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Binx Walton Covers Vogue Brazil in Images by Luigi & Iango AOC Fashion
Top model Binx Walton channels her subversive inner persona, is styled by Pedro Sales in images by Luigi & Iango for Vogue Brasil Septemer 2021./ Hair by Tashana Miles, makeup by Georgi Sandev
Daria Strokous by Ned Rogers in Smashing Fashion Images for Puss Puss Magazine 14 AOC Fashion
WOW! Just WOW! Russian model Daria Strokous covers Puss Puss Magazine 14, FW 2021. Andy Polanco styles Strokous in striking, fashion royalty vibe images by Ned Rogers and Andy Polanco. LOVE! / Hair by Ilker Akyol; makeup by Miguel Ramos
Karmen Pedaru's Style Artistry for Harper's Bazaar Czech 25th Anniversary by Kristian Schuller AOC Fashion
Top model Karmen Pedaru wears Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Dries Van Noten, Erdem, Louis Vuitton, Miu Miu and more styled by Peggy Schuller. Photographer Kristian Schuller captures Pedaru in ‘Babylon Berlin’ for the 25th anniversary September 2021 issue of Harper’s Bazaar Czech Republic.
Karen Elson Brings Model Mastery to ELLE Russia November 2021 by Kat Irlin AOC Fashion
Supermodel Karen Elson joins forces with Dostoyevsky in a studio lesson around the creative talents employed by the most talented models in our fashion industry. Lilya Simonyan styles Elson in period-elegance lensed by Kat Irlin [IG] for the November 2021 issue of ELLE Russia.
Beegee Margenyte Prepares to Party by William Ferchichi for ELLE Arabia AOC Fashion
Lithuanian model Beegee Margenyte gets her mermaid dance on in the pages of ELLE Arabia September 2021. Fashion and beauty editor Dina Kabbani chooses the frothy, garden party clothes lensed by William Ferchichi [IG].
Models Jiseop Lim, Seungchan Lee and Yoon Young Bae are styled by Desmond Lim and Eunnnnyoung Sohn in ‘The Way You Are’, lensed by Hyea W. Kang for Vogue Singapore September 2021. / Hair by Eunyoung Choi; makeup by Hyeryoung Park
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Federico Sorrentino Captures Etro's Fall 2021 Manly Side for The Greatest Magazine AOC Fashion
Models Brian Whitby and DameLo are styled by Matteo Greco in this Etro fashion story, with art direction by Sara Ferraris. Photographer Federico Sorrentino [IG] is behind the lens for The Greatest Magazine #20, 10th Anniversary Issue Fall 2021.
A map [middle image’ highlights the correlation between lynchings and Confederate monuments in America. The darker, redder colors indicate higher numbers of lynching victims; with each dot representing a Confederate monument (courtesy of the University of Virginia)
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Large numbers of white southerners have long argued that Confederate monuments exist exclusively as symbols of southern pride and a proud history of rebellion against America’s federal government.
Led by United Daughters of the Confederacy, supporters of Confederate monuments refuse to acknowledge that there is any psychological damage to nonwhite people living their daily lives in the shadows of these relics to the days of slavery.
Former slave families should also celebrate the honor of the Old South, say white southerners while waving their Confederate flags in their faces. If people of color are bothered by these towering monuments of famed Confederate generals, they should praise God’s creation of an ideal society and way of life. Otherwise, people of color can hop the first boat back to Africa. Easy peasy.
A new study by researchers at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville challenges the noble premise of Confederate monuments.
Led by Kyshia Henderson of UVA’s Social Psychology Program, who worked with data scientist Samuel Powers and professors Sophie Trawalter, Michele Claibourn, and Jazmin Brown-Iannuzzi at the university’s Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, the researchers documented a significant correlation between the numbers of Confederate monuments in an area and the number of documented lynchings from 1832 to 1950.
Published by the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers do not assert that the existence of Confederate monuments causes or provokes lynching. Their private beliefs — and those of the majority of researchers working in this area of study — do believe that Confederate statues are symbols of hate and also dominant power. But this study only concludes that there is a positive correlation between the two data sets: lynchings by county and Confederate statues by country.
