Katherine Cusumano

Feb 5, 2025 | wmagazine.com | Katherine Cusumano

When Ira Madison III was in high school, he loathed the band Coldplay—simply hated them. So did everyone at his all-boys Jesuit high school in Milwaukee, and, importantly, so did the essayist Chuck Klosterman, whose collection Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs was Madison’s “Bible”—the way that “Cosmo was Elle Woods’s Bible in Legally Blonde,” Madison writes in his new memoir-in-essays, Pure Innocent Fun, out Feb. 4.

Jan 30, 2025 | longreads.com | Katherine Cusumano

Longreads has published hundreds of original stories—personal essays, reported features, reading lists, and more—and more than 13,000 editor’s picks. And they’re all funded by readers like you. Become a member today. Katherine Cusumano | Longreads | January 30, 2025 | 3,260 words (12 minutes)SPECIAL AGENT DALE COOPER: I have no idea where this will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange.

Jan 15, 2025 | wmagazine.com | Katherine Cusumano

Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection/Getty ImagesPamela Anderson, known the world over as the voluptuous former star of Baywatch, entered a new stage of her career in 2023. During a Paris Fashion Week appearance that year, the bombshell sat on the front row fresh-faced and without a stitch of makeup—igniting praise from an industry that had come to known Anderson for her dolled-up eyeliner, curled blonde hair, and scanty cut-out dresses.

Dec 20, 2024 | wmagazine.com | Katherine Cusumano

Though she had already been acting in made-for-television movies and shorts for nearly a decade, Angelina Jolie shot into the public eye in 1999 thanks to her performance in Girl, Interrupted. Aand also, in part because of her Golden Globes appearance that same year in a clingy sequined Randolph Duke gown. The look marked the actor as one to watch on the red carpet, and more than two decades later, it’s a status she maintains.

Dec 17, 2024 | wmagazine.com | Katherine Cusumano

“Every time that you go anywhere on the red carpet, now there are websites dedicated to picking you apart,” Sarah Paulson once told the New York Times. Well, Paulson has had more hits than misses over the past two decades. She’s come into her own, sartorially speaking, eventually eschewing the very pretty looks of her early career in favor of chic designs by smaller labels like Cushnie et Ochs, Etro, and Philosophy di Lorenzo Serafini and from powerhouses like The Row and her beloved Prada.