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The New LOEWE Finds Bold Color and a Bit of Sensuality in Pre-Fall 2026 Campaign
The campaign includes actors Eva Victor, Isla Johnson and Levon Hawke and entertainer Seydou Sarr, lensed in a LOEWE return by Talia Chetrit.
AOC just spent time going back through LOEWE under Jonathan Anderson. When you do that exercise on Models.com, the differences between Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez, creators of the New LOEWE, and Anderson’s old LOEWE are startling.
Not only is color a major element in New LOEWE, there is a simmering sensual undercurrent at LOEWE not seen since Jonathan Anderson created those visually dazzling anthurium dresses and tops in the Spring/Summer 2023 Collection.
Prada Is Poised for VIC Brainiac Status and The Prada Days of Summer 2026 Campaign
Liu Wen joins Prada ambassadors Bella Hadid, Damson Idris and Louis Partridge in fronting the growing trend of ‘urban beaches’ in global cities worldwide. David Sims [IG] photographs the campaign with creative direction by Ferdinando Verderi.
AOC doubts that Prada is prompting an intellectual discussion on ‘cool roofs’ as a highly-effective way to reduce summer heat and energy consumption. But if any luxury brand wants to advocate for that inquiry, Mrs. Prada and Prada co-creative director Raf Simons are at the head of the pack.
Miuccia Prada ‘Titan’
Miuccia Prada was first on the global TIME 100 list in 2005; she returned to the list in 2025, recognized as a ‘Titan’ for influencing fashion, identity and culture. Anne is optimistic that finally we have found a word — ‘titan’ — that fashion and culture writers are using sparingly and only for those who deserve the title by accomplishment and not hype. Fantastic!
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Sophie Dahl Channels Marilyn Monroe for Harper's Bazaar UK
This Marilyn story serves as an advertorial for a collection of beauty products launched by Lisa Eldridge [IG] in collaboration with the estate of Marilyn Monroe.
In these images Sophie Dahl channels Marilyn Monroe in Amagansett in the summer of 1957. The private location inspired photographer Sam Shaw to take some of the most relaxed and natural images of Marilyn ever recorded.
Dahl is styled by Miranda Almond in images by Agata Pospieszynska [IG] for Harper’s Bazaar UK [IG] July-August 2026 ./ Hair by Sam McKnight; makeup by Lisa Eldridge
Marilyn’s Deepest Desire
Anne of Carversville has always tried to be sensitive to one of Marilyn’s deepest desires — to be taken seriously as an intellectual person. This desire was a source of ridicule by men who found the vision of Marilyn Monroe as an intellectual to be absurd. Marilyn was aware of the ridicule and it pained her deeply.
Miranda Kerr in All Her Glory Talks Family Values with Marie Claire Australia
Miranda Kerr needs no introduction. The founder of KORA Organics and mother of four sons — three with now husband Evan Spiegel and one with ex-husband Orlando Bloom— dons a strawberry blonde wig for her Marie Claire Australia [IG] April 2026 cover story. It’s a perfect color for this fashion in an issue devoted to Women in their Power!
It’s a WIG, people; calm down.
Julianna Alabado styles Kerr in images by Greg Swales [IG], who shot Kerr in Los Angeles, her primary residence.
The Aussie beauty and famous Victoria’s Secret model self-funded the ‘clean’ brand with her own earnings,. Kerr is a testament to the reality of Victoria’s Secret models being uniquely well-paid in its glory days.
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Chloe Magno Covers Vogue Philippines June/July 2026, Last Issue for Bea Valdes
AOC celebrated the August 2022 first issue of Vogue Philippines for its beauty, its local focus on Filipino culture and design heritage and its strong emphasis on sustainability.
Model Chloe Magno covered the launch issue and now returns for Bea Valdes’ final issue as EIC. The executive continues as Chief Content Officer for MEGA Global Group, Inc. where she oversees creative synergy across Vogue, Allure and GQ Philippines.
Incoming Vogue Philippines Editor-in-Chief is Trickie Lopa, who was the magazine’s Deputy Editor for Art and Culture. We assume that Vogue Philippines will only get better, raising their own already high standards.
Among the Vogues, VP leads the way in expressing New Humanism values, followed by Vogues Poland and Portugal.
Newport's First Fashion Aristocrats Were Originally Southern Plantation Owners
Wealthy families from the American South originally visited Newport to escape coastal malaria and yellow fever.
Newport itself had direct financial connections to the slave trade. In fact, it was this north-south connection profiteering in the selling of humans as property that first brought rich Southerners to the hospitable place called Newport.
William Lloyd Garrison, editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, called Newport “a stronghold of slavery…[the] Charleston or New Orleans of New England.”
Irony becomes consequential when we also learn that Newport was home to a small but growing number of wealthy Americans of color, who earned their riches and freedom as whalers.
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Pooja Mor appeared in the September 2025, premier issue of Numéro New York [IG] in this Bvlgari [IG] fashion story. Lensed by Emma Louise Swanson [IG], Pooja was styled by Numéro New York fashion director Alexander Fisher, with creative direction by Olivia Windisch./ Makeup by Dotti; hair by Brent Lawler
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