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Supermodel Cindy Crawford makes a darkly romantic fashion statement in two cover for Harper's Bazaar Mexico's November 2017 issue. Fashion director Gerard Angulo selects designs from Yousef Aljasmi and Monsoori in cover images shot by Simon Upton.
Gal Gadot Is All 'Wonder Woman' Lensed By Paola Kudacki For ELLE US December 2017
Actor Gal Gadot covers the December 2017 issue of ELLE US, styled by Simon Robins in Elsa Peretti for Tiffany & Co jewely, Louis Vuitton, Saint Laurent, Gucci and more. Photographer Paola Kudackicaptures Gadot with an engaging interview by Holly Milea.
“There’s been a fear for years of her being ‘clean’ and yet still tough,” says Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins, who, three-quarters of a century after Wonder Woman made her DC Comics debut, brought the superheroine’s story to big-screen life last year, starring Gal Gadot. “So many people’s assumptions about what would make a tough woman is actually a damaged woman. People were confusing strength with defensiveness, and I was like, ‘Why would she be defensive? She totally trusts people! Why would she be angry? She assumes that she’s going to be treated well. She has no chip on her shoulder!’”
Wait until she finds out she’s getting paid 80 cents on the dollar.
In fact, it's director James Cameron who took it upon himself to issue a negative critique of Gadot's 'Wonder Woman'. After all, a successful man would have the answers, right? Cameron called Gadot "an objectified icon", pointing instead to Linda Hamilton's 'Terminator' character as what a female action protagonist should be. "She was strong, she was troubled, she was a terrible mother, and she earned the respect of the audience through pure grit," Cameron said of the character Sarah Connor.) Gadot's 'Wonder Woman' was "a step backwards" for women. In post-Hillary defeat America, director Patty Jenkins was not amused.
Jenkins noted that women don't need to be one thing to be a hero. THR shared her counter-argument:
In August 2017, in the days after white nationalism raised its ugly head in Charlottesville, James Murdoch, CEO of 21st Century Fox sent an email to friends and colleagues that was leaked to media.
Commenting that he rarely discussed his family's charitable giving, Murdoch announced a pledge from him and his wife for $1 million to the Anti Defamation League (ADL) and urged others to also support the organization.
This week the ADL confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that the Murdoch donation of $1 million was received, accompanied by almost another $1 million associated with Murdoch's email.
Isabeli Fontana Is Sexy Sea Siren Lensed By Eduardo Rezeende For GQ Brazil November 2017
Top model Isabeli Fontana launches a heat wave, steaming up the pages of GQ Brazil's November 2017 issue. Danny Santiago styles Isabeli in colorful, sexy beach looks lensed by Eduardo Rezende./ Hair by Gianluca Mandelli; makeup by Hector Simancas
NJ John Carman Now Has Time To Cook His Own Damn Dinner As Ashley Bennett Gains Sweet Revenge
By now women should find a sense of humor, right? John Carman, a Republican member of the Atlantic County Board of Chosen Freeholders, a county legislative body in New Jersey, wondered in January 2017 if the millions of women -- accompanied by beyond decent numbers of men -- who attended the Women's March would be home in enough time to cook dinner. New Jersey resident Ashley Bennett was not amused.
"Seriously," Carman responded when dozens of women showed up at a freeholder meeting , one carrying a box of macaroni and cheese and telling Carman to "cook his own damn dinner." Professing good humor and urging women to find the same, Carman insisted that ". . . the women I'm surrounded by, my family, my friends, my colleagues are all strong, confident women, women who are sure of themselves. They didn’t get offended by this." Vox explains:
Bennett, a psychiatric emergency screener, attended the meeting but walked out when she heard Carman’s response. "I walked out because you had the entire time to sit and collect your thoughts, and hear what people were saying, and instead of apologizing and saying you could do better, you disrespect people and say the people you surround yourself are strong," she said at the time. "There are a lot of people who are strong."
Adding to Ashley Bennett's irritation was Carman's fashion choice of wearing a confederate flag over his state of New Jersey patch. Other voters agreed.
Aussie model Shanina Shaik gets glam, styled by Inmaculada Jimenez in Xavi Gordo images for Elle Spain November 2017./ Beauty by Vicky Marcos
Model Antonia Petkovic heads into the holidays, styled in casual glitz by Virginie Dhello. Photographer Philip Gay is behind the lens for Air France Madame November 2017./ Hair by Benedicte Cazau-Beyret; makeup by Dariia Day
It's one year later -- one of the worst nights of my life. I drank more vodka than I want to admit. If Mika on Morning Joe opened her Bernie-loving trap on Nov. 9, I would throw a high heel at the TV and hopefully smash her away forever.
Writing for Harper's Bazaar, Jennifer Wright reflects on that awful night a year later and the day after women hit the voting booths, inflicting serious pain on the Republican party in our first reckoning after Hillary's defeat.
I watched as millions of women excitedly gathered in secret groups to support Hillary Clinton’s candidacy. There they talked about what an exciting moment in history this was. They did not venture out because their husbands might not like their vote, or Bernie voters might yell at them, or someone at their work might not like it. We saw at the time, I think, no contradiction in being posed on the edge of ultimate victory for womankind and also secreting ourselves away to make ourselves completely unobjectionable. We were always supposed to be unobjectionable.
