Charlie Nishimura Wears John Rogers in Perfect Magazine #1 by Ethan James Green

Charlie Nishimura Wears John Rogers in Perfect Magazine #1 by Ethan James Green AOC Fashion

Charlie Nishimura is a model, actor and sustainable fashion designer based in New York, wrote Vogue in their 2021 New York Pride fashion family feature by photographer Rafael Martinez.

Photographer Ethan James Green caught up with Nishimura for Issue 1 of The Perfect Magazine FW 2021, published in September. Dara Allen captures Charlie wearing Christopher John Rogers.

Paloma Elsesser Goes 'Up Country' by Dan Martensen in British Vogue October 2021

Paloma Elsesser Goes 'Up Country' by Dan Martensen in British Vogue October 2021

Rising model star Paloma Elsesser poses in ‘Up Country’, a sensual and bucolic country scene far away from the ordinary madness of fashion-industry life and pretension. Clare Richardson styles Paloma in fall luxury from top designers.

Photographer Dan Martensen [IG] photographs Elsesser and friends for British Vogue’s October 2021 issue. We zero in on the second image below, one of six blankets created by JW Anderson’s new collab with artists Dame Magdalene Odundo DBE and Mississippi-born, one-armed ceramicist Shawanda Corbett (only called-out because the artist promotes her gift).

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Anders Hayward Covers Sunday Telegraph UK Mens by Virginie Khateeb

Anders Hayward Covers Sunday Telegraph UK Mens by Virginie Khateeb AOC Fashion

Model Anders Hayward wears Louis Vuitton menswear on the cover of Sunday Telegraph UK’s September 2021 fall fashion story. Styled by Tona Stell, Hayward is lensed by Virginie Khateeb [IG] in ‘Cut a Caper’./ Hair by Asahi Sano

Yulia Gorbachenko Flashes 'Rebelles' in Numéro France October 2021

LEFT TO RIGHT: MAVARO, JAYCHELLE ‘CHINQPINK’ YAMANOHA, JANA JULIUS, HIRSCHY GRACE, ANSOLET ROSSOUW

LEFT TO RIGHT: MAVARO, JAYCHELLE ‘CHINQPINK’ YAMANOHA, JANA JULIUS, HIRSCHY GRACE, ANSOLET ROSSOUW

Yulia Gorbachenko Flashes 'Rebelles' in Numéro France October 2021 AOC Fashion

Models Ansolet Rossouw, Hirschy Grace, Jana Julius, Jaychelle 'Chinqpink' Yamanoha and Mavaro are styled by Charles Varenne in ‘Rebelles’, lensed by Yulia Gorbachenko for Numero France October 2021./ Hair by Panos Papandrianos; makeup by Georgi Sandev

Rawdah Mohamed Leads New Frontiers Style in Vogue Arabia by Julien Vallon

Rawdah Mohamed Leads New Frontiers Style in Vogue Arabia by Julien Vallon

Top model soaring into super status Rawdah Mohamed shares the pages of Vogue Arabia’s October issue with Aouatif Saadi and Nadia Khaya. Mohamed is styled by Ellen Mirck in two covers and ‘The New Frontiers’ fashion story lensed by Julien Vallon [IG]./ Hair by Ilham Mestour; makeup by Naima Bremer

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Oudey Egone in 'Underwater Love' by Camilla Armbrust for Vogue Portugal September

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Oudey Egone in 'Underwater Love' by Camilla Armbrust for Vogue Portugal September AOC Fashion

Sunday’s woman and horse feature focuses on Oudey Egone styled by Niki Pauls in ‘Underwater Love’, lensed by Camilla Armbrust [IG] in Mallorca for Vogue Portugal’s September 2021 issue./ Hair by Niki Pauls; makeup by Tess Alamillo

Molly Chiang Brings Her True Beauty to Harper's Bazaar Hong Kong by Johnny Lu

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Molly Chiang Brings Her True Beauty to Harper's Bazaar Hong Kong by Johnny Lu AOC Fashion

Molly Chiang has built great fame as a Taiwanese actor and influencer. Of unique note, Chiang was the presented of the TEDx talk “I Am Molly, This Is My Core Value”.. Bazz Huang styles Chiang for ‘The True Beauty’, lensed by Johnny Lu [IG] for Harper’s Bazaar Hong Kong October 2021./ Makeup by Sting Hsieh; hair by Miley Shen

Note, AOC is not out looking for horses this season. There are EVERYWHERE as eroticism sticks its beautiful head out of a decade of sand.

