, too. Since Brock grew up without sisters, Brown wondered what it would be like to watch him learn to father a little girl. And the answer has made her fall in love with him all over again. "To see how sweet and caring he is with our daughter is the most magical thing in the entire world," Brown said. "My husband has become a lot more patient, softer, kinder. And at the same time, a lot more hardened in his protection over our family." Naturally, baby number two has the couple thinking beyond pregnancy and infancy now, even beyond the toddler days, toward the kind of home and childhood they want to create for their children. The community they might want to raise them in, how they want to educate their children in a highly polarizing educational landscape—these are all conversations that may have been more abstract in the past, but now the couple discusses them in greater depth. And becoming parents has changed the marriage itself, too. "The biggest change, I guess, is that we just love each other a whole lot more all over again," Brown admitted with a grin. "They're not lying when they say the love that you feel for your spouse is infinitely more when you have children together because you see them in your babies. And that's so, so special to share." For Brown, finding out baby number two is a boy also introduced a whole new dimension of motherhood. She has made a name for herself speaking about the challenges facing girls and women, and she explained to Evie that conversations with friends like Riley Gaines have made her think deeply about what it means to raise a daughter. But a son presents her with a different responsibility. "Obviously, it's gonna take a whole different approach to raise a strong man in the culture that requires we have strong masculine, grounded Christian men again," Brown said. She's already buying books for him that cater more toward a developing male brain, and has begun thinking about how she will have to have tougher conversations about the role of men and masculinity. It will be "totally different" from how they prepare to launch Isla into the world, she explained. "I feel very blessed and very honored that God has chosen me to experience both of those things simultaneously," she continued. "And I think that's what I'm most giddy and excited for as we wait for him to come in the next couple of months." There's just one problem… he still needs a name. "My husband has vetoed every single boy name that I possibly can give him," Brown laughed. Naming Isla had been unusually easy. Brown offered up the girl name she adored, Brock agreed, and that was that. Their son, however, is proving much more difficult. "It honestly kind of feels like a puzzle: they already have a name… now we just have to figure out what it is. Kind of a fun game," Brown said. "You will know when we know what this baby's name is, which may be when he's born." Motherhood doesn't have to be an identity crisis For Brown, announcing another baby while her career continues to grow carries a certain weight beyond her own family. She has spent much of her adult life speaking to Gen Z, after all, a generation increasingly pushing marriage and parenthood later in life. Or questioning whether to pursue either at all. Brown believes many young women genuinely want children someday. The problem is that "someday" can remain in the abstract for years and years. "I do think it's just a baked-in automatic generational assumption that, like, 'Oh, yeah, someday. I'll have it all figured out, and I'll have it all. I'll get to do the career and the family thing. But I don't have to worry about that right now,'" she said. Brown never saw motherhood and professional ambition as inherently incompatible, however. Her own mother worked full-time as an attorney throughout her childhood. At one point, Brown watched as her mom even had to commute between Colorado and Idaho. This gave her an early model of a woman who was thoroughly involved at home without having to abandon her professional ambition. But Brown thinks the fears surrounding motherhood go deeper than career concerns. "I think all of it really centers around one core concept that seems like the worst possible thing that could happen to you as a young woman today. And that is the loss of your existing identity," Brown said. The ironic part, she argued, is that the fear contains a kernel of truth. "Your life will never be the same again, and you will never be the same person that you were before you have a baby," Brown said, matter-of-factly. "But it's such a beautiful transition." "You'll find yourself through losing yourself." She's planning another hospital birth at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, and it's not a random choice based on convenience or location. Brown went to Georgetown for graduate school, earning her master's in biomedical sciences policy and advocacy. When she arrived at labor and delivery, Brown recalled seeing a statue of Mary and Jesus, crucifixes in the rooms, and staff members praying for her, her husband, and baby Isla, soon to be out of the womb. "It was just absolutely beautiful," she recalled. And Brown even admitted that she really loved giving birth. She didn't casually downplay it by saying that it wasn't that bad; she went so far as to say her first birth was "peaceful" and "ethereal," a moment when she felt a direct connection to God unlike anything she'd experienced before. In her pre-med days, Brown thought of herself as a hyper-organized, Type-A woman. Motherhood, surprisingly, has made her less rigid, she admitted. She doesn't hold her daughter to a strict nap routine, doesn't use infant and toddler tracking programs, doesn't prepare additional food outside what the family already plans to eat, and they deliberately take Isla traveling and "out about the town." Perhaps that's why Isla stayed fast asleep for the greater part of our conversation, even as milk frothers screeched, baristas banged spent espresso out of portafilters, and Misha's clientele chattered loudly. So for