Marie-Pierra Kakoma, known professionally as Lous and the Yakuza, is a Congolese-Belgian singer, rapper, songwriter, model, and artist. The rising talent now adds cover star for Vogue France’s October 2022 issue to her growing list of titles.
The musical talent is styled by Vanessa Reid in glittering, futuristic fashion suitable for a 21st century muse. Fashion photographer Anthony Seklaoui [IG] is on the set.
The artist is a favorite of Louis Vuitton — and wears Vuitton on the cover and inside pages of her Vogue France cover story.
Riccardo Tisci’s departure from Burberry is not unexpected — and none of the rumblings questions around Tisci’s design talent of vision. The question involved much more the continuation of his edgy and goth aesthetic at Burberry — the look that brought him great notoriety and success at Givenchy.
Most creatives and fashion writers don’t engage themselves in a brand’s financial performance. Loving a collection is all that counts. Choosing words that should not be misconstrued by readers, Vogue’s Sarah Mower queried the strategic wisdom of Tisci’s “border-free, non-nationalistic points of view.”
When AOC looked at financial performance under Tisci’s Burberry, clearly the brand basically treaded water. For every new Burberry customer, the luxury brand lost an existing one.
Supermodel Gigi Hadid returns to Self Portrait [IG], in its preview Spring-Summer 2023 campaign. Gigi looks more glamorous than ever, styled by Alex Harrington. British photographer Tyrone Lebon [IG] brought great creative chemistry with Hadid to the streets of New York, urban sensual-vibe images.
It’s only in recent years that the fashion industry from designers to media have moved beyond tokenism into real change on the body shapes and sizes celebrated on fashion show runways, branded ad campaigns, online and print fashion editorials and in the all-important world of social media.
There is a lot of debate on what body positivity stands for, but at its core, it seeks to create an inclusive environment where all kinds of bodies feel accepted, regardless of appearance. Lately, influences online have been vital in keeping the movement trending. With social media, celebrity is no longer confined to glossy magazine pages or TV screens; a star's online presence has made them more accessible and influential.
Rather than focusing on going down a dress size, modern weight loss plans focus on holistic health and wellness. The focus is now on cultivating healthy habits, using advanced nutrition and behavioral science insights so that weight loss is sustainable.
Top model Paloma Elsesser would love to be a poet, but there is the reality that she likes nice things. The next best lifestyle is to enjoy her life as a top model — which seems increasingly secure for the London-born daughter of an African-American mother and Chilean-Swiss father.
Elsesser grew up in Los Angeles, attending private school, before moving to New York and The New School to pursue psychology and literature. For money, Paloma waitressed at Jamaican restaurant Miss Lily’s.
Now a Brooklyn real-estate owner, Paloma, part of the IMG family, explains “. . . I’m not Malala. I’m just a [5.7” tall] model who’s a size 12” .
Kim Kardashian’s Skims Collection rolls into fall with a superb cobalt blue color in its cotton rib colleciton. Kim nailed the shade, one the photographs stupendously. The hue looks rich and sophisticated, and very smart woman sexy. Donna Trope [IG] photographs the models in the September 2022 Skims campaign.
Beloved top model Edie Campbell poses in a second major fall fashion overview called ‘Another Time’, styled by Isabelle Sayer. Photographer Drew Vickers is behind the lens for d’s The Fashion Issue’ edition September 24, 2022, the style magazine for d la Repubblica. / Makeup by Lucy Bridge; hair by Olivier Schwalder
Brazilian model Anna Herrera is styled by Marian Nachmia in an all-Saint Laurent fashion story. Photographer Sarah Piantadosi [IG] is behind the lens for Net-a-Porter September 2022./ Hair by Sarah Jo Palmer; makeup by Marina Belfon Rose
Top model Hana Jirickova wears her healthy sensuality in the October 2022 issue of Vogue Netherlands in a fashion story ‘J’aime la Plage’. Marian Nachmia styles Jirickova in images by Arran & Jules [IG] that remind us of the deceased Vogue Paris, now Vogue France.
With a right-wing battle for women’s bodies gaining steam across the world — not only America — it’s no time for fashion to go Miss Modesty, as Vogue France has done. Didn’t they tell us a few months ago that feminism is so over as an issue?
Given a right-wing win in Italy on Sunday — the first since Mussolini and a couple weeks ago also in Sweden, and with America’s midterms a tossup in our post-Roe world — “controlling women’s bodies” is a high-priority in Europe and America.
Model Sophia Roetz luxuriates in summer’s last riches, styled by Laura Seganti in more menswear-inspired elegance. Menswear jackets and ties are piling up everywhere in European fashion magazines. Photographer Gilles Bensimon [IG] captures Roetz for ELLE Italia October 1 issue.
