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3 Dec

You are afraid of Michèle Lamy

You are afraid of Michèle Lamy
It's that suspicion she knows something about you that you’d rather keep buried. Half oracle, half threat. She isn't what they want an 80-year-old to be like. Michèle Lamy is just a living talisman out of kohl, cuffs, henna tattoos, and a cigarette-scarred French talk. And yet, people are afraid. She lets their imagination roam wild. A witch, a demon? In this Beauty Blueprint, I look into how she and Rick Owens created that cult, then pull out the practical lessons you can steal for your own sense of self. I designed this silver-white Michèle Lamy tee just for us: https://beautyblueprint-shop.fourthwall.com/products/michele-lamy-exclusive-beauty-blueprint-t-shirt Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFBv9Z6kvNF0ybh2iMAbpiQ/join CHAPTERS 00:00 If you only have 30 seconds...
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7 Jul

Why is fashion so afraid of disabled models?

Why is fashion so afraid of disabled models?
Despite representing 24 per cent of the population, models with visible disabilities feature in 0.02 per cent of fashion campaigns For all its overtures to self-expression, the style industry is probably less involved in beauty, and more involved in shielding itself from whatever it sees as ugly. Over the past couple of years, an increasingly diverse approach to casting has seen “curve”, POC, and trans models repositioned as figures of aspiration – but progress is never linear and the access afforded to some minority groups has only exacerbated the absence of others. Models with visible disabilities, for instance, rarely appear on high-end runways, seemingly destined to make tokenistic appearances in lingerie line-ups. This...
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12 Apr

‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ Star Rina Sawayama Is not

‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ Star Rina Sawayama Is not
Rina Sawayama is bleaching her eyebrows and considering purple contact lenses for her movie premiere, John Wick: Chapter 4. For a lot of humans, these decisions is likely to be a bit… eccentric. But for the model turned pop star turned motion movie assassin, anything goes to shape the glamour, the moment, the look. She is willing to take risks: It’s how she came, in spite of everything. Hours before she hits the red carpet, I sit down together with her to catch up and watch the glam team transform her from beautiful to goddess-like in a matter of moments. “John Wick is a miracle movie to me,” she says. “I’ve been doing auditions and self-tapes within the background of...
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