Redtracker | TIME Remembers 50,000 People In New York City Demanding Women's Equality
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Women's News Headlines August 26, 2016
Second-wave feminism flexed its mighty muscle on Aug. 26, 1970, as 50,000 women marched down New York City’s Fifth Avenue. Joined by a coterie of men and anti-war protesters, the marchers were celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, giving American women the vote. They were also demanding changes to the policies that affected women's lives: childcare and abortion policies, education and employment opportunities. Many women abandoned their usual duties for the day, joining with spiritual sisters across the country staging sit-ins and takeovers of all-male bars.
One year to the day after the Women’s Strike for Equality March, Congress passed a resolution designating Aug. 26 as Women’s Equality Day, and 45 years later, the day continues to be a moment to reflect on exactly what has been achieves in the arena of women's rights.
With no Equal Rights Amendment in place for American women, and with the latest research from PEW affirming that over 70% of Republican men and 40% of Democrats believing that sexism is dead in America, older women are challenging younger ones to get real about deep refusal among American men to give women more rights. Particularly precarious for women are the Personhood bills littering state legislatures: Republican-sponsored laws that equates the rights of women with those of a fertilized embryo.
Related: AOC Channels the History of America's Equal Rights Amendment
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Read On: Women's News Headlines August 26. 2016
Taylor Hill By Mario Testino Burns Up V Magazine Fall 2016 with Troye Sivan, Lucky Blue Smith & Kacy Hill
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V Magazine calls Taylor Hill the 'ultimate millennial model', saying that she's gone beyond the norms of a 'new wave of mannequins' with a social media presence outside the fashion industry and non-tweens.
Hill is part of a new wave of mannequins that are also burgeoning celebrities beyond the pages, catwalks, and billboards: they’re millennial socialites (social media-ites?), who, with varying degrees of strategy, use the power of the digital world to perpetually build their personal brands. Others in this vortex include Kendall Jenner, the biggest, Gigi Hadid, the second biggest, Gigi’s sister Bella Hadid, Karlie Kloss, and Hill’s fellow cover star here, Lucky Blue Smith. The difference between them and other social media A-listers is that even non-tweens and non-fashion people know their names. They kind of complete the pillar of rapidly evolving fame; they’re multi-hyphenates, repping the fashion ring, but very much of interest beyond it. What’s especially slick (if not intermittently maddening) is how easy they make it look. Obviously, good genes help—people like looking at good genes—but they’re all also seemingly cool customers.
“I’ve just learned to be myself,” says Hill of her electronic persona. “Social media is a huge part of my life, but I don’t post a steady rhythm of pictures. I don’t post at a certain time of day to get the most views. You learn to live your life with it.” It’s compelling and terrifying all at once to realize that people her age and younger, for the most part, enter adulthood grafted inextricably to social media. If there are any red flags, Hill is pretty much past the point of no return. Her audience is only going to snowball from here, and too, her book-ability. Good on her, then, for going about it organically.
Redtracker | Julia Haart Named LaPerla Creative Director | Internet Uncorks Topic of Women Drinking
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Women's News Headlines August 25, 2016
One of the world's most luxurious lingerie brands as a new creative director. La Perla remains best known for its glamorous bras, panties, corsets and slip dresses, but Julia Haart wants to reformulate the brand's ready-to-wear offering.
Haart's vision has elements of Donna Karan's original philosophy -- granted not the perfect white shirt -- but a sense that women can be sensual in a suit. AOC calls her a "smart sensuality woman".
“I love that La Perla has this sexy, sensual kind of image, and I certainly would never want to change La Perla’s DNA. My idea is that you can embrace your femininity and it doesn’t have to be only in your undergarments. If you’re wearing a suit, a dress, it should be molded to a female form while still being professional, beautiful, chic, elegant—one does not negate the other,” she said.
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