Margot Robbie Covers Vanity Fair December 2022.January 2023 by Mario Sorrenti
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Hey Ye, If You Stop Ranting About Jews for an Hour, How About Watching This Film?
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We don’t know if Kanye West is referring to the Illuminati in his latest rant that began Friday night. Note that The Root raised the question. But the fact that he spoke about his own colleages — some of them already associated with the Illuminati — suggests that this is the secret society Kanye is ranting about.
Last night West began calling out people by name who he says are currently “under control” by unnamed powers. “They can’t control me, you know what I’m saying,” West begins. “They can control Shaq, they can control Charles Barkley, they can control LeBron James.
“They can control Jay-Z and Beyonce,” West said. “But they can’t control me. Ain’t no name I won’t name. It’s up.”
It got worse, when West began speaking on Hollywood “sacrifices” — including the death of his mother Donda West.
Read MoreNIKE Suspends Ties with Kyrie Irving As Anti-Semitic Embrace of Hebrew Israelites Fallout Spreads
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On Thursday Nets guard Kyrie Irving was suspended indefinitely for promoting an anti-Semitic film based on the book “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America”. The book promotes several anti-Semitic tropes, including the despicable lie that the Holocaust never happened.
Late Friday, Nov 4, NIKE suspended its relationship with Kyrie Irving, including the introduction of his new NIKE KYRIE 8 shoe. ESPN reported last May that dealings with Kyrie Irving were so complex for Nike, that there was a good chance that Nike would not renew his contract at the end of the 2022/23 season.
Nike has produced Irving’s popular signature shoe since 2014 and is taking the financial hit on cancelling the Kyrie 8 launch.
“At Nike, we believe there is no place for hate speech, and we condemn any form of antisemitism,” the company said.
Read MoreDid Kanye West Just Get Played for Parler? Candice Owens' Husband George Farmer Is CEO
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AOC was asleep at the wheel on the subject of Candice Owen and her husband George Farmer, who she married in 2019, being the power couple behind Parler.
Republican mega donor Rebekah Mercer would take issue with who is in charge of Parler, as she controls two of three board seats. To be honest, the Mercer heiress hasn’t gotten much of a return on her investment in uber-right-wing media investments: Parler, Breitbart News and Cambridge Analytica.
The Parler app got banned in the aftermath of America’s January 6 insurrection because it was a haven for communication and calls to war among those who want to overthrow the US government. Apple, and other social media, banned Parler after the Jan. 6 riot.
The Washington Post broke down the whole story on Tuesday, with Candace Owens and Kanye West’s provocative friendship, explained. A subscriber to WaPo, I missed it because it was in the Style section. Although I’m sure the headline was a small one on the front page.
Read MoreRalph Lauren Polo Originals Fall 2022 Classics for Woke Humans by Richard Phibbs
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A breeze is blowing through fashion collections and marketing as humans adjust to pre-pandemic life. Not that reality is faraway, mind you, or that a decade of streetwear’s dominance is over.
Coincidentally, posting images of the just launched on September 15 Polo Originals collection by Ralph Lauren comes on the heels of sharing incredibly-glamorous images of the spring 2023 glamorous Schiaparelli collection.
I can imagine critics calling the Ralph Lauren Polo Originals campaign a celebration of robber baron wealth. Photographer Richard Phibbs [IG] made harmonious artistry out of these images starring Hamid Onifade, Hugh Laughton-Scott, Kit Butler, Rishi Robin.
To me, I see a modern, honoring nod to traditions and classics — to wellmade clothes that are designed to last.
Read MoreViola Davis Comes to Life As 'The Woman King' in ELLE Brazil October by Mar + Vin
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All reports are that ‘The Woman King’ reigns supreme at the Toronto International Film Festival, which opened on September 8 and closes on Sunday, September 18.
Gina Prince-Bythewood directed the historical epic set in West Africa in 1823. Tony and Oscar award winner Viola Davis, featured here in four covers of the October 2022 issue of ELLE Brazil, stars as Nanisca, a force of nature in Dahomey, West Africa. Today Dahomey is located in what we know as southern Benin.
As the leader of the Agojie, the all-woman army of the African kingdom, Davis’s character led a fighting force so fierce that even enemies spoke of its “prodigious bravery”.
Read MoreThe Wokes on The Theocrats #1: Lauren Boebert's Demand That God Clean House in DC
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Without using the exact phrase “separation of church and state” the First Amendment to the Constitution is generally considered to clarify America’s objection to a national religion and a political governing body known as a theocracy.
The Wokes presume that the “stinking letter” Congresswoman and theocrat Lauren Boebert refers to is America’s third president from 1802-1809 Thomas Jefferson’s 1802 missive to the Danbury Baptist Association.
In it, Jefferson wrote that the First Amendment had essentially built "a wall of separation" between church and state.
Read MoreThredUp and Priah Ferguson 'Stranger Things' Star Beg Gen Z to Stop Buying Fast-Fashion
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‘Stranger Things’ Star Priah Ferguson has a message for you. She is not going to make you feel badly about yourself. No. Priah is on your side, and so is AOC. She is not shaming you. Rather, Priah is giving you a big hug and begging you to take action not words.
The new ThredUp and Priah Ferguson “Fast Fashion Confessional Hotline” is meant to encourage Gen Z shoppers to stop shopping fast fashion and embrace more sustainable options.
Read MoreTiffany 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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