Rumor Mill: Is Hedi Slimane at Celine Taking on Anna Wintour Over Emmanuelle Alt?

When asked about Vogue Runway’s failure to cover French luxury brand Celine’s spring 2022 virtual show, a Vogue source said “It was not our decision to not cover spring 2022, but we look forward to covering the brand’s next show,” writes WWD.

The problem, according to WWD, is Celine’s artistic, creative and image director Hedi Slimane’s immense frustration and displeasure with the departure of Emmanuelle Alt from her position as EIC of Vogue Paris, now renamed Vogue France.

Slimane has banned people from his shows before — the entire fashion staff at New York Magazine and Cathy Horn, writing for the New York Times, were banned from the Saint Laurent show in October 2012. Horn’s ban was for writing in 2004 [paraphrased by Horn to New York Magazine] “without Mr. [Raf] Simons’s template of slim tailoring and street casting, there would not have been a Hedi Slimane — just as there would never have been a Raf Simons without Helmut Lang. Fashion develops a bit like a genetic line.”

What could have upset Slimane? The Vogue-related changes began in December 2020, with the announcement that Anna Wintour would assume greater responsibilities as Vogue global director and Condé Nast chief content officer, while continuing to oversee Vogue U.S.

Simultaneously, the widely-praised and celebrated top editor at British Vogue, Edward Enninful, was promoted to European editorial director of Vogue for the markets owned and operated by Condé Nast. Those markets — which include the U.K., France, Italy, Germany and Spain — saw the departures of EICs at those Vogue titles.

Eugénie Trochu was named as Alt’s successor in France, but with the title of head of editorial content. She announced in October that Vogue Paris would become Vogue France immediately. The assumption is that Enninful will play a significantly larger role in European content creation and sharing, including greater synergies between American Vogue and European titles.

A spokeswoman for Celine dismissed the rumor that Celine had pulled both show invites and advertising from Condé Nast — and/or Vogue Runway — over Slimane’s displeasure with Alt’s departure.

AOC notes that: “WWD also understands from sources that Slimane has expressed his frustration to Vogue global director and Condé Nast chief content officer Anna Wintour and hit the brakes on some advertising with the Vogue brand.”

For her part, Emmanuelle Alt styled an excellent fashion story featuring Rianne Van Rompaey for a late November issue of M le Magazin du Monde. AOC admits to being impressed with the freshness — and we were not alone. Sometimes, change is good for all parties involved.

Cato van Ee Dazzles in ELLE Spain December, Lensed by Borja de la Lama-Noriega

Cato van Ee Dazzles in ELLE Spain December, Lensed by Borja de la Lama-Noriega AOC Fashion

Model Cato van Ee is styled by Bárbara Garralda in modern glamour fashion that dazzles. Photographer Borja de la Lama-Noriega [IG] captures the extravagant elegance for ELLE Spain December 2021./ Hair by Nicolas James; makeup by Chiara Giuzzetti

Kim Kardashian Covers i-D Magazine No 366 Winter 2021, Lensed by Mario Sorrenti

Kim Kardashian Covers i-D Magazine No 366 Winter 2021, Lensed by Mario Sorrenti AOC Fashion

Kim Kardashian [West] appears under her married name in i-D’s unplanned ‘Out of the Blue’ issue, no. 366 Winter 2021, special thanks to Tiffany & Co.

Alastair McKimm styles Kardashian in bling by Tiffany & Co. and dramatic Balenciaga. Photographer Mario Sorrenti captures Kim Kardashian, with the interview by playwright Jeremy O. Harris and Douglas Greenwood./ Hair by Chris Appleton; makeup by Mario Dedivanovic

Read Kim Kardashian West: "People might not get that we're in on the joke" at i-D Magazine.

Charlotte McKinney by Caleb and Gladys in Harper's Bazaar Thailand November 2021

Charlotte McKinney by Caleb and Gladys in Harper's Bazaar Thailand November 2021 AOC Body

American model Charlotte McKinney of Carl’s Jr. commercial fame, turns up the heat in the November 2021 issue of Harper’s Bazaar Thailand. Photographers Caleb and Gladys [IG] capture McKinney in LA with styling by Giuliana Crescentini.

