Steven Meisel's ZARA Women SS Campaign With Abby, Achenrin, Mona Lights Creative Torch

Steven Meisel's ZARA Women SS Campaign With Abby, Achenrin, Mona Lights Creative Torch

Legendary photographer Steven Meisel delivers another fashion-lover’s, heart-racing set of visuals with his new Zara Women Spring Summer 2021 Campaign. The Green team will be thrilled, as the Meisel crew is again working remotely and not spewing carbon and jet fuel all over the planet.

Equally important is the reality that no one in his or her right mind can make the argument that the images would be better if the entire Meisel ensemble was in the California desert.

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Anok Yai, Malik Anderson Front Ambush SS2021 by Ethan James Green

Anok Yai, Malik Anderson Front Ambush SS2021 by Ethan James Green

Models Anok Yai and Malik Anderson front Ambush’s S/S 2021 Campaign. Carlos Nazario styles the duo in campaign images lensed by Ethan James Green [IG]. Co-founder of Ambush and creative director of jewelry at Dior Men, Yoon Ahn is currently featured in Dazed Magazine with her just-launched global collab with Moët & Chandon./ Hair by Jawara; makeup by Susie Sobol

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Hood by Air Relaunches with Mother Muse Naomi Campbell | Shayne Oliver Talks Deeply to Vanessa Friedman

Hood by Air Relaunches with Mother Muse Naomi Campbell | Shayne Oliver Talks Deeply to Vanessa Friedman AOC Fashion

Supermodel Naomi Campbell fronts the return of Hood by Air in phase one 01 Prologue of a new seduction — withrefined insights by original co-founder Shayne Oliver. Luis Alberto Rodriguez photographed Naomi, with art direction by Christopher Simmonds and styling by Carlos Nazario./ Hair by Lorenzo Barcella; makeup by Daniel Sallstrom

Related: Rodriguez most recently became the third person of color to photograph Naomi in her entire career (gasp!) in i-D Magazine’s new cover story and interview.

Ugbad Abdi Suits Up in SS2021 ZARA BASICS Lensed by Hanna Tveite

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

Kim Jones + Amoako Boafo in Superb Dior Men SS2021 Campaign by Rafael Pavarotti

Kim Jones + Amoako Boafo in Superb Dior Men SS2021 Campaign by Rafael Pavarotti

Dior Men unveils a stunning Spring/Summer 2021 campaign, based on the inspiring, artistic collaboration between artistic director Kim Jones and Ghana-based, mega-star artist Amoako Boafo. Dior faces Babacar N’doye, Jeremiah Berko Fordjour and Samer Rahma are a perfect trio to showcase the art-informed designs.

Ronnie Cooke Newhouse provides superb art direction with images by Rafael Pavarotti [IG].

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Givenchy SS 2021 Taps Anok, Bella, Kendall + Playboi Carti by Heji Shin in Matthew Williams Debut

Givenchy SS 2021 Taps Anok, Bella, Kendall + Playboi Carti by Heji Shin in Matthew Williams Debut

American rapper, singer, and songwriter Playboi Carti, aka Jordan Terrell Carter, added an edgy but sophisticated vibe to the campaign, with models Anok Yai, Bella Hadid, Kendall Jenner and Liam Powers presenting a hipper but still smart, streamlined and sensual Givenchy vision.

Whoever thought Bella and Kendall would play second-fiddle to Playboi Carti! It works.

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Steven Meisel Flashes Moschino Spring Summer 2021 Model Marionettes For Real

Steven Meisel Flashes Moschino Spring Summer 2021 Model Marionettes For Real

Models Achenrin Madit, Bella Hadid, Irina Shayk, Julia Nobis and Yasmin Wijnaldum are real-life versions of their Moschino spring/summer 2021 fashion show marionettes. Photographer Steven Meisel brings the 1950s haute couture vision to life with styling by Carlyne Cerf de Dudzeele. / Hair by Jimmy Paul; makeup by Pat McGrath

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Zoey Grossman Shoots Candice, Daniela, Devyn, Imaan, Lais, Taylor in VS Valentine's Day 2021

Zoey Grossman Shoots Candice, Daniela, Devyn, Imaan, Lais, Taylor in VS Valentine's Day 2021

Photographer Zoey Grossman (IG) brings Victoria’s Secret’s Valentine’s Day 2021 collection (IG) into focus with models Candice Swanepoel, Daniela Pestova, Devyn Garcia, Imaan Hammam, Lais Ribeiro, and Taylor Hill.

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Sugar Sweet Taylor Hill Poses in For Love & Lemons X Victoria's Secret V-Day 2021 Campaign

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

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

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

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.

Kenzo's New Era: Felipe Oliveira Baptista + Glen Luchford Launch Fall 2020 Campaign

Artistic director Felipe Oliveira Baptista charts Kenzo’s future.

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 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.