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Nykhor Paul and Juliana Schurig glitter in ‘Midnight Hour’, styled by Jayne Pickering. David Roemer is behind the lens for Marie Claire UK October 2018./ Hair by Nicolas Eldin; makeup by Deanna Hagan
Karen Elson Poses In 'Deliver Us' By Tim Walker For Vogue Italia In Advance Of V&A Exhibit
The legendary Karen Elson is styled by Amanda Harlech in ‘Deliver Us’, couture looks lensed by Tim Walker for Vogue Italia September 2018. Young designer and model James Crewe also appears in select images/ Hair by Malcolm Edwards; makeup by Lynsey Alexander
The photos are included in a new exhibition by Tim Walker — his third solo exhibition — at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, a fantastical event that will run from Saturday September 7, 2019 until March 2020. Designed by art director Shona Heath, one of Walker’s closest friends, the exhibition will include photographs, films, photographic sets and special installations, as well as a series of newly commissioned works inspired the V&A archive. This Karen Elson editorial ‘Deliver Us’ is one of those new works.
“The beautiful and eclectic objects housed in the V&A have influenced Tim since the start of his career,” Susanna Brown, curator of the Tim Walker exhibition at the V&A, shared in the press announcement. “He has spent months exploring our collection and delving deep into the museum stores to gain inspiration for his new pictures, which will form the heart of the exhibition. It will celebrate the contributions of his many talented collaborators and muses too. This is a project we've been talking about for several years, and it's going to be a spectacular show.”
The announcement that accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and his accuser Christine Blasey Ford have both been invited to testify under oath in a public hearing next Monday ended a day of Senate Republican leaders projecting defiance on calls to slow down the confirmation process.
Dr. Ford has accused Judge Kavanaugh of assaulting her at a house party when he was 17 and she 15. Ford charges that a “stumbling drunk” Kavanaugh attacked her, with his friend Mark Judge present, when she went upstairs to go to the bathroom. According to Ford, Kavanaugh then jumped on top of her, tried to take her clothes off, and when she tried to scream, put his hand over her mouth and turned up the music. She said was able to free herself when Judge jumped on the bed, too, sending the three tumbling, giving her a chance to run into the bathroom and lock the door.
Blasey Ford took and passed a professionally administered polygraph test, administered by a retired FBI agent.
The hearing with Judge Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, a research psychologist in Northern California, sets up a potentially explosive public showdown, stirring up painful to women memories of the 1991 testimony of Anita Hill, who accused the future Justice Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment. Next Monday’s hearing will play against the backdrop of the #MeToo movement and countless sexual harassment and sexual assault accusations against Donald Trump. His presidency has fired up Democratic women across the nation in massive civic actions and unheard of numbers of women running for political offices at every level in every state.
In an article by her friends in tonight’s The Mercury News, the headline reads #MeToo spurred Christine Blasey Ford to open up. . .
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) was a key force in ending the misguided perceptions among Republican white men leaders that the scheduled vote by the judiciary committee would still happen on Thursday. Or that the hearing would somehow not be public.
Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-TX), a senior member of the judiciary committee, told reporters Monday morning that a hearing was out of the question, calling it a “show trial.” But after a meeting with Collins in her office, it became clear that his position was no longer untenable, writes The Daily Beast.
“I have said that in order for me to assess the credibility of these allegations that I want to have both individuals come before the Senate Judiciary Committee and testify under oath,” Collins told reporters Monday afternoon.
Collins won; Cornyn lost. And Collins was joined shortly after by her close associate, Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski, another pro-choice Republican woman.
Retiring Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ), made it clear Sunday evening that he would not support Kavanaugh without Blasey Ford publicly telling her story.
“Obviously these are serious charges,” Flake, who sits on the judiciary committee, told reporters. “And if they're true, I think they're disqualifying.” South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham said Monday night that he also found believable testimony from Blase Ford the end of Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court.
Today there are no female Republican members of the Judiciary Committee, but there are four Democratic women, including ranking member Dianne Feinstein, who was elected the year after the Hill-Thomas hearings, in what came to be known as "The Year of the Woman."
Both Sen. Collins and Murkowski are more moderate than most Republican senators. They definitely hold the keys to Brett Kavanaugh’s future, but we shouldn’t assume that other Republican men won’t be persuaded to vote down the nomination.
No one is guaranteed a seat on the US Supreme Court.
Model Nora Attal is styled by Karolina Gruszecka in ‘Bylo, Nie Minelo’, lensed by Sonia Szostak for Vogue Poland October 2018.
Model Mariia Zubtsova is styled by Natalia Osadchaya in ‘Contrasts Game’, lensed by Stephan Lisowski for ELLE Ukraine September 2018.
Supermodel Gigi Hadid fronts her third campaign for French jeweler Messika, lensed by Mert & Marcus. Valérie Messika, the daughter of a French diamond trader, founded her house in 2005. Gigi models selects from the ‘My Soul’ and ‘Move Addiction’ collections. “I want to create elegant diamond pieces that can be worn on an everyday basis,” Messika explains about her designs.
Today, “it’s normal to wear diamonds every day,” Messika told The Financial Times. “More women are buying for themselves and are being more adventurous in their purchases. Ten years ago, our clients would never have bought a diamond triple-finger ring.”
