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| | Angelina Jolie: 'Because I grew up around Hollywood, I was never very impressed with it' | | Added 476 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Angelina Jolie covers the latest issue of WSJ. Magazine. It?s a surprising piece, written by Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, which largely ignores the tabloid version of Jolie and barely touches the divorce from Brad Pitt. Jolie spent years healing with her children after the Pitt marriage went t-ts up in 2016, but slowly and steadily, she?s been rebuilding her life. She?s back to taking acting roles with some regularity. She?s directed another movie (Without Blood), and she?s filming the Maria Callas bio-pic. She also confirms, in this piece, that she?s signed on to a third Maleficent movie (no additional details). While she?s still being sued by and countersuing Brad Pitt over the sale of her half of Miraval, she?s already using the money from the sale to start Atelier Jolie. Which seems to be the main point of this WSJ. piece Jolie is hyping, in her hilariously awkward way, her new thing, this fashion collective she?s dreamt up. You can read the full piece here. Some highlights:
Playing Maria Callas: ?I?m a little terrified to do it. I?m the one who whispers ?Happy Birthday? at the party. My body reacts very strongly to stress. My blood sugar goes up and down. I suddenly had Bell?s palsy six months before my divorce.?
The past seven years, where she was mostly at home in LA: ?We had to heal. There are things we needed to heal from.?
On Hollywood today: ?I wouldn?t be an actress today,? says Jolie. Maybe theater, she caveats, but not Hollywood. ?When I was starting out, it wasn?t as much of an expectation to be as public, to share so much.?
Winning an Oscar at 24: ?Because I grew up around Hollywood, I was never very impressed with it. I never bought into it as significant or important.?
Her closest friends are refugees: ?There?s a reason people who have been through hardship are also much more honest and much more connected, and I am more relaxed with them. Why do I like spending time with people who?ve survived and are refugees? They?ve confronted so much in life that it brings forward not just strength, but humanity. I realized my closest friends are refugees. Maybe four out of six of the women that I am close to are from war and conflict.?
No social life: Meanwhile, in L.A., ?I don?t really have?a social life,? says Jolie. She says she isn?t currently dating.
Her children are the people closest to her: ?They are the closest people to me and my life, and they?re my close friends. We?re seven very different people, which is our strength.?
The public gave her a career: ?They?ve also chosen how they want you. Since I was young, people liked the part of me that?s pretty tough and maybe a bit wild?that?s the part that I think people enjoy. I?m not the one [who] you want to hear about my pain or my sadness. You know, that?s not entertaining.?
Jolie plans to eventually leave L.A. ?It?s part of what happened after my divorce. I lost the ability to live and travel as freely. I will move when I can,? she says, and spend more time at her home in Cambodia. ?I grew up in quite a shallow place,. Of all the places in the world, Hollywood is not a healthy place. So you seek authenticity.?
On Atelier Jolie: She also seems to have an almost compulsive need to work. ?I can?t stop. I always think there?s like a fight coming.? Jolie says people around her laughed when she told them about her new venture: ?You, in fashion? No.? ?I?ve never been to a fashion show or Met Ball my entire life.?
She has so many ideas for Atelier Jolie, but she knows it will run at a loss: ?I?ll probably lose money, maybe even for a while,? says Jolie. The 6,600-square-foot space was advertised at $60,000 per month for a minimum 10-year lease; a representative for the brand declined to share the terms of the lease but said Jolie is paying less and isn?t committed to 10 years. ?If I can eventually put into practice some things that I think are improvements and I just break even, that?s a huge victory.?
She consulted human rights lawyers before consulting designers: ?What would be an ethical business? We are trying to reverse-engineer it a little bit. I don?t know the answers. Can we avoid doing real damage?not only to the earth, but the garment workers? ? Is it possible that I could go somewhere and enjoy making clothes, enjoy wearing clothes and not hurt anybody? And actually maybe treat people well??
Her style: ?My daughter jokes that I wear too many trench coats. It?s just like a hiding thing.?
She?s comfortable with her body now: ?It?s like I see my scars and my things, and I feel like I?ve lived. And I?m having these big experiences, and I have this map of this complex body that?s changed over time. You and I both know that a woman with a full life is very sexy.?
