Is Mycelium the Connective Tissue of Nature's Global Communication Network?
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Lila Moss Covers British Vogue May 2021, Being a Little Wild for Steven Meisel
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Rising model Lila Moss takes her first cover of British Vogue, styled by Joe McKenna in fashion fantasy that includes Alberta Ferretti, Dior, Loewe, Prada and more. Steven Meisel captures Moss, daughter of Kate Moss, for the May 2022 issue./ Hair by Guido; makeup by Pat McGrath
Read MoreHermès' New French Workshops and Rolling Big on MycoWorks [Mushroom] Leather
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The development of an artisanal approach is different from what is being labeled ‘ethical’ by websites like Good On You.
Leather is a perfect example. Hermès will never be called ethical because they are using leather. Even though they agree to the highest possible worker standards and environment-friendly policies in tanning and how the animals are treated, it’s leather.
Note, though, that even Stella McCartney can’t get a top rating on Good on You, which suggests a bleak future if even she can’t cut it with the uber-progressives. Stella does get a ‘good’ — or a B on a 5-point scale. Note Stella McCartney’s rating is 2018.
Read MoreGal Gadot Delivers Privilege on Tiffany & Co. Dandelions and Orchids in Gaia's Kingdom
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Elevating the humble dandelion into a show-stopping, high-jewelry diamond medallion necklace is no longer a top-secret mission. AOC shares spring’s Tiffany & Co. BOTANICA: Blue Book 2022 campaign. Newly-named Tiffany BOTANICA ambassador Gal Gadot is not a 2017 Wonder Woman actor who pales in comparison to a dandelion-inspired 12-carat diamond necklace.
Like the necklace created to be worn five different ways as the ultimate expression of Tiffany & Co. savoir-faire, Gal Gadot is adaptable, with her head held high on the world stage.
Read MoreAnna Ewers' Artistic Journey in Italy by Dario Catellani for WSJ Magazine May 2022
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Top model Anna Ewers is styled by Vittoria Cerciello for a artistic on steroids fashion story in WSJ Magazine’s May 2022 issue. Photographer Dario Catellani is behind the lens at the otherworldly caves of the Grotta di Bossea in Italy.
Read MoreConde Nast Closes Russian Franchise: Vogue, Glamour, Tatler, GQ and Architectural Digest
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Condé Nast is closing its entire Russian franchise over the war in Ukraine and Russia’s new censorship laws. Seven Russian publications will close immediately — Vogue, GQ, GQ Style, Tatler, Glamour, Glamour Style Book and Architectural Digest.
Condé Nast’s chief executive officer, Roger Lynch, advised the company’s global staff on Tuesday: “The escalation in the severity of the censorship laws, which have significantly curtailed free speech and punished reporters simply for doing their jobs, has made our work in Russia untenable.”
Read MoreWinnie Harlow Shines in PUMA Sp 2022 Swimwear and Bodywear Campaign
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PUMA ambassador Winnie Harlow lights up the brand’s Bodywear & Swimwear 2022 campaign, supporting SHE MOVES US.
The swimwear and bodywear designs were made by PUMA’s subsidiary stichd, with significant use of recycled nylon. You can track the sustainability particulars of stichd on the “sustainability strategy check in edition 01.”
Read MoreMANGO's Visions of Summer Collection 2022 with Mona Tougaard Sustainability Review
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Top model Mona Tougaard appears in fashion brand MANGO’s ‘Visions of Summer | Natural Echoes take over the Season’ collection. Maria Alvarez and Aritz Iriarte Aguinaga styled the largely fluid and sheer silhouettes with earth-inspired textures, sensual details and increasing amounts of sustainable materials.
Read MoreSuperstar Eileen Gu Covers Harper's Bazaar China, Lensed by Kai Z Feng
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Rising mega star Eileen Gu covers the April 2022 issue of Harper’s Bazaar China [IG], styled by Weitian in images by Kai Z Feng[IG]. / Hair by Bon; makeup by MQstudio.
Called “the busiest woman in skiing”, the star was named the youngest ever in Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in Sports and Entertainment. AOC simply cannot believe that Eileen Gu is only 18 years old. She’s a stunning young woman and I only want many more young women like her in the human pipeline.
