Humanrace 'Clean' Beauty Skincare Is Pure Pharrell Williams Philosophy

Humanrace 'Clean' Beauty Skincare Is Pure Pharrell Williams Philosophy

Pharrell Williams has launched an epic skincare brand at humanrace.com. Not only does the brand name Humanrace dovetail perfectly with the singer/rapper/designer/entrepreneur’s philosophical mindset. But because the two words are typically split in typography, searching for the single word brings up Pharrell Williams’ new venture in Google’s top position. Nice — and I doubt he paid much for it.

Yes, it helps that Humanrace’s November 25 launch covers the current issue of Allure magazine, lensed by Ben Hassett. All the relevant details of Humanrace’s DNA are covered in Brennan Kilbane’s interview Pharrell Dives Into the Beauty Business.

The chief sensations officer of Humancare is perfectly at home Zooming from his Miami kitchen about the super simple, skin-loving essentials developed with his longtime dermatologist, Elena Jones.

Eyeing the New South

It was an impactful, online New York Times ad recruiting artists to Virginia that first attracted me to Virginia Beach. That July 2017 midnight sighting was followed by the August 12, 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville. That memorable weekend left me wondering if a move to Virginia was realistically in my destiny.

My cousin Jo and I spent several November 2017 days in Virginia three months later, and I remained positive about the move — highly impacted by the ‘truths’ about Jefferson that were openly-discussed in our tour at Monticello.

Looking out over a desolate, wintery Civil War battlefield was sobering post-Charlottesville, and I felt more strongly than ever that creating a New South was part of my older and wiser DNA.

I can say with total honesty, though, that news of Pharrell Williams’ 2019 ‘Something in the Water’ festival sealed the deal, removing any further hesitation about moving to Virginia. All systems became GO!

The beauty entrepreneur’s Allure interview with Brennan Kilbane delves into activism in a post George Floyd world.

Brynn Heminway Launches 'Display Copy' Style Only for Upcycled + Vintage Designs

Brynn Heminway Launches 'Display Copy' Style Only for Upcycled + Vintage Designs

A new limited-edition print magazine and fashion platform ‘Display Copy’ is not fooling around on the global imperative of sustainability. “Display Copy is a new fashion magazine that doesn’t feature a single new fashion item,” says founder and Editor-in-Chief Brynn Heminway. “Display Copy isn’t about promoting new products, it’s about loving what we already have and seeking out novelty and style in what already exists. We promote reuse by showcasing the thrifted, the found, the recycled, and the upcycled.”

In 2015, the fashion industry churned out 100 billion articles of clothing, doubling production from 2000, far outpacing global population growth. In that same period, we’ve stopped treating our clothes as durable, long-term purchases. The Ellen MacArthur Foundation has found that clothing utilization, or how often we wear our clothes, has dropped by 36% over the past decade and a half, and many of us wear clothes only 7 to 10 times before it ends up in a landfill. Studies show that we only really wear 20% of our overflowing closets.

Consume less is probably the best message for the planet, but it presents a gut punch to global business markets already really in COVID-world. Clearly, any flip-the-switch strategy can accelerate an already precarious global business market.

AOC shares the ‘About’ page on Display Copy’s’ website. Their declarations are one of the clearest mission statements around.

Rising model/media voice Paloma Elsesser gets the fashion scene started, styled by Beth Fenton in ‘Body Electric.’ Daniel Jackson is behind the lens with Brynn Heminway as creative director. See all the product credits at Display Copy and SHOP with a clear conscience. Hair by Recine; makeup by Frank B.

Dan Martensen Captures Tommy Hilfiger FW 2020 'Moving Forward Together'

Dan Martensen Captures Tommy Hilfiger FW 2020 'Moving Forward Together'

Models Alton Mason, Carolyn Murphy, Dilone, Geron McKinley, Halima Aden, Jasmine Sanders, James Turlington, Kit Butler, Ralph Souffrant, Soo Joo Park and more join hands in ‘Moving Forward Together’, another chapter of Tommy Hilfiger’s FW 2020 campaign. Dan Martensen captures the cast at Disney’s Golden Oak Ranch in Los Angeles County, California, with styling by Clare Richardson.

