behind the surreal beauty of these images is a story about survival.
while becoming one of the biggest models in the world, @anokyai was secretly battling a life threatening condition affecting her heart and lungs. she underwent a major surgery that doctors said nearly took her life.
throughout it all, her family, especially her mother, never left her side.
the editorial also reflects on the racism and mistreatment she experienced throughout fashion, from being called slurs growing up to backstage moments where Black models were left crying because hairstylists did not know how to work with their hair.
photographed by @rafaelpavarotti_ for british vogue, this feels bigger than fashion. every image looks like a painting, but together they tell the story of fear, resilience, family, and survival.
getting older is one of the few privileges in life that not everyone gets to experience, and maybe the most beautiful thing about it is realizing that beauty does not disappear with time, it simply changes shape.
wrinkles, grey hair, laugh lines, memories, rituals, style, tenderness. there is something deeply beautiful about a face and body that has lived
Michael Jackson’s influence on music, performance, choreography, and pop culture is still unmatched.
Decades later, artists like Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, and Bruno Mars continue to pay tribute to the standard he created. His impact can still be seen in today’s music industry, he transformed pop music into a visual experience and raised the bar for what artists could do on stage proving that true icons never stop inspiring
demi moore sparked backlash at cannes after saying that fighting AI is “a battle we will lose” and that society should instead learn to work with it.
the reaction online reflects a growing frustration with the idea that AI is something people are simply expected to accept as “inevitable,” while shows like hacks and the comeback are already tackling the anxieties and hardships the entertainment industry is facing because of AI and the growing fear around the replacement of human creativity
audiences are longing for the feeling of 90s and 2000s rom coms: lighthearted escapism, joy, chemistry, and unapologetic romance. but as studios shift toward franchises, reboots, and “safe” projects built to guarantee profit, romance in mainstream films feels like it’s slowly fading.
and even when rom coms do get made today, they’re often shaped by modern realism and self awareness, which can strip away some of the magic, messiness, and spontaneity that older films embraced so effortlessly.
part of it is also cultural. rom coms are now quickly dismissed as “cringe,” and that reaction inevitably affects what gets greenlit. older films weren’t afraid to let characters be imperfect, dramatic, emotional, or naive. newer stories often feel too aware of themselves to fully surrender to romance.
somewhere along the way, sincerity stopped being cool, bring cringe back!
happy mother’s day to the women who accidentally created entire branches of pop culture.
welcome to the annual official plastik mother list.
From Beyoncé to Madonna, Gaga and Riri, this is our completely unserious yet weirdly accurate map of pop lineage.
some are direct influences. some are shared archetypes. some just feel cosmically related.
either way, the daughters are fighting in the comments already.
a quiet parallel between paintings and cinema.
Each slide pairs a film with a painting that speaks its language and echoes its color palette. It’s less about matching scenes and more about which painting matches the character’s personality, how they’re feeling, and what they’re carrying.
It’s about recognizing that both paintings and films are trying to do the same thing: preserving how it feels to exist inside light, color, and longing
