Charlie Hebdo Drops the Gauntlet in Paris As Iran Resumes Brutal Hijab Crackdown

Charlie Hebdo Drops the Gauntlet in Paris As Iran Resumes Brutal Hijab Crackdown

Arab News Tehran reports that Iran’s judiciary has ordered police to “firmly punish” people who violate the country’s hijab law, a news agency reported Tuesday, January 10.

France’s Charlie Hebdo magazine, a French satirical weekly magazine, has again provoked the Iranians, publishing cartoons mocking Iran’s ruling clerics and their aggression against the protesters.

Two French-born al-Qaida extremists attacked the newspaper’s office in 2015, killing 12 people in Paris on January 7, 2015. Today the irreverent publication operates from a secret location with round-the-clock police protection, continuing its refusal to bow down to right-wing, religious zealots of any ideology, not only Islam.

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Natalia Vodianova on Sisterhood, Activism, Philanthropy in Vogue Beauty Paper

Natalia Vodianova on Sisterhood, Activism, Philanthropy in Vogue Beauty Paper

Supermodel Natalia Vodianova covers Vogue Beauty Paper, January 2023, a media project of Vogue China. Natalia is styled by Michelle Cameron, with creative direction by Matt Mcdonald. Photographer Hugo Comte [IG] is in the studio.

Natalia Vodianova’s stratospheric rise has been breathtaking, as she increasingly turns her attention to her work as a philanthropist, impact investor and UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador.

In Nepal and India, large numbers of women do not have the right to touch food or crops while they are menstruating, because they can cause bad luck to their families. A 2019 study found that 77% of west-central Nepali girls and young women actively practice menstrual exile, even though it is now illegal in India.

Girls in Bolivia are still told that their period blood causes illnesses like cancer in other people.

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Celebrity Stylist Christine Centenera Is Now Vogue Australia Editor-in-Chief

Celebrity Stylist Christine Centenera Is Now Vogue Australia Editor-in-Chief

Lost in some of the late December 2022 holiday news was the appointment of current fashion director Christine Centenera as editor-in-chief of Vogue Australia, replacing ​Edwina McCann.

Centenera’s most recent role in the limelight was styling Kanye West's controversial 'White Lives Matter' show in Paris, on October 3. She also worked closely with Virgil Abloh, styling Louis Vuitton Mens until Abloh’s passing.

Centenera runs her own label Wardrobe.NYC. In May 2021 she gave birth to twins, becoming parents with her long-time friend and partner since 2018, actor Joel Edgerton.

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Dior Magazine Presents 7 Spanish Photograpbers Interpreting 'Andalusian Grace' Cruise 2022.23 Collection

Dior Magazine Presents 7 Spanish Photograpbers Interpreting 'Andalusian Grace' Cruise 2022.23 Collection

Women’s Status in 2023

There is no stronger voice for women’s rights in fashion culture than Dior’s Creative Director Maria Grazia Chiuri. Her leadership and creative vision increases in value at a time when women’s rights are under assault worldwide, including in America.

There’s a reason why the word ‘woman’ was the most-searched word on dictionary.com in 2022. Clearly, we don’t know who women are any more. Can you imagine a search for the word ‘men’?

Carrying on with its 21st century Medici mission, after the Cruise 2022.23 show in Seville, Dior invited seven Spanish photographers to engage in dialogue with the brand with their photographic interpretations of the cruise collection that truly celebrated Andulasian culture.

Dior Magazine’s ‘Andulasian Grace’ features these talented photographers: Berta Vicente Salas; Andrea Torres Balaguer; Silvia Conde; Raquel Chicheri; Eva Diez; Irene Cruz; Alba Yruela.

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Taiwan's Dancer Xu Fangyi Scales Excellence, Lensed by Zhong Lin in Vogue Taiwan January 2023

Taiwan's Dancer Xu Fangyi Scales Excellence, Lensed by Zhong Lin in Vogue Taiwan January 2023

Taiwanese dancer and choreographer Xu Fangyi covers the January 2023 issue of Vogue Taiwan. The internationally-renowned dancer wrote on Facebook: "If it is important to be seen by the world, I will not spend my energy waiting for the eyes of the world. I will try my best to polish myself so that it is difficult for people not to see."

AOC did not know until today that uber-talented Zhong Lin [IG] is a self-taught photographer — as if our respect for her intuitive talent could grow any larger.

