Craig McDean Eyes AnOther Magazine SS 2019 Cover Story With Rei Kawakubo Interview On Fashion's Future

Craig McDean Eyes AnOther Magazine SS 2019 Cover Story With Rei Kawakubo Interview On Fashion's Future

Craig McDean captures Anok Yai, Ansley Gulielmi, Bente Oort, Birgit Kos, Hannah Motler, Kaila Wyatt, Kiki Willems, Lineisy Montero and Sora Choi in another Spring/Summer 2019 fashion overview. Stylist Katie Shillingford styles the shoot for AnOther Magazine.

The photoshoot appears as part of an interview with Rei Kawakubo, who asserted after her own SS2019 show, that “the conviction to make clothes that are new and strong and stimulate the heart and push ahead in order to live”.  AnOther writes about the spring/summer 2019 collections:

Serena Williams Narrates NIKE 'Dream Crazier' Commercial Debut At 2019 Academy Awards

Serena Williams Narrates NIKE 'Dream Crazier' Commercial Debut At 2019 Academy Awards

Following in the footsteps of Colin Kaepernick’s compelling commercial to debut the 30th anniversary of NIKE’s ‘Just Do It’ Campaign, Serena Williams is the narrator in the brand’s new ‘Dream Crazier’ commercial, which aired Sunday night during the 91st Academy Awards. The newest ‘Just Do It’ ad features prominent trailblazing female athletes including including Williams herself, Olympic gymnast Simone Biles, San Antonio Spurs assistant coach Becky Hammon, Olympic fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad and other women sports figures expressing emotions including frustration, exhiliaraiton, anger, joy and more during their sporting events.

Lupita N'yong'o Takes The Lead, Covering Marie Claire US March 2019 By Daria Kobayashi Ritch

Lupita N'yong'o Takes The Lead, Covering Marie Claire US March 2019 By Daria Kobayashi Ritch

Malibu-raised photographer Daria Kobayashi Ritch captures Oscar-winning actor Lupita Nyong’o in ‘Lupita in the Lead’. Stylist J. Errico styles Lupita for Marie Claire US March 2019 cover story./ Hair by Vernon Francois; makeup by Nick Barose

Veronica Chambers interviews Lupita about her new horror movie ‘Us’. Lupita’s ‘Rolling Stone’ interview does a better job of setting up the plot line.

“I was fairly terrified just reading the script,” says Lupita Nyong’o, who stars in two roles in Jordan Peele’s ‘Get Out’ follow-up, ‘Us’, due March 22nd. Playing both a loving mom and a creepy, scissor-toting, probably murderous doppelgänger of said mom (her fellow ‘Black Panther’ actor Winston Duke plays the dad and his double) posed numerous acting and technical challenges, particularly when she shares the screen with herself. Still, she says, she “thoroughly enjoyed” the experience. Here’s what Nyong’o had to say about ‘Us’ and Peele in an interview for our latest cover story.

Indya Moore Strikes A Pose In Paola Kudacki Images For Vogue Spain March 2019

Indya Moore Strikes A Pose In Paola Kudacki Images For Vogue Spain March 2019

Actor Indya Moore is styled by Juan Cebrian in ‘Lights, Camera, ‘Pose’. Photographer Paola Kudacki flashes Indya for Vogue Spain March 2019./ Hair by Lacy Redway; makeup by Ralph Siciliano

Moore has made many headlines in 2019, and we turn to her February Teen Vogue article Indya Moore’s Young Hollywood 2019 Interview on the Groundbreaking Power of ‘Pose’ and the Need for Trans Representation Free From Oppression with writer Gabe Bergado.

As Angel on the groundbreaking, empowering FX series ‘Pose’, nominated for best television drama series at the 2019 Golden Globes, Indya Moore transforms into a trans woman of color doing sex work and becoming too close to a client. Not only does ‘Pose’ tell the story of the trans community, but it tells multiple narratives — that there is more than one way to be trans.

Moore appeared in the most recent Louis Vuitton campaign, and engages in global political convos on Twitter. In fact, the Bronx girl told Vogue before the Golden Globes about removing the lining from her leg-baring silver Louis Vuitton ‘armor dress’ with big, brash shoulders : “I get to decide how my body shows up in any space,” she says. “When I’m walking into a place like the Globes, I want to make it very clear that how I show up is to further the freedom of everybody.”

