Naomi Campbell by Paolo Roversi Talks Africa's Exciting Future i-D Winter #358
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British Vogue 'Waste Not' Fran Summers, Vittoria Ceretti by Craig McDean Is Sustainability Serious
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British Vogue 'Waste Not' Fran Summers, Vittoria Ceretti by Craig McDean Is Sustainability Serious
British Vogue launches a new, more ‘WOKE’ mindset with ‘How Fashion Is Finally Working To Tackle Climate Change’, written by Tamsin Blanchard.
Contributing fashion director Kate Phelan styles Vittoria Ceretti and Fran Summers with the same approach used in her Taylor Swift editorial. This transition approach — at odds with Fashion Extinction’s bold statement of ‘buy nothing’ — begins a closet update re-education process that European women have understood for decades.
Craig McDean captures Fran and Vittoria in Kate Phelan’s old and new ‘Waste Not’ editorial, launching a new decade of thinking that demands reforms in consumption patterns.
AOC is trying to do our part, with an ongoing focus on Sustainability and Environment — and a preference for using our precious time to write features based on new principles.
To that end, we’re pulling together years of writing on sustainability into a set of archives similar to our Models, Photographers and Women’s News Archives — all featured in the footer of this website and on this link. .
AOC Sustainability Archives
Barbara, Jasmine, Romee in Victoria's Secret Resort 2019.2020 by Guy Aroch
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Guy Aroch Captures Barbara, Jasmine and Romee in Victoria's Secret Resort 2019.2020
Victoria’s Secret Angels Barbara Palvin, Jasmine Tookes and Romee Strijd bask in sun and sand, showcasing the Victoria’s Secret Resort 2019-2020 Collection. The Angels are lensed by Guy Aroch in the Turks & Caicos, miles away from Columbus, Ohio executive suite VS headaches.
Gray Sorrenti Captures Saint Laurent S/S 2020 #YSL26 Ad Campaign
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Gray Sorrenti Captures Saint Laurent S/S 2020 #YSL26 Ad Campaign
Rising photographer Gray Sorrenti captures looks from Saint Laurent S/S 2020 #YSL26 by Anthony Vaccarello. Her large cast includes David Prince, Dylan Christensen, Erin Mommsen, Fran Summers, Mad Mullins, Simon Prii, Simona Kust and Vilma Sjoberg. / Hair by Duffy; makeup by Kanako Takase
Cate Blanchett Talks Phyllis Schlafly and Producing 'Mrs. America' for Harper's Bazaar UK
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Australian actor Cate Blanchett covers the December 2019 Harper’s Bazaar UK ‘Women of the Year’ issue, dressed exclusively in Armani Privé . Blanchett is lensed by Tom Munro and interviewed by Lydia Slater about her work as a “powerful advocate for the rights of women around the world, be they underrepresented film-makers or refugee mothers.”
Read MoreTaylor Swift Launches British Vogue 's 2020s Decade in Archive Chanel
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Superstar Taylor Swift welcomes a new decade, wearing archive Chanel tweed for the January 2020 cover of British Vogue, lensed by Craig McDean. The jacket from Chanel’s Métiers d’art Paris-New York 2005/2006 collection expresses a keen desire from editor-in-chief Edward Enninful put sustainability front and center in fashion dialogue. Simply stated, we cannot add another decade of limitless, shop-until-you-drop consumption on Mother Earth’s wounded self.
Taylor Swift is fresh off winning six awards at last Sunday’s AMAs, bringing her total to 29. Swift won both artist of the year and artist of the decade.
“Buying better and buying less is what I believe in: investing in clothes that will last a lifetime, pieces that can be passed down from generation to generation. Fashion shouldn’t feel disposable: the best clothes can be worn time and time again and have the quality of both design and craftsmanship to ensure their staying power – that’s how I’ve always dressed, it’s just that, because I only wear black, you can never tell. In that spirit, it was important to me to choose a classic item for Taylor, one that is everlasting – and that’s why I used a Chanel jacket from the Métiers d’art 2005/2006 collection. It’s the ultimate sign of luxury, it has never gone out of fashion, and it never will.”
Taylor Swift is fresh off winning six awards at last Sunday’s AMAs, bringing her total to 29. Swift won both artist of the year and artist of the decade.
In her British Vogue interview, Taylor joins musical theater kindpin Andrew Lloyd Weber, to discuss their collaboration on the movie adaptation of ‘Cats’ Webber’s 1981 extravaganza that set records in London’s West End and also on Broadway, running for a combined shy of 40 years. The duo has created a new song ‘Beautiful Ghosts’, with lyrics written by Taylor the afternoon she first heard Webber’s “hauntingly beautiful melody”.
