With the Gregorian calendar’s New Year’s Day upon us in hours, and the Chinese Zodiac Year of the Rabbit ringing in the Lunar New Year on January 22, 2023, Gucci releases a beautiful and without controversy campaign that celebrates two global cultures and also Easter 2023, coming on April 9.
Thank you to perhaps the most soulful creative in fashion — Alessandro Michele, formerly of Gucci. I am certainly one of the people who only recently expressed my understanding of your vision and perspective.
Model Puck Shrover is styled by Marquessa Whyte in ‘Fashion Fundamentals’.
Designers and industry insiders alike are increasingly turning to time-honored tailoring and investment pieces to create an impactful ‘forever closet’ that champions personal style over transient trends.
This is the message of the new Porter Magazine December 28 cover story, lensed by Hördur Ingason.
Model Chloe Tang is next up in what will probably be a lovely hailstorm of colorful Louis Vuitton x Yayoi Kusama confetti dots in fashion stories that launch 2023.
how grand would it be if we optimists and non-haters had a Yayoi Kusama umbrella? They exist and not at a price of $500. This is yet another example of a global secret society we can create . . . together.
Photographer Ayetekin Yalçın [IG] captures Chloe Tang for the Citizen Kane X-CENTRIC winter 2022/23 issue.
Top model Sora Choi covers the January 2023 issue of Vogue Italia. How great for this South Korean born, consistently gracious and on point, fashion pro to cover Vogue Italia — in the spirit of Franca Sozzani. It’s a choice she would have made.
Choi is styled by Imruh Asha and lensed by Carlijn Jacobs [IG] in artistic images to launch 2023, with input by Juan Costa Paz, Vogue Global Creative Director.
Models Amar Akway, Ella McCutcheon, Luca Biggs and Maty Drazek take a silvery winter spotlight, styled by Suzanne Koller in glimmering modern tones of marine blue. Sam Visser [IG]creates a softly-dramatic makeup tableau that also taps marine blue for a nod to eccentric artistry punctuated with rose, silver, and black.
The shimmering festive vision is yet another nod to Zara — this time Zara Beauty Winter 2022.23, lensed by Robin Galiegue [IG].
Actor Julia Butters is styled by Anna Schilling in a cover story for Grumpy Magazine, established in 2016 to challenge people to “get out of your grumpy mood.”
Julia Butters has received critical acclaim for her role as Trudi Frazer in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. From 2016 to 2020, she starred as Anna-Kat Otto on ABC's sitcom American Housewife.
The actor is interviewed by Maxwell Jenkinsin Grumpy and photographed by Emily Sandifer [IG] grounded in Los Angeles and Scotland.
Model Qun Ye layers on colorful gold and enamel fine jewellery styled by Annie Hertikova with plenty of charm. Photographer Clark Franklyn [IG] is in the studio, using tinted backgrounds to maximum effect in Net-a-Porter, December 20, 2022.
Olympic champion Eileen Gu covers the December 2022 issue of Harper’s Bazaar Singapore. Now age 19 and working with Louis Vuitton on the runway as well as campaigns and events, Gu is styled by Christopher Maul in top luxury brands heavy on Louis Vuitton and also Dior, Tiffany & Co, Givenchy and more.
The Stanford student wears Louis Vuitton on the cover for a fashion story ‘Golden Girl’, lensed by London-based, Maltese photographer Stef Galea [IG].
Model Lauren Wasser is styled by Shaojun Chen in cozy sophistication for Glass Magazine China Issue 16. LA-based Korean-American fashion and fine art photographer Sam Spence [IG] is behind the lens.
In her bio Spence says that she is the second youngest photographer in history to shoot a Vogue cover. Adopted from Korea as a baby, and raised in the Midwestern United States, Spence became a creative at a young age, frustrated by a lack of diversity in her circle of people. Her training as a contemporary dancer has influenced her love for capturing movement and the human body in its unique form.
Dominican model Ysaunny Brito strikes leggy poses the pages of Harper’s Bazaar Arabia [IG]. The very chic December 2022 issue celebrates the magazine’s 15th anniversary.
Luca Falcioni styles Brito in ‘Code Red’ sensual, luxury-rich sophistication from Dolce & Gabbana, Emporio Armani, Prada and Moschino.
Daniele CarettoniofEspresso Productions [IG] is in charge of the fashion shoot, photographed by Randi Childs [IG]. /Makeup by Walter Obal; hair by KMiller
Model Belle Pierson is the lady in red, styled by Veronique Tristram in ‘Faites vos Jeux’ [place your bets]. Photographer Sabine Villard [IG] is in the studio for Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazine [Seduction Magazine] November 2022.
Delilah Belle [Hamlin] tributed the Netflix movie ‘Blonde’ in these sensual, elegant images styled by Aleksandra Markovic. Photographer Dean Isidro [IG] is behind the lens for Grazia Italia’s November 2022 issue.
Equestrian women are everywhere in fashion, driven by the Dior Cruise 2023 collection. And photographer Koto Bolofo [IG] often shoots horses in his fashion stories.
Models África Peñalver & Ludivine Rousseau are styled by Rebecca Bleynie in sober luxury looks for ‘ Les Cavalières’ in Numéro France #234 November 2022.
Top model Mona Tougaard poses in ‘Work Force’, familiar boss lady looks that many argue are dated and yet . . .
But pussy-bow blouses? Kate Phelan styles Tougaard in sober colors, sartorial tailoring lensed by Craig McDean [IG] for British Vogue’s January 2023 issue.
Vogue definitely got the sex appeal part right. Also pussy-bow blouses can be deceptive in high-stakes negotiations.
Models Marieka Marston and Maeve Morris grace the pages of biannual British magazine More or Less Issue 06, presenting a sensual, sustainable fashion story ‘Shell Shocked’.
The shoot took place in Negril, Jamaica at Xtabi Resort and Bloody Bay, with styling by Marika-Ella Ames. The fashion creative was born in New York, the daughter of a Jamaican father. Alexandra Leese is the photographer [IG].
Ames describes More or Less as “one of the industry’s most coveted fashion magazines with its policy that everything must be vintage, handmade, or natural, nothing can be new … it was a very imaginative process for me as [a] stylist.”
Zara’s pursuit of image excellence rolls on, with models Assa Baradji and Ugbad in the studio spotlight. Marta Gonzalez Arias styles the black beauty duo in images by Luis Alberto Rodriguez.
Model Ida Heiner is styled by Poppy Kain in fashion ‘Escape Artistry’. Lachlan Bailey [IG] is behind the lens, creating pure poetry for British Vogue January 2023.
In this winter 2022.23 campaign for Roksanda Ilincic’s capsule collab with Fila, Robbie Spencer styles models Adhel Bol and Ayak Veronica Bior. Photographer Viviane Sassen [IG] flashes the sculptured, cocooning clothes with bold-color combos and linear tapings and inserts.
