Chloe Sevigny Is Lensed By Yelena Yemchuk For The Edit April 20, 2017

Chloe Sevigny Is Lensed By Yelena Yemchuk For The Edit April 20, 2017

Actor Chloe Sevigny covers the April 20th, 2017 cover story of 'The Edit', styled by Tracy Taylor in printed femininity from Gucci, Balenciaga, Isabel Marant and more for images by Yelena Yemchuk

Steven Chee Flashes Clara Raddatz's Rosy Tokyo Experience For Grazia Australia

Steven Chee Flashes Clara Raddatz's Rosy Tokyo Experience For Grazia Australia

Model Clara Raddatz wanders Tokyo streets, styled by Charlotte Stokes in mixes from Burberry, Gucci, Michael Kors and more. Photographer Steven Chee captures the bold hues of pinks to reds for Grazia Australia.

Trumps Launch Full Assault On International Programs That Benefit Women & Girls

Trumps Launch Full Assault On International Programs That Benefit Women & Girls

The Trump family double teamed their lies about women's rights with the proposed elimination of Hillary Clinton's Global Women's Issues Office, a State Department office that fights for the rights of women all over the world, with a special focus on defending those who are in the most precarious and vulnerable situations in impoverished countries.

Angela Merkel Meets With Vladimir Putin, Armed With Her 5-Point Plan For Dealing With Autocratic Strongmen

Angela Merkel Meets With Vladimir Putin, Armed With Her 5-Point Plan For Dealing With Autocratic Strongmen

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is at Russian President Vladimir Putin's summer residence in Sochi for talks on a variety of complex issues. No one is expecting any major breakthroughs in Sochi, writes the BBC. 

In January 2017, Foreign Policy wrote a fascinating piece on how Angela Merkel deals with bullies, noting that Vladimir Putin considers her to be a "dangerous person," according to Russian dissident and former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

The chancellor’s astounding record in outfoxing, outlasting, and outmaneuvering full-of-themselves male rivals, however, began before Putin appeared on the scene. Her track record offers the outlines of a go-to plan for dealing with bullies — and, not coincidentally, it dovetails tightly with her top foreign-policy advisor’s five-point plan for taking on Trump.

Josephine Skriver Wears Bold Femininity By Giampaolo Sgura For Vogue Brazil May 2017

Josephine Skriver Wears Bold Femininity By Giampaolo Sgura For Vogue Brazil May 2017

Top model and VS Angel Josephine Skriver is a bird of paradise, styled by Christiane Arp in vivid, hot-weather femininity. Photographer Giampaolo Sgura flashes the technicolor images for Vogue Brazil May 2017./ Hair by Franco Gobbi; makeup by Jessica Nedza

Chi-chi Nwanoku's Chineke's All Black Orchestra Soars In Classical Music World

Chi-chi Nwanoku's Chineke's All Black Orchestra Soars In Classical Music World

Chi-chi Nwanoku is a double bass player and professor of Historical Double Bass Studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She was a founder member and principal bassist of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, a position she held for 30 years. The New York Times profiles Nwanoku, whose Chineke! Foundation has formed Europe's first professional all-black orchestra. 

Monica Bellucci Covers Vanity Fair May 2017, Lensed By Gianluca Fontana

Monica Bellucci Covers Vanity Fair May 2017, Lensed By Gianluca Fontana

Italian goddess icon, actor Monica Bellucci graces the pages of Vanity Fair Italy's May 2017 issue. Lensed by Gianluca Fontana, the 2015 007 bombshell is styled by Selin Bursalioglu in Ermanno Scervino, Valentino, Emilio Pucci, Celine and more./ Hair by John Nollet; makeup by Letizia Carnevale

Lara Stone Entices In 'Passion & Power' By Giampaolo Sgura For Vogue Mexico May 2017

Lara Stone Entices In 'Passion & Power' By Giampaolo Sgura For Vogue Mexico May 2017

Models Lara Stone and Garrett Neff wrestle with desire and narcissism in 'Passion & Power', styled by Patrick Mackie. Photographer Giampaolo Sgura captures the duo for Vogue Mexico May 2017. Hair by Franco Gobbi; makeup by Maud Laceppe

Adut Akech & Nyaueth Riam Front 'Life Is Art, Live Yours In Colour' For i-D Magazine Summer 2017

Adut Akech & Nyaueth Riam Front 'Life Is Art, Live Yours In Colour' For i-D Magazine Summer 2017

Models Adut Akech and Nyaueth Riam are styled by Julia Sarr-Jamois in a smashing fashion editorial 'Life Is Art, Live Yours in Colour'. Photographer Harley Weir captures the artistic explosion for i-D Magazine Summer 2017./ Hair by Cyndia Harvey; makeup by Thomas de Kluyver

World's Leading Women Look At Ivanka With Incredulous Silence As She Extols Dad's Support For Women

World's Leading Women Look At Ivanka With Incredulous Silence! A Few Booed!

One unplanned development from the meeting was Chancellor Merkel's accidental revelation of a new global investment  fund for female entrepreneurs that is connected to the Trump administration and the World Bank. 

Dina Powell, President Trump's deputy national security adviser for strategy and senior counselor for economic initiatives, who was in attendance, said that the announcement was unplanned. 

Speaking at a Thursday evening dinner in Washington, DC, welcoming the 2017 class of the Fortune US State Department Global Women's Mentoring Parntership, Powell explained that the announcement was premature, and the details will be forthcoming.  

One wonders if Powell mentioned that the Trump administration's intention is not only to cut off all global funds for contraception and other forms of health assistance for poor women and families, but also to abolish the State Department's  Global Women's Issues Office, a State Department office that fights for the rights of women all over the world and was created by Hillary Clinton in the earliest days of her tenure as Secretary of State. The Trump administration is on the record saying they have no interest in soft power. Note that many Republicans in the Senate support the office as a deterrent to terrorism, and it may well have its defenders.

Ivanka Preaches 'Eat Organic' While Dad Reverses Ban On Pesticide Chlorpyrifos

Ivanka Preaches 'Eat Organic' While Dad Reverses Ban On Pesticide Chlorpyrifos

As a progressive independent, Ivanka Trump talked a good game -- advocating on countless opinions that differ with the core beliefs of the mostly white men who occupy positions of power in the Trump administration.  One can track Ivanka Trump's silence on a daily basis as her father decimates countless programs and safeguards for American families. 

Ivanka's latest silence mode -- as a key adviser to her father -- fell over the president's decision to give a reprieve to Dow Chemical's pesticide chlorpyrifos. Dow CEO Andrew Liveris is the head of President Trump's new American Manufacturing Council. Oh, and he also donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration. Before his election as president, Trump called activities like this "pay to play" and he promised to end them as he cleaned up the DC swamp. What a hoot!!!

Daphne Groeneveld Gets 'Hot' In Greg Kadel Images For Numéro May 2017

Daphne Groeneveld Gets 'Hot' In Greg Kadel Images For Numéro May 2017

Top model Daphne Groeneveld is 'Hot', styled by Charles Varenne in sizzling looks with plenty of skin. Greg Kadel is behind the lens for Numéro #183 May 2017./ Hair by Edward Lampley; makeup by Mariel Barrera