Brown, motherhood has made that quintessential Gen Z pursuit of "finding yourself" look pretty different. "Your identity is gonna change in the different seasons of your life forever," she said. "The truth is, you'll find yourself through losing yourself and through bringing more love and more light into your life, through the connections that you make for other people far more than what you curate for your Instagram feed." The village, in real time Then, as if on cue, real life interrupted our conversation. We were sipping our coffee at Misha's, talking about overrated pregnancy products, when a woman we didn't know approached us. She needs baby wipes. Brown immediately starts digging through her belongings. "Hang on," she tells the woman, adding she's "99% positive" she can find some. She finds a pack of EveryLife wipes and hands it over. A family member of the woman later brought back what remains, but Brown appeared to have been prepared to surrender the whole thing. "I have been caught in airports where I have to ask for the wipes, so that's very real," she explained. Then we return to the interview. It's mundane, but also particularly fitting coming from a woman who, later in our conversation, says with conviction that one of her hopes for the next generation is "reviving the village again." Brown has very little interest in debating whether women like her qualify as "tradwives." In fact, she said she rejects the label for herself and thinks the online conversation surrounding the role of women and mothers often misses the point. "I am much more interested in cultivating a generation of women who are unafraid to fight for our children, to normalize having families, and falling in love with our husbands again in a culture telling us those are the two worst possible things you could do for yourself," Brown said. She also has no interest in replacing the girlboss with an equally impossible conservative version: an immaculately dressed woman raising six children with little to no effort, while running a company, maintaining a tidy home, and documenting it all online. "Real life looks nothing like the internet, ultimately," Brown said. And that applies to Brown, too. "Yes, you can 'have it all,' and it is more than possible for you to have a thriving career and a thriving family life, if that's something you feel called to," Brown started. "But chances are there's a lot more stressful nights and tears and missed airplanes and baby throwing up all over you and all the things that you don't think about because they don't make the Instagram feed, than you realize." "Real life looks nothing like the internet." Brown admitted that sleeplessness had been the hardest physical adjustment to motherhood. She joked that "slept like a baby" is, frankly, a terrible phrase because in her experience babies don't actually sleep well. Brown even estimated she basically didn't sleep properly for a year, recalling the nights breastfeeding Isla while Brock was "peacefully snoring" beside them. But to her, that's all the more proof of what women are capable of. After lamenting, to some degree, how she has learned to function on little sleep, she asserted that society sells women short by framing all of these sacrifices as something women shouldn't have to endure. Maybe they should endure it, Brown would say. "Maybe it actually would make you much more of a badass," she suggested. With baby number two on the way, Brown has no intention of disappearing professionally. She explained she's working on another book and has dreamed up ideas for documentaries, series, and other future projects bouncing around in her head. But motherhood has changed the weight she assigns to those professional milestones. A video that once would have seemed like a flop at 50,000 views now looks like 50,000 individual people she had the opportunity to reach, she admitted. And the family growing alongside that career increasingly seems to be the point of it all, rather than an obstacle in her way. A very full dinner table with love and laughter Before we finish, I ask Brown to picture her life five years from now. What does her dinner table look like? "Oh, that's a beautiful question," she responded, then paused. "I hope it is very full, with love and laughter, and I hope that we are in a position as a culture that's not an unusual sight." Brown explained that by then, she hopes young women surrounded by children won't seem like a political statement, a social media aesthetic, or even a throwback to another era. "I don't want my family to feel like a Norman Rockwell painting that feels like something from the 1970s and so out of touch for modern culture," she stated. "I hope five years from now, young women prioritizing family is so normal that it's not controversial on the internet at all." So for now, Brown is preparing to do it all over again. Another pregnancy, another birth at the hospital where she welcomed Isla, another newborn phase, another child to fit around a busy schedule of airplanes, studios, photo shoots, and sleepless nights. But best of all, the baby boy she's carrying now will be running around that "very full" dinner table alongside his big sister. And if Brown gets her wish, there won't be anything particularly countercultural about that at all.]]></content:encoded>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Temptation Island Influencer Allegedly Faked Her Entire Duke PA School Life For Two Years]]></title>
