Supermodel and Chanel ambassador Liu Wen is styled by Audrey Hu in key pieces from her patron’s feminine fall 2025 collection. Photographer Nadine Ijewere [IG] captures the luxury fashion story for W Magazine China’s [IG] September 2025./ Makeup by Valentina Li; hair by Minghu Zhang
Givenchy designer and creative director Sarah Burton grabs media focus for her Fall 2025 Campaign and its embrace of humanist values. In a quiet, elegant, modern strategy, Givenchy sends a signal to Burton’s clients old and new, that they are welcomed with a warm embrace by the maison. Thank you, Sarah Burton.
Burton happily embraces a wide spectrum of women in new ways, breaking the mold with a unique campaign message that Humanism 101 chief Brunello Cucinelli will love.
“The beauty of all women inspires me — including my team,” Burton said. “I wanted to capture the brilliant women I work with amongst the cast — real moments with everyone working together.”
Supermodel and Chanel ambassador Liu Wen takes three covers for W Magazine China [IG] #15 2025 The Artisan Issue. Austin Feng styles Liu Wen in images lensed by Paul Wetherell [IG].
Liu Wen is wearing Chanel’s new ‘Reach for the Stars’ High Jewelery Collection, honoring iconic symbols of human civilization and Gabrielle Chanel’s legacy. Three symbols are the core of Chanel’s ‘Reach for the Stars’ High Jewelery Collection: the lion, the comet and, introduced for the first time, wings that are reimagined as contemporary icons of the maison.
AOC loves Paris and the south of France. But we’ve been saying for many months now that it’s an Italian moment, and nothing — not even the king of cashmere’s current Italian sweatshop scandal — will dampen AOC’s love affair with la dolce vita.
Fendi’s fall-winter 2025 campaign film begins with a visual dose of sophisticated retro nostalgia, peppered with modern reinvention. In speaking with WWD about the fall-winter 2025 collection, Silvia Venturini Fendi stressed the reality that the fall 2025 collection presents “a contemporary and comprehensive vision of the brand”.
Fendi is also aiming to convey this modern message with ancient roots with the inauguration of a new sprawling flagship on Milan’s Via Montenapoleone.
Anne Is Swept Away
Depending on your age, the soundtrack will completely sweep you away. OMG! Barry White.
If you have lived a privileged life resulting from family heritage — or are a working girl who made good and led a privileged life based on your smarts — and you regularly kissed the ground landing in Italia, you will be swooning.
Personally, Anne is destroyed with this campaign video.
Tabitha Simmons styles a model squad comprising Adut Akech, Alex Cosani; Ella Beatty, Jessica Miller, Karolina Spakowski, Liu Wen, Paloma Elsesser, Sarah Catherine Hook, Scarlett White, Stella Hanan and Whitney Peak in ‘Women at Work’.
The eclectic assortment of images and the title ‘Women at Work’ refers to the cast of women designers who created the editorial. Photographer Amy Troost [IG] captures the fashion story in VogueUS [.com] August 2025 issue.
"It's Always Burberry Weather: London in Love" is a continuation of the campaign released in October 2024.
"A Burberry love story comes to life through the cinematic lens of this campaign. It's about humor, optimism and, of course, the unpredictability of our great British weather," Burberry chief creative officer Daniel Lee told the press.
Supermodel Liu Wen is styled by Cloe Dong with an abundance of Gucci and Thom Browne in ‘Forever Is Composed of Nows’. Photographer Trunk Xu [IG] is in the studio for ELLE China [IG] March 2025./ Hair by Youhua Xu; makeup He Lei
In an act of perfect coordination, W Magazine China [IG] #11 2024 has dropped its first ‘The Artisan Issue’ in concert with the CHANEL 2024/25/Métiers d’art Show, held today, December 3, on the West Lake in Hangzhou, China.
Supermodel Liu Wen poses in select pieces and ensembles from the show, lensed by Louise Ford and lensed by Louise & Maria Thornfeldt [IG].
Chanel flew over 1000 friends and clients into the event to witness the sumptuous beauty and artisanship enveloping the night air of Hangzhou./ Hair by Joseph Pujalte; makeup by Céline Martin
Watch the Chanel show video from top line link in post.
Every year at the same time, M Le magazine du Monde [IG] asks itself this question through a major fashion shoot. And every year, M's answer is the essentially the same: luxury is an attitude, made of glamour and nonchalance.
Photographer Karim Sadli [IG] shoots Awar Odhiang, Julia Nobis, Liu Wen, Lulu Tenney, RaquelZimmermann and Selena Forrest in the streets of New York, styled by Alex Harrington with creative direction by Jean-Baptiste Talbourdet-Napoleone. / Makeup by Dick Page; hair by Jimmy Paul
Supermodel Liu Wen is styled by Austin Feng in ‘Look At Me’, a gorgeous presentation of fall elegance from Marie Claire China [IG]. The fabulous, tightly-edited fashion story is lensed by Zhong Lin [IG] and we put it on the fashion board of excellence produced by Asian fashion media, much of it coming out of China.
