Elsa Hosk Fronts DL1961 Spring-Summer 2022 Campaign

Elsa Hosk Fronts DL1961 Spring-Summer 2022 Campaign AOC Fashion

DL1961’s unwavering commitment to sustainable denim jeans take another step forward with top model Elsa Hosk fronting DL1961’s Spring-Summer 2022 campaign. Photographer Katie McCurdy [IG] captures Hosk in LA, wearing new styles of lightweight denim and matching sets.

“It’s undeniable why Elsa is a supermodel, a status reinforced the moment she steps in front of the camera,” said Sarah Ahmed, DL1961 co-founder and chief creative officer. “But that’s not the most striking thing about her. It is behind the scenes where Elsa’s beauty is truly revealed. She’s a team player, enthusiastic collaborator, and creative visionary [who] puts her whole, authentic self into everything she does.”

AOC tells regularly the DL1961 story. Every piece in thespring collection is sustainably made at the brand’s family- owned factory in Pakistan. DL1961 practices its earth-conscious values daily, as the only vertically-integrated denim brand utilizing 98% recycled water. Add clean dyes, regenerative fibers, certified cotton, and reducing the need for harmful chemicals with state-of-the-art laser and Ozone technology, and we have surely one of the top five sustainable denim brands — and perhaps higher.

Vogue Portugal April 2022 Speaks to Our Shared Humanity in Lufre's Cover Story

Vogue Portugal April 2022 Speaks to Our Shared Humanity in Lufre's Cover Story AOC Fashion

Brazilian photographer Lufre [IG] shoots Vogue Portugal’s April 2022 cover story ‘Same, same, but different’, styled by Alexandre Dornellas. The model cast includes Alamada Bidiande e Guive, Beatriz Cortes, Camila Simões, Gabriel Neres, Lara Bawar e Mara Bawar, Luana Vintrin, Oda, Sara Rismo, Tau and Raiza Bernardo wear Burberry, Chanel, Hermes, Moncler, The Attico, Valentino and more.

Coincidentally, the yellow and aqua blue colors of the cover are the colors of Ukraine, and the magazine stresses this connection. The human suffering we are witnessing in Putin’s goal to level Ukraine and destroy everything in sight — its people, its babies, its economy, its heritage — takes us deep into the terrifying, deadly and destructive themes of humanity.

It’s the role of the warrior goddesses to stand against this global destructive impulse. Whether the impulse is more male than female is not subject to debate in my world. The global institutions — and especially religious institutions — do not agree with me.

In fact, the alleged irrational, hysterical, women running wild without male supervision and wisdom is the most universal theme of modern civilization.

GAP CEO Sonia Syngal's Big Bonus Rides on Ye -- Who Loves Putin & Laughs At Killing People

If I was GAP CEO Sonia Syngal, I would wake up in the morning worrying that my golden boy Ye had called for the execution of his ex-wife Kim Kardashian, her poor boyfriend Pete Davidson; and whoever else pissed Ye off most recently.

Clearly that could happen at any time and at any moment. And for all Kanye West’s peeps to say “He’s an artist! Men artists are like this. He’s a genius.” I remind us all that we’ve sunk to a very low place in America when the GAP celebrates a total megalomaniac, who is potentially dangerous to civil society.

Has it really not occurred to GAP CEO Sonia Syngal, in her leadership role, that Kanye West’s constant calls for violence — in the guise of his self-proclaimed, genius-level creativity — Kanye himself or a wannabe member of Ye’s posse could kill someone?

Perhaps GAP Thinks Ye’s Violent Threats Gives Them Street Cred?

Has GAP even had a conversation with Mr. West, legally known as Ye, about the escalating level of his violent social media posts? There is no doubt that West’s constant violent threats cast a pall over anyone who has suffered at the hands of a violent misogynist.

Certainly West triggers me. His claim that God sanctions all of his actions triggers me even more so, considering that my priest sided with my disgusting rapist and denied me communion. They were drinking buddies. The boys club sticks together 99% of the time. That’s true religion.

It’s bad enough that one of the few female CEOs of a Fortune 500 company supports a Grade A misogynist who tells his followers that God came to him in the shower and told him to shut down Planned Parenthood. But now her golden goose, product development genius is not only a poster boy for threatening behavior, but he uses his admiration of Vladimir Putin as an example of how to get things done right.

The Boys Club: Putin, Trump, Ye [aka Kanye West]

“Rule number one,” reads KW’s Putin lovin’ post, while he was running for president in September, 2020. “Listen to Ye.”

We know the uber-right wingers from Trump world were running Kanye’s campaign. I assume such an erudite CEO as Sonia Syngal, knows that from WaPo to the NYT to Forbes, the evidence the right-wingers ran Kanye West’s campaign is indisputable.

