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The Harper's Bazaar cover is for "the ultimate winter fragrance, Guerlain Mon Guerlain Intense Eau de Parfum." So these quotes may have been prepared at the same time as those for the other Mon Guerlain Intense articles which appeared earlier. Madame Figaro had similar quotes. At least this one is in English. 😀 What is true for both: She never mentions "divorce." She makes no reference to the filing or the case. She does not give so much as a hint of the incident on the plane, the children's trauma or the efforts to restore Brad's relationship with the children.
It says "she writes candidly." It does not say she responded to questions. There was no interview nor correspondence between them, no actual Q&A. She is characteristically direct even in live interviews. HB and probably Madame Figaro and others altered the supplied questions to make them more attention-grabbing and thus don't align with her answers. If the questions printed below were the actual questions her prepared quotes were designed to respond to, her answers would have clearly addressed them instead of being oddly off target.
Aside from the rare glimpse of the intimately placed Whiskey Bravo for William Bradley tattooed on her right inner thigh, what is notable in what she did say:
"I would love to live abroad and will do so as soon as my children are 18. Right now I’m having to base where their father chooses to live."
In Madame Figaro:
Brad said:
"Sometimes you get hurt, you see those you love in pain, and you can’t be as free and open as your spirit desires." -- She was hurt. A "family member" said: “Her family is broken and she is in agony. Her children are recovering from the events that brought about the filing” and that left them traumatized. But in "you see those you love in pain" she is referring to Brad. He had to deal with feelings of "no worth," tortured thoughts of "a horrible end," before ultimately, "forgiveness of self." It is why she makes sure she is always there for him. They haven't been free to talk openly about it much as they would want to. But maybe soon. "It’s not new or old, but I do feel the blood returning to my body."
When Josh Horowitz of MTV News asked her about the new ink, she offered merely, “Um, it’s for Brad.”
Harpers Bazaar
As we wrap up 2019, and look ahead to 2020, Harper’s BAZAAR chose Angelina Jolie to grace our final issue of the year because quite simply, there’s no one else like her. Jolie has spent nearly 20 years with the UN Refugee Agency fighting for the rights and freedoms of displaced people, and over 10 years funding schools for girls from Afghanistan to Kenya to Cambodia. She is a Visiting Professor in Practice at the London School of Economics, educating students on peace and security and the fight for women’s rights internationally. She champions women’s health—in particular, treatment for cancer—with honesty and openness about her own health experiences in years past.
Here, she writes candidly about “visible and invisible scars,” her fight for freedom around the world, and why she doesn’t mind sharing her new home in Cambodia with a family of chipmunks.
Petticoat rule. Giambattista Valli Haute Couture ball gown.
HARPER'S BAZAAR: We recognize in these photos the free-spirited, bold side of you we know from old. Is that a fair characterization?
ANGELINA JOLIE: My body has been through a lot over the past decade, particularly the past four years, and I have both the visible and invisible scars to show for it. The invisible ones are harder to wrestle with. Life takes many turns. Sometimes you get hurt, you see those you love in pain, and you can’t be as free and open as your spirit desires. It’s not new or old, but I do feel the blood returning to my body.
Do you feel like you’re finding yourself again?
AJ: The part of us that is free, wild, open, curious can get shut down by life. By pain or by harm. My children know my true self, and they have helped me to find it again and to embrace it. They have been through a lot. I learn from their strength. As parents, we encourage our kids to embrace all that they are, and all that they know in their hearts to be right, and they look back at us and want the same for us.
As a mother of six, in a world of social media on a public stage, under relentless scrutiny, how do you teach your kids to be bold?
AJ: Knowing our true self is a very important question for all of us. Especially a child. I think kids need to be able to say, “Here’s who I am, and what I believe.” We can’t prevent them from experiencing pain, heartache, physical pain, and loss. But we can teach them to live better through it.
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As a public figure, how do you deal with the frustration of constantly being misunderstood? What do you think is the biggest misconception about you?
AJ: I have a tattoo, “A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.” I got it when I was 20. I was with my mom one evening, and I was feeling lost. I was restless—always. I still am. We were driving to dinner, and she talked about spending time with Tennessee Williams and how much she loved his words. She told me he wrote that, about the wild at heart. We drove to a tattoo parlor, and I got it inked on my left arm. What she did for me that night was to remind me that the wild within me is alright and a part of me.
I see so much beauty in other people. Not when they are pretending to be something other than their true selves. Not when they are harming others. Not when they lie. But the wild ones. The emotional, open, searching ones, longing to be free. The honest ones. Because anything else is a cage impossible to live in.
This is our end-of-year edition. Looking ahead to 2020, do you have a message for our readers?
AJ: My dream for everyone in 2020 is to remember who they are and to be who they are regardless of what might be disrupting their ability to be free. If you feel you are not living your life fully, try to identify what it is or who it is that is blocking you from breathing. Identify and fight past whatever is oppressing you. That takes many forms, and it is going to be a different fight for everyone. I say this with a deep understanding that for so many women, freedom is simply not an option. Their own system, community, family, government works against them and is part of what is shutting them down. I’m reading the book No Visible Bruises, which points out that between 2000 and 2006 more American women died from domestic homicide than American soldiers died on the battlefield. It is shocking that across the world the most dangerous place for women today is the home. There are still more than a dozen countries where violence against a wife or family member is legal. And more than 10 countries where perpetrators of rape can still escape prosecution if they marry the victim. And there are more than 70 million forcibly displaced people worldwide, including nearly 26 million refugees. None of this is just “the way the world is.” It is something monstrously out of balance. And our response can’t be to shrug or to think only about our own countries, because we are all connected. This is a time to fight. If there is a fight in this life, it must be for freedoms and rights. And if we have our freedom, we must fight for others who don’t.
