Glamping Sweeps America, Embracing Gaia With Soothing Natural Refuge In Trumplandia

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Glamping Sweeps America, Embracing Gaia With Soothing Natural Refuge In Trumplandia

New Yorkers are increasingly desperate to get back in touch with nature, writes The New York Times. If that means 'glamping' at a $650-a-night campsite on Governor's Island, let the Gaia connection begin. 

Arriving by ferry boat only enhances the magic of Manhattan's twinkling skyline and Lady Liberty's torch nearby. In that moment liberal New Yorker's can reflect on all the the Statue of Liberty has meant in America's DNA without stressing over the whereabouts of children separated from their parents at the Mexican border.

Phones are off and a family game of Scribble is in. Roasting marshmellows in the community firepit plays homage to hunting and gathering forbearers, while other pampered New Yorkers are found eating $120 prix fix meals in the permanent Three Peaks lodge. Who is game for beanbag toss?

According to a report by Kampgrounds of America, 2.6 million more American households camped last year than in 2016. A major reason was to relieve stress. Nearly all millennials surveyed (93 percent) said they would like to try camping this year, many gravitating toward glamping.

Tomas de la Fuente Captures Vera van Erp With Masai In Tanzania For Telva Magazine August 2018

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Tomas De La Fuente Captures Vera van Erp With Masai In Tanzania For Telva Magazine August 2018

Model Vera van Erp is styled by Gabriela Bilbao in a tribute to fall plaids and noble origins heritage. Photographer Tomas de la Fuente captures Vera in Tanzania, where she is joined by the Masai people, for the shoot in Telva Magazine's August issue. The trip to Tanzania was arranged by Ratpanat Luxury & Adventure travel. 

Caroline Lossberg Is Lensed In Marrakech By Andreas Ortner For Gala Magazine

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Model Caroline Lossberg is lensed by Andreas Ortner at La Mamounia in Marrakech. Birgit Schlotterbeck styles Caroline for Gala Magazine./ Hair & makeup by Sina Stoelzle

Salma Hayek Will Receive Franca Sozzani Award In Venice On Aug. 31 | Hayek Brings 'Monarca' To Netflix

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Actor Salma Hayek will be the second recipient of the Franca Sozzani Award, created to recognize women who have exceptional artistic careers and a commitment to social activism.

The Mexican actress and movie producer will receive the award, established by late Vogue Italia editor in chief Franca Sozzani’s family, on Aug. 31 during the 75th edition of the Venice International Film Festival. The ceremony will take place at Sozzani’s favorite Belmond Hotel Cipriani, a five-star hotel on Venice’s Giudecca island.

“Her example and her teaching live on in a countless number of little everyday actions, which still punctuate life in the firm today,” said Fedele Usai, chief executive officer of Condé Nast Italia, which supports the Franca Sozzani Award. “This tribute to Franca is an opportunity to celebrate a person who was unique and unrepeatable, and who is a constant and challenging benchmark for all of us at Condé Nast.”

Julianne Moore received the first Franca Sozzani Award in September 2017. 

Jennifer Garner Co-Founds Once Upon A Farm, Supporting Gangsta Gardener Ron Finley

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Jennifer Garner Co-Founds Once Upon A Farm, Supporting Gangsta Gardener Ron Finley

On Saturday, July 14, actor Jennifer Garner celebrated Once Upon a Farm, the new “farm-to-family” food company with a strong focus on babies and children that she co-founded with Cassandra Curtis. The event at Amber Waves Farm in Amagansett invited guests from the Hamptons crowd such as Rachel Zoe, Molly Sims, Jessica Capshaw, Estee Stanley, and their little ones to pick fresh produce, listen to live music and plant fruits and vegetables with Ron Finley, the Gangsta Gardener of the Ron Finley Project. Once Upon a Farm later donated the gardening plot from the event, along with $10,000 to NYC’s Edible Schoolyard.

Paper Magazine profiled Finley in Aug. 2017. The food justice revolutionary decided to get his hands dirty back in 2010 over the lack of healthy, organic food options in his LA South Central food desert neighborhood. 

