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Claudia Schiffer, Grace Elizabeth + Sasha Pivovarova Cover Vogue China May 2019 Lagerfeld Tribute
Top models Claudia Schiffer, Sasha Pivovarova, and Grace Elizabeth cover the May 2019 issues of Vogue China’s tribute to Karl Lagerfeld. Fashion photographer Camilla Akrans.is behind the lens with styling by Daniela Paudice, who chose archival Chanel couture pieces for the covers.
Anna Ewers Channels 'Out of Africa' Lensed by Lachlan Bailey For Vogue Paris April 2019
Model Anna Ewers is styled by Geraldine Saglio in ‘Out of Africa’, lensed by Lachlan Bailey for Vogue Paris April 2019.
Horsewoman Edita Vilkeviciute Travels West For Messika Jewelry's 'Born to be Wild' Campaign
Top model Edita Vilkeviciute fronts French jewelry brand Messika’s new campaign ‘Born to be Wild’, lensed by Chris Colls.
Louis Vuitton muse Ambar Cristal Zarzuela captures our undivided attention, styled by Tania Rat Patron in ‘Louis Vuitton High Jewellery’. Bojana Tatarska is behind the lens, capturing the wonderfully fresh jewelry shots for Glass Magazine Spring 2019.
Vanessa Moody Is Lensed By Sebastian Kim In 'Motorcycle Diaries' For ELLE US April 2019
Model Vanessa Moody is styled by Katie Mossman in ‘Motorcycle Diaries’, lensed by Sebastian Kim for ELLE US April 2019./ Hair by Diego Da Silva; makeup by John Mckay
Amber Valletta Fronts Zara's 'Chasing the Light' Spring 2019 Nature Woman Campaign
Supermodel Amber Valletta is one of fashion’s loudest and consistently-articulate voices on sustainable fashion. AOC has taken the time to research any sustainable credentials behind Zara’s newest ‘Chasing the Light’ collection, and don’t that these beautiful all-white summer styles are part of Zara’s sustainable ‘Join Life’ project, currently estimated to be only 1.5-3% of sales. We wish ‘Chasing the Light’ had green credentials but can’t find any.
With Amber Valletta appearing as the nature-woman model, it’s easy to think the collection is sustainable, especially coming on the heels of last week’s release of H&M’s exciting Conscious Exclusive Collection. H&M actually used orange peels from the end of the juice production cycle for their Orange Fiber. If Valletta was also eating pineapple, I’d call foul. Piñatex, a leather alternative made from the cellulose fiber of pineapple leaves (which become waste after the fruit is harvested) is a key new fake leather product used in H&M’s 2019 Conscious Exclusive collection.
Victor Demarchelier Eyes Model Icon Carolyn Murphy For ELLE Spain April
Supermodel Carolyn Murphy is styled by Barbara Carralda in ‘Eterna Carolyn’, lensed by Victor Demarchelier for ELLE Spain April 2019./ Makeup by Fulvia Farolfi; hair by Ty Shearn
Benjamin Bruno styles models Hayett McCarthy, Hoyeon Jung, Liya Kebede and Sara Grace Wallerstedt in Tory Burch’s Spring/Summer 2019 campaign. Alasdair McLellan is behind the lens, capturing Tory’s ‘Spirit of Adventure’ campaign.
Burch is busy connecting with women all over America, currently on tour in her philanthropic/activist #EmbraceAmbition campaign. Forbes caught up with Tory in Philadelphia last week. “Burch has always envisioned social responsibility to be part of her brand and business and started the Tory Burch Foundation to advance women’s empowerment and entrepreneurship. The need for the Foundation is continually reinforced by studies like SCORE’s recent “The Megaphone of Main Street: Women’s Entrepreneurship” that found while women-owned businesses are making gains, they still lag behind men in key areas like funding.
Estelle Nehring Fronts 'Amazone' Lensed By Hans Feurer For Numéro France March 2019.
Model Estelle Nehring is styled by Samuel Francois in ‘Amazone’, lensed by Hans Feurer for Numéro France March 2019./ Hair by Rui Rocha
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AOC is always interested in how fierce women are portrayed in fashion and pop culture. We dive into the archives for this Vogue Paris June/July 2012 editorial ‘La Sauvage’. Model Karmen Pedaru is styled by Geraldine Saglio in animal prints and other wild woman looks lensed by Hans Feurer.
The editorial brings to mind recent GlamTribal Blog posts about elephant conservation in Africa. We checked back in with Faye Cuevas, a former military intelligence expert now a key, front-line leader in Kenya’s anti-poaching effort.
Faye’s brand new effort is Team Lioness, the first all-female ranger squad in Kenya. Going forward, Cuevas wants one in four new hires among conservation rangers to be women. Right on, Faye. Faye is not alone in promoting women rangers in Africa.
We are admittedly caught off-guard by the loudest voice for hiring women rangers, Aussie sharp-shooter Damien Mander has just created Zimbabwe’s all-female ‘Akashinga’ anti-poaching force in Phundundu Wildlife Park. Mander pulls no punches and sounds like Hillary Clinton when the topic is women in the developing world.
