Adidas Pauses Balenciaga Partnership "Until Further Notice" In Pre-order Customer Messages

Adidas Pauses Balenciaga Partnership "Until Further Notice" In Pre-order Customer Messages

Adidas Is ‘Re-Evaluating’ its partnership with Balenciaga, “pausing” all co-created product launches “until further notice.”

The news came quietly, with customers supplying Sneaker Freaker with copies of emails they’ve received from adidas regarding the pre-order of Balenciaga/adidas Stan Smith trainers.

In a bit of irony, Balenciaga tells customers a different story, that the “trainers will be delayed in shipment” and that “We will notify you again once the item is shipped.”

In case you thought this might be a coordinated message between the two brands to the same customers, it obviously was not.

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Raquel Zimmermann by Ancestral Voices in Robin Galiegue Images for TTA21

Raquel Zimmermann by Ancestral Voices in Robin Galiegue Images for TTA21

Top model and ceramic artist Raquel Zimmermann is a fashion and culture focus for The Travel Almanac FW2022 issue. Clare Byrne styles the restrained, modest fashion silhouettes with Bottega Veneta on the cover.

The organic sensuality of Raquel Zimmermann’s ceramics is almost visceral to AOC eyes. There are artists and talents who are very focused on outward visualization, while others channel the unconscious mind and ancestral voices, compelled to go deeper into the human experience in a universal way.

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Kate Moss Delivers Pink Hair in Marc Jacobs Resort 2022.23 by Harley Weir

Kate Moss Delivers Pink Hair in Marc Jacobs Resort 2022.23 by Harley Weir

Supermodel Kate Moss channels her ‘90s pink hair days in a new campaign for Marc Jacobs Resort [IG] 2022.23. The two fashion heavyweights have been collaborators since 2000.

In 1998, Kate walked the Versace spring 1999 runway show with pink hair that lasted a week and took eight hours to create.

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Koto Bolofo Captures Les Cavalières Equestrian Style for Numéro France #234

 Koto Bolofo Captures Les Cavalières Equestrian Style for Numéro France #234

Equestrian women are everywhere in fashion, driven by the Dior Cruise 2023 collection. And photographer Koto Bolofo [IG] often shoots horses in his fashion stories.

Models África Peñalver & Ludivine Rousseau are styled by Rebecca Bleynie in sober luxury looks for ‘ Les Cavalières’ in Numéro France #234 November 2022.

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Mona Tougaard in 'Work Force' by Craig McDean for Vogue UK January 2023

Mona Tougaard in 'Work Force' by Craig McDean for Vogue UK January 2023

Top model Mona Tougaard poses in ‘Work Force’, familiar boss lady looks that many argue are dated and yet . . .

But pussy-bow blouses? Kate Phelan styles Tougaard in sober colors, sartorial tailoring lensed by Craig McDean [IG] for British Vogue’s January 2023 issue.

Vogue definitely got the sex appeal part right. Also pussy-bow blouses can be deceptive in high-stakes negotiations.

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'Shell Shocked' Jamaican Beauty for More or Less Issue 06 by Alexandra Leese

'Shell Shocked' Jamaican Beauty for More or Less Issue 06 by Alexandra Leese

Models Marieka Marston and Maeve Morris grace the pages of biannual British magazine More or Less Issue 06, presenting a sensual, sustainable fashion story ‘Shell Shocked’.

The shoot took place in Negril, Jamaica at Xtabi Resort and Bloody Bay, with styling by Marika-Ella Ames. The fashion creative was born in New York, the daughter of a Jamaican father. Alexandra Leese is the photographer [IG].

Ames describes More or Less as “one of the industry’s most coveted fashion magazines with its policy that everything must be vintage, handmade, or natural, nothing can be new … it was a very imaginative process for me as [a] stylist.”

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Roksanda x Fila Collab Campaign by Viviane Sassen Is a Dose of Dopamine

Roksanda x Fila Collab Campaign by Viviane Sassen Is a Dose of Dopamine

In this winter 2022.23 campaign for Roksanda Ilincic’s capsule collab with Fila, Robbie Spencer styles models Adhel Bol and Ayak Veronica Bior. Photographer Viviane Sassen [IG] flashes the sculptured, cocooning clothes with bold-color combos and linear tapings and inserts.

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Jessica Chastain in 'The Good Fight' Lensed by Jessica Chou for Marie Claire Holiday

Jessica Chastain in 'The Good Fight' Lensed by Jessica Chou for Marie Claire Holiday

With her own company behind the Showtime miniseries ‘George & Tammy’, out now, Chastain was determined to give her “Stand By Your Man’ country singer “main character energy.”

The actor takes issue with the idea that Tammy Wynette was a doormat, reminding us that Wynette was married five times.

The male character of George Jones is played by Michael Shannon, who has an excellent relationship with Chastain.

As scripted, the scene went something like:

DON (picture a pencil neck with an ego): You're going to fuck my wife, aren't you, George?

GEORGE (Michael Shannon): Yes, I'm going to fuck her.

"[Michael] changed the line from, 'Yes, I'm going to fuck her'—excuse the language—to, 'I sure would like to," Chastain remembers. "The second he said, 'I sure would like to,' it was like, 'Oh, yes, this is happening. Because he sees her as someone who gets to make the decision. And that's working with an actor who's very aware he doesn't own me." Another perk of being producer? You get to pick your scenemates. "We were so in tune with one another," says Shannon, who first met Chastain on the set of 2011's Take Shelter. "The notion of sitting in front of another man and looking at a woman and proclaiming that you're going to fuck her, seems a little neanderthal to me. I mean, if I was the woman in question, I wouldn't enjoy that so much."

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Caroline Trentini, Strong and Sensual by Lufre for Vogue Brazil October 2022

Caroline Trentini, Strong and Sensual by Lufre for Vogue Brazil October 2022

Brazilian model Caroline Trentini delivers 6’ft of mommy gorgeosity in the October 2022 pages of Vogue Brazil. The fashion story ‘Traço Forte’ [strong trait] is lensed by Lufre [IG] with styling by Rita Lazzarotti./ Makeup by Suy Abreu; hair by Shady Jordan

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Valentina Li's Blowout System Beauty Mag Debut, with Gallery-Worthy Images by Zhong Lin

Valentina Li's Blowout System Beauty Mag Debut, with Gallery-Worthy Images by Zhong Lin

Tibetan model Tsunaina has been compared to an intergalatic Avatar, and even an exotic cat, a human who has worn uniqueness and unconventional beauty as a conquering weapon, wrote ELLE India.

But these images of Tsunaina in the launch issue of System Beauty [IG] are beyond words. Seriously, what a fabulous, visual intoxication lensed by Zhong Lin [IG], who is having an incredible year.

Makeup is by Valentina Li [IG], a Chanel Global Makeup Creative Partner with outstanding talent and hair by Ryo Narushima.

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Theresa Marx Captures 'Radler' an Eccentric Bike Ride in Manifesto Asia November 2022

Theresa Marx Captures 'Radler' an Eccentric Bike Ride in Manifesto Asia November 2022

Models Iris O’Carroll and Nyawargak Gatluak pose in ‘Radler’, German for ‘cyclist’ but also a German lemonade beer drink for thirsty cyclists worn out by summer heat.

Lyla Cheng styles the eccentric shoot, which is very clever, lensed in striking images by Theresa Marx [IG] for Manifesto Asia November 2022.

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Game On for 'Ivy League' Style by Laura Seganti, Imaged by Francois Rotger for ELLE Italia

Game On for 'Ivy League' Style by Laura Seganti, Imaged by Francois Rotger for ELLE Italia

Varsity style is far from leaving us in style and culture. ELLE Italia sends that message loud and clear with its ‘Preppy New Year’ issue N.48, Jan. 14, 2023.

Model Margaux Van Kommer gets high marks for going ‘Ivy League’, with a strong noble origins vibe styled by Laura Seganti in images by Francois Rotger [IG].

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Alexa Dellanos at Bonnie Club Paris by Pierre Turtaut for Vogue Mexico Beauty December 2022

Alexa Dellanos at Bonnie Club Paris by Pierre Turtaut for Vogue Mexico Beauty December 2022

Tania Tuka styles the American Alexa Dellanos [IG], who has 2.9m followers on TikTok, without a single post, and 10.2m followers on in Dior, Emilio Pucci, Isabel Marant, Saint Laurent and more, with images by Pierre Turtaut [IG] and creative direction by Jean-Marc Mondelet.

The shoot took place at the Bonnie Club Paris, part of the new SO/Paris Hotel.

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