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Models Gabrielle Rui and Amanda Martins wear Louis Vuitton in pics by Valentin B. Giacobetti for Crash Magazine’s Winter Art Issue 86 ./ Hair by Chiao Chenet; makeup by Megumi Itano
Model McKenna Hellam is styled by Charles Varenne in Versace, Balenciaga, Louis Vuitton and more gender-fluid looks. Tom Schirmacher captures McKenna for ‘His and Hers’ in ELLE US January 2018.
Raf Simons Leaves Calvin Klein | Brand Won't Show During New York Fashion Week
On Friday the Belgian designer Raf Simons and Calvin Klein announced that they were parting ways amicably eight months before his contact was up for renewal. Calvin Klein will not show during New York fashion week.
Model Magdalena Frackowiak is styled by Inmaculada Jimenez in casual looks from Max Mara, Valentino, Dior, Gerard Darel and more. Mario Sierra captures Magdalena for ELLE Spain January 2019.
Top model Irina Shayk is styled by Michelle Cameron in ‘Natural’, a collection of sleek, sophisticated pieces lensed by An Le for Vogue Mexico January 2019./ Hair by Nabil Harlow; makeup by Fulvia Farolfi
Manhattan Judge Rules That Harvey Weinstein Case Will Proceed To March 7 Pre-Trial Hearing
Disgraced Hollywood media mogul Harvey Weinstein, a key catalyst behind the widely-revived #MeToo movement, will be going to trial. On Thursday Judge James Burke rejected Weinstein’s legal request to dismiss the remaining five counts of sexual misconduct and rape charged by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office. The case is scheduled for a pre-trial hearing on March 7. The judge previously dismissed one of the initial sex counts involving allegations by Lucia Evans.
Vanity Fair writes that the courtroom was packed with reporters and supporters of the Time’s Up movement. Actors Marisa Tomei, Kathy Najimy, and Amber Tamblyn joined Time’s Up President and CEO Lisa Borders, who said that she was “relieved that Harvey Weinstein failed” in his efforts to have the charges dismissed.
The case remains complicated, especially after the dismissal of one count against Weinstein. With the case proceeding, Judge Burke’s rulings around evidence will heavily influence the case.
Attorney Alan Dershowitz, who was brought on by Weinstein’s lead attorney Ben Brafman as a consultant, says defense emails contradict claims that the sexual encounters were forced.
Aube Jolicoeur Is Smashing In Perú Vive By Daniel Clavero For Vogue Mexico November 2018
Rising Haiti-born, Kentucky-raised model Aube Jolicoeur delivers stunning imagery, styled by Angelo DeSanto in Perú Vive. Photographer Daniel Clavero is behind the lens, capturing both Aube and a legendary landscape for Vogue Mexico’s November 2018 issue./ Hair by Lucas Wilson; makeup by Bo S
Models Sophia Ahrens and Theodore Griscom are styled by Valentina Collado in ‘Aventura & Passion’. Will Davidson flashes the couple for Vogue Mexico December 2018./ Hair by Jenny Kim; makeup by Ozzy Salvatiera
Model Anna Mila Guyenz channels an old Hollywood, screen siren vibe in ‘Dancing with Beauty’. Photographer An Le joins beauty editor Claudia Valdez to capture retro romance for Vogue Mexico’s November 2018 issue./ Hair by Hiro + Mari;
Model Minnie Wastie is styled by Simon Pylyser in ‘Light Xmas Dark’, lensed by Elina Kechicheva for Vogue Portugal December 2018./ Makeup by Min Kim; hair by Yoann Fernandez
Models Soraya Page, Nynke Slegers and Clare Crawford are styled by Naomi Smith for images by Georges Antoni in Harper’s Bazaar Australia. / Hair by Daren Borthwick’ makeup by Nicole Thompson
Model Aube Jolicoeur is styled by Stella Greenspan in ‘Gems in Candy Colours’, lensed by Camila Falquez for WSJ Magazine December/January 2018.19./ Hair by Diego Da Silva; makeup by Yumi Lee
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Film 'On the Basis of Sex' Draws Sold Out NYC Crowd With Clinton + Steinem
“She’s not a superhero; she’s a woman like many others of her generation,” Mimi Leder, director of the Ruth Bader Ginsburg biophic ‘On the Basis of Sex’ told the packed audience at New York’s Walter Read Theatre director on Sunday. The audience included Gloria Steinem (wearing an RBG-inspired Lingua Franca sweater that read “all rise”) and former Secretary of State and 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Vogue writes that RGB received a hero’s welcome from an audience that gave her a standing ovation at every opportunity.
“She is an exceptional woman who changed the culture with her intelligence and her eloquence, “ Leder continued, emphasizing the reality that themes of her story are universal: “She didn’t go into the law to become a champion for equal rights. She went into the law because she thought she could do that job better than any other.”
Justice Ginsburg’s nephew Daniel Stiepleman wrote the script for ‘On the Basis of Sex’, and her daughter Jane helped edit the movie script.
Rising model Rebecca Leigh Longendyke showcases Alberta Ferretti’s Spring-Summer 2019 campaign. Aleksandra Woroniecka styles Longendyke with art direction from Heiko and images by David Sims./ Hair by Damien Boissinot; makeup by Hiromi Ueda
Stella Tennant isn’t British Vogue’s only December 2018 issue cover girl. Adut Akech, Primrose Archer and Saffron Vadher share the honors, also lensed by Steven Meisel. Joe McKenna styles the trio in a separate editorial from Stella’s.
