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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.
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?
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.’
Coco Beach 2026 Campaign and the Inert Power of the Mycelium Man
Matthieu Blazy’s Chanel is in high gear, manifesting clarity of vision, intention, artistry and modernity expressed in the Coco Beach 2026 Campaign.
Creative director Sheila Single [IG] and photographer Julien Martinez Leclerc [IG] deliver an atypical summer campaign that is driven by graphic composition and precise placement.
Blazy’s women are so on the move — much like Coco Chanel herself or Chanel’s fabulous CEO Leena Nair — that being suspended in stillness, lying motionless on black sand — they are out-of-predicted behavior mode.
AOC’s Mycelium Man outsmarts us with a hard stop. I know; I know. Here she goes again with the mushrooms. Get used to it.
Ashley Graham for ELLE Spain August 2026 and Her New Little Lucci (Wine)
Supermodel Ashley Graham graces the pages of ELLE Spain’s [IG] August 2026 issue, styled by Sylvia Montoliu in Dolce & Gabbana, Givenchy, Maison Alaia, Marina Rinaldi, YSL and more. JUANKR [IG] is behind the lens, capturing the sophisticated fashion story in all its Ashley Graham sensual glory.
A New Challenge: Her Little Lucci
The supermodel mother of three boys was recently toasting her favorite bottle of Lambrusco, calling it her fourth child, her little Lucci.
Pastoral Perfect in Vogue Paris 2018
The minute Graham’s fashion story hit the queue, AOC thought of her scalding story lensed by Lachlan Bailey for Vogue Paris. Graham as Earth Goddess is in the top 10 ever fashion stories on Anne of Carversville.
In late May, 2026 LOEWE creative directors Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez, founders of New York-based Proenza Schouler, shared one of their first major high-profile, non-runway cultural projects since stepping into the helm of the LVMH-owned Spanish luxury house after Jonathan Anderson’s move to the creative director’s position at Dior.
This is the first time in LOEWE’s 180-year history that the brand is serving as an official tailor for a national sports federation. The initial four-year agreement with the Royal Spanish Football Federation secures LOEWE’s spot as the official off-pitch and travel wardrobe partner through 2030.
Zendaya Opens in ‘The Odyssey’ July 17, 2026; ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ July 31, 2026
Zendaya covers the May 2026 issue of Vogue Brasil [IG], styled by Law Roach at a photo shoot at Los Angeles’ Hollyhock House. Built in 1921 by Frank Lloyd Wright, it was the home of American oil heiress Aline Barnsdall.
Photographer Nicole Heiniger [IG] captures the Jazz Age images with fashion direction by Rita Lazarrotti. Hollyhock House is LA’s only UNESCO World Heritage Site
Photographer Elizaveta Porodina [IG] brings her trademark — but very expansive — artistic vision to Vogue Germany [IG] July-August 2026 issue. Actor Mala Emde wears Dior on the cover, styled by Jeannie Annan-Lewin, a contributing fashion editor on British Vogue.
The issue’s cover theme ‘The Women We Are’ probes a profound question for today’s women. Actor Mala Emde wears Dior on the cover, styled by Jeannie Annan-Lewin, a contributing fashion editor on British Vogue.
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.
The Monster of a Man in Your New Dior Library Is Not Dio. He's Deor.
Anne says: “If someone tells you two times in eight years who they are, especially when rewarded with a big promotion to create a NEW DIOR that is vastly different from the old Dior, you must evaluate this new marriage carefully.
It’s only fashion, right? Au contraire. It’s a time for choosing.”
My goal is to give clarity from a branding standpoint around what the New Dior stands for. They are very retro values for our modern world. I am comfortable saying that the new New Dior has a deeply nationalistic mentality, and I will go so far as to call it a white nationalist mentality, based on the key points of ‘Dracula’.