Ye [then Kanye West] was in Russia in 2016

It’s also an absolute fact that Kanye West was in Russia two weeks before his first, pre-inauguration, 2016 meeting with then president-elect Trump at Trump Tower.

As recently as January 2022, major media including Forbes said Ye was headed to Russia for a meet and greet with Vladimir. Several of Kanye’s key people said Ye was bringing the gospel to Russia — with a retail conglomerate thrown in for good measure.

The trip never happened and whether it was the press jumping all over Ye’s Putin plan or Putin knowing he intended to level Ukraine and couldn’t make the meeting, Kanye didn’t go to Russia.

Then again, Putin was sitting alone at that 60’ table, talking to his generals, and was probably afraid Kanye would hug him or sit in his lap or something — being so excited to meet the man he admires deeply. I’ll bet Kanye would have put his MAGA hat on Putin’s head. What a scene!

Did Ye have to run that possible Putin Ye in Russia deal by GAP CEO Syngal? Or Yeezus is King?

I understand well all of GAP’s challenges, but with all the talented, men-of-color with a big following out there, they had to pick the biggest ego on the planet. Well, Kanye is in a three-way tie with Trump and Putin for the biggest ego on the planet.

Does GAP’s Ye Support Putin’s War on Ukraine?

Has GAP asked Ye if he supports Putin’s determination to eradicate the people of Ukraine? Cuz many of us are putting our foot on the gas, feeling that Ye is going to do some serious damage one of these days.

AOC has hardly been quiet on the topic of Kanye, but we’ve held back waiting for Black voices to take a stronger position. That is happening his week — from Trevor Noah to Charlamagne tha God, who chose his words carefully, but raised his voice in concern.

It was Ye’s racial slur response to Trevor Noah that got him banned from Instagram for 24 hours.

Forgive me for giving GAP advice, but they really need to have a sit-down with Kanye West. Unless they’re afraid of Ye, of course. Like he could put out a hit on Sonia Syngal. Look at all those crazies from Jan. 6. If Ye gives the creative-genius word, Syngal is toast.

Just don’t bring up #MeToo. Ye HATES anything to do with #MeToo or female empowerment. Most likely, he’s not to keen about you even sitting in that big chair. Ye prides himself in being a molder of women — sort of like Picasso. He fashions them in his own image from top to bottom, just like God the Almighty . . . or so the story goes.

Thank goddess Kim Kardashian got away — but it’s clear Ye intends to make her life hell. This saga is far from over. ~ Anne

Walter Pierre Flashes a Glittering Ashton Day for Tank Magazine Spring 2022

Walter Pierre Flashes a Glittering Ashton Day for Tank Magazine Spring 2022 AOC Fashion

Model Ashton Day is styled by Ellen Mirck in ‘The Chase and the Quarry’, lensed by Walter Pierre [IG] for Tank Magazine’s Spring 2022 issue.

Sabyasachi Mukherjee Shares Sabyasachi Jewellery Story in Vogue Arabia March 2022

Anne of Carversville has been a fan of Sabyasachi Mukherjee since 2017, watching India’s most prominent luxury design house bring the rich heritage of India to a global audience.

As Vogue Arabia notes in this new fashion story, beautifully-crafted jewelry is an integral part of the House of Sabyasachi’s unequivocally Indian brand heritage. As much as any element in Sabyasachi DNA, jewelry is integral to the brand’s main focus on authenticity and traditional Indian craftsmanship at the highest level.

In this fashion story for Vogue Arabia, model Ylenia Minniti is styled by Ahmed Rashwan in images by Mannbutte [ IG ].

Today Sabyasachi Mukherjee has a growing exponentially following in much of India, the Middle East and parts of the western world with its designs and jewelry. Sabyasachi has installed shops at Bergdorf in 2020 and 2021 and also collaborated with H&M on a special collection.

In recent years [See Vogue India article after images] Sabyasachi Mukherjee is devoted to the restoration of lost craftsmanship across India.

Sensing a loss of direction for the art of creating Indian jewelry, Sabyasachi is reviving age-old crafts and techniques of jewelry making by modernizing and innovating, while creating an ode to the craft. Mukherjee has always been an innovator. “In my late teens I started a tiny side hustle where I made costume jewelry with beads and glass and feathers and stone,” he says.

Of equal importance is another Indian heritage piece that Sabyasachi holds dear to his heart. By launching Save the Sari [Saree] in 2009, Sabyasachi promotes a model of economic sustainability for local craftspeople and artisan communities in the designer’s hometown of Kolkata and beyond in India.

