Notorious & Notable

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Exhibit showing from 

Sep 14 through Jan 2

Co-presented with the National Jewelry Institute, Notorious and Notable: 20th Century Women of Style highlights 80 prominent New York women who used their style, talent, or wealth to capture the attention of society and the media. The exhibition features a runway of original attire—much of it created by the most important designers of their times—and an impressive selection of jewelry crafted from the dawn of the 20th century to its close.

The exhibition features such celebrated New York women as Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Babe Paley, and Barbara Walters, as well as women from the arts world, including Isadora Duncan, Marian Anderson, Lena Horne, and Lauren Bacall. The exhibition offers an opportunity to encounter many of New York’s leading ladies past and present through their fashion and jewelry.

Who's In?

Women's Ethical Edge
	Monday 11/1 @ 7:00 PM - 8:30 host: Ny Society for Ethical Culture where: 2 West 64 Street New York, NY 10023 price: $15 program. $25 program & reception rsvp: online rsvp/contact: call 212-874-5210 x144

The promo reads: A Conversation with Six Remarkable Women about How We can do things differently this year. Guests Include: Amy Goodman Noami Klein Gail Sheey Susan Taylor Marie Wilson Abigail Disney

Women's Ethical Edge

smart birds

"...feminist girls may get pleasure from looking at the bodies of their favorite female models while simultaneously rejecting the ways in which women's bodies are textually constructed to be looked at; they might think critically about their own bodies, at the same time holding to the notion that women ought to accept--even celebrate--their own natural body shapes. Such contradictions are characteristic of girls' and women's everyday experience. Girls and women constantly take up contradictory subject positions, taking simultaneously different meanings from/of images, texts and themselves."

~A. Jones (1993)~

Becoming a Girl: Post-structuralist Suggestions for Educational Research 

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I am reading Natalie Angier's Women: An Intimate Geography so maybe I am feeling super sharply some the inconsistencies of women's lives and the lived depravity many women feel at not having lived up to something. The thing that concerns me however is: what is it that we haven't lived up to? And it is something that we want? And if not why then do so many woman still feel to twitch, the itch, the nag of something still to do done to themselves? Just food for thought pretty birds. Make sure you are still smart birds as well. Love love love. 

Portrait of a Lady

" Style is a very simple way

of saying complicated things. " 

~Jean Cocteau~

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