[From WSJ. Magazine]
I want her to get back with Jonny Lee Miller so badly, my god. I feel like they would be so good together now, at this age. I know that?s far from the point of this interview, but I honestly feel like she needs to let one good man in for a weekend and build from there. As for Atelier Jolie, WSJ. Mag lists all of the smaller projects she?s building within the Basquiat studio, not just full fashion design, but a cafe and sewing lessons and classes that people can take. It sounds really cool, like a modern fashion-based commune. She?s also already on her way out of LA she?s reportedly apartment-hunting in New York as we speak, and now that the kids are older, I would imagine she?ll be traveling a lot more.
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| | Angelina Jolie got some new ink on her middle finger while she was in NYC | | Added 590 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Angelina Jolie has been getting so much love whenever she visits New York, and she?s been traveling to NYC with more frequency in recent months. Her fashion collective, Atelier Jolie, is now housed in New York. She?s a producer on a Broadway-bound show. She also just likes the vibe of NYC she?s been out and about, going to brunch with friends and stopping by a legendary tattoo parlor. She went to Mr. K to get some new ink during her most recent trip, and Mr. K posted a photo to let people know that he worked on Jolie, but the actual tattoos were blurred out:
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| | Angelina Jolie stepped out in multiple all-black outfits in NYC: goth girl forever? | | Added 595 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Angelina Jolie has been in New York all week with Vivienne and Pax. Yesterday, she was photographed going in and out of the Mercer Hotel, and a few days ago, she was seen going out to a business lunch with Pax. All of Angelina?s ?New York fashion? looks are pretty great. I mean, she?s a goth girl and she loves wearing black, but even wearing black in New York, stands out. Pax was also carrying some camera equipment. No one knows what that was about.
As we keep discussing, Jolie has a lot of business in New York these days. Atelier Jolie, the fashion collective she founded this year, is now housed in Jean-Michel Basquiat?s old studio in NYC. She?s also producing a Broadway production of The Outsiders, and little Vivienne will be Jolie?s ?voluntary assistant.? I noticed that anti-Jolie people were screaming, crying and throwing up about how that makes Vivienne a nepo-baby. Like? you think Angelina hiring her 15-year-old daughter as an intern is a nepo-baby move? If this was about nepotism, surely Jolie would have demanded that Vivienne have a ROLE on stage in her Broadway production? Internships are literally the bare-minimum of nepotism. I would go so far as to say that more celebrity parents should use this path get their kids an internship and show them how the system works behind-the-scenes.
Meanwhile, Angelina?s third ex-husband continues to FAFO. Nouvel the company which holds 50% of Chateau Miraval, which Angelina sold to Yuri Shefler has now countersued Brad Pitt and the Perrin family. Weirdly, none of the American sites have picked up on the countersuit, but the countersuit is full of all kinds of amazing details. Basically, Jolie?s sale of Nouvel to Stoli/Tenute del Mondo has led to Shefler uncovering all kinds of underhanded, boneheaded and flatly criminal dealings within Miraval. You can follow the tweet-thread below. At some point, the American media needs to get off Pitt?s dk and actually report on what?s really happening with all of these Miraval lawsuits.
Nouvel is suing them all omg https://t.co/XL2wigGCjn pic.twitter.com/940OB05nn3
D.K. (@AJExquisitely) August 17, 2023
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| | Angelina Jolie will rent Jean-Michel Basquiat's work space for Atelier Jolie | | Added 634 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Angelina Jolie has been visiting New York pretty consistently in recent months. She?s based herself in Los Angeles for the past seven years, ever since she filed for divorce in 2016 she ended up buying a mansion which is located pretty close to Brad Pitt?s Los Feliz compound, only Pitt recently sold the compound. So I did wonder why she was making so many trips to New York, hoping that it was possibly about spending time with Jonny Lee Miller. She often brings her kids to NYC, and in late June, she was in the city with Zahara, Pax and Shiloh. So, is she changing her home base? Is she looking for residential real estate? Apparently not Art News reports that Angelina was looking for commercial space for her new fashion collective, Atelier Jolie. So she decided to rent a very famous address which was once Jean-Michel Basquiat?s work space.
