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THE ERAS TOUR: LOS ANGELES, Night 3

Taylor Swift for The Eras Tour - Los Angeles Night 3 (August 5, 2023) Surprise Songs: Death By A Thousand Cuts & You're On Your Own, Kid

1. Versace, 2. Versace, 3. Roberto Cavalli, 4. Etro, 5. Roberto Cavalli, 6. Nicole + Felicia, 7. Ashish, 8. Ashish, 9. Alberta Ferretti, 10. Roberto Cavalli, 11. Jessica Jones, 12. Oscar de la Renta, 13. Zuhair Murad, 14. Zuhair Murad

[eye-in-hand]

The Morality of Art in the 21st Century

I've been struggling the last couple of years in feeling like I have to justify my art. Mostly in regards to the materials and products used, and its environmental impact. Without a doubt, life in the 21st century is riddled with questions about climate change, humanity's hand in the atmospheric changes, mass extinction and use of non-biodegradable materials. The mass industrialization of the 19th and 20th centuries lacked foresight, and the repercussions of the World Wars are still echoing.

Irregardless if I use digital or physical mediums, there will be a carbon footprint of some sort. I'm just one link in a very large chain. Either my electrical usage, or Internet usage, etc will lead to massive cables everywhere, noise pollution, the energy needing to be produced somewhere; Or the physical materials I use needed be taken from something somewhere, molded into something else, and then later decompose in a fashion that takes longer than the art itself lasted…

I've never seen the movie The Devil Wears Prada, but a scene from it was thrown at me from the mighty algorithms that control the world we live in, and it struck a chord with me.

Anne Hathaway's character Andrea Sachs is at some fashion store wearing a "cerulean blue" cardigan, and Meryl Streep's character Miranda Priestly comments on it. I'm assuming before this clip Andrea says she's not involved in the fashion industry.

Miranda: You go to your closet, and you select, I don't know, that lumpy blue sweater, for instance, but what you don't know is that that sweater is not just blue. It's not turquoise. It's not lapis. It's actually cerulean. And you're also blithely unaware of the fact that in 2002, Oscar de la Renta did a collection of cerulean gowns. And then I think it was Yves Saint Laurent wasn't it, who showed cerulean military jackets? […] And then cerulean quickly showed up in the collections of eight different designers. And then it, uh, filtered down through the department stores, and then trickled on down into some tragic Casual Corner, where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that blue represents millions of dollars and countless jobs, and it's sort of comical how you think that you've made a choice that exempts you from the fashion industry, when, in fact, you're wearing a sweater that was selected for you by the people in this room.

It’s hard to justify buying art supplies without feeling like I’m just contributing to a problem from a privileged position as someone who doesn’t have to work in a factory that makes the shit I use. The only art form I can think of that doesn’t waste or disturb the environment is oral stories. I don’t know if I can commit to that—and what about people who can’t speak? Or struggle to? Or just don’t connect with expressing themselves that way? Like nonverbal autistics for example. I’ve been stuck between unable to tell someone their art or medium of expression is wasteful, and believing in the selfishness that art requires both in time and materials. Art shouldn’t be a luxury few can afford, but there has to be a balance between that and our current art for consumption.

There isn't a singular answer… But lower population, more bio-degradable materials, less fear of death, less materialism… Who knows. I certainly don’t.

There’s an idea that when human cultures have down time, humans create. That art began to blossom after we started growing agriculture and settled into cities. IE, when we aren’t constantly working or trying to survive but. I would argue that’s not true. How many songs were created in the South while the slaves worked all day? How many folk stories were passed down through pre-history like the aboriginals’ stories? How much art has been made by nomadic cultures who never settled down with agriculture like in Siberia, or the Saami? Even in my own personal life. I found when I was homeless that talking, and being creative was entirely possible as I was literally starving and had no where to sleep.

So I don’t think that holds true. I do think when we have access to more resources, we can create a wider variety of things. This time we live in now, especially in the industrial world, is a very privileged time. We have more access to resources, and information than humans ever have had in our history. The art world is over-saturated, but at the same time, what a blessing that so many are able to express what makes them human.

