It’s official: Aubrey Plaza has earned herself the title of bob style queen. After Plaza was photographed looking perfect in an undone bob in New York City last week—amid a heatwave, no less—the actor attended a Los Angeles screening of her upcoming film Spin Me Round in the most elegant loaded topknot updo we’ve ever laid eyes on. 

This gorgeous style differs from Plaza’s usual look, which is essentially another modern take on the effortless, Renaissance-inspired Botticelli bob. Her new look still highlights her signature side bangs and face-framing S-curls. So, Plaza pretty much just singlehandedly proved that side bangs and parts are very much cool again. (Do you hear that, Gen Z?!) 

The Happiest Season star complemented her topknot with gold hoop earrings and a deep V-neck mini dress. BRB, we’re running to copy this whole look immediately.

Plaza’s loaded topknot is especially timely. All sorts of bob styles are going viral this year, including the cool-girl scandi bob, heatwave-friendly curly bob, and their cousins the blunt bob and wavy lob. Bob enthusiasts are also actively seeking stylish ways to wear their short hair in updos. The end result of this phenomenon has been a resurgence in the mid-2010s era loaded topknot, both because it’s been spotted on celebs— Kaia Gerber, Margot Robbie, Jennifer Lopez, and Hailey Bieber have worn the style— as well as how easy it is to style yourself. 

“The beauty of this look is in its effortlessness, as it’s super easy to create yet still manages to look chic,” Cliphair trends writer Brenda Lee Intignano said of the topknot. Unless, of course, you want to take Plaza’s more put-together look, which actually has a bit of a bridal vibe. That’s the beauty of the loaded topknot, though: It’s incredibly versatile, and there truly no “right” way to wear it. Most importantly, however, the updo proves that contrary to popular belief, you can still style short hair in an updo. All you might need are a few bobby pins.

It might still be summer, but mentally, we’re in sweater-weather mode thinking about all the cute fall outfits to put together as we ease into cooler temps. Transitional looks reign supreme this time of year, making it a veritable fashion playground for mixing and matching pieces from various seasons into your wardrobe. 

Not sure where to begin? Start by incorporating summer’s greatest hits into your fall fashion arsenal. A lightweight sundress or shirtdress is a perfect base for playful knits, while chunky footwear—cowboy boots or sleek loafers—can instantly ground a long-sleeve midi skirt or dress. Once the forecast truly dips, you can go ahead and rework certain winter wardrobe staples for added contrast: A heavenly soft pullover looks on point when styled with cargo pants and a white tank for going out, while a cropped puffer and matching sweatsuit remains a no-fail combo for days when you want to feel put together with minimal effort.  

No matter what vibe you’re going for this fall, the key to building a successful cold-weather wardrobe starts with pieces that offer what fickle temps demand: layers, layers, and more layers. And we rounded up a list of cute fall outfit ideas to prove it. So whether you’re venturing out into an office again or maintaining your work-from-home status, here are 12 cute fall outfits to start planning—and shopping for—now. 

Cargo Pants + White Tank + Knit Pullover

Cargo pants are to fall what jorts are to summer—the antihero we’ve all grown to root for. These aren’t your dad’s khakis, though: This season’s designs have little to do with practicality; in fact, the coolest styles look best paired with some kind of heel. Offset the baggy proportions with a ribbed white tank, then tie your sweater over your shoulders like you mean business (or you know, if it decides to get randomly really hot outside). 

Knit Tank + White Jeans + Shearling Booties

It seems wild to remember that the last person Selena Gomez was actually confirmed to be dating was Justin Bieber (they got back together for a few months after she split from The Weeknd in 2017, according to Cosmo). But the Only Murders In the Building star so rarely makes any of her relationships red carpet or “sources close to the couple confirm they are dating” official, that members of the public such as myself can’t help but speculate every time she is seen in the company of a man. So when TMZ published pictures of Gomez and Tyga—a famous rapper who is both around her age and single—leaving a West Hollywood club at the same time, what was I supposed to think?

I obviously should not have gotten so ahead of myself (and nor should TMZ, FWIW), as the outlet later posted a clarifying update that puts the kibosh on dating rumors. According to a source close to Gomez, the two weren’t at the restaurant together, they were just there at the same time. Tyga and Gomez went separately to see different people, but the two groups wound up hanging out together and leaving at the same time. 

The status of Selena Gomez’s love life always seems to spark public interest, and the issue was raised again after the singer and actor posted a playful TikTok of her own grandmother probing for details on a certain famous breakup of hers. But a source told Entertainment Tonight that the 30-year-old is perfectly happy as a single woman at the moment. “She is more open to love, but she is also very much focused on herself and her work right now,” the source said. 

I assume she’ll tell all of us (and her grandmother) when she’s officially in love once again and ready to go public.

