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Kamala Harris hasn’t officially accepted the Democratic nomination for president—she will do so on Thursday—but her surprise appearance at the DNC Convention last night was brimming with meaning.

The Vice President emerged on stage in Chicago to speak in support of President Biden, wearing a tan suit designed by Chloé’s buzzy creative director, Chemena Kamali. With less than a year on the job, Kamali has been wracking up celebrity endorsements since taking over the reins at the French brand—everyone from Beyoncé to Jennifer Lopez have worn her Boho designs recently. Harris’s Chloé outfit featured a traditional suit jacket, lined with black buttons, and wide-leg dress pants that pooled beneath her. The Vice President paired her tailoring with a white pussy bow blouse.

Harris’s suit quickly made waves on social media, with users drawing comparisons to an outfit President Barack Obama wore in 2014. During a news conference regarding ISIS in Syria, the former President donned a tan suit that drew ire from conservative pundits. Fox News called Obama “unpresidential.” Former Congressman Peter King absurdly told reporters “There’s no way, I don’t think, any of us can excuse what the president did.” Obama, and much of the general public, poked fun at the conservative outrage regarding his choice of suit. And, as every bit of Harris’s wardrobe is carefully chosen, it looks as though she did, too. Though her suit erred more taupe than tan.

Harris is no stranger to Kamali’s Boho chic designs, having worn an emerald green cape dress to a State Dinner earlier this year. Her gown was designed with a floor-length silhouette and statement sleeves. After decades working behind the scenes (including an earlier stint at Chloé under Phoebe Philo), the buzz that the German-born Kamali has been generating since being appointed as creative director in October 2023 has been one of the biggest stories in fashion this past year.

Truly, it’s no wonder Harris would wear one of Paris’s most talked-about designers—even if it is tradition for Presidential candidates to don American brands (to be fair, her opponent is known for his own penchant for European suits). Aside from her own style bonafides, at one point, it was rumored that Harris was working with the celebrity stylist Karla Welch who counts Justin and Hailey Bieber as clients.

Throughout her rise to the Vice Presidency, Harris has developed a wardrobe unlike any other major political figure in American politics. During her and President Biden’s 2021 inauguration, Harris donned a purple coat from the New York brand Christopher John Rogers. Purple, of course, is viewed as a sign of bipartisanship. She’s also championed a diverse sect of American designers like Sergio Hudson (she’s taken a special liking to his bold power suits), Pyer Moss, and Joseph Altuzarra.

And with Harris rearing to accept the Democratic nomination for president in two days time, there’s no telling as to what she has up her sleeve next.

Sabrina Carpenter’s version of the butter yellow trend is all about capital-B Bling.

For the Variety Power of Young Hollywood event last night, the “Espresso” hitmaker lit up the red carpet in a crystalized floor-length stunner. Although the silhouette of Carpenter’s pale yellow Miu Miu dress was fairly standard—a form-fitting corset bodice accented by a curve-hugging skirt—its all-over embroidery proved to be quite the attention getter. The top of the dress was trimmed with silver sequins before cascading into an almost web-like effect down below. There were also strands of crystals placed along Carpenter’s waist to mimic the look of a thin belt. Carpenter kept accessories to a minimum, instead letting her bedazzled outfit serve as wearable jewelry for the evening. She styled her signature blonde locks in a tousled, curly hair style and opted for a nude lip and bronze eyeshadow.

Butter yellow —the fashion antithesis of neon Brat green—has been making rounds among celebrities this summer. Everyone from Hailey Bieber to Jennifer Lawrence have dabbled in the trend. But Carpenter’s blinged-out dress proved to be one of the more extravagant twists on the fairly subdued look thus far.

In fact, it looks as though Carpenter has taken a special liking to pale yellow party dresses. For her 25th birthday in May, the singer slipped into an ultra-mini dress inspired by Kate Hudson’s How to Lose a Guy In Ten Days character, Andie Anderson.