Read MoreKaren Elson by Kat Irlin in 'Spectacle Spectral' for Citizen Kane Spring 2022
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Redhead model legend Karen Elson covers the Spring 2022 issue of Citizen Kane International, styled by Ise White in silvery, ice queen-worthy ‘Spectacle Spectral’. Brooklyn-based photographer Kat Irlin [IG] captures Elson, the ‘warrior princess’ who has birthed another album called ‘Green’.
Read MoreFendi Peekaboo Campaign Takes Airborne Adwoa Aboah on Tour of Rome
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Fendi celebrates the new Peekaboo Petite and Micro handbags, arm and arm with the Italian ‘Call Me By Your Name’ film director and friend of the house, Luca Guadagnino to create a short campaign film starring Adwoa Aboah.
Instead of boarding a magic carpet ride over Rome, Aboah spreads her own ‘Superwoman’ wings to fly over the ancient city with its ruins and visual narrative of the human story. She eventually landing on Fendi’s Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana — because this is a Fendi Peekaboo handbag campaign, after all.
Read MoreRihanna Rewrites Pregnancy Fashion with Love, Lensed by Annie Leibovitz for Vogue US
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Rihanna Rewrites Pregnancy Fashion with Love, Lensed by Annie Leibovitz for Vogue US AOC Fashion
It’s been three years since Rihanna was in Paris, but she made quite a splash during Paris Fashion Week. Chioma Nnadi is the editor of Vogue.com, a journalist with the fab assignment of interviewing the megawatt mother-to-be in ‘Oh, Baby! Rihanna’s Plus One.
Alex Harrington and Rihanna’s main man Jahleel Weaver — well now he share’s her with A$AP Rocky — style Rihanna in fit for The Ritz fashion. Photographer Annie Leibovitz [IG] is behind the lens.
Nnadi meets Rihanna at Caviar Kaspia, her last stop on a Friday night of restaurant hopping. The rarely-out-of-favor haunt has been transformed for two weeks into an Off-White outpost. The legend is already in the restaurant, writes Nnadi, “curled up on the banquette in an oversized khaki parka with a slinky turquoise catsuit beneath, a look I recognize from Stella McCartney’s last show. Her shoe of choice? A four-inch stiletto heel.”
“As much as it’s happening, it’s also not happening,” Rihana says, patting her belly, only partially visible above the table. “Sometimes I’ll walk past my reflection and be like, Oh shit!”
Nnadi notes what many of us already observed: “Over the last two weeks, she’s changed something profound in fashion—single-handedly rewriting the rules of pregnancy dressing with one jaw-dropping style maneuver after another.”
Read on: Rihanna Rewrites Pregnancy Fashion with Love, Lensed by Annie Leibovitz for Vogue US AOC Fashion
Dapper Dan X TOD's Lensed by Johan Sandberg for Dapper Dan Magazine SS 2022
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Models Bert de Roeck and Irene Guarenas take a modern, light-hearted approach to Italian luxury brand TOD’s, an old-school name in the process of a major revamp this is working. Teaming up with the spring/summer 2022 issue of Dapper Dan Magazine [IG] is brilliant for both parties.
Photographer Johan Sandberg [IG] captures the fashion story advertorial. AOC loves fresh-approach revivals that are working, so fingers are crossed for Tod’s. And Dapper Dan is GOOD for Tod’s, in a way that certain bigger names are not.
Read MoreSharon Stone in Venice for Dolce & Gabbana Spring 2022 Accessories by Michael Muller
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Actor Sharon Stone basks in the magic of Venice — or at least as Venice lives on in our imaginations — for the new Dolce & Gabbana campaign. From sunglasses to jewelry and Dolce & Gabbana’s signature Devotion bag. Stone thrives in the seductive attention of male models Adam Senn and Sam Webb.
Paris Libby styles the Dolce & Gabbana campaign lensed by Michael Muller [IG].
The reality of today’s Venice is far different from my deeply-cherished memories of a city loved by so many people — and especially the Americans.
Read MoreDior Pre-Fall 2022 Campaign Lensed by Alice Mann with Sofia Steinberg, Maryel Uchida
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The overall effect of Dior’s pre-fall 2022 fashion statement channels British pop-punk style, embodying a spirit of defiance and individualism in its embrace of the many ways young women can dress.
