Gabriela Hearst Supports Save the Children in Yemen through December 9, 2019

We might as well make it Angelina Jolie Day at Anne of Carversville. I just went to the Gabriela Hearst website searching for any additional info on the designer’s campaign to support Save the Children’s relief efforts in Yemen. Who greets me but Angelina, AOC’s founding muse who we profiled this morning, wearing a Gabriela Hearst Crowther Dress.

UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie called for an urgent response to the crisis in Yemen a year ago. More than 12 million children in Yemen are in need of humanitarian assistance. Save the Children is providing food, cash vouchers, critical healthcare services, education and protection to children and families affected by this crisis.

A new analysis by the global humanitarian organization reveals tens of thousands of children are one step away from famine. An estimated 17,000 children living in hard to reach areas in Yemen – cut off by war – are at increased risk of severe acute malnutrition and death if issues with aid access are not urgently resolved.

“Save the Children is working around the clock every day to give the children of Yemen the support they desperately need. I visited the war-torn country earlier this year, and Yemeni children are truly bearing the brunt of this conflict. They suffer from malnutrition and other illnesses, and are missing out on school and childhood,” said Carolyn Miles, Save the Children CEO. “We are incredibly grateful to Gabriela Hearst for making Save the Children’s efforts in Yemen the focus of this campaign. As we enter the season of giving, this is a unique and meaningful way for shoppers to give back and make an impact on the lives of children growing up in the world’s largest humanitarian crisis.”

From December 2nd to December 9th, 100% percent of net proceeds across all products in Gabriela Hearst flagship stores (985 Madison Avenue, New York and 59 Brook Street, London) and Gabrielahearst.com will be donated to Save the Children to support child nutrition and relief efforts in war-torn Yemen.

All Gabriela Hearst handbags, which are usually only available via request only, will be click-to-buy on Gabrielahearst.com

Angelina Jolie Covers Harper's Bazaar US December 2019-January 2020, Lensed by Solve Sundsbo

Angelina Jolie Covers Harper's Bazaar US December 2019-January 2020, Lensed by Solve Sundsbo

Angelina Jolie covers Harper’s Bazaar US holiday December 2019-January 2020 issue, styled by Patrick Mackie. The ‘Maleficent: Mistress of Evil’ costar who will play in Marvel’s ‘The Eternals’, release date Nov. 6, 2020, is lensed by Sølve Sundsbø in ‘A Prayer for the Wild at Heart’./ Hair by Malcolm Edwards; makeup by Val Garland

In their introduction to their end of one decade, launch of the 2020s interview, Harper’s does a quick survey of Angelina Jolie — the founding muse of AnneofCarversville.com. I remember well reading Angelina’s Esquire interview on a warm Sunday morning in Carversville. It was a moment that changed my own trajectory, returning me to a life of activism in a post-September 2001 world.

Considering Angelina’s thoughts about beheaded by ISIS WSJ reporter Daniel Pearl — in a moment of pure impulse — AOC was born.

Harper’s introduction to Angelina’s interview — answers delivered digitally — makes me proud to know we have covered every step of issues that matter deeply to Angelina Jolie. Read those articles in Angelina’s widget and other Winning Women members at AOC. ~ Anne

Angelina Jolie Speaks Candidly On World Refugee Day As New TIME Contributing Editor

Angelina Jolie Speaks Candidly On World Refugee Day As New TIME Contributing Editor

Activist actor Angelina Jolie is now a monthly contributing editor at TIME magazine.

Editor-in-chief and CEO Edward Felsenthal announced that Jolie’s essays will focus on topics related to human rights and displacement, issues front-of-mind for the humanitarian who has worked with the UN Refugee Agency for 18 years.

Jolie first official piece was published to coincide with World Refugee Day, June 20, with the title Angelina Jolie: What We Owe Refugees. She argues: "Under international law it is not an option to assist refugees, it is an obligation," she writes. "It is perfectly possible to ensure strong border control and fair, humane immigration policies while meeting our responsibility to help refugees."

Happy Birthday AOC

Anne of Carversville had a birthday this week, 12 years old on June 17. AOC came to life seemingly out of nowhere, inspired by my reading our founding muse Angelina Jolie’s Esquire interview. Reading her thoughts marked a turning point in my life: Smart Sensuality Angelina Jolie: Virtue Considered in Carversville's Country Air.

Angelina is one of the many Winning Women in Action we track on AOC.

Enjoy reading all of Angelina Jolie’s AOC Archives.

Angelina Jolie Archives @ AOC

Angelina Jolie Is "Too Busy" To Play Céline Dion | Is Jolie Not Allowed To Make Her Own Choices?

