Edita Vilkeviciute in 'The Swim Edit' SS 2022 Collection by Massimo Dutti
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Spain’s fashion brand Massimo Dutti, part of Inditex, turns our attention to their Spring Summer 2022 ‘Swim Edit’, featuring the always beloved, sensual and beautiful Edita Vilkeviciute. Edita is photographed by Bela Adler [IG] in lots of summer whites with contrasts of browns and hits of bright colors.
It appears that a very significant amount of the swimwear {70% estimate, maybe higher] is made of at least 75% recycled polyamide. The brand writes: “This fiber is created using the waste product reclaimed from other polyamide products. By transforming this waste into a new resource, we reduce the production of virgin raw materials and the consumption of water, energy and natural resources.”
Read MoreHannah Motler Earns Her Stripes in Vogue Scandinavia April 2022 by Julia Noni
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Model Hannah Motler is styled by Julia Brenard in ‘Earn your stripes’, lensed by Julia Noni for Vogue Scandinavia April 2022./ Hair by Kota Suizu; makeup by Jenny Coombs
Read MoreHe Cong's Flower Power Style by Leslie Zhang for Wallpaper China March 2022
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He Cong's Flower Power Style by Leslie Zhang for Wallpaper China March 2022 AOC Fashion
Model He Cong fronts an exquisite, color-drenched fashion story, styled by Quan Zhuoran. Shanghai-based photographer Leslie Zhang [IG] is behind the lens in this stunning style statement for Wallpaper Magazine China March 2022./ Hair by Zhao Wenzhi; makeup by Valentina Li
Kanye West Can Save Face at Coachella and Bow Out By Blaming Billie Eilish for No Apology
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Update: The petition has crossed 30,000 at noon today and should be 35,000 Wed. am 3/23. This is the best day so far, and it’s because of online media coverage. We’re still plodding along in a turtle and the hare story. Multiple well-written, well-reasoned articles were written today. See lots of new outbound links below.
We have watched it very closely and this is an American signing audience [very few through the night] and AOC estimates 70% female of every skin color, BUT today looks like more guys — like 65/35%. It could move to 60/40% — as it’s more guys’ names we’re noticing. Yes, Kanye, I can tell.
Why We Are Signing This Petition to Have Kanye Not Perform at Coachella
People who are signing this petition don’t trust Kanye West not to hurt somebody or start a riot at Coachella. What we have witnessed from him in the last 90 days is totally frightening. I am so concerned that for weeks I got up and the first thing I checked at 6am was whether Ye had harmed his now ex-wife.
Kanye has taken me back to all of my 2008-2014 work in Sudan, to stop the brutal flogging of women in the name of Allah.
For a few years, those videos of Sudanese women being brutally flogged were smuggled out to me, as the government enforcers always took them down on Facebook due to violent content standards. The women knew they could count on me to keep the videos alive, working with a male editor at Bloomberg who then got the New York Times to write the articles also.
Today, we’re all supposed to sit here like morons while Kanye gets up on stage at Coachella, with a high probability of going on some crazy rant against women, against his ex-wife Kim Kardashian, against Planned Parenthood and Pete Davidson.
We say NO! I’m not cancelling you, Ye. I am worried that you might start a total riot. Or harm yourself. And you’ve got an easy out, Kanye. Blame Billie Eilish who didn’t apologize to Travis Scott for caring about fans at her concert.
You told the world that if Billie didn’t apologize, you weren’t coming to Coachella. Billie was, of course, as gracious as she could be about your accusations. Keep your word, Kanye.
You cannot be trusted ever to keep your mouth shut, because nobody tells Kanye West what to do.
