Jack Yan reflects on where we are in today’s culture, with fashion taking more of a back seat compared to where it was in the Zeitgeist just 20 years ago […]
Fashion outside the Zeitgeist: it’s time to hack the culture
December 9, 2023/9.43
Tag: human rights
European Human Rights’ Commissioner urges UK Home Secretary not to extradite Julian Assange
May 18, 2022/10.52
Above: Dunja Mijatović, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights. The Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović, has written a letter to UK Home Secretary Priti Patel not to extradite Julian Assange. The Assange case appears to have met with a blackout from many quarters of the mainstream media. In her […]
Photos: HM the Queen bestows honorary award on Angelina Jolie
October 11, 2014/10.08
Actress and humanitarian Angelina Jolie can now add the letters GCMG after her name, after receiving an honour at Buckingham Palace from HM Queen Elizabeth II. During her audience with the Queen, Jolie was presented with the insignia of an Honorary Dame Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St […]
GBK’s 2014 MTV Movie Awards’ celebration: tech and trends
April 16, 2014/11.29
Leave it to event planning master and philanthropist Gavin B. Keilly to transform SLS’s ballroom into a more intimate space showcasing great charities and some choice must-haves for summer. As usual, funds and awareness were raised for some worthwhile charities, including Los Angeles Youth Network (which aids abused, neglected and homeless adolescents in becoming […]
Golden Globe suites: another great GBK “signature” event
January 16, 2014/1.16
Cole Zimmerman, courtesy GBK Behind every Golden Globe-nominated performance or directorial effort, there’s a great writer. However, it is not just the screenwriters who make the Hollywood world go around. The public relations’ reps and the payroll departments (who sign the cheques) deserve some credit, too. That’s why it is only fitting that Pilot Pens’ […]
July 16, 2012/0.56
Paul Tanner Top Jessica Minh Anh of J Model Management poses on board Le Jean Bruel, wearing Les Folies De. Above War on Want campaigner Vera Weghmann puts a ’34p’ tag on an Adidas product at its flagship store in London. Lucire always looks after its alumni: Samantha O’Reilly, who was interning here last month, […]
Over and above: what will it take to win Miss Universe New Zealand 2012?
May 25, 2012/14.47
Angela Scott Above Priyani Puketapu, Miss Universe New Zealand 2011, whose successor will be crowned on June 3. Tomorrow, the events for Miss Universe New Zealand begin. The contestants don’t converge on the Museum Art Hotel till Sunday, but the preparations begin: the pageant director, Val Lott, and her husband, arrive in Wellington, and any […]
CocoonU might have the finest cashmere scarves this winter
September 9, 2009/10.43
Don’t they look sumptuous? Better yet, these 100 per cent cashmere scarves from CocoonU are organically and ethically sourced, with yarn from outer Mongolia. There, because of the colder climates, a higher-quality, lighter yarn is sourced, and the company claims it helps supports the lifestyles of the nomadic herders in outer Mongolia. It also points […]
Australia is as bad as we are in dealing with intersexuality
April 1, 2009/13.01
[Cross-posted] I’ve wanted to write this blog post since last year, after a reader came to me having read an entry I made about the prejudice against intersex people. It wasn’t that I wasn’t inspired to write it—but I felt I had to be in the right frame of mind to do the subject justice. […]
Reese Witherspoon promotes Avon Global Center for Women and Justice
March 4, 2009/10.22
From left to right: Barbara Holden-Smith, Vice-Dean of Cornell Law School; Andrea Jung, Avon Chairman and CEO; Reese Witherspoon, Avon Global Ambassador; and Joan Winship, Executive Director, International Association of Women Judges, at Avon Foundation for Women’s press conference in Washington, DC announcing new funding for projects that will eliminate violence against women and improve […]
