Tod's Delists from Italian Stock Exchange Short-Term Investors Demands

Tod's Delists from Italian Stock Exchange Short-Term Investors Demands

After 22 years, Tod’s Della Valle family want to delist Tod’s Group from the Italian Stock Exchange, offering stockholders a premium on their shares to essentially take their profits and go home — so that Tod’s can manage its business affairs with a more brand-building, longterm-success strategy.

“Brothers Diego and Andrea Della Valle control 63.64 percent of Tod’s shares. Delphine S.A.S. under the LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton Group will remain in the Tod’s capital with its current 10 percent stake,” writes WWD.

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David Sims Eyes LOEWE FW 2022 Campaign with Anthea Hamilton Pumpkins 5,6,7 2022

David Sims Eyes LOEWE FW 2022 Campaign with Anthea Hamilton Pumpkins 5,6,7 2022

Photographer David Sims [IG] captures the utterly delightful LOEWE Fall 2022/23 campaign, featuring models Anok Yai, Jeanne Cadieu, Lina Zhang and Violette Meima.

British artist Anthea Hamilton was one of four creatives shortlisted for the 2016 Turner Prize. Hamilton is known for her surreal artworks and often large-scale installations.

Anthea Hamilton brought her art in the form of Pumpkins no.5, 6, 7 2022 to the LOEWE Fall 2022 campaign.

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Louis Vuitton FW 2022 Campaign Hugs LV's Top 10 Status on Kantar BrandZ Ranking

Louis Vuitton FW 2022 Campaign Hugs LV's Top 10 Status on Kantar BrandZ Ranking

Norwegian actor and friend of the House Renate Reinsve, star of the critically-acclaimedThe Worst Person in the World’, headlines the new Louis Vuitton campaign that also includes Akon Changkou, Elio Berenett, Ida Heiner, Kristine Lindseth, Qisi Feng, and Tida Rosvall.

Louis Vuitton has risen into the top 10 global brands on the Kantar Branz Most Valuable Global Brands 2022 report, joining the ranks of Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and other global mega brands not associated with the fashion industry.

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Mona Tougaard August News in Vogue France, Alaïa F/W 2022.23 Campaign

Mona Tougaard August News in Vogue France, Alaïa F/W 2022.23 Campaign

Muticultural model Mona Tougaard was born in Denmark and is of Turkish, Somali and Ethiopian descent. With a solid portfolio behind her, Tougaard joins Mirthe Dijk and Victoria Fawole in the Alaïa F/W 2022.23 ad campaign, shot by Willy Vanderperre.

AOC reviews Mona Tougaard’s recent work.

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Bella, Adut, Jill, Paloma in Victoria's Secret Very Sexy 'Midnight at the Oasis' Fall 2022 Campaign

Bella, Adut, Jill, Paloma in Victoria's Secret Very Sexy 'Midnight at the Oasis' Fall 2022 Campaign

Smart Sensuality glamour girls Adut Akech, Bella Hadid, Jill Kortleve and Paloma Elsesser channel the ‘70s classic ‘Midnight at the Oasis’ in name and message but not music in the video. Artist Maria Muldaur sang about an empowered sensual woman in the 1973 more likely on the road in Marrakech than Mexico in the classic tune.

Aware or not, VS is also channeling the sensual, political activist feminist Frida Kahlo in this deeply political and threatening moment for American feminism. As Republicans wage a full-throttle assault on women’s rights in America, perhaps Frida Kahlo is guiding them subliminally.

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Dior Fall 2022 Campaign by Brigitte Niedermair Hugs Mariella Bettineschi's Male Gaze Reversal

Dior Fall 2022 Campaign by Brigitte Niedermair Hugs Mariella Bettineschi's Male Gaze Reversal

In the Fall 2022 campaign, Chiuri is inspired by the objectified female subjects of ‘Old Masters’, as transformed by living Italian feminist artist Mariella Bettineschi. In the fashion show, the models clearly referenced the women in Renaissance paintings, but reborn as women and girls with their own agency and ability to understand the ways of the world at work around them.

