Billy Kidd Eyes 'Why, Ms Jones', Starring Rashida Jones For Porter Edit May 18, 2018

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Bill Kidd Eyes 'Why, Ms Jones', Starring Rashida Jones For Porter Edit May 18, 2018

Small-screen actor Rashida Jones explains to Olive Wakefield that her privacy is paramount and fame is not her motivating force. Hence, Rashida Jones doesn't pursue roles in big movies, as the personal price is too high. Simply stated, she would rather dance, Jones explains in Porter Edit May 18, 2018. .

Photographer Billy Kidd captures Jones, styled in tailored menswear looks styled by Katie Mossman./ Hair by Brent Lawler; makeup by Dotti

It's a given that an female actor today will be asked about sexism in Hollywood, and Jones weighs in with her thoughts. When writing a decade ago, Jones became very frustrated about the feedback on her female characters. 'She's not likeable enough' was a common criticism. Men can have a string of negatives that make them strong, powerful and intoxicating. But women are taught to be nice, Jones reminds us for the 1000th time.

Level Up Inspires Men To Send Snaps To London Sun's Annual Best 'Bust In Britain' Competition

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Level Up Inspires Men To Send Snaps To London Sun's Annual Best 'Bust In Britain' Competition

Level Up, a feminist organization in Great Britain created in 2017 and led by Carys Afoko, has a clever response to the Sun's annual 'Bust in Britain' competition: no marches; no rants; no lectures. Reading the Sun ground rules and realizing there are no gender restrictions, Afoko had a light bulb moment. 

“It is such an old-fashioned idea of beauty they are promoting. They say they are looking for the best breasts. But actually what they mean is - if you’re skinny, if you’re white, if you’re young and if you’ve got big boobs. Then you’re beautiful,” says Afoko. “Let’s bring the Sun’s competition into the 21st century.”

By encouraging men and non-binary people to take snaps for the competition and getting worldwide press in the process, Afoko hopes that a man might actually win in 2018. It is interesting that many of the men struggled with taking a “sexy” selfie, Afoko says. “They got very self conscious and felt exposed. It took a few conversations to get them to do it. We were seeing men feel like they are an object, like women do.” 

Ellen Von Unwerth's 'Ladyland' London Exhibit Inspires A Decade Of Her Archives At AOC

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Photographer Ellen Von Unwerth has not veered ever away from her style of capturing multidimensional women through a lens of unbridled sexuality, sensuality and freshness. EVY's women are free spirits today, just as Claudia Schiffer revealed in her landmark 1990 Guess campaign. 

EVU's understanding of women is on display as part of her first London retrospective, 'Ladyland', on view at the Opera Gallery. 

Having been a model herself, von Unwerth was fed up, not so much with the proverbial male gaze, but with her own lack of creative freedom and self-expression. 

“I’ve always loved to portray women who are strong, who are playful, who are self-assured, and who really own their sexuality, which is why I love working with Claudia, and Naomi, and all those girls,” she explains. “But then something I always come back to is fragility. I look for that in the women I shoot, too. I don’t want to objectify women, or cast them only in this ‘sexy’ light. I want to see every side of them. There are so many sides to women. That’s why some of my best shots come when the girls think the camera has stopped rolling, you’re seeing something different to what they give you when they know they're being watched, a vulnerability.”

Alana Zimmer Channels Karen Blixen In 'Out of Africa' By Alexi Lubomirski For Harper's Bazaar US

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Alana Zimmer Channels Karen Blixen In 'Out of Africa' By Alexi Lubomirski For Harper's Bazaar US

Alana Zimmer and Ben Evans recreate a great film love story in 'Out of Africa', styled by Patrick Mackie. Photographer Alexi Lubomirski is behind the lens for Harper's Bazaar US June/July 2018./ Makeup by Adrien Pinault; hair by Neil Moodie

'Frida's Parlour' Opens In London Until June 16, 2018, Landmark Frida Kahlo Exhibition At V&A Follows

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If you just happen to be dropping into London this weekend -- or anytime between May 19-June 16, 2018 take a stroll over to 141 Ebury Street and Frida's Parlour. 

Launched to coincide with Belgravia in Bloom, a week-long floral festival held across the district, as well as with the V&A’s landmark Frida Kahlo exhibition, the Parlour will serve as a social space throughout the day, with free entry for all visitors. During the evenings, the venue will play host to a series of hands-on evening workshops inspired by Kahlo’s unique style (booking essential here). Try your hand at floral embroidery with Lora Avedian, mix a Mexican cocktail with the Cubitt House team or craft your own jewellery with Luminaire Arts. 

Bowing to the need for a selfie, visitors can snap away inside the Wallpaper Room. The first 50 guests will receive a limited-edition tote bag designed by the artist Zabou, whose mural depicting the artist can be seen in Belgravia’s Eccleston Yards. via Town & Country UK

We're looking for the specific Zabou mentioned, but in fact Zabou has enjoyed a love affair with Frida Kahlo for some time. In these images, Zabou teams up with Mexican yarn artist Villana for some great Frida street art.

Major Innovation In Color Technology Will Revolutionize Visual Artistry & Complexity In Fashion

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Gucci's Alessandro Michele will lose his mind with the possibilities for larger quantities of  complex visual artistry for patches large and small on a limitless range of products.  Creations now relying on silkscreen and transfer image printing can utilize embroideries as well with this breakthrough. 

The standout Gucci creative director and designer shared "GucciHallucination 2018 a few weeks ago. Fasten your seat belts because surely he will take us on a magic carpet ride in the near future once he understands the capabilities of having a true canvas on which to paint his color-saturated dreams.

