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The Schmooze 10 Things About Hari Nef, the Trans Jewish Model Making History
During this year’s Golden Globes, an ad aired that made history. The L’Oreal Paris promo prominently featured 24-year-old model Hari Nef, who became the first transgender person ever to be featured in a primetime campaign. Participating in this historical moment isn’t even the coolest thing about Hari Nef. Here are ten more things about this…
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Life Yiddish-Inspired Ethical Fashion Label Pintl + Keyt Makes Organic Glamorous
Shifra Whiteman, 28, grew up in an activist family in Queens, New York, where she was taught to make a difference in the world. As she grew older, she went into design, but couldn’t figure out how to incorporate her passion for giving back into her career. When she moved to Chicago in 2011 started…
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Life Shocking but Unsurprising: White Supremacists Use Photos of Fashion Models as Twitter Avatars
If you ever find yourself trying to explain or just understand the connection between white supremacy, the abstract phenomenon anti-racists sometimes use to describe societal unfairness, and white supremacy, the thing where neo-Nazis (rebranded or otherwise) get together to heil Hitler or Trump or whomever, look no further than the bizarre story of fashion models…
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Life How Will We Remember Hillary Clinton After this Campaign? As ‘Makeup-Free’!
In perhaps the least surprising aspect of this election cycle, Hillary Clinton’s final moment in the spotlight, her likely-to-be-last day or so as a source of general interest, her last blip of fame before she fades into ‘oh yeah, that former first lady who once tried to be president,’ has involved a discussion not of…
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Life How to Dress to Show Your Disapproval of Donald Trump
“For those in need of a pantsuit, consider some of the options from the fall 2016 runways.” So reads part of an Allure story from 500 years ago (November 4th, 2016), on the decision of many Hillary Clinton supporters to wear pantsuits to the polls, in honor of Clinton’s signature, no-nonsense look. While I was…
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Israel News WATCH: Holocaust Survivors Strut Their Stuff in Fashion Show
After surviving the Holocaust, a group of elderly women took a star turn this week at a fashion show in the Israeli city of Haifa, dressed in pageant dresses and celebrated with cheers and applause. “Tonight we’re letting some women who survived the Holocaust have something that was robbed from them in their youth,” David…
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Life Ivanka, We’re Not Buying It — Your Words, or Your Clothes
Everyone! #GrabYourWallet & tell the stores that sell Donald’s products and those of his campaign surrogates: we won’t shop until they drop. pic.twitter.com/6XK3EAGdlV — Shannon Coulter ? (@shannoncoulter) October 20, 2016 The great ambiguity at the center of the Trump campaign goes as follows: Are we witnessing a grand political ambition, or a great big…
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Culture How Sonia Rykiel’s Jewish Family Inspired Her Exultant Art
The fashion designer Sonia Rykiel, who died on August 25 at age 86, was prized as one of the leading lights of French Jewish artistic achievement. Joan Nathan’s “Quiches, Kugels, and Couscous: My Search for Jewish Cooking in France” lists Rykiel among prominent Gallic Jews, alongside Marcel Marceau, Anouk Aimée, Simone Signoret, and Nostradamus. Rykiel,…
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