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Jaden Smith’s ‘vampire castle’ Grammy headwear explained

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When it comes to award show dress codes, the Grammys are without a doubt the most liberal. Wanna show up as a besequined trapeze artist? Take the big swing. Wanna be carried in as an egg to hatch on stage? Gaga, you were born that way. Basically, the craziest costume to don at the Grammys is… a classically beautiful evening gown of the variety that’s sought at most other award shows. So I wonder if Jaden Smith saw himself in his fairly straightlaced Louis Vuitton black suit & tie with white shirt, and realized he had to add something to make the look Grammys appropriate. Enter the house. Or to be more precise, the ABODI Wearable Vampire Castle Headpiece from an avant garde European fashion brand that draws on vampire folklore from its founding designer’s heritage. Obviously, ABODI Transylvania is thrilled with the recent exposure — even in daylight!

For Jaden Smith, home is where the art is.

The 26-year-old son of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith caused some nosy neighbors to wonder about his look when he walked the red carpet of the 2025 Grammy Awards Feb. 2.

For the event, which was also attended by his dad and sister Willow Smith, Jaden rocked a custom black Louis Vuitton suit, a white button down and black tie. But the most notable part of his ensemble was the all-black, custom-made vampire house headpiece made by ABODI Transylvania in collaboration with artist Szilveszter Makó that covered most of his head and face, an art piece the brand has since shed some light on.

“The whole process of creating the headpiece was a fantastic experience, from sketching to testing and realisation,” the company wrote in a Feb. 2 Instagram of the look. “The artist headpiece combines the mysterious elegance of ABODI Transylvania with a bold, modern design inspired by Transylvanian history and the vampire legends of the Bathori.”

The company’s founder Dora Abodi — who uses Transylvania’s legends and folklore as inspiration to honor her family’s deep history with the country, according to the company’s website — also shared her thoughts on the buzzy look.

“The fields of fashion and music are intended for enjoyment and the pursuit of creativity, allowing individuals to express themselves freely and experience life and art to the fullest,” Dora shared in a statement on the company’s Instagram Feb. 2. “The now famous ABODI Transylvania Vampire Castle serves as a symbol of audacity, fortitude, and an embrace of folklore and legends.”

[From E! News]

When is a house not a home? When it’s a vampire castle worn like a hat! Some ask why Jaden Smith decided to wear that vampire castle on his head; I ask, why did he decide to wear the vampire castle headpiece… when it’s the least interesting item in ABODI Transylvania’s line?! I mean, to each his own chapeau, but my sartorial predilections lean towards other parts of the collection — that are no less frivolous, mind you! For instance, I would wear the sh-t out of their Mermaid Cat Babushka Coat Sculpture, in pink please. I mean, what’s not to love? Again, it’s a mermaid cat babushka (a very underrepresented demographic) sewn onto a fashionable coat. It has everything! Unfortunately, the price tag is out of my budget: €13,500, or about $14,000. Even in their more “regular” pieces, the vampiric touches are done with whimsy, much less literal than the headpiece. But there’s no question that Jaden trotted out this topper for the right venue. I just hope for the sake of the people sitting behind him, that he opened the castle’s windows during the show.

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Willow & Jaden Smith ‘feel bad for their dad’ in the wake of Jada’s memoir

For the past week, Jada Pinkett Smith has been promoting her memoir, Worthy, and talking all about her marriage to Will Smith. They’ve been separated since 2016-ish, although they have no plans to divorce and they still talk about how much they love each other. Will has made some public comments in support of Jada and her memoir, although this week he also posted an Instagram with the message “notifications off.” I guess we’re supposed to believe that he’s not paying attention to all of the noise. So be it – that’s actually pretty healthy. Meanwhile, we haven’t heard anything from Will and Jada’s adult children, Willow (22) and Jaden (25). According to Entertainment Tonight, they’re really tired of their parents making everything so damn public.

The Smith kids are wishing for privacy. Amid Jada Pinkett Smith’s recent shocking revelations — most notably that she and Will Smith have been separated for seven years — a source tells ET that their kids, Willow Smith and Jaden Smith, “feel bad for their dad with all the recent headlines about their parents.”

