Emmanuel Macron Re-Elected President of France; Fragile European Alliance Holds

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Emmanuel Macron Re-Elected President of France; Fragile European Alliance Holds

Emmanuel Macron has retained the French presidency, beating back right-wing, Russian president Vladimir Putin-supported candidate Marine Le Pen with an estimated 58.2% of the vote to her 41.8%, based on 8pm Sunday evening estimates.

For all of his problems, Macron is the first French leader in 20 years to win re-election — since 2002. In that faceoff then-president Jacques Chirac won against Le Pen’s rabidly anti-immigrant father, Jean-Marie Le Pen.

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Gal Gadot Delivers Privilege on Tiffany & Co. Dandelions and Orchids in Gaia's Kingdom

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Gal Gadot Delivers Privilege on Tiffany & Co. Dandelions and Orchids in Gaia's Kingdom

Elevating the humble dandelion into a show-stopping, high-jewelry diamond medallion necklace is no longer a top-secret mission. AOC shares spring’s Tiffany & Co. BOTANICA: Blue Book 2022 campaign. Newly-named Tiffany BOTANICA ambassador Gal Gadot is not a 2017 Wonder Woman actor who pales in comparison to a dandelion-inspired 12-carat diamond necklace.

Like the necklace created to be worn five different ways as the ultimate expression of Tiffany & Co. savoir-faire, Gal Gadot is adaptable, with her head held high on the world stage.

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Conde Nast Closes Russian Franchise: Vogue, Glamour, Tatler, GQ and Architectural Digest

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Conde Nast Closes Russian Franchise: Vogue, Glamour, Tatler, GQ and Architectural Digest

Condé Nast is closing its entire Russian franchise over the war in Ukraine and Russia’s new censorship laws. Seven Russian publications will close immediately — Vogue, GQ, GQ Style, Tatler, Glamour, Glamour Style Book and Architectural Digest.

Condé Nast’s chief executive officer, Roger Lynch, advised the company’s global staff on Tuesday: “The escalation in the severity of the censorship laws, which have significantly curtailed free speech and punished reporters simply for doing their jobs, has made our work in Russia untenable.”

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Winnie Harlow Shines in PUMA Sp 2022 Swimwear and Bodywear Campaign

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Winnie Harlow Shines in PUMA Sp 2022 Swimwear and Bodywear Campaign

PUMA ambassador Winnie Harlow lights up the brand’s Bodywear & Swimwear 2022 campaign, supporting SHE MOVES US.

The swimwear and bodywear designs were made by PUMA’s subsidiary stichd, with significant use of recycled nylon. You can track the sustainability particulars of stichd on the “sustainability strategy check in edition 01.”

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Zero + Maria Cornejo Spring 2022 Expands Sustainable Fabrics

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Zero + Maria Cornejo Spring 2022 Expands Sustainable Fabrics

Maria Cornejo has a gift for creating sensual, female-centric designs using angular, architectural lines and fabrics. In spite of her tag line, not all Zero + Maria Cornejo production is made in New York. In the case of the French terry sweat-shirting from Japan, she is manufacturing the items using the fabric in Japan.

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Fendi Peekaboo Campaign Takes Airborne Adwoa Aboah on Tour of Rome

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Fendi Peekaboo Campaign Takes Airborne Adwoa Aboah on Tour of Rome

Fendi celebrates the new Peekaboo Petite and Micro handbags, arm and arm with the Italian ‘Call Me By Your Name’ film director and friend of the house, Luca Guadagnino to create a short campaign film starring Adwoa Aboah.

Instead of boarding a magic carpet ride over Rome, Aboah spreads her own ‘Superwoman’ wings to fly over the ancient city with its ruins and visual narrative of the human story. She eventually landing on Fendi’s Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana — because this is a Fendi Peekaboo handbag campaign, after all.

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Rihanna Rewrites Pregnancy Fashion with Love, Lensed by Annie Leibovitz for Vogue US

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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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Dapper Dan X TOD's Lensed by Johan Sandberg for Dapper Dan Magazine SS 2022

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Dapper Dan X TOD's Lensed by Johan Sandberg for Dapper Dan Magazine SS 2022

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.

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Sharon Stone in Venice for Dolce & Gabbana Spring 2022 Accessories by Michael Muller

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Sharon Stone in Venice for Dolce & Gabbana Spring 2022 Accessories by Michael Muller

Actor 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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Louis Vuitton Cruise Show 2023 Will Celebrate The Salk Institute in San Diego

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Louis Vuitton Cruise Show 2023 Will Celebrate The Salk Institute in San Diego

“The Salk Institute has been a place of wonder for me over the years and Louis Kahn’s stunning Brutalist architecture against this extraordinary setting of the Pacific Ocean and the California sunset provides me with endless inspiration.

“It also celebrates intelligence, knowledge and the belief in the wonders of science,” he added.

Nicolas Ghesquière has picked the Salk Institute in San Diego for Louis Vuitton’s cruise 2023 show on May 12.

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Dior Pre-Fall 2022 Campaign Lensed by Alice Mann with Sofia Steinberg, Maryel Uchida

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Dior Pre-Fall 2022 Campaign Lensed by Alice Mann with Sofia Steinberg, Maryel Uchida

The 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

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Will Smith Banned for 10 Years from Future Oscars-related and Academy of Motion Pictures Events

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Will Smith Banned for 10 Years from Future Oscars-related and Academy of Motion Pictures Events

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.

