Cindy Bruna Covers Vogue Arabia December 2020 Lensed by Tom Munro

Cindy Bruna Covers Vogue Arabia December 2020 Lensed by Tom Munro

Top model Cindy Bruna splashes her elegant gorgeosity across the cover of Vogue Arabia’s December 2020 issue, with an initial release of images. Schanel Bakkouche chooses figure-hugging, entrance-making silhouettes for a fashion story devoted to ‘Saudi Fashion’. Photographer Tom Munro is in the studio, creating a series of refined and impeccable images in which Cindy Bruna reigns supreme.

Rasharn Agyemang Flashes 'Turn It Out' for W Magazine Fall 2020

Rasharn Agyemang Flashes 'Turn It Out' for W Magazine Fall 2020

Rising and already residing on the top-models perch Black beauties Adesuwa Aighewi, Aweng Chuol Joan Smalls, Jourdan Dunn and Sacha Quenby are styled by Katie Grand in ‘Turn It Out’. Photographer Rasharn Agyemang (IG) captures the quintet for W Magazine November 2020./ Makeup; by Ciara O’Shea; hair by Anthony Turner

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Michaela Coel Covers W Magazine 'The New Originals' November, Lensed by Tim Walker

Michaela Coel Covers W Magazine 'The New Originals' November, Lensed by Tim Walker

British actor Michaela Coel is on every list that matters this fall. She covers the current edition of W Magazine with its focus on The New Originals. The June, jaw-dropping debut of Michaela Coel’s ‘I May Destroy You’ HBO hit also put her in the current WSJ Magazine Innovators list and earned her a spot on the TIME 100.

‘I May Destroy You’ narrates the story of Coel’s own sexual assault after her drink is spiked at a bar. A long list of critics bears witness to Coel’s leader of a generation talents and her ”unique ability to distill what could have been an unbearable treatise on the nature of trauma into a sharp, funny, complex, deeply personal show about the nature of existence.”

In her groundbreaking lecture at the 2018 Edinburgh International Television Festival, Coel spoke about her assault publicly for the first time. Not dwelling on the blast of authentic, personal history permeating through her audience, the actor then used the rest of her 53 minutes address share her experiences with racism growing up in London, enrolling in a mostly white drama school, and also as a young actor and TV writer.

The entire video is shared in yesterday’s article about the event, in which Coel also held her audience captive with the story of more than one bag of shit left at her family’s front door and also in the mail box.

Photographer Tim Walker captures these intense portraits of the actor for the November issue of W Magazine, with styling by Sam Walker. Playwright, actor, producer and now budding director Jeremy O. Harris, whose Broadway stunner ‘Slave Play’ earned an outstanding 12 Tony nominations, interviews Michaela Coel. / Makeup by Sam Bryant; hair by Cyndia Harvey

How Michaela Coel Stunned the British TV Industry, Calling Out Racism and Sexism

How Michaela Coel Stunned the British TV Industry, Calling Out Racism and Sexism

As the Edinburgh TV Festival delegates took their seats for the 43rd MacTaggart Lecture, you could hear the murmurs of anticipation. For the first time since these lectures began in 1976, the keynote speaker was young, black and female.

At last the British broadcasting industry was acknowledging the need to address issues of diversity and inclusion from this prestigious platform by inviting a young British comedian from east London to take the floor. As he introduced her, Philip Edgar-Jones from Sky Arts acknowledged that the choice of Michaela Coel “truly breaks new ground, making you wonder what we’ve been doing all these years”.

Over the next 45 minutes Coel gave a brave and challenging talk, presenting a revealing account of her own journey as a young creative talent from an immigrant Ghanaian family in Tower Hamlets. Famous as the award-winning screenwriter, producer and star of the E4 sitcom Chewing Gum, her skin colour, gender, age (just 30), and the relatively short time she has worked in television, all indicate very different credentials that set her apart from her predecessors.

