Elsa Hosk's Launch Campaign for her Helsa Brand, Lensed by Yulia Gorbachenko
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Candice Swanepoel's Tropic of C Econyl Classic Blackout Swimwear Drop
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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.
Read MorePucci's Global Tribe Is Assembling: Anyiel, Felice, and Malika for Holiday 2022/23
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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.
Read MoreTED Talk Favorite: Janine Benyus' 3.8 Billion Years of Nature-Inspired Design
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Janine Benyus and the Biomimicry movement are gaining enormous respect in the world of product innovation and design. The biometric path is simple and described in four steps: quieting human cleverness; listening to life’s genius; echoing what we learn; and giving thanks.
Partnering with Nature is an eyebrow-raising metaphor for super-rational human minds coming to grips with understanding that human brilliance in innovation and scientific discovery may also kill planet Earth.
Men [and fewer women] should be partnering with Nature, not dominating her.
Read MoreChanel in Dakar!!! Video Embedded | Black Beauty Menswear in Senegal for HTSI
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Chanel show in Dakar now embedded. Chanel ambassador Pharrell Williams was on the ground in Dakar, spreading his ‘Humanrace’ message.
Fresh off his runway walk in the Dior Menswear show at Pyramid Giza, Egypt, Malick Bodian — cover model for this original How To Spend It November 2022 presentation was PROUDLY in Dakar, Senegal to take part in his home country festivities. Bodi took many images for fashion media.
Senegalese musician NIX shared his thoughts on Chanel coming to Dakar: “We have a culture that is very open to the world, we have been influenced by many things, which I see as a richness, and this generates an overflowing creativity today.”
Read More2023 Gucci Cruise 'Cosmogonie' Campaign Ode to Philosophy Bridging Space & Time
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AOC had not viewed the 2023 Gucci Cruise Collection Cosmogonie video. Transported emotionally and psychologically by the recent Dior Cruise 2023 show, I am even more impacted by the 2023 Gucci Cruise presentation.
Never has AOC connected so deeply with Gucci’s now-departed creative director Alessandro Michele.
Michele was inspired by the work of Walter Benjamin, a 20th-century, German-Jewish philosopher, cultural critic and essayist.
Benjamin deserves his own AOC post in this moment of the daily drumbeat of hate against progressive thinkers from Donald Trump, Kanye West and many others.
Read MoreBalenciaga Recklessly Threw Children and Prominent Women to the Curb
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Balenciaga’s Betrayal Is 3-Fold
1) Few of us believe the campaign ever came to life without the approval of Demna or someone very high up at Balenciaga, Demna undercuts his own fashion industry credibility.
2) Balenciaga threw Kim Kardashian, Nicole Kidman, Bella Hadid and more to the curb. The brand didn’t give a twit how Demna’s artistry might impact their careers and reputations.
3) America has angry vigilantes toting AR-15s and other high-capacity guns killing people at random — and many victims are members of the LGBTQ community, called groomers.
Read MoreItalian Power Trio Moncler Genius, Palm Angels & Tod's Roar Into Miami Holiday 2022
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A triumvirate of Moncler Genius, Palm Angels and Tod’s drops a blowout bomb of Italian fashion world creativity just in time for the 2022 holidays.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni rails against the EU, mass immigration and “LGBT lobbies”, saying her respect for Mussolini should not be feared.
Like Kanye West’s adoration of Hitler, Meloni ‘s fascist crush should be feared. Mum is never the word on AOC. Never!
The Moncler Genius, Palm Angels and Tod’s mashup has dropped us into ‘90s Miami hedonism with supermodel Naomi Campbell lensed by Quil Lemons [IG]
Read MoreGucci 'Valigeria' Luggage by Panos Davios for Vogue Greece December 2022
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AOC last touched Gucci’s ‘Valigeria’ luggage collection in a Glen Luchford campaign starring Ryan Gosling. What a difference seven weeks makes in the world of Gucci!
