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Super mother, social justice lawyer-in-training, business mogul and sole owner of a new Gulfstream G650ER with an estimated $150 million price tag when customized, Ms. Kim Kardashian covers the April 2022 issue of Vogue Hong Kong.
Kardashian is styled by Danielle Levi in images by Greg Swales [IG]. Sean Kunhambu provides creative direction on the shoot with set design by Lucy Holt.
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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.
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
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.
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 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
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