Briana Michelle by Mikey Oshai in 'New Bohemia' for ELLE UK July/August 2022

Briana Michelle by Mikey Oshai in 'New Bohemia' for ELLE UK July/August 2022

Model Briana Michelle peppers our summer vaca imaginations — as fall designs take over magazine editorial. Georgia Medley styles ‘New Bohemia’ and lives up to the fashion story title with a masterly mix that works in every image. Nigerian/American photographer Mikey Oshai [IG] captures the sophisticated fashion stance for ELLE UK July/August 2022.

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Dior Resort 2023 Fashion Story with Allana Santos Brito in Harper's Bazaar Brazil

Dior Resort 2023 Fashion Story with Allana Santos Brito in Harper's Bazaar Brazil

Harper’s Bazaar Brazil’s August 2922 issue tributes Dior’s Resort 2023 Collection. Model Allana Santos Brito fronts the cover story styled by Paris-based Raphaël Nicolas De Castro. Photographer Stéphanie Volpato [IG] captures Brito at the Bergerie Nationale in Rambouillet, France.

Whether funded by Dior or not, AOC is intrigued with this gorgeous and sensual editorial in Harper’s Bazaar Brazil’s August 2022 issue. We always feel the push and pull of feminism and women’s history in today’s Christion Dior’s collections.

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Tiffany Launches Atrium Platform for Artists, Artisans: Meet Derrick Adams

Tiffany Launches Atrium Platform for Artists, Artisans: Meet Derrick Adams

Seeking to help supporters and Tiffany & Co. clients visualize the new Atrium concept, the iconic American jeweler reached out to artist Derrick Adams, who created an original artwork called “I Shine, You Shine, We Shine” for the Atrium launch.

The Atrium project will live on Artsy, the world’s largest online art marketplace. Derek Adams’ work reflects how people of African descent interact with art, American history and consumerism. “I shine, You shine, We Shine” will be auctioned by Artsy in an auction closing August 10.

100% of profits from the sale of “I Shine, You Shine, We Shine” is going to The Last Resort Artist Retreat, an art residency program that Adams founded in his home city of Baltimore, Maryland.

We link to our Sept. 19, 2022 update on this article.

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Swarovski X Rosenthal SIGNUM Collection Invites Us to Embellish Our Lives

Swarovski X Rosenthal SIGNUM Collection Invites Us to Embellish Our Lives

Swarovski X Rosenthal have joined forces to bring a revitalized and engaged Swarovski jewelry style to Rosenthal porcelain. If you look carefully, even eyeglasses are in the mix — one piece being more visually scrumptious than the other in a campaign that rockets further into the stratosphere after the release of Swarovski’s spring 2022 Bella Hadid campaign.

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Valentino's Pink PP Fall 2022 Campaign Is a Powerful Sign of the Times

Valentino's Pink PP Fall 2022 Campaign Is a Powerful Sign of the Times

Valentino previews its Pink PP advertising campaign for fall 2022, fronted by celebritiy friends of the house Zendaya and Sir Lewis Hamilton — who are literally drenched in pink, photographed by Michael Bailey Gates.

“One color, bold, strong, fluid, extravagant, one color to summarize everything I like in fashion and everything that I choose to represent: the liberation from the ordinary, a space to be oneself, a loud symbol for equality and love,” said Valentino’s creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli.

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Kaia Gerber's CÉLINE Winter 2022 Campaign, Lensed by Hedi Slimane

Kaia Gerber's CÉLINE Winter 2022 Campaign, Lensed by Hedi Slimane

Kaia Gerber returns to LVMH-owned French luxury brand CÉLINE for the Winter 2022 campaign, lensed in Nice, France by the brand’s Creative, Artistic and Image Director Hedi Slimane [IG]. The collection will be available on Aug. 26, 2022.