Photographer Zhong Lin's lens has become her opponent today, both an enemy and a friend. Her eyes are firm, revealing her determination not to be outdone. "Have you captured the photo you want?" "Is this okay? I can kick my feet higher." "Maybe I can try another angle?"

It was when a pair of high heels appeared on set that the photographer/dancer synergy went full-throttle.

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Raquel Zimmermann by Ancestral Voices in Robin Galiegue Images for TTA21

Raquel Zimmermann by Ancestral Voices in Robin Galiegue Images for TTA21

Top model and ceramic artist Raquel Zimmermann is a fashion and culture focus for The Travel Almanac FW2022 issue. Clare Byrne styles the restrained, modest fashion silhouettes with Bottega Veneta on the cover.

The organic sensuality of Raquel Zimmermann’s ceramics is almost visceral to AOC eyes. There are artists and talents who are very focused on outward visualization, while others channel the unconscious mind and ancestral voices, compelled to go deeper into the human experience in a universal way.

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All Barbie's DreamHouses Constitute Barbitecture | Like a Paleolithic Goddess, Barbie Teases July 21, 2023 Opening

All Barbie's DreamHouses Constitute Barbitecture | Like a Paleolithic Goddess, Barbie Teases July 21, 2023 Opening

To celebrate her influence on American design and architecture, Mattel collaborated with the design magazine PIN-UP on a limited-edition art book, “Barbie Dreamhouse: An Architectural Survey.”

“Barbie’s house is infinitely more exciting than Barbie herself,” writes Elvia Wilk, a cultural critic. “The structures we live within — fantasize about living within — say more about our lives and dreams than plastic bodies ever will.”

The New York Times breaks down the Barbitecture story with A Six-Decade Tour of Barbie’s Dreamhouses and AOC gifts readers the link.

Wilk is one of many critics who contribute to the book’s analysis of Barbie’s huge influence on American culture.

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Jessica Chastain in 'The Good Fight' Lensed by Jessica Chou for Marie Claire Holiday

Jessica Chastain in 'The Good Fight' Lensed by Jessica Chou for Marie Claire Holiday

With her own company behind the Showtime miniseries ‘George & Tammy’, out now, Chastain was determined to give her “Stand By Your Man’ country singer “main character energy.”

The actor takes issue with the idea that Tammy Wynette was a doormat, reminding us that Wynette was married five times.

The male character of George Jones is played by Michael Shannon, who has an excellent relationship with Chastain.

As scripted, the scene went something like:

DON (picture a pencil neck with an ego): You're going to fuck my wife, aren't you, George?

GEORGE (Michael Shannon): Yes, I'm going to fuck her.

"[Michael] changed the line from, 'Yes, I'm going to fuck her'—excuse the language—to, 'I sure would like to," Chastain remembers. "The second he said, 'I sure would like to,' it was like, 'Oh, yes, this is happening. Because he sees her as someone who gets to make the decision. And that's working with an actor who's very aware he doesn't own me." Another perk of being producer? You get to pick your scenemates. "We were so in tune with one another," says Shannon, who first met Chastain on the set of 2011's Take Shelter. "The notion of sitting in front of another man and looking at a woman and proclaiming that you're going to fuck her, seems a little neanderthal to me. I mean, if I was the woman in question, I wouldn't enjoy that so much."

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Lily Collins Covers Porter Magazine's Dec. 12, 2022 Issue Lensed by Olivia Malone

Lily Collins Covers Porter Magazine's Dec. 12, 2022 Issue Lensed by Olivia Malone

Actor Lily Collins is everywhere in December media, given the phenomenal success of ‘Emily in Paris’. Porter Magazine’s Dec. 12 issue steps up for the latest feature with Collins talking to Ellie Pithers about her alter ego’s unwavering positivity, new projects and the power of vulnerability.

Coco Cassiba styles “everyone’s favorite honorary Parisian” with season 3 on Netflix Dec. 21. Collins is so identified with Emily Cooper’s character that she responds to both names, and Paris tours devoted to the show drive by her apartment building. People come up to me and say, ‘I packed my bag according to what Emily would wear.’If they saw me in character, it was very trippy.”

The actor is excited to share news of Case Study Films, the production company she launched in November with her husband Charlie McDowell and their partner, Alex Orlovsky.

