LOEWE X On Performance Gear Collab with Camila Morrone, Duckwrth

LOEWE X On Performance Gear Collab Lensed by Grey Sorrenti with Camila Morrone, Duckwrth AOC Fashion

LOEWE links up with Swiss performance brand On for a collaboration that represents LOEWE’s first venture into a performance gear collab. Model Camila Morrone, still going strong with Leo DiCaprio since late 2017, and South LA rapper currently touring with Billie Eilish Duckwrth, front the campaign shot by Gray Sorrenti [IG] in Big Sur, California.

Although LOEWE has established a track record of capsule collections with artists, turning to superb craftsmanship and innovation from 12-year-old On marks a new direction.

Founded by Olivier Bernhard, a three-time World Duathlon Champion, and two fellow running enthusiasts, David Allemann and Caspar Coppetti, On launched with a clear technical vision and objective.

The co-founders saw an opportunity to create a radically different cushioning technology for running shoes, a large category that had not experienced much product innovation in recent years.

Swiss tennis player Roger Federer, who invested an undisclosed sum into On in 2019, has his own ‘The Roger’ On shoe.

The collab featured here is LOEWE’s riff on ON’s popular Cloudventure ($390) and Cloudrock ($450) shoes, both of which feature the Swiss brand’s trademarked rubber outsole and liquid-injected thermoplastic mid-soles. The result is a shoe that is visibly grippy, lightweight and supportive.

The unique patented cushioning system is activated only when you need it — during the landing. AOC doesn’t pretend to understand it, but the logic is attractive.

See the entire LOEWE X On Running collection here.

Kim Kardashian Covers Vogue Hong Kong, Lensed by Greg Swales in Bodycon Fashion

Kim Kardashian Covers Vogue Hong Kong, Lensed by Greg Swales in Bodycon Fashion

Super mother, social justice lawyer-in-training, business mogul and sole owner of a new Gulfstream G650ER with an estimated $150 million price tag when customized, Ms. Kim Kardashian covers the April 2022 issue of Vogue Hong Kong.

Kardashian is styled by Danielle Levi in images by Greg Swales [IG]. Sean Kunhambu provides creative direction on the shoot with set design by Lucy Holt.

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Imaan Hammam in Zimmermann Summer 2022 Swim Romance by Benny Horne

Imaan Hammam in Zimmermann Summer 2022 Swim Romance by Benny Horne

Top model, Dutch beauty Imaan Hammam enjoys summer rays, styled by Romy Frydman in sophisticated beach-ready summer fashion from Australian brand Zimmermann. Frequent photographer Benny Horne captures the romantic, womanly-beauty designs in dresses, coverups and, of course, swimwear.

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Mario Vivanco Flashes Anyiel Majok in 'Imagine' for 10 Magazine 68 Spring 2022

Futuristic Black model with futuristic silvery wings and body.

Mario Vivanco Flashes Anyiel Majok in 'Imagine' for 10 Magazine 68 Spring 2022 AOC Fashion

South Sudanese model Anyiel Majok covers 10 Magazine’s Spring 2022 68 ‘Future, Balance, Healing’ issue, wearing Louis Vuitton. Oliver Volquardsen styles Majok for a futuristic fashion story ‘Imagine’ lensed by Mario Vivanco [IG] with images that blur the line between reality and fantasy./ Hair by Peter Lux; makeup by Mona Leanne

Conie Vallese by Josh Olins in Simple Life Grandeur At Home for Zara Home

Conie Vallese by Josh Olins in Simple Life Grandeur At Home for Zara Home

Conie Vallese [IG] and partner, photographer Josh Olins [IG] join Zara Home [IG] in sharing an intimate look at their design aesthetic in Zara’s ongoing series ‘At Home’.

Buenos Aires born, Brooklyn artist Conie Vallese grew up in a family. of creatives. It wasn’t until she moved to New York that she began expressing herself with drawing, painting and sculpture.

Vallese refers to her artwork as “a direct product of living. In a sense artworks are the souvenirs of a life well lived or the ephemeral fleeting moments preserved, in the form of a tangible object.” Her art is “a considered appreciation of form and simplicity.”

There is no separation of her life with photographer Josh Olins and her art. And often with her modeling assignments.

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The 'Unstoppable' Precious Lee Covers ELLE US April 2022 by Adrienne Raquel

The 'Unstoppable' Precious Lee Covers ELLE US April 2022 by Adrienne Raquel AOC Fashion

Rising model star Precious Lee covers the April 2022 issue of ELLE US, styled by the legendary Patti Wilson in AZ Factory, Bad Binch, Balaclava, Bottega Veneta, Christian Cowan, Eric Javits, Maison Atia, Michael Kors Collection, Mônot, Moschino [cover], Sinéad O’Dwyer and more. Photographer Adrienne Raquel [IG] is behind the lens for ‘The Unstoppable Precious Lee’./ Hair by Evanie Frausto; makeup by Raoúl Alejandre

Growing Up Like an Atlanta Peach Queen

AOC has told the Precious Lee story several times now. We are well aware that the Atlanta beauty has continually resisted external expectations of what she can and cannot do. Her glorious family was not only behind her efforts but cultivated a home life centered around the good life.

