Daily excerpts of new fashion, culture, lifestyle, activism and women's news posts 2007-2019.
Model Julia Bergshoeff glitters in ‘Nocturnal & Treachery’, styled by Vito Castelo. Alvaro Beamud Cortes is behind the lens for Vogue Spain December 2018./ Hair by Manu Fernandez; makeup by José Belmonte
Annemarieke van Drimmelen Eyes Kiki Willems In 'Fantastic Voyage' For WSJ Magazine
Model Kiki Willems is styled by Clare Richardson in ‘Fantastic Voyage’, a story of ethereal, fluid elegance and sophistication. Photographer Annemarieke van Drimmelen is behind the lens for WSJ Magazine December/January 2018-2019./ Hair by Shon; makeup by Sally Branka
Top model and VS Angel Sara Sampaio covers twice the December 2018 cover of Harper’s Bazaar Turkey, styled by Bengisu Gürel in Prada and Chanel for an inside story heavy on cool girl separates. Mehmet Erzincan shoots Sara in lower Manhattan, in looks from Dior, Fendi, Miu Miu and more.
Rising model Ninouk Akkerman is styled by Karolina Gruszecka in ‘Leather Story’, lensed by Lukasz Pukowiec for Vogue Poland December 2018./ Hair by Emil Zed
Akkerman hails from Boekelo, Netherlands and comes from a family of academics, explaining her studies in neuroscience and cell biology. The 23-year-old pulled no punches in her Jan. 2018 comments to Vogue: “It really annoys me when people misrepresent scientific findings or spread plain bullshit, especially concerning medicine or alternative treatments. Some of it may be harmless, but this is definitely not always the case.”
Inez + Vinoodh Flash Lou Doillon In Boho Looks For 'Baby Lou' In Vogue Paris Dec 2018-Jan 2019
French singer-songwriter, artist, actor and model Lou Doillon, daughter of legendary Jane Birkin, is styled by Emmanuelle Alt in pure boho looks in ‘Baby Lou’. Photographer duo Inez van Lamsweerde + Vinoodh Matadin capture Lou for Vogue Paris December 2018-January 2019./Makeup by Wendy Rowe; hair by James Pecis
Jennifer Aniston covers the January 2019 issue of ELLE US, styled by Alison Edmond in Gucci, Isabel Marant, Tom Ford and more. Zoey Grossman captures the ‘Dumplin’ star in deep but also light-hearted reflections about her life.
Carina Chocano interviews Aniston in Jennifer Aniston Doesn’t Need a Happy Ending.
“It is a grand mystery why the public obsession has never abated,” says Kristin Hahn, her producing partner and one of her best friends. “I’ve wondered about it myself for many years—I think Jen represents an archetype for us as a culture.” Aniston is the screen onto which America projects all its double standards about women, especially successful ones. We first got to know her as Rachel Green, the runaway bride who moved to New York City to become herself. Then we spent a decade emotionally invested in whether she would end up with Ross, only to have her perfect marriage to Brad Pitt end soon after that. It’s obviously a lucrative projection, or it would not have been bought and sold, year after year. What anyone gets out of it is unclear. “Maybe it has everything to do with what they’re lacking in their own life,” Aniston theorizes. Or maybe using marriage and children as the ultimate marker of female happiness is just another way to disempower successful women. “Why do we want a happy ending? How about just a happy existence? A happy process? We’re all in process constantly,” Aniston says. “What quantifies happiness in someone’s life isn’t the ideal that was created in the ’50s. It’s not like you hear that narrative about any men.” Men, of course, are allowed to continue merrily on their open-ended path to adventure. “That’s part of sexism—it’s always the woman who’s scorned and heartbroken and a spinster. It’s never the opposite. The unfortunate thing is, a lot of it comes from women,” she says. “Maybe those are women who haven’t figured out that they have the power, that they have the ability to achieve a sense of inner happiness.”