Returning to fashion and Swift’s Craig McDean photo shoot ‘Waste Not’, contributing fashion director Kate Phelan pairs vintage pieces dating back 35 years with looks from the autumn/winter 2019 and Resort 2020 collections and specially commissioned garments crafted from deadstock (merchandise never sold to or worn by consumers) . Katharine Hamnett’s much-publicised “Pershing” T-shirt is styled alongside inspiring pieces from Amsterdam-based designer Duran Lantink, who upcycles items from resale sites into new exquisite garments. “We are looking at the longevity of what designers make and sell,” Phelan explains of her process. “They don’t have to start from scratch every time they make a collection. I still have clothes from years ago that I mix in with more recent looks – an old Chanel jacket that can stand the test of time, say. Things you never get bored of.”
Prada 2020 Resort Ads, 'Seditious Simplicity' Flower Power
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Global powerhouse brand Prada taps New York-based photographer Drew Vickers and Japanese photographer Keizo Kitajima for their Resort 2020 advertising campaign ‘Seditious Simplicity’. Olivier Rizzo styles the mega wattage list of campaign stars, with casting direction from Ashley Brokaw. They include Ashley Radjarame, Freek Iven, Freja Beha Erichsen, Lexi Boling, Kyla Ramsey, Sara Blomqvist, Stella Jones, Xiao Wen Ju and Yang Hao.
Read MoreFox News Gender War Goes Lives in 'Bombshell' Opening December 13, 2019 | W Magazine
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Fox News Gender War Goes Lives in 'Bombshell' Opening December 13, 2019 | W Magazine
‘Bombshell’, a reference to FOX TV founder Roger Ailes’ preference for blondes, opens in theaters on December 13. The movie details the downfall of the now-deceased Ailes, in a slow drip-drip-drip of sexual harassment allegations against the media genius and co-engineer of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. Ailes is largely credited with cultivating the extreme polarization and alternate facts universe in today’s America.
Nicole Kidman plays Gretchen Carlson, the outspoken anchor who launched the Fox News gender war, by suing Roger Ailes, played by John Lithgow. Charlize Theron plays the increasingly outspoken Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, who collided with now President Trump on the presidential debate stage. Margot Robbie plays a composite FOX woman Kayla, happily climbing the FOX News ladder as a “true believer”, writes W Magazine.
W Editor-in-Chief Sara Moonves styles the blockbuster trio for images by Colin Dodgson. Top interviewer Lynn Hirschberg narrates the story. Read on in AOC Fashion
Louis Vuitton News: Resort 2020 Campaign | World AIDS Day RED Sneaker | Mobile LV Shop
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Louis Vuitton Creative Director Nicolas Ghesquière shoots a new series of resort 2021 portraits in his photography studio on Quai Voltaire in Paris. The lineup includes Alicia Vikander, Clementine Balcaen, Ida Heiner, Malgosia Bela, Maryel Uchida, Metta Irebe, Mona Tougaard, and Natalia Vodianova.
Read MoreDorit Revelis Is Vaca Ready in Porter Edit's 'The Great Escape' The
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Dorit Revelis Is Vaca Ready in Porter Edit's 'The Great Escape' AOC Fashion
Israeli model Dorit Revelis is styled by Helen Broadfoot in warm weather, sunny shades, getaway clothes from Altuzarra, Bondi Born, Chloe, Joseph, JW Anderson, Matteau and more. Photographer David Luraschi captures ‘The Great Escape’ for Porter Edit November 29, 2019. Shop the clothes.
DAME Is First Period Brand to Be Climate Positive | Fish Rejoice
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Celia Pool and Alec Mills, founders of DAME period products and delivery.
DAME Is First Period Brand to Be Climate Positive | Fish Rejoice AOC Women
Most young entrepreneurs struggle to be taken seriously by potential investors. Imagine having raised capital from investors to support DAME, a subscription service delivery a range of London high street period products to women living in the UK, and returning to investors with an ethical problem is epic proportions in the business model. In one word: sustainability. .
“Pivoting the business was a real challenge,” co-founder Celia Pool recalled for Forbes. “Having to go to our investors and say that we no longer believed in the synthetic single-use products that we were selling, and we wanted to design our own was a big thing.
“We had a lot to prove,” Pool continued, explaining how she and business partner Alec Mills, brought their new sustainable tampon and applicator to market in early 2019.
Dazed Digital shares another major milestone development in DAME’s road to success.
Let’s ground ourselves in facts.
Tampons and sanitary pads are estimated to produce over 100 billion pieces of waste every year and they are the fifth-most common type of waste washing up on beaches, with nine plastic tampon applicators found per kilometre on UK beaches according to the Women’s Environmental Network. With the average woman using around 12,000 tampons in her life, each of them contributes 24,000 pieces of plastic to landfill, as most applicators have two plastic parts.
That is one sobering paragraph for ALL women who have a degree of choice in our lives — and that includes menopausal women with granddaughters. We all have obligations to saving our planet, but this is one subject all women can relate to.
DAME Is First Period Brand to Be Climate Positive Read on in AOC Women
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Lauren Wasser, Rep. Carolyn Murphy: Advocates for Women's 'Period Justice'
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AOC had a six degrees of separation moment just now, with the intersection of golden bionic legs model Laura Wasser and Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney.
