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Models French beauty Ange-Marie Moutambou and New York-based Najiyah Imani are ‘Cool Kids’, styled by Jeffrey Yan in Marc Jacobs Grunge looks. Photographer Hao Zeng captures the duo for L’Officiel Malaysia December 2018./ Makeup by Deanna Melluso
Model Malaika Firth is styled by Melina Chen in ‘An Autumn Afternoon’, lensed by Onin Lorente for L’Officiel Malaysia November 2018./ Makeup by Kentaro Kondo
Tati Cotliar Wears Chanel Cruise In 'Cuba Libre' By Chintoo For L'Officiel Malaysia
Last May Karl Lagerfeld put Chanel on the map as the first luxury house to hold a runway show in Havana, Cuba. The designer flew 700 guests and 45 models to Cuba for a weekend-long celebration of Cuban culture through the lens of Lagerfeld's romanticism. "This is all about my vision of Cuba," Lagerfeld told The Cut. "But of course, what do I know about Cuba? It is very childish, my idea."
New York Magazine's 'The Cut' wrote in-depth about Lagerfeld's arrival in Havana. The designer followed up in October 2016 with a cruise campaign featuring Mica Arganaraz and Stella Tennant.
The impact of fashion and travel in Cuba has brought a mixed bag reality for its people. Due to the American embargo and poor government planning on the island, food shortages are worse than ever wrote the New York Times this week. Private restaurants now take priority over Cuba's citizens in the flow of scarce resources like green peppers, onions, cucumbers, garlic and even lettuce to hungry mouths.
Cuba experienced a record arrival of 3.5 million tourists last year.
While many Cubans have long been hardened to the reality of going without, never more than during what they call the “Special Period” after the collapse of the Soviet Union, a new dynamic that has emerged in recent months threatens the nation’s future, experts warn.
“The government has consistently failed to invest properly in the agriculture sector,” said Juan Alejandro Triana, an economist at the University of Havana. “We don’t just have to feed 11 million people anymore. We have to feed more than 14 million.”
“In the next five years, if we don’t do something about it, food will become a national security issue here,” he added.
Related: Amid Grim Economic Forecasts. Cubans Fear a Return to Darker Times New York Times
The Cuban rumba and dance troupe Los Muñequitos de Matanzas, scheduled to be part of the “¡Sí Cuba!” festival coming to New York this spring. The Cubans are coming in a two-month long festival, called “¡Sí Cuba!” that runs from March 31 to June 16 all around New York. Organized with strong leadership from Karen Brooks Hopkins, president of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the festival will showcase the richness of Cuban culture.
VS Angel Martha Hunt Seduces In Jack Waterlot Images For L'Officiel Malaysia October 2015
Victoria's Secret Angel Martha Hunt, who is also a spokesperson for Free People, adds her western woman brand of sexy sizzle in a country where women have been caned in the last few years for adultery.L'Officiel Malaysia has always intrigued us with their provocations in this deeply Muslim country where activists from a coalition of eight organizations have formed the Joint Action Group for Gender Equality. Earlier this month, the coalition denounced the government's claim that child brides are rare in the country.
Citing statistic from United Nations’ reports, the Joint Action Group for Gender Equality (JAG) said there were as many as 15,000 Malaysians who were married off before the age of 19, contrary to the low figures given by the prime minister’s wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor at a function in the US yesterday.
Checking for a status pdate on last week's PETA action against Free People for refusing to stop the sale of angora after brutal videos of harvesting angora from rabbits were revealed, we note that the conflict was settled in the last 24 hours. Writing about the action last week, we didn't even think to look and see if Martha was the model behind the campaign. Woops!
It appears that Free People conceded today.
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