Julia van Os by Max Papendieck for Vogue Australia November 2021

Julia and Max — who are a couple — drove 1500 miles in two states over four days — with major time in Joshua Tree.

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Julia van Os by Max Papendieck in US Southwest for Vogue Australia November 2021 AOC Fashion

Model Julia van Os is styled by Kaila Matthews in Celine, Chanel Gucci, Prada and more in images by Max Papendieck [IG] for Vogue Australia November 2021. /Hair by Rory Rice; makeup by Victoria Baron

The fashion shoot ‘No Where To Go But Everywhere’ happened in the American West, with Julia and Max — who are a couple — dealing with the creative team remotely in Australia. They drove 1500 miles in two states over four days — with major time in Joshua Tree — according to Julia’s IG.

In the throes of 2020 lockdown Max and Julia shared an intimate fashion story of their life at home for Vogue Greece May 2020 issue.

Ine Neef Enjoys Country Air Style for ELLE Italia Lensed by Laurie Bartley

Ine Neef Enjoys Country Air Style for ELLE Italia Lensed by Laurie Bartley AOC Fashion

Model Ine Neefs is styled by Micaela Sessa in ‘Aria Buona’ [good air], relaxed, patterned country luxury lensed by Laurie Bartley [IG] for ELLE Italia October 23, 2021./ Hair by Leon Gorman; makeup by Giovanni Iovine

Tindi Mar Covers Vogue Mexico November 2021 by Sonia Szostak

Tindi Mar Covers Vogue Mexico November 2021 by Sonia Szostak AOC Fashion

Rising star Tindi Mar, environmental activist and Vogue Paris [now Vogue France] September 2021 cover star, spreads her nature-oriented magnificence over three covers of the November 2021 issue of Vogue Mexico.

Photographer Sonia Szóstak [IG] turns her own sensual eye to Tindi Mars in ‘Au Natural’, styled by Valentina Collado in fluid transparency and burnout fabrics to create the deeply-sensual, fashion atmosphere./ Makeup by Dariia Day

Rocio Ramos Seizes the Power of Cardinals for Marie Claire Mexico and LA

Rocio Ramos Seizes the Power of Cardinals for Marie Claire Mexico and LA AOC Fashion

Photographer Rocio Ramos [IG] captures unadulterated-red, fashion passion in the October pages of Marie Claire Mexico and Latin America. Model Dalianah Arekion poses in primal, earth-goddesses elegance styled by Abraham Gutiérrez.

Most fashion media will promote the color red as symbolizing new energy and interest in living with the latest seasonal wardrobe. The message is consumption-oriented — which is understandable, especially if we are looking at the latest, earth-loving sustainable fashion buys.

We doubt that is the case here — that we are looking at sustainable fashion. But there are even higher principles at play in these images. AOC knows for a fact that artist and photographer Rocio Ramos is on our wave-length, and she likes the writing her images inspire.

So we will move out on red, into the fast lane.

Red Symbolism

The color red is most often associated with a passion for living and an embrace of love, but also carnal pleasures. Red is known as an emotionally-intense color that enhances human metabolism and increases respiration rate, while raising blood pressure. The impact of the color red on the human body has been seriously studied.

Culturally-speaking we are in a red-alert moment that transcends fashion runways and embraces the duality of competing narratives about our very humanity.

Red is the color of fire and blood, one often associated with energy, war, power and danger. Red is considered to be aggressive and fierce, but also grounding. In the world of 7 chakras, red is the root chakra, and while it’s easy enough to dismiss red as primitive with its positioning on the chakra chart, it is also responsible for our sense of security and stability.

When apes first stood tall and began walking into humanity, their root chakra was in high gear — literally. Rocks and caves were homes to humanity before we created mobile structures made of mammoth tusks. The setting for Rocio Ramos’ fashion story is perfect, because it embraces the necessities of security, survival and being rooted as the very foundation of our lives.

HTSI Magazine Adds a W for Wisely with Lena Hardt Posing in Sustainable Fashion

HTSI Magazine Adds a W for Wisely with Lena Hardt Posing in Sustainable Fashion AOC Fashion

How To Spend It . . . WISELY is the cover message of the magazine’s October 23, 2021 The Green Issue. Model Lena Hardt models fall’s finest conscious fashion from Bethany Williams, Chloé, Hermes, Ulla Johnson and more. Photographer Sasha Marro [IG] captures the green fashion investments, styled by Isabelle Kountoure in ‘All Things Considered.’./ Hair by Marion Anée; makeup by William Bartel

AOC so agrees with HTSI editor Jo Ellison’s perspective when she writes:

“Finding garments that are 100 per cent sustainable is still an unexpected challenge.”

