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Models Celeste Romero, Devyn García, Krini Hernandez, Lineisy Montero, Mavaro Molleja, and Tindi Mar grace the covers of Vogue Mexico, Vogue Latin America and both issues.
Photographer Emma Summerton [IG] captures ‘La Noche’, styled by Valentina Collado./ Hair by Serge Normant; makeup by Fulvia Farolfi
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Rihanna Rewrites Pregnancy Fashion with Love, Lensed by Annie Leibovitz for Vogue US AOC Fashion
It’s been three years since Rihanna was in Paris, but she made quite a splash during Paris Fashion Week. Chioma Nnadi is the editor of Vogue.com, a journalist with the fab assignment of interviewing the megawatt mother-to-be in ‘Oh, Baby! Rihanna’s Plus One.
Alex Harrington and Rihanna’s main man Jahleel Weaver — well now he share’s her with A$AP Rocky — style Rihanna in fit for The Ritz fashion. Photographer Annie Leibovitz [IG] is behind the lens.
Nnadi meets Rihanna at Caviar Kaspia, her last stop on a Friday night of restaurant hopping. The rarely-out-of-favor haunt has been transformed for two weeks into an Off-White outpost. The legend is already in the restaurant, writes Nnadi, “curled up on the banquette in an oversized khaki parka with a slinky turquoise catsuit beneath, a look I recognize from Stella McCartney’s last show. Her shoe of choice? A four-inch stiletto heel.”
“As much as it’s happening, it’s also not happening,” Rihana says, patting her belly, only partially visible above the table. “Sometimes I’ll walk past my reflection and be like, Oh shit!”
Nnadi notes what many of us already observed: “Over the last two weeks, she’s changed something profound in fashion—single-handedly rewriting the rules of pregnancy dressing with one jaw-dropping style maneuver after another.”
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Models Bert de Roeck and Irene Guarenas take a modern, light-hearted approach to Italian luxury brand TOD’s, an old-school name in the process of a major revamp this is working. Teaming up with the spring/summer 2022 issue of Dapper Dan Magazine [IG] is brilliant for both parties.
Photographer Johan Sandberg [IG] captures the fashion story advertorial. AOC loves fresh-approach revivals that are working, so fingers are crossed for Tod’s. And Dapper Dan is GOOD for Tod’s, in a way that certain bigger names are not.
Read MoreActor Sharon Stone basks in the magic of Venice — or at least as Venice lives on in our imaginations — for the new Dolce & Gabbana campaign. From sunglasses to jewelry and Dolce & Gabbana’s signature Devotion bag. Stone thrives in the seductive attention of male models Adam Senn and Sam Webb.
Paris Libby styles the Dolce & Gabbana campaign lensed by Michael Muller [IG].
The reality of today’s Venice is far different from my deeply-cherished memories of a city loved by so many people — and especially the Americans.
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Actor Tang Wei Is Mysterious in Vogue China May 2022, Lensed by Wang Liang AOC Fashion
Chinese actor Tang Wei brings dark elegance and sophistication to the pages of Vogue China’s [IG] May 2022 issue. Audrey Hu styles the actor, who is set to release two Korean films this year: director Kim Tae-yong‘s ‘Wonderland‘ and director Park Chan-wook‘s ‘Decision to break up‘, in images by Wang Liang.
Black elegance in the supernatural forms of Malika Louback and Maty Fall [Diba'] reigns far and wide in ‘Ode A La Couture’, a sublime collection of sleek and voluptuous couture luxury styled by Babeth Djian. The fashion riches only get started with haute looks from Chanel, Dior, Fendi, Jean Paul Gaultier and more lensed by Jean Baptiste Mondino for Numero #230, April-May 2022.
Read MoreThe overall effect of Dior’s pre-fall 2022 fashion statement channels British pop-punk style, embodying a spirit of defiance and individualism in its embrace of the many ways young women can dress.
Given the sweep of anti-LGBTQIA+ laws and anti-women’s rights laws sweeping through America’s red states, Chiuri delivered a collection that has political roots as well — at least in America.
