There’s nothing new to say about a mass shooting, a type of tragedy that repeats and repeats and repeats. But that didn’t feel like a good reason not to say anything. So I wrote something for everyone who loves Brown.
Photo by Annamarie Luecht for @browndailyherald — a team of student journalists who are doing incredible work under unbelievable strain.
On the rhode! I snuck out west last month to meet @haileybieber@ratty and @laurenratner — the founder and co-founders of @rhode — to learn how they built a billion-dollar beauty brand. After a shoot at @obb , Hailey and I sat down at Rhode hq in Beverly Hills to talk about all things skin care, what’s next for the brand (breaking news about an upcoming Sephora EU debut), and the double-edged swords of being both insanely famous and famously beautiful.
Friends keep asking me what Hailey is really like—read the story!! And watch a long-form version of our conversation coming to YouTube soon
Cover photo by @kanyaiwana for TIME
Happy TIME100 day! This year I got to spend some time in the world of superstar country music artist @lukecombs — whose recent show at Las Vegas’s Allegiant Stadium drew more fans than the 2024 Super Bowl. Which gives him good ammunition for his argument for that everyone likes country music—you just have to find the right artist for you. “It’s like pasta. It’s impossible not to like,” he says. “There’s some version of it that you like.”
Photos by Mark Seliger for TIME
Of all the people I’ve interviewed I think @therealmariskahargitay made me the coolest in the eyes of my friends—is there anyone out there who hasn’t gotten fully sucked into an episode of Law and Order: SVU at some point over the last 27 years? Mariska is an actor and proud “boss lady” in Hollywood but also a longtime advocate for survivors of sexual assault and a very funny, open person.
She made an excellent doc, My Mom Jayne, about her mother—the late starlet and sex symbol Jayne Mansfield, who died young and never had the chance to fully show the world she was more than the persona she portrayed in public. Mariska was only 3 years old when her mother died, and struggled to make sense of who Jayne really was.
I wanted to know what she would tell her if she could. We both got a little teary on the TIME Women of the Year stage when she gave her answer: “So much. How much I love her, how much I admire her. And how grateful I am to be like her.”
This is my fifth year editing Women of the Year—the fifth time I’ve gotten to sit down with some of my favorite colleagues, ask big questions about the world we live in, and tell the stories of an amazing group of women who are working to make it a better place. We have 16 on the list this year, from Hollywood icons @lucyliu and therealmariskahargitay to advocates @reshmasaujani and @officialsafeenahusain to CEO @kecia_steelman and podcaster @melrobbins to artist @asherald and future EGOT (she’s manifesting!!) @teyanataylor —who gives as delightful an interview as you would expect. MY JOB IS COOL OKAY!
Happy Women of the Year Day to all who celebrate and please read about all these amazing humans on Time.com!
Photograph by @xavierscottmarshall for TIME
Every September, the civil rights organization @risenow.us sends survivors and allies—activists, artists, astronauts, entrepreneurs, volunteers, and at least one journalist (!)—down the runway during NYFW to reframe the question “What were you wearing?” @amandangocnguyen@flanneryburch@t_nguyen_t@carrieosities@camerontmarsh you bring heart to fashion week
