Month: January 2020

I realize how bizarre it is to be talking about swim trends when summer still seems like a distant memory, but hear me out. While most of us are piling on the heavy layers these days, a handful of celebs have been off on vacation soaking up the sun and wearing some really cool swimsuits. So even though 2020 has only just begun, we already have an idea of which trends will reign supreme this year since celebs usually set the trends in the swimsuit arena.

We took a deep dive into the Instagrams of It girls like Dua Lipa, Gabrielle Union, and Bella Hadid and uncovered three of the most important bikini trends to know for the year ahead. Keep scrolling to discover the trends, according to the celebs who are backing them. Then, shop our swimsuit picks within each.

Next up, the emerging designers who will dominate red carpets in 2020.

The holidays are known as prime engagement season, but don’t think that the fun ends after December. Freida Pinto and Emma Stone were among the celebrities who got engaged at the end of 2019, and now Martha Hunt is joining the club in early 2020. On Wednesday, she Instagrammed a photo of her stunning engagement ring along with a simple caption: “I have a secret…” Other photos in the gallery featured her with her new fiancé, Jason McDonald, but let’s be honest: All eyes were on her classic square-cut ring. 

Hunt posted the image from Harbour Island, Bahamas, which instantly conjures up images of a romantic beach proposal. Fellow model friends Lily Aldridge, Georgia Fowler, and Soo Joo were among the well-wishers on her post. Scroll down to see Martha Hunt’s new engagement ring, and shop square-cut rings for yourself. 

Next, the eight most expensive royal engagement rings, ranked by an expert. 

If you were Jennifer Lawrence, wouldn’t you wear Bottega Veneta It shoes when going out to dinner in NYC? That’s what I thought. Lawrence’s style this fall and winter has been thoroughly enviable, between the cozy Totême pieces, The Row boots and shoes, and Dior accessories (to name just a few of the designer pieces she’s been sporting), she’s basically wearing exactly what every fashion person wants to be wearing every time they step outside. Case in point: her look last night in NYC. 

Below, Lawrence once again embraced modern minimalism, in an oversize coat and cashmere sweater with loose trousers. To finish off the look, she wore a pair of Bottega Veneta It heels (because every shoe Bottega Veneta makes becomes an It shoe) from the pre-fall 2019 collection: the Almond Pumps. In true Bottega fashion, these aren’t just any pumps. They have a curved block heel, a pointy squared toe (it’s a thing), and a foot-flattering high-cut vamp. They’re the perfect winter-to-spring shoes. They might be $790, but they’re less expensive than many of Bottega Veneta’s pieces.

Scroll to see how Lawrence styled the It heels that you will definitely see all over the street style scene and Instagram, and shop them for your own wardrobe.

Next up, nine shoes you should ditch to upgrade your style.

Hollywood has long treated TV and movies as entirely separate mediums but companies like Netflix on the media side and Panasonic on the electronics side appear to be making an effort to merge the two.

That’s at least one way to interpret the introduction of Panasonic’s new HZ2000, the first OLED display designed to work with both Dolby Vision IQ and Filmmaker Mode. 

Panasonic announced the new TV on January 6th and said in a release that it would come in two sizes: 65 and 55-inch screens, both with a custom-made Master HDR OLED Professional Edition panel holding “custom hardware improvements by Panasonic.”

Here’s the Hollywood part—a professional movie colorist has had a huge role in this TV’s design. From Panasonic’s press release: 

The new HZ2000 OLED represents the combination of Panasonic’s technical accuracy made possible by Japanese knowhow and engineering with the colour-tuning skills of Stefan Sonnenfeld.

Stefan Sonnenfeld, Founder and CEO of Company 3, is a trusted collaborator of some of the world’s best filmmakers. Sonnenfeld is among a handful of leading artists who has championed the power of color grading to tell stories and communicate emotion.

Described by NPR as a “da Vinci of the movies,” Sonnenfeld has applied his skills as a colorist to many of the most acclaimed and popular features of the past decade: A Star is Born, Wonder Woman, Man of Steel, Beauty and the Beast, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Jurassic World, 300 and many more.

Sonnenfeld helped Panasonic create “some of the most accurate, cinematic images ever seen on a TV,” according to the release.

It’s not just about images, obviously. For cinema-quality sound, the HZ2000 has Panasonic’s top hi-fi television audio system in 360° Soundscape Pro, which is constructed with upward-directed speakers to create a truly immersive Dolby Atmos experience.

A What Hi-Fi review of the 2020 Panasonic HZ2000 OLED TV said that while the rather plainly-designed large flat screen “may not be the most aesthetically pleasing top-tier TV out there,” it “looks well set to continue the company’s fine OLED form. And that sounds very exciting indeed.”

The HZ2000 is a successor to Panasonic’s GZ2000 and has many of the same features. The previous model cost in the neighborhood of $3,900 USD. Price isn’t available yet, but it’s a good bet that it will be similar when it is on the market sometime in the summer of 2020.