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Vittoria Ceretti Fronts Alberta Ferretti SS 2021 Campaign by Federico De Angelis
Model Vittoria Ceretti is the face for Alberta Ferretti’s SS 2021 Campaign, lensed in flowing fabrics with feminine tailoring by Federico De Angelis [IG]
Ugbad Abdi Suits Up in SS2021 ZARA BASICS Lensed by Hanna Tveite
The beautiful American-Somali model Ugbad Abdi poses in ZARA BASIC casual tailoring styled by Esther Matilla. Photographer Hanna Tveite captures Ugbad suiting up for a post-COVID world in casual, yet polished never-grow-old ZARA BASICs. / Hair by Joey George; makeup by Cyndle Komarovski
Jean Campbell by Angelo Pennetta for Weekend Max Mara SS2021 Campaign
Model Jean Campbell is styled by Anastasia Barbieri in the spring-summer 2021 Weekend Max Mara Campaign, lensed by Angelo Pennetta./ Hair by Syd Hayes; makeup by Petros Petrohilos
Sugar Sweet Taylor Hill Poses in For Love & Lemons X Victoria's Secret V-Day 2021 Campaign AOC Body
Victoria’s Secret model Taylor Hill is a sugar-sweet, lingerie-loving bonbon, wearing Valentine’s Day embroidery and hearts appliques with mini prints lingerie pieces in the new For Love & Lemons x Victoria’s Secret collaboration. Photographer Carin Backoff [IG] makes the pink parfait capture. No nibbling allowed.
Mert & Marcus Lens Hailey, Kendall, Mica, Mona, Precious in Versace La Medusa SS Campaign
Versace faces Hailey Bieber, Kendall Jenner, Mica Arganaraz, Mona Tougaard, Precious Lee and Raphael Balzer are thriving in Versacepolis, a mythical world dominated in this moment by Versace’s new La Medusa handbag. Jacob K is in charge of styling with creative direction from Ferdinando Verderi and photography by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott./
Jacquemus 'L'Amour' Collection Summer SS2021 by Oliver Hadlee Pearch
Models Ajok Madel, Imaan Hammam, Jill Kortleve, Kristina Grikaite, Mica Arganaraz and more front Jacquemus Summer 2021. Photographer Oliver Hadlee Pearch captures the always poetic vision of Simon Porte Jacquemus in this ‘L’Amour’ Collection.
Gisele Bündchen Fronts Vivara Holiday 2020 Campaign | Vivara Sustainability Goals Update
Supermodel icon, Brazilian eco-activist and businesswoman Gisele Bündchen returns (as always) as the face of Vivara Jewelry Holiday 2020. Photographer Nicole Heiniger (IG) shoots the campaign with styling by Renata Correa./ Creative direction by Giovanni Bianco; beauty by Henrique Martins
It’s routine now for AOC to check the sustainability credentials of jewelers featured in our pages. Vivara is the largest jewelry in Brazil, and Gisele Bundchen (IG) is one of the most prominent eco-warriors in the world, and particularly in her home country of Brazil. Together, they make sweet music for stones lovers.
Vivara has posted their sustainability policy online. Vivara has an application pending with the Responsible Jewellery Council, with a target certification date of September 2021.
AOC is not an expert in any way on sustainability practices among luxury jewelers. We note that the Vivara sustainability policy is very general and lacking in any specificity around goals or expected dates of achieving them.
Rianne Van Rompaey by Hedi Slimane for Celine Spring 2021 Campaign
Rianne Van Rompaey fronts Celine’s Spring 2021 Campaign, lensed in St. Tropez by Creative Director Hedi Slimane. (IG)
Irina Shayk Soaks Up Sun in Zimmermann 2021 Swim Campaign by Benny Horne
Top model Irina Shayk is lensed by Benny Horne in Zimmermann Resort’s 2021 Swim Campaign styled by Romy Frydman./ Makeup by Benjamin Puckey; hair by Neil Moodie
Artistic director Felipe Oliveira Baptista charts Kenzo’s future.
KENZO unveils its first Fall 2020 campaign by Portuguese fashion designer Felipe Oliveira Baptista. The original, pre-COVID campaign plan intended a photographic road trip in The Azores, Baptista’s original home. Photographer Glen Luchford and long-term partner, stylist Jane How would be Baptista’s campaign companions. And then COVID struck.
“When could we travel? Be together again?” were unanswered and predominant questions. We were to collaborate and put a campaign together, but how?
Glen Luchford knew the campaign would now involve distance photography. But how could it transform into a series of original images? Into the archives — as a few select photographers lucky enough to have them — have already done. Check. Now send the clothes to New York or Los Angeles, where Luchford would shoot models in the same pose and under the same light as the vintage image. Check.
The result is a fresh campaign featuring Lara Stone, Lil Buck and Rose Valentine, as reflected in these first images. Refusing to bow to the challenging moment, the Kenzo campaign expresses the ‘Going Places’ spirit of the collection. Kenzo has always rooted itself in a youthful, nomadic style, and Baptista is ready for takeoff.
