Model Briana Michelle peppers our summer vaca imaginations — as fall designs take over magazine editorial. Georgia Medley styles ‘New Bohemia’ and lives up to the fashion story title with a masterly mix that works in every image. Nigerian/American photographer Mikey Oshai [IG] captures the sophisticated fashion stance for ELLE UK July/August 2022.
Harper’s Bazaar Brazil’s August 2922 issue tributes Dior’s Resort 2023 Collection. Model Allana Santos Brito fronts the cover story styled by Paris-based Raphaël Nicolas De Castro. Photographer Stéphanie Volpato [IG] captures Brito at the Bergerie Nationale in Rambouillet, France.
Whether funded by Dior or not, AOC is intrigued with this gorgeous and sensual editorial in Harper’s Bazaar Brazil’s August 2022 issue. We always feel the push and pull of feminism and women’s history in today’s Christion Dior’s collections.
Swarovski X Rosenthal have joined forces to bring a revitalized and engaged Swarovski jewelry style to Rosenthal porcelain. If you look carefully, even eyeglasses are in the mix — one piece being more visually scrumptious than the other in a campaign that rockets further into the stratosphere after the release of Swarovski’s spring 2022 Bella Hadid campaign.
Kaia Gerber returns to LVMH-owned French luxury brand CÉLINE for the Winter 2022 campaign, lensed in Nice, France by the brand’s Creative, Artistic and Image Director Hedi Slimane [IG]. The collection will be available on Aug. 26, 2022.
Gerber poses with key CÉLINE brand pieces, including the Celine chain box ‘Triomphe’ bag, Wesley jeans, the ‘Spencer’ jacket, and the ‘Trapeze Triomphe’ shoulder bag.
After 22 years, Tod’s Della Valle family want to delist Tod’s Group from the Italian Stock Exchange, offering stockholders a premium on their shares to essentially take their profits and go home — so that Tod’s can manage its business affairs with a more brand-building, longterm-success strategy.
“Brothers Diego and Andrea Della Valle control 63.64 percent of Tod’s shares. Delphine S.A.S. under the LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton Group will remain in the Tod’s capital with its current 10 percent stake,” writes WWD.
Gucci’s resort 2022 collection may win the fashion crown for best global hot spots bags ever. More is better in a lineup that surely touches down on all continents: Bondi, Hawaii, Miami, Mykonos, Palm Desert and — well, we’re just getting started.
Max Siedentopf creates larger than life images where models including Anok Marial, Mathilde Buoso and Ruiqi Jiang tower above the little people, styled by Luca Galasso. Gucci Creative Director Alessandro Michele looms large with his beautiful wit in high gear as he wings around the world. Next stop unknown.
South Korean actor Kim Tae-ri is best known for films that inclue ‘The Handmaiden’, ‘Little Forest’, ‘Space Sweepers’ and the historical drama ‘Mr. Sunshine’. She covers the August 2022 issue of Vogue Hong, styled by Choi Ja Ryoung in sober elegance from Fendi, Givenchy, Prada and more impeccable luxury looks. Kim Yeong Jun, aka Yeongjun Kim [IG] is in the studio with fashion and creative direction by Sean Kunjambu./ Makeup by Oh Yoon Hee; hair by Baek Heung Kwon
Balmain gets futuristic with a Fall-Winter 2022 ad campaign shot by Mert & Marcus [IG]. Models Aweng Chuol, Cherif Douamba, Chu Wong, Christina Jugo, Claus Mukasa Kaonge, Lila Moss, Lulu Wood, Tanya Churbanova, and Tye Tubbax trek into the desert setting with stylists Charlotte Stockdale and Katie Lyall.
Model Tehya Elam fronts ‘Plant Ladies, The New Cat Ladies’, styled by Jess Gutierrez and Natalia Sanchez. Izack Morales [IG] captures the fashion story for ELLE Mexico [IG] July 2022./ Hair by Takuya Yamaguchi; makeup by Mitch Yoshida
Should we assume these plant species are non-toxic, because lots of plant ladies have cats? Plants are highly desirable today, with 7 in 10 millennials calling themselves a plant parent.
