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Cindy Bruna Dazzles in the French Riviera for ELLE Russia December 2021 AOC Fashion
Cindy Bruna shares the December covers of ELLE Russia with Marjan Jonkman, both women lensed by Martina Keenan [IG]. Bruna steps into the spotlight now, styled by Lilya Simonyan in full on south of France elegance and glamour./ Hair by Tobias Sagner; makeup by Mikael Noiselet
American model and Tik Tok personality Wisdom Kaye joins Brittany O’Grady, Mia Regan and Tiffany Guo in the new Coach ‘Hit the Slopes’ campaign. The vision behind the campaign ‘introduces nostalgic winter sportswear reimagined through the optimistic lens of now' along with a digital game, Snow City. The game allows players to ‘race through snowy New York City as a Coach Holiday animal, collecting “love”’.
After all the challenges in 2021 — and especially for our young people, whose lives are just turned upside down in today’s world — let’s play along with Snow City.
Anne of Carversville is all about love through the practice of ‘ubuntu’ — the Nguni Bantu term meaning "humanity". It is sometimes translated as "I am because we are" (also "I am because you are"), or "humanity towards others" (in Zulu, umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu), according to Wiki.
New York City photographer Zackery Michael [IG] photograph’s the Coach ‘Hit the Slopes’ campaign. His images seem to appear out of another era.
Like so many New York City creatives, Michael — who lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn — migrated to the city from small town America. In his case Springfield, Oregon. Zackery Michael’s bags are always packed and ready for the next destination.
Wisdom Kaye is also on the move, appearing Monday night at the British Fashion Council awards, where he was dressed in clothes from H&M’s new circularity-focused collection, Innovation Circular Design Story.
Wisdom Kaye is represented by IMG models and hails from Houston, Texas. The energy-infused, rising creative star with major swagger joined Tik Tok in January 2020 and went viral for his offering to the ‘Vogue Challenge’.
By July 2020, the Kaye’s TikTok had 2 million followers, prompting Vogue to call him "TikTok's best-dressed guy".
Read more about H&M’s commitment to being a leader in rewriting fashion’s damning impact on our planet. The brand has created a heap of woes around our industry’s destruction of the environment in pursuit of style and see-me pleasures.
Now the global brand is committed to being a leader in cleaning up the mess. H&M is teaming up with fashion’s most talented people to help drive hope the urgency of a planet-protecting response.
Fran, Mika, Mona, Vittoria in the Best Jeans by Angelo Pennetta for Vogue UK December 2021 AOC Fashion
Top models Fran Summers, Mika Schneider, Mona Tougaard and Vittoria Ceretti front ‘The Jeans Genes’, styled by Julia Sarr-Jamois. Photographer Angelo Pennetta captures the quartet for British Vogue December 2021./ Hair by Cyndia Harvey; makeup by Petros Petrohilos
Victor Demarchelier Captures 'I Celebrate Myself' Resort Whites for Town & Country AOC Fashion
Models Alima Fofana and Lauren Forge wear fresh whites as short days in the northern hemisphere prepare the big turn out of darkness and into the spring light. Better yet, heading for the islands with perfect resort clothes is front and center, COVID, time and money permitting.
Anne Christensen styles ‘I Celebrate Myself’ in sheer modern silhouettes lensed by Victor Demarchelier [IG] for Town & Country December 2021/January 2022../ Hair by Naeemah; makeup by Alice Lane
What the Future of Tech Holds for Bespoke Fashion AOC Fashion
As a pure term ‘Bespoke’ is English-derived and means ‘made to order’ mainly from the customer’s measurements, with alterations to each customer’s taste made in fabric and the garment design process.
A bespoke garment is generally machine-made, unlike ‘couture’, in which a substantial portion of the garment – typically 60% minimum — is made by hand.
Bespoke fashion is generally considered to be an investment piece. In the increasingly important world of deadstock fabrics, a bespoke fashion purchase becomes a tiny production run, sometimes a one-off, tailored for each individual buyer.
In a slow-fashion world – one we do not live in – consultation between the bespoke fashion customer and creator would not happen over a Zoom call. Reality is that Zoom-call consultations are the tip of the iceberg in ways that technology is woven into not only bespoke fashion but all fashion – high and low; slow and fast.
Imagine for a moment living in a bespoke house. Does anyone seriously disagree that while the home may be a renovated brownstone in Manhattan that pays homage to the Gilded Age past, smart technology is running the housekeeper, who is running the home.
Technology now affects all aspects of modern life, including what we wear, how we make it, and where we buy it. So yes, even bespoke fashion can and is affected by modern technology, and a large part of this technological advancement is big data. This article looks at how technology and big data affect bespoke fashion and why it is important in the modern age for all businesses to be aware of the benefits, risks, and challenges of big data.