“When faced with unusual social and economic situations, sticking together is the best way forward,” states Tommy Hilfiger. “Each challenge also implies an opportunity: it can take one step closer to achieving a dream, stimulate self-questioning or inspire creativity that you never knew you had. Through ‘Moving Forward Together’, we want to help rekindle that creative spark and be able to help where it’s needed most.”

Book: Jane Fonda Tells Us How to Join Young People as Climate Activists

Activist Sophia Kianni (right) with actress Jane Fonda at 2019 Black Friday climate strike before the United States Capitol building. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International

Now that her ‘Fire Drill Fridays’ protests on the steps of the U.S. Capitol Building in support of climate change are over, Jane Fonda has written a new book about her emergence as an eco-warrior. “What Can I Do?: My Path from Climate Despair to Action” is available on September 8.

Everybody’s interviewing Jane, and we share comments that got our attention. TIME’s Justin Worland asked Fonda about working with today’s activists. “Did you see parts of your activist self in them?”

Fonda: “Oh my God. They’re so much better than I was! I’m blown away. They are really smart. They’re also very depressed—these young people are carrying grief.”

Jane is pictured above with Sophia Kianni, 18, an American climate activist and writer specializing in media and strategy. She is the founder and executive director of Climate Cardinals, an international youth-led nonprofit that works to translate information about climate change into over 100 languages.

Greenpeace explains Jane is launching a project to join 10 virtual American book clubs devoted to the climate crisis. Book clubs are asked to post their own short videos explaining why she should join their book club.

Throughout the book Fonda weaves her personal journey as an activist together with climate talks with leading climate scientist on the state of the crisis. The book also discusses specific issues, such as water, migration, and human rights, to emphasize what is at stake. 

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd — she of a lifetime loathing Hillary fame — interviews Fonda for Jane Fonda, Intergalactic Eco-Warrior in a Red Coat. Only Maureen Dowd would not edit four “I”s — as in me, me, me — in the first three short paragraphs.

Fonda got two direct mentions, one “we” and Dowd snuck in a “me”. Score 5 Dowd; 2 Fonda; 1 draw. Dowd moves far beyond climate action, getting Jane to offer up juicy revelations about Marlon Brando and Marvin Gaye. Better than a hemp shake.

Elizabeth Cabral: SustainChain UN Assembly Fashion Sustainability Dialogues Sept 16-18

Elizabeth Cabral: SustainChain UN Assembly Fashion Sustainability Dialogues Sept 16-18 AOC Sustainability

Net-a-Porter and Gemfield's Support Space for Giants Elephants in Kenya

Net-a-Porter and Gemfield's Gemstones Support Space for Giants Elephants in Kenya

Walk for Giants is a new campaign of the international conservation charity Space for Giants, made possible by Gemfields, a world-leading supplier of responsibly sourced coloured gemstones, and supported by NET-A-PORTER, the world’s leading online luxury fashion retailer.

Models Arizona Muse and Selena Forrest are photographed by Francesco Carrozzini, in both color images and black and whites on location at the Enasoit Game Sanctuary in Laikipia, Kenya.

In our COVID pandemic world, contributions to Space for Giants has suffered a serious blow. There is mixed messaging out there, but Net-a-Porter says that *100% of the profits from the sale of this product will go to Space for Giants (charity number 1159227).” I’m reading “proceeds”, which means revenue on some fashion websites. That information is incorrect.

Nadine Ijewere Flashes Selena Forrest in Ethical Jewelry for Vogue UK September 2020

Nadine Ijewere Flashes Selena Forrest in Ethical Jewelry for Vogue UK September 2020

Rising model Selena Forrest is styled by Poppy Kain in ‘Moment of Clarity’, a fashion story about ethical jewelry. Photographer Nadine Ijewere is behind the lens for British Vogue September 2020./ Hair by Shiori Takahashi; makeup by Lucy Burt

British Vogue August 2020 'Reset' Issue Honors Nature & Creatives

British Vogue August 2020 'Reset' Issue Honors Nature & Creatives

Photographer Nick Knight pays high compliments to British Vogue’s EIC Edward Enninful, explaining the mutual synergy that gave life to the first project of its kind for British Vogue’s August 2020 issue: the commissioning of 14 special covers that tapped Britain’s greatest artists and photographers from Tim Walker to Nadine Ijewere, David Hockney, Lubaina Himid and ‘yes’ Nick Knight. Expand the list to include Mert Alas, David Sims, Marcus Piggott, Jamie Hawkesworth, Juergen Teller, Alasdair McLellan, Martin Parr, David Bailey and Craig McDean.

