Gigi Hadid in 'Well Worn' Fashion Story by Theo de Gueltzl for Vogue US September 2022

Gigi Hadid in 'Well Worn' Fashion Story by Theo de Gueltzl for Vogue US September 2022 AOC Fashion

Supermodel Gigi Hadid is styled by Camilla Nickerson in ‘Well Worn’, fashion story for American Vogue September 2022. The title suggests that Gigi’s story is part of the growing resale market or pieces made of recycled fabrics. Or the fashion story is a mix of old and new, which would at least be progress. I’m seeing that more frequently these days.

The copy “Patchwork or plain, oversized or cropped, fall’s finest jackets have all the cozy, wear-anywhere appeal of pieces passed down” suggests all new fashion. Having spent 15-20 minutes trying to answer this question, AOC throws in the towel for now.

Theo de Gueltzl [IG] photographs Gigi, and while he doesn’t have her images yet, his own IG has a wonderful vibe and hits some of these AOC notes. / Hair by Jimmy Paul; makeup by Fara Homidi

Greenwashing or Not? Ancient Sequoias Aren’t Fashioniastas. They Are Just Burning to Death

It’s text like this — and especially the title ‘Well Worn’ — that drives Scandinavian governments crazy. Forget bloggers who are capitalizing on every probably greenwashing example like this one from the fashion industry. AOC tries to defend us but . . .

There’s no excuse for this text and confusion on my end, given the state of our burning-down world.

Read this deadly update about the state of the California fires still burning in the Sugarbowl, destroying ancient sequoias in the Sierra Nevada. Concerning most of all, is that the sequoia fires are so hot that seedlings probably will not rise from the death.

In a world where the slightest issue is “tragic”, dying sequois is an “authentically tragic” problem.

Oh wait. We’ve wordsmithed “authentic” into meaningless oblivion as well. For a “well worn” spirit like mine, I just don’t understand the fashion-pack mentality at all.

The Sugarbowl, an amphitheater of solemn and enormous trees, part of the Redwood Mountain grove, one of the largest collections of giant sequoias on Earth, has become a graveyard. Trees that have lived since the Roman Empire stand as fire-blackened matchsticks, their once bushy green crowns shriveled into charred fists. When the KNP Complex Fire roared through last October, it burned so hot in some places that Caprio expects few seedlings to rise from the ash.