Jane Van Kuijck Smells The Roses In Alex Schier Images For L'Officiel Baltics

Model Jane Van Kuijck blooms hot house style, styled by Susanne Marx in color-rich florals from Valentino, Dries Van Noten, Gucci and more. Alex Schier captures the intoxicating beauty in a greenhouse for L'Officiel Baltics

Elsa Hosk Markets Precious Metals Lensed By Mario Sierra For ELLE Spain August 2018

Top model Elsa Hosk makes a glittering splash in metallic looks from Calvin Klein, Chanel, DSquared2 and more styled by Inmaculada Jiménez. Mario Sierra flashes the Swedish beauty for the August 2018 issue of ELLE Spain

Andreea Diaconu Fronts MICHAEL Michael Kors Fall Winter 2018.19 Campign By Lachlan Bailey

Supermodel Andreea Diaconu showcases her starring role in MICHAEL Michael Kors'Fall Winter 2018.19 campaign, joined by Baptiste Radufe. Paul Cavaco styles Andreea for images by Lachlan Bailey./ Hair by Rudi Lewis; makeup by Mark Carrasquillo

Madonna At 60 Looks Forward For 'Madonna In Lisbon' In Vogue Italia August 2018

Madonna At 60 Looks Forward For 'Madonna In Lisbon' In Vogue Italia August 2018

Photographers Mert & Marcus move from capturing Oprah on the August issue of British Vogue to Madonna on the August 2018 issue of Vogue Italia

Initially, the magazine planned to celebrate Madonna's 60th birthday with a focus on her career and accomplishments, Vogue Italia creative director Giovanni Bianco told WWD in an exclusive interview that included editor-in-chief Emanuele Farneti. Bianco has worked with Madonna for 12 years on four CD covers, multiple tours and countless editorials.

This plan didn't suit Madonna at all, because "She doesn't want to talk about the past." Madonna's plan for her Vogue Italia feature was a focus on her children, her passionate love of music and horses, her projects for charity Raising Malawi and life in Lisbon. 

Liu Wen Glams Up August 2018 Pages Of Harper's Bazaar China, Lensed By Zack Zhang

upermodel Liu Wen covers the August 2018 issue of Harper's Bazaar China. Lensed by Zack Zhang, Liu Wen is styled by Wei Tian in fall designs from Balmain, Saint Laurent, American rising designer (Michael) Halpern and more. 

Glamping Sweeps America, Embracing Gaia With Soothing Natural Refuge In Trumplandia

Glamping Sweeps America, Embracing Gaia With Soothing Natural Refuge In Trumplandia

New Yorkers are increasingly desperate to get back in touch with nature, writes The New York Times. If that means 'glamping' at a $650-a-night campsite on Governor's Island, let the Gaia connection begin. 

Arriving by ferry boat only enhances the magic of Manhattan's twinkling skyline and Lady Liberty's torch nearby. In that moment liberal New Yorker's can reflect on all the the Statue of Liberty has meant in America's DNA without stressing over the whereabouts of children separated from their parents at the Mexican border.

Phones are off and a family game of Scribble is in. Roasting marshmellows in the community firepit plays homage to hunting and gathering forbearers, while other pampered New Yorkers are found eating $120 prix fix meals in the permanent Three Peaks lodge. Who is game for beanbag toss?

According to a report by Kampgrounds of America, 2.6 million more American households camped last year than in 2016. A major reason was to relieve stress. Nearly all millennials surveyed (93 percent) said they would like to try camping this year, many gravitating toward glamping.

Tomas de la Fuente Captures Vera van Erp With Masai In Tanzania For Telva Magazine August 2018

Tomas De La Fuente Captures Vera van Erp With Masai In Tanzania For Telva Magazine August 2018

Model Vera van Erp is styled by Gabriela Bilbao in a tribute to fall plaids and noble origins heritage. Photographer Tomas de la Fuente captures Vera in Tanzania, where she is joined by the Masai people, for the shoot in Telva Magazine's August issue. The trip to Tanzania was arranged by Ratpanat Luxury & Adventure travel

Salma Hayek Will Receive Franca Sozzani Award In Venice On Aug. 31 | Hayek Brings 'Monarca' To Netflix

Actor Salma Hayek will be the second recipient of the Franca Sozzani Award, created to recognize women who have exceptional artistic careers and a commitment to social activism.

The Mexican actress and movie producer will receive the award, established by late Vogue Italia editor in chief Franca Sozzani’s family, on Aug. 31 during the 75th edition of the Venice International Film Festival. The ceremony will take place at Sozzani’s favorite Belmond Hotel Cipriani, a five-star hotel on Venice’s Giudecca island.

“Her example and her teaching live on in a countless number of little everyday actions, which still punctuate life in the firm today,” said Fedele Usai, chief executive officer of Condé Nast Italia, which supports the Franca Sozzani Award. “This tribute to Franca is an opportunity to celebrate a person who was unique and unrepeatable, and who is a constant and challenging benchmark for all of us at Condé Nast.”

Julianne Moore received the first Franca Sozzani Award in September 2017. 

