‘The risk was worth it’: All Fours author Miranda July on sex, power and giving women permission to blow up their lives

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The artist and author’s hit book had so much in common with her own life that even her friends forgot it wasn’t real. How did this revolutionary portrayal of midlife desire come to inspire a generation of women? When Miranda July’s All Fours was published in May last year, it triggered what felt like both a spontaneous resistance movement and the sort of mania last experienced when the final Twilight book dropped, except this time for women in midlife rather than teenage girls. Two friends separately brought it to my house, like contraband dropped out of a biplane. Book groups hastily convened, strategically timed for when the men were out of the picture. The story opens with a 45-year-old woman about to take a road trip, a break from her husband and child and general domestic noise. She’s intending to drive from LA to New York, but is derailed in the first half hour by a young guy, Davey, in a car hire place, to whom she is passionately attracted. The next several weeks pa...
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Marilyn Monroe graces the new cover of CR Fashion Book in Balenciaga

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American actress, singer, and model Marilyn Monroe appeared on the new cover of the Chinese edition of the CR Fashion Book. The corresponding pictures were published in the official accounts of the magazine on social networks. The team behind the Chinese version of CR Fashion Book, founded by Carine Roitfeld, has digitized archive footage of Marilyn Monroe to 3D model her and dress her in the latest collections. In particular, on the cover of the magazine, the sex symbol of the 50s appeared in a Balenciaga dress, and on other frames, she poses in images from Miu Miu and Fendi. "Trends come and go, but Marilyn Monroe is forever. The most talked-about woman of 2022 has been digitally reimagined for the latest CR China cover, showing what the fashion and film icon might look like if she lived in the present day. Marilyn Monroe really created the information agenda in the spring and summer of 2022. Kim Kardashian wore the "naked" 1950s sex symbol dress in which she sang "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" to John F. Kennedy in 1962 at the Met Gala's annual Costume Institute ball. After James Bond girl Ana de Armas reincarnated as her in the new Netflix biopic "Blonde." Earlier, it was reported that a museum in the United States denied rumors that Kim Kardashian ruined Marilyn Monroe's dress. The American Robert Ripley Museum has denied reports that socialite Kim Kardashian ruined Marilyn Monroe's iconic gown while attending the Met Gala. TMZ writes about it. The dress in question is that Monroe wore in 1962 for the birthday of President John F. Kennedy. According to some reports, Kardashian lost 16 pounds to be able to wear it. Earlier it was reported that Kardashian returned the famous dress to the museum, which she allegedly rented for $ 5 million - but in an improper form: the dress came apart at the seams, was worn in several places, and lacked decorative crystals.

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