Sounds rebellious
AJ: If nobody ever rebelled, nothing would ever change.
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As a woman, what does it mean to be truly free? And to live boldly?
AJ: A life fully lived is very hard to do. And for many women it is impossible because of what they are up against. I am conscious every day that I have the freedom to speak openly and to make my own choices. And the ability to encourage my children to explore the world, including the world of ideas and expression, without there being limits to what they are allowed to study or know or imagine themselves doing in the future. I think we all know boldness when we see it. Nothing makes me smile more than when I see someone being fully themselves, with their own individual style and character, whatever that is.
How did you like to dress when you were younger?
AJ: At school I wasn’t that popular person; I was a punk. I loved leather, PVC, and fishnets. Those were my three favorite fabrics in my early 20s. I remember the first time I wore PVC pants. I was waiting for an audition, sitting in the sun in L.A. By the time it was my turn, my pants had fused together. I didn’t get the part. But I loved those pants. I wore something similar when I married Jonny [Lee Miller].
Dreaming in red. Hermés swimsuit.
Sølve Sundsbø
Women often feel forced to live up to the standards of “the perfect mother” and “the perfect wife.” Do you think this idea of perfection is dangerous and damaging to women?
AJ: Labeling people and putting them into boxes isn’t freedom. Difference and diversity are what I value most—in my family and in others. I don’t want to live in a world where everyone is the same, and I imagine that’s true for everyone reading this. I want to meet people I’ve never met before and learn things I don’t know. The challenge today is to embrace our differences. And not to be fooled by efforts to divide us or make us fear others. We’re seeing a retreat of values worldwide. Many governments are less willing to stand up for the kinds of values that previous generations fought and died to secure. When governments stand back, people have to lead the way, as they are in different parts of the world.
Have you ever felt restricted in your own life?
AJ: I don’t think of myself that way. In my youth, I focused on what I didn’t have. But as I traveled in my early 20s, my awakening was realizing the freedoms I had in comparison to many people around the world. I’d experienced a childhood free of war. And since then I’ve had the freedom to build my family, to create art, and to play the characters I have. It’s one of the reasons I’ve invested in schools for girls in different countries. To see anyone—but especially a young girl with so much potential—denied their freedom is infuriating to me. I don’t think we will be living in a new era for women’s rights until there has been progress. Until people who’ve raped and abused women and girls in Syria and Myanmar and the DRC, for example, are held accountable. That’s why the focus for the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative is to push for an international accountability mechanism, a body that would allow us to overcome the barriers to justice so prosecutions happen.
Pucker up. Leg Avenue body stocking; Vince Camuto briefs; Gianvito Rossi pumps;
Sølve Sundsbø
Has there been progress in Hollywood, in light of #MeToo?
AJ: As anybody knows, the usual starting point in any situation like this is an independent inquiry by experts who can look into the facts and identify what legal changes and protections are needed so there is some measure of independent expert scrutiny and accountability. That hasn’t happened.
You built a home in the Cambodian jungle and became a Cambodian citizen. Can you tell us about that decision? What were some of the biggest challenges? And biggest rewards?
AJ: When you have a loud mind, as I do, you go to places that quiet you, and I find that in the desert, or in the jungle in Cambodia. When I first went to Cambodia, I thought people would be hardened by having experienced so much war and suffering. But in fact it was the opposite. I found them to be full of grace and fight and life. It’s a home and a headquarters for my foundation. There were physical challenges, though. We had to clear nearly 50 land mines before we could live there.
You have traveled the world as both an actor and a United Nations special envoy. What is your favorite place?
AJ: My favorite place is somewhere I’ve never been. I like to be dropped into the middle of something new. I enjoy being out of my element. I want the children to grow up in the world—not just learning about it but living it and having friends around the world. Next year we break ground on a home in Africa.
Cause célèbre. Bulgari Serpenti ring.
Sølve Sundsbø
Are you going back to Cambodia soon?
AJ: We got a call the other day informing us that chipmunks have moved into the house. They asked if we should remove them, and Vivienne was very clear that we needed to cover the wires and let them stay. However, the local snakes may have their own opinion on that. The last time I stayed there, I heard screaming down the hall because a friend had found a giant lizard under their pillow. Clearly, the animals are there more than I am and they feel it is their home.
You talk about wanting to encourage your children to explore the world, including the world of ideas and expression. Can you give a specific example of a time when you and your family personally butted up against these kinds of unspoken societal limits?
AJ: I would love to live abroad and will do so as soon as my children are 18. Right now I’m having to base where their father chooses to live.
You say you want freedom for others. What do you mean?
AJ: I do, and not just for those who are oppressed or living with limited rights. I often ask people, “What is it you’ve always wanted to do?” Ninety percent of the time it is an attainable goal and something they admit they could have already done. I think the challenge is to ask yourself what you’ve always wanted to do, and do it. Don’t just be comfortable with what is generally accepted, but find the new. Find your oxygen, your originality, your own voice. Live more fully. Rebel. Resist. Question. Be curious. Explore. Go outside what is comfortable to you. Say the thing you’ve been afraid to say. Put down this magazine, and go and do one thing today you’ve never done before.
