No one has been more committed to use her fashion shows platform to tell women’s stories than Maria Grazia Chiuri.
Dior ambassador Anya Taylor-Joy has a life-long passion and fascination with animals. The star adores animal prints, making her the perfect face for Dior Beauty’s Dior Mitzah collection.
Christian Dior’s original muse Mitzah Bricard inspired him to recognize the leopard print as a reputable trend.
Mitzah’s advice was: “When a man wants to send you flowers, always say — ‘my florist is Cartier.’” “Madame Bricard is one of the rare people for whom elegance is their sole reason for living,” wrote Dior.
Simone de Beauvoir’s ‘The Second Sex’ was published in 1949, when the French existentialist philosopher, social theorist and feminist activist was age 41.
The lifelong partner and lover of Jean Paul Sartre wrote a piece for Vogue in 1947, arguing that “Femininity is a Trap”. Dior’s Chiuri used the 1947 statement in her Pre-Fall 2022 show.
Schama describes Florence Pugh as somebody who exudes “a let’s-go gameness.” It was on full-display in summer 2022, when Pugh wore a sheer Valentino dress that was transparent and showed — goddess forbid — her nipples.
“. . . we were always naked as kids,” Pugh says. “We are human, we are bodies.”
Philadelphia-born, dual American and French citizen, muse to Alexander McQueen, the fabulous Debra Shaw takes it easy in the pages of Marie Claire France. Sabine Villiard [IG] is in the studio, capturing Shaw for the January 2023 issue.
Update 1/11/2023:AOC has written multiple times about Peter Lindbergh’s famous supermodel shoot for British Vogue and its hallmark relevance in inspiring the George Michael ‘Freedom 90’ video. Cindy Crawford shared the video on Instagram three years ago. Prior to that we moved it to the front of the fashion channel on December 25, 2016, with the passing of George Michael.
Regretfully, we again move the video to the front of our channel with the passing ofTatjana Patitz — the super who marched to her own melody. Losing acclaimed photographer Peter Lindbergh — Tatjana’s fashion godfather — on September 3, 2019 was such a gut punch. Today’s news is another ember on a fire of uber-talented people who have left planet Earth long before we were ready to leave them.
May your next act be glorious Tatjana Patitz. ~ Anne
Models Celina Ralph and Maty Fall are styled by Eniola Dare in ‘Saturation Point’, a bold-baubles fashion story lensed by Zoey Grossman [IG] for British Vogue January 2023./ Hair by Kota Suizu; makeup by Laura Dominique
Top model Kaia Gerber is the face of Alaïa’s WS23 [IG] campaign, styled by Aleksandra Woroniecka. Photographer Tyrone Lebon captures Gerber with creative direction by Alaïa’s Pieter Mulier.
Model Clara Denison is styled by Aina Marcó in ‘Up N’ Down’, a ‘day in the life of’ fashion story. Photographer Adri Cuerdo [IG] is behind the lens for Numero Netherlands December 2022. Models Maria Mavarez and Sergi Shan also gain exposure.
Models Bente Oort, Enzo Kobayashi, Ismael Savane, and Teo Bates are styled by Jan Kralicek in Dior, a brand truly focused on a future world governed by ‘Aquarius’.
The Age of Aquarius predicts a time of major female empowerment. Is it an accident that in 2022 the definition of ‘woman’ was the most searched word in 2022 on dictionary.com?
Major progressive organizations in America are writing the word ‘woman’ out of their vocabularies. We blame anything anti-woman on Republicans in America.
AOC argues that writing women out of our laws, because a small number of trans men with intact ovaries and a uterus might be capable of bearing children in the future is a topic for national conversation.
If one even asks the question, we are called bigots. For years we’ve spoken of breast cancer not only being a women disease. It also claims men. What was wrong with that approach?
This is only a Dior fashion story for the January 2023 issue of Vogue Czech, lensed by Florian and Sebastian [IG]. Take a chill pill, Anne.
