Haojie Qi in 'Through the Looking Glass' for W Magazine China 03 by Zhong Lin
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'Margiela Artisanal' Couture Story for W Magazine China June 2024
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W Magazine China’s [IG] June 2024 icon issue shares a fantastic fashion story featuring the ‘Margiela Artisanal’ 2024 couture collection starring model He Cong lensed by Zhong Lin. W also makes high-impact points in their commentary about creativity.
Creative Directors Examined
For the second time this week, my own brain has been interrupted externally with the reinforcement of thoughts already playing out here on AOC.
In preparing this W Magazine China fashion story over the course of two months, six sets of haute couture fashion traveled across the seas. The magazine “exclusively” documented this fashion moment, along with its fascinating behind-the-scenes story.
Read MoreBeyoncé's Western Luxury in W Magazine Digital Story by Pamela Hanson
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AOC has narrated the American cowboy story for years, most recently inspired by Pharrell’s Louis Vuitton Men’s FW 2024 show in January 2024.
Now his good friend from Houston is flying high on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs. The woman with the most awards in Grammy history holds the No.1 spot for the 8th week running with ‘Texas Hold Em’. Beyoncé is the first Black woman to achieve this goal on the Billboard Hot Country chart.
Here we find Beyoncé looking mighty fine with two digital covers and a fashion story in W Magazine, released March 29, 2024. Sara Moonves and Shiona Turini style America’s finest-looking cowboy femme in western luxury gone fine-tailoring.
Read MoreLouis Vuitton's Nicholas Ghesquiere and Rianne van Rompaey for W Magazine China
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Louis Vuitton French-Belgian creative director Nicolas Ghesquière carried the celebration of his 10 years in the role into the April 2024 Archives issue of W Magazine China [IG]. Vuitton muse and Ghesquière’s close friend Rianne van Rompaey joins him in a fashion story highlighting the iconic looks from more than 30 collections.
Marie-Amélie Sauvé styled the spare and crisp presentation lensed by Alasdair McLellan [IG]./ Makeup by Hiromi Ueda; hair by Damien Boissinot
Read MoreJamel Shabazz Captured 'Street Cred' for W Magazine Vol VI 2023 'The Art Issue'
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Models Ajak Dhieu, Antonio Macek, Grace Brown, Ifrah Qaasim, Jesi Shelnutt, Mamina Aker, Steph Shiu, and Tashawn “Whaffle” Davis appeared in W Magazine [IG] Vol VI 2023 ‘The Art Issue’.
The Brooklyn lovers fashion story ‘Street Cred’ is styled by Ola Editi with Matt Benns on hair and Kanako Takase on makeup.
In advance of his early 2025 Taschen retrospective, photographer Jamel Shabazz [IG] shot the fashion story for W Magazine “a stone’s throw” from the Brooklyn Museum, shortly after the closing of Jamel Shabazz: Faces and Places, 1980–2023.
Read MoreChu Wong, He Cong, Lina Zhang by Zhong Lin for W Magazine China Vol.5 2024
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Models Chu Wong, He Cong and Lina Zhang cover the January 2024 issue of W Magazine China. Austin Feng [IG] styles the trio for The Great Performances edition Vol.5, with creative direction by Cathy Dong.
Top-tier photographer Zhong Lin [IG] captures the three ‘major Chinese models’ in yet another example of the high aesthetic dominating China’s fashion media.
Read More1930s Style Makes a Big Splash in W Magazine October 2023 by Rafael Pavarotti
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A model cast including Aselia Toktorova, Lian Jia, Kim Seung Ri and BingBing Liu are styled by Katie Grand [IG] in retro silhouettes that make a big impression.
Grand shows us just how “A little bit of attitude transforms 1930s-inspired skirts and dresses into something bracingly fresh.” Rafael Pavarotti is behind the lens [IG]; see all the product credits at W Magazine.
Read MoreSofia Coppola Talks Priscilla Presley in W Magazine Vol-5 2023 by Steven Meisel
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Reading about Sofia Coppola’s young-girl life, we learn just how much time the entire Francis Ford Coppola family spent away from their home in California’s Napa Valley.
Coppola is styled by Karl Templer in an abundance of Chanel Haute Couture in images by Steven Meisel [IG]. Additional luxury names include Dries Van Noten, Hermes, Prada, Schiaparelli and more. Spectacular jewelry is from Cartier.