“We can’t pinpoint exactly the cause and effect. But the association is clearly there,” Trawalter wrote. “At a minimum, the data suggests that localities with attitudes and intentions that led to lynchings also had attitudes and intentions associated with the construction of Confederate memorials.”
The researchers referenced another study associated with dedication speeches for Confederate memorials, finding that nearly half of the 30 dedication speeches reviewed involved “explicit racist language,” including phrases like “love of race” and “your own race and blood.”
Selma - Montgomery March #3 1965
A powerful and recently rediscovered film made during the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march for voting rights. Stefan Sharff’s intimate documentary reflects his youthful work in the montage style under the great Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein. The film features moving spirituals. Marchers included Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife Coretta Scott King.
2015 Oscar Winning Best Song ‘Glory’ From Best Picture Nominated ‘Selma’
History of Selma to Montgomery Marches 1965
The Selma-to-Montgomery March for voting rights ended three weeks—and three events—that represented the political and emotional peak of the modern civil rights movement. On “Bloody Sunday,” March 7, 1965, some 600 civil rights marchers headed east out of Selma on U.S. Route 80. They got only as far as the Edmund Pettus Bridge six blocks away, where state and local lawmen attacked them with billy clubs and tear gas and drove them back into Selma. Two days later on March 9, Martin Luther King, Jr., led a “symbolic” march to the bridge. Then civil rights leaders sought court protection for a third, full-scale march from Selma to the state capitol in Montgomery.
Federal District Court Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr.,weighed the right of mobility against the right to march and ruled in favor of the demonstrators. “The law is clear that the right to petition one’s government for the redress of grievances may be exercised in large groups…,” said Judge Johnson, “and these rights may be exercised by marching, even along public highways.” On Sunday, March 21, about 3,200 marchers set out for Montgomery, walking 12 miles a day and sleeping in fields. By the time they reached the capitol on Thursday, March 25, they were 25,000-strong. Less than five months after the last of the three marches, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965—the best possible redress of grievances. Source: US Natl Park Service
President Barack Obama’s Address In Selma March 7, 2015
Photos March, 1965
President Barack Obama embraces Congressman John Lewis in Selma, March 7, 2015
March 7, 1965 march aborted at Edmund Pettus Bridge.It is a rare honor in this life to follow one of your heroes. And John Lewis is one of my heroes.
Now, I have to imagine that when a younger John Lewis woke up that morning fifty years ago and made his way to Brown Chapel, heroics were not on his mind. A day like this was not on his mind. Young folks with bedrolls and backpacks were milling about. Veterans of the movement trained newcomers in the tactics of non-violence; the right way to protect yourself when attacked. A doctor described what tear gas does to the body, while marchers scribbled down instructions for contacting their loved ones. The air was thick with doubt, anticipation, and fear. They comforted themselves with the final verse of the final hymn they sung:
No matter what may be the test, God will take care of you;
Lean, weary one, upon His breast, God will take care of you.
Then, his knapsack stocked with an apple, a toothbrush, a book on government – all you need for a night behind bars – John Lewis led them out of the church on a mission to change America.
There are places, and moments in America where this nation’s destiny has been decided. Many are sites of war – Concord and Lexington, Appomattox and Gettysburg. Others are sites that symbolize the daring of America’s character – Independence Hall and Seneca Falls, Kitty Hawk and Cape Canaveral.
Selma is such a place.
Congressman John Lewis lead the first Selma, March and was severely beaten in the head and body on March 7, 2965And because of men and women like John Lewis, Joseph Lowery, Hosea Williams, Amelia Boynton, Diane Nash, Ralph Abernathy, C.T. Vivian, Andrew Young, Fred Shuttlesworth, Dr. King, and so many more, the idea of a just America, a fair America, an inclusive America, a generous America – that idea ultimately triumphed.
As is true across the landscape of American history, we cannot examine this moment in isolation. The march on Selma was part of a broader campaign that spanned generations; the leaders that day part of a long line of heroes.
We gather here to celebrate them. We gather here to honor the courage of ordinary Americans willing to endure billy clubs and the chastening rod; tear gas and the trampling hoof; men and women who despite the gush of blood and splintered bone would stay true to their North Star and keep marching toward justice.
