Mathilde Brok Brandi Is Lensed By Daniel Clavero For Vogue Ukraine September 2017

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Mathilde Brok Brand Is Lensed By Daniel Clavero For Vogue Ukraine September 2017

Rachel Gilman styles model Mathilde Brok Brandi in luxe jewels and watches against a sleek black fashion backdrop. Photographer Daniel Clavero is behind the lens for Vogue Ukraine September 2017./ Makeup by Carolina Dali

Kim Kardashian West Channels Jackie'O In Steven Klein Images For Interview Magazine September 2017 -- Twitter Is In Crisis!

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Kim Kardashian West Channels Jackie'O In Steven Klein Images For Interview Magazine September 2017 -- Twitter Is In Crisis!

Kim Kardashian West channels Jackie Kennedy Onassis in Interview Magazine's September issue -- and the Internet has gone berzerk over her audacity. How dare she!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Good goddess, we Americans take everything so seriously these days. Could we please distinguish between Kardashian's beautiful editorial with her daughter North, shot by Steven Klein, with styling by Patti Wilson -- and Donald Trump embracing white nationalism; pardoning Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio; and telling America's municipal governments that they can once more buy used military tanks and machine guns to use in local police forces in our post Ferguson America. That was today's news -- not that Kim Kardashian channeled Jackie Kennedy Onassis for Interview Magazine. 

Good goddess, some people are so high and mighty. Pretty soon Americans will demand a citizen review board to tell creators what we can and cannot do! And we wonder why America is now less entrepreneurial than Sweden in international surveys. Everybody should just go to their safe spaces on university campuses, and those of us who can deal with this explosive editorial bombshell will suffer through it. 

Kim Kardashion and her lovely daughter North have caused Interview Magazine's online platform to crash multiple times today or send the picture gallery into a proverbial timeout, so somebody must like the Kardashian/Klein cover story.  I experienced the outtages first hand. Get a grip, my fellow Americans. Think of those brave people wading through water up to their necks in Houston. If they can suffer through bitter reality, so can you.

So I guess it's clear how I feel about all the criticism of Kardashian's beautiful editorial. I'll read the interview once the website is stable. ~ Anne

Kendall Jenner Is Divine Seductress In Mert & Marcus Images For La Perla Fall-Winter 2017

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Kendall Jenner Is Divine Seductress In Mert & Marcus Images For La Perla Fall-Winter 2017

Kendall Jenner strikes again, fronting a deliciously feminine, Gaia-inspired ad campaign for La Perla Fall/Winter 2017. The luxury brand has struggled to find its way in a modern world, but evolves now under the sensual eye of La Perla's first female creative director Julia Haart. 

Haart brings her technological vision in addition to a womanly design vision to La Perla with construction techniques hat incorporate support and structure into pieces made to be worn without undergarments. This strategy in no way excludes the always enticing, exposed bra luxury looks key to the La Perla brand story. 

Mert & Marcus capture the Italy-inspired, Eve ate the apple and we all know what happened next images in a campaign that is warm 

Yumi Lambert Takes Japan, Lensed By Jackie Nickerson For Vogue Australia September 2017

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Vogue Australia's September 2017 issue continues with its focus on Japan, featuring model Yumi Lambert styled expertly by Christine Centenera for images by Jackie Nickerson./ Hair by Sophie Roberts; makeup by Maki Ryoke

Charlene Högger Is Edgy Romantic In Hans Feurer Images For Elle Russia September 2017

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Charlene Högger Is Edgy Romantic In Hans Feurer Images For Elle Russia September 2017

Model Charlene Högger is styled by Ekaterina Mukhina  in edgy, embellished romanticism from Dior, Fendi, Elie Saab and more. Hans Feurer is behind the lens for Elle Russia September 2017.

Updated: Bella Hadid & Jordan Barrett Front Vogue Australia September 2017, Lensed By Jackie Nickerson

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Bella Hadid & Jordan Barrett Front Vogue Australia September 2017, Lensed By Jackie Nickerson

Bella Hadid joins forces with Jordan Barrett in Vogue Australia's September 2017 cover story lensed by Jackie Nickerson. Christine Centenera styles the couple in 'Savage Beauty'./ Hair by Shon; makeup by Romy Soleimani

Brigitte Macron's Elle France September 2017 Cover Has Best Sales In A Decade

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Brigitte Macron's Elle France September 2017 Cover Has Best Sales In A Decade

Brigitte Macron covers the September issue of Elle France, giving her first interview since her husband Emmanuel Macron became president. Once again, Brigitte Macron is forced to talk about the 25-year age difference between her and her husband -- a topic the media is obsessed with. The subject is starting to feel like Hillary Clinton's missing emails. 

We've told the Brigitte Macron story before on AOC. What's noteworthy this morning is the success of putting Mrs. Macron on Elle France's September 2017 cover, lensed by Mark Seliger.

Reports are that Macron's September cover issue is the best selling French Elle issue in the last 10 years. In the first week, the magazine already sold 3 million copies, including subscriptions. The monthly average for Elle France in 2017 was 313 525 copies.

Macron wears a cream-colored Dior blazer on her cover shot and faded Saint Laurent jeans. As always, her signature point-toe stilettos are part of her typically casual, never overdone look. 

When asked if she prefers not to be asked about her style, Mrs. Macron quips, "Why not, if it does some good for the French fashion industry? I'm really into fashion, and there's this fascination the world over around this idea of the French woman."