It’s a double edged sword, and I don’t think I can take a singular stance on one side or the other.

Consumerism is a curse. I can commit to that idea. But that leads me down the rabbit hole of struggling to make money for myself doing what I love because I’m so uptight with the idea of selling my art, of doing art for money. It makes me feel ill. But I can’t work a normal job very well, for one I’m disabled as an autistic person, and regular jobs have always been really hard for me to keep, and two: I’m still contributing to consumerism, only, I’m not my own boss.

Something needs to change. But I don’t know how to help the tide turn, or if I even can. Should I just pull a George Carlin and watch the world burn from a distance? Despite my contributing to it? Not owning up to my share of the responsibility?

Of course it’s not up to one individual but if no one starts who will?

Is it even my responsibility? A solution often proposed is to buy organic, local things. I can't afford local sustainable things and why is it the responsibility of the poor to fix the mistakes of the rich and their corporations? My taking a shorter shower means null when compared to the amounts of waste the average factory pumps out every minute of every day. How responsible am I as an individual for the climate vs the factories and corporations that are actively ruining the planet in mass quantities. It’s not my fault that American companies out source to China because they can get a cheaper production price and it's not my fault that China has limited human rights and very little regulation. But am I endorsing it by complying with still using what comes from that? I won’t use things like Temu or Aliexpress because—sure they skip the middle man and sell directly from the factories—but they��re still selling from the factories. But I will buy things from Walmart with their art supplies doned with “made in Vietnam/Indonesia/China/other outsourced, underpaid, dehumanized working conditions country that my country exploits.” Even if it’s because I can’t afford more sustainable art supplies.

I won’t buy crystals because they’re mined unethically by workers (sometimes children) who are treated like shit, barely paid, and often die. But I will buy chocolate that exploits other places and other people.

Even when it’s things I need: clothes, food, etc. Someone is being exploited for my personal gain.

Humans live in a community, and our community is suffering as well as in a radically toxic relationship with our environment. A community is made of individuals, and therefore the responsibility is shared among them. Equally? No. But everyone has their piece.

It leads me to want to say I wish I could live with no impact. Unfortunately, everything, human or not, affects the world around it. Wanting to live with no impact is impossible but I feel so unjustifiably selfish. Having an impact is a reality I can’t escape from, and I need to stop trying to escape from it. So the real question is, how do I make amends with my impact?

I want to live my life happy with my choices and the style of which I’ve lead it, and that involves adhering to my morals and values—but am I being unrealistic? If I fully commit to never creating anything but oral art, will I just bring a world of suffering in silence with me? I don’t think ‘not creating’ or being unable to express myself in the ways that I feel called to is the answer. It leads to repression of self, and oppression when it spreads through the community. I can’t advocate for that, that’s not the example I want to be.

If I feel tremendous guilt every time I make art, do I expect others to feel that same guilt? If not, why am I holding so much of it?

[riverdalefashion]

What: Possible Match Oscar de la Renta Pleated Ottoman Shorts in Red (Sold Out)

Where: Chapter Nineteen: Death Proof

Worn With: GUESS Bra Top, Oscar de la Renta Shorts, Miu Miu Sunglasses, Steve Madden Heels, Sandro Leather Jacket

[ot3]

I'm curious ur take on what is a better way to handle sending a message at the met gala besides trying to boost marginalized people in the industry. Throwing red paint on the rich a la PETA v furs lol maybe we should bring that back. O ya apparently Billie Eilish made Oscar de la Renta swear off selling furs so I guess that's a W?

The point isn't that it's a bad way to send a message you could argue until your face is blue about whether or not wearing a custom gown at a yearly high fashion event notorious for being a display of wealth and opulence during a plague is either exactly where the message needs to be or whether its tasteless, performstive, and falling on deaf ears. You could make the case either way I honestly don't have an opinion on that aspect. the point is that Jesus christ this is really as strong of a message as LITERALLY ANYONE with a scrap of power is willing or able to put out.

