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Top model Amanda Murphy is styled by Natasha Royt in botanical and painterly prints from Stella McCartney, Balenciaga, Michael Kors Collection, Dries Van Noten, Louis Vuitton and more. Photographer Zoey Grossman captures Amanda at Hollywood’s Shahl House for ‘Lady of the Hills’ in ELLE US March 2019./ Hair by Luke Chamberlain; makeup by Lisa Storey; set design by Danielle Von Braun
Top model Rianne Van Rompaey is joined by Hugo Sauzay and Luc Defont-Saviard for Massimo Dutti’s Spring-Summer 2019 campaign, styled by Geraldine Saglio. Lachlan Bailey captures the trio with art direction by Franck Durand./ Hair by Rudi Lewis; makeup by Petros Petrohilos
Birgit Kos Takes Us On Fashion Journey, Lensed By Victor Demarchelier For ELLE France, Feb 22, 2019
Top model Birgit Kos is styled by Hortense Manga in a fashionable big picture look at what women will be wearing this spring. Victor Demarchelier is behind the lens for ELLE France February 22, 2019.
Model Leah Rodi channels artist Dorthea Tanning, styled in graphic spring looks by Hannah Teare. Photographers Sandrine Dulermo and Michael Labica capture surreal woman moments for The Financial Times - How To Spend It Magazine February 2019./ Hair by Daniel Dyer; hair by Daniel Dyer
In the 1960s, when the American painter Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012) got sick of the smell of turpentine, the artist began working with fabric. A transplant from Sedona, Arizona to Paris with her husband, artist Max Ernst, Tanning’s work “came up from a sort of rage, as if I were working blind,” she said in a filmed interview.
Hyerallergic explains:
Midway through Behind the Door, Another Invisible Door — a new retrospective of more than 150 of Tanning’s works at the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, organized in collaboration with the Tate Modern — the soft sculptures from this 1960s fury take the visitor by surprise. Tanning, who lived to be 101, is primarily known for her Surrealist paintings of the 1940s. While the sculptures seem like a radical departure, they are actually fluid adaptations of the lesser-known, loose-limbed paintings she began in the 1950s. Fleshy, primal, timeless, and odd, these fabric constructions present a head-on collision with the era’s Minimalist sculptors, such as Donald Judd and Tony Smith. They seem unprecedented: Louise Bourgeois wouldn’t start working with fabrics until decades later. The younger artist Annette Messager had just begun creating her early fiber work in Paris.
Tanning’s exhibition will travel to the Tate Modern, opening February 27 to June 9, 2019. The exhibition is curated by Alyce Mahon.
Women At Work: Flats Are Replacing High Heels — And It’s Not Only About Style
In 2016, temp secretary Nicola Thorp was sent home from her work at a corporate finance company for not wearing shoes with two to four inches heels. This sparked outrage among the female working class with politicians and women protesting against Thorp’s dismissal through using the hashtag #fawcettflatsFriday. In a story by The Guardian Thorp said she asked the company why wearing flats would impair her to do her job. “I don’t hold anything against the company necessarily, because they are acting within their rights as employers to have a formal dress code. I think dress codes should reflect society and nowadays women can be smart and wear flat shoes,” she said.
Thorp then launched a petition calling for the law to be changed so companies will not be able to force women to wear heels to work. It accrued 152,420 signatures in six months but went down in the British Parliament in 2017.
Supermodel Alessandra Ambrosio is lensed by Mariano Vivanco for Linda Farrow’s Spring 2019 Campaign. Ambrosio is adjusting well to life away from the Victoria’s Secret Runway.
