Beyoncé's Western Luxury in W Magazine Digital Story by Pamela Hanson

Beyoncé's Western Luxury in W Magazine Digital Story by Pamela Hanson

AOC has narrated the American cowboy story for years, most recently inspired by Pharrell’s Louis Vuitton Men’s FW 2024 show in January 2024.

Now his good friend from Houston is flying high on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs. The woman with the most awards in Grammy history holds the No.1 spot for the 8th week running with ‘Texas Hold Em’. Beyoncé is the first Black woman to achieve this goal on the Billboard Hot Country chart.

Here we find Beyoncé looking mighty fine with two digital covers and a fashion story in W Magazine, released March 29, 2024. Sara Moonves and Shiona Turini style America’s finest-looking cowboy femme in western luxury gone fine-tailoring.

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Met Gala Co-Chair Zendaya Blooms in Couture Elegance for American Vogue May 2024

Met Gala Co-Chair Zendaya Blooms in Couture Elegance for American Vogue May 2024

Zendaya has no intention to make music anytime soon. Not only is her life overflowing with acting projects like her just-opened film ‘Challengers’, where her character Tashi, a fiercely-competitive tennis phenom turned coach over an accident, whips her husband into shape on the tennis court and in the bedroom.

Zendaya is the cover star for both American Vogue and British Vogue’s May 2024 issues, photographed for American Vogue [IG] in these images by Annie Leibovitz [IG] and for British Vogue by Carlijn Jacobs.

Zendaya is a co-chair of this year’s Met Gala, joining Jennifer Lopez, Bad Bunny and Chris Hemsworth. Loewe's creative director Jonathan Anderson and TikTok CEO Chew are Honorary Met Gala chairs.

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Sydney Sweeney From Bloody Nun to Barbarella by David Roemer for Bazaar Spain

Sydney Sweeney From Bloody Nun to Barbarella by David Roemer for Bazaar Spain

Actor Sydney Sweeney covers the April 2024 issue of Harper’s Bazaar Spain, an issue paying special attention to crafts, workshops and trades that combine tradition and innovation.

Sweeney herself takes multiple covers, styled in ‘The Cool Girl’ fashion story by Elizabeth Sulcer. Photographer David Roemer [IG] is in the studio on location in Los Angeles.

Sweeney woke up one day on nun TikTok, which she described as a “vast, vast place to be.” Her new horror thriller ‘Immaculate’ opened in US theaters end of March. With another undiscussed project in development, Sweeney will then turn to ‘Barbarella’. Now that is a stunning range of projects — perhaps a true commentary on women’s lives.

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Robert Downey Jr. Directs His Own Fab Interview for Esquire April-May 2024

Robert Downey Jr. Directs His Own Fab Interview for Esquire April-May 2024

Last year Robert Downey Jr. hired the host of the television show ‘My Cat from Hell’ to create Catification Zones on the Malibu property the actor shares with his wife Susan, kids Avri and Exton and cats Monty and two little kittens Willow and Winifred.

Reality is that there are hawks in Malibu and Downey knew he would be kicked to the curb if anything happened to the little felines.

Writer Ryan D’Agostino brings this Hollywood family to life with Robert Downey Jr. Doesn’t See Things the Way You Do in the April-May 2024 issue of Esquire. The actor is styled by Alison Edmond in images by Norman Jean Roy [IG].

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Kiko Mizuhara in 'By Her Rules' Lensed by Zhong Lin for Vogue Taiwan April 2024

Kiko Mizuhara in 'By Her Rules' Lensed by Zhong Lin for Vogue Taiwan April 2024

American-Korean, Texas-born model, actor, singer and designer Kiko Mizuhara covers the April 2024 issue of Vogue Taiwan .

Today, Mizuhara manages her own pure beauty brand Kiiks and a fashion brand Office Kiko and her 8 million IG followers.

Prominent photographer Zhong Lin [IG] captures ‘By Her Rules’, with a familiar ‘popsicle’ image cluing AOC to search for the environmental connection in the editorial, styled by Chen Yu.

Staying with Vogue Taiwan’s April 2024 issue and Kiko Mizuhara’s environmental commitments, the talent explains the evolution of her own environmental passions.

