Forty-four-year-old model and Chanel ambassador Caroline de Maigret decided to write a book about aging after someone who was 30 told her that she wanted to be like de Maigret “when she was old.” The resulting book, Older, But Better, But Older, just came out a few days ago, along with a Chanel collection inspired by de Maigret. She celebrated both with a low-key cocktail celebration at Chanel’s midtown store last night. “I basically had a midlife crisis while I was writing the book,” she told the Cut. “I was asking myself questions and suddenly I had this feeling of, This is the last time I’m going to be able to change things in my life. It’s not true, but that’s what your brain tells you. It drove me crazy. But there is a serenity that comes with age, with knowledge.” De Maigret’s first book — she co-wrote both with Sophie Mas — was called How to Be Parisian. Wherever You Are. Basically, she’s the effortless French girl stereotype in model form. But the French girl is — by defi...
Asymmetrical hot-pink boob armor fastened to the torso, also known as the “chrome breastplate”: very in right now. At least, that’s the sense I’m getting now that Tom Ford’s fashion breastplates have officially traveled from the runway to the magazines to the red carpet. Zendaya paired hers with a floor-sweeping rose-colored skirt at the Critics’ Choice Awards over the weekend, signaling to us all the coronation of a new, inflexible trend. Earlier this month Gwyneth Paltrow went straight from basing her Golden Globes look around underwire to encasing herself in a cyborgian turt on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar. The statement metal shard was also worn by Zoë Kravitz in the pages of Elle, this time in bralette form. The item is amassing a kind of cult celebrity attachment around it, a gang of influencer-warriors who don’t sweat the $15,000 price tag. Gwyneth even acknowledged her newfound sartorial kinship with Zendaya, commenting on a Man Repeller Instagram post about the star’s aw...