“They know he has been going through a lot lately and this isn’t helping,” the source says of the Smith kids, which also includes Trey Smith, whom Will shares with his ex-wife, Sheree Zampino. “They wish some of their family’s private matters remained private.”

As for the 55-year-old actor, the source says he’s “trying to stay busy and has been hanging out with his good friends and his kids.”

“He’s trying not to let any outside noise impact him,” the source says. “Will loves Jada and feels like he has always had her back and always will. He has been trying to be supportive, while also taking care of himself.”

[From ET]

I’ll admit that I feel bad for Will too. Jada has made it clear that she’s still ride-or-die for Will (just in a separate home), but I also feel… no one would really hold it against Will if he got a divorce and started a life away from Jada. I don’t think Jada is toxic or whatever, but clearly, they have outgrown each other and it feels like this situation, which they both created, has outlived its usefulness. It’s stagnant. As for the oversharing… Will overshared like crazy when he wrote his memoir. Still, I feel for Willow and Jaden. They don’t want any part of their parents’ dramas.

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Venus & Serena Williams at the ‘King Richard’ premiere: stunning sisters?

2021 AFI Fest - Closing Night Premiere Of Warner Bros. Pictures' 'King Richard'

Here are some photos from last night’s AFI Fest premiere of King Richard, the true story of how Richard Williams trained and coached his daughters Venus and Serena Williams to be the champions they are today. Will Smith plays Richard Williams and Venus and Serena executive produced the film, and everything was done with their permission and say-so. What’s exciting about this is that new generations will be introduced to the story of the Williams sisters’ rise to dominance, and it also refocuses a lot of energy onto Venus. Venus was the first through the door, she was the older sister and everything Serena did, she did because she was trying to be like Venus. I love that this is the story the sisters wanted to tell, because Venus’s journey and glass-ceiling-breaking is often lost in the narrative of Serena’s historic dominance.

I thought for a second that Serena wore one of her own designs, from her S By Serena collection, but no – both Serena wore David Koma (as did Olympia, who wore a smaller version of Serena’s catsuit). Venus Williams wore Bach Mai. I love Venus’s visual callback with the beads in her hair – that was a huge f–king deal when the Williams sisters were teenagers, the fact that they played tennis with beads in their hair.

2021 AFI Fest - Closing Night Premiere Of Warner Bros. Pictures' 'King Richard'

2021 AFI Fest - Closing Night Premiere Of Warner Bros. Pictures' 'King Richard'

2021 AFI Fest - Closing Night Premiere Of Warner Bros. Pictures' 'King Richard'

2021 AFI Fest - Closing Night Premiere Of Warner Bros. Pictures' 'King Richard'

I’m also including photos of the Smith family – Will and Jada attended the premiere together, and Willow and Jaden posed together, separate from their parents. A few months ago, I would have said that the critical buzz meant that Will was one of the big contenders for Best Actor awards. But as I said when I covered his GQ interview… Will stepped on his own Oscar campaign by releasing his memoir. All of the headlines are about his f–ked up marriage drama. Who is even talking about his performance in this film?

2021 AFI Fest - Closing Night Premiere Of Warner Bros. Pictures' 'King Richard'

2021 AFI Fest - Closing Night Premiere Of Warner Bros. Pictures' 'King Richard'

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Is Jaden Smith As Revolutionary As Galileo?

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If there’s one young celebrity out there that’s completely fucking bonkers, it’s got to be Jaden Smith. He’s always been a little out there, and that’s no big deal, but he literally seems to think he’s god’s gift to the universe. In a recent interview in GQ, Jaden brought his delusion to new heights, saying “I don’t think I’m as revolutionary as Galileo, but I don’t think I’m not as revolutionary as Galileo.” Well… okay, but definitely not. So here’s the big question on the New York Post‘s mind: Is Jaden the most insane kid (he’s 17, so nearly an adult) in Hollywood?

A source close to the family tells The Post: “Jada and Will have raised both kids to believe that they are supercreative geniuses. They treat them that way, and the children believe that the world should fall into line as well.”

The Smith kids are home-schooled, using a curriculum Jaden referred to in GQ as “Mystery School. It dates back to like ancient Egypt, ancient Greece … They would learn the math and sciences of that generation, and then they would build the cities and give that energy and that knowledge to the other people.”

