COOL LISA BUSH

http://www.monamoore.com

BEAUTIFUL MARY RANDOLPH CARTER

the selby

Jane Birkin and Charlotte Gainsbourg 
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ann demeulemeester and patti smith

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ANN DEMEULEMEESTER INTERVIEWED BY DIANE PERNET from ASVOFF on Vimeo.

isabella rossellini and madonna

meryl streep

 
http://www.merylstreeponline.net/

http://www.templegrandin.com/
an autistic woman who has become one of the top scientists in the humane livestock handling industry http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1278469/

founder of peta

http://ingridnewkirk.com/
Since co-founding People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals 21 years ago, Ingrid Newkirk has emerged as one of the shining lights of the animal rights movement. Through the use of shock tactics and a continuing series of controversial media campaigns, Newkirk and PETA have been able to effect change where other animal rights activists have failed miserably. Although criticized at one point or another by seemingly everybody under the sun, PETA nevertheless has a world-wide membership of over 300,000 activists and continues to be one of the most visible animal rights organizations in the world.Chris Barry, Montreal Mirror 

photojournalist Margaret Moth

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a wonderful woman

Agnes B is the largest payer in the French fashion. Since the group in 1979, Agnes is committed to "made in France". 

I have no ambition,' she says, when I ask her the secret of her success and staying power, 'I don't ever plan things. I still have that Sixties attitude of living for today. I think, I draw, I design. I am not influenced by other fashion designers. I don't go to the fashion shows. I never look at any fashion magazines. I don't even go into the fashionable shops. Ever. Fashion does not interest me, only style.'

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amazing women

I want to celebrate amazing women until the end of the year 
yes we all are 
here is one
CHRISTINE SCHULER-DESCHRYVER, HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST: Schuler-Deschryver runs City of Joy, a centre for survivors of gender ­violence in Bukavu, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The centre has ­become a haven for survivors in a country known as the 'rape capital of the world'. Schuler-Deschryver tells the story of Jeanne, a 24-year-old from the rural interior of Africa’s second largest country, who arrived ­after receiving terrible injuries from repeated gang rapes. 'She has changed her name to Jane,' says Schuler-­Deschryver, a Belgian/Congolese woman who set up the centre with activist and playwright Eve Ensler. 'She tells me Jeanne was the woman in pain who she left ­behind in the hospital; now she’s a new person, healed and reinvented, so we should call her Jane. It is as if she has been reborn.'

i 

adore 

staying 

in bed

Mari, 47, marketing director

Mari, who wears her favourite Bernhard Wilhelm dress in this picture, lives around the corner from my house and she is my icon for simple delights. When she serves her guests something, one can be sure it is of highest quality, though it takes only little time to prepare. For example, she always has this special kind of soft water at home, and makes the most delicious flat bread with grainy salt and rosemary that goes incredibly well with some red wine on her balcony on late summer nights. I remember one dinner when she announced she would only prepare something very simple, and when we arrived the most mouth-watering scent of a heartwarming and dainty pasta sauce was already filling the room. If Mari invites you over, you can consider yourself lucky.

/mary
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“It is necessary to recreate the past, in order to get rid of it”, says Louise Bourgeois

Self-Portrait, 2009

drypoint, archival dyes, ink and embroidery on cloth
cm 312 x 230

Louise Bourgeois is one of the most known artists  in the modern and contemporary art world.
The wideness of her art, reluctant to every classification, is the result of her particular position: between two worlds, between two languages, between female and male, order and chaos...
In her 98th year, Louise Bourgeois presents her last work, Self Portrait, at Galerie Pièce Unique, 4 rue Jacques Callot, 75006 Paris.
All the major topics of her art, like birth, childhood, maternity and selfportrait, take shape in this last work.
On a white linen sheet, embroidered with her initials, Bourgeois has created a clock of 24 hours, representing her life. The hands of the clock stand at 19h11 – the year of her birth.
“It is necessary to recreate the past, in order to get rid of it”, says Louise Bourgeois.
In Self Portrait the memory obeys to a personal logic, based on the emotion and on the reactivation of memories of childhood, couple, maternity and family, all materialised by  pieces of fabric etched with dry point and sewn on the sheet.
The 24 images placed at each hour of the clock reveal the history of her childhood, going through her wedding and her children and getting finally to the predominant themes of her art.
From Louise Bourgeois young girl, to Louise Bourgeois mother, the 24 main moments of her life are examinated. It is Time passing by. And, like the Parcae teach (the 3 mythological Goddesses who hold the human destiny in their hands) : if the thread gets cut, it is the end of the story.

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(Louise Bourgeois, Hours of the Day (cover), 2006. Courtesy of artist (Carolina Nitsch Project Room)

Carolina Nitsch Project Room presents Louise Bourgeois: Hours of the Day from December 2007 through January 2008. Louise Bourgeois is widely considered to be a living legend of Feminist art, and her biography is a must for anyone interested in her work. This installation comprises a series of printed fabric diptychs and a fabric book, in which Bourgeois juxtaposes visual representation of memories with text written by her. 
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crosses are magical

these paintings are my favorite representation of the magical 

shape of crosses

For O’Keeffe "painting the crosses was a way of painting the country" 

"There's an awful lot of pressure around the idea of a woman growing older and therefore losing that potential of being desirable, and that puts women into a situation where they feel almost embarrassed about the fact they don't have the kind of bodies that young women have, or they don't have the kind of sexual attraction that seems to go with a younger stage of their life. What does that mean, the fact that you're older? It means that you're not going to have the same kind of relationships you had when you were younger. I think we have to reinvent from a woman's point of view another way of being."

Charlotte Rampling

marlene dumas my ultimate female inspiration.

her paintings are powerful

video in english 

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the book