Gucci Fine Jewelry 'Link to Love' 2023 Androgynous Stackable Collection

Gucci Fine Jewelry 'Link to Love' 2023 Androgynous Stackable Collection

Italian luxury brand Gucci unveils its latest fine jewelry 'Link to Love' campaign with a focus on self-expression and individualism but through connection. 

The ‘Link to Love’ collection’s signature octagonal shape channels religious symbolism worldwide. Octagrams formed from overlapping squares often emphasize duality: yin and yang, male and female, spiritual and material, while having a major place in global religions from Christianity to Hindualism, including also a significant place in Jewish mysticism.

This symbolism seems particularly relevent to Gucci’s embrace of a modern, androgynous, sleek design in the ‘Link to Love’ campaign. AOC just discovered major ties to the earliest deities — a transition period between goddesses were worshipped exclusively and patriarchy where God is male and women got the boot.

For example, Old Kingdom Egyptians recognized a group of eight deities, four male and four female, with the female bearing feminine forms of the male names: Nu, Nanet, Amun, Amunet, Kuk, Kauket, Huh, and Hauhet.

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Saint Laurent Launches Fine Jewelry by Anthony Vaccarello, Lensed by Juergen Teller

Saint Laurent Launches Fine Jewelry by Anthony Vaccarello, Lensed by Juergen Teller

Saint Laurent, the renowned French Maison, has recently unveiled its first-ever fine jewelry collection.  Look at those ladybug nails!!!

Though jewelry accessories have always been part of the seasonal YSL collections, "Saint Laurent Haute Joaillerie" is the first to source fine metals. 

The campaign for Saint Laurent's debut jewelry line artfully juxtaposes the elegance of the pieces with the re-potting of a plant, as seen in the campaign photos by Juergen Teller.

People abuse the word ‘chic’ today, and I rarely use it, but this collection is unadulterated French chic to the max. It’s fabulous!

Okay, AOC friends. Tell me this isn’t kismet!!!!!!

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Lorette Colé Duprat Releases L C D Gold SS 2023 Capsule Campaign by Charlotte Wales

Lorette Colé Duprat Releases L C D Gold SS 2023 Capsule Campaign by Charlotte Wales

Lorette Colé Duprat is an eponymous Paris based jewellery and accessory brand, dropping this L C D Gold SS-2023 capsule. Models include Cassady Clover, Joseph Adeosun and more, styled by Ai Kamoshita for images by Charlotte Wales [IG]./ Hair by Shiori Takahashil makeup by Porsche Poon

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K-pop BTS' Jimin Joins Tiffany & Co As Global Ambassador

K-pop BTS' Jimin Joins Tiffany & Co As Global Ambassador

Tiffany & Co. has recently announced BTS member Jimin as its latest brand ambassador. Jimin's partnership with the iconic jewelry brand will begin soon, and his first ad campaign for Tiffany & Co. is set to release later this year. 

This appointment of Jimin signals a continual shift for the brand, moving further into the K-pop sphere. The partnership will allow Jimin to “showcase his unique approach to jewelry styling as he wears iconic Tiffany & Co. designs.”

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Lais Ribeiro Dazzles in Vivara Summer 2023 Campaign Lensed by Gui Paganini

Lais Ribeiro Dazzles in Vivara Summer 2023 Campaign Lensed by Gui Paganini

Top model Lais Ribeiro dazzles as the face of Vivara’s Summer 2023 campaign. Renata Correa styles Ribeiro in elegant, skin-bearing swimwear for a glamorous, modern campaign lensed by Gui Paganini [IG]. Silvio Giorgio handles hair and makeup, adding the finishing touches to a grade A campaign that sparkles.

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Adit Priscilla in Chanel Fragrance and Jewelry for Numero 235 by Bastiaan Woudt

Adit Priscilla in Chanel Fragrance and Jewelry for Numero 235 by Bastiaan Woudt

Rising South Sudanese model Adit Priscilla is styled by Rebecca Bleynie in Chanel jewelry and fragrance for Numero 235, end-of-year all Chanel editorial content issue. Supremely-gifted, Dutch photographer Bastiaan Woudt [IG] is in the studio.

Woudt began his own self-taught photography practice from scratch about five years ago. The exceptional talent also does his own post-production work, infusing a modern, graphic vision with classical DNA and elegance into his black and white images. He’s a WOW!

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Abby Champion Is Powered by Passion for Swarovski V-Day 2023 by Carlijn Jacobs

Abby Champion Is Powered by Passion for Swarovski V-Day 2023 by Carlijn Jacobs

Model Abby Champion is styled by Swarovski Creative Director Giovanna Engelbert in the Swarovski Valentines Day [IG] 2023 Campaign.