The Manhattan property where Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat lived and worked will be taken over by actress and humanitarian Angelina Jolie. The deal for the property, located at 57 Great Jones Street, was confirmed today by John Roesch and Garrett Kelly, both directors at the real estate agency Meridian Capital Group. Jolie will rent the space for her latest creative venture, Atelier Jolie, under long-term commercial use for eight years.
The interior space features 6,600 square feet of space across three floors. The exterior of the building is adorned in street art, and Jolie will keep it that way as a public tribute to Basquiat, who started his career as one half of the graffiti art duo SAMO.
?[Jolie] wanted to preserve the older art on [the building] and keep that Basquiat feel to the space,? said Roesch.
?She loved the facade of the building and it being tagged up with the street art as a memorial for Basquiat,? Kelly added.
Basquiat rented the second-floor space from Warhol shortly after they first met. Warhol originally bought the building in 1970.
Prior to Warhol?s purchase, the property already had a rich history. Originally constructed in the 1860s, it was purchased by Paolo Antonio Vaccarelli?aka the gangster Paul Kelly?who opened the Brighton Athletic Club there in 1904. The building was subsequently used as a metal works business and kitchen supply company until 1970. Most recently, the property was home to the exclusive Japanese restaurant Bohemian.
Atelier Jolie will serve as a workshop opportunity for under-represented tailors and artisans around the world. Those participating will be able to work and showcase their creations at the 57 Great Jones Street location. Jolie plans to open her new business ?as quickly as possible,? according to Roesch. The property was previously on the market with Meridian Capital Group for $60,000 per month for a minimum of 10 years.
[From Art News]
God that?s expensive. I get it, and I get why it?s so expensive, even beyond the physical space of it, but also the pedigree. So, I wondered what Atelier Jolie would actually entail and what kind of business it would be and how it would be set up. We?re getting a better look at all of that refugee creators will be creating capsule collections and they?ll likely collaborate with existing design houses too. The first collab is with Chloe. Will Atelier Jolie designers actually come into this Basquiat property to work, or will this be more of a show space? Will they show at New York Fashion Week? Time will tell. It?s interesting though. Also: do you think Angelina actually will buy or rent a residential property in New York so she can manage this project close-by?
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
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| | Angelina Jolie's new refugee fashion collective will utilize 'deadstock material' | | Added 681 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Here are some photos of Angelina Jolie and Zahara out in New York last week. Angelina clearly misses Zahara like crazy, and in Zahara?s first year at Spelman College, Angelina looked for any excuse to fly to Atlanta to see her daughter, and any time Zahara had time off, Angelina arranged for a girls? trip to New York and more. I assume the trip last week was something fun for Zahara after her spring semester ended.
Meanwhile, at the end of 2022, Jolie stepped down from her position of special envoy to the UNHCR. She had worked with the UNHCR (in different positions) for 21 years. Many of us Jolie-stans wondered what she would do next, whether she would work for some smaller refugee organization. Well, we?re getting an answer? sort of. Angelina has announced that she?s starting Atelier Jolie, which is a fashion collective which will employ refugees and hopefully utilize some refugee fashion creatives.
The actress, director, and former United Nations goodwill ambassador and special envoy is launching Atelier Jolie, a new purpose-driven brand that will utilize deadstock and tap into the abilities of ?refugees and other talented, under-appreciated groups, with positions of dignity based on skill.?
Jolie posted the news on her Instagram account, writing, ?I?m starting something new today?a collective where everyone can create Atelier Jolie is a place for creative people to collaborate with a skilled and diverse family of expert tailors, pattern makers, and artisans from around the world. It stems for my appreciation and deep respect for the many tailors and makers I?ve worked with over the years, a desire to make use of the high quality vintage material and deadstock material already available, and also to be part of a movement to cultivate more self-expression.?
More than 100 million tons of textile waste dead-end in landfills every year. Atelier Jolie seems designed to address that crisis. According to the brand website: ?You will be able to repair or upcycle pieces from your closet you wish to revive, perfecting fit, breathing new life into what could have been thrown away, and creating quality heirloom garments with personal meaning.?
The mention of refugees is intriguing given the end last week of Title 42, a pandemic-era measure that allowed authorities to quickly turn back migrants on public health grounds. The U.S. could see record numbers of asylum seekers moving forward. Whatever Atelier Jolie becomes, Jolie is particularly well-placed to disrupt in this area.
