Top model Raquel Zimmermann chooses 14 softly-tailored ensembles suitable for facing a hard-edged world. Stylist Brian Molloy says to heck with dopamine dressing, my fashion goddess lives in a black-widow world.
New York-based, Peruvian experimental music artist and model Daniela Lalita is styled by Natacha Vorange in aurembiaix, Fendi, Louis Vuitton, Paco Rabanne, Rui Zhou, VAQUERA, XULY.Bët and more
Colin Solal Cardo [IG] photographs Lalita in a tornado-inspired story for Numéro #236 February 2023.
Ugandan model Eman Agwet is styled by Jennifer Kolomoni in a Piaget Jewellry and Watches high drama fashion story. Photographer Amer Mohamad [IG] captures the stunning images for Vogue Arabia January 2023.
Sudan-born model Ayman Salah is styed by Moritz Lindert in ‘Tidal Wave’, a fashion story for GQ Portugal’s January 2023 issue, lensed by Tobias Wirth [IG]./ Grooming by Katja Maassen
Model icon Stephanie Seymour covers WSJ Magazine’s Spring Women’s Fashion issue, making her first supermodel appearance since the January 2021 death of her son Harry Brant due to an accidental overdose of prescription.
There is a deep sadness that pervades Seymour’s interview with Derek Blasberg — as can be expected when a mother has lost her son to a drug overdose. Daniel Jackson [IG] captures Stephnie’s poignant grief, photographing the woman who “has built her career by happily submitting to the gods of the photo shoot”, in the words of Blasberg.
Those gods include Herb Ritts, Peter Lindbergh, and Richard Avedon. Seymour had a long and lucrative career with Victoria’s Secret.
Neither Stephanie Seymour’s life nor Peter Brant’s was ever dull. In 2018, the New York Times shared ‘The Great Interview Magazine Caper’, writing “Andy Warhol’s magazine is dead. No wait, it’s back! Inside Peter Brant’s latest magic trick.”
Top model Mona Tougaard delivers a dopamine-inducing, Spring 2023 color punch in ‘Fashion Favors the Bold’. Katie Grand styles the Danish beauty of Somali and Turkish descent in sultry, sensual, evening fashion artistry from Bottega Veneta, Chanel, Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Gucci, Loewe, Prada, Richard Quinn, Roksanda, Valentino and Versace.
Photographer Rafael Pavarotti [IG] mixes up his artistic style — not with black and white — but with sepia tints exuding a sophisticated, modern edge. The fashion joy is 21st-century bold beauty for W Magazine’s [IG] 2023 Volume One: ‘The Best Performances’ issue. / Hair by Eugene Souleiman;makeup by Ana Takahashi
Hungarian model Vanessa Axente graces the pages of Vogue China, styled by Peter Simon Phillips in Fendi, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Prada, Valentino, Versace and more. Photographer Charles Dennington [IG] captures Axente in ‘Code Switch’ for the February 2023 issue.
Top model Kaia Gerber is really on a roll, delivering yet another photography session in which she is fully present, clearly in command of the camera and yet there isn’t an ounce of disdain or superiority complex in her face and demeanor.
In this case, Paola Kudacki[IG] is behind the lens for Flaunt Magazine 183.
This young woman is on a roll, and we’re here for it. Kaia Gerber has so much self-composure today, and yet she is accessible to all. Kaia has perfect balance — AND she knows it.
Rising model Maty Drazek is styled by Irina Marie in ‘Nouvelle Ère’, modern attitude silhouettes and fabrics lensed by Van Mossevelde + N [IG] for Numéro France February 2023.
Rising-fast model Adit Priscilla is styled by Bernat Buscato in ‘Le Cinquieme Element’. Photographer Txema Yeste [IG] captures Adit in cinematic, high-vibration fashion images for Numéro France [IG] #236 February 2023./ Hair and makeup by Rubén Mármol
‘The Fifth Element’ is considered to be one of the sci-fi classics of the 1990s. The film did very well internationally but didn’t break records in America. All agree that the film provided major inspo for Besson’s 2017 ‘Valerian’ with Cara Delevigne.
Model Tamsir Thiam covers D la Repubblica’s [IG] January 14th, 2023 Men’s Fashion issue. Thiam is joined by Babacar N’doye and Jibriil Ollow in this high-art fashion story of glamorous men and their clothes.
Of course AOC wants to pursue the undercurrent of biophilia in several of the fashion story images, captured by Paul Kooiker [IG]. But the focus is really on the clothes, dramatic photography and beautiful models styled by Ola Ebiti.
Model Ella Mccutchdon poses in fashion inspired by architectural silhouettes and ‘80s minimalism, imbued with a monastic vibe.