Related: Vogue India: The Sari Holds Our Secrets

AOC just wrote extensively about the history of the sari, featuring Lakshmi Menon in the March 2022 cover story of Vogue India. Lakshmi Menon Covers Vogue India March 2022 in 'The Sari Holds Our Secrets'

Our commentary flows from the exquisite writing of Bandana Tewari for Vogue India. We don’t typically ask AOC guests to read a related article, but this one is so very well done, and it digs so deeply into the thematic soil of universality in women’s lives.

Related Reading at Anne of Carversville

Hoyeon Jung Shares Everyday Pics of Louis Vuitton Twist Bag March 2022

Hoyeon Jung Shares Everyday Pics of Louis Vuitton Twist Bag March 2022 AOC Fashion

Louis Vuitton brand ambassador, ‘Squid Games’ star Hoyeon Jung, who was tapped by LV in October 2021, was back on the red carpet Sunday evening, popping flash bulbs all around wearing Louis Vuitton at the 2022 Critics’ Choice Awards.

Hoyeon Jung won the SAG award for Outstanding Performance by a female actor in a Drama Series on February 27. She wasn’t nominated at last night’s event, but ‘Squid Games’ won two Critics Choice Awards including Lee Jung-Jae for Best Actor in a Drama Series and and Best Foreign Language Series.

The South Korean drama series ‘Squid Games’ is reportedly Netflix’s most-watched show ever with 1.6 billion hours viewed.

In today’s Louis Vuitton Twist Spring 2022 campaign, Hoyeon Jung is styled by Marie-Amélie Suavé in casual outfits that are REALLY pedestrian. Translated, Target casual. Hey, the LV teams knows far better than AOC. Ethan James Green [IG] is behind the lens, and he can’t do his normal lift of the images either.

Lakshmi Menon Covers Vogue India March 2022 in 'The Sari Holds Our Secrets'

Lakshmi Menon Covers Vogue India March 2022 in 'The Sari Holds Our Secrets' AOC Fashion

Lakshmi Menon covers the March 2022 issue of Vogue India, ‘A Homecoming’, marking a return to part-time modeling after the birth of her daughter Gayatri with Suhel Seth, who she married in 2018. Megha Kapoor styles Menon in ‘Shapes And Drapes’, lensed by Ashish Shah [IG]./ Hair & makeup by Mitesh Rajani

Rather than an interview with Lakshmi Menon, Vogue India chooses to focus on the traditional sari that covers her body and those of Indian women across the continent. It’s impossible not to quote liberally from the exquisite writing of Bandana Tewari in ‘The sari holds our secrets’. Her words are among the most poetic and deeply probing ones I’ve read about women lives and women’s bodies in a long time.

For Indian Women Historically: Body and Sari Are Inseparable

Sari, or ‘strip of cloth’ in Sanskrit, is much more than a piece of clothing, explains Tewari.

It is the subcontinent’s collective dream of womanhood, of femininity, and a lifelong ritual of love and pleasure immersed in the shapes and drapes of our inner worlds. Mothers, whilst draping saris on their coming-of-age daughters, are known to gently whisper, “We are dressing not just our bodies but also our emotions.”

Body and sari are inseparable — “the sex-yard dance of our natural curves, the meandering metaphors of our lives, the contours of our thrills and the creases of our discomfort.”

We learn the story of the disrobing of Draupadi, a “powerful story of the sacred alchemy of weave and wearer. There is a much more in-depth probing of the story of Draupadi in The Hindu.

Personally I believe in the creative use of fantasy and allegory in the treatment of sexual trauma. In my own case I developed a metaphorical relationship with a tree representing Gaia and through meditation I gave her all my “crud” for composting and rebirth — the terrible residue of my own sexual assault. I visualized an umbilical cord relationship with my beloved tree.

Reading this story about Draupadi, it is so powerful and also there are healing purposes to it that could be employed in visualization techniques for survivors of deep sexual assault. I’m not speaking of an unwanted kiss or your butt being squeezed by a stranger in an elevator. I speak of deadly, vicious assault which often leaves women {or men] consumed with guilt and stain — and a sense of being the sinner herself, the wearer of the scarlet letter.