Stella Tennant Holds Court In Steven Meisel Images For Vogue UK December 2018
Top model Stella Tennant is styled by Joe McKenna in lavish volumes lensed by Steven Meisel for Vogue UK December 2018./ Hair by Guido Palau; makeup by Pat McGrath
Model Soo Joo Park poses in key pieces from Chanel’s 2019 Resort collection, styled by Ekaterina Tabakova. Photographer Arseny Jabiev is behind the lens for Harper’s Bazaar Russia November 2018.
The best paragraphs in Robin Givhan’s WaPo commentary “Seriously, Prada, what were you thinking?: Why the fashion industry keeps bumbling into racist imagery” isn’t the narrative around Prada’s utter stupidity in their SoHo window display of items from their Pradamalia collection.
AOC readers know that we do not hop on the bandwagon of every alleged act of fashion industry cultural appropriation or racism. But Givhan is correct and we concur: what in goddesses name were you thinking Prada?
Let’s take a different approach here because Givan has done a superb job of also telling the experience of Chinyere Ezie’s reaction upon seeing the Prada store window in Soho. We will quote liberally in a moment, but let’s back up even further and introduce Prada to this woman. From her website:
Chinyere Ezie (Cheen-Yer-Ray Ay-Zee-Ay) is a nationally recognized civil rights lawyer and social justice activist who specializes in constitutional litigation and anti-discrimination work. In 2016, Chinyere was named one of the country's Best LGBT Lawyers Under 40.
Chinyere is a Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights where she focuses on racial justice, gender justice, and LGBT rights work. Chinyere previously worked as a Staff Attorney at the Southern Poverty Law Center LGBT Rights Project, where she was lead counsel for transgender rights activist Ashley Diamond in her suit against the Georgia Department of Corrections. Chinyere also worked as a Trial Attorney at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission where she successfully represented employees who had been subjected to discrimination--securing a $5.1 million dollar trial verdict.
Chinyere is a William J. Fulbright Scholar and a graduate of Yale University and Columbia Law School, where she served as President of Columbia Outlaws and Editor in Chief of the Columbia Journal of Gender and Law.
She also clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and worked as an associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen, and Hamilton LLP in New York City.
In her free time, Chinyere enjoys photography, graphic design, and spending time with her wife and puppy.
Based on her stellar credentials, Chinyere Ezie more than qualifies as Prada’s target customer, although she is not one. Now, via Robin Givhan’s narrative, we share Ezie’s experience on meeting up with Prada’s SoHo window. Personally, I think all the great African goddesses were her spirit wings in this painful life episode, quietly hopping as invisible spirits on her shoulders when Ezie left DC’s National Museum of African American History and Culture for the return trip to New York.
LVMH Acquires Luxury Travel's Belmond Hotels | Will Bernard Arnault Help Save The Elephants
AOC awoke Saturday morning to news that LVMH has set in motion the acquisition of Belmond Hotels. “Belmond, a fast-growing company based in London, offers its wealthy customers some of the most opulent travel experiences money can buy in settings like the Hotel Cipriani in Venice, the Copacabana Palace in Rio de Janeiro and Orient Express trains connecting major European cities,” wrote The New York Times.
LVMH, the world’s largest luxury company based on revenues from brands like Christian Dior, Louis Vuitton and Fendi, offered to pay $25 a share for Belmond, a premium of more than 40 percent on the company’s closing price, in a deal valued at $2.6 billion.
The deal emphasized the limitless financial resources available to the world’s very rich customers. as well as the ongoing move away from buying ‘things’ and the growing appetite for ‘experiences’. This transition to the value of ‘experiences’ is pronounced among the entire younger generation, regardless of income, and dovetails well with their environmental concerns over accumulating more stuff.
Perhaps it was no coincidence that Friday’s Porter Edit had a sponsored post from Belmond Africa, based in South Africa and Botswana. The luxury hotel jumping off point gave us an opportunity to update the hot topic of the well-being of Botswana’s elephants, the largest elephant population in Africa and one that has been relatively stable until disputed reports of almost 90 dead elephants hit headlines in September.
The removal of the statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis in New Orleans, was the second of four Confederate monuments scheduled by then New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu for relocation in advance of the city’s 300 anniversary. The larger-than-life image of Davis atop an ornate granite pedestal roughly 15-feet high was erected in 1911, nearly 50 years after the end of the war, and commissioned by the Jefferson Davis Memorial Association.
A month earlier workers dismantled an obelisk that was erected in 1891 to honor members of the Crescent City White League who in 1874 fought in the Reconstruction-era Battle of Liberty Place against the racially integrated New Orleans police and state militia.
Two other works were also removed in the summer of 2017: a bronze statue of Gen. Robert E Lee that has stood in a traffic circle, named Lee Circle, in the city’s central business district since 1884, and an equestrian statue of P.G.T. Beauregard, a Confederate general.
Former Alabama Senator and Attorney General in the Trump Administration Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III bears the Confederate general’s name.
Protests on both sides of the Confederate statue debate were fierce, prompting Mayor Landrieu to make an eloquent, emotional and gifted speech on the subject of removing the Confederate monuments on Friday, May 19, 2017.
The full text of Landrieu’s speech was published by The New York Times. I consider it to be one of the best speeches I’ve ever heard — from its sweeping beginning to its soul-wrenching end.
Thank you for coming.
The soul of our beloved City is deeply rooted in a history that has evolved over thousands of years; rooted in a diverse people who have been here together every step of the way — for both good and for ill. It is a history that holds in its heart the stories of Native Americans — the Choctaw, Houma Nation, the Chitimacha. Of Hernando De Soto, Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, the Acadians, the Islenos, the enslaved people from Senegambia, Free People of Colorix, the Haitians, the Germans, both the empires of France and Spain. The Italians, the Irish, the Cubans, the south and central Americans, the Vietnamese and so many more. Read on.
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