Erdem's Vacation 2023 Collection With Anok Marial and Ayuol Manyok Lensed by Trinity Ellis

Erdem's Vacation 2023 Collection With Anok Marial and Ayuol Manyok Lensed by Trinity Ellis

In the age of Queen Charlotte and Bridgerton on Netflix, Erdem holds extra appeal. Launched in 2005, the brand is synonymous with a versatile yet powerful femininity that projects an uncompromising beauty.

Erdem Moralıoğlu shares lookbook images from his Vacation 2023 Collection. Models Anok Marial and Ayuol Manyok are styled by Ola Ebiti and photographed by Trinity Ellis [IG]./ Hair by Adam Reed

Both Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle love and wear Erdem. Middleton and Markle may be a mess, but Erdem keeps inspiring me to believe that a more harmonious world is possible. I love that Erdem makes queens of women of color — excessively so and worthy of applause for his consistency of purpose.

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Vivek Vadoliya Celebrates ‘Mumbai Magnetic’ for HTSI Magazine May 18, 2023

Vivek Vadoliya Celebrates ‘Mumbai Magnetic’ for HTSI Magazine May 18, 2023

Models Bharath Murugaiyan, Neeraj Saini and Ankit Karki take HTSI Magazine readers to Mumbai in a fashion story ‘Mumbai Magnetic’, written by Jessica Beresford.

Stylist Nikhil Mansata has curated a eclectic menswear offering from Acne Studios, Anamika Khanna [Indian], Bandhgala [Indian], Bianca Saunder, Casablanca, Fendi, Giorgio Armani, Karu Research [Indian], Kolor, LOEWE, Louis Vuitton, Naushad Ali [Indian], Our Legacy, Paul Smith, Péro [Indian], Prada, Suspel, Tod’s, Wooyoungmi, and Zegna in the May 18th issue. Hair and makeup by Maniasha.

London-based photographer Vivek Vadoliya [IG] describes these images for HTSI as “One of the most special stories I’ve shot to date, celebrating Mumbai a city thats so dear to my heart. It’s a place that’s getting a lot of attention for its creativity and energy, and I’m so glad it’s being celebrated!”

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Esther Canadas Summer Style in Ibiza for Harper's Bazaar Spain June 2023 with 4 Covers

Esther Canadas Summer Style in Ibiza for Harper's Bazaar Spain June 2023 with 4 Covers

AOC shares the entire fashion story. The June 2023 issue of Harper’s Bazaar Spain puts Esther Cañadas on four covers, posing in the crystal clear waters of Ibiza, that are as calm and assured as the model and actor writes Harpers Spain [IG].

Photographer Vladimir Marti [IG] flashes Esther Cañadas, styled by fashion editor Claudia Laukamp, with fashion story images to come./ Beauty by Cynthia de Leon

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Esther Canadas in Ibiza Poses on Four Covers of Harper's Bazaar Spain June 2023

Esther Canadas in Ibiza Poses on Four Covers of Harper's Bazaar Spain June 2023

The June 2023 issue of Harper’s Bazaar Spain puts Esther Cañadas on four covers, posing in the crystal clear waters of Ibiza, that are as calm and assured as the model and actor writes Harpers Spain [IG].

Photographer Vladimir Marti [IG] flashes Esther Cañadas, styled by fashion editor Claudia Laukamp, with fashion story images to come./ Beauty by Cynthia de Leon

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Luna Bijl Talks Mental Health in Vogue Czech June 2023 Cover Story Lensed by Arran & Jules

Luna Bijl Talks Mental Health in Vogue Czech June 2023 Cover Story Lensed by Arran & Jules

Chiara Totire styles the fashion shoot in images by Arran & Jules, a partnership of Arran Critchley and Julia Linkogel, now living in London. / Makeup by Martina Bolis

Luna Bijl shares an interview on the Play Mental Foundation about her own mental health challenges and feelings of anxiety.

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Maty Fall in 'Endless Summer' Color Riches for ELLE US May 2023 Lensed by Sharif Hamza

Maty Fall in 'Endless Summer' Color Riches for ELLE US May 2023 Lensed  by Sharif Hamza

Italian-Senegalese top model Maty Fall gets down to business wearing casual clothes and must-have bags, styled in eye-popping prints and colors from top luxury brands. Alex White chooses fashion riches from Celine, Dior, Fendi, Hermès, Louis Vuitton, Moschino, Pucci and more.

Photographer Sharif Hamza [IG] is in the studio, capturing every endless inch of Maty’s legs for the dopamine-inducing ‘Endless Summer’ images in ELLE US May 2023.

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Amber Valletta in ALAÏA Lensed by Craig McDean for Document Journal SS-2023

Amber Valletta in ALAÏA Lensed by Craig McDean for Document Journal SS-2023

Supermodel Amber Valletta is styled by Sarah Richardson in ‘Strategy of Desire’, ALAÏA’s modern vision under Pieter Mulier of the glamazonian power of female physicality that defined the house’s DNA from its birth.

The spirit of Tunisian couturier and shoe designer Azzedine Alaïa is alive and thriving in images by Craig McDean [IG] for Document Journal Spring/Summer 2023./ Hair by Anthony Turner; makeup by Lucia Pieroni

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Oliver Hadlee Pearch Flashes Top Models in 'Raphallo' Italy for Vogue China May 2023

Oliver Hadlee Pearch Flashes Top Models in 'Raphallo' Italy for Vogue China May 2023

Models Anok Yai, Ida Heiner, Nora Attal, Paloma Elsesser and Vittoria Ceretti are styled by Carlos Nazario in ‘Raphallo’. Photographer Oliver Hadlee Pearch [IG] captures the girl gaggle in the Italian Riviera for Vogue China May 2023./ Hair by Cyndia Harvey; makeup by Ana Takahashi

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Reverend-Ready Jennifer Garner in Fab Fakery Style for Allure May 2023

Reverend-Ready Jennifer Garner in Fab Fakery Style for Allure May 2023

Jennifer Garner covers the May 2023 issue of ‘Allure’ magazine, lensed by Tom Schirmacher [IG]. We don’t think of Jennifer Garner going edgy, but stylist Yashua Simmons creates a modern, steely-woman vibe with Miu Miu on the cover, LaQuan Smith [yellow trench coat], Loewe, Michael Kors and more.

“It spoke to the mountain girl in me — it’s a big part of Appalachian culture,” says Garner, 51, who grew up in West Virginia and gifts one of her wood-turning bowls created at a downtown Los Angeles studio to Pergament.

Garner learned the art of word turning in preparation for her current Apple TV+ thriller The Last Thing He Told Me

Asked who she would be without Hollywood, Garner delivers an unexpected answer.

“I would have really liked being a minister,” she says. “My mom thinks I still will be. I grew up in such a lovely church in the United Methodist Church, and the minister was like the den parent. What I like about the study of religion, it reminds me of the study of theater . . .

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Hailey Bieber Talks Rhode and Aching for Babies With Sunday Times Style May 14, 2023

Hailey Bieber Talks Rhode and Aching for Babies With Sunday Times Style May 14, 2023

Super talent Hailey Bieber takes the stage in the May 14th, 2023 issue of The Sunday Times Style [IG], wearing Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello on the cover.

Stella Greenspan styles Bieber in images by Cass Bird [IG]. / Hair by Edward Lampley; makeup by Grace Ahn

Ellie Austin conducts the interview, which is focused primarily on her very successful [and lauded on AOC] skincare brand Rhode.

The entrepreneur and in-demand model-talent does make a health claim that caused my heart to hit the floor, given the times we are living in.

Apparently Hailey makes the claim often, and if estimates are that 10 people in 10,000 have this side effect annually, she may well be on the short list. Bieber makes no uber-rare disclaimer around her health assertion, so the right-wingers Maga crowd just runs wild with it.

AOC shares the facts around her claim from the world-respected Cleveland Clinic.

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Miuccia Prada Talks 30 Years of Miu Miu with Kendall Jenner on Display for W Magazine

Miuccia Prada Talks 30 Years of Miu Miu with Kendall Jenner on Display for W Magazine

Supermodel Kendall Jenner wears Miu Miu favorites styled by Max Pearmain and Miuccia Prada in this fashion story lensed by Alasdair McLellan [IG].

Read W Magazine for all the vintage Miu Miu fashions and also an interview with Eric Wilson titled “Miuccia Prada Talks 30 Years of Miu Miu, Her Greatest Experiment.”

Mrs. Prada is troubled with the idea of presenting post-pandemic fashion as a form of “escapism or entertainment during difficult times”.

“I really don’t like this idea that ‘Fashion is a dream,’ ” Prada says. “First of all, if I have a dream, I want to achieve it, so it’s an objective or a direction. Something that has a strange beauty of who-knows-what-it-is, I really detest.”

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Queen Charlotte's 'Power Play' in Harper's Bazaar UK June 2023 by Luc Braquet

Queen Charlotte's 'Power Play' in Harper's Bazaar UK June 2023 by Luc Braquet

The brand new Netflix show “Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story” is inspired by actor Golda Rosheuvel’s role as “Bridgerton’s” feisty Queen Charlotte. Now, a younger India Amarteifio stars as the younger face of the monarch in the new spin-off series prequel.

