Technically-speaking this fashion campaign is about Fendi’sx Tiffany winter-drop two weeks before the holidays. Yet the power of a color — Tiffany Blue — defines it’s larger message and impact. The campaign is promoted almost solely by Fendi.
Trademarked as a color in 1998, and added as an official color to the Pantone system in 2001 [use governed exclusively by Tiffany], the color was trademarked in every classification.
Maverick artist Stuart Semple dared Tiffany & Co to sue him, when he liberated Tiffany Blue in 2021, creating Tiff.
Most IP lawyers agree that Tiffany would have won a lawsuit against Semple. The question was if they really wanted to sue artists — famous and not famous — the audience who bought the soldout Tiff acrylic paint at once.
Tod’s [IG] Pre-Spring 2023 campaign brings together two couples — 1) Anna Ewers and Joshua Seth and 2) Nora Attal and Valentin Caron on a journey through the sun-kissed atmospheres of Southern Italy captured by Karim Sadli [IG] . A typical Apulian Masseria perfectly frames the Pre-Spring 2023 collection, bringing together the four models on their getaway.
Top models Adut Akech, Bella Hadid, Candice Huffine, Devyn Garcia, Imaan Hammam, Jill Kortleve, Mayowa Nicholas, Paloma Elsesser, Taylor Hill, Valentina Sampaio star in Victoria’s Secret Valentine’s Day 2023 campaign.
Gabriella Karefa Johnson styles the shoot, with Camille Summers-Valli [IG] directing the 30-second 2023 V-Day Shop spot.
No one has been more committed to use her fashion shows platform to tell women’s stories than Maria Grazia Chiuri.
Dior ambassador Anya Taylor-Joy has a life-long passion and fascination with animals. The star adores animal prints, making her the perfect face for Dior Beauty’s Dior Mitzah collection.
Christian Dior’s original muse Mitzah Bricard inspired him to recognize the leopard print as a reputable trend.
Mitzah’s advice was: “When a man wants to send you flowers, always say — ‘my florist is Cartier.’” “Madame Bricard is one of the rare people for whom elegance is their sole reason for living,” wrote Dior.
Simone de Beauvoir’s ‘The Second Sex’ was published in 1949, when the French existentialist philosopher, social theorist and feminist activist was age 41.
The lifelong partner and lover of Jean Paul Sartre wrote a piece for Vogue in 1947, arguing that “Femininity is a Trap”. Dior’s Chiuri used the 1947 statement in her Pre-Fall 2022 show.
Top model Kaia Gerber is the face of Alaïa’s WS23 [IG] campaign, styled by Aleksandra Woroniecka. Photographer Tyrone Lebon captures Gerber with creative direction by Alaïa’s Pieter Mulier.
Versace’s Resort 2023 Collection is filled with tensions: ‘“Hard and soft, masculine and feminine, formal and playful, contrasts that I see the new generation questioning and ripping up completely,” Donatella Versace said about her acid-colors designs.
Models Sora Choi and Steinberg kick off the women’s wing of the campaign, with Momo Ndiaye and Timo Pan on mens. Photographer Thue Nørgaard [IG] captures the vibrant colorways exuding big energy, styled by Jacob K.
British actors Josh O’Connor, who played a young Charles in Netflix’s ‘The Crown’, and Franco-Congolese actor and comedian Stéphane Bak, fresh off his critically-acclaimed role in ‘Mali Twist’, are center-stage in LOEWE’s Spring Summer 2023 Men’s Campaign.
Benjamin Bruno styles the shoot, with creative direction by Jonathan Anderson. Photographer David Sims [IG] is in the studio, distilling yet another LOEWE campaign with an impeccable vibe of creative artisanship. Vincent Olivieri provides set design. Love it.
Models Bangali Drammeh from Gambia, Honest Ujoy from South Korea and Mateen Ismail from Australia launch a focus on Jo Malone London’s ‘Cologne Intense’, a collection of alluring scents inspired by faraway lands, captivating rituals and treasured ingredients.
The first Cologne Intense fragrance – Oud & Bergamot – was created more than 10 years ago and inspired by the Middle East. “Combining the nobility and enveloping scent of oud with the brightness of bergamot, it has become one of Jo Malone’s most beloved fragrances,” notes Céline Roux, Global Head of Fragrance. “Since then, we’ve travelled to faraway lands all over the world in search of inspiring traditions and treasured ingredients, to create a whole range of mysterious and sensual fragrances.”
Models Gaia Schiralli and Rafael Mayers pose in sizzling ‘gioielleria’ from the #DGRainbow Fine Jewellery Collection. Photographer Haris Farsarakis [IG] is in Monte Carlo for Dolce & Gabbana. /Hair and make up by Roman Gasser
The story of Armani Beauty’s ‘My Way’ journey to market is deeply rooted in the sustainability values of the younger generation, many of their boomer grandparents and conscientious consumers of every age.
Photographer Dario Catellani [IG] photographs Sydney Sweeney in the 2023 campaign. The Italian visionary is known for his deep attachment to nature — beautifully expressed in the Etro FW 2020/21 ‘We Are All One’ Campaign.
Reading more information about Armani Beauty on the L’Oreal website — L’Oreal holds the beauty license — claims and certifications about sustainability are monitored and validated by the Sustainable Product Optimization Tool (SPOT) developed in 2013 to measure social and environmental impacts.
Based on 14 key sustainability criteria, it covers the entire process from production to the end of the life cycle, including the purchase of raw materials and the product’s use by the consumer.
For Holiday 2022.23 ‘Les Extraits Murano Masterpiece’ advances this transformation of fragrance into art with the visionary expertise of Glass Master Simone Cenedese.
This entire fragrance project is so intellectual, that we must backtrack to it origins in order to full appreciate it newest fragrance art offering.
In his own words, Belletrud explains the origins of ‘Les Extraits’ collection:
I wanted to venture where no one goes anymore. To reinvent the notion of an Extrait in a contemporary way. To bring it light, expand matter, and lighten things up. I wanted to deconstruct the very architecture of perfume
There is no stronger voice for women’s rights in fashion culture than Dior’s Creative Director Maria Grazia Chiuri. Her leadership and creative vision increases in value at a time when women’s rights are under assault worldwide, including in America.
There’s a reason why the word ‘woman’ was the most-searched word on dictionary.com in 2022. Clearly, we don’t know who women are any more. Can you imagine a search for the word ‘men’?
Carrying on with its 21st century Medici mission, after the Cruise 2022.23 show in Seville, Dior invited seven Spanish photographers to engage in dialogue with the brand with their photographic interpretations of the cruise collection that truly celebrated Andulasian culture.
Dior Magazine’s ‘Andulasian Grace’ features these talented photographers: Berta Vicente Salas; Andrea Torres Balaguer; Silvia Conde; Raquel Chicheri; Eva Diez; Irene Cruz; Alba Yruela.
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.
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.
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.
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].
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.