ANGELINA'S MISSION
Angelina Jolie is Special Envoy of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, after 18 years with the agency, and Visiting Professor in Practice at the London School of Economics Centre for Women, Peace and Security. She is also cofounder of the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative, a global campaign against war-zone rape.
This article originally appears in the Dec-Jan 2019-2020 issue of Harper's BAZAAR, available on newsstands November 19.
Hair: Malcolm Edwards; Makeup: Val Garland; Manicure: Chisato Yamamoto; Production: LaLaLand; Set design: Max Bellhouse; Retouching: Digital Light Ltd.
The Harper's Bazaar cover is for "the ultimate winter fragrance, Guerlain Mon Guerlain Intense Eau de Parfum." So these quotes may have been prepared at the same time as those for the other Mon Guerlain Intense articles which appeared earlier. Madame Figaro had similar quotes. At least this one is in English. 😀 What is true for both: She never mentions "divorce." She makes no reference to the filing or the case. She does not give so much as a hint of the incident on the plane, the children's trauma or the efforts to restore Brad's relationship with the children.
It says "she writes candidly." It does not say she responded to questions. There was no interview nor correspondence between them, no actual Q&A. She is characteristically direct even in live interviews. HB and probably Madame Figaro and others altered the supplied questions to make them more attention-grabbing and thus don't align with her answers. If the questions printed below were the actual questions her prepared quotes were designed to respond to, her answers would have clearly addressed them instead of being oddly off target.
Aside from the rare glimpse of the intimately placed Whiskey Bravo for William Bradley tattooed on her right inner thigh, what is notable in what she did say:
"I would love to live abroad and will do so as soon as my children are 18. Right now I’m having to base where their father chooses to live."
In Madame Figaro:
What does your life look like in Los Angeles?Brad has to spend time in L.A. because that's where his therapist, AA meetings, Dr. Katz, and the mental health professionals who are guiding the effort to restore his relationship with the children are based. She is where he needs to be because he needs her with him and she puts his needs ahead of her own wants because that is love. When asked during MMoE's stop in Tokyo: Is there anything more powerful than love? She answered, “Family.” He is both.
I'm not really attached to this town. I'd rather travel more often, but it's not compatible today with Brad's work. I'm cooperating.
Brad said:
"I’ve been thinking about that because I’ve been thinking about death, just in terms of, ‘Where do you want to spend that last leg of your life? We settle in places or get sucked into a place sometimes because of a job or for family, speaking of which, my kids have probably eight more years of school to keep us relatively in one spot. But then comes a time where you think about where you want to spend that last period. For me, it would be somewhere in the mountains.”They often live abroad -- they are living abroad now. They are saying when the twins are in college -- when they are 18 -- they can hop around more freely without fear of disrupting their studies or having to have their tutors in tow.
"Sometimes you get hurt, you see those you love in pain, and you can’t be as free and open as your spirit desires." -- She was hurt. A "family member" said: “Her family is broken and she is in agony. Her children are recovering from the events that brought about the filing” and that left them traumatized. But in "you see those you love in pain" she is referring to Brad. He had to deal with feelings of "no worth," tortured thoughts of "a horrible end," before ultimately, "forgiveness of self." It is why she makes sure she is always there for him. They haven't been free to talk openly about it much as they would want to. But maybe soon. "It’s not new or old, but I do feel the blood returning to my body."
When Josh Horowitz of MTV News asked her about the new ink, she offered merely, “Um, it’s for Brad.”
Harpers Bazaar
As we wrap up 2019, and look ahead to 2020, Harper’s BAZAAR chose Angelina Jolie to grace our final issue of the year because quite simply, there’s no one else like her. Jolie has spent nearly 20 years with the UN Refugee Agency fighting for the rights and freedoms of displaced people, and over 10 years funding schools for girls from Afghanistan to Kenya to Cambodia. She is a Visiting Professor in Practice at the London School of Economics, educating students on peace and security and the fight for women’s rights internationally. She champions women’s health—in particular, treatment for cancer—with honesty and openness about her own health experiences in years past.
Here, she writes candidly about “visible and invisible scars,” her fight for freedom around the world, and why she doesn’t mind sharing her new home in Cambodia with a family of chipmunks.
HARPER'S BAZAAR: We recognize in these photos the free-spirited, bold side of you we know from old. Is that a fair characterization?
ANGELINA JOLIE: My body has been through a lot over the past decade, particularly the past four years, and I have both the visible and invisible scars to show for it. The invisible ones are harder to wrestle with. Life takes many turns. Sometimes you get hurt, you see those you love in pain, and you can’t be as free and open as your spirit desires. It’s not new or old, but I do feel the blood returning to my body.
Do you feel like you’re finding yourself again?
AJ: The part of us that is free, wild, open, curious can get shut down by life. By pain or by harm. My children know my true self, and they have helped me to find it again and to embrace it. They have been through a lot. I learn from their strength. As parents, we encourage our kids to embrace all that they are, and all that they know in their hearts to be right, and they look back at us and want the same for us.
As a mother of six, in a world of social media on a public stage, under relentless scrutiny, how do you teach your kids to be bold?
AJ: Knowing our true self is a very important question for all of us. Especially a child. I think kids need to be able to say, “Here’s who I am, and what I believe.” We can’t prevent them from experiencing pain, heartache, physical pain, and loss. But we can teach them to live better through it.
