ThredUp and Priah Ferguson 'Stranger Things' Star Beg Gen Z to Stop Buying Fast-Fashion
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Tiffany Launches Atrium Platform for Artists, Artisans: Meet Derrick Adams
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Seeking to help supporters and Tiffany & Co. clients visualize the new Atrium concept, the iconic American jeweler reached out to artist Derrick Adams, who created an original artwork called “I Shine, You Shine, We Shine” for the Atrium launch.
The Atrium project will live on Artsy, the world’s largest online art marketplace. Derek Adams’ work reflects how people of African descent interact with art, American history and consumerism. “I shine, You shine, We Shine” will be auctioned by Artsy in an auction closing August 10.
100% of profits from the sale of “I Shine, You Shine, We Shine” is going to The Last Resort Artist Retreat, an art residency program that Adams founded in his home city of Baltimore, Maryland.
We link to our Sept. 19, 2022 update on this article.
Read MoreDior Fall 2022 Campaign by Brigitte Niedermair Hugs Mariella Bettineschi's Male Gaze Reversal
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In the Fall 2022 campaign, Chiuri is inspired by the objectified female subjects of ‘Old Masters’, as transformed by living Italian feminist artist Mariella Bettineschi. In the fashion show, the models clearly referenced the women in Renaissance paintings, but reborn as women and girls with their own agency and ability to understand the ways of the world at work around them.
Read MoreWSJ Condemns New York's 'Massive Resistance' to SC Guns Galore Across America Ruling
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Just today -- before Highland Park assault -- I queried the prevalence of muskets on the street at the time the Constitution was written. Did our founders really stroll around town with their muskets strapped on their backs.?
The answer is no, no, no. [Edited]: About. 50% of households probated had guns, with the numbers varying by state. But there is no evidence that guns were carried around on citizens backs — as states like Texas now demand the right for AF-15 assault rifles to be carried anywhere, no questions asked.
Until he blows me up, only his rights count, supporting a reality that never existed in colonial America. Just like abortion was widely practiced AND advertised on lamp poles. You originalists have really sold America a pack of lies, and I have no idea how to fight back.
Read MoreGetting Futuristic With Courrèges | Once a Rebel Always a Rebel
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Adrien Da Maia, CEO of Courrèges since March 2020, wants the world to know that the fashion house forever associated with the Space Age is making a 21st century comeback. Yes, the challenge is major, but the French label has some very timely political and lifestyle forces behind it.
Read More6-Degrees: Hindu Nationalists Burning Hillary Posters, A $1.5 Million Bounty for a Dead Deepika Padukone, and Ivanka Trump Rolling Into India
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On this first morning in post-Roe America, Bollywood star Deepika Padukone is on my mind. She occupies my brain space — not because of her recent appointment as a Louis Vuitton ambassador and not because she “stole the show” in Cannes in early June, appointed as a member of the 2022 Cannes Festival nine-person jury.
Vogue India Interview
Padukone acknowledges in her Vogue India May 2022 cover story — a conversation between the actor and Faye D’Souza, edited and excerpted by Sadaf Shaikh — that she was pleased to be honored as a TIME 100 Impact Award 2022 recipient.
She’s here to talk her casual, tomboy style preferences — Red Carpet glam nights not included. Padukone shows us how the first Indian Louis Vuitton ambassador chills, styled by Megha Kapoor in the all-Vuitton fashion story lensed by Vivek Vadoliya [IG]. / Makeup by Tina Monzón; hair by Noelia Coral
Casual looks are deceiving in the Vogue India fashion story. For the first time in history, a fashion brand — Louis Vuitton — has entered the rarified air of the world’s top 10 global brands, as ranked by Kantar BrandZ Most Valuable Global Brands 2022 report
Louis Vuitton and Deepika Padukone make a good team.
Read MoreRaif Badawi Released from Prison but Detained in Saudi Arabia: #LETTHEMFLY
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The travel ban out of Saudi Arabia remains a problem for jailed dissidents including Raif Badawi, and Amnesty International has just released on May 9, 2022 a new campaign called ‘#LetThemFly’.
"Saudi Arabian authorities' arbitrary use of travel bans against activists and human rights defenders reflects a bleak reality in the country, where dissenting voices continue to be ruthlessly silenced while leaders speak of progressive reform," Lynn Maalouf, Amnesty's Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa, said in a statement on Monday, citing the release of Raif Badawi, whose sister Samar is also on the travel ban list.
Raif Badawi’s wife Ensaf Haidar and three children left Saudi Arabia for Canada after his arrest in 2012. The Canadian government has legalized an order to grant him immediate citizenship upon his arrival in Canada.
