Abby Champion, Mona Tougaard Front J.W. Anderson S/S 2022 Lookbook
/Models Abby Champion and Mona Tougaard take a simple, clean but colorful approach to J.W. Anderson’s S/S 2022 Lookbook. Benjamin Bruno styles the ‘industrial meets sleek chic’ collection in images by Juergen Teller with creative direction by Dovile Drizyte.
Read MoreKim Kardashian Covers i-D Magazine No 366 Winter 2021, Lensed by Mario Sorrenti
/Kim Kardashian Covers i-D Magazine No 366 Winter 2021, Lensed by Mario Sorrenti AOC Fashion
Kim Kardashian [West] appears under her married name in i-D’s unplanned ‘Out of the Blue’ issue, no. 366 Winter 2021, special thanks to Tiffany & Co.
Alastair McKimm styles Kardashian in bling by Tiffany & Co. and dramatic Balenciaga. Photographer Mario Sorrenti captures Kim Kardashian, with the interview by playwright Jeremy O. Harris and Douglas Greenwood./ Hair by Chris Appleton; makeup by Mario Dedivanovic
Read Kim Kardashian West: "People might not get that we're in on the joke" at i-D Magazine.
Charlotte McKinney by Caleb and Gladys in Harper's Bazaar Thailand November 2021
/Charlotte McKinney by Caleb and Gladys in Harper's Bazaar Thailand November 2021 AOC Body
American model Charlotte McKinney of Carl’s Jr. commercial fame, turns up the heat in the November 2021 issue of Harper’s Bazaar Thailand. Photographers Caleb and Gladys [IG] capture McKinney in LA with styling by Giuliana Crescentini.
Miranda Kerr Covers Harper's Bazaar Greece in New Style Trends Lensed by Greg Swales
/Miranda Kerr looks terrific, styled by Katie Mossman in ‘Best of What’s New’, lensed by Greg Swales [IG] in yet another strong fashion story for Harper’s Bazaar Greece’s November issue. AOC shared Swales’ Barbara Palvin fashion story on Monday.
Read MoreBarbara Palvin Smolders in 'What's Sexy Now' by Greg Swales for Harper's Bazaar Greece
/Barbara Palvin Smolders in 'What's Sexy Now' by Greg Swales for Harper's Bazaar Greece AOC Fashion
Model Barbara Palvin smolders in the December 2021 issue of Harper’s Bazaar Greece. Rafael Linares styles Palvin in ‘What’s Sexy Now’, lensed by Greg Swales [IG] ./ Hair by Bobby Eliot; makeup by Kelly McClain
Akon Changkou Covers Harper's Bazaar Australia December by Rory van Millingen
/Akon Changkou Covers Harper's Bazaar Australia December by Rory van Millingen AOC Fashion
Photographer Rory van Millingen [IG] captures South Sudanese via Adelaide, Australia model Akon Changkou in Harper’s Bazaar Australia’s December 2021 issue. / Hair by Takuya Uchiyama; makeup by Sandra Cooke
Olivia Wilde Covers Vogue US December 2021, Lensed by Annie Leibovitz
/Olivia Wilde Covers Vogue US December 2021, Lensed by Annie Leibovitz AOC Fashion
Actor Olivia Wilde is living her best life, styled by Gabriella Karefa-Johnson in cinematic images by Annie Leibovitz [IG] for the January 2021 issue of American Vogue. The star wears Balenciaga Couture, Chanel, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Michael Kors Collection, Rodarte and more. Alexandra Schwartz conducts the interview. / Hair by Edward Lampley; makeup by Grace Ahn
Wilde appears with Matthew Libatique, the Filipino-American cinematographer behind Taylor Swift’s new music video ‘I Bet You Think About Me’. Libatique received two Oscar nominations for Black Swan in 2010 and then ‘A Star Is Born’ eight years later. He’s the cinematographer on Wilde’s second directing venture ‘Don’t Worry Darling’.
