Jeano Edwards at Monkey Island Estate for WSJ Magazine November Stellar Market Report

Jeano Edwards at Monkey Island Estate for WSJ Magazine November Stellar Market Report AOC Fashion

Brooklyn and London-based photographer Jeano Edwards [IG] and stylist Chloe Grace Press raise the bar on what defines a market report, packing up models Ajayi Temitope and Baba Chogwu and heading for the gardens of the Monkey Island Estate hotel. WSJ Magazine’s November 2021 issue is not playing at fashion dress-up — not even in a standard market report. A little muscle-flexing, perhaps?

Situated on a private island in England’s River Thames. the recently-restored Monkey Island Estate hotel is located in Bray, a mere spec on the map village beloved of international gourmands for its four Michelin-starred restaurants.

Marisa Tomei, aka Spider-Man's Aunt May, by Michael Schwartz in Vogue Greece December 2021

Actor Marisa Tomei is styled by Nicholas Georgiou and Ryan Young in the pages of Vogue Greece December 2021. Photographer Michael Schwartz [IG] captures Tomei — who plays Maybelle "May" Parker-Jameson, aka Aunt May, in Marvel Comics Spider-Man series — timed with the release of 'Spider-Man: No Way Home' in global theaters.

Finally, a Movie Blockbuster

‘No Way Home’ clocked the third-highest preview result on the Hollywood history books last week at $50 million , behind “Avengers: Endgame” ($60 million) and “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” ($57 million).

In a world that needs a winner right now, ‘No Way Home’ lit up the skies over the weekend, remaining in third place in movie releases box office history. ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Is Even More Amazing With $601M Global Debut For 3rd Biggest WW Bow Ever; $341M Snared Overseas – International Box Office.

Stars Zendaya and Tom Holland are flying high with these box office results. ‘Spider-Man’ producers Kevin Feige and Amy Pascal talked to the New York Times on the Future of ‘Spider-Man’ and the M.C.U.[Marvel Comics Universe].

“No Way Home,” directed by Jon Watts, marks the end of a trilogy starring Tom Holland as Peter Parker and Zendaya as MJ, his plucky romantic counterpart. But the $200 million sequel also represents the culmination of nearly 20 years of Spider-Man movies — eight in total — because it draws in characters unseen since “Spider-Man 3” in 2007 and “The Amazing Spider-Man 2” in 2014.

Maine and Oregon Make Business Pay Cost of Packaging Waste | EPR Is Center Stage

Maine and Oregon Make Business Pay Cost of Packaging Waste | EPR Is Center Stage AOC Sustainability

Most consumers don’t pay much attention to the packaging that their purchases come in, unless it’s hard to open or the item is really over-wrapped. But packaging accounts for about 28% of U.S. municipal solid waste. Only some 53% of it ends up in recycling bins, and even less is actually recycled: According to trade associations, at least 25% of materials collected for recycling in the U.S. are rejected and incinerated or sent to landfills instead.

Local governments across the U.S. handle waste management, funding it through taxes and user fees. Until 2018 the U.S. exported huge quantities of recyclable materials, primarily to China. Then China banned most foreign scrap imports. Other recipient countries like Vietnam followed suit, triggering waste disposal crises in wealthy nations.

Some U.S. states have laws that make manufacturers responsible for particularly hard-to-manage products, such as electronic waste, car batteries, mattresses and tires, when those goods reach the end of their useful lives.

Now, Maine and Oregon have enacted the first state laws making companies that create consumer packaging, such as cardboard cartons, plastic wrap and food containers, responsible for the recycling and disposal of those products, too. Maine’s law takes effect in mid-2024, and Oregon’s follows in mid-2025.

These measures shift waste management costs from customers and local municipalities to producers. As researchers who study waste and ways to reduce it, we are excited to see states moving to engage stakeholders, shift responsibility, spur innovation and challenge existing extractive practices.

Kim 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.

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.”

Metal 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

'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

'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 AOC Fashion

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.

Laurence 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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