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Giulia Lins in 'Le Premiere' by Ivan Erick Menezes in Vogue Portugal July 2021 AOC Fashion
Giulia Lins is styled by Alexandre Dornellas in ‘Le Premiere’, lensed by Ivan Erick Menezes [IG] for Vogue Portugal July 2021.
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Anna Murphy's Critical Insights in 'Body Beautiful' for Harper's Bazaar UK AOC Fashion
Models Molly Constable and Seynabou [Zeyna] Cissé cover Harper’s Bazaar UK’s August 2021 ‘The Body Issue’. Shibon Kennedy styles the duo in ‘Body Beautiful’, a visual and written-word reflection on curves lensed by Pamela Hanson [IG] with words by Anna Murphy.
Murphy is fashion director of The Times and The Sunday Times [UK] since 2015. Previously she launched ‘Stella’ at The Sunday Telegraph, also London-based. She is unusually honest in sharing her thoughts about curves and female ‘flesh’ generally-speaking.
All women have paid a high price over body management by religious zealots, but women of color have paid the highest price. In every dialogue of this nature, we must take the experiences of white women and double-triple them for women of color.
Murphy only has a one-pager in Harper’s UK, but hopefully she intends to use her platform to amplify her message going forward on this topic.
Anna Murphy considers the origin of the so-called ‘thin ideal’ that has been in ascendancy over the last century.
In her book ‘Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body’, Susan Bordo argues that it’s about 'the tantalising ideal of a well-managed self in which all is kept in order'. That this has had a greater hold over women than men is because "throughout dominant Western religious and philosophical traditions, the capacity for self-management is decisively coded as male. By contrast, all those bodily spontaneities – hunger, sexuality, the emotions – seen as needful of containment and control have been culturally constructed... as female." Golly.
And so, to follow Bordo’s argument, modern women – or at least those in "late modern Western societies" – have used their bodies to demonstrate to others that they can do, be, live as men do; that they can subjugate their "domestic, reproductive destiny".
I told you the essay is provocative!! ~ Anne
Steffi Cook for Matches Fashion July 2021 by Robbie Lawrence AOC Fashion
Model Steffi Cook is styled by Morgan Pilcher in a fashionable look at Matches Fashion July, lensed by Robbie Lawrence [IG]./ Makeup by Erin Green; hair by Sarah Jo Palmer
Fran Summers Wears Noble Origins Tailoring by Scott Trindle in British Vogue August 2021 AOC Fashion
Model Fran Summers is styled by Kate Phelan in ‘Power & Purpose’, lensed by Scott Trindle [IG] for Vogue UK August 2021./ Hair by Ryan Mitchell; makeup by Ammy Drammeh
Malika El Maslouhi Gets Smart Girl Preppy in HommeGirls 5 by Tanya + Zhenya Posternak AOC Fashion
Model Malika El Maslouhi is styled by Elissa Santisi in ‘Play It Preppy’, a fashion story of HommeGirls looks from Balenciaga, Bottega Veneta, Gucci Hermes, Kwaidan Editions, Margaret Howell and more. Photographers Tanya + Zhenya Posternak [IG] capture the action for HommeGirls, currently promoting issue V5 Summer 2021. / Makeup by Romy Soleimani; hair by Adam Markarian
Maja Zimnoch in 'Stage Fright' by Javier Castan for Vogue Portugal June 2021 AOC Fashion
Model Maja Zimnoch is styled by Francisco Ugarte in ‘Stage Fright’, a poetic, romantic, seaside fashion story lensed by Javier Castan [IG] for Vogue Portugal June 2021.
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Martha Hunt Poses in Fendi + Bulgari by Natalie Kogan for InStyle Russia August 2021
Top model Martha Hunt appears four-months pregnant in Natalie Kogan’s fashion story ‘The lead is played by . . . ‘. Bobette Cohn styles the Bulgari ambassador in Fendi and Bulgari, both LVMH brands, for the August 2021 issue of InStyle Russia.