Gerber poses with key CÉLINE brand pieces, including the Celine chain box ‘Triomphe’ bag, Wesley jeans, the ‘Spencer’ jacket, and the ‘Trapeze Triomphe’ shoulder bag.

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Tod's Delists from Italian Stock Exchange Short-Term Investors Demands

Tod's Delists from Italian Stock Exchange Short-Term Investors Demands

After 22 years, Tod’s Della Valle family want to delist Tod’s Group from the Italian Stock Exchange, offering stockholders a premium on their shares to essentially take their profits and go home — so that Tod’s can manage its business affairs with a more brand-building, longterm-success strategy.

“Brothers Diego and Andrea Della Valle control 63.64 percent of Tod’s shares. Delphine S.A.S. under the LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton Group will remain in the Tod’s capital with its current 10 percent stake,” writes WWD.

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Gucci Resort 2022.23 Fires Up Wanderlust in Images by Max Siedentopf

Gucci Resort 2022.23 Fires Up Wanderlust in Images by Max Siedentopf

Gucci’s resort 2022 collection may win the fashion crown for best global hot spots bags ever. More is better in a lineup that surely touches down on all continents: Bondi, Hawaii, Miami, Mykonos, Palm Desert and — well, we’re just getting started.

Max Siedentopf creates larger than life images where models including Anok Marial, Mathilde Buoso and Ruiqi Jiang tower above the little people, styled by Luca Galasso. Gucci Creative Director Alessandro Michele looms large with his beautiful wit in high gear as he wings around the world. Next stop unknown.

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South Korea's Kim Tae-ri Covers Vogue Hong Kong August 2022

South Korea's Kim Tae-ri Covers Vogue Hong Kong August 2022

South Korean actor Kim Tae-ri is best known for films that inclue ‘The Handmaiden’, ‘Little Forest’, ‘Space Sweepers’ and the historical drama ‘Mr. Sunshine’. She covers the August 2022 issue of Vogue Hong, styled by Choi Ja Ryoung in sober elegance from Fendi, Givenchy, Prada and more impeccable luxury looks. Kim Yeong Jun, aka Yeongjun Kim [IG] is in the studio with fashion and creative direction by Sean Kunjambu./ Makeup by Oh Yoon Hee; hair by Baek Heung Kwon

Kaitlyn Lai conducts the interview with Kim Tae-ri.

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David Sims Eyes LOEWE FW 2022 Campaign with Anthea Hamilton Pumpkins 5,6,7 2022

David Sims Eyes LOEWE FW 2022 Campaign with Anthea Hamilton Pumpkins 5,6,7 2022

Photographer David Sims [IG] captures the utterly delightful LOEWE Fall 2022/23 campaign, featuring models Anok Yai, Jeanne Cadieu, Lina Zhang and Violette Meima.

British artist Anthea Hamilton was one of four creatives shortlisted for the 2016 Turner Prize. Hamilton is known for her surreal artworks and often large-scale installations.

Anthea Hamilton brought her art in the form of Pumpkins no.5, 6, 7 2022 to the LOEWE Fall 2022 campaign.

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Louis Vuitton FW 2022 Campaign Hugs LV's Top 10 Status on Kantar BrandZ Ranking

Louis Vuitton FW 2022 Campaign Hugs LV's Top 10 Status on Kantar BrandZ Ranking

Norwegian actor and friend of the House Renate Reinsve, star of the critically-acclaimedThe Worst Person in the World’, headlines the new Louis Vuitton campaign that also includes Akon Changkou, Elio Berenett, Ida Heiner, Kristine Lindseth, Qisi Feng, and Tida Rosvall.

Louis Vuitton has risen into the top 10 global brands on the Kantar Branz Most Valuable Global Brands 2022 report, joining the ranks of Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and other global mega brands not associated with the fashion industry.

