Greta Hofer in 'Second Act' Lensed by Amy Troost for Dior Magazine #46
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Nike SS 2024 Media Taps Dan Beleiu's Personal, Colorful, Energetic Images
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If this isn’t the first Nike project for Dan Beleiu, AOC doesn’t know about the other ones — and I just looked. Beleiu’s sophisticated, modern, high-energy style is perfect for Nike.
With Dan’s IG always hopeless, AOC followed an Ian Salter set design link on IG, which is where we hit paydirt and a bigger understanding of the project.
The Nike Spring/Summer 2024 Campaign was styled by Mindy LeBrock with makeup by Rika Shimada. We also met key Nike execs in charge on the client end of the shoot.
Read More'Margiela Artisanal' Couture Story for W Magazine China June 2024
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W Magazine China’s [IG] June 2024 icon issue shares a fantastic fashion story featuring the ‘Margiela Artisanal’ 2024 couture collection starring model He Cong lensed by Zhong Lin. W also makes high-impact points in their commentary about creativity.
Creative Directors Examined
For the second time this week, my own brain has been interrupted externally with the reinforcement of thoughts already playing out here on AOC.
In preparing this W Magazine China fashion story over the course of two months, six sets of haute couture fashion traveled across the seas. The magazine “exclusively” documented this fashion moment, along with its fascinating behind-the-scenes story.
Read MoreSheila Bawar's Surreal Fashion Deal by Rafael Pavarotti W Magazine July 2024
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Brazilian model Sheila Bawar brings a priceless expression to ‘The Surreal Deal: Fashion That Leans Into Fantasy’, a fashion story for W Magazine’s July 2024 issue.
Photographer Rafael Pavarotti [IG] joins forces with stylist Katie Grand who chooses a sheer cape from Giorgio Armani; a voluminous red gown Chen Peng; the memorable Prada blue cardigan and skirt above.
Read MoreIsa Boulder SS 2024 Campaign Lensed by Guen Fiore Prompts Anne's Bali Reverie
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The Spring/Summer 2024 Isa Boulder campaign that got our attention just now, featuring models Komomo Nakazono and Michiko Foy.
SJ Todd, art director of AnOther Magazine provides art direction for the campaign, with styling by Morgane Camille Nicolas. Talented photographer Guen Fiore [IG], who promotes herself as based in Paris but very Italian, captures the raw but sophisticated spirit of Isa Boulder. / Hair by Akemi Kishida; makeup by Anthony Preel
Read MoreConspiculous Luxury Consumption in China Challenges Growing Income Inequality
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Top model He Cong graces the pages of Marie Claire China’s [IG] June 2024 issue. The Hunan-region beauty is styled by Austin Feng in red-inspired, fashion elegance lensed by Zhong Lin [IG].
China’s Monitoring of Flaunting Money on Social Media
This month [May 2024], China’s new ‘Clear and Bright’ campaign swung into action on social media. The campaign vows to crack down on influencers who create "ostentatious personas to cater to vulgar needs, and deliberately display extravagant lifestyles filled with money".
Jing Daily weighed in this morning, writing that across Chinese social media platforms like Weibo, Tencent, Douyin, and Xiaohongshu all reflect suspended accounts this week.
China Tackles Its Growing Income Gap Culture
The drive to reduce ostentatious displays of wealth [or internet cleanup, as Jing Daily calls it] “is part of a larger effort by Chinese authorities to curate and control social cultures to tackle China’s widening income disparity and wealth inequality.”
Read MoreMeet OMEGA Speedmaster Ambassador and Olympic Runner Noah Lyles
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American athlete and OMEGA ambassador since 2019, Noah Lyles is one of the fastest sprinters in the world and he’s headed to Paris, fashion capital of the world.
Lyles is pictured here wearing his OMEGA Speedmaster watch in action images lensed by Sharif Hamza [IG].