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Vittoria Ceretti Covers Vogue Italia April 2022, Lensed by Rafael Pavarotti

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Vittoria Ceretti Covers Vogue Italia April 2022, Lensed by Rafael Pavarotti

The April 2022 issue of Vogue Italia navigates artfully the question of the man-machine-nature relationship. This theme is also investigated at the upcoming Venice Biennale, which opens on April 23 with the title ‘Il Latte Dei Sogni’.

The truly spectacular fashion story must have been quietly overseen by the now divine muse to fashion artistry, former editor-in-chief of Vogue Italia Franca Sozzani herself [who sadly left our planet on December 26, 2016].

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America's Russian Diamonds Loophole Is Being Closed by Luxury Brands and Congress

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America's Russian Diamonds Loophole Is Being Closed by Luxury Brands and Congress

The United States is the world’s largest market for diamond jewelry, accounting for more than 50% of sales in the $84 billion global diamond jewelry industry. The ban on Russian diamonds being imported into America has been in place since the end of February, making it time to check in on its impact.

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H&M Innovation Stories 'Cherish Waste' Collection Launches April 21 Lensed by Rafael Pavarotti

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H&M Innovation Stories 'Cherish Waste' Collection Launches April 21 Lensed by Rafael Pavarotti

Sustainability is in the house, with H&M’s reveal of the fifth drop in their Innovation Stories series. What the world needs now — more than ever — is Love Sweet Love, and H&M is onboard with the theme. The new ‘Cherish Waste’ collection is birthed from recycled garments, ocean-bound plastic and other waste or low-impact materials.

In the world of trendy fashionistas: garbage, garbage, garbage.

The sound minds, visionary team of Rafael Pavarotti and Ibrahim Kamara return to H&M to shoot and style the new campaign, with set design from Ibby Njoya.

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Kanye West Pulls Out of Coachella Reports Variety | Change.org Petition inches to 50,000

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Kanye West Pulls Out of Coachella Reports Variety | Change.org Petition inches to 50,000

AOC noted last week in what must be ‘10 Great Reasons for Kanye West Not to Play Coachella’, that the divine rapper, who gets his instructions from God in the shower, was defying the owners of the Coachella Festival, who dropped Travis Scott from the schedule after the Astroworld tragedy.

Variety wrote that Kanye had nothing prepared for Coachella, North America’s largest music festival. Kanye is very aggrieved over what he calls the #MeToo mentality.

As a result he has welcomed Marilyn Manson, who is accused of serious sexual assault and proudly claimed that he had a rape room according to Rolling Stone, into his divine inner circle of holy men. Rolling Stone interviewed 55 people in their investigation Marilyn Manson: The Monster in Plain Sight.

Kanye wasn’t having it, choosing to invite Manson into his divine sanctuary, seeing Manson as a victim and all his accusers as the Devil’s women.

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How Emma Raducanu Won the Fashion World Over in 2021 . . . While Women's Tennis Shakes

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How Emma Raducanu Won the Fashion World Over in 2021 . . . While Women's Tennis Shakes AOC Fashion

Before 2021, not even the most ardent of tennis fans would recognize the name of British star Emma Raducanu. Today, she’s far more than a sports celebrity, catching the eye of the red carpet press at events around the world.

The 18-year-old from Kent arrived in New York for the late August-early September US Open tennis tournament, having already captured hearts at Wimbledon, as the first British woman in 42 years to get to the fourth round.

Bets weren’t being placed that Raducanu would win the US Open, even though she was wearing lots of public good will on her back. And then lightening struck in tennis world. Days later publicist Mark Borkowski said Raducanu was poised to become “a billion-dollar girl”, scoring a raft of sponsorship deals.

“I think Emma will earn well over $100 million [in the next calendar year]. She’ll eclipse all the men,” said Jonathan Shalit, the chairman of InterTalent Group, a London-based talent management agency.

Remove Kanye from Coachella Petition Just Shy of 50,000 | Kanye on Ellen Blows My Mind

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As the Remove Kanye from Coachella Petition cross 49,000 on the way to 50,000 signatures on March 29, Kanye’s honoring of Vladimir Putin’s throwing his opponent to the mat is chilling. Note though, that in Ye’s tweet, he is comparing himself to Putin’s style.

Two months before the election on Sept. 16, 2020, as he sought to be president of America, Kanye — like his good friend Donald Trump — felt totally comfortable celebrating Putin’s style of getting his point across. I don’t mean to be the armchair psychologist with no degree, but I note as an educated woman that Kanye steps into the Putin image metaphorically, writing “Rule Number one: Listen to Ye.”

Now Kanye West will tell you that he wouldn’t hurt a fly, but if you are seriously practicing ubuntu in the universe, you don’t 1) identify with Putin — although Kanye’s right-wing evangelicals loved Putin as the world’s top backer of Christianity as God ordered it; 2) write “Rule Number One” which is more authoritarian talk and 3) and order us to “Listen to Ye.” Kanye’s hubris is just staggering.

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