Teen Vogue's Elaine Welteroth on Diversity in Fashion: 'Where’s the Pipeline for the Next Generation?' - Fashionista. CFDA award-winner Bethann Hardison hosted a discussion with Teen Vogue Health and Beauty Director Elaine Welteroth on Monday at NYFW HQ, one of New York Fashion Week's new locations, as part of her initiative Balance Diversity. "You have to keep nudging them," Hardison told the audience. "You have to keep doing it or they're going to feel like they don't have to. " According to the model-turned-agent-turned-activist, "they" are the casting directors, stylists and designers who control the diversity — or lack thereof — seen on the runways during Fashion Month.
In August, Welteroth penned the feature story behind that month's Teen Vogue cover, which named young models Aya Jones, Lineisy Montero and Imaan Hammam as "fashion's new faces. " Welteroth credited Amy Astley, the magazine's editor-in-chief, for the idea to spotlight up-and-coming models of color. For starters, that pipeline can begin with mentorship, something that's especially valuable in the publishing industry. Debate: Does Fashion Have A Place In Politics? US Supreme Court rules gay marriage is legal nationwide - BBC News. The US Supreme Court has ruled that same-sex marriage is a legal right across the United States. It means the 14 states with bans on same-sex marriage will no longer be able to enforce them. Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote that the plaintiffs asked "for equal dignity in the eyes of the law.
The Constitution grants them that right. " The ruling brings to an end more than a decade of bitter legal battles. Same-sex couples in several affected states including Georgia, Michigan, Ohio and Texas rushed to wed on Friday. However officials in other states, including Mississippi and Louisiana, said marriages had to wait until procedural issues were addressed. President Barack Obama said the ruling was a "victory for America". "When all Americans are treated as equal, we are all more free " he said. However, Christian conservatives condemned the decision. Former Arkansas governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee called it "an out-of-control act of unconstitutional, judicial tyranny".
States affected: Jeremy Corbyn vows to fight austerity in TUC speech - BBC News. Jeremy Corbyn has vowed to fight the government's proposed welfare cuts and other austerity measures, labelling the Conservatives "poverty deniers". In a speech to TUC Congress in Brighton, the new Labour leader said austerity was a "political choice, not an economic necessity". He also signalled he would fight plans for conditions on union strike ballots, saying unions were vital to UK society. He said he would not be "an all-seeing all-knowing leader". He told delegates that he wanted input from all parts of society, including unions, to develop a different kind of inclusive, digital politics. "Let's do things differently and do them together," he said. Ahead of the TUC speech leading unions warned they will vote for a UK exit from the EU if workers' rights are weakened by the PM's EU renegotiations.
Follow the latest developments in text and video Read more about about Corbyn Jeremy Corbyn - the Islington years Eavesdropping on the shadow cabinet Who is John McDonnell? 'Enemy within' Shehab Khan sur Twitter : "In 1987 The Times apologised for printing this inaccurate story about Corbyn. The Sun are now running it. Iranian Women Find Stylish Ways to Abide by the Government's Strict Dress Code. Obama to nominate first openly gay service secretary to lead the Army. President Obama, in a historic first for the Pentagon, has chosen to nominate Eric Fanning to lead the Army, a move that would make him the first openly gay civilian secretary of one of the military services.
Fanning, 47, has been a specialist on national security issues for more than two decades and has played a key role overseeing some of the Pentagon’s biggest shipbuilding and fighter jet programs. Now he will oversee an Army that has been battered by the longest stretch of continuous combat in U.S. history and is facing potentially severe budget cuts. It’s also an Army that after a long stretch of patrolling Iraqi and Afghan villages is searching for its postwar role in protecting the nation. Fanning’s nomination, which must go to the Senate for confirmation, reflects a major shift for the Pentagon, which only four years ago prevented openly gay troops from serving in the military. The policy didn’t extend to civilian leaders, such as Fanning.