Angelina Jolie Is "Too Busy" To Play Céline Dion | Is Jolie Not Allowed To Make Her Own Choices?

AOC didn’t go looking for news that Celion Dion is reportedly ‘devastated’ that Angelina Jolie is “too busy’ to play Dion in the biopic of her dreams.

Full disclosure, I wrote my first AOC blog post in the summer of 2007, after reading Angelina Jolie’s Esquire interview. Smart Sensuality Woman Angelina Jolie: Virtue Considered in Carversville's Country Air. In three hours, she changed my life around in a good way.

Always a social actvist ‘conscientious objector’ especially in the arena of racism and women’s rights, I had become a bit too comfortable in life. Jolie inspired me to action once again — and I’ve never looked back in my revitalized second act life.

It seems that the lives of “friends” Céline Dion and Angelina Jolie have intersected over Dion’s biopic.

A source told RadarOnline: ‘For years now, Celine’s big passion has been a musical movie adaptation of her life, career and marriage to Rene [Angelil]. She wants this to happen for both her kids and her fans, and was dead-set on Angie playing Celine Dion. ‘Celine considered Angie a good friend, and is devastated that she’s turning down the role.’

Angelina Jolie & John Kerry Talk Women's Rights & Environmental Action In ELLE US March 2018

Angelina Jolie & John Kerry Talk Women's Rights & Environmental Action In ELLE US March 2018

Superstar Angelina Jolie sits down with former US secretary of state John Kerry to talk March 8, International Women's Day in the March 2018 issue of ELLE US. In truth, they spend as much time talking environmental issues as women's rights, although the two intersect in so many ways. As guest editor of the March 2018 issue of Vogue Australia, Emma Watsonmakes the same point: women suffer more than men as a result of climate change.

At age 42, Angelina Jolie has devoted herself to shedding light on women’s rights and violence against women around the world. Jolie serves as a goodwill ambassador and special envoy to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, where she’s completed nearly 60 field missions, including visits to Lebanon, Jordan, and Iraq. As cofounder of the British government’s Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative, Jolie's met with rape survivors in Rwanda and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Angelina Jolie Meets With Ex Secy of State John Kerry In Elle US March 2018 Cover Story

Angelina Jolie Meets With Ex Secy of State John Kerry In Elle US March 2018 Cover story

Global icon Angelina Jolie is styled by Samira Nasr for Elle US Magazine's March 2018 cover story. Lensed by Andres Kudacki, Angelina talks with former US Secy of State John Kerry for a Women's History month story about her work for women and refugees worldwide.  

Angelina Jolie Talks Syrian Refugees, Education, Violence Against Women & More With Brigitte Macron

Angelina Jolie Talks Syrian Refugees, Education, Violence Against Women & More With Brigitte Macron

Director, activist and busy mother Angelina Jolie was in Paris today to film a commercial on the Champs-Elysées for perfume house Guerlain. Jolie has been an ambassador for the brand since 2016. After a trip to the Louvre museum with her six children, Jolie also met with French President Emmanuel Macron and First Lady Brigitte Macron at a visit to the presidential  Elysées Palace. 

Jolie and Mrs. Macron met for an hour, discussing education, violence against women and [Jolie]’s activities as UNHCR Special Envoy and her recent visit to Jordan. On Sunday, Angelina took Zahara and Shiloh to the Zataari refugee camp, located less than an hour's drive from the Syrian border and a temporary home to 78.000 people fleeing Syrian violence.  

Angelina Jolie Criticizes UN Peacekeepers For Not Tackling Global Violence Against Women

Angelina Jolie Criticizes UN Peacekeepers For Not Tackling Global Violence Against Women Art of Living

Angelina Jolie remains one of the strongest voices for women worldwide, and she did not hold back in addressing the UN Peacekeeping Defense Ministerial Conference in Vancouver on Tuesday with her keynote speech.

“Sexual violence is everywhere – in the industry where I work, in business, in universities, in politics, in the military, and across the world,” she said during her keynote address on Wednesday. “All too often, these kinds of crimes against women are laughed off, depicted as a minor offense by someone who cannot control themselves, as an illness, or as some kind of exaggerated sexual need,” she continued. “But a man who mistreats women is not oversexed. He is abusive.”

Angelina Jolie Talks Life After Brad In Mert & Marcus Images For Vanity Fair September 2017

Angelina Jolie Talks Life After Brad In Mert & Marcus Images For Vanity Fair September 2017

Superstar Angelia Jolie fronts the September 2017 issue of Vanity Fair. Jessica Diehl styled Jolie in retro elegance lensed by Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott in 'Angelina Jolie Solo'. Read the interview with Evgenia Peretz.

