The 88th annual Academy Awards are just a few days away, but before we get swept up in Sunday's ceremony, we're looking back at the ultra-glamorous past of Hollywood's big night. 

Before stars like Jennifer Lawrence, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt became mainstays at the Oscars, the award show saw silver screen legends like Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Elizabeth Taylor and Grace Kelly walk its red carpet in gorgeous gowns and sharp tuxes. 

Just check out the photos below (curated by Getty Images) for a little glimpse at the glamour of Oscars' past, and get ready for this year's ceremony, which airs on Sunday, Feb. 29, at 8:30 p.m. ET on ABC. Red carpet coverage begins at 7 p.m. ET.

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Cate Blanchett is a brilliant actress. Cate Blanchett is a style star. And Cate Blanchett is a total. Freaking. Babe. 

The "Carol" star attended the Costume Designers Guild Awards in Beverly Hills Tuesday night, where she was honored with the Lacoste Spotlight Award.

Clad in an formfitting custom-made Atelier Versace gown and an extravagant, Tiffany & Co. diamond bib necklace, Blanchett exuded glitz, glamour, and yes, total babeness. 

The award, which honors excellence in using costume to help tell a character's story, is awfully fitting for Blanchett. Not only does her extensive film work speak for itself, but she's basically the fashion industry's darling when it comes to major awards shows.

"Her appreciation for the artistry of costume design and her collaboration with the costume designers has made her an icon both on and off the screen," the guild stated on its website. 

With the Oscars just around the corner, we can't wait to see the next iconic fashion moment Blanchett has in store. 

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Zendaya has certainly faced harsh judgement for her envelope-pushing hairstyles. Remember her Grammy Awards mullet? Or her faux locs from last year's Oscars? But that hasn't stopped the young star from doing whatever she feels. 

The 19-year-old is using her role as celebrity ambassador for Chi haircare to encourage women of all ages and backgrounds to "not follow a trend" and make their own beauty rules. 

"We can't allow ourselves to get caught up in other people's opinions of ourselves because we are never going to progress or go forward or have control over who we are," Zendaya said at the unveiling of her new Chi ads on Feb. 23 in New York City. "So, we gotta be real and do what we wanna do, even if people don't like it. It's for you and you're supposed to love it." 

Aptly titled "Real is Beautiful," the new campaign showcases six styles that were inspired by Zendaya's ever-changing hair -- from a sleek topknot to voluminous waves to a side braided ponytail.

In addition to advocating for experimenting with various hairdos, Zendaya is also passionate about practicing healthy hair habits. She revealed to a group of beauty editors that at the tender age of 13 and 14, she didn't know how to properly take care of her precious locks when using heat-styling tools like curling irons and hair straighteners. 

"I ruined my hair texture and my hair pattern and it took a lot of time for me to grow it back to a healthy state," said Zendaya. "I can now help other women, especially young women, to avoid that drama. I don't want my little nieces to have to go through what I went through."

And to us, that is the ultimate hair goal!

Head over to Zendaya for Chi's Tumblr page to check out more images from the new ad campaign and step-by-step styling tips!

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"Failure."

"Unlovable." 

"Me."

These are just a few of the heart-wrenching responses people gave when asked how they felt about the word "fat."

A new video created by media website WatchCut, featured 15 eating disorder survivors doing word association with the term "fat." The video was published during National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, which was created by the National Eating Disorder Association to help educate people on the dangers of disordered eating.  

Each person's response revealed a powerful insight into how survivors deal with body image and manage their disorders. 

One woman in the video said the word fat made her feel afraid. "With bulimia it’s really hard because the thing I fear most is being fat," she said.

"I associated skinniness with being happy, and I associated being bigger with being unhappy, which is also bullshit," another woman said. "Because you’re super unhappy when you have an eating disorder."

Towards the end of the video, one woman pointed out that the word fat shouldn't be thought of as a bad term. "There are lots of good fats," she said. "And I don’t think fat on your body is a bad thing and I don’t think fat in your food means fat on your body, but it’s been used as hate speech." 

If you're struggling with an eating disorder, call the National Eating Disorder Association hotline at 1-800-931-2237.

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One clothing company is honoring a few of black history's greats by giving them their own fictional universities modeled after their works. 

