Models Liv Walters, Maty Fall and Yang Ling deliver recognizable Missoni spirit to fall/winter 2023/24 imagery at a time when the Italian heritage house has retained Rothschild to explore a full sale of the company.
In 2018 Italian investment fund FSI injected 70 million euros into the house, for 41% of the business, with the remaining shares held by the Missoni family.
From AOC’s angle of vision, the Italian heritage brands have never been so desirable — and from a cultural-creatives, values-based proposition, not modern values which say “s[he] who wears the most wealth on her back wins.”
Top model Vivienne Rohner joins colleagues Cherokee Jack, Christine Munezero,Joshua Seth and Juhyung Kang in a Polo Ralph Lauren Holiday 2023 celebration. Meryl Griffith and Michel Botbol style Polo’s mix of urbane, relaxed glam and casual style pedigree, lensed by Steven Pan [IG].
Zara has removed this controversial advertising campaign from the front page of its website after pro-Palestine activists called for an international boycott of the retailer.
Inditex, the company that owns Zara, said on Monday that the photos were taken in September 2023, before the current war erupted between Hamas and Israel. The creative brief was approved in July — which makes sense to AOC.
However alert to perceptions gone wrong, I myself was in the process of writing about my night at the Louvre in Paris 20 years ago, marveling over the jazz-evening setup with the statuary in seeming disarray, strewn like these images but with blue strobe lights for extra effect.
Only when I went to Zara’s IG did I realize that something was very wrong with the campaign.
In the case of PatBo founder Patricia Bonaldi and Alessandra Ambrosio, it takes one to know one. We speak of two Brazilian women celebrating the opening of PatBo’s new boutique in the Miami Design District this week, along with their exciting new resort 2024 collaboration.
Tom Ford’s codes, “of glamour, sexiness, elegance, and beauty,” are embraced by promoted Tom Ford Creative Director Peter Hawkings as well, the designer told Vogue in advance of his September 2023 Milan Tom Ford runway debut.
In the just-released Spring 2024 Tom Ford ad campaign, the visual impact is Zegna with edge. Stars of the Tom Ford Spring 2024 campaign are Alaato Jazyper, Dara Gueye, Eva Komuves, Ilias Loopmans, and Jeanne Cadieu, lensed by Robin Galiegue [IG].
Tom Ford does not need fixing in the minds of Estee Lauder, the business tean at Zegna or Hawkings himself. In that case, who is better than Peter Hawkings to inherit the Tom Ford design mantle and not be obsessed with turning a design vision inside out to make it “his own.”
Photographer Anthony Seklaoui [IG] captured the Tom Ford SS2024 social media post-show ensemble that includes Aivita Mūze,Cherif Douamba, Eva Komuves, Ilias Loopmans, Kajsa Nasiell Nauckhoff, Nataly Vieira, Nyaduola Gabriel, Renee Bellerive, Rianne Van Rompaey, Sun Mizrahi and Wali Deutch. / Hair by Guido Palau; makeup by Dick Page
Australian model Aylah Peterson posed in images by Elizaveta Porodina [IG] to celebrate an archival Chaumet [IG] collection called ‘A Golden Age: 1965-1985’.
The installation was launched privately in Paris during late September 2023 and opened formally on October 5 during the Spring 2024 Women’s RTW fashion shows. It was extended in November and finally closed two days ago on December 2.
Comparing the Kaia GerberAlaïa WS2023 campaign with Anna Ewer’s Alaïa [IG] a year later WS2024 images, words like ‘stern’ come to mind in the new campaign lensed by Sam Rock [IG].
Vintage fashion lovers Jill Kortleve and Zinnia Kumar are styled by Jessica Gerardi in ‘Second Life’, a sponsored fashion shoot promoting eBay UK’s pre-loved fashion . . . and this season’s staples. . . both.
Ben Weller [IG] was in the studio for British Vogue [IG] December 2023./ Hair Naoki Komiya; hair by Naoki Komiya
AOC’s first reaction to these Prada holiday, model-focused images has nothing to do with buying gifts for friends and family this holiday season.
Prada and the Future of Humanity
Anne’s response was focused on a deeply-felt anxiety that she would feel so much better if Prada Group owned Starlink, X and SpaceX — rather than Elon Musk. The ‘l’enfant terrible’ with a massive daddy complex can keep Tesla.
