“I wanted to choose sculpted clothing that engulfed the model and to then layer it with denim,” says stylist Chloe Grace Press, who worked with photographer Jesse Jenkins [IG] to create the fashion story ‘Wildest Dreams’ for WSJ Magazine’s Fall 2022 issue.
Model Giselle Norman poses in Alexander McQueen married a peplum corset over a sporty Polo Ralph Lauren shirt. [above] and a Balenciaga denim top [below], with a surprising off-the-shoulder décolletage that mimics a jeans waist.
Polo Ralph Lauren Womens Fall 2022 Accessories Campaign enlists models Amrit and Coralie Jean-Francois. Photographer Alasdair McLellan [IG] is behind the lens, working with Jack Becht, SVP, Creative Director Ralph Lauren.
Campaign films are a dime a dozen. This one is worth watching.
Katie Grand’s The Perfect Magazine#3 is just truly awesome. I can only believe she has a lot of luxury brands support and respect to make this publication happen. Nicole Kidman’s first released fashion story by Zhong Lin [IG] was only the appetizer. The Malaysian-born, self-taught photographer now shares Gisele ‘Bündchen wearing Fendi while submerged in a water tank.
Rising model Oulimata Gueye is styled by Agnès Poulle in ‘Éloge de la Transparence’, a fashion story celebrating designs that flutter. Or, as articulated by WWD, dresses that inspire visions of insect wings or snowflakes on steroids. Photographer Thiemo Sander [IG] captures all the fragile grandeur for Madame Figaro August 26, 2022.
Viewed in black on a commanding female presence like Oulimata, the season’s transparency takes flight with an empowering sensuality that continues to attract many women in all our variations.
The successful and much-admired top model Rianne van Rompaey covers the September 2022 issue of Vogue Netherlands. Vanessa Reid styles Rianne in black and white images by Viviane Sassen {IG]. / Beauty by Irena Ruben
Supermodel Gigi Hadid is styled by Camilla Nickerson in ‘Well Worn’, fashion story for American Vogue September 2022. The title suggests that Gigi’s story is part of the growing resale market or pieces made of recycled fabrics. Or the fashion story is a mix of old and new, which would at least be progress. I’m seeing that more frequently these days.
Theo de Gueltzl [IG] photographs Gigi, and while he doesn’t have her images yet, his own IG has a wonderful vibe and hits some of these AOC notes.
Models of Mexican heritage Issa Lish and Egyptian-born French model of Korean, Serbian and Russian descent Tiana Tolstoi are styled by Regina Chan in ‘Citizen of the Universe’, a fine jewelry fashion story. Photographer Pj Lam [IG] captures Lish and Tolstoi in futuristic, intergalactic elegance images for Vogue China September 2022.
The headlines are screaming: “Nicole Kidman looks jacked, shows off insane physique on Perfect cover” Page Six; “At 55, Nicole Kidman remains one of fashion’s biggest risk takers” CNN; “Nicole Kidman Looks Ripped as Hell on ‘Perfect’ Magazine Cover The Daily Beast; Nicole Kidman Is Nearly Unregnizable and Insanely Ripped on Must-See Magazine Cover ET Online.
Kidman Has a Past: the Miu Miu Micro Mini
Nicole Kidman took a lot of you-know-what on social media, posing in Miu Miu’s micro mini on the cover of Vanity Fair’s February 2022 Hollywood Isssue. Forget the fact that Kidman put 80% of the population wearing the mini to shame.
The 2022 guest designer collection by Olivier Rousteing for Jean Paul Gaultier is modeled Marie-Agnès Diene, with styling by Juan Cebrian. Photographer Pablo Saez [IG] is behind the lens for the September 2022 issue of S Moda for El Pais.
What is featured is a tribute to the Gaultier-designed ensembles that Madonna wore on her Blonde Ambition Tour in 1990. In his July comments, Rousteing spoke to his deep concern for women and female liberation worldwide — starting with American women.
The creative team putting together ‘Desire Lines’, clearly let their sensual imaginations run wild. We need it! Models Alessandra Caporaso, Anna de Rijk, Apollo Yom, Ask Putnik, Elio Berenett, Eva Wu, Juliette Grondin, and Vera Kuntz pose toprovoke. Benjamin Bruno styles the edgy and subversive fashion storyin images by David Sims [IG].
Supermodel Gigi Hadid covers the September issue of Vogue Italia, styled by Grace Coddington. The fashion legend deserves applause for transforming Gigi in a high-fashion, fall style statement.
Photographer Rafael Pavarotti [IG] captures Gigi’s smartwoman, street-style vibe in this all-cylinders are firing together fashion story.
In a single moment, the fashion performance begins and they ALL row together in an ensemble performance bringing old-fashioned tears to the eyes of Franca Sozzani. And the fashion story involves a bit of artistic risk — and isn’t that fab!
Michael Kors Collection will launch its fall 2022 campaign on Saturday August 27, 2022. Top models AdutAkech and Rianne Van Rompaey are styled by George Cortina in images by Dutch photographers Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin [IG].
“For fall, I wanted the collection to echo the energy and big-city glamour of New York, when you’re out on the town,” Michael Kors messaged the fashion press. “The clothes and accessories are really everything you need for stepping up, stepping out and making an entrance.”
Former Louisville, Ky police detective Kelly Goodlett, pleaded guilty in federal court August 23, that she worked with another Louisville police officer to falsify a search warrant application. Ultimately, the false application resulted in a judge authorizing the warrant that let to the raid of Breonna Taylor’s apartment, a horror show that led to a totally innocent Breonna Taylor being shot dead in March 2020.
Actor Ana de Armas covers the August 2022 issue of Madame Figaro France. The Louis Vuitton ambassador wears her client’s clothes in a fashion story styled by Barbara Baumel. Photographer David Roemer photographs the Latina, who plays Marilyn Monroe in ‘Blonde’, coming to Netflix in September 2022.
De Armas is receiving rave reviews, except for the disgruntled few who detect the Cuban accent the Latina has worked so hard to eliminate in the film. ‘Blonde’ is based on a fictitious portrayal of Monroe in the novel, and we want the haters to keep quiet. Marilyn Monroe is a symbol for all women, not a select few.
Model Naty Chabanenko covers the July 2022 issue of ELLE Greece [IG], lensed in Serifos, an island in the Aegean Sea. Christos Alexandropoulos styles Chabanenko in images by Thanassis Krikis, shot at Windhouses as ‘The Sea & The Island’.
Model Aivita Mūze shares a fashion passion for pink in Westward, transitional late-summer, early-fall looks styled by Victoire Simonney. Photographers Hunter & Gatti [IG]captures the Latvian model for Massimo Dutti [IG]./ Hair by Christian Eberhard
Model Samruddhi Shirodkar tends her flocks, styled by Sophia Katyea in ‘Field Study’. Photographer Georgia Baldwin [IG] and team joined Samruddhi at Warborne Farm, a 100-acre family-run farm in Lymington, Hampshire with LOVELY barns awaiting your arrival. All this beauty is then transported to Harper’s Bazaar India July-August 2022.
Michael Kors [IG] is known for his animal instincts in the same way that Ladurée is known for macarons. Kors packs up friends Bella Hadid, Alton Mason, and Cindy Bruna, along with fashion photographer Lachlan Bailey [IG] and still-life photographer Theodora Richter [IG], heading for Miami.
