Models Amar Akway, Effie Steinberg, Evie Harris and Sherry Shi are styled by Victoire Simonney in ‘Miss Attitudes’. Photographer Corentin Leroux [IG]is behind the lens for Vogue France December 2022/January 2023.
Models Loes Gobes, Nyakong Chan and Yang Ling are styled by Audrey Hu in Schiaparelli opulence. Photographer Camille Vivier [IG] is behind the lens for Modern Weekly China December 2022.
Candice Swanepoel and her sustainable swimwear brand Tropic of C [IG] celebrate the brand’s classic styles with very modern cutouts, lensed by Eduardo Bravin [IG] .
Candice was an early user of econyl, a regenerated nylon product introduced in 2011 by Aquafil.
Econyl is made entirely from ocean and landfill waste, such as industrial plastic, fabric scraps from clothing manufacturing companies, old carpets and "ghost nets".
AOC believes that beautiful bodies live on a sustainable planet. We’ve always applauded Candice Swanepoel for building a brand from day 1, with sustainability beating beautifully in its heart.
Rolling Stone Magazine keeps up the blistering pace of their reporting on all matters related to Kanye West. In a new piece by Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone says that the rapper spoke of his admiration for Hitler during the making of 2004 Grammy-winning debut album ‘The College Dropout’.
West allegedly studied Nazi propaganda strategies and power-gaining tactics to formulate his own personal persona as a rapper, with the goal of using Nazi tactics to achieve his own fame and success.
Sharp Drop in Kanye West’s Republican Support December 2022 YouGov America Poll
In October, Republicans were split (45% favorable to 42% unfavorable) on their opinion of Ye in the You/Gov America poll. Now, just 26% have a favorable opinion of him and 65% have an unfavorable opinion.
The Chanel Fine Jewelry Holiday 2022 campaign ‘Once Upon a Moon’ stars Adesuwa Aighewi, Giedre Dukauskaite, Soo Joo Park, Matthew Bell and Reece Nelson as lunar explorers styled by Veronique Didry and lensed by Nicolas Kantor.
Did luxury house Chanel know that America’s Artemis 1 mission was headed to the moon when their holiday campaign ‘Once Upon a Moon’ was released? Probably not, as our Artemis 1 mission roared high into the sky two months behind schedule. Still, the timing ended up being perfect.
The Beauty campaign has the Eiffel Tower lifting off like Artemis, becoming a cool rocket rising into the Parisian night sky.
Varsity style is far from leaving us in style and culture. ELLE Italia sends that message loud and clear with its ‘Preppy New Year’ issue N.48, Jan. 14, 2023.
Model Margaux Van Kommer gets high marks for going ‘Ivy League’, with a strong noble origins vibe styled by Laura Seganti in images by Francois Rotger [IG].
Top model FeiFei Sun creates black fashion drama, styled with a base of lean silhouettes by Vivienne Sun. Photographer Nick Yang is in the studio with creative direction by Matt McDonald for Vogue China January 2023.
Tania Tuka styles the American Alexa Dellanos [IG], who has 2.9m followers on TikTok, without a single post, and 10.2m followers on in Dior, Emilio Pucci, Isabel Marant, Saint Laurent and more, with images by Pierre Turtaut [IG] and creative direction by Jean-Marc Mondelet.
The shoot took place at the Bonnie Club Paris, part of the new SO/Paris Hotel.
Model Valentina Sampaio, who is an Armani beauty ambassador, smolders in her Giorgio Armani Holiday 2022 campaign images. Sampaio shares the spotlight with models Quentin Demeester and Raphael Balzer. Photographers Van Mossevelde + N [IG] captures the glamorous trio with set design by Andrea Cellerino./ Hair by Pierpaolo Lai; makeup by Simone Gammino
Vogue Greece joins the homage to Lily Collins and ‘Emily in Paris’ with a January 2023 cover story styled by Karolina Gruszecka. Photographer Cameron McCool is behind the lens with creative direction by Nicholas Georgiou.
South Sudan model Adit Priscilla is styled by Sam Ranger in ‘Highland Fling’, lensed by Georgia Devey Smith [IG]for Exit Magazine November 2022./ Hair by Hiroshi Matsushita; makeup by Kirstin Piggott
1) Artistic photographer Tim Walker flashed 'Portrait of a Lady', a brilliant cultural fixation on all things womanly and especially women's breasts -- the bigger the better unless you are a fashion model. In that case, the French preferences rule.
