Earth Mother Stella McCartney Covers Vogue US January 2019 Creative Forces Tribute

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Since her 1995 Central Saint Martins graduation show, Stella McCartney’s brand has embodied an urgent desire to end animal cruelty in the fashion industry. Fake furs were mainstream when Stella began her fashion climb, but the only glues available were animal-based. “I imagine Vikings sitting around a pot, boiling down the last bones of the elk that they skinned for the fur,” says McCartney. “And I think, Wow—we’re still there.” Of course, we now also know the toll fake fur takes on the environment.

Her coldly-realistic assessment of fashion’s conscience — or lack of it — inspired Stella McCartney to walk her fashion talk with as few comprises as possible. That decision has positioned her at the pinnacle of intelligent design forces sweeping through the fashion industry, before it is too late to save ourselves, our planet and our children’s futures.

Today McCartney uses renewable energy where it’s available for both her stores and offices. Her commitment to cruelty-free fashion and sustainability is fast becoming the industry norm, influencing product development and sourcing decisions at Armani, Chanel, Gucci, Michael Kors, Prada and more on the topic of fur. “I’m hugely relieved,” says McCartney, “but I’m actually astounded that it’s taken so long.”

Stella sold a non-majority stake in her company to LVMH earlier in 2019, a relationship that puts her in a key advisory role to Chairman Bernard Arnault for the entire LVMH stable of luxury brands.

The designer covers the January 2020 issue of Vogue, lensed by Annie Leibovitz. Stella holds her four children (clockwise in cover from top left), Bailey, Miller, Beckett, and Reileyis. The entire family wears Stella McCartney, styled by Tonne Goodman. Hamish Bowles conducts the interview. Read on at Vogue

Annie Leibovitz Presents A Great Model Gaggle In 'Check Please' For Vogue US August 2019

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Annie Leibovitz Presents A Great Model Gaggle In 'Check Please' For Vogue US August 2019

Abby Champion, Adut Akech, Andreja Pejic, Anna Ewers, Anok Yai, Ariel Nicholson, Fei Fei Sun, Fran Summers, Gemma Ward, Gigi Hadid, Joan Smalls, Karen Elson, Karlie Kloss, Kesewa Aboah, and Paloma Elsesser are styled by Sara Moonves in ‘Check, Please’. Annie Leibovitz captures the noble origins sorority girls en masse for American Vogue August 2019.

Hailey + Justin Bieber Cover Vogue US March 2019 , Lensed By Annie Leibovitz About Being All-In Married

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Hailey + Justin Bieber Cover Vogue US March 2019 , Lensed By Annie Leibovitz About Being All-In Married

Newlyweds Hailey and Justin Bieber are styled by Tonne Goodman in American Vogue’s March 2019 cover story. Photographer Annie Leibovitz captures the Biebers for an interview by Rob Haskell: Justin and Hailey Bieber Open Up About Their Passionate, Not-Always Easy but Absolutely All-In.

Vogue US May 2018 Goes 'Inside the World of Amal Clooney", Lensed By Annie Leibovitz

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Vogue US May 2018 Goes 'Inside the World of Amal Clooney", Lensed By Annie Leibovitz

Global citizen Amal Clooney covers the May 2018 issue of Vogue US at home at her British estate, Aberlash House in Sonning, England. Tonne Goodman chooses luxury labels Alexander McQueen, Cartier, Johanna Ortiz, Van Cleef & Arpels, Christian Louboutin, Balmain, Rosetta Getty, Oscar de la Renta, Frame, Lorraine Schwartz, Fendi, and Beladora for images by Annie Leibovitz./ Hair by Orlando Pita; makeup by Charlotte Tilbury

The wide-ranging profile of Clooney covers her life as a prominent barrister, her humanitarian and women's rights work, meeting of George and her passion for giraffes, life with twins #MeToo, gun control, and her role as co-chair of the upcoming Catholicism-themed Met Gala in May. Read the interview. 

Lena Waithe Covers Vanity Fair April 2018, Expanding White Culture's Exposure To Black Brilliance

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Lena Waithe Covers Vanity Fair April 2018, Expanding White Culture's Exposure To Black Brilliance

Emmy Award-winner Lena Waithe takes the cover of  American Vanity Fair‘s April 2018 edition captured by fashion and celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz, with styling from Jessica Diehl. Waithe is the first black woman to win a Primetime Emmy award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for 'Master of None'.

After garnering accolades for her work on 'The Chi' as well, and appearing in Steven Spielberg's new film 'Ready Player One', Lena Waithe talks to Jacqueline Woodson about her influences from the Harlem Renaissance to 'Time's Up'. Talking in the world of current 'Black Panther' and 'A Wrinkle In Time's' success, Lena Waithe is anchored in the world of Black Brilliance. Not only has this moment arrived in Hollywood, writes Woodson, it "has not come to play."