Zimmermann’s Fall 2022 Campaign turns to pop astrology with its ‘Stargazer’ collection. Rising model Beauise Ferwerda poses in the Zimmermann Fall Collection at the Château de Gudanes in France, lensed by Benny Horne.
Set upon a hilltop in the in the small village of Chateau-Verdun, located in the French Pyrenees, Château de Gudanes was purchased by a West Australian family, the Waters, in 2013. The structure was in a staggering state of dilapidated neglect, considering its pedigree by Parisian architect Ange-Jacques Gabriel.
Nigerian model by way of Germany Chikamaraa is styled by Pablo Patanè in ‘O Sono da razão produz monstros’. Ukraine-born, Milan-based photographer Bohdan Bohdanov [IG] captues this unusual jewelry and beauty story for Vogue Portugal ‘s August 2022 ‘Good Vibes’ issue.
In their editorial commentary, Vogue Portugal acknowledges that darkness and shadows are a significant aspect of daily life — but there is not only discovery and meaning there but also a way out of darkness into light and ‘good vibes’.
Model Aaron Rose Philip [IG] graced the pages of Vogue Poland’s June 2022 issue, styled by Carolina Orrico in images by Stanislaw Boniecki [IG]./ Hair by Jerome Cultrera; makeup by Roy Liu
I honestly don’t know how AOC missed Aaron Rose Philip, but we did. No excuses and my apologies. ‘What a marvelous human being’ are the only words that come to mind to describe this Antiguan-American model, now 21. In 2018, she became the first black, transgender, and physically disabled model to be represented by a major modeling agency.
Vogue interviewed Philip last November in a series called ‘How I Got Here’. Her comments are a life lesson in how to envision success by creating optimal conditions for it to happen.
Top model Birgit Kos poses in Aritzia: Babaton ‘Swim’ Summer 2022 Campaign [IG], lensed by Eddie Wrey [IG].The swim collection is made of Econyl, sustainable Italian recycled nylon.
The totally-fabulous Elle Macpherson, now 58, covers ELLE France’s July 28th issue, performing the convenient hat trick on her beautiful, healthy-living body. Ève Maeno styles Macpherson in Fendi on the cover, with a long list of top summer brands on the inside pages.
In the case of photographing his ex-wife, Gilles Bensimon always takes great care to capture her contagious joie de vivre.
Model Lara Mullen is styled by Alba Roces in ‘Chica Nueva En La Oficina’ [New Girl in the Office], a boss lady in the making fashion story heavy on sharp tailoring. Photographer Javier Ruiz [IG] captures Mullen for Vogue Espana’s August 2022 issue.
Top models Achenrin Madit, Bella Hadid,Mila Van Eeten, Sora Choi, and Vittoria Ceretti come together in the streets of Brooklyn for the Ports 1961 [IG] fall-winter 2022 campaign. A top-tier crew comes together consisting of photographer Steven Meisel and stylist Karl Templer, with art direction by Fabien Baron.
In the Fall 2022 campaign, Chiuri is inspired by the objectified female subjects of ‘Old Masters’, as transformed by living Italian feminist artist Mariella Bettineschi. In the fashion show, the models clearly referenced the women in Renaissance paintings, but reborn as women and girls with their own agency and ability to understand the ways of the world at work around them.
Model Adit Priscilla and photographer Dan Beleiu [IG] drop a few more images, styled by Alba Melendo into the August 2022 issue of Vogue Spain. The team delivered a modern-drama style statement in the July issue.
When Daniella Midenge photographed Jennifer Lopez for Allure Magazine’s 30th Anniversary cover story, it was clear that they shared some kind of cosmic energy. J. Lo had a daring pixie cut to celebrate her 52 birthday, and the two femmes delivered a supercharged, sexy and sensual photoshoot.
Daniella excels at putting her foot on the pedal when photographing women. She renders them as 10-alarm fires who even Pope Francis would invite to dinner. Midenge makes ‘sexy’ very respectable — and that is a precious gift to the women she photographs.
Daria Strokous, the Russian model, photographer and actor who grew up in West Africa and currently lives in New York, was photographed high above Manhattan rooftops by Ben Lamberty [IG]. Aryeh Lappin styled the femme fatale glamour story.