Like think about it. This is the best we can do right now. Capitalism as a system has enabled the rampant spread of a disease resulting in four and a half million deaths. It is letting people lose their homes.as a punishment for getting sick. Everything is crumbling. Everyone is crumbling. The streets are cracking with the intensity of the heat theyre being hit with. The powerlines are exploding. New York is flooding. This is all a result of the failure of our governments to serve the common human interest. And no one with any power is even willing to say the system can be changed. Quite literally the best we can do right now is to have someone say "what if this fundamentally cruel system was slightly less completely stacked towards an elite minority who will bleed the rest of the world dry for fun."

I don't think anyone would ever be able to day in good faith that incremental changes aren't helpful or necessary but were not even really getting incremental change anymore because the incremental change is supposed to be a result of a compromise between two extremes. We do not have two extremes. Radical leftism gets you shot by the secret police. Radical right wing belief gets you a seat in the Whitehouse. Is this the best we can do? Is this all we can get? The suffering of the past two years has been LITERALLY unimaginable. The effects of this will show up in our grandchildrens dna, at the biological level. Everyone in the world is buckling under grief they aren't allowed to feel because we are still in the middle of the tragedy

And "tax the rich" is still a statement. Everyone always wants these big events to be an eye opener. How many millions of people will have to die before we can get there?

I cant think of a good way to send a message. I dont know if the message is the problem. I think the majority of people know something is wrong with the system. There aren't enough messages in the word to change the minds of the people who actually need to be convinced in order for things to change.

[sheniq]

André Leon Talley, Editor and Fashion Industry Force, Dies at 73 Called “a creative genius,” he was the rare Black editor at the top of a field that was mostly white and notoriously elitist. André Leon Talley, the larger-than-life fashion editor who shattered his industry’s glass ceiling when he went from the Jim Crow South to the front rows of Paris couture, parlaying his encyclopedic knowledge of fashion history and his quick wit into roles as author, public speaker, television personality and curator, died on Tuesday. He was 73. His death, after a series of health struggles, was confirmed by his friend Darren Walker, the president of the Ford Foundation. “André Leon Talley was a singular force in an industry that he had to fight to be recognized in,” Mr. Walker said, calling him a “creative genius” and noting his ability to craft a persona for himself out of “a deep academic understanding of fashion and design.” He was the receptionist at Interview magazine under Andy Warhol; the Paris bureau chief of Women’s Wear Daily under John Fairchild; the creative director and editor at large of Vogue under Anna Wintour. He helped dress Michelle Obama when she was first lady, was an adviser and a friend to the designer Oscar de la Renta, and became a mentor to the supermodel Naomi Campbell. He cast Ms. Campbell as Scarlett O’Hara in a shoot for Vanity Fair that reimagined “Gone With the Wind” with Black protagonists long before fashion woke up to its own racism. “With all his celebrity and globe-trotting he came in the best of times and he showed up in the worst of times,” Mr. Butts said. “He showed up to worship. He supported the church, he gave generously, and his friends loved him.” Mr. Talley, who was openly gay, lived alone and had little semblance of a romantic life, had no immediate survivors. @andreltalley #AndreLeonTalley https://www.instagram.com/p/CY6Bx9QLxkk/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Marciano Samira Bra Top

Oscar de la Renta Pleated Ottoman Shorts in Red

Sandro Star Motif Leather Jacket

Steve Madden Gonzo Heel in Blue Velvet

Kate Spade NY Cherry Bracelet

Miu Miu Round Retro Sunglasses

Hillberg and Berk Ilana Earrings

Dolce & Gabbana Sicily Backpack

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[dreamofstarlight]

Jackie's influence on fashion doesn't spoken about enough, I mean....Oscar de la Renta, Valentino, Chanel, Hubert de Givenchy writing a letter before his death about how Jackie was a tremendous help, Lilly Pulitzer, Tods shoes, Gucci, Big sunglasses, silk headscarves and so many others...icon.

The definition of a fashion icon!!!

