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Snow Bunny Maria Khan on Ski Slopes Runway by Mario Sierra for ELLE Spain AOC Fashion
Model Maria Khan is pure snow bunny, styled by Bárbara Garralda and Sylvia Montoliu in an endless list of luxury brand-ski wear lensed by Mario Sierra [IG] for ELLE Spain January 2022.
Laverne Cox Flies High, Lensed by Andy Jackson in ES Magazine February 2022 AOC Fashion
Actor and trans activist Laverne Cox plays a starring role in Netflix’s highly anticipated ‘Inventing Anna’, occupying the top spot on Netflix US in the week ending Sunday, Feb. 13. Anna Sorokin was a Russian native who identity-morphed into a Germany heiress named Anna Delvey.
As the focus of the nine-part series from Shondaland, the TV production company founded by writer and producer Shonda Rimes, Anna Delvey [played by actor Julia Garner] was a con artist who duped New York City’s top-echelon of beautiful people while trying to swindle millions from big-league banks during the 2010s.
Laverne Cox plays Kacy Duke, a celebrity personal trainer and life coach to people like Denzel Washington and Julianne Moore. Duke became deeply entangled in Sorokin’s web of grand-scale deception.
The Cut: Isaac Poleon Sculpts Avant-Garde Tresses, Making Art of Black Hair AOC Fashion
‘Practise at Play’ is a new column debuting in the February 2022 issue of The Cut. The presentation exists as a showcase for emerging artists, imagined in the creative mind of Jessica Willis, style director at The Cut.
Practice at Play focuses on hair: Sculpting With Tresses: Hairstylist Issac Poleon’s avant-garde looks are more art than coif in its first feature with hair stylist Isaac Poleon.
Erica Smith writes the words with photographs by Campbell Addy [IG] of models Goy Manase and Nyibol Dok Jok./ Makeup by Bea Sweet; set designer by King Owusu
Frida Aasen In For Love & Lemons for Victoria's Secret Spring 2022 Lingerie AOC Body
Newly-engaged Norwegian beauty Frida Aasen models the new For Love & Lemons Spring 2022 lingerie collection exclusively for Victoria’s Secret. As always florals, lace and intricate details abound in this collection of ultra feminine lingerie.
Frida’s hat may be the biggest scene stealer of all, but the brightest hues, freshest prints, and dreamy feminine lingerie run a close second, in this first installment of For Love & Lemons for Victoria’s Secret Spring 2022.
Frida Aasen has been dating Italian businessman and entrepreneur Tommy Chiabra, CEO of Royal Yacht International, since 2019 and said ‘yes’ at a romantic proposal in Portofino, Italy in August 2021.
Nyibol Dok Jok Wears Major Statement Jewelry by Dasza Wasiak in Vogue Portugal AOC Jewelry
Dutch model Nyibol Dok Jok wears Chanel, Erdem, Givenchy, Saint Laurent Anthony Vaccarello and more styled by Amisha Kapadia in this heavy on jewelry fashion story. Photographer Dasza Wasiak [IG] is in the studio for Vogue Portugal December 2021/January 2022./ Makeup by Bryanna Angel
Two Big Engagement Ring Trends for 2022: Art Deco Emerald Cut and Lab Grown Diamonds AOC Fashion
For over 20 years, I’ve been focused on three major subsets of Americans: the traditionalists, the moderns, and the cultural creatives. Hearst’s Diego Gravinese Fractalia 5 is deeply rooted in the Cultural Creatives mindset. Most of us reading AOC are Cultural Creatives and/or Smart Sensuality women.
The latter are women who are sexy and smart; focused on achievement; and possessed with deep empathy for people and our planet. Often they are modern values women [you just can’t be rich enough or wear enough stuff on your back] who have crossed over to a much more progressive-values way of thinking. We are not show horses.
I’ve called us “lipstick liberals”, which the AOC crowd might deride. But AOC the Congresswoman has herself perfected the pouty red mouth.
Looking at Hearst’s Diego Gravinese painting Fractalia 5 brings other trailblazing women in this mold to mind, women we’ve written about for years at AOC. Think Beyonce, Amal Clooney, Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Lopez: They are all women who smash through the fractal panes of imaginary glass that keep them in check.
In a moment of serendipidity, I searched for information about the rings they wore. Among women I admire deeply, one shape — the emerald cut — emerges like a phoenix rising out of the ashes.
