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Photographer Steven Meisel undertakes an innovative project for Stockholm-based brand Toteme. Meisel first photographed Vittoria Ceretti in Toteme’s Spring-Summer 2022 Campaign. The artist also created life-sized and super-sized laser-cut flat sculptures, mounted with the campaign imagery. The entire presentation is then viewed across three rooms in person and also on the video below.
Read MoreFresh on the thrill of Gisele Bundchen’s Amazonian woman self gracing five — count them FIVE — blazingly sexy covers of V Magazine 136, Jimmy Choo rolls into our disbelieving eyes one day later with Barbara Palvin and Precious Lee saying “Yes, we are sexy, fully-formed Jimmy Choo Summer 2022 goddesses posing poolside in our totally gorgeous, absolutely-loved bodies. Deal with it.”
Madison Headrick and Geron McKinley complete the quartet styled by Alice Lombardini with creative direction by Sandra Choi.
Read MoreThe development of an artisanal approach is different from what is being labeled ‘ethical’ by websites like Good On You.
Leather is a perfect example. Hermès will never be called ethical because they are using leather. Even though they agree to the highest possible worker standards and environment-friendly policies in tanning and how the animals are treated, it’s leather.
Note, though, that even Stella McCartney can’t get a top rating on Good on You, which suggests a bleak future if even she can’t cut it with the uber-progressives. Stella does get a ‘good’ — or a B on a 5-point scale. Note Stella McCartney’s rating is 2018.
Read MoreElevating the humble dandelion into a show-stopping, high-jewelry diamond medallion necklace is no longer a top-secret mission. AOC shares spring’s Tiffany & Co. BOTANICA: Blue Book 2022 campaign. Newly-named Tiffany BOTANICA ambassador Gal Gadot is not a 2017 Wonder Woman actor who pales in comparison to a dandelion-inspired 12-carat diamond necklace.
Like the necklace created to be worn five different ways as the ultimate expression of Tiffany & Co. savoir-faire, Gal Gadot is adaptable, with her head held high on the world stage.
Read MoreModels Ajok Madel, Beyonce Ambrose, Maike Inga, Rachel Marx and Valerie Scherzinger are styled by Marie Chaix in Carolina Herrera’s Pre-Fall 2022 Accessories Lookbook. Oklahoma-born, New York photographer Rebekah Campbell [IG] is behind the lens, capturing this not-for-shy-girls Carolina Herrera collection.
Read MoreMaria Cornejo has a gift for creating sensual, female-centric designs using angular, architectural lines and fabrics. In spite of her tag line, not all Zero + Maria Cornejo production is made in New York. In the case of the French terry sweat-shirting from Japan, she is manufacturing the items using the fabric in Japan.
Read MoreThe Jean Paul Gaultier ‘LE MUSÉE’ ready-to-wear capsule is lensed by Elizaveta Porodina [IG] in a colorful visual campaign, with creative direction by Florence Tétier [IG]. ‘LE MUSÉE’ taps cult artworks by history’s greatest masters to dynamize a new drop that’s pop, sexy and audacious. See the collection online.
Museum artworks that inspired the new ready-to-wear capsule are ‘The Creation of Adam’ by Michelangelo (1512), ‘The Three Graces’ by Rubens and the iconic ‘Birth of Venus’ by Botticelli (1485).
Read MoreFendi celebrates the new Peekaboo Petite and Micro handbags, arm and arm with the Italian ‘Call Me By Your Name’ film director and friend of the house, Luca Guadagnino to create a short campaign film starring Adwoa Aboah.
Instead of boarding a magic carpet ride over Rome, Aboah spreads her own ‘Superwoman’ wings to fly over the ancient city with its ruins and visual narrative of the human story. She eventually landing on Fendi’s Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana — because this is a Fendi Peekaboo handbag campaign, after all.
Read MoreDo you dream in technicolor? With so many creatives on AOC, it seems like we should be on high-voltage, color blast. Understanding the likely good endorphins-generating power of dopamine dressing, Dior’s Maia Grazia Chiuri pulled out all the color stops in her Spring 2022 Dior Chez Moi Capsule Collection.
Stars of the Chez Moi collections are Chai Maximus, Jahika Gonzalez, and Maryel Uchida, styled by Elin Svahn. Set design is by Alexander Bock.
Read MoreModels Bert de Roeck and Irene Guarenas take a modern, light-hearted approach to Italian luxury brand TOD’s, an old-school name in the process of a major revamp this is working. Teaming up with the spring/summer 2022 issue of Dapper Dan Magazine [IG] is brilliant for both parties.
Photographer Johan Sandberg [IG] captures the fashion story advertorial. AOC loves fresh-approach revivals that are working, so fingers are crossed for Tod’s. And Dapper Dan is GOOD for Tod’s, in a way that certain bigger names are not.
Read MoreActor Sharon Stone basks in the magic of Venice — or at least as Venice lives on in our imaginations — for the new Dolce & Gabbana campaign. From sunglasses to jewelry and Dolce & Gabbana’s signature Devotion bag. Stone thrives in the seductive attention of male models Adam Senn and Sam Webb.
Paris Libby styles the Dolce & Gabbana campaign lensed by Michael Muller [IG].
The reality of today’s Venice is far different from my deeply-cherished memories of a city loved by so many people — and especially the Americans.
Read MoreThe overall effect of Dior’s pre-fall 2022 fashion statement channels British pop-punk style, embodying a spirit of defiance and individualism in its embrace of the many ways young women can dress.
Given the sweep of anti-LGBTQIA+ laws and anti-women’s rights laws sweeping through America’s red states, Chiuri delivered a collection that has political roots as well — at least in America.
Like myself, Chiuri used her youthful rebellion against the harsh edges and austerity of a Catholic school uniform — and the perpetual guilt enforced on young women by the Catholic hierarchy — as a foundation for the collection’s visual aesthetic. ~ Anne
Read MoreDESSERTO®, the highly-sustainable alternative to leather, made from cactus plants and a finalist in the LVMH 2020 Innovation Awards, is again center stage in the new Lagerfeld-Valletta collab. Other earth-friendly fibers use in the new collection are 100% organic cotton, GRS certified recycled linen, and pre-consumer upcycled material Tencel™ x Refibra™ by Lenzing.
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