VS Pink CEO Amy Hauk says that neither the Hulu three-episode docuseries ‘Victoria’s Secret: Angels and Demons’ nor the summer song by JAX that spent several weeks in the top 100 contributed to the plunge in second-quarter profits. The song was created as a statement about the need for body positivity in the world of Victoria’s Secret’s negative influence on young women’s bodies at the hands of an old man [men].
I refuse to believe that Hauk embraces the “there’s no such thing as bad publicity” adage. That was Epstein’s and Ed Razek’s mantra — and never mine.
Actor Margaret Qualley headlines Vogue China’s Photo Vogue, part of Condé Nast's project supporting creatives and especially photographers. The fashion story is styled by Michelle Cameron and lensed by Kate Bellm [IG] in her first ever Vogue cover.
From the Vogue.comwebsite: “PhotoVogue aligns with Condé Nast's goal of celebrating our differences; we are a collection of more than 6.000 individuals serving 37 brands in 26 languages, spanning 32 markets worldwide. Diversity is one of our greatest strengths and it is reflected in the diversity of our contributors from PhotoVogue.”
Read all the particulars about contributing to PhotoVogue, which is a platform for purchase and commissions and not only PR and exposure for creatives.
Model Sara Vienna [IG] describes herself as a V busy business woman & recovering Mormon, “born naked, the rest is fluid.” Sara also loves the planet sometimes. Other days . . . perhaps not so much. Jack Borkett styles Vienna in menswear-inspired suits and jackets for the fashion story ‘Tailoring Nouveau Genre’. Amit [Israeli] [IG] is behind the lens for Vogue France August 2022.
Top model Felice Nova Noordhoff is in Paris, the city where her modeling dream became reality. Styled by Linda Gümüs Gerritsen, Noordhoff says goodbye to ‘nonchalant chic’ and bonjour to edgy looks with femme power spirit.
In the pages of Vogue Netherlands, ‘Je ne said quoi’ just got a solid dose of much-needed, rebel-power backbone, lensed by Casper van der Linden [IG] in the October 2022 issue.
AOC is all in when top model Edie Campbell [IG] wears the pants. Today Edie suits up for the September 22, 2022 issue of ELLE France in a sartorial fashion story ‘Costard Système’, styled by Claire Dhelens. Claudia Knoepfel [IG] photographs Campbell’s cover story for a world of professionals being dragged back to the office.
Asked by Jenny Comita about her earliest reflections on her supermodel status, Harlow responds that she and Amber Valletta were originally called the ‘anti-supermodels.”
“We were the antidote to the traditional supermodels, because we represented a different aesthetic and we were confronting what the beauty norms were at that point: the Richard Avedon super-goddess glamazons.”
British photographer, New York-based Craig McDean [IG] has outdone himself with new images of actor Ana de Armas for AnOther Magazine [IG]. Katie Shillingford styled de Armas in Louis Vuitton for the cover and inside fashion story, adding sensual but casual luxury looks inside.
In an interview with Hannah Lack, How Ana de Armas Became the Most Famous Woman in the World, de Armas discusses playing Marilyn Monroe in Andrew Dominik’s much anticipated adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’s ‘Blonde’, arriving on Netflix Sept. 28.
The Jezebel review is more vulgar and ‘flip’ than most, but its train of thought is consistent with several others that I just read. I’ll go with the New Yorker review [next paragraph] , because it runs closest to Lack’s interview, which is well worth the read.
To all the gloriously inspiring women who are appearing in the new Skims September 27 Bra Launch [IG] campaign, lensed by artist [IG] and fashion photographer Vanessa Beecroft [IG], Anne of Carversville salutes your decision.
To broadcast far and wide your beautiful moxie, AOC is leading with your images before we post the accompanying models’ campaign.
INDEED, Dawn, Jamari’a, Kamilah, Rebecca, Susan, Wondrea YOU LEAD on our website and social media Skims News today. Very special love to Rebecca, who is a breast cancer survivor.
Master photographer Steven Meisel turns his focus to Tiffany & Co Rose Gold Eau de Parfum in a new campaign featuring FeiFei Sun. Trey Laird [IG] serves as Creative Director, fresh off his new campaign with ambassador Kim Kardashian for Stuart Weisman.
Joe McKenna works as stylist on the campaign, with Guido Palau on hair and Pat McGrath on makeup.
Inspired by diamond cuts and luminous metals, Tiffany & Co. Rose Gold Eau de Parfum features notes of fruity blackcurrant, delicate blue rose and a warm finish of ambrette seed.
Devyn Garcia Is 'Playing Favorites' in Bold, Fun Fashion, styled by Alex Harrington. Photographer Larissa Hofmann flashes Garcia for Vogue US September 2022.