Her satin birthday look was also trimmed with crystals, mainly placed along the neck and waistline, and featured a leggy side slit. Like Hudson’s famed floor-length gown from the ’00s cult-classic, Carpenter’s mini version was completely open at the back.

Between her crystalized Miu Miu and her glossy birthday mini, Carpenter certainly has put her own spin on the color trend. Others have mostly opted for solid fabrics and toned-down silhouettes—a far cry from the blingy crystals Carpenter has gravitated towards.

Carpenter has a song of the summer contender in “Espresso” and, now, she’s all-in on the “It” girl summer trend.

During a summer full of mesh shoes and raffia shoulder bags, one statement accessory in particular has cut through the noise: the trusty headscarf. But, how exactly did something once worn by Brigitte Bardot and Jackie Kennedy on the beaches of Capri and Saint Tropez suddenly work its way into the summer wardrobes of Hailey Bieber, Beyoncé, and Kendall Jenner?

Well, for starters, the styling trick—basically, either a patterned or brightly colored scarf tied underneath one’s chin—is fairly simple to pull off. But it also evokes a sense of nostalgia, in specific the glamorous oceanfront styles of 1950s and ’60s starlets. And if there’s one thing about celebrity fashion nowadays, vintage references are just as, if not more, en vogue than items that are actually new.

During a recent trip to Mallorca, Spain, a bikini-clad Kendall Jenner used a patterned silk scarf to not only wrap around her head, but also to wear as a teensy mini skirt. Hailey Bieber has made the head scarf a hallmark of her recent style, too, with her most prominent co-sign of the trend coming during her baby shower. She wore a sheer Jacquemus dress with a matching butter yellow head scarf and angular sunglasses. The Rhode founder also presented another iteration of the head scarf at Coachella when she wore a cheetah print muffler on top of a Fila baseball cap.

For the most part, stars have kept their iterations of the head scarf in line with the high-glam, elevated versions worn in decades past. There’s the simplicity of 1950s Audrey Hepburn in, say, the way Elsa Hosk softly wraps a white scarf around her hair while wearing with a linen skirt suit. And the nonchalance of Bardot in the way Jenner turned her head scarf into a beach cover-up.

But as much as fashion girls are nodding to a bygone era, there’s a handful of scarf-clad stars who are hollering “Yoo-Hoo, Boys!” instead.

The Yoo-Hoo brigade kicked off in Paris this spring when Sabrina Carpenter paired a custom Jacquemus swimsuit and skirt with a Bardot-esque head wrap. Beyoncé, while yachting in the Hamptons, had her turn in a white sundress that she decked out with a matching white bandana.

At Cannes, Hunter Schafer brought the trend to the red carpet. Though her custom Prada head accessory could more so be considered as a kerchief—or, a piece of fabric used to cover the hair—rather than the chin-wrapped versions seen elsewhere.

Celebrities are, mostly, wearing their headscarves with some sort of body of water close by—like new-gen model Alex Consani’s metallic cabana moment—but the general public seem to be adopting the style to a variety of locales. If the guests at Copenhagen Fashion Week are anything to go by, it won’t be long until the scarf is only classified as a cold-weather accessory.

Game on!

The 2024 Paris Olympics, which will take place from July 26 until August 11, are already shaping up to be one of the most stylish and star-studded stagings since the Games’s inception. The two-week event will not only draw elite athletes from every corner of the globe to the French capital, but also top dignitaries, the occasional Royal, and celebrities galore.

This year’s edition is expected to be brimming with actors, musicians, and A-list names largely due to the Games’s partnership with the French luxury goods conglomerate LVMH. In July 2023 the group, spearheaded by its billionaire CEO Bernard Arnault, was announced as the premium partner of the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

As the two-week spectacle officially kicks into high gear, keep checking back here to make sure you don’t miss a single celebrity fashion moment from the 2024 Paris Olympics.