Relations between Canada and Saudi Arabia have been strained over Canada’s offer of asylum to numerous Arab world dissidents. Presumably the Biden administration — not particularly popular either in Riyadh — will also get involved in this discussion to reunite Raif Badawi with this wife and children..
Read MoreLouis Vuitton Cruise Show 2023 Will Celebrate The Salk Institute in San Diego
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“The Salk Institute has been a place of wonder for me over the years and Louis Kahn’s stunning Brutalist architecture against this extraordinary setting of the Pacific Ocean and the California sunset provides me with endless inspiration.
“It also celebrates intelligence, knowledge and the belief in the wonders of science,” he added.
Nicolas Ghesquière has picked the Salk Institute in San Diego for Louis Vuitton’s cruise 2023 show on May 12.
Read MoreKanye West Pulls Out of Coachella Reports Variety | Change.org Petition inches to 50,000
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AOC noted last week in what must be ‘10 Great Reasons for Kanye West Not to Play Coachella’, that the divine rapper, who gets his instructions from God in the shower, was defying the owners of the Coachella Festival, who dropped Travis Scott from the schedule after the Astroworld tragedy.
Variety wrote that Kanye had nothing prepared for Coachella, North America’s largest music festival. Kanye is very aggrieved over what he calls the #MeToo mentality.
As a result he has welcomed Marilyn Manson, who is accused of serious sexual assault and proudly claimed that he had a rape room according to Rolling Stone, into his divine inner circle of holy men. Rolling Stone interviewed 55 people in their investigation Marilyn Manson: The Monster in Plain Sight.
Kanye wasn’t having it, choosing to invite Manson into his divine sanctuary, seeing Manson as a victim and all his accusers as the Devil’s women.
Read MoreRemove Kanye from Coachella Petition Just Shy of 50,000 | Kanye on Ellen Blows My Mind
/As the Remove Kanye from Coachella Petition cross 49,000 on the way to 50,000 signatures on March 29, Kanye’s honoring of Vladimir Putin’s throwing his opponent to the mat is chilling. Note though, that in Ye’s tweet, he is comparing himself to Putin’s style.
Two months before the election on Sept. 16, 2020, as he sought to be president of America, Kanye — like his good friend Donald Trump — felt totally comfortable celebrating Putin’s style of getting his point across. I don’t mean to be the armchair psychologist with no degree, but I note as an educated woman that Kanye steps into the Putin image metaphorically, writing “Rule Number one: Listen to Ye.”
Now Kanye West will tell you that he wouldn’t hurt a fly, but if you are seriously practicing ubuntu in the universe, you don’t 1) identify with Putin — although Kanye’s right-wing evangelicals loved Putin as the world’s top backer of Christianity as God ordered it; 2) write “Rule Number One” which is more authoritarian talk and 3) and order us to “Listen to Ye.” Kanye’s hubris is just staggering.
Read MoreConie Vallese by Josh Olins in Simple Life Grandeur At Home for Zara Home
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Conie Vallese [IG] and partner, photographer Josh Olins [IG] join Zara Home [IG] in sharing an intimate look at their design aesthetic in Zara’s ongoing series ‘At Home’.
Buenos Aires born, Brooklyn artist Conie Vallese grew up in a family. of creatives. It wasn’t until she moved to New York that she began expressing herself with drawing, painting and sculpture.
Vallese refers to her artwork as “a direct product of living. In a sense artworks are the souvenirs of a life well lived or the ephemeral fleeting moments preserved, in the form of a tangible object.” Her art is “a considered appreciation of form and simplicity.”
There is no separation of her life with photographer Josh Olins and her art. And often with her modeling assignments.
Read MoreMacKenzie Scott Donates $275 Million to Planned Parenthood. She's NOT a White Supremacist
/I guess MacKenzie Scott’s [formerly Mrs. Jeff Bezos] $275 million gift to Planned Parenthood announced Wednesday, March 23 warrants another call to God from Kanye’s shower. This is where Ye gets his marching orders that terrorize so many of us.
To be called a white supremacist by Kanye West, because I support Planned Parenthood, is worse than being hunted by one of Kanye’s ‘kind’, landing me in police protection for a year as this dude was seriously stalking me with a promise to kill me.
Imagine getting up every morning to a bloody, decapitated animal in a box on your front doorstep. Imagine walking out to your car at night after shopping at the local mall. There’s a noose on your door handle — matching the box of rope left on your doorstep that morning with the note “This is the rope I will hang you with, B#tch.”
That nightmare was in the past, and It’s 2022. Kanye West was running for president of the United States in 2020 — when he expressed his view about those of us who do the devil’s work. Uber religious men have a habit of calling women like me Devils.