[ingek73]

Pampered prince puts sun king in shade

Even the Queen is said to regard her son's demands as 'grotesque'

Stuart Millar and Jamie Wilson

Published: 03:14 Saturday, 16 November 2002

His lifestyle would seem extravagant to Louis XIV: a team of four valets so that one is always available to lay out and pick up his clothes; a servant to squeeze his toothpaste on to his brush, and another who once held the specimen bottle while he gave a urine sample. Step into the world of the Prince of Wales, a lifestyle so pampered that even the Queen has complained that it is grotesque.

As the storm of scandal which has engulfed the royal family since the collapse of the Paul Burrell theft trial continues unabated, attention is focusing on the vast households employed by senior royals to look after every aspect of their personal and public lives, and their role in bringing about the current crisis.

It is the 85-strong court of Prince Charles that has emerged most seriously discredited - with a growing number of MPs demanding to know how he can justify such a large staff - at least one of whom is accused of "fencing" gifts.

Archaic

At the end of a year that was being heralded as a triumph for the reinvented, modernised, scaled-down royal family, the unedifying reality revealed to the public this week is of a strictly hierarchical, archaic institution that has sneaked into the 21st century, rife with bullying, bitching, backstabbing, and general bad behaviour, while the prince turned a blind eye and on occasion even aided and abetted some of the excesses.

In the end it might not be the rape tape allegations that do the most damage. What will the British public think of an institution, already fabulously wealthy, that has servants carry out the most menial of tasks while others hawk its unwanted silverware around various shops for a pocketful of tax-free fivers?

Charles's supporters make much of the fact that the prince does not receive money from the civil list. Instead, his twin households at St James's Palace and his Gloucestershire home, Highgrove, are financed by the lucrative estate of the Duchy of Cornwall, his birthright as the male heir to the throne. According to the duchy's latest accounts, filed in the House of Commons library, the estate made a profit of £6.9m for the year to March 31 2000, when it was valued at around £308m. The prince admits that he lives well on the profit - on which he voluntarily pays 40% tax - and saves little of it.

The biggest expenditure, according to the accounts, is the full-time domestic and office staff of around 85, whose duties range from handling contacts with the 400 organisations with whom the prince is involved, to answering the 300,000 letters he and his sons receive every year.

It his lavish domestic staff which has caused most consternation. Compared with George Smith's claims in last week's Mail on Sunday that he was raped by a member of the prince's staff, the revelation that he was one of five valets who accompanied the prince on a trip to Egypt may not have registered high on the shock scale. The number of valets has since been reduced to four - two senior, two assistant - in the spirit of royal cuts, but the central concern remains: why exactly does one man need so many people to help him get dressed? According to Ingrid Seward, editor of Majesty magazine, the answer can be found in Charles's fondness for being fussed over.

The prince often changes his clothes five times a day. The discarded outfits, including £2,000 bespoke suits and handmade Turnbull and Asser shirts, are left strewn across the floor for one of the valets to pick up. It is then their job to make sure the clothes are washed and returned to the correct place in his mahogany wardrobes. Wherever he is in the world, Charles demands that at least one of the senior valets or two of the assistants are available around the clock to prepare his wardrobe.

Picking up his clothes from the floor is not the only menial task his staff are expected to perform. It emerged this week that the prince even gets one of his valets to squeeze his toothpaste on to his toothbrush (from a crested silver dispenser), while one of the more bizarre facts to emerge from the Paul Burrell theft trial was that when the prince broke his arm he even got his then head valet, Michael Fawcett, to hold his specimen bottle.

Unease

It is Mr Fawcett, since promoted to "personal consultant" to the prince, who has been causing most unease for St James's Palace. "I can do without just about anyone, except for Michael," Prince Charles is said to have told a friend. At an employment tribunal where former aide Elizabeth Burgess alleged she was the victim of racial and sexual discrimination from Mr Fawcett, she claimed that she had been advised not to bother complaining because Charles "adored" Mr Fawcett. Camilla Parker Bowles is understood to be a similarly enthusiastic fan.

