Tom Ford SS2024 Campaign Launches Zegna-Lauder March to Top 10 Luxury Brand

Tom Ford SS2024 Campaign Launches Zegna-Lauder March to Top 10 Luxury Brand

Tom Ford’s codes, “of glamour, sexiness, elegance, and beauty,” are embraced by promoted Tom Ford Creative Director Peter Hawkings as well, the designer told Vogue in advance of his September 2023 Milan Tom Ford runway debut.

In the just-released Spring 2024 Tom Ford ad campaign, the visual impact is Zegna with edge. Stars of the Tom Ford Spring 2024 campaign are Alaato Jazyper, Dara Gueye, Eva Komuves, Ilias Loopmans, and Jeanne Cadieu, lensed by Robin Galiegue [IG].

Tom Ford does not need fixing in the minds of Estee Lauder, the business tean at Zegna or Hawkings himself. In that case, who is better than Peter Hawkings to inherit the Tom Ford design mantle and not be obsessed with turning a design vision inside out to make it “his own.”

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Tom Ford SS2024 Post Show Social Media Images by Anthony Seklaoui

Tom Ford SS2024 Post Show Social Media Images by Anthony Seklaoui

Photographer Anthony Seklaoui [IG] captured the Tom Ford SS2024 social media post-show ensemble that includes Aivita Mūze, Cherif Douamba, Eva Komuves, Ilias Loopmans, Kajsa Nasiell Nauckhoff, Nataly Vieira, Nyaduola Gabriel, Renee Bellerive, Rianne Van Rompaey, Sun Mizrahi and Wali Deutch. / Hair by Guido Palau; makeup by Dick Page

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Chaumet's 'A Golden Age: 1965-1985' Paris Exhibit High Jewelry Was Stunningly Modern

Chaumet's 'A Golden Age: 1965-1985' Paris Exhibit High Jewelry Was Stunningly Modern

Australian model Aylah Peterson posed in images by Elizaveta Porodina [IG] to celebrate an archival Chaumet [IG] collection called ‘A Golden Age: 1965-1985’.

The installation was launched privately in Paris during late September 2023 and opened formally on October 5 during the Spring 2024 Women’s RTW fashion shows. It was extended in November and finally closed two days ago on December 2.

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Anna Cleveland Stars as Maria Callas for Vogue Greece December by Richard Phibbs

Anna Cleveland Stars as Maria Callas for Vogue Greece December by Richard Phibbs

Model Anna Cleveland channels the spirit of opera singer Maria Callas, who would have turned 100 on December 2 in Vogue Greece’s December 2023 cover story, lensed by Richard Phibbs

Nicholas Georgiou styles Cleveland, who as Maria Callas expresses ‘La Divina’s’ appetite for a luxurious, glamorous lifestyle and fashion diva status, in addition to her global fame as an opera star.

Callas’ life is now the focus of Chilean auteur Pablo Larraín’s upcoming biopic ‘Maria’, starring Angelina Jolie. Early images released of Jolie as Callas bear a stunning resemblance to the opera diva, and she will wear some of Callas’ real clothes in the film.

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HTSI Magazine Celebrates Nicolas Ghesquière and 10 Years at Louis Vuitton

HTSI Magazine Celebrates Nicolas Ghesquière and 10 Years at Louis Vuitton

As Louis Vuitton artistic director Nicolas Ghesquière [IG] celebrates his 10-year anniversary with the brand, as well as the renewal of his contract for another five years, HTSI Magazine [IG] launches a huge celebration around the designer, the label and the muses.

Ethan James Green photographed Ghesquière himself for a HTSI [Financial Times How to Spend It] interview with the designer ‘First, we have fun’: Nicolas Ghesquière on a decade at Louis Vuitton.

Bibi Cornejo Borthwick with WeFolk [IG] agency photographs the 10 models, talents and ambassadors for these remaining images, styled by Isabelle Kountoure.

Models and talents expand on HTSI’s IG comments quoted on AOC in a separate online article. They appear in chronological order of their first project with Nicolas Ghesquire for Louis Vuitton.

