Valentino The Party Collection Holiday 2022.23 Campaign Turns Up the Volume

Valentino The Party Collection Holiday 2022.23 Campaign Turns Up the Volume

Valentino The Party Collection returns for another holiday season, getting loud and proud with a shimmering collection that dazzles the senses.

Tones of purple, emerald green and yellow turn up the Maison Valentino style voltage with jewel-effect rhinestones, all-over sequins, and striking embroideries.

Award-winning director Enea Colombi [IG] is responsible for the video, with photography by Pietro Cocco [IG].

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Louis Vuitton x Yayoi Kusama 2023 Campaign Preview with Gisele by Steven Meisel

Louis Vuitton x Yayoi Kusama 2023 Campaign Preview with Gisele by Steven Meisel

Fashion world got a major wakeup this morning with a preview of the January 2023 Louis Vuitton x Yayoi Kusama campaign.

Yayoi Kusama, Age 93, Rolls Again with Louis Vuitton

LV makes a big move putting Gisele Bundchen front and center in a second, historical collaboration with revered Japanese creative Yayoi Kusama, one of the world’s pre-eminent artists at age 93.

“One of the aspects of her [Yayoi Kusama’s] work is happiness, and we thought it would be really refreshing after the pandemic to have the worlds of Vuitton and the world of Kusama meet again,” Arnault explained. The successful first collaboration between the two global giants happened in 2012.

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Chanel Métiers d’Art [Pre-Fall 2023] Show in Dakar, Senegal Did Not Go 'Badly Wrong'

Chanel Métiers d’Art [Pre-Fall 2023] Show in Dakar, Senegal Did Not Go 'Badly Wrong'

Bruno Pavlovsky, president of fashion at Chanel, spoke openly with Vogue Business that now more than ever business cannot be conducted as it was in a prepandemic world.

AOC adds a pre-George Floyd murder-world as well, and Pavlovsky spoke candidly about Senegal’s reality as a former French colony.

Lying three miles west of Dakar, Gorée Island was the largest slave-trading center on the African coast. “We cannot go to other parts of the world just for 20 minutes. It is not enough. We have to have this dialogue,” the Chanel executive acknowledged.

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‘Chanel 2022: 31 Cambon - Dakar' by Malick Bodian with Akon, Jill, Kathia, Mariam, Maty

‘Chanel 2022: 31 Cambon - Dakar' by Malick Bodian with Akon, Jill, Kathia, Mariam, Maty

Photographer [today] and model Malick Bodian [IG] continues his work with Chanel in this presentation ‘Chanel 2022: 31 Cambon - Dakar. Jenke Ahmed Tailly styles a model cast that includes Akon Changkou, Jill Kortlieve, Kathia Ndong, Mariam de Vinzelle and Maty Fall. / Hair by Cyndia Harvey; makeup by Ammy Drammeh

Select images come from a pre-show image shoot in Paris, with the majority being shot in Dakar — as the name ‘Chanel 2022: 31 Cambon - Dakar suggests.

Ib Kamara did work with Bodian in Paris.

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Elsa Hosk's Launch Campaign for her Helsa Brand, Lensed by Yulia Gorbachenko

Elsa Hosk's Launch Campaign for her Helsa Brand, Lensed by Yulia Gorbachenko

Supermodel Elsa Hosk looks like she walked out of a 1950s movie, filmed in the south of France. Elsa is wearing tailored must-haves from her new Helsa Collection — created in the mood of Katharine Hepburn and lensed here by Yulia Gorbachenko [IG]

Writing about the debut of Helsa last August, I said: “Hosk is keeping this launch like a quiet ebb. The Scandi beauty has always stressed the importance of sustainability and it would be shocking if she doesn’t create sustainable products.”

Many of the Helsa pieces are made with Recover, a recycled, heavy-duty cotton. Bravo. I love Elsa Hosk with my whole heart, but sustainability is not a strong message in Helsa so far.

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Candice Swanepoel's Tropic of C Econyl Classic Blackout Swimwear Drop

Candice Swanepoel's Tropic of C Econyl Classic Blackout Swimwear Drop

Candice Swanepoel and her sustainable swimwear brand Tropic of C [IG] celebrate the brand’s classic styles with very modern cutouts, lensed by Eduardo Bravin [IG] .

Candice was an early user of econyl, a regenerated nylon product introduced in 2011 by Aquafil.

Econyl is made entirely from ocean and landfill waste, such as industrial plastic, fabric scraps from clothing manufacturing companies, old carpets and "ghost nets".

AOC believes that beautiful bodies live on a sustainable planet. We’ve always applauded Candice Swanepoel for building a brand from day 1, with sustainability beating beautifully in its heart.

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Chanel's Fine Jewelry Holiday 2022 Campaign 'Once Upon a Moon' by Nicolas Kantor

Chanel's Fine Jewelry Holiday 2022 Campaign 'Once Upon a Moon' by Nicolas Kantor

The Chanel Fine Jewelry Holiday 2022 campaign ‘Once Upon a Moon’ stars Adesuwa Aighewi, Giedre Dukauskaite, Soo Joo Park, Matthew Bell and Reece Nelson as lunar explorers styled by Veronique Didry and lensed by Nicolas Kantor.

Did luxury house Chanel know that America’s Artemis 1 mission was headed to the moon when their holiday campaign ‘Once Upon a Moon’ was released? Probably not, as our Artemis 1 mission roared high into the sky two months behind schedule. Still, the timing ended up being perfect.

The Beauty campaign has the Eiffel Tower lifting off like Artemis, becoming a cool rocket rising into the Parisian night sky.

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Valentina Sampaio for Giorgio Armani Holiday Campaign 2022 by Van Mossevelde + N

Valentina Sampaio for Giorgio Armani Holiday Campaign 2022 by Van Mossevelde + N

Model Valentina Sampaio, who is an Armani beauty ambassador, smolders in her Giorgio Armani Holiday 2022 campaign images. Sampaio shares the spotlight with models Quentin Demeester and Raphael Balzer. Photographers Van Mossevelde + N [IG] captures the glamorous trio with set design by Andrea Cellerino./ Hair by Pierpaolo Lai; makeup by Simone Gammino

Valentina Sampaio is interviewed in the December issue of Vogue Scandinavia. AOC rarely says this, but Sampaio deserves more work. Valentina Sampaio's Soft Beauty by Lea Winkler for Vogue Scandinavia December 2022 AOC Body

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