As a public figure, how do you deal with the frustration of constantly being misunderstood? What do you think is the biggest misconception about you?
AJ: I have a tattoo, “A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.” I got it when I was 20. I was with my mom one evening, and I was feeling lost. I was restless—always. I still am. We were driving to dinner, and she talked about spending time with Tennessee Williams and how much she loved his words. She told me he wrote that, about the wild at heart. We drove to a tattoo parlor, and I got it inked on my left arm. What she did for me that night was to remind me that the wild within me is alright and a part of me.
I see so much beauty in other people. Not when they are pretending to be something other than their true selves. Not when they are harming others. Not when they lie. But the wild ones. The emotional, open, searching ones, longing to be free. The honest ones. Because anything else is a cage impossible to live in.
This is our end-of-year edition. Looking ahead to 2020, do you have a message for our readers?
AJ: My dream for everyone in 2020 is to remember who they are and to be who they are regardless of what might be disrupting their ability to be free. If you feel you are not living your life fully, try to identify what it is or who it is that is blocking you from breathing. Identify and fight past whatever is oppressing you. That takes many forms, and it is going to be a different fight for everyone. I say this with a deep understanding that for so many women, freedom is simply not an option. Their own system, community, family, government works against them and is part of what is shutting them down. I’m reading the book No Visible Bruises, which points out that between 2000 and 2006 more American women died from domestic homicide than American soldiers died on the battlefield. It is shocking that across the world the most dangerous place for women today is the home. There are still more than a dozen countries where violence against a wife or family member is legal. And more than 10 countries where perpetrators of rape can still escape prosecution if they marry the victim. And there are more than 70 million forcibly displaced people worldwide, including nearly 26 million refugees. None of this is just “the way the world is.” It is something monstrously out of balance. And our response can’t be to shrug or to think only about our own countries, because we are all connected. This is a time to fight. If there is a fight in this life, it must be for freedoms and rights. And if we have our freedom, we must fight for others who don’t.
Sounds rebellious
AJ: If nobody ever rebelled, nothing would ever change.
As a woman, what does it mean to be truly free? And to live boldly?
AJ: A life fully lived is very hard to do. And for many women it is impossible because of what they are up against. I am conscious every day that I have the freedom to speak openly and to make my own choices. And the ability to encourage my children to explore the world, including the world of ideas and expression, without there being limits to what they are allowed to study or know or imagine themselves doing in the future. I think we all know boldness when we see it. Nothing makes me smile more than when I see someone being fully themselves, with their own individual style and character, whatever that is.
How did you like to dress when you were younger?
AJ: At school I wasn’t that popular person; I was a punk. I loved leather, PVC, and fishnets. Those were my three favorite fabrics in my early 20s. I remember the first time I wore PVC pants. I was waiting for an audition, sitting in the sun in L.A. By the time it was my turn, my pants had fused together. I didn’t get the part. But I loved those pants. I wore something similar when I married Jonny [Lee Miller].
Sølve Sundsbø
Women often feel forced to live up to the standards of “the perfect mother” and “the perfect wife.” Do you think this idea of perfection is dangerous and damaging to women?
AJ: Labeling people and putting them into boxes isn’t freedom. Difference and diversity are what I value most—in my family and in others. I don’t want to live in a world where everyone is the same, and I imagine that’s true for everyone reading this. I want to meet people I’ve never met before and learn things I don’t know. The challenge today is to embrace our differences. And not to be fooled by efforts to divide us or make us fear others. We’re seeing a retreat of values worldwide. Many governments are less willing to stand up for the kinds of values that previous generations fought and died to secure. When governments stand back, people have to lead the way, as they are in different parts of the world.
Have you ever felt restricted in your own life?
AJ: I don’t think of myself that way. In my youth, I focused on what I didn’t have. But as I traveled in my early 20s, my awakening was realizing the freedoms I had in comparison to many people around the world. I’d experienced a childhood free of war. And since then I’ve had the freedom to build my family, to create art, and to play the characters I have. It’s one of the reasons I’ve invested in schools for girls in different countries. To see anyone—but especially a young girl with so much potential—denied their freedom is infuriating to me. I don’t think we will be living in a new era for women’s rights until there has been progress. Until people who’ve raped and abused women and girls in Syria and Myanmar and the DRC, for example, are held accountable. That’s why the focus for the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative is to push for an international accountability mechanism, a body that would allow us to overcome the barriers to justice so prosecutions happen.
Sølve Sundsbø
Has there been progress in Hollywood, in light of #MeToo?
AJ: As anybody knows, the usual starting point in any situation like this is an independent inquiry by experts who can look into the facts and identify what legal changes and protections are needed so there is some measure of independent expert scrutiny and accountability. That hasn’t happened.
You built a home in the Cambodian jungle and became a Cambodian citizen. Can you tell us about that decision? What were some of the biggest challenges? And biggest rewards?
AJ: When you have a loud mind, as I do, you go to places that quiet you, and I find that in the desert, or in the jungle in Cambodia. When I first went to Cambodia, I thought people would be hardened by having experienced so much war and suffering. But in fact it was the opposite. I found them to be full of grace and fight and life. It’s a home and a headquarters for my foundation. There were physical challenges, though. We had to clear nearly 50 land mines before we could live there.
You have traveled the world as both an actor and a United Nations special envoy. What is your favorite place?