Jaden’s also talked about taking sewing classes, but the family insider tells The Post that “At the moment, Jaden is working on his new album and has been filming a new drama series rather than doing any schoolwork.”

The insider adds, “When he is not working, [Jaden] says that he is writing novels and developing mathematical theories — however, he seems to be largely hanging out with the Kardashians and playing video games.”

Yeah, he sounds pretty crazy, but what do you expect? He’s been raised by Scientologists and never been brought back down to earth when he started thinking the universe revolves around him. Willow isn’t quite as bad, thankfully, but God help these kids when they become proper adults and have to enter the world as it is. Then again, they’re rich, so that day will probably never actually come.

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Willow & Jaden Smith: We can control time & education is useless

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Willow and Jaden Smith are living proof that a super-permissive set of parents can churn out some spacey kids. Will Smith believes that children should be given a lot of control at an early age, which is the way that Scientologists raise their children. The Smiths founded a now-defunct school that used CO$ teaching methods; so the little bit of formal education that Jaden and Willow have received has been Scientology-based.

These kids no longer go to school even though Willow is still 14, and Jaden is 16. He regularly tweets nonsensical blather, including telling his followers that school is a “tool to brainwash the youth,” and babies are more intelligent than adults. That last part sounds very CO$, which believes that children are simply adult souls trapped in younger bodies.

I’m not making fun of Jaden’s intelligence. He hasn’t received regular schooling, and it shows. Jaden and Willow have been allowed to do whatever they want for a long time. They both have new albums this month, so the NYT’s T mag profiled them, and it’s a doozy. The whole interview is here. Willow claims to be really into quantum physics, which was of interest to L. Ron Hubbard as he wrote the sci-fi novels that form the basis of Scientology. Former upper-echelon CO$ member Marty Rathbun has written at length about how quantum physics can be useful in “understanding” CO$.

The NYT journo only asks a few questions of Willow and Jaden, and they run a bizarre relay-monologue that continues unabated. Willow goes off on tangents like this: “And the feeling of being like, this is a fragment of a holographic reality that a higher consciousness made.” Then they start talking about controlling time:

On time
WILLOW: “I mean, time for me, I can make it go slow or fast, however I please, and that’s how I know it doesn’t exist.

JADEN: “It’s proven that how time moves for you depends on where you are in the universe. It’s relative to beings and other places. But on the level of being here on earth, if you are aware in a moment, one second can last a year. And if you are unaware, your whole childhood, your whole life can pass by in six seconds. But it’s also such a thing that you can get lost in.”

WILLOW: “Because living.”

JADEN: “Right, because you have to live. There’s a theoretical physicist inside all of our minds, and you can talk and talk, but it’s living.”

On breathing:
WILLOW: “Breathing is meditation; life is a meditation. You have to breathe in order to live, so breathing is how you get in touch with the sacred space of your heart.”

JADEN: “When babies are born, their soft spots bump: It has, like, a heartbeat in it. That’s because energy is coming through their body, up and down.”

WILLOW: “Prana energy.”

JADEN: “It’s prana energy because they still breathe through their stomach. They remember. Babies remember.”

WILLOW: “When they’re in the stomach, they’re so aware, putting all their bones together, putting all their ligaments together. But they’re shocked by this harsh world.”

JADEN: “By the chemicals and things, and then slowly…”

WILLOW: “As they grow up, they start losing.”

JADEN: “You know, they become just like us.”

On careers
JADEN: “What’s your job, what’s your career? Nah, I am. I’m going to imprint myself on everything in this world.”

School is the unlearning of things:
JADEN: “Kids who go to normal school are so teenagery, so angsty.”

WILLOW: “They never want to do anything, they’re so tired.”

JADEN: “You never learn anything in school. Think about how many car accidents happen every day. Driver’s ed? What’s up? I still haven’t been to driver’s ed because if everybody I know has been in an accident, I can’t see how driver’s ed is really helping them out.”

WILLOW: “I went to school for one year. It was the best experience but the worst experience. The best experience because I was, like, ‘Oh, now I know why kids are so depressed.’ But it was the worst experience because I was depressed.”

