Model Behavior (PLEASE READ POST #1 BEFORE POSTING)

[Benn98]

Sour grapes! Just because you don't get considered for American Vogue covers or edits doesn't mean others don't either. Ruth should do her research first, and maybe learn how to expand her modelling beyond deadpan stares, before she opens her mouth.
Hunter Schafer is in the current issue, US Vogue was one of the first to feature Andreja Pejic, Annie Leibovitz, an openly lesbian female photographer is the magazine's go-to photographer. ALT, Hamish Bowles, Carlos Nazario, Edward Enninful, Tyler Mitchell, Ethan James Green, Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott.....the girl is talking out of her ****.
And I would need a spreadsheet to list the number of times BIPOC models and celebrities featured in or on the magazine. Is the magazine hyper-progressive? No, they can do better and they should be given the opportunity to do better.

 

[Piet Retief]

Yeah it's not that impressive to speak up and delete the post moments later because your career is more important to you than these matters you are addressing

 

[FashionMuseDior]

Anna Wintour is trending on the news, I just saw an article where someone who was close to her when they were children said that she was mean and evil to her because she was fat with curly hair and that Anna would often "gift her clothes that were too small for her size" to make fun of her.

 

[Annie Hall]

Anna Wintour is trending on the news, I just saw an article where someone who was close to her when they were children said that she was mean and evil to her because she was fat with curly hair and that Anna would often "gift her clothes that were too small for her size" to make fun of her.

As in, when Anna was a child? As in, sixty years ago? Convenient triggering of the memory there, seems like a very minor thing to still be bitter about at her age. Anna's consistency never fails to amaze me.

 

[Littleathquakes]

^ Children can be pretty cruel, don't underestimate them.

 

[Annie Hall]

^ Children can be pretty cruel, don't underestimate them.

Oh certainly. I got bullied for my appearance and other meaningless things when I was a kid too, and even now it impacts how I view myself and how I interact with other people. I'm not saying her hurt isn't valid because kids can be truly rotten, but to rip it out of the grave after so many decades seems as though it's coming from a place of spite, not emotional trauma. If I'm still rattling on about being targeted as a child when I'm in my seventies, feel free to slap me.

 

[MissMagAddict]

Winnie Harlow is so overrated.
No matter this incident.
I’ve thought that about her all along.




Winnie Harlow apologizes for 'bulldozing' girl en route to bar

By Tashara Jones | June 19, 2020 | 9:00 PM

Winnie Harlow has apologized to a woman who claims the model “bulldozed” her at a party.

On Thursday, marketer and music-industry insider Dimplez Ijeoma tweeted that she had “the wildest encounter” with model Harlow at a listening party for Teyana Taylor’s new album in Los Angeles.

She added, “Crazy how someone so pretty could be so ugly — as a human being.” When Harlow replied, asking what she was talking about, Ijeoma said, “Oh you know … pushing me out the way as you bulldoze your way to the front of a drink line [and] having your manager call our mutual friend to ask me to take the tweet down. Typical mean-girl BS.”

Harlow responded, “My love we were all tipsy. If I pass you to the bar it wasn’t on purpose, it was an open bar.” She added, “I apologize if I’ve made you feel [that] way. That definitely [was] not my intent.”

But she appeared to deny having gotten her manager involved. “I’ve just woken up to this [message]. I didn’t have anyone do anything.”
source | pagesix

 

[lauralynn025]

Oh certainly. I got bullied for my appearance and other meaningless things when I was a kid too, and even now it impacts how I view myself and how I interact with other people. I'm not saying her hurt isn't valid because kids can be truly rotten, but to rip it out of the grave after so many decades seems as though it's coming from a place of spite, not emotional trauma. If I'm still rattling on about being targeted as a child when I'm in my seventies, feel free to slap me.

Ugh same here. I have the same experience... being bullied for things that are out of our control (or even in our control), is a terrible thing to experience. I agree, it really shapes who you are in some aspects. I have to remind myself more times than I'd care to admit that its part of my past. I know better now, and I am more comfortable with myself. It still sucks though, how those feelings are still stuck with you no matter what. That is why I want to understand where with this woman is coming from, although it does seem like odd timing after so long.