In the mid-1960s, Takada Kenzo moved from Japan to Paris, traveling by boat with stopovers in Hong Kong, Mumbai and Saigon. It was this voyage that helped inspire Kenzo’s modern nomad, global progressive spirit. Young creatives with open minds took advantage of affordable, global transportation. Like Kenzo, they set off with the same nomadic spirit born in the eponymous ready-to-wear house the designer founded in 1970.
Today Kenzo heralds a mobile wardrobe that embraces urban elegance and metamorphosis — a keyword in narrating the original spirit of the Kenzo brand.
The name of my first plant store, ‘metamorphosis’ is again a timely word in a COVID world of shaken values and environmental concerns. So many of the hopes of Kenzo-mindset progressives living in the world of The Beatles — and especially John Lennon — are well aware of the meaningless heap of shattered dreams of clean energy, women’s equality and racial justice that inspired deep convictions around global change.
Those same young people find it hard to believe that on June 20, 1979, US President Jimmy Carter unveiled 32 solar panels on the roof of the White House. Yale Climate Connections reveals the Jimmy Carter’s solar panels moment:
Jacquemus Fall/Winter 2020 Nostalgia Frolic with Laetitia Casta by Valentin Herfray
Jacquemus pulls a hard-right turn in a new campaign for its Fall/Winter 2020 collection. Anyone sitting in a giant dreamy wheat field that served as a backdrop for the Spring/Summer 2021 presentation needs to get with the current program.
Modeled by close friend actor Laetitia Casta and Simon Porte Jacquemus’ new puppy TouTou, the ‘L’Année 97’ has gone full-on retro. Gaming consoles and an OG Nokia phone meet up with Le Chiquito and Le Bambino handbags in joyful snaps of slip dresses, biker shots and suitings — all decked out in a Together Forever pink car.
The mood is infectious — if a bit off-kilter for our communal, global moment. The nostalgia messages say “let the good times roll”, as do the delightful images by Valentin Herfray. (IG) Hmmm. Don’t overthink this, Anne. / Makeup by Vanessa Bellini; hair by Ramona Eschbach Shop Jacquemus.com.
Prada Resort 2020: Steven Meisel Adapts Candice Carty-Williams 'A Stranger Calls'
Fashion die-hard Prada and Steven Meisel fans are orgasmic with the return of the photographer — who photographed Prada from 2001 to 2016 — to the iconic brand’s Holiday 2020 campaign. The images, captured remotely by Meisel, who lives in New York City, embrace the stunning Deco Villa Gnutti in Italy’s Brescia, Lombardi region.
Meisel shares the limelight with another creator, British writer Candice Carty-Williams, best known for her 2019 best-selling debut novel, “Queenie.” Titled ‘A Stranger Calls’, the story features Freja Beha Erichsen, Mao Xiaoxing, Maty Fall Diba, Merlijne Schorren, and Rudolfs Valberg.
Dan Martensen Captures Tommy Hilfiger FW 2020 'Moving Forward Together'
Models Alton Mason, Carolyn Murphy, Dilone, Geron McKinley, Halima Aden, Jasmine Sanders, James Turlington, Kit Butler, Ralph Souffrant, Soo Joo Park and more join hands in ‘Moving Forward Together’, another chapter of Tommy Hilfiger’s FW 2020 campaign. Dan Martensen captures the cast at Disney’s Golden Oak Ranch in Los Angeles County, California, with styling by Clare Richardson.
“When faced with unusual social and economic situations, sticking together is the best way forward,” states Tommy Hilfiger. “Each challenge also implies an opportunity: it can take one step closer to achieving a dream, stimulate self-questioning or inspire creativity that you never knew you had. Through ‘Moving Forward Together’, we want to help rekindle that creative spark and be able to help where it’s needed most.”
Lachlan Bailey Captures Calvin Klein FW 2020 | Linh Peters New CMO
Top models Kendall Jenner, Mayowa Nicholas and Rebecca Leigh Longendyke bring Calvin Klein’s Fall 2020 campaign to downtown LA. Lachlan Bailey captures the trio, styled by George Cortina in Calvin Klein’s at ease, yet sophisticated modern woman dressing. / Hair by Shay Ashua; makeup by Carrasquillo
The $9 billion Calvin Klein brand announced today that former Starbucks vice president Linh Peters will become global chief marketing officer for Calvin Klein, effective Nov. 2.
Peters will lead all aspects of Calvin Klein’s consumer organization with a focus on developing the Calvin Klein brand experience, product marketing and data-driven innovation, reports WWD. In addition to her extensive career at Starbucks, Linh Peters held senior positions at Ultra Beauty and Target.
Steven Meisel's 'High Tension' ZARA FW 2020 Campaign: Mika, Mona, Rianne, Sacha
Master photographer Steven Meisel captures ZARA’s Fall Winter 2020 campaign called ‘High Tension’. The music sets the mood straight out of an Alfred Hitchcock movie. Models Mika Schneider, Mona Tougaard, Rianne Van Rompaey and Sacha Quenby are styled by Karl Templer, with creative and video direction from Fabien Baron.
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