Adrienne Jüliger + Kim van der Laan In 'Riders of Destiny' By Tom Craig For Vogue Japan January 2019
Models Adrienne Jüliger and Kim van der Laan are styled by Aurora Sansone in Dior Resort 2019 for ‘Riders of Destiny’, lensed by Tom Craig for Vogue Japan January 2019./ Beauty by Daniel Rull
Maria Grazia Chiuri was inspired by the Mexican tradition of Escaramuza for her Dior Resort 2019 collection called Diorodeo. Chiuri brought over a band of female riders from Phoenix, Arizona to celebrate the choreographed equestrian sport performed by women in traditional costumes, when she unveiled the collection at France’s Chateau de Chantilly.
A few weeks ago, AOC featured Jennifer Lawrence appearing in the Dior Resort ad campaign, a spread that ran into pc headwinds.
Phoebe Robinson, comedian and host of the “2 Dope Queens”podcast, criticized the ad for its location and for not including a Mexican model.
“Lol. Wut?! Sooooooooo, #Dior & #JenniferLawrence wanna celebrate traditional Mexican women riders thru a ‘modern lens’ …by having a rich white woman named Jennifer be the face of this campaign?” she wrote alongside a re-post of the campaign video.
“And like they couldn’t think of a better landscape to shoot than in California?! Hmm, I dunno, maybe…like…shoot…in…Mexico…with …a…Mexican…actress like Salma Hayek, Karla Souza, Jessica Alba, Selena Gomez, Eva Longoria, or many others. But I guess they were all unavailable, so you had to go with Jennifer Lawrence,” Robinson wrote.
She said that using ‘modern’ to describe the campaign was, “ignorant and gross,” and asked her followers to comment with names of Mexican designers she could lend support to.
Model Georgia Fowler fronts ‘With Love, Georgia’, lensed by Will Vendramini for Costume Magazine January 2019./ Hair by Josephine Mai Johannesen; makeup by Rikke Dengso Jensen
Eye: Max Mara Creative Director Ian Griffiths Talks Judy Chicago + Bad-Ass Successful Women
“I’ve been described as the most influential designer you’ve never heard of,” Ian Griffiths , Creative Director of Max Mara for 31 years told Harper’s Bazaar Australia in an interview published online December 9. Griffiths’ anonymity was about to be blown, when US House of Representatives Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi — soon to be Madame Speaker again — wore her 2013 brick red Max Mara coat to a December 11 budget-funding showdown at the White House.
Hours later, Pelosi and her ‘Fire Coat’ were total bad-ass legend as big names clamored to know where to buy her coat. Griffiths stepped out of the shadows to talk his vision for confident, powerful women to Pelosi’s posse. His comments in the Harper’s interview echo the sentiments he expressed in announcing that Pelosi’s coat was headed back to stores in the next collection.
On December 4, Griffiths further defined the Max Mara woman as “successful. She’s made it on her own terms and she wants to be taken seriously.” Those words certainly describe Nancy Pelosi. The designer talked with Town & Country about Max Mara’s collab with Judy Chicago, and their release of a tee shirt to promote the artist’s major retrospective at the ICA Miami.
“As a long standing feminist artist who has found a powerful voice, Judy is the ideal partner for Max Mara—the collaboration is a reminder that classic does not mean conservative.”
One of her seminal pieces, ‘Bigamy Hood’, a painted car hood, served as inspiration for the t-shirt collab with Max Mara. Chicago described the collaboration as “an exciting challenge that required a considerable amount of time, creativity, and drawings.” The resulting design is what Griffiths calls “iconic Judy Chicago” but in a “classic Max Mara palette,” meaning a wearable, but still playfully radical t-shirt. “It underlines the brand’s commitment to the empowerment of women,” Griffiths says.
