From the Group Chat: Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau, and "Nobody Wants This"

EDITOR’S NOTE

Happy Sunday. Fellow single people, as we approach cuffing season, allow me to remind you that the grass isn’t always greener. Case in point: Apparently it’s David Beckham’s fault Victoria Beckham always looks “miserable.” I, for one, don’t want to look miserable this fall, I want to look like an Olsen. Or wait, is that Jennifer Lawrence? Either way, I need this whole outfit. Other things I currently need/want?

• This HGTV addition to Bachelor Nation that asks the age old question: What if all of these hot people renovated a house together?

• A dog —  mostly to dress in one of these outrageous(ly perfect) Oscar de la Renta dog bows.

• And a certain someone’s  bright orange, hands-free murse that holds nothing — but gives everything. 

— Jamie Feldman / Writer, Culture and Lifestyle / Brooklyn, NY

👗 Don’t panic, but the bridesmaids-dress material of your nightmares might actually have a place in your closet this season.

💃 Wondering how people are pulling off this colored-tights trend? Here’s an easy place to start.

💇‍♀️ Attention, millennials who never caved to Gen Z’s hair shaming: Your time to gloat has come. 

🍁 Call your mom and apologize: The outfit she forced you to wear on school picture day might be your new fall wardrobe staple. 

👖 If wide-leg denim doesn’t work for you, and you are (correctly) a hard no on the skinny jean renaissance, allow us to introduce you to “Goldilocks jeans.”

What happens when you cast a handful of the most famous models of the ’90s and 2000s, do bizarrely little advance publicity, and then send them down the runway in high-difficulty, medium-taste underwear? An actually good Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. From the moment Jasmine Tookes, nine months pregnant and outfitted in little more than a pearl-adorned shell opened the show, this was not the spectacle we scratched our heads through last year. It was more like a party (with all of the most popular girls from high school) where everyone is asked legitimately interesting questions about life and motherhood. (Irina Shayk’s response about her postpartum experience should be studied.) Even something that could have been gimmicky, bringing on professional athletes — WNBA star Angel Reese made her debut in a rose bikini and giant boa, while Olympic gymnast Sunisa Lee sported a pair of shorts too small for, really any activity but, OK, sure! — felt fun, not forced. 

This renaissance is no doubt thanks to VS’s new creative director, Adam Selman, the designer who once (barely) dressed Rihanna in this iconic naked gown and vowed to deliver a much more “joyful” VS show this time around. But is it all too late? Maybe not, according to the high-fashion outlets that flooded our feeds with literal up-to-the-minute, live updates. Also, the guest list was stacked, featuring a notably covered-up Sarah Jessica Parker, Chloë Sevigny looking like a cupcake (complimentary), and at least two very supportive celebrity husbands. (One handed out endometriosis awareness ribbons. Really.) If nothing else, it’s refreshing to see Victoria’s Secret take itself less seriously and lean into its true identity: the kitschy mall standby where we once choked on noxious body spray with our friends while rummaging through bins of five-for-$25 underwear. What a time.

Despite the fact that we haven’t heard a peep about them in months, space explorer Katy Perry and Little Potato (Justin Trudeau) are rumored to have “quietly” been an item since the summer. The two were recently spotted kissing on her yacht by a group of unwitting whale watchers (apparently his tattoos gave them away). Guess Katy didn’t get the ick after watching him attempt to sing along to “Firework,” after all. He has reportedly been pursuing her since. “Figuring out his life now that he is no longer prime minister of Canada” evidently includes exploring their “supersized attraction” on a yacht. Relatable.

Gwyneth Paltrow, the woman you are. Not in the loop enough to know who Timothée Chalamet is dating, but just enough to deliver a scathing critique of her own biography. Yikes.

Nobody Wants This? More like everybody wants this — which might explain why, in what feels like record time, Netflix is releasing another season of its hit rom-com series about an unlikely match between a hot rabbi and a sex podcaster (mark your calendar for Thursday). Season 2 picks up after Noah (Adam Brody) seemingly abandons his lifelong dream of becoming his synagogue’s head rabbi to shack up with his petite shiksa goddess, Joanne (Kristen Bell). But, in what will be a surprise to no one who watched season 1, there are still many big questions the couple needs to answer — most posed by their overbearing families. Will they get married? Will they have babies? Will those babies live without Santa Claus? And, right, what about the whole religion thing? TBD, but seeing as the show is based on the real-life love story of creator Erin Foster and a man who is very much her husband, we have a feeling we know how it ends. But with the promise of Leighton Meester as Joanne’s middle school nemesis, a Succession reunion (hi, Stewy), and a couple Girls alums joining the production team (perhaps they can workshop the show’s problematic stereotypes), we’re happy to be along for the ride — and the hot rabbi memes.

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