Jessie Andrews by Adam Franzino for Harper's Bazaar Serbia February 2022

Jessie Andrews by Adam Franzino for Harper's Bazaar Serbia February 2022 AOC Fashion

“I kept seeing beautiful jewellery that was out of my budget,” Jessie Andrews, founder of sustainable jewelry brand Bagatiba, told British Vogue in October 2020. Since then Andrews’ entrepreneurial star has risen on multiple fronts — so much so that Andrews found herself cast in a February 2022 episode of ‘Euphoria’, playing a rich wife who is the victim of a jewelry robbery by Zendaya’s character Rue.

Jessie Andrews brought attitude to the February 2022 issue of Harper’s Bazaar Serbia, lensed by Adam Franzino [IG] in digital covers and “more [fashion] from the streets”.

Jill Kortleve Covers Vogue Netherlands March 2022 by Gregory Harris

Jill Kortleve Covers Vogue Netherlands March 2022 by Gregory Harris AOC Fashion

Model Jill Kortleve is styled by Cathy Kasterine in seasonless dressing for Vogue Netherland. Photographer Gregory Harris [IG] captures the cover story for the reborn Vogue’s March 2022 issue.

Taylor Hill Poses in Zara SS 2022 Swimsuits with Many JOIN LIFE Choices

Taylor Hill Poses in Zara SS 2022 Swimsuits with Many JOIN LIFE Choices AOC Fashion

Top model Taylor Hill has always stressed the importance of eating healthy and frequent exercise in maintaining a good attitude about daily life. In Taylor’s case, that includes taking her beloved dog into the swimming pool — giving us all something to smile about.

Today Taylor Hill hits the surf in Zara’s Spring/Summer 2022 swimsuits, with one-piece styles taking center stage. Strapless designs, cut-out details, and halter necklines run free with nature, in a Zara swimsuit collection carrying many choices with the JOIN LIFE label.

Note that not all swimsuits on this Zara page carry JOIN LIFE, so check on the lower right side of image. Some suits are made of 75% or more recycled polyester and others of 45% or more polyamide. Read your labels!!

Zara has a goal that minimally 50% of their products marketed in 2022 will meet the JOIN LIFE standards.

You must search for swimsuits on the Zara page carrying the JOIN LIFE label, so check on the lower right side of image. Some suits are made of 75% or more recycled polyester and others of 45% or more polyamide. Read your labels!!

Zara has a goal that minimally 50% of their products marketed in 2022 will meet the JOIN LIFE standards. For an update on where Zara is going with JOIN LIFE — including 2023 and 2025 goals — read this page. They include for 2023:

• 100% MORE SUSTAINABLE CELLULOSE FIBERS

• 100% MORE SUSTAINABLE COTTON

• 100% GREEN TO PACK

• 100% FREE FROM SINGLE USE CUSTOMER PLASTICS

• 100% ZERO WASTE

Adot Gak, Aleya Ali, Sydney Acker and Wayne Booth by AB & DM in Pyer Moss Couture

Adot Gak, Aleya Ali, Sydney Acker and Wayne Booth by AB & DM in Pyer Moss Couture AOC Fashion

Models Adot Gak, Aleya Ali, Sydney Acker and Wayne Booth are styled by Antoine Gregory in Pyer Moss Couture. Photographer AB & DM [IG] are behind the lens for Black Fashion Fair February 2022./ Hair by Susy Oludele; makeup by Ernest Robinson

Left to right: Models Adot Gak, Aleya Ali, Sydney Acker and Wayne Booth

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

Jean-Raymond became the first Black American designer invited to show Haute Couture during Paris Couture Week last July. After a 48-hour delay due to torrential weather associated with Hurricane Elsa’s arrival in the Northeast, Jean-Raymond stepped into the history of couture spotlight at Villa Lewaro in Irvington, New York.

The Fédération de la Haute Couture extended their calendar so that Pyer Moss could still be listed on the couture calendar and have Kerby Jean-Raymond be the first Black American designer to show for couture.

The 34-room, 20,000-square-foot mansion was the intellectual gathering place for leaders of the Harlem Renaissance. Even more relevant to the couture conversation Villa Lewaro was home to Madam C.J. Walker, the country’s first African-American woman millionaire, a renowned businesswoman and philanthropist.