Emma Waldo Wears Refined Style Lensed By Ester Grass Vergara For Vogue China March 2019
Model Emma Waldo is styled by Regina Chan in subtle, neutral luxury, lensed by Ester Grass Vergara for Vogue China March 2019./ Makeup by Steven Canavan; hair by Roberto Di Cuia
Rising rapidly model, with Victoria’s Secret in her orbit, Alexina Graham is styled by Tamara Gianoglio in ‘Horses’, lensed by Fred Meylan for Grazia Italia February 2019./ Makeup by Elena Pivetta
Model Sasha Pivovarova is styled by Jamie Kay Waxman in Spring 2019 ‘Feeling Fresh’ Luxury Fashions lensed by Bjorn Iooss for Telegraph Luxury./ Hair by Ward Stegerhoek; makeup by Maud Laceppe
Model Victoria Kosenkova wears selects from a new Spring 2019 NET-A-PORTER x Miu Miu collab, styled by Emily Jenkins with photography by Tiffany Nicholson./ Beauty by Sarah Ulsan
Ben Hassett Flashes Valery Kaufman In 'The Body Electric' For ELLE US March 2019
Top model Valery Kaufman steps into the lightbox, styled by Anne Trevelyan in ‘The Body Electric’. Photographer Ben Hassett brings his trademark images to ELLE US March 2019./ Hair by Panos Panadrianos; Makeup by Hung Vanngo
Tara Lynn Poses At Ease In Van Mossevelde+N Images For Harper's Bazaar Spain March 2019
Model Tara Lynn is styled by Ana Tovar in casual looks lensed by Van Mossevelde + N for Harper’s Bazaar Spain March 2019./ Hair by Alessandro Rebecchi; makeup by Helene Vasnier
Top model Vittoria Ceretti is styled by Anders Sølvsten Thomsen in ‘Heart of Joy’, lensed by Solve Sundsbo for Vogue China March 2019./ Hair by Chris Malcolm Edwards; makeup by Sam Bryant
Model Kristin Drab explores women’s ancient history in ‘Ton Steine Mode’, styled by Kerstin Schneider. Photographer Paul Rousteau channels Grecian influences from an epic point in time in gender relations for Harper’s Bazaar Germany March 2019 . / Hair by Chaio C; makeup by Isabelle Bertrand
Model Pasha Harulia is styled by Daniela Paudice in ‘Wonderland’, lensed by Camilla Akrans for Vogue China March 2019./ Makeup by Benjamin Puckey; hair by Conrad Doman
Burberry Agrees 'Suicide isn't fashion', Apologizes For Parading Lynching Noose Down Runway
Add another “what were they thinking!!!” designer must-have to your Fall 2019 luxury shopping list. Insisting that the design was inspired by a marine theme that ran throughout the entire collection, Burberry agrees that their noose is easily understood as making both suicide and lynching fashionable. Given everything that’s happening around Gucci and Prada’s wild-side walk with blackface, it’s pretty incredible that these mishaps keep happening.
"We are deeply sorry for the distress caused by one of the products that featured in our A/W 2019 runway collection," Marco Gobbetti, Burberry chief executive officer, said in a statement provided to CNN.
The design was criticized by model Liz Kennedy, who wore it on the runway and claims that her expressed concerns about the noose were dismissed. Even wearing it during the show potentially put Kennedy in her own tough spot with social media. It was Kennedy who posted this message to Burberry on her Instagram:
Australian lingerie retailer Honey Birdette delivers its Spring 2019 lingerie ad campaign ‘London Calling’. The setting is spot on with news that Honey Birdette now has 63 stores worldwide and bills itself as the world’s fastest-growing lingerie brand.
The campaign follows “Dutch bombshell” Dioni Tabbers and “fierce French brunette” Charlie Dupont from Honey Birdette’s Indecent Manor campaign. The duo hookup again in London, and the sparks fly with the same ferocious heat.
A visit to the lingerie boutique’s new LA Westfield Century City location greets us on the Honey Birdette US landing page. This represents HB’s first lingerie shopping location in the US.
Supermodel Helena Christensen is enjoying a 2019 renaissance, racking up multiple exposures in the new year. Camilla Staerk styled Helena in lingerie-inspired outfits lensed by Christan Blanchard for TOMBOY Beauty Magazine February 2019. Helena embodies TOMBOY Beauty’s attitude: Fearless, Effortless. Irreverent. Progressive.
Adut, Anok + Kaia Spread Love In Fendi's Spring/Summer 2019 Campaign By Karl Lagerfeld
Rising stars Adut Akech, Anok Yai and Kaia Gerber front Fendi’s Spring Summer 2019 campaign, lensed by the now-deceased Karl Lagerfeld. For those who suggest that the love fest between Adut and Kaia above is staged for the ad campaign, the two young women are very close friends in real life.
As fashion struggles to acknowledge past sins around diversity and in our human relationships generally, we must also acknowledge the reality of inspiring relationships as well. While I am totally exasperated with Gucci and Prada over blackface sweaters and trinkets, and now we add Burberry’s lynching/suicide rope from the Fall 2019 show, I want to just scream.
Simultaneously, when deep relationships and friendships between black women and white women exist — as is the case between Adut and Kaia — they must also receive our positive acknowledgement. Many will accuse Lagerfeld of staging the intimate, powerful photo of Kaia and Adut that leads this post. Thankfully, it is for real, and I am grateful for their message for humanity. Goddess knows we need it. ~ Anne
Why the Catholic Church Is So Slow To Act In Sex Abuse Cases: 4 Essential Reads
By Kalpana Jain, Senior Religion + Ethics Editor. First published on The Conversation
The Vatican’s retired ambassador to the United States, Carlo Maria Vigano, has accusedPope Francis and other officials of covering up that they were aware of sex abuse allegations against Theodore McCarrick, a former archbishop of Washington.
The accusation follows a grand jury report in Pennsylvania that revealed a long and shocking scale of sex abuse in the Catholic Church. Francis, who accepted McCarrick’s resignation last month, after an investigation found the allegations to be credible, has refused to comment on Vigano’s letter.
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