IT’S A BIT EARLY TO SAY, but 2017 may be Solange’s year—a pair of much-anticipated twins notwithstanding. The younger Knowles sister is still raking in critical acclaim for her 2016 album A Seat at the Table, and now she’s landed her biggest cover yet, appearing on the March issue of Elle, on newsstands Feb. 21.
This being Solange, the feature photography by Terry Tsiolis puts her in some highly editorial fashion, including a ’90s-style all-white power suit by Céline, kimono-like draping from Pleats Please by Issey Miyake and a dramatic red Norma Kamali puffer on the cover. The interview by Salamishah Tillet, too, looks to be upfront and wide-ranging based on the quotes that the mag is teasing, from the challenges she faced after becoming a mother at 17 years old to dealing with feeling like the odd sister out growing up:
“My sister and Kelly [Rowland] were the same age, which is like a built-in best friend in the house; they were extremely close,” Solange recalls. “Writing felt like this insular thing that I could go back in my room and express all that I would observe, all the emotions that would arise. It felt like mine, my little thing.”
Elle is Solange’s second major magazine cover of 2017; she talked to Beyoncé for Interview’s January issue and landed a major career milestone with her first performance on Saturday Night Live in the same month.
Former White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett has signed with CAA. Her responsibilities during her eight years in President Barack Obama's administration included overseeing the Offices of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs and chairing the White House Council on Women and Girls. She also was appointed to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts' board of trustees. Before then, she served as CEO of The Habitat Company, chair of the Chicago Transit Board and deputy chief of staff for Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley. The former lawyer also has served as director on several boards, including as chair of the board for the Chicago Stock Exchange and chair of the University of Chicago Medical Center board of trustees.
CAA also has hired veteran radio programmer Michael Bryan for a newly created role. Bryan, who most recently served as senior vp programming for iHeartMedia in Nashville, will remain in Music City to work as an agent focusing on artist development and artist brand strategy.
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Relevant PR has elevated Alex Kahn, who has been with the firm since its 2014 founding, to senior publicist. Her clients include Pedro Pascal, Finn Wittrock and Kristen Wiig.
Relevant also has promoted Kristine Martinez, who has been working under co-founder Evelyn Karamanos, to junior publicist.
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If Loving You Is Wrong actress April Parker-Jones has signed with TLS Agency for personal appearances and endorsements. The actress, who plays Natalie on the Tyler Perry drama, continues to be represented by theatrical agent Michael Greene at Greene & Associates and by manager Tom Bixby at Bodhi Entertainment.
Despite the ubiquity of celebrities with political opinions, and celebrities on red carpets — civil disobedience on a step-and-repeat is still pretty rare.
But leave it to a porn star to buck the trend. On Saturday night, at the 2017 AVN Awards, a.k.a. the “porn Oscars,” held just off the Las Vegas strip at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, adult-film performer Jessica Drake brought her Trump protest to the carpet.
Drake — who has accused Donald Trump of kissing her without consent in 2006 and offering her $10,000 to be his date to dinner — walked the carpet last night in a gown made to look like a burned American flag, and a red clutch that read #notmypresident.
“When he said that anyone that burns an American flag deserves to lose their citizenship and be in prison, I got the idea to wear this pink prom dresses,” Drake told the Cut on the red carpet at the AVNs. “Obviously it is not an actual flag, but I want to get attention and to get people to think. If people are patriotic enough to be upset about what I’m wearing, then surely they are patriotic enough to know that the First Amendment gives me the right to wear it.”
Drake, who was nominated at the AVNs for Best Actress, arrived at the red carpet from the airport. She’d spent the morning in Washington, D.C., marching and attending a press conference alongside her attorney Gloria Allred, and three other women who had also accused Trump of sexual assault — Temple Taggart, Summer Zervos, Rachel Crooks.
“I marched for LGBT rights, black lives matter, the rights of sex workers, immigrants,” Drake said. “I think it is important that we hold the new administration accountable, and we really have to be on the ball with it, and this was a really great example, the potential in the situation, and that they will be heard.”