Wilde is camped out in Los Angeles with her two children Otis, seven, and Daisy, five, whom she shares with her ex-fiancé, Jason Sudeikis. On the day Vogue drops into her life, her new love Harry Styles is circling the globe on his Love On Tour concerts.
Variety reports that the tour has grossed “just shy of $95 million” and raised over $1 million for his non-profit partners. Attendance records were broken all over America, with strict COVID controls and no reports of any post-concert medical outbreaks.
Olivia Wilde has just finished shooting ‘Don’t Worry Darling’, “a psychological thriller starring Florence Pugh and Styles as Alice and Jack, a young couple who join a utopian community in the 1950s California desert.”
Ralph Lauren Shot Purple Collection Fall 2021 Campaign in Milan, Home to New Flagship
/Lachlan Bailey [IG]captures the model-rich Ralph Lauren Purple Fall 2021 campaign, with creative direction by Jack Becht and directing by Bon Duke. Models include Birgit Kos, Freek Iven, Hamid Onifade, He Cong, Joy Islam, Lucky Blue Smith, Merlijne Schorren, Mica Arganaraz, Oulimata and Virgile Elana.
Read MoreMaty Fall Covers Vogue Italia December 2021 in Poetic Images by Pavarotti + Kamara
/Italian model Maty Fall covers the December 2021 issue of Vogue Italia, shot by Rafael Pavarotti with two of her closest friends, Khady Sow and Ndack Ndiaye. The young ladies are dressed in pure white, Dior elegance styled by Ibrahim Kamara.
Read MoreMetal Magazine Highlights Pyer Moss' Kerby Jean-Raymond's 'Wat U Iz' FW 2021 Couture Show
/Metal Magazine Highlights Pyer Moss' Kerby Jean-Raymond's 'Wat U Iz' FW 2021 Couture Show AOC Fashion
Models Adeng Nyamam, Raven Wallace and Symone Lu bring grace the pages of Metal Magazine, styled by Romina Herrera Malatesta in the buzziest couture fashions of the fall 2021 season. NYC photographer Andy Jackson [IG] captures the trio wearing much-discussed highlights from Pyer Moss founder Kerby Jean-Raymond’s Fall 21 Couture Collection./ Hair by Akihisa Yamaguchi; makeup by Ayaka Nihei
Léa Seydoux Soft Sells Louis Vuitton Capucines Bag, Spell on You LV Fragrance
/Exuding the strength of character of the Louis Vuitton woman, House Ambassador Léa Seydoux showcases the Maison’s iconic Capucines bag. One of the Maison’s most sophisticated designs, the “emblematic bag is made to endure time, to become a soulful reflection of the woman whose life it accompanies.”
Shot by Steven Meisel, Seydous poses at the Fondation Louis Vuitton near artwork by Gerhard Richter. Styling by Marie-Amélie Sauvé, with art direction by Jason Duzansky; and set design by Mary Howard.
Read More'Source' Says Kanye Is Headed to LV Men's; Ye Worked with Donald Trump to Overturn GA Election; Kanye Tells Kim K to 'Run Right Back to Me, Baby' Pt.1
/In 24 hrs. starting Thursday evening December 9, 2021 to Friday morning December 10, 2021
Rumors are that Kanye West is headed to Louis Vuitton because he and creative mastermind Virgil Abloh made an agreement that West would take over after Abloh’s death.
Kanye West joined Drake in a LA-benefit concert for Larry Hoover, currently serving a 150 - 200 years sentence at a high security prison in Colorado. At that concert, Kanye went off script and sang ‘Runaway’, dedicating the song to his estranged wife Kim Kardashian, asking her to 'Run Right Back to Me,Baby'.
This morning Reuters broke the story that Kanye West’s publicist became very involved in trying to overturn the Georgia election results by giving total credence to Donald Trump’s accusations against Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and her daughter.