We met Wasser earlier in the week, with her Paper Magazine editorial. Wasser lost both her legs to TSS (Toxic Shock Syndrome), an unwelcome life episode launched as chapter one on October 3, 2012.
Wasser became an activist on TSS and the entire reality of health standards for and potential dangers around feminine hygiene products.
Read MoreAmy Gambini, Lena Bistrova by Carlos Teixeira Vogue Portugal December 2019
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Amy Gambini, Lena Bistrova by Carlos Teixeira Vogue Portugal December 2019
Models Amy Gambini and Lena Bistrova are styled by Sara Soares in ‘Mundo de Sonhos’. Carlos Teixeira makes the capture for ELLE Portugal December 2019./ Hair by Edgar Venancio; makeup by Xana Lopes
Fresh Drive To Close Gaps on Health Issues Facing Africa's Women and Girls
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In Africa today women still die needlessly during childbirth. They also fall pregnant when they aren’t ready, and don’t want to get pregnant. And there are still many obstacles on their path to living full and fulfilled lives.
Sexual and reproductive health and rights are fundamental to people’s health and survival, to economic development, and to the well-being of humanity. Several decades of research have shown that investment in sexual and reproductive health produces measurable benefits.
Governments have made major commitments to getting this right. But progress has been stymied because of weak political commitment, inadequate resources, persistent discrimination against women and girls, and an unwillingness to address issues related to sexuality openly and comprehensively.
This was the conclusion of a report on sexual and reproductive health produced last year by the global health research and policy organisation, Guttmacher Institute, and the academic journal, The Lancet.
A fresh effort is under way to close these persistent gaps. These are centre stage at a special summit in Nairobi being convened by the United Nations Population Fund along with the governments of Kenya and Denmark. Among those attending will be heads of state, ministers, parliamentarians, thought-leaders, technical experts, civil society organisations, grassroots organisations, and business and community leaders.
Read MoreBrigitte Niedermair Eyes Dior Resort 2020 North Africa-Inspired Collection
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Brigitte Niedermair Eyes Dior Resort 2020 North Africa-Inspired Collection
Models Adesuwa Aighewi, Ana Barbosa, Jiali Zhao and Ruth Bell are styled by Isabelle Kountoure in Dior Cruise 2020 Collection. Regular Dior photographer Brigitte Niedermair captures Maria Grazia’s homage to North Africa in a collection about luxury, globalism and culture.
The toile du jouy fabrics were produced as wax prints by studio Uniwax, located in the Ivory Coast city of Abidjan. Months before the collection debut in Marrakech, Maria Grazia packed by her toiles of seasons past—with her jungle creatures, wacky flora, and tarot card allusions, writes Vogue.com — and print their “gloriously and intentionally imperfect, labor intensive” interpretations.
Niko Riam Is Nature Goddess Lensed by Jens Ingvarsson for Exit Magazine FW 2019
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Niko Riam Is Nature Goddess Lensed by Jens Ingvarsson for Exit Magazine FW 2019
South Sudanese-born, London-raised model Niko Riam is styled by Jimi Urquiaga in ‘Wild Is the Wind’, lensed by Jens Ingvarsson for Exit Magazine FW 2019./ Hair by Tsuki; hair by Chiao Chenet
Domen / Van de Velde Lens Sokhna Niane in 'La Vie en Rose' for Vogue Arabia October 2019
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Rising model Sokhna Niane is styled by Pablo Patane in grand looks from Alexander McQueen, Dolce & Gabbana, Elie Saab, Moncler, Ralph & Russo and Saint Laurent. Domen / Van de Velde are behind the lens, capturing ‘La Vie en Rose’ for Vogue Arabia October 2019./ Makeup by Fausto Cavaleri
Read MoreDazed Magazine FW 2019 K-pop Queer Star Holland Lensed by Leslie Zhang
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K-pop Star Holland Breaks Seoul's Queer Boundary, Riding Internet into Dazed Magazine FW 2019
K-pop star Holland talks queer activism in Korea, Internet fans supporting his rise with no exposure in a blackout by Korean media to Dazed Magazine FW 2019. Leslie Zhang shoots fashion editorial, Robbie Spencer styling.
Emily DiDonato in Modern Glamour Fashions by Kat Irlin for Vogue Greece October 2019
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Emily DiDonato in Modern Glamour Fashions by Kat Irlin for Vogue Greece October 2019 AOC Fashion & Style
Model Emily DiDonato is styled by Anna Katsanis in ‘See Emily Play’, lensed by Kat Irlin for Vogue Greece October 2019./ Hair by Brittain White; makeup by Joseph Carrillo; set design by Stewart Gerard
Grant James-Thomas Eyes Freya Lawrence + Niko Riam for Vogue Czech
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Grant James-Thomas Eyes Freya Lawrence + Niko Riam for Vogue Czech October 2019
Models Freya Lawrence and Niko Riam are styled by Christopher Maul in ‘Between Heaven and Earth’, lensed by Grant James-Thomas for Vogue Czechoslovakia October 2019./ Hair by Adam Garland; makeup by Jo Frost