Cate Blanchett in Vogue Germany, at Hamburger Bahnhof Museum 30th Anniversary and News of Her November 2026 Honors by Displacement Film Fund
Leading lady, Oscar winning Cate Blanchett learned that she is the 2026 recipient of the British Short Film Awards’ Impact Award. Blanchett will be recognized on Nov. 8 in London for her work “with the Displacement Film Fund [DFF], an initiative supporting short films created by refugees and filmmakers living in displacement.
Blanchett was not at the recent 2026 Oscars but in Berlin at the renowned Hamburger Bahnhof Museum 30th anniversary event. She reunited with Julian Rosefeldt. The German artist and film maker is best known for his 2015 work ‘Manifesto’, in which Blanchett performed 13 different roles.
Deva Cassel in Dior for Harper's Bazaar Turkey Talks French Version ‘Phantom of the Opera’
Dior ambassador, actor Deva Cassel covers the March 2026 issue of Harper’s Bazaar Turkey [IG], the first one styled by new EIC Inan Kirdemir in key pieces from Jonathan Anderson’s first Dior Women’s Spring 2026 collection.
Inan Kirdemir [IG] arrives at Harper’s Bazaar Turkey from L’Officiel Turkey, as a well-known celebrity stylist and now editor-in-chief at Bazaar.
The star of last year’s Netflix Italia series ‘The Leopard’ has finished a new French-language film adaptation of ‘The Phantom of the Opera’, directed by Alexandre Castagnetti. The movie is set for a September 23, 2026 release in France.
Anine Bing's Fresh Start & Great Bag for Vogue Scandinavia February/March
Co-founder of the Anine Bing label in 2012 Los Angeles, the Danish businesswoman and former model covers the February-March 2026 issue of Vogue Scandinavia [IG].
Anine Bing currently splits her time between Los Angeles andParis, where her main design studio now operates. Her divorce is final and she is thrilled with her new focus, as well as her undertaking a therapeutic retreat.
Known as the Hoffman Process, the program is designed to help individuals identify and release subconscious negative behaviors, limiting beliefs, and emotional patterns rooted in childhood, often termed the "Negative Love Syndrome," to foster, emotional, intellectual, physical, and spiritual transformation. View her IG commentary here, dated February 14, 2025.
Matthieu Blazy's New Girl Bhavitha Mandava Covers Vogue UK March 2026
Irony runneth over for Bhavitha Mandava, an India-born and educated architect who moved to New York City to join NYU’s program in assistive technology. One day this gorgeous young woman with a big brain and a ‘smile to die for’ was scouted on the New York subway as an exclusive in Matthieu Blazy’s Bottega Veneta Spring/Summer 2025 show.
That event was only the beginning for Mandava. When Blazy moved to Chanel shortly after, the new girl went with him. In record time, this young woman ambassador for the uber-challenging, big rewards for women winners breaking through barriers in New York City would open the Chanel Métiers d’Art 2026 Show in New York City.
Where did we find Bhavitha Mandava the night of December 2, 2025? Back in the subway.
Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi 'Wuthering Heights' Countdown in Vogue Australia
Elordi was equally relaxed as an Aussie man chilling with fellow Aussie Robbie in a Bottega Veneta jacket, tank top and pants. One uses the word ‘jacket’ loosely.On Robbie, it’s a shrug or cardigan.
What’s obvious to AOC is the growing numbers of men being totally relaxed wearing femme fashion.
No intellectual edict is required by the designer. They’re just doing it — like Pharrell was doing in Chanel by Karl Lagerfeld a decade ago. No star designer is creating this look in 2026, even though one will probably claim it.
‘Old Soul’ Kaia Gerber for Harper’s Bazaar February 2026
Kaia Gerber wears Givenchy on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar US [IG] February 2026. Luis Alberto Rodriguez [IG] captures Kaia, who is interviewed by Durga Chew-Bose.
For Kaia, A Privileged Life Is an Artistic Life
Kaia Gerber has never hesitated to admit her privileged upbringing, anchored in a robust, loving and supportive family life. How many grown young women with Kaia’s level of accomplishment call their mothers their best friend?
