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Introducing Khalid, 19-Year-Old VMAs Winner and Gucci Addict

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It’s no surprise that Khalid has stepped into the spotlight this year. The 19-year-old singer has an origin story involving Kylie Jenner (she played his song “Location” in a Snapchat video and gave it a heavy boost) and crowds who lose their composure at the mere whisper of “Khalid” at his sold-out shows. But despite the smash success of his debut studio album, American Teen, which is currently ranked number four on the Billboard 200 chart and earned him a win at tonight’s MTV Video Music Awards, the teen still expresses shock. “When I started writing, I said, ‘I don’t know how to do this. I don’t know if it sounds good,’ ” he says. “Coming from being an underdog or being told that something wasn’t for you over and over repeatedly, it took a lot out of me. It took a lot of my self-confidence.” It is the last thing you would expect to hear from someone with a hit record and a slew of A-list collaborations under his belt (a song with Calvin Harris, an upcoming tour with Lorde). T

Natalie Bloomingdale Launches An E-Boutique of Her Favorite Things

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More than just a clothes horse, Natalie Bloomingdale is a patron of the sartorial arts. After years sporting the Dallas-based label Tish Cox and serving as an unofficial brand ambassador, Bloomingdale became accustomed to numerous inquiries from fashion-curious passerby. “I’ve had women run after me in airports, come to my table at restaurants, and last month, a woman waited for me to exit a ladies’ room just to ask me who I was wearing and where they could find it,” she says. In her response, Bloomingdale would both delight and disappoint: identifying Tish Cox (a designer with a philanthropic bent, her pieces are constructed by blind or visually impaired artisans from the Dallas Lighthouse) and that, unfortunately, she does not retail online. “I realized that there was an opportunity to give more people, outside of her cult-like Dallas following, access to her pieces and her mission, so I decided to create a site for her,” Bloomingdale explains, and so The SIL was born. The SIL,