Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Monday, November 24, 2008
Friday, November 21, 2008
TGIF
This is the last TGIF image that Ryoko Hotani will work on - Ryoko is moving on to work in graphic design. She has been a vaulable asset to Women for the last three years. I will miss her, and wish her well in her next adventure in graphic design.
For her final TGIF, I asked Ryoko to choose her favorite image shes seen while working at Women. She chose this image of Isabeli Fontana from the fall 2005 issue of Another Magazine, taken by Horst Diekgerdes.
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Andrew Richardson
Rolling Stone, June 2001
"This shot was part of a story we did with Madonna. The guy in the mirror is Andrew Richardson, who was an assistant stylist. Another picture I took of him eventually ended up on the cover of Italian Vogue, but he was never really a model. I shot him from time to time, and I think he posed for me just for fun, or maybe to meet Madonna! Next to him is Mars, a circus performer from Russia. He walked the tightrope."- Steven Meisel
Andrew Richardson styled Steven Meisel's tribute to dogging, featuring Naty Chabanenko. He is also the founder and editor-in-chief of Richardson Magazine.
"This shot was part of a story we did with Madonna. The guy in the mirror is Andrew Richardson, who was an assistant stylist. Another picture I took of him eventually ended up on the cover of Italian Vogue, but he was never really a model. I shot him from time to time, and I think he posed for me just for fun, or maybe to meet Madonna! Next to him is Mars, a circus performer from Russia. He walked the tightrope."- Steven Meisel
Andrew Richardson styled Steven Meisel's tribute to dogging, featuring Naty Chabanenko. He is also the founder and editor-in-chief of Richardson Magazine.
Dogging - Naty Chabanenko, ph: Steven Meisel, stylist: Andrew Richardson
Steven Meisel photographed Naty Chabanenko on July 11, 2008 in Los Angeles for Italian Vogue.
stylist: Andrew Richardson
Hair: Guido Palau
Makeup: Pat McGrath
Dogging is a British euphemism for engaging in intercourse in a semi-public place (typically a secluded car park ) or watching others doing so. Frequently, there are more than two participants. As observation is encouraged, voyeurism and exhibitionism are closely associated with dogging. The two sets of people involved often meet either randomly or (increasingly) arrange to meet-up beforehand over the Internet.
It should be noted that "dogging", in American English may be a critical or insulting slang term. In its language of origin, British English, the word does not have any negative connotation, slang or otherwise.
stylist: Andrew Richardson
Hair: Guido Palau
Makeup: Pat McGrath
Dogging is a British euphemism for engaging in intercourse in a semi-public place (typically a secluded car park ) or watching others doing so. Frequently, there are more than two participants. As observation is encouraged, voyeurism and exhibitionism are closely associated with dogging. The two sets of people involved often meet either randomly or (increasingly) arrange to meet-up beforehand over the Internet.
It should be noted that "dogging", in American English may be a critical or insulting slang term. In its language of origin, British English, the word does not have any negative connotation, slang or otherwise.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Gene Tierney
Today is Gene Tierney's birthday. She is one of my favorite actresses of Old Hollywood. The symmetry of her face is flawless perfection.
Gene Tierney (November 19, 1920 – November 6, 1991) was an American film and stage actress. Acclaimed as one of the great beauties of her all time, she is best-remembered for her performance in the title role of Laura (1944) and her Academy Award-nominated performance for Best Actress in Leave Her to Heaven (1945).
Tierney was born Gene Eliza Tierney in Brooklyn, New York. Tierney attended St. Margaret's School in Waterbury, Connecticut and the Unquowa School in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Her first poem, titled "Night," was published in the school magazine, and writing verse became an occasional pastime during the rest of her life. She then spent two years in Europe and attended the Brillantmont finishing school in Lausanne, Switzerland, where she learned to speak fluent French.
Tierney returned to the U.S. in 1938 and attended Miss Porter's School. On a trip to the West Coast, she visited Warner Bros. studios. Anatole Litvak, who was so taken by her beauty, told her that she should become an actress. Warner Bros. wanted to sign her to a contract, but her parents advised against it because of the low salary.
Tierney's coming-out party as a debutante occurred on September 24, 1938, when she was 17 years old. She was bored with society life and decided to pursue a career in acting. Her father felt "If Gene is to be an actress, it should be in the legitimate theatre.". Tierney auditioned for the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York and was accepted.
In 1944, she starred in what became her most famous role - the intended murder victim, Laura Hunt, in Otto Preminger's mystery film Laura, opposite Dana Andrews.
In "Laura", New York police detective Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) investigates the murder of a beautiful advertising director named Laura Hunt (Gene Tierney). He interviews acerbic newspaper columnist Waldo Lydecker (Clifton Webb), who relates how he met Laura. Lydecker became her mentor and used his considerable influence and fame to advance her career. McPherson also questions Laura's fiancé, Shelby Carpenter (Vincent Price), her wealthy aunt, Ann Treadwell (Judith Anderson), and Laura's loyal housekeeper, Bessie Clary (Dorothy Adams).
Through the testimony of her friends and the reading of her letters, McPherson comes to know Laura and slowly falls in love with her. He becomes obsessed -- using the excuse of trying to solve the murder, he hangs around her apartment and is at one point accused by Lydecker of falling in love with a dead woman.
'Laura' is hardly just a murder mystery; it's a meditation on the brute force of a beautiful face.
Later, she played the jealous, narcissistic femme fatale Ellen Berent Harland, opposite Cornel Wilde, in the film version of the best-selling book Leave Her to Heaven, a performance that won her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress (1945). Leave Her To Heaven was 20th Century Fox's most successful film of the 1940s.
Thursday: WCEO Event with Selita Ebanks, Eve and Serena Williams
Ruff & Cut and Elle Magazine Invite You to Join Selita Ebanks, Serena Williams, Eve and Shine on Sierra Leone
To celebrate the first annual fundraiser and presentation for WCEO
Thursday, November 20th
6pm-9:30pm Twelve West 21st Street Between 5th and 6th Avenues New York City
DJ Nicole Leone
$150 Minimum Donation to help build a birthing station in Sierra Leone
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Victoria's Secret 2008 show - Women behind the scenes
The board
Carmen Kass
Izabel Goulart
Selita Ebanks
Izabel Goulart
Carmen Kass
Izabel Goulart
Selita Ebanks
Izabel Goulart
Monday, November 17, 2008
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