Top Model Anok Yai Talks Knife Fights and Finding God in Africa for W Magazine #4

Top Model Anok Yai Talks Knife Fights and Finding God in Africa for W Magazine #4

Returning to W Magazine’s Volume #4 2023, Mert Alas turns his lens to very top model Anok Yai.

Anok describes herself as a prolific artist, working mostly in oils but now experimenting with fire. Yes . . . fire. She has also taken up knife fighting lessons as a way of coping with restlessness. I believe she is now at a level of expertise in knife fighting, that she can land movie roles in major scenes.

“When I’m fighting, it feels like a dance that goes so fast, you have to meditate,” she says. “Because the second you lose focus, you’re hit with a knife.”

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Taylor Hill Jazz Style by Max Papendieck for Vogue Turkey October 2023

Taylor Hill Jazz Style by Max Papendieck for Vogue Turkey October 2023

Top model Taylor Hill, married in June 2023 to Daniel Fryer, covers the October 2023 issue of Vogue Turkey. Sandy Armeni styles Taylor in Jazz Age night glamour, accented with modern, metal jewelry lensed by Max Papendieck [IG]. / Hair by Ward Stegerhoek; makeup by Frank B

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Hunter Schafer in AnOther Magazine FW2023: Images & Interview by Viviane Sassen

Hunter Schafer in AnOther Magazine FW2023: Images & Interview by Viviane Sassen

Actor Hunter Schafer is styled by Katie Shillingford in Maison Alaia, Alexander McQueen, Courreges, JW Anderson, Loewe, Maison Margiela, Prada, Schiaparelli, Skims, Y Project and more. Shillingford has many images identified on her IG.

Photographer Viviane Sassen [IG] is behind the lens for AnOther Magazine Autumn/Winter 2023. Sassen also interviewsd Schafer who will appear November 17 in ‘The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes’./ Hair and makeup by Irena Ruben

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Koto Bolofo Creates 'Polo' with Louise and Mika for Numéro September 2023

Koto Bolofo Creates 'Polo' with Louise and Mika for Numéro September 2023

South African born photographer Koto Bolofo [IG] has long captured AOC’s eye. Like this black and white fashion story ‘Polo’ for Numéro 240 [IG] September 2023, women and horses are a common theme in Bolofo’s art.

Models Louise de Chevigny and Mika Anastasia are styled by Rebecca Bleynie in goddess-worthy fashion and equestrian/polo playing equipment. The shoot location is the Polo Club de Chantilly [IG].

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Louis Vuitton Nurtures Poetic Connections Past and Present in Grazia International October 2023

Louis Vuitton Nurtures Poetic Connections Past and Present in Grazia International October 2023

Grazia International’s October 2023 issue shares a gorgeous and rather poetic Louis Vuitton-sponsored story with Dutch-Spanish model Kristel van de Kamp. AOC has never seen a greenhouse — functioning or delapidated — that failed to entice us. Stylist Anna Castan chooses wisely from LV world past and present in exquisite ‘haute culture photography’ by Pierre Turtaut [IG]. Beautiful.

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Legend Pat Cleveland's Brilliant Past and Present in V Magazine 144 by Nick Thompson

Legend Pat Cleveland's Brilliant Past and Present in V Magazine 144 by Nick Thompson

Model legend Pat Cleveland strikes a pose in V Magazine 144, October, 2023. Oliver Volquardsen styles the now 73-year-old global daughter of diversity who is part African American, part Cherokee, part Swedish and part Irish.

V’s John Kopp writes that “André Leon Talley once dubbed her “the Josephine Baker of international runways.”’

On the topic of moral courage, in 1971, the elder Cleveland moved to France and refused to live in America again until US Vogue featured a Black model on its cover. After Beverly Johnson landed a cover in 1974, Cleveland returned to New York.

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Anna Herrera's Modern Glam Femininity in Vogue Portugal September 2023

Anna Herrera's Modern Glam Femininity in Vogue Portugal September 2023 AOC Fashion

Brazilian model Anna Herrera has the mind of a dancer, as she strikes sequential poses in glam femininity, styled by Ana Tess. Photographer Coni Tarallo [IG] captures Herrera’s ethereal spirit in the fashion story ‘Corpo e alma’ [Body and Soul] for Vogue Portugal September 2023./ Hair by Takuya Yamaguchi; makeup by Virginia Vera