Vogue US [IG] August 2024 hypes the coming season with ‘Texture! Volume! Color!’ styled by Camilla Nickerson. Models Adut Akech, Angelina Kendall, Anok Yai, Carolyn Murphy, Devyn Garcia, Jill Kortleve, Liisa Winkler, Liu Wen, Loli Bahia & Vittoria Ceretti are lensed by Mikael Jansson [IG]. / Hair by Shay Ashual; makeup by Hannah Murray
Luxury brands and thoughtful fashion writers like AOC are studying this last issue of Vogue China under the signature and vision of departed EIC Margaret Zhang.
The June 2024 issue features supermodel Liu Wen on three covers. The towering-influence Chinese model is styled by Vivienne Sun, with creative direction by Matt Mcdonald and images by Hong Kong based Wing Shya [IG].
What Vogue China watchers are analyzing is how ‘New China Style’ — and AOC adds the ‘thoughtful expression of Chinese government values’ — is expressed by luxury fashion and media going forward.
Expressing China’s 21st century modern identity through the lens of traditions thousands of years old is key for the next EIC of Vogue China.
Issues Around Gender Identity, Masculinity and Feminism in China
Generally speaking, ‘male identity’ has been under the microscope in China, even more than ‘female identity’ and feminism itself. There is a statistical problem with China’s birth rate created with its old one-child, government policy.
Additionally, the Chinese government has not hesitated for one moment to demand changes and shut down media that projects images of men through the LGBTQAI+ lens. Many readers may not know that the Chinese government banned effiminate men on TV in September 2021.
Whether luxury brands acknowledge this topic or not, it’s on their minds, given the importance of the Chinese market in future growth plans.
Top model Liu Wen [a supermodel in China] is styled by Katie Burnett in ‘La Mode en Ligne de Mire’ [Fashion in Focus]. Paris-born, Paris-based photographer Julien Martinez Leclerc [IG] is in the studio for Vogue France [IG] March 2024./ Hair by Olivier Schawalder; makeup by Thom Walker
AOC notes that Julien Martinez Leclerc is now represented by Art Partner.
Supermodel Liu Wen is styled by Zhao Haiyang in ‘Sonata at Sea’, a color-rich fashion story that retains its poetic undercurrent. Beijing-based photographer Trunk Xu [IG] is behind the lens for Wallpaper China January-February 2024./ Hair Liu Xuemeng; makeup by He Lei
Supermodel Liu Wen graces the pages of WSJ Magazine China’s August 2023 issue in a fashion story devoted to ‘Endless Summer’. Anson Chen styles Liu Wen in beautifully saturated images by Shanghai-based Liu Song [IG].
In a new Spring 2023 campaign, Gucci celebrates the enduring style of its iconic Bamboo 1947 handbag. Supermodel Liu Wen is centerstage in images and video lensed by David Sims, with creative direction from Ezra Petronio & Lana Petrusevych./ Hair by Paul Hanlon; makeup by Thomas De Kluyver
The Gucci Bamboo 1947 handbag, originally known by its product number 0633, has a rich history that dates back to post-war Italy. In 1947, Europe was still recovering from the aftermath of World War II, and resources were scarce. Leather, a primary material used in fashion at the time, was in short supply, forcing designers to find alternative materials for their creations.
American Vogue’s May 2023 issue pays tribute to Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld, one of fashion’s greatest talents. Lagerfeld is the focus of the upcoming retrospective at The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute and annual fundraiser hosted by Anna Wintour and referred to as The Met Gala 2023, scheduled for Monday May 1, 2023.
Andrew Bolton, the Costume Institute’s brilliant curator has titled the new exhibition “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty,” a reference to the painter William Hogarth. The artist believed that an ever-turning, ever-changing line captures more energy and life than a straight one. This idea was conceptually embedded in nature by Hogarth and other artists and intellectuals discuss this concept. More than one of them referenced the serpeant as an ideal symbol.
Lagerfeld’s career spanned appointments at Balmain, Patou, Chloé, Fendi, Chanel, and his eponymous brand.
For the cover, Vogue photographer Annie Leibovitz [IG] photographed 10 muses, women who are part of a larger group of models adored by Karl Lagerfeld.
Models include Adut Akech, Amber Valletta, Anok Yai, Devon Aoki, Gigi Hadid, Kendall Jenner, Liu Wen, Naomi Campbell, Natalia Vodianova and Shalom Harlow, pose in the creations of other designers paying tribute to Karl Lagerfeld with the fashion itself and also words.
Chinese supermodel Liu Wen brings a spectacular color-saturated fashion story to the December 2022 issue of Vogue China in a cover story focused on ‘The Female Gaze’.
Australian-born Chinese fashion multihyphenate, Vogue China editor-in-chief Margaret Zhang herself is the photographer for the shoot.
Vogue China describes their November issue cover, labeling supermodel Liu Wen as a “storm-chaser — transfixed by the wild beauty of nature at its most powerful and terrifying; abandoning tranquil saline lakes in pursuit of the inky eye of a raging coldfront brewing over Qinghai’s plains and towering plateaus. “
Audrey Hu styles Liu Wen in images by Leslie Zhang [IG]. / Hair by Nate Peng and Bon Zhang; makeup by Yooyo Keong Ming