Curbed wrote about the residence: “Named after her daughter (LElia WAlker RObinson), Walker’s “Dream of Dreams” home was designed by the first licensed black architect in the state of New York, Vertner Tandy. Madam Walker was the first person of color to own property in the area around Lyndhurst. Her townhouse in Manhattan on 136th Street, also designed by Tandy, was built "without regard to cost but with considerable regard for good taste," according to a 1917 Literary Digest interview, which estimated her annual income at $250,000 a year (roughly $4.7 million in today’s dollars).”

Villa Lewaro is now home to New Voices Foundation, devoted to cultivating entrepreneurship among women of color.

'Natural Selection' Luxe Colors Jewels by Fernando Gomez for Harper's Bazaar Arabia

'Natural Selection' Luxe Colors Jewels by Fernando Gomez for Harper's Bazaar Arabia AOC Jewelry News

The pages of Harper’s Bazaar Arabia March 2022 dazzle with the season’s most important jewels. Anna Castan styles ‘Natural Selection’ in images by Fernando Gomez [IG].

Kim Schell by Jeremie Monnier in 'New Aesthetics' for Mixte Magazine 'Commitment' Issue

Kim Schell by Jeremie Monnier in 'New Aesthetics' for Mixte Magazine 'Commitment' Issue AOC Fashion

Model Kim Schell is styled by Victor Vergara in ‘New Aesthetics’, lensed by Jeremie Monnier [IG]for Mixte Magazine FR March 2022, the ‘Commitment’ Issue [IG]./ Hair by Sayaka Otama

Cara Delevingne Activist Talent Fronts 7 For All Mankind Spring Summer 2022 Campaign

Cara Delevingne Activist Talent Fronts 7 For All Mankind Spring Summer 2022 Campaign AOC Fashion

7 For All Mankind premium denim brand joins forces with British actor, activist, entrepreneur, philanthropist and model Cara Delevingne for its Spring Summer 2022 campaign.

“Denim is a fantastic, enduring style statement and an essential part of how I express my style,” says Delevingne.

7 For All Mankind Sustainability Update

The brand maintains an extensive website update on their progress in sustainability, with the stated goal that 80% of 7 For All Mankind products will have sustainable properties by 2023. Note that AOC hates this statement, because it can be interpreted quite loosely. Other premium denim brands that AOC covers are further along on their sustainability mission. However, honesty is the best policy in this journey and 7 For All Mankind appears direct and honest about what they have achieved and what they haven’t in their newest update.

Cara Delevingne and the Cara Delevingne Foundation

Cara Delevingne has an extensive list of activist and philanthropy projects. Cara and her friend Christabel Reed have launched a powerful campaign to end climate change called EcoResolution. The website is impressive.

In a current project the actor will play a daredevil climber in ‘The Climb’, the story of six ordinary women who join a Greenpeace-led protest against Shell Oil’s plans to drill in the Arctic. The activists climbed the Shard, the tapered glass tower next to London Bridge station in 2013. The Shard remains remains the tallest building in the UK and the seventh-tallest building in Europe. Read the original story on The Guardian and a pic of the Shard climbers on Greenpeace UK Twitter.

Also related to the environment and saving our planet is Project Zero. Cara has created unique designs and content for Project Zero to help raise funds and awareness for the ocean.

She is actively involved in the Elton John AIDS Foundation to fund “frontline partners to prevent infections, fight stigma and provide treatment with love, compassion and dignity for the most vulnerable groups affected by HIV around the world”.