Unlike the stars of Gucci’s Holiday 2022 campaign, shot by Jordan Hemingway, Gucci’s former creative director, Alessandro Michele, is probably not heading to Tulsa, Oklahoma for the holidays.
Gucci ‘Valigeria’ train travel also makes an appearance in the December 2022 issue of Vogue Greece. Model Vika Reza is styled by Nicholas Georgiou in images by Panos Davios [IG].
Read MoreAdidas Starts Major Investigation Into Kanye West Porn Allegations, Contract Fights
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Unlike Nike’s Michael Jordan standalone partnership, where the two groups are separate but both flying under the Nike banner, the Adidas - Kanye West relationship was run under the Adidas organization. Separate teams were created for the Yeezy business, but the staff was Adidas for the most part.
According to Rolling Stone, the Adidas employees claimed that senior managers were aware of West’s “problematic behaviour” but “turned their moral compass off” and failed to protect its employees against “years of verbal abuse, vulgar tirades, and bullying attacks.”
West appears to have been a rude, crude, demanding, demeaning, controlling, sleezy, misogynist provocateur in his role as a critical Adidas partner.
Read MoreConfirmed: Gucci Creatve Director Alessandro Michele Has Departed
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Gucci Creative Director Alessandro Michele has left the Kering-owned luxury brand. Note:
The former accessories designer is credited with reviving Gucci's popularity with undeniably Gucci flamboyant and gender-fluid styles. That can be part of the problem in a fashion culture that is always on the move.
François-Henri Pinault, chairman and CEO of Kering, said of Michele: “His passion, his imagination, his ingenuity and his culture put Gucci centre stage, where its place is. I wish him a great next chapter in his creative journey.”
Read MoreNicole Kidman, Bella Hadid Call for Balenciaga Garde Robe Order in the Boardroom
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Balenciaga shifts into luxury-brand, boss-lady mode, with actor Nicole Kidman calling a board meeting to order. An uber-platinum blonde Bella Hadid, Han So-hee, Isabelle Huppert, and Khadim Sock take their seats at the table.
Balenciaga’s new Garde-Robe collection was first presented at the brand’s resort 2023 show. The May 2022 event took place at the New York Stock Exchange in Wall Street.
Isabelle Huppert sits with pumps crossed on her cluttered with boss-lady brilliance credenza. Her oversized Hourglass bag holds a masterplan for becoming the next billionaire genius — and it doesn’t involve buying Twitter at a bargain basement price from Elon Musk.
Read MoreEstée Lauder Acquires Tom Ford Luxury Fashion Brand in $2.8 Billion Deal
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In truly splendid news, Tom Ford has sold his brand to The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. for $2.8 billion. The sale takes one of the world’s biggest beauty companies into the world of luxury fashion.
In this moment when American voters have beaten back — but claim no victory over — the winds of Republican-party authoritarianism and Christian nationalism, we are joyous to celebrate the business marriage of a working class daughter born Josephine Ester Mentzer to Hungarian Jewish immigrants in Queens, New York in 1908 and Thomas Carlyle Ford born August 27, 1961 in Austin, Texas to realtors Shirley Burton and Thomas David Ford.
Read MoreFendi Pops Into NYC Soho for 25th Anniversary Baguette Celebration
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Fendi [IG] has popped into New York City for a holiday celebration of the Winter Capsule 2022 - 25th Anniversary Baguette Collection. Located at 90 Prince Street in Soho, the shop will be open until December 23.
Created by Silvia Venturini Fendi in 1997, the baguette bag became a phenom attached to Sarah Jessica Parker and ‘Sex and the City’, who famously said “This is not a bag—it’s a Baguette.”
In addition to providing color inspo, the LVMH Tiffany & Co brand was brought into the anniversary celebration to provide diamond baguettes for the Fendi baguettes. The constant cross-pollination of the LVMH brands always adds an extra bit of verve to these events.
Read MoreLOEWE Perfumes Opens First US Store at Bergdorf Goodman NYC
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The new fragrance boutique at Bergdorf Goodman showcases the full collection of LOEWE Botanical Rainbow fragrances and the LOEWE Home Scents range.