Meeting her at the Four Seasons restaurant in Beverly Hills, Woodson begins to see Lena "as a woman coming at the world from many different places, quick-moving and fast-talking yet soft-spoken and thoughtful, cursing a mile a minute while bringing a new vibrancy to language. . . . On the butch side of queer but with delicate edges. Star power with kindness. "

Annie Leibovitz Captures Model Icons In 'Good Jeans' For Vogue US September 2017 125th Anniversary Issue

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Annie Leibovitz Captures Model Icons In 'Good Jeans' For Vogue US September 2017 125th Anniversary Issue

American Vogue celebrates its 125th Anniversary September 2017 issue with a packed 700+ pages heaping with iconic model faces.  Nothing is more American than denim styled on Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington, Elaine Irwin, Claudia Schiffer, Tatjana Patitz, Joan Smalls, Amber Valetta, Carolyn Murphy, Linda Evangelista, Kendall Jenner, Gigi Hadid, Imaan Hammam, Liu Wen, Fei Fei Sun and Natalia Vodianova in 'Good Jeans'. Annie Leibovitz produces Rembrandt-inspired portraits styled by Tonne Goodman. / Hair by Garren and Thom Prizno; makeup by Diane Kendal

 Annie Leibovitz Archives Go To LUMA Foundation's Living Archives Program

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Annie Leibovitz, Photographs from the “Driving” series. © Annie Leibovitz

Iconic photographer Annie Leibovitz has arranged for her archives to be part of the LUMA Foundation, the Swiss nonprofit founded by Maja Hoffmann. The collaboration is part of LUMA's Living Archives Program, dedicated to working with living artists across disciplines including photography, design, literature, film, and dance. 

Over 8,000 photographs will open on May 26 in an exhibition coinciding with the opening of LUMA's Frank-Gehry designed Parc des Ateliers location in Arles, France.

“Annie Leibovitz Archive Project #1: The Early Years”—which opens on May 27—will focus on the photographer’s work between 1968 and 1983 and is intended as the first of several projects dedicated to Leibovitz’s career-beginnings. The show will also mark the first time that the archives become available to the public. ArtNet writes:

Opening with photographs taken when she was enrolled at the San Francisco Art Institute as a painting major, the exhibition will go on to examine the artist’s work through 1983. During that time, Leibovitz began working for Rolling Stone, eventually becoming the magazine’s chief photographer in 1973 before resigning ten years later to photograph for Vanity Fair.

Natalie Portman Channels Demi Moore With Hew Own Pregnancy Photo For Vanity Fair's Hollywood Issue

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In what will surely become an iconic photo, a pregnant Natalie Portman channels the 1991 photo of a naked and pregnant Demi Moore, shot for Vanity Fair's August issue. Portman joins Emma Stone, Lupita Nyong’o, Amy Adams, Natalie Portman, Ruth Negga, Dakota Fanning, Elle Fanning, Aja Naomi King, Janelle Monae, Greta Gerwig and Dakota Johnson on the cover of Vanity Fair's March 2017 Hollywood issue, also shot by Annie Leibovitz.

Vanity Fair acknowledges the inspiration, writing that while "the reference is clear, the moment is Portman's alone."

How sad that this cover was shot before the November 21 March for Women. Imagine if we had one or two Pussyhats anchored by those vivid red and pink hues.  Read my new article: Step 2 For Pussyhat Power: How About Yarnbombing America From Sea To Shining Sea?

Annie Leibovitz Presents Women of Distinction in Non-Babes 2016 Pirelli Calendar

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Annie Leibovitz Presents Women of Distinction in Non-Babes 2016 Pirelli Calendar

The Pirelli Calendar is noted for its annual issue of female bodies eye candy and also sensual beauty. With few exceptions -- Terry Richardson's calendar, for example -- Pirelli takes the high road in photographing women.

Pirelli's 2016 calendar #43 mines new ground in female imagery, tapping female photographer Annie Leibovitz to shoot 13 inspiring women -- artists, athletes, models, philanthropists and bloggers of every age and skin color. The omission of a Latina woman is noteworthy, unless I have my ethnicities mixed up. This is Leibovitz's second Pirelli calendar, as she shot the 2000 edition.

Leibovitz explains her vision behind this year's calendar, saying:

“I started to think about the roles that women play, women who have achieved something. I wanted to make a classic set of portraits. I thought that the women should look strong but natural, and I decided to keep it a very simple exercise of shooting in the studio,” Leibovitz said in a release. “This calendar is so completely different. It is a departure. The idea was not to have any pretense in these pictures and be very straightforward.” Needless to say, those looking for tropically set nude photos are in for a surprise.

Caitlyn Jenner Debuts in Vanity Fair July 2015 Lensed By Annie Leibovitz

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Caitlyn Jenner Debuts in Vanity Fair July 2015 Lensed By Annie Leibovitz

Caitlyn Jenner debuts her true self on the July cover of Vanity Fair, debuting her sexy femme self in a photo shoot at her Malibu home, lensed by Annie Leibovitz.

Pulitzer Prize–winning contributing editor and author of Friday Night Lights Buzz Bissinger, who was given unfettered access to Jenner and her family, chronicles the tensions, traumas, and courage that shaped Caitlyn into the woman you see today, formerly known as Bruce.

