News: Regina King on Vanity Fair US | Amanda Gorman @ Estee Lauder | Marie Claire US

Regina King Covers Vanity Fair US October 2021

Actor, director, producer Regina King covers the October 2021 issue of Vanity Fair Magazine wearing a Balenciaga gown and earrings by Taffin. Nicole Chapteau styles King in the cover and accompanying fashion story lensed by Jackie Nickerson.

Jesmyn Ward interviews Regina King about her current role as Trudy Smith in ‘The Harder They Fall’. AOC will excerpt the interview and fashion story but you can read it now.

For those of us who love Regina King to death, watching her incorrigible chic cowgirl ‘Treacherous’ Trudy Smith character ride up to the front of a train, stopping the conductor to shoot him dead before he can utter a racist slur, is a bit unsettling. Still, we’re not dreaming. Reginia King is riding in great company. Idris Elba, Jonathan Majors, LaKeith Stanfield, and Zazie Beetz really are starring with King as a band of outlaws.

Marie Claire US Ceases Print Publication

The US print edition of Marie Claire is ending its 27-year-run. The magazine was sold by Hearst to British publisher Future Media in May, with news breaking September 10 that Marie Claire’s Summer 2021 issue would be its last in America.

Harper’s Bazaar EIC Samira Nasr made the announcement, adding that Marie Claire subscribers will instead receive a print copy of Harper’s Bazaar US, a Hearst publication. Nasr added that Marie Claire would publish select special editions sold on newsstands.

In breaking the story, the New York Post reminded readers that the pandemic has only accelerated trends already playing out in a fractured media landscape.

Hearst quietly reduced Marie Claire’s frequency from 11 to 7 times a year in 2020. In May 2020 Hearst reported that Marie Claire’s total circulation hovered around 900,000 with newsstand sales hitting just around 11,000 copies sold. Just three years earlier, Marie Claire’s circulation totaled 1.1 million, according to the Alliance for Audited Media., a nonprofit media audit firm.

Marie Claire’s most recent circulation figures were not available, but whatever they are, they are likely to give the smaller Harper’s Bazaar a much-needed bump. Bazaar’s total circulation totals roughly 740,000 with less than 25,000 copies sold at the newsstand, the glossy said.

Daily French Roast . . . Anne is Reading:

US Open Tennis Women’s Final

Emma Raducanu, [left], 18, from Britain and Leylah Fernandez [right], 19, from Canada.

Update: Emma Raducanu Defeats Leylah Fernandez for the U.S. Open Title New York Times

Leylah Fernandez and Emma Raducanu Steal Some Grand Slam Spotlight New York Times

Emma Raducanu, 18, of Britain and Leylah Fernandez, 19, of Canada will now play in Saturday’s singles final at the US Open.

Before Wimbledon, Raducanu was only the 10th ranked player in her own country, but she will be British No. 1 on Monday and potentially the first British woman to win a major singles title since Virginia Wade won Wimbledon in 1977.

Dior at Brooklyn Museum

‘Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams’ Comes to Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn Museum

After stops in London, Shanghai and Chengdu, Dior’s exhibition, “Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams,” now has an American twist: being reinvented by curator Florence Müller in collaboration with Matthew Yokobosky. the exhibition opens in New York at Brooklyn Museum from Sept. 10, 2021 until Feb 20, 2022.

Amanda Gorman Aligns Herself with Estee Lauder

Biden Inauguration Poet Amanda Gorman will become the first Estée Lauder “Global Changemaker”. In this new role — presumably created for Gorman, she will be an ambassador or “face’, even a spokeswoman. These are all roles currently in the Estée Lauder family performed by women like Liz Hurley and Carolyn Murphy.

Gorman’s new role steps up that role while bringing Gorman into the corporate offices under the philanthropy umbrella.

The Harvard graduate and first person named National Youth Poet Laureate will also work with the beauty industry giant to create Writing Change, a set of grants worth $3 million to promote literacy among girls and women — and with it access to equity and social change.

This step for Gorman in her carefully-planned entry into major halls of power and influence in the business world is what she calls “the space I now occupy”.

