“A hell of a ride,” said with a wink is how French actress Lizzie Brochere describes her experience starring on American Horror Story as Grace, a troubled, intelligent and seductive mental patient based on Lizzie Borden. The real-life Lizzie shares a similar dark sheen, having previously starred in numerous haunting, romantic French art house films.…
THE GIRLPOWER ISSUE
“I believe in everything in moderation; that is the key to life. You really just have to want it, and not be excessive — not with money, with food, with anything.” -Nicky Hilton Well, maybe anything besides handbags. Nicky Hilton is sometimes known as a party girl socialite, perhaps in association with her sister, Paris,…
“I come to the studio and stand near the mic, and the song is already coming out of my unconscious.” Such is how Petite Meller lives: by coincidence, and tapped in to her inner psyche. Befitting her moniker, she is small and pale with over-applied pink cheeks and a charmingly strong French accent. Petite grew…
"I've been singing my entire life. Since I could talk, I honestly think I started singing before I started speaking. So I have known that I loved to sing since I could crawl.” -Madison Beer For sixteen-year-old pop star Madison Beer, success seemed to be written in the stars – and found through her voice.…
"I never really viewed her as a bitch," laughed Holland Roden when discussing her character Lydia from the hit MTV show, Teen Wolf. Roden would prefer to think of her character as a misunderstood Queen Bee, a more complex version of the hot, popular girl – one who is also intelligent, knows what she wants,…
“I found that through studying and playing music from a young age (and later through songwriting) that it was an emotional language that made the most sense for me.” For enigmatic singer-songwriter Rosie Lowe, music is not only a language, but one she speaks fluently. Rosie was born in rural Devon, “in a little wooden…
"I don’t really know any woman who isn’t a feminist. I just think it’s without question that a woman or a man should be a feminist.” -Sophie Turner Sophie Turner, the British actress who plays Sansa Stark on Game of Thrones, describes herself as a “big pushover,” but she clearly takes a definite stance on…
"I really loved being on stage as a kid, it just felt natural. I wouldn’t get nervous, I would just enjoy it as much as possible. I never wanted to leave!” This attitude comes as no surprise from Danish-born musician turned actress Tatiana Pajkovic, who went from studying piano in Copenhagen, to hopping on a…
“My mom was a teacher. She was the bread-winner, and my dad was the more creative one with a bohemian lifestyle...I was basically encouraged to do whatever I wanted, and it was immediately clear that it would be in arts and entertainment. I wanted to be a dancer, then I wanted to be an actor,…
“I started in music when I was a little kid, like seven years old. It was just always a part of my life.” Jacquie Lee is a girl with a voice. She rose to overnight recognition on the TV show The Voice when coaches turned around to find a then sixteen-year-old girl as the source…
"ONE OF MY PHILOSOPHIES OF ART is that the closer you make things to who you truly are in the time and place that you truly occupy, the more universal they will become. That means to me really embracing what it means to be a woman in this moment, right now, making art. I do…
The Untitled Magazine Releases The #GIRLPOWER Issue 8 App Edition 362 PAGES | 19 VIDEOS | 10 COVERS Download the Free App on iTunes & Google Play Download the Digital Edition to your desktop The 362-page App & Digital Edition of The Untitled Magazine #Girlpower Issue presents some of the most inspirational women on the…
SLUTS ROCK, AS THE 2001 THE CULT FAVORITE “WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER” SHARED WITH US. Words of wisdom, but us sluts already knew that. Fourteen years later, we have finally entered an era where slut shaming is considered a crime worse that acting like a slut. As Vogue columnist and founder of the sex positive…
WHEN IT COMES TO EMPOWERING WOMEN, Internet pioneer and filmmaker Tiffany Shlain says that technology will “give them the tools to do whatever they want to do, whatever they dream of doing.” It’s strange that some people are still taken by surprise when girls express interest in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). But a…
IT IS NO SECRET THAT THE ART WORLD, though responsible for propagating spectacular, history-shaping movements, has been at best an uneven playing field for men versus women in the fight for respect and artistic reification. At worst it’s served as an unassailable fortress wherein institutionalized sexism is not just a latent function of the system…
IN AN AGE WHERE GENDER EQUALITY IN THEORY is almost universally supported, there are still some strongholds where a woman’s presence makes people feel uncomfortable. One of these is the world of politics, which revolves around power and money, two things traditionally tied to testosterone. But with the idea of a female president becoming ever…
WRITER AND ART CRITIC LUCY R. LIPPARD ONCE SAID THAT FEMINIST ART is not just a style or a movement, but also “a value system, a revolutionary strategy, a way of life.” It’s difficult to pinpoint exactly when a range of shared opinions and collective experiences became the movement we now know as feminism, but…
Luxury goods entrepreneur and investor Carmen Busquets is undoubtedly the online retail sector’s fairy godmother. A pioneer of the fashion-tech space, she was the major founding investor in Net-a-Porter, one of the biggest digital success stories of our time. Besides being a minor shareholder of Net-a-Porter, Venezuelan- born Carmen, forty-nine, now holds shares in companies…
If all goes according to Hillary Rodham Clinton’s master plan, she will not only become the most powerful woman in the world, but arguably the most powerful person on the planet. With her presidential campaign in full swing, she is already a force to be reckoned with. After months of speculation over whether the Democrat…
British actress Naomie Harris is best-known for her role as Eve Moneypenny in Bond films Skyfall and the upcoming Spectre due out November 6th. Acting since the age of nine, her first starring film role came in the British post-apocalyptic film 28 Days Later, directed by Danny Boyle, whom she credits with giving her a…