Nicolas Ghesquière Turns Photographer for Louis Vuitton Fall 2020 Campaign

Nicolas Ghesquière Turns Photographer for Louis Vuitton Fall 2020 Campaign

Louis Vuitton’s Creative Director Nicolas Ghesquière steps into a new role as photographer of the luxury brand’s fall 2020 campaign. Twenty of the designer’s friends and muses posed at his home on the Quai Voltaire, with stylist Marie-Amélie Sauvé choosing one of Vuitton’s iconic bags: the Capucines, the Twist, the Pont 9 and the Dauphine.

The first release lineup includes: Akon Changkou, Dina Asher-Smith, Léa Seydoux, Lous and the Yakuza, Marina Foïs, Miriam de Vinzelle, Noémie Merlant, Sora Choi and Stacy Martin

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Bella Hadid: Helmut Lang Pre-Fall 2020; Instagram Baba Rumble

Bella Hadid: Helmut Lang Pre-Fall 2020; Instagram Baba Rumble

Bella Hadid poses in Helmut Lang’s Pre-Fall 2020 campaign, with Ethan James Green in the studio. Brian Phillips is in charge of creative direction with Patti Wilson on styling. / Hair by Jimmy Paul; makeup by Hannah Murray

Bella Hadid’s July 2020 Instagram Rumble

Instagram apologized to Bella Hadid on Tuesday, July 8, after removing an image of her father’s passport.

“Instagram removed my story that only said ‘My baba And his birthplace of Palestine’ with a photograph of his American passport,” the 23-year-old supermodel said Tuesday on her Instagram Story.

The proud Hadid daughter pilloried the social media platform: “@instagram exactly what part of me being proud of my father’s birthplace of Palestine is ‘bullying, harassment, graphic or sexual nudity?'”

Kendall Jenner for Burberry Monogram Summer 2020 Campaign

Kendall Jenner for Burberry Monogram Summer 2020 Campaign

Kendall Jenner stars in the latest Burberry monogram campaign, shooting the images herself via computer. Kendall was directed by photographer Nick Knight, stylist Katy England and art director Peter Saville for the shoot at her home in LA. See the entire campaign story online at Burberry.

Kendall and Kylie Launch Kylie Cosmetics Kendall Collection SS 2020

Kendall and Kylie Launch Kylie Cosmetics Kendall Collection SS 2020

Super talent Kendall Jenner joins sister Kylie Jenner to showcase the Kylie Cosmetics Kendall Collection SS 2020. Photographer Greg Swales is in the studio with styling by Dani Michelle. / Makeup by Ariel Tejada and Mary Phillips; hair by Jen Atkin

Kendall is the last sister to collaborate with Kylie, and the collab dropped on June 26. Announcing the campaign on social media, Kylie called Kendall her SOULMATE, as both women steamed up digital screens in their Fleur du Mal lingerie. The photography is even carried on to the packaging, which is very impressive given the price points.

Serena Williams Steps Up For Vital Voices; Alexis Ohanian Sr. Resigns Reddit Board

Serena Williams Steps Up For Vital Voices; Alexis Ohanian Sr. Resigns Reddit Board

Tennis legend, black activist, fashion designer — and yes, now venture capitalist — Serena Williams became the global spokeswoman for Stuart Weitzman in early May. Photographer Ethan James Green captures Serena in campaign images that present her fierce power and beauty unbowed.

The power of the project for Serena lies in Stuart Weitzman’s alliance with the Vital Voices Global Partnership  Tapped to choose two women leaders to participate with her in the campaign, Williams tapped Ashlee Wisdom and Sage Ke’alohilani Quiamno. Wisdom is the founder of  Health in Her Hue, a platform that connects black women to culturally competent health-care providers. Ke’alohilani Quiamno, founder of Future for Us, a civic organization that gives women of color the tools to succeed in the highest levels of corporate and social-sector careers.

Alexis Ohanian Sr. Resigns from Reddit Board

It’s Serena Williams’ husband Alexis Ohanian Sr.that made the big news today — June 8 — as word of his resignation from the board of directors of Reddit traveled through media channels. The co-founder of Reddit recommended that his spot be filled by a Black candidate amid activists’ calls for more representation of BlPOC in positions of power in global companies.

"I co-founded Reddit 15 years ago to help people find community and a sense of belonging," Ohanian wrote across his social media channels, pulling from a blog post on his site. "It is long overdue to do the right thing. I'm doing this for me, for my family, and for my country." Along with the statement to the public, Ohanian embedded a video message from his Instagram account onto his blog entry, and in it he reiterates his original statement.

Gucci Launches #SODEERTOME Pre-Fall 2020 Campaign Lensed by Alasdair McLellan

Gucci Launches #SODEERTOME Pre-Fall 2020 Campaign Lensed by Alasdair McLellan

Gucci releases a beauty of a pre-Fall 2020 campaign, — ‘So Deer to Me’ — grounded in the “retrieved innocence” of nature. Photographer Alasdair McLellan shoots a series of “fairytale animals” including deer and fawns, rabbits, owls, skunks, squirrels, frogs, hedgehogs and ducks that create an imagined escape from today’s COVID-19 world. Art director Christopher Simmonds and Gucci Creative Director Alessandro Michele create a much-needed respite from reality and the deeply-seeded fears of young people, who struggle to be optimistic about their own futures.

