Vogue China Shares 'New Generations, Old Pleasures', A Trend Story in Overdrive
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Vogue Korea Celebrates August 1996 Launch with Chloe Oh, Hyun Shin, Soo Joo Park
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Top models Bibi Breslin, Chloe Oh, Esther Kim, Felice Nova Noordhoff, Hyunji Shin, Luiza Perote, Natasha Poly and Soo Joo Park cover the August 2026 issue of Vogue Korea [IG]. Names are on the individual covers.
Hyea W. Kang [IG] is the sole photographer on the covers, with fashion direction by Eunyoung Sohn and styling by Dahye Kim and Kihoh Sohn./ Hair by Sebastien Le Corroller and Tsuki; makeup by Aya Murai, Hye Tyeong Park, and Yuki Hayashi
Read MoreMega-Watt Beauty Stephanie Cavalli Wears Chanel for Global Elle July 2026
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The votes are coming in with greater authority every day. Chanel is the big winner in the Dior v Chanel competition. Whether or not it’s a win built to last will reveal itself going forwards. But Chanel has taken the crown.
Not only has Blazy created stunning fashion choices for women with financial capital; he has put Stephanie Cavalli, age 50, into the spotlight. What is there not to love with this vibrant model who recalls:
“I never know how to put this without sounding crass, but I was too old to be young and too young to be old,”
In this global June 2026 ELLE fashion story, Cavalli wears key pieces from last December’s first Métiers d’Art collection by Matthieu Blazy. [The New York subway show].
Nicole Heiniger [IG] captures the model in all her glory for ELLE Brasil and ELLE Global.
Read MoreCo-Creation at Golden Goose Is On the Move and So Is 'Less I, More Us'
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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”
Read MoreChanel Years Ago Developed New Practices on Repurposing Unsold Products
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Chanel Years Ago Developed New Practices on Repurposing Unsold Products
A trial underway in Hong Kong’s High Court has indirectly drawn attention to how Chanel handles unsold and discontinued inventory on a seasonal basis. Court documents reveal details of Chanel Hong Kong’s once-routine destruction practices.
Yes, it’s staggering to read that the house reportedly destroyed between 10,000 and 20,000 discontinued Chanel products every six months as a matter of standard business operation.
This allegation is not fake news! But it’s old news and should be treated as such.
AOC has covered this topic extensively and is pulling from the archives to give us all a reality check on the facts. Generally-speaking, all the major luxury houses have stopped destroying unsold products.
Legislation went into effect in the European Union on July 19, 2026, that not only puts a legal stop to the destruction of luxury house products but requires all the major houses to file regular documentation on how they have handled the issue of unsold goods every year.
Read MoreIrina Shayk Simmers in Body-Con Poses for d la Repubblica, Lensed by Ethan James Green
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Supermodel Irina Shayk is in the house, covering the July 18, 2026 issue of d la Repubblica [IG]. The cover story ‘A Modo Mio’ is a body-conscious, sensually-aware [literally!] fashion story lensed by Ethan James Green [IG].
Haley Wollens styles Irina, led by Dolce & Gabbana for the cover and throughout the fashion story, with insider appearances by Chanel, Dolce & Gabbana, Ermanno Scervino, Jean Paul Gaultier, Lanvin, Lewis Dussurget, Maison Alaia, Sportmax, Stella McCartney and more./ Hair by Sonny Molina; makeup by Kabuki
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Chloe Parades in 'Petal Pushers' by Daniyel Lowden for HTSI Magazine July 2026
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Dominican model Chloe Parades appeared in Dior Women’s Spring/Summer 2026 lookbook and campaign and JW Anderson Spring/Summer 2026 .She walked the Fendi Haute Couture last Thursday and appears here in ‘Petal Pushers’ for HTSI Magazine [IG] July 2026. Benjamin Canares styles the garden riches story with images by Daniyel Lowden [IG]./ Hair by Masayoshi Fujita; makeup by Claire Urquhart
Read MoreGisele Bundchen in W Magazine Summer 2026, Sculptural Style by Karim Sadli
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Supermodel Gisele Bündchen covers W Magazine Summer 2026 for the first time in two decades. It’s one of Gisele’s most austere fashion shoots ever, lensed by Karim Sadli [IG]. Brian Molloy chooses Alaïa, Balenciaga, Celine, Gucci, Hodakova, Issey Miyake, Jean Paul Gaultier, Loewe, Michael Kors Collection, The Row and more.
