June 25, 2024

Alessandra Ambrosio at São Miguel Island, Lensed by Elio Nogueira for Vogue Portugal June 2024

June 25, 2024/ Anne Enke

The June 2024 issue of Vogue Portugal [IG] is a love letter from Portugal to the world. “It’s impossible to get to know Portugal just by looking at it, because you feel it above all with your heart,” writes EIC Sofia Lucas.

Supermodel Alessandra Ambrosio graces the June issue in spectacular images lensed by Élio Nogueira [IG] on location in Azores. Loizos Sofokleous styles Ambrosio in Aphrodite-inspired, sea goddess fashion.

Vogue Portugal May 2024 Covers Announce an Exploration of Nature & Motherhood

May 06, 2024/ Anne Enke

Mother-Nature, Gaia, Terra Mater, the “cult of the feminine” is center stage in the May 2024 issue of Vogue Portugal, writes Sofia Lucas.

The editorial issue overview opens with a quote from Aristotle:

“In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous” - Aristotle

As educated women, we do not bow down to Aristotle, for clear and concise reasons.

There’s no record that Aristotle, the great philosopher and foundational contributor to Western civilization, saw significant value in women. He argued quite the opposite, and AOC contends that Aristotle was a creator of the misogyny and not merely reflecting his time in history.

Kerrigan Clark Poses in a Fish Market Eco Story by Élio Nogueira for Vogue Portugal

December 06, 2021/ Anne Enke

Kerrigan Clark Poses in a Fish Market Eco Story by Élio Nogueira for Vogue Portugal AOC Fashion

Model Kerrigan Clark poses in one of Vogue Portugal’s November 2021 ‘no Comments’ issue cover stories. Sandra Benbaruk styles Clark in a fashion statement that does have environmental overtones, as humans and climate change seriously impact the world’s fish supplies. Élio Nogueira [IG] does create images that tell their own environmental story — not an easy feat — and are fashionable besides.

In this genre, nothing comes closest to Steven Meisel’s 2010 ‘Water & Oil’ fashion story for Vogue Italia under EIC Franca Sozzani. Such a controversy erupted with a clear fault line between the Americans and the Europeans in responding to Meisel’s disturbing images.

As is so often the case, AOC sided with the Europeans. Even CBS News covered the controversy.