I do have to say though, when I see the people who were mean to me once in while (still live where I grew up ), I do get sort of uncomfortable for a second lol. Maybe, for this woman, it is like that. Having to see and hear about Anna being so successful, maybe she has been holding these feelings inside & and couldn't take it anymore. But, I could be wrong....she could just be a jealous b

 

[MissMagAddict]

Here comes Omi.


Naomi Campbell, photographed at her home in Los Angeles, via
FaceTime.Gioncarlo Valentine for The New York Times

11 Things About Naomi Campbell
At 50, the supermodel is busier than ever, and a lot more serene than expected, given both current events and her tumultuous past.

By Guy Trebay
June 22, 2020

There are so many Naomi Campbells, you never know which you will get.

There is goddess Naomi, whose verified superpowers (ask any eyewitness) include an ability to part seas of people and alter the electrical charge in a room. There are cover girl Naomi and campaign Naomi and runway Naomi, whose catwalk strut is unlikely to ever be outclassed. There is vulnerable Naomi, the unexpectedly bashful human who first appeared on the modeling scene at the tender age of 15.

There is activist Naomi, who called Nelson Mandela granddad, and there is party girl Naomi, who wears a string of playboy and oligarch heads strung from her belt. There is golden-hearted Naomi who “would give you the Prada off her back,” as an old friend recently noted. And there is coldhearted Naomi who, when a close friend needed funds for heroin rehab, turned her back.

“Fighting on arrival, fighting for survival,” the modeling agent Bethann Hardison, Ms. Campbell’s lifelong guide and protector, once said of her. And despite struggles with the race-based inequalities too long unchecked in fashion, Ms. Campbell has not only remained in the public eye for three decades — light-years in the modeling business — but also has reinvented herself, after a half-century on earth, as a digital media phenomenon. Her show, “Being Naomi,” is both vacant and mesmerizing, almost Warholian level, and a canny master class for the aspiring brand-building narcissist.

Ms. Campbell, who was born in London and recently turned 50, has kept busy during and beyond lockdown at a friend’s house in Los Angeles. She shares her daily workouts with the Ocho System founder Joe Holder on Instagram, attends virtual recovery meetings, has become the first face of the Pat McGrath Labs makeup line, and tapes “No Filter” interviews with old friends and colleagues like Sharon Stone, Marc Jacobs and Cindy Crawford. Just this week she conducted a disarmingly frank beauty tutorial for Vogue’s YouTube channel.

Reached by phone on a Friday evening in early June, Ms. Campbell talked about what, in fact, it is like to be Naomi.

1. Unconscious Bias Was Never Unconscious

“Of course, it is race based,” Ms. Campbell said of the bias in fashion that kept the deck stacked against the black creators whom Anna Wintour recently conceded had not been given enough “space” in places like Vogue.

“But I never expected things to come to me easy,” said Ms. Campbell, a woman the chiffon warrior, André Leon Talley, once called “a self-made cyclone of energy, style and drama.”

2. She Dealt With It in the Usual Way

“I knew I had to work extra hard, and when I think about it now, I’m grateful to have had a lot of strong women in my family showing me how to stay strong physically and mentally if you want to survive and strive,” Ms. Campbell said. “I’ve always been raised, by my mother, my nanny, the wonderful strong women in my family, from this strong ancestry to understand that, whatever I was going to do, I had to do it 110 percent.”

Ms. Campbell’s heritage is a combination of Afro-Jamaican and Chinese-Jamaican. (Her Chinese-Jamaican grandmother was Pearline Ming.)

3. But Don’t Call Her a Survivor

“It’s adaptation,” she said. “Back in the day, I would say: ‘Why am I doing this if I’m not getting treated the same as my counterparts? Why am I not earning the same money?’ Luckily, I had wonderful people like Bethann that I would call, and she would explain to me why it would be beneficial to go forward and do it and we’ll see the results in the long run.”