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Emily Ratajkowski Covers Vogue Australia December 2023 by Lachlan Bailey

Emily Ratajkowski Covers Vogue Australia December 2023 by Lachlan Bailey

Emily Ratajkowski covers the December 2023 issue of Vogue Australia [IG]. Journalist Mahalia Chang sits down with the mother of one to discuss freedom, privacy and self worth — a triad of issues associated with the politically active, feminist mega-talent and model for several years now.

Lachlan Bailey [IG] photographs Ratajkowski with styling by Vogue Australia EIC Christine Centenera.

Emily R is currently under fire for posing in a Le Monde M Magazine story standing in a pair of very plus-size ladies pants with much room to spare. THAT qualifies as a fatphobic mortal sin in America among so-called progressive women. [LOL, sorry]

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Liya Kebede Covers Vogue Italia December 2023, Lensed by Campbell Addy

Liya Kebede Covers Vogue Italia December 2023, Lensed by Campbell Addy

Global citizen, top model, actor and Lemlem philanthropist Liya Kebede covers the December 2023 issue of Vogue Italia [IG]. Ethiopian-born, Kebede has served as a WHO Ambassador for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health since 2005 and now lives in New York.

In a creative narrative twist, Liya Kebede poses in an artwork by Milan-based artist Jem Perucchini [above], who is also of Ethiopian heritage. Liya wears YSL in that image, styled by Paris-based Ally Macrae, who worked on the entire fashion shoot.

The impression sought by photographer Campbell Addy for the fashion shoot, involved interpreting Kebede a Queen of Sheba with the most classic insignia of sovereignty, the sphere.

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Apolline Rocco Fohrer in Harper's Bazaar Italia Couture Lensed by Nick Knight

Apolline Rocco Fohrer in Harper's Bazaar Italia Couture Lensed by Nick Knight

French model Apolline Rocco Fohrer is styled by Sissy Vian in splendid couture beauty for Harper’s Bazaar Italia #8, December 2023.

Photographer Nick Knight [IG] captures the finest clothes created by the world’s most prestigious labels, with art direction from Marc Ascoli./ Hair by Eugene Souleiman; makeup by Val Garland

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eBay UK Launches Second Life Platform, Co-Sponsors British Vogue's Forces of Change Event

eBay UK Launches Second Life Platform, Co-Sponsors British Vogue's Forces of Change Event

Vintage fashion lovers Jill Kortleve and Zinnia Kumar are styled by Jessica Gerardi in ‘Second Life’, a sponsored fashion shoot promoting eBay UK’s pre-loved fashion . . . and this season’s staples. . . both.

Ben Weller [IG] was in the studio for British Vogue [IG] December 2023./ Hair Naoki Komiya; hair by Naoki Komiya

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Valentina Castro Covers Numero France Dream Issue 242, Lensed by Txema Yeste

Valentina Castro Covers Numero France Dream Issue 242, Lensed by Txema Yeste

Colombian model Valentina Castro poses in Numéro France 242 [IG] November 2023 cover story De L’autre Cote Du Miroir, wearing Hermes on the cover.

Bernat Buscato styles the fashion story ‘On the Other Side of the Mirror’, lensed by Txema Yeste [IG]. / Hair and makeup by Ruben Marmol

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Prada Privatesphere Holiday 2023 Campaign Triggers Our Reflection on Elon Musk

Prada Privatesphere Holiday 2023 Campaign Triggers Our Reflection on Elon Musk

AOC’s first reaction to these Prada holiday, model-focused images has nothing to do with buying gifts for friends and family this holiday season.

Prada and the Future of Humanity

Anne’s response was focused on a deeply-felt anxiety that she would feel so much better if Prada Group owned Starlink, X and SpaceX — rather than Elon Musk. The ‘l’enfant terrible’ with a massive daddy complex can keep Tesla.

“The constantly forward-thinking ethos of Prada for humanity has broadened to his desire of adventure and to brave new horizons: space,” Lorenzo Bertelli, Prada Group marketing director, stated with the announcement that Prada is partnering with Texas-based Axiom Space to design the lunar space suits for the hopefully-glorious 2025 Artemis III mission. [Anne’s non-quoted words.]