Tonight March 22, the Kanye Petition Gets Significantly More Media Attention
Petition to remove Kanye West as Coachella headliner receives nearly 30,000 signatures FOX News
The Grammys Canceling Kanye’s Performance Is Just Glorified Self-Preservation: The Recording Academy couldn’t afford to risk a Kanye performance. MIC
Petition Calling for Kanye’s Removal From Coachella Passes 30,000 Signatures Complex
Petition to Remove Kanye West from Coachella Lineup Gets 26,000 Signatures Billboard
Petition to remove Kanye West from Coachella lineup gains traction The Independent London
Petition to drop Kanye West as Coachella headliner reaches 25,000 Signatures Page Six
Kanye West vs the world: when abusive behaviour is called out The Age [Australia]
Kim Kardashian doesn’t deserve this CNN
Should GAP continue to bet on Ye? The Grio
Kanye West’s Stormy Relationship With the Grammys Erupts Again New York Times
Kanye Faces Grammy Ban, Coachella Petition Over Online Behavior Newsweek
Petition to have Kanye West axed from Coachella line-up passes 26,000 signatures Newshub NZ
What To Do About Kanye West
What Should We Do About Kanye West? Maybe Nothing by Ineye Komonibo Refinery 29
AOC has read quite a lot of materials about the situation around Kanye West, and the events that prompted the creation of this petition to keep West from appearing at Coachella.
This think piece by Ineye Komonibo at Refinery 29 is excellent.
GLC Defends Kanye West, Criticizes ‘Disheartening’ Media Attention: ‘We Should Lift Him Up’ Complex
Kanye West Barred From Performing at Grammys Due to ‘Concerning Online Behavior,’ Rep Says Variety
KANYE WEST’S INSTAGRAM BAN IS AN ‘UNWANTED DISTRACTION’ FOR GAP Ad Age
Eco-Warrior Tasha Tilberg by Greg Swales for Fashion Canada April 2022
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Eco-Warrior Tasha Tilberg by Greg Swales for Fashion Canada April 2022 AOC Fashion
Supermodel turned sustainability eco-warrior Tasha Tilberg covers Fashion Magazine’s April 2022 climate crisis issue. Simply stated, Tasha Tilberg always saw modeling as a financial means to an end, a financial goal that she adeptly achieved wearing her septum piercing, hand-poked tattoos and granola meets grunge aesthetic.
Tilberg underscores her essential identity to writer Annike Lautens this way:
Tilberg says that even from the beginning of her career, modelling was always just a job, not an identity. “When I introduce myself to someone, I never call myself a model,” she reflects. “It’s one of the things I do, but it’s not who I am. I was always buying my freedom. I did this because I wanted to buy a tractor.”
Her major success in modeling allowed Tilberg to buy her first farm at age 16.
Photographer Greg Swales [IG] captures Tasha Tilberg, styled by Leila Bani.
Morocco's Desert Elegance Lensed by Vladimir Marti Comes to Harper's Bazaar Arabia
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Morocco's Desert Elegance Lensed by Vladimir Marti Comes to Harper's Bazaar Arabia AOC Fashion
Model Hind Sahli channels the magic of Morocco, wearing Hermes styled by Anna Castan on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar Arabia March 2022. Photographer Vladimir Marti [IG] captures the desert-inspired rough elegance fashion at Berberlodge [IG], located between inland Marrakech and Casablanca on the Atlantic Ocean.
Lufre Flashes 'Big Bang' Bold Elegance for Vogue Brazil March 2022
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Lufre Flashes 'Big Bang' Bold Elegance for Vogue Brazil March 2022 AOC Fashion
Models Bruna Do, Carolina Thaler, Mia Brammer, and Yngrid Ferreira take the fashion limelight in ‘Big Bang’, styled by Carlos Esser. Photographer Lufre [IG] captures the columnar silhouettes with significant surface interest for Vogue Brazil March 2022.
Cherokee Jack and Sam Mallos by Annemarieke van Drimmelen in WSJ Magazine Men SS-2022
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Annemarieke van Drimmelen Captures Cherokee Jack and Sam Mallos in WSJ Magazine AOC Fashion
WSJ Magazine shares this spring 2022 men’s fashion story featuring models Cherokee Jack and Sam Mallos. Photographer Annemarieke van Drimmelen and stylist Giovanni Dario Laudicina traveled to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where they shot the fashion story at El Rancho de las Golondrinas, or “the Ranch of the Swallows.”
