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LONDON--”Beauty and the ity Fair magazine that includ-
Beast” star Emma Watson ed a picture in which parts of
is planning legal action over her breasts were exposed.
photos said to have been Critics called Watson, who
leaked online, but her repre- is also a United Nations
sentatives on Wednesday de- goodwill ambassador on
nied reports that the pictures women’s rights and equality,
showed the British actress hypocritical and said she was
nude. betraying her feminist ideals.
“Photos from a clothes fit- Watson hit back, saying femi-
ting Emma had with a stylist nism was about choice. “It’s
a couple of years ago have about freedom, it’s about lib-
been stolen. They are not eration, it’s about equality.
nude photographs. Lawyers I really don’t know what my
Emma Watson
have been instructed and tits have to do with it,” she Models present creations during the Bora Aksu catwalk show during London Fashion Week in
we are not commenting fur- what action her lawyers are told Reuters. London, Britain, February 17, 2017.
ther,” her publicist said in a planning, or against whom. Watson appears in the live
statement to Variety and the Watson, 26, who made her action version of the Dis-
BBC. name as a child star play- ney classic “Beauty and the
Social media and blog ing Hermione Granger in Beast,” which opens in mov-
posts have claimed that na- the “Harry Potter” movies, ie theaters around the world
ked images of Watson have found herself at the center this week and is expected to
been posted this week on an of a social media controver- take some $200 million at the
anonymous document-shar- sy earlier this month over a box-office, according to box
ing network. It was not clear photo shoot she did for Van- office analysts.
NEW YORK/LONDON/ bloggers post snaps of their editor Silvia Grilli also said
MILAN--Dressed in a red outfits and images from the press, bloggers and influ-
top, fuchsia pleated skirt shows and may collaborate ences “can work together
and fluffy boa worn on the with brands that sometimes very well,” serving different
shoulder, fashion blogger dress them. “(Bloggers) audiences in different ways.
Beatrice Balaj poses for belong to a fashion system Magazines, for example,
pictures in her front row that ... has been literally offer trends while bloggers
seat at a New York catwalk reshaped,” said Tommaso share and speak more per-
show. Aquilano, creative direc- sonally.
She is among a number tor at Italian fashion brand “I think everybody serves
of bloggers who use the Fay. “Influencers and blog- a very different purpose ...
internet and social media gers at the end of the day You talk about somebody
to cover the biannual wo- are the mirror of what peo- who reaches somebody in
menswear events in New ple are in everyday lives.” an instantaneous way. Edi-
York, London, Milan and But relations with the es- tors have a different level
Paris, as well as everyday tablished fashion media can of veteran experience,”
fashion, and whose power be frosty. Last year, fashion said Joe Zee, former Elle
to set trends has grown bible Vogue criticised blog- magazine creative direc-
to rival that of traditional gers in an online post about tor and now editor-in-chief
glossy magazines. Milan Fashion Week, with at Yahoo Style. “I think
“We basically show people one writer accusing them we have so much fashion
our lives on-camera and of “heralding the death right now ... and there are
Rapper Snoop Dogg performs at ComplexCon in his hometown of Long Beach, California, U.S. off-camera, and people are of style” by changing into so many angles to come at
on November 6, 2016. interested in that and want “head-to-toe, paid-to-wear it that there is room for ev-
to know more,” said Balaj, outfits every hour.” erybody.”
whose Instagram feed car- The bloggers said that was Fashion fans say both sides
ries images from a number hypocritical, as magazines have their strengths. “I feel
of once-exclusive fashion borrow designer clothes for like magazines are awe-
week shows. “We’re very shoots and dedicate large some for visual inspiration
influential because people spaces to brand advertis- but bloggers have a certain
fall in love with our person- ing. Italian fashion blogger truth to them,” London stu-
NEW YORK--U.S. President week with celebrity website “I think people can disagree alities rather than what we Carlo Sestini says the two dent Ella Light said. “They
Donald Trump on Wednes- TMZ, Trump’s personal law- on policy, but we’ve got to do.” sides help each other, and get paid sometimes, but I
day attacked a music video yer, Michael Cohen, called be careful about that kind Reaching consumers via that “fighting will just not feel bloggers are a bit more
in which rapper Snoop Dogg the video “totally disgrace- of thing because the wrong real and you can relate to
points a fake gun at a clown- ful” and said the musician person sees that and gets the the web or social media lead to anything.”
like Trump figure. owed Trump an apology. wrong idea and you could platforms, Balaj and other Grazia Italy magazine them a bit more.”
“Can you imagine what the “There is absolutely nothing have a real problem,” Rubio
outcry would be if @Snoop- funny about an assassination told TMZ.
Dogg, failing career and all, attempt on a president,” Co- California rapper Snoop
had aimed and fired the gun hen said. “I certainly would Dogg, 45, told Billboard he
at President Obama? Jail not have accepted it if it was saw Trump as a clown. The
time!” Trump wrote on his President (Barack) Obama. video, released on Sunday,
Twitter account. I certainly don’t accept it as was intended to address
Snoop Dogg’s satirical President Trump, and in all police violence, the incar-
video for “Lavender” makes fairness, it’s not funny, it’s ceration of black people and
references to issues includ- not artistic.” Trump’s bid to impose a tem-
ing immigration and the po- The video has also drawn porary ban on people enter-
lice killings of unarmed black criticism from U.S. Repub- ing the United States from
men, and features characters lican Senators Marco Rubio several Muslim-majority
dressed as clowns including and Ted Cruz. Rubio, who countries.
one called Ronald Klump. has spoken of being a fan of “I feel like it’s a lot of people
Towards the end, the rapper hip hop music, said that be- making cool records, having
points a fake handgun at the cause of America’s history fun, partying, but nobody’s
head of the Trump-like char- of assassinations “anything dealing with the real issue
acter and the replica weapon like that is something peo- with this .... clown as presi-
releases a flag saying “Bang.” ple should be really careful dent,” the musician said.
In an interview earlier this about.”