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      <dc:creator>Meredith Evans</dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[Angel Victoria Murdock posted scrubs, clinical rotations, study sessions, and graduation photos. Duke reportedly says she never even applied to the program.]]></description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Angel Victoria Murdock was beautiful and ambitious. She was building a career in real estate and working her way through one of the most respected physician assistant programs in the country. More than 300,000 people followed along as she studied, prepared for clinical rotations, and balanced school with the glamorous life that eventually landed her on Netflix’s Temptation Island . There was only one rather serious problem: According to Duke University, she was never a student in its physician assistant program. The 26-year-old influencer is now at the center of a bizarre online scandal after actual graduates of Duke’s 2026 PA class accused her of spending roughly two years pretending to be one of them. Murdock had reportedly posted videos in scrubs, shared medical notes, filmed “get ready with me” content for supposed rotations, and eventually posed for graduation photos in Duke regalia. The life looked convincing enough to attract millions of likes, yet the students completing the real program knew something was wrong because none of them knew who she was. Their class was small. Students spend years studying, training, and moving through clinical placements together, which made it difficult to believe that one of their supposed classmates had somehow remained a complete stranger. According to the New York Post , all 89 members of the program were accounted for, and no one could remember seeing Murdock in class, on campus, at a social event, or during a rotation. Her graduation photos appear to have pushed their suspicions into a full investigation. The Graduation Post That Gave Her Away Murdock marked her supposed graduation with a triumphant Instagram caption that sounded like the closing scene of a very long academic struggle. “Today, I get to look back and realize that every late night, every sacrifice, every setback and every prayer was leading me right here,” she wrote. Students quickly noticed that her graduation attire did not match the program’s. Her name was also absent from the official class photograph, the graduation ceremony, and the professional certification records they checked. Once classmates began comparing what they knew, the polished story started falling apart. A Duke spokesperson later told the Post there was “no record of a student by the name of Angel Murdock having applied to or attended the Duke Physician Assistant Program.” That statement moved the story beyond a dispute between an influencer and suspicious viewers. If the university’s records are accurate, Murdock had not quietly dropped out or exaggerated her place in the program. She had never applied. One recent graduate told the outlet that students had noticed Murdock’s posts the previous year but initially ignored them because they were busy with their own work. The graduation display made that impossible. “I thought, ‘Okay this girl is going all the way to the finish line’. She needs to be stopped,” the graduate said. The anger makes sense. PA school requires demanding coursework and long clinical hours, and the Duke program is highly competitive. Watching someone collect praise for sacrifices she apparently never made was insulting enough. Watching her publicly claim the same professional training raised a more troubling concern about what she planned to do after her staged graduation. Kiera Lee, identified by the Post as the class historian, said she knew everyone in the cohort and had never heard of Murdock. She also claimed Murdock followed her online and later posted about the same types of rotations Lee had documented during her clinical year. “It’s scary because now that you have ‘graduated’, what were you going to do?” Lee said. There is currently no public evidence that Murdock treated patients or practiced as a physician assistant. Her posts, however, gave followers the impression that she was receiving medical training from Duke, and Netflix cast coverage described her occupation as “PA school student” when she appeared as one of the women brought onto Temptation Island to test the couples’ relationships. The Fake Duke Life May Not Have Been the Only One The scrutiny did not stop with her education. Reporters also began examining the real-estate career Murdock had promoted for years, and that part of her online identity may carry more serious consequences if she actually conducted business without a license. Murdock reportedly described herself as licensed in North Carolina and Georgia, posted home listings and property tours, celebrated supposed closings, and shared what she presented as her earnings from real estate. In one 2021 post featuring a couple signing paperwork, she wrote, “Shoutout to my clients! Trying to sell and buy can be difficult but they pulled it off. Today we finally closed! Thank you for trusting me! Congrats Jenny and Matt.” The following year, she claimed she had received her license in September and had been “grinding ever since.” The Post reported that it could not locate Murdock in either state’s database of licensed real-estate professionals. Howard Hanna Allen Tate Real Estate, the company she claimed to have worked for, also reportedly said it had never employed anyone under her name. She used the title REALTOR as well, although the National Association of Realtors reportedly had no record of her as a member. REALTOR is a registered membership mark, not a generic job title available to every person selling homes. Posting as a real-estate agent online and illegally acting as one are not automatically the same thing. North Carolina law prohibits a person from carrying out real-estate brokerage for compensation without a license, which means the legal issue would depend on what Murdock actually did, whether money changed hands, and whether any supposed clients or transactions were real. A Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department source told the Post that she was not under investigation at the time of its report. The distinction matters because much of this strange story may have existed entirely for the camera. The smiling clients, monthly income claims, and congratulatory closing posts could have been fabricated content rather than evidence that she handled genuine transactions. No alleged client has publicly come forward in the reporting provided to claim that Murdock represented them. Her earlier college claims have also been challenged. Murdock reportedly said she earned a double major in psychology and biology from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, but the university told the Post that she left before graduating. Following the backlash, Murdock deactivated her main Instagram and TikTok accounts and had not publicly responded to the allegations at the time of the reports. The National Association of Realtors also did not respond to the Post ’s request for comment.]]></content:encoded>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Feminine Fall PJs and Loungewear You'll Want To Wear All Season]]></title>