Center stage in the installation is fine art such as an installation of Japanese artist Kunié Sugiura’s conceptual photo-painting artwork ‘Mum Above Orange’ (1978).
In August, 2022 Anne of Carversville took a deep dive into the world of LOEWE Perfumes with a special focus on parfumer Nuria Cruelle’s background and fragrance philosophy.
It’s almost as if the LOEWE images are speaking to us directly, with no intermediary in this brand relationship. The approach feels so very private and personal. Cruelle uses the phrase “modern equlibrium’, and it resonates.
Read MoreHighly-Skilled Bjorn Gulden Leaves Puma to Lead Adidas Back to Glory
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Adidas announced that Bjørn Gulden will take over as CEO on 1 January 2023, after leading a successful Puma rerival. The announcement should help to stabilize financial markets’ perception of Adidas, given Gulden’s leadership at the brand as senior vice president of apparel and accessories in the 1990s,.
“We are very pleased to welcome Bjørn Gulden back at Adidas. [He] brings almost 30 years of experience in the sporting goods and footwear industry. As a result, he knows the industry extremely well and draws on a rich network in sport and retail,” said Thomas Rabe, chairman of the supervisory board. “Bjørn already served Adidas successfully for seven years in the 1990s. As CEO of Puma, he reinvigorated the brand and led the company to record results.
Read MoreHailey Bieber Hosts TIFFANY & CO. X ANDY WARHOL Holiday Collection
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Luxury jeweler and gift-creator Tiffany & Co. shares holiday-loving images from its 2022 campaign, Hailey Bieber, model, talent, and businesswoman, plays host in a campaign celebrating Tiffany’s deep artistic roots with American visual artist Andy Warhol.
Shot by Mario Sorrenti [IG] in New York City with still photography by Raymond Meier, the Tiffany & Co. x Andy Warhol campaign film greets the holiday season in a larger-than-life party filled with diamonds, Tiffany Blue Boxes and no-rules attitude.
The Tiffany & Co x Andy Warhol collaboration includes a treasure chest of limited-edition designs that include tableware and holiday tree ornaments, holiday cards and more. As always, Tiffany steps up to generously support the larger mission of its collaborators.
Read MoreTory Burch Holiday 2022 Campaign Blue Hues Prompts Reflections on Traditions
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While we associate the campaign’s silvery blue mood with the sea, let’s also remember that Hanukkah begins Sunday, December 18 this year and ends on December 26.
Whether she intended to make a subliminal statement or not in the Tory Burch Holiday 2022 Campaign, I appreciate blue in this moment. It’s refreshingly ecumenical, when brands are exploring exactly what traditions mean within the context of today’s world.
Hands down, Ralph Lauren has no peer in this realm of recasting the truth of the American experience. But Tory Burch is traveling on the same moonbeam — with an added emphasis on women’s lives and achievements. I love her for that long and sincere contribution to telling women’s stories.
Kanye West and his desire to rip America apart as a MAGA lover — and now Hitler, too — has gotten people up off the sidelines.
That would NOT be AOC, btw. We are never on the sidelines, when the focus is stopping hate.
Read MoreMeet the Civic Cipher Guys Who Now Own the White Lives Matter Trademark to Contain It
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Many of us are determined to start publishing good stories about black, brown, yellow, red, white, Jews, Muslims, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and everybody else living together in America. And this is a GREAT story!
Civic Cipher is a nationwide show that started in 2020 to create a space for Black and brown people to have courageous conversations.
West will give them the finger and do what he wants, while ranting on Parler that Ja and Ward stole his designs. But facts matter, and Kanye West would be violating their trademark.
The trademark was filed the day Kanye West dropped his WLM clothes in Paris. The original owner of the trademark is a listener of their show. The original filer was so disturbed over the implications of Kanye West’s marketing of the divisive and race-baiting merchandise that he moved immediately on a filing. That individual wishes to remain anonymous.
Read MoreTom Ford Genderless Timepiece N.004 Series in Ocean Plastic Waste and Recycled Stainless Steel
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