Photographer Carlijn Jacobs [IG] captures the ‘Powered by Passion’ pink hues, uber-modern mood that also includes bathed-in-pink model Lucas El Bali./ Makeup by Masae Ito; hair by Olivier Schawalder

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Gisele Bundchen in Vivara Holiday 2022 Campaign by Nicole Heiniger

Gisele Bundchen in Vivara Holiday 2022 Campaign by Nicole Heiniger

Gisele Bundchen returns for another Brazilian jewelry brand Vivara holiday campaign. Gisele’s Vivara Holiday 2022 images resonate with extra meaning, because the supermodel spent the Christmas holiday in Brazil with daughter Vivian Lake, 10, and son Benjamin Rein, 13.

It was the family’s first Christmas since the divorce of Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady.

"It's my Rio Grande do Sul Heaven, Sun, South, Earth and Color Where everything that is planted grows and what blooms the most is love. It's always so good to come back home❤️," wrote Bündchen on IG as translated from Portuguese to English.

Nicole Heiniger [IG]photographed Bundchen in a return shoot for her as well.

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Chanel's Fine Jewelry Holiday 2022 Campaign 'Once Upon a Moon' by Nicolas Kantor

Chanel's Fine Jewelry Holiday 2022 Campaign 'Once Upon a Moon' by Nicolas Kantor

The Chanel Fine Jewelry Holiday 2022 campaign ‘Once Upon a Moon’ stars Adesuwa Aighewi, Giedre Dukauskaite, Soo Joo Park, Matthew Bell and Reece Nelson as lunar explorers styled by Veronique Didry and lensed by Nicolas Kantor.

Did luxury house Chanel know that America’s Artemis 1 mission was headed to the moon when their holiday campaign ‘Once Upon a Moon’ was released? Probably not, as our Artemis 1 mission roared high into the sky two months behind schedule. Still, the timing ended up being perfect.

The Beauty campaign has the Eiffel Tower lifting off like Artemis, becoming a cool rocket rising into the Parisian night sky.

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Myriem Boukadida in Prada Eternal Gold Collection for Vogue Arabia November 2022

Myriem Boukadida in Prada Eternal Gold Collection for Vogue Arabia November 2022

AOC returns to Prada’s Eternal Gold Collection in this fashion story ‘Now and Forever’ for Vogue Arabia’s November 2022 issue.

The new Vogue Arabia story features Tunisian model and actor Myriem Boukadida, styled by Eline Hoyois in images by Luka Booth [IG].

100 per cent of the gold used in Prada’s new Eternal Gold Collection is Certified Recycled Gold which meets the Chain of Custody’ standards set by the Responsible Jewelry Council.

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10 Things to Love About Copper Jewelry and Ancient Goddesses

10 Things to Love About Copper Jewelry and Ancient Goddesses

The human desire for self-adornment is universal, and writing about copper jewelry trends should be a snap for most people. Not for Anne. I can make writing needlessly complicated, but in this case, the writing took me back to the continuously-revealing story of women’s history.

Only Anne of Carversville whips up a narrative around copper jewelry that takes us back to the dawn of human existence, and then out of Africa between 60,000 and 90,000 years ago into the Levant, a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean region of Western Asia.

Background: in understanding the importance of human history and invention, jewelry was not very high on the list of primarily male researchers and scientists.

Frankly, jewelry as artifacts was considered inconsequential and frivolous in the story of human development. Copper jewelry was so frivolous that the existence of The Copper Age, dating from the mid-5th millennium BC, and ending with the beginning of the Bronze Age proper, in the late 4th to 3rd millennium BC, was barely worth mentioning in the scientific community.

You’ve heard of The Stone Age and the Bronze Age. But few of us — including me — knew about The Copper Age. The REAL history of copper jewelry starts to upset several thousands of years of assumptions around women’s lives.

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Fernando Gomez In Flower-Inspired Fine Jewelry for Grazia Italy November 2022

Fernando Gomez In Flower-Inspired Fine Jewelry for Grazia Italy November 2022

Model Nancy Schneider feels the holiday spirit in ‘Meraviglie Della Natura’, a jewelry fashion story lensed by Fernando Gomez [IG}. Dane Stojanovic provides creative direction for Grazia Italy November 2022./ Hair by Kilian Marin; makeup by Giovanni Iovine

In AOC’s opinion, Fernando Gomez maintains one of the most beautiful Instagrams we’ve seen. It’s always a feast for the eyes.

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