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      <dc:creator>Anna Hartman</dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[Regardless of the weather, there's something about September 1 that immediately makes me want to curl up in a fleece sweatshirt, throw on some fuzzy slippers, and restart season one of "Gilmore Girls."]]></description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[I know I'm not the only one. Call me basic if you must, but I'm convinced it's in our bones. Pecan-maple cortados are calling to me right now just as loudly as a silky burgundy pajama set, and I'm ready to overhaul my entire life, beginning with my home routine. As someone who's worked from home since before Covid hit (yes, we existed prior to lockdowns), I know firsthand the importance of loungewear that's cozy but also genuinely cute. I've never been a fan of mismatched sweats or borrowing my husband's oversized T-shirts. Cute in theory, sure, but I'd much rather be in something that makes me feel feminine and put together, even if no one but my dog will see me. And the same goes for pajamas. Arguably, one of the most crucial aspects of romanticizing your evening (and morning) routine is what you're wearing. Now, I go so far as to match my pajamas to my coffee cup in the morning, but you really don't need to go to that extreme. Just slipping into something intentional that feels like you is enough. There's an abundance of gorgeous options out there this season, but I must warn you: they're going fast. So if you see something you love on this list, make sure to snag it in your size before the rest of the internet catches on. Here are the best feminine fall PJs and loungewear pieces you'll want to wear all season long. This article may contain affiliate links or paid partnerships. We may earn a commission or compensation at no extra cost to you. All products are chosen independently by our editorial team and reflect our genuine recommendations. Fall PJs Pajama Sets Abercrombie & Fitch Long-Sleeve Sleep Cardigan, $36 Eberjey Washable Silk Printed Lace Cami & Pant Set, $248 Birdy Grey Jenna Pajama Set Bamboo Sage, $49 Anthropologie Lyrebird Neela Pajama Pants in LB Silky, $88 Abercrombie & Fitch Embroidered Cutwork Sleep Pant, $56 Eberjey Gisele TENCEL™ Modal Slouchy PJ Set, $148 Anthropologie TBCo 100% Cotton Plaid Pajama Set, $185 Birdy Grey Emma Pajama Set Matte Satin Dusty Blue, $59 Anthropologie LyreBird 100% Cotton Flannel Harem Pants, $98 Abercrombie & Fitch Cotton-Blend Sleep Pant, $44 Hill House Home The Olivia Pajama Set, $148 Anthropologie mTBCo Tartan 100% Cotton Pajama Set, $185 Coyuchi Women's Isla Organic Cotton Long Sleeve Pajama Set, $128 Anthropologie Printfresh 100% Cotton Halloween Hounds Pajama Set, $168 SKIMS Sleep Set, $128 Anthropologie TBCo 100% Cotton Ruffled Pajama Set, $172 For Love & Lemons Bella Sleep Top, $39 Anthropologie TBCo 100% Cotton Eyelet-Trim Pajama Set, $185 Show Me Your Mumu Overslept PJ Set, $138 For Love & Lemons Venetia Sleep Top, $159 Birdy Grey Sutton Pajama Set Matte Satin Sage, $14 Anthropologie Lyrebird Silken Lace Trim Flyaway Tank, $88 Show Me Your Mumu New Beginning PJ Set, $128 For Love & Lemons Kayla Sleep Top, $96 Birdy Grey June Pajama Set Matte Satin Espresso, $55 Abercrombie & Fitch Lace and Satin Sleep Cami, $32 Abercrombie & Fitch Lace-Trim Satin Sleep Short, $36 SKIMS Lace Cami, $118 Show Me Your Mumu Glam Time Shorts, $54 SKIMS Onesie, $61 Anthropologie LyreBird Eyelet Trim Boxer Shorts, $58 For Love & Lemons Poppy Gingham Boxer Short, $129 Sleep Dresses Abercrombie & Fitch Satin Nightie, $48 For Love & Lemons Venetia Slip Dress, $169 Anthropologie LyreBird Chiffon Lace-Trim Mini Dress, $118 Hill House Home The Lorelai Nightgown, $228 Coyuchi Women’s Isla Organic Cotton Night Dress, $98 Anthropologie BHLDN Cottage Cotton Nap Dress, $138 SKIMS Long Dress, $68 Slow Sunday June Nightie in White, $248 Robes For Love & Lemons Audrey Robe, $198 For Love & Lemons Chante Robe, $189 Birdy Grey Kenny Robe Matte Satin Terracotta, $14 Coyuchi Women's Isla Organic Cotton Robe, $64 Quince Soft Layered Turkish Cotton Robe, $70 Hill House Home The Hotel Robe, $178 Slippers Overland Women's Alyssa Sheepskin Scuff Slippers with Arch Support, $149 OluKai Kīpe'a Heu Women’s Fuzzy Slipper Sandals, $100 Overland Women’s Laine Shearling-Lined Leather Scuff Slippers, $149 Birdy Grey Murphy Slippers Cabernet, $16 Anthropologie UGG® Tasman II Slippers, $130 OluKai Hale Mule Women’s Mule Slipper, $100 Fall Loungewear Tops Splendid Georgie Lace Trim Pullover, $168 Splendid Georgie Short Sleeve Sweater, $138 SKIMS Shrunken Cardigan, $88 Varley Davidson Sweatshirt, $138 Goldie Tees Denim Wash Ruffle Sweatshirt, $175 Eberjey Cozy Time Mock Neck Pullover, $104 SKIMS Scoop Neck Long Sleeve Top, $58 Altar'd State Weekend Stripe Crew, $74 Abercrombie & Fitch Modal-Blend Lounge Rib Wrap Top, $40 Eberjey Pointelle Sweater Bralette, $98 SKIMS Classic Zip Up Hoodie, $108 Bottoms Splendid Georgie Rib Sweater Pant, $168 Helsa Janize Knit Pant, $268 Splendid Winslow Pant, $118 Abercrombie & Fitch Modal-Blend Lounge Rib Pant, $48 SKIMS Straight Leg Pant, $68 Goldie Tees Heathered Ruffle Sweatpant, $195 Gold Hinge Wide Leg Sweatpant, $79 Quince SuperSoft Fleece Wide Leg Pants, $46]]></content:encoded>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The New Cool Girl Can't Be Explained by the Algorithm]]></title>
