As fashion month comes to a close and the showgoing glitterati recovers from a non-stop jaunt around the runways of New York, London, Milan, and Paris, it seems an oasis of the Midwest was missing from this — and every — fashion calendar.
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Claire Abdo/ Daily
As the leaves begin to change, so do the clothes.
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Def Jam
Admit it: there’s been a time (or 100) when you’ve found yourself to be in your feelings.
Columbia Pictures
It’s absolutely absurd and absolutely incredible.
Sup Pop
Fuzz permeates, but refuses to dominate, and tracks like “Cut from the Vine” find more of the clean, singular guitar melodies that largely defined their previous releases.
The show stands in a category of its own among many reasons: a two-woman show with four characters, the experimental use of light, design, music and choreography and the modern themes of gender, sex and identity.
Focus Features
Not all films by a director — even some of the best directors — are good.
Island/Universal
All it took was six seconds.
ABC
ABC has added yet another series to its roster of formulaic family sitcoms, but this one’s a little different.
Music Box Films
A woman’s struggle to balance her career and family is well-trodden ground in narrative cinema, but “Mia Madre” goes beyond the surface.
Claire Abdo/Daily
Today affords its patrons a reasoned and tasteful introduction to male high fashion.
“There is a $90 coat that looks like a blanket. I want it. I make minimum wage.”
Styles Upon Styles
As the days get shorter and my time spent in the library gets longer, I hunt for new music to get me through the (recently chillier) September evenings. This is where Gabriel Garzón Montano comes in.
FOX
Samberg’s ironic sensibility and underrated charm plays off Braugher’s deadpan perfection to create the most consistent laughs a network comedy could hope to mine.
The track shines not in its lyricism, but in the production and instrumentation.
Paladin
Considering that this could be one of Lewis’s last performances, viewers and fans will want to like the movie, but it isn’t worth pretending.
Based on my observations, I find that finstas allows us to embrace our flaws, while regular Instagram allows us to hide them and thirst traps to repress them excessively.
ABC
As the series attempts to move at a fast and exciting pace, the “Notorious” pilot becomes a textbook case of quantity over quality, confusing lies for drama and power for sex appeal.
The CW
I love ‘Jane the Virgin’ because it never allows people to make snap judgments about the role feminism plays in it or in the lives of its characters.
NBC
Much like ‘Parenthood,’ ‘This is Us’ goes for the emotional jugular in its emotional payoffs.