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Elizabeth Debicki Covers Vogue Australia December 2022, Lensed by Gregory Harris

Elizabeth Debicki Covers Vogue Australia December 2022, Lensed by Gregory Harris

Australian actor Elizabeth Debicki joins Netflix’s ‘The Crown’ in the role of Princess Diana, succeeding Emma Corrin. Katrina Israel zooms Debicki in Mallorca, where the actor is filming season six, now filming in overdrive after a respectful pause after the passing of Queen Elizabeth II.

Debicki covers the December 2022 of Vogue Australia, lensed by Gregory Harris [IG] in ‘Crowning Glory’.

AOC always focuses on activism and philanthropy in our writing. Princess Diana was awesome and a true role model.

Okay, okay. Best known after dancing with John Travolta at the White House, but her efforts to destigmatize HIV and AIDS patients were critical in changing minds about the disease. Diana also won front-page covers in Angola in January 1997 and Bosnia in August 1997, advocating for the clearance of landmines and also for innocent, maimed victims of landmines years later.

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Welcome Home, Brittney Griner. Your Bravery, Courage and Poise Are Stunning!

Welcome Home, Brittney Griner. Your Bravery, Courage and Poise Are Stunning!

Brittney Griner remains airborne, with an expected touchdown at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas near San Antonio at about 11pm, Texas time.

Brittney arrived in Abu Dhabi by private plane from Moscow after her release by Russian authorities. Viktor Bout, a former arms dealer, came in on another private plane from Washington after being released by U.S. authorities.

Putin Signed New Anti-Gay Bill on Monday

AOC has followed this wonderful news of Griner’s release all day, as many reasons appeared as to why the star athlete is heading home. One of many reasons that hasn’t been mentioned is the law Russian President Vladimir Putin signed on Monday, making it illegal for anyone to promote same-sex relationships or suggest that non-heterosexual orientations are “normal.”

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Christy Turlington Burns for Calvin Klein Eternity Campaign Mixes Sensuality & Maternal Health

Christy Turlington Burns for Calvin Klein Eternity Campaign Mixes Sensuality & Maternal Health

Christy Turlington supers up her always-smoldering sensuality in the new Calvin Klein Eternity fragrance campaign, sharing the spotlight with her beloved husband Ed Burns.

Photographer Lachlan Bailey [IG] has captured the couple over the years in images that speak to what is one of celebrity-world’s biggest love affairs.

Anne of Carversville took a look at the early days of Turlington’s career and her marriage to Ed Burns just last month. Christy Turlington Uses Her Brainpower Activism and Beauty for All Women

Her dedication to the issue of global — and US — maternal health is well known in fashion world. Minutes ago as we were writing this post, Christy Turlington Burns tweeted in support of the SHINE for Autumn Act of 2022. Read on for details.

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Milena Smit in Saint Laurent, Lensed by JUANKR for Flaunt Magazine December 2022

Milena Smit in Saint Laurent, Lensed by JUANKR for Flaunt Magazine December 2022

Spanish actor Milena Smit wears all Saint Laurent, styled by Nicolas Klam. Photographer JUANKR [IG] captures the sulty, deeply-personal cover story for Flaunt Magazine December 2022.

Milena Smit recently starred in Pedro Almodóvar’s critically-acclaimed ‘Parallel Mothers’, appearing with Penélope Cruz. A comparative newcomer to acting, Smit received a notice about her audition for a new film, without being told about the pedigrees of her fellow artists.

“And thank god the next audition was the final one with them, because if I had found out at the beginning what movie it was for, I don’t know if I would have done it so well,” Smit told Flaunt magazine.

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Mariah Carey Covers W Magazine Vol VI 2022 Holiday Issue, Lensed by Ethan James Green

Mariah Carey Covers W Magazine Vol VI 2022 Holiday Issue, Lensed by Ethan James Green

Center stage in the fashion images shot by Ethan James Green [IG] is the jewelry — a special collection of butterfly-inspired pieces that makeup the new Chopard x Mariah Carey diamonds collection, honoring the pop star’s seminal 1997 album ‘Butterfly’.

The collection is the result of a close collaboration with Carey, Chopard and its Co-President and Artistic Director, Caroline Scheufele.

Hawgood and Carey reflect back on the black and white music video for ‘My All’ directed by the legendary fashion photographer Herb Ritts. Carey remains impacted by the experience. AOC shares the original video.

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Billie Eilish Tells Highsnobiety About 106 Million Fans: I Don't Know Shit

Billie Eilish Tells Highsnobiety About 106 Million Fans: I Don't Know Shit

Interviewed by Willa Bennett, Billie Eilish covers the Winter 2022 issue 29 of Highsnobiety magazine.