Now Mr Fawcett has been accused of selling gifts given to the prince for cash, and keeping a cut. It has been claimed that as much as £100,000 as year has been added to Prince Charles's coffers as a result. So adept had he become at offloading unwanted goods - often, it is said, at shops holding the royal warrant - he became known as Fawcett the Fence. Sir Michael Peat, the prince's private secretary and the man heading the review of the fallout from the Burrell trial, has promised to investigate the allegations.

Charles does not limit his generosity to himself. Since she was publicly unveiled as the prince's partner, Mrs Parker Bowles has enjoyed a lifestyle, and wardrobe. While once her appearances required nothing more elaborate than old jodhpurs and green wellies, she now dresses in designer gowns - Valentino, Versace and Oscar de la Renta - and her clothing tab, picked up by Charles, has escalated accordingly. He also pays for the lease of a Vauxhall Omega and a chauffeur for her.

The Queen is reported to believe that the "amount of kit and servants he takes around is grotesque." But Her Majesty's household is no less extravagant. Last Christmas, during separate trips to Sandringham, Charles took three butlers, the Queen 11; he took four chefs, his mother 12.

The Queen also takes up to 50 staff on foreign trips, according to a report from the Commons public accounts committee on royal travel, published in July. After the death of the Queen Mother, it emerged that she had employed a massive household too, including a watchman to sit outside her bedroom door every night as she slept.

This 19th century-style entourage may not last much longer. MPs are calling for parliament to take a closer look at the size of the staff, and a pared-down House of Windsor is likely to be the most immediate consequence of the Burrell affair. "Trimming down the households would be a start," said Paul Flynn, Labour MP for Newport West. "Why anybody in this day and age needs that number of servants is completely beyond me. Even the president of the United States makes his own breakfast."

[justforbooks]

Cristóbal Balenciaga Eizaguirre was born on 21 January 1895. He was a Spanish fashion designer, and the founder of the Balenciaga fashion house. He had a reputation as a couturier of uncompromising standards and was referred to as "the master of us all" by Christian Dior and as "the only couturier in the truest sense of the word" by Coco Chanel, who continued, "The others are simply fashion designers". On the day of his death, in 1972, Women's Wear Daily ran the headline "The king is dead".

Since 2011 the purpose built Museo Balenciaga has exhibited examples of his work in his birth town Getaria. Many of the 1,200 pieces in the collection were supplied by his pupil Hubert de Givenchy and clients such as Grace Kelly.

Balenciaga was born in Getaria, province of Gipuzkoa (Basque Country). His father was a simple fisherman who died when Cristobal was a boy, and his mother a seamstress. As a child Balenciaga often spent time with his mother as she worked. At the age of twelve, he began work as the apprentice of a tailor. When he was a teenager, the Marchioness de Casa Torres, the foremost noblewoman in his town, became his customer and patron. She sent him to Madrid, where he was formally trained in tailoring. Balenciaga is notable as one of the few couturiers in fashion history who could not only use his own hands to create, but pattern, cut, and sew the designs which symbolized the height of his artistry.

Balenciaga was successful during his early career as a designer in Spain. He opened a boutique in San Sebastián in 1919, which expanded to include branches in Madrid and Barcelona. The Spanish royal family and the aristocracy wore his designs, but when the Spanish Civil War forced him to close his stores, Balenciaga moved to Paris. He opened his Paris couture house on Avenue George V in August 1937.

However, it was not until the post-war years that the full scale of the inventiveness of his highly original designs became evident. In 1951, he totally transformed the silhouette, broadening the shoulders and removing the waist. In 1955, he designed the tunic dress, which later developed into the chemise dress of 1957. In 1959, his work culminated in the Empire line, with high-waisted dresses and coats cut like kimonos.

In 1960 he made the wedding dress for Fabiola de Mora y Aragón when she married King Baudouin I of Belgium. The Queen later donated her wedding dress to the Cristóbal Balenciaga Foundation.

He created many designs for socialite Aline Griffith, diplomat Margarita Salaverría Galárraga, and designer Meye Allende de Maier, considering them his muses.

