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Cass Bird Captures Adut Akech In 'Best of Spring' For WSJ Magazine February 2019
Beloved, star model Adut Akech is on a roll so intense, we had all better get out of her way. George Cortina styles Adut in ‘Best of Spring’, shot in Brooklyn by Cass Bird for WSJ Magazine February 2019./ Makeup by Frank B; hair by Tamara McNaughton
Model Ashley Graham delivers her sensual, powerhouse self in a new collaboration with Swimsuits For All. Lensed by Ben Watts, Ashley models sexy black and white swimsuits with names like Boss, CEO and Icon, posing with a joyful self-confidence that money can’t buy.
Adut Akech In 'Get Ready' With Temptations Crowd Lensed By Nadine Ijewere For Vogue US February 2019
Rising superstar model (and ALWAYS a refugee model, she says) Adut Akech appears with the cast of ‘Aint Too Proud - The Life and Times of The Temptations’, played by Ephraim Sykes, Jeremy Pope, Jawan M. Jackson, James Harkness, and Derrick Baskin.
Adut is lensed by Nadine Ijewere in ‘Get Ready’ with styling by Gabriella Karefa-Johnson for Vogue US February 2019./ Hair by Lacy Redway; makeup by Emi Kaneko.
Model Clare Crawford is styled by Kelvin Harries in bodice-hugging, warrior-woman aka divine goddess silhouettes lensed by David Shields for Black Magazine.
American actor Hailee Steinfeld covers the January 2019 issue of T Magazine Singapore, wearing a Fendi turtle neck and jacket and Bvlgari Fiorever necklace and ring. Tok Wei Lun & Oh Jing Ni style Hailee in Jil Sander, Balenciaga and more for images by Catherine Servel. / Hair by Danielle Priano; makeup by Carolina Gonzalez
USA-France ambassador Jane D. Hartley, Rihanna, Bernard Arnault, and his wife Hélène Mercier at Christian Dior SS 2016 fashion show.
Rihanna and LVMH Team UP With Potential To Create Dynamic, People-Centric, Global Luxury Brand
Vanessa Friedman asks for The New York Times: “Is Rihanna the Coco Chanel of the 21st century?” Can the multi-hyphenate talent, without an ounce of fashion training, launch a new powerhouse luxury brand?
Bernard Arnault, chief executive of LVMH, thinks so and is in serious talks with Rihanna about launching a new global Fenty brand. Friedman writes that execs at Fenty Beauty and LVMH corporate were astonished over the runaway success of Fenty Beauty, launched in a diverse array of skin tones and with a fan base of 6.3 million Instagram followers. Fenty Beauty was named one of TIME magazine’s 25 Best Inventions of 2017.
Robyn Rihanna Fenty IS a real, live heritage brand with a global reach. No ‘authentic’ story must be created around her image. Rihanna IS the story and she has created it — not with mood boards on Madison Avenues — but with her entire life.
Rihanna comes to the world of luxury brands having made them her canvas for a decade. Luxury fashion has brought her far beyond the limits of the music world. Styled by Mel Ottenberg since 2011, Rihanna has aligned herself with emerging designers and luxury brands like Lanvin and Givenchy. Rather than working with a luxury house exclusively, she used these same brands to suit her purposes.
In 2014, she was named fashion icon of the year at the Council of Fashion Designers of America awards, where she appeared in a sheer crystal-spangled Adam Selman dress and matching cap, a white fur wrap strategically draped around her body, setting off a so-called naked trend in red carpet dressing. The next year, at the Met Gala, she wore a giant yellow cape from the Chinese designer Guo Pei, and enshrined her skill at making an entrance.
Not mentioned in Friedman’s piece, but a key component in the forthcoming Rihanna/LVMH alliance is the social conscience of the new luxury brand. Here there is an opportunity to set a very high bar, and all my instincts say that Rihanna and Arnault understand well global politics and human suffering.