Anne of Carversville does not presume to know what makes Kanye West tick. For all we know, he’s headed towards another mental health episode, which we wouldn’t wish on anybody — even Kanye’s best buddy Donald Trump.
Since Kanye jumped on Donald Trump’s bandwagon and declared that God came to him in the shower, telling him to shut down Planned Parenthood, we have little time for Kanye West. A decade ago, we were big Kanye fans.
However, everywhere I’ve turned since 11pm last night, Kanye West is in my face.
Kanye fancies himself — like Trump — a great manipulator of simple minds like ours. After all, God speaks to him in the shower, so he’s a VIP on planet earth, knighted by God to do men’s work of keeping women subordinate to male rule.
To me he’s just another misogynist in the long-line of so-called men of God running roughshod over women’s bodies, but I’m sure Kanye knows best. After all, he has a direct line, and I have none — being a scarlet woman.
I’m about to do a brain dump on Kanye West and will divide it into two parts. We start with my Thursday night reading and pleas of “No, no, no . . . don’t do it.”
1) Kanye at Louis Vuitton Mens
AOC is still reeling from Virgil Abloh’s death, and last night Kanye West rumors broke that he’s headed to Louis Vuitton Men’s. In quotes from ‘The Sun’ that troubled me deeply, an unnamed source said: “Kanye is devastated about Virgil’s death because they had been friends for years and worked together a lot. They shared a similar vision and now Kanye feels he owes it to Virgil to continue his work at Louis Vuitton.”
Besides expected sources like Hypebeast, Highsnobiety, then the Daily Mail, Yahoo and scads of syndicated local publications by Friday morning, CR Fashionbook just picked up the Kanye West to Louis Vuitton Men’s story.
Kanye West Was Jealous of Virgil Abloh
AOC has a long memory and we recall distinctly Kanye West’s assertion that HE — and not Virgil Abloh — deserved the LV Men’s position. West expressed jealousy to DJ Zane Lowe during a 2015 interview for Beats 1 saying, "I felt like it was supposed to be me. I was the Louis Vuitton Don. People still called me the Louis Vuitton Don on the street."
None of us have forgotten this story, and it’s one that keeps getting resurrected.
In October, 2019 W Magazine wrote Kanye West Thinks He Should Have Virgil Abloh’s Job at Louis Vuitton.
When Kanye West sat down for an interview with DJ Zane Lowe in 2015, he proclaimed himself “the greatest living rock star on the planet.” In his latest interview with Zane, released today, West has upped himself to “unquestionably, undoubtedly the greatest human artist of all time.” His greatness, apparently, now transcends both mediums and eras. Leonardo Da Vinci, who?
“It’s just a fact,” he added for emphasis.
Let me say for the 27th time — Kanye West has a God complex, just like his good friend Donald Trump. If Kanye is unquestionably the greatest human artist of all time, Bernard Arnault would have hired him, because Bernard Arnault is one of the world’s most brilliant business executives.
Of course, there are many additional skills required to be a successful creative director and not seeing yourself as the center of the universe from sunrise to sundown is typically one of them. Temperment is an issue today, as we were recently reminded with the departure of the most talented designer Daniel Lee from Bottega Veneta.
Bernard Arnault doesn’t need Kanye West in his face now and probably ever.
Louis Vuitton is the biggest, most successful luxury brand in the world. Seriously, Kanye West called for a boycott of Louis Vuitton almost a decade ago. West is a loose cannon; and now he is tied to the Jan. 6 insurrection against the US government, as Trump’s man in Georgia.
Bernard Arnault Does NOT Need Kanye West
Arnault can have a trusting relationship with Rihanna and Jay-Z, and with Jay-Z comes his uber-talented wife Ms. Beyonce-Knowles — for advice on what to do in this matter.
They roll just fine with Mr. Arnault and his kids and are excellent sounding boards, who don’t belong to the “I am God” club. They are talented businesspeople-creatives, and they are genuine activists and philanthropists capable of looking at life from perspectives not their own.