Ellison is so much more diplomatic than AOC, citing “this week’s fashion editorial, which sought to use only recycled, sustainably made or upcycled textiles. . . . Putting together a shoot in which such criteria were mandatory was still far harder than might have been expected, despite much noise in the industry about trying to make things better.” ⁠

As I revealed in a post last week, Anne is becoming more urgently angry over this same challenge. We will never become as aggressive as PETA because we will drive away some of the top voices and creatives in fashion who read AOC. But there is no doubt, that impatience with sustainability promises will become more obvious on our website.

Sanne Vloet Does a Sensual Simmer Lensed by Aicha Abdoun for Numero Netherlands

Sanne Vloet Does a Sensual Simmer Lensed by Aicha Abdoun for Numero Netherlands AOC Fashion

Model Sanne Vloet wears Givenchy styled by Oumayma Elboumeshouli in Aicha Abdoun [IG] images for Numéro Netherlands October 2021, Editor Timotej Letonja and the fashion crew descended on The W Hotel Miami.

Binx Walton Covers Vogue Brazil in Images by Luigi & Iango

Binx Walton Covers Vogue Brazil in Images by Luigi & Iango AOC Fashion

Top model Binx Walton channels her subversive inner persona, is styled by Pedro Sales in images by Luigi & Iango for Vogue Brasil Septemer 2021./ Hair by Tashana Miles, makeup by Georgi Sandev

Erik Madigan Heck's 'Tableaux Vivant' Glamour for Harper's Bazaar UK November 2021

Erik Madigan Heck's 'Tableaux Vivant' Glamour for Harper's Bazaar UK November 2021 AOC Fashion

If you’ve had your best dose of red for at least a week, after the red-power Rocio Ramos fashion story, then your eye can feast on Brazilian brand Vivetta’s feast for hungry fashion creatives eyes above. Models May Bell and Sofia Romay are styled by Leith Clark in ‘Tableaux Vivant’, lensed by Erik Madigan Heck [IG] for Harper’s Bazaar UK November 2021./ Hair by Daniel Martin; makeup by Polly Osmond

Stella McCartney's Spring 2022 Collection Inspires a World of Fungi Research

Stella McCartney's Spring 2022 Collection Inspires a World of Fungi Research AOC Muse

Designer Stella McCartney’s Spring 2022 fashion show was inspired by mushrooms. Quite frankly, life on Anne of Carversville has not been the same since I watched on Netflix the 2019 ‘Fantastic Fungi’ documentary that prompted McCartney’s deep dive into the world of mushrooms.

Mushrooms are the visible part of an organism called mycelium, and they are not plants, even though they have a plantlike form. Even more important, until recently, fungi have been part of the botanist’s domain, and they were classified — incorrectly — as plants, writes the American Society For Microbiology in an article Three Reasons Fungi Are Not Plants.

Fungi and Africans: Both Misclassified and Misunderstood by Carl Linnaeus

Fungi were classified as plants for centuries due to an axiom attributed to Carl Linnaeus: “Plants grow and live; Animals grow, live and feel.”

Linnaeus’ delineation of plant activity seems inadequate and overly simplistic, given scientific research on the way in which plants experience sentient activity. We know that plants sense danger and then communicate their information to other plants, seeming to contradict Linnaeus’ assertions around plant life. NOT knowing his connection to racial categorization — I muttered to myself “Oh, right. In the same way some white dudes classified people of color as lesser-quality humans, they managed to ignore the profound distinctive attributes of fungi and mushrooms by calling them plants.”

Eureka! Linnaeus was deeply involved in the science of racial categorization. Rather than taking a sharp right turn in this post, AOC will stay with the fact that fungi can’t produce oxygen via photosynthesis, a core attribute of the plant kingdom.

It’s interesting when fashion, mushrooms and the civil rights movement come together in a single, cohesive thought pattern. Then again, the world of fungi is so primordial and pervasive in our biosphere that mycelium — the network of fungal threads or hyphae that produces the mushrooms we eat — strikes us as the very root of existence.

Stella McCartney is leading the way in working on the development of luxury leather made from mushrooms. The designer wants all of us to become curious about mushrooms, and I am now her dedicated disciple at AOC.

Megan Fox, MGK by Daniella Midenge Talk Demon Sex in British GQ Style AW21

Megan Fox and MGK (Machine Gun Kelly) made many headlines this week, and it was perhaps exactly as planned. AOC’s friend photographer Daniella Midenge [IG] called her images ‘provocative’. Indeed they are, as Fox is wearing nothing but a harness and pointing a gun at MGK’s crotch in the one below Fashion director Nicola Formichetti works on the shoot with styling by Hunter Clem for the British GQ Style AW21 issue.