Taylor Swift missed out on a pretty crazy movie cameo, and we need a moment to process what we’ve missed out on.

She may have appeared onscreen in TV shows like CSI and New Girl, as well as star-studded 2010 rom-com Valentine’s Day, but the pop icon could have appeared a huge part of 2000s film culture: Twilight.

Chris Weitz, director of The Twilight Saga: New Moon—starring Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, and the second in five films devoted to the hit books—has confirmed that the film almost had a Taylor Swift cameo. 

In a recent interview on The Twilight Effect, a podcast hosted by actor and Twilight star Ashley Greene, he opened up about his decision to ultimately turn Taylor down when her agent came calling. “Taylor Swift and I had the same agent at the time, and he said, ‘Taylor would like to be in this movie—not because of you, but she’s a Twi-hard,’” Weitz said.

It turns out Swift wasn’t even going for screen time here, she just wanted to be part of the vampire universe that we were all, admittedly, obsessed with at that time. Her agent reportedly told Weitz: “She will be someone at the cafeteria, or the diner, or whatever, but she just wants to be in this movie.”

Alas, it wasn’t to be. The New Moon director decided that, ultimately, having such a star appear in the background of the movie was likely to draw focus. “The hardest thing for me was to be like, ‘The moment that Taylor Swift walks onto the screen for about five minutes, nobody is going to be able to process anything,’” he said.

She is a complete show-stealing queen in the absolute best way, so we see the logic. But that doesn’t mean Weitz doesn’t hold some level of regret at his decision. “I was like, ‘Wow, I could have been, like, hanging out with Taylor Swift, and maybe we could’ve been friends or something,’” he said, also expressing concern he may have offended the star by turning her down.

“She must’ve just been like, ‘Who is this jerk who would say no?’” he said. “But sometimes you make decisions and you go, ‘This is for the best of the film.’”

Oh, what could have been!

This post was originally published on Glamour UK.

Landing the role just as she turned 30 also marked a coming-of-age moment for Eve, that moment where your messiness hopefully subsides and out of the debris of your twenties, an adult emerges. Something I relate to. “I feel like she’s my ode to my twenties,” Eve confirms, “when you don’t have everything together, you don’t know where your life is going, you’re somewhere in between childhood and adulthood, but you’re not really an adult either. You aren’t forced to have a proper career. You can float around, and you don’t need to buy a house. It’s the decade where you’re discovering things about yourself and all of your insecurities that you have about yourself and feeling like you don’t have direction. You look like a grown-up, but you’re not. Everyone is just pretending and winging it. It’s also a period where you make all the wrong decisions, you date all the wrong people, you drink too much. It was a perfect moment for me to put all of my experience into one person and then step away from it, say goodbye to it in a way.”

I was a certified messy bitch in my twenties so how messy was Eve, I ask? “Oh, a messy bitch 100%,” she erupts with laughter. “It was just the messiest decades, and you couldn’t fucking pay me to go back! My thirties are a good place to be. It’s my safe place. It was amazingly cathartic looking back and then sort of moving through it. As long as they don’t bring me back through it in season two. I think I’ve said goodbye. Maybe if we do season two, she can have her shit together for my mental health.”

While it is clear a recent coming-of-age moment has empowered Eve, the changing landscape of Hollywood has had a part to play too. Bad Sisters, with its four strong female leads, is a symbol of how far the industry has come in not only creating female-led narratives but representing all facets of womanhood. The show certainly follows in the footsteps of recent hits Big Little Lies, Little Fires Everywhere and basically anything Reese Witherspoon touches. But I wonder what still frustrates her about the conversations we’re still having to have about the representation of women on screen?

“That’s a good question because I haven’t felt that in a while, actually,” Eve replies. “I feel like the last projects I’ve done have been female-driven with really great characters. But God, pre Me-Too it was a joke! It was painful. I had a horrible time dealing with and trying to fit into this idea of what Hollywood, a.k.a. a bunch of white men in a boardroom, thought was sexy, powerful, and what people wanted to see. There’s a lot of roles that I went up for and even played, where they just wanted tits on a stick, basically. You know, ‘Don’t eat anything and wear a push-up bra.’”

“It’s also tricky because the people that are financing these things—I know it’s changed now—but back then, it was a man’s view of what they thought was sexy,” she continues. “But you can’t define sexuality at all. You can’t whittle it down to just one look or one type of person. It was a man in the boardroom making a decision about your costume that he doesn’t think is sexy because you look like the girl that rejected him when he was a kid. Sexuality is so personal, and they tried to make it this commercial thing, and it wasn’t right to do that. Now there’s more women stepping into power, and there’s so much diversity. We’ve always had these stories to tell, but now they are getting told, and TV and film have gotten so much more interesting because of it. Hollywood has realized that their audiences aren’t stupid, you don’t have to spoon feed people, and hopefully, we never go back to that time.”