Valentina Sampaio In Opulent Luxury by Claire Rothstein for Harper's Bazaar Singapore

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Valentina Sampaio In Opulent Luxury by Claire Rothstein for Harper's Bazaar Singapore

Rising model Valentina Sampaio holds court in the Ealing district of West London, England, home to Walpole Park and Pitzhanger Manor, now a museum and formerly the country residence of Sir John Soane, one of Britain’s most influential architects.

Sampaio is styled by Windy Aulia in ‘Portrait of a Lady’, lensed in opulent images by Claire Rothstein (IG) for Harper’s Bazaar Singapore’s October pages. /Hair by Lyndell Mansfield; makeup by Kirstin Piggott

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Lulu Tenney's Modern Sweater Girl Style by Giampaolo Sgura for Vogue Russia November 2020

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Lulu Tenney's Modern Sweater Girl Style by Giampaolo Sgura for Vogue Russia November 2020

Model Lulu Tenney is styled by Margherita Moro in cold-weather, casual elegance. Photographer Giampaolo Sgura captures Tenney’s smart-woman, style spirit for Vogue Russia November 2020./ Hair by Ezio Diaferia; makeup by Luca Cianciolo

Kenzo's New Era: Felipe Oliveira Baptista + Glen Luchford Launch Fall 2020 Campaign

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Artistic director Felipe Oliveira Baptista charts Kenzo’s future.

Artistic director Felipe Oliveira Baptista charts Kenzo’s future.

KENZO unveils its first Fall 2020 campaign by Portuguese fashion designer Felipe Oliveira Baptista. The original, pre-COVID campaign plan intended a photographic road trip in The Azores, Baptista’s original home. Photographer Glen Luchford and long-term partner, stylist Jane How would be Baptista’s campaign companions. And then COVID struck.

“When could we travel? Be together again?” were unanswered and predominant questions. We were to collaborate and put a campaign together, but how?

Glen Luchford knew the campaign would now involve distance photography. But how could it transform into a series of original images? Into the archives — as a few select photographers lucky enough to have them — have already done. Check. Now send the clothes to New York or Los Angeles, where Luchford would shoot models in the same pose and under the same light as the vintage image. Check.

The result is a fresh campaign featuring Lara Stone, Lil Buck and Rose Valentine, as reflected in these first images. Refusing to bow to the challenging moment, the Kenzo campaign expresses the ‘Going Places’ spirit of the collection. Kenzo has always rooted itself in a youthful, nomadic style, and Baptista is ready for takeoff.

In the mid-1960s, Takada Kenzo moved from Japan to Paris, traveling by boat with stopovers in Hong Kong, Mumbai and Saigon. It was this voyage that helped inspire Kenzo’s modern nomad, global progressive spirit. Young creatives with open minds took advantage of affordable, global transportation. Like Kenzo, they set off with the same nomadic spirit born in the eponymous ready-to-wear house the designer founded in 1970.

Today Kenzo heralds a mobile wardrobe that embraces urban elegance and metamorphosis — a keyword in narrating the original spirit of the Kenzo brand.

The name of my first plant store, ‘metamorphosis’ is again a timely word in a COVID world of shaken values and environmental concerns. So many of the hopes of Kenzo-mindset progressives living in the world of The Beatles — and especially John Lennon — are well aware of the meaningless heap of shattered dreams of clean energy, women’s equality and racial justice that inspired deep convictions around global change.