Helena Christensen in 'Body of Work' for Harper's Bazaar Singapore December 2021

Helena Christensen in 'Body of Work' for Harper's Bazaar Singapore December 2021 AOC Fashion

Supermodel Helena Christensen is styled by Jahulie Elizalde in ‘Body of Work’ lensed by Andrew Arthur for Harper’s Bazaar Singapore December 2021. Cristensen remains in an elite group of women who do the simmering, wanton-woman look with restrained, impeccable abandonment. Love you Helena. / Hair by Jenni Iva Wimmerstedt; makeup by Christyna Kay

WSJ Magazine Market Report Says 'Show Your Stripes' in Spring Style 2022

WSJ Magazine Market Report Says 'Show Your Stripes' in Spring Style 2022 AOC Fashion

Bold Stripes from Akris, Burberry, Chloé, Dior, Emporio Armani, Louis Vuitton, Max Mara, Polo Ralph Lauren, Ulla Johnson, Valentino are coming to a luxury store near you. Bold, high-impact stripes feel fresh for spring wardrobes, confirmed in WSJ Magazine’s Market Report.

Jenny Hartman styles models Claire VanBeber and Emily Kasten in ‘Show Your Stripes’, lensed by Tess Ayano [IG]./ Hair by Hikaru Kirano; makeup by Kiki Gifford

Barbara Palvin Smolders in 'What's Sexy Now' by Greg Swales for Harper's Bazaar Greece

Barbara Palvin Smolders in 'What's Sexy Now' by Greg Swales for Harper's Bazaar Greece AOC Fashion

Model Barbara Palvin smolders in the December 2021 issue of Harper’s Bazaar Greece. Rafael Linares styles Palvin in ‘What’s Sexy Now’, lensed by Greg Swales [IG] ./ Hair by Bobby Eliot; makeup by Kelly McClain

Akon Changkou Covers Harper's Bazaar Australia December by Rory van Millingen

Akon Changkou Covers Harper's Bazaar Australia December by Rory van Millingen AOC Fashion

Photographer Rory van Millingen [IG] captures South Sudanese via Adelaide, Australia model Akon Changkou in Harper’s Bazaar Australia’s December 2021 issue. / Hair by Takuya Uchiyama; makeup by Sandra Cooke

Nelly Gutierrez Wear Rough Elegance Style Lensed by Julio Sancho for ELLE Arabia November 2021

Nelly Gutierrez Wear Rough Elegance Style Lensed by Julio Sancho for ELLE Arabia November 2021 AOC Fashion

Model Nelly Gutierrez poses in modern-architecture minimalism, styled by Lara Bosch against a desert backdrop. Photographer Julio Sancho [IG] captures the rugged fashion elegance for ELLE Arabia as ‘Desert Rose’./ Makeup by Sandra Garcia

Olivia Wilde Covers Vogue US December 2021, Lensed by Annie Leibovitz

Olivia Wilde Covers Vogue US December 2021, Lensed by Annie Leibovitz AOC Fashion

Actor Olivia Wilde is living her best life, styled by Gabriella Karefa-Johnson in cinematic images by Annie Leibovitz [IG] for the January 2021 issue of American Vogue. The star wears Balenciaga Couture, Chanel, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Michael Kors Collection, Rodarte and more. Alexandra Schwartz conducts the interview. / Hair by Edward Lampley; makeup by Grace Ahn

Wilde appears with Matthew Libatique, the Filipino-American cinematographer behind Taylor Swift’s new music video ‘I Bet You Think About Me’. Libatique received two Oscar nominations for Black Swan in 2010 and then ‘A Star Is Born’ eight years later. He’s the cinematographer on Wilde’s second directing venture ‘Don’t Worry Darling’.