      <link>https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/the-new-cool-girl-cant-be-explained-by-the-algorithm</link>
      <dc:creator>Taylor Ferber</dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[Make girls original again.]]></description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Look around. The girls are not alright. One swipe on Instagram, and you'll see an army of influencers so identical it's like a Mary-Kate and Ashley clone experiment gone rogue. That is, if you're not watching women crying in car confessionals while narrating every bad date like a congressional hearing. Or, young, attractive girls pushing bizarre get-rich-quick schemes that make you wonder if they need to blink twice for help. And this is on a good day. There's the relentless culture war with people ready to die on the hill that there is the one, and only one, correct way to be a woman. If things take a dark turn, you may also accidentally stumble into the corners of the TikTok momosphere where droves of women are throwing inanimate objects at you and declaring women like Lindsay Clancy their heroes . Just girls being girls, apparently! It's no wonder women are having an identity crisis. Gone are the days of the Valencia filter and strategizing your Top 8. Dollz Mania walked so the influencer with a ring light and an affiliate code could run. It's no wonder women are having an identity crisis. Their personalities are increasingly being chosen for them and fed through their devices all day long. In this copy-and-paste hellscape, you start to wonder if you're crazy when everyone dresses the same, reads the exact verbal cue cards, and is performing "authenticity" at just the right angle against a perfectly lit backdrop like they're shooting on the Paramount lot. In a world that reinforces and rewards this conformity, having an individual identity actually becomes radical. That's why the most empowered and, frankly, sexiest and boldest form of womanhood may now simply be developing a personality offline. But honestly, you didn't have to be Miss Cleo to see this coming. I was in the epicenter when and where this all took shape: Hollywood. When I interviewed Brooklyn Nine-Nine star Stephanie Beatriz , she compared our Kardashian-aesthetic obsession to junk food. We knew it wasn't good for us, maybe it made us feel crappy afterward, but we couldn't stop reaching into the bag for one more bite. The difference was that back then, we could see an influencer's surgically enhanced ass poking our eyeballs through the screen, scratch our heads, and move on with our day. Today, the glass separating what we consume from who we become is essentially gone. Apparently, no one took notes when Harry Potter magically made the glass wall disappear at the zoo. Because now we're inside. We are the zoo. Today, the glass separating what we consume from who we become is essentially gone. My conversation with Marvel star Olivia Holt suggested she could already feel it happening. "It's a lot," she told me. "Especially when you're living in a world that's constantly picking at you and trying to make you different." Today, the algorithm doesn't just give inspiration like a Tumblr feed with emo songs minding its own business. It works overtime dictating exactly how to date, vote, decorate a kitchen, or describe your trauma to people who never asked. Nail the hook, and the machine may toss you a few thousand extra views for being your favorite influencer's best understudy. Yes, women have always had questionable influences. Ultrathin supermodels. Sexually suggestive pop stars. Reality stars turning humiliation porn into a business model. Still, there was an unspoken separation. Britney Spears was my idol. I didn't actually believe I was Britney Spears. There's a difference between having influences and being manufactured by influence. The Stepford Wives apocalypse hits different when you hold it up to a treasure we just lost. Dolly Parton was the epitome of the true original woman. Long before influencer feeds or personal-brand consultants, she built an identity so sacred and singular that no trend report could have reverse-engineered it. She was big hair and bigger boobs. A generational talent with sharp business savvy, deep generosity, and a nearly 60-year marriage she largely kept private. She famously modeled her look after the "town tramp" everyone else, including her mom, considered trashy. The world told her what a woman like that represented, yet she saw beauty and freedom and claimed it. No amount of Barbara Walters' vibe checks would change that. Dolly was her own woman. She intuitively understood that femininity can be maternal, sensual, ambitious, domestic, intellectual, irreverent, and contrarian… and sometimes all before noon. She never asked for validation. That is the true antithesis to algorithmic identity. It's the blueprint, or sheet music, for the true cool girl. The modern cool girl doesn't need the internet to hand her a script. She can admire other women without actually becoming them. She can confidently live against the grain, or enjoy something simply because… she likes it. The best part? She doesn't need validation or permission from anybody. The world does not need another perfectly curated female specimen. When I was young, my mom gave me a card that said, "Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken." It always spoke to me. Now it's like a rallying cry. Because when you are genuinely different, the world will do everything in its power to talk you out of it. It'll scrutinize, shame, and slap you on the wrist with disapproving hot takes and shadow bans. It'll make you question everything. That's why the most powerful thing you can do now as a woman is reject the algorithm's authority altogether. To truly step away, disconnect (after reading Evie , of course), and be your own person when no online tribe is applauding. The world does not need another perfectly curated female specimen. It needs more women who simply won't be defined by the algorithm. Women who set their own rules. And make everyone else catch up.]]></content:encoded>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[I Didn't Expect to Like Milan Until I Stayed at the Grand Hotel et de Milan]]></title>
