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The Matriachy

WInner of The Rising Star Award

Who Stars in Amazon’s ‘Fallout’ TV show?

Taylor Swift

Surpasses Michael Jackson in Highest Grossing Concert Film

Ella Purnell

02 Suits of the Week: Argent

Trendy plus size wear to work clothes.

04 Greta Gerwig’s Success With ‘Barbie’ Movie

On bringing a ‘Barbie’ sequel to the big screens.

06 Taylor Swift’s Era Tour

The highest grossing tour of all time and first ever to hit. $1 Billion.

12 Perspective: Future Female On Women in design.

14 Ella Purnell Talks Fallout

16 Cynthia Sifa Mulinga The artsy vanguard 2023-2024.

08 Gen Z Prefers Dates are digital

10 HAUS LABS By Lady Gaga Gaga’s first TikTok ad campaign.

18 Five Things You Should always buy at the Grocery Store Tired of buying unessesary stuff?

20 Without Women The Novel Would Die .

Suit of the Week: Corporette, For Overachieving Chicks.

A performance of “Sorin: A Notre Dame Story” at Washington Hall on the first day of the “Golden Is Thy Fame” event in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the admission of women undergraduate students at Notre Dame.

Greta Gerwig on a ‘Barbie’ Sequel: “If I find the undertow, we get it. If I don’t, there’s no more.”

By: Jaden Thompson

At the West Hollywood Edition on March 6, where Greta Gerwig was honored as one of Time’s Women of the Year, the record-breaking director spoke to her artistic process and the possibility of a “Barbie” sequel. “My North Star is ‘What do I deeply love? What do I really care about? Like, ‘What’s the story underneath this story?’” she said. “And I think with ‘Barbie,’ the story underneath this story was I loved Barbie. remember going to Toys R Us and looking at Barbies and I loved their hair. And I loved everything about them and my mom was not sure about it. I And I find that’s the story, that’s the generational story…

I’m always trying to find those undertows.” Whether or not she will continue to explore the world of Mattel is dependent on her discovering another fascinating tension like that. When asked about a sequel she said, “If I find the undertow, then we get it. If I don’t find an undertow, there’s no more.”

Though she couldn’t offer a definite answer, she added, “It’s something that I loved making so much. And I loved the world that we built so much and all of the actors and the idea of getting to be with that group of people again is very exciting.”

In trying to ascertain what defines a Gerwig film, the writer-director doesn’t limit herself: ”The great thrill-

that I get is kind of figuring out how to build my wings on the way down. Just kind of leaping from the tallest thing I can find…I hope to make all different kinds of movies in my career, big and small. But I think they always have to have that element of adventure because it’s the way I get my kicks.”

Mitski is a mesmerizing study in movement and in Pedal-Steel Pop

By: Chris Willman

Mitski is such a cerebral record-maker that I didn’t expect to be coming away from her 2024 shows making proclamations that I might have just seen the best-choreographed tour of the year. But it’s true: Her run of three shows at L.A.’s Shine Auditorium was the kind of unexpected, advanced study in movement that couldn’t possibly be guessed just from listening to her records — the latest and best of which was last year’s pretty heady “The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We.”

Just to be clear, invoking choreography here doesn’t mean Mitski brought along a herd of backup hoofers, which would be unbecoming for an erstwhile indie-rocker, if de rigueur for the pop stars she may also be reasonably rated against now. The dancing is hers, all hers, as she singer spends her full 90 minutes on stage striking poses and being moved by the music in programmatic but viscerally engaging ways.

Taylor Swift’s ‘Eras’ tour becomes highest grossing concert film of all time, surpassing Michael Jackson.

By: Steven J. Horowitz

Taylor Swift is starting off 2024 with yet another historic milestone under her belt.

Following the release of “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” to United States theaters on October 13, Swift’s movie is officially the highest-grossing film in box office history among concert and documentary films with more than $261.6 million earned globally. The feat comes a week after “The Eras Tour” opened in China, with a tally of $8.7 million following its debut on December 31.

Among concert films, “The Eras Tour” becomes the highest-grossing ever, unseating previous record holder “Michael Jackson’s This Is It,” which opened in 2009 and grossed $261.2 million at the global box office.

Swift mania shows no signs of slowing down, as the pop superstar plans to resume her Eras Tour on Feb. 7 with a four-night stint at the Tokyo Dome in Japan. She’ll tour the world throughout the year, concluding the trek in Vancouver, BC in December.

