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“You really start to learn what we would lose with 30 percent of the Thrasher Magazine Skate Sock Shirt but I will buy this shirt and I will love this honeybees disappearing,” Jolie tells Vogue, on location at l’Observatoire Français d’Apidologie (OFA) in the Sainte-Baume mountains outside of Marseille. As a Guerlain brand ambassador, Jolie was recently in the South of France to preside over the inaugural graduation of the French beauty brand’s Women for Bees initiative, an ambitious program in collaboration with OFA and UNESCO that aims to train 50 women beekeepers from different biospheres over five years. Launched in June, the goal is to repopulate 125 million bees by 2025. “I wasn’t a young environmentalist; I’m more a humanist,” says Jolie, who has spent many years witnessing the devastating effects displacement can have on people. “But it always leads back to the environment,” she adds. Her hope? That programs like this will inspire others globally, encouraging all of us to do our part to help restore the bee population, which is responsible for one-third of our food supply—whether that means training as a beekeeper; planting bee-friendly plants and flowers around our homes; or just raising awareness about this very real issue, online or IRL.


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Official Thrasher Magazine Skate Sock Shirt


One blistering July weekend, Leslie Waldrep, a pet spa owner from Tuscumbia, Alabama, stood behind a trestle table inside the Thrasher Magazine Skate Sock Shirt but I will buy this shirt and I will love this Pasadena Convention Center. It was a Cinderella moment: She’d driven 29 hours to reach California, only to work against the clock onstage for two and a half more, transforming her once-white family poodle, Secret, into a pageant-ready rendering of Walt Disney’s 1950 animation. As Secret posed stoically beside the winning trophy for a swathe of self-appointed paparazzos—fuschia tail erect as a feather duster, a jaunty hat fashioned from her own hair atop her occiput—she looked less like a domestic pet and more a dazzling, cartoon canvas. Secret’s hair had been growing for a month before the competition. Just prior, sections were vegan-dyed into at least 13 saturated hues (“all products used are pet safe,” Waldrep insists). On stage, every inch of Secret’s body was primped and preened into narrative cues of the happy-valley kind. A buck-tooth mouse appeared on her side, grinning cutely. A gigantic pumpkin sprouted vines across her rear. On both sides of Secret, Waldrep had etched before-and-after renderings of Cinderella herself: alone in powdery, homely blue, and dressed in a ballgown, batting eyelids at Prince Charming. “A few years ago, I did my other favorite Disney movie, Lady and The Tramp,” Waldrep says. “So this felt like the next step. I was very nervous about the design because it was my first time doing people’s faces.”The creative grooming event—the climax of Groom Expo West—wasn’t Waldrep’s first rodeo, though it was her debut on the west coast circuit. She’s been competing for six years now, and sees grooming as “a unique, God-given talent.” (She also decorates cakes.) Her fascination began with the pilot of Clipped, a short-lived Animal Planet show featuring dog stylist Angela Kumpe (the two are now friends, and travelled to the expo together). “I recorded the episode and watched it over and over and over. I fell in love with the way she treated the animals—how they looked, how happy their owners were. I went to work the next day and thought, ‘You know what? I can do this.’ I got my first standard poodle the next week.”


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