Rocio Ramos Seizes the Power of Cardinals for Marie Claire Mexico and LA

Rocio Ramos Seizes the Power of Cardinals for Marie Claire Mexico and LA AOC Fashion

Photographer Rocio Ramos [IG] captures unadulterated-red, fashion passion in the October pages of Marie Claire Mexico and Latin America. Model Dalianah Arekion poses in primal, earth-goddesses elegance styled by Abraham Gutiérrez.

Most fashion media will promote the color red as symbolizing new energy and interest in living with the latest seasonal wardrobe. The message is consumption-oriented — which is understandable, especially if we are looking at the latest, earth-loving sustainable fashion buys.

We doubt that is the case here — that we are looking at sustainable fashion. But there are even higher principles at play in these images. AOC knows for a fact that artist and photographer Rocio Ramos is on our wave-length, and she likes the writing her images inspire.

So we will move out on red, into the fast lane.

Red Symbolism

The color red is most often associated with a passion for living and an embrace of love, but also carnal pleasures. Red is known as an emotionally-intense color that enhances human metabolism and increases respiration rate, while raising blood pressure. The impact of the color red on the human body has been seriously studied.

Culturally-speaking we are in a red-alert moment that transcends fashion runways and embraces the duality of competing narratives about our very humanity.

Red is the color of fire and blood, one often associated with energy, war, power and danger. Red is considered to be aggressive and fierce, but also grounding. In the world of 7 chakras, red is the root chakra, and while it’s easy enough to dismiss red as primitive with its positioning on the chakra chart, it is also responsible for our sense of security and stability.

When apes first stood tall and began walking into humanity, their root chakra was in high gear — literally. Rocks and caves were homes to humanity before we created mobile structures made of mammoth tusks. The setting for Rocio Ramos’ fashion story is perfect, because it embraces the necessities of security, survival and being rooted as the very foundation of our lives.

Gisele Bundchen's Vogue Hong April Sustainability Issue Cover Story by Kevin O'Brien

Gisele Bundchen's Vogue Hong April Sustainability Issue Cover Story by Kevin O'Brien

Supermodel, eco-warrior Gisele Bundchen covers the April 2021 ‘Sustainability’ issue of Vogue Hong Kong. Bobette Cohn styles the prominent environmentalist in images shot on location in Costa Rica by Kevin O’Brien [IG] Bundchen’s home is on the Nicoya Peninsula, near the beachside town of Santa Teresa./ Makeup by Jenna Anton

In our earlier article about Gisele’s Vogue Hong Kong cover story, we noted the very sad reality that the supermodel with the biggest voice on climate change and especially saving the Brazilian rain forest is losing her battle.

Most recently Gisele is the executive producer of ‘Kiss the Ground’, narrated by Woody Harrelson, with interviews with Bündchen, her husband Tom Brady and Patricia Arquette. The hopeful message of the documentary deals with the topic of Biosequestration or the capture and storage of the atmospheric greenhouse gas carbon dioxide by continual or enhanced biological processes.

Related Reading: Earth Mother Gisele Bündchen Covers Vogue Hong Kong April 2021 by Kevin O'Brien;

Humans Have Turned the Amazon into a Net Greenhouse Gas Emitter: Study; and a 2020 post 'Carbon Cowboys': Saving Our Planet Starts in the Soil' Says Peter Byck AOC Sustainability.

Angelina Jolie on Burning the Eggs in Life and Saving Bees in British Vogue's March 2021 Cover Story

Angelina Jolie on Burning the Eggs in Life and Saving Bees in British Vogue's March 2021 Cover Story AOC Eye

Superstar activist, humanitarian, multi-talented creative Angelina Jolie covers the March 2021 issue of British Vogue. Jolie is interviewed and styled by British Vogue EIC Edward Enninful with a styling assist from Dena Gianini. / Hair by Lorenzo Martin, Jacklyn Martinez; makeup by Rachel Goodwin

Photographer Craig McDean captures Jolie and her six children at her historic Los Angeles estate tucked away in the historic Laughlin Park quiet corner of Los Feliz and formerly owned by Hollywood legend Cecil B. DeMille. The home is just five minutes away from the children’s father Brad Pitt.

Angelina Jolie on Mothering

Confirming that while she wanted to have a brood of kids, Jolie shares that she always saw herself as the Jane Goodall type, “travelling in the middle of the jungle somewhere.” She is not an inherently skilled mother — depending on one’s criteria, of course.

I feel like we’re such a team. It may sound clichéd, but you love and you try, and even if you burn the eggs, that doesn’t matter in the end. But also, you’ve met our kids. They’re pretty capable.

Hunter Schafer in 'Supernova' by Daria Kobayashi Ritch for Porter Edit Jan. 11, 2020

Hunter Schafer in 'Supernova' by Daria Kobayashi Ritch for Porter Edit Jan. 11, 2020

‘Euphoria’ star Hunter Schafer covers the January 11, 2020 issue of Porter Edit. Sean Knight styles Schafer in Alaïa, Ceffin, Gauchere, Jacquemus, Nanushka, Paco Rabanne and more, lensed in ‘Supernova’ by Daria Kobayashi Ritch [IG]./ Hair by Bobby Eliot; makeup by Sandy Ganze

Hunter Schafer talks to Hanna Hanra about her momentum-overflowing acting career, co-writing and co-producing Jules’ special episode of ‘Euphoria’ and the personal passion projects that propel fer forward in 2021.