Scrolling through a GQ magazine feature on Instagram, one of the biggest names in track and field noticed that the featured “best outfits worn by professional athletes as they walked into stadiums around the world” had no athletes from track and field.
“Why aren’t there any track and field people in here?” Lyles wondered out loud to NYT writer Talya Minsberg.
Read MoreChanel Coco Beach 2024 Campaign Drifts in Calm Waters As Chanel Changes Course
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Luxury brand Chanel [IG] delivers a fresh and modern summer Coco Beach 2024 campaign starring Danish model Olivia Vinten lensed by Cass Bird [IG].
At Chanel, Let the Good Times Roll
Chanel is riding high off a 16 percent revenue increase in annual sales over 2023. Price increases alone drove up sales by around 9 percent, according to BoF.
Chanel CFO Philippe Blondiaux praised Virginie Viard’s contributions to Chanel’s major growth in his BoF interview. Days later, the artistic director was escorted out the door.
With Viard seeming out-of-touch with the world at large at times, and given Coco Chanel’s own delicate political history in Europe, AOC is on the record saying we’re watching the brand like a hawk. We continue to write today from that updated perspective.
Read MoreSophie Turner, Good Mother, for British Vogue June 2024 by Mikael Jansson
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British actor Sophie Turner covers the June 2024 issue of British Vogue [IG], meeting up with Chioma Nnadi at London Zoo’s Gorilla Kingdom for the cover story Sophie Turner Is Doing Just Fine.
Camilla Nickerson styled Turner in a Louis Vuitton yellow top and white jeans for the cover, in a fashion story lensed by Mikael Jansson [IG].
We return to the charming London Zoo gorilla Effie, not awarded high marks by the zookeeper.
“Do you see how she’s dangling her baby by one arm? That’s actually not the best way to handle their newborns.”
Effie has had four attempts to get it right, and good mothering escapes her. Sophie Turner, mother of two girls, can relate. According to Nnadi, “ . . . it is, in fact, Turner who has been subjected to mom-shaming—of the most egregious kind.”
Read MoreVogue Greece June 2024 'Mediterranean Touch' Issue and 'Multicultural Aesthetics'
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The June 2024 issue of Vogue Greece travels to Messenia for a cover story featuring rising Israeli model Sun Mizrahi. Nicholas Georgiou acts as creative director, styling the photo shoot lensed by Phil Poynter [IG]. Hair by Stelios Chondros; makeup by Athina Karakitsou
Vogue Greece Names ‘Multicultural Aesthetics’
The loudest voices in our culture would have you believe that the global landscape was originally a very pure and culturally-uncorrupted place, where humans lived idyllic lives in harmony with each other.
Reality is that traders of every hue have been on the high seas for thousands of years and especially in the Mediterranean world. And early humans cracked each other’s skulls.
Read MoreTeti Mar in Louis Vuitton Lensed by Alfonso Anton Cornelis for Harper's Bazaar Mexico May 2024
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Rising Ukraine model Teti Mar and Karisha Kh grace the pages of Harper’s Bazaar Mexico’s May 2024 issue. Ellen Mirck works styling and art direction for the Louis Vuitton Spring 2024 fashion story.
‘Vides Paralelas’ [Parallel Lives’ ] is lensed by Alfonso Anton Cornelis [IG], who also provides creative direction. / Hair by Erisson Musella; makeup by Jury Schiavi; nail art by Isabella Facchi
Read MoreAOC Firebirds: Jodie Comer by Elizaveta Porodina in Modern Weekly China June 2024
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Photographer Elizaveta Porodina [IG] brings her creative combustion talents to a fashion story for Modern Weekly [China] Style [IG] June 2024, featuring ‘Killing Eve’ actor Jodie Comer.
Kingsley Tao styles the shoot, with set design by Louis Simonon./ Hair by Shon; makeup by Miranda Joyce
‘The Bikeriders’ Are Coming
Comer will hit June 21, 2024 movie screens in Jeff Nichols’ film ‘The Bikeriders’, also starring Austin Butler and Tom Hardy. There is such disorder in the movie house, that there is no way we can conflate Porodina’s images with a blood and guts Chicago biker gang — even one with Austin Butler.
