Daily excerpts of new fashion, culture, lifestyle, activism and women's news posts 2007-2019.
Hannah Motler Squares Off in 'Check Out' Plaids for Vogue Japan December 2019
Model Hannah Motler is styled by Saori Masuda in ‘Check Out’, a plaid pattern play lensed by Vito Fernicola for Vogue Japan December 2019./ Hair by Nicolas Jurnjack; makeup by Patrick Glatthaar
For Love & Lemons returns to Victoria’s Secret for a Holiday 2019 collaboration. The campaign stars Ophelie Guillermand, Solange van Doorn and Tami Williams styled by Ashley Glorioso in a collection that includes lace bustiers, rhinestone embellished bras and high-waisted panties.
Zoey Grossman delivers a modern, poetic sensuality in the Love & Lemons romantic aesthetic that’s doing far more for Victoria’s Secret than VS is doing for the boarding school with heart LA brand..
Mayowa Nicholas Suits Up in Modern Tailoring Lensed by Jamie Morgan for L'Express Style
Model Mayowa Nicholas is styled by Anya Ziourova in ‘Masculine’, crisp and modern suiting looks lensed by Jamie Morgan for L’Express Style November 13, 2019
Kylie Jenner, who recently unseated Mark Zuckerberg as the world’s youngest billionaire, is selling 51% of her stake in Kylie Cosmetics to Coty Inc. for $600 million.
"This partnership will allow me and my team to stay focused on the creation and development of each product while building the brand into an international beauty powerhouse," Jenner said.
The young mogul’s team will continue to manage her creative and communication efforts, a critical component of the deal because Jenner is one of the most-followed people on social media. Jenner delivers an audience of 150 million followers on Instagram and 30 million on Twitter.
“On social media, Kylie has over 270 million followers,” Coty Chief Financial Officer Pierre Andre Terrise said in a conference call. . “To put this in perspective, with a single post, she’s able to reach more than double the number of people who watch the Super Bowl every year.”
With Coty suffering turbulent times in an industry reeling under the success of brands like Jenner’s, the deal benefits from Jenner being a stable, prime mover of beauty products. Coty launched a $3 billion write down in value of brands it acquired in 2015 from Procter & Gamble, that included Clairol and CoverGirl. The deal also establishes Coty with another player in the younger women, direct-to-consumer sales channel. For 22-year-old Jenner, the all cash deal is a brilliant business move.
Coty CEO Pierre Laubies said in the release that the deal is "an exciting next step in our transformation and will leverage our core strengths around fragrances, cosmetics and skincare, allowing Kylie's brands to reach their full potential."
We note that some Wall Street analysts expressed skepticism over the deal, while admitting that reliable brands like Estee Lauder, Loreal and Sephora are suffering, as the industry enters choppy waters. “Brands tied to a celebrity have a unique risk in that their popularity can ebb and flow with the popularity of the celebrity,” said Rebecca Scheuneman, an analyst with Morningstar. “That’s one risk we don’t care for with the deal.”
Hang Tight, America: The Redcoats Are Coming | Shag Haircuts Unite
Rule number one of the little bit of grunge, a little rock, rigorously disheveled shag haircut is that the woman should be seriously rebellious and not faking it when choosing to get shaggy. Shags are not for imposters and poll readers. Rather, the shag haircut is for leaders like 70s’s women Jane Fonda and Debbie Harry, who are activists to the core decades later.
‘Shag’ is a 16th-century word, possibly from an Old English term for “rough, matted hair or wool. Men primarily, but some women also, have adopted their own definition of ‘shag’ and it has a strongly sexual connotation, as in “S(he) is a great shag.” There’s typically a ‘but’ that follows, as in “She’s a great shag but a total airhead.”
Shags are generally considered to be nonconforming, sexy haircuts, willfully embraced by their owners. Besides Fonda and Harry, the shaggy bob is also tagged to Meg Ryan and more recently Taylor Swift and Alexa Chung. Vogue Italia breaks down all the shag haircut details and shares celebs with their shags.
The return of shags — now a year-old trend in the US — gets new cred with female resistance. We all know that American women Democrats, Independents and increasingly, educated Republican women are exercising serious shag credentials.
