'Rebel Rebel' Channels Tina Modotti for Vogue Greece May 2024, Lensed by Thanassis Krikis

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'Rebel Rebel' Channels Tina Modotti for Vogue Greece May 2024, Lensed by Thanassis Krikis

Model Africa Garcia is styled by Nicholas Georgiou in ‘Rebel Rebel’, lensed by Thanassis Krikis [IG] for Vogue Greece [IG] May 2024. / Hair by Christos Kallaniotis; makeup by Athina Karakitsou

Garcia’s summer wardrobe is inspired by the Italian-American photographer, model, actor, and activist Tina Modotti, whose retrospective at Jeu de Paume in Paris is closing Sunday, May 12.

The photographer’s young life took a dramatic turn in 1920, when Tina Modotti met Edward Weston.

The couple moved to Mexico City in 1922 and opened a portrait studio. They lived in the energized intellectual life of Mexico City in the interwar years, surrounded by a circle of friends that included Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein and Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician Leon Trotsky, as well as Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.

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Four Vogue Greece Covers Celebrate 14 Body-Loving Women by Thanassis Krikis

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Four Vogue Greece Covers Celebrate 14 Body-Loving Women by Thanassis Krikis AOC Fashion

The March 2022 issue of Vogue Greece joins a global Vogue project that unites all editions of Vogue, asking the essential question: In the age of the perfect image, how easy is it to truly love our "unfiltered" body?

Photographer Thanassis Krikis [IG] photographs 14 women “with real bodies” [we hope so!] and shares them with no retouching. Nicholas Georgiou provides creative direction and George Karapetis acts as stylist on the fashion story, with input from editor-in-chief Thaleia Karafyllidou.

The 14 women have different proportions, age, skin color, and different life stories. Each woman has experienced a battle with her body and after finally learning to love themselves came out stronger. I believe the research also says the become healthier in the aggregate when the stopped waiting for the acceptance of others.

Because AOC has moved on from this topic — having discussed it and lived it for 15 years on AOC — we hope that Vogue will soon tackle the next “elephant in the room”. The beloved animal unfortunately assigned to America’s Republican party is the role of religion and patriarchy in this discussion about women’s bodies.

We do not separate a discussion about body acceptance from a concurrent discussion of sexuality and the right of men to control women’s bodies in every aspect. It’s our position that a woman must make peace with her religion and/or spiritual beliefs [if they exist] as well as sexism to truly free herself from body-loathing.

Kanye West is deeply disturbed over his inability to now control Kim Kardashian’s sexuality and her body, because he absolutely believes it is his right as a man and as KK’s husband. Ye says that God spoke to him in the shower and told him to shut own Planned Parenthood, but West extends his rights of control even beyond abortion and contraception.

Carmen Kass Feels the Earth by Thanassis Krikis for Vogue Greece October 2021

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Carmen Kass Feels the Earth by Thanassis Krikis for Vogue Greece October 2021 AOC Fashion

American Vogue declared Carmen Kass and Gisele Bündchen as the two supermodels of the new era in its January 2000 cover story. Two decades later, we intersect again with Kass, covering the October 2021 issue of Vogue Greece.

Carmen Kass’s cover invites us all to “feel the earth’, love the environment and respect its value. Nicholas Georgiou chooses clothes for country-loving women, lensed by Thanassis Krikis [IG] as ‘New Nomad’. / Hair by Christos Bairabas; makeup by Athina Karakitsou

Note, reading the Vogue Greece commentary about the fashion story, the message sounds sustainable, but there’s no call out that this isn’t just a beautiful story about appreciating nature while wearing luxury labels on location in Kalavryta.