Daily excerpts of new fashion, culture, lifestyle, activism and women's news posts 2007-2019.
Elizabeth Davison Fronts 'Blank Slate' Lensed By D. Picard For Fashion Magazine Canada May 2019
Model Elizabeth Davison is styled by Eliza Grossman in ‘Blank Canvas’, a clean slate of fawn, oatmeal and beige lensed by D. Picard for Fashion Magazine Canada May 2019.
For nearly a century, a massive mural by painter Victor Arnautoff titled “The Life of Washington” has lined the hallways of San Francisco’s George Washington High School.
It may not be there much longer.
The mural “glorifies slavery, genocide, colonization, manifest destiny, white supremacy [and] oppression.” So said Washington High School’s Reflection and Action Group, an ad-hoc committee formed late last year and made up of Native Americans from the community, students, school employees, local artists and historians.
It identified two panels as especially offensive. One shows Washington pointing westward next to the body of a dead Native American. The other depicts slaves working in the fields of Mount Vernon.
Because the work “traumatizes students and community members,” the group concluded that “the impact of this mural is greater than its intent ever was.” They are campaigning for its removal.
The idea that impact matters more than intention has informed debates about everything from microaggressions to cultural appropriation.
But when it comes to art, should impact matter more than intention?
As historians committed to preserving our cultural heritage – and as citizens invested in the power of art to engage the public – we see the growing chorus of voices favoring impact over intention as a dangerous trend, one that makes art more vulnerable to rejection, censorship or even destruction.
Alina Bolotina + Lucan Gillespie Pose For In Luxe Leathers By Oli Kearon For Vogue Portugal May 2019
Models Alina Bolotina and Lucan Gillespie are lensed by Oli Kearon in ‘Women, Leather and Paradise’ for Vogue Portugal May 2019./ Hair by Takuya Morimoto
Olivia Frolich Flashes Malaika Firth Wearing Feminine Froth For L'Officiel Switzerland
Model Malaika Firth is styled by Lorna McGee in modern luxe femininity lensed by Olivia Frolich for L’Officiel Switzerland.
Roos Abels Goes Glamping In Laurie Bartley Images For ELLE Italia May 2019
Model Roos Abels is styled by Carla Bianchi in utilitarian outdoor looks ‘Glamping Now’, lensed by Laurie Bartley for ELLE Italia May 2019.
The Story of East Africa's Role In The Transatlantic Slave Trade
The recent discovery of the remains of the Portuguese slave ship São José off Cape Town has brought East Africa’s role in the transatlantic slave trade to public attention. But the São José was merely one of a large number of slave vessels that either rounded the Cape or put into Table Bay for refreshment.
The sinking of the São José two days after Christmas in 1794 marked the end of a bad year for the slave trade at the Cape of Good Hope. In April that year, a second vessel, the French ship Jardinière, had gone down off Cape Agulhas. Around 185 slaves had reached shore but many had then escaped or had died of their exertions. Only 125 were finally auctioned at Stellenbosch.
Victoria's Secret Kisses Network TV Fashion Show Goodbye | Thinking Next Steps
Victoria’s Secret is going to rehab and hopefully something new and wonderful will be born on the watch of former president of Tory Burch John Mehas.
The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show kissed network television ‘goodbye’ Friday, announcing that it will no longer air on network television after 22 years years for the fashion show, and almost two decades on television.
The announcement was made in a Friday memo to the chain’s associates from Leslie Wexner, the chief executive of Victoria’s Secret’s parent company, L Brands. Mr. Wexner said that the company had been “taking a fresh look at every aspect of our business” in the past few months, and noted that the brand “must evolve and change to grow.”
Charlotte McKinney Headlines GUESS Collab Swimsuit Collection Lensed By Derek Kettela
GUESS girl Charlotte McKinney fronts the brand’s Spring-Summer 2019 Swimsuit Collection, featuring a 12-piece line co-designed by her. Photographer Derek Kettela flashes Charlotte wearing emboldened classic nautical stripes, retro gingham and chevron patterns. / Hair by Dritan Vushaj; makeup by Holly Silius
Jessica Alba Talks Leading An 'Honest Life' Lensed By Will Davidson For Porter Edit May 10, 2019
As an actor, mother, loving wife and companion and founder of Honest Company, Jessica Alba is known as a vocal campaigner for female equality and social justice.