Christine Blasey Ford speaks at the ACLU of Southern California's Annual Bill of Rights Dinner in Beverly Hills on Nov. 17, 2019.Richard Shotwell / via NBC News
Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, professor of psychology at Palo Alto University and a research psychologist at the Stanford University School of Medicine, made a surprise and rare public appearance Sunday night at an event with the ACLU of Southern California in Beverly Hills.
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was greeted by protesters dressed as the reproductive slaves in the dystopian novel "The Handmaid's Tale" while Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's Senate testimony was played on a large video screen outside the Federalist society venue. via Jennifer Bendery Twitter.
Ford, who famously accused Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh of having sexually assaulted her when they were teenagers, accepted the Rodger Baldwin Courage Award, saying that she had a responsibility to the nation to speak out about the alleged assault during a small party of teenagers in suburban Maryland in 1982. Ford explained that her knowledge of Anita Hill’s testimony against Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas helped persuade her that she must step forward during Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings.
"When I came forward last September, I did not feel courageous. I was simply doing my duty as a citizen," she said. “I was simply doing my duty as a citizen, providing information to the Senate that I believed would be relevant to the Supreme Court nomination process. I thought anyone in my position, of course, would do the same thing.”
Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh has kept a low profile since his confirmation, rarely appearing in public. The judge addressed the Federalist Society, a conservative legal foundation, in Washington DC on Friday November 15. Kavanaugh was greeted by protesters dressed as the reproductive slaves in the dystopian novel "The Handmaid's Tale" while Ford's Senate testimony was played on a large video screen outside the venue.
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was greeted by protesters dressed as the reproductive slaves in the dystopian novel "The Handmaid's Tale" while Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's Senate testimony was played on a large video screen outside the Federalist society venue. via Jennifer Bendery Twitter.
Michelle Obama with Schiaparelli Creative Director Daniel Roseberry. © Paul Morigi/Invision/AP/Shutterstock via British Vogue
Michelle Obama loves yellow, and she achieved true goddess stature wearing a custom Schiaparelli gown to the American Portrait Gala. Obama attended the event to support her friend Lin-Manuel Miranda, now a permanent fixture on the wall of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, in artwork by Mark Seliger.
“What I love most is that [Lin] believes it’s his duty to lift up those around him, especially the next generation,” the beloved former First Lady said of the ‘Hamilton’ creator. “He’s someone who has, in melody and rhyme and connection, painted as honest a portrait of our country as I’ve ever seen. Love this guy.”
Speaking of Michelle Obama’s dress, Schiaparelli Creative Director Daniel Roseberry commented on the design: “The inspiration for the shape originally came from the crinoline which is often found underneath couture gowns, but the real starting point for the overall look was the colour. The acidic tone echoes Elsa Schiaparelli’s signature shocking pink, and we also felt that it matched the strength and energy of Mrs Obama. It was such an honour to make this special gown for her.”
Roseberry waxed lyrical about Madame Schiaparelli when he took the creative reins at the house in April. “She was a master of the modern; her work reflected the chaos and hope of the turbulent era in which she lived,” he said. “Today, we find ourselves asking similarly big, identity-shaping questions of our own: What does art look like? What is identity? How do we dress for the end of the world?” via British Vogue.
Besides Lin-Manuel Miranda, other honorees included Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, Nobel Laureate Frances Arnold, Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee band Earth, Wind & Fire, former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi.
The event raised more than $2 million in support of the Smithsonian museum’s endowment for exhibitions, with more than 700 guests in attendance. The Washingtontonian provides photos galore.
Zoey Grossman Eyes Yoon Young Bae in 'Cosmic Connection' for Harper's Bazaar US
Model Yoon Young Bae is styled by Miguel Enamorado in ‘Cosmic Connection’, lensed by Zoey Grossman for Harper’s Bazaar US December 2019/January 2020.
