Rihanna Is First Black Woman To Cover British Vogue September Issue

Rihanna Is First Black Woman To Cover British Vogue September Issue

Rihanna covers the September 2018 issue of British Vogue, captured by fashion photographer Nick Knight. Vogue UK editor-in-chief Edward Enninful chooses a Prada dress and gloves and Savage X Fency lace bodysuit. Rihanna is the first black women to cover the blockbuster September issue of British Vogue in its 102-year history. / Makeup by Ismaya Ffrench; hair by Yusef Williams

Speaking about the new issue, Enninful writes (paragraphs out of orde3r):

“I always knew it had to be Rihanna,” editor-in-chief Edward Enninful wrote in his monthly editor’s letter. “A fearless music-industry icon and businesswoman, when it comes to that potent mix of fashion and celebrity, nobody does it quite like her. No matter how haute the styling goes, or experimental the mood, you never lose her in the imagery.”

The Apocalypse Or A New Beginning? Tim Walker Beams Us Into Fall For W Magazine August 2018

The Apocalypse Or A New Beginning? Tim Walker Beams Us Into Fall For W Magazine August 2018

Sara Grace Wallerstedt, Maeva Giani, Dipti Sharma, Sethu Noise, Jermaine Downer, Ana Viktoria, Will Sutton, Zuzanna Bartoszek, Tsunaina, and Harry Kalfayan are styled by Sara Moonves in a futuristic editorial lensed by Tim Walker for W Magazine #4 August 2018./ Hair by Cyndia Harvey; Val Garland

As W Magazine noted, "with their use of the dramatic layering of oversize garments and protective gear, the Fall 2018 fashion collections seemed ready for the apocalypse. Or -- looking on the bright side --  "the beginning of a new era, and a fresh tomorrow. Inspired by the parkers at Balenciaga, puffers at Moncler, and layer-upon-layer styling at Prada."

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

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

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

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

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. 

Aymeline Valade Is Pure Smart Sensuality, Lensed By Chris Colls For Equipment Fall 2018 Campaign

Aymeline Valade Is Pure Smart Sensuality, Lensed By Chris Colls For Equipment Fall 2018 Campaign

French model and actor Aymeline Valade fronts Equipment's Fall 2018 Campaign, styled by Camille Bidault Waddington in images by Chris Colls./ Hair by Esther Langham; makeup by Sil Bruinsma

Anok Yai & Kat Hessen Do 'Free Style' By Colin Dodgson For Vogue UK August 2018

Anok Yai & Kat Hessen Do 'Free Style' By Colin Dodgson For Vogue UK August 2018

Models Kat Hessen and Anok Yai are styled by Jane How in 'Free Style', lensed by Colin Dodgson for Vogue UK August 2018./ Hair by Soichi Inagaki; makeup by Lauren Parsons

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. 

Caroline Lossberg Is Lensed In Marrakech By Andreas Ortner For Gala Magazine

Caroline Lossberg Is Lensed In Marrakech By Andreas Ortner For Gala Magazine

Model Caroline Lossberg is lensed by Andreas Ortner at La Mamounia in Marrakech. Birgit Schlotterbeck styles Caroline for Gala Magazine./ Hair & makeup by Sina Stoelzle

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

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 Project. Once 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

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

Helena Christensen Is 'A Force To Reckon With' For D'Scene Magazine August 2018

Helena Christensen Is 'A Force To Reckon With' For D'Scene Magazine August 2018

Supermodel Helena Christensen is styled by LA-based Haley Atkin in 'A Force to Reckon With, lensed by Williams + Hirakawa for D'Scene Magazine August 2018./ Hair by Sascha Breuer; makeup by Valery Gherman

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

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

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

Camilla Akrans Flashes Faretta As Wandering Naturalist For Vogue Spain August 2018

Camilla Akrans Flashes Faretta As Wandering Naturalist For Vogue Spain August 2018

Rising model Faretta continues her August editorial streak, styled by Cathy Kasterinein images by Camilla Akrans for Vogue Spain August 2018./ Hair by Ali Pirzadeh; makeup by Ignacio Alonso