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Models Caroline Trentini, Jessica Miller and Joan Smalls feel a tiny, early-morning chill in the air, as nature switches seasonal gears right before our eyes. Carlos Nazario styles the fall outerwear story ‘Natural Disposition’, lensed by Oliver Hadlee Pearch [IG] for British Vogue [IG] September 2026./ Hair by Louis Ghewy; makeup by Mel Arter
Talia Chetrit Shoots a Bold LOEWE Fall/Winter 2026 Campaign
Key words that describes the LOEWE SS 2026 campaign and collection, are more important for Loewe’s Fall/Winter 2026 Collection. Creative directors Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez continue to deliver bold shapes, infused with vibrant colors.
A new attitude at Loewe infuses product design with new technologies that reinvent old materials and processes. Modernity is key. The designers continue their firm embrace of Loewe’s heritage, but . . .
Loewe is looking to partner with technology as Pharrell Williams is creating new materials and finishes at Louis Vuitton Men.
Cardi B Wears Cultural Ambassador Style in Vogue Arabia September
Writing Vogue Arabia’s September 2026 editor’s letter for the Cardi B cover story, shot by Szilveszter Makó, Manuel Arnault had expressed confidence for months that Cardi B would close out the upcoming MDLBeast Sandstorm festival in Riyah without a hitch. She did.
Turning to Instagram to say ‘hello’ to fans in Saudi Arabia, as she touched down on Saudi soil..
Posting on Instagram a video of her arrival, wearing a black abaya-style gown, Cardi B established contact :
"Hello Saudi Arabia... Halal B has arrived."
TEMS At Obama Presidential Center Opening June 19, 2026
Tems performed at the opening of the Obama Presidential Center, the newest cultural landmark in the Hyde Park neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side.
Here’s a taste of just one interview of the Obamas by MSNOW Senior Contributing Editor Michele Norris with Michelle Obama. They discuss the moment when President Obama was caught totally off guard by Michelle Obama’s skirt.
President Obama had no idea this Acne Studios skirt moment, featuring the image of his deceased mother-in-law was coming. As for interviewer Michele Norris, it’s her grandmother Ione Hopson Brown that was the Aunt Jemima Anne adored as a young girl. Does this true story become complicated? Indeed it does. And Anne dives in head first.
Dior Fall 2026/2027 Campaign Is Exquisite. Does It Resonate with Reality?
Jonathan Anderson delivers one of the sweetest, loveliest, most poetic, tranquil, untroubled, innocent, painterly ad campaign reveries to have sprung from his fantabulous imagination.
We are in the land of sweet damsels Dru Campbell, Laura Kaiser, Sunday Rose and Zhao Ziqi drifting like angels into the ethereal safe space of young women with trust funds.
Not to knock on the door of their collective consciousness, but perhaps they are suffering from ennui, a deep, weary boredom and listlessness, a grey feeling where life’s routines feel dull and meaningless.
90% of the financial markets now believe that Dior and Chanel are locked in a zero-sum luxury brands battle and Dior has already suffered a strong gut punch. Financial modeling demonstrates that the [LVMH] stock is now trading significantly below its intrinsic fair value.
Theinstitutional investment community is actively baking a steep "management and creative risk premium" into Dior's valuation, explicitly losing faith in the brand's near-term trajectory.
Karen Mulder Covers Vogue Germany 30 Years Later with a Focus on Model Abuse
1990s supermodel Karen Mulder covers the September 2026 issue of Vogue Germany [IG], 30 years after being iced by the fashion industry over her claims of widespread model abuse. She is styled by Dogukan Nesanir in images by Sean+Seng [IG].
Three decades ago, Karen Mulder made shocking claims of abuse against the fashion industry and its treatment of models. Interviewed for a French talk show, the Dutch super ended up in a psychiatric hospital resulting from her commentary, which never aired on television or to the general public.
Mulder’s return, with the full support of Vogue Germany, coincides with the Epstein case drama in America and a rash of new rape and assault complaints [some repeats] filed in Paris in July.
