Natalie Portman Stars in the Dior Stands With Women Film Series for International Women’s Day
Natalie Portman stars in Christian Dior’s second installment of the “Dior Stands with Women” film series, which was just released in honor of International Women’s Day. Portman is featured in the initiative–created with Dior muse Charlize Theron’s Africa Outreach Program–alongside a star-studded lineup, including Yara Shahidi and figure skater Yuna Kim.
“I’m so proud to be part of Dior’s campaign that will support Charlize’s incredible organization that promotes girls’ education,” Portman tells BAZAAR.com.
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“I believe that the best way for me to continue the conversation around women’s equality is to keep listening. There are so many women’s voices we have yet to hear. We need to keep opening possibilities to have girls and women share their experiences and ideas. Then we need to listen and amplify those voices.”
The first series, which debuted in September of last year, featured stars like Paloma Elsesser, Cara Delevingne, and Leyna Bloom.
In the series, Portman shares why she fights for female equality, highlighting her efforts like working with the WE foundation to create schools for girls in developing nations or A New Way of Life, which helps women from prison reenter the world.
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“It’s been incredible working on all of these different projects that have a common goal but very different approaches to reaching it,” she explains in the video. “I wish for the next generation of women that there’s fewer expectations put on them and that they can just pursue their inner selves.”
While Portman has dedicated part of her life to helping women be their real selves, she extends the same philosophy to herself. “Do what makes you feel best in your own skin,” she says. “I feel most confident and powerful when I’m with the people I love who accept me exactly how I am. Then I can be my truest self.”
Her other confidence secret? A bold red lip. “I love red lipstick and the Rouge Dior 999 is always a good companion of mine,” Portman adds. “I can wear just lipstick with nothing else and feel great.”
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Charlize Theron, Natalie Portman and Yara Shahidi Team for Dior Stands With Women
Charlize Theron, Natalie Portman and Yara Shahidi Team for Dior Stands With Women
The fashion brand continues its inspirational women-led program for a second outing, this one featuring longtime muses alongside an architect, figure skater and well-known journalist.
Last fall, Dior debuted a new initiative, Dior Stands With Women, that featured a long list of famous faces doing just that — standing up and speaking out to showcase the impact women can have on the world as a way to inspire others. It only makes sense that the house would return with a second installment, dropped today to coincide with International Women’s Day.
The latest offering — searchable via hashtags #DiorStandsWithWomen and #DiorChinUp — features a series of portraits and videos with Charlize Theron, Natalie Portman, Yara Shahidi, actress and singer Li Bingbing, model Dilone, figure skater Kim Yuna, architect and designer and India Mahdavi and journalist and novelist Leïla Slimani. “There isn’t one grand identity of what it means to be a woman,” Shahidi says in a clip. “But it takes shape differently for each and every individual.”
Also as part of the latest installment, Dior continues its support of longtime muse Theron’s foundation. In doing so, Dior will finance the university studies of young people selected for Charlize Theron’s Africa Outreach Project Youth Leaders Scholarship Program in partnership with UCLA Center for World Health and StudyTrust. The program’s goal is to provide higher education support for future leaders. Full scholarships will cover four years of full tuition, accommodations, food, books, computers, travel expenses, one-on-one tutoring and a leadership training course.
Theron interviews two of the students in one of the clips released today, which is seen below.
Natalie Portman, Yara Shahidi and More Share Moving Female Empowerment Message in Dior Campaign
Natalie Portman, Yara Shahidi and more high-profile female activists in the industry are taking a stand with Dior Beauty to support the impact women have on the world in honor of International Women’s Day.
On March 8, Dior invites women to share challenges they’ve overcome in their own lives — and some of their celebrity ambassadors are joining the #DiorStandsWithWomen #DiorChinUp campaign.
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Made in partnership with the Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project (which works to fight HIV in South Africa), Dior Beauty tapped Portman, Shahidi, architect India Madhavi, Chinese actress Li Bingbing, model Dilone, South African figure skater Yuna Kim and writer Leïla Slimani to share their stories in a series of inspiring videos.
“It was like instilled in me very early on that if there is injustice you have to stand up because not standing up against injustice is being complicit with it,” Portman said. “There are so many different aspects to female equality really. All of them are of equal importance because there need to be so many different ways that we attack the historic inequality and oppression.”
Portman went on to explain some of the “moving victories” she’s witnessed for women’s rights.
“Whether it’s been working with the WE Foundation to create schools for girls in developing nationals and to see women that I have met through A New Way of Life — a women’s reentry programs from prison in Los Angeles. [They] have been traumatized over and over again in their lives and then come out and become community organizers and get reunited with their children,” she said.
In her own video, Shahidi opened up about finding her voice as a young women and gaining the confidence to speak up in various situations without others viewing her as too “aggressive.”
“What we know to be true is that so many young women aren’t given the space to feel heard consistently, to feel as though people are genuinely taking the time to understand what they are saying,” Shahidi said.
“So when I go in to fight for what I believe is right or what I believe is crucial to a certain project I think there are many times that women, and it’s only exacerbated if you’re a woman of color, toe the line between being viewed as assertive and driven or aggressive,” she continued. “It is important and requires constant conversation even for me to know that my being assertive, my being committed and my being driven is not something to ever be ashamed of.”
Portman hopes that for the next generation of women there are “fewer expectations put on them and that they can just pursue their inner selves.”
She continued: “I think it’s been such a long time that we haven’t had an amplification of women’s voices. Women’s voices have always been there but not everyone is always listening. So it’s an incredible time to start listening.”