‘Bigamy Hood’ by Judy Chicago
Alright. First things first. Amal Clooney made a stunning appearance at wednesday night’s United Nations Correspondents Associations (UNCA) Awards dinner in New York City. Ignoring frigid temperatures, the human rights lawyer, accompanied by husband George Clooney, wore a “breezy, blue and white warm weather frock by J. Mendel, writes ELLE UK. As always, Amal looked ravishing.
Amal Clooney was honored as Global Citizen of the Year by UNCA for her human rights work generally and her willingness to take on high-profile cases involving persecuted journalists, often putting her at odds with the world’s repressive regimes.
Clooney seized the opportunity to address not only the global risks for journalists, but US president Donald Trump for his own attacks on the press. She referenced the mistreatment of journalists in countries like North Korea, Turkey, Brazil, and the Philippines, saying that Trumps’ actions legitimized aggression against the press.
In the words of Emirates Woman, Amal Clooney “put US president Donald Trump on blast.”
"The U.S. president has given such regimes a green light, and labeled the press in this country an enemy of the people," Clooney said, according to a video of her speech. " She continued, "In many of the cases that I have worked on too, I have seen journalists and opposition figures ruthlessly targeted so that they can no longer criticize leaders." In March, it was reported that Clooney joined the legal team representing two Reuters reporters imprisoned in Myanmar.
Amal also paid tribute to her client Nadia Murad, an Iraqi Yazidi refugee who survived sexual abuse by ISIS and will be honored Monday in Stockholm, as a co-winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Price. Clooney and Murad have worked together in trying to make ISIS legally accountable for the genocide of the Yazidi people.
On Wednesday. the Clooneys revealed their latest initiative, TrialWatch, which will monitor court trials where there is a risk of abuse, and rank countries’ judicial systems. The project is part of the Clooney Foundation for Justice. Amal released a statement regarding their latest endeavor saying, “Today, courts all over the world are used as tools of oppression. Governments get away too easily with imprisoning opposition figures, silencing critics and persecuting vulnerable groups through the courts. Trial monitoring will shine a light on these abuses.”
Actor Margot Robbie is styled by Camille Bidault-Waddington in ‘Queen Margot’, lensed by Yelena Yemchuk for Porter Magazine #30 Winter Escape./ Hair by Bryce Scarlett; makeup by Pati Dubroff
Robbie will debut in January 2019 as Elizabeth 1, playing opposite Saoirse Ronan as Mary Stuart in ‘Mary, Queen of Scots’. The story centers on Mary Stuart, Elizabeth’s cousin and rival, in which woman is the rightful heir to the Scottish and English thrones.
Robbie has attracted considerable attention in her physical portrayal of Elizabeth 1, who has already been portrayed on movie screens almost 20 times. “Wearing a frizzy red wig, with chalk-white skin and a cluster of facial scars covering her cheeks and chin, Robbie was unrecognisable”, writes Refinery 29.
Director Josie Rourke said Elizabeth’s physical appearance was to find the vulnerability and humanity in a woman that would go on to reign over England for 45 years. In reviewing the film, Rolling Stone praises Rourke, writing:
“ And due credit to debuting director Josie Rourke for keeping the camera on the move and not simply relying on her theatrical chops as the artistic director of London’s Donmar Warehouse. Until their climactic, let’s-use-our-poetic-license of a get-together, teasingly staged amid flowing curtains, Mary and Elizabeth operate out of separate spheres while they side against each other. The irony is that the two queens were kindred spirits, irritated at all the controlling men telling them what to do — like, for example, Mary’s half-brother, the Earl of Moray (James McArdle). “
Rolling Stone continues:
“The film succeeds best when it shows how in times more conducive to the friendship of women in power the two queens could have been sisters under the skin. Ronan (Lady Bird) and Robbie (I, Tonya) were both nominated for a Best Actress Oscar last award season, and even when the pace of the film falters, these two performers hold you in thrall. That’s royalty.”