Wilde is camped out in Los Angeles with her two children Otis, seven, and Daisy, five, whom she shares with her ex-fiancé, Jason Sudeikis. On the day Vogue drops into her life, her new love Harry Styles is circling the globe on his Love On Tour concerts.

Variety reports that the tour has grossed “just shy of $95 million” and raised over $1 million for his non-profit partners. Attendance records were broken all over America, with strict COVID controls and no reports of any post-concert medical outbreaks.

Olivia Wilde has just finished shooting ‘Don’t Worry Darling’, “a psychological thriller starring Florence Pugh and Styles as Alice and Jack, a young couple who join a utopian community in the 1950s California desert.”

Kerby Jean-Raymond Covers Metal Magazine No. 45 Lensed by Shikeith

Kerby Jean-Raymond Covers Metal Magazine No. 45 Lensed by Shikeith AOC Fashion

Metal Magazine No. 45 moves from its focus on Pyer Moss Creative Director Kerby Jean-Raymond’s Fall 2021 couture collection, to the designer himself. Romina Herrera Malatesta [IG] — who also styled the couture shoot — styles Jean-Raymond, learning that they share an interest in James Baldwin.

The Brooklyn creative whiz is reading ‘The Price of the Ticket’, a collection of Baldwin’s writings published in 1985. A fav quote of the stylist is: ““It goes without saying, I believe, that if we understood ourselves better, we would damage ourselves less.”

Interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker Shikeith [IG] photographs the designer and push-the-envelope-intellectual for Metal Magazine.

Metal Magazine Highlights Pyer Moss' Kerby Jean-Raymond's 'Wat U Iz' FW 2021 Couture Show

Metal Magazine Highlights Pyer Moss' Kerby Jean-Raymond's 'Wat U Iz' FW 2021 Couture Show AOC Fashion

Models Adeng Nyamam, Raven Wallace and Symone Lu bring grace the pages of Metal Magazine, styled by Romina Herrera Malatesta in the buzziest couture fashions of the fall 2021 season. NYC photographer Andy Jackson [IG] captures the trio wearing much-discussed highlights from Pyer Moss founder Kerby Jean-Raymond’s Fall 21 Couture Collection./ Hair by Akihisa Yamaguchi; makeup by Ayaka Nihei

'Source' Says Kanye Is Headed to LV Men's; Ye Worked with Donald Trump to Overturn GA Election; Kanye Tells Kim K to 'Run Right Back to Me, Baby' Pt.1

'Source' Says Kanye Is Headed to LV Men's; Ye Worked with Donald Trump to Overturn GA Election; Kanye Tells Kim K to 'Run Right Back to Me, Baby' Pt.1 AOC Fashion

In 24 hrs. starting Thursday evening December 9, 2021 to Friday morning December 10, 2021

• Rumors are that Kanye West is headed to Louis Vuitton because he and creative mastermind Virgil Abloh made an agreement that West would take over after Abloh’s death.

• Kanye West joined Drake in a LA-benefit concert for Larry Hoover, currently serving a 150 - 200 years sentence at a high security prison in Colorado. At that concert, Kanye went off script and sang ‘Runaway’, dedicating the song to his estranged wife Kim Kardashian, asking her to 'Run Right Back to Me,Baby'.

• This morning Reuters broke the story that Kanye West’s publicist became very involved in trying to overturn the Georgia election results by giving total credence to Donald Trump’s accusations against Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and her daughter.

Anne of Carversville does not presume to know what makes Kanye West tick. For all we know, he’s headed towards another mental health episode, which we wouldn’t wish on anybody — even Kanye’s best buddy Donald Trump.

Since Kanye jumped on Donald Trump’s bandwagon and declared that God came to him in the shower, telling him to shut down Planned Parenthood, we have little time for Kanye West. A decade ago, we were big Kanye fans.

However, everywhere I’ve turned since 11pm last night, Kanye West is in my face.

