Hermès' New French Workshops and Rolling Big on MycoWorks [Mushroom] Leather

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Hermès' New French Workshops and Rolling Big on MycoWorks [Mushroom] Leather

The development of an artisanal approach is different from what is being labeled ‘ethical’ by websites like Good On You.

Leather is a perfect example. Hermès will never be called ethical because they are using leather. Even though they agree to the highest possible worker standards and environment-friendly policies in tanning and how the animals are treated, it’s leather.

Note, though, that even Stella McCartney can’t get a top rating on Good on You, which suggests a bleak future if even she can’t cut it with the uber-progressives. Stella does get a ‘good’ — or a B on a 5-point scale. Note Stella McCartney’s rating is 2018.

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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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