Fashion Slate

Cardi B once again dipped a toe into the political arena on April 12, when she told Variety during a red-carpet interview that she hates President Donald Trump and shared that she’s still supporting Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in the 2020 presidential campaign.

Referring to the news in January that Cardi had shut down Trump over the government shutdown, Variety asked the “Please Me” singer what she would say to Trump if she could text or Instagram DM him. Cardi responded with an exasperated sigh and said, “I hate him. I just hate him. I don’t even want to get political, you know what I’m saying?”

Asked who she was supporting in 2020, Cardi said she didn’t know for sure yet, but added, “I’mma always go with Bernie.” Asked why, she said, “This is the thing, right? Bernie don’t say things to be cool. Like, there’s pictures of him being an activist from a very, very, very long time [ago].”

Cardi seemed to indicate that Bernie hasn’t totally locked down her vote yet as she’s listening to other candidates, like Representative Tim Ryan (D-Ohio).

“I was watching the news, and I saw this guy named Tim Ryan. And his speech was very convincing to me,” Cardi shared. “He really wants to give the United States free health care, so that’s a big plus. We need health care. So I don’t know. We’ll see.”

Cardi B has previously posted on her Instagram Stories that she was going to Google Ryan after seeing him speak about health care on TV. Ryan saw that after an activist posted it to Twitter and wrote back, “Every American deserves quality health care, period. Hope to earn your trust, @iamcardib.”

According to The New York Times, Ryan is a cosponsor on Representative Pramila Jayapal’s (D-WA) Medicare for All legislation. According to PBS NewsHour, Ryan also voted for the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) and previously introduced legislation to extend a Medicare buy-in to people ages 50 to 64. Ryan has situated his views on health care as part of a larger thrust of his campaign: rebuilding the middle class.

The congressman from Ohio isn’t the only 2020 candidate who believes in Medicare for All or a similar universal health care plan. Cardi might know that her boy, Sanders, was the OG presidential candidate to campaign on Medicare for All in 2016. The issue became a key dividing line between Sanders and his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton.

Now, as documented in an op-ed from Al Jazeera, many of the contenders in the exceptionally crowded 2020 field (though not all) are somewhat aligned with Sanders’s views on the issue. Just last night, on April 15, Sanders got a Fox News crowd to cheer for the idea of Medicare for All.

Cardi may be team Sanders, but she’s got a much bigger field of candidates to pick from if she chooses to vote Democratic in 2020. While her 2020 pick may not be clear yet, what is clear is that when health care is available to everyone, she likes it like that.

Want more from Teen Vogue? Check this out: Cardi B Shut Down Trump Over His Border Wall Government Shutdown

By Lucy Tandon Copp 7-Sep-2018

Marketing

As an official supporter of the Japonisme 2018 event, Shiseido will help spread the message of Japanese art and culture in the West

Shiseido has been announced as an official supporter of the Japonisme 2018: les ames en resonance (souls in resonance) festival.

Held in French cities through to February 2019, the festival is organised by the Japanese and French governments, and this year commemorates 160 years of friendship between the two countries.

French culture is said to have had a "huge influence" not only on Shiseido’s founder Arinobu Fukuhara and its first President Shinzo Fukuhara, but also on the corporate culture of Shiseido.

Today, Shiseido continues to embrace French culture, with artistic elements of French Art Nouveau and Art Déco styles first influencing the brand's packaging, logos and advertisements shortly after Shinzo Fukuhara returned from a year-long stay in France in 1913.

The festival itself showcases artwork such as ancient Jomon pottery and contemporary masterpieces at about 100 venues across Paris and other French cities.

The group of businessmen who came together to annex the islands formed as a direct response to Queen Lili‘uokalani’s new governance as a native woman, specifically her plan to put forth a revised constitution. Her action would eradicate the 1887 Constitution of the Kingdom of Hawai‘i, known as the Bayonet Constitution, a document prepared by those same white businessmen who had forced the former ruler, Kalākaua, to sign by gunpoint. The Bayonet Constitution stripped the monarchy of its legislative powers, extended voting rights to American and European noncitizens, and established wealth requirements, which disproportionately impacted Asians and Hawaiians. In keeping with the nation’s wishes, Lili‘uokalani’s proposal would restore the power of her people.

The businessmen called on American minister John L. Stevens, who ordered 162 uniformed U.S. sailors to disembark the U.S.S. Boston and invade Honolulu. The 13-member committee formally declared themselves the Provisional Government and appointed Sanford B. Dole, of the Dole pineapple legacy, as its president. Under Hawaiian law, their actions constituted treason and the queen had the right to apprehend and punish all involved. But due to the hostile presence of the armed U.S. military, whose visibility aimed to intimidate the kingdom, the queen was fearful that a confrontation would create bloodshed. Hours later, she chose to yield authority and issue a formal protest in an official written statement. Instead of resorting to violence, she led with diplomacy and the faith that this injustice could be remedied and reversed.