He taught fashion design classes, inspiring other designers including Oscar de la Renta, André Courrèges, Emanuel Ungaro, Mila Schön and Hubert de Givenchy.

His often spare, sculptural creations were considered masterworks of haute couture in the 1950s and 1960s.

Balenciaga closed his house in 1968 at the age of 74 after working in Paris for 30 years. He decided to retire and closed his fashion houses in Paris, Barcelona and Madrid, one after the other. Balenciaga died on 23 March 1972 in Xàbia, Spain.

Today the Balenciaga fashion house continues under the direction of Demna Gvasalia and under the ownership of the Kering.

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Thandie Newton wears Oscar de la Renta at the premiere of The Death and Life of John F. Donovan during the Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto, Canada on September 10, 2018 (Emma McIntyre/Getty)

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THE ERAS TOUR: ARLINGTON, Night 2

Taylor Swift for The Eras Tour - Arlington Night 2 (April 1, 2023) Surprise Songs: Death By A Thousand Cuts & Clean

1. Versace, 2. Versace, 3. Roberto Cavalli, 4. Etro, 5. Roberto Cavalli, 6. Zuhair Murad, 7. Ashish, 8. Ashish, 9. Alberta Ferretti, 10. Roberto Cavalli, 11. Jessica Jones, 12. Oscar de la Renta, 13. Oscar de la Renta, 14. Oscar de la Renta

[saintlaurentproblems]

Okay fashion question. If you can pick a designer for your wedding. Who would you go with? Am thinking classic Dior but. Worried it is done to death. Maybe de le Renta or Maxwell. I feel like they would make something new and refreshing.

Oscar de la Renta is my dream!!!

Maybe Monique Lhuillier too

[coolgirltactics]

I still get flashbacks of Meghan’s dress from variety last year. Homegirl treated us so wELL on the autumn tour and decided to treat us with that travesty. I’m mad bc her safiyah blue dress was beautiful then she pulls out thAT. First off how was she not freezing to death, the halter style and the skirt and everything omg no I wanna cry I’m imagining it already.

My thing was that skirt was cute and COULD have worked with the right top but that wasn’t it. And I don’t want to see that top come back, I want it burned with givency blouse, four of those blue dresses Kate has and that damn Oscar de la Renta outfit.

Meghan’s evening wear I feel like we all have to hold hands, make a prayer circle, and prepare for what comes. Which also makes it fun, because it’s exciting but my goodness, the misses are something. Like they’re really something. Those ladies are both gorgeous and thank goodness for that because some of these dresses are doing the most, in all the wrong ways.

[womenofcolor15]

Cardi B Nabs 1st VOGUE Cover (With Kulture)! Explains Why She Took Offset Back After Cheating & Why Social Media Drives Her Insane

Cardi B lands her very first VOGUE cover and she posed it up with her adorable daughter Kulture. In the cover story, the “Press” rapper explains why she decided to take Offset back after cheating (multiple times), why social media now drives her insane (although that’s how she got discovered), how she pushes through the balancing act of wearing so many hats and more. Get it all inside…

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Cardi B is closing out 2019 lighting up the magazine circuit! The “Press” rapper landed her first VOGUE magazine cover, which is the 4th and final cover of the January 2020 issue that features fearless moms. The Grammy Award winner tapped her 16-month-old daughter Kulture Cephus to join her in matching Michael Kors and Oscar de la Renta looks for the issue. Bardi also rocked some Zac Posen threads in her solo editorials. Swipe left, above to see them.

Inside, the “Clout” rapper opened up for the first time about why she decided to take her husband Offset back after cheating…multiple times. As you know, Offset embarrassed Bardi a few times with infidelity antics. Before they were married, video footage of the Migos rapper laid up in a hotel room with another woman leaked online after his phone was allegedly hacked in 2017.

Just 15-months after tying the knot, the “Be Careful” rapper hopped on Instagram and announced she was “single” a week before Offset released his debut album, FATHER OF 4. Days before her breakup announcement, alleged text messages leaked showing a friend of rapper Cuban Doll trying to set up a threesome with Offset, who was trying to fly them out.