Liza Ostanina Cracks the Whip by Paolo Musa for L’Officiel Italia September 2021

Liza Ostanina Cracks the Whip by Paolo Musa for L’Officiel Italia September 2021

Model Liza Ostanina poses in ‘Pastoral Fantasy’ a very different fashion examination of the mind of a horsewoman. Giulio Martinelli styles Ostanina in elegant luxury lensed by Paolo Musa [IG] for L’Officiel Italia September 2021./ Hair by Daniel Manzini; hair by Daniel Manzini

Brigitte Niedermair Captures Akron Changkou in Architectural Shapes for V Magazine

Brigitte Niedermair Captures Akron Changkou in Architectural Shapes for V Magazine AOC Fashion

Model Akon Changkou appears in ‘Monumental: The Season’s Sharpest Silhouettes’, shot at Paris’ Double Hélice in Noisy-le-Grand by Brigitte Niedermair [IG]. Gro Curtis styles Changkou in Alexander McQueen, Dior, Givenchy, Prada, Rick Owens and more for V Magazine.

In the words of V Magazine: “Lush enveloping fur coats, coffin-cut trenches, and vaporous swollen dresses, white as powdered sugar, are breathtaking against the grey frigid architecture. “My Inspiration was the merging of the [human] body with architecture. When looking into a pond there was a [striking] reflection of the architecture and this was where I found my [visual inspiration] for the story,” says Neidermair. “I wanted to demonstrate the hidden elegance of these structures.”

The backdrop of Neidermair’s images is a multi-story ‘double helix’ parking lot designed by Ludovic Maillard. TIME OUT shares images of “strangely beautiful brutalist buildings in Paris”.

Mélanie Thierry Rules the Boys Club for Madame Figaro Oct. 1 by Jean-Baptiste Mondino

Mélanie Thierry Rules the Boys Club for Madame Figaro Oct. 1 by Jean-Baptiste Mondino AOC Fashion

French actor Mélanie Thierry wears the pants, styled by Barbara Baumel in French brands Majestic Filatures (tank) and Charvet (shirt and suspenders) mixed with Miu Miu pants on the covers of Madame Figaro’s October 1, 2021 issue.

Thierry’s a natural member of the boys club, wearing more menswear-inspired luxury from Alexander McQueen, Alexandre Vauthier, AMI Alexandre Mattiussi, Celine by Hedi Slimane, Intimissimi, Kristina Fidelskaya, Valentino and more lensed by Jean-Baptiste Mondino. / Hair by Nabil Harlow; makeup by Christophe Danchaud

Photographer Rafael Pavarotti Captures 'Full Speed Ahead' in W Magazine October 2021

Photographer Rafael Pavarotti Captures 'Full Speed Ahead' in W Magazine October 2021

Ib Kamara styles models Abdullah Amure, Adit Priscilla, Ariish Wol, Binta Diop, Destiny Adeyemi, Mensah Benjamin and Nyagua Ruea. Photographer Rafael Pavarotti captures the fashion crew in ‘Full Speed Ahead’ in W Magazine October 2021. / Hair by Jawara; makeup by Thom Walker

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Desiree Mattsson Captures Helena Balder Mendez in 'Midnight Noir' for Vogue Arabia

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Desiree Mattsson Captures Helena Balder Mendez in 'Midnight Noir' for Vogue Arabia AOC Fashion

Model Helena Balder Mendez is styled by Pablo Patane in ‘Midnight Noir’, uber-sophisticated beauty images lensed by Desiree Mattsson. for the September 2021 Vogue Arabia. / Hair by Ilham Mestour; makeup by Linda Wickmann

Elina Kechicheva Flashes Poetic Modern Maidens Seaside for Numéro France

Elina Kechicheva Flashes Poetic Modern Maidens Seaside for Numéro France AOC Fashion

Models Anna Pepper, Britt Van Den Herik and Pleun Keijsers drift into view in ‘Contre Vents Et Marées’, another of photographer Elina Kechicheva’s poetic, romantic young women fashion stories. Samuel Francois styles the modern life beauties for Numéro France September 2021./ Hair by Kazue Deki; makeup; by Eny Whitehead

Meghan and Harry Thrill Global Citizens to Action in Central Park As TIME 100 Icons

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TIME 100 Icons Meghan and Harry Call Global Citizens to Action in Central Park AOC She

Global Citizens Held Hands September 24th in Central Park

AOC’s dot-connecting came full circle on Saturday with the truly epic Global Citizen concert that ran for 24 hrs. moving around the globe. The New York City Central Park action went live post-Paris at about 5pm. An hour or two in to the concert, it was clear that someone was in the house. Cries of glee, clapping — some rock star had arrived.

Well, they are rock stars — Meghan and Harry — and it was our chance to claim them as our own. The crowd was in love with the couple — as is AOC. Are they perfect? No, for heavens sake. And who is? We are so happy to have these global activists making their home now in America. We need them here, as America tries to get our act together once again.