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Vogue Thailand August 2022 Presents 'Arabesque' Lensed by Wasan Puengprasert

Vogue Thailand August 2022 Presents 'Arabesque' Lensed by Wasan Puengprasert

Photographer Wasan Puengprasert [IG] sets off with Vogue Thailand August 2022 to Sakon Nakhon province, located in upper northeastern Thailand. The province is rich in the world of indigo-dyed weaving crafts and natural-dyed fabrics produced by diverse community groups.

The result is a 20 page fashion story ‘Arabesque’ styled by Jirat Suppisankul [IG] with models Chirachaya Ketkong, Khunnarong Prathrat and Miriam Sornprommat posing in more than 20 pages of unadulterated beauty and “on the road” fashion.

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Zara Beauty 'Surreal Summer' by Elizaveta Porodina Is Stellar Artistry

Zara Beauty 'Surreal Summer' by Elizaveta Porodina Is Stellar Artistry

Photographer Elizaveta Porodina’s [IG] July 2022 image roadshow continues, with another fashion story for Zara Beauty.

Last week it was Lindsay Wixson in the new Zara South 2022 campaign. Today Porodina rolls into Zara Beauty with ‘Surreal Summer’, a spectacular marrying of her always notable fashion model images with a tube of Zara Beauty mascara.

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Kate Moss Loves Her Diet Coke in ES Magazine July 22 by Quentin Jones

Kate Moss Loves Her Diet Coke in ES Magazine July 22 by Quentin Jones

Legendary 1990s supermodel Kate Moss was recently named the new creative director of Diet Coke. The brand says it tapped her for her “unique aesthetic and style”, a heritage Moss owned as she delivered four limited edition cans of Diet Coke in London this week.

ES Magazine editor Ben Cobb visited Kate in at her west London home.

LOL. Kate Moss is a good little woman, though. Or perhaps Cobb is really special. “during our chat, she keeps my glass of water filled with ice, running back to an American-sized fridge” . .

Yes, yes . . . there’s plenty of Diet Coke in the refrigerator. Cobb spies it chilling there. Wait . . . oh wait . . . Kate Moss “struggles to open the door.” LOL. How old is this guy? I expect him to jump up and save Kate from the big, bad fridge any minute. She is a real-deal damsel in distress.

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Which Luxury Bags Speak to You: Golden Goose or Celine?

Which Luxury Bags Speak to You: Golden Goose or Celine?

In the world of bags, the luxury buyer has many to choose from. I chose these two brands — Golden Goose and Celine — not for the cool factor, but to speak to their brand DNA. Reality is that when one is spending many hundreds or thousands of dollars for a bag or leather accessory, the 2022 customer is more eager than ever before to know the story behind the brand, the ethics and sustainability initiatives employed by the owners, and how the brand reflects us — the buyers.

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Stella McCartney Resort 2023 Collection Hits 85% Record Sustainable Production

Stella McCartney Resort 2023 Collection Hits 85% Record Sustainable Production

Stella McCartney’s Resort 2023 Collection was operating on eight cylinders of creative and manufacturing moxie as fashion’s greatest advocate for the environment and PETA-friendly alternative materials hit her highest bar yet.

McCartney’s resort collection was photographed in and around her eco factory in Novara, Italy. Stella reported that 85% of the collection is produced sustainably.

Stella McCartney also has an instinctive embrace of great marketing, making her “Rewilding and rechilding” tagline a marketing hit.

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Riccardo Tisci and Jared Buckhiester Make Workwear for Burberry Resort 2022/23

Riccardo Tisci and Jared Buckhiester Make Workwear for Burberry Resort 2022/23

Writing about the new collection, Vogue’s Sarah Mower raises the issue of Burberry’s “border-free, non-nationalistic points of view.” The Guardian came close to raising the same issue, when Marco Gobbetti resigned in June 2021, to return to Italy as CEO of Salvatore Ferragamo.