Hunt is expecting her first child with photographer Jason McDonald. The duo announced their engagement in January 2020, but COVID has seriously derailed their wedding plans. It was a Victoria’s Secret old-home week when former VS Angel Hunt announced her pregnancy mid-June.
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Willow Smith's Rock Revival Interview and Valentino Fashion Story in V Magazine AOC Fashion Style
American singer, rapper, actor, dancer and songwriter Willow Smith is interviewed by Dania Curvy, digital editor at V Magazine and VMAN about forging the path for Black women in punk rock. Willow is styled by Nicola Formichetti in Valentino’s Roman Palazzo Collection and Cartier’s emblematic hardware.
Photographed by Domen / Van de Velde [IG], the multi-hyphenate creative blasts through the “lazy stereotype that associates Black female singers with R&B and soul”, making it clear that Black women intend to stay strong in a punk rock music genre dominated by white men.
V Magazine is quick to remind us that Smith’s mother Jada Pinkett Smith was the lead singer in a punk rock band Wicked Wisdom. Smith introduced Willow to Tennessee-based metal band Straight Line Stitch, led by a Black woman, Alexis Brown, now Alexis White.
Willow Smith was “super young’ age when ‘Whip My Hair’, her debut single released by Jay-Z’s Roc Nation came out in 2010. "I feel like I lost my sanity at one point," Smith said in 2018 of the time surrounding her song's release. "I had just stopped doing singing lessons and I was kind of just in this gray area of 'Who am I? Do I have a purpose? Is there anything I can do besides this?' "
In the 2018 interview words of Willow’s father Will Smith: “Willow was really the first person during 'Whip My Hair' that decided she didn’t want to do what I said . . . Because she was the baby girl, she really had the most power over me. As a man – if your daughter says no, there’s really nothing you can do.”
AOC says tell that to authoritarian right-wingers, who fight every day to control women’s bodies through shame and laws. Read Willow Smith’s entire new digital cover interview “Willow’s Rock Revival” at V Magazine.
Natalie Ogg in 'The English' by Jackie Nickerson for Vogue Singapore July 2021
Model Natalie Ogg is styled by Xander Ang in ‘The English’, lensed by Jackie Nickerson [IG] for Vogue Singapore July 2021.
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Tavi Gevinson Reflects the Moment in 'XOXO Tavi' for Vanity Fair by Nick Riley Bentham
Tavi Gevinson is an American writer, magazine editor, and actor. And ‘no’, she’s not skinnying into a pair of jeans, heading off to Vogue Paris. Tavi won’t be adopting former Vogue EIC Emmanuelle Alt’s trademark style, to the best of AOC’s knowledge.
Now 25, Tavi has a superb set of images by Nick Riley Bentham [IG] in the July/August 2021 issue of Vanity Fair. Nicole Chapoteau styles the founder of an incredibly popular, fashion and feminism blog ‘Style Rookie’ at age 12 in eccentric artistry from Alessandra Rich, Chanel, Collina Strada, Dior, Emilio Pucci, Wales Bonner and more./ Hair by Roberto Di Cuia; makeup by Akiko Owada
Jacquemus SS21 x Numéro Netherlands by Toussaint Fazi with Marie Fofana
Numero Netherlands shares their latest editorial collaboration with JACQUEMUS. Victor Vergara styles Jacquemus SS21 x Numéro Netherlands, featuring IMG models Marie Fofana and Jakman lensed by Toussaint Fazi [IG]. Check out the entire cast at Numero Netherlands and Jacquemus’ latest fashion collection, posted July 3.
Rocio Ramos Shoots Huge del Pozo in 'Gender Fluid' for Vogue Hong Kong May 2021
Photographer Rocio Ramos [IG] shoots a fabulous fashion story featuring model Hugo del Pozo, styled in ‘Gender Fluid’ looks by Abraham Gutiérrez for Vogue Hong Kong’s May issue.
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