ELLE Brasil Vol. 16 Celebrates 36 Years with Four Covers and 11 Models by Nicole Heiniger
/Photographed by Nicole Heiniger [IG], with fashion editing by Lucas Boccalão, the ELLE Brasil 36- years anniversary model celebration includes Caroline Trentini and Samile; in the second cover Isabeli Fontana, Barbara Valente and Valentina Sampaio; in the third, Luciana Curtis, Sheila Bawar and Shirley Mallmann; and on the fourth cover, Carol Ribeiro, Ana Claudia Michels and Fernanda Tavares.
Read MoreValentina Sampaio Brings High Summer Covers to Vogue Brazil January 2024
/Brazilian trans activist model Valentina Sampaio takes three covers for the January 2024 issue of Vogue Brazil [IG]. Leandro Porto styles Sampaio, who lives in New York and Brazil in images by Mariana Maltoni [IG].
Sampaio was photographed on the beach of Paúba, on the north coast of São Paulo for a high summer fashion story “Natureza Surreal”, which fills 20 pages of the edition.
Read MoreVictoria's Secret Valentine's Day 2023 Campaign with Adut, Bella, Imaan, Paloma, Valentina
/Top models Adut Akech, Bella Hadid, Candice Huffine, Devyn Garcia, Imaan Hammam, Jill Kortleve, Mayowa Nicholas, Paloma Elsesser, Taylor Hill, Valentina Sampaio star in Victoria’s Secret Valentine’s Day 2023 campaign.
Gabriella Karefa Johnson styles the shoot, with Camille Summers-Valli [IG] directing the 30-second 2023 V-Day Shop spot.
Read MoreValentina Sampaio for Giorgio Armani Holiday Campaign 2022 by Van Mossevelde + N
/Model Valentina Sampaio, who is an Armani beauty ambassador, smolders in her Giorgio Armani Holiday 2022 campaign images. Sampaio shares the spotlight with models Quentin Demeester and Raphael Balzer. Photographers Van Mossevelde + N [IG] captures the glamorous trio with set design by Andrea Cellerino./ Hair by Pierpaolo Lai; makeup by Simone Gammino
Valentina Sampaio is interviewed in the December issue of Vogue Scandinavia. AOC rarely says this, but Sampaio deserves more work. Valentina Sampaio's Soft Beauty by Lea Winkler for Vogue Scandinavia December 2022 AOC Body
Read MoreValentina Sampaio's Soft Beauty by Lea Winkler for Vogue Scandinavia December 2022
/Victoria Secret’s model and Armani Beauty ambassador Valentina Sampaio graces the pages of Vogue Scandinavia’s December 2022 issue, lensed by New York-based Lea Winkler [IG]/ Hair by Rutger; makeup by Hung Vanngo
AOC tries not to identify Valentina as a transgender model at every turn. And we do believe there’s some major hype in the title of her Vogue Scandi interview. But Sampaio is certainly advancing her career with high profile alliances, including continuing on with Victoria’s Secret, when Razek got the boot. Armani is a real feather in Valentina’s cap.
Read MoreArmani Beauty's Trans Activist Valentina Sampaio by Kristin Vicari for Harper's Bazaar UK
/In our bullet-point world, worthy news often goes unreported. In November 2021, Valentina Sampaio became the new face of Armani Beauty, joining Cate Blanchett. The first-ever transgender Victoria’s Secret model, who made a big splash in Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issues of 2020 and 2021, began calling herself Valentina at age 12.
These Armani Beauty images of Valentina Sampaio appear in the February 2022 issue of Harper’s UK. Tilly Wheating styles Sampaio in ‘Bold Thinking’, clearly a quiet reference to the model’s trans status, as well as Armani-style ‘bold’ makeup.
Read MoreValentina Sampaio's Armani Mood by Xavi Gordo for Harper's Bazaar Spain
/Rising model Valentina Sampaio shares the cover of Harper’s Bazaar Spain’s November 2020 issue with Italian fashion maestro Giorgio Armani. Inside Sampaio is styled by Beatriz Machado in an Armani fashion story lensed by Xavi Gordo./ Makeup by Miriam Langelotti; hair by Alessandro Rebecchi
Read MoreValentina Sampaio In Opulent Luxury by Claire Rothstein for Harper's Bazaar Singapore
/Rising model Valentina Sampaio holds court in the Ealing district of West London, England, home to Walpole Park and Pitzhanger Manor, now a museum and formerly the country residence of Sir John Soane, one of Britain’s most influential architects.
Sampaio is styled by Windy Aulia in ‘Portrait of a Lady’, lensed in opulent images by Claire Rothstein (IG) for Harper’s Bazaar Singapore’s October pages. /Hair by Lyndell Mansfield; makeup by Kirstin Piggott
Read MoreVictoria's Secret Body Collection 2020 Takes Flight With Expanding VS Army of New Beauty
/Victoria's Secret Body Collection 2020 Takes Flight With Expanding VS Army of New Beauty
The new campaign for Victoria’s Secret Body Collection — the very guts of the VS brand — is out, and we celebrate the return of “not too old under new VS ownership”, VS original Helena Christensen. Helena appears in several shots and is also the photographer of the campaign. Nice move!
Something akin to Balmain Army may be in the making, based on other new VS imagery. The concept is much more inclusive vs Angels, which is NOT inclusive and never was. Angels was a creation of the male minds suddenly running all of Victoria’s Secret — and yours truly was vehemently against it.
Helena joins Barbara Palvin, Candice Huffine, Daniela Pestova, Jasmine Tookes, Joan Smalls, Lais Ribeiro, Romee Strijd, Solange Van Doorn and Valentina Sampaio.