Like myself, Chiuri used her youthful rebellion against the harsh edges and austerity of a Catholic school uniform — and the perpetual guilt enforced on young women by the Catholic hierarchy — as a foundation for the collection’s visual aesthetic. ~ Anne
Read MoreThe New York Times notes that actor Laverne Cox is well known on Hollywood’s red carpets. This season Cox has switched it up as the host of preshow specials at the Grammys and the Oscars for E. The actor takes her hosting gigs very seriously, with an unusual amount of preparation for a red carpet host.
“I’ll try to look for other interviews they’ve done if it’s applicable so I can maybe ask them something that they haven’t been asked,” Ms. Cox said about her red carpet interviews. “And you have to be in the moment because there’s so many things happening.”
Read MoreSasha Pivovarova covers The Sunday Times Style’s April 10th, 2022 issue, posing in ‘Good Sport’, with its focus on ‘how to get fit now’. Lensed by Giampaolo Sgura, Pivovarova wears classic, non-performance, luxury athleisure looks styled by Verity Parker.
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Model icons Carla Bruni and Helena Christensen join forces in ‘Plus One’, sharing three Vogue Greece covers and the interior fashion story styled by Nicholas Georgiou. Carla, now 54, and Helena, 53, wear Alexandre Vauthier, Ann Demeulemeester, Burberry, Fendi, Givenchy, Gucci, Loewe, Louis Vuitton, Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello and more. Nico Bustos [IG] is in the studio for the April issue. / Hair by Yoann Fernandez; makeup by Tom Pecheux
With a 27-year career to her credit, Brazil’s Black actor Taís Araujo is a symbol of female empowerment. She is also an activist and businesswoman who is preparing to increase the representation of Black artists as an executive producer at Globo, the largest media group in Brazil and publisher of Vogue Brazil.
Tais Araujo covers the April 2022 issue of Vogue Brazil, styled by Rita Lazzarotti in ‘She is 'Carioca', meaning a native of Rio de Janeiro. MAR+VIN [IG] captures the dark-skinned beauty, with beauty by Henrique Martins.
The UN Women Brazil advocate for Black women’s rights shares two children João Vicente and Maria Antônia with actor and director Lázaro Ramos. She is the first Brazilian black actor to star in soap operas and to host a Sunday TV show in her country.
Araujo speaks to Vogue Brazil about the changes in her attitude around body image — a topic potentially more brutal for women in Brazil than here in America, where it looms large in the consciousness of women of every skin hue.
“When I was younger, around my 13, 15, 18, 20 and even older, I was full of nerves,” Araujo explains. Besieged by stretch marks and the size of her ass, this multi-talented woman was instead ashamed of her own body, and especially when she was modeling.
The story is so familiar to women, and 50 years into a post-feminist second wave world, it hits home that we’ve accomplished so little in eliminating shame from women’s physicality. There are moments when AOC believes that we’ve made no progress on this important front of women embracing our own bodies. And while we are all very good about talking about the problem — one that goes back hundreds if not thousands of years — where is the progress? ~ Anne
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences rendered a decision regarding the future status of 2022 Oscar winner Will Smith, banning him from future Oscar ceremonies for 10 years.
President, David Rubin, and Chief Executive Dawn Hudson, acting on behalf of the Academy, issued the statement after a meeting on Friday of its board of governors. The punishment was delivered, based on “the unacceptable and harmful behavior we saw Mr. Smith exhibit on stage.”
The Academy also negatively critiqued its own behavior in response to the boldly aggressive and shocking move by Smith.
Read MoreDESSERTO®, the highly-sustainable alternative to leather, made from cactus plants and a finalist in the LVMH 2020 Innovation Awards, is again center stage in the new Lagerfeld-Valletta collab. Other earth-friendly fibers use in the new collection are 100% organic cotton, GRS certified recycled linen, and pre-consumer upcycled material Tencel™ x Refibra™ by Lenzing.
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