AJ: My favorite place is somewhere I’ve never been. I like to be dropped into the middle of something new. I enjoy being out of my element. I want the children to grow up in the world—not just learning about it but living it and having friends around the world. Next year we break ground on a home in Africa.
Sølve Sundsbø
Are you going back to Cambodia soon?
AJ: We got a call the other day informing us that chipmunks have moved into the house. They asked if we should remove them, and Vivienne was very clear that we needed to cover the wires and let them stay. However, the local snakes may have their own opinion on that. The last time I stayed there, I heard screaming down the hall because a friend had found a giant lizard under their pillow. Clearly, the animals are there more than I am and they feel it is their home.
You talk about wanting to encourage your children to explore the world, including the world of ideas and expression. Can you give a specific example of a time when you and your family personally butted up against these kinds of unspoken societal limits?
AJ: I would love to live abroad and will do so as soon as my children are 18. Right now I’m having to base where their father chooses to live.
You say you want freedom for others. What do you mean?
AJ: I do, and not just for those who are oppressed or living with limited rights. I often ask people, “What is it you’ve always wanted to do?” Ninety percent of the time it is an attainable goal and something they admit they could have already done. I think the challenge is to ask yourself what you’ve always wanted to do, and do it. Don’t just be comfortable with what is generally accepted, but find the new. Find your oxygen, your originality, your own voice. Live more fully. Rebel. Resist. Question. Be curious. Explore. Go outside what is comfortable to you. Say the thing you’ve been afraid to say. Put down this magazine, and go and do one thing today you’ve never done before.
ANGELINA'S MISSION
Angelina Jolie is Special Envoy of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, after 18 years with the agency, and Visiting Professor in Practice at the London School of Economics Centre for Women, Peace and Security. She is also cofounder of the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative, a global campaign against war-zone rape.
This article originally appears in the Dec-Jan 2019-2020 issue of Harper's BAZAAR, available on newsstands November 19.
Hair: Malcolm Edwards; Makeup: Val Garland; Manicure: Chisato Yamamoto; Production: LaLaLand; Set design: Max Bellhouse; Retouching: Digital Light Ltd.
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Bee.
This weekend Angelina Jolie visited our flagship #Paris boutique & art exhibition “Gaia, what have you become?”. Representing our #InTheNameOfBeauty #SustainableDevelopment program, the exposition centers around the harmonious coexistence between Human & Nature. #AngelinaJolie pic.twitter.com/zoSmtmPrgN— Guerlain (@Guerlain) October 22, 2019
We are proud to announce a 5 year partnership with @UNESCO Man & Biosphere program surrounding our beloved Bee & it's preservation. In 2020 we will train 8 beekeepers over 4 biosphere reserves to implant 400 hives & transmit the knowledge & know-how of beekeepers across the🌍. pic.twitter.com/fAfzqJGmst— Guerlain (@Guerlain) October 17, 2019
Sunday, October 20, 2019
Oct. 20, Sunday
Guerlain
Today, she is wearing a gold and diamond band. Yesterday she was wearing two thinner bands that appear to be white and yellow gold.
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Thanks Pride&Joy
Guerlain
Today, she is wearing a gold and diamond band. Yesterday she was wearing two thinner bands that appear to be white and yellow gold.
Thanks Pride&Joy
Monday, July 22, 2019
Maisons Wat Kor
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LADYBOSS – Angelina Jolie
Ma prochaine Lady Boss sera et est : Angelina Jolie ! Laissez moi relire/redire ça héhé #InstantFierté. Comme vous le savez, il y a une dizaine de jours, j’ai pu rencontrer Angie, grâce à Guerlain. Il y a des rencontres très marquantes et celle ci en fait indéniablement partie. De par mon métier, je rencontre beaucoup de personnalités et de célébrités tout au long de l’année…et j’avoue que la dernière personne qui à m’avoir autant marquée, c’était Karl Lagerfeld il y a quelques années lors d’une soirée.
C’est marrant mais la première question que beaucoup m’ont posé, c’est « Elle est comment Angelina Jolie », bah écoutez je dirai que c’est une femme assez posée, passionnée, avec beaucoup de valeurs. Elle transpire la gentillesse en plus d’être particulièrement sublime ! C’est surtout ce que je retiendrai d’elle.
Je vais quand même vous raconter comment on en est venu à cette rencontre. Il y a quelques semaines, lors de ma visite de la Ruche, en discutant par hasard avec la team Guerlain, elles m’ont expliqué qu’elles bossaient sur un projet top secret mais je cite « croise les doigts ». Sans savoir ce que c’était car rien mais pas un mot n’a filtré, j’ai croisé les doigts comme je pouvais.
Une quinzaine de jours plus tard, Sarah de la Guerlain Team m’appelle et m’annonce la news « On fait venir Angelina Jolie, c’est top secret …et on aimerait que tu la rencontres. » Autant vous dire, que j’ai emménagé tout mon emploi du temps, illico presto. Encore plus dingue, c’était un évènement hyper exclusif, avec un listing (ultraaaa) trié sur le volet. J’étais plus qu’honorée et happy d’être là pour représenter la France. Et comment dire, BEAUTYLICIEUSE + ANGELINA JOLIE = ça ne pouvait donner qu’un LADY BOSS EXCLUSIF.