Nadine Ijewere Captures Vogue US December's Ode to Glorious Aunties

Nadine Ijewere Captures Vogue US December's Ode to Glorious Aunties

The December 2020 issue of American Vogue brings a delicious visual and historical narrative fashion story to its pages. Titled ‘Family Values: An Ode to Aunties and Their Inimitable Sense of Style’, the new fashion images including models Adut Akech, Akon Changkou, Ariish Wol, Kesewa Aboah and Maty Fall are styled by Gabriella Karefa-Johnson.

London-born photographer Nadine Ijewere, of Nigerian-Jamaican parentage, is behind the lens. Her Nigerian ancestry is relevant because writer Alexis Okewo sets the stage for a discussion on aunties based on her own experience growing up in Alabama’s Nigerian community.

Irina Shayk Soaks Up Sun in Zimmermann 2021 Swim Campaign by Benny Horne

Irina Shayk Soaks Up Sun in Zimmermann 2021 Swim Campaign by Benny Horne

Top model Irina Shayk is lensed by Benny Horne in Zimmermann Resort’s 2021 Swim Campaign styled by Romy Frydman./ Makeup by Benjamin Puckey; hair by Neil Moodie

Valentin Herfray's Fresh Eye on Luxury Watches for M Le Magazine Du Monde

Valentin Herfray's Fresh Eye on Luxury Watches for M Le Magazine Du Monde

Photographer Valentin Herfray (IG) shares a fresh perspective on luxury watch fashion editorials, flashing ‘Jour Sans Fin” for M Le Magazine Du Monde’s (IG) November 20 issue. Models Essoye Mombot, Grace Valentine, and Alec Pollentier provide willing wrists and bodies eager to pose, in a fashion story styled by Laetitia Leporcq./ Hair by Pawel Solis; makeup by Marielle Loubet

Carlos Teixeira Flashes Claudia Morais in Intimissimi Lingerie for ELLE Portugal

Carlos Teixeira Flashes Claudia Morais in Intimissimi Lingerie for ELLE Portugal

Model Claudia Helena Morais is styled by Sara Soares in Italian lingerie brand Intimissimi. Photographer Carlos Teixeira is behind the lens for ELLE Portugal./ Hair and makeup by Xana Lopes

Amber Valletta 'Moda De Altura' by Txema Yeste for Vogue Spain December 2020

Amber Valletta 'Moda De Altura' by Txema Yeste for Vogue Spain December 2020

Supermodel Amber Valletta covers the December 2020 issue of Vogue Spain. Txema Yeste (IG) captures one of the great models of our time, who at age 46, has worked in the fashion industry for 30 years. Vogue Spain’s director Eugenia de la Torriente reminds us that Valletta’s voice is one of the strongest advocates in favor of the environmental and ethical defense of the planet.

Valletta (IG), who is British Vogue’s Contributing Sustainability Editor, interprets the 2020-21 haute collections through Yeste’s hypnotic images, styled by Alba Melendo./ Hair by Teddy Charles; makeup by Tom Pecheux

Lulu Tenney Style Update by Julie Greve for M le magazine du Monde

Lulu Tenney Style Update by Julie Greve for M le magazine du Monde

American model Lulu Tenney makes another quick appearance, styled by Emilie Kareh in Alaïa, Burberry, Ellery, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Salvatore Ferragamo, Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello, The Kooples and more. Danish photographer Julie Greve (IG) captures Tenney in ‘Mises À Jour’ for M le magazine du Monde Nov. 14, 2020./Hair by Ramona Eschbach; makeup by Vanessa Bellini

Pietro Ruffo's Roman Artistry for Dior's First 'Chez Moi' Collection

Pietro Ruffo's Roman Artistry for Dior's First 'Chez Moi' Collection

Dior’s Maria Grazia Chiuri continues her exploration of women’s evolving philosophy on comfort, centralizing the operations of everyday life in the home of the foreseeable future and breaking free of stereotypical norms about clothes and the female-identifying body.

