Sometime between Reconstruction, this episode of MTV: True Life, and the hundred-thousandth wedding held on a plantation in South Carolina, the term Southern Belle became just another friendly identifier to put in your Twitter bio, a throwaway regional label no weightier than Cali Surfer Dude. But the difference…
Actress Blake Lively and Editor-in-Chief of American Vogue Anna Wintour attend God's Love We Deliver, Golden Heart Awards on October 16, 2014 in New York City.
Earlier this week, Blake Lively's Preserve posted an ode to the antebellum Southern belle, worthy of a teen circa 1915 who just loved all the pretty dresses in Birth of a Nation. Turns out part of the paean looks a lot like an article from Examiner.com. We checked the rest of the site and found another damning…
Notably attractive and fecund humans Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively announced today that they are expecting a baby in early 2015. And the mad speculation has already begun: what will the baby look like?
Amanda Bynes has landed in New York City and is once again acting particularly Bynesian.
It had to happen sometime. The bees have turned on Blake Lively.
Marie Claire's upcoming September cover story on lifestyle shamaness Blake Lively cuts right to the hard-hitting questions—namely "Do you seriously want 30 kids of your own?" The answer may shock you. I mean, it probably won't BUT IT JUST MIGHT.
According to LinkedIn, they're hiring!
The opinions held by many women about Blake Lively's new lifestyle URL Preserve could probably be boiled down to calling it a "silly blog for rich ladies." But the site also boasts a growing section of items for men. Who are these men and what do they think of Gwyneth 2.0's prospects of success?
Normal People often bristle at the notion that celebrities, whose job requires them to have zero life skills, have suddenly discovered basic life skills, adopted them as hobbies, and feel qualified to teach the masses how to be better at doing the stuff they were already doing via a lifestyle blog.
The internet can be a mean, slap-fighty place of quibbles and pedants and outrage and backlash. But every so often, something happens that is so roundly mocked by the blogosphere that it unites all voices in a chorus of rueful snickers for one blissful moment of bitchy harmony. The launch of Blake Lively's silly…
On this blessed afternoon of July 21, 2014, the gates of heaven themselves have opened to bestow upon us answers to several of the questions that have been tormenting us, as a people, for weeks now. Questions such as, "What is a 'Preserve'?" and "But how do I achieve a curated life?" and "Can I pull off a…
This year, Reese Witherspoon and Blake Lively joined the likes of Gwyneth Paltrow, Jessica Alba, the Kardashians, and Rachel Zoe in launching their own celebrity lifestyle brands, with the hopes that from them, those of us who don't know How to Live can learn. But surely they're not the only ones with the wide base of…
Blake Lively is on the cover of Vogue for the third time. In the accompanying interview, we learn a lot about her burgeoning lifestyle brand ("Preserve"), as filtered through the lens of the magazine's sense of smug and slightly inscrutable fashion-whimsy.
I was just thinking the other day: Boy, I sure wish I had another out of touch celebrity lifestyle website to browse through and weep openly at all the things I can't afford. Thankfully, Blake Lively will be filling that void with her new lifestyle site, "Preserve."
You know what's more lucrative than being an actress in Hollywood? Being an actress with a lifestyle company. And it's not just because such ventures are good for said actress's wallet, but because it gives her something to do when her acting career has floundered.
Some stunning gowns floated down the red carpet over the weekend at the Cannes International Film Festival. Oh you haven't heard? The real show — the real drama — is not on a screen in a theater.
What is this. I mean, I know it's Chanel but WHAT IS IT.
Hey Internet. I think we need to talk about what's been happening since it was announced on Friday that Kim Kardashian and Kanye West finally got their much coveted Vogue cover.
In news that you will make you think Willy Wonka is behind all those vast global media conspiracies we keep telling you are just 'silly,' Gossip Girl thespian and perfect dress wearer Blake Lively says NOPE, when it comes to her famous figure, she doesn't exercise or train or diet or count calories or get illegal…