JADEN: “I have a goal to be just the most craziest person of all time. And when I say craziest, I mean, like, I want to do like Olympic-level things. I want to be the most durable person on the planet.”

WILLOW: “I think by the time we’re 30 or 20, we’re going to be climbing as many mountains as we can possibly climb.”

[From NYT – T Magazine]

Praise Xenu, these kids’ words read like robotic gibberish. They don’t know why babies’ soft spots exist, and they’re “in the stomach“? *shakes head* Jaden’s logic on how driver’s ed doesn’t prevent accidents is sad. That’s like saying doctors shouldn’t exist because people still die every day. Come to think of it, Scientologists don’t believe in medical care. They also believe that car accidents only happen to people who hang with non-CO$ types (suppressive persons). Jaden wants to be “the most durable person on the planet,” which may have something to do with the Clear (or practically immortal) state. I don’t know where the “prana” fixation fits in with the CO$. That word originated from in Hindu philosophy, and quantum physics grabbed onto the term.

Will and Jada have the freedom to raise (or not raise) their kids however they see fit. They’re doing Willow and Jaden a huge disservice, but there’s enough family money to pad these kids’ lives (and therapy sessions) forever. What bothers me is that Jaden and Willow make music that kids listen to. My teenage daughter has heard a few of Willow’s songs and enjoyed them. We’ve looked at Jaden’s crazy tweets together and discussed. Normal parents must work overtime when influential, lazy parents like Will and Jada Smith let their own kids talk smack about education.

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Willow and Jaden Smith are absolutely bonkers

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Willow and Jaden Smith, children of Will and Jada Pinkett-Smith, aged 14 and 16, have actually lost their damn minds. They teamed up for a new interview with The New York Times’ T Magazine that will make every synapse in your brain misfire with its sheer insanity. I can’t even tell you what they talk about in the interview because none of it means anything. I suppose, in essence, they’re discussing life, time, the spiritual world… but even then, that’s a stretch. Without further ado, I’ll just share some excerpts:

I’m curious about your experience of time. Do you feel like life is moving really quickly? Is your music one way to sort of turn it over and reflect on it?

WILLOW: I mean, time for me, I can make it go slow or fast, however I please, and that’s how I know it doesn’t exist.

JADEN: It’s proven that how time moves for you depends on where you are in the universe. It’s relative to beings and other places. But on the level of being here on earth, if you are aware in a moment, one second can last a year. And if you are unaware, your whole childhood, your whole life can pass by in six seconds. But it’s also such a thing that you can get lost in.

WILLOW: Because living.

JADEN: Right, because you have to live. There’s a theoretical physicist inside all of our minds, and you can talk and talk, but it’s living.

WILLOW: It’s the action of it.

JADEN: Exactly. Because your mind has a duality to it. So when one thought goes into your mind, it’s not just one thought, it has to bounce off both hemispheres of the brain. When you’re thinking about something happy, you’re thinking about something sad. When you think about an apple, you also think about the opposite of an apple. It’s a tool for understanding mathematics and things with two separate realities. But for creativity: That comes from a place of oneness. That’s not a duality consciousness. And you can’t listen to your mind in those times — it’ll tell you what you think and also what other people think.

I… you… it’s… what? I don’t understand! Maybe that’s the problem, though. I mean, THEY seem to understand. They even have thoughts on babies!

WILLOW: Breathing is meditation; life is a meditation. You have to breathe in order to live, so breathing is how you get in touch with the sacred space of your heart.

JADEN: When babies are born, their soft spots bump: It has, like, a heartbeat in it. That’s because energy is coming through their body, up and down.

WILLOW: Prana energy.

JADEN: It’s prana energy because they still breathe through their stomach. They remember. Babies remember.

WILLOW: When they’re in the stomach, they’re so aware, putting all their bones together, putting all their ligaments together. But they’re shocked by this harsh world.

JADEN: By the chemicals and things, and then slowly…

WILLOW: As they grow up, they start losing.

JADEN: You know, they become just like us.

Welp, I’m out of here. I officially don’t know what in the hell is going on anymore.

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Dawson’s Creek, 10 Things I Hate About You Reunions

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