'The Fall Lands' Lensed by Effy Yu for The New York Times Travel Magazine Fall 2021 AOC Fashion
Model Yan Wenjing is styled by Jiacheng Wu — who is also fashion editor at WSJ Magazine China — in ‘The Fall Lands’, lensed by Effy Yu [IG] for The New York Times Travel Magazine.
Rasharn Agyemang Flashes 'Up All Night' for British Vogue November 2021 AOC Fashion
Models Ash Foo, Nyarach Abouch Ayuel, Precious Lee, Rebecca Leigh Longendyke, Sacha Quenby, Joan Smalls and Mao Xiaoxing are in a festive mood for British Vogue’s blockbuster, Adele-cover November issue. Kate Phelan styles the cast in passionate shades of red and rose anchored in black and white gala looks for ‘Up All Night’, lensed by Rasharn Agyemang [IG] ./ Hair by Shiori Takahashi; makeup by Loten Holmqvist
Adele Covers Two Continents: Here in American Vogue US November 2021 by Alasdair McLellan AOC Fashion
On the British side of the Atlantic, Adele signals the return of va va voom dressing. Not only has Adele walked out of the shadows and into the light — but her new-found roar is heard on both sides of the Atlantic in the first-ever cover star collab between American Vogue and British Vogue.
In America, Adele is much more subdued, compared to her Steven Meisel images in British Vogue. She looks fabulous on the cover, wearing a green Valentino Haute Couture gown. Photographer Alasdair McLellan [IG] captures the star, who is styled by Tonne Goodman./ Hair by Frankie Boyd; makeup by Akki Shirakawa
Vogue writer Abby Aguirre catches up with Adele at Heart & Hustle, a private gym in West Hollywood.
We learn that Adele has been doing rigorous weight-lifting and circuit-training sessions every day for three years and counting. Sometimes, Adele works out twice in one day if her anxiety is running high. The world agrees on very little at this point, and women who lose weight are slammed regularly on social media for betraying the sisterhood and our core argument that all bodies are beautiful.
Emma Chamberlain in Louis Vuitton X Fornasetti by Domen & Van de Velde in V Magazine AOC Fashion
Social media sensation Emma Chamberlain drops into the pages of V Magazine as the girl of the 21st century with three covers of V’s October issue. Chamberlain is well-suited for stylist Nicola Formichetti’s current loves from Louis Vuitton’s new collaborative collection with Italian art maison Fornasetti. Photographers Domen & Van de Velde [IG] capture the irrepressible Gen Z content creator for V Magazine’s issue #132. / Hair by Patricia Morales; makeup by Cedric Jolivet
Marcin Tyszka Flashes Magic Powers 'Flora & Fauna' for Harper's Bazaar Germany November 2021 AOC Fashion
Model Silje Lorentzen plunges into what is presented as a surreal world of ‘Flora & Fauna!’, but is it? Kerstin Schneider styles Lorentzen in fantastical patterns and prints from Alaia, Alexander McQueen, Dior, N21 by Alessandro Dell’Acqua, Max Mara, Richard Quinn, Tory Burch, Undercover and more.
Photographer Marcin Tyszka [IG] captures the artistry for Harper’s Bazaar Germany November 2021 issue / Hair by Emil Zed
There’s no arguing that the mushroom props are fantastical. But after further exploration of Stella McCartney’s Spring 2022 collection — also inspired by mushrooms — the facts of fungi may set us free in the real world.
Vicki King Flashes 'Field of Dreams' with Belle Pierson, Connie Saville in Telegraph Luxury AOC Fashion
Models Belle Pierson and Connie Savill are styled by Tona Stell in ‘Field of Dreams’, to the manor born fashion lensed by Vicki King [IG] for Telegraph Luxury September 2021./ Makeup by Victoria Martin
Bon Duke Captures A Futuristic Steph Shiu Ready to Ride in Vogue China AOC Fashion
Model Steph Shiu is styled by Melissa Levy in ‘At Dawn We Ride’, a fast-moving, futurist fashion story lensed by Bon Duke for Vogue China September 2021.
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