Rising model McKenna Hellam is styled by Mariaelena Morelli in ‘We are tomorrow’, lensed by Alexander Saladrigas for Mixte Magazine Fall/Winter 2018./ Hair by Shinya Nakagawa; makeup by Ao Yokomizo
Nashville redhead, model Laura Hanson Sims is styled by Alice Gentilucci in sumptuous, glittering looks from Gucci, Moschino, Chanel and more for ‘Ritratto di una Lady’. Photographer Michael Schwartz captures the art-worthy vintage portraits for Vanity Fair Italy, September 19 2018.
Bella Hadid Wears Futuristic Fabrics Lensed By Stevie Dance For POP Magazine F/W 2018
Supermodel Bella Hadid makes a second appearance in Pop Magazine’s Fall/Winter 2018 issue. Stevie Dance styles Bella before picking up the lens to shoot the editorial./ Hair by Jawara; makeup by Fara Homidi
L Brands Will Close Henri Bendel To Focus On Struggling Victoria's Secret & Pink
American retailer L Brands Inc, owner of Victoria’s Secret, Pink and Bath & Body Works announced that it will be closing all 23 Henri Bendel stores, including the historic Fifth Avenue Manhattan flagship to “focus on increasing shareholder value.”
L Brands stock has had a very rough ride in recent years with sales and profits in serious decline at both Victoria’s Secret and now Pink.
Henri Bendel was founded in 1895 when Henri Bendel moved to New York City from Lafayette, La to make hats for Manhattan’s elite. It was the arrival of Geraldine Stutz as president in 1959 that put Bendel on the international fashion map with stylish shoppers carrying the store’s brown and white shopping bags in all the best places.
Supermodel Gigi Hadid wears her best ‘come hither’ face, in Vogue Brazil’s September 2018 cover story. Stylist Pedro Sales channels Brigitte Bardot in his sexy selects lensed by Luigi & Iango./ Hair by Luigi Murenu; makeup by Erin Parsons
Porter Edit’s September 14, 2018 cover story ‘Future Proof’ features models Hannah Motler, Shanelle Nyasiase and Dipti Sharma as “the new faces (and bodies) walking all the best runways this season. Because of her stunning solo campaign work for Alexander McQueen, South Sudanese Shanelle Nyasiase has already made a larger statement in the fashion world. Porter Edit interviews all three rising stars. Photographer Alexander Saladrigas is behind the lens, with styling by Morgan Pilcher.
Fran Summers Is 'Upsize Down' Lensed By David Sims For Vogue UK September 2018
Top model Fran Summers is styled by Grace Coddington in ‘Upsize Down’, an eclectic mix of oversize silhouettes lensed by David Sims for Vogue UK September 2018./ Makeup by Lucia Pieroni; hair by Duffy
Model Alicia Herbeth is styled by Christine de Lassus at The Ocean Club, A Four Seasons Resort, Bahamas. Paradise Island is known as home to some of the earth’s most beautiful natural beaches. The colorful mix of fall 2018 resort clothes from Bottega Veneta, Sacai, Oscar de la Renta, Prada, Stella McCartney, Gucci and more is lensed by Enrique Badulescu for Four Seasons Magazine read on. / Hair by Leonardo Manetti; makeup by Deanna Melluso
Images via See Management for Leonardo Manetti and Deanna Melluso
Victoria’s Secret Angel Elsa Hosk is styled by Charles Varenne in body-con elegance lensed by Zoey Grossman for ELLE US September 2018./ Hair by Shin Arima; makeup by Tyron Machhausen
Florence De Jerphanion styles Damaris Goddrie in ‘Amesterdam’, lensed by Marc de Groot for Air France Madame September 2018./ Makeup by Damaris Goddrie
Tom Munro Eyes Sasha Pivovarova For Vogue Italia September 2018
Top model Sasha Pivovarova is styled by Paul Cavaco in images by Tom Munro for Vogue Italy September 2018./ Hair by Ward Stegerhoek; makeup by Diane Kendal
Rising model Sijia Kang is lensed by Dan Beleiu in dramatic images for T Magazine China September 2018. Sijia was discovered on the Chinese micro-blogging platform Weibo and made her first runway appearance outside of China in the Louis Vuitton 2018 Resort show.
Lithuanian beauty Edita Vilkeviciute is styed by Verity Parker in cold weather casual looks from Prada, Jacquemus, Valentino, Marni and more. Thomas Slack is behind the lens for The Sunday Times Style, September 9, 2018
Baltimore Health Commissioner Dr. Leana Wen Named Head Of Planned Parenthood
Baltimore health commissioner Dr. Leana Wen has been named the new head of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Growing up poor in California as a Chinese refugee, Dr. Wen, her little sister and mother received ongoing health care from Planned Parenthood.
Wen is a prodigy who enrolled at Cal State University at age 13, graduating at 18 with a degree in biochemistry. She attended Washington University in St. Louis for medical school and was a fellow at Harvard. Dr. Wen also studied public health at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.
Before taking the health commissioner position in Baltimore, Dr. Wen forked as an emergency room doctor at George Washington University, where she was also a professor.
Dr. Wen says she is leaving a job she loves in Baltimore because of growing attacks by the Trump administration and other conservatives on Planned Parenthood and women’s reproductive health rights.
“I see how the single, biggest health catastrophe of our times is the threat to women’s health,” Wen said. “I am deeply troubled by how women’s health issues are singled out, stigmatized and attacked.”
Planned Parenthood’s need for an articulate and fierce public voice is filled by the outspoken commissioner who is widely known for her newspaper op-eds and TV appearances, writes The Baltimore Sun.
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