Valeurs, femmes et inspiration…tels sont les mots qui me viennent tout de suite à l’esprit pour définir ce moment avec cette femme extra et d’une humilité folle ! Je ne vous en dis pas plus et vous souhaite une bonne lecture 🙂
BONJOUR ANGELINA, VOUS N’AVEZ JAMAIS ÉTÉ EGERIE POUR UNE MARQUE DE COSMETIQUES, POURQUOI AVOIR CHOISI GUERLAIN ?
Il
faut, selon moi, croire à un produit pour le mettre en avant. Je crois
vraiment en ce produit, et j’adore travailler avec cette Maison. Quand
nous avons commencé notre collaboration, nous avons discuté du fait que
beaucoup de publicités, surtout dans le parfum, présentaient souvent
une vie fantasmée, irréelle. Nous avons alors décidé de proposer quelque
chose de plus vraie. La première publicité a donc été tournée chez moi,
en France.
Nous avons ensuite
réfléchi à la prochaine étape pour les femmes, à une chose qui serait
importante et précieuse pour elles. J’ai pensé à la liberté, au fait de
faire des choix courageux dans la vie, de se sentir bien, peu importe où
vous en êtes dans votre vie, d’être à l’aise avec cela et de
l’accepter.
Une partie de ce que j’ai appris sur la création d’un parfum aux côtés de GUERLAIN et notamment de Thierry Wasser (cf : nez exclusif de la Maison Guerlain) réside dans l’exploration d’autres pays et cultures. J’ai
compris que le parfum n’est pas artificiel. Quand j’étais jeune, je
sentais un parfum et je ne savais pas d’où il venait. Je pensais que
c’était simplement quelque chose vendu dans un flacon. En réalité, cela
implique tant de choses.
QUELLES SONT VOS VALEURS COMMUNES AVEC GUERLAIN ?
Je suis si reconnaissante et si excitée de travailler avec GUERLAIN. Nous
voulons changer le monde, d’une certaine façon et protéger la terre. Il
n’y a pas de prétention à dire cela et cela passe indéniablement par la
biodiversité.
De plus, ma
mère a toujours été liée à GUERLAIN. Elle ne portait jamais de
maquillage et ne prenait pas vraiment soin d’elle. La seule poudre
qu’elle avait était Ladies In All Climates de GUERLAIN, elle ne
la mettait que pour des occasions très spéciales. J’ai toujours pensé
que c’était une poudre merveilleuse tout droit venue de Paris qui la
faisait se sentir comme une dame. Ce sont de très bons souvenirs.
VOUS ETES TRÈS ATTACHÉE AU CAMBODGE, POUVEZ-VOUS NOUS EN DIRE PLUS ?
Personnellement, j’ai enfin une maison au Cambodge – ce qui était un rêve et je suis fière d’avoir la citoyenneté cambodgienne.
Pendant 17 ans, j’ai travaillé là-bas avec une fondation, mais ce n’est
que récemment que j’y ai construit ma maison. Les équipes GUERLAIN,
bienveillantes, sont venues sur place et nous avons exploré ce sentiment
de féminité et de liberté (cf : le second film publicitaire qui sera disponible en septembre).
Nous
avons passé beaucoup de temps à parler de la philosophie de GUERLAIN et
de la biodiversité. Là-bas, je travaille avec beaucoup d’agriculteurs
et je m’intéresse à la protection de l’environnement ainsi qu’à la
création d’emplois. Nous avons donc aussi échangé sur ces sujets.
Quand
je suis allée au Cambodge pour la première fois, il y a environ 18 ans,
je suis allée à l’endroit où le film a été tourné. Ce
pays est passé par tellement de choses, et il essaie encore de se
remettre de tout cela. Les gens sont tellement beaux et forts. C’est
avec cette idée en tête que j’ai commencé à travailler dans ce pays avec
les Nations Unies. Puis, j’ai rencontré mon fils ainé et nous avons
créé une famille cambodgienne. Je voulais avoir ce petit espace pour
lui, mais je voulais aussi aider le pays d’une certaine façon.
Nous
avons donc commencé à travailler et nous avons vite réalisé que nous
devions protéger la nature. En effet, il y a beaucoup d’exploitation
forestière illégale, de déminage pour trouver des pierres précieuses et
de braconnage. Depuis, nous travaillons pour protéger cette zone. Tout
est géré sur place par des Cambodgiens. Nous avons 10 écoles et
2 cliniques. Beaucoup de braconniers sont devenus des gardes forestiers.
Nous formons tous une famille et nous travaillons très bien ensemble.
Lorsque
GUERLAIN est arrivé, ils m’ont dit qu’ils connaissaient les abeilles et
qu’ils pouvaient m’aider. Ils ont passé du temps avec les gens du pays
et ils ont travaillé avec eux. Ils sont partis à leur rencontre et ont
appris à leurs côtés. Puis, ils sont allés encore plus loin en envoyant
au Cambodge un ethnobotaniste pour voir ce que nous pouvions réellement
faire avec ces soixante milliers d’hectares. D’ailleurs, je suis en
train de découvrir ce métier merveilleux !
VOUS ÊTES L’EXEMPLE MÊME DE LA FEMME LIBRE ET EMANCIPÉE, SENTEZ-VOUS UNE VÉRITABLE ÉVOLUTION DEPUIS LE MOUVEMENT « ME TOO » ?
