Peter Lindbergh: Photoshop and Selfies Are For Losers

WHITE SHIRTS: ESTELLE LÉFEBURE, KAREN ALEXANDER, RACHEL WILLIAMS, LINDA EVANGELISTA, TATJANA PATITZ & CHRISTY TURLINGTON, MALIBU, (1988) ©PETER LINDBERGH. COURTESY OF PETER LINDBERGH, PARIS / GAGOSIAN GALLERY.

'Peter Lindbergh: From Fashion to Reality' opens at the Kunsthalle Munich on April 13, and will be on view until August 27, 2017. The iconic is also one subject of the exhibition “Woman on Street,” along with Garry Winogrand, at the NRW Forum in Dusseldorf, on view until April 30, 2017.

"I think Selfies are actually the most stupid thing ever," Lindbergh said on Tuesday in Munich before the opening of the exhibition "Peter Lindbergh: From Fashion To Reality" in the Kunsthalle. For example, if you want to make a Selfie with a star, you need to clarify what that means about your self-esteem: "This means that you look at yourself as smaller than that person."

Lindbergh, who is known for his cinematic images, also denounced the portrayal of women in the media: "It has now gone to the dog, as women look in magazines," he said - and this is due to image processing programs like Photoshop, which could erase all references to a lived life. "You can reduce every human being to zero." Beauty means something quite different to the photographer: "If you have the courage to be yourself, then you are beautiful." The task of a fashion photographer is to show exactly this beauty. "Even fashion photographers have a form of responsibility," Lindbergh said, explaining that they may not be regarded as artists but they are highly influential in images of women and also how women see ourselves. via

VS Angels Josephine, Jasmine, Taylor & Elsa Launch 'Sexy Little Things' Spring 2017 Bras & Bralettes

VS Angels Josephine, Jasmine, Taylor & Elsa Launch 'Sexy Little Things' Spring 2017 Bras & Bralettes

Victoria's Secret Angels Josephine Skriver, Jasmine Tookes, Taylor Hill and Elsa Hosk launch a brand new collection of sexy bralettes and push-up bras called 'Sexy Little Things'. Pair these delicate lace, modern straps and edgy necklines with cut-off denim shorts and crochet coverups for a hot-weather wow. 

Georges Antoni Flashes 'Clean Slate' For Marie Claire Australia May 2017

Models Karoline Egelund, Johanna Robin, Sarah Polano & Hirshy Grace are styled by Chloe Buttenshaw in 'Clean Slate', lensed by Georges Antoni for Marie Claire Australia May 2017.

The 'Fearless Girl' vs 'Charging Bull' Faceoff Is About Far More Than Women In US Boardrooms

The 'Fearless Girl' vs 'Charging Bull' Faceoff Is About Far More Than Women In US Boardrooms

Oh wait!! The mayor tweeted: "Men who don't like women taking up space are exactly why we need the 'Fearless Girl'. 

That blast surely got the Arturo di Modica's attention, especially with the Charging Bull artist adamant that he is not sexist and neither is his bull. Perhaps for di Modica; nada for the bull. Christina Cauterucci writes for Slate today that until 'A Fearless Girl' faced off against 'Charging Bull', the sculpture was an "encouraging representation of a booming economy. Now, charging toward a tiny human, it’s a stand-in for the gendered forces that work against women’s success in the workplace. "

I'm not one to quote a woman's age, but Cauterucci got her journalism degree in 2013. That makes her about 15 years old in the midst of America's major financial crisis in 2007/2008. It makes her ready to graduate from high school in the birth of the Occupy Wall Street movement that began on September 17, 2011, in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City's Wall Street financial district. 

No symbol of Wall Street was more directly tied to the Occupy Wall Street movement -- so much so that it was protected for well over a year by the NYPD, wrote the New York Times in September 2012.  For those who believe Occupy accomplished nothing in its core arguments, I refer you to the recent Democratic presidential party between Sanders and Clinton -- and the presidential election itself. 

'A Fearless Girl' stands for far more than making more women executives in business.  In the minds of many, 'A Fearless Girl' is a moral symbol of standing up for the little people as America becomes an increasingly story of the very rich and the rest of us. As defined by Princeton University prof Martin Gilens and Northwestern University prof Benjamin I Page is no longer a democracy and is increasingly an oligarchy. 

Anne of Carversville has written about 'Charging Bull' for years, and always within the context of raging testosterone untempered by estrogen. 

Deana Haggag Leads USA's Fight To Protect The Arts Against Trump's Budget Knife

Deana Haggag Leads USA's Fight To Protect The Arts Against Trump's Budget Knife

Deana Haggag made a strong statement about protecting the arts in America, now under the knife in the Trump administration. The new president and CEO of the philanthropic nonprofit United States Artists until Inauguration day, writes Vogue.com. “It wasn’t lost on me what it means to take on the title of president of an organization whose acronym is USA,” Haggag said recently during an interview in Chicago, her USA home base. 

Less than 100 days later, Haggag is facing Trump's proposed elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Indeed, Big Bird is under the knife. The arts in America represent about $741 million yearly, or less than one tenth of 1 percent of annual federal spending.

The arts generate $135.2 billion annually in a boost to the US economy -- a fact not lost on a growing list of Republicans in Congress, who are against these cuts. 

Male Supreme Court Justices Mansplain Judicial Law To Female Justices, New Study Concludes

Male Supreme Court Justices Mansplain Judicial Law To Female Justices, New Study Concludes

If you thought America's female supreme court justices are spared the growing epidemic of 'mansplaining', think again. A new study of oral arguments from Northwestern University researchers found that as more women have joined the Supreme Court, "the reaction of the male justices and the male (lawyers) has been to increase their interruptions of the female justices."

Interruptions are often regarded as an assertion of power through verbal dominance, according to the study's authors Tonja Jacobi, a professor at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, and Dylan Schweers, a J.D. candidate at the school. If that's the case, then women in positions of power should be interrupted less. Yet at the pinnacle of legal power, female Supreme Court justices "are just like other women," they write for Scotusblog, "talked over by their male colleagues."

Gal Gadot Auditioned For 'Wonder Woman' Tuned To Beyoncé's 'Girls Rule The World'

Gal Gadot Auditioned For 'Wonder Woman' Tuned To Beyoncé's 'Girls Rule The World'

Actor Gal Gadot covers the May 2017 cover of W Magazine, lensed by Craig McDean. The 'Wonder Woman' star is styled in Gucci, Prada, Diane von Furstenberg and more by new editor-in-chief of British Vogue Edward Enninful.