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Balmain's Environmental Message in FW2022 Campaign by Mert & Marcus

Balmain's Environmental Message in FW2022 Campaign by Mert & Marcus

Balmain gets futuristic with a Fall-Winter 2022 ad campaign shot by Mert & Marcus [IG]. Models Aweng Chuol, Cherif Douamba, Chu Wong, Christina Jugo, Claus Mukasa Kaonge, Lila Moss, Lulu Wood, Tanya Churbanova, and Tye Tubbax trek into the desert setting with stylists Charlotte Stockdale and Katie Lyall.

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Tehya Elam in 'Plant Ladies, The New Cat Ladies' for ELLE Mexico by Izack Morales

Tehya Elam in 'Plant Ladies, The New Cat Ladies' for ELLE Mexico by Izack Morales

Model Tehya Elam fronts ‘Plant Ladies, The New Cat Ladies’, styled by Jess Gutierrez and Natalia Sanchez. Izack Morales [IG] captures the fashion story for ELLE Mexico [IG] July 2022./ Hair by Takuya Yamaguchi; makeup by Mitch Yoshida

Should we assume these plant species are non-toxic, because lots of plant ladies have cats? Plants are highly desirable today, with 7 in 10 millennials calling themselves a plant parent.

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Zimmermann Fall 2022 'Stargazer' Campaign at Château de Gudanes by Benny Horne

Zimmermann Fall 2022 'Stargazer' Campaign at Château de Gudanes by Benny Horne

Zimmermann’s Fall 2022 Campaign turns to pop astrology with its ‘Stargazer’ collection. Rising model Beauise Ferwerda poses in the Zimmermann Fall Collection at the Château de Gudanes in France, lensed by Benny Horne.

Set upon a hilltop in the in the small village of Chateau-Verdun, located in the French Pyrenees, Château de Gudanes was purchased by a West Australian family, the Waters, in 2013. The structure was in a staggering state of dilapidated neglect, considering its pedigree by Parisian architect Ange-Jacques Gabriel.

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Mona Tougaard August News in Vogue France, Alaïa F/W 2022.23 Campaign

Mona Tougaard August News in Vogue France, Alaïa F/W 2022.23 Campaign

Muticultural model Mona Tougaard was born in Denmark and is of Turkish, Somali and Ethiopian descent. With a solid portfolio behind her, Tougaard joins Mirthe Dijk and Victoria Fawole in the Alaïa F/W 2022.23 ad campaign, shot by Willy Vanderperre.

AOC reviews Mona Tougaard’s recent work.

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Matilda De Angelis Is the Anti-Diva Lensed by Brett Lloyd for Vogue Italia August 2022

Matilda De Angelis Is the Anti-Diva Lensed by Brett Lloyd for Vogue Italia August 2022

Italian actor and singer Matilda De Angelis covers the August 2022 issue of Vogue Italia. In the legendary traditions of Anita Ekberg in ‘La Dolce Vita’ or Sophia Loren in ‘Yesterday Today and Tomorrow’, De Angelis pays tribute to Italy’s symbol of elegance, the seductive black dress.

Raphael Hirsch styles the cover story, lensed by Brett Lloyd [IG], with De Angelis wearing Alberta Ferretti, Giorgio Armani, Givenchy, Valentino and more. Di Laura Tortora tells more about the fashion story.

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Chikamaraa by Bohdan Bohdanov in Strange Beauty for Vogue Portugal August

Chikamaraa by Bohdan Bohdanov in Strange Beauty for Vogue Portugal August

Nigerian model by way of Germany Chikamaraa is styled by Pablo Patanè in ‘O Sono da razão produz monstros’. Ukraine-born, Milan-based photographer Bohdan Bohdanov [IG] captues this unusual jewelry and beauty story for Vogue Portugal ‘s August 2022 ‘Good Vibes’ issue.

In their editorial commentary, Vogue Portugal acknowledges that darkness and shadows are a significant aspect of daily life — but there is not only discovery and meaning there but also a way out of darkness into light and ‘good vibes’.

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