"Being in South Central, the food is food-ish stuff," he explains. "We can walk five minutes in any direction and get liquor, but we can walk ten miles in any direction, and we aren't gonna get an organic banana." Finley came to the realization that cities were designed for the interests of commerce, not people: "If cities were designed for people, they would look more like forests, and be lush and beautiful, and the air would be clean." He looked at the green grass parkway he'd been dutifully maintaining outside of his home, and decided, "If they're not putting beauty in my neighborhood, I'll do it myself." The answer was radical in its simplicity: he would grow his own food. He dug up the grass, and planted flowers, herbs, and all the fruits and vegetables he'd previously had to drive miles to buy.

Steven Meisel Flashes Karolin, Lexi, Fei Fei, Meghan + For Zara Fall.Winter 2018.2019 Campaign

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Models Karolin Wolter, Lexi Boling, Fei Fei Sun, Meghan Collison, Kris Grikaite, Blesnya Minher and Julia Nobis front Zara's Fall/Winter 2018.2019 ad campaign. Steven Meisel captures the old world images with styling by Karl Templer./ Hair by Guido Palau; makeup by Pat McGrath

Irene Guarenas Rambles Wild With 'Outdoor Choices' Lensed By Nadine Ijewere for WSJ Magazine August 2018

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Stylist Ondine Azoulay styles model Irene Guarenas in 'Outdoor Choices', a wild patchwork of textures and fabrics lensed by Nadine Ijewere for WSJ Magazine August 2018./ Hair Junya Nakashima; makeup by Carolyn Gallyer

Michelle Williams Talks Her New Marriage, Hollywood Women's Fight For Equal Pay & Power In Wolf Packs

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Actor Michelle Williams covers the September 2018 issue of Vanity Fair Magazine, lensed by Collier Schorr with styling by Samira Nasr. The cover story titled 'I Never Gave Up on Love': Michelle Williams on Her Very Private Wedding and Very Public Fight for Equal Pay' tells you where the interview with Amanda Fortini is moving. 

To update the equal pay discussion consummated after the Vanity Fair interview went to press, Michelle Williams will receive the same salary as Sam Rockwell on a new FX series about director-choreographer Bob Fosse and his dancer-muse-third wife Gwen Verdon. 

Williams inherited the queen for a day crown for unequal pay in January 2018, when headlines confirmed that she made less than $1,000 for her 'All the Money in the World' re-shoots (post bad boy revelations about Kevin Spacey, whose role was replaced by Christopher lummer , while her co-star, Mark Wahlberg, made $1.5 million. The shocking news of the incredible pay disparity between two successful actor broke  in the midst of the Time’s Up awards season. The outcry was so intense that it inspired Wahlberg and the agency that represents both actors, WME, to donate fees to the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund.

'A private humiliation became a public turning point."~ Michelle Williams

Fortini picks up the story for the September issue:

Veronika Kunz Fronts 'Jeux de Construction' Lensed By Juergen Teller For Vogue Paris August 2018

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Veronika Kunz Fronts 'Jeux de Construction' Lensed By Juergen Teller For Vogue Paris August 2018

Rising model Veronika Kunz is styled by Anastasia Barbieri in 'Jeux de Construction', lensed by Juergen Teller for Vogue Paris August 2018./ Hair by Rudy Lewis; makeup by Stephanie Kunz

Faye Dunaway & Soko Enjoy Old Hollywood For Gucci Sylvie Bag Campaign, Shot By Petra Collins

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Faye Dunaway & Soko Enjoy Old Hollywood For Gucci Sylvie Bag Campaign, Shot By Petra Collins

Academy award-winning actor Faye Dunaway makes sweet music with French muscian and actor Soko for Gucci Sylvie Bag's Fall Winter 2018.19 campaign, lensed by Petra Collins. Gucci's Alessandro Michele is in charge of creative direction for the over-the-top glimpse into the lives of the ultra-wealthy, with art direction from Christopher Simmonds. 

The Gucci Sylvie Bag video is shot from Soko's perspective in this lavish, old-Hollywood video.

How Will Progressive Karlie Kloss Manage Ivanka Trump's Clutching Embrace Of Her New 'Sister'

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Rhonda Garelick has written a superb, consise analysis of Ivanka Trump and her brand and its historical fashionable roots in the rise of fascism. Garelick writes compararatively of Ivanka and Coco Chanel.

Now that the successful, progressive superwoman Karlie Kloss will be Ivanka's sister-in-law, it will be interesting to watch how Kloss handles this new sisterly love affair. Ivanka has been quick to celebrate her new 'sister' on Instagram. The Cut's headline of the engagement announcement summarizes what Karlie and Josh Kushner already know:Ivanka Trump Called Karlie Kloss Her 'Sister' in a Haunting Instagram Comment.