4. Maybe Say Pragmatist Instead

“If I thought things were unjust, I had to say something,” said Ms. Campbell, whose record on the subject is somewhat mixed. True, she was a founder of the Black Girls Coalition, a group organized to address race-based inequities in fashion. It is also true that she once tried to squelch the career of a newcomer named Tyra Banks.

“This is to do with me I am talking about, my career,” she said. “The point is to try to make the best of the situation you’re dealing with. I don’t look at it as surviving. I look at it as life.”

5. She Has Depended on the Kindness of Strangers

“I am blessed with the people I’ve had in my life, the influences of their wonderful great minds and spirits and beings,” said a woman whose Rolodex — if people still kept such things — would be the size of a tire on a 16-wheeler.

“I think of Azzedine Alaïa and Nelson Mandela. I got to meet them, live with them, know them, be around them, consider them family. You sometimes don’t realize when people are here that you could never think of the planet without them. Then, when they go, suddenly the panic sets in: What do I do? Who do I run to?”

6. She Found Spirituality, But Only After the Drugs

“What I found is that this strength comes,” Ms. Campbell said. “All the connections, everything you ever had with them, comes to you in another form. They’re still here and pushing you. When Papa passed away, it was such a shock.” Mr. Alaïa, the Tunisian couturier who effectively parented Ms. Campbell throughout her career, died in 2017 at 82. “I was really thrown,” she said.

“But then this strength came to me from somewhere, I don’t know, I can only say from him. I realized I had to do more, help more, be there more.”

7. She Believes in That Second A

“I’m very proud of my recovery and proud to be in recovery and would never hide that fact,” said Ms. Campbell, whose much publicized anger management issues may have been fueled in part by chemical dependence. (Alexander McQueen used to joke to friends that they should hide their phones when Ms. Campbell came to visit.)

“We’re not supposed to promote recovery, but I am not in denial of any of that,” she said. “It has been a great help to me in other areas of my life.”

8. The Steps in 12-Step Programs Are More Than Metaphor

“I’m the kind of person that needs structure,” said Ms. Campbell, who has a notoriously individual relationship to time, and who was, for instance, two hours late for the Zoom photo session for this article; who was once famously fired at first meeting by the producer-director Lee Daniels for being three hours late to an audition (an incident that resulted in a screaming match followed by an acting gig and an enduring friendship); and who nevertheless must own a very big alarm clock since she has somehow managed to rise on time to be photographed for the 300 magazine covers that have been graced with her image. “That’s how I function best.”

9. She Is a Routine Queen

“I have a routine I kept during quarantine,” she said. “Get up, pray, shower, work out. In times like this, you need that sense of familiarity and routine to keep your mind and spirit in a safe space.” You also need, to judge by Ms. Campbell’s Vogue YouTube tutorial, a foolproof 10-minute method for beating your face with skills so refined that they may give Bianca Del Rio pause.

10. The Federal Aviation Administration Should Hire Her

“I never made that to go viral,” Ms. Campbell said of the 2019 video of her flight sanitizing ritual, which has more than 2.9 million views on YouTube and which, though it may once have seemed extreme, ought to be required viewing for anyone planning to board a plane again.

Ms. Campbell began routinely wearing face masks to fly in the early years of the century. “In Japan I was seeing everyone in these masks, and I thought, ‘This makes sense,’” she said. Some 15 years on, her methodology stops just short of traveling with a decontaminating Aerosolizer (though she has been seen in a hazmat suit).

“I thought, ‘I can bring my wipes and wipe it all down, no insult to any airline,’” she said. “It was what I needed to do to make myself feel comfortable.”

11. She Understands That Wherever You Go, There You Are

“This virus, the lives it has taken, is devastating, and yet being still, being in one place, can be amazing,” said Ms. Campbell, who has logged more planetary orbits than most satellites. “If there is one thing that I’ve learned in this lifetime so far, it is that there’s no getting away from anything. We’ve got to face our fears and go through the emotions.”