Even Shonda Rhimes and actor Golda Rosheuvel stress that the purpose of putting Queen Charlotte front and center in the new Netflix spinoff is to inspire, even jumpstart new research around her ancestry.

"Our Queen Charlotte is based on and inspired by a real person, but is a fictional construct. We have made a beautiful, fantastical show with the hope that it makes people stop and wonder, 'Actually, who was this remarkable woman?' and go to find out more," she says. "Because she deserves it. She was part of the abolitionist movement; she knew Mozart; was a great patron of the arts."

The House of Windsor has never denied Queen Charlotte’s claimed African ancestry. David Buck, a Buckingham Palace spokesperson, was quoted by the Boston Globe as saying “This has been rumored for years and years. It is a matter of history, and frankly, we’ve got far more important things to talk about.”

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Ylang Messenguiral in "Powdering Days" Lensed by Melanie Rodriguez for Vogue Poland

Ylang Messenguiral in "Powdering Days" Lensed by Melanie Rodriguez for Vogue Poland

Vogue Poland Editor-in-Chief Ina Lekiewicz Levy [IG] is also a photographer with a deep love of vintage-inspired stories. AOC followed her there, rather amazed at her consistency of pov.

I just pulled this flower from Ina’s first IG post 287 wks ago— and not included in this fashion story “Powdering Days” for Vogue Poland’s May 2023 issue.

Madagascar, French model Ylang Messenguiral [IG] is styled by Rachel Bakewell in images by Melanie Rodriguez [IG]. /Hair by Raphael Salley; makeup by Claudine Blythman

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Steffi Cook in 'Shiny Happy' Summer Style Lensed by Laurie Bartley in ELLE UK June 2023

Steffi Cook in 'Shiny Happy' Summer Style Lensed by Laurie Bartley in ELLE UK June 2023

British-Danish model Steffi Cook gives us a dopamine dressing rush in ‘Shiny Happy’, shimmering summer style in bright colors styled by Aurelia Donaldson. Photographer Laurie Bartley [IG] is on location in Mallorca for ELLE Intl June 2023 and previously published ELLE UK May 2023.

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Paula Anguera in 'Total Escapism' Summer Style by Kate Bellm for Porter Magazine May 8, 2023

Paula Anguera in 'Total Escapism' Summer Style by Kate Bellm for Porter Magazine May 8, 2023

Spanish model Paula Anguera embraces a state of ‘Total Escapism’, styled by Helen Broadfoot in hot summer, minimum coverage, getaway clothes./ Make-up by Carla Abrams; art direction by Michael Kelly

Photographer Kate Bellm [IG] is behind the lens — a month before her new enterprise Hotel Corazon [IG]opens in Mallorca on June 9, 2023. It looks lovely.

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Anok and Mona Are Stylin in 'Dakar' by Nadine Ijewere for Vogue China May 2023

Anok and Mona Are Stylin in 'Dakar' by Nadine Ijewere for Vogue China May 2023

Vogue China’s [IG] May 2023 issue takes us back to ‘Dakar’ for a revisit of the scene of Chanel’s Métiers d’Art December show. Models Anok Yai and Mona Tougaard take the lead, joined by Ibrahim Kane, Kathia Ndong, Mame Sane and Sophia Makibdji.

Julia Sarr-Jamois styles the fashion story labels including Ahluwalia, Chanel, Chloé , Dolce & Gabbana, Duro Olowu, Dsquared2, Etro, Max Mara, Moschino, Proenza Schouler, Pucci, Rich Mnisi ,Sindiso Khumalo, Thebe Magugu, Tolu Coker and more in images by Nadine Ijewere [IG]./ Hair by Yann Turchi; makeup by Hiromi Ueda

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Halle Baily Takes Digital Cover in Vogue Arabia May 2023 Lensed by Morelli Brothers

Halle Baily Takes Digital Cover in Vogue Arabia May 2023 Lensed by Morelli Brothers

Mermaid-loving Halle Bailey has a digital cover in the May 2023 issue of Vogue Arabia. The fabulous young talent is styled by Julia Müller in luxury looks from Chanel, David Koma, Jil Sander, Schiaparelli, Valdrin Sahiti, Valentino and more for images by The Morelli Brothers [IG]. / Hair by Tinisha Meeks; makeup by Christiana Cassell

My position with Ariel is that based on my studying of Hans Christian Andersen and having new reading from Andersen delivered to me — ‘Two Dramas. The Mulatto and The Moorish Girl’ — there is zero reason to take the position the ‘The Little Mermaid’ could not have been portrayed as a young creature of color in 1950 or in 1875, the year the author passed.

The problem is societal racism but not the author’s racism. And even people of color are jumping to conclusions about the author, which are presently unfounded. White people have the most simplistic argment: that Andersen was Danish and therefore Ariel was white.

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