Penelope Cruz by Nico Bustos in Harper's Bazaar Russia January 2021

Penelope Cruz by Nico Bustos in Harper's Bazaar Russia January 2021

Penelope Cruz covers the January 2021 issue of Harper’s Bazaar Russia, styled by Claudia Englmann in images by Nico Bustos (IG)./ Hair and makeup by Pablo Iglesias

Cruz has enjoyed major exposure recently, due to her role as Graciela, a Colombian psychologist.in the Jessica Chastain produced thriller ‘355’. The female-led film has a new opening date of Jan. 14, 2022. Yes, the opening date was pushed back a full year, due to COVID.

Besides Chastain — who also produced the movie and spearheaded the project from day one — and Cruz, ‘355’ also features Diane Kruger (who replaced Marion Cotillard in a scheduling conflict), Fan Bingbing, and Lupita Nyong’o.

Penelope Cruz Covers Vogue Spain January 2021, Lensed by Nico Bustos

Penelope Cruz Covers Vogue Spain January 2021, Lensed by Nico Bustos

Actor Penelope Cruz is styled by Juan Cebrian in ‘Penélope, Al Natural’, lensed by Nico Bustos (IG) for Vogue Espana January 2021./ Hair & makeup by Pablo Iglesias

In the pages of Vogue Spain January, the images of Penelope Cruz in nature are intertwined with the conversation she had with the director of the magazine about how to reconnect with what is important, about commitment, feminism and learning .

Eugenia de la Torriente , director of Vogue Spain , leaves her position, with the Conde Nast reorganization that puts Edward Enninful as editorial director of Vogue Europe including France, Germany, Italy, Spain and UK "This is my last letter, but there is much left of me in the next issues and contents that were already planned and carried out."

Michaela Coel Covers W Magazine 'The New Originals' November, Lensed by Tim Walker

Michaela Coel Covers W Magazine 'The New Originals' November, Lensed by Tim Walker

British actor Michaela Coel is on every list that matters this fall. She covers the current edition of W Magazine with its focus on The New Originals. The June, jaw-dropping debut of Michaela Coel’s ‘I May Destroy You’ HBO hit also put her in the current WSJ Magazine Innovators list and earned her a spot on the TIME 100.

‘I May Destroy You’ narrates the story of Coel’s own sexual assault after her drink is spiked at a bar. A long list of critics bears witness to Coel’s leader of a generation talents and her ”unique ability to distill what could have been an unbearable treatise on the nature of trauma into a sharp, funny, complex, deeply personal show about the nature of existence.”

In her groundbreaking lecture at the 2018 Edinburgh International Television Festival, Coel spoke about her assault publicly for the first time. Not dwelling on the blast of authentic, personal history permeating through her audience, the actor then used the rest of her 53 minutes address share her experiences with racism growing up in London, enrolling in a mostly white drama school, and also as a young actor and TV writer.

The entire video is shared in yesterday’s article about the event, in which Coel also held her audience captive with the story of more than one bag of shit left at her family’s front door and also in the mail box.

Photographer Tim Walker captures these intense portraits of the actor for the November issue of W Magazine, with styling by Sam Walker. Playwright, actor, producer and now budding director Jeremy O. Harris, whose Broadway stunner ‘Slave Play’ earned an outstanding 12 Tony nominations, interviews Michaela Coel. / Makeup by Sam Bryant; hair by Cyndia Harvey

Gisele Bundchen Shares News of 'Kiss the Ground' Documentary in Marie Claire April 2020

Gisele Bundchen Shares News of 'Kiss the Ground' Documentary in Marie Claire April 2020

Gisele Bundchen covers the April 2020 issue of Marie Claire US, styled by J. Errico in Celine, Chloe, Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Fendi, Gabriela Hearst and more. Nino Muñoz captures Gisele in grounded images that anchor the message of her new documentary ‘Kiss the Ground’.

The interview is very comprehensive but the only new info is the new film. Otherwise, Sally Holmes’ questions are very repetitive — but excellent if you don’t know about Gisele’s background, family and strong ties to the environment. Also, Gisele is celebrating her 40th birthday. and also celebrating her 11th anniversary as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) this year

Lupita Nyong'o Talks 'Life in Fast Forward' with British Vogue February 2020 by Steven Meisel

Lupita Nyong'o Talks 'Life in Fast Forward' with British Vogue February 2020 by Steven Meisel

AOC follows up with Lupita’s entire fashion story and interview, lensed by Steven Meisel with styling by Edward Enninful.

For her next challenge Nyong’o will produce, and star in, an adaptation of Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel ‘Americanah’. “I had never seen the African contemporary experience explored, celebrated and analysed in such a way,” she says of the impact the story had on her. “The observations she makes as a non-American black person about America are things that I had never articulated but had felt. I was just madly in love.” The project belongs to HBO MAX.

Note that Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is very tight with Dior Creative Director Maria Grazia Chiuri and not for one quick season. Their relationship dates back to September 2016 when — for her debut collection with Dior — the creative director asked Adichie for her help. The now famous t-shirt reading ‘We Should All Be Feminists’ was a direct reference to the author’s TEDx talk on the future of feminism.