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Penelope Cruz Covers ELLE Spain April 2024 in Very Best Images by Xavi Gordo

Penelope Cruz Covers ELLE Spain April 2024 in Very Best Images by Xavi Gordo

Penélope Cruz covers the April 2024 issue of ELLE Spain, working with photographer Xavi Gordo [IG] to deliver some of the most precious images of the actor I remember. Cruz turns 50 on April 28, and Gordo has captures her inner spirit, as well as her physicality in these simple but so revealing images. He and Penelope have quite a dance going on.

Penelope Discovers Women’s World

Cruz’s mother was a hairdresser and she and her sister spent a great deal of time in a salon after school. It was there that Penelope observed the women carefully, understanding not only their desire to be pretty in their lives, but practicing rituals thousands of years old. The young daughter Penelope developed insights that would fuel her future success as an actor, after she first paid her way and contributed to the family finances as a model.

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Gemma Ward Takes Her 38th Vogue Cover While AOC Heads for the Australian Outback

Gemma Ward Takes Her 38th Vogue Cover While AOC Heads for the Australian Outback

Australian model and actor Gemma Ward, mother to three children with her partner David Letts, covers the April 2024 issue of Vogue Poland [IG]. It’s Ward’s 38th cover, lensed by Virginie Khateeb [IG], with styling by Lorna McGee./ Hair by Roku Roppongi; makeup by Sandra Cooke

Knowing that AOC featured Gemma and David and their [then] two kids Naia and Jet in a cover story of the December 2019 issue of Vogue Australia, we made it our Renewed feature for March 27.

The family is photographed in the Australian Outback at Ti Tree Lake, and AOC was on the trail. Who did we discover in Cape York Peninsula in Queensland, on the ground in a huge restoration project? Louis Vuitton.

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'Commune' [2015] from Interview Magazine Prompts a Look at Women Farmers Worldwide

'Commune' [2015] from Interview Magazine Prompts a Look at Women Farmers Worldwide

In this 2015 fashion story ‘Commune’ lensed by Mikael Jansson for Interview and renewed March 25, AOC’s sassy side wrote:

In developing countries the women are often in charge of agriculture until the tractors arrive. Then men hop on board.

Models Caroline Trentini, Constance Jablonski, Daria Strokous, Julia Nobis and Lina Berg toil the soil and tend the artichokes in ‘Commune’, lensed by Mikael Jansson for Interview Magazine February 2015./ Makeup by Mark Carasquillo; hair by Tom Jidai

Fast forward nine years, and we wonder if anything has changed. AOC sets new goals for our readers.

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Bella Hadid Covers Vogue Italia, Looking Serene in Advance of Her Orabella Launch

Bella Hadid Covers Vogue Italia, Looking Serene in Advance of Her Orabella Launch

Precious words come from supermodel, businesswoman, activist Bella Hadid, who covers the April 2024 issue of Vogue Italia — and presumably other April Vogues as well.

In response to the question “How are you?”, asked by interviewer Sofia Viganò, Bella responds:

“Very good: for the first time since I can remember I am clear and present. I have the feeling that, by showing my most authentic self, things and people have aligned with my destiny."

Hadid is styled by Alex Jordan Harrington in inner cleansing-mode clothes, devoid of showstopping jewelry and other beautiful distractions, with Zoe Ghertner behind the lens.

Bella’s Texas State of Mind

With her enduring love of horses and now spending major amount of time in Ft. Worth, Texas with her guy National Cutting Horse Association Riders Hall of Famer Adan Banuelos, Bella should be fronting the Fall 2024 Louis Vuitton Men’s cowboys campaign.

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Cameron Russell on Being an 'Agreeable' Model for Sunday Times Style March 10, 2024

Cameron Russell on Being an 'Agreeable' Model for Sunday Times Style March 10, 2024

Top model Cameron Russell, now 36, has a new memoir ‘How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone’, and it sounds hot. On the book’s cover, original supermodel Christy Turlington calls it “A unique and honest perspective on the fashion industry.”

Verity Parker styles the outspoken fashion industry and environmental activist in the usual luxury brands lineup, with cover looks by Miu Miu shot by photographer Clément Pasca [IG].

Reading her Sunday Times UK [IG] interview with Megan Agnew in the March 10th issue, we learn that on her second fashion shoot, the young-model Russell was told she had “cocksucker lips”.

The Goal Was Model Submission

Russell comes at the topic of this hopefully-waning, fashion-industry reality from a fresh perspective, not an exclusively sexual one.

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