Willow Smith, 15, Named Newest Chanel Ambassador & W Magazine Cover Girl

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Vogue shares news of Chanel's latest ambassador, the uniquely self-possessed Willow Smith, who is the living embodiment of Coco Chanel's famous statement: "Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.

It’s an ethos embraced by Smith, whose innate confidence seems to extend well beyond her years. Who else, at age 9, could have catapulted themselves into the pop culture consciousness with that declaration of visual freedom, “Whip My Hair.” In the music video the preteen sports lip rhinestones, white mascara, a multicolored manicure, and waist-length braids that fulfill the promise of the song’s title. And that was just the beginning.

Willow Smith is one of W Magazine's 3 cover stars for the April 2016 issue.  Willow Smith tells W Magazine that parents Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith haven't tried to influence her sartorial wildness since she was 6 or 7. Although she is homeschooled, Smith at 15 is strikingly worldly, "with an uncanny understanding of pop culture -- and counterculture", writes W Magazine's Lynn Hirschberg.

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'Neerja' Actor Sonam Kapoor Talks Feminism With BuzzFeed India

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I know from my own experiences on Twitter that when you so much as mention women’s rights and empowerment, hordes of strangers come out of the woodwork to invalidate you with slews of irrelevant questions built upon such false notions: If you’re so feminist, why are you wearing lipstick? If you’re so feminist, why do you wax your legs? If you’re so feminist, why do you like pink? Why do you like men? Why do you wear heels? Why do you watch rom-coms? Why do you bake? Why do you give blowjobs? Why do you read Vogue?

And, unlike Parineeti Chopra, I don’t even have 6 and a half million followers.

They’re all asking: If you’re so feminist, how come you’re doing all that girly shit, bro?

If you’re so feminist, how come you’re not matching my expectations of what feminism looks like?

It's easy to focus on the challenges ahead for Indian women. It was one of those stories that was destined for this blog post tonight. It gives me great please to share such an empowering woman and new movie playing in the US, because that bad news will keep for another day. ~ Anne