Given the sweep of anti-LGBTQIA+ laws and anti-women’s rights laws sweeping through America’s red states, Chiuri delivered a collection that has political roots as well — at least in America.
Like myself, Chiuri used her youthful rebellion against the harsh edges and austerity of a Catholic school uniform — and the perpetual guilt enforced on young women by the Catholic hierarchy — as a foundation for the collection’s visual aesthetic. ~ Anne
Read MoreFrom Red Carpet Host to Shondaland Podcast, Laverne Cox's Creative Garden Grows
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The New York Times notes that actor Laverne Cox is well known on Hollywood’s red carpets. This season Cox has switched it up as the host of preshow specials at the Grammys and the Oscars for E. The actor takes her hosting gigs very seriously, with an unusual amount of preparation for a red carpet host.
“I’ll try to look for other interviews they’ve done if it’s applicable so I can maybe ask them something that they haven’t been asked,” Ms. Cox said about her red carpet interviews. “And you have to be in the moment because there’s so many things happening.”
Read MoreCarioca Actor, Activist Tais Araujo Covers Vogue Brazil April 2022 by MAR+VIN (Copy)
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With a 27-year career to her credit, Brazil’s Black actor Taís Araujo is a symbol of female empowerment. She is also an activist and businesswoman who is preparing to increase the representation of Black artists as an executive producer at Globo, the largest media group in Brazil and publisher of Vogue Brazil.
Tais Araujo covers the April 2022 issue of Vogue Brazil, styled by Rita Lazzarotti in ‘She is 'Carioca', meaning a native of Rio de Janeiro. MAR+VIN [IG] captures the dark-skinned beauty, with beauty by Henrique Martins.
The UN Women Brazil advocate for Black women’s rights shares two children João Vicente and Maria Antônia with actor and director Lázaro Ramos. She is the first Brazilian black actor to star in soap operas and to host a Sunday TV show in her country.
Araujo speaks to Vogue Brazil about the changes in her attitude around body image — a topic potentially more brutal for women in Brazil than here in America, where it looms large in the consciousness of women of every skin hue.
“When I was younger, around my 13, 15, 18, 20 and even older, I was full of nerves,” Araujo explains. Besieged by stretch marks and the size of her ass, this multi-talented woman was instead ashamed of her own body, and especially when she was modeling.
The story is so familiar to women, and 50 years into a post-feminist second wave world, it hits home that we’ve accomplished so little in eliminating shame from women’s physicality. There are moments when AOC believes that we’ve made no progress on this important front of women embracing our own bodies. And while we are all very good about talking about the problem — one that goes back hundreds if not thousands of years — where is the progress? ~ Anne
Will Smith Banned for 10 Years from Future Oscars-related and Academy of Motion Pictures Events
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences rendered a decision regarding the future status of 2022 Oscar winner Will Smith, banning him from future Oscar ceremonies for 10 years.
President, David Rubin, and Chief Executive Dawn Hudson, acting on behalf of the Academy, issued the statement after a meeting on Friday of its board of governors. The punishment was delivered, based on “the unacceptable and harmful behavior we saw Mr. Smith exhibit on stage.”
The Academy also negatively critiqued its own behavior in response to the boldly aggressive and shocking move by Smith.
Read MoreVittoria Ceretti Covers Vogue Italia April 2022, Lensed by Rafael Pavarotti
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The April 2022 issue of Vogue Italia navigates artfully the question of the man-machine-nature relationship. This theme is also investigated at the upcoming Venice Biennale, which opens on April 23 with the title ‘Il Latte Dei Sogni’.
The truly spectacular fashion story must have been quietly overseen by the now divine muse to fashion artistry, former editor-in-chief of Vogue Italia Franca Sozzani herself [who sadly left our planet on December 26, 2016].
Read MoreAmerica's Russian Diamonds Loophole Is Being Closed by Luxury Brands and Congress
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The United States is the world’s largest market for diamond jewelry, accounting for more than 50% of sales in the $84 billion global diamond jewelry industry. The ban on Russian diamonds being imported into America has been in place since the end of February, making it time to check in on its impact.
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