Kaia Gerber Shows Off Three New Omega's Trésor Watches, Tells Fans To Make Her Earn Being A Supermodel

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Kaia Gerber Shows Off Three New Omega's Trésor Watches, Tells Fans To Make Her Earn Being A Supermodel

Fast-rising model Kaia Gerber, daughter of Cindy Crawford,  recently introduced three new models for Omega's Trésor timepiece collection. Kaia joined her family at a September 2017 'Her Time' event in Paris, for her debut as an official Omega ambassador, and now she is hard at work for the brand. SCMP features the new collection. 

Crawford has raised a smart daughter, as Kaia dismisses the claim that she is a supermodel in an interview at the Berlin event with Marie Claire UK. The very idea of Kaia achieving supermodel status takes grade inflation to an entirely new level, yet media calls every model today a supermodel.  You get a magazine cover, you're now a supermodel. Kaia says that's wrong.

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Romana Umrianova Is Pure Earth Goddess In 'Sulla Terra' By Kostas Avgoulis For Grazia Italy

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Model Romana Umrianova is an earth goddess, styled by Anna Sgura in warm, sierra, mica-inflused looks from Saint Laurent, Tory Burch, Fendi and more. Photographer Kostas Avgoulis captures Romana's feminine looks against the beauty of nature's terrain in 'Sulla Terra' for Grazia Italy, April 19 2018. 

Karmen Pedaru Looks To Fall In 'Neutral Ground' Lensed By Marcin Tyszka For Harper's Bazaar US

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Top model Karmen Pedaru is styled by Kerstin Schneider in 'Neutral Ground', lensed by Marcin Tyszka for Harper's Bazaar US June/July 2018./ Hair & makeup by Miguel Angel Tragacete

David Sims Captures Fran, Birgit, Grace & Mayowa In 'Call of the Wild' For Vogue US June 2018

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David Sims Captures Fran, Birgit, Grace & Mayowa In 'Call of the Wile' For Vogue US June 2018

Models Fran Summers, Birgit Kos, Grace Elizabeth and Mayowa Nicholas are styled by Camilla Nickerson in 'Call of the Wild', lensed by David Sims for Vogue US June 2018./ Makeup by Lucia Pieroni; hair by Duffy

Hailey Baldwin Splashes In St. Lucia Lensed By Michael Sanders For ELLE Italia June 2018

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Hailey Baldwin Splashes In St. Lucia Lensed By Michael Sanders For ELLE Italia June 2018

Hailey Baldwin enjoys warm Caribbean waters, making a sexy splash near the Coconut Bay Beach Resort in St. Lucia.  ELLE Italia's senior fashion editor Benedetta Dell'Orto (Zineroni) styles Hailey in Chanel, Emporio Armani, Valentino and more for images by Michael Sanders in the June 2018 issue.  

Marti Noxon Unleashes Female Fury In June 4 'Dietland' Debut On AMC | Aisha Tyler Will Host Companion Talk Show 'Unapologetic'

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The Atlantic asks a key question, 50 years after women across America hit the streets, protesting in the second wave of an international women's movement: Is Television Ready for Angry Women?

Marti Noxon, 53, is not new to Hollywood or television. She has written, produced, and directed TV shows and films for more than two decades. Perhaps Hollywood has caught up with her and the voices in her head that propel her forward. In a Time's Up, post-Harvey Weinstein LA world of mostly white male popular culture

'Dietland' is one of two projects Marti Noxon has in her pipeline, and 'Sharp Objects' is the other.

When Noxon showed an early episode of 'Dietland' to a male friend, he was both impressed, and appalled at "how prescient it was". “Of course I didn’t.” Noxon responded. “But I’ve been alive.”

"The past two decades have seen an unparalleled explosion of creativity in TV, beginning with 'The Sopranos' and 'The Wire', running through 'Breaking Bad' and 'Mad Men', and ending up with the zillions of shows currently being made for streaming networks and premium cable", writes Sophie Gilbert . "In prestige TV, men could be adulterers, drug dealers, murderers, gangsters, even serial killers, and still be sympathetic anchors for popular dramas. But the same wasn’t true for women, until recently."

Jean Campbell Is Lensed By Daniel Jackson In 'Avant Garden' For Allure US June 2018

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Model Jean Campbell is in full-floral hairpiece regalia, styled by Jaime Kay Waxman. Daniel Jackson is behind the lens, flashing 'Avant Garden' for Allure US June 2018./ Hair by Bob Recine; makeup by Kanako Takase

Gigi Hadid Sizzles -- And NOT In Blackface -- Lensed By Steven Klein For Vogue Italia May 2018

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Gigi Hadid Sizzles -- And NOT In Blackface -- Lensed By Steven Klein For Vogue Italia May 2018

What's that Washington Post post-Trump banner:Democracy Dies In Darkness. Actually, within the context of this rant, the alt-right would probably take my thoughts and WaPo tag line out of context and run with them.  Seriously, though, you must admit that Franz Kakfa could write one-hell of a small novel around this debate topic, a social critique bordering on utter madness. Think waking up as a roach in 'Metamorphosis'. 

For Hadid, it was just easier to apologize for her transgression -- and she has more than a few crimes. 

Notably, photographer Steven Klein has had nothing to say about this craziness, at least based on Google. But as a provocative, talented artist, I'll bet he thought plenty and said more than a few curse words at the social media, cultural appropriation police under his breath. ~ Anne

Melodie Vaxelaire is Lensed By Nelson Simoneau In 'Secret Garden' For ELLE Canada June 2018

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Melodie Vaxelaire is Lensed By Nelson Simoneau In 'Secret Garden' For ELLE Canada June 2018

Model Mélodie Vaxelaire is styled by Veronique Delisle in 'Secret Garden', a lovely sensual reverie captured by Nelson Simoneau for ELLE Canada June 2018./ Hair by Tobias Sagner; makeup by Anne Caroline Ayot