Serena Williams Final Broke All ESPN Tennis Viewing Stats | Nike Serena Tribute Video

Serena Williams Final Broke All ESPN Tennis Viewing Stats | Nike Serena Tribute Video

Serena battled ferociously to her last serve in an over three-hour match watched by an average of 4.8 million viewers, making it ESPN’s most-watched tennis match in its 43-year history. The match’s final set had 6.9 million viewers.

After the match, Nike — a Serena sponsor — released the Serena Williams tribute compilation featured here.

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Billie Eilish in Gucci Eyewear 2022 Campaign Film by Harley Weir Triggers Anne

Billie Eilish in Gucci Eyewear 2022 Campaign Film by Harley Weir Triggers Anne

Billie Eilish becomes a femme fatale driving the winding roads of the Hollywood Hills for Gucci Eyewear. Billie puts her foot on the gas, encountering her twin car in pink coming close to her.

Is Billie in danger? We’re on pins and needles with faux fear. Harley Weir [IG] directs the film, with art direction by Lina Kutsovskaya. And, of course, Gucci’s Alessandro Michele is always the conductor of the ensemble.

Over the course of my life, there are perhaps 7-10 dreams that have rocked my world.

I don’t honestly believe that Beyoncé, Tiffany & Co, Alessandro Michele, Gucci, Billie Eilish and Anne Enke are travelling on the same moonbeam — but one never knows.

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Polo Ralph Lauren Fall 2022 Campaign Lensed by Alasdair McLellan | A Human Touch

Polo Ralph Lauren Fall 2022 Campaign Lensed by Alasdair McLellan | A Human Touch

Polo Ralph Lauren shares its Fall 2022 campaign with models Devi Rae, Mathilda Gvarliani and Najiyah Imani. Ralph Lauren’s Jack Becht is creative director with images by Alasdair McLellan [IG].

The entire Ralph Lauren business is working on ways to communicate its values in our larger society and culture for over a decade.with an acknowledgment that human connections must be part of the Ralph Lauren DNA.

Today Ralph Lauren views itself as a change agent in solving problems and also embracing the complexity of the real American experience and history for different groups of people.

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Beyoncé Celebrates Loving Her Unapologetic Self in New Tiffany & Co Campaign Fall 2022

Beyoncé Celebrates Loving Her Unapologetic Self in New Tiffany & Co Campaign Fall 2022

Beyoncé returns to Tiffany & Co, starring in the global luxury brand’s newest campaign, ‘Lose Yourself in Love,’ which is all about “celebrating individuality, love, and universal connection.” The campaign is “a fiercely elegant homage to the joy of being one’s unapologetic self.”

Beyoncé is “honored to explore even deeper how beautiful our connections are, when we truly celebrate the relationship and importance of love that we have for ourselves as individuals.” This form of self-love — so often ridiculed as being selfish and self-obsessed — is key to forming thriving relationships with other people.

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Lara Mullen, Mika Schneider in Hermes FW 2022 Campaign by Arnaud Lajeunie

Lara Mullen, Mika Schneider in Hermes FW 2022 Campaign by Arnaud Lajeunie

Models Lara Mullen, Lassina Karamoko and Mika Schneider pose in one of Fall 2022’s most delightful campaigns: Hermès. Up on Hermès’ roof, the collections of objects come to life and scarves flutter in the wind, for an airy, carefree afternoon.

The trio are styled by Charlotte Collet in images by Arnaud Lajeunie. Photographer Hans Neumann shoots the video and also stills focused more on the home and gifts collection.

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Revisit Graff Tribal 2021 Campaign Lensed by Mikael Jansson with Sara Sampaio

Revisit Graff Tribal 2021 Campaign Lensed by Mikael Jansson with Sara Sampaio

In the campaign marketing text, Graff made a word salad describing Night Moon, Graff Gateway and New Dawn groups in the collection in this way:

“From a poetic spark of inspiration to a magnificent collection of jewels that speak to the soul about the eternal beauty of nature, the Tribal collection captures the essence of what it is to be human.”

These words perhaps better describe modern life in South Africa’s Atlantis Dunes, where extreme adventure sports including sandboarding define the landscape. Had Graff wanted to speak to the Tribal collection’s capturing the essence of what it is to be human”, the campaign would have been shot 15 hours away by car in at the Sterkfontein Caves, at a UNESCO World Heritage site known as the Cradle of Humankind.

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Shakira and Burna Boy in Burberry Holiday 2022 Campaign by Torso

Shakira and Burna Boy in Burberry Holiday 2022 Campaign by Torso

Shakira takes the spotlight with Nigerian singer, songwriter and record producer Burna Boy in Burberry’s Holiday 2022 Campaign, titled ‘The Night Before’ . British Vogue Fashion Director Julia Sarr-Jamois styles the music stars in images by Torso Solutions.

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Balenciaga Winter 2022 Campaign Lensed by Daniel Roché with Kim Kardashian

Balenciaga Winter 2022 Campaign Lensed by Daniel Roché with Kim Kardashian

Luxury house Balenciaga shares its Winter 2022 campaign with Kim Kardashian making a major impression as the lady in a blue dress, joined by Euphoria actor Alexa Demie, rapper Big Matthew and model Khadim Sock for Demna’s winter collection.

Odesa, the beautiful city in southern Ukraine, was Demna’s displaced family’s first place of refuge. Yesterday, Ukraine sought UNESCO cultural protection for Odessa. “Russian forces have advanced to within several dozen kilometres (miles) of the city, which blossomed after empress Catherine the Great decreed in the late 18th century that it would be Russia's modern gateway to the Black Sea.” See also the NYT August article Odesa Is Defiant. It’s Also Putin’s Ultimate Target.

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Adidas x Daily Paper Ajax Amsterdam Collab Is So Fire

Adidas x Daily Paper Ajax Amsterdam Collab Is So Fire

Question: “Anne, why are you reporting on a soccer swap? You don’t follow soccer. You are playing with our minds, Anne.”

Anne’s Answer: Because AOC loves the Dutch as people, and Amsterdam is a very cool place. I’ve been there several times.

Most important is that Ajax Amsterdam just scored their third collab with Adidas x Daily Paper, and AOC LOVES Daily Paper. If Daily Paper loves Ajax Amsterdam, so do we.

AOC believes in logic . . . just like we believe in science. We are not MAGA insurrectionist Reds. AOC is for Blues.

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Naomi Campbell Seduces in Steven Klein Images for Sam Edelman Fall 2022 Campaign

Naomi Campbell Seduces in Steven Klein Images for Sam Edelman Fall 2022 Campaign

Supermodel Naomi Campbell is her gorgeous and seductive self in Sam Edelman’s Fall 2022 campaign, lensed by the legendary Steven Klein.

“It’s been a difficult time in history with the pandemic,” Edelman said. “How do we sort of pull the whole thing together and really make a statement? Right now is the time for us really to scream the integrity of our brand. There’s nobody that talks today about the integrity of being a fashion icon better than Naomi Campbell.”

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