There’s the Angelina Jolie who’s now a single mother—managing the day-to-day chaos of six kids, and the trauma of her split from Brad Pitt—and there’s the Angelina Jolie whose latest movie, a groundbreaking Netflix original about Cambodia’s genocide, is also a thank-you to the nation that transformed her. At her new L.A. mansion, Jolie reveals the tension between the two Angelinas and the reason her life will never be normal.

Angelina Jolie Premieres 'First They Killed My Father' in Cambodia, Writes NYT Op-Ed on Refugees, Supports Turkish Series On Refugee Family

Angelina Jolie Premieres 'First They Killed My Father' in Cambodia, Writes NYT Op-Ed on Refugees, Supports Turkish Series On Refugee Family

On Saturday February 18, Angelina Jolie traveled with her children Maddox, 15, Pax, 13, Zahara, 12, Shiloh, 10 and eight-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne to Siem Reap, Cambodia for the première of her new film 'First They Killed My Father' based on the memoir of close friend Loung Ung. 

Jolie, whose eldest son Maddox was adopted in 2002 from an orphanage in Battambang, Cambodia gave a free public screening of the memoir-based drama. The Netflix film tells the story of the war time experiences of Angelina's friend Loung Ung, a Cambodian author and human rights activist, who survived the Khmer Rouge regime. Jolie has co-written the screen adaptation with Ung and acted as producer as well as director the film.

Angelina Jolie Named Beauty Ambassador Of 'Mon Guerlain', Will Donate Salary To Charity

Angelina Jolie stepped out of the shadows on Monday, as Guerlain Parfumeur announced that the actor would be the face of its new fragrance, Mon Guerlain. The contract was actually signed back in December 2015, while Jolie was directing 'First They Killed My Father' in Cambodia, birthplace of Jolie's first son, Maddox.

The partnership is Jolie's first beauty ambassador contract in 10 years, and Angelina will donate all the profits of her contract to unspecified charities. 

“We create perfumes for the women we admire,” Jacques Guerlain said in a statement, whilst the brand’s master perfumer Thierry Wasser said he drew inspiration from Jolie to create a fragrance expressing the “notes of a woman”.

Besides her work as an actor, filmmaker and mother of six, Angelina Jolie is a special envoy of the UN Refuge Agency and co-founder of the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative.

Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt Enjoined In Peter Lindbergh Images For Vanity Fair Italia November 2015

Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt Enjoined In Peter Lindbergh Images For Vanity Fair Italia November 2015

Angelina Jolie Fronts WSJ Magazine November 2015 Innovators Issue, Lensed By Peter Lindbergh

Angelina Jolie Fronts WSJ Magazine November 2015 Innovators Issue, Lensed By Peter Lindbergh

AOC 2007 founding muse Angelina Jolie fronts the November 2015 issue of WSJ Magazine, the Innovators Issue. Angelina is photographed by Peter Lindbergh in classic images styled by Anastasia Barbieri./ Hair by Adriotha Lee; makeup by Toni Garavaglia

Jolie is promoting her new film 'By the Sea' starring herself and husband Brad Pitt. Interviewed by Julia Reed, the actor reflects on the many challenges of making the film about a couple whose marriage is in deep crisis. AOC has followed the film from its beginning.

Angelina Jolie Pitt Working on 'The Breadwinner' & 'First They Killed My Father', A Memoir By Loung Ung

Angelina Jolie Pitt Working on ‘The Breadwinner’ & ‘First They Killed My Father’, A Memoir By Loung Ung

“The Hollywood Reporter shares news that Angelina Jolie Pitt will executive produce the animated film ‘The Breadwinner’, a story of a young girl living as a boy under the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.”

“The story’s heroine Parvana disguises herself as a boy to become her family’s breadwinner after her father is imprisoned unfairly. The film, which also focuses on the culture and beauty of Afghanistan, will be produced in English and in Dari.” Read on

Angelina Jolie-Pitt Makes Cambodian Film for Netflix

“Jolie-Pitt is currently working on a film for Netflix called ‘First They Killed My Father’. The actor and director is adapting the memoir of Loung Ung, a Cambodian author and human rights activist, who survived the Khmer Rouge regime. Jolie-Pitt has co-written the screen adaptation with Ung and will product as well as direct the film.”

“Jolie Pitt said she decided to partner with Netflix because of the streaming service’s global reach. “Films like this are hard to watch but important to see,” she said. “They are also hard to get made. Netflix is making this possible, and I am looking forward to working with them and excited that the film will reach so many people.” The film will be released in both Khmer and English.”  Read on

Angelina Jolie Impresses Critics With 'By the Sea'

By the Sea Trailer

The first trailer for Angelina Jolie’s new film ‘By the Sea’, written and directed by Jolie who also stars with husband Brad Pitt. The period film is set in 1970s France and focuses on the couple and their unhappy marriage. It will be released on November 13.