'Team Too Much' by Carlijn Jacobs Blasts into Ancestral Future for Dazed Magazine Winter 2021 AOC Fashion
If only Anne had been the quiet muse in the room, my spirit hovering up in the corner of the ceiling with no body attached, when photographer Carlijn Jacobs [IG} and Dazed EIC, stylist extraordinaire Ibrahim Kamara conceived ‘Team Too Much’.
It’s not like Carlijn needs a lot of coaxing when it come to visual flights of imagination, but this story is creative DNA on steroids. And in case anyone hasn’t noticed, Ib Kamara’s creative engine transmits a high frequency power supply to others in his orbit. His is not a one-act play, but a serial novel — a Shakespearean mind gone 21st century modern, with deep ancestral African roots.
In three words: creative awe blitzkrieg. Kamara’s got a lot of people living in his head. He’s a spiritual, creative, limitless empath of the highest order. Give him room, people. A lot of room. Let him live in free fall some of the time and see where he lands,
Let his fairy dust fall on the creative minds around him. Carlijn is great on her own, but I can’t help thinking that 1+1=3 here.
‘Team Too Much’ models, actors, players include Abeny Nihal, Babafemi Mustapha,, Dave Cho, Delphi McNicol, Diana Achan, Goy Manese, Grace Sharp, Hugo Fulton, Leo Comanescu, Temitope Ajayi, Tsunaina and Xue Huizi,/ Hair by Kiyoko Odo; makeup by Ammy Drammeh
For her part, Jacobs quips on IG that the lead image invokes “prepping for that new lockdown”. She posted the image yesterday, and sadly, Carlijn is spot on. The new variant is called Omicron. ~ Anne
Cindy Bruna and Marjan Jonkman Cover ELLE Russia December by Martina Keenan AOC Fashion
Argentina-raised, New York photographer Martina Keenan [IG] shoots Marjan Jonkman and Cindy Bruna as December 2021 cover girls for ELLE Russia. Fashion director Lilya Simonyan styles the covers and accompanying fashion stories on location in Cannes and Monte Carlo./ Hair by Tobias Sagner; makeup by Mikael Noiselet
Marjan Jonkman's Fashion Magic by Noémi Ottilia Szabo for Numéro Tokyo AOC Fashion
Model Marjan Jonkman plays the magician, styled by Lyla Cheng in ‘Good Fortune’. Photographer Noémi Ottilia Szabo captures Jonkman for Numéro Tokyo [IG] January/February 2022. / Makeup by Mikael Noiselet
Virgil Abloh, the founder of luxury streetwear brand Off-White and artistic director of men’s wear at Louis Vuitton, died in Houston Sunday at age 41. Abloh has battled a rare cancer cardiac angiosarcoma for two years.
Abloh’s role within LVMH “made him the most powerful Black executive in the most powerful luxury group in the world”, wrote Vanessa Friedman for the New York Times.
“We are devastated to announce the passing of our beloved Virgil Abloh, a fiercely devoted father, husband, son, brother, and friend,” a message posted on the designer’s Instagram account stated. “He is survived by his loving wife Shannon Abloh, his children Lowe Abloh and Grey Abloh, his sister Edwina Abloh, his parents Nee and Eunice Abloh, and numerous dear friends and colleagues.”
For people who didn’t know this well-kept secret — like us — news of Virgil Abloh’s passing is a grade AAA gut punch.
“Virgil is incredibly good at creating bridges between the classic and the zeitgeist of the moment,” Michael Burke, chief executive of Louis Vuitton, told The New York Times when Mr. Abloh was named to the luxury brand.
As Friedman points out, Virgil Abloh was controversial in his approach to design — not having any formal education in fashion. Abloh had no difficulties acknowledging ways in which he borrowed, built upon and transformed the designs of others into his own. He studied civil engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and received a master’s degree in architecture from the Illinois Institute of Technology. These tools gave him a definite design perspective — which combined with superb instincts in understanding how to generate cultural currency in today’s consumer world.
To be honest, with Bernard Arnault backing him with the world’s biggest luxury brand, Louis Vuitton, I don’t think it matters all that much what “some people” thought of Abloh’s approach to design. The son of Ghanaian immigrants who lived in Rockford, Illinois, grew up immersed in skate culture and hip-hop.
Virgil Abloh’s rise was closely involved with Kanye West. Since AOC is NOT a fan of Kanye West — and less so every day — you can refresh your memory at the NYT.
In a historical timeline that Abloh shared with GQ’s Tom Bettridge, this quote resonates:
“There was a professor by the name of Louise Wilson, who was the head of the [master's program] at Central Saint Martins in London, and she was the teacher for some of the greatest designers of our time. Kanye and I sat with her, and we were like, “Hey, we want to learn the right way.” And she basically said, “You guys are idiots. You know more than my students. Why on earth would you want to go to fashion school?” But that process was sort of how we ended up interning at Fendi. And when we were there, we did all the meetings. We were off the radar in Rome, getting to work at 9 a.m. on a Monday. We did all the intern shit, and this was in the midst of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. We went to Hawaii after this period.
WSJ Magazine has a solid overview of Virgil Abloh’s work, and my link should give you access.
British Vogue EIC Edward Enninful called Abloh “a giant among men”, writing:
“Virgil Abloh changed the fashion industry. Famously prolific, he always worked for a greater cause than his own illustrious career: to open the door to art and fashion for future generations, so that they – unlike himself – would grow up in a creative world with people to mirror themselves in.”
Wondering if Ralph Lauren had weighed in yet on Abloh’s passing, AOC learned that his first design was a screenprint on a Ralph Lauren rugby shirt. Lauren was on my mind because in November 2020, I learned that one of our most prominent anti-racist voices Ibram X. Kendi has battled colon cancer.
His own revelation came a few months after ‘Black Panther’ star Chadwick Boseman died of cancer on my birthday. This is the same day — August 28 — that Emmett Louis Till was lynched beyond recognition in Mississippi in 1955.
Till didn’t die of cancer, but I’ve studied the evolving positive linkage between racism and diseases like cancer for several years now. The scientific paradigm ties the constant stress of racism in the lives of Black people to chronic inflammation in the body — similar to that of being in war for extended periods of time or a prolonged situation of verbal and/or physical abuse.
The ties between inflammation and disease — in the form of genetic damage due to inflammation — grow stronger every year, now that scientists better understand inflammation of the body and its impact on health generally.
AOC isn’t suggesting that all of these creative and masterfully talented young Black men are getting cancer because of systemic racism. But we all should at least be knowledgeable about the topic. And with Ralph Lauren being so involved for decades now in funding major cancer research projects and care, I suspect that some of his own activism is grounded in the scientific knowledge he has acquired on this very subject.
Ralph’s recent holiday 2021 campaign — one of the most activist I’ve ever seen from any luxury brand — assures me that he understands the cancer-related toll that discrimination and racism, sexism and anti-LGBTQ policies take on the human body. I really applaud Ralph’s efforts and in the case of Virgil Abloh, I literally screamed in disbelief at what I was reading. When I wrote “There is no justice,” those words are coming from a deeply emotional belief. ~ Anne
Paolo Roversi Captures Elodie Di Patrizi in 'Metamorfosi' for Vogue Italia November 2021 AOC Fashion
Italian singer and model Elodie Di Patrizi, known as Elodie, graces the pages of Vogue Italia’s November 2021 issue. Ramona Tabita styles ‘Metamorfosi’ for images by Paolo Roversi./ Hair by Rudi Lewis; makeup by Min Kim
An Eclectic Twist on Fashion's Future by Amer Mohamad for Grazia Serbia December 2021 AOC Fashion
Model Ania Chiz covers the December issue of Grazia Serbia, lensed in an eclectic twist on futurism by Amer Mohamad [IG}.
Akuol Deng Atem in ‘Metamorphoses’ by Amit Israeli for Revue Magazine FW 2021 AOC Fashion
Model Akuol Deng Atem is styled by Jack Borkett in ‘Metamorphoses’. Amit Israeli [IG] photographs Atem in spectacular hair art sculptures by Olivier Schawalder for the Fall Winter 2021 issue of Revue Magazine France.
Lena Hardt Poses in 'The Enchanted Forest' in Harper's Bazaar UK December 2021-January 2022 AOC Fashion
German-born, Paris model Lena Hardt is styled by Charlie Harrington in ‘The Enchanted Forest’. London-based photographer Agata Pospieszynska [IG] captures the dramatic silhouettes bathed in sunlight for the December-January 2022 issue of Harper’s Bazaar UK. / Hair by Sam McKnight; makeup b Natsumi Narita
Jill Kortleve Plunges Into Hot Springs Water, Lensed by Felicity Ingram in British Vogue AOC Fashion
Rising model Jill Kortleve poses in a beauty split fashion story for the October and December 2021 issues of British Vogue. Lorna McGee styles Kortleve in ‘Fresh Takes’ for October, focused on upgrading our wellbeing — with products, of course. British photographer Felicity Ingram captures the model at Hrunalaug Hot Springs in Iceland. / Hair by Anna Cofone
The health benefits of hot springs are generally well-established around the globe. They include:
Boosting Blood Circulation due to the variety of different minerals and specifically calcium and sodium bicarbonate in the water.
Reducing Stress and Promoting Sleep
Pain Relief
Healing or Improving Skin Problems
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