Jennifer Garner Co-Founds Once Upon A Farm, Supporting Gangsta Gardener Ron Finley

Jennifer Garner Co-Founds Once Upon A Farm, Supporting Gangsta Gardener Ron Finley

On Saturday, July 14, actor Jennifer Garner celebrated Once Upon a Farm, the new “farm-to-family” food company with a strong focus on babies and children that she co-founded with Cassandra Curtis. The event at Amber Waves Farm in Amagansett invited guests from the Hamptons crowd such as Rachel Zoe, Molly Sims, Jessica Capshaw, Estee Stanley, and their little ones to pick fresh produce, listen to live music and plant fruits and vegetables with Ron Finley, the Gangsta Gardener of the Ron Finley ProjectOnce Upon a Farm later donated the gardening plot from the event, along with $10,000 to NYC’s Edible Schoolyard.

Paper Magazine profiled Finley in Aug. 2017. The food justice revolutionary decided to get his hands dirty back in 2010 over the lack of healthy, organic food options in his LA South Central food desert neighborhood. 

"Being in South Central, the food is food-ish stuff," he explains. "We can walk five minutes in any direction and get liquor, but we can walk ten miles in any direction, and we aren't gonna get an organic banana." Finley came to the realization that cities were designed for the interests of commerce, not people: "If cities were designed for people, they would look more like forests, and be lush and beautiful, and the air would be clean." He looked at the green grass parkway he'd been dutifully maintaining outside of his home, and decided, "If they're not putting beauty in my neighborhood, I'll do it myself." The answer was radical in its simplicity: he would grow his own food. He dug up the grass, and planted flowers, herbs, and all the fruits and vegetables he'd previously had to drive miles to buy.

Steven Meisel Flashes Karolin, Lexi, Fei Fei, Meghan + For Zara Fall.Winter 2018.2019 Campaign

Models Karolin Wolter, Lexi Boling, Fei Fei Sun, Meghan Collison, Kris Grikaite, Blesnya Minher and Julia Nobis front Zara's Fall/Winter 2018.2019 ad campaign. Steven Meisel captures the old world images with styling by Karl Templer./ Hair by Guido Palau; makeup by Pat McGrath

Irene Guarenas Rambles Wild With 'Outdoor Choices' Lensed By Nadine Ijewere for WSJ Magazine August 2018

Stylist Ondine Azoulay styles model Irene Guarenas in 'Outdoor Choices', a wild patchwork of textures and fabrics lensed by Nadine Ijewere for WSJ Magazine August 2018./ Hair Junya Nakashima; makeup by Carolyn Gallyer

Michelle Williams Talks Her New Marriage, Hollywood Women's Fight For Equal Pay & Power In Wolf Packs

Actor Michelle Williams covers the September 2018 issue of Vanity Fair Magazine, lensed by Collier Schorr with styling by Samira Nasr. The cover story titled 'I Never Gave Up on Love': Michelle Williams on Her Very Private Wedding and Very Public Fight for Equal Pay' tells you where the interview with Amanda Fortini is moving. 

To update the equal pay discussion consummated after the Vanity Fair interview went to press, Michelle Williams will receive the same salary as Sam Rockwell on a new FX series about director-choreographer Bob Fosse and his dancer-muse-third wife Gwen Verdon. 

Williams inherited the queen for a day crown for unequal pay in January 2018, when headlines confirmed that she made less than $1,000 for her 'All the Money in the World' re-shoots (post bad boy revelations about Kevin Spacey, whose role was replaced by Christopher lummer , while her co-star, Mark Wahlberg, made $1.5 million. The shocking news of the incredible pay disparity between two successful actor broke  in the midst of the Time’s Up awards season. The outcry was so intense that it inspired Wahlberg and the agency that represents both actors, WME, to donate fees to the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund.

'A private humiliation became a public turning point."~ Michelle Williams

Fortini picks up the story for the September issue:

Veronika Kunz Fronts 'Jeux de Construction' Lensed By Juergen Teller For Vogue Paris August 2018

Veronika Kunz Fronts 'Jeux de Construction' Lensed By Juergen Teller For Vogue Paris August 2018

Rising model Veronika Kunz is styled by Anastasia Barbieri in 'Jeux de Construction', lensed by Juergen Teller for Vogue Paris August 2018./ Hair by Rudy Lewis; makeup by Stephanie Kunz

How Will Progressive Karlie Kloss Manage Ivanka Trump's Clutching Embrace Of Her New 'Sister'

Rhonda Garelick has written a superb, consise analysis of Ivanka Trump and her brand and its historical fashionable roots in the rise of fascism. Garelick writes compararatively of Ivanka and Coco Chanel.

Now that the successful, progressive superwoman Karlie Kloss will be Ivanka's sister-in-law, it will be interesting to watch how Kloss handles this new sisterly love affair. Ivanka has been quick to celebrate her new 'sister' on Instagram. The Cut's headline of the engagement announcement summarizes what Karlie and Josh Kushner already know:Ivanka Trump Called Karlie Kloss Her 'Sister' in a Haunting Instagram Comment.

Karlie not so much, although reports are quick to note that Jared Kushner's brother Josh, the much more progressive Kushner son and Karlie's future husband, is very close to Ivanka -- a Manhattan liberal in her former life.