Content Consumed: Sofia Richie, CinemaCon, Madison Beer, Met Gala and John Mulaney

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6 min readApr 27, 2023

Hey hey! Happy Thursday!
In today’s edition of Content Consumed, we’re chitchatting about…
💸 Sofia Richie’s wedding and the falseness of “quiet luxury”
🎬 Madison Beer, CinemaCon, and Workin’ Moms
🧨 How John Mulaney’s addiction was different
🥂 Preview: Met Gala

I’m happy for Sofia Richie but…

She hasn’t actually rebranded, guys. This isn’t “old money luxe wealth” as the TikTokkers are saying.

Let’s rewind. Sofia Richie got married last weekend.

The daughter of musician Lionel Richie and younger sister of millennial icon Nicole wed music exec Elliot Grainge over the weekend in what was surely a multi-million dollar affair at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes on the French Riviera.
The five day event involved multiple outfit changes, a plethora of celebrity guests such as Paris Hilton, Cameron Diaz, TikTokker Jake Shane, and a very romantic fireworks display.

For the record: I just had a three-day destination wedding with multiple outfit changes, aspiring TikTokkers, and two romantic fireworks displays, so… who’s the real bride wars winner here?!

Jokes aside, it was obviously a beautiful wedding.

But is it a rebrand?

As InStyle notes: “Is it a “rebrand” or is she just working with a different stylist, wearing haute couture and having a wedding at one of the most glamorous places on Earth?”

Prior to the wedding, Sofia has only been known in relation to other people, like her sister Nicole Richie or her older ex-BF Scott Disick. Now, she’s known for… having money and wearing pretty clothes?

In reality, she’s just matured. She’s learned what works for her style (and the girl will NOT be giving up her slicked-back buns, even down the aisle), found a slightly older man who treats her well (at least better than Scott Disick), and she’s officially on TikTok.

What more could a nepo baby need?

Anyways.

Workin’ Moms, Madison Beer, and CinemaCon

Welcome to the part of Content Consumed where each topic I need to touch on doesn’t necessarily need its own section but needs someplace to live.

Workin’ Moms

The seventh and final season of Canadian dark comedy Workin’ Moms just hit Netflix last night and I will surely binge the whole thing this weekend. Like… is Anne alive?!

Madison Beer

It’s strange how the people you envied at age 15 become the people you’re glad you never were at 25. Madison Beer has gone through it, being pushed into child stardom as a young girl and enduring sexual abuse, substance abuse, and general industry shittiness. Celebrity Memoir Book Club just covered her new memoir and I have nothing but empathy for Madison Beer now.

CinemaCon

So, this is a thing. CinemaCon! Rihanna’s there. Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney did nothing to dispel rumors. Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie are expertly promoting Barbie. Beautiful people everywhere!

Read of the week:
Why John Mulaney’s addiction is treated differently

Think about John Mulaney: his career, his personal life, his addiction, and his public sobriety journey.

Now think about Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, and Amanda Bynes.
Now think about Robert Downey Jr., Justin Bieber, and Shia LaBeouf.

Whose public issues (and recovery) changed—or even shut down—their careers?

From the Daily Beast:

From leaked nudes to pornographic deep fakes, people seek to possess and control images of famous women, to deprive them of privacy and dignity; whereas even famous men’s mugshots — Robert Downey Jr., Justin Bieber, Bruno Mars, Shia Labeouf all have mugshots from arrests on drug or alcohol charges — tend to be treated more like fun facts than reputation ruiners.
The tabloid fixation with photographing women in their most exposed moments of grappling with substance use is a natural extension of more deeply rooted impulses to treat women’s images as commodities and their looks as metrics of their worth.

And it’s not just gender, of course.

Public perception of an individual’s substance use, like almost everything else, depends greatly on that individual’s demographic markers: race and class especially.

So John Mulaney, one of the most likable comedians—also white, rich, and male—should find it easier than most to get back in the public’s good graces.

Read the full story, titled John Mulaney, ‘Baby J,’ and the Respectability Politics of Addiction, here.

Preview: Met Gala

I can’t say I’m a fan of this year’s Met Gala theme. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Karl Lagerfield, despite his talents, is not a man worth worshipping and should not have an entire Met Gala theme.

But alas! It’s happening and it’s this Monday. The co-chairs include Penelope Cruz, Michaela Coel, Dua Lipa, and Roger Federer: high-profile individuals across a range of professions (though mostly entertainment. Really, you could argue tennis is entertainment too).

I do not care about seeing: the Kardashians’ boring fits or dull get-ups from beautiful women’s plus-ones. One exception to that: Ryan Reynolds is allowed to be boring to make space for Blake Lively to be the most beautiful and well-dressed person in the room.

I do care about seeing: how designers and celebrities will pay homage to a very black-and-white creative at a costume ball. Unlike recent themes (In America: A Lexicon of Fashion; Camp: Notes on Fashion; Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination; Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology; etc), this isn’t an easy theme to play dress-up for. Surely there will be a lot of reimagined vintage Chanel, Fendi, etc.

On my dream Met Gala red carpet next Monday:

Zendaya and Tom Holland, with Tom playing the boring Ryan Reynolds and Zendaya shining in a one-of-a-kind outfit only she could pull off (see: Joan of Arc, Cinderella)
Rihanna, very pregnant, and A$AP Rocky, two of the best-dressed people in our modern world (minus A$AP’s last Gala look…).
Elle Fanning, an underrated star in both acting and fashion. The perfect moment to add more hype to The Great’s season 3 premiere in a couple of weeks. I bet Nicholas Hoult could pull off an incredible fit and join her, too. Please?