Julia Restoin Roitfeld is a French art director and model based in New York City. A graduate of New York’s Parsons School of Design, Roitfeld was chosen by family friend Tom Ford as the face of his fragrance, Black Orchid, in 2006. She was featured in the Roberto Cavalli for H&M campaign, a Lancôme campaign […]
Sara Blakely is the founder of Spanx and the youngest self-made female billionaire in history. Founded in Atlanta, Georgia, Blakely started Spanx with $5,000 and in just a few years turned that into $1 billion. In 2012, Blakely was named in Time magazine’s “Time 100” annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. […]
Aries “I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.” “Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.” “You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too. No, I think there was too rigid a pattern. You came out of an […]
Women have some nasty habits. One of them is spreading themselves too thin. I don’t care how well you think you’re taking care of yourself, you’re probably neglecting some crucial areas of your life – areas that you’re ignoring for the wellbeing of someone or something else (most likely a child, spouse, partner, parents or career). There’s a […]
Many know Diane von Fürstenberg as the iconic designer of the wrap dress. They associate her with models, socialites and royalty. What few people know is her life wasn’t always so glamorous. The daughter of a prisoner at Auschwitz concentration camp, Fürstenberg learned at an early age what it means to persevere. Born only 18 […]
Folorunsho Alakija is a Nigerian businesswoman and one of the richest African women and also one of the richest black women in the world. In 2014 she unseated Oprah Winfrey’s the richest woman of African descent in the world. Alakija is ranked by Forbes as the richest woman in Nigeria with an estimated net worth […]
Nobody does polka dots, oversized belts, turtlenecks, suits or living an avant-garde life better than Diane Keaton. She is the latest AFI Lifetime Achievement Award honouree and a ‘when life doesn’t give you lemons, go out and pick them yourself’ kind of woman. Diane has always been insecure about her appearance. At age eleven she […]
Discouragement from the outside world is one thing. Discouragement from yourself is another. Bethenny Frankel has felt a ton of discouragement around her, but never within her. Surrounded by hostility and defeat, Bethenny recalls her childhood as difficult. Her biological father stopped supporting the family and her mother, Frankel says, “was always drinking” and often […]