So quietly, unobjectionably, we waited. We baked cakes, and chilled champagne, and put stickers on suffragettes graves. And so many of us thought how especially satisfying it would be to see a woman win against a man who was repeatedly accused of sexual harassment, who bragged about sexual assault, who seemed to embody the worst of what women encounter from men.
On November 9, we woke up, and Donald Trump had been elected.
Bella Hadid Gets The Beauty Treatment By Jean-Baptiste Mondino For Madame Figaro October 27, 2017
Very top model Bella Hadid fronts 'La Magnétique', a beauty story styled by Cecile Martin. Photographer Jean-Baptiste Mondino captures Bella for Madame Figaro October 27, 2017./ Hair by Marina Roi; makeup by Jen Atkin
Elsa Hosk Wears Sensual Elegance In Regan Cameron Images For Harper's Bazaar Germany
Top model and Victoria's Secret model Elsa Hosk simmers on the December-January 2017.18 cover ofHarper's Bazaar Germany. Hosk fronts a gorgeous, sensual set of elegant images styled by Kerstin Schneider using Burberry, Carolina Herrera, Alberta Ferretti, Valentino and more. Photographer Regan Cameron is in the studio, paying homage to Elsa's Swedish beauty./ Hair by Linda Shalabi; makeup by Misha Shahzada
Models Heather Kemesky and Krika Linder get cozy in 'Autumn is my friend', a collection of rich textures styled by Celia Azoulay. Photographer Emma Tempest captures the cold-weather beauties for Vogue Russia October 2017./ Hair by Helen Reavey; makeup by Yacine Diallo
Rebecca Marie Dayan -- French model turned actor turned painter -- is interviewed by The Laterals. Photographer Andrew Kuykendall captures Dayan, who is styled by Yety Akinola./ Makeup by Rommy Major; hair by David Colvin
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Canadian model Grace Mahary, of Eritrea heritage hangs in Brooklyn, styled by Stuti Gupta.Photographer Ricardo Abrahao captures Grace for Elle India's October 2017 cover story.
Models Laura Hagested & Polina Oganicheva are styled by Ako Tanaka in pattern and texture frenzy for 'Mix and Mingle'. Photographer Jack Waterlot is in the studio for Numero Tokyo November 2017./ Hair by Kenichi; makeup by Yumi Endo
Model Cate Underwood wears gaucho-inspired, lean silhouettes styled by Alexander Fisher in Thomas Cooksey images for WSJ Magazine November 2017./ Hair by Thomas Dunkin; makeup by Deanna Hagan
Top model Catherine McNeil finds her sexy edge, styled by Irina Marie in boudoir-inspired looks for 'Nuit Fauve'. Photographer Bruno Dayan captures McNeil for Numéro November 2017./ Makeup by Dotti; hair by Tomi Kono
Model Sijia Kang is styled by Konca Aykan in 'Here Comes The Wind', lensed by Liz Collins for Vogue China November 2017./ Hair by Lok Lau; makeup by Lotten Holmqvist
Cindy Sherman Joins Art World's Condemnation of Knight Landesman's Sexual Harassment
Cindy Sherman joined other powerful people in the art world -- including 7000 women -- to denounce sexual harassment by people like the late October 2017 resignation of Knight Landesman. Known for his colorful suits, the co-publisher of arts magazine Artforum resigned after a lawsuit was filed by Amanda Schmitt accusing him of sexual harassment against eight other people.
"We are artists, arts administrators, assistants, curators, directors, editors, educators, gallerists, interns, scholars, students, writers and more - workers of the art world - and we have been groped, undermined, harassed, infantilised, scorned, threatened and intimidated by those in positions of power who control access to resources and opportunities," the letter read.
Richard Phibbs Flashes 'Silence of the Lambs' Actor Jodie Foster For Harper's UK December 2017
Actor Jodie Foster is honored as a Harper's Bazaar UK December 2017 Woman of the Year. Miranda Almond styles the multiple-Oscars Foster, considered one of the best actors of her generation, in images by Richard Phibbs./ Hair by Perrine Rougemont; makeup by Sharon Dowsett
In her Harper's Bazaar UK interview, Foster reflects on Hollywood, including . . .
On the shortcomings of male directors
“Even with the number of movies I’ve made, I’ve never made a movie that was about women, made by women, that was seen through women’s eyes… I think it’s very hard for [male directors] to imagine women’s lives, and when they do, I think they have this either idealised idea or this victim idea.
“And there can be a lack of sophistication about how they approach women in the text. I was saying recently that there was a time in my life, for 15 or 20 years, during which every single script I read, the motivation for the female character was that they had been raped or abused as a child. I don’t think it’s an on-purpose thing, but it’s like, ‘What can I give that woman that will feel meaningful? Oh I know – she’s been raped as a child.’ So is that the only thing they can think about us that feels deep or something?”
Brooklyn-based photographer Blessing Marie captures Mexican talent & actor Livia Rangel, styled by Laura Pritchard for Cosmopolitan Kazakhstan November 2017./ Hair by Eloise Cheung; makeup by Ashleigh B. Ciucci
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