Priscilla Presley is the focus of the younger Coppola’s new film Priscilla, in theaters November 3.
Millions of women can relate to the director’s reflection about her own young woman’s life. Pining for a young man who wasn’t interested in her, Coppola says she can relate to Priscilla’s short-term lack of need to develop her own self-identity because it was so much easier to be the girlfriend of some guy and assume his identity.
Read MoreTyler Mitchell Captures Black Beauty Fall 2023 W Magazine | Aid to Morocco
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Models Ajah Angau Jok, Akon Changkou, Amar Akway, Awar Odhiang, Nyawurh Chuol, and Rejoice Chuol pose in dramatic, shape-shifting, fashion formations created to command attention.
Photographer Tyler Mitchell [IG]gives thanks to EIC Sara Moonves, [IG] and Charles Levai and Kevin Tekinel, creative directors at large for W Magazine and now represented by Art + Commerce. Congrats to Levai and Tekinel on their fast rise./ Hair by Cyndia Harvey; makeup by Lucia Pica; set design by Julia Wagner
Our Deep Sadness for Morocco and Libya
AOC likes the fact that Tyler uses the words “Communion in an everlasting landscape” to describe the W fashion shoot. Except “everlasting” seems like an increasingly fragile word today.
Because Tyler set the mood, let us take a moment to consider the confirmed dead in Libya of 5,000 and heading as high as 10,000 in the devastating surge of floodwaters.
And also the growing death toll in our beloved Marrakech — a magical place that means so much to so many of us creatives. The current death toll is at 3,000 and climbing from the earthquake.
AOC shares Vogue Arabia ‘How to Help Morocco’ links. We are working on Arab-world recommended links for Libya. ~ Anne
Read MoreKate Moss | Mert & Marcus | W Magazine September 2008 | 'Hammam'
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Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, known as Mert & Marcus, are top fashion photographers celebrated for their bold and provocative style. The duo remains very busy and relevant in fashion world in 2023, 15 years after their collaboration with W Magazine in 2008 for the editorial ‘Hammam’, featuring Kate MoKate Moss and Mert & Marcus at Charleston for British Vogue 2021
AOC revisited this 2008 Kate Moss by Mert & Marcus editorial Saturday for refreshing with large images, after The Guardian linked into AOC’s 2021 feature on ‘Charleston’ in Sussex, England. Kate was photographed by Mert & Marcus wearing Fendi Couture for British Vogue.
‘Charleston’ was home to the Bloombury set of writers, artists and members of the creatives set in England. While we write our own new article about ‘Charleston’ and the artists associated with this important place in European history — and also in America — you can visit the ‘living museum’ online.
Read MoreFeiFei Sun's Stellar Impression in W Magazine China Director's Issue 02 by Zeng Wu
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“The Director’s Issue 02” of W Magazine China [IG] is an impressive unfolding, featuring here model and major talent FeiFei Sun on four covers and the accompanying fashion story.
Zeng Wu [IG]is FeiFei’s photographer with styling by Fan Xiaomu. Yimou Zhang is listed as director and art director, with creative direction by Song Fei.
Read MoreMiuccia Prada Talks 30 Years of Miu Miu with Kendall Jenner on Display for W Magazine
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Supermodel Kendall Jenner wears Miu Miu favorites styled by Max Pearmain and Miuccia Prada in this fashion story lensed by Alasdair McLellan [IG].
Read W Magazine for all the vintage Miu Miu fashions and also an interview with Eric Wilson titled “Miuccia Prada Talks 30 Years of Miu Miu, Her Greatest Experiment.”
Mrs. Prada is troubled with the idea of presenting post-pandemic fashion as a form of “escapism or entertainment during difficult times”.
“I really don’t like this idea that ‘Fashion is a dream,’ ” Prada says. “First of all, if I have a dream, I want to achieve it, so it’s an objective or a direction. Something that has a strange beauty of who-knows-what-it-is, I really detest.”
Read MoreHi-Voltage, Sleek Night Glamour Pops Dopamine Jolt Lensed by Nadine Ijewere for W Magazine
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W Magazine [IG]embraces dopamine-dressing, hi-voltage, glamour in ‘Before Night Falls’ styled by Ola-Oluwa Ebiti. The model lineup includes Abény Nhial, Ling Chen, Nyagua Ruea, Xie Chaoyu and Yoonmi Sun.