Alba’s debut film role was in the 1994 film ‘Camp Nowhere,” and she became a household name in James Cameron’s TV series ‘Dark Angel’ and the blockbuster ‘Sin City’.
The Latina star is styled by Tracy Taylor in images by Will Davidson for Porter Edit May 10, 2019. Sanjiv Bhattacharya conducts the interview.
Malaika Firth + Sophia Ahrens For ARKET Sustainable Swimwear 2019 Campaign
Models Malaika Firth and Sophia Ahrens are lensed by Laura Jane Coulson in ARKET Sustainable Swimwear 2019 campaign.
Simple, direct. Who is ARKET? Somehow we missed it. But of course! Google takes me to H&M.
Manon Leloup Poses In 'Warming Effect' By Matthieu Delbreuve For NR Magazine SS2019
Model Manon Leloup is styled by Gemma Bedini in ‘Warming Effect’, lensed by Matthieu Delbreuve for NR Magazine SS2019./ Hair by Yumiko Hikage; makeup by Emilie Plume
Max Abadian Flashes Arlenis Sosa In 'Power Plant', A Tropical Paradise For ELLE Canada June 2019
Model Arlenis Sosa is styled by Corey Ng in ‘Power Plant’, a lush visual extravaganza shot in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Photographer Max Abadian is on location with Sosa for ELLE Canada June 2019./ Hair by Olivier De Vriendt; makeup by Genevieve Lenneville
Angelina Jolie Is "Too Busy" To Play Céline Dion | Is Jolie Not Allowed To Make Her Own Choices?
AOC didn’t go looking for news that Celion Dion is reportedly ‘devastated’ that Angelina Jolie is “too busy’ to play Dion in the biopic of her dreams.
Full disclosure, I wrote my first AOC blog post in the summer of 2007, after reading Angelina Jolie’s Esquire interview. Smart Sensuality Woman Angelina Jolie: Virtue Considered in Carversville's Country Air. In three hours, she changed my life around in a good way.
Always a social actvist ‘conscientious objector’ especially in the arena of racism and women’s rights, I had become a bit too comfortable in life. Jolie inspired me to action once again — and I’ve never looked back in my revitalized second act life.
It seems that the lives of “friends” Céline Dion and Angelina Jolie have intersected over Dion’s biopic.
A source told RadarOnline: ‘For years now, Celine’s big passion has been a musical movie adaptation of her life, career and marriage to Rene [Angelil]. She wants this to happen for both her kids and her fans, and was dead-set on Angie playing Celine Dion. ‘Celine considered Angie a good friend, and is devastated that she’s turning down the role.’
SI Swimsuit Issue Editor M.J. Day Leads A Convo About Female Sexuality In #TimesUp Era
Victoria’s Secret Angel and top model Barbara Palvin showcases mind and body, lensed by James Macari in Costa Rica in the 2019 Sports Illustrated: Swimsuit Issue. Barbara poses in I.AM.GIA, Dolores Cortes, Beach Bunny Swim and more as the issue makes its new May 2019 debut. / Makeup artist Christine Cherbonnier
Writing for WWD, Kali Hays asks swimsuit issue editor M.J.Day the fundamental question: Is the Sports Ilustrated Swimsuit Issue Still Relevant? (Note that Conde Nast, WWD’s parent, is asking the same question.) The fact that Victoria’s Secret revenues and profits have plunged in recent years give the question sustenance . Victoria’s Secret fashion show viewership has also plunged, as an ultimate symbol of global ‘camp’ and perhaps even American decadence and decline on a planet fighting for its very existence.
Celine Creative Director Hedi Slimane Captures Marland Backus In Winter 1 2019 Collection
Model Marland Backus is lensed by Hedi Simane in images for Celine’s Winter 1 2019 Collection. Sarah Mower described Slimane’s third Celine collection in glowing words for Vogue.com:
There have been all sorts of jokes about “old Celine” since Hedi Slimane took over. But in his third showing for the house, this—and everything that followed—was his turning of the tables. This was old, old Celine—exactly the kind of politely classy merchandise originally sold under the label before LVMH acquired it, long before even Phoebe Philo’s predecessor, Michael Kors, was drafted to make runway shows out of it.