Most likely a few Atlanta bluebloods would raise an eyebrow over her cosmetologist, hair-salons-owning father wearing Versace and “silk shirts unbuttoned with gold chains.” But in this interview with Alexis Okeowo and others, it’s clear that Lee’s family nurtured her enormous self-confidence and comfort level with being in the spotlight.

Lee admits that she hasn’t spoken to the fact that her sister Charisma died in a car accident when she was young. Checking a couple earlier articles, we haven’t talked about this tragic event in Lee’s young life.

“It was so much pain at that age from losing the brightest light,” Lee says. “I actually never talk about this in interviews, but it’s just really important to because I’m starting to realize and understand how transformative that age was for me in being able to tap into things that were creative as an outlet for healing for me.”

Confronting Stereotypes: A Move to the Front of the Bus

Precious Lee needs to develop this story in a TED Talk. It should inspire us all. Lee was no different than many young women about pursuing competitive cheerleading. I have to believe it’s even more competitive in the South. Precious Lee believes that mastering ‘healthy competition’ is key to success in the modern world.

Early in practice, the coach began organizing the physical structure of the cheerleading squad. She assigned Precious a base position, at the bottom of the pyramid, because of her height and size, leaving Lee hurt and confused. Today popular culture calls it a “micro-aggression” and people carry these perceived insults for years.

Precious Lee wasn’t having it. Read on to learn how Precious Lee carried the day. The 'Unstoppable' Precious Lee Covers ELLE US April 2022 by Adrienne Raquel AOC Fashion

Prior Precious Lee Interviews: Precious Lee by Tyler Mitchell Is Committed to Uplifting Us in i-D No. 363 Summer 2021 AOC Fashion

Georgia's Queen Precious Lee Delivers Self-Love Power Punch in Harper's Bazaar May Beauty Issue AOC Fashion

New Optimism: L'O Arabia X Helena Christensen & Valentino Fashion Story Spring 2022

New Optimism: L'O Arabia X Helena Christensen & Valentino Fashion Story Spring 2022 AOC Fashion

Supermodel Helena Christensen poses in all Valentino fashion story New Optimism: L'O Arabia X Helena Christensen & Valentino. Helena was photographed in New York wearing colorful pieces from Valentino Spring-Summer Rendez-Vous collection for L’Officiel Arabia. Art direction and styling by Marko Galovic./ Hair by Linh Nguyen; Makeup by Mitch Yoshida

Fran Summers Glitters, Lensed by Elizaveta Porodina for AnOther Magazine SS-2022

Fran Summers Glitters, Lensed by Elizaveta Porodina for AnOther Magazine SS-2022

Top model Fran Summers is styled by Katie Shillingford in ‘The Glimpses of The Moon’. Photographer Elizaveta Porodina [IG] captures Summers in glittering SWAROVSKI jewelry and embellishment from Maison Close, Room 24, SKIMS, Yasmine Eslami for AnOther Magazine March 2022, with art direction by Marc Ascoli.

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Lous and the Yakuza by Hunter & Gatti for Madame Figaro France March 25, 2022

Marie-Pierra Kakoma known professionally as Lous and the Yakuza, is a Congolese-Belgian singer, rapper, songwriter, model, and artist. Carine Roitfeld styles Lous in an all Louis Vuitton fashion story lensed by Hunter & Gatti [IG] for the March 25th issue of Madame Figaro France.

Describing the artist after the debut of her 2020 album ‘Gore’, Geneva Abdul wrote:

With words sung and rapped in French, Lous and the Yakuza feels like a distinctly globalized project, interweaving Kakoma’s Belgian-Congolese-Rwandan background with eclectic influences including politics past and present, manga comics, Mozart and Whitney Houston.

Lous Is Soul for a Child of War

As for her name Lous, it’s an anagram of soul, the music of the soul, explains the richly-endowed talent in a Madame Figaro story that accompanies her Louis Vuitton fashion images.

At 25, she's an old soul in a young woman's body, the daughter of two doctors a Rwandan mother and a Congolese father, both doctors engaged in humanitarian work. Lous herself is focused on opening a medical clinic in Rwanda, following in the footsteps of her mother’s status as a pediatrician.

Both of Lous’ parents were imprisoned during the the second Congo war in 1998.

Lous cannot speak of all the tribes in her ancestry, because they are at war with each other. The gender-fluid music activist acknowledges being part of the Kalwena ethnic group as expressed in Swahili.

