Rose Byrne would like to clear up something about her bearded dragon situation.
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Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
22 Feb. 2026
Michelangelo, however, pushes beyond simple illustration to include pagan myths as well as to challenge traditional depiction of a calm, bearded judge.
Cowley conceived of the American tradition, dating back to the eighteenth century, as analogous to, say, that of the French: a comprehensible sequence of geographic and aesthetic developments, not the mere littering of hirsute eccentrics that it was typically taken to be.
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Vince Passaro,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
By documenting lushly hirsute Japanese officials alongside their beardless counterparts, portraiture preserved a photographic record of colonial subjects’ visibly inferior status.
Other highlights from the week included the Tory Burch show, where Pamela Anderson sported a shaggy blonde bob and joined stars from Marcello Hernandez and Amanda Seyfried to Tessa Thompson and Myha'la.
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Brendan Morrow,
USA Today,
17 Feb. 2026
Showing off a pair of shaggy front bangs, Klum finished off her monochromatic look with skintight latex leggings and a pair of sky-high scarlet stilettos.
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