AOC raises new concerns about the staggering depth of physical assault involved in the alleged events. If these are the men amongst us — in our own industry — what does it say that after 30 years, there is no consensus around truth and justice due — if any?
When W Magazine shared the fashion story ‘Skin Is In: This Season’s Forecast Calls for Leather Weather’, Mother Nature had other summer plans of her own. Wearing leather in high-summer does sound edgy until a woman suits up for the sake of fashion.
Top model Ida Heiner posed on pre-summer sands in the W trend forecast for leather and suede outerwear becoming summer’s edgiest cover-ups.
Charlotte Collet styled the fashion story using Akris, Balenciaga, Bottega Veneta, Celine, Dolce & Gabbana, Ferragamo, Givenchy by Sarah Burton, Gucci, Loewe, McQueen, Miu Miu, Zadig & Voltaire and more in images captured by Zoe Ghertner [IG]. / Hair by Lucas Willson; makeup by Lilly Pollan
Vogue Netherlands [IG] releases four September 2026 covers featuring Dutchies and very tight friends, models Annemary Alderbridge, Caitlin Soetendal and Rosalieke Fuchs.
The trio is styled by Linda Gumus Gerritsen in images by Josh Olins [IG], on location in a Portuguese valley, creating images promoting peace, nature and the models’ love for each other. / Hair by Diego Da Silva; makeup by Sally Branka
Supermodel Adriana Lima is back ‘home’ at Victoria’s Secret and in the pages of Edward Enninful’s EE72 [IG] Magazine Summer 2026 issue. The most emotional with love, former VS Angel is back to appearing regularly in VS campaigns. Her son Cyan, birthed with husband Andre Lemmers, is now four years old. Dena Gianni styles Adriana in sultry looks from Balenciaga, Calvin Klein, Chloe, Khaite and more lensed by Daniel Sachon [IG] for the issue themed around performance, wellness and sports./ Hair by Sami Knight; makeup by Holly Silius
US models Athena Wilson and Londone Myers join China’s Luo Yi and Britain’s Ava Good in ‘Wild and Free, a fall fashion story styled by Miranda Almond.
Erik Madigan Heck is behind the lens for Harper’s Bazaar UK [IG] September 2026 issue./ Hair by Declan Shells; makeup by Andrew Gallimore
The September 2026 issue of Vogue arrives with ‘The Shards’ stars Kaia Gerber and Homer Gere on the cover and main cover story. There is plenty of fashion, styled by Spencer Singer, in the cover story with Gerber and Gere wearing Chanel on the September cover. Rob Haskell pens the narrative ‘Kaia Gerber and Homer Gere Have Heard It All Before’. Steven Meisel [IG] is behind the lens with creative direction by Raul Martinez./ Hair by Guido Palau;makeup by Pat McGrath
A Sultry Aylah Peterson for Wallpaper + Musings on Male Designers
Aylah Peterson is styled by Jason Hughes in a sumptuous fashion story with strong woman looks from top designers. Parisian photographers Antoine and Charlie [IG] capture Peterson for Wallpaper Magazine [IG] September 2026 focus on fall fashion.
Raw, Real Desire to Fly
This is one of those high-impact, sophisticated fashion stories that AOC loves. In the featured shot — Aylah Peterson’s eyes, the tilt of her head and face is both honest and compelling. In the text for this story by Jack Moss, he gives high praise to Blazy for being so attuned to his clients, which are primarily women.
Blazy has said — probably in the notes for the A/W 2026 show with the caterpillar and the butterfly —
‘Chanel is a paradox. Chanel is function, Chanel is fiction. Chanel is sensible, Chanel is seductive. Chanel is day, Chanel is night. It represents the freedom to choose between the caterpillar and the butterfly whenever you want,’ he said. ‘I wish to create a canvas for women to be unapologetically who they are and who they want to be.’