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NewJeans, Dior Ambassador Haerin Covers Vogue Hong Kong December 2023

NewJeans, Dior Ambassador Haerin Covers Vogue Hong Kong December 2023

In late April 2023, Haerin, a member of NewJeans, became a Dior global ambassador for fine jewelry and a house ambassador for fashion and beauty.

The appointment was not a surprise as Dior had been dressing Haerin from the earliest days of her public life.

Haerin now covers the December 2023 issue of Vogue Hong Kong, styled by Sean Kunjambu in select pieces from Dior fashion and jewelry lensed by Park Jongha./ Hair by Lee Hae Jin; makeup by Lee Na Kyeum

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Ida Heiner Covers Vogue France December 2023/January 2024 by Theo De Gueltzl

Ida Heiner Covers Vogue France December 2023/January 2024 by Theo De Gueltzl

Vogue France celebrates the communion of art and fashion in its December 2023/January 2024 issue. Underscoring the increasingly critical pairing of these two dominant influences in global culture, Vogue France puts model Ida Heiner on the cover, wearing a superheroine-worthy cape, custom-created for the magazine.

Celebrating a decade as artistic director of Louis Vuitton’s Women’s, Nicolas Ghesquiere’s [IG], contract was just renewed for another five years. In this cape project, Ghesquiere worked with contemporary artist Philippe Parreno [IG].

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Vogue Poland November 2023 Is on the Hunt for Cozy Coats, Lensed by Willow Williams

Vogue Poland November 2023 Is on the Hunt for Cozy Coats, Lensed by Willow Williams AOC Fashion

Vogue Poland’s [IG]November 2023 issue gets real cozy. Perhaps we’re on an ancient hunt for woolly mammoths, although we see no evidence of cave paintings.

Model Michelle Laff is styled by Adonis Kentros in plush luxury gone wild. Willow Williams [IG] makes the modern-day cavewoman capture.

Ethan James Green Captures Deep Sea Fashion Treasures for Mastermind #14

Ethan James Green Captures Deep Sea Fashion Treasures for Mastermind #14

Mastermind Magazine 14’s [IG] fashion story ‘Between the Sea and Me’ imagines two deep-sea divers just back from an ocean expedition.

Models Angelina Kendall and Sacha Quenby pose in their newly-discovered treasures, styled by Mastermind’s founder and creative director Marie-Amélie Sauvé [IG].

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Abény Nhial and Mary Ukech Cover Vogue Japan December 2023, Lensed by Hugo Comte

Abény Nhial and Mary Ukech Cover Vogue Japan December 2023, Lensed by Hugo Comte

Models Abény Nhial and Mary Ukech, both with South Sudan heritage, twin in the December 2023 issue of Vogue Japan [IG]. Mega talent stylist Patti Wilson [IG] adds her modern glam vision to the fashion story lensed by Hugo Comte [IG]./ Hair by Anastaslia Tymoshchuk; makeup by Lisa Michalik

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Paloma Elsesser Chooses Family in Vogue Mexico & Latin America December 2023

Paloma Elsesser Chooses Family in Vogue Mexico & Latin America December 2023

Top model Paloma Elsesser covers the December 2023 issue of Vogue Mexico & Latin America devoted to ‘En Familla’. Paloma herself is the daughter of an African American mother and Chilean father.

Evanie Frausto has styled Paloma and her ‘adopted’ family, posing in La Jordana, a small town of about 940 people in the State of Mexico, lensed by Camila Valquez.

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Casablanca Pre-Spring 2024 Campaign Goes for Monied, Athletic Elegance

Casablanca Pre-Spring 2024 Campaign Goes for Monied, Athletic Elegance

Charaf Tajer‘s pre-Spring 2024 Casablanca Campaign makes a sophisticated play for a monied, athletic elegance and varsity chic-inspired cafe-society crowd.

The romantic mood of the movie ‘Casablanca’ itself ebbs quietly through the campaign, signposts for a WWII cafe society crowd that embraced classic notions of honor, loyalty, friendship and duty in a 2024 global political climate that’s testing all those values — and turning them inside out.

Count Maggie Maurer in as a member of the Resistance, joined by Valentin Caron. Corentin Leroux [IG] photographs the campaign, with art direction by Rashid Barbiker and styling by Francesca Parise./ Hair by Ryan Mitchell; makeup by David Koppelaar

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