Take a cue from this blonde billionaire and pair your outerwear with a sophisticated matching bag and feminine ballet flats.
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Collette Grimes,
InStyle,
10 Feb. 2026
Nicky Hilton Rothschild Hilton Rothschild made her case for the return of coquette — a post-pandemic trend centered around hyper-feminine fashion — with a half-up pony secured by a satin ribbon, which mirrored the design on her Marc Jacobs dress.
On the left: a photograph of a blurred womanly figure, her white dress smeared into an avian or angelic wingspan, her head eerily effaced, allowing the forest behind her to show sharply through.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 Dec. 2025
Tarun would tease her, and my mother would look sorrowfully toward Kavitha, as if the two of them now shared some womanly burden.
Wuthering Heights has the tunnel-vision horniness and girlish aesthetic sensibility of a high-school freshman who’s been assigned to read Brontë in class while tearing through a pile of explicit bodice-rippers under the covers at home.
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Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
9 Feb. 2026
Her girlish pout, tiny waist and generous bust were often more appreciated than her talent.
Throughout the 1900s, and even into the ‘80s and ’90s, women often were encouraged to be more effeminate, and male counterparts were told to embrace their masculinity.
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