Adesuwe Aighewi's Life Philosophy: I Can Feel Sexy While Claiming a Better World
Top model Adesuwa Aighewi covers the December 2019 issue of S Moda for El Pais. Aighewi is styled by Paula Delgado in images by Jack Waterlot./
AOC articulates Adesuwa Aighewi’s activist, documentary producer narrative constantly — as recently as last week — but we just learned a new reference from her S Moda interview. BTW, do you know that AOC tracks the intersection of black beauty, racism in fashion and beyond, colonialism, slavery in America and contemporary Africa in our GlamTribal channel”
What AOC notes — and has never been exposed to in decades of work in civil rights — is her reference to ‘How To Make a Slave’ by Willie Lynch, an alleged slave owner in the West Indies. Looking for the best reference on this alleged, but heavily disputed speech, I will share this link for LongReads, because 1) it’s researched by librarians using the wayback machine, and it involves Kanye West. Denzel Washington quotes the letter at length in the 2007 film ‘The Great Debaters’.
Multiple voices in this article argue that the letter is a construction from the ‘60s or ‘70s, one created to confuse and disempower people of color. Rest assured that AOC will be investigating Aighewi’s reference to ‘How To Make a Slave’.
Georgia O’Keeffe's "Pink Tulip" is on view at the Baltimore Museum of Art as part of its 2020 Vision initiative,which will be a year-long series of exhibitions and programs focused solely on female artists. (The Baltimore Museum of Art)
Women artists received a tough love message in a recent survey of art acquisitions by America’s museums. Only 11 percent of art acquired by 26 of America’s top museums for their permanent collections from 2008 to 2018, is the work of women artists.
The Baltimore Museum of Art announced a new drive for women artists, announcing that in 2020, the museum will only acquire work for its permanent collection that is produced by women.
The decision is an attempt by the museum to “truly be radical and emphasize to the arts communities that we are taking this initiative quite seriously,” and “re-correcting the canon,” chief curator Asma Naeem said.
The initiative comes as many museums in Washington and across America prepare to celebrate women artists in conjunction with the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment and women’s right to vote. It’s also expected that the newly Democratic state government of Virginia will ratify the ERA (Equal Rights Amendment) early in 2020, pushing the amendment across the finish line with state ratifications. The time is beyond the original ratification dates, and the issue will surely be moved into the federal court system.
Celebrating women artists is great, but just as American women have learned with achieving the ERA, progress is very painful and slow.
“Curators say they struggle to convince their acquisition committees to pay up for work, particularly by older, overlooked female artists, who frequently lack an auction history that might be used to validate the asking price,” the investigative report on museum acquisitions stated.
AOC discovered a perfect example of this reality in our recent post about 99-year-old artist Luchita Hurtado.
“If you think about the word ‘artist,’ there’s a tacit assumption that it’s a male genius who is in fact the artist,” Naeem said. “That can be seen in the fact that we even call these ‘women artists.’ They’re not women artists. They’re artists.”
Artist Emma Kohlmann by Mariya Pepelanova for Eurowoman December 2019
Artist Emma Kohlmann @meiow_mix is lensed by Mariya Pepelanova for the December 2019 issue of Eurowoman Denmark. Fashion editor Frederikke Raun styles Emma, who was interviewed in Amadeus Magazine in 2018.
Multimedia artist Emma Kohlmann exists in three different worlds: her quaint, quiet life in Northampton, Massachusetts; her social, gallery-hopping life in New York City and Los Angeles; and the indefinable otherworldly life she has created through her colorful and abstract watercolors. Each world is a telling reflection of Emma’s multifaceted personality and the disparate needs she has in order to fuel her creativity.
Emma’s watercolor world is playful and somewhat naive. It’s balanced, yet completely off-balanced. It’s intrinsically political, unwittingly powerful, and aesthetically stunning. It’s a way for the Massachusetts-based artist to retreat into a figurative world that doesn’t define an ideal form. Fascinated by the idea of constructing things that are beautiful, but are not attached to certain forms of identity, Emma sees the body as political. There are aspects that are visible and others that are hidden. There are parts that are celebrated and others that are obliterated, and she wants all of them to be acknowledged. Driven by her desire to deconstruct what is learned, her lively figures aren’t confined to traditional gender norms, and who or what these figures are is irrelevant. What’s most crucial for Emma is branching out of the typical male canon of nudity, transgressing the image, and remaining absolutely limitless in her presentation of such.