Updated: Barbara Palvin & Jordan Barrett Wear Casual Luxe Lensed By Beau Grealy For C Magazine September 2017

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Barbara Palvin & Jordan Barrett Wear Casual Luxe Lensed By Beau Grealy For C Magazine September 2017

Top model Barbara Palvin smolders with Jordan Barrett, styled by Alison Edmond in Sacai, Coach, Alexander McQueen, Etro and more. The duo are featured as leading the model movement in images byBeau Grealy for California's C Magazine September 2017.

Four Brown Beauties In Foxy Chic Lensed By Jacopo Moshin For Nylon Magazine September 2017

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Four Brown Beauties In Foxy Chic Lensed By Jacopo Moshin For Nylon Magazine September 2017

Djenice Duarte Silva, Talia Voider, Austria Ulloa and Cassi Priestley are styled by Christopher Campbell in 'Foxy Brown', lensed by Jacopo Moschin for Nylon US September 2017./ Hair by Mustafa Yanaz; makeup by Ingeborg

Michigan Introduces Bill To Mandate Teaching Slavery As It Existed In American History

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Michigan Introduces Bill To Mandate Teaching Slavery As It Existed In American History

In the aftermath of the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va, Democrats in Michigan's House of Representatives are pushing for legislation requiring that African-American history is a mandatory part of the curriculum in all public schools. 

This new legislation sponsored by Democratic Rep. Sherry Gay-Dagnogo, explains The Root, the lead sponsor, is critical due to growing attempts by Republican-led school boards to rewrite the history of slavery in America. 

The Texas Board of Education, in particular, has led the way in rewriting the history of slavery in America, changing the verbiage around the presence of Africans on plantations to 'workers' rather than slaves. More than one school board has tried to position the history of slavery as one akin to the temporary migrant workers who harvest food crops in America. 

Alessandra Ambrosio & Eddie Redmayne Celebrate Omega's Seamaster Aqua Terra Watch 15th Anniversary

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Alessandra Ambrosio & Eddie Redmayne Celebrate Omega's Seamaster Aqua Terra Watch 15th Anniversary

Omega Watches has tapped Alessandra Ambrosio and Eddie Redmayne to be the faces of its new Seamaster Aqua Terra campaign for women and men, respectively. The Seamaster watch has been an important staple for Omega for the past 70 years. The Seamaster Aqua Terra model was created in 2002, making this year Aqua Terra’s 15th anniversary.

The luxury watch market has struggled to maintain its relevance as a status must-have and also in the "context of geopolitical and economic instability", advises LVMH shairman Bernard Arnault. Omega is owned by Swatch, who predicts strong growth for the brand in 2017. The Financial Times notes thatSwatch is notoriously overly-optimistic in its business projections. 

Thomas Chauvet, head of luxury goods equity research at Citigroup, told FT: “It feels like the industry is only at the beginning of downsizing, but the numbers are less bad and investors want to believe we’re at the bottom. “There has been too much price inflation without innovation over the past decade. There is a danger of too much complacency — after all it was a technology company, not a Swiss company, that launched smartwatches.”

Ophelie Guillermand Fronts 'Shop The Drop' By Arved Colvin-Smith For The Sunday Times Style

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Ophelie Guillermand Fronts 'Shop The Drop' By Arved Colvin-Smith For The Sunday Times Style

Top model Ophelie Guillermand poses in the red zone for 'Shop The Drop', styled by Flossie Saunders. Photographer Arved Colvin-Smith is in the studio for The Sunday Times Style' August 20, 2017./ Hair by Federico Ghezzi; makeup by Isak Helgason

Valentine Bouquet In Retro Swim Looks By Zoltan Tombor For Vogue Netherlands July-August 2017

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Valentine Bouquet In Retro Swim Looks By Zoltan Tombor For Vogue Netherlands July-August 2017

Model Valentine Bouquet is styled by Astrid Shilders in retro swim bodies and femininity from Michael Kors, The Row, Miu Miu and more. Valentine's sequin embellished jacket from Chanel goes mega-wattage glam.  Photographer Zoltan Tombor flashes the late summer solitude for Harper's Bazaar NetherlandsJuly-August 2017.

Dear Ivanka, Study Gary Cohn For Clues On Finding Your Jewish Voice In The Trump Administration

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Dear Ivanka, Study Gary Cohn For Clues On Finding Your Jewish Voice In The Trump Administration

Dear Ivanka. Once a Jew, always a Jew, but then. . . in your case. . . we are supposed to understand that you are still finding your voice seven years later on your own Jewishness. The last time Jews were visibly under attack in America and worldwide, many high and mighty Jews were unable to find the will to speak out on the growing global atrocities. My first husband was run out of Birmingham, Alabama in no uncertain terms because he is a Jew. The experience shook him to his core, being a Bronx boy from New York. 

A prominent member of your father's inner circle, his chief economic adviser, Gary D. Cohn -- a Jew -- nearly left the Trump administration in the wake of Charlottesville, reports the New York Times. 

In his first public remarks on the national dialogue about the Charlottesville violence and white nationalist marches against Jews. Mr. Cohn said in an interview on Thursday with the Financial Times, that as a “patriotic American” he did not want to leave his job as the director of the national economic council.

“But I also feel compelled to voice my distress over the events of the last two weeks,” Mr. Cohn said, with his knowledge that the mere thought that the stock market could tank if he walked out is a real one. 

Agata Pospieszynska Captures Marine Gaudin For Harper's Bazaar Russia September 2017

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Agata Pospieszynska Captures Marine Gaudin For Harper's Bazaar Russia September 2017

Rising photographer Agata Pospieszynska focuses her lens on model Marine Gaudin, styled by Svetlana Vashenyak in street-savvy menswear mixes for Harper's Bazaar Russia September 2017./ Hair by Mirka Hajdova; makeup by Celine Martin