Zendaya Cuts It All: The Pixie Heard Round Venice
The Venice Film Festival has a way of separating the people who dress for the occasion from the people who are the occasion.
Zendaya Cuts It All: The Pixie Heard Round Venice
The Venice Film Festival has a way of separating the people who dress for the occasion from the people who *are* the occasion. Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman arrived this year as the latter — and she didn't even need a gown to do it. After months of goddess-length hair that had the internet convinced she'd signed some kind of treaty with Aphrodite, Zendaya walked in with a fully committed, curly pixie cut, and the festival essentially stopped talking about anything else for forty-eight hours. Not a bixie. Not a transitional moment. A decision.
That's the thing about Zendaya that most people still haven't clocked — she never tests the water. She gets in.
Meanwhile, the rest of the Venice front row was doing their own version of the ceremony. Kendall Jenner in vintage Giorgio Armani, which is exactly the kind of move that looks effortless and takes three stylists and an archival researcher to execute. Amal Clooney in Tom Ford, because of course she did. The best-dressed list from this year's festival reads like someone threw a dinner party and forgot to invite anyone who wasn't already operating at their absolute apex.
Back in the gossip column proper: the celebrity splits of 2026 are stacking up in a way that makes you wonder if something is in the water supply in Los Angeles. Bill Hader and Ali Wong in January set the tone — that one landed quietly and hurt loudly. Then Jason Biggs and Jenny Mollen, confirmed in May. Alan Ritchson and Catherine Ritchson, which nobody saw coming because nobody ever does. The year isn't over yet, and the list has that particular energy of a season finale that keeps adding plot points twenty minutes after you thought it was wrapping up.
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, for the record, remain intact — timeline confirmed, every chapter documented as if for a congressional hearing. They are at this point less a couple and more a cultural institution with a merch budget.
And somewhere in the middle of all this, Pete Davidson is navigating fatherhood while carrying the particular weight of a September anniversary that reshaped his entire life. That one isn't gossip. That one is just someone figuring out how to explain the world to a child while still making sense of it himself.
The pixie cut will last longer than most of the couples on that splits list. Mark the date.
*— Dua Mifsud*