The latest evolution in Chiuri’s thinking is Dior’s ‘Chez Moi’ loungewear collection, a series of key pieces that celebrate the stylish art of living at home. Models Akon Changkou and Clea Beuret get cozy.

Maria Grazia Chiuri collaborated with Pietro Ruffo on a series of illustrations and motifs that celebrate the sky and earth, continents and constellations, and — of course — flora and fauna. The video below explores Pietro Ruffo’s artistry and his approach to creating the illustrations and prints that are the visual foundation of Dior’s ‘Chez Moi’ loungewear collection.

“For this new line, Pietro Ruffo, a Roman artist dear to the Creative Director, redesigned his emblematic zodiac motifs – a tribute to the superstitious nature of Monsieur Dior – as a world map linking sky and earth, continents and constellations, flora and fauna. Alongside a revisited version of the toile de Jouy, one of the House’s hallmark codes, his sketches sublimate precious pajama sets, delicate bathrobes and snug ponchos – irresistible, timeless pieces that can also be worn outside. An invitation to refinement and the gentle way of life, signed Dior.” – From Dior

A Sultry Irina Shayk by Luigi & Iango in Vogue Germany December 2020

A Sultry Irina Shayk by Luigi & Iango in Vogue Germany December 2020

Top model Irina Shayk is styled by Schanel Bakkouche in images by Luigi & Iango (IM) for Vogue Germany December 2020./ Makeup by Kassandra Frua de Angeli

Kenzo's New Era: Felipe Oliveira Baptista + Glen Luchford Launch Fall 2020 Campaign

Artistic director Felipe Oliveira Baptista charts Kenzo’s future.

KENZO unveils its first Fall 2020 campaign by Portuguese fashion designer Felipe Oliveira Baptista. The original, pre-COVID campaign plan intended a photographic road trip in The Azores, Baptista’s original home. Photographer Glen Luchford and long-term partner, stylist Jane How would be Baptista’s campaign companions. And then COVID struck.

“When could we travel? Be together again?” were unanswered and predominant questions. We were to collaborate and put a campaign together, but how?

Glen Luchford knew the campaign would now involve distance photography. But how could it transform into a series of original images? Into the archives — as a few select photographers lucky enough to have them — have already done. Check. Now send the clothes to New York or Los Angeles, where Luchford would shoot models in the same pose and under the same light as the vintage image. Check.

The result is a fresh campaign featuring Lara Stone, Lil Buck and Rose Valentine, as reflected in these first images. Refusing to bow to the challenging moment, the Kenzo campaign expresses the ‘Going Places’ spirit of the collection. Kenzo has always rooted itself in a youthful, nomadic style, and Baptista is ready for takeoff.

In the mid-1960s, Takada Kenzo moved from Japan to Paris, traveling by boat with stopovers in Hong Kong, Mumbai and Saigon. It was this voyage that helped inspire Kenzo’s modern nomad, global progressive spirit. Young creatives with open minds took advantage of affordable, global transportation. Like Kenzo, they set off with the same nomadic spirit born in the eponymous ready-to-wear house the designer founded in 1970.

Today Kenzo heralds a mobile wardrobe that embraces urban elegance and metamorphosis — a keyword in narrating the original spirit of the Kenzo brand.

The name of my first plant store, ‘metamorphosis’ is again a timely word in a COVID world of shaken values and environmental concerns. So many of the hopes of Kenzo-mindset progressives living in the world of The Beatles — and especially John Lennon — are well aware of the meaningless heap of shattered dreams of clean energy, women’s equality and racial justice that inspired deep convictions around global change.

Those same young people find it hard to believe that on June 20, 1979, US President Jimmy Carter unveiled 32 solar panels on the roof of the White House. Yale Climate Connections reveals the Jimmy Carter’s solar panels moment: