'Wildest Dreams' Denim in Sculpted Styles for WSJ Magazine Fall 2022 Fashion

'Wildest Dreams' Denim in Sculpted Styles for WSJ Magazine Fall 2022 Fashion

“I wanted to choose sculpted clothing that engulfed the model and to then layer it with denim,” says stylist Chloe Grace Press, who worked with photographer Jesse Jenkins [IG] to create the fashion story ‘Wildest Dreams’ for WSJ Magazine’s Fall 2022 issue.

Model Giselle Norman poses in Alexander McQueen married a peplum corset over a sporty Polo Ralph Lauren shirt. [above] and a Balenciaga denim top [below], with a surprising off-the-shoulder décolletage that mimics a jeans waist.

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Alasdair McLellan Flashes Polo Ralph Lauren Womens Fall 2022 Accessories Campaign

Alasdair McLellan Flashes Polo Ralph Lauren Womens Fall 2022 Accessories Campaign

Polo Ralph Lauren Womens Fall 2022 Accessories Campaign enlists models Amrit and Coralie Jean-Francois. Photographer Alasdair McLellan [IG] is behind the lens, working with Jack Becht, SVP, Creative Director Ralph Lauren.

Campaign films are a dime a dozen. This one is worth watching.

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Gisele Bundchen Lensed in Fendi by Zhong Lin for The Perfect Magazine #3

Gisele Bundchen Lensed in Fendi by Zhong Lin for The Perfect Magazine #3

Katie Grand’s The Perfect Magazine #3 is just truly awesome. I can only believe she has a lot of luxury brands support and respect to make this publication happen. Nicole Kidman’s first released fashion story by Zhong Lin [IG] was only the appetizer. The Malaysian-born, self-taught photographer now shares Gisele ‘Bündchen wearing Fendi while submerged in a water tank.

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Oulimata Takes Flight in Fall 2022's Love of Transparency and Sensual Goddess Power

Oulimata Takes Flight in Fall 2022's Love of Transparency and Sensual Goddess Power

Rising model Oulimata Gueye is styled by Agnès Poulle in ‘Éloge de la Transparence’, a fashion story celebrating designs that flutter. Or, as articulated by WWD, dresses that inspire visions of insect wings or snowflakes on steroids. Photographer Thiemo Sander [IG] captures all the fragile grandeur for Madame Figaro August 26, 2022.

Viewed in black on a commanding female presence like Oulimata, the season’s transparency takes flight with an empowering sensuality that continues to attract many women in all our variations.

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Gigi Hadid in 'Well Worn' Fashion Story by Theo de Gueltzl for Vogue US September 2022

Gigi Hadid in 'Well Worn' Fashion Story by Theo de Gueltzl for Vogue US September 2022

Supermodel Gigi Hadid is styled by Camilla Nickerson in ‘Well Worn’, fashion story for American Vogue September 2022. The title suggests that Gigi’s story is part of the growing resale market or pieces made of recycled fabrics. Or the fashion story is a mix of old and new, which would at least be progress. I’m seeing that more frequently these days.

Theo de Gueltzl [IG] photographs Gigi, and while he doesn’t have her images yet, his own IG has a wonderful vibe and hits some of these AOC notes.

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Issa Lish and Tiana Tolstoi in 'Citizen of the Universe' Jewelry Story for Vogue China

Issa Lish and Tiana Tolstoi in 'Citizen of the Universe' Jewelry Story for Vogue China

Models of Mexican heritage Issa Lish and Egyptian-born French model of Korean, Serbian and Russian descent Tiana Tolstoi are styled by Regina Chan in ‘Citizen of the Universe’, a fine jewelry fashion story. Photographer Pj Lam [IG] captures Lish and Tolstoi in futuristic, intergalactic elegance images for Vogue China September 2022.

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Nicole Kidman's Unadulterated Power, Finely-Tuned Muscles Body for Perfect Magazine #3

Nicole Kidman's Unadulterated Power, Finely-Tuned Muscles Body for Perfect Magazine #3

The headlines are screaming: “Nicole Kidman looks jacked, shows off insane physique on Perfect cover” Page Six; “At 55, Nicole Kidman remains one of fashion’s biggest risk takers” CNN; “Nicole Kidman Looks Ripped as Hell on ‘Perfect’ Magazine Cover The Daily Beast; Nicole Kidman Is Nearly Unregnizable and Insanely Ripped on Must-See Magazine Cover ET Online.

Kidman Has a Past: the Miu Miu Micro Mini

Nicole Kidman took a lot of you-know-what on social media, posing in Miu Miu’s micro mini on the cover of Vanity Fair’s February 2022 Hollywood Isssue. Forget the fact that Kidman put 80% of the population wearing the mini to shame.

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Oliver Rousteing for Jean Paul Gaultier by Pablo Saez for S Moda El Pais

Oliver Rousteing for Jean Paul Gaultier by Pablo Saez for S Moda El Pais

The 2022 guest designer collection by Olivier Rousteing for Jean Paul Gaultier is modeled Marie-Agnès Diene, with styling by Juan Cebrian. Photographer Pablo Saez [IG] is behind the lens for the September 2022 issue of S Moda for El Pais.

What is featured is a tribute to the Gaultier-designed ensembles that Madonna wore on her Blonde Ambition Tour in 1990. In his July comments, Rousteing spoke to his deep concern for women and female liberation worldwide — starting with American women.

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David Sims Flashes 'Desire Lines' for British Vogue September 2022

David Sims Flashes 'Desire Lines' for British Vogue September 2022

The creative team putting together ‘Desire Lines’, clearly let their sensual imaginations run wild. We need it! Models Alessandra Caporaso, Anna de Rijk, Apollo Yom, Ask Putnik, Elio Berenett, Eva Wu, Juliette Grondin, and Vera Kuntz pose to provoke. Benjamin Bruno styles the edgy and subversive fashion story in images by David Sims [IG].

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Gigi Hadid Covers Vogue Italia September 2022 Fashion by Rafael Pavarotti

Gigi Hadid Covers Vogue Italia September 2022 Fashion by Rafael Pavarotti

Supermodel Gigi Hadid covers the September issue of Vogue Italia, styled by Grace Coddington. The fashion legend deserves applause for transforming Gigi in a high-fashion, fall style statement.

Photographer Rafael Pavarotti [IG] captures Gigi’s smartwoman, street-style vibe in this all-cylinders are firing together fashion story.

In a single moment, the fashion performance begins and they ALL row together in an ensemble performance bringing old-fashioned tears to the eyes of Franca Sozzani. And the fashion story involves a bit of artistic risk — and isn’t that fab!

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Ana de Armas Covers Madame Figaro France in Vuitton Lensed by David Roemer

Ana de Armas Covers Madame Figaro France in Vuitton Lensed by David Roemer

Actor Ana de Armas covers the August 2022 issue of Madame Figaro France. The Louis Vuitton ambassador wears her client’s clothes in a fashion story styled by Barbara Baumel. Photographer David Roemer photographs the Latina, who plays Marilyn Monroe in ‘Blonde’, coming to Netflix in September 2022.

De Armas is receiving rave reviews, except for the disgruntled few who detect the Cuban accent the Latina has worked so hard to eliminate in the film. ‘Blonde’ is based on a fictitious portrayal of Monroe in the novel, and we want the haters to keep quiet. Marilyn Monroe is a symbol for all women, not a select few.

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Georgia Baldwin's 'Field Study' at England's Warborne Farm for Harper's Bazaar India

Georgia Baldwin's 'Field Study' at England's Warborne Farm for Harper's Bazaar India

Model Samruddhi Shirodkar tends her flocks, styled by Sophia Katyea in ‘Field Study’. Photographer Georgia Baldwin [IG] and team joined Samruddhi at Warborne Farm, a 100-acre family-run farm in Lymington, Hampshire with LOVELY barns awaiting your arrival. All this beauty is then transported to Harper’s Bazaar India July-August 2022.

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Zoë Kravitz Directs 'Pussy Island'. Yes, A Woman Makes a Movie About Uber-Successful Male Power

Zoë Kravitz Directs 'Pussy Island'. Yes, A Woman Makes a Movie About Uber-Successful Male Power

Zoë Kravitz chose the name of her new movie ‘Pussy Island’ to be confrontational. The film marks the actor’s directorial debut on the grounds of a Yucatán hacienda — “a land of bacchanalia and vice”, writes Hunter Harris for WSJ Magazine.

Kravitz covers the Fall 2022 Fashion issue, lensed by Campbell Addy [IG] with styling by Gabriella Karefa-Johnson.

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Ibukun Sammy, Jason Gomes in 'Les Fauves' by Stoney Darkstone for 1883 Magazine

Ibukun Sammy, Jason Gomes in 'Les Fauves' by Stoney Darkstone for 1883 Magazine

1883 Magazine [IG] shares ‘Les Fauves’, a visually intoxicating fashion story with models Ibukun Sammy and Jason Gomes. London-based photographer Stoney Darkstone [IG] teams up with stylist Ignacio de Tiedra in bold luxury looks from Celine, Chanel, Dior, Fendi, Gucci, Jimmy Choo, Valentino, Versace and more.

Artists in the short-lived French art movement called Fauvism included Henri Matisse and André Derain, working from 1905-1910. The art is characterised by strong colors and fierce brushstrokes. The name les fauves (‘the wild beasts’) was coined by the critic Louis Vauxcelles when he saw the work of Henri Matisse and André Derain in an exhibition, the salon d’automne in Paris, in 1905.

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