In the case of Cara Delevingne, the activism list goes on and on. Read more: Cara Delevingne Activist Talent Fronts 7 For All Mankind Spring Summer 2022 Campaign

Charles Dennington's 'Natural Phenomenon' and a Plantiful Plea for Fashion Symbiosis

Charles Dennington's 'Natural Phenomenon' and a Plantiful Plea for Fashion Symbiosis AOC Fashion

Models Ploy Rida & Yixin Zhao capture our reflective style selves in ‘Natural Phenomenon’, styled by Melissa Levy. Photographer Charles Dennington [IG] flashes the fashion designed to mimic the colours, textures, vibrant movement and hues of nature. / Hair by Rory Rice; makeup by Isabella Schimid

Ajayi Temitope in 'Fire and Desire' by Steve Harmacke for Wonderland Magazine Winter

Ajayi Temitope in 'Fire and Desire' by Steve Harmacke for Wonderland Magazine Winter AOC Fashion

Rising model Ajayi Temitope is styled by EIC Toni-Blaze Ibekwe in ‘Fire and Desire’. Photographer Steve Harmacke [IG] captures the fashion drama for Wonderland Magazine’s Winter 2021-2022 issue.

Donatella Versace Covers Vogue Italia March 2022 by Mert & Marcus

Donatella Versace Covers Vogue Italia March 2022 by Mert & Marcus AOC Fashion

Donatella Versace in Vogue Italia

Donatella Versace covers the March 2022 issue of Vogue Italia.

Donatella has come light-years since the murder of her brother, shot on the steps of his Miami Beach mansion in July, 2997. Overnight, the sister of Versace was forced to take over creative direction of the Versace vision of female empowerment.

And while Donatella Versace has experienced a major metamorphosis since taking the reins of Versace, she shares with writer Giuliana Matarrese her vulnerability: "Interviews always make me a little nervous: among other things, I keep asking myself why you chose me for this cover, one day you will explain it to me".

Versace’s north star vision — pulsating with Italian blood — is lensed by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, and styled by Jacob K in Atsuko Kudo; Balenciaga; Christopher Kane — who designed Versus from 2009 t0 2012, covering a period of six seasons; Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello; Versace and more.

No More Shadow

Gianni Versace taught women not to be afraid of their sexuality, that it was a positive aspect of their DNA and identity. It’s a mantle that Donna Versace also wears. It’s important also to understand that Donatella finally feels free of Gianni’s death and his dominance over her life.

“My brother’s death was so brutal that I spent years in shock,” she explains, saying that she was Gianni’s shadow. “ I was insecure, I felt the eyes of the world on me, I felt in the air of distrust: I was there, to be the creative director, certainly not because someone had promoted me, but because I had to replace him.”

Lara Stone Covers Vogue Poland March 2022, Lensed by EIC Ina Lekiewicz

Lara Stone Covers Vogue Poland March 2022, Lensed by EIC Ina Lekiewicz AOC Fashion

Top model Lara Stone is back in the pages of Vogue Poland, posing in a large fashion story ‘The Return Of An Icon’. Simply stated, that’s great news because Lara Stone is sorely missed in fashion world.

Always a woman shattering glass, Lara was among the first models to deal with being “too fat” to model in a patriarchal-values fashion world that prefers flat-chested women. The Dutch model was very comfortable expressing her sensuality at a time when fashion was ready to dial down the volume. We are moving out of that long, dark winter.

Ashlee Barrett-Bourmier styles Lara in images lensed by Ina Lekiewicz, who is also Vogue Poland’s EIC./ Hair by Tomi Roppongi; makeup by Mel Arter

Lara married property developer David Grievson in July 2021. Lara Stone also covers the Vogue Czech March 2022 issue, lensed by Sonia Szostak and she appeared in Balmain’s SS 2022 campaign. Without a doubt, the 38-year-old sensual goddess is back!

Nora Attal on Mediterranean Coast in Weekend Max Mara Spring 2022 Campaign

Nora Attal on Mediterranean Coast in Weekend Max Mara Spring 2022 Campaign AOC Fashion

Weekend Max Mara embraces the melting pot of cultural references that are part of the Mediterranean world. Mediterranean style absorbs prints, patterns and colors from southern Europe, northern Africa and western Asia,

British-born Nora Attal is herself a fashion model with deep roots in Morocco. Who knows where her mind travels, as she sits on a beach, lensed by Eddie Wrey [IG] for Weekend Max Mara’s Spring 2022 campaign. Anastasia Barbieri styles the campaign with plenty of Mediterranean blue and white, stacking the campaign with summery statement bracelets. /Makeup by Karim Rahman; hair by Pier Paolo Lai.