Ciara + Russell Wilson Celebrate New Creative Artists Agency Reps As Twitter Counts Black Faces At CAA Global

Ciara + Russell Wilson Celebrate New Creative Artists Agency Reps As Twitter Counts Black Faces At CAA Global

Fans poured a questioning critique on the celebratory news that Ciara and husband Russell Wilson have signed with the Creative Artists Agency, citing the low number of people of color not only on their direct management team, but on CAA’s roster worldwide.

According to the website Diverse Representation, among CAA’s offices around the world, only 17 of their hundreds of agents are black.

After posting a video clip with Ciara and Wilson waving and cheering in front of CSA agents, fans weighed in on the dearth of colored faces. The Atlanta Black Star shares the Twitter commentary:

“Only two black on y’all team…Wow.”

“And of course everyone is white back there… we need more black presence.”

Actor Ellen Page Is Lensed By Tiffany Nicholson In Her Porter Edit Case For Wearing Flats

Actor Ellen Page Is Lensed By Tiffany Nicholson Her In Her Porter Edit Case For Wearing Flats

Canadian actor Ellen Page is styled by Tracy Taylor in designs from Helmut Lang, Theory, Jason Wu, Carcel, Saint Laurent, Joseph, Max Mara, Bottega Veneta, Givenchy, Alexa Chung and more. Photographer Tiffany Nicholson captures the reflective Page in Stella McCartney and Veja sneakers for the February 2019 cover story ‘Taking the Lead’ on Porter Edit. / Hair by Edward Lampley; makeup by Frankie Boyd

Page now stars as Vanya, aka Number Seven, in the 10-part Netflix series ‘The Umbrella Academy.’  Number Seven appears to be the only one of seven children — adopted by a mysterious scientist under equally mysterious birth circumstances — who has no special powers.

Women at Work: Flats are Replacing High Heels -- And It's Not Only About Style

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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.

Burberry Agrees 'Suicide isn't fashion', Apologizes For Parading Lynching Noose Down Runway

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:

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Is Lensed By Simon Upton In Malibu For ELLE Australia March 2019

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Is Lensed By Simon Upton In Malibu For ELLE Australia March 2019

Supertalent Rosie Huntington-Whiteley covers the March 2019 issue of ELLE Australia, lensed on the beach in Malibu by photographer Simon Upton. Alison Edmond styles Rosie in spring looks from Sportmax, Burberry, Balenciaga and more on the shoot not far from the Las Angeles home she shares with partner actor Jason Statham and their 19-month-old son, Jack.

Rosie speaks to Tiffany Bakker about the reasons she founded Rosie Inc., her online beauty destination. A prime driver was her desire to not be “on a plane every second week.”

"I needed to be with my family. And it's the same with Jason; there's a lot more communication about where we're going to be and how we're going to make things work. Both of us can't just take off like we have in the past," she says, adding that she has a very special partner in Jason.

"There have been times where it's been like [adopts whiny voice] 'Oh, you're going to work again?' Or, 'Oh, are you going to be shooting in a bikini again?' When you're a career-driven person, it works best when your partner is equally as excited for you and supportive. And that's what Jason is. He's my biggest cheerleader and I'm his."

Othilia Simon Fronts 'Le Sacre Du Serpent' Lensed By Chris Colls For Vogue Paris March 2018

Othilia Simon Fronts 'Le Sacre Du Serpent' Lensed By Chris Colls For Vogue Paris March 2018

Model Othilia Simon is styled by Julie Pelipas in 'Le Sacre Du Serpent', gorgeous snake jewelry that isn't necessarily for every woman. Different civilizations have interpreted snake symbolism through a vastly different lens. " . . .  the Egyptians saw it represent royalty and deity; in Rabbinical tradition and Hinduism, the snake represents sexual passion and desire; while the Romans interpreted the snake as a symbol of everlasting love.  While Cleopatra may be the most notable historic figure to espouse the wearing of snake jewelry, Greek, Nordic, African, and Native Americans have all celebrated this intriguing reptile in gilded forms with varying meaning."

This interesting article showcases the prominence of the serpent as a motif in fine jewelry. While focusing on the snake as a symbol of eternal love, it doesn't mention the serpent as a symbol of female treachery. After all, the devil came to Eve in the garden of Eden in the form of a serpent. And Eve ate the apple in this patriarchal story about human evolution, condemning humanity to a life of suffering and loss, redeemed only by a male God. Talk about power politics!

Photographer Chris Colls captures Othilia Simon in all her reptilian glory for Vogue ParisMarch 2018./ Hair by Laurent Philippon; makeup by Maud Laceppe