Jenner speaks movingly about her journey, telling Bissinger, “If I was lying on my deathbed and I had kept this secret and never ever did anything about it, I would be lying there saying, ‘You just blew your entire life.’ ”

Eye | Elisabeth Daynes Early Human Sculptures | Annie Leibovitz 'Pilgrimage' | Anna Says More Kimye Coming

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Global Mind

Prehistoric Humans Revealed

How our ancestors really looked and dressed: Exhibition reveals the face of pre-historic man  Daily News UK

For the past seven years, sculptor and avid paleaonthropology researcher Elisabeth Daynes has studied human origins. This passion was first launched by Daynes in 1988 when the Thot Museum in Montignac (France) commissioned her to create hyper realistic reconstructions of a life-size mammoth and a group of Magdalenian people from the later cultures of the Upper Paleolithic period in western Europe.

With the opening of the Tautavel Museum dedicated to Human origins in the French Pyreneans, Elisabeth Daynes became widely known.

In 1996, the artist met Jean-Noël Vignal, a forensic anthropologist at the Forensic Institute of Paris. This collaboration married her career as a sculptor of early humans with advanced technology.  Read more about Elisabeth Daynes’ biography.

Now Elisabeth Daynes has brought a pair of 17,000-year-old skeletons to life, creating silicone models of them after studying their prehistoric bones. The representations of ‘Chancelade Man’ and the ‘Woman of the Pataud Shelter’ are based on remains found in France’s Dordogne region and believed to date to the 18th millennium BC. The woman wears fur, hemp and nettle and sports ivory and bone beads — a representation based on research. The dreadlocks and tattoos are artistic license, based purely on conjecture.

Daynes’ models are on exhibit until December 5, 2014 as ‘Chairs des Origins — our ancestors as you’ve never seen’ in Bordeaux

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Georgia O’Keefe Record Sale

The value of simplicity prevailed this week when Georgia O’Keeffe’s painting ‘Jimson Weed/White Flower No.1’ sold for $44.4 million, more than triple the previous auction record for any work by a female artist. The work was sold by the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico to replenish its own acquisitions fund.

Sotheby’s hasn’t disclosed the identity of the buyer, who bid by telephone. The previous auction record for an O’Keeffe painting was $6.2 million, in a 2001 Christie’s New York sale.

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Annie Leibovitz’s ‘Pilgrimage’

Annie Leibovitz: Pilgrimage at the Smithsonian February, 2012; (AP Photo by Jacquelyn Martin) The New-York Historical Society celebrates the final stop on the national tour of Annie Leibovitz’s Pilgrimage, organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

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Natalia Vodianova Launches Benjamin Millepied At the Paris Opera Ballet By Annie Leibovitz For Vogue US November 2014

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Natalia Vodianova Launches Benjamin Millepied At the Paris Opera Ballet By Annie Leibovitz For Vogue US November 2014

Natalia Vodianova joins Benjamin Millepied, the 37-year-old French dancer, choreographer and now new director of the Paris Opera Ballet, in ‘Grand Entrance’, lensed by Annie Leibovitz for the November issue of Vogue. Tonne Goodman styles Vodianova and Michael Philouze for Millepied./ Hair by Oribe; makeup by Stéphane Marais; set designer Mary Howard.

Hamish Bowles writes the story behind the editorial, noting that Millepied joins “a wave of glamorous young innovators heading up legendary arts companies, from Gustavo Dudamel at the Los Angeles Philharmonic to Andris Nelsons at the Boston Symphony Orchestra.”

In a country that takes its cultural heritage very seriously, Millepied is a bit of an upstart … an outsider. Born in Bordeaux, he trained and danced in America, rejecting the French ballet school system and training at the School of American Ballet in New York.

Lanvin's Real People Campaign | Isabella Rossellini for Bulgari | Stella McCartney's Scholarship

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Isabella Rossellini by Annie Leibovitz

Actess Isabella Rossellini is fronting a new Bulgari advertising campaign, photographed by Annie Leibovitz. WWD writes that the images are inspired by the work of British painter Meredith Frampton, “known for his neorealist and slightly surrealist portraits and still lifes.”

Winifred Radford; Meredith Frampton, by Unknown photographer at Britain’s National Portrait Gallery

Bulgari is launching a line of Isabella Rossellini bags.

The relationship between Rossellini and Leibovitz dates back to 1986, when the actress was famously photographed with director David Lynch, who appeared almost entirely covered by a black turtleneck. In both the Bulgari image previewed by WWD and in that first iconic Leibovitz photo, Rossellini wears a dark sleeveless dress with one shoulder strap down.

Jacqueline ‘Tajah’ Murdock Rocks the Lanvin House

Lanvin just unveiled their fall 2012 ad campaign focused on real people. The buzz was all about the striking older woman, the epitome of elegance with a severe look on her face, with pulled back hair an a peplum-favoring figure.

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