So chic, it turns out, that hairdressers predict it will be one of summer’s biggest trends. “A braid like this is quite minimal and doesn’t feel too contrived, but gives your hair a point of view,” says Luke Hersheson. “The slicked-back look feels summery, works on pretty much everyone and is an easy look to …
Photo: Niko Tavernise/MGM Pictures Warning: Spoilers for the movie Challengers below. Zendaya and her white boys, sitting in a tree: K-I-S-S-I-N-G. But is that all they’re up to? When MGM dropped the trailer for Challengers, the new tennis drama directed by Luca Guadagnino, it teased virtuosic backhands, sleek courtside attire, and triangular sexual chemistry between …
“The ball is the ephemeral, invisible force of desire,” says Guadagnino, the director of Call Me By Your Name and Bones and All. “I wanted to show desire going back and forth.” Director Luca Guadagnino on the set of Challengers. Photo: AP The result, by a score of about six-love, is the love triangle of …
Throughout the entire Challengers press tour thus far, Zendaya and stylist Law Roach have been on a serious tennis kick—embracing sporty looks as a way to nod back to the film. Did you catch her Loewe tennis ball heels? Or her striped Vivienne Westwood vest and mini skirt? Both smash hits! For her latest look, …
MGM I’ll confess to going into Challengers not knowing what my reaction would be. The cast and trailer certainly intrigued me, without question. On the flip side, filmmaker Luca Guadagnino has yet to fully land for me. I find myself often at arm’s length from his work, for one reason or another. So, it was …
Anyone who’s ever played tennis knows the game starts with love and escalates fast. In Luca Guadagnino’s hip, sexy and ridiculously overheated “Challengers,” the rivals are former doubles partners Art Donaldson (Mike Faist) and Patrick Zweig (Josh O’Connor), best friends since the age of 12, who went their separate ways after both players fell for …
3.5/5 stars Luca Guadagnino swaps cannibals for tennis balls in Challengers, a breezy romantic drama starring Zendaya. The Italian director goes from his first American film, 2022’s Bones and All, directly into his second, although the two could not be more different. While the first was grimy and grisly, this is sexy and stormy, and …
Zendaya’s Challengers press tour is continuing on—and so are her high-fashion serves. All month long, the actor has been using the red carpet as an opportunity to perfect method dressing: All of her sporty-chic outfits have nodded to the film’s tennis focus. This was certainly the case for her latest photo call in Rome today. …
Zendaya has wasted no time delivering statement fashions during her Challengers press tour this month. The newly-blonde actor—who rarely misses on the red carpet—once again teamed up with her stylist Law Roach to embrace method dressing at its finest; Many of her ensembles thus far have nodded to the film’s tennis focus, choosing silhouettes that …
Game, set, match! Zendaya’s Challengers press tour is in full swing, as the star is out in Australia doing her first round of promo in court-adjacent attire. Earlier this week, she wore a dazzling green custom Loewe dress–designed by creative director Jonathan Anderson, who’s responsible for the tennis-themed film’s costumes–adorned with lashings of glitter, along …