Those same young people find it hard to believe that on June 20, 1979, US President Jimmy Carter unveiled 32 solar panels on the roof of the White House. Yale Climate Connections reveals the Jimmy Carter’s solar panels moment:

Adut Akech's Ruffle Romance by Charles Dennington for Zimmermann Resort 2021

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Adut Akech's Ruffle Romance by Charles Dennington for Zimmermann Resort 2021

Top model Adut Akech fronts Zimmermann’s Resort 2021 ready-to-wear campaign, posing in vaca looks styled by Romy Frydman. Photographer Charles Dennington is behind the lens, capturing the ruffles-abundant, ‘Lovestruck’ collection of romantic getaway dresses./ Hair by Renya Xydis; makeup by Linda Jeffreyes

Jacquemus Fall/Winter 2020 Nostalgia Frolic with Laetitia Casta by Valentin Herfray

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Jacquemus Fall/Winter 2020 Nostalgia Frolic with Laetitia Casta by Valentin Herfray

Jacquemus pulls a hard-right turn in a new campaign for its Fall/Winter 2020 collection. Anyone sitting in a giant dreamy wheat field that served as a backdrop for the Spring/Summer 2021 presentation needs to get with the current program.

Modeled by close friend actor Laetitia Casta and Simon Porte Jacquemus’ new puppy TouTou, the ‘L’Année 97’ has gone full-on retro. Gaming consoles and an OG Nokia phone meet up with Le Chiquito and Le Bambino handbags in joyful snaps of slip dresses, biker shots and suitings — all decked out in a Together Forever pink car.

The mood is infectious — if a bit off-kilter for our communal, global moment. The nostalgia messages say “let the good times roll”, as do the delightful images by Valentin Herfray. (IG) Hmmm. Don’t overthink this, Anne. / Makeup by Vanessa Bellini; hair by Ramona Eschbach Shop Jacquemus.com.

Humanrace 'Clean' Beauty Skincare Is Pure Pharrell Williams Philosophy

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Humanrace 'Clean' Beauty Skincare Is Pure Pharrell Williams Philosophy

Pharrell Williams has launched an epic skincare brand at humanrace.com. Not only does the brand name Humanrace dovetail perfectly with the singer/rapper/designer/entrepreneur’s philosophical mindset. But because the two words are typically split in typography, searching for the single word brings up Pharrell Williams’ new venture in Google’s top position. Nice — and I doubt he paid much for it.

Yes, it helps that Humanrace’s November 25 launch covers the current issue of Allure magazine, lensed by Ben Hassett. All the relevant details of Humanrace’s DNA are covered in Brennan Kilbane’s interview Pharrell Dives Into the Beauty Business.

The chief sensations officer of Humancare is perfectly at home Zooming from his Miami kitchen about the super simple, skin-loving essentials developed with his longtime dermatologist, Elena Jones.

Eyeing the New South

It was an impactful, online New York Times ad recruiting artists to Virginia that first attracted me to Virginia Beach. That July 2017 midnight sighting was followed by the August 12, 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville. That memorable weekend left me wondering if a move to Virginia was realistically in my destiny.

My cousin Jo and I spent several November 2017 days in Virginia three months later, and I remained positive about the move — highly impacted by the ‘truths’ about Jefferson that were openly-discussed in our tour at Monticello.

Looking out over a desolate, wintery Civil War battlefield was sobering post-Charlottesville, and I felt more strongly than ever that creating a New South was part of my older and wiser DNA.

I can say with total honesty, though, that news of Pharrell Williams’ 2019 ‘Something in the Water’ festival sealed the deal, removing any further hesitation about moving to Virginia. All systems became GO!

The beauty entrepreneur’s Allure interview with Brennan Kilbane delves into activism in a post George Floyd world.

Adut Akech's Ruffle Romance by Charles Dennington for Zimmermann Resort 2021

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Adut Akech's Ruffle Romance by Charles Dennington for Zimmermann Resort 2021

Top model Adut Akech fronts Zimmermann’s Resort 2021 ready-to-wear campaign, posing in vaca looks styled by Romy Frydman. Photographer Charles Dennington is behind the lens, capturing the ruffles-abundant, ‘Lovestruck’ collection of romantic getaway dresses./ Hair by Renya Xydis; makeup by Linda Jeffreyes

Naomie Harris Is Pure 'Golden Girl' in Txeme Yeste Images for Tatler UK

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British actor Naomie Harris wears Dior Haute couture worthy of a golden goddess on the cover of Tatler UK’s December 2020 issue. Sophia Pera styles Harris in a series of regal haute couture gowns from Alexandre Vauthier, Azzaro Couture, Chanel Haute Couture, Gaultier Paris, Giambattista Valli, Giorgio Armani, House of Sheldonhall, Schiaparelli and more.

