There’s a type of woman in this world you meet only occasionally. She’s the type you can’t remember what she looks like. How can that be? In a society that lives and breathes off the measurement of beauty, how can you not know if someone is attractive or not? How can you not remember if […]
One of the most important female intellectuals of modern times, Simone de Beauvoir was a writer, existentialist, philosopher, feminist, political activist and social theorist. She lived a life often scandalous in its nature but dared to speak the unspoken and be unapologetically herself. Born in Paris in 1908, she was profoundly religious as a child. […]
There’s a lot to say about Diana Vreeland. The former editor-in-chief of Vogue from 1963 until 1971, founder of the infamous Met Costume Ball, and style icon for women to this day, she changed the idea of fashion, celebrating the “flaws” and “faults” of women. Before Vogue, she got her first job in the industry at […]
Anaïs Nin was a Cuban-born essayist and memoirist from Paris. Born in 1903, she spent some time in Spain and Cuba but lived most of her life in the United States where she became an established author. She wrote journals (which span more than 60 years, beginning when she was 11 years old and ending shortly […]
Erica Jong is an American novelist and poet, known particularly for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying. The book became famously controversial for its attitudes towards female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism. According to Washington Post, it has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide. Fear of Flying is a quasi-memoir following the […]
Unless you were in the industry or in the fashion know, it’s unlikely Grace Coddington would have been a name you recognized pre 2009. But this accidental celebrity has always been in the forefront of fashion. You just never noticed. As a young girl stuck in Anglesey, Wales, the arrival of her copy of Vogue […]
When I started this website and told my mom about it, her first response was, “That’s good. I just hope it’s not too feminist.” Hurt. Betrayed. Shocked, I defensively asked, “Well, what does feminist to you mean exactly?” Silence. “If it’s content by women, for women, does that make it feminist?” And if it is, why is […]
“The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I’m one of the best painters.” – Georgia O’Keeffe Recognized as the “Mother of American Modernism” Georgia O’Keeffe holds the record for most expensive painting ever sold by a woman at $44 million. The most expensive painting ever sold by a […]