British supermodel Jourdan Dunn covers the May 2025 issue of Harper’s Bazaar España [IG], themed The Art & Crafts issue. Beatriz Moreno de laCova chooses Prada for both covers, adding Balenciaga, Loewe, Maison Alaia and more for the fashion story ‘Dance With Me’ lensed by Javier Biosca [IG]. / Hair by Issac Poleon; makeup by Wild Van Dijk
Kaia Gerber covers the June 2025 issue of Vogue Spain, lensed by Amy Troost. Max Ortega styles the ‘Overcompensating’ [Amazon Prime] series actor in Altuzarra, Gabriela Hearst, Mango, Phoebe Philo, Prada, Sportmax and more. The extensive Mango selects are from Gerber’s current collabwith the Spanish brand.
Kaia is lit: she’s lit on literature, learning, her Library Science [IG] bookclub and loving fellow humans very different from herself. The mega-talent in-the-making won AOC over in the i-D Spring 2020 Icons Issue, where Kaia Gerber chatted with her new friend and ‘Slave Play’ playwright Jeremy O. Harris.
The actor, literature lover and top model talent shares very unique insights into her relationship with mom Cindy Crawford. They are very much worth the read.
Regal portraits starring model Sora Choi wearing haute couture fashion lensed by Nick Knight [IG] grace the pages of V Magazine 154 [IG] Summer 2025 digital issue. Anna Trevelyan styles the South Korean top model in Armani Privé, Chanel, Christian Dior, Schiaparelli and more./ Hair by Ali Pirzadeh;makeup by Val Garland; set design by Andrew Tomlinson
The images in both the editorial and fashion film combine physical and AI manipulation techniques with infrared imaging to author a new method of image-making. SHOWStudio’s enthusiastic embrace of AI enhancements has delivered outstanding results.
Model Julie Hoomans is styled by Holly Gorst in ‘Formative Influence’, a fashion story inspired by the sculptor Barbara Hepworth for Britain’s Harper’s Bazaar [IG] June 2025 issue. Photographer Cathy Kasterine’s [IG] location was chosen with knowledge of artist Hepworth’s history of wandering through the wide and wild open spaces of Cornwall’s Bodmin Moor. Hepworth moved to St Ives from London during WWII.
The Spring 2025 Travel issue for HTSI Magazine [IG] heads to Morocco putting Angelina Kendall on the cover wearing rich, transitional colors from Bottega Veneta. The beautiful story is the second luxury fashion post this week, shot by Josh Olins [IG] in Morocco.
James Valeri styles Kendall, who was in Egypt for the late April release of the Jacquemus ‘La Croisière’ 2025 Campaign. He also styled Karolina Spakowskiin ‘The Sheltering Sky’, working with Olins for Harper’s Bazaar US./ Hair by Cim Mahony; makeup by Adrien Pinault
Rising model Yar Aguer is styled by Hamish Wirgman in ‘Dior Day Dream’, lensed by Priscilla Saada [IG] for HommeGirls [IG] April 2025./ Hair by Andrea Martinelli; makeup by Crystabel Efemena Riley
Shimmer, glimmer and sequins get a style nod in what Harper’s Bazaar Arabia [IG] calls an escape capsule wardrobe. Clearly, the style focus must be an electrifying getaway, with such sparkling abundance on display.
American model Lameka Fox is styled by Arut Arustamyan in Area, Cartier, Celine, Gianvito Rossi, Gucci, Valentino and more, lensed by Mattia Holm [IG] for Bazaar’s May 2025 issue.
English actor and producer Rosamund Pike is styled by Leith Clark in Dior fashion, beauty and high jewelry, in advance of her performance this summer in ‘Inter Alia’. Photographer Emma Summerton [IG] captures Pike in ‘Rare Bloom’ for Harper’s Bazaar UK [IG] June 2025.
Pike plays the role of a London Crown Court Judge Jessica Parks, at the top of her successful career, also navigating professional demands and family life. Outside her courtroom, Parks is a karaoke fanatic, a loving wife and good mom. Life is idyllic.
Then an event occurs that throws Judge Parks’ life into chaos, leaving her family life fissured by this searing examination of modern motherhood and masculinity.
Chinese top model FeiFei Sun graces four covers of Vogue China’s [IG] May 2025 issue in a fashion story called ‘Roaming in Spring’, styled by Liu Xiao. / Makeup by Valentina Li; hair by Zhou Xue Ming
Master photographer Zhong Lin [IG] captures the highly-popular and globally-respected fashion model in the studio and also natural settings.
Model Karolina Spakowski spreads her spirit wings in Morocco, photographed by Josh Olins [IG] in ‘The Sheltering Sky’. James Valeri styled the German muse based in Paris for US Harper’s Bazaar March 2025.
It’s in keeping with the month of May in England that model Evie Saunders appears in the fashion story ‘Flower Power’, the cover story for the May 11th, 2025 issue of The Sunday Times Style [IG].
With two exceptions, ‘Flower Power’ fashion, styled by Verity Parker, is quite sedate, especially compared to Catherine’s Rose. Brendan Freeman [IG] captures Evie in pale, floaty ensembles with humongous shoes. It’s a look./ Hair and makeup by Makiko Nara
Monday begins with British model Gemma Janes posing in Florence for ‘Renesans Kunsztu’ [Renaissance of Craftsmanship]. The beautiful fashion story was styled by Rachel Bakewell in images by Tom Craig [IG] for Vogue Poland [IG].