“My wife and I believe that where you’re born should not dictate your ability to survive,” Prince Harry said. “So Global Citizens, we ask you tonight: Do you think we should start treating access to the vaccine as a basic human right?

“When we start making decisions through that lens, where every single person deserves equal access to the vaccine, then we can achieve what is needed together for all of us,” he added. 

And then who did Harry and Meghan introduce next at the Global Citizen ? UN ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who they met for the first time earlier in their New York City visit.

Prince Harry and Meghan, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, are headliners in this year’s TIME 100. Their own narrative was written by Spanish chef José Andrés, founder of World Central Kitchen, a non-profit devoted to providing meals in the wake of natural disasters.

The trio combined their activist energies in December 2020, when José Andrés and his non-profit, World Central Kitchen, became the first major charitable contribution of Harry and Meghan’s Archwell charity.

Harry and Meghan | Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweaka | UN Ambassador Linda Thomas Greenfield

AOC wrote about Harry and Meghan’s activist work on COVID vaccinations worldwide in our introduction of TIME 100: Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director General of the World Trade Organization. Prince Harry and Meghan asked the question: what will it take to vaccinate the world? “Unity, cooperation and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala,” is their answer.

Writing about the Trump administration’s blocking of Okonjo-Iweala’s rise to head of the WTO, we noted her close relationship with Linda Thomas-Greenfield, now US President Biden’s UN Ambassador. As we predicted, one of the very first initiatives in the new Biden Administration was to end the Trump blockade against Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.

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Nicole Kidman Covers Harper's Bazaar US October 2021 by Collier Schorr

Nicole Kidman Covers Harper's Bazaar US October 2021 by Collier Schorr AOC Fashion

American-born, Australian actor and producer Nicole Kidman covers the October 2021 issue of Harper’s Bazaar US. Stella Greenspan chooses a rich collection of fashion and Bulgari jewelry from Balenciaga, Burberry, Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Max Mara, Prada, The Row, Valentino and more. Collier Schorr [IG] photographs the 5’11” tall actor with creative direction by Laura Genniger./ Hair by Tamas Tuzes

Amanda Fortini speaks trans-Pacific with Kidman on the degree to which prestige TV has fueled a stunning period of reawakening and reinvention in the interview ‘The Golden Age of Nicole Kidman’.

If you’re a Nicole Kidman fan, the interview is 5-stars. Amanda Fortini shares a compendium of Kidman’s current projects and it’s a long list. The exchange probes Kidman’s deep psychological involvement in her characters, a reality that also impacts her family. The actor has spoken previously on this topic, one that is accentuated by a profound empathy that she has for humans generally.

Kidman’s visceral ability to feel her surroundings and people deeply — reading the room intuitively and not in a calculating, rational-mind manner — has placed her in the flow with American television writer and producer David E. Lynch. Kelley is involved in ‘Big little Lies’, ‘The Undoing’ and Hulu’s ‘Nine Perfect Strangers’.

“Her characters in these series are difficult, often inscrutable women who, in less skilled hands, would not be remotely sympathetic: spoiled women, insufferably out-of-touch women, a woman who defends her murderous husband, another who oversteps her guests’ boundaries and, at times, infringes upon their safety,” writes Fortini.

Rereading the interview for the third time, I don’t find throwaway paragraphs. Especially if you are a creative, each segment will speak to you.

“I suppose the artist spirit, a lot of times, is saying, ‘I don’t care what it’s gonna cost me as a human being, because my thrust is deeply artistic,’” Kidman says, pulling her hair down and putting it up again. She tells me that while filming the intense marital altercations in Big Little Lies, she would come home with bruises and have to explain to her young daughters where they came from. “And that’s probably just a massive push-pull in any person who’s a painter, a writer, you know?” she says contemplatively, treating the notion with the gravity it obviously holds for her. “If you’re really dedicated to it over a lifetime, that push-pull will collide with your existence and your connections with your family and all the people in your life. How much will that cost them? How much will it cost you personally? And how important is that artistic contribution?”

Aliet Sarah Plays with Rain Drops by Txema Yeste in Numéro #225 October 2021

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Aliet Sarah Plays with Rain Drops by Txema Yeste in Numéro #225 October 2021 AOC Fashion

Rising model Aliet Sarah — born in South Sudan, refugee in Uganda, given refuge in Canada with her four siblings and both parents dead — blooms with inner radiance, style and grace in ‘Orage Tropical’. Waiting on a storm was never so stylish, thanks to Bernat Buscato.

Photographer Txema Yeste [IG] captures Aliet Sarah in deeply personal, fashionable images for Numéro #225 October 2021. / Hair Jordi Fontanals; makeup by Victor Alvarez