Read MoreNo Kanye at Coachella! Petition Passes 35,000 | Kanye Gave 'No Touch' Orders on Skete
/Hey, GAP. You can chill now! Kanye West Gave ‘No Touch’ Orders on Skete According to Wack 100
Here you go GAP Execs. Your investors are searching for info on Kanye’s state of mind, so you guys better be up on the latest Google News that Kanye wants Skete for himself.
Wack says that Kanye doesn’t want his peeps messing with Skete — “presumably because he wants to fight his own battle.” It does sound like Kanye has ordered nobody to take Skete out, mess him up, accuse Pete of shooting up one of the kids with drugs, carve up Kim Kardashian’s name with a knife on his chest . . . nothin’ . . . you know, the sorta thing really hip men do when they have scores to settle.
When asked by No Jumper host Adam22 what he’d do if he ran into the SNL comedian, Wack replied, “Skete can’t be around me. He gotta roll it up. Kanye gave specific instructions for nobody to touch Skete. He told us ‘do not touch Skete, don’t put our hands on Skete, don’t say nothing disrespectful to Skete.'”
Skete belongs to Kanye, GAP. If you can talk some sense into Ye, we might be able to save Pete.
Read MoreKanye West Can Save Face at Coachella and Bow Out By Blaming Billie Eilish for No Apology
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Update: The petition has crossed 30,000 at noon today and should be 35,000 Wed. am 3/23. This is the best day so far, and it’s because of online media coverage. We’re still plodding along in a turtle and the hare story. Multiple well-written, well-reasoned articles were written today. See lots of new outbound links below.
We have watched it very closely and this is an American signing audience [very few through the night] and AOC estimates 70% female of every skin color, BUT today looks like more guys — like 65/35%. It could move to 60/40% — as it’s more guys’ names we’re noticing. Yes, Kanye, I can tell.
Why We Are Signing This Petition to Have Kanye Not Perform at Coachella
People who are signing this petition don’t trust Kanye West not to hurt somebody or start a riot at Coachella. What we have witnessed from him in the last 90 days is totally frightening. I am so concerned that for weeks I got up and the first thing I checked at 6am was whether Ye had harmed his now ex-wife.
Kanye has taken me back to all of my 2008-2014 work in Sudan, to stop the brutal flogging of women in the name of Allah.
For a few years, those videos of Sudanese women being brutally flogged were smuggled out to me, as the government enforcers always took them down on Facebook due to violent content standards. The women knew they could count on me to keep the videos alive, working with a male editor at Bloomberg who then got the New York Times to write the articles also.
Today, we’re all supposed to sit here like morons while Kanye gets up on stage at Coachella, with a high probability of going on some crazy rant against women, against his ex-wife Kim Kardashian, against Planned Parenthood and Pete Davidson.
We say NO! I’m not cancelling you, Ye. I am worried that you might start a total riot. Or harm yourself. And you’ve got an easy out, Kanye. Blame Billie Eilish who didn’t apologize to Travis Scott for caring about fans at her concert.
You told the world that if Billie didn’t apologize, you weren’t coming to Coachella. Billie was, of course, as gracious as she could be about your accusations. Keep your word, Kanye.
You cannot be trusted ever to keep your mouth shut, because nobody tells Kanye West what to do.
Tonight March 22, the Kanye Petition Gets Significantly More Media Attention
Petition to remove Kanye West as Coachella headliner receives nearly 30,000 signatures FOX News
The Grammys Canceling Kanye’s Performance Is Just Glorified Self-Preservation: The Recording Academy couldn’t afford to risk a Kanye performance. MIC
Petition Calling for Kanye’s Removal From Coachella Passes 30,000 Signatures Complex
Petition to Remove Kanye West from Coachella Lineup Gets 26,000 Signatures Billboard
Petition to remove Kanye West from Coachella lineup gains traction The Independent London
Petition to drop Kanye West as Coachella headliner reaches 25,000 Signatures Page Six
Kanye West vs the world: when abusive behaviour is called out The Age [Australia]
Kim Kardashian doesn’t deserve this CNN
Should GAP continue to bet on Ye? The Grio
Kanye West’s Stormy Relationship With the Grammys Erupts Again New York Times
Kanye Faces Grammy Ban, Coachella Petition Over Online Behavior Newsweek
Petition to have Kanye West axed from Coachella line-up passes 26,000 signatures Newshub NZ
What To Do About Kanye West
What Should We Do About Kanye West? Maybe Nothing by Ineye Komonibo Refinery 29
AOC has read quite a lot of materials about the situation around Kanye West, and the events that prompted the creation of this petition to keep West from appearing at Coachella.