Philadelphia Printworks, an activism and inclusion-driven screen printing company founded by Maryam Pugh in 2011, has created a line of six crewnecks depicting the names of imaginary colleges modeled after each figure's respective craft or field. Named School of Thought, the line pays respect to, among others, Marcus Garvey's economic philosophy with the Garvey Industrial Institution and George Washington Carver's scientific research with Carver Agricultural University. 

"We want to try to use these names to invoke some of the topics, some of the frame of minds and hopefully kind of put a pin in those names for people to see and understand for those who know and those who don’t," School of Thought designer Donte Neal told The Huffington Post.

Along with Garvey and Carver, the line honors Ida B. Wells, James Baldwin, Harriet Tubman and Audre Lorde. Neal and Pugh said the hardest part of designing the line was narrowing down the "schools" to a few black intellectuals, as they wanted to make sure they covered multiple areas of study.

"What we wanted to do was to imagine a future in a different world where these universities and schools and institutions actually exist," Pugh said. "It kind of allowed those imagined institutions as a place where they follow the curriculum and the ideas, morals and values of the names of the people that we chose on the sweaters."

Pugh, who attended a historically black college, said that though these specific universities don't exist physically, their hope is that they can manifest mentally in the black community. She said their crewnecks represent a safe space for black people on college campuses and beyond, especially in places where racial injustice runs rampant. 

"This is for the practice of liberation, which means that we have to nurture our communities with all the negative imagery that is going on," Pugh said. "We have to combat that problem with imagery and send the message that we support you and we are here for you."

The creators told HuffPost that they hope to see Philadelphia Printworks and the School of Thought line grow to include other black intellectuals and prominent figures from other racial and ethnic backgrounds.  

"I think that one of the best possible things that you can be is aware in a kind of political environment in which black and people of color exists on universities and campuses," Neal said. "Not only to what’s happening around you [but] also what’s happening on the internal."

School of Thought crewnecks start at $37.50 and can be purchased on Philadelphia Printwork's website. 

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A new hilarious viral video is helping to bring awareness to "what is so very precious in [the black] community: Our edges."

In the one-minute clip above, posted by Centric TV, black celebrity women including Jordin Sparks, Tatiana Ali, Jazmine Sullivan, Tinashe, and Eva Marcille somberly share stats on the state of black women's edges today.

“One out of three black women will face dwindling edges in their lifetime,” the stars declare. 

There are, of course, many ways to lose one's edges (the hair around the hairline), from wearing braids too tight to listening to the latest Beyoncé

album. But the video insists that awareness and prevention is the key:

“Save them for our sisters, mothers, aunties, daughters" actress Tatiana Ali pleads in the clip. "Save them for the babies … baby hairs.”

For more info on how to save your edges, check out SaveMyEdges.org. 

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While eavesdropping at the salon, we've been hearing colorists talk a lot more about "champagne blonde" hair. Initially, we thought someone was offering us a glass of bubbly. But it turns out that this is an actual trend. 

According to Redken master and Cutler NYC colorist David Stanko, clients who want to be blonde are continually looking to tweak their highlights or overall blonde color. "Historically, these clients have requested a cool or golden blonde, either as highlights or a single-process shade. Now there's an in-between option that we call 'champagne blonde,'" he says.

Stanko likes to imagine this shade as a Kir Royale cocktail or rosé wine because of the soft, pink-y cast it gives to the blonde. "It's very subtle but just noticeable enough to look fresh and new," he says.

Celebrity colorist and salon owner Rita Hazan believes that individuals with pale skin tones can pull off champagne blonde hair effortlessly. Stanko co-signs this, saying that Taylor Swift is a great representative of why it works. 

"Her naturally, medium blonde hair, light-colored eyes and porcelain complexion with soft pink undertones are ideal for showcasing the shade," he explains. Not to mention, it creates the illusion of an all-over glow similar to a bronzer or faux tanner. 

The two hair pros wouldn't recommend champagne blonde to clients who have yellow or orange undertones in their complexions or those with olive skin tones, as the colors will clash with the hair and look unflattering.

As far as color maintenance goes, Stanko points out that blondes have very specific needs. "Their hair can lack volume or have a fragile texture. Their hair also needs conditioning, but nothing that will weigh the hair down," he says.

