Kaia Gerber Ups Her Sensual ID by Luigi & Iango for Vogue Japan September 2020

Kaia Gerber Ups Her Sensual ID by Luigi & Iango for Vogue Japan September 2020

Photographers Luigi & Iango shot the Vogue Japan September 2020 covers and editorials before quarantine. As online commentators argue that Kaia Gerber shouldn’t be allowed to shoot covers like these (see below) until she is 25 at least, Vogue Japan’s Anna Della Russo rolls along, creating some much needed glamour and controversy for the new issue.

I’m not kidding about the child porn convo, leading me to wonder at which point fashion industry critical convo from so-called professionals becomes fashion industry self-strangulation. Kaia looks great, for goddesses sake.

Kaia Gerber’s Vogue Japan September issue covers and editorial previews are only half the convo. Della Russo rolls on with an extraordinary, mega dose of black beauty. Coming up next. ~ Anne

Irina Shayk, Joan Smalls Front VS Bombshell Fragrance Campaign by Zoey Grossman

Irina Shayk, Joan Smalls Front VS Bombshell Fragrance Campaign by Zoey Grossman

Top models Irina Shayk and Joan Smalls link arms to promote Victoria’s Secret’s ‘Bombshell’ fragrance. Zoey Grossman captures the duo who also had creative input on the shoot.

“We really gave a piece of ourselves to this campaign: It’s me being me, and Joan being Joan,” Irina says about the shoot about ‘Bombshell’ and its mouth-watering fragrance notes of Shagri-la Peony, Purple Passionfruit, and Vanilla Orchid.

So, ladies. Is Bombshell your fragrance now? On a positive note, from what I understand, half of Joan Smalls’ personal share of her fee for the Bombshell shoot will support Black Lives Matter organizations for the rest of 2020. And THAT is a good move, Joan.

Erik Madigan Heck Shares 'Studies in Stillness' in Harper's Bazaar UK July 2020

Erik Madigan Heck Shares 'Studies in Stillness' in Harper's Bazaar UK July 2020

Fashion photographer Erik Madigan Heck creates a personal exploration of nature’s colors, textures and magnificence in ‘Studies in Stillness’. The images feature Heck’s beloved wife Brianna Killion Heck and reflect their creative dialogue within the constraints of the global pandemic. The images are published in Harper’s Bazaar UK July 2020.

In 2014, Erik Madigan Heck’s family life was featured on the cover of TIME magazine, accompanied by an interview with Alexandra Genova called ‘Behind the Goddess Myth’. It’s a superb interview and intellectual discussion about the photographer’s work, accompanied by gorgeous images of Heck’s family.

Heck’s family portraits flirt between reality and fantasy. The Connecticut forest backdrop of his home isn’t quite nature as we know it: woodland greens become turquoise blues and blushing pinks become coral peach. “Color has always been one of the most important things for my work—and up here it’s the changing of the seasons too,” he says. “So I’ll take what’s already there and I’ll elaborate. I‘m not inventing things that aren’t there, just pushing them in certain directions.”

Elizabeth Debicki in 'New Horizons' by Olivia Malone for Porter Edit

Elizabeth Debicki in 'New Horizons' by Olivia Malone for Porter Edit

Actor Elizabeth Debicki covers the July 13, 2020 issue of Porter Edit, styled by Annabelle Harron in Àcheval Pampa, Bassike, Bottega Veneta, Dion Lee, Gauchère and more. Photographer Olivia Malone is behind the lens, capturing Debicki in ‘New Horizons’.

A Racial Equity Tools Glossary for People Seeking Racial Justice

Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash.

Reading ‘How one woman pulled off the first consumer boycott — and helped inspire the British to abolish slavery’, on The Conversation, I became fixated on a comment that read:

thanks for the interesting article and for not using subjective racial terms. the story reads rationally and perfectly well without them, and avoids validating the mythology of race.