“Many things in life didn’t work out for me. It’s OK. I tried. It’s a good thing to be able to look at yourself in that mirror, no running or rushing about — just me, myself and I. At the end of the day, you have got to be able to sit with yourself in solitude, or you aren’t alive.”
source | nytimes

 

[gunsnroses]

I’m not sure if this is allowed but Yolanda Hadid was linked to Ghiselene Maxwell. They’ve tracked Maxwell’s location and she was hiding near the Hadid’s farm in Pennsylvania

 

[JPineapple]

I’m not sure if this is allowed but Yolanda Hadid was linked to Ghiselene Maxwell. They’ve tracked Maxwell’s location and she was hiding near the Hadid’s farm in Pennsylvania

 

[cestmagique]

^that is a really weird thing to just guess out of nowhere.

 

[Benn98]

Ghislaine will sing like a canary! LOL. Names will be named.
Funny that everyone swears high and low they've had no dealings with her. They're all running scared right now.

As for Yolanda (what a campy name), she's probably in the right here but I'm getting Karen vibes from the way she's focused on the semantics. And of course Gigi jumped in. Always the big man, lol.

 

[LostInNJ]

Ghislaine will sing like a canary! LOL. Names will be named.
Funny that everyone swears high and low they've had no dealings with her. They're all running scared right now.

As for Yolanda (what a campy name), she's probably in the right here but I'm getting Karen vibes from the way she's focused on the semantics. And of course Gigi jumped in. Always the big man, lol.

Where do you get Gigi jumping in on this?

I'm still trying to understand how this Henk guy connected Yolanda Hadid, specifically to Ghislaine; logically anyway.

 

[SLFC]

Winnie Harlow is so overrated.
No matter this incident.
I’ve thought that about her all along.




Winnie Harlow apologizes for 'bulldozing' girl en route to bar

By Tashara Jones | June 19, 2020 | 9:00 PM

Winnie Harlow has apologized to a woman who claims the model “bulldozed” her at a party.

On Thursday, marketer and music-industry insider Dimplez Ijeoma tweeted that she had “the wildest encounter” with model Harlow at a listening party for Teyana Taylor’s new album in Los Angeles.

She added, “Crazy how someone so pretty could be so ugly — as a human being.” When Harlow replied, asking what she was talking about, Ijeoma said, “Oh you know … pushing me out the way as you bulldoze your way to the front of a drink line [and] having your manager call our mutual friend to ask me to take the tweet down. Typical mean-girl BS.”

Harlow responded, “My love we were all tipsy. If I pass you to the bar it wasn’t on purpose, it was an open bar.” She added, “I apologize if I’ve made you feel [that] way. That definitely [was] not my intent.”

But she appeared to deny having gotten her manager involved. “I’ve just woken up to this [message]. I didn’t have anyone do anything.”
source | pagesix

You can get away with a lot when you are a diversity hire.

 

[LostInNJ]

You can get away with a lot when you are a diversity hire.

What?

I feel like I know where you are going with this, but I'll give you a moment to explain.

 

[Benn98]

@LostInNJ Gigi responded on that guy's timeline....

 

[RedSmokeRise]

@LostInNJ Gigi responded on that guy's timeline....



What's this about Kanye for president, lol? Nobody is taking that seriously, right? I thought the nominees are all set?
We really need a massive Gemini PR reboot right now because somehow we're stuck with all these bad apples. Marilyn Monroe, Angelina Jolie, Kanye, Donald Trump, Azaelia Banks, plus Elon and Lana, who are only a few days removed. Fed up with hearing 'oh, did you know your birthday is one day after Trump's?'. Yes, I know!

2020 feels like someone opened pandora's box

As a fellow Gemini I too would like a PR reboot lolol!

 

[Benn98]

2020 feels like someone opened pandora's box

As a fellow Gemini I too would like a PR reboot lolol!

Agreed!
And, no way, lol. Explains so much.

 

[FashionMuseDior]

I've always felt bad vibes about Winnie Harlow aka Chantelle ever since I saw her on ANTM.