According to Jane Hertzmark Hudis, the executive group president of the Estée Lauder Companies, she called Ms. Gorman’s agent as soon as the poet walked offstage, and they first spoke within an hour of her appearance, writes Vanessa Friedman for NYT.

“I felt as committed and passionate about creating a partnership as I’ve been about anything,” Ms. Hudis said — and she has been with the group for 35 years. “We essentially came to them with a blank page, because we knew we could do something that hadn’t been done before.”

Alexandra Agoston by Luc Braquet for Madame Figaro September 2021

Alexandra Agoston by Luc Braquet for Madame Figaro September 2021 AOC Fashion

Model Alexandra Agoston is styled by Sylvie Clemente in Louis Vuitton on the cover with a modern graphics cover story editorial from AZ Factory, Balenciaga, Bottega Veneta, Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Hermès, Jil Sander, Loewe, Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello, Versace, XULY.Bët, Y/Project and more. Photographer Luc Braquet [IG] captures the fall fashion excitement for Madame Figaro September 10th, 2021./ Hair by Andre Cuerto Saavedra; makeup by Louise Garnier

Mutts and Purebreds Both Can Save Us: America's COVID-Sniffing Dogs Arrive for Duty

Republish via AOC at FeedBurner CC 3.0 License Attribution Required: Daily Fashion Design Culture News

Coronavirus-sniffing Dogs Unleashed at Miami airport to Detect Virus in Employees Washington Post

Dogs have long been called "man's [human's] best friend." But their new role as COVID detectors is awesome. Some will surely be shot dead in the line of duty -- as men are not always dogs' best friend -- but this new role for our beautiful dogs is so inspiring.

AND there is no hierarchy from what I'm hearing. ALL dogs have the same capacity -- or at least pedigree dogs and mutt dogs -- have the awesome ability to detect COVID. They can also detect the variations among COVID strands and their accuracy rate is about 97%.

My mind works in unfettered ways. I think there's a lesson about race, humans and white nationalism to be learned from our beloved dogs. Can they heal America? Humans are failing.

Moving from helping veterans to the entire population of Americans, our dogs are stepping to show us how to roll under deadly pressure. ~ Anne

Jourdan Dunn Covers Vogue Greece September in 'Galactica' by Alvaro Beamud Cortes

Jourdan Dunn Covers Vogue Greece September in 'Galactica' by Alvaro Beamud Cortes AOC Fashion

Top model Jourdan Dunn delivers an absolutely superb fashion editorial titled ‘Galactica’ for the ‘New Beginnings’ September 2021 issue of Vogue Greece. Nicholas Georgiou styles Dunn in shimmering looks lensed by Alvaro Beamud Cortes. The shoot takes place in Mílos, a volcanic Greek island in the Aegean Sea, just north of the Sea of Crete.

Vogue Japan September 2021 Fall Fashion Cover Story by Luigi + Iango

Vogue Japan September 2021 Fall Fashion Cover Story by Luigi + Iango AOC Fashion

Getting our arms around Vogue Japan’s multi-model format is always challenging — before we add iin more covers than AOC can count. We shared those covers and also a preview of the main cover story featuring models Amane Taniguchi, Britt Oosten, Leon Dame, Malika Louback, Sora Choi, Vilma Sjöberg and Ugbad Abdi.

Anna Dello Russo styles the crew in countless luxury labels lensed by Luigi Murenu & Iango Henzi on location in Puglia, Italy./ Hair by Luigi Murenu; makeup by Georgi Sandev

Related: Luigi + Iango Lens Countless Vogue Japan September 2021 Covers

See the fashion cover story preview: Luigi + Iango Capture 'Live Your Dreams' with Sora, Ugbad, Vilma in Vogue Japan

Agnes Lloyd-Platt Captures Florence Hutchings for Vogue Scandinavia September 2021

Agnes Lloyd-Platt Captures Florence Hutchings for Vogue Scandinavia September 2021 AOC Fashion

Photographer Agnes Lloyd-Platt [IG] brings her unique graphic, optimistic vision to the pages of Vogue Scandinavia’s September 2021 issue. Konca Aykan styles model Florence Hutchings in ‘An Alphabet of Inspiration’.

