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Why Don’t You…? Twenty Extravagant Ideas for International Women’s Day and Beyond

Frivolous, fun or deadly serious, here are some screen-focused suggestions to mark the day, the week, the year.

6 Mar 2020 12:00

Rochelle Siemienowicz

Writing and Publishing

Eliza and Hannah Reilly in Sheilas, the comedy web series they created ‘celebrating the most badass women of Australian history’. Image supplied.

Diana Vreeland was the editor of fashion magazine Harper’s Bazaar for 25 years. She passed away in 1989, but she’s still remembered for her regular ‘Why don’t you’ columns, full of extravagant and outrageous ideas for the ‘modern woman’. (‘Why don’t you… rinse your blond child’s hair in dead champagne to keep it gold, as they do in France?’ or ‘tie black tulle bows on your wrists?’)

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Rochelle Siemienowicz

Rochelle Siemienowicz is Screen Content Lead at Screenhub. She is a writer, film critic and cultural commentator with a PhD in Australian cinema and was the co-host of Australia's longest-running film podcast 'Hell is for Hyphenates'. Rochelle has written a memoir, Fallen, published by Affirm Press. Her second book, Double Happiness, a novel, is out with Midnight Sun on October 1, 2024. Instagram: @Rochelle_Rochelle Twitter: @Milan2Pinsk