Kaia has always described privilege in a more intellectual way — a childhood where ideas, books, and culture were embedded in daily life.
GQ ‘Men of the Year’ Cynthia Erivo Prepares for Dracula
At a time when even the entertainment industry is bowing to dark political forces, Cynthia Erivo made a culture-conquering hit in ‘Wicked: For Good’, while standing firm for inclusion, kindness and radical acceptance.
The Tony winner is currently in rehearsals for ‘Dracula’ opening February 4th in the West End. Erivo will play all 23 roles in Bram Stoker’s classic that runs until May 31. Creative camera work is her only partner onstage.
Kip Williams directs ‘Dracula’, telling the press that this version of the play will be a “queer retelling of the story, and we are looking at reclaiming the vampire.”
Miu Miu Taps Into Global Trends Among Young Women That Might Surprise You
Models Kris Krystal, Ploy Chobsawang, Rachel Agbonze and more are styled by Lotta Volkova in the Miu Miu [IG] Prelude Collection 2016 campaign. Danish photographer Julie Greve [IG] shoots the campaign, confirming her self-descriptor as an artist whose work explores ideas of coming of age and female identity.
On the topic of Miu Miu’s brainiac young women, AOC spent time today getting out of the minds of America’s young women, with questions about young women worldwide.
Data indicates a ‘great relationship recession’ is underway globally, with singlehood rising in 26 out of 30 surveyed developed nations. Follow link top of page to read the details.
Paulina Porizkova’s Natural Beauty for Numéro Netherlands
Top model Paulina Porizkova [IG], age 60, has led a very public, digital life in recent years — even getting dressed in the morning on Instagram Live. Porizkova is engaged and shares a podcast with writer Jeff Greenstein, showrunner for the once very popular ‘Will and Grace’ weekly TV show.
Porizkova prides herself — just like Pamela Anderson — in being photographed without makeup for unretouched photos. When she does wear makeup — or appear in images with retouching — Porizkova requires a light touch.
China’s Elephant Protector Actor Yang Zi Helped Cut in Half China’s Ivory Consumption Since 2018
Vogue Hong Kong [IG] features actor Yang Zi, styled by Lucia Liu for the fashion story ‘In Bloom Yang Zi’, lensed by Leslie Zhang.
As one of the most prominent young actors of her generation, Vogue Hong Kong’s January 2026 cover star Yang Zi has been a WildAid ambassador since 2019. She lent her voice to WildAid's elephant program by starring in ‘Be Their Role Model’ campaign which asks parents to use their actions to set good examples for the next generation by not consuming ivory and other wildlife products.
China has been successful — as promised to concerned environmentalists and elephant lovers worldwide — in cutting in half the consumption of new ivory in a sequence of trade bans that took effect by the end of 2017.
Margot Robbie Covers British Vogue January 2026 in Leadup to 'Wuthering Heights'
This Valentine’s Day 2026, British Vogue [IG] wastes not one word in their January 2026 cover story with Hollywood mega-star Margot Robbie.
The Chanel ambassador Robbie wears Chanel on the cover, with a wide range of luxury fashion styled by Robbie Spencer. Mikael Jansson [IG] is the photographer for ‘In The Heights’. / Hair by Bryce Scarlett; makeup by Pati Dubroff
‘In the Heights’ refers to Robbie’s new role in the ‘erotic retelling’ of ‘Wuthering Heights’, a film based on Emily Brontë's only novel, published in 1847. The book is known for its passionate and dark story of love, revenge, and social class centered on the intense, destructive relationship between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling originally adopted by Catherine's father.
David Webb Spirited TOTEM Collection by Elizaveta Porodina
David Webb believed that jewelry and gems should be treated as artworks. Nearly every ancient culture around the world inspired the North Carolina man, who also had big dreams.
Webb’s primary source of global inspiration was a near-obsession with studying artifacts and art at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art [Met].
