Lizzo Is On the Charts with All Systems on Go, Lensed by Campbell Addy for Vanity Fair

Lizzo Is On the Charts with All Systems on Go, Lensed by Campbell Addy for Vanity Fair

We’re late to Lizzo’s November 2022 Vanity Fair US cover story event — and what a reading experience it is. Now that New York’s Governors Ball has announced Lizzo in its 2023 edition June 9-11 at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens, it’s time we do some serious Lizzo duty.

The uber talent well on her way to becoming a super star is making waves across America, and we’re here for it. Vanity Fair November was a long-interview pit stop with Lisa Robinson and it came with a perfect title: ‘Everything’s coming up Lizzo, and it’s about damn time.

Lizzo was styled by the one and only Patti Wilson, with photography by Campbell Addy [IG].

I’m writing and switching paragraphs around so that this next tough-talking paragraph from her Vanity Fair interview is followed by Lizzo’s 2021 TEDMonterey Talk.

If you are a white woman who thinks she sounds a little bit too hostile in her VF interview, consider her flute playing at the Library of Congress on September 26.

I am so disturbed over what happened, I probably would have gone to jail.

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Our Blessed Madonna Covers Vanity Fair Europe in Luigi & Iango's Girls Last Supper Story

Our Blessed Madonna Covers Vanity Fair Europe in Luigi & Iango's Girls Last Supper Story

Madonna covers the ICONS issues of Vanity Fair Italy, France, and Spain in a first-ever joint collaboration among the magazines. The new annual “Icon Issue’ project celebrates legends who “contribute[s] to shape the modern culture.”

Madonna’s regular stylist, Swedish B. Åkerlund [IG] chooses Dolce & Gabbana, Gucci, Jean Paul Gaultier, John Galliano for Maison Margiela and more for the two-day shoot that involved more than 80 collaborators.

Fashion editors Michael Philouze and Marcus Chang styled the cast.

Images from the shoot will be part of a Sept. exhibition by Luigi & Iango at the Palazzo Reale Museum in Milan.

Madonna and Religion

As society, are we moving on from that [patriarchal] world? 
We definitely are not moving on, we are moving backwards. Otherwise, we wouldn’t be having discussions on whether or not women are allowed to make choices over their bodies in America. 

Are you a pessimist?
I have to be optimistic otherwise I don’t know how I could go on.

Note that is the identical viewpoint expressed by Natalie Portman in our Miss Dior fragrance post yesterday. I do believe, however, that we must take a new approach.

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ELLE UK's Ski Glam Mashup Lensed by Lulu McArdle with Karolina Spakowski

ELLE UK's Ski Glam Mashup Lensed by Lulu McArdle with Karolina Spakowski

New face Karolina Spakowski brings a mega dose of styling wit by ELLE UK [IG] fashion editor Georgia Medley to the magazine’s December 2022/January 2023 issue.

Photographer Lulu McArdle [IG] captures ‘More Is More’, giving the “classic print and colour clash a 2020s spin, mixing neutral patterns with the boldest brights.”/ Hair by Johanna Cree Brown; makeup by Sogol Razi

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Wild Romance Denim Nicola and Brooklyn Style for Vogue US Winter 2023

Wild Romance Denim Nicola and Brooklyn Style for Vogue US Winter 2023

The Winter 2023 issue of American Vogue [IG] declares a love affair with wide-leg jeans. Glam couple Nicola Peltz and Brooklyn Beckham front the fashion story and the 1970s vibe that inspired so many changes in American society.

Remember, we are in the dawning of ‘The Age of Aquarius’, so it makes sense. Speaking of wild romance terrain and wide-leg jeans “worth falling for,” Vogue is mum about married couple Peltz and Beckham’s intense friendship with Selena Gomez, called a ‘throuple’ by Selena. Media is eager to define the lifestyle of ‘Gopeltzham’.

If Brooklyn and Nicola hadn’t sold their home recently, moving into Selena’s Encino estate before Christmas, the big news would be that Peltz and Gomez have matching tatoos.

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Isabeli Fontana Covers Vogue Brazil January, Lensed by Lufre at Miradouro Hotel

Isabeli Fontana Covers Vogue Brazil January, Lensed by Lufre at Miradouro Hotel

After a five-year hiatus, Isabeli Fontana returns to the January 2023 issue cover of Vogue Brazil in three cover images. Isabeli wears a a plunging neckline sleek red dress [above]; followed by a hi-tech modern chainmail silver Prada crop top and mini skirt [below] and a pantsuit and blouse from Animale.

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Meghan Roche in a Spring Luxury 'Secret Garden' by Erik Madigan Heck for Harper's Bazaaar UK

Meghan Roche in a Spring Luxury 'Secret Garden' by Erik Madigan Heck for Harper's Bazaaar UK

Model Meghan Roche is lensed by Erik Madigan Heck [IG] is in his favorite photography mode for Harper’s Bazaar UK February 2023. Leith Clark styles the rich tableau of elegant prints and patterns./ Hair by Bjorn Krischker'; makeup by Meghan Roche

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Florence Pugh Covers Vogue US Winter 2022, Talks Her Radical Self-Acceptance

Florence Pugh Covers Vogue US Winter 2022, Talks Her Radical Self-Acceptance

Colin Dodgson [IG] is in the kitchen with Pugh as she talks ‘Florence Pugh’s Radical Self-Acceptance’ with Chloe Schama. / Hair by Akki Shirakawa; makeup by Fara Homidi. 

Schama describes Florence Pugh as somebody who exudes “a let’s-go gameness.” It was on full-display in summer 2022, when Pugh wore a sheer Valentino dress that was transparent and showed — goddess forbid — her nipples.

“. . . we were always naked as kids,” Pugh says. “We are human, we are bodies.”

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Christy, Linda, Naomi, Cindy & Tatjana by Peter Lindbergh for Vogue Australia (2013) as 'Supernova' | AOC Archives

Christy, Linda, Naomi, Cindy & Tatjana by Peter Lindbergh for Vogue Australia (2013) as 'Supernova' | AOC Archives

Update 1/11/2023: AOC has written multiple times about Peter Lindbergh’s famous supermodel shoot for British Vogue and its hallmark relevance in inspiring the George Michael ‘Freedom 90’ video. Cindy Crawford shared the video on Instagram three years ago. Prior to that we moved it to the front of the fashion channel on December 25, 2016, with the passing of George Michael.

Regretfully, we again move the video to the front of our channel with the passing of Tatjana Patitz — the super who marched to her own melody. Losing acclaimed photographer Peter Lindbergh — Tatjana’s fashion godfather — on September 3, 2019 was such a gut punch. Today’s news is another ember on a fire of uber-talented people who have left planet Earth long before we were ready to leave them.

May your next act be glorious Tatjana Patitz. ~ Anne

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Kindred Spirits Welcome 'Aquarius' Lensed by Kapturing for Vogue Czech January 2023

Kindred Spirits Welcome 'Aquarius' Lensed by Kapturing for Vogue Czech January 2023

Models Bente Oort, Enzo Kobayashi, Ismael Savane, and Teo Bates are styled by Jan Kralicek in Dior, a brand truly focused on a future world governed by ‘Aquarius’.

The Age of Aquarius predicts a time of major female empowerment. Is it an accident that in 2022 the definition of ‘woman’ was the most searched word in 2022 on dictionary.com?

Major progressive organizations in America are writing the word ‘woman’ out of their vocabularies. We blame anything anti-woman on Republicans in America.

AOC argues that writing women out of our laws, because a small number of trans men with intact ovaries and a uterus might be capable of bearing children in the future is a topic for national conversation.

If one even asks the question, we are called bigots. For years we’ve spoken of breast cancer not only being a women disease. It also claims men. What was wrong with that approach?

This is only a Dior fashion story for the January 2023 issue of Vogue Czech, lensed by Florian and Sebastian [IG]. Take a chill pill, Anne.

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'Together Alone' Feminine Luxury by Jess James for Vogue China January 2023

'Together Alone' Feminine Luxury by Jess James for Vogue China January 2023

Models Lottie Aaron and Ash Chen are styled by Bridie Gilbert in luxury looks from Ann Demeulemeester, Ash, Bottega Veneta, Dior, Fendi, Givenchy, Prada, Saint Laurent, Schiaparelli, Simone Rocha, Versace, Victoria Beckham in a new fashion story ‘Together Alone’.

Photographer Jess James [IG] is in the studio for Vogue China’s January 2023 digital issue, creative direction by Matt Mcdonald.

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Bianca Mabaso In Couture Elegance by Tareck Raffoul for Vogue Arabia January 2023

Bianca Mabaso In Couture Elegance by Tareck Raffoul for Vogue Arabia January 2023

Vogue Arabia’s January 2023 issue turns an elegant eye to couture, styled by Mirko De Propis and Vittoria Ross Provesi. Paris-based photographer Tareck Raffoul [IG] captures model Bianca Mabaso wearing Chanel, Dior, Dolce & Gabbana; Giambattista Valli; Giorgio Armani; Schiaparelli and Valentino./ Makeup by Mattia Andreoli; outstanding hair by Cosimo Bellomo

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Natalia Vodianova on Sisterhood, Activism, Philanthropy in Vogue Beauty Paper

Natalia Vodianova on Sisterhood, Activism, Philanthropy in Vogue Beauty Paper

Supermodel Natalia Vodianova covers Vogue Beauty Paper, January 2023, a media project of Vogue China. Natalia is styled by Michelle Cameron, with creative direction by Matt Mcdonald. Photographer Hugo Comte [IG] is in the studio.

Natalia Vodianova’s stratospheric rise has been breathtaking, as she increasingly turns her attention to her work as a philanthropist, impact investor and UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador.

In Nepal and India, large numbers of women do not have the right to touch food or crops while they are menstruating, because they can cause bad luck to their families. A 2019 study found that 77% of west-central Nepali girls and young women actively practice menstrual exile, even though it is now illegal in India.

Girls in Bolivia are still told that their period blood causes illnesses like cancer in other people.

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