A 14.5 Billion Dollar Engagement Ring: Why Tiffany Should Say "Yes" to LVMH
On October 28, 2019, Tiffany & Co confirmed that it had received an unsolicited but non-binding offer from LVMH to purchase its securities at $ 120 per share , an offer of $ 14.5 billion. What are the six main reasons that can push LVMH to a transaction of this magnitude? What impact would this acquisition have on the financial structure of the French group? What about the fact that Tiffany & Co's board is asking for an increase in the offer?
AOC is slow to respond to Winnie Harlow’s sexy collab with Steve Madden. The WINNIE HARLOW X STEVE MADDEN project was revealed in September, 2019 in images by Steven Klein./ Hair by Hos Hounkpatin; makeup by Kabuki
The upside of being late with Winnie’s Steve Madden campaign is checking in with Forbes to read the November 7 post Why Winnie Harlow Doesn’t Believe In Role Models. As it turns out, Winnie is beautifully outspoken on just about every topic tossed her way by Moira Forbes. We share a sampling.
Akiima Poses in Glam Elegance by Petrovsky & Ramone for Harper's Bazaar Netherlands
Australia-raised South Sudanese refugee model Akiima is styled by Astrid Schilders in glam, holiday elegance. Photographers Petrovsky & Ramone capture ‘Piece De Résistance’ for Harper’s Bazaar Netherlands December 2019./ Hair and makeup by David Koppelaar
Tyrone Lebon Eyes Anna Ewers, Jean Campbell for Bottega Veneta Pre-Spring 2020
Top models Anna Ewers and Jean Campbell are lensed by Tyrone Lebon in Bottega Veneta’s Pre-Spring 2020 Campaign, styled by Marie Chaix. / Makeup by Lauren Parsons; hair by Gary Gill
Prada 2020 Resort Ads, 'Seditious Simplicity' Flower Power
Global powerhouse brand Prada taps New York-based photographer Drew Vickers and Japanese photographer Keizo Kitajima for their Resort 2020 advertising campaign ‘Seditious Simplicity’. Olivier Rizzo styles the mega wattage list of campaign stars, with casting direction from Ashley Brokaw. They include Ashley Radjarame, Freek Iven, Freja Beha Erichsen, Lexi Boling, Kyla Ramsey, Sara Blomqvist, Stella Jones, Xiao Wen Ju and Yang Hao,
Like the H&M Holiday Campaign earlier this week, the Prada Resort 2020 Campaign is truly a global family message. The campaign, shot in London, Milan, Moscow, New York, Paris, Shanghai, and Tokyo, is anti-tech in a high tech world lacking in human connections. Prada puts one simple gesture front and center — the simple act of giving flowers.
The very act of carrying a flower bouquet does become seditious, with some choosing a flower bouquet with our their image and others choosing to go global, hugging an image of another human, unknown to them. In the case of Adut Akech and Kaia Gerber — neither model in the campaign — the two fast friends would surely choose each other images to carry.
Sam Gold Sizzles in 'Modern Classic' Sensual Luxury for Grazia Australia
Wilhelmina icon model Sam Gold is styled by Malcolm Hall in Alberta Ferretti, Balmain, Bottega Veneta, Brandon Maxwell, Marni and more. Yossi Michaeli captures Sam’s high-voltage ‘wow’ factor fashion statement ‘Modern Classics’ for Grazia Australia online/ Hair by John Ruidant; makeup by Ann Bahamas
Luna Bijl Models Versace Capsule Collection for Porter Edit November 15, 2019
Helen Broadfoot styles model Luna Bijl here today, wearing the entire Versace capsule collection in Porter Edit November 15, 2019. Photographer Giampaolo Sgura is in the studio. Read Jess Cartner-Morley’s litany of Versace loves at Net-a-Porter.
Adut Akech Fronts 'Bag of Tricks' for Vogue US December 2019 by Erwin Wurm
Adut Akech strikes a series of amusing poses, inspired by the visionary wit and imagination of contemporary artist Erwin Wurm, who also photographs the fashion editorial. Alex Jordan Harrington.styles ‘Bag of Tricks’ for Vogue US December 2019./ Hair by Ramona Eschbach; makeup by Grace Ahn
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