This think piece by Ineye Komonibo at Refinery 29 is excellent.
GLC Defends Kanye West, Criticizes ‘Disheartening’ Media Attention: ‘We Should Lift Him Up’ Complex
Kanye West Barred From Performing at Grammys Due to ‘Concerning Online Behavior,’ Rep Says Variety
KANYE WEST’S INSTAGRAM BAN IS AN ‘UNWANTED DISTRACTION’ FOR GAP Ad Age
Hadid Sisters Join Mica Arganaraz in Donating Fall 2022 Fashion Week Earnings to Humanity
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Bella Hadid announced on Thursday that she was joining sister Gigi Hadid and model Mica Argañaraz in creating ubuntu for the people of Ukraine and also Palestine.
Anne of Carversville is very committed to the concept of ubuntu as expressed by the great Nelson Mandela:
Read More“There is a word in South Africa — Ubuntu — a word that captures Mandela's greatest gift: his recognition that we are all bound together in ways that are invisible to the eye; that there is a oneness to humanity; that we achieve ourselves by sharing ourselves with others, and caring for those around us.”
Hopes are High for Release of Saudi Arabia Blogger Raif Badawi
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Update: March 7, 2022: There is no word on the release of Raif Badawi, even though he has served his sentence in Saudi Arabia. Amnesty urges release of blogger after sentence expires Middle East Eye
As Vladimir Putin launches an unprovoked assault on Ukraine — stunning global citizens who see Putin as a malevolent war criminal gone wild in his barbarity against the totally innocent people of Ukraine — there is hope that Saudi blogger Raif Badawi might be released.
Badawi was arrested in 2012 on accusations of insulting Islamic religious figures on his blog Free Saudi Liberals. In a 2014 court decision that stunned human-rights activists as unjust, Mr. Badawi was sentenced to 10 years in prison. The further sentence of 1,000 lashes for blasphemy — a sentence that would absolutely kill him — created gasps of horror worldwide, including on Anne of Carversville. The author was also fined $266,000.
Badawi received the first 50 lashes in April 2015 — which did nearly kill him — and was not subjected to further flogging scheduled in June of 2015, as his body hadn’t healed. In April 2020, Saudi Arabia bowed to international pressure and abolished flogging. The result was the cancellation of the remaining 950 lashes of Raif Badawi’s sentence.
Hopes are high that Raif Badawi may be released from jail in days. Badawi has spent almost ten years in prison, and often total isolation. The dissident was sentenced using the Islamic — or hijri — calendar. By that calendar's reckoning, on Rajab 26 1443, he will have spent 10 years in jail. The actual date on the Georgian calendar is February 28.
Human rights group Amnesty International has campaigned for Badawi’s release for years, along with other organizations such as Human Rights Watch and Reporters Without Borders. Amnesty International believes that the release could be imminent.
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Sotheby's Virgil Abloh Auction Raised $25.3 Million Off Louis Vuitton and Nike ‘Air Force 1’ Sneakers
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The recent Sotheby’s Louis Vuitton and Nike ‘Air Force 1’ by Virgil Abloh auction raised $25.3 million for the The Virgil Abloh™ “Post-Modern” Scholarship Fund. The tremendous response to the opportunity to own one of two hundred pairs of the limited-edition trainers made it the most valuable charitable sale at Sotheby’s in nearly a decade.
The auction house’s high estimate of the charity event was $3 million going into the event. Collectors from across Asia comprised 40% of the buyers, with bidding happening across 50 countries. Two-thirds of all bidders were under 40, as were more than half of the buyers.
Read MoreCharlottesville, VA Will Donate Robert E Lee Statue for Meltdown into New Art
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The Jefferson School African American Heritage Center is a cultural arts and history center whose mission is to honor and preserve the rich heritage and legacy of the African-American community of Charlottesville-Albemarle, Virginia. Additionally, the heritage center promotes a greater appreciation for and understanding of the contributions of African Americans and peoples of the Diaspora locally in Charlottesville, across America and globally as well.
In a modern-day Confederate statue cremation, the controversial statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee will be donated to the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center. Plans are for the statue, which lived at the center of the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, to be melted down into materials for a new piece of public art.
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An Indiegogo campaign page for the project said that its leaders wanted to “transform a national symbol of white supremacy into a new work of art that will reflect racial justice and inclusion.”