In a followup to the magazine’s recent online auction in collaboration with Sharon Wolter Ferguson’s HEWI (Hardly Ever Wore It), this new project also makes British Vogue an engine of change and support for people in need. “The original prints of each depiction of nature – be it an everyday skyline or the memory of a place much missed – will be auctioned off in aid of Covid-19 relief charities later this year.”

British Vogue’s August Issue, Reset, and the 20-page story ‘All Across the Land’, written by British naturalist Helen Macdonald, supports a mission not only of showcasing the beautiful, but also highlighting that our planet is the living, breathing core of our human existence. As such, Edward Enninful’s 2020 mission is to RESET our relationship to nature.

Knight’s Reset cover was not the first publicity release, but it explains some highly-relevant backstory about the project. The debut cover for the project launch belongs to David Hockney.

Nick Knight on the August 2020 British Vogue Backstory

Jane Fonda In Gucci Off The Grid Sustainable Design Collection

Jane Fonda In Gucci Off The Grid Sustainable Design Collection AOC Sustainability

Jane Fonda, Lil Nas X, King Princess, Miyavi and David de Rothschild wear the new Gucci Off The Grid collection, the first capsule from creative director Alessandro Michele’s Gucci Circular Lines initiative. The collection comprised of recycled, organic, bio-based and sustainably sourced materials is married to the Gucci Equilibrium plan to create positive change for people and our planet.

LA-based photographer Harmony Korine shot the Gucci gang before lockdown, casting them as metropolitan explorers. Alice Newbold writes for British Vogue:

'Carbon Cowboys': Saving Our Planet Starts in the Soil' Says Peter Byck

'Carbon Cowboys': Saving Our Planet Starts in the Soil' Says Peter Byck

Peter Byck is a Professor of Practice at Arizona State University, in both the School of Sustainability and the Cronkite School of Journalism. He is the director, producer and writer of carbon nation. He is currently helping to lead a $6.3 million research project focused on Adaptive Multi-Paddock (AMP) grazing; collaborating with 20 scientists and 10 farmers, focused on soil health and soil carbon storage; microbial, bug and bird biodiversity; water cycling and much more. Byck has currently completed carbon cowboys, a feature-length documentary (in ten parts) focused on regenerative grazing: www.carboncowboys.org and is in production on a long-form documentary on the AMP grazing research project.

The trailer for carbon cowboys premiered during the 2020 Earth Optimism Digital Summit during which Byck also shared a bit more about the film as a speaker for a ‘Telling the Story’ session. Ahead of the premiere of carbon cowboys, Earth Optimism Communications lead Cat Kutz chatted with him to learn more about the regenerative farming the film highlights and how it can shift the way we think about food, climate and the future of farming.

Gucci Launches #SODEERTOME Pre-Fall 2020 Campaign Lensed by Alasdair McLellan

Gucci Launches #SODEERTOME Pre-Fall 2020 Campaign Lensed by Alasdair McLellan

Gucci releases a beauty of a pre-Fall 2020 campaign, — ‘So Deer to Me’ — grounded in the “retrieved innocence” of nature. Photographer Alasdair McLellan shoots a series of “fairytale animals” including deer and fawns, rabbits, owls, skunks, squirrels, frogs, hedgehogs and ducks that create an imagined escape from today’s COVID-19 world. Art director Christopher Simmonds and Gucci Creative Director Alessandro Michele create a much-needed respite from reality and the deeply-seeded fears of young people, who struggle to be optimistic about their own futures.

