We have big news out of Wimbledon, where Ms.Serena Williams will return to play single singles, after accepting a wild-card invite, the All England Club announced Sunday. Serena was already on the roster with sister Venus after accepting a wild-card invite to the doubles competition.
Serena feels that she has unfinished business in women’s tennis and we support her drive for two more grand slam titles. Williams has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles, leaving her one win away from tying Margaret Court’s all-time women's record of 24. She would need two wins to hold the record outright. Seven of those Grand Slam wins came at Wimbledon.
Casablanca’s Charef Tajer has joined the global, good-vibes, marketing movement. Speaking of “a natural synergy” with the French patisserie Ladureé in light of “a shared attention to detail, a classic yet colorful palette . . . ” the founder closes in on what is hopefully a beyond-this-season moment with “ . . . and above all, an appreciation for beauty and joy.”
AOC is not moved at all by the new Dior. But if Dior looked like Casablanca, it would be more akin to Karl Lagerfeld’s vision of Chanel, but without the cynicism. Anderson’s sweet Dior young ladies would never take a full-frontal bite of the cotillion cake.
Ready to write “ . . . and neither would Blazy’s”, AOC is suddenly in a rare retreat.
Blazy and Nair have so blown out the rafters with fashion mantras of joy, positivity and confidence that Chanel women are proud of being so versatile. Even a little-bit of a renegade when it comes to eating cake.
AOC celebrated the August 2022 first issue of Vogue Philippines for its beauty, its local focus on Filipino culture and design heritage and its strong emphasis on sustainability.
Model Chloe Magno covered the launch issue and now returns for Bea Valdes’ final issue as EIC. The executive continues as Chief Content Officer for MEGA Global Group, Inc. where she oversees creative synergy across Vogue, Allure and GQ Philippines.
Incoming Vogue Philippines Editor-in-Chief is Trickie Lopa, who was the magazine’s Deputy Editor for Art and Culture. We assume that Vogue Philippines will only get better, raising their own already high standards.
Among the Vogues, VP leads the way in expressing New Humanism values, followed by Vogues Poland and Portugal.
Wealthy families from the American South originally visited Newport to escape coastal malaria and yellow fever.
Newport itself had direct financial connections to the slave trade. In fact, it was this north-south connection profiteering in the selling of humans as property that first brought rich Southerners to the hospitable place called Newport.
William Lloyd Garrison, editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, called Newport “a stronghold of slavery…[the] Charleston or New Orleans of New England.”
Irony becomes consequential when we also learn that Newport was home to a small but growing number of wealthy Americans of color, who earned their riches and freedom as whalers.
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.
Laufey takes a cover of Vogue Portugal’s [IG] May 2026 ‘Heart & Reason’ issue, highlighting the balancing act between emotion and logic. Loizos Sofokleous styles the shoot, with photography by Élio Nogueira [IG] shot in Lisbon.
Cultural Fusion Is the Heart of Jazz
Unlike Western jazz hubs where audiences tend to skew older, Downbeat Magazine notes that the jazz audience in China is overwhelmingly young. The result is a highly curious, tech-savvy fanbase that aligns perfectly with Laufe’s core listeners worldwide.
Jazz is a key unifier in the emerging, global New Humanism movement. Anne uses the term New Humanism, to distinguish it from humanism in Europe, which was Eurocentric and — in spite of its philosophical values — managed to embrace the global slave trade.
As we speak, France has finally abolished its Code Noir laws, which defined human beings of color as property that could be transferred wherever an owner chose to send him/her or sell them.