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Talia Chetrit Shoots a Bold LOEWE Fall/Winter 2026 Campaign
Key words that describes the LOEWE SS 2026 campaign and collection, are more important for Loewe’s Fall/Winter 2026 Collection. Creative directors Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez continue to deliver bold shapes, infused with vibrant colors.
A new attitude at Loewe infuses product design with new technologies that reinvent old materials and processes. Modernity is key. The designers continue their firm embrace of Loewe’s heritage, but . . .
Loewe is looking to partner with technology as Pharrell Williams is creating new materials and finishes at Louis Vuitton Men.
Dior Fall 2026/2027 Campaign Is Exquisite. Does It Resonate with Reality?
Jonathan Anderson delivers one of the sweetest, loveliest, most poetic, tranquil, untroubled, innocent, painterly ad campaign reveries to have sprung from his fantabulous imagination.
We are in the land of sweet damsels Dru Campbell, Laura Kaiser, Sunday Rose and Zhao Ziqi drifting like angels into the ethereal safe space of young women with trust funds.
Not to knock on the door of their collective consciousness, but perhaps they are suffering from ennui, a deep, weary boredom and listlessness, a grey feeling where life’s routines feel dull and meaningless.
90% of the financial markets now believe that Dior and Chanel are locked in a zero-sum luxury brands battle and Dior has already suffered a strong gut punch. Financial modeling demonstrates that the [LVMH] stock is now trading significantly below its intrinsic fair value.
Theinstitutional investment community is actively baking a steep "management and creative risk premium" into Dior's valuation, explicitly losing faith in the brand's near-term trajectory.
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Ladakhi in Silk Roads History Has Core Principles for New Humanism
We’ve pulled out this story focused on ‘The Silk Road’ to honor Avani Rai’s father, renowned photographer Raghu Rai and equally the work of her mother, conservation architect Gurmeet Sangha Rai.
A key plank of AOC’s vision of the original Renaissance Humanism vs New Humanism is its lack of a Eurocentric lens. This global embrace of humanity has motivated me my entire life, with travels and a career around the world more times than I can count.
The Place of Ladakhi in Silk Roads History
The fashion story takes us to Ladakh, which was never an isolated mountain kingdom; it was the vibrant pulse point of the Trans-Himalayan Silk Road from as early as the 2nd century BCE. Its primary town, Leh, acted as a massive commercial hub where the trade routes of Central Asia, South Asia, and Tibet converged.
Trust was the glue that bound these traders in successful commerce and the beginnings of international business communities. These ancient traders have so much to teach us about dealing with the ‘other’.
Co-Creation at Golden Goose Is On the Move | So Is 'Less I, More Us'
Golden Goose differentiates itself in the global marketing universe, leading with action and real product, not only words. As a brand, it has always respected and tapped into a universal creative impulse of humans wanting to make things. ‘Golden Happens’ is a deeply personal message, within this reality and context.
Among creatives, there are varying degrees of an understanding that customers, clients and VICs increasingly act as the ultimate authentic intermediaries who reject the ‘empty words’ of corporate disruption, based on old models of the luxury brands business.
Today’s VICs are often traveling alongside us in their own minds. They want to experience synchronicity first hand, and not by reading fashion magazines or attending designer fashion shows.
The traditional concept of star designers and their — but usually HIS — muses is giving way to a much more creative and often democratic process that is horizontal and not vertical.
In the world of haute couture, VICs desire to know the makers, not only the designers. In the words of Maria Grazia Chiuri:
“Less I, More Us”
Anne Shreds & Trashes Lauren Sherman Gross Attack on Pharrell Williams
When an editor/writer promotes herself as the definitive fashion voice of a generation, the industry expects rigorous, fact-based journalism. Instead, Lauren Sherman over at Puck News has developed a predictable, cynical but also clever habit of throwing stink bombs on Pharrell Williams, creative director of Louis Vuitton Men.
Her June 2026 "Line Sheet" briefing, titled Pharrell Inc., is a prime example. In it, Sherman attempts to paint Pharrell as a slick operator taking LVMH for a ride. In her columns, Sherman treats Pharrell’s creative output as a distraction and a sideline hustle that comes at the expense of Louis Vuitton.