Most recently, Tekashi 69's girlfriend Jade - the bartender who is suing Cardi for allegedly jumping her and her sis at work because the rapper thought Offset was cheating with her – shared a video of Offset hopping in her DMs on Instagram saying he missed her. The Cephuses then got on Instagram claiming his account was hacked and all.

Through it all, Cardi has remained a “ride or die” for Offset. The reason? She told VOGUE all relationships have issues and their marriage isn’t perfect.

“My thing is, everybody on social media acts like relationships is perfect,” Cardi explained. “And that’s crazy to me. I’m around so many women, and there’s always a woman talking about how she loves her man, but her man is not financially stable, or she has a problem with his mom, or the sex is not as good anymore. Everybody has issues.”

The Bronx native said she and the Atlanta rapper prayed about it and eventually came to a mutual understanding.

”I believe in forgiveness. I prayed on it. Me and my husband, we prayed on it. We had priests come to us. And we just came to an understanding like, bro, it’s really us against the world. He has my back for everything, I have his back for everything, so when you cheat, you’re betraying the person that has your back the most. Why would you do that? We have come to a clear understanding. For me, monogamy is the only way. I’ll beat your ass if you cheat on me.”

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  The “Bodak Yellow” rapper opened up about the social media scrutiny she received after taking her husband back so many times after publicly cheating on her.

“When me and my husband got into our issues—you know, he cheated and everything—and I decided to stay with him and work together with him, a lot of people were so mad at me; a lot of women felt disappointed in me,” she said.

“But it’s real-life shit. If you love somebody and you stop being with them, and you’re depressed and social media is telling you not to talk to that person because he cheated, you’re not really happy on the inside until you have the conversation. Then, if you get back with them, it’s like, how could you? You let all of us down. People that be in marriages for years, when they say till death do us part, they not talking about little arguments like if you leave the fridge open. That’s including everything."

The “Clout” rapper even explained why she decided to start a family with the Migos rapper even though he already had three kids by three different women.

”When I was pregnant with Kulture, a lot of people was like, oh, he has three kids already; why would you have a kid with somebody that have three kids? And it’s like, how is that such a bad thing? My dad has eight kids, and we all get along, and it feels better, fuller. And with Offset, I feel like his kids just bring a pop of fun to life when they’re in his house. I actually love it. It brings out a different side of him that I like to see, and I love to see my baby interacting with her siblings. The more the merrier.”

Whatever floats your boat.

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  Being a rapper, mom, wife, sister and daughter is a lot on Cardi, but she’s learning how to balance it all – although it’s not an easy task. Her husband Offset spoke to the publication about how she’s managing it all.

“It’s not an easy thing,” the Migos rapper said. “We both have our own households. But you grow. We’re way better now with communication. She’s balancing a lot. She feels like she can’t be absent a lot, and our jobs are crazy. But I think motherhood got her more focused. I always tell her, don’t follow the comments. But she’s been outspoken on things since before she was making music—she’s not ever putting on, she’s not ever being cool. At the end of the day, she’s still going to rap about the same shit, which is what it’s like being a woman.”

Cardi added, “Being a mom—how can I say it? Things are a little bit harder to balance, but it’s good for the mental. Like, if I’m playing with my daughter, I forget about the issues.”

As you know, Cardi B’s rise to fame came even before she starred on “Love & Hip Hop.” She had over 1 million followers on Instagram due to her infectious personality. Now, social media seems to be more of a burden for her these days.

“Social media really made me,” she says. “Before I got on Love & Hip Hop, I had millions of followers just off the way I speak. Just me talking. And that’s how I got discovered. But now social media makes everything hard.”

Bardi said she likes to surround herself with family and friends to keep her mind off social media.

“When I’m there [in her New Jersey apartment] by myself, a lot of thoughts go to my head, and when the thoughts go to my head, it just overwhelms me, and it puts me down, and it puts me on social media, and that drives me insane. So I just like to be where there’s a lot of people so I won’t be watching my phone.”