Photographers Louise [IG] & Maria [IG] Thornfeldt capture Mccutchdon channeling Japan’s enduring influence on fashion in London for FTHTSI Magazine [IG]. When Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto and Rei Kawakubo arrived in Paris in the ‘80s, they challenged western perceptions of dress with their avant-garde collections.
Catherine McNeil covered the November 2022 issue of Vogue Australia, styled by Petta Chua in ‘Catherine McNeil’s Great Comeback’.
In Fall 2019, the top, top model walked out of the Burberry show, returned to New York, got off social media, put her furniture on the street — according to Vogue Australia — and bought a one-way ticket home to the country that would nurture her back to health.
Photographer Jake Terrey [IG] captures Catherine McNeil who has returned to the world of fashion modeling sober, married this month to former NBA American basketball player Miles Plumlee, and now possessed of an identity outside of fashion.
You must have guts to walk away and come back clear-headed and accept your fashion-model fate.
To do it twice? It’s called emotional and psychological depth and an absolute willingness to face the woman in the mirror head-on. Simply-stated, you become a warrior woman.~ Anne
Models Kim Young Woong and Zuoye welcome the Lunar New Year, styled by Paola Ventimiglia in glam luxury brands extravagance from Chanel, Dior, Prada, Louis Vuitton x Yayoi Kusame and more.
Photographer Federico Barbieri [IG]captures the festivities for SCMP Style January 2023.
Models He Cong, Sherri Shi, Sora Choi and Yumi Nu are styled by Gabriella Karefa-Johnson in a celebratory, fashion-extravagance happening that was ignited by gunpowder.
New York-Paris based artist Theo Liu [IG] packed up his photography studio essentials, as the creative entourage assembled at contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang's studio in a ‘Year of the Rabbit celebration running globally on multiple Vogues, including in the US.
Under Cai's guidance, the models became his interns, hand-carving stencils using a utility blade and extinguishing the flying sparks of the gunpowder explosions with cotton pompoms.
The Winter 2022.23 Issue of American Vogue takes us to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on upper Fifth Avenue in New York City.
Model Ajok Daing is our guide to view “Alex Katz: Gathering,” curated by Katherine Brinson. The show opened in late October, and you can view the Katz exhibit through February 20, 2023.
The fashion story “Go Big!” trends both the paintings and our spring 2023 focus on very large bags. Max Ortega styles this delicious fashion story lensed by Alex Webb [IG].
American designer Claire McCardell, deeply celebrated on an ongoing basis by designer Tory Burch, caught Alex Katz’s eye decades ago. Her spirit is a major muse behind the current exhibition.
Katz, who is not a fan of the superfluous or fussy in any art form, tells the New York Times how “unaffected” her designs were: “They’re perfect now because everything is so pretentious,” he says. “The idea was, you can spend the day welding and go home and cook some hamburgers outdoors and wear the same clothes.”
Model Nikki McGuire thrives at home in her native Maui, styled in a wardrobe of breezy dresses, relaxed separates and lightweight knits from Alberta Ferretti, Celine, Dior, Hermes, Max Mara, Missoni and more.
Photographer Bryan Liston [IG] has a plum assignment in paradise for Harper’s Bazaar US [IG] February 2023.
Top model and ingenue actor Kaia Gerber, now 21, covers the February 2023 issue of ELLE US. Alex White styles the Celine ambassador in Celine, of course, with sprinkles of Ralph Lauren Collection and an American flag dress from Vaquera. Cass Bird [IG] is behind the lens at the beach in Malibu.
Kaia Gerber has never been “model light” in her interviews. Hyland asks her multiple times about her mental health — like don’t we ask every multi-million $$$$ model today about her mental health?
Kaia shrugs it off with a smile — the smile of plenty of loving, hard work on Kaia — not to fix herself or those around her. But to engage with and gain a young person’s understanding of life around her.
There’s really a lot to like about this young woman. REALLY a lot to like. ~ Anne
Photographer Rafael Pavarotti [IG] brings his infectious, ubuntu vibe to ‘Changing Direction’, a fashion story for British Vogue’s February 2023 issue.
Top model Anok Yai is the star, but Pavarotti brings all the players into the pictures. Super stylist Grace Coddington’s haircut is a knockout. It’s been shorter, but the shape is perfect.
Hair is by Eugene Souleiman and makeup by Ana Takahashi — and they join the images, too. Add Bianca Parisotto and Michael Cukr, and clearly the ringleader Rafael Pavarotti has orchestrated a coming ‘Age of Aquarius’ fashion shoot, where we see all the creators behind ‘Changing Direction’.
Model Kira Dikhtyar poses in ‘Winter Mood’, an opulent fashion getaway from dark winter days styled by Victoria Vas. Photographer Nestor Dikhtyar [IG] captures the sultry Kira in frills, feathers and fake fur for L’Officiel Baltics January 2023.