Gen Z prefers first dates are digital instead of meeting IRL: “It’s efficient.”

By: Ben Coat

Dating digitally allows out potential weirdos quickly meet in the

allows people to weed quickly sans having to the flesh.

“The first whiff of a red flag, they’re gone,” said Wilson.

Of course, romantic Zoom sessions do have their downsides, notably the fact they might not give people an accurate impression of the real person.

“A lot of people in Gen Z, if they are on Tinder, Hinge, or Bumble, they also see multiple people at the same time,” declared Cycle. “So that’s why they might prefer Zoom dates because you could go on multiple dates in a day without leaving your house.”

HAUS LABS

By Lady Gaga

By Sara Spruch-Feiner

For its first-ever TikTok campaign and challenge, Haus Labs did not tap an agency to write a jingle about makeup. Instead, it leaned on its famous founder. The campaign, which launched on Monday, was spurred by a post by Gaga to her 7.7 million TikTok followers. It puts a spotlight on the brand’s newest launch, the Triclone foundation, which launched on September 8. The product has quickly become the brand’s No. 1 bestseller.-

“We knew we wanted to do something groundbreaking and fabulous for our groundbreaking and fabulous foundation. … TikTok is all about transformation, it’s all about a viral sound. It’s a place for authenticity that welcomes everybody, at all levels. We knew when we launched the foundation that our big bet, in terms of time and money spent [outside of product development], was going to be TikTok,” said Kelly Coller, Haus Labs’ CMO.

The Ultimate Womens College Hoops Quiz

Think you’re an expert on the Women’s Tournament? Try our quiz to see if you’re the GOAT of tournament trivia! Scroll down to see the answers (but don’t cheat!)

1) Which #16 seed was the only team to beat a #1 seed in the history of the women’s tournament?

2) In 2013, Louisville became the lowest seed ever to make it to the Championship game. What seed were they?

3) What year did the Women’s Tournament begin?

4) Which school has won the most women’s tournament championships?

5) True or False: A #15 seed has beaten the #2 seed in the first round of the tournament before.

6) In 2017, Baylor beat Texas Southern by the largest margin of victory in tournament history. How many points did Baylor beat Texas Southern by?

7) Which player has won the most Most Outstanding Player awards in tournament history?

8) In 2023, the LSU versus Iowa championship game became the most-viewed women’s basketball final in history. How many viewers tuned in?

Let’s just put it out there: the creativity of women has always been a driving force in design.

That’s not to say it wasn’t often hard to tell: when Walter Gropius launched his Bauhaus in 1919, his “new guild of craftsmen” (can we get a “craftspeople?”) included a majority of women students in its first class. Gropius quickly assigned them to the weaving studio, deeming them not suited for architectural design.

And yet they persisted: The women of the Bauhaus went on to contribute designs that have shaped the way we think about everything from textiles to furnishings to manufactured products for everyday life.

P e rspective: FutureFem a l e

I count myself fortunate to have been a female leader in design for more than two decades, and to have supported the advancement of other women personally as well as through the work of IIDA. In order to ensure a strong future for our industry, IIDA continues to provide vital sustenance for women leaders: strong networks both locally and nationally; inclusive community and mentorship; leadership opportunities through IIDA chapters and our International Board; and support and recognition for the work of small firms— which, in design, are often women-owned.

IIDA Executive Vice President and CEO, Cheryl S. Durst, Hon. FIIDA

Ella Purnell Talks New Fallout TV Series & Why She Loves Playing Women In

Survival Mode

Set in 2296, almost 200 years since civilisation was wiped out by a nuclear apocalypse, the series watches as three protagonists try to survive in an apocalyptic wasteland, where bottle caps are currency and finding fresh water that hasn’t been poisoned with radiation is an uphill battle. We follow Maximus (Aaron Moten) — a member of a militaristic faction dubbed the Brotherhood of Steel.

Then there’s The Ghoul (Walton Goggins) — a mutated survivor who’s spent a bit too much time with radiation. Finally, we’ve got Lucy (Ella Purnell) a cheery all-American Vault Dweller who has spent her entire life in an underground bunker community... until now.