This historic ranch, now a living history museum, dates from the early 1700s and was an important ‘paraje’ or stopping place along the famous ‘El Camino Real’, the Royal Road from Mexico City to Santa Fe.
Van Drimmelen [IG] has close ties to New Mexico, since her father moved there nearly 12 years ago. “The light is absolutely phenomenal—the way it reflects on the earth. It brings this amazing warmth,” she says, noting that these qualities once drew artists such as Georgia O’Keeffe to the area.
Both models looks quite spectacular in the WSJ Magazine photo shoot. AOC’s complimentary link takes you to WSJ to review the product credits.
Cherokee Jack’s Heritage
Last year I had a totally visceral response to Cherokee Jack’s images by Richard Phibbs — his first ‘commercial’ shoot as an adult. He modeled as a child for years. Cherokee Jack by Richard Phibbs for Man of Metropolis | Minnesota History of Mankato Hangings AOC Fashion
The images caused me to reflect on our mutual Minnesota area upbringings, my writing a play about Minnesota statehood that was performed by my school, and the Mankato hangings — a devastating part of the heritage of my small Minnesota city that was unknown to me until then.
In trying to know more about the model, I learned a bit of agonizing Mankato, Minnesota history.
The Place of Women in Cherokee Society
The people of Cherokee Nation call themselves the Aniyunwiya, which means ‘Principal People’. The Cherokee society is historically matrilineal, meaning clanship is passed through the mother. Among the Cherokees, women were considered the head of household, with the home and children belonging to her should she separate from her husband. Women had an equal voice in the affairs of the tribe.
In writing about Bella Hadid’s references to the Egyptian goddess Sekhmet Tuesday evening, I referenced the demise of warrior goddesses, an end to female power and influence that was in its final phase in fifth century Greece. That statement is historically correct about Europe and the rise of Christianity.
But in the ‘undiscovered’ Americas, advanced indigenous cultures flourished and women held significant power in tribal affairs, generally enjoying far more power than the white Christian women who arrived in the Americas.
Hailey, Imaan, Paloma Wear Victoria’s Secret Dream Angels Spring 2022 Lingerie
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Victoria’s Secret lingerie assembles a campaign dream-team of Hailey Bieber, Imaan Hammam and Paloma Elsesser, country-loving, carefree girls strolling through spring fields and meadows. Top photographer Lachlan Bailey [IG] brings Victoria’s Secret Dream Angels Spring 2022 embroidery and lace lingerie into soft focus.
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Ethan James Green Flashes 'Dreams Come True' for British Vogue March 2022
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Ethan James Green Flashes 'Dreams Come True' for British Vogue March 2022 AOC Fashion
American actor, director, screenwriter, and model Chase Sui Wonders, who plays Riley on ‘Generation’, joins forces with models Beyonce Ambrose, Dara Allen, Devyn Garcia and Meadow Walker in a fashion story ‘Dreams Come True’.
A very busy Ethan James Green [IG] is behind the lens, with styling by Camilla Nickerson for British Vogue March 2022./ Hair by Jimmy Paul; makeup by Dick Page; set design by Julia Wagner
Eniola Abioro Is Nature's Green Queen by Sofia and Mauro for Harper's Bazaar Espana
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Nigerian model Eniola Abioro embraces a fashion world of green, styled by Kai Margrander in a range of majority acidic green hues from Dior, Dries Van Noten, Erdem, Gucci, N°21, Prada, Valentino, Versace and more. Photographers Sofia Sanchez & Mauro Mongiello [IG] create the fashion story for Harper’s Bazaar Espana’s March 2022 issue./ Hair by Ramsell Martinez; makeup by Jessica Monzalvo
Read MoreAna Abril Captures Birgit Veegen in 'Por Amor Al Arte' for Mujer Hoy
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Ana Abril Captures Birgit Veegen in 'Por Amor Al Arte' for Mujer Hoy AOC Fashion
Model Birgit Veegen is styled by Caterina Ospina in ‘Por Amor Al Arte’, art lovers modern style lensed by Ana Abril [IG] for Mujer Hoy March 5, 2022.
