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Valentino Must Be Euphoric: Zendaya Is the Luxury Label's Newest Ambassador
Is there a power on Earth greater than Zendaya? The obvious answer is, of course, yes. But if you watched her return to HBO’s Euphoria for the first of its two-part holiday special this weekend (shout out to Colman Domingo’s brilliant performance opposite her), you likely got the reference above. While this year hasn’t had…
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Icon to Icon: Zendaya Paid a Stunning Homage to Modeling Legend Donyale Luna. Now, Can We Get a Biopic?
Another week, another Zendaya cover? Well actually, there are, in total, four versions of Zendaya’s December-January collector’s edition cover for Essence. But there’s also more than one woman being immortalized in this series of highly stylized black-and-white images conceived by Zendaya’s longtime stylist and creative director for the shoot (and 2019 The Root 100 honoree),…
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E! People’s Choice Awards 2020: Tyler Perry Is the People’s Champ
Another day, another awards show! The E! People’s Choice Awards, (or PCAs for short), aired Sunday night and it went off without a hitch. Let’s get into it! Host Demi Lovato kicked things off with a Beyoncé-esque walk to the front of the Barker Hangar stage sporting a starry, sparkly dress and some fire-ass blonde…
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Festive & Fly: Zendaya's Latest Cover Is Bringing Us 'Homegirl for the Holidays'
“One time for the Black Girls!!!” wrote stylist Law Roach on Instagram, debuting longtime client Zendaya’s covers for Elle’s December issue. “[T]his is for all the fly ass black girls that have inspired me over the years,” he added. What makes perennial cover star Zendaya’s latest cover so Black girl-magical? Maybe it’s the waist-length red-hued…
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A Sustainable Star: Zendaya to Be Honored as a 'Visionary' at the Green Carpet Fashion Awards
She’s the youngest actress to win an Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series Emmy—and as it turns out, she’s an ecological winner, too! Women’s Wear Daily (WWD) reports that actress and fashion icon Zendaya will be awarded the 2020 Visionary Award at the Green Carpet Fashion Awards (GCFAs), an Italian-based awards ceremony that will…
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Be My Biopic Star: Zendaya in Talks to Play Ronettes Lead Singer Ronnie Spector in Film Adaptation of Her Life
Fresh off her historic Emmy win for her starring role in HBO’s Euphoria, Zendaya is now in talks to star as singer Ronnie Spector in an upcoming biopic about the legendary front woman of the girl group, the Ronettes. As Deadline reports, A24 is putting together a film package that will have Zendaya in the…
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There May Not Have Been a Red Carpet, but the 2020 Emmys Stayed Home in Style
Plunging necklines. Shimmering sequins. Tailored tuxes. They may not have made their way onto a red carpet this year, but there were nevertheless plenty of each at the reimagined 72nd Annual Emmy Awards, where Hollywood showed us that one pandemic don’t stop no show. In fact, the modified ceremony was both a happy distraction from…
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All Black Everything: Zendaya Leverages the Power of Black Creatives for InStyle's September Cover
Don’t just talk about it; be about it. That’s the subtext of Zendaya’s stunning September 2020 cover story for InStyle, creative-directed by Zendaya’s longtime stylist Law Roach (a 2019 Root 100 honoree) and photographed by Ahmad Barber and Donte Maurice of AB+DM Studio, who also joined forces with Roach to capture Kerry Washington in a…
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Knife Fight: Vivica A. Fox Wants Quentin Tarantino to Cast Zendaya as Her Daughter in Possible Kill Bill 3
My name is Tonja Stidhum and I am a Kill Bill stan. In fact, after seeing the ending to the amazing fight sequence between Vernita Green (Vivica A. Fox) and The Bride aka Beatrix Kiddo (Uma Thurman), I immediately yearned for what was obviously to come in the foreshadowing exchange between Beatrix and Vernita’s daughter,…
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Zendaya, John David Washington to Star in Malcolm & Marie, Which Was Shot Entirely During Quarantine
While much of Hollywood has been trying to decipher how to reopen and get back to business in this crazy new world we have to adapt to, Zendaya has been booked and is showing the girls how it’s done. The multihyphenate has been quietly filming a new movie alongside Golden Globe-nominated actor and her fellow…