KidSuper founder Colm Dillane, Brooklyn’s homegrown superhero, will return to Paris Fashion Week, as the luxury fashion equivalent of an ‘artist as residence’ in the creation of the Louis Vuitton Autumn/Winter 2023 menswear collection.
Mr. Dillane, 31, is considered to be a great storyteller. In 2021, the prestigious LNMH Prize awarded him the runner-up Karl Lagerfeld prize with two other designers. Dillane thrives on collaboration, as did Abloh, and his commercial partners have run the gamut from Puma to SpaghettiOs.
Versace’s Resort 2023 Collection is filled with tensions: ‘“Hard and soft, masculine and feminine, formal and playful, contrasts that I see the new generation questioning and ripping up completely,” Donatella Versace said about her acid-colors designs.
Models Sora Choi and Steinberg kick off the women’s wing of the campaign, with Momo Ndiaye and Timo Pan on mens. Photographer Thue Nørgaard [IG] captures the vibrant colorways exuding big energy, styled by Jacob K.
Model Lorna Foran is perfectly cast in this jewelry-focus editorial ‘The Gilded Age’, styled by Holly Gorst. Photographer Amie Milne [IG] captures the mood of fashion grandeur and aristocratic elegance for Harper’s Bazaar UK December 2022.
Arab News Tehran reports that Iran’s judiciary has ordered police to “firmly punish” people who violate the country’s hijab law, a news agency reported Tuesday, January 10.
France’s Charlie Hebdomagazine, a French satirical weekly magazine, has again provoked the Iranians, publishing cartoons mocking Iran’s ruling clerics and their aggression against the protesters.
Two French-born al-Qaida extremists attacked the newspaper’s office in 2015, killing 12 people in Paris on January 7, 2015. Today the irreverent publication operates from a secret location with round-the-clock police protection, continuing its refusal to bow down to right-wing, religious zealots of any ideology, not only Islam.
British actors Josh O’Connor, who played a young Charles in Netflix’s ‘The Crown’, and Franco-Congolese actor and comedian Stéphane Bak, fresh off his critically-acclaimed role in ‘Mali Twist’, are center-stage in LOEWE’s Spring Summer 2023 Men’s Campaign.
Benjamin Bruno styles the shoot, with creative direction by Jonathan Anderson. Photographer David Sims [IG] is in the studio, distilling yet another LOEWE campaign with an impeccable vibe of creative artisanship. Vincent Olivieri provides set design. Love it.
Models Lottie Aaron and Ash Chen are styled by Bridie Gilbert in luxury looks from Ann Demeulemeester, Ash, Bottega Veneta, Dior, Fendi, Givenchy, Prada, Saint Laurent, Schiaparelli, Simone Rocha, Versace, Victoria Beckham in a new fashion story ‘Together Alone’.
Photographer Jess James [IG] is in the studio for Vogue China’s January 2023 digital issue, creative direction by Matt Mcdonald.
Vogue Arabia’s January 2023 issue turns an elegant eye to couture, styled by Mirko De Propis and Vittoria Ross Provesi. Paris-based photographer Tareck Raffoul [IG] captures model Bianca Mabaso wearing Chanel, Dior, Dolce & Gabbana; Giambattista Valli; Giorgio Armani; Schiaparelli and Valentino./ Makeup by Mattia Andreoli; outstanding hair by Cosimo Bellomo
Vogue Portugal January 2023 issue creates a gasp or two with this beauty cover story ‘Red Velvet & Purple Rain’. Pablo Patane styles the story starring makeup artist Elise Ducrot [IG] with fabulous images by Jabe [IG].
Supermodel Natalia Vodianova covers Vogue Beauty Paper, January 2023, a media project of Vogue China. Natalia is styled by Michelle Cameron, with creative direction by Matt Mcdonald. Photographer Hugo Comte [IG] is in the studio.
Natalia Vodianova’s stratospheric rise has been breathtaking, as she increasingly turns her attention to her work as a philanthropist, impact investor and UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador