Grace Elizabeth Floats Elegantly in ELLE US February 2022 by Solve Sundsbo

Grace Elizabeth Floats Elegantly in ELLE US February 2022 by Solve Sundsbo

“I thought you had to be famous or live in New York City.” Grace Elizabeth said in 2018, about her state of surprise at finding herself a high-in-demand model. Also, she wasn’t really interested as a girl growing up in Lake City, Florida. “I wanted to play volleyball when I was a kid, and I wanted to be a boy, to mess around in the dirt.”

Noah’s mom morphed into quite the swan model before birthing him last February with husband with her husband, Nicolas Krause. “I think I was born to be a mom. Everything I have, I pour into him happily,” she says of Noah.“It’s so amazing to watch him discover the world for the first time. What may be ordinary to us is fascinating to him. We get to see it all over again, see the beauty in things,” Grace Elizabeth tells Adrienne Gaffney in ELLE US February 2022. .

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Louis Vuitton SS2022 Campaign with Hoyeon, Kristine, Mona, Rianne Lensed by David Sims

Louis Vuitton SS2022 Campaign with Hoyeon, Kristine, Mona, Rianne Lensed by David Sims

Models Hoyeon Jung, Kristine Lindseth, Mona Tougaard and Rianne Van Rompaey are in high-energy fashion action for Louis Vuitton’s S/S 2022 Campaign. David Sims is behind the lens with styling by Florent Buonomano and Marie-Amélie Sauvé./ Hair by Duffy; makeup by Lucia Pieroni

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Janet Jumbo's Cozy Fashion Getaway by Jackie Nickerson Numéro France

Janet Jumbo's Cozy Fashion Getaway by Jackie Nickerson Numéro France AOC Fashion

Model Janet Jumbo is styled by David Bradshaw in ‘Échappée Belle’, a warm and cozy, elegant fashion getaway lensed by Jackie Nickerson [IG] for Numéro France December 2021/January 2022.

Burberry Lunar New Year 2022 Campaign Celebrates Tiger's Strong, Confident Spirit

Burberry Lunar New Year 2022 Campaign Celebrates Tiger's Strong, Confident Spirit

Models Liu Bingbing, Liu Chunjie, Wang Xiangguo and Yang Ling front Burberry’s Lunar New Year 2022 campaign, lensed by photographer Feng Li.

The exclusive collection is presented in a series of images that celebrate the year of the tiger’s strong, confident spirit. The collection features a tiger stripe animal print in an orange hue that adorns our signature Lola and Olympia bags, as well as cashmere scarves and sneakers.

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Africa's Black Beauty in a New World by Rafael Pavarotti for Vogue UK February 2022

Africa's Black Beauty in a New World by Rafael Pavarotti for Vogue UK February 2022

We share the entire fashion story ‘As the World Turns’, completing a visual narrative of a celebratory moment in which the February 2022 issue of British Vogue features nine first-generation, African origins models in a first-ever, fashion cover statement.

Models include Abény Nhial, Adut Akech, Akon Changkou, Amar Akway, Anok Yai, Janet Jumbo, Majesty Amare, Maty Fall, and Nyagua Ruea,

British Vogue editor-in-chief Edward Enninful styled the shoot and originated the concept behind the fashion story, surely in collaboration with photographer Rafael Pavarotti [IG] . / Hair by Virginie Moreira; makeup by Ammy Drammeh

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'Parallel Mothers' Actor Milena Smit Is Lensed by Dan Beleiu for Vogue Spain February 2022

'Parallel Mothers' Actor Milena Smit Is Lensed by Dan Beleiu for Vogue Spain February 2022

Spanish film and television actress Milena Smit is styled by Alba Melendo in ‘Ciclon Milénico’. Photographer Dan Beleiu [IG] is behind the lens for Vogue Spain February 2022 cover story.

Milena Smit plays a young woman recovering from sexual assault in Spanish legend Pedro Almodóvar’s new film ‘Parallel Mothers’. In her role of Ana, Smit meets the film’s star Penelope Cruz, playing Janis, a chic photographer who is working relentlessly to excavate a mass grave in her family’s village. Believing that her great-grandfather may be buried in the grave, Janis contacts a forensic anthropologist, who leaves her pregnant.

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Lara Jade Flashes Roos Abels and Cartier's Sixieme Sens Collection for Modern Luxury

Lara Jade Flashes Roos Abels and Cartier's Sixieme Sens Collection for Modern Luxury AOC Modern

Model Roos Abels travels to Jackson Hole, Wyoming to showcase Cartier’s Sixieme Sens jewelry collection against the Western sky. Sixieme Sens reimagines Cartier’s iconic house designs by combining precious 1,000-year-old stones. The collection in total embraces unusual geometric ornamentations, contrasting textures, and other visual patterns that exhibit optical illusions.

Stylist Faye Vande Vrede chooses Jackson Hole-ready outerwear, knits, and dresses from Erdem, Etro, Ralph Lauren and more as a fashion backdrop for a Cartier collection that is sublime beauty. Photographer Lara Jade [IG] captures the style majesty for Modern Luxury Magazine./ Hair by Walton Nunez; makeup by Georgina Billington

Gabriel Moses Captures Cultural Identity Fashion for Dazed Magazine

Gabriel Moses Captures Cultural Identity Fashion for Dazed Magazine AOC Magazine

Dazed Magazine posted online in December 2021 ‘Under the Skin’, styled by Marika-Ella Ames. Models Baba Chogwu, Goy Manase, Mayor Dutie and Nyaueth Riam are lensed by Gabriel Moses [IG]./ Hair by Ali Pirzadeh; hair by Ali Pirzadeh

The Dazed text by Liam Hess introducers readers to five rising creatives — a “new guard of young designers interrogating cultural identity.”

Across the UK, a new guard of designers is drawing on global influences to ask how we can use our pasts – whether cultural heritage, personal histories, or intergenerational trauma and healing – to forge a new path to the future that ricochets between the boundaries of sexuality, gender, race, and nationality.

The young designers featured at Dazed are Cameron Williams, Chloe Nardin, Fidan Novruzova, Gui Rosa, and Roisin Pierce.

Armani Beauty's Trans Activist Valentina Sampaio by Kristin Vicari for Harper's Bazaar UK

Armani Beauty's Trans Activist Valentina Sampaio by Kristin Vicari for Harper's Bazaar UK

In our bullet-point world, worthy news often goes unreported. In November 2021, Valentina Sampaio became the new face of Armani Beauty, joining Cate Blanchett. The first-ever transgender Victoria’s Secret model, who made a big splash in Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issues of 2020 and 2021, began calling herself Valentina at age 12.

These Armani Beauty images of Valentina Sampaio appear in the February 2022 issue of Harper’s UK. Tilly Wheating styles Sampaio in ‘Bold Thinking’, clearly a quiet reference to the model’s trans status, as well as Armani-style ‘bold’ makeup.

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Luc Braquet Captures Selma Hadziosmanovic in 'Sensuals Bijoux' for PalaceScope

Luc Braquet Captures Selma Hadziosmanovic in 'Sensuals Bijoux' for PalaceScope AOC Fashion

PalaceScope was launched in 2019 as a bimonthly, free magazine for luxury-loving appetites. The magazine and website are dedicated to Paris, highlighting “creators and innovations, those who make fashions and create trends. Anything that electrifies the city.”

Photographer Luc Braquet [IG] creates a high jewelry fashion story ‘Sensuals Bijoux’, with the captivating model Selma Hadziosmanovic. “She has this timeless beauty, this strength that touches me. I try to put the model's personality first and foremost through my images,” explains the photographer, who began his career as a portrait painter.

Sotheby's Will Auction 200 Pairs of Louis Vuitton and Nike ‘Air Force 1’ by Virgil Abloh

For more info about the scholarship fund and some of Virgil’s students, read The Cut’s article published after his passing, in December 2021.

Sotheby's Will Auction 200 Pairs of Louis Vuitton and Nike ‘Air Force 1’ by Virgil Abloh, to Support The Virgil Abloh™ “Post-Modern” Scholarship Fund AOC Art of Living

Sotheby's is proud to present The Louis Vuitton and Nike “Air Force 1” by Virgil Abloh, a special global online auction of the highly coveted Nike x Louis Vuitton “Air Force 1" sold to benefit The Virgil Abloh™ “Post-Modern” Scholarship Fund, an organization that aims to foster equity and inclusion within the fashion industry by providing scholarships to academically promising students of Black, African American, or African descent.

The auction marks the first-ever release of the Louis Vuitton and Nike “Air Force 1” by Virgil Abloh created for the Louis Vuitton Spring-Summer 2022 Collection. Prior to his passing on 28 November 2021, the Louis Vuitton Men’s Artistic Director was involved in the early organization of the auction and its surrounding events. The auction will take place in association with his family.

Each pair will be sold with a Louis Vuitton pilot case in orange Taurillon Monogram Leather (exclusive to this auction), which was likewise featured in the collection.

Starting from the launch of the auction, the shoes and the pilot case will be exhibited at Sotheby’s New York. Visitors are welcome to view the exhibit free of charge, and can make an appointment to do so through our reservation page.

A total of 200 pairs of the Nike “Air Force 1” – originally created for the Louis Vuitton Spring-Summer 2022 Men’s Collection – is being made available in an exclusive colorway and a range of sizes.

Rebecca Longendyke by Nadine Ijewere in 'How Sweet It Is' for Vogue UK February 2022

Rebecca Longendyke by Nadine Ijewere in 'How Sweet It Is' for Vogue UK February 2022

Model Rebecca Longendyke is styled by Poppy Kain in luxe fabrics and big baubles in divine colors for ‘How Sweet It Is’. Photographer Nadine Ijewere is behind the lens for British Vogue February 2022./ Hair by Amidat Giwa; makeup by Hiromi Ueda

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Grande-Dame Jewelry for WSJ Magazine December 2021 by Felicity Ingram

Grande-Dame Jewelry for WSJ Magazine December 2021 by Felicity Ingram AOC Fashion

WSJ Magazine puts the S in statement jewelry, with Colorful Gemstones: The New Way to Wear Grande-Dame Jewelry (follow our complimentary link to WSJ paywall.) More is better, writes WSJ, about wildly imaginative high and fine jewelry in rainbow hues that beg to be paired.

Shapes inspired by the natural world and adventurous settings get center stage in this shoot by Felicity Ingram [IG] with styling by Virginie Benarroch. A buckle-inspired, multicolor necklace from Louis Vuitton that hugs the nape, bunches of vibrantly green seaweed-like earrings from David Yurman or a magically massive teal butterfly ring from Chopard? Now is the time to go for it.

Models include Licett Morillo at IMG; Mamadou Lo at Elite, and Topsy at Ford./ Hair by Laurent Philippon; makeup, Karim Rahman.

'Cruise Control' Resort 22 Is Eye-popping in V Magazine by David Roemer

'Cruise Control' Resort 22 Is Eye-popping in V Magazine by David Roemer AOC Fashion

Resort ‘21/22 collections have no room for wallflowers, writes V Magazine. We are ready to play and be flirtatious. If this prediction sounds premature in Covid world, hope springs eternal.

Resort style is infused with youthquake spirit. — mini skirts, bandeaus, oversized outerwear — with psychedelic prints and painterly pizzzaz nods to the ‘60s flourishing of Pop Art. Is this sounding familiar? It depends on your age.

Models Diya Prabhakar, Emily Kasten, Izzy Wild, Marlee Bell and Theresa Hayes are styled by Aryeh Lappin in ‘Cruise Control’. Bringing sass to New York streets is a welcome fashion daydream, lensed by David Roemer [IG]. / Hair by Takuya Yamaguchi; makeup by Yui Ishibashi

Kendall Jenner Fronts 2022 Messika Jewelry Campaign Lensed by Chris Colls

Kendall Jenner Fronts Spring 2022 Messika Jewelry Campaign AOC Jewelry News

Valerié Messika, founder of Messika, picked Kendall Jenner as the face of its new 2022 campaign. Photographer Chris Colls [IG] joins Messika and Jenner in St. Tropez the south of France.

“I wanted to illustrate a subtle alliance between grace and strength and capture an image of an alpha woman with a mysterious and hypnotic aura ; Kendall perfectly embodied that for me,” Valérie Messika explains.