Feli Rasztar's Modern Art Images by Gregoire Alexandre for Vogue Portugal September

Feli Rasztar's Modern Art Images by Gregoire Alexandre for Vogue Portugal September AOC Fashion

German model Feli Rasztar is styled by Joana Dacheville with images by Gregoire Alexandre [IG] for Vogue Portugal’s September 2021 ‘New Beginnings’ issue./ Hair by Christos Vourlis

VA Supreme Court Says Dead White Men Do Not Rule: Remove the Damn Statue!

Republish via AOC at FeedBurner CC 3.0 License Attribution Required: Daily Fashion Design Culture News

The statue of Confederate military leader, anti-United States successionist General Robert E. Lee has loomed six stories tall over Virginia’s state government and its citizens in Richmond since 1890. After a never-ending series of court battles, the VA Supreme Court ruled definitively last Thursday that the state of Virginia may now begin to disassemble the infamous, 12-ton statue.

The court ruled that "restrictive covenants" in the 1887 and 1890 deeds that transferred the statue to the state no longer apply. In June 2021

Virginia Solicitor General Toby Heytens argued before the court for less than a minute last June, regarding one of two cases seeking to block removal of the Lee statue that “no court has ever recognized a personal, inheritable right to dictate the content of poor government speech about a matter of racial equality, and this court should not be the first one ever to do so.”

"Those restrictive covenants are unenforceable as contrary to public policy and for being unreasonable because their effect is to compel government speech, by forcing the Commonwealth to express, in perpetuity, a message with which it now disagrees," the justices wrote.

Gov. Ralph Northam said upon the announcement of the court’s ruling: “Today it is clear—the largest Confederate monument in the South is coming down.”

In its own legal documents before the court, the current state of Virginia wrote:

“Symbols matter, and the Virginia of today can no longer honor a racist system that enslaved millions of people. Installing a grandiose monument to the Lost Cause was wrong in 1890, and demanding that it stay up forever is wrong now.”

Related: Virginia Museum Will Lead Efforts to Reimagine Richmond Avenue Once Lined With Confederate Monuments Smithsonian Magazine

Dead Men's Property Heirs Argue Confederate Statue Rights in New VA Court Move AOC Eye

Hirschy Grace Is 'Spaced Out' by Tom Schirmacher in ELLE UK October 2021

Hirschy Grace Is 'Spaced Out' by Tom Schirmacher in ELLE UK October 2021 AOC Fashion

Photographer/director Tom Schirmacher [IG] captures model Hirschy Grace in ‘Spaced Out’. Charles Varenne styles the shoot for ELLE UK October 2021./ Hair by Romina Manenti; makeup by Dotti

Isabeli Fontana Covers Harper's Bazaar Brazil September 2021, Lensed by Lufré

Isabeli Fontana Covers Harper's Bazaar Brazil September 2021, Lensed by Lufré AOC Fashion

Isabeli Fontana’s name is spread all over the covers of Harper’s Bazaar Brazil’s September 2021 issue. So it must be her. .Marcel Maia styles Fontana in images by Lufré [IG]/ Hair and makeup by Helder Rodrigues

Isabeli’s sexy [IG] beach snap from four days ago confirms that the sensual goddess is alive and well. She has not been kidnapped by aliens who traded her in for a new model.

Hailey Bieber Fronts Jimmy Choo 'Time to Dare' Fall 2021 Campaign

Hailey Bieber Fronts Jimmy Choo 'Time to Dare' Fall 2021 Campaign AOC Fashion

Hailey Bieber brings sensual glam, allure and confidence to Jimmy Choo’s latest campaign, ‘Time To Dare’. Captured by Pierre-Ange Carlotti in Los Angeles, Bieber is pictured against dramatic panoramas in the luxury brand's most captivating pieces. Ben Kelway provides art direction on the shoot with styling by Ilona Hamer.

“Hailey is the embodiment of the Jimmy Choo spirit today—glamourous, sexy, alluring, daring, and confident," Jimmy Choo Creative Director, Sandra Choi said. "She perfectly encapsulates the DNA that is the core of our brand.”

I love her energy, style and her innate confidence that comes through in each of the images,” Choi added.