Related: Charlottesville’s Statue of Robert E. Lee Will Be Melted Down New York Times
Charlottesville’s Robert E. Lee statue will be melted down by city’s African American history museum Washington Post
Karlie Kloss Has Grand Plans for Life Purpose: Teaching Girls to Code and PIE
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Karlie Kloss Covers WSJ Magazine December/January 2022 Digital by Ethan James Green AOC Fashion
Supermodel, philanthropist, new mom and — adoring, best- buddy wife to Joshua Kushner — Karlie Kloss covers the December/January digital covers of WSJ Magazine. Who better than Karlie Kloss to launch the new year of 2022 in these turbulent times.
Karlie is styled by Charlotte Collet in images by Ethan James Green for Inside Karlie Kloss’s New Life. In Karlie’s own words: “I wanted to change how I was using my job and my platform as a model.”
Elisa Lipsky-Karasz conducts the interview, which is rich in new thinking about the modeling industry and Karlie’s desire to transform herself yet again by switching modeling agencies, joining The Society, which also represents Amber Valletta, Adut Akech and personalities such as musician Willow Smith and reality star–turned-model Kendall Jenner.
“I wanted to change how I was using my job and my platform as a model.”
Karlie Kloss Investments
Kloss has invested in W Magazine, as well as in companies including Therabody, a wellness via technology leader; Mirror, the New York-based startup known for selling interactive workout mirrors, with Lulelemon also an investor; and Reformation, the sustainable fashion brand that had a rocky 2020 in a post-George Floyd world.
Accusations of “traumatizing” racism from staff members and store management against Yael Aflalo, who founded Reformation in 2009, created deep division around the Reformation brand and general public resulting in Aflalo stepping down from her CEO role in June 2020.
Karlie Kloss Activist and Philanthropist
Kloss now works with Greg Propper, the co-founder of Propper Daley, a strategic social-impact and consulting agency that advises brands and philanthropists, including stars like John Legend.
Their joint objective is to develop Karlie and other clients as forces for progressive social change.
Through Propper, Kloss is now connected to philanthropies such as New Profit, an organization that puts together venture philanthropy funds—essentially donations that are granted to social-impact entrepreneurs.
I’m somebody who is not formally educated. I am a student of life.”
Karlie has openly discussed the reality that because she was scooped up at a young age into the modeling industry, she is not formally educated.
Today the superstar is working with New Profit on an ambitious new initiative, the Postsecondary Innovation for Equity (PIE), that creates career pathways for nontraditional job candidates via investments in organizations that provide skills training and mentorships. Kloss can relate: “I’m somebody who is not formally educated. I am a student of life.”
Kode With Klossy
AOC has followed the full trajectory of Kloss’s career and social activism, including her Kode With Klossy project —a program Kloss launched in 2015 offering free computer coding camps to female-identifying and nonbinary 13- to 18-year-olds.
This summer 2021, Kode With Klossy awarded 3,000 scholarships to students from 70 countries, and Karlie’s working to expand it further. “It is all interwoven… [even though] to somebody on the outside it might not make sense,” Kloss tells WSJ Magazine.
15 Years of of Karlie Kloss news and modeling work can be found in our extensive Karlie Kloss’ AOC Archives. And we pull out Karlie’s Kode with Karlie organization, whose work with girls in STEM benefits the entire world. There are Twitter activists and then there is Karlie Kloss.
Like her mentor Christy Turlington, Karlie Kloss puts a capital ‘A’ on the word activism. To think that Karlie moved from 20 scholarships when she launched in New York in summer 2015 to over 3000 scholarships in 2021 is a tribute to women who get things done.
Yes, Kode With Klossy, along with the Malala Fund, was honored by Apple on International Women’s Day 2020.
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Stacey Abrams Launches 2022 Georgia Governor's Rematch
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Prominent Democratic voting rights activist Stacey Abrams is stepping up for a rematch of her contentious 2018 race against Gov. Brian Kemp to hold Georgia’s highest office.
Ms. Abrams candidacy assures that voting rights will remain center stage in Georgia, where Republicans have further sought to restrict the vote. If she succeeds, Abrams would become the first Black governor of Georgia and the first Black woman to serve as governor of any state.
“Opportunity in our state shouldn’t be determined by ZIP code, background or access to power,” Ms. Abrams said on Twitter, posting an announcement video with the slogan “One Georgia.”
Stacey Abrams has broad-base appeal and not only among both moderate Democrats and the more progressive wing of the party. Abrams created a strong coalition of white women — including white Republican and independent voters.
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Media Reports on Stacey’s New Campaign
Stacey Abrams Says She’s Running for Georgia Governor New York Times
Breaking: Stacey Abrams is running for Georgia governor in 2022 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Stacey Abrams Announces 2022 Run for Governor of Georgia New York Magazine