Karlie not so much, although reports are quick to note that Jared Kushner's brother Josh, the much more progressive Kushner son and Karlie's future husband, is very close to Ivanka -- a Manhattan liberal in her former life.

Gigi Hadid Channels Africa, Jamaica, Urban Graffiti In Missoni Fall Winter 2018.19 Campaign

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Gigi Hadid fronts Missoni's Fall Winter 2018.19 womenswear campaign, lensed by Harley Weir with creative direction by Angela Missoni and styling by Vanessa Reid. / Makeup by Thomas de Kluyver; hair by Gary Gill

Angela Missoni creates descriptive context around the images and her fall 2018 collection, saying:

“A gallery of silhouetted figures, graphic poses, and soaring identities that are iconic, unique and inimitable. A convergence of body and garment, personality and style identity. It is an invitation to compose, superimpose, and deliberately interpret the extraordinary craftsmanship, finishings, and details of a collection rich in creations and variations; shades and patterns; weights and textures. Enveloping fabrics are soft and warm, or otherwise lightweight and transparent. A series of patchwork designs, mesh fabrics, fringe details, jacquards inspired by the coats of wild animals, and streaked and spotted capes reference multiethnic costumes, urban graffiti, the colours of Africa and Jamaica, and the sensual nonchalance of iconic stars such as Lenny Kravitz or Lisa Bonet.“

Helena Christensen Is Natural Country Beauty By Blair Getz Mezibov For ELLE France July 27, 2018

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Helena Christensen Is Natural Country Beauty By Blair Getz Mezibov For ELLE France July 27, 2018

Helena Christensen delivers the most beautiful, poetic images of her supermodel self, lensed by Blair Getz Mezibov with an empathetic, artistic vision for 'Un Air de Country'. The most recent images of Helena have made her a plastic, photoshopped Barbie and not a woman born in 1968. Mezibov's images elevate her, and I'll cave and post the others so AOC friends can see the difference. Stylist Isabel Dupre chooses Stella McCartney for the cover, then adds DSquared2, Alexander McQueen, Missoni and more for ELLE France, July 27, 2018.

Sophia Ahrens Is Up Close And Personal In Simon Emmett Images For Vogue Russia July 2018

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Model Sophia Ahrens is styled by Lorna McGee for impages by Simon Emmett in Vogue Russia July 2018./ Hair by Franco Argento; makeup by Min Kim

Mahany Pery Is Lensed By Enrique Badulescu In Stunning Images For ELLE Germany August 2018

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Mahany Pery Is Lensed By Enrique Badulescu In Stunning Images For ELLE Germany August 2018

The daughter of a street vendor, Mahany Pery from São Gonçalo in Rio de Janeiro, makes a smashing impression in the August 2018 pages of ELLE Germany. Pia Léonie Knoll styles Mahany in elogated white silhouettes lensed in captivating images in 'Reines Weiss' by Enrique Badulescu./ Hair by Leonardo Manetti; makeup by Deanna Melluso

Images via See Management for Leonardo Manetti and Deanna Melluso

Artists Demand London's Design Museum Remove Works After It Rents Event Space To Arms Fair Exhibitor

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The Design Museum in London is facing a firestorm of criticism for hosting a private reception for Italian aerospace company Leonardo on July 17 in conjunction with the Farnborough International Airshow. The Campaign Against Arms Trade has called the airshow an arms fair, and has published an open letter from artists who are demanding the museum remove their work from display by the end of the month, writes ArtNet News. 

The museum’s current exhibition “Hope to Nope: Graphics and Politics, 2008–2018” explores the ways in which graphic design has influenced politics over the last ten years, starting with the famed HOPE poster designed by Shepard Fairey for President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. The show includes posters and other artworks created for movements such as Occupy Wall Street and Hong Kong’s Umbrella Revolution, as well as Fairey’s “We the People” posters for the 2017 Women’s March.

“It is deeply hypocritical for the museum to display and celebrate the work of radical anti-corporate artists and activists, while quietly supporting and profiting from one of the most destructive and deadly industries in the world,” reads the letter. “‘Hope to Nope’ is making the museum appear progressive and cutting-edge, while its management and trustees are happy to take blood money from arms dealers.”