Read on: Lakshmi Menon Covers Vogue India March 2022 in 'The Sari Holds Our Secrets' AOC Fashion

Andrea Romero in '4 Elements' by Ana Abril for Harper's Bazaar Vietnam March 2022

Andrea Romero in '4 Elements' by Ana Abril for Harper's Bazaar Vietnam March 2022 AOC Fashion

Model Andrea Romero is styled by Caterina Ospina in ‘4 Elements’, lensed by Ana Abril [ID] for Harper’s Bazaar Vietnam March 2022./ Hair by Antonio Romero; makeup by Antonio Romero

Nyaueth Riam in Spring's Best Accessories for London Times Style March 13, 2022

Nyaueth Riam in Spring's Best Accessories for London Times Style March 13, 2022 AOC Fashion

It’s a fact the most remote workers in America don’t want to return to the office — and for a multitude of reasons. Fashionistas are probably more inclined than most to get out of slouchy pants and into Spring 2022’s latest accessories, as leading members of the vanguard returning to work.

Style peacocks got an eyeful in this weekend’s The Sunday Times Style fashion story ‘Scene Stealers! The Eight Best Accessory Styles for Spring.’ They all pack a punch from Swarovski’s stackable jewel chokers in candy colors to Saint Laurent’s patent platforms. Wrist weights have gone glam, but don’t put them in your Fendi micro pouch.

The beautiful model Nyaueth Riam is styled by Henrik Lischke in Dior, Lauren Perrin, Miu Miu, Molly Goddard, Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello and more. Photographer Santi de Hita [IG] is behind the lens for the March 13th issue of London’s Sunday Times Style.

Filip Koludrovic Flashes 'Melancholia' in Florence for Vogue Arabia February 2022

Filip Koludrovic Flashes 'Melancholia' in Florence for Vogue Arabia February 2022 AOC Fashion

Photographer Filip Koludrovic IG] photographs ‘Melancholia’, a February 2022 fashion story for Vogue Arabia. Model Maria Sillandi strolled through Florence, Italy, styled by Giuditta Goffredo, who is also fashion director at luisaviaroma.com.

In the words of the photographer, the intention of the fashion story is to convey an important message that melancholia is not a negative emotion. It can be filled with beauty. bittersweet moments and even conflicting thoughts. The goal was to use imagery to transcend words, to install the model Maria in the atmospheric fabric {AOC’s words} of real-life experience that has rich meaning to her, in spite of its contradictions..

Sportmax Denim Culture SS 2022 Campaign with Betty Schupp by Anders Edstrom

Sportmax Denim Culture SS 2022 Campaign with Betty Schupp by Anders Edstrom AOC Fashion

German model Betty Schupp is styled by Elodie David Touboul in Sportmax Denim Culture S/S 2022 campaign, lensed by Anders Edstrom [IG].

Kristine Angeshi in 'Secret Garden' Chanel Jewelry by Fouad Tadros for Marie Claire Arabia

Kristine Angeshi in 'Secret Garden' Chanel Jewelry by Fouad Tadros for Marie Claire Arabia AOC Jewelry News

Rising model Kristine Angeshi returns to AOC in a spectacular Chanel jewelry fashion story styled by Jade Chilton. Photographer Fouad Tadros creates ‘Secret Garden’ for Marie Claire Arabia March 2022. The opening image above is priceless in AOC’s opinion. Just pure perfection in a stunning jewelry fashion story.

Kristine Angeshi's Polished Elegance by Paul Morel for Harper's Bazaar Spain April 2021 AOC Fashion

Louise Wong Plays Anita Mui in Wing Shya's Homage to Hong Kong for Vogue UK March 2022

Louise Wong Plays Anita Mui in Wing Shya's Homage to Hong Kong for Vogue UK March 2022 AOC Fashion

Thanks to the success of ‘Anita’, the lavish biopic of Canto-pop superstar Anita Mui Yim-fong, Canto-pop is sweeping across mainland China, wrote SCMP.

Model Louise Wong, featured in this Vogue Hong Kong March 2022 fashion story, made her feature-film debut as an actor — and what a debut it was. Even before the film’s release in November 2021, Wong was a favorite of global luxury brands, wrote Vogue Hong Kong, long before the movie.

Louise Wong appears occasionally with male model Noise Wong in the fashion story, styled by Sean Kunjambu. Photographer Wing Shya [IG] captures the duo in color-drenched imagery that captures the energy of Hong Kong./ Makeup by Pinky Ku; hair by Kolen But

With zero experience in acting, dancing or singing, Louise Wong won the role of playing Anita Mui, cast through social media after a three-year search by Edko Films. Over 3000 actors were considered for the role.

Louise Wong was offered the opportunity to play Anita Mui “after moving the production team to tears in an audition where she sang the late singer’s ‘Sunset Melodies.”’ Wong then went into intense training to play Anita Mui, whose own biography is tragic on many levels.

No, Mui didn’t commit suicide, but she did die of cervical cancer at age 40. Watching a 5-minute presentation on her life, there is no doubt that tragedy stalked magnificent talent from her childhood.