Not only is she feeling pressure from social media, she’s also feeling anxiety about her sophomore album, which she’s currently working on.

“The first time it was just me being myself,” she said. “I didn’t even care if people was gonna like it or not. When I found out I did so good, I’m like, is this a big number? Everybody was like, yes, this is a huge number. So it’s scary because it’s like, now you got to top your first album, and then it’s like, damn. I wonder if people are gonna relate to the new things, to the new life, to the new shit that I gotta talk about now. Music is changing. I feel like people just wanna hear twerk-twerk music, but it’s like, is that just a phase? I probably need a sexy song. I need a lot of turn-up songs. I need a slow song, a personal song. And those are harder for me—I always need help when it comes to talking about my feelings. It’s hard for me to be soft, period. So it’s a lot of thoughts, a lot of pressure. It’s really like a job.”

Welcome to the real entertainment world Cardi! The Sophomore curse is real, but push thru!

You can read her full VOGUE interview here.

In case you missed, peep Cardi’s 73 questions with VOGUE below:

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Ik you wrote it would be a mile long but could you please go a little bit more in detail about you favourite Chuck/Blair moments?

Okay, I’ll do my top 5 moments in more detail 😊

1) When Chuck says those 3 words, 8 letters to Blair for the first time, I can still remember being 15 and watching that moment for the very first time. I had been anticipating that moment since 2x01 and actually even before that. I remember being so emotional and happy and just flailing so hard when he finally said it and I still feel like that when I rewatch it. Blair pausing when she sees him standing there. Chuck telling her he went round Europe to purchase her favourite things. “I was a coward running away again. Everywhere I went. You caught up with me” GOD THAT QUOTE IS SO BEAUTIFUL AND STAYS SO TRUE TO CHUCK AND BLAIT THROUGHOUT THR SHOW!!! They could never escape each other. The smile on Chuck’s face when he says “I love you too.” It’s pure happiness and love. And the smile on Blair’s face too is the same. She has wanted so desperately to hear those words for so long. And then their kiss and Blair saying “but can you say it twice” ugh, while CB are one of the most heartbreaking and angsts ships, they also have so many adorable moments!!!

2)Their moment at the Paris train station is seriously one of the most heartbreaking and beautiful scenes ever. THE CINEMATOGRAPHY! Blair’s iconic Oscar De La Renta dress! 👏🙌 Ed and Leighton’s acting here is incredible. “You’re world would be easier if I didn’t come back.” “But it wouldn’t be my world without you in it.” This line kills me. Chuck caused Blair so much hurt and pain but she can’t bare a world without Chuck.

3) Their scene at the hospital in 3x12, again, sensational acting from Ed and Leighton. The song “Too Late” by M83 playing in the background gives me chills. Chuck couldn’t help pushing Blair away all day because he couldn’t handle the anniversary of his father’s death and he had wanted to prove Bart wrong and show him he’s not weak, so he didn’t want to appear vulnerable on this day. Now here he’s finally opening up to Blair. It’s so heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same time. Blair telling him he’s strong and that he carries people and he carries her… ugh MY HEART! And then she helps him up off the floor and they hold onto each other as they walk and Chuck says “thank you”. He’s just so thankful to have her always be there for him and particularly in moments like these.

4) Their wedding wasn’t perfect or traditional but it didn’t matter. Chuck and Blair had done enough waiting, they had gone through so much so much together and apart but now here they are finally back together and on the same page and were just so ready to finally be together for the rest of their lives together and the fact that the writers brought back the 3 words, 8 letters was AMAZING!!! AND BEAUTIFUL!!!! Also, Blair’s dress was stunning.

5) Now back to the iconic “3 words. 8 letters. Say it. And I’m yours.” in 2x01. There is something so soft about this scene, even though it’s so frustrating and heartbreaking. I remember watching it for the first time and yelling at Chuck through my screen… “JUST SAY THOSE DAMN WORDS!!! YOU LOVE HER YOU IDIOT!!!” But yeah this scene scene and the “3 words, 8 letters” became instantly iconic and I love how they eventually came back full circle when they got married.

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