RIHANNA AT THE COSTUME INSTITUTE GALA 2018. Image DAMON WINTER/THE NEW YORK TIMES
With governments in chaos worldwide, but Rihanna anchored deeply in the lives of everyday people, I fully expect a new paradigm to emerge with a Rihanna-led Fenty house that is an activist house, too. Rihanna is deeply embedded in the obligations that women leaders have assumed in creating real change in the world.
If LVMH is equally courageous and up to the task, we might see a new luxury brand DNA that moves beyond the rarified and exclusive vision of Coco Chanel to one that touches people in big and small ways worldwide. If anyone can jumpstart this new 21st century, luxury brand vision, it’s the combined prowess of Rihanna and LVMH’s Bernard Arnault.
English actor Claire Foy of ‘The Crown’ and ‘First Man’ — where she plays Janet Armstrong, the long suffering wife of Apollo astronaut Neil Armstrong —checks into WSJ Magazine’s February 2019 Talents & Legends Issue. Francesca Burns styles Foy in 60’s-inspired looks from Calvin Klein, Chanel, Celine and more, lensed by Alasdair McLellan.
Gisele Bundchen + Tamino Front Missoni SS2019 Campaign Lensed By Harley Weir
Supermodel Gisele Bundchen is joined by Belgian-Egyptian singer Tamino in Missoni’s Spring/Summer 2019 campaign, lensed by Harley Weir.
The campaign captures nomadic spirit of the collection, with protagonist representing traveler who transcend space and time.
“The Missoni Summer 2019 campaign is resplendent in the nocturnal lights of space, as the stars and planets transform into an ethereal background. Skies are as blue as a baroque theatre, with close-up and extended views of galactic, sandy and blazing destinations. Desert landscapes are animated by sand dunes and craters, painted by the reflections of stars which frame our two protagonists: top model Gisele Bündchen, historic testimonial for Missoni, and singer Tamino Amir Moharam Fouad, the latest sensation in the European alternative rock scene.
The two models reveal this season’s looks and pose as if they were dreamlike creatures emerging from the astral heavens. Dresses encrusted in ruffles and gossamer knitted mesh or iridescent ensembles in space-dyed lamé drape the body of a dancing Gisele.“
New Dutch model Tyvanni Osaheni is lensed by Fernando Gomez in ‘Sade’ for Vogue Ukraine January 2019.
Model Alexandra Agoston lights a bonfire in the pages of ELLE US February 2019. Photographer Chris Colls captures Alexandra in take no prisoners poses for ‘City Beach’, styled by Ilona Hamer./ Hair by Ward Stegerhoek; makeup by Fulvia Farolfi
Marcin Tyszka Flashes Catherine McNeil In 'Spanish Dressing' For Harper's Bazaar US February 2019
Model Catherine McNeil is styled by Kerstin Schneider in ‘Spanish Dressing’, lensed by Marcin Tyszka for Harper’s Bazaar US February 2019./ Hair & makeup by Angel Tragacete
Branislav Simoncik Eyes Pleun Keijsers In Creative Images For Vogue Portugal January 2019
Model Pleun Keijsers is styled by Claudia Barros in ‘As Montanhas São Lilases’, an arresting set of images by Branislav Simoncik for Vogue Portugal January 2019.
Model Sophia Ahrens is styled by Pia Leonie Knoll for ‘Summer & Leather’, lensed by Adam Franzino for ELLE Germany February 2019./ Hair by Tsuki; makeup by Campbell Richie
Model Shirley Mallmann channels the movie ‘Swept Away’, styled by Catherine Baba in posh Riviera glamour for Georgine’s Spring/Summer 2019 campaign. Few photographers can capture this girl’s style mood as well as Ellen Von Unwerth, who shoots Shirley on the French island of Porquerolles. / Makeup by Romero Jennings; hair by Sebastien Bascle
Vogue.com called Porquerolles the Nantucket of the Mediterranean in August 2018.