In our time of so much fashion, this was Slimane’s moment to iterate, and reiterate, his version of French fashion from a time of nonfashion—a niche of Parisian upper- and middle-class style that he must have understood from being a boy growing up in France. In a way it was exactly what Slimane has always done—taking the subject of a seam of preexisting street style and drilling into it for all it’s worth.
Jennifer Aniston Covers Harper's Bazaar US Fab At Every Age Issue June-July 2019
Talent Jennifer Aniston is styled by Miguel Alberto Enamorado in images by Alexi Lubomirski for Harper’s Bazaar US June/July 2019. Aniston is interviewed by American stand-up comic, writer, radio contributor and actor Tig Notaro.
Mikael Jansson Captures Anna Ewers In 'She Wears The Pants' For W Magazine #3 2019
Top model Anna Ewers is styled by Katie Grand in ‘She Wears The Pants’, lensed by Mikael Jansson for W Magazine #3 2019./ Hair by Eugene Souleimin; makeup by Pat McGrath
KIM KARDASHIAN WEST AND HER PERSONAL ATTORNEY, CO-FOUNDER OF BURIED ALIVE PROJECT, BRITTANY K. BARNETT ENTERING THE WHITE HOUSE TO MEET WITH JARED KUSHNER AND PRESIDENT TRUMP ON PRISON REFORM ISSUES. VIA THR
Kim Kardashian West Helps Free 17 Federal Prisoners in Last Three Months
Buzzfeed wrote on Tuesday that Kim Kardashian West has helped free 17 federal prisoners in the last three months.
Lawyers Brittany K. Barnett and MiAngel Cody confirmed Kardashian’s involvement in funding the 90 Days of Freedom Campaign, an entity born from President Trump’s signing of the First Step Act, designed to see sentence reductions for those serving life terms on drug offences.
“She’s using her platform to shine a light on this issue,” said Barnett, who is Kardashian West's personal lawyer and one of the co-creators of the Buried Alive Project. “She really helped us with the work we’ve already been doing, and she’s helping us amplify the voices of the people who are buried alive.”
“People get out of prison when powerful women link arms. Brittany and I linked arms years ago, and Kim has come and linked arms, too," Cody, Barnett’s co-counsel on the 90 Days of Freedom Campaign, said. “It’s about using what resources you have to shine a light on the underbelly of American injustice."
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It seems safe to assert that Kim Kardashian West will be front and center in the battle. It seems safe to assert that Kim Kardashian West will be front and center in the battle. In fact, she just announced Wednesday ‘Kim Kardashian: The Justice Project’, a new two-hour documentary for Oxygen.
Vogue India's 'Fifty Shades of Nude", A Testament To Nuanced Sisterhood By Bikramjit Bose
Vogue India shares a photographic vision of the topic front and center of our fashion industry minds: skin color.
Just now, I found a 2009 AOC short speaking about Padmi Lakshmi, former wife of Salman Rushdie, and a quote from Paula Karaiskos, of Storm Models saying: “The whole discussion about using more ethnic women in fashion has broadened the debate on models in fashion in general and designers are now looking for more discerning faces to front their campaigns.”
In retrospect, I’m not quite sure what Karaiskos meant, given the meaning of ‘discerning’. She meant well.
The Guardian article was focused primarily on the rise of Asian models in fashion. A decade later, AOC remains proud of our heritage and headline: Is the Entrenched Dominance of White Fashion Models Ending? I admit never dreaming it would take nearly a decade to smash through fashion’s white supremacy mentality once and for all. Without social media and the Internet, this breakthrough wouldn’t have happened. Old ways would have prevailed.
Vogue India’s May 2019 issue takes the convo into one of nuance with “Fifty Shades of Nude”, lensed by Bikramjit Bose with styling by Anaita Shroff Adajania. / Hair & makeup by Manaisha
Padma Lakshmi Is Lensed By Kristian Schuller for 'In Her Skin' For Vogue India May 2019
American author, actor, model, television host, and executive producer Padma Lakshmi covers the May 2019 issue of Vogue India. Anaita Shroff Adajania styles Lakshmi for ‘In Her Skin’ for images by Kristian Schuller./ Hair by Yanni Tsapatori; makeup by Anil Chinnappa
The majority of content in Vogue India’s May 2019 issue is focused on skin color, one of fashion’s most timely topics.
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