Mander believes that putting the well-being of wildlife in the expertly trained hands of women could usher in a new way of carrying out conservation. In Mander’s vast experience, he believes that women rangers will create conservation practices that are far less violent, while empowers women and improving communities in the process.
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Models Marks & Spencer Rosie Swim 2019 Campaign
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley soaks up the rays, posing in the latest beach-loving swimwear designs from her collab with Marks & Spencer.
When you think of religion, you probably think of a god who rewards the good and punishes the wicked. But the idea of morally concerned gods is by no means universal. Social scientists have long known that small-scale traditional societies – the kind missionaries used to dismiss as “pagan” – envisaged a spirit world that cared little about the morality of human behaviour. Their concern was less about whether humans behaved nicely towards one another and more about whether they carried out their obligations to the spirits and displayed suitable deference to them.
Nevertheless, the world religions we know today, and their myriad variants, either demand belief in all-seeing punitive deities or at least postulate some kind of broader mechanism – such as karma – for rewarding the virtuous and punishing the wicked. In recent years, researchers have debated how and why these moralising religions came into being.
Now, thanks to our massive new database of world history, known as Seshat (named after the Egyptian goddess of record keeping), we’re starting to get some answers.
NASA Cancels First All-Female Spacewalk, Not Having Two Equipped Spacesuits In Women's Sizes
NASA has cancelled their highly-promoted two-women space walk due to not having two size medium space suits available. Earlier this month, America’s US space agency announced that astronauts Anne McClain and Christina Koch were set to make history this Friday, installing lithium-ion batteries at the International Space Station (ISS).
NASA doesn't have two smaller space suits for the ladies, as only big guys are astronauts. Please forgive us for being sarcastic. In fact, NASA is trying to change this image of promoting only men as astronauts, but outfits to wear floating out there in the universe weren’t on the checklist.
Koch will now exit the ISS with male colleague Nick Hague instead. She will wear the medium-size suit used by McClain on a spacewalk with Hague last week.
Regan Cameron Captures Kirsty Hume In 'Light & Shadow' For Harper's Bazaar Germany April 2019
Nineties model Kirsty Hume is styled by Kerstin Schneider in ‘Light & Shadow’, lensed by Regan Cameron for Harper’s Bazaar Germany April 2019./ Hair by Teddy Charles; makeup by Valery Gherman
Hyungsik Kim Flashes Hyun Ji Shin In 'Couture Fairy Tale' For W Korea March 2019
Model Hyun Ji Shin poses in ‘Couture Fairy Tale’, lensed by Hyungsik Kim for W Korea March 2019./ Hair by Mike Desir; makeup by Aya Fujita
Safari Tourism May Make Elephants More Aggressive – But It’s Still the Best Tool for Conservation
By Isabelle Szott, PhD Candidate in Conservation Biology, Liverpool John Moores University and Nicola F. Koyama, Senior Lecturer in Natural Sciences and Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University. First published on The Conversation.
Going on safari in Africa offers tourists the opportunity to see some of the most spectacular wildlife on Earth – including African elephants (Loxodonta africana). Known for their complex social systems, long memory and high intelligence, this species is also threatened by poaching and shrinking habitats, so further disturbance to their precarious existence could have serious consequences.
Wildlife tourism can help protect these animals and their habitat by generating income for conservation and providing stable work in local economies. Countries such as South Africa and Kenya receive two to five million visitors to protected areas each year, generating receipts of up to USD$90m. But as it becomes more popular worldwide, it’s worth remembering that we often don’t know how tourism affects the animals we observe.
Silvia Campagna styles models Ineta Sliuzaite and Gabriel Demaj in ‘Liebespaar von Egon Schiele’, lovers portrayed in the style of artist Egon Schiele. Talented photographer Stella Bonasoni captures the couple for Italy’s The Cube Magazine Spring/Summer 2019 issue.
Read MorePenelope Cruz Sizzles As Guest Editor For Vogue España April 2019, Lensed By Luigi + Iango
Actor and activist Penélope Cruz guest edits the April 2019 issue of Vogue España, reminding us all that she is far more a Versace woman than a Chanel one. A woman wears the clothes and not vice versa — a frequently forgotten fact. Cruz actually shoots an editorial in the issue, but here’s she’s styled by Juan Cebrián for ‘Un Papel A Su Medida’, lensed by Luigi & Iango. Note that the horizontal ‘cover’ below is actually a foldout. / Makeup by Pablo Iglesias; hait by Luigi Murenu
Read MoreCoco Rocha Celebrates 10 Years Of Harper's Bazaar Ukraine, Lensed In Gaultier By Pelle Lannefors
Top model Coco Rocha, known as a queen of posing, shows us how it’s done, using even her hands and elbows to convey architectural details in Jean Paul Gaultier designs, styled by Svetlana Marson. Photographer Pelle Lannefors is in the studio, capturing Coco for Harper’s Bazaar Ukraine’s 10th Anniversary Issue./ Hair by Shuhei Nishimura; makeup by Thomas Lorenz
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