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Sebastian Kim Captures The Always Enlightening Gwyneth Paltrow For Sunday Times Style UK
Actor and founder of Goop Gwyneth Paltrow is styled by Simon Robins for images by Sebastian Kim in The Sunday Times Style Magazine UK.
American talent and lifestyle guru Gwyneth Paltrow wears a white gown from The Row, covering the January 18th, 2019 cover of ES Magazine. Stylist Elizabeth Saltzman also chooses designs from sustainable label Gabriela Hearst, 3.1, Phillip Lim, Wolford and more for images by Coliena Rentmeester./ Hair by Ahn Co Tran; makeup by Georgie Eisdell
Gwyneth Paltrow Did Not Invent Yoga's Huge Popularity In The US | Yoga Journal Shares The Facts
American Oscar-winning actor, businesswoman, lifestyle guru and GOOP founder Gwyneth Paltrow covers the December 2018 issue of WSJ Magazine. George Cortina styles Paltrow in ‘Sweet Success’, lensed by Lachlan Bailey.
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal published Tuesday, the self-promoter Goop founder said: “I remember when I started doing yoga and people were like, ‘What is yoga? She’s a witch. She’s a freak.’ ’’
Paltrow chose to ignore her inner voice waving a flag in her brain, continuing with WSJ:
“Forgive me if this comes out wrong,” she said, “but I went to do a yoga class in L.A. recently and the 22-year-old girl behind the counter was like, ‘Have you ever done yoga before?’ And literally I turned to my friend, and I was like, ‘You have this job because I’ve done yoga before.’ ”
Actually the real story of the spread of yoga in the US is also rooted in the immigration debate. According to the Yoga Journal, In 1920, Paramahansa Yogananda addressed a conference of religious liberals in Boston. He was sent by his guru, the ageless Babaji, to "spread the message of kriya yoga to the West."
In 1924, the United States immigration service imposed a quota on Indian immigration, making it impossible for Easterners to travel to America. Westerners were forced to travel to the East if they sought after yogic teachings.
One of those people was Theos Bernard, who returned from India in 1947 and published Hatha Yoga: The Report of a Personal Experience. His book was a major sourcebook for yoga in the 1950s and it remains popular today.
That same year, Indra Devi opened a yoga studio in Hollywood. Her three popular books had housewives from New Jersey to Texas standing on their heads in their bedrooms.
She was the first Westerner to study with Sri Krishnamacharya and the first to bring his lineage to the West.
The person who introduced more Americans to yoga than any other in those days was Richard Hittleman, who in 1950 returned from studies in India to teach yoga in New York.
He not only sold millions of copies of his books and pioneered yoga on television in 1961, but he influenced how yoga has been taught ever since.
Although he was a student of the sage Ramana Maharshi and very much a "spiritual" yogi, he presented a nonreligious yoga for the American mainstream, with an emphasis on its physical benefits. He hoped students would then be motivated to learn yoga philosophy and meditation.
Yoga was established on the West Coast in the mid-'50s with Walt and Magana Baptiste's San Francisco studio.
In 1958, Indian-born Swami Vishnu-devananda, a disciple of Swami Sivananda Saraswati, arrived in San Francisco, sponsored by the artist Peter Max.
His 1960 book, The Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga, became an essential guidebook for many practitioners. Dubbed by a colleague as "a man with a push," he founded the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers, headquartered in Montreal, one of the largest networks of yoga schools in the world.
Meditation and yoga exploded across America in the early '60s, when an unassuming-looking yogi "came out of the Himalayas to spiritually regenerate the world." Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Transcendental Meditation empire now claims 40,000 teachers and more than four million practitioners, with 1,200 centers in 108 countries.
The Yoga Journal article by Holly Hammond goes on in tracing the development of yoga — actually jump-started by the sixties counter culture in America. Yoga Journal was first published in 1975.
Perhaps in a slight to Gwyneth Paltrow, her role as the chief birth mother of yoga in America is not mentioned. Or perhaps Gwyneth Paltrow, like Donald Trump, drowns in her own narcissism.
Models Amelia Rami (l) and Xiara Waller (r) radiate pure radiance, styled by Doria Santlofer in GOOP | ALL MIXED UP. Rising, Brooklyn-based Photographer Tiffany Nicholson flashes the duo for Gwyneth Paltrow's GOOP's #2 issue. / Hair by Osmane Da Cunha
AOC is writing more about Tiffany Nicholson. CR Fashion Book featured her images from New York's Women's March on January 20.
Chris Colls Snaps Gwyneth Paltrow For The Edit June 1, 2017
Actor Gwyneth Paltrow covered the June 1, 2017 issue of The Edit, lensed by Chris Colls. Tracy Taylor styled the Goop founder in Chloe, Madewell, Mara Hoffman and more. Refinery 29 checked out Paltrow's $500-$1,500 GOOP Summit in LA over the weekend.
Comfort Food w/Class
Marmalade Brioche with Black Figs Stylist Magazine UK
A wakeup visual delight for the eyes. Recipe at Stylist
The perfect amalgamation of English and French cuisine, this decadent breakfast replaces bread with brioche but it has lashings of traditional orange marmalade, too, to give it an Anglo twist. If you want to turn this morning meal into an afternoon-tea treat, you can try using blackberry jam instead. Either way, serve a slice accompanied by a steaming hot pot of Earl Grey tea.
Monaco’s New Princess
Fit For a Princess: Charlene Wittstock Vogue US
Anne can vouch for the idea that Monaco is — well stodgy. Prior to her weddind to Prince Albert, Charlene Wittstock lived alone in a small apartment in Monaco, thousands of miles from home and unable to speak French.
“It was sometimes overwhelming,” she recalls of the solitude and jealousies she suffered as Prince Albert’s girlfriend. “I was trying too hard to please too many people and at times was at risk of losing my sense of myself.”
Princess Charlene is now married to Prince Albert and is working to find her own individual persona in Monaco. Vogue writes that she will joke to fellow guests at charity galas that she is the only woman in the room who ate her entire dinner, plus two bread rolls.
10 Years | Brand New Store
Ikram Goldman: Time Well Spent Vogue US
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