Hazan suggests visiting your colorist for touch-ups every 6-8 weeks. And to minimize fading, Stanko advises using sulfate-free shampoo, conditioner and this blow-dry primer treatment cream that nourishes hair while protecting it from heat-styling damage.

Has this convinced you to go champagne blonde? Scroll down for hair color and style inspiration straight from Pinterest!

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Popping, squeezing, toothpaste-dabbing or wrapping a scarf around your entire face: You have no doubt attempted all methods under the sun to get rid of and conceal some nasty protrusions on your face at some point.

Pimples are a part of life, no matter how much you may detest them. As explained in the AsapScience video above, they form when pores get clogged with bacteria, oils and dead skin cells, alerting the immune system that an infection is occurring. Your body responds by sending blood and white blood cells to the infected area, which unfortunately causes redness, whiteheads, blackheads and, sometimes, an entire "pizza face."

Sadly, zits aren't just for kids. While adolescents are most at risk for pimply faces, we can get blemishes (or even acne) at any age. Stress is a big pimple-producing catalyst, for example, and adult lives are full of it. 

Routinely washing your face is the first step to keeping those bumps at bay. Cleanliness isn't the culprit for those with acne, for which genetics and hormone levels play a role. While several prescription medications address acne, scientists are now looking to a different type of therapy that involves "good" bacteria. 

To learn more about this exciting new development, watch the video above.

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WatchCut is focusing on the fellas in its latest video for its "100 Years of Beauty" series.

The video pays homage to a century of iconic hair trends for black men in a little over a minute. Tackling conks, high tops, cornrows and more, the handsome model rocks each cut with style.

Check out his time traveling adventure through hair history below and keep scrolling to read more.

WatchCut's Chris Chan explained in a behind-the-scenes video that the style from each decade was modeled after specific people or groups in history. Chan said his crew drew inspiration from aviation pioneer William J. Powell Jr., Little Richard, Jean-Michel Basquiat, among others. 

Chan said that it was important for the video to show black men's hairstyles go deeper than what may have been trendy at the time.

"One thing we wanted to be very clear about in this video is that hair and politics are always intertwined," he said.

Chan also said that the drastic physical change shown in the video in just a few decades of the hair on this one black man was a result of the men who probably felt policed by Eurocentric beauty standards and who years later transitioned to a naturally defiant and liberating style, instead.

"To pick out your afro and wear it so proudly completely resists those forms of discipline that have been on black bodies," Chan said. 

Though black men's hair probably won't be completely free from the public's scrutiny, videos like this remind us that the beauty and versatility of black hair should always be celebrated. 

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Last year, the mayor of a mid-size city in Canada wore the same suit for 15 months in a row. And nobody called him out on it ... until now.

The comment that ended Mayor Richard Stewart's spree was small; it was simply noting that his blue jacket didn't match his colleagues' gray jackets. But the fact that it took so long for anyone to notice proved a point that the mayor and father had hoped to make all along:

Women face an unfair -- and sexist -- double standard when it comes to appearance. 

For 15 months starting in 2014, Mayor Stewart wore the same "plain, off-the-rack, boring, dark blue suit" to every council meeting and event, dry cleaning it occasionally and switching up the shirt and tie.

Nobody made a comment. Stewart suspects that it's because he's a man, and people are used to judging women's appearances more than men's.

"It affects my daughters," Stewart told CTV News. "I want them to grow up knowing that their appearance has nothing to do with their success in a career. We as a society have to, every chance we get, recognize the barriers we put in place for a lot of folks."

We all know that women face different dress standards than men, but we've never seen it called out in this way before. 

Well done, Mayor Stewart.

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Naomie Harris (left) and Suzy Amis Cameron preparing for the 2013 Academy Awards. Photo by Brandon Hickman

Naomie Harris at the 2013 Academy Awards wearing sustainable fashion design by Michael Badger on behalf of Red Carpet Green Dress.

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This year marks the 90th anniversary of one of New York's most well-known cultural institutions -- and the oldest dance group in America -- the Martha Graham Dance Company.

The eponymous Ms. Graham founded the organization in 1926, attracting classically trained icons and emerging modern dancers alike with her innovative take on the relationship between expression and movement. Her influence on the dance world at large has been likened to "Picasso's on painting, Stravinsky’s on music, and Frank Lloyd Wright’s on architecture," and performances like "Revolt" (1927) and "Appalachian Spring" (1944) are still studied today. According to Margaret Atwood's famous Maddadam trilogy, the choreographer-dancer's legacy is so monumental that the Martha Graham Academy even exists in American society's dystopian future. 

