isabella manfredi

Bizzy izzi. Girl at The Preatures. Instagram: isabellamanfredi

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i could buy myself something new

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Thanks to Shailene Woodley’s latest interview, those “I Don’t Need Feminism” memes are circulating again. If that’s going to be a thing, can we at least be realistic about why we don’t need it? I don’t need feminism because Alice Paul and Lucy Burns were jailed, beaten into unconsciousness, and force-fed so that I can grab a bagel and vote for the president of my country without thinking twice about it. I don’t need feminism because Luisa Capetillo went to jail in 1919 for wearing pants in public, paving the road so that a short 74 years later, Senators Barbara Mikulski and Carol Braun could become the first women to wear pants on the Senate floor. That was in 1993. 1993. But I don’t need feminism because I can wear pants to work every day. I don’t need feminism because at a time when men were saying, “women aren’t funny”, Tina Fey became the head writer of Saturday Night Live. I don’t need feminism because 29% of television writer jobs now belong to women. Which is a lot when you consider that people are still saying women aren’t funny. I don’t need feminism because Kathrine Switzer fought off a race official who tried to physically drag her off the all male Boston Marathon course and finished the race, forcing him to acknowledge that women are capable of running 26.2 miles. If you’re going to stand up and say you don’t need feminism, at least be grateful to the women who made it possible for you to think you don’t need it.

Sarah Watson

Sarah Watson, on point. 

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The Preatures at Rough Trade, New York. March 23 2015

Photos by Adela Loconte

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For me performing has a lot to do with being fearless. I wrote an article for Artforum in the mideighties that had a line in it that the rock critic Greil Marcus quoted a lot: "People pay money to see others believe in themselves." Meaning, the higher the chance you can fall down in public, the more value the culture places on what you do. Unlike, say a writer or a painter, when you're onstage you can't hide from other people, or from yourself either. I've spent a lot of time in Berlin, and the Germans have all these great words with multiple meanings inside them. A few visits ago, I came across one of those words, Maskenfreiheit. It means "the freedom conferred by masks.

Kim Gordon ‘Girl in a Band’

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And love these #dorateymur red suede ankle boots I picked up from openingceremony last week!

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russhmagazine followed me during the epic #CHANELSALZBURGNY last week. 

Check out the behind the photo diary on russhmagazine.com 

PHOTOGRAPHY Alexandra Nataf

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CHANEL Salzburg NY

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CHANEL #BrasserieGabrielle Paris March 10 2015 

Hair: Jenny Kim

Makeup: Vic Baron

Jewellery: Love & Hatred

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Mitchell is one of the greats – as great as Bob Dylan, maybe greater, but it’s not a contest; she just means more to me than he does. If she means nothing to you, too bad, your loss. Just don’t persecute her. One element of my devotion is anger at the raw and rawer deal she has received from the music press, since the contemptuous awarding of the title “Old lady of the year” by Rolling Stone, as if she were more of a groupie than a great lyricist. What she always lacked, to oppose all that dismissive contempt, was the obsessiveness of the male fanbase: the Deadheads and Dylanologists who catalogue and compete for record-collection kudos among a fraternity of admirers. Where are the dry, 1,000-page volumes of musical Joni-trivia, the conferences, the PhD dissertations? We just locked the door and listened on our own. On hearing the news of her hospitalisation, the crime writer Val McDermid tweeted: “Distraught to hear Joni Mitchell in intensive care. Her music inhabits my heart, my very soul.”

Linda Grant

‘It’s not always easy to be a Joni Mitchell fan, but her illness devastates me’, The Guardian, April 4 2015

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Speaking with I-D mag about Preatures, politics and #VividLive 

Hair: Jenny Kim Makeup: Vic Baron Photo: Byron Spencer 

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#Instyle15 in GUCCI

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Donny Benét – Endless

This excellent record came out around the same time as ours and features other Sydney legends Kirin J Callinan and Jack Ladder. I was so happy to be part of the Don experience. 'Endless' is a song about having sex in a bookstore... enjoy

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Another Mclean Stephenson <3

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Last night of the American tour! Sayers Club in LA. 

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“I was a really good liar when I was a kid,” offers Isabella “Izzi” Manfredi from her seat in the labyrinthine basement of Chicago’s Double Door. She and guitarist Jack Moffitt are seated on a well-worn couch opposite me. We’ve met just after soundcheck, and with a couple hours before showtime, both are casual, cool, and confident.

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I had an interview with Prof. Barry Spurr to get into his advanced poetry class a few years ago. When I asked him why he didn't have any female poets on the reading list he said he didn't care for female poetry and thought it was important students had a solid grounding in the 'classics' foremost. It struck me as a bit off but I was eager to please and get into the class, which I did, but dropped out after about 6 weeks. He made the study of the most vibrant poetry feel elitist and impenetrable. I'm wary of witch hunts, but this story reminded me of my old experience that at the time I'd shrugged off as my own inadequacy. Prof Spurr is knowledgeable and passionate about what he loves, predominantly white male poetry, and I'm not suggesting there's anything wrong with that; it's a very rich genre. But putting him in charge of the national curriculum? Probably not a great idea. Aside, I'm not opposed to reintroducing study of the bible if it focuses on its merit as a text rather than as religious instruction. Heaps of western literature, art and music is rooted in biblical reference and allusion and I think it's great for students to be able to make those connections. This can only provide a deeper understanding of the work and its historical context, and it leaves room for some great debates about morality/sex/history in the classroom. What bothers me is I feel like we're regressing as a country and the government is like a fist clenching hard, refusing to loosen its grip on change, no plans to foster ingenuity and creativity and look to the future.... Unless it involves coal, or ballet, or school chaplaincy programs.