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      <dc:creator>Brittany Martinez</dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[I wasn't particularly looking forward to Milan.]]></description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[We landed after a red-eye Emirates flight wearing the gray, baggy sweatpants they give you onboard, which felt totally acceptable until we stepped into the lobby of the Grand Hotel et de Milan . Suddenly, I felt very underdressed. It was one of the most beautiful hotel lobbies I'd ever seen. An old-world European hotel you simply can't find in the States. Marble, antiques, soaring ceilings, and a wrought-iron staircase winding upward through the hotel. It was effortlessly glamorous. Before this trip, most of my associations with Milan weren't particularly romantic. I had never been, but friends who had modeled there had supplied me with enough strange stalker stories over the years to make me slightly apprehensive. My husband had visited before and hadn't particularly cared for the city either. Within about 24 hours, both of us had completely changed our minds. Like Los Angeles or NYC and any city that can be luxurious or totally sketch based on the street you're on, it turns out Milan is very much about where you stay, and the Grand Hotel et de Milan might have one of the best locations in the city. The Hotel Where Verdi Lived When we arrived, the hotel manager began telling us about the history of the property, which has been open since 1863. The most famous resident was Giuseppe Verdi, the legendary Italian composer behind La Traviata , Rigoletto , Aida , and Otello . Beginning in 1872, Verdi made the Grand Hotel et de Milan his home in the city for 27 years. The reason becomes obvious when you walk outside: La Scala is only 674 steps away . The next day, we made essentially the same walk Verdi would have made between his hotel and one of the most famous opera houses in the world. Not only that, I'm pretty sure we stayed in the suite where Verdi actually lived. His suite has been preserved , including his personal writing desk, and the hotel's relationship with him became so deep that Milanese residents eventually referred to it as the "house of Verdi." After the 1887 premiere of Otello at La Scala, the celebration apparently followed him home. An ecstatic crowd removed the horses from his carriage and pulled it back to the hotel themselves. Verdi eventually appeared on his balcony with tenor Francesco Tamagno, who gave the crowd an impromptu encore. Years later, when Verdi was dying at the hotel, crowds gathered outside waiting for updates on his condition. The city reportedly covered Via Manzoni with straw to soften the sound of passing carriages so they wouldn't disturb him. That gives you an idea of both Verdi's place in Italian culture and the hotel's place in Milan. And he wasn't the only one. Maria Callas stayed here. So did Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn. Enrico Caruso stayed in Room 306. Richard Burton drank at the bar. Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka considered it her Milanese home. The hotel's guestbook reads like a history of 20th-century European culture. Some of the most talented creatives throughout history did come from Italy, after all. There was another piece of history sitting right in the lobby. A statue commemorates Emperor Dom Pedro II of Brazil, who stayed at the hotel with Empress Teresa Cristina in 1888. Dom Pedro was an abolitionist, and during his stay in Milan, he promoted the legislation that would finally abolish slavery in Brazil. What I love about Italy is the fact that you can easily walk past something extraordinary without realizing what you're looking at. Milan Is Better When You're in the Middle of It The location also changed my impression of Milan itself. The Grand Hotel sits on Via Manzoni in the Montenapoleone district, essentially putting you in the middle of the Milan you imagine from fashion magazines. Via Montenapoleone begins practically outside the hotel. La Scala is a few minutes away. Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II is nearby. And you're surrounded by some of the best shopping in the world. One minute you're looking at Dolce & Gabbana; the next you're running into Mango. For me, a city girl at heart who thrives in walkable cities surrounded by beauty, this is ideal. I also found a Biologique Recherche treatment nearby and had an incredible facial for considerably less than I would have paid for the equivalent treatment in New York. Milan is obviously one of the fashion capitals of the world, but the combination of fashion, beauty, restaurants, architecture, and walkability made the city much more fun than I had expected. We even walked from the hotel to the Duomo. Would I necessarily recommend doing that in the summer heat with toddlers? No. There was probably a reason we seemed to be the only people attempting it. Was it worth it? Absolutely. After walking through Milan's streets and suddenly seeing that enormous Gothic cathedral appear in front of you, it's hard not to be impressed. And the views from the roof are extraordinary. One practical warning, though: cover your shoulders before entering the cathedral. Otherwise, as I discovered, you may find yourself handed an extremely unglamorous poncho at the entrance. Traditionally, in Catholic churches, you wore a skirt or dress past the knees and covered your shoulders. The Milan I Didn't Expect What surprised me most was how beautiful Milan felt. I had expected fashion and shopping. I hadn't expected to find the city so elegant, clean, and easy to enjoy. Staying in the right neighborhood meant we could walk out of our hotel and immediately be surrounded by