Tehya Elam in 'Plant Ladies, The New Cat Ladies' for ELLE Mexico by Izack Morales

Tehya Elam in 'Plant Ladies, The New Cat Ladies' for ELLE Mexico by Izack Morales

Model Tehya Elam fronts ‘Plant Ladies, The New Cat Ladies’, styled by Jess Gutierrez and Natalia Sanchez. Izack Morales [IG] captures the fashion story for ELLE Mexico [IG] July 2022./ Hair by Takuya Yamaguchi; makeup by Mitch Yoshida

Should we assume these plant species are non-toxic, because lots of plant ladies have cats? Plants are highly desirable today, with 7 in 10 millennials calling themselves a plant parent.

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Zimmermann Fall 2022 'Stargazer' Campaign at Château de Gudanes by Benny Horne

Zimmermann Fall 2022 'Stargazer' Campaign at Château de Gudanes by Benny Horne

Zimmermann’s Fall 2022 Campaign turns to pop astrology with its ‘Stargazer’ collection. Rising model Beauise Ferwerda poses in the Zimmermann Fall Collection at the Château de Gudanes in France, lensed by Benny Horne.

Set upon a hilltop in the in the small village of Chateau-Verdun, located in the French Pyrenees, Château de Gudanes was purchased by a West Australian family, the Waters, in 2013. The structure was in a staggering state of dilapidated neglect, considering its pedigree by Parisian architect Ange-Jacques Gabriel.

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Mona Tougaard August News in Vogue France, Alaïa F/W 2022.23 Campaign

Mona Tougaard August News in Vogue France, Alaïa F/W 2022.23 Campaign

Muticultural model Mona Tougaard was born in Denmark and is of Turkish, Somali and Ethiopian descent. With a solid portfolio behind her, Tougaard joins Mirthe Dijk and Victoria Fawole in the Alaïa F/W 2022.23 ad campaign, shot by Willy Vanderperre.

AOC reviews Mona Tougaard’s recent work.

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Matilda De Angelis Is the Anti-Diva Lensed by Brett Lloyd for Vogue Italia August 2022

Matilda De Angelis Is the Anti-Diva Lensed by Brett Lloyd for Vogue Italia August 2022

Italian actor and singer Matilda De Angelis covers the August 2022 issue of Vogue Italia. In the legendary traditions of Anita Ekberg in ‘La Dolce Vita’ or Sophia Loren in ‘Yesterday Today and Tomorrow’, De Angelis pays tribute to Italy’s symbol of elegance, the seductive black dress.

Raphael Hirsch styles the cover story, lensed by Brett Lloyd [IG], with De Angelis wearing Alberta Ferretti, Giorgio Armani, Givenchy, Valentino and more. Di Laura Tortora tells more about the fashion story.

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Chikamaraa by Bohdan Bohdanov in Strange Beauty for Vogue Portugal August

Chikamaraa by Bohdan Bohdanov in Strange Beauty for Vogue Portugal August

Nigerian model by way of Germany Chikamaraa is styled by Pablo Patanè in ‘O Sono da razão produz monstros’. Ukraine-born, Milan-based photographer Bohdan Bohdanov [IG] captues this unusual jewelry and beauty story for Vogue Portugal ‘s August 2022 ‘Good Vibes’ issue.

In their editorial commentary, Vogue Portugal acknowledges that darkness and shadows are a significant aspect of daily life — but there is not only discovery and meaning there but also a way out of darkness into light and ‘good vibes’.

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Delicia Fraser and Chizoba Emmanuel in Gilded Age Jewelry for Tatler UK September 2022

Delicia Fraser and Chizoba Emmanuel in Gilded Age Jewelry for Tatler UK September 2022 AOC Jewelry News

Models Delicia Fraser and Chizoba Emmanuel are bejewelled, styled by Lydie Harrison in ‘Frosting on Top’. Photographer Morgan Roberts [IG] captures the dazzle for Tatler UK [IG] September 2022./ Hair by Lauren Bell; makeup by Aimee Twist

Bella, Adut, Jill, Paloma in Victoria's Secret Very Sexy 'Midnight at the Oasis' Fall 2022 Campaign

Bella, Adut, Jill, Paloma in Victoria's Secret Very Sexy 'Midnight at the Oasis' Fall 2022 Campaign

Smart Sensuality glamour girls Adut Akech, Bella Hadid, Jill Kortleve and Paloma Elsesser channel the ‘70s classic ‘Midnight at the Oasis’ in name and message but not music in the video. Artist Maria Muldaur sang about an empowered sensual woman in the 1973 more likely on the road in Marrakech than Mexico in the classic tune.