Today, 10 years shy of the company's centennial, the dancers at Martha Graham are preparing for "The Next 90!" a season of programming dedicated to bringing back classic performances that haven’t been seen in years, commissioning brand new works, and restoring original stage sets designed by the beloved sculptor Isamu Noguchi.

To do so, the company has taken to Kickstarter, launching an initiative to raise $90,000 -- an appropriate sum for to mark the occasion. So far, the company has secured $30,000 from its board and $30,000 from its foundation; the rest it hopes will come from fans on the crowd-sourcing platform. 

"In this celebratory 90th year, we plan to go bigger than ever and bring Graham fans -- old and new -- behind the scenes, into our archives, and even on tour," the company writes online. Awards for support include passes to a technique class at the Martha Graham School, limited edition merchandise, balcony tickets to shows, and access to archival video. 

In honor of "The Next 90!" once dancer in particular -- ballet-trained principal Lloyd Knight -- has put together a tutorial for the Graham lovers out there. For those familiar with the company's unique aesthetic, the video shows fans how to contour like a professional modern dancer.  

For more information on the Martha Graham Dance Company's upcoming programming, check out the Kickstarter campaign.

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Australian model Ajak Deng announced this week on Instagram that she is quitting modeling. 

Since being discovered in 2008, Deng has walked in runway shows for Dior, Louis Vuitton, Valentino, Marc Jacobs and Jean Paul Gaultier in addition to being featured in many global campaigns. She is a familiar face in fashion magazines and has been a distinctive presence in the industry. 

In her Instagram post, Deng said she said she is putting her "best foot forward" and leaving fashion behind her.

"I am happy to announce that I am officially done with the fashion industry, I will be moving back to Australia in order to live the life I fully deserved. Which is real life," Deng wrote. "I can no longer deal with the fakes and the lies. My life is too short for this dramatic life."

"I am thankful and grateful for every sweet souls that I have crossed path with [sic]," she continued. 

Deng, whose family fled Sudan in 2005, has been vocal about challenges within the fashion industry and confronting racial bias in her personal and professional life. In 2014, in an interview with Elle magazine, the model recalled some of her daily experiences.

"I go back to Melbourne and think I'm going home and someone will say 'You don't belong here' and I'm like "Well I grew up here. What do you mean I don't belong here?"

Later that year Deng tweeted that she was "kicked out of Balmain for being black." She deleted her account shortly thereafter.

In a later Instagram post, Deng is seen striking a dramatic and powerful pose with the caption "I am a survive [sic]."

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Pregnant women don't get enough credit. Not only are they creating another life inside their body, but some of them step out flaunting amazing style while doing it.

The celeb photos below prove that maternity fashion can be fun and, most importantly, fearless. No woman should feel the pressure to dress a certain way just because she's pregnant -- despite the hater backlash that often follows risk-taking pregnancy style.

Scroll through the list ahead and see all of the trends you can rock when pregnant. Despite what you may have heard, things like bold patterns and short hemlines are 100 percent okay to experiment with when you're expecting. At the end of the day, wear whatever makes you feel your best. 

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You know there's going to be a lot of attention paid to style with a title like "Pretty in Pink." 

And while John Hughes and Howard Deutch's 1986 film wasn't just about fashion, the iconic moments from the storyline were helped along by each character's look. If the love story of teenage outsider Andie and rich-kid Blane was what pulled viewers in, each character's personal style is part of what made the movie go from a nice flick to a cinematic time capsule, from good to great.

"Great," of course, isn't a word many would apply to Andie's lace and polka-dot creation -- constructed from her friend Iona's frock and a dress given to her by her father -- that she debuts just before heading to the pinnacle of all silver screen high schooler's lives: the prom. If you've forgotten it, let's refresh your memory.

"Oh, boy," costume designer Marilyn Vance said over the phone once I mentioned the interesting end result. "Molly [Ringwald, who played Andie] hated that dress. She wanted to be like the other girls, you know, in a strapless dress with kind of a full skirt."

The character of Andie, however, wouldn't have been able to afford a dress like most of the other girls at school -- nor would one truly suit her persona.