[From Vogue]
I wonder if this collective is going to be LA-based or international or what. How are they getting their hands on ?deadstock? and what will the larger organization look like? I don?t doubt Angelina, but it just sounds like a huge project. Perhaps she?s already employing refugee creatives to work out this enormous undertaking. It will be interesting to see? a collective making sack dresses out of deadstock. Please, let some of those refugee stylists get ahold of Angelina and get her to wear some different silhouettes!
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| | Angelina Jolie & Maddox Jolie-Pitt attended last night's White House state dinner | | Added 708 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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The Washington DC paparazzi (?) got a glimpse of Angelina Jolie flying into Dulles yesterday, and rumors immediately popped up that she would attend Wednesday evening?s state dinner for President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea. What we didn?t realize is that Maddox would be her date! Maddox, who was born in Cambodia, goes to university in South Korea, and Maddox speaks some Korean, or he?s possibly fluent at this point. Meanwhile, Angelina has been in and out of the Biden White House the entire time she?s been invited to attend official events, she regularly takes meetings with Biden staffers and officials, and it makes perfect sense that the Biden administration would extend an invitation to her for the state dinner.
So, Angelina came out for her first-ever White House state dinner. Maddox was her date, and he looked amazing. So did Angelina, who wore a vintage Chanel jacket over a custom gown which had been made for her several years ago. She recycled her whole outfit, I believe. She even wore pearls! She must have thought ?I?m going to the White House, time to break out the pearls.?
Dr. Jill Biden wore Reem Acra, which was understated yet stunning. The real star was South Korea?s First Lady Kim Keon Hee, who wore a dazzling white ensemble. Kim Keon Hee is 50 years old! At first, I thought President Yoon Suk Yeol brought his daughter. She looks so young. Korean skincare is no fking joke.
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| | Angelina Jolie went on a three-hour lunch date with David Mayer de Rothschild | | Added 739 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Ultimately, my dream is for Jonny Lee Miller and Angelina Jolie to get back together. For a second in 2021, it looked like my dream would come true Angelina was seen visiting JLM?s apartment in New York a few times, and they also went to dinner in Beverly Hills. Jonny and Angelina always stayed on good terms after their divorce, and Jonny has never said a word against her. I actually think Jonny became something like one of her closest friends. But? we haven?t heard anything about them in a while, and if a tall, handsome, rich, British adventurer comes calling, why not? So it was a few days ago, when Angelina was seen having a three-hour lunch in Malibu with David Mayer de Rothschild. Yes, that kind of Rothschild.
Angeline Jolie spent three whole hours chatting away with hunky billionaire heir David Mayer de Rothschild while on a lunch date in Malibu, Calif., on Thursday. In photos obtained by Page Six, the ?Maleficent? star, 47, was seen smiling as she exited celebrity hotspot Nobu with the British environmentalist, 44, by her side.
For the outing, Jolie wore a chic black dress with cutouts that showed off her midsection.She also paired the look with matching black heels and sunglasses. Paparazzi snapped the ?Girl, Interrupted? star as she walked to her car and pushed back her hair.
Mayer de Rothschild, who is part of the richest family in the world, appeared in good spirits as well, as he flashed a smirk and laughed along with Jolie.
Reps for Jolie did not immediately return Page Six?s request for comment on whether the pair were out to discuss business or pleasure. The meetup could have been work-
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| | Angelina Jolie swarmed by fans & paparazzi at the Guerlain boutique in Paris | | Added 794 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Angelina Jolie has had a busy and visible January she?s been back and forth between London and New York, and seen out with Shiloh and Zahara. I think Zahara got a lot of ?mom time? on the New York trip, and it?s very clear that Jolie misses her oldest daughter like crazy now that Zahara is in college. I wonder which kids got to travel with mom to Paris, because that?s where Jolie is this week. These are photos of Angelina on Monday at the Guerlain boutique in Paris. It looks like she was swarmed by paparazzi. She looks so glamorous, honestly.
Currently, Guerlain is the only big endorsement in Jolie?s portfolio. I have to think she gets offers to model for print campaigns and I hope she?s been offered some brand ambassadorships. I feel like that would be a great move for her at this point in her life, to get a brand ambassadorship with one of the big fashion houses like Dior or Saint Laurent. Speaking of, she?s been carrying a lot of expensive designer purses lately in New York, she hauled around an enormous YSL tote (the Icare tote), and in Paris, she?s carrying the new Dior 95.22 bag. According to British Vogue, this bag was unveiled at a Dior show last year and it?s basically the new version of the Lady Dior/Chouchou. Please, someone get her a purse brand ambassadorship!
