It should come as no surprise that Beyoncé calls herself a feminist. She’s self-made, successful, and possesses a song catalog that reads like a lady empowerment playlist. What’s unusual is the lengths to which Ms. Sasha Fierce herself will go to walk back that simple statement.In a new interview with British Vogue, the 31 year-old hedged when asked if she considers herself a feminist. “That word can be very extreme,” she said, before acknowledging, “I guess I am a modern-day feminist. I do believe in equality.” Unlike those old school feminists who are totally opposed to equality, that’s what I guess. Beyoncé went on to explain, “I do believe in equality and that we have a way to go and it’s something that’s pushed aside and something that we have been conditioned to accept. But I’m happily married. I love my husband. I feel like Mrs. Carter is who I am, but more bold and more fearless than I’ve ever been.”Continue Reading… … Read More
Anna Wintour’s big promotion
She may not have gotten tapped to be President Obama’s ambassador to the United Kingdom or France, diplomatic posts for which she had been rumored to be in contention.But Anna Wintour’s landed on her feet.The editor of Vogue has just been named the “artistic director of Condé Nast,” the company that publishes Vogue, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and Glamour, among other publications. Wintour described her position as “almost like being a one-person consulting firm,” running through ideas with editors at the publication and recruiting new talent.Wintour has been extraordinarily effective in recent years at waving the flag for her publication, with a (now-ended) Fashion’s Night Out event, appearances in multiple documentaries (most notably “The September Issue”), and a sort of good-humored series of public appearances after the release of “The Devil Wears Prada,” a film about an icy, imperious fashion magazine editor. It’s hard to imagine predecessors of hers at Vogue getting invited on David Letterman’s talk show — much less saying yes, then joking with him about how “you could buy lipstick” for $20 and her “ice queen… dominatrix” reputation.Continue Reading… … Read More
Fresh from the Internet’s Attic
Animated GIFs – the choppy, crude snippets of video loops that hearken back to dial-up modems – are enjoying an unlikely vogue as the digital accessory of the moment. … Read More
Gabrielle Giffords, Mark Kelly Appear In March Vogue Magazine
TUCSON, Ariz. — Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly, talk about their continued push for gun regulation in the upcoming issue of Vogue magazine.
The couple has formed a political action committee in hopes of preventing gun violence and changing laws to require compulsory background checks for gun buyers. The PAC will also work to limit the size of ammo magazines and to ban the sale of assault weapons to civilians.
Beyoncé’s Vogue March 2013 Cover Has Leaked! (PHOTOS)
It’s here!
Beyoncé’s Vogue March 2013 cover has arrived in all its leaked glory, coming on the heels of rumors that she’d landed the coveted March issue. This time the rumor mill was true: There she is, posing in Givenchy in a photo posted by Twitter account BeyonceLite.
The March cover, as we’ve noted before, makes perfect sense. As anyone occupying Planet Earth knows, Beyoncé recently pulled off a masterful performance at the Super Bowl halftime show and is set to debut her HBO documentary on February 16. 2013 is clearly Beyoncé’s year, we’re all just living in it.
Sam Claflin, Finnick Odair: An Interview With The ‘Catching Fire’ Heartthrob
By Dana Matthews
It was the casting game that everyone was talking about, and Sam Claflin was the victor. During a break from a busy shooting schedule in Hawaii, the 26-year-old British actor dished about landing the highly coveted role of Finnick Odair, his intense four months of training in Atlanta (hello, six-pack!), working with Jennifer Lawrence, and his “bromance” with Josh Hutcherson. Read on for the exclusive first interview with the “Catching Fire” star.
TEEN VOGUE: Aloha, Sam! Congratulations on scoring the role of Finnick Odair. How did this all go down?
How Bloggers Became The New Chick Lit Heroines
The Carrie Bradshaws of the literary world are out of vogue. “Sex and the City”‘s Bradshaw and other female protagonists in chick lit from the ’90s and early 2000s had glamorous jobs in print journalism. Now, bloggers who work long hours and wear muumuus instead of tutus are the new literary heroines.