London-born, Nigerian-Jamaican parentage photographer Nadine Ijewere [IG] is in the studio, capturing sleek silhouettes with some fabtabulous fashion froth on the side.
Read MoreRaquel Zimmermann in Black Soft-Tailoring by Colin Dodgson for W Magazine No.1
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Top model Raquel Zimmermann chooses 14 softly-tailored ensembles suitable for facing a hard-edged world. Stylist Brian Molloy says to heck with dopamine dressing, my fashion goddess lives in a black-widow world.
Colin Dodgson [IG] is behind the lens for W Magazine. See the product credits at W.
Read MoreMona Tougaard's Modern Elegance by Rafael Pavarotti for W Magazine 2023 Vol One
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Top model Mona Tougaard delivers a dopamine-inducing, Spring 2023 color punch in ‘Fashion Favors the Bold’. Katie Grand styles the Danish beauty of Somali and Turkish descent in sultry, sensual, evening fashion artistry from Bottega Veneta, Chanel, Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Gucci, Loewe, Prada, Richard Quinn, Roksanda, Valentino and Versace.
Photographer Rafael Pavarotti [IG] mixes up his artistic style — not with black and white — but with sepia tints exuding a sophisticated, modern edge. The fashion joy is 21st-century bold beauty for W Magazine’s [IG] 2023 Volume One: ‘The Best Performances’ issue. / Hair by Eugene Souleiman; makeup by Ana Takahashi
Read MoreMariah Carey Covers W Magazine Vol VI 2022 Holiday Issue, Lensed by Ethan James Green
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Center stage in the fashion images shot by Ethan James Green [IG] is the jewelry — a special collection of butterfly-inspired pieces that makeup the new Chopard x Mariah Carey diamonds collection, honoring the pop star’s seminal 1997 album ‘Butterfly’.
The collection is the result of a close collaboration with Carey, Chopard and its Co-President and Artistic Director, Caroline Scheufele.
Hawgood and Carey reflect back on the black and white music video for ‘My All’ directed by the legendary fashion photographer Herb Ritts. Carey remains impacted by the experience. AOC shares the original video.
Read MoreTrailblazer Anok Yai by Rafael Pavarotti in W Magazine #50 | Anok Reflects on Prada Spring 2018
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Anok Yai is among the jawdropping list of cover stars, both print and digital, photographed here by Rafael Pavarotti [IG] for W Magazine’s 50th anniversary issue. The photographer works with his frequent stylist partner Ib Kamara.
Jenny Comita chats with Anok Yai about her experience of being discovered at Howard University in October 2017, and then opening the Prada show at Milan Fashion Week. Anok says she didn’t know at the time that she was the first Black model to have the honor since Naomi Campbell, 20 years earlier.
Read MoreAmar Akway by Joshua Woods in 'Girl About Town' Opulence for W Magazine Vol. 3, 2022
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Ethiopian beauty Amar Akway poses in ‘Girl About Town’, a dramatic collection of haute couture fashion formality styled by Imruh Asha for W Magazine Volume 3, 2022. Photographer Joshua Woods [IG] captures the ultimate luxury fashion extravagance in Paris, shooting looks from Armani Privé Haute Couture, AZ Factory, Balmain, Celine by Hedi Slimane, Chanel Haute Couture, Christian Dior Haute Couture, Dolce & Gabbana Alta Moda, Fendi, Marc Jacobs, Jean Paul Gaultier Haute Couture, Valentino Haute Couture, Viktor & Rolf Haute Couture
Read MoreRaquel Zimmermann in Pieter Mulier's Alaïa, by Rafael Pavarotti for W Magazine #3 2022
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Top model Raquel Zimmermann exudes fashion drama, styled by Katie Grand in ‘Who Are You Calling Alaïa?” Photographer Rafael Pavarotti is in the studio for W Magazine’s Volume 3, 2022.
Christopher Bollen interviews Pieter Mulier, a cerebral Belgian designer with a highly-polished CV and deep ties to Raf Simons, who was appointed in 2021 by Richemont, as creative director at Alaïa.
Read MoreCraig McDean Flashes Meghan Collison in Retro Modern Style in W Magazine Fall 2021
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