Women’s News: Mila Kunis Is Producing A Different Kind Of 70s Show
Women’s News: Mila Kunis Is Producing A Different Kind Of 70s Show
November 12, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Inspiration Of Style: Now That Women Rule Fashion, What to Expect: 5 Predictions
November 12, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Inspiration Of Style: Now That Women Rule Fashion, What to Expect: 5 Predictions
November 12, 2012 by 1 Comment
Wila Shalit
Artist, theatrical and television producer, author/editor, socially-conscious entrepreneur and philanthropist
Gone are the days when women were tortured by all-male creations: corsets that caused headaches, weakness and (true) even death. Chinese feet-binding that made walking impossible. Male-designed clothing of the Elizabethan era that made it difficult for fashionable women to stand, much less run or play sports.
Today, women designers lead the trends: Donna Karan, Tracy Reese, Kate Spade, Anna Sui, Elsie de Wolfe, Alberta Ferretti, Sonia Rykiel, Vivienne Westwood, Carolina Herrera and many others inspire and generate billions of dollars in sales. Female fashion editors — from Anna Wintour to Suzy Menkes — guide women in what to wear. And Glamour magazine’s debut all-woman issue with female photographers, writers and stylists, is just hitting the stands — including a story on MaidenNation.com, the first e-tailer totally populated by women designers, which launches this week.
What can we expect now that women rule?
1. Beauty will reign. We still love pink, and we have no plan to burn our bras. Women adore beauty, and it radiates from every woman’s design. (Speaking of bras: We may give up the painful underwire version invented in the 1940s by Howard Hughes who wanted it on Jane Russell to emphasize her breasts in The Outlaw. Russell said the “ridiculous” contraption was painful and she wore her own bra while making the movie; she just didn’t tell Hughes.)
2. The private will be public. Whereas in the past, women put their artistry into the only place they had freedom — loose-fitting clothes worn in the home and, in the 19th century, beautifully embroidered undergarments expressing artistry women weren’t allowed to show on the surface — we now see these designs flowing down public streets.
3. Giving will be part of the story. Women’s generosity and community caring is in the DNA of women’s lines: Kate Spade’s work in Rwanda, Chan Luu’s Haitian creations, Donna Karan’s work with global artisans. As Tory Burch commented, “From the beginning, I knew giving back would be a part of the fabric of our company. I wanted to help women and their families. I spent a lot of time thinking about and researching the best way to get involved… It’s not charity; it’s empowerment. It’s an investment in our collective futures.”
4. Comfort will be more common. We want to move freely, peacefully and with power, so we can dance and create and express… if we wear uncomfortable, but fabulous, stilettos, it’s because we want to. Our muse is Katniss Everdeen, not Eliza Doolittle.
5. All bodies will be okay. We won’t have to resemble Twiggy, the 1960s icon created by men who wanted women to look like young boys. We’ll ignore the 19th century gents who created the bustle so we’d look like their beloved horses (no matter that we couldn’t sit down while wearing one). Now we can be our shape and have a fashion-icon first lady who looks glorious with her God-given generous hips and buff arms.
Welcome to the future, where visionary women rule! It’s a maiden nation in a vibrant world.
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Women’s News: Mila Kunis Is Producing A Different Kind Of 70s Show
November 12, 2012 by 2 Comments
As if we need more reasons to have a great big celeb-crush on Mila Kunis: She’s now producing a show about the women’s liberation movement. Called Meridian Hills, it’s set in 1972 and centers around a young newlywed in the Midwest who bands together with other members of her local Junior League to fight the patriarchy.
Color me intrigued – you don’t usually think of the Junior League as being a bastion of progressive politics. Maybe it was different then. In any case, props to the show for not starting out with total women’s lib stereotypes.
According to the Hollywood Reporter:
Sydney Sidner (The Rite) will pen the drama and executive produce…alongside Chris Keyser, Kunis and the Tannenbaum Co.’s Eric andKim Tannenbaum. Robot Chicken‘s Lisa Sterbakov, who worked with Kunis on the Adult Swim series, and the Black Swan actress’ managers Cami Curtis and Susan Curtis are also on board to exec produce.
It’ll air on the CW network.
Until recently, I’d always taken Kunis for your typical Hollywood starlet — pretty, perky, bland. It wasn’t until rumors about her dating Ashton Kutcher were literally unavoidable in the media that I began to reconsider — not because of Kutcher, but because the gossip inevitably mentioned her previous relationship, with Macaulay Culkin. They dated for 8 years!, which is like forever in young celebrity years. Anyway, Culkin strikes me as interesting, so it followed that there had to be more to Kunis than I’d given her credit for — and her interview with Esquire after being named the magazine’s “sexiest woman alive 2012″ cemented it. A snippet:
I want to follow up on an answer you recently gave to Glamour. You said you engaged in political street art. Uh, political street art?
I can’t really go into detail because I’m going to get into trouble.
[…] Can you be vague about it then?
It has to do with the Defense of Marriage Act. It’s my friend’s issue. I’m supporting him. [She goes off the record.]
Yeah, you could be arrested for that.
But I’d be arrested for something I believe in… . Good luck including something about gay rights in Esquire.
Of course I could include that.
Okay.
Do you consider yourself political?
I find it all to be incredibly entertaining. I went to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner with Wolf Blitzer. It’s weird: You get invited by people you don’t know — and I never wanna go again, because I had the most incredible experience. Ever. I watch CNN or MSNBC all day long, every day. So I meet with Wolf, and I was like, “Oh, my God. There’s Wolf Blitzer.” Like two drinks in, I just start talking. “So, about Ahmadinejad’s nephew …” Wolf was surprised I followed politics.
Politics can also be incredibly demoralizing.
The way that Republicans attack women is so offensive to me. And the way they talk about religion is offensive. I may not be a practicing Jew, but why we gotta talk about Jesus all the time? And it’s baffling to me how a poor person in Georgia can say, “I’m a Republican.” Why?
Some people don’t like to hear celebrities talk about politics.
I don’t think I’m a celebrity. I’m a working actress. I think there’s a difference.
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