The fashion story spans luxury and streetwear, as Billie wears the “billowing” — silhouettes she is known for lensed by Davit Giorgadze [IG].

What Billie Eilish says in her new Highsnobiety interview reflects her own experience with the virgin/whore dichotomy.

“I think that people have taken me more seriously because I’ve had this more masculine [way of dressing] throughout my career,” she adds. “If I had been more feminine and girly, people would’ve been a lot less respectful of me.”

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Zoe Saldaña Covers Vogue Mexico and Latin America Lensed by Yulia Gorbachenko

Zoe Saldaña Covers Vogue Mexico and Latin America Lensed by Yulia Gorbachenko

Angelo DeSanto styles Zoe Saldaña in her first-ever Vogue cover, wearing Bottega Veneta and bold jewelry by Patricia Von Musulin throughout the fashion story lensed by Yulia Gorbachenko [IG].

Zoe Saldaña is very busy. The film carrying the greatest risk for the triple-play five highest-grossing films winner is ‘From Scratch’, the story of actor Tembi Locke and sister Attica Locke’s life story memoir about love, loss and famiy.

Saldaña was approached by Reese Witherspoon’s ‘Hello Sunshine’ production company to play the leading role of Amy. Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club had selected the book and she also bought the movie rights to the film.

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Anitta Covers WSJ Magazine November 2022 Innovator's Issue Lensed by Gregory Harris

Anitta Covers WSJ Magazine November 2022 Innovator's Issue Lensed by Gregory Harris

Brazilian singer Anitta joined the crowd gathered in early November at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art, where Anitta was honored as the WSJ 2022 Music Innovator.

The annual WSJ Magazine gathering, now 11 years old, honors change-makers in multiples disciplines across the creative industry.

The 29-year-old “Evolver” singer continued her November accolades, winning Favorite Female Latin Artist at last Sunday’s American Music Awards. [We’ll ignore the fact it was sponsored by mega fashion planet-polluter Shein] Anitta was joined by Missy Elliott.

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Silvia Draz Focuses on the 'Waterfall Effect' with Iggy Jacobsen in Vogue Portugal

Silvia Draz Focuses on the 'Waterfall Effect' with Iggy Jacobsen in Vogue Portugal

Silvia Draz [IG] uses her photographer skills to maximum impact in ‘Waterfall Effect’, with model Iggy Jacobsen. Noemie Schelbert styles Iggy in bright colors absorbed in the vastness of the Jungian, oceanic unconscious, associated with female nature and the female psyche.

Vogue Portugal’s October 2022 issue has been on my mind quite a lot.

You know how we have all these images of women diving into water for over a century?

Well, I want to see us rising out of the water like lightening bolts — diving upwards against the forces of gravity. I want women being fired out of the depths of darkness towards the sun as torch-bearers.

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Christy Turlington Uses Her Brainpower Activism and Beauty for All Women

Christy Turlington Uses Her Brainpower Activism and Beauty for All Women

Supermodel Christy Turlington graced the pages of British Vogue’s July 2000 issue, lensed in ‘Being Christy’ by Regan Cameron [IG]. / Hair by Ken O’Rourke; makeup by Pati Dubroff

Turlington spoke to the many projects that interested her, some existing only as goals at the time. The supermdel returned to school at NYU in 1994, graduating cum laude in 1999 from the Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Her focus of study at NYU was Comparative Religion and Eastern Philosophy.

In 2010, Christy Turlington completed and debuted her documentary film, “No Woman, No Cry,” about the global state of maternal health, at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival in New York City. On Mother’s Day 2011, Christy showed the film on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN).

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Anya Taylor-Joy Covers Harper's Bazaar UK Women of the Year by George Antoni

Anya Taylor-Joy Covers Harper's Bazaar UK Women of the Year by George Antoni

Actor Anya Taylor-Joy tells Harper’s Bazaar UK’s Frances Hedges that her makeup for the Mad Max: Fury Road prequel Furiosa is the “juciest and bloodiest” of any she has worn in a movie.

“It will take me the full two years before the movie comes out to even begin to process what I just left 12 days ago. [Furiosa] was the most life-changing experience that I’ve ever had, with such talented artists. I really felt like I grew so much, but yes, it’s wild. It’s utterly unique,” Taylor-Joy told The Hollywood Reporter in another new interview.

The Dior ambassador wears ‘an equestian living in Seville’ wardrobe from the 2023 cruise collection, lensed by George Antoni.

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