Vance explained how she could have followed the era's trends, like big shoulders, but chose not to. "I just went in the other direction," she explained. "I didn't want to date anything." Thirty years later, it's not hard to imagine the visuals of "Pretty in Pink" fitting in a Brooklyn or Portland neighborhood, or in the nostalgic-cool feeling of current films like "Dope." It's the timeless visuals that make re-watching it feel like a classic black dress instead of a woefully unwearable homecoming affair.  

"I won't say that I was in love with it," said Vance, noting that the design was specifically for Andie, and wasn't meant to be a run-of-the-mill gown. "But that's not the character. The character was so original. She had a mind of her own, she marched to a different drummer."

"I said, 'This is Molly! I can't just give her a prom dress.'" she continued. "So, anyway, John [Hughes] came in and said, 'It's the character. That's it.' There she was." 

Deutch, the film's director, recalls the unveiling of the dress. "I think the studio didn't like it when they saw it," he told The Huffington Post's Lauren Moraski. However, he had worked with Vance on previous projects and "trusted her always." As he explained, "It wasn't supposed to be a designer couture thing. It was supposed to be something she put together herself."

To create the look, Vance mixed and matched a few dresses before settling on the final dress. The high neck was inspired by Andie's black top of a similar style -- one she's wearing, and touches thoughtfully, while sketching the final outcome. "I tried to put the story together: How did she come up with that gown?" Vance explained.

Something more universally adored was Andie's best friend Duckie's (Jon Cryer) general style, complete with blazers, vests, bolo ties and hats. "I was very involved in the music business as well, and very much into the British music," said Vance, noting that sometimes Hughes would play the crew original music in order to set a scene. 

Duckie's look, essentially, is that of a "Teddy boy." "His character is the whole fashion," Vance explained, "It's very kind of rock 'n' roll." Rolling up Duckie's sleeves and adding an Army patch to his jacket were two subtle ways Vance helped "make it his own."

Both Andie and Duckie were teens from the lower-class side of the tracks, which meant they had to express themselves using what little resources they had. "They really didn't have a lot of money, but they had a lot of style," Vance said. "They had feelings and used them. They had feelings, and were sensitive. As opposed to the other folk."

The other folk, naturally were Blane & co., representative of the aspirational J. Crew vibes of the wealthier late '80s set. "I dressed all the other kids in kind of beige and light blue," Vance said. "Khakis, whites. I tried to do that, not to make it obvious but to kind of ... to really register in your head what you're seeing, without going 'Oh, they're the rich ones!' You gotta be subtle." Andie and Duckie didn't just stand out socially: at a glance, their loud prints and unconventional styling literally set them apart from the crowd.

Her favorite scene -- "I got to say, that's one of my favorite things ever" -- is Duckie's dance in the record store where Andie and Iona work. "Jon Cryer is so not that character -- he pulled it off," Vance said. "The most incredible thing that I've ever pulled off, in my life, is getting him in that wardrobe."

Hughes' involvement in the film served as a muse of sorts for Vance. "John Hughes is such a wonderful storyteller. You know, it just dances in your head, the visuals," she said. "He was one of a kind as a person. Like a big kid, but at the same time, a grown man." 

It was this storytelling, and Vance's costume design, that helped the film become a classic to return to time and time again. That's why we'll always love "Pretty in Pink," even if it did awaken some viewers to heinous injustices:

"Pretty in Pink" is available now on Digital HD.

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Khloe Kardashian has been working out a ton and she wants to show off her results. 

While revealing her rock hard six-pack in an Instagram photo, fans accused the 31-year-old reality star of Photoshopping her results after seeing a curved door in the bottom left of the shot:

Kardashian then reposted the photo, calling it the "OG shot." In the new selfie, fans could see that Kardashian may have slightly slimmed down the side of her leg, but otherwise left the rest of her body untouched.  

"If only hatin burned calories how dope yall would be," Kardashian wrote in her caption. "Too bad it doesn't. Here's the OG shot. The petty movement ain't cute. Oh and I almost forgot.... Namaste."

Kardashian's friend and makeup artist, Joyce Bonelli, later posted a photo of the reality star clad in a tiny grey top and sheer black underwear.

Her results from working out are clear, hopefully putting an end to all the Insta-haters. 

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