Zara ‘Bonsoir l’été’ Wedding Dresses Are A Nod to Strong Backbone Women AOC Fashion
Zara calls its new ‘Bonsoir l’été’ wedding dress collection “a fresh proposal for a contemporary woman who is longing for a bright future.” AOC has spent the last week in deep study of Art Deco design, triggered by the inescapable fashion and design references to surrealism and brutalist architecture that are everywhere in recent AOC posts.
Adriana Lima Covers L'Officiel Italia Spring 2022 by Marcus Cooper AOC Fashion
2022 marks a milestone for Adriana Lima, her 25th anniversary in fashion. Lima joins a conversation with Anna Sui moderated by Caroline Grosso in L’Officiel USA {for English]. Luca Falcioni styles Adriana in Chanel, Fendi and more sensual luxury looks lensed by Marcus Cooper [IG] in the print edition of L’Officiel Italia Spring 2022 and global L’Officiels online. / Makeup by Adam Burrell; hair by Andrew Fitzsimons
The recent Sotheby’s Louis Vuitton and Nike ‘Air Force 1’ by Virgil Abloh auction raised $25.3 million for the The Virgil Abloh™ “Post-Modern” Scholarship Fund. The tremendous response to the opportunity to own one of two hundred pairs of the limited-edition trainers made it the most valuable charitable sale at Sotheby’s in nearly a decade.
The auction house’s high estimate of the charity event was $3 million going into the event. Collectors from across Asia comprised 40% of the buyers, with bidding happening across 50 countries. Two-thirds of all bidders were under 40, as were more than half of the buyers.
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Harley Weir Captures Mona and Rianne in Isabel Marant SS 2022 Campaign AOC Fashion
French brand Isabel Marant shares a series of other-worldly images starring Mona Tougaard, Rianne van Rompaey and Leon Dame in its Spring-Summer 2022 campaign. The day in the life of the world visual celebration is perhaps an example of nature’s beauty in peril?
Since 1994, Isabel Marant is “credited with inventing the bohemian Parisienne hipster-meets-tomboy look”, says WWD in describing the brand.
Geraldine Saglio styles the campaign images that highlight utilitarian looks with feminine flourishes. Global activist and artist photographer Harley Weir [IG] behind the lens. There is more going on in these images than exquisite sunsets, but one must stop and think about what one is seeing — a quality in short supply today./ Makeup by Ana Takahashi; hair by Damien Boissinot
Dior's Spring 2022 Ad Campaign and New Bergdorf Goodman Shop Explode with Optimism AOC Fashion
Dior releases its Spring 2022 campaign, with its show-stopping, jewel-like colors and sporty vibe. Marc Bohan’s 1961 ‘Slim Look’ wasn’t the only important heritage reference mined for Maria Grazia Chiuri’s spring 2022 show. Bohan’s Dior Sport line was also center stage.
The Dior design vision represents a 180-degree turn in the road from Dior’s Olympics Grecian goddess resort show. As opposed to enduring the pandemic, Chiuri chose to fight back with bold colored, contagious optimism and the ‘60s global spirit of female liberation.
Seeing the unity of dress among young women from America to Britain, Sudan and Afghanistan — YES, Sudan and Afghanistan — reminds us of the perilous, patriarchal attempts worldwide to deny women their own self-determination. The images from that time period are almost impossible to believe, and they certainly created a horrific backlash against women’s fashion integration into global public spaces, previously occupied by men.
Italian artist Anna Paparatti and the legendary Roman nightclub the Piper Club inspired Chiuri’s design direction, one that pays homage to 1960s pop style with a crayola-colors explosion of boundary-crashing, purposeful ‘60s design.
The Spring 2022 campaign is lensed by Brigitte Niedermair [IG] and is timed with the opening of Dior’s new boutique at Bergdorf Goodman New York. References to the new Dior Bergdorf shop — see end of post — are lensed by Francis Dzikowski [IG] courtesy of Bergdorf Goodman.
Music for the events is set to the beat of Daft Punk’s ‘Around the World’, with video by Fabien Baron and choreography by Matilda Fleberg.
Models include Maryel Uchida, Naomi Ekindi, Sculy Mejia and Steinberg. Performers Angela Arcueno, Ahtayaw Ea, Soleila Chaou, Nicolas Huchard, Shirwann Jeammes, Laureen Parruitte and Julia Spiesser also appear in the Dior Sporty runway and campaign images.
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