Brunello Cucinelli BC Duo Bag Campaign

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Brunello Cucinelli BC Duo Bag Campaign

Brunello Cucinelli BC Duo Bag Campaign Shares a New Vision for a Feminine Ideal

The Brunello Cucinelli fashion business is built on the Italian values of humanism — a philosophy that AOC embraces fully now and always in my life. I am now clear in my own mind what other Italian-origin forces exist in opposition to humanism and are running wild across the US federal government.

I keep reading about alleged brilliance at work, but these beliefs run scarily close to the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, who published the "Manifesto of Futurism" in 1909.

AOC first wrote about the Manifesto in the 2016 Democratic primary, and it’s now thriving in the Trump administration, where it unites the far left and far right far closer than we want to admit.

The house’s ‘BC Duo’ handbag represents a bit of a torch-passing moment, as the first bag to be designed by the Cucinelli daughters. The softly-structured tote might be the quintessential ‘ladies’ bag, especially the largest of the four sizes, which appeals to our own ‘throw in anything I might need today’ mentality.

Models Rim Tekle and Tara Halliwell together symbolize the purity of the feminine ideal in Brunello Cucinelli’s world. I will leave that statement hanging to give it oxygen, rather than death by asphyxiation. ~ Anne

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Tara Halliwell's Old World Style Update by Szilveszter Makó for Numéro March 2023 #237

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Tara Halliwell's Old World Style Update by Szilveszter Makó for Numéro March 2023 #237

British model Tara Halliwell channels old-world Britain and its European masters meets 21st century modernism with a hit of wit for Numéro March 2023 #237 issue.

Photographer Szilveszter Makó [IG] is behind the lens, with stylist Lisa Jarvis selecting the fabric-driven ensembles with at-ease silhouettes.

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Massimo Dutti Limited Edition Collection of Chic, Elevated Basics Is Worth a Look

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Massimo Dutti Limited Edition Collection of Chic, Elevated Basics Is Worth a Look

The Case for Elevated Basics

The fashion trends term describing the Spring 2023 Massimo Dutti Limited Edition collection is ‘elevated basics’. Every fashion-aware person self-defines their own vision of ‘elevated basics’, but Massimo Dutti’s 2023 vision is one of sophisticated, chic simplicity and clarity.

The new campaign highlights models Ella Mccutcheon, Imaan Hammam, Tara Halliwell and Yilan Hua in images by Ezra Petronio [IG].

The vision is not a boring one, but more of a timeless, body-aware, polished, sensual approach in black and cream.

Skirts are longer for seekers of elevated basics, silhouettes are fluid. AOC asks if the long column of a dress is a modern woman’s caftan.

Note that caftans are showing up in men’s collections also, but the narrow, sleeveless column dress remains a typically female choice, except in the LGBTQIA+ community.

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Danko Steiner Captures Burberry Fall 2020 Campaign's New Human Journeys

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Danko Steiner Captures Burberry Fall 2020 Campaign's New Human Journeys

Models Ben Gibson, Izaak Theo Adu, Mariacarla Boscono, Maty Fall Diba, Mona Tougaard, Sora Choi, and Tara Halliwell front Burberry’s FW 2020 Campaign. Ana Steiner styles the shoot by Danko Steiner. / Makeup by Isamaya Ffrench; hair by Gary Gill

Burberry’s Chief Creative Officer Riccardo Tisci honors the brand’s heritage of exploration, physically rooted in Burberry’s signature smooth, durable gabardine cloth designed to conquer new heights on the open road of a mountainous landscape. This is the formidable road ahead for humankind.