Kanye fancies himself — like Trump — a great manipulator of simple minds like ours. After all, God speaks to him in the shower, so he’s a VIP on planet earth, knighted by God to do men’s work of keeping women subordinate to male rule.

To me he’s just another misogynist in the long-line of so-called men of God running roughshod over women’s bodies, but I’m sure Kanye knows best. After all, he has a direct line, and I have none — being a scarlet woman.

I’m about to do a brain dump on Kanye West and will divide it into two parts. We start with my Thursday night reading and pleas of “No, no, no . . . don’t do it.”

1) Kanye at Louis Vuitton Mens

AOC is still reeling from Virgil Abloh’s death, and last night Kanye West rumors broke that he’s headed to Louis Vuitton Men’s. In quotes from ‘The Sun’ that troubled me deeply, an unnamed source said: “Kanye is devastated about Virgil’s death because they had been friends for years and worked together a lot. They shared a similar vision and now Kanye feels he owes it to Virgil to continue his work at Louis Vuitton.”

Besides expected sources like Hypebeast, Highsnobiety, then the Daily Mail, Yahoo and scads of syndicated local publications by Friday morning, CR Fashionbook just picked up the Kanye West to Louis Vuitton Men’s story.

Kanye West Was Jealous of Virgil Abloh

AOC has a long memory and we recall distinctly Kanye West’s assertion that HE — and not Virgil Abloh — deserved the LV Men’s position. West expressed jealousy to DJ Zane Lowe during a 2015 interview for Beats 1 saying, "I felt like it was supposed to be me. I was the Louis Vuitton Don. People still called me the Louis Vuitton Don on the street."

None of us have forgotten this story, and it’s one that keeps getting resurrected.

In October, 2019 W Magazine wrote Kanye West Thinks He Should Have Virgil Abloh’s Job at Louis Vuitton.

When Kanye West sat down for an interview with DJ Zane Lowe in 2015, he proclaimed himself “the greatest living rock star on the planet.” In his latest interview with Zane, released today, West has upped himself to “unquestionably, undoubtedly the greatest human artist of all time.” His greatness, apparently, now transcends both mediums and eras. Leonardo Da Vinci, who?

“It’s just a fact,” he added for emphasis.

Let me say for the 27th time — Kanye West has a God complex, just like his good friend Donald Trump. If Kanye is unquestionably the greatest human artist of all time, Bernard Arnault would have hired him, because Bernard Arnault is one of the world’s most brilliant business executives.

Of course, there are many additional skills required to be a successful creative director and not seeing yourself as the center of the universe from sunrise to sundown is typically one of them. Temperment is an issue today, as we were recently reminded with the departure of the most talented designer Daniel Lee from Bottega Veneta.

Bernard Arnault doesn’t need Kanye West in his face now and probably ever.

Louis Vuitton is the biggest, most successful luxury brand in the world. Seriously, Kanye West called for a boycott of Louis Vuitton almost a decade ago. West is a loose cannon; and now he is tied to the Jan. 6 insurrection against the US government, as Trump’s man in Georgia.

Bernard Arnault Does NOT Need Kanye West

Arnault can have a trusting relationship with Rihanna and Jay-Z, and with Jay-Z comes his uber-talented wife Ms. Beyonce-Knowles — for advice on what to do in this matter.

They roll just fine with Mr. Arnault and his kids and are excellent sounding boards, who don’t belong to the “I am God” club. They are talented businesspeople-creatives, and they are genuine activists and philanthropists capable of looking at life from perspectives not their own.

This fine team of advisers is far from being alone on the LVMH roster.

Virgil Abloh was very tight with the new design director at Kenzo Nigo of A Bathing Ape fame. In reading about Nigo a few nights back, of course my man Pharrell Williams popped into the picture.

While Jay-Z, Beyonce, Rihanna and Pharrell Williams are running around town trying to create positive change in the Black communities of America and beyond — while they are giving of themselves for humanity and practicing some real Ubuntu Nelson Mandela style in their businesses and personal lives — Kanye West was trying to overturn the 2020 US presidential election.