Photographer Txema Yeste captures Harris, whose third movie screen performance as Miss Moneypenny to Daniel Craig's James Bond in ‘No Time To Die’, is yet again delayed due to COVID-19, with a new theater opening scheduled for April 2, 2021.

The V Time Magazine Travels the World for Fall 2020's Best Coats by Chris Colls

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The V Time Magazine Travels the World for Fall 2020's Best Coats by Chris Colls

Aryeh Lappin styled fashion’s big-name faces Adesuwa Aighewi, Alexandra Agoston, Edita Vilkeviciute, Guinevere van Seenus, Parker van Noord, Malgosia Bela, Mayowa Nicholas and Yasmin Wijnaldum in fall coats from Celine by Hedi Slimane, Emporio Armani, Etro, Fendi, Giorgio Armani, Givenchy, Salvatore Ferragamo and Tom Ford.

Photographer Chris Colls is behind the lens. The quarantine didn’t stop him but he invented quite a little production unit shipped around the world.

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Hirschy Grace in Silvery, Sea Style by Agata Pospieszynska for Harper's UK December

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Hirschy Grace in Silvery, Sea Style by Agata Pospieszynska for Harper's UK December

Photographer Agata Pospieszynska (IG) delivers a cooled-down, silver-lens fashion moment starring model Hirschy Grace. Harper’s Bazaar UK Senior Fashion Editor Charlie Harrington chooses ocean-inspired fabrics and fisherman-effects detailing for ‘The Lonely Sea & the Sky’ in the December 2020 issue.

Edie Campbell's Punk Attitude by Theo Sion for Vogue Italia November 2020

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Edie Campbell's Punk Attitude by Theo Sion for Vogue Italia November 2020

Top model Edie Campbell strikes with another of her unique, morphing into a new character editorial, styled by Max Pearmain. Photographer Theo Sion captures ‘Edie’s Beauty’ with its 70’s punk rock vibes for Vogue Italia November 2020./ Makeup by Hiromi Ueda; hair by Luke Hersheson

Lara Stone in Dolce & Gabbana by Emma Summerton for Vogue UK December 2020

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Lara Stone in Dolce & Gabbana by Emma Summerton for Vogue UK December 2020

Top model Lara Stone graces the pages of British Vogue’s December 2020 issue, styled by Dena Giannini. Photographer Emma Summerton (IG) captures Stone in the Dolce & Gabbana editorial and interview ‘Italians Do It Better’. / Hair by Panos Panadrianos; makeup by Lisa Eldridge

Assa Baradji Covers Numéro France November 2020 by Txema Yeste

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Assa Baradji Covers Numéro France November 2020 by Txema Yeste

Model Assa Baradji is styled by Bernat Buscato and Irina Marie in ‘Les Métamorphoses’. Top photographer Txema Yeste makes the high-voltage capture for Numéro France November 2020./ Hair by Jordi Fontanals; makeup by Victor Alvarez

With LVMH-Tiffany Marriage Solid, Will "Diamonds and Gold" Really Be "Our Favorite Things?"

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With LVMH-Tiffany Marriage Solid, Will "Diamonds and Gold" Really Be "Our Favorite Things"

Tiffany & Co releases its Holiday 2020 campaign days after reaching a final agreement with LVMH and chairman Bernard Arnault to join the luxury market kingpin’s family. Patti Wilson styles a model quintet including Binx Walton, Cameron Russell, Freja Beha Erichsen, Julia Nobis, and Mayowa Nicholas.

Craig McDean is behind the lens making festive images in support of Tiffany’s pronouncement: “Diamonds and gold, bracelets and rings, these are our favorite things.”