Aware or not, VS is also channeling the sensual, political activist feminist Frida Kahlo in this deeply political and threatening moment for American feminism. As Republicans wage a full-throttle assault on women’s rights in America, perhaps Frida Kahlo is guiding them subliminally.

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Aaron Rose Philip by Stanislaw Boniecki for Vogue Poland June 2022

Aaron Rose Philip by Stanislaw Boniecki for Vogue Poland June 2022

Model Aaron Rose Philip [IG] graced the pages of Vogue Poland’s June 2022 issue, styled by Carolina Orrico in images by Stanislaw Boniecki [IG]./ Hair by Jerome Cultrera; makeup by Roy Liu

I honestly don’t know how AOC missed Aaron Rose Philip, but we did. No excuses and my apologies. ‘What a marvelous human being’ are the only words that come to mind to describe this Antiguan-American model, now 21. In 2018, she became the first black, transgender, and physically disabled model to be represented by a major modeling agency.

Vogue interviewed Philip last November in a series called ‘How I Got Here’. Her comments are a life lesson in how to envision success by creating optimal conditions for it to happen.

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Elle Macpherson In ‘’C’est Tout Elle!’’ by Gilles Bensimon for ELLE France July 28, 2022

Elle Macpherson In ‘’C’est Tout Elle!’’ by Gilles Bensimon for ELLE France July 28, 2022

The totally-fabulous Elle Macpherson, now 58, covers ELLE France’s July 28th issue, performing the convenient hat trick on her beautiful, healthy-living body. Ève Maeno styles Macpherson in Fendi on the cover, with a long list of top summer brands on the inside pages.

In the case of photographing his ex-wife, Gilles Bensimon always takes great care to capture her contagious joie de vivre.

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Bella Hadid in Brooklyn Girl Crew Ports 1961 FW 2022 Campaign by Steven Meisel

Bella Hadid in Brooklyn Girl Crew Ports 1961 FW 2022 Campaign by Steven Meisel

Top models Achenrin Madit, Bella Hadid, Mila Van Eeten, Sora Choi, and Vittoria Ceretti come together in the streets of Brooklyn for the Ports 1961 [IG] fall-winter 2022 campaign. A top-tier crew comes together consisting of photographer Steven Meisel and stylist Karl Templer, with art direction by Fabien Baron.

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Dior Fall 2022 Campaign by Brigitte Niedermair Hugs Mariella Bettineschi's Male Gaze Reversal

Dior Fall 2022 Campaign by Brigitte Niedermair Hugs Mariella Bettineschi's Male Gaze Reversal

In the Fall 2022 campaign, Chiuri is inspired by the objectified female subjects of ‘Old Masters’, as transformed by living Italian feminist artist Mariella Bettineschi. In the fashion show, the models clearly referenced the women in Renaissance paintings, but reborn as women and girls with their own agency and ability to understand the ways of the world at work around them.

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Bella Hadid Delivers 'The Whole Spread' by Elizaveta Porodina in Vogue Espana August 2022

Bella Hadid Delivers 'The Whole Spread' by Elizaveta Porodina in Vogue Espana August 2022

Supermodel Bella Hadid gets more Elizaveta Porodina [IG] treatment in ‘The Whole Spread’, another version of glittering British Vogue fashion story styled by Gabriella Karefa-Johnson — this time for Vogue Spain August 2022./ Hair by Evanie Frausto; makeup by Grace Ahn

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J. Lo Nude by Daniella Midenge for JLoBody FIRM + FLAUNT™

J. Lo Nude by Daniella Midenge for JLoBody FIRM + FLAUNT™

When Daniella Midenge photographed Jennifer Lopez for Allure Magazine’s 30th Anniversary cover story, it was clear that they shared some kind of cosmic energy. J. Lo had a daring pixie cut to celebrate her 52 birthday, and the two femmes delivered a supercharged, sexy and sensual photoshoot.

Daniella excels at putting her foot on the pedal when photographing women. She renders them as 10-alarm fires who even Pope Francis would invite to dinner. Midenge makes ‘sexy’ very respectable — and that is a precious gift to the women she photographs.

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