2) Miranda Kerr took a walk on the wild side, trading her brunette tresses for blonde hair in Tom Munro’s sultry, black and white shoot ‘A Real Beauty’ for Vogue Italia’s October 2012.
3) Top model Daria Werbowy was on the ‘Road to Marrakech’, styled by Lucinda Chambers. Photographer Mario Testino was behind the lens for British Vogue January 2005.
This fashion story was never posted on AOC until now.
Actor Lily Collins is everywhere in December media, given the phenomenal success of ‘Emily in Paris’. Porter Magazine’s Dec. 12 issue steps up for the latest feature with Collins talking toEllie Pithers about her alter ego’s unwavering positivity, new projects and the power of vulnerability.
Coco Cassiba styles “everyone’s favorite honorary Parisian” with season 3 on Netflix Dec. 21. Collins is so identified with Emily Cooper’s character that she responds to both names, and Paris tours devoted to the show drive by her apartment building. “People come up to me and say, ‘I packed my bag according to what Emily would wear.’If they saw me in character, it was very trippy.”
The actor is excited to share news of Case Study Films, the production company she launched in November with her husband Charlie McDowell and their partner, Alex Orlovsky.
‘A New Sensuality’ puts Irina Shayk in the spotlight, wearing nine pieces in the capsule, lensed by Mert and Marcus [IG]. The Zara collection of body-hugging, fluid jersey pieces is meant to inspire “Positivity and Confidence’ [IG].
Oliver Hadlee Pearch [IG] captures models Anyiel Majok, Felice Nova Noordhoff, and Malika Louback in the Emilio Pucci Holiday 2022/23 campaign ‘La Famiglia.
Imruh Asha styles a campaign the hugs Camille Miceli’s clear vision that “for me Pucci evokes a family of people spending time together, to enjoy life, parties, and well-being.”
Miceli wants the global enthusiasts, travel-loving, multi-generations Pucci ‘famiglia’ to embrace high-octane, dopamine-dressing as a form of spreading joyful optimism, self-confidence without a tinge of aristocracy [unlike Chanel] and a lust for life that reflects her own lifestyle.
British model Sacha Quenby is styled by Kate Phelan in Alexander McQueen, Burberry, Celine by Hedi Slimane, Gucci, Loewe, Louis Vuitton, Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello, Stella McCartney, The Row, Valentino.
Photographer Bibi Cornejo Borthwick is behind the lens in the wild countryside of Portugal, shooting Quenby in ‘Run Free’ for WSJ Digital December 2022.
Victoria Secret’s model and Armani Beauty ambassador Valentina Sampaio graces the pages of Vogue Scandinavia’s December 2022 issue, lensed by New York-based Lea Winkler [IG]/ Hair by Rutger; makeup by Hung Vanngo
AOC tries not to identify Valentina as a transgender model at every turn. And we do believe there’s some major hype in the title of her Vogue Scandi interview. But Sampaio is certainly advancing her career with high profile alliances, including continuing on with Victoria’s Secret, when Razek got the boot. Armani is a real feather in Valentina’s cap.
Models Chané Husselmann, Georgia Howorth & Tommy Gray come together in ‘Budding Romance’, styled by Hannah Teare. The tagline reads: “Blossom in the very best looks with a dash of 1930s flair, inspired by the secret life and loves of high-society florist Constance Spry.”
Oli Kearon [IG] photographed ‘Budding Romance’ for Tatler UK Magazine’s January 2023 issue.
Orion is facing the biggest test ever — a nailbiting, ‘will it work’ skip-entry return to Earth. The male mind is not the engine behind this scientific strategy. Mother Nature shows the way
In fact, the stone-skipping return is one of the most important examples to date of biomimicry or ‘science inspired by nature’. In the AOC link, is a fantastic TED Talk by Janine Benyus, founder of the biomimicry movement.
Orion will re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere at a speed of 24,500 mph and then bounce off the Earth’s upper atmosphere like a stone skipping across water. This re-entry plan has several key benefits, including bleeding off speed and reducing the G-Force that Artemis astronauts in the future will experience.