The film is such a unique story about packs of Harley Davidson riders in 1960s midwestern America, that it requires its own post.
Read MoreGigi Hadid Brings 'Audacity and Athletic Elegance' to Vogue World: Paris via Vogue France
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Vogue France [IG] has crowned supermodel Gigi Hadid Queen of Vogue World: Paris, commending Hadid as the embodiment of “audacity and athletic elegance.”
Hadid’s exceptional physical prowess and fierce, competitive, unyielding fashion spirit are styled by Vanessa Reid in high-octane-fueled, Olympic spirit, winner’s circle-worthy film and by Bardia Zeinali [IG]. Wow!
Hadid is joined by Simon Porte Jacquemus and French actor Isabelle Huppert in ‘Go Gigi!’./ Hair by Mustafa Yanaz; makeup by Hiromi Ueda
Read MoreAnsley Guilielmi in 'The Islander' Lensed by Amie Milne for Vogue Thailand May 2024
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Photographer Amie Milne returns to Vogue Thailand May 2024 issue, after her ‘Wellness Wisdom’ fashion story for April issue, also shot in Madeira.
Model Ansley Guilielmi is styled by Holly Gorst in ‘The Islander’ photographed atop the island’s massive shield volcano that rises 20,000 ft from the Atlantic Ocean’s floor.
Read MoreLoro Piana Resort 2024 Campaign Lensed by Annemarieke Van Drimmelen
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Fluidity and ease are keynotes of the Loro Piana Resort 2024 Collection of natural refined fabrics including silk and linen jacquards that become airy silhouettes in campaign images lensed by Annemarieke Van Drimmelen [IG].
Models include Awar Odhiang, Elias Monstrey, Vivienne Rohner and Yoesry Detre, styled by Aleksandra Woroniecka with creative direction by Thomas Persson. / Hair by Diego Da Silva; makeup by Sandrine Cano Bock
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Alice McGrath by Erdem Moralıoğlu in ‘The Others’ for Bazaar UK June 2024
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Model Alice McGrath is styled by Erdem founder Erdem Moralıoğlu in ‘The Others’ [IG], a fashion story focused on the designer’s Fall 2024 collection. / Hair by Declan Sheils; makeup by Amy Conway
The images, also shot by the designer, appear in the June 2024 issue of Harper’s Bazaar UK [IG].
Read MoreGrace Elizabeth's Growing Family Celebrates Father's Day in Michael Kors Campaign
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American beauty model Grace Elizabeth and her husband Nicolas Krause pose with their son Noah in the 2024 Michael Kors Father’s Day campaign.
Grace Elizabeth’s family was expanding when Cass Bird [IG] shot the Michael Kors Father’s Day campaign and Mother’s Day campaign images below.
The beloved model missed the 2024 Met Gala in May, because Grace Elizabeth was busy giving birth to her second son.
Read MoreLuna Bijl's Dutch Woman Sensuality Fires Up ELLE France Summer 2024 Swimwear
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Dutch model Luna Bijl so startled AOC with this blistering ELLE France June 6 fashion story focused on the best swimsuits of summer 2024 — that we reviewed her entire post history on Anne of Carversville.
Next we stopped by Bijl’s own IG, where the model turned up the heat even further. And she looks absolutely fabulous!
Anne Marie Brouillet styles the motorcross zealot since age eight in ‘Plein Soleil’, choosing swimwear from Calzedonia, Celine by Hedi Slimane, Chanel, Eres, Louis Vuitton, Mango, Pain du Sucre, Polo Ralph Lauren, Pucci and more top brands, lensed by Tom Schirmacher [IG]. / Hair by Javier Palacio; makeup by Tatsu Yamanaka
Read MoreNatalia Siodmiak in St. Tropez by Jonas Bresnan for Madame Figaro France May 2024
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