Look at this insane crowd. Can you imagine if she ever turned up at Paris Fashion Week?
Paris loves some Angelina Jolie. pic.twitter.com/QLEHh1uRgF
K?. (@lyntwig_) January 31, 2023
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| | Angelina Jolie has ended her role and work with the UNHCR after 21 years | | Added 838 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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In 2001, Angelina Jolie became a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commission on Refugees. Ten years later, her position with the UNHCR was elevated to the status of ?special envoy.? Over the years, we?ve heard stories about Jolie?s UNHCR work, all of it good she has the respect of the diplomats and the aid workers on the ground, she brings her own media and writes her own speeches and statements, she donates her own money and she helps with fundraising and public advocacy on behalf of the UNHCR. I thought she would be with the UN in an official position for the rest of her life, but it looks like she?s now focused on working with other organizations. Jolie has stepped down for her UNHCR position. This shocked me!
The United Nations and Angelina Jolie announced in a joint statement on Friday morning that Ms. Jolie would end her role as a special envoy for the U.N. refugee agency after 21 years of humanitarian work as one of the most famous public faces representing the organization. The statement said Ms. Jolie ?was moving on? from the United Nations to expand her humanitarian work and engage with a ?wider range of actors on a broader set of humanitarian issues as well as work more directly with local organizations.?
Ms. Jolie, 47, has toured the globe?s conflict zones, including Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan and Myanmar, making 60 field visits since 2001, first as a good-will ambassador and then, starting in 2011, as a special envoy of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
?Angelina Jolie has been an important humanitarian partner of U.N.H.C.R. for very long,? Filippo Grandi, the high commissioner for the refugee agency, said in the statement. ?After a long and successful time with UNHCR, I appreciate her desire to shift her engagement and support her decision.?
In May, Ms. Jolie visited Ukraine, volunteering with local nongovernment organizations in the western city of Lviv in a personal capacity and outside of an official role with the United Nations. The trip appeared to be the first sign that she was preparing to part ways with the global organization.
?After 20 years of working within the U.N. system, I feel it is time for me to work differently, engaging directly with refugees and local organizations and supporting their advocacy for solutions,? Ms. Jolie said in the statement.
[From The NY Times]
The Times also gives Jolie her flowers, describing just some of the work she did on the ground, how much she cares about the refugees she meets, how she visits the same camps multiple times so she can check in the same refugees. The Times also pointed out that Jolie seemed to be increasingly critical of the UN on the whole, perhaps because she saw it as unwieldy and perhaps wasting money which could be better spent elsewhere. It will be interesting to see if Jolie seeks an official alliance with a smaller refugee organization, or whether she just becomes a self-styled lone humanitarian, lending her support short-term to organizations on the ground at various crises.
I also think it?s worth noting that Jolie has been making a lot of visits to DC now that Joe Biden is president, including multiple trips to the Biden White House. Did she resign as UNHCR special envoy because she?s about to take a position with the Biden administration or State Dept?
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| | Angelina Jolie helped Zahara move into Spelman College this week | | Added 967 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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A few weeks ago, Angelina Jolie confirmed what had been widely rumored: little Zahara Jolie Pitt is headed to Spelman College. Angelina and Zahara attended a ?Spelhouse? fundraiser and party in LA, and Zahara got to meet some of her new Spelman sisters. Well, this is apparently freshman orientation week. Angelina is in Atlanta, helping Zahara move into (what I presume is) campus housing. Something I?ve appreciated about all of this is that Angelina is clearly very famous and recognizable, but she has the kind of energy where regular people feel like they can talk to her, take her photo and even tease her and she?s just chill with all of it. Here?s the video of Angelina on campus, meeting Spelman?s president Dr. Helene Gayle.
moving in day! Doesn't you all feel emotional just by looking at Angelina Jolie! Her baby is going to college!
Spelman mom saying how does it feel! pic.twitter.com/v9UKGuKspU
Tres (@ATJolie_3) August 10, 2022
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