Esteban Cortazar's ' Farfetch Beat' Collab Sizzles With Miami Heat, Lensed by Ewen Spencer

Esteban Cortazar's ' Farfetch Beat' Collab Sizzles With Miami Heat, Lensed by Ewen Spencer

Colombian-American designer Esteban Cortazar celebrates his label’s 20th anniversary with ‘Estaban Cortazar ‘Beat Miami’, an exclusive project with Farfetch.com.

Models Loren Lenox, Wayne Booth and Zan Hyde join the celebration, lensed by Ewen Spencer [IG] in a collection inspired by Esteban Cortazar’s spring/summer 2022 runway collection — including cutout dresses, fluid crop tops and more.

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Louis Vuitton x Yayoi Kusama with Chloe Tang Covers Citizen Kane X-CENTRIC 2022.23

Louis Vuitton x Yayoi Kusama with Chloe Tang Covers Citizen Kane X-CENTRIC 2022.23

Model Chloe Tang is next up in what will probably be a lovely hailstorm of colorful Louis Vuitton x Yayoi Kusama confetti dots in fashion stories that launch 2023.

how grand would it be if we optimists and non-haters had a Yayoi Kusama umbrella? They exist and not at a price of $500. This is yet another example of a global secret society we can create . . . together.

Photographer Ayetekin Yalçın [IG] captures Chloe Tang for the Citizen Kane X-CENTRIC winter 2022/23 issue.

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Pamela Anderson in Her Jacquemus Raffia Big Hat Spreads Holiday Cheer in France

Pamela Anderson in Her Jacquemus Raffia Big Hat Spreads Holiday Cheer in France

A bit of wit and whimsy doesn’t really describe the arrival of Pamela Anderson in the Jacquemus Holiday 2022 campaign.

The sustainable, raffia big hat is too fab for words. No harm has been done to fine-feathers friends for this high-drama fashion statement.

Anderson dragging a Christmas tree through the streets like it’s some oversized Balenciaga naughty bag is perfect for this sexy icon.

So is zapping Santa’s beard.

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Gisele Bundchen in Vivara Holiday 2022 Campaign by Nicole Heiniger

Gisele Bundchen in Vivara Holiday 2022 Campaign by Nicole Heiniger

Gisele Bundchen returns for another Brazilian jewelry brand Vivara holiday campaign. Gisele’s Vivara Holiday 2022 images resonate with extra meaning, because the supermodel spent the Christmas holiday in Brazil with daughter Vivian Lake, 10, and son Benjamin Rein, 13.

It was the family’s first Christmas since the divorce of Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady.

"It's my Rio Grande do Sul Heaven, Sun, South, Earth and Color Where everything that is planted grows and what blooms the most is love. It's always so good to come back home❤️," wrote Bündchen on IG as translated from Portuguese to English.

Nicole Heiniger [IG]photographed Bundchen in a return shoot for her as well.

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Amar, Ella, Luca, and Maty by Robin Galiegue for Zara Beauty Winter 2022.23

Amar, Ella, Luca, and Maty by Robin Galiegue for Zara Beauty Winter 2022.23

Models Amar Akway, Ella McCutcheon, Luca Biggs and Maty Drazek take a silvery winter spotlight, styled by Suzanne Koller in glimmering modern tones of marine blue. Sam Visser [IG]creates a softly-dramatic makeup tableau that also taps marine blue for a nod to eccentric artistry punctuated with rose, silver, and black.

The shimmering festive vision is yet another nod to Zara — this time Zara Beauty Winter 2022.23, lensed by Robin Galiegue [IG].

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Kate Moss Delivers Pink Hair in Marc Jacobs Resort 2022.23 by Harley Weir

Kate Moss Delivers Pink Hair in Marc Jacobs Resort 2022.23 by Harley Weir

Supermodel Kate Moss channels her ‘90s pink hair days in a new campaign for Marc Jacobs Resort [IG] 2022.23. The two fashion heavyweights have been collaborators since 2000.

In 1998, Kate walked the Versace spring 1999 runway show with pink hair that lasted a week and took eight hours to create.

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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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Pucci's Global Tribe Is Assembling: Anyiel, Felice, and Malika for Holiday 2022/23

Pucci's Global Tribe Is Assembling: Anyiel,  Felice, and Malika for Holiday 2022/23

Oliver Hadlee Pearch [IG] captures models Anyiel Majok, Felice Nova Noordhoff, and Malika Louback in the Emilio Pucci Holiday 2022/23 campaign ‘La Famiglia.

Imruh Asha styles a campaign the hugs Camille Miceli’s clear vision that “for me Pucci evokes a family of people spending time together, to enjoy life, parties, and well-being.”

Miceli wants the global enthusiasts, travel-loving, multi-generations Pucci ‘famiglia’ to embrace high-octane, dopamine-dressing as a form of spreading joyful optimism, self-confidence without a tinge of aristocracy [unlike Chanel] and a lust for life that reflects her own lifestyle.

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Sydney Sweeney Says 'Call Me' in Tory Burch Holiday 2022 Campaign

Sydney Sweeney Says 'Call Me' in Tory Burch Holiday 2022 Campaign

Actor Sydney Sweeney comes alive in the Tory Burch 2022 Holiday campaign. No more sexy bod changing a flat tire on her baby-blue converticle in the California desert.

She is live and useful — yes useful — commandeering the Tory Burch Holiday helpline in an Oprah sort of way.

But you can call her helpline at 1-800-485-5399. Come on, play along. Give the grinch a rest.

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Christy Turlington Burns for Calvin Klein Eternity Campaign Mixes Sensuality & Maternal Health

Christy Turlington Burns for Calvin Klein Eternity Campaign Mixes Sensuality & Maternal Health

Christy Turlington supers up her always-smoldering sensuality in the new Calvin Klein Eternity fragrance campaign, sharing the spotlight with her beloved husband Ed Burns.

Photographer Lachlan Bailey [IG] has captured the couple over the years in images that speak to what is one of celebrity-world’s biggest love affairs.

Anne of Carversville took a look at the early days of Turlington’s career and her marriage to Ed Burns just last month. Christy Turlington Uses Her Brainpower Activism and Beauty for All Women

Her dedication to the issue of global — and US — maternal health is well known in fashion world. Minutes ago as we were writing this post, Christy Turlington Burns tweeted in support of the SHINE for Autumn Act of 2022. Read on for details.

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