Thinking that I knew the meaning of his words, I Googled anyway and discovered this Racial Equity Tools Glossary. You can download a pdf version of this glossary from this link.

Words and phrases defined and discussed with the “context of racial equality” include: accountability, ally, anti-black, anti-racist, colonization, critical race theory, cultural misappropriation, cultural racism, decolonization, ethnicity, implicit bias, individual racism, institutional racism, internalized racism, intersectionality, microaggression, racial justice, racial reconciliation, racist, restorative justice.

Bella Hadid: Helmut Lang Pre-Fall 2020; Instagram Baba Rumble

Bella Hadid: Helmut Lang Pre-Fall 2020; Instagram Baba Rumble

Bella Hadid poses in Helmut Lang’s Pre-Fall 2020 campaign, with Ethan James Green in the studio. Brian Phillips is in charge of creative direction with Patti Wilson on styling. / Hair by Jimmy Paul; makeup by Hannah Murray

Bella Hadid’s July 2020 Instagram Rumble

Instagram apologized to Bella Hadid on Tuesday, July 8, after removing an image of her father’s passport.

“Instagram removed my story that only said ‘My baba And his birthplace of Palestine’ with a photograph of his American passport,” the 23-year-old supermodel said Tuesday on her Instagram Story.

The proud Hadid daughter pilloried the social media platform: “@instagram exactly what part of me being proud of my father’s birthplace of Palestine is ‘bullying, harassment, graphic or sexual nudity?'”

Nicolas Ghesquière Turns Photographer for Louis Vuitton Fall 2020 Campaign

Nicolas Ghesquière Turns Photographer for Louis Vuitton Fall 2020 Campaign

Louis Vuitton’s Creative Director Nicolas Ghesquière steps into a new role as photographer of the luxury brand’s fall 2020 campaign. Twenty of the designer’s friends and muses posed at his home on the Quai Voltaire, with stylist Marie-Amélie Sauvé choosing one of Vuitton’s iconic bags: the Capucines, the Twist, the Pont 9 and the Dauphine.

The first release lineup includes: Akon Changkou, Dina Asher-Smith, Léa Seydoux, Lous and the Yakuza, Marina Foïs, Mariam de Vinzelle, Noémie Merlant, Sora Choi and Stacy Martin

British Vogue August 2020 'Reset' Issue Honors Nature & Creatives

British Vogue August 2020 'Reset' Issue Honors Nature & Creatives

Photographer Nick Knight pays high compliments to British Vogue’s EIC Edward Enninful, explaining the mutual synergy that gave life to the first project of its kind for British Vogue’s August 2020 issue: the commissioning of 14 special covers that tapped Britain’s greatest artists and photographers from Tim Walker to Nadine Ijewere, David Hockney, Lubaina Himid and ‘yes’ Nick Knight. Expand the list to include Mert Alas, David Sims, Marcus Piggott, Jamie Hawkesworth, Juergen Teller, Alasdair McLellan, Martin Parr, David Bailey and Craig McDean.

In a followup to the magazine’s recent online auction in collaboration with Sharon Wolter Ferguson’s HEWI (Hardly Ever Wore It), this new project also makes British Vogue an engine of change and support for people in need. “The original prints of each depiction of nature – be it an everyday skyline or the memory of a place much missed – will be auctioned off in aid of Covid-19 relief charities later this year.”

British Vogue’s August Issue, Reset, and the 20-page story ‘All Across the Land’, written by British naturalist Helen Macdonald, supports a mission not only of showcasing the beautiful, but also highlighting that our planet is the living, breathing core of our human existence. As such, Edward Enninful’s 2020 mission is to RESET our relationship to nature.

Knight’s Reset cover was not the first publicity release, but it explains some highly-relevant backstory about the project. The debut cover for the project launch belongs to David Hockney.