Model Juliane Grüner is styled by Irina Marie in ‘Clair de lune’, lensed by Sebastien Zanella for Numéro December 2018./ Hair by Bruno Silvani
Grace Bol wears her patriotic color French style in ‘Red, White & Blue’, styled by Helen Broadfoot. Photographer Mehdi Lacoste captures Grace for Porter Magazine #30 Winter Escape./ Makeup by Jenny Coombs
Dutch model Julia Van Os prefers three words when the subject is beauty: simple, natural, healthy. Iron, vitamins C, B12, and D3, echinacea, and melatonin (for never-ending jet lag) are staples in her medicine cabinet. So is touching her face . . . a no-no according to the beauty industry.
Julia is captured au naturel by Max Papendieck in ‘The Now Age’ for Porter Magazine #30 Winter Escape 2018. / Hair by Kyye Reed; makeup by Nadine Monley
The 2019 Pirelli calendar stars several of the world’s most famous women including Gigi Hadid, Misty Copeland, Laetitia Casta and Julia Garner with backup from Alexander Wang (with Gigi Hadid), Calvin Royal III (with Misty Copeland), Astrid Eika (with Julia Garner), and Sergei Polunin (with Laetitia Casta) — all lensed by celebrity photographer Albert Watson.
While the Pirelli calendar is more sensual than last year’s by Tim Walker, it is born of the #MeToo movement. The staged scenes of sex and debauchery — best lensed by Terry Richardson’s infamous image of Eniko Mihalik eating a banana — are gone.
Albert Watson, who is known for his cinematic images, chose to "show women who were dreaming of things."
The narratives were shot in Miami and New York and revolve around four glamorous female movie characters imagining their future success. Copeland, a principal dancer at the American Ballet Theater, plays the role of an aspiring dancer biding her time at a Miami strip club; Hadid is a stylish but bored and melancholy heiress; Casta performs as a bohemian painter; and actor Julia Garner plays a photographer.
"The Pirelli calendar was, at the bottom roots, a pinup calendar for mechanics when they changed tires," Watson said at his vast Manhattan studio last month.
"They held onto the sexy thing for a long period of time, and when it came time for me to do it, (it) seemed wrong to take models to the beach to take their tops off. It seemed out of time with the #MeToo movement."
Israeli model Dorit Revelis greets the sun in ‘California State of Mind’, resort looks styled by Camille Bidault-Waddington. Yelena Yemchuk is behind the lens for Porter Magazine #30 Winter Escape 2018./ Hair by Jonathan De Francesco; makeup by Romy Soleimani
New bride Priyanka Chopra covers the January 2019 issue of Vogue US, lensed by Annie Leibovitz. Chopra, styled by Tonne Goodman, appears in the company of now husband Nick Jonas, styled by Michael Philouze.
Among her many honors, Priyanka Chopra is now the first Indian woman to cover the magazine in its 126-year history. In short order, Chopra added another notch on her accomplishment belt this week, being named to the Forbes List of 100 Most Powerful Women of 2018. The Forbes list describes the Quantico star as: "Arguably the most successful Bollywood actor to cross over to Hollywood." The new bride moved up three slots on the list to #94 from her 2017 #97 slot.
Read on at Vogue: When Prihyanka Met Nick: A Love Story.
ELLE’s director of fashion features Veronique Hyland shares a November 2018 look at Chanel’s nautical-inspired 2019 Resort Collection featuring models Joan Smalls, Natasha Poly, Yasmin Wijnaldum and Hannah Ferguson.
Leo Faria Captures Bruna Marquezine For L'Officiel Brazil #63
Brazilian actor Bruna Marquezine is styled by Nancy Garcez in Miu Miu-rich images by Leo Faria for L’Officiel Brazil #63.
Models Elibeidy Martinez & Luisana Gonzalez are styled by Camille Bidault-Waddington in ‘The Sweetest Symphony’. Photographer Yelena Yemchuk captures the getaway girls in black and white nomadic layers for Porter Magazine Winter Escape #30. / Hair by Jonathan De Francesco; makeup by Romy Soleimani
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