“The constantly forward-thinking ethos of Prada for humanity has broadened to his desire of adventure and to brave new horizons: space,” Lorenzo Bertelli, Prada Group marketing director, stated with the announcement that Prada is partnering with Texas-based Axiom Space to design the lunar space suits for the hopefully-glorious 2025 Artemis III mission. [Anne’s non-quoted words.]
Charaf Tajer‘spre-Spring 2024 Casablanca Campaign makes a sophisticated play for a monied, athletic elegance and varsity chic-inspired cafe-society crowd.
The romantic mood of the movie ‘Casablanca’ itself ebbs quietly through the campaign, signposts for a WWII cafe society crowd that embraced classic notions of honor, loyalty, friendship and duty in a 2024 global political climate that’s testing all those values — and turning them inside out.
Count Maggie Maurer in as a member of the Resistance, joined by Valentin Caron. Corentin Leroux [IG] photographs the campaign, with art direction by Rashid Barbiker and styling by Francesca Parise./Hair by Ryan Mitchell; makeup by David Koppelaar
Being whip smart, Hailey Bieber knew that a days-long worldwide birthday celebration with her it-girl, high-powered friends was the perfect moment to launch her new Rhode Peptide Lip Tint.
Bieber’s Peptide Lip Tint campaign pics by William Arcand [IG] are more sensual than anything Victoria’s Secret’s done since — whenever. Dani Michelle styled the campaign./ Makeup by Leah Darcy
Photographer Elizaveta Porodina [IG] ignites the Giorgio Armani Holiday 2023/4 campaign with a 21st century, restrained, jazz-age glamour.
Porodina’s high-level skills in clinical psychology and humanism enhance her understanding of branding in a way other photographers do not intuit.
With one broad stroke of her Jungian-inspired, creative vision, Porodina now makes Armani model Beauise Ferwerda a multi-dimensional Armani woman with a shadow-self.
After spreading its British wings to international cities with its ‘Burberry Streets’ sightings, Burberry’s Daniel Lee again heads home, assembling a motley British-related and credentialed crew for the brand’s Spring 2024 campaign.
Tyrone Lebon again is the photographer for Burberry, rowing in total synchronocity with Daniel Lee.
One sports figure in the campaign is professional boxer Somali-British Ramla Ali, who is also a Dior ambassador. She’s rather dear to AOC’s heart.
The founder of Sisters Club, Ali scored a vindicating win over Julissa Guzman, in early November. The luxury brands boxer suffered a ‘shocking’ defeat to Guzman in June 2023, which is why we use the word ‘vindicating’.
The SKIMS Holiday 2023 Campaign introduces us to Kansas City Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes, his wife Brittany and their kids — daughter Sterling and son Patrick III. The cozy family campaign. is lensed by Theo Wenner.
Louis Vuitton delivers smile-worthy holiday cheer in its first episode of a multi-segmented campaign lensed by Oliver Hadlee Pearch [IG] with video by Lope Serrano.
The Maison’s Mascot Vivienne and her friend Teddy arrive to explore all the Maison’s creations. As regulars, they might become treasured ornaments as the years go by — and we are eager to keep track of them.
These darling little creatures pop up everywhere in a distinct statement that whimsy is part of the holiday season and we are quietly encouraged to get “out of ourselves” and into the world of humanity.
Tiffany & Co [IG] unveils its holiday 2023 campaign, shot in Manhattan against the glittering lights skyline with house ambassador, businesswoman, and creative director Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and China brand ambassador, actor Elaine Zhong.
The Tiffany & Co. 2023 holiday campaign honors house designs including Jean Schlumberger’s iconic Bird On a Rock spectacular pieces and the brand’s beloved Lock collection.
The Tory Burch Holiday 2023 Campaign stars Nora Attal and Vittoria Ceretti in the south of France, visiting the retro-futurism architecture of Le Palais Bulles.
Photographer Oliver Hadlee Pearch [IG] captures the two top models as they settle into the womb curves of the iconic home of late fashion designer Pierre Cardin.
Moschino’s new creative director Davide Renne arrived at the Italian house on November 1, 2023. Renne’s candle had no time to burn brightly in his new assignment, as the designer passed into a another dimension today, November 10, 2023.
We do not know the cause of death, which has been described as a “sudden illness” that claimed his body and earthly existence just 10 days after his arrival at Moschino.
Renne’s resume was defined largely by two decades at Gucci, eventually as Head Designer of Womenswear, working with Alessandro Michele.