It is a lazy, superficial take on Pharrell Williams that collapses under the slightest scrutiny. A closer look at the actual corporate timelines, contract structures, and cultural contexts that swirl around Pharrell’s everyday life reveals that Sherman isn't just missing the point—she is entirely failing to do the homework. Sherman deserves every stink bomb we throw right back at her — except ours contain platinum level facts and analysis. She should try using some.
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Cardi B Wears Cultural Ambassador Style in Vogue Arabia September
Writing Vogue Arabia’s September 2026 editor’s letter for the Cardi B cover story, shot by Szilveszter Makó, Manuel Arnault had expressed confidence for months that Cardi B would close out the upcoming MDLBeast Sandstorm festival in Riyah without a hitch. She did.
Turning to Instagram to say ‘hello’ to fans in Saudi Arabia, as she touched down on Saudi soil..
Posting on Instagram a video of her arrival, wearing a black abaya-style gown, Cardi B established contact :
"Hello Saudi Arabia... Halal B has arrived."
TEMS At Obama Presidential Center Opening June 19, 2026
Tems performed at the opening of the Obama Presidential Center, the newest cultural landmark in the Hyde Park neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side.
Here’s a taste of just one interview of the Obamas by MSNOW Senior Contributing Editor Michele Norris with Michelle Obama. They discuss the moment when President Obama was caught totally off guard by Michelle Obama’s skirt.
President Obama had no idea this Acne Studios skirt moment, featuring the image of his deceased mother-in-law was coming. As for interviewer Michele Norris, it’s her grandmother Ione Hopson Brown that was the Aunt Jemima Anne adored as a young girl. Does this true story become complicated? Indeed it does. And Anne dives in head first.
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The June 2026 issue of Vogue Hong Kong paid tribute to Tiffany & Co. with new spectacular pieces from its ‘Hidden Garden’ Blue Book high jewelry collection. Invited also to join the festivities were animal actors/ambassadors Romey & Cookie, humanely trained animal actors since 1987 by Benaya Animals [IG].
Schanel Bakkouche styled model Bambi Northwood Blyth in subdued, high jewelry elegance, lensed by Petros Koulouris [IG].
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For Alo 2026 The Future of Luxury Is Wellness, but China Has Headaches with Alo
After further sleuthing, we learned that Alo has been in the market for capital with a $10 B valuation since 2023, which sounds way high. The concept is impressive and very sound before the arrival of Petruzzo, who will be a big help in raising capital and instituting sound financial management systems and international marketing rules.
As much as AOC LOVES this concept, there are flags on the field in China.
Jing Daily reports that Alo will probably face challenges in the China market, as it prepares to open stores in Shanghai and Beijing. JD writes that “years of rampant counterfeiting” have already shaped how Chinese customers view the brand. Those perceptions will impact what customers are willing to pay for product.
There are tariff-related risks, as well. With most of its manufacturing done in China, major risks introduced by President Trump’s deeply personal and punishing approach to tariffs adds extra volatility to Alo’s expansion plans.
The French have an approach to wellbeing that often seems at odds with America’s. An example is this December 2025 French Vogue [IG] fashion story that focuses not on supplements or gentle exercise.
Rather, the French are always game to add lingerie and jewelry to a wellness feature. Model Rosalieke Fuchs is lensed by Maxime La [IG].
Nécessaire defines itself as a chic, gender-neutral skincare brand focused on body and hair — and now scent. The B-Corp brand was founded by Randi Christiansen [ex-Estée Lauder] and Nick Axelrod [Into The Gloss co-founder].
Nécessaire elevates everyday personal care with clean, effective ingredients like niacinamide, hyaluronic acid, and peptides. Considered a ‘cult brand’ since 2018, we’ve taken screenshots from the Nécessaire IG to give us a better intelligence on this entry into the marketplace. Nécessaire is sold at Sephora today.
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