Sabina Jakubowicz Covers Vogue Mexico & Latin America Joyas Issue May 2022 AOC Fashion

Polish model Sabina Jakubowicz covers Vogue Mexico [IG] & Latin America’s May 2022 Vogue Joyas supplement, lensed by Mateusz Stankiewicz [IG]./ Beauty by makeup artist Magdalena Winska

Stylist Agnieszka Scibior chooses Cartier and a Balmain blazer for the cover image above in a fashion story that expresses Vogue Mexico & Latin America’s reminder that the world’s love stories birth their own immortal legacy through diamonds and precious stones . . . because they are forever.

Yet, the story is one in which traditions confront a changing expression of love, romance and often marriage that is positioned in concert with forward [and backwards] societal trends in modernity.

The world’s creative designers and artisans revive the high jewelry story over generations, with a new synthesis of technical advancements and artisan techniques. Fashion is also part of this process of the evolution of jewelry design.

Increasingly, global ambassadors and their politics help to define the ways in which a high jewelry brand’s heritage — and its love stories — are told in the modern world. Sustainability, transparency and ethics also assume a place of high priority among today’s most prestigious jewelry brands.

In this fashion story ‘Efecto de las gems’, stylist Agnieszka Scibior chooses unusually modern, androgynous and intellectual designs from Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello, Balmain as noted, Balenciaga, Maison Margiela, Prada, Bottega Veneta, Burberry and more.

Photographer Mateusz Stankiewicz captures Sabina Jakubowicz devoid of pretense, even if she is wearing Cartier, Bulgari, Piaget, Van Cleef & Arpels and more high jewelry.

In fact, Sabina brings to life a term Anne of Carversville uses frequently in our writing: the world is in dire need of “fearless, true-grit women with backbone ‘. They are often great lovers and wives, too, but the character and resilience expressed in these restrained ‘Efecto de las gems’ images are ascendant — and without apology.

I don’t recall any fashion story in which the model — Sabina Jakubowicz in these images — looks directly at us in every shot. Surely, there is one over the years, but this is precisely how a “fearless, true-grit woman with backbone” confronts the world: head-on and with conviction.

It’s rare that a woman’s eyes dominate diamonds, but that effect is achieved today. We are inspired by the deep convictions, true beauty and lack of artifice expressed in eyes every bit as beautiful as the world’s most precious stones. ~ Anne