Lorsque
l’on parle d’émancipation ou de progrès, je pense qu’il n’y aura aucun
progrès tant que certaines lois n’auront pas changé et tant que
certaines choses ne seront pas mises en place pour que les femmes se
sentent vraiment en sécurité et capables de progresser. Nous sommes bien
loin de ces avancées.
Nous
n’en parlons à mon avis pas assez souvent, mais il ne s’agit pas
uniquement du droit d’aller à l’école, qui n’aurait jamais dû être
retiré, du droit d’être en sécurité chez soi, du droit de ne pas être
blessée ou du droit d’être libre. Mais, il s’agit aussi du droit d’être
une femme. On demande aux femmes d’être robustes, d’élever leurs
enfants, d’avoir une super carrière, de tout faire en même temps. Ce que
nous voulons réellement, c’est être nous-mêmes sans aucune pression.
ANGELINA, UNE QUESTION UN PEU PLUS PERSONNELLE : QUELLES SONT LES VALEURS QUE VOUS VOULEZ TRANSMETTRE À VOS ENFANTS ?
La gentillesse et l’humilité ! J’ai
découvert qu’en grandissant, mes enfants sont forts, ouverts et très
gentils. Et j’essaie de montrer l’exemple en étant aussi gentille,
gracieuse, aimante et tolérante que ma mère l’était. Mais quand il y a
un combat à mener, qu’il faut agir, alors je leur donne la force de le
faire. Je pense donc qu’il faut connaître ses droits et libertés tout en
ayant conscience des choses que la vie vous a offertes, et vous assurer
que vous ne restez pas les bras croisés, mais que vous aidez les autres
à protéger leurs propres libertés. J’espère donc que qu’ils auront
cette envie de combattre en eux.
Une
autre valeur très importante à mes yeux : être humble et de toujours se
souvenir de sa place dans le monde. Nous ne vivrons pas éternellement.
Il faut rester humble et reconnaissant.
QU’AVEZ-VOUS APPRIS SUR VOUS, TOUT AU LONG DE CES ANNÉES ?
J’ai
découvert que j’avais plus de combativité en moi que je ne le pensais.
Et je suis plus résiliente que je ne le croyais aussi. Au fond de moi,
je suis douce et vulnérable mais en même temps, je suis très forte. Je
veux qu’on me permette d’être douce sans que l’on me fasse du mal, sans
me sentir privée de soutien. Je pense que toutes
les femmes ont différentes facettes dans leur personnalité. Une femme
peut être à la fois douce et farouche !
SI VOUS DEVIEZ RÉSUMER VOTRE VIE EN UN SEUL MOT ?
Liberté ! Parce
que sans la liberté vous n’avez rien. Liberté de circulation, liberté
de pensée, liberté de faire. Je suis consciente que j’ai certainement
beaucoup plus de libertés que la plupart des gens. Je suis donc très
reconnaissante pour ces libertés, mais je suis sûre qu’il y a toujours
plus à faire, nous avons encore beaucoup de chemin à parcourir dans le domaine. Beaucoup de femmes dans le monde n’ont pas tout cela.
Chaque
femme devrait être libre d’être celle qu’elle a envie d’être : douce,
farouche, ouverte, sexy…libre tout simplement d’être qui elle veut,
quand elle veut sans être considéré comme agressive ou anti-hommes !SI VOS ENFANTS DEVAIENT VOUS RÉSUMER EN UN SEUL MOT, QUE DIRAIENT-ILS ?
Drôle ! Ils me trouvent très drôle ! Vous savez, ils me connaissent, moi, comme maman, et ma chemise de nuit…pas très bonne pour faire le petit déjeuner (rires) !ENFIN, QUELLE EST LA CHOSE LA PLUS FOLLE QUE VOUS AYEZ FAITE ?
Eh bien, j’espère que je ne l’ai toujours pas faite (rires) !(google translator)
My next Lady Boss will be and is: Angelina Jolie! Let me re-read / rehearse that happy family # Instant Fierté. As you know, ten days ago I was able to meet Angie thanks to Guerlain. There are some very important meetings and this one is undeniably part of it. By my job, I meet a lot of personalities and celebrities all year long ... and I admit that the last person who has so much marked me was Karl Lagerfeld a few years ago when an evening.
It's funny but the first question that many asked me is "She is how Angelina Jolie", well listen I will say that it is a pretty posed, passionate, with a lot of values. She sweats kindness in addition to being particularly sublime! This is especially what I will remember from her.
I will still tell you how we came to this meeting. A few weeks ago, during my visit of La Ruche, talking by chance with the Guerlain team, they explained to me that they were working on a top secret project but I quote "cross fingers". Without knowing what it was because nothing but not a word filtered, I crossed my fingers as I could.
A fortnight later, Sarah de la Guerlain Team calls me and announces the news "We do Angelina Jolie, it's top secret ... and we would like you to meet her. As much to say to you, that I moved all my schedule, illico presto. Even more crazy, it was a hyper exclusive event, with a listing (ultraaaa) handpicked. I was more than honored and happy to be here to represent France. And how to say, BEAUTYLICIEUSE + ANGELINA JOLIE = it could only give an EXCLUSIVE LADY BOSS.
Values, women and inspiration ... these are the words that come to mind immediately to define this moment with this extra woman and a crazy humility! I do not tell you more and wish you a good reading 🙂
HELLO ANGELINA, YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN MUSE FOR A BRAND OF COSMETICS, WHY HAVE YOU CHOSEN GUERLAIN?
