Five Women Flipping the Script Across Art, Film, Beauty & Sport
By Wim Langedijk for HURS
Five Women Flipping the Script Across Art, Film, Beauty & Sport
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Coco Gauff’s Long Game
Coco Gauff, just two years after winning her first U.S. Open, has taken one of the boldest risks of her career: rebuilding her serve in the middle of her home Grand Slam. Recently splitting with her coach to work with serve specialist Gavin MacMillan, the 21-year-old has endured messy matches, double faults, and visible nerves under the spotlight. Yet, true to form, Gauff’s grit shines through. Her willingness to struggle publicly may just set up a stronger, steadier future.
THE NEW YORKER
Rose B. Simpson has become one of the art world’s most compelling voices, even as she resists being reduced to commodity. Hailing from Santa Clara Pueblo, her practice spans clay figures, custom lowriders, and monumental installations that fuse ancestral traditions with raw explorations of trauma, survival, and identity. With her works shown at San Francisco’s de Young and New York City’s Whitney Biennial, Simpson pushes against tokenism while questioning whether success risks commodifying her voice. Her art, she insists, is for her people first.
T MAGAZINE
In a quiet Parisian cinema, Isabelle Huppert discusses The Piano Teacher, acting without angst, and why the right pair of shoes can unlock a role. With over 120 films spanning Godard to Hong Sangsoo, she moves effortlessly between dark, twisted characters and lighter, wry performances—always instinctive, never performative. Huppert doesn’t just inhabit a role; she inhabits cinema itself, treating every film, every director, every take as a conversation in movement.
A RABBIT’S FOOT
Alice Diop turns the lens on history and visibility in her latest entry in Miu Miu’s Women’s Tales series. Premiering at Venice Film Festival, Fragments For Venus is a poetic interrogation of Black femininity and the gaze of Western art. In conversation with Alexander Fury, Diop unpacks how Robin Coste Lewis’ epic poetry, the rhythms of Bedford-Stuyvesant, and cinematic freedom converge in a work that is both deeply personal and unflinchingly universal.
ANOTHER MAGAZINE
In 2016, Katherine Power’s five-minute makeup hack went viral—five years later, it became Merit, her “clean” beauty brand built on effortless, edited essentials. Now with 18 products, global retail presence, and more than $100mn in revenue, Merit has carved out a loyal following across generations. Power has positioned Merit as beauty’s minimalist answer: chic packaging, smart pricing, and timeless staples designed for lasting routines, not fleeting trends.