Read MoreChanel's Bhavitha Mandava by Luigi and Iango for V Magazine 161 Pre-Fall
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Photographers Luigi and Iango [IG] share assignment duties with Inez and Vinoodh [IG] for V Magazine [IG] Issue 161 Pre-Fall 2026. Bhavitha Mandava is one of five models photographed for V Magazine’s project. Other models with ‘Fall Head Over Heels!’ cover[s] include Jacqui Hooper, Libby Taverner, Liu Wen and Sascha Rajasalu, all styled by B. Åkerlund.
Read MoreChanel Lavishes Praise on Matthieu Blazy for Combusting the Charvet Marriage
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Chanel Praises Matthieu Blazy for Sparking the Charvet Marriage
Bruno Pavlovsky, president of fashion and president of Chanel SAS, put the success of Friday’s announcement that Chanel has acquired the heritage shirtmaker Charvet, squarely on the shoulders of Chanel artistic director Matthieu Blazy and the almost immediate rapport that Blazy kindled with siblings Anne-Marie and Jean-Claude Colban, who today run Charvet, bought by their father in the 1960s.
There’s major romance in this Chanel buys Charvet business story, spring-boarded by the intense love affair between Coco Chanel and Arthur ‘Boy’ Capel. As a stand-alone human relationship story between the couple, the facts are cinematic.
Like Anne before him, Matthieu Blazy knew nothing of this love story until he began going throughn the Chanel archives. Armed with the knowledge that Coco Chanel bought shirts for her lover Boy Capel at Charvet — and probably borrowed them regularly — Blazy decided to introduce himself to the famous shirtmaker, then owned by siblings Anne-Marie and Jean-Claude Colban.
Read MoreCeline's 'Riding High' Fashion Culture by Francesc Planes for British Vogue July 2026
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Is the Fashion Joy Factor Growing in Importance?
Writer Christopher Bollen takes a walk in the gardens of the Palais-Royal — and a predictable new attitude emerges to discuss Michael Rider’s newly-found fame as artistic director of Celine. That descripter calls Rider’s Celine “joyous and (even in our current moment) wildly optimistic.”
Given the supersonic success of Chanel, is it time to take a fresh look at feelings of joy and their impact on the brain and wellbeing? It’s a sacrilege among upper crust people to speak of joy in fashion, but maybe . . . just maybe New Humanism thinking is having an impact.
Anne believes that the list of Americans in Paris, housed by LVMH and other big names in fashion, may be ruffling more than a few French media and PR feathers in fashion world. Put it this way, AOC has added that filter to the context lens through which we process fashion criticism generally and, most definitely, in Paris.
Read MoreZendaya in Countdown Mode for ‘The Odyssey’ and ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’
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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
Read MoreJennifer Matias Is Elegant Water Nymph for Numero France 262 by Stefano Sciuto
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Numéro [IG] France #262 celebrates ‘Aquatique’ with its June/July/August 2026 issue. Model Jennifer Matias is styled by Anna Castan in edgy summer fashion from Maison Margiela, Pain de Sucre, Rick Owens and more.
Photographer Stefano Sciuto [IG] captures the raw, atmospheric, marine environment in Sicily in a story called ‘Naïade’. / Hair and makeup by Maurizio Morreale
Read MoreAngelina Kendall Covers Vogue Espana July 2026 Lensed by Sean and Seng
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Top model Angelina Kendall covers the July 2026 issue of Vogue España [IG]. Styled by Gerry O’Kane in a Miu Miu cover mini frock, Kendall channels a familiar sensual fantasy among women — and, increasingly, a reality to highly-accomplished ones. The story is lensed by Sean & Seng [IG]./ Hair by Soichi Inagaki; makeup by Petros Petrohilos
Read MoreAnne Shreds & Trashes Lauren Sherman Gross Attack on Pharrell Williams
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