Nick Knight on the August 2020 British Vogue Backstory

Kendall Jenner for Burberry Monogram Summer 2020 Campaign

Kendall Jenner for Burberry Monogram Summer 2020 Campaign

Kendall Jenner stars in the latest Burberry monogram campaign, shooting the images herself via computer. Kendall was directed by photographer Nick Knight, stylist Katy England and art director Peter Saville for the shoot at her home in LA. See the entire campaign story online at Burberry.

Kendall and Kylie Launch Kylie Cosmetics Kendall Collection SS 2020

Kendall and Kylie Launch Kylie Cosmetics Kendall Collection SS 2020

Super talent Kendall Jenner joins sister Kylie Jenner to showcase the Kylie Cosmetics Kendall Collection SS 2020. Photographer Greg Swales is in the studio with styling by Dani Michelle. / Makeup by Ariel Tejada and Mary Phillips; hair by Jen Atkin

Kendall is the last sister to collaborate with Kylie, and the collab dropped on June 26. Announcing the campaign on social media, Kylie called Kendall her SOULMATE, as both women steamed up digital screens in their Fleur du Mal lingerie. The photography is even carried on to the packaging, which is very impressive given the price points.

Nick Knight Zooms 'Up in the Cloud' for British Vogue August 2020

Nick Knight Zooms 'Up in the Cloud' for British Vogue August 2020

Photographer Nick Knight zooms into the pages of British Vogue’s August 2020 issue. Models Anok Yai, Bella Hadid, Fran Summers, Jill Kortleve, Lulu Tenney, and Ugbad Abdi are styled by Kate Phelan for ‘Up in the Cloud’. / Makeup by Val Garland; hair by Sam McKnight

Bella Hadid Fronts Calvin Klein Swimwear 2020 by Charlotte Wales

Bella Hadid Fronts Calvin Klein Swimwear 2020 by Charlotte Wales

Supermodel Bella Hadid fronts Calvin Klein’s Summer 2020 Swimwear campaign. Charlotte Wales is behind the lens, capturing Bella in and out of the pool.

Mica Argañaraz in 'Black and Blue' for Vogue Paris July 2020 by Nathaniel Goldberg

Mica Argañaraz in 'Black and Blue' for Vogue Paris July 2020 by Nathaniel Goldberg

Model Mica Argañaraz checks in with the monthly Vogue Paris rock steady editorial, styled by Emmanuelle Alt in ‘Black and Blue’. Photographer Nathaniel Golberg makes the capture for Vogue Paris July 2020./ Hair by Damien Boissinot; makeup by Christelle Cocquert

Rianne Van Rompaey by Freja Beha Erichsen for Vogue Paris July 2020

Rianne Van Rompaey by Freja Beha Erichsen for Vogue Paris July 2020

Top model Rianne Van Rompaey is lensed by good friend Freja Beha Erichsen in lockdown for July 2020 issue of Vogue Paris.

Bella Hadid's Scorched Earth Images in Versace Dylan Blue Campaign

Bella Hadid's Scorched Earth Images in Versace Dylan Blue Campaign

Supermodel Bella Hadid scorches the earth, lensed by Harley Weir for the new Versace Dylan Blue campaign, Fall 2020.

Vogue Japan August 2020 LIFE OF LUXURY Issue Lensed by Luigi & Iango

Vogue Japan August 2020 LIFE OF LUXURY Issue Lensed by Luigi & Iango

The August 2020 issue of Vogue Japan drops an extravaganza editorial with covers from talents and models Binx Walton, Felize Kolibius, Helena Gatsby, Jill Kortleve, Mika Schneider, Patrycja Piekarska, Sacha Quenby, Shay, Sora Choi, Valerie Scherzinger and Yasmin Wijnaldum.

With the theme LIFE OF LUXURY, Vogue Japan asked artists and creatives “what luxury means to you.” The answers, shared with photos of memorabilias and treasures, explores the new meaning of luxury in this new society.

Anna Dello Russo styles the mammoth fashion statement with hair by Luigi Murenu and makeup by Georgi Sandev.