According to Gucci, McLellan’s images form “a call for a real engagement with nature and, with that, with life”. Models channeling this experience include Akito Mizutani, Azu Nwogu, Gret Mateides, Katie Johnson, Nastya Kharina, and Xie Chaoyu, styled by Jonathan Kaye./ Hair by Paul Hanlon; makeup b Thomas De Kluyver

To further that experience, Gucci announced a collab with  The Lion’s Share Fund, an initiative that enables businesses to raise funds for wildlife and habitat conservation, endangered species and animal welfare.. In its press release, Gucci explained: “By donating 0.5 per cent of its media spend every time an animal is featured in advertisements, as all the partners involved in The Lion’s Share Fund do, Gucci can give ongoing contributions to drive tangible on the ground results for this urgent cause.”

In support of the significant initiative, Gucci has posted a series of clips from 2017 documentary Richmond Park: National Nature Reserve, presented by David Attenborough and directed by George Chan, on Instagram. 

Arizona Muse Talks Living 'A Whole New World' Life in Country & Town House Magazine

Arizona Muse Talks Living 'A Whole New World' Life in Country & Town House Magazine

Top model Arizona Muse is styled by Nicole Smallwood in ‘A Whole New World’, a collection of romantic dresses lensed by Carla Guler for Country & Town House May/June 2020./ Hair by Brady Lea; makeup by Nathalie Eleni

Selena Forrest and Ruth Bell by Brigitte Niedermair 'The Dior Garden' SS 2020 Campaign

Selena Forrest and Ruth Bell by Brigitte Niedermair 'The Dior Garden' SS 2020 Campaign

Top models Selena Forrest and Ruth Bell front Dior’s ‘The Dior Garden’ Spring Summer 2020 Campaign, lensed by Brigitte Niedermair. Dior’s creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri describes the collection as an ode to the beauty and diversity of nature.

Gisele Bundchen Shares News of 'Kiss the Ground' Documentary in Marie Claire April 2020

Gisele Bundchen Shares News of 'Kiss the Ground' Documentary in Marie Claire April 2020

Gisele Bundchen covers the April 2020 issue of Marie Claire US, styled by J. Errico in Celine, Chloe, Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Fendi, Gabriela Hearst and more. Nino Muñoz captures Gisele in grounded images that anchor the message of her new documentary ‘Kiss the Ground’.

The interview is very comprehensive but the only new info is the new film. Otherwise, Sally Holmes’ questions are very repetitive — but excellent if you don’t know about Gisele’s background, family and strong ties to the environment. Also, Gisele is celebrating her 40th birthday. and also celebrating her 11th anniversary as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) this year

Jo Malone's Lavenderland Special Editions Spring 2020 Soothe Our Frayed Nerves

Jo Malone's Lavenderland Special Editions Spring 2020 Soothe Our Frayed Nerves

London luxury fragrance brand Jo Malone didn’t set out to calm global nerves with its new Lavenderland Collection. And yet, the limited edition launch is perfectly timed in a world fraught with nerves on high-alert over coronavirus.

Tim Walker’s magical images of Lucan Gillespie delight in a video directed by Emma Datzell-Khan. Model Xie Chaoyu joins Lucan in the video, with all visuals styled by Katy England. / Hair by Malcolm Edwards; makeup by Sam Bryant.

Because of the tense, disruptive, fear-generating global health crisis impacting us all, AOC looked for any new research on the calming properties of lavender. Writing for Smithsonian Magazine in October 2018, Brigit Katz suggests that in mice, at least, lavender may also be as effective at combating anxiety as commonly-prescribed medications. We share Katz’s article under the Smithsonian’s CC license.

Intimissimi Partners with Treedom, Planting Trees in First Sustainable Sp 2020 Collection

Intimissimi took inspo from Gisele Bunchen in Spring 2020, launching the first sustainable and eco-responsible lingerie collection since the Italian brand was founded in 1996. All eyes were on earth goddeess Irina Shayk, who modeled the campaign.

The big news, however, is the partnership that Intimissimi launched with Treedom, a platform founded in 2010 that allows trees to be planted remotely and to monitor their progress.  In a project ending March 15, Intimissimi promised to plant 20,000 trees in Cameroon, Ecuador, Italy, Kenya, Madagascar. and Tanzania.  Purchases of 90€ resulted in a free tree planted in the client’s name.

Learn more about Treedom and how you, too, can plant more trees worldwide.