The couple previously worked together in ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith’. Read more about the film in our February 2015 Angelina Jolie Collects New Most Admired Woman Honor in International Voting — 5 key reasons why we love Angelina Jolie. 

The Guardian wrote about ‘By the Sea’:

After impressing with her first feature in the director’s chair – In the Land of Blood and Honey – Angelina Jolie disappointed with her studio-sized sophomore drama, Unbroken, which reeked of a desperate bid to be taken seriously by awards voters with its schmaltz tone and massive scale. For her third feature, By the Sea, Jolie has gone in the opposite direction to serve up an intimate character study. It seems like the transition has brought out the best in Jolie.

Jolie is the founding muse of Anne of Carversville.

Congo's Dr Denis Mukwege Calls For 100% New Recruits In Army & With No History of Sexual Violence

Congo’s Dr Denis Mukwege Calls For 100% New Recruits In Army & With No History of Sexual Violence

Last week Dr Mukwege described the Congolese army as being mired in a culture of violence and as being ‘completely sick’, so sick that it should be disarmed and replaced with new recruits who have never committed sexual violence or fought for a violent militia, reports The Guardian.

The UN estimates that one-third of the rapes that occur in the eastern part of the country are committed by members of the army. Dr Mukwege’s questioning the wisdom of the international community spending large sums of money to support an army that is the greatest perpetrator of violence against women and sometimes men, too, is timely.

Angelina Jolie's Rousing Feminist Speech For Women In South Africa

Angelina Jolie’s Rousing Feminist Speech For Women In South Africa

On June 11, Angelina Jolie spoke in her role as special envoy to UNHCR at the biannual African Union Summit in Johannesburg. The theme of this year’s summit was the ‘Year of Women’s Empowerment and Development’. Read on.

Angelina Jolie Has Second Surgery | Jolie's Impact On BRCA Screening Is Huge

Angelina Jolie shared one more reason why she is among the world’s most admired women, writing an op ed in The New York Times about her latest preventive surgery. Two years ago the world star had a double mastectomy after learning that she carries the BRCA1 gene. Angelina Jolie Pitt, the name she used in today’s op ed, had an 87% risk of getting breast cancer and a 50% risk of ovarian cancer and lost her mother, grandmother and aunt to cancer.

Jolie’s recent surgery to remove her ovaries and fallopian tubes was always part of her health management plan, but a recent blood test and follow-up medical treatment prompted her to act now.

At the time of her double mastectomy, Jolie wrote: ‘I do not feel any less of a woman. I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity.’

In today’s piece, Jolie reached out to women, saying ‘I feel feminine and grounded in the choices I am making for myself and my family. I know my children will never have to say ‘Mom died of ovarian cancer”.

High Impact on Women’s Health

2. In 2014 Dr. Harold Burstein from the Harvard Medical School shared news of Angelina’s impact on women getting checked for BRCA mutations. Calling her first op-ed ‘a model of medical writing’, Dr. Burstein referred to a study at the University of Toronto that examined both an increase in medical screenings and whether the subjects were medically appropriate candidates or just nervous nellies.

Focusing on their own populations in Toronto, the doctors concluded that the number of BRCA! and BRCA2 screenings doubled as a result of her op ed. The candidates for the screenings were ABSOLUTELY women who should be screened. A secondary effect was a strong increase in physician referrals by doctors influenced by the Jolie effect, health workers who probed more deeply into women’s medical histories.

Perhaps Angelina Jolie Is Just Too Caught Up In Life To Eat

Perhaps Angelina Jolie Is Just Too Caught Up In Life To Eat

Once again people are talking about Angelina Jolie’s ‘alarmingly thin’ body, revealed in her arrival in London for a very special day in Jolie’s life. Angelina joined former British Foreign Secretary and now Leader of the House of Commons William Hague at the London School of Economics to announce the opening of the London Center For Women, Peace & Security.

No one doubts Angelina Jolie’s pursuit of perfection in all that she does, and near-perfection seems to come naturally for her. Stories abound that the actor/director forgets to eat. This February 2014 Tom Brokaw interview of Angelina and ‘Unbroken’ subject Louie Zamperini feels beautifull natural and unscripted.

Also, this brief 3 minutes with National Geographic also gives us major insights into Angelina Jolie’s personality and capacity for empathy AND ACTION!!  Read on.