Tribute to Amanda

In a very moving paragraph of her Madame Figaro interview, Lous speaks to her translation of Amanda Gorman’s book ‘The Hill We Climb’. Gorman recited the original poem created for US president Joe Biden’s graduation. Gorman wrote: "We will make this wounded world a marvelous world." — a narrative that inspires so many of us, no matter the color of our skin.

Related: Amanda Gorman Shocks America with Soaring Poetry | Dr. Jill Biden's Gabriela Hearst Federal Flowers AOC Fashion

Being a Louis Vuitton Muse

Translated: “The story that I have woven with Louis Vuitton was born from my simple and sweet encounter with the greatest designer that I had the opportunity to meet, Nicolas Ghesquière. I appreciated the risk he took by offering me to be muse when I was not yet known. It is an extraordinary prestige for me to have closed two shows for Louis Vuitton. I like the values ​​of this house and the way it respects women.

Stella McCartney's Mushroom Rich SS 2022 Campaign by Mert & Marcus

Stella McCartney's Mushroom Rich SS 2022 Campaign by Mert & Marcus AOC Fashion

The Stella McCartney brand, defined by its sustainability commitments and credentials, is now so firmly entrenched in the minds of luxury consumers, that we can look at her Spring-Summer 2022 campaign as pure fashion. Stella is more committed than ever to now cultivate a larger message of people’s relationship with nature.

Photographed by Mert & Marcus [IG], the creative entourage captures the new Stella McCartney campaign with supermodel Natalia Vodianova center stage. The fashion shoot happened at France’s Marqueyssac gardens, one of France's listed 'Jardins Remarquable' sitting high above the Dordogne river.

Additional photography from the Stella McCartney’s Spring 2022-Summer 2022 campaign took place at the Espace Niemeyer in Paris, the site of Stella’s runway show. “The space gives the sense of being in a mushroom cap, an iconic nod to Oscar Niemeyer’s artistic expression and openness,” says the Stella McCartney website.

Fashion’s GAIA Queens

Spring 2022 mushrooms, center stage at Stella McCartney’s runway show in fall.2021, got a fresh boost two weeks ago. Sarah Burton stepped into the mushrooms and mycelium creative romp with her post-Paris, mid-March Alexander McQueen Fall 2022 runway show in New York City.

The womanly synergy of Stella McCartney, Sara Burton and Gabriela Hearst leading the discussion around our relationship to nature and organic processes cannot be ignored.

Is sustainability primary a ‘woman’s thing’? The dynamic has changed in the last decade with women now much more likely than men to be green activists and financial contributors to environmental causes. Be sure to set Google search time parameters when exploring this topic, because the current data delivers very different results from total Google results.

Fashion’s Leather Debate

Committed to making mycelium a big topic in fashion world, Stella works with mycologist and ‘Entangled Life’ author Merlin Sheldrake to host summer events paying homage to mushrooms. Activities include cooking sessions with globally renowned chefs, synthesizer music created from the sounds of fungi growing by Cosmo Sheldrake and this season’s hand-drawn print, emblazoned on luxury wallpaper by British heritage fabrics house Cole & Son.

Related: Stella McCartney's Spring 2022 Collection Hugs Shroom Power Sustainability AOC Fashion

The Times’ Vanessa Friedman is not entirely fair — or her memory failed her — when she wrote that sustainability finally made its full-throated entrance in the spring 2022 shows with Stella McCartney’s collection.

Friedman wrote: “Well, hello sustainability. Wondering when you’d show up.” The fashion industry expert must have slept through Gabriela Hearst’ Chloé show: Gabriela Hearst Takes Chloé to Bugatti Speed in Redefining Purpose for Luxury Brands

Within this creative atmosphere, the fashion crowd heard the voice of American mycologist and entrepreneur Paul Stamets, who is considered an intellectual and industry leader in everything associated with fungi. In only a few seconds, Stamets summed up the future of fashion with his admonition: “In fashion, mushrooms are the future.”

Benjo Arwas and Shalev Lavan 'Dabble in Denim' for Numero Tokyo April 2022

Benjo Arwas and Shalev Lavan 'Dabble in Denim' for Numero Tokyo April 2022

Model Amelia Gray Hamlin covers the April 2022 issue of Numero Tokyo, dedicated to denim. Regrettably, it has nothing to do with new denim that loves nature, based on what we translated to English on Instagram pics.

Having given a deep sigh of frustration in the sustainability department, this fashion story is fantastic. Benjo Arwas’ [IG] images are stunning in every aspect. Shalev Lavan’s styling of denim both as fashion on model Hamlin — and as a cultural statement — heaps of denim — knocks it out of the park.