Models Esti van Balen & Jessica Luostarinen are styled by Chloe Buttenshaw in charming, modest-maiden looks lensed by Saskia Wilson for Marie Claire Australia February 2018./ Hair by Daren Borthwick; makeup Isabella Schimid
The GOAT won the first round of the Australian Open on Monday, besting Germany’s Tatjana Maria in a 49-minute match. Serena competed in a green Nike Jumpsuit, which she calls a ‘Serena-tard’. The stories of black fishnets are erroneous, as her tights were flesh-tone fishnets with all the circulation-boosting support that Williams needs to keep her safe from bloodclots.
In a piece of old news, the Women’s Tennis Association in December 2018 issued a ruling that makes Serena’s controversial black catsuit from the French Open appropriate attire.
Model Hiandra Martinez channels modern retro glamour, styled by James Valeri in ‘Dress At All Costs’. Photographer Nico Bustos is behind the lens for Vogue Espana January 2019./ Hair by Sebastien Bascle; makeup by Celine Martin
Striking Lalani Ali and Dominican Republic-born Nayeli Figueroa drop the new girls gauntlet with a commanding models’ presence and confidence, in this Armani advertorial, styled by Lorena Maza. Photographer Vitali Gelwich captures the duo in timely androgynous looks for Sleek Magazine December 2018.
Chrissy Teigen Lives 'A Life Unfiltered', Lensed By Gilles Bensimon For ELLE UK January 2019
Top talent Chrissy Teigen is styled by Anne Christensen in ‘A Life Unfiltered’, utilitarian, yet sexy fashion looks with major attitude. Photographer Gilles Bensimon flashes the outspoken Teigen, who believes women are ready to rumble, for ELLE UK January 2019./ Hair by John Ruggiero
Chrissy Teigen declares 2019 as “the year of speaking up”, and she’s had it with everything from social media to shaming moms. And then there is Donald Trump! For example: “‘There’s so much more than these fake-ass Instagram people,” the mega watt talent tells Sanjiv Bhattacharya.
Teigen posts pics of her stretch marks, calling them ‘whatevs’. Then there was the time
“. . . she spoke for all of us in response to Kanye West’s political Twitter posts back in April, when she tweeted: ‘kanyeeeeeeeeeeeeee iljeflaejsf’pifgaiw’rgjwregfreogjwrpogjjr’. Or the moment someone tried to shame her for going to dinner ten days after her daughter was born, asking, ‘How’s baby Luna?’ She replied: ‘I dunno I can’t find her’.
Photo by Jaromír Kavan on Unsplash
Scientists Call for Drastic Drop in Emissions. U.S. Appears to Have Gone the Other Way.
By Abraham Lustgarten , ProPublica. This story was originally published by ProPublica.
The signals are blaring: Dramatic changes to our climate are well upon us. These changes — we know thanks to a steady drumbeat of alarming official reports over the past 12 months — could cripple the U.S. economy, threaten to make vast stretches of our coastlines uninhabitable, make basic food supplies scarce and push millions of the planet’s poorest people into cities and across borders as they flee environmental perils.
All is not yet lost, we are told, but the demands of the moment are great. The resounding consensus of scientists, economists and analysts tells us that the solution lies in an unprecedented global effort to immediately and drastically drop carbon emissions levels. That drop is possible, but it will need to happen so fast that it will demand extraordinary commitment, resolve, innovation and, yes, sacrifice. The time we’ve got to work with, according to the United Nations, is a tad more than 10 years.
And so it stings particularly badly to learn from a new report released this weekby the Rhodium Group, a private research company, that U.S. emissions — which amount to one-sixth of the planet’s — didn’t drop in 2018 but instead skyrocketed. The 3.4 percent jump in CO2 for 2018, projected by the Rhodium Group, would be second-largest surge in greenhouse gas emissions from the United States since 1996, when Bill Clinton was president.
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