Shortly after the press conference, Drake joined the Women’s March on Washington, and told the Cut it left her feeling optimistic.
“The march was bigger than anything I have ever been a part of, and everyone was just really united and it was just so supportive and so kind and the march was so big and so promising,” Drake said.
Drake said the event gave her a chance to meet Taggart, Zervos, and Crooks, and discuss their own experiences and the harassment they have faced after coming forward with their allegations against Trump.
“We acknowledged our own individual experiences that are so related and so similar,” Drake said. “And I just thanked them, and said, I’m here for them if they ever want to talk, if it ever gets to be too much, we’re all really strong, and that you can only read so many shitty things about you on the internet before it bothers you.”
Trump has flatly denied all of Drake’s and the other women’s allegations. But Drake said Trump’s response to her allegations, in which he suggested that as a porn star it was not unusual to be grabbed by men, motivated her to protest.
“As a sex worker, to have him counter with, ‘Oh, she’s a porn star, I’m sure she’s been grabbed before,’ — like that makes it okay, and sex workers and porn stars can’t be assaulted. It was really harmful. I was really offended, and it is still one of the driving factors in what I’m doing today — to keep talking about it.”
When you are Diane von Furstenberg, known to one and all as simply DVF, this is how you recruit your new designer: During the interview, you hang upside down off a stately chintz sofa at London’s Claridge’s hotel while your potential hire, Jonathan Saunders, lies stretched out beside you. You chat for an hour, maybe two, perhaps three—because, really, who’s counting when you’re having fun? Ebullient, fearless, colorful (both aesthetically and temperamentally), and never given to play by the rules: Saunders and von Furstenberg have more similarities than differences. “Jonathan’s confidence in his vision is impressive,” she says. “And the phrase hands-on was invented for him.” No surprise, then, that he got the job—freeing up the label’s founder to take a step back to focus on her philanthropic endeavors.
Last June, Saunders, who shuttered his own label in 2015, decamped with Justin, his husband-to-be, and his equally beloved Staffie-mix dog to live in a foliage-covered West Village town house. Every day he went to work facing the same question: How to reimagine DVF, the label, so that it could be heard in today’s cacophonous world, especially given the noise it has made with one proto-feminist sold-by-the-gazillions wrap dress that DVF, the woman, created way back in 1974? His answer: Turn up the volume. What Saunders has done is a mood-enhancing mix of intensely hued graphic- and floral-pattered silk, knit, and crepe de Chine, scissored and spliced every which way. It’s an homage to what the label has always stood for—“effortless, optimistic, and sensual,” he says—without being too referential or reverential; that iconic dress is still present, but he has given it an imaginative new slant, slyly hinting at its diagonal closure through the use of color blocking, or by placing two contrasting patterns side by side on the bias. “I love women; I love understanding how they feel about how they dress,” says Saunders. “You want that emotional connection.” Like I said, they’re very alike.
All Bell County high school senior girls are invited to attend the mentorship event.
The Healthy Prom Prep class will include a presentation by Dr. Shannon Brown, dermatology resident with Baylor Scott & White. Brown will discuss skincare and beauty products, and the dangers of tanning beds.
A nutritionist will educate the girls about healthy ways to prepare for prom with proper diet and exercise.
To conclude, the girls will participate in a barre workout class in the youth club dance room. Barre combines strength training and cardio using movements and postures from disciplines like ballet, yoga and Pilates.
The girls are encouraged to wear workout attire to the class.
Project Prom assists financially disadvantaged high school girls in Bell County in attending their senior prom by providing them with dresses, shoes and accessories. The mentorship program is designated to help prepare these girls for life after graduation.
The Healthy Prom Prep class is part of the three-event mentorship series. Girls who participate in any of the three classes will be invited to participate in a shopping experience, which will provide them with a prom dress, graduation dress, accessories and gift certificates for prom.
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