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Elizaveta Porodina Captures 'The Nomad' with Jena Goldsack for Conde Nast Traveller UK

Elizaveta Porodina Captures 'The Nomad' with Jena Goldsack for Conde Nast Traveller UK

AOC is a huge fan of photographer Elizaveta Porodina’s [IG] surreal themes and imagery. Late in 2021, I asked myself the question of whether or not her images might become repetitive and stale. With a blockbuster first quarter body of work, Porodina’s images answered that AOC question by delivering new high-voltage, creative twists that keep her visual momentum fresh.

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Cindy Bruna's Inner 'Joséphine' and Chaumet's Latest Jewelry Glamour

Cindy Bruna's Inner 'Joséphine' and Chaumet's Latest Jewelry Glamour AOC Fashion

The House of Chaumet, based in Paris, releases its latest Joséphine collection, channeling the French empress and wife of Napoleon Bonaparte. The explosive — and very modern, even by French standards — love affair between Napoleon and Josephine is often cited as the most documented love story in history.

Empress Joséphine was the first eminent client of Marie-Etienne Nitot, Chaumet's founder. Learning his art as an apprentice to Aubert, court jeweler to Queen Marie-Antoinette, Nitot moved to Paris in 1780. After surviving the French Revolution, he was appointed jeweler to Emperor Napoleon, tasked with making jewelry symbolizing the power that Napoleon wished to convey.

An 18th century aristocrat, Empress Joséphine cherished memories of life on tropical islands like Martinique, where she was born. As Empress, she reinvented the codes of fashion and taste, popularizing her own vision of elegance on Parisian society.

CL Covers The WOW Magazine 06 by Bryan Huynh, Talks ALPHA Release

CL Covers The WOW Magazine 06 by Bryan Huynh, Talks ALPHA Release AOC Fashion

Global K-Pop star Chaelin Lee, aka CL, covers issue 06 The WOW magazine, styled by Cece Liu in Nusi Quero, Mega Mikaela, Tara Hakin, [Separately} JW Anderson, Mugler, Victor de Souza, Wanda Nylon @Albright Fashion Library, Yves Saint Laurent @ New York Vintage and also Albright Fashion Library and more.

Photographer Bryan Huynh [IG] is behind the lens [with another photographer credited on the WOW website] with CL talking with the now independent artist about her most recent album ALPHA.

MacKenzie Scott Donates $275 Million to Planned Parenthood. She's NOT a White Supremacist

I guess MacKenzie Scott’s [formerly Mrs. Jeff Bezos] $275 million gift to Planned Parenthood announced Wednesday, March 23 warrants another call to God from Kanye’s shower. This is where Ye gets his marching orders that terrorize so many of us.

To be called a white supremacist by Kanye West, because I support Planned Parenthood, is worse than being hunted by one of Kanye’s ‘kind’, landing me in police protection for a year as this dude was seriously stalking me with a promise to kill me.

Imagine getting up every morning to a bloody, decapitated animal in a box on your front doorstep. Imagine walking out to your car at night after shopping at the local mall. There’s a noose on your door handle — matching the box of rope left on your doorstep that morning with the note “This is the rope I will hang you with, B#tch.”

That nightmare was in the past, and It’s 2022. Kanye West was running for president of the United States in 2020 — when he expressed his view about those of us who do the devil’s work. Uber religious men have a habit of calling women like me Devils.

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For Love & Lemons for Victoria’s Secret Spring 2022 Festival Collection with Lais Ribeiro

Lais Ribeiro Is Woodstock Ready in For Love & Lemons for Victoria’s Secret Spring 2022 AOC Body

Victoria’s Secret lingerie rolls on into Spring 2022 with the launch of a late ‘60s-early ‘70s For Love & Lemons for Victoria’s Secret embroidered flower power collection inspired by music festivals. Literally-speaking, you can buy a Festival Rose bra.

Lais Ribeiro gets us in the groove mood in a lingerie lovers collection of beautifully-embroidered bras and ‘Zoe’ bralettes, thongs, ‘Pastel punch’ dress, teddies, and garter belts styled by Ashley Gloriso. Crochet hats and colorful scrunchies add a precious, witty touch to the collection lensed by Bryan Rodner Carr [IG]. / Makeup by Hadia Kabir; hair by Tiago Goya

'Bridgerton' Star Simone Ashley Covers Porter Edit March 21, 2022

'Bridgerton' Star Simone Ashley Covers Porter Edit March 21, 2022

‘Sex Education’ and new focus of ‘Bridgerton’s second season actor Simone Ashley covers the April 21st issue of Porter Edit Magazine. Marquessa Whyte styles the star in Chloé, Cult Gaia, Dries Van Noten, Gabriela Hearst, Isabel Marant, Paco Rabanne, Savannah Morrow, Stella McCartney and more.

Petros Studio [IG] is behind the lens for the fashion shoot with Missoni on the cover.

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