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Lily James Leads Goddesses and Rebels in Versace Fall 2022/23 Campaign

Lily James Leads Goddesses and Rebels in Versace Fall 2022/23 Campaign

Goddesses and Regal Rebels dominate Versace’s Fall 2022/23 Campaign, led by ‘Pam & Tommy’ star Lily James. The Emmy-nominated James plays a Versace goddess in a summer where AOC has read the word ‘goddess’ from non-AOC sources at every turn.

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EADEM's Smart Melanin™ Technology for Beautiful Women of Color

EADEM's Smart Melanin™ Technology for Beautiful Women of Color

Hyperpigmentation is the number one skin concern among women of color. Melanin plays a big role in how the skin functions, and it reacts differently to inflammation, UV light, hydration and even active skincare ingredients. What EADEM is wrestling with in the product development universe is far more complex than sunscreen products for women of color.

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Getting Futuristic With Courrèges | Once a Rebel Always a Rebel

Getting Futuristic With  Courrèges | Once a Rebel Always a Rebel

Adrien Da Maia, CEO of Courrèges since March 2020, wants the world to know that the fashion house forever associated with the Space Age is making a 21st century comeback. Yes, the challenge is major, but the French label has some very timely political and lifestyle forces behind it.

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6-Degrees: Hindu Nationalists Burning Hillary Posters, A $1.5 Million Bounty for a Dead Deepika Padukone, and Ivanka Trump Rolling Into India

6-Degrees: Hindu Nationalists Burning Hillary Posters, A $1.5 Million Bounty for a Dead Deepika Padukone, and Ivanka Trump Rolling Into India

On this first morning in post-Roe America, Bollywood star Deepika Padukone is on my mind. She occupies my brain space — not because of her recent appointment as a Louis Vuitton ambassador and not because she “stole the show” in Cannes in early June, appointed as a member of the 2022 Cannes Festival nine-person jury.

Vogue India Interview

Padukone acknowledges in her Vogue India May 2022 cover story — a conversation between the actor and Faye D’Souza, edited and excerpted by Sadaf Shaikh — that she was pleased to be honored as a TIME 100 Impact Award 2022 recipient.

She’s here to talk her casual, tomboy style preferences — Red Carpet glam nights not included. Padukone shows us how the first Indian Louis Vuitton ambassador chills, styled by Megha Kapoor in the all-Vuitton fashion story lensed by Vivek Vadoliya [IG]. / Makeup by Tina Monzón; hair by Noelia Coral

Casual looks are deceiving in the Vogue India fashion story. For the first time in history, a fashion brand — Louis Vuitton — has entered the rarified air of the world’s top 10 global brands, as ranked by Kantar BrandZ Most Valuable Global Brands 2022 report

Louis Vuitton and Deepika Padukone make a good team.

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Carolina Herrera Resort 2023 Collection Channels Retro Glam Women with Backbone

Carolina Herrera Resort 2023 Collection Channels Retro Glam Women with Backbone

Carolina Herrera designer Wes Gordon admits that he imagined a trip to the Riviera in creating Carolina Herrera’s resort 2023 collection. Visions of ‘90s supermodels shot by Helmut newton danced in his imagination.

In reality, Beyoncé Ambrose poses in these Carolina Herrera Resort 2023 images, styled by Marie Chaix. Photographer Camila Falquez [IG] captures the modern-woman, garden-party looks.

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Devyn Garcia, Quannah Chasinghorse for B-Corp Chloé Sp 2022 by Zoe Ghertner

Devyn Garcia, Quannah Chasinghorse for B-Corp Chloé Sp 2022 by Zoe Ghertner

With the introduction of Chloé Craft, the Maison increases the number of its products handcrafted by independent artisans. Environmentally-speaking, 58% of the collection in now made from lower-impact materials. Employing several collaborations with social enterprises, the “love” that Gabriela Hearst brings to the newly certified B-corp brand “encompasses both people and the planet”. Quote marks signify the brand’s own verbiage, not AOC’s.

Lensed by photographer Zoë Ghertner [IG] on Playa El Tecolote in Mexico, the shoot was styled by Camilla Nickerson and art directed by Peter Miles. AOC is delighted to see models Devyn Garcia [recent work] and Quannah Chasinghorse [recent work] in the model lineup.

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