beautiful architecture, cafés, restaurants, fashion houses, and centuries of cultural history. And the Grand Hotel et de Milan embodies that combination better than almost anywhere else. There are newer hotels. There are probably flashier hotels. But there is something special about sleeping in a place where Verdi once came home from La Scala, where Maria Callas descended the staircase before performances, and where generations of artists, actors, dancers, designers, and aristocrats have passed through the same lobby. I'm a creative at heart. It also made me realize we'd judged Milan unfairly the first time around. We were only there for a couple of days, but I wish we had had more time. If you love fashion, beauty, beautiful restaurants, old European hotels, and being able to walk out your door into the middle of everything, Milan deserves more than a layover. And if I went back, I know exactly where I'd stay.]]></content:encoded>
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      <title><![CDATA[It's Blair Waldorf Fall: Here's How to Dress Like the Queen Bee]]></title>
      <link>https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/its-blair-waldorf-fall-heres-how-to-dress-like-the-queen-bee</link>
      <dc:creator>Emilee Janitz</dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[The days are getting shorter, the mornings a bit cooler, and we can practically hear the spiced lattes beckoning to us from every coffee shop we pass. ]]></description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[As we put a bow on summer, those of us packing away our Nantucket-esque , coastal grandma wardrobes are not-so-secretly rejoicing: Fall, the best season for polished, Northeast-inspired dressing , is upon us. And this season, we're taking inspiration from our favorite Upper East Sider. Whether you've read the book series, were obsessed with the show in the late aughts, or are simply an innocent bystander, you know the cultural impact of Gossip Girl is hard to deny. While I'll admit I only just started watching the show for the first time last fall (and was immediately waylaid by the arrival of my third baby—please don't tell me who Gossip Girl is!), I was instantly entranced by the show's fashion. Both Serena and Blair were poignantly set up with specific, personality-matching, covetable wardrobes right from episode one. While it's hard not to love Serena's effortless, cool-girl vibe (I'm still questioning whether or not I can pull off a tie), Blair's style is more put-together and, arguably, better suited for "the real world." Despite the character's age, her style is mature and classic, and New York to its core. With the prep-school backdrop and reliance on collegiate, yuppie pieces—from plaid dresses to pleated skirts, and the hallmark headband—Blair Waldorf style is particularly on point during the fall. Between street fashion's enduring obsession with Ralph Lauren-esque preppy style and the recent announcement of the upcoming sequel book, "Blair," the Queen Bee will be the official style icon of the upcoming season. If you're looking to channel her legendary aesthetic, here are some key considerations. This article may contain affiliate links or paid partnerships. We may earn a commission or compensation at no extra cost to you. All products are chosen independently by our editorial team and reflect our genuine recommendations. How to Dress Like Blair Waldorf Pick Tailored Pieces Blair's ability to always look put together can be credited to the expert tailoring of her pieces. She dresses conservatively, but in a feminine manner that flatters her figure. If you want to dress like Blair this fall, ditch oversized sweaters and flowy bohemian layers—those are much more Serena-coded. Instead, grab body-skimming knits, structured dresses, and fitted suiting separates. Add a Headband The Queen Bee is known for her puffy headbands. Reminiscent of a literal crown, these headpieces are practical for the ambitious woman who is constantly dominating the world around her and can't be dealing with hair falling into her face. Bonus: They instantly add a sense of polish to any outfit. Lean Into Elevated Accessories Just as covetable as her clothing pieces are Blair's accessories. Aside from her headbands, Blair is often seen wearing tights and carrying a structured, top-handle bag. Knee-high socks are also prep-school-inspired must-haves that you can wear on repeat with tall boots, Mary Janes, and your favorite skirts and dresses. Brooches are a trendy accessory that adds subtle luxury. Grab Classic Textures You don't have to have a Waldorf budget to make your outfits feel expensive. An easy way to accomplish this is by focusing on texture and material. A little intention goes a long way. Choose natural fibers and materials whenever possible, with heavy emphasis on tweed, silk, leather, and suede. Opt for Classic Fall Patterns Spotted: Plaid and argyle everything. Whether it's a full-print dress, an eye-catching accessory, or a cozy sweater, reaching for classic autumnal prints can instantly add that seasonal posh to your OOTD. The Cutest Pieces for a Blair Waldorf Fall Blair's closet is vast. But there are a few key pieces we see her wearing time and time again: blazers, mini skirts, tights, headbands, structured bags, and collared tops and dresses. If you're looking to add Upper East Side panache to your wardrobe this fall, these Blair-approved selects are worth your attention. Aritzia Scone Silk Dress This silk dress is darling. Wear it on a warm fall day with flats or layer with a blazer when the temperatures start to dip. Buy now, $168 Edikted Two in One Collared Sweater Dress Put together without sacrificing comfort. This two-in-one sweater dress would be the perfect base for an easy wear-to-work 'fit. Buy now, $79 Abercrombie & Fitch Merino Wool Blend Layered Collared Sweater Mini Dress I love a piece that balances comfort and prep. Style this mini dress with your favorite boots or loafers. Buy now, $96 Tanya Taylor Barton Dress From the plaid print to the shiny