AOC will always bring onboard another fellow creative who has jumped on our collective, global narratives, artistic moonbeam. Tom Craig’s IG commentary about being in Florence is posted in the primary post.
Italian designer Brunello Cucinelli is very influenced by the Augustinian order, which happens to be the background of the world’s new Pope Leo.
Read my commentary about the Vatican’s announcement of the new pope with many links and related posts, including Italian designer Brunello Cucinelli’s latest letter to the young people of the world.
W Magazine’s [IG] Volume 3, 2025 — The Pop Issue pulls out all the stops in ‘Pattern Recognition’, a made-to-be-seen fashion story. Top model Lulu Tenney is airborn at times, styled with abandon by Charlotte Collet. Photographer Oliver Hadlee Pearch [IG] captures Tenney wearing Brunello Cucinelli, Burberry, Celine, Chanel, Chloé, Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Fendi, Hermès, Louis Vuitton, Rabanne, Talia Byre, Valentino, Zadig & Voltaire and more. / Hair by Shiori Takahashi; makeup by Mel Arter
Numéro Netherlands [IG] launches their 12th issue, themed around ‘Aurora’. In their own words, ‘Aurora’ is a symbol of renewal and creative evolution that reflects the spirit of transformation shaping today’s cultural and fashion landscape’.
Brazilian supermodel Isabeli Fontana graces one of the ‘Aurora’ issue covers, cited as an astute master of the industry concept of models being required to ‘rebirth’ themselves. Isabeli is styled by Caterina Ospina Buitrago in Balenciaga, BCBGMAXAZRIA [3 images], Ferragamo, Michael Kors, Sportmax, YSL and more, accented with Swarovski Jewelry.
There’s no obvious letup in the western trend deeply embedded in the American story. This narrative gains momentum as Bella Hadid actually moves to Texas. In Bella’s case, her home is in Fort Worth with its authentic, western-core identity, compared to Austin, Dallas and San Antonio.
Pharrell Williams expanded the story for Louis Vuitton Men and Beyoncé herself celebrates cowboy culture.
Model Vanessa Moody landed in Arizona for this early April 2025 ‘Arizona Dreams’ cover story for Madame Figaro France [IG]. Stylists Delphine Perroy and Carole Matray choose from Bottega Veneta, Brunello Cucinelli, Dsquared2, Gucci, Isabel Marant, Loewe, Louis Vuitton, Miu Miu, MM6 Maison Margiela, Prada, Ralph Lauren and more, lensed by David Roemer [IG].
Models Rosalieke Fuchs and Sihana Shalaj are styled by Katie Burnett in ‘Antithesis’, a fashion story lensed by Oliver Hadlee Pearch [IG] for D Repubblica May 3, 2025. Burnett chooses Celine for the duo models cover cover with hat by Atours Vintage and an Intimissimi bra. / Hair by Cyndia Harvey; makeup by Lucy Bridge
British-Punjabi model Neelam Gill leads an absolutely-lovely, summer cover story for Vogue Singapore’s May 2025 ‘Sonder’ issue. Konca Aykan styles Gill in Gucci’s pre-autumn 2025 collection, shot in Spain by Javier Castán [IG]./ Makeup by Iria Salgado; hair by Mariona Botella
Most recently, Neelam Gill appeared in Gigi Hadid’s Vogue US cover story that inspired our jazz age dive into the Harlem Renaissance.
The Jazz Age in all its glory will be on view at tonight’s Met Gala.
‘Superfine’ is the official catalogue published in conjunction with the Met Gala Monday night, May 5 and the ‘Superfine’ exhibition running from May 10-October 26, 2025. Rising star photographer Tyler Mitchell [IG],now represented by Gagosian, shot the ‘Superfine’ catalogue and this series of images from it.
In this presentation of catalogue story images, Mitchell works with top stylist Carlos Nazario [IG] to capture dandy-worthy images of artist Ike Ude and models including Abdou Ndoye, Craig Shimirimana, Lamine Seck and Mou Lam./ Hair by Dre Demry Sanders; makeup by Keita Moore; set designer Julia Wagner
Natalie Portman is Vogue Australia’s [IG] May 2025 cover star eager to discuss her upcoming movie ‘Fountain of Youth’, which Vogue calls a “globe-trotting extravaganza” that looks like it was fun to make. The movie opens May 23 on AppleTV.
“It was so fun. It was really a dream offer when I got it. Wait, I get to work with Guy Ritchie and John Krasinski? And all these other actors, between Domhnall [Gleeson] and Eiza [González] and Arian [Moayed] and Carmen [Ejogo], who I love so much. . . Vienna was extraordinary and Cairo was a dream. It’s so rare these days to go to the real places.”
Portman pushes back on the issue of aging in ‘The Fountain of Youth’, although she affirms that her beautiful, aging-naturally mother inspires her not to be afraid of physical aging.
Cuban-American femme fatale Eva Mendes may look coy, but she’s a very direct and articulate woman madly in love with her man Ryan Gosling, the father of their two daughters.
Mendes covers the April 30, 2025 issue of ELLE France [IG], wearing a Stella McCartney dress on the cover and thruout the fashion story styled by Carolina Orrico with images by Pamela Hanson [IG]./ Hair by Chris McMillan; makeup by Maria Vargas