Anna de Rijt by Marco van Rijt for Vogue Poland | Anna's Calls for Amazon Rainforest Action

Anna de Rijt by Marco van Rijt for Vogue Poland November 2021 AOC Fashion

Dutch model Anna de Rijk poses in a beautiful cold-weather, warm and cozy countryside fashion story, styled by Lorna McGee. Marco van Rijt shot the preview for Vogue Poland November 2021.

On her Instagram, Anna de Rijk calls for action around fashion’s major contribution to deforestation of the Amazon. AOC shares her words, precisely as she has written them.

Anna de Rijt’s call for #SupplyChange

The Amazon rainforest, home to over 1 million Indigenous people, protectors of one of the most biodiverse places on earth, is fast approaching a tipping point of irreversible ecosystem collapse. Now, a new study from the @guardian has found that nearly every major fashion brand—from Adidas, Nike, Zara, H&M, Prada, Ralph Lauren, Coach, Tommy Hilfiger, to Louis Vuitton—are sourcing leather from companies fueling Amazon deforestation. I don’t know how aware these brands were and sometimes it’s tricky to see how fashion can become more sustainable but this seems like something that could really change: finding more sustainable/responsible places and ways to source leather.

I stand with 200+ fashion insiders to demand brands #SupplyChange and we urge you to join us. If we make enough noise we could help slow one of the biggest tragedies of human history. We demand companies: (1) end contracts with suppliers who deforest; (2) look into their supply chains and ensure they aren’t part of this atrocity; (3) publicly support legislation to strengthen supply chain transparency and stop deforestation.

LINK IN BIO to see all the brands implicated, and join us in signing this important public call to action SlowFactory.Earth/SupplyChange

Supply Change Report: Nowhere to Hide: How the Fashion Industry is linked to Amazon Rainforest Destruction

Related: Amazon rainforest: European car manufacturers linked to illegal deforestation, says report DW Eng (Germany) 4-16-2021

How Americans’ Appetite for Leather in Luxury SUVs Worsens Amazon Deforestation NY Times 11-17-2021

Klara Kristin's Cool Sophistication Lensed by Marco van Rijt for Vogue Scandinavia

Klara Kristin's Cool Sophistication Lensed by Marco van Rijt for Vogue Scandinavia AOC Fashion

Model Klara Kristin wears cold-weather casual layers, in a new tailored sophistication fashion story lensed by Marco van Rijt for Vogue Scandinavia./ Makeup by Gitte Guildhammer; hair by Erika Svedjevik

Sean Levy's Badass Woman Saint Laurent Style by Marco van Rijt for Dansk Magazine

Sean Levy's Badass Woman Saint Laurent Style by Marco van Rijt for Dansk Magazine AOC Fashion

Model Sean Levy wears Saint Laurent Fall 2021 badass women fashion lensed by Marco van Rijt [IG] for Dansk Magazine. / Hair by Erike Svedjevik; makeup by Fredrik Stambro

Gant Offers a Fashion Vision for a New Colored America in Vogue Scandinavia

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Gant Offers a Fashion Vision for a New Colored America in Vogue Scandinavia

Gant launched a high-voltage, sponsored fashion story ‘Gant is leading the glorious return of ‘preppy dressing’ in the debut issue of Vogue Scandinavia. The visual fashion mashup is lensed by Marco Van Rijt with styling by Fernando Torres. Talents include Caitlin Tamsyn Soetendal, Fredrik Quiñones, Lamin Holman, Levi Anijs, Idsa Mikado, and Miyake Mugler.

Gant has long done better in Europe than in America. But there is high potential in this reinvention of the New Haven-born, Stockholm-headquartered brand that is redefining prep. Founded in 1949 by Bernard Gantmacher in New Haven, Connecticut — the home of Yale and, arguably, the epicenter of American prep — Gant sits at an intersection of ‘Gossip Girl’ meets Black Lives Matter and Yale meets Howard University.

As America struggles with a full embrace of its own identity as a nation, fashion itself shows us what we can be. We can be colored; we are the world.

“I think prep has made a natural return,” says Gant's Creative Director Christoffer Bastin. He notes that in the early aughts, Ivy League attire was very much a uniform — the club blazer, the chino, the button down — reflected in the skinny Thom Brown suits favored by Pharrell Williams and the cotton candy coloured polos popularized by Kanye West. “Balenciaga and Vetements came in with their streetwear influences and committed this mercy killing on prep,” he says.

Gant’s Autumn/Winter 21 collection and the ways in which it’s interpreted by a fresh, youthful crop of Gant enthusiasts is inspiring. A hoodie may be worn under a tweed coat, for instance, and the chinos are decidedly looser. Cardigans are open and oversized. Patchwork and patches are employed liberally, offering a renegade take on iconic collegiate items.

The key word here is ‘renegade’. In a moment where a majority of America’s young people reject capitalism as we know it, fashion is making a big statement. As summer winds down in COVID-world, fashion is creating a new American style heavily influenced by the reality that global creatives want America to embrace and celebrate our multicultural identity.

Sixteen months after the murder of George Floyd, this new America may not make it. The forces fighting this deep embrace of a colored identity — that we are a nation of mutts with staggering potential — may lose the fight against the forces of white nationalism.

But I am clear that fashion really is taking a stand on multiple fronts. This Gant advertorial for Vogue Scandinavia is truly a roadmap for the better-angels vision of an American future. — and I love it. ~ Anne