Monica Lewinsky, the woman who shook the US political scene in the 1990s, stands today as a symbol of female power and self-confidence. Her latest fashion campaign for the brand Reformation not only reflects her inner strength, but also sends an important message about the impact of voting and civic participation.
Photographed against the city skyline in a bright, high-rise office space, Monica Lewinsky embodies the image of female power in an ankle-length black dress accented with a leather belt and leopard-print shoes. For someone who was at the center of a political scandal in the mid-1990s in the US, this was not always her reality.
Photo: Reformation
Photo: Reformation
Monica Lewinsky, who came to the White House in 1995 as an unpaid summer intern and later landed paid jobs there and at the Pentagon, became a publicly humiliated figure overnight after revelations of her sexual encounters with then-President Bill Clinton. Today, Lewinsky is a recognized speaker on the topic of harassment and a strategic advisor to the anti-bullying organization Bystander Revolution.
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"You can't run away from your story," she told Vanity Fair last year, on the 25th anniversary of the scandal. "Perhaps the hardest idea I've had to come to terms with is that you can't throw away or free yourself from the 1998 self... You can only try to integrate your former selves with as much compassion as you can muster."
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