For Ella Purnell, playing a character that is, in her words, “Ned Flanders in the apocalypse” was something that she couldn’t pass up, especially with the knowledge that minds such as Jonathan Nolan’s (Westworld) were at the helm. “As soon as I read the script, I knew I had to be a part of it,” Purnell told Refinery29 Australia in an exclusive interview. “I wanted to work with Jonathan. I wanted to play Ned Flanders in the apocalypse!”

“It’s only recently that we’ve seen women explore the same emotional depths as men,” Purnell says. “I love seeing women in survival dramas and seeing women sort of explore the very depths and the extent of what they’re capable of in desperation. Really getting into the nitty gritty of what survival means — you’re starving, you’re desperate, you’re exhausted. You’re not this together, pretty picture that films originally depicted women as.”

“I love seeing women in survival dramas and seeing women sort of explore the very depths and the extent of what they’re capable of in desperation.”

Purnell has already established herself well and truly in the dystopian universe. Many viewers will know her for her role as Jackie in the award-winning series Yellowjackets, which saw a bunch of teenagers bid for survival after a plane crash deep in the Canadian wilderness (warning: may contain cannibalism). But it’s not so much the post-apocalyptic genre that draws her to these projects (in fact, Purnell says that she’s “not a big post-apocalyptic genre fan”, shocking us all); it’s the idea of watching women in survival situations, and all the complexity that comes with that.

Usingpaint, charcoal, and collage, Mulanga builds up richly colored, densely referential images that place Black women in luxe, Dreamhouse-like interiors, surrounded by objects of consumerist desire and emblems of capitalist anxiety—each character seeking comfort, with varied results.

These days, Mulanga—like most of us—absorbs visual culture through a screen. She conducts image research on social media, following popular design accounts like Architectural Digest and Architecture Wave to source photos of upscale domestic spaces that she takes as the starting point for her paintings.

“The whole idea is to kind of slowly, softly pull the audience towards the work,” Mulanga explained. “The color pulls you in slowly. And then there’s these hints of surprises that you only see when you’re closer to it.”

“I used to work very fast when I started, but I think it got really exhausting,” she explained. “Recently I started to take actual breaks. And it really helps because, when I’m not making work, I either go see other shows, or just life in general really inspires my work.” Like her subjects, Mulanga is searching for peace and stability—on and off the canvas.

Wondering

what to buy at the grocery store? Our guide includes vegatables, seafood and pantry staples.

Wondering what to buy at the grocery store? Our guide includes vegatables, seafood and pantry staples.

1. Fruits and Vegetables

By: Jon Gal

By: Jon Gal

1. For most of us, a grocery store is the most convenient place to buy fresh produce such as fruits and vegetables. The only place to get fresher produce would be a farm, but that is rarely practical.

2. Pantry staples

2. We all need staples such as cereal, bread, milk and eggs. Getting such items online is difficult. For example, it is hard to browse cereal labels online. Bread is unlikely to be delivered fresh if ordered online, milk needs to be refrigerated continuously and eggs are

3.Meat and seafood

3. A butcher shop may not be convenient, but many grocery stores have a fresh meat counter where you can browse and select fresh meat and seafood and buy the best to bring home.

4.Frozen Foods

4. Shopping for frozen foods at a grocery store is great because there are few food safety concerns, and the items are unlikely to get spoiled and unfreeze on the drive home. Also, shopping at a grocery store gives us the benefits of a great selection, the ability to browse by appetite and read labels, and the freedom to buy exactly what.

5.Generic Products

5. Generic items such as rice, sugar and flour are best purchased based on the item’s quality and grade rather than brand. For example, there is a difference between the types of sugar, such as granulated sugar, brown sugar and raw sugar.

Without Women, The Novel Would Die

By: Johanna Thomas - Corr

The history of fiction has always been a history of women readers. From the 18th century, the novel itself was aimed at a new class of leisured women, who didn’t receive formal education in science or politics.

The male writers and critics who wrote and appraised the first novels legitimised the form, but Taylor says they “were quickly overtaken by women writers of sensation and romance fiction. Women took to it as a way of learning about other lives, fantasising about their own relationships and narratives that allowed them to challenge their own subordinate position to men.”

Emotional intelligence is something of which women are rightly proud. A woman will often be called upon to play the family peacemaker, to ease social relations, to mediate friendships. She might find in Emma Woodhouse or Dorothea Brooke, say, instructive examples.