embellishments, it's not hard to imagine Blair romping around New York in this little number. Throw on a pair of tights and flats and take the city by storm. Buy now, $695 Abercrombie & Fitch Scarlett Wool Blend Mini Skort The brown check version of this mini skort screams elevated equestrian. Style with kitten-heel boots and a crisp trench. Buy now, $45 Tuckernuck Black Taffeta Embellished Camila Mini Skirt If Blair were strutting the streets of NYC today, I have a feeling she'd be on board with the bubble-hem revival. This option is elevated by its romantic waistline embellishment. Buy now, $81 Abercrombie & Fitch Pleated Tailored Mini Skort The pink detail grants a girlish touch to this fall staple. Wear it with a pair of tights and a turtleneck top. Buy now, $56 Abercrombie & Fitch Nipped Waist Suiting Blazer Grab the matching blazer and you'll be ready to dominate your campus, city, or whatever your respective domain may be. Buy now, $104 Aritzia Dolly Skort This low-rise micro skort serves back-to-school energy. Layer over a pair of opaque tights for that true Gossip Girl aesthetic. Buy now, $98 Gap Factory Relaxed Rugby Polo Shirt You can't have a preppy, East Coast fashion season without rugby polos. Style under a suede jacket or favorite blazer. Buy now, $35 Quince Washable Stretch Silk Tie Neck Blouse Tie-neck blouses are classically feminine. This blouse would be the perfect professional base for layering beneath your favorite jackets and sweaters this fall. Buy now, $90 Splendid x @Chrisellelim: The Chriselle Tee & Scarf Set Wear the set as-is under a blazer, or let the scarf pull double duty tied to the handle of your tote. Buy now, $78 Quince Embroidered Cotton Ruffle Collar Long Sleeve Blouse Peter Pan collars are often associated with polished, "twee" style. This blouse is a versatile top that can be dressed up for the office or dressed down for a trip to the pumpkin patch. Buy now, $60 Reformation Cove Cashmere Oversized Crew Argyle experienced a resurgence last fall, and it's not going away anytime soon. Pair with skirts or tailored mini shorts. Buy now, $328 Abercrombie & Fitch Sunday Shrunken Patchwork Cardigan Want to be on the nose? This patchwork cardigan is a love letter to the Big Apple. Pair it with a sleek headband and a mini skirt to keep the look feminine. Buy now, $68 Quince Scuba Captain's Convertible Blazer Aspiring to dress like Blair Waldorf means having at least one Ivy school-esque blazer hanging in your closet. Style with dresses and mini skirts to bring the aesthetic home. Buy now, $100 Mint Velvet Burgundy Checked Single Breasted Blazer Throw it over a tie-neck blouse and a pleated skirt for a look that's Blair through and through. Buy now, $385 Tanya Taylor Carlisle Reversible Coat In the show, Blair rocks a coat very similar to this offering from Tanya Taylor. Just looking at it makes me want to grab a cup of hot cider and do a bookstore crawl. Buy now, $895 J. Crew Soho Car Coat Retro and relaxed, drape this cotton coat over all of your favorite fall outfits to protect them from the elements. Buy now, $378 Overland Yvette Sheepskin Coat This one's a splurge, but a good sheepskin coat is a decade-long investment, and you'll reach for it every cold morning until it's genuinely worn out. Buy now, $1,595 Splendid Lucia Fur Scarf Drape it over a camel coat or a black blazer and let it do all the talking. Buy now, $54 Nordstrom Rack Bujou Puffy Braid Headband As we've covered, the headband is Blair's favorite accessory. This affordable option looks more expensive than it is. Buy now, $32 J. Crew Factory Pearl Beaded Headband Classy girls wear pearls. Don't be afraid to wear them long after summer has passed. Buy now, $20 Quince Mongolian Cashmere Beret Tilt it back off your forehead and pair it with a collared coat for the kind of look Blair would wear to brunch. Buy now, $32 Leatherology Kress XL Tote Bag A Blair-coded bag is oversized and structured. This XL tote from Leatherology will quickly become your favorite work carry-all. Buy now, $375 Mulberry Bayswater Heavy Grain Bag If there's one wardrobe splurge that is easy to justify, it's an heirloom-quality bag. This classic shoulder bag comes in an array of beautiful colors. Buy now, $1,695 Calzedonia Floral Lace Tights The NYC school queen is constantly styled with tights. This feminine pair from Calzedonia would look chic styled under a neutral dress. Buy now, $37 Calzedonia Matt Soft Comfort Coverings Red Tights If you didn't hop on the red tights trend last year (or the year before), now's your chance. Personally? Blair's red-tight-micro-short outfit lives rent-free in my mind. Buy now, $17 Madewell The Jamie Boat Shoe Boat shoes are not only practical but have become synonymous with sporty chic. Grab a pair and wear them with straight-leg denim or your favorite mini skirt. Buy now, $100 Vivaia Margot Mary Jane Flats Cap-toe shoes are on deck to be a must-have this fall. This pair from comfort-acclaimed Vivaia delivers on prep and will match with almost every outfit you own. Buy now, $139 Burberry Check Canvas Highgate Ballerinas Bow-adorned flats are a feminine staple that will never go out of style. A plaid-bearing pair is especially aligned with Miss Waldorf's wardrobe. Buy now, $695 Splendid Bella Suede Ballet Flat in Wine Wear them with sheer black tights and a plaid mini for the most Blair-coded outfit in your closet. Buy now, $109 Reformation Calista Slingback Heel City fashion doesn't shy away from a bold shoe. A spotted slingback is eye-catching without being brash. Buy now, $298 Structure and Prep It can be easy to get lost in the details when you're channeling a style muse. But it's less about making a checklist of outfits to recreate and more about channeling a general pattern and mood. If your fall outfitting goal is to draw inspiration from Blair Waldorf, opt for structured pieces that deliver on prep and class. Collared tops, plaid dresses, leather handbags—you know you love it. XOXO]]></content:encoded>
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