Fox described their state of being in the time of the GQ UK interview on her Instagram as: “The tale of two outcasts and star-crossed lovers caught in the throes of a torrid, solar flare of a romance featuring: feverish obsession, guns, addiction, shamans, lots of blood, general mayhem, therapy, tantric night terrors, binding rituals, chakra sound baths, psychedelic hallucinations, organic smoothies, and the kind of sex that would make Lucifer clutch his rosary.”

That’s a lot of information, but I will say that those who condemn the couple’s first kiss as a bust, don’t know what they are talking about. As MGK explained: “We just put our lips right in front of each other and breathed each other’s breath, and then she just left.”

My suggestion is “Don’t damn a tantric kiss if you’ve never experienced one. “

All weekend starting Friday, WaPo’s article Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly are trying to be Hollywood’s hottest new couple, but instead are the most cringeworthy by Emily Yahr was in the top five reads. It’s also the lead right now in a Google search.

Positioned ahead of the actual GQUK interview “True romance: Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly are Hollywood’s new power couple “is not ideal. But there’s no doubt that all the controversy over these two lovebirds will not hurt anyone’s careers, especially their own — and, hopefully, Daniella’s.

GQ Writer Molly Lambert asserts that Megan Fox is the “ideal cool babe consort for a burgeoning superstar like MGK, a rapper rocker whose new album, ‘Born With Horns, is executive-produced by Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker.”

If you don’t know Travis Barker, he’s Kourtney Kardashian’s betrothed. Lambert writes that Fox believes she and her spiritual love MGK share what she calls the ‘combustible element’ of all celebrities like Kurt and Courtney or Mick and Marianne — except that she and MGK are “trying their damndest to make sure things don’t blow up.”

I’m not sure that they are Hollywood’s new power couple. We’re in a different moment, although eating mushrooms together on a January walk in Bora Bora is sublime. Then again, the Kardashians are in a much better position to confirm the probability of the Fox and MGK as Hollywood’s newest power couple than AOC. ~ Anne

Daria Strokous by Ned Rogers in Smashing Fashion Images for Puss Puss Magazine 14

Daria Strokous by Ned Rogers in Smashing Fashion Images for Puss Puss Magazine 14 AOC Fashion

WOW! Just WOW! Russian model Daria Strokous covers Puss Puss Magazine 14, FW 2021. Andy Polanco styles Strokous in striking, fashion royalty vibe images by Ned Rogers and Andy Polanco. LOVE! / Hair by Ilker Akyol; makeup by Miguel Ramos

Marilhéa Peillard Chills in Lingerie Loves for Fall 2021 Madame Figaro by Matias Indjic

Marilhéa Peillard Chills in Lingerie Loves for Fall 2021 Madame Figaro by Matias Indjic AOC Fashion

Model Marilhéa Peillard shares her sensual vibe, styled by by Cécile Martin in sexy lingerie from Etam, Fendi, Intimissimi, Sans Complexe Lingerie, Simone Pérèle and more lensed by Matias Indjic [IG] for Madame Figaro Oct. 22, 2021./ Hair by Martyn Foss Calder; makeup by Maria Olsson

Andrew Gn's Spring 2022 Collection Teams Up With Great Barrier Reef Foundation

Designer Andrew Gn releases images for his Spring-Summer 2022 Campaign, lifted from his fashion show video. The imagery by Bon Parinya Wongwannawat {IG] arrests our senses — including the lavish use of a coral pattern and coral motifs in jewelry., and not for the first time.

Corals have been a recurring theme in Gn’s collections since 2005, and this time he partnered with the Great Barrier Reef Foundation to raise awareness about the TRULY DESPERATE reality of the future of the world’s coral reefs.

The event took place at an Art-Deco palace in Paris, Palais de la Porte Dorée, located in the 12th arrondissement, home to the National Museum of the History of Immigration. There is an intersection between art deco style and colonialism, and we will just park that factoid in this moment — so as not to divert attention from the perilous future of the world’s coral reefs.

The location was perfect for Andrew GN, with his mixed Chinese and Japanese ancestry, his upbringing in Singapore, education at Central Saint Martins in London and Domus Academy in Milan and then working as assistant to M. Emmanuel Ungaro. In his own words, Andrew GN considers himself to be a citizen of the world.

Andrew Gn’s spring 2022 collection was inspired by the memorable wardrobe worn by Elizabeth Taylor in the classic ‘Boom!’, filmed in Sardinia. Working with the Italian label Tiziani, Karl Lagerfeld had a hand in designing Taylor’s on-screen power-woman elegance.

Writing for the NYT in 2001, Amy Spindler called Taylor’s wardrobe in the obscure 1968 film “an irresistible Kabuki Kitschfest”.

As for the state of our coral reefs, it’s no laughing matter. Published in early October, as ‘The Sixth Statue of Corals of the World: 2020 Report, the world has lost 14 percent of our coral reefs since 2009.