Remove Kanye from Coachella! Petition Closes in on 25,000 with Tiny Media Coverage
/On February 10, 2022, Kanye West said he would bow out of headlining Coachella unless Billie Eilish — also headlining Coachella 2022 — apologized to his friend Travis Scott for something she didn’t do. The headlines were clear.
Eilish offered her inhaler to a fan in distress during her Atlanta show. “Literally never said a thing about Travis [Scott],” Eilish wrote back, “Was just helping a fan”
It’s a fact. Billie said nothing about Travis Scott; and it was not the first time the star had stopped a concert to attend to a fan. Surely Kanye West doesn’t believe that we should all change our fan engagement to be more like Travis Scott — so we don’t accidentally make his friend look bad. Billie Eilish is known for being a mother hen with her audience. It’s called ‘ubuntu’ in the words of the great Nelson Mandela, meaning we are all connected.
Billie refused to apologize and was super gracious about not making a big deal of yet another example of Kanye West riding shotgun over women’s behavior. When Kanye West tells a woman to jump — she’s supposed to answer “How high you want me jumpin’, Ye?”
Read MoreHailey Bieber Has Big Exposure in Surveillance Theme of Perfect Magazine #2
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Top talent Hailey Bieber is both subject and object with the camera in the second issue of The Perfect Magazine, a project of Bryan Yambao, Katie Grand and Murray Healy. Simon Robins styles Hailey with hair by Teddy Charles and set design by Cooper Vasquez.
“We wanted to tackle the idea of celebrity in an age of mass surveillance — specifically, how our relationship with public figures has changed when the details of our own lives are increasingly accessible to people we don’t know,” Grand wrote in the editor’s letter.
Read MoreAshley Radjarame in 'Devil in a New Dress' by Camille Vivier for AnOther Magazine SS-2022
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Model Ashley Radjarame is styled by Nell Kalonji in ‘Devil in a New Dress’. Photographer Camille Vivier [IG] captures the primarily linear silhouettes — save two voluminous skirts — all enhanced by very modern platforms for AnOther Magazine’s new Spring/Summer 2022 issue./ Hair by Yann Turchi; makeup by Anthony Preel
Read MoreAlessandra Ambrosio Poses in Dundas Designs for Vogue Scandinavia by Amar Daved
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Alessandra Ambrosio Poses in Dundas Designs for Vogue Scandinavia by Amar Daved AOC Fashion
Brazilian beauty Alessandra Ambrosio poses in Dundas designs for the new issue of Vogue Scandinavia. Photographer Amar Daved [IG] captures the sultry, bodycon fashion styled by Christopher Campbell.
Vogue Scandinavia profiles the Norwegian designer Peter Dundas and his partner longtime partner Evangelo Bousis, who became parents via surrogacy in June 2021. Besides a feature on the couple’s new family life [subscribers only], Vogue Scandinavia shares [open to public] Dressed in Dundas: The greatest sartorial hits from Norway’s most famous designer. Dundas has a huge glam squad wearing his clothes — from Michelle Obama to Beyoncé and Kim Kardashian.
Regarding his life in California and facilitated ability to become a family due to laws in the state, Dundas said at the time his son Alexios Peter Bousis-Dundaswas born:
"We are beyond grateful to our wonderful surrogate and her family who made this journey with us; to our wonderful baby doctors, the lovely midwife who delivered him healthy on his surprise arrival, our supportive friends and to California who let guys like us become Dads so smoothly," the 52-year-old commented. "Unfortunately, it's not the same everywhere and if you are hoping to have children in a place that doesn't support this journey PLEASE don't lose faith. God is good and the world is changing and it will for you too."
On his Instagram, Peter Dundas shares gorgeous images of his new family, but also a special image supporting Ukraine. The picture defines AOC’s target Smart Sensuality Woman: she is smart, sexy and has a tremendous heart. Simply stated, we are the warrior goddesses. And we are rising.
Alessandra Ambrosio AOC Archives
Ethan James Green Flashes 'Stark Raving Mod' for W Magazine March 2022
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