It never was. President Grover Cleveland ordered an investigation into the U.S. involvement of the overthrow, known as the Blount Report, and concluded “this military demonstration upon the soil of Honolulu was of itself an act of war,” but his sympathies to reinstate the queen stalled and were never realized. It wouldn’t be until a full century later that an American president would legislatively address his country’s actions against Hawai‘i. In 1993, on the 100th anniversary of the overthrow, President Bill Clinton signed the Apology Resolution, finally admitting the country’s role in deposing Lili‘uokalani and disenfranchising the Hawaiian people.

But what common American history still fails to capture is the hurt and sorrow that kānaka maoli endured at the time. In the aftermath of the overthrow, the American press were relentless in their racist caricatures of Lili‘uokalani and Hawaiians, depicting them as savages, prostitutes, sellouts, and passive to America’s capitalist influence. Under the newly recognized Republic of Hawai‘i, the Hawaiian language was soon banned from being taught in the public and private education systems, which resulted in a widespread linguicide of the native people.

American history also doesn’t detail the distinct and varied ways that Hawaiians continued to resist during the five years before they were officially annexed. The queen, who wrote extensively while imprisoned in her own palace, published Hawai‘i’s Story in 1898, an account of the circumstances that led to the overthrow told through her lens. Hawaiian musicians composed protest anthems about their unhappiness with the takeover of the Hawaiian Kingdom and voiced support for the monarchy.

The most evident displays of kānaka maoli distress and determination were in their mass petition drives against annexation, like the Kūʻē Petitions, a mass petition drive against the annexation. Island by island, its organizers collected tens of thousands of signatures by horseback, boat, and foot. Lili‘uokalani and four delegates hand-delivered 556 pages to Washington, D.C., and on December 9, 1897, a senator from Massachusetts submitted these petitions into the Senate record. This number of signees — 95% of the native Hawaiian population at the time — means that almost every kānaka maoli living today can trace an ancestor back to this petition (including the matriarch of this writer’s Hawaiian family line, Kaaikaula, who penned her dissent there, too). Displays of political dissent across literature, art, music, and government continue to inspire new generations to recognize the islands’ lineage of resistance and relearn Hawai‘i’s history from a decolonized perspective.

Aja Toscano

On the 126th anniversary of the Overthrow, kānaka maoli and allies march.

Still, present-day native Hawaiians face challenges. In 2018, Hawaiʻi’s governor, David Ige, signed a proclamation declaring it the Year of the Hawaiian to acknowledge “the value of Native Hawaiian cultural practices and recognize the Native Hawaiians' achievements and contributions to the arts, law, history, social work, education, business”; yet, also last year, a Hawaiian man was issued a bench warrant for his arrest during a court proceeding when he refused to speak English and addressed the judge in Hawaiian, an official language of the state. (The bench warrant was recalled the next day.) Also in 2018, Brett Kavanaugh, who opposed government programs designed to service native Hawaiians, was confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court, and the Hawai‘i State Supreme Court ruled to build the 30-meter telescope on Mauna Kea, a contentious piece of land considered to be sacred by native Hawaiians. For decades, Native Hawaiians have been overrepresented in the state’s criminal justice system and are disproportionately affected by homelessness in their homelands.

This post features offbeat affiliates, meaning that if you buy something featured, you'll be financially supporting this site's mission of bringing awesomeness to readers everywhere.

Sometimes I like to dig into the wedding fashion and decor that readers have been buying just to get a pulse on what's going on in all of your minds. And it never fails to keep me on my toes! I pulled out some of my favorite items that y'all have been purchasing via our affiliate linke (thank you for that!), and it was rad.

That orange monacle? That pink embroidered corset? That wings shawl? It's all so GOOD. Maybe you'll find something for your own wedding in this list.

We are big fans of reading books (or at least browsing through the pictures!) here at our house, and I love giving books to family and friends who have kids as well. One problem with buying books, though, is that you aren’t always sure if they already have a certain book or not and unless you ask (and ruin the surprise a bit) it’s hard to know you aren’t supplying them with a double of something in their library. On that note, we rounded up 20 books that we love that are a little less widely known than a “Cat In The Hat” level classic and they are perfect for gifting or adding to your own kiddo library.