This fine team of advisers is far from being alone on the LVMH roster.
Virgil Abloh was very tight with the new design director at Kenzo Nigo of A Bathing Ape fame. In reading about Nigo a few nights back, of course my man Pharrell Williams popped into the picture.
While Jay-Z, Beyonce, Rihanna and Pharrell Williams are running around town trying to create positive change in the Black communities of America and beyond — while they are giving of themselves for humanity and practicing some real Ubuntu Nelson Mandela style in their businesses and personal lives — Kanye West was trying to overturn the 2020 US presidential election.
Kristen McMenamy Returns to Splendour, Lensed by Steven Meisel for Vogue UK January 2022
/Unconventional, androgynous, top-tier American model Kristen McMenamy, now 56, covers the January 2022 issue of British Vogue., styled by Carlyne Cerf de Dudzelle in unusually lowkey, casual elegance. Photographer Steven Meisel captures McMenamy, who remains exuberant, stylist and provocative, in ‘Return to Splendour’.
Read MoreLaurence Ellis Captures 'Celebrations' with London's Global Tribes for HTSI Magazine
/Laurence Ellis Captures 'Celebrations' with London's Global Tribes for HTSI Magazine AOC Fashion
Photographer Laurence Ellis [IG], founder of Unity @ unityforest.land, divides his time between London and New York. Ellis’ passionate studies in Social Anthropology informs his interest in photography. His world view is expressed in countless exhibits and books; just one taste of Laurence Ellis is experienced through his contribution to Atmos.earth in December 2020 called ‘Humus to Human’.
Laurence Ellis brings to life his social anthropology skills in this How To Spend It Magazine November 2021 cover story for FT’s ‘Celebration’ issue. Ellis captures Britain’s multiculturalism “in his joyful fashion story, which focuses on groups of families, friends and different social tribes. Each unit, captured on their way out to a party, celebrates the brilliant idiosyncrasies and intimacies that help to shape our personal lives,” writes EIC Jo Ellison.
Players making up these London tribes, styled by Hanna Kelifa, include: Models, Brigett English, Donnika Anderson, Fern Gray and Rhys Claxton at Xdirectn; Ai Zheng Rui, Goi Manase and Simon Deu Thiong at PRM; Apollo Yom Alier at Milk Management; Caitlin Foden at The Hive; Keyla Harewood at Wilhelmina Models; Louis Simmonds at Tomorrow Is Another Day; Romi Peled at Established; Jade Monrose at Kult; Anya Pascaud at Anti Agency; Antara Naidoo at Elite; Arthur Griffiths, Bruce Anderson, Cole Quirke, Hardy Churchill, Joel Kerr, Leah Anderson, Lilith Newson and Saoirse Davis.
Read the countless product credits at How to Spend It Magazine.
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Tom Ford Pre-SS2022 Holiday Images by Carlijn Jacobs with Nyarach Abouch Ayuel
/Tom Ford Pre-SS2022 Holiday Images by Carlijn Jacobs with Nyarach Abouch Ayuel AOC Fashion
Model Nyarach Abouch Ayuel is styled by Alice Goddard in Tom Ford Pre-SS22 Holiday fashion images lensed by Carlijn Jacobs [IG].
Philip Messmann Shot H&M Fall 2021 Outerwear with Gorpcore Design Vibe
/Philip Messmann Shot H&M Fall 2021 Outerwear with Gorpcore Design Vibe AOC Fashion
Photographer Philip Messmann [IG] captured H&M’s Fall 2021 Outerwear campaign, styled by Lisa Lindqwister. The cast included models and actors Jessica Dalliah , Lily Newmark, Mustapha, and Olivia Vinten in a gorpcore design mix of functional outerwear and utilitarian garments with a sprinkle of mountain chic. Lisa Lindqwister styled the shoot./ Hair by Linda Shalabi; makeup by Ignacio Alonso