According to Gucci, McLellan’s images form “a call for a real engagement with nature and, with that, with life”. Models channeling this experience include Akito Mizutani, Azu Nwogu, Gret Mateides, Katie Johnson, Nastya Kharina, and Xie Chaoyu, styled by Jonathan Kaye./ Hair by Paul Hanlon; makeup b Thomas De Kluyver

To further that experience, Gucci announced a collab with  The Lion’s Share Fund, an initiative that enables businesses to raise funds for wildlife and habitat conservation, endangered species and animal welfare.. In its press release, Gucci explained: “By donating 0.5 per cent of its media spend every time an animal is featured in advertisements, as all the partners involved in The Lion’s Share Fund do, Gucci can give ongoing contributions to drive tangible on the ground results for this urgent cause.”

In support of the significant initiative, Gucci has posted a series of clips from 2017 documentary Richmond Park: National Nature Reserve, presented by David Attenborough and directed by George Chan, on Instagram. 

Bella Hadid Face Times New Jacquemus SS 2020 Campaign by Pierre-Ange Carlotti

Bella Hadid Face Times New Jacquemus SS 2020 Campaign by Pierre-Ange Carlotti

Fashion brands and magazines in lockdown must think out of the box to keep visual communications coming. Jacquemus launches a big volley across the net, calling on Pierre-Ange Carlotti to use Face Time for its new campaign with Bella Hadid in the lead, under the long-distance supervision of Simon Porte Jacquemus.

Bella is at the family farm in Bucks Country, literally right down the road in Carversville, working hard on spring planting, caring for the family’s flock of animals and organizing big sister Gigi’s 25th birthday party over the weekend.

Zara SS 2020 Campaign By Steven Meisel Is Balanced by Models Own COVID-Quarantine Images

Zara SS 2020 Campaign By Steven Meisel Is Balanced by Models Own COVID-Quarantine Images

Master photographer Steven Meisel produces exquisite images for Zara’s SS2020 campaign featuring Abby Champion, Julia Nobis, Lexi Boling, Mona Tougaard, Ning Jinl and Sacha Quenby. Karl Templer styles the ensemble in boho vibe, vintage images with creative direction from Fabien Baron. / Makeup by Pat McGrath; hair by Guido Palau, set design by Mary Howard

The new campaign has a beautiful section on the Zara website. Inquiring minds, accustomed to Zara’s high style imagery, wonder how the brand will move forward with creative photography in the age of COVID-19.

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Dior 2020 Pre-Fall Campaign and Dior x Jordan Collab Resonate Deeply

Dior 2020 Pre-Fall Campaign and Dior x Jordan Collab Resonate Deeply

Actor Jennifer Lawrence returns to Dior’s pre-fall 2020 campaign in a series of ladylike glamour images that emphasize the perfection of craft over trends. Creative director Maria Grazia Chuiri’s designs evoke Dior-s post-WWII elegance in portraits by Brigitte Niedermair.

The photo shoot happened before the global health pandemic COVID-19, but within this new context, Dior’s campaign images offer a vision of calm elegance, self-discipline and strong backbone.

Too rarefied in 2020, you ask? Hardly, as fashion plunges into a reflection on our own values as consumers and as an industry — staring in the face of a global depression.

Scroll down to witness the delayed but new Dior x Jordan collab that has people talking.

Mario Sorrenti Flashes Calvin Klein SS2020 'DEAL WITH IT' Campaign

Mario Sorrenti Flashes Calvin Klein SS2020 'DEAL WITH IT' Campaign

Photographer Mario Sorrenti delivers Calvin Klein Spring 2020 ‘DEAL WITH IT’ campaign images, created with director Bardia Zeinali and creative director Cedric Murac. Mel Ottenberg styles the cast including Justin Bieber; Lay Zhang; Lil Nas X; Matuma; SZA; Hunter Schafer and Kendall Jenner./ Hair by Ward Stegerhoek; makeup by Aaron de Mey

Dior 'Nature in Bloom' Campaign by Charlotte Hadden with Maria Grazia Chiuri

Dior 'Nature in Bloom' Campaign by Charlotte Hadden with Maria Grazia Chiuri

Photographer Charlotte Hadden is behind the lens, capturing Jiali Zhao, Ruth Bell and Selena Forrest in ‘Nature in Bloom’, another installment of Creative Director Maria Grazia Chiuri’s Dior’s Spring Summer ad campaign.

Angelo Pennetta Captures Abby + Adut in 'Rock Stars' for Vogue US April 2020

Angelo Pennetta Captures Abby + Adut in 'Rock Stars' for Vogue US April 2020

Models Abby Champion and Adut Akech are styled by Alex Harrington in modern folkloric patterns with a dash of whimsy for ‘Rock Stars’. Photographer Angelo Pennetta is on location in Portugal for Vogue US April 2020./ Hair by Mustafa Yanaz; makeup by Petros Petrohilos

The fashion shoot takes place at Almendres Cromlech, ‘Portugal’s Stonehenge’, a certies of nut-like stones aligned with the heavens. Atlas Obscura writes: “Built over several different periods between 5000 and 4000 BCE, the Almendres Cromlech are the finest example of Neolithic structures on the Iberian Peninsula, though it remained undiscovered until 1966.”

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