In my opinion, I must believe in a product to put it forward. I really believe in this product, and I love working with this House. When we started our collaboration, we discussed the fact that many advertisements, especially in the perfume, often presented a fantasized, unreal life. We decided to propose something more true. The first advertisement was shot at home in France.
We then thought about the next step for women, something that would be important and valuable to them. I have thought about freedom, making brave choices in life, feeling good no matter where you are in your life, being comfortable with it and accepting it.
Part of what I learned about creating a perfume alongside GUERLAIN and especially Thierry Wasser (cf: exclusive nose of the Maison Guerlain) lies in the exploration of other countries and cultures. I understood that the perfume is not artificial. When I was young, I smelled a perfume and I did not know where it came from. I thought it was just something sold in a bottle. In reality, it involves so many things.
WHAT ARE YOUR COMMON VALUES WITH GUERLAIN?
I am so grateful and so excited to work with GUERLAIN. We want to change the world in a certain way and protect the earth. There is no pretension to say that and this undeniably passes through biodiversity.
In addition, my mother has always been linked to GUERLAIN. She never wore makeup and did not really take care of herself. The only powder she had was GUERLAIN's Ladies In All Climates, she only put it on very special occasions. I always thought it was a wonderful powder straight from Paris that made her feel like a lady. These are very good memories.
YOU ARE VERY ATTACHED TO CAMBODIA, CAN YOU TELL ME MORE?
Personally, I finally have a house in Cambodia - which was a dream and I am proud to have Cambodian citizenship. For 17 years, I worked there with a foundation, but only recently I built my house. The GUERLAIN teams, benevolent, came on site and we explored this feeling of femininity and freedom (see: the second commercial that will be available in September).
We spent a lot of time talking about GUERLAIN's philosophy and biodiversity. There, I work with many farmers and I am interested in environmental protection and job creation. So we also exchanged on these topics.
When I first went to Cambodia about 18 years ago, I went to the place where the film was shot. This country has gone through so much, and it's still trying to recover from it all. People are so beautiful and strong. It is with this idea in mind that I started working in this country with the United Nations. Then, I met my eldest son and we created a Cambodian family. I wanted to have this little space for him, but I also wanted to help the country in a certain way.
So we started working and we quickly realized that we needed to protect nature. Indeed, there is a lot of illegal logging, demining to find gems and poaching. Since then, we have been working to protect this area. Everything is managed on site by Cambodians. We have 10 schools and 2 clinics. Many poachers have become rangers. We are all family members and we work very well together.
When GUERLAIN arrived, they told me they knew the bees and could help me. They spent time with the locals and they worked with them. They went to meet them and learned by their side. Then, they went even further by sending an ethnobotanist to Cambodia to see what we could really do with these sixty thousand hectares. Besides, I'm discovering this wonderful job!
YOU ARE THE SAME EXAMPLE OF FREE AND EMANCIPATED WOMAN, DO YOU FEEL A TRUE EVOLUTION SINCE THE "ME TOO" MOVEMENT?
When it comes to emancipation or progress, I think there will be no progress until some of the laws have changed and until some things are put in place to make women feel really comfortable. safe and able to progress. We are far from these advances.
We do not talk about it often enough, but it's not just about the right to go to school, which should never have been removed, the right to be safe at home, right not to be hurt or the right to be free. But it's also about the right to be a woman. Women are asked to be strong, to raise their children, to have a great career, to do everything at the same time. What we really want is to be ourselves without any pressure.
ANGELINA, A QUESTION A LITTLE MORE PERSONAL: WHAT ARE THE VALUES YOU WANT TO TRANSMIT TO YOUR CHILDREN?
Kindness and humility! I discovered that growing up, my children are strong, open and very kind. And I try to set an example by being as kind, graceful, loving and tolerant as my mother was. But when there is a fight to be fought, something must be done, so I give them the strength to do it. So I think you have to know your rights and freedoms while being aware of the things that life has offered you, and make sure that you do not sit idly by, but that you help others protect their own freedoms. So I hope that they will have this desire to fight in them.
Another value that is very important to me: being humble and always remembering one's place in the world. We will not live forever. We must remain humble and grateful.
WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED ABOUT YOURSELF THROUGHOUT THESE YEARS?
I discovered that I had more fighting spirit in me than I thought. And I'm more resilient than I thought. At the bottom of me, I am soft and vulnerable but at the same time, I am very strong. I want to be allowed to be gentle without being hurt, without feeling deprived of support. I think that all women have different facets in their personality. A woman can be both sweet and fierce!
IF YOU HAVE TO SUMMARIZE YOUR LIFE IN ONE WORD?
Freedom ! Because without freedom you have nothing. Freedom of movement, freedom of thought, freedom to do. I am aware that I certainly have a lot more freedom than most people. I am therefore very grateful for these freedoms, but I am sure there is always more to do, we still have a long way to go in the field. Many women in the world do not have all this.
Every woman should be free to be the one she wants to be: sweet, fierce, open, sexy ... just free to be who she wants, when she wants without being considered aggressive or anti-men!
IF YOUR CHILDREN WERE TO SUMMARIZE YOU IN ONE WORD, WHAT WOULD THEY SAY?
Funny! They find me very funny! You know, they know me, like mom, and my nightgown ... not very good for breakfast (laughs)!
FINALLY, WHAT IS THE MOST CRAZY THING YOU HAVE MADE?
Well, I hope I have not done it yet (laughs)!
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