1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / 12 / 13 / 14 / 15 / 16 / 17 / 18 / 19 / 20

Some of these older treasures can only be found on the used book market as they are older and out of print (like one of my top favorites, Rabbit’s New Rug) and others are new gems like Nova’s favorite Triangle book. I get such a kick out of the quirky nature of George and Martha books and Lola’s been obsessed with Scuffy the Tugboat for a while now (we even made up a little song about him that we sing when we open the book). Hope these treasures make their way into your gift bag or personal library soon! xo. Laura

Now that fashion month has come to a close, we’re already missing the constant flow of runway and street style images showcasing the latest trends from Europe. Though there are still plenty of photo galleries to pore over (see our roundups from London, Milan, and Paris), in typical internet fashion, we want the most up-to-date. As such, we took to Instagram to see what some of our favorite European fashion influencers are wearing as we head deeper into autumn. What we found was a slew of inspiring color palettes, layering combinations, and the subject of today’s feature: footwear. Below, we’ve highlighted the top eight shoe trends we spotted on women from France to Sweden to England and beyond. Scroll down to find out what they’re stocking up on below the knees, and shop our picks to add these footwear trends to your closet right now.

Now that fashion month has come to a close, we’re already missing the constant flow of runway and street style images showcasing the latest trends from Europe. Though there are still plenty of photo galleries to pore over (see our roundups from London, Milan, and Paris), in typical internet fashion, we want the most up-to-date. As such, we took to Instagram to see what some of our favorite European fashion influencers are wearing as we head deeper into autumn. What we found was a slew of inspiring color palettes, layering combinations, and the subject of today’s feature: footwear. Below, we’ve highlighted the top eight shoe trends we spotted on women from France to Sweden to England and beyond. Scroll down to find out what they’re stocking up on below the knees, and shop our picks to add these footwear trends to your closet right now.

When we talk about beauty and summer, there is a key collection we cannot miss. It's Estée Lauder Bronze Goddess. I think this is always one of the favorite summer collections for so many people.

When I moved to Berlin in 2016, I had no idea about how to schlep my stuff for a full day in the city. I had been living in St. Louis, where everything I needed could be thrown in the back of my Honda CR-V. I could go between different neighborhoods, grabbing what I needed for each from the back seat. I had been spoiled by the convenience of having a car. But that wouldn’t be the case in Germany.

At nine times the size of Paris, Berlin is huge. And I’m a freelance writer with a Class Pass–style gym membership and a passion for finding the best flat whites to knock down while I work. That means that when I head out for the day, I head out—“swinging by” my apartment just to pick something up isn’t a thing.

For a year I lugged around a New Yorker tote (I know) overflowing with gym clothes, a small bag of post-Spin makeup, my laptop, my charger, a portable phone battery, a bulky European adapter, and an array of little things that I might need throughout the day. (Did you know that the a woman’s bag weighs approximately six pounds on average?) I began to notice my posture take a hit—my left shoulder (which I carried the tote on) was always slightly slouched, and I often caught myself in a shrug position to counter the weight. Yoga helped for a minute, but by the following morning, it would all come back. So I finally broke down: Fine. I’ll get a fucking backpack.

I had honestly never thought of wearing backpacks as an adult. I still felt haunted by the paranoia that my backpack was making the back of my skirt ride up and I was accidentally flashing people. Plus, to me, they always felt much too sporty for my typical look (dark lipstick, Doc Martens, floral wrapdresses.) I still feel ambivalent about athleisure. But when I looked around Berlin, it seemed like everyone had embraced backpacks—Germans are all about health and practicality, and a ton of people ride bikes, so it makes sense for the lifestyle. I started looking around on the subway, eyeing the tags on the backpacks I liked to educate myself on brands. Then, one day, I went to my favorite I-want-everything homeware store in Kreuzberg, and left with a $95 backpack from Rains that I’ve been wearing ever since. Approximately half of the people in my neighborhood also own my Rains backpack of choice—seriously, I can’t go anywhere without spotting someone with the same style.

I love that its matte black finish is both stylish (it goes with everything) and practical (waterproof). I never have to worry about my laptop getting wet or lost, and the outer is super easy to wipe clean. It holds several days’ worth of groceries, or enough clothes for a 10-day trip—I know from experience, since I’ve brought it with me on trips to New York, Sydney, Abu Dhabi, London, Reykjavík, and southern Italy. Minus a slightly bent strap latch, it’s held up remarkably well.

I’m not alone in my conversion: According to a recent Forbes report, women are buying fewer handbags (8 percent less in 2017 than the year before) and seemingly more backpacks (purchases by women are up 15 percent, while they’re down 5 percent among men and 15 percent among children). Sure, sometimes the backpack life can be frustrating—like when I forget my keys in the bottom and have to unpack everything in the stairwell of my apartment to get into my flat—but that’s a me problem, not a backpack problem. My dress doesn’t ride up, because I’m no longer a fresh-eyed 13-year-old trying to wear their backpack low like the cool kids (so that was the issue!); instead, I’m a jaded 28-year-old with the posture issues of someone of more advanced years. This backpack is my savior; this backpack can do no wrong. And yes, my shoulders are feeling much, much better.

Shop the backpack that changed it all for me and nine like it ahead.

We bring you the trends. You make them your own. Sign up for our daily newsletter to find the best fashion for YOU.