Webb drew inspiration from "the human spirit" and aligned his designs with the cultural changes of the 1960s and 70s, which embraced jewelry that was more “soulful and meaningful”.
Under its new owners, David Webb combusts a spectacular opportunity for the brand’s future and David Webb’s personal legacy. Anne is so excited.
Adwoa Aboah Lives in a New Era with British Vogue December 2025
Model, activist, ambassador, mum Adwoa Aboah was honored as ‘Woman of the Year’ at the Glamour Women of the Year Awards 2025 in London on October 30, 2025.
Today we find her on British Vogue’s [IG] inaugural ‘Best Dressed List, celebrating the 50 models, actors, musicians and more who are shaping the fashion zeitgeist.
When it comes to Adwoa Aboah, the woman you might think you ‘know’ — and we use ‘know’ loosely — she has evolved in some spectacular ways.
Everywhere we look today, Chanel joy by Matthieu Blazy is rockin.
Not everyone could put a fresh spin on Matthieu Blazy’s first iteration of the classic Chanel suit – the same one Michelle Obama wore to launch her new book – but on Adwoa, with her trademark tattoos and constellation of freckles, a check wool trouser suit suddenly becomes the thing.
Natalia Vodianova In Chaumet High Jewelry for Bazaar Arabia December
Vodianova poses as a friend of the maison, in this fashion story styled byNour Bou Ezz in images by Alvaro Gracia [IG].
The supermodel has been in Doha to judge the Fashion Trust Arabia Awards. She speaks warmly about all the changes in the Arab world — especially in arts and culture. That includes the new Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim Museum in Abu Ghabi.
Appointed in 2021 as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Population Fund [UNFPA], Natalia Vodianova focuses on dismantling taboos around menstruation.
It’s really something in AOC’s playbook when Bernard Arnault’s daughter-in-law, Mrs. Antoine Arnault, steps up as a leading voice to stop the banishment of women to huts while they are menstruating. Or not having access to sanitary supplies.
Bazaar Spain Honors Gymnast Simone Biles
December is the month for Harper’s Bazaar country-specific WOTY [Women of the Year] 2025 awards for women who inspire. AOC opens with Harper’s Bazaar Spain’s [IG] selection of Simone Biles for the Sport Icon Award.
Claudia Laukamp styles Biles in images by JUANKR [IG].
In the case of Simone Biles, she is a model of women who have embraced their vulnerability and “turned their wounds into feats of courage”.
From dealing with two — not one — cases of “the twisties” as we learned just recently; to the absolutely savage way Biles was treated by men when she withdrew from Tokyo Olympics for fear of breaking her neck; to Simone Biles testifying before Congress on September 15, 2021, in the Larry Nasser case of her own sexual abuse by the doctor of women gymnasts — Simone Biles is the inspiring type of woman Harper’s Bazaar Spain is honoring this December.
WSJ Beauty Innovator Hailey Bieber's Rhode Success Story
WSJ writer Chavie Lieber catches up with Bieber a few hours away from her Sephora launch. By every press report, the LVMH-owned Sephora launch was successful with $10 million in two days of sales. It was not only the best launch ever for the beauty stores and online retailer, it beat the prior record-holder by 2.5 times, selling 3 Rhode items per second.
Returning a few days later, Lieber reports the shelves were empty as a little girl with a British accent was close to tears, as she wailed: “There’s no more blush from Haaayley Biebaaa!”
Michelle Yeoh in ‘Wicked: For Good’: The Critics Weigh In
The Oscar-winning Malaysian actor and action star known for doing her own stunts is presently making her ‘Wicked’ character terrifying to all who view her.
The film ‘Wicked: For Good’ brought in $150 million in North America and $226 milion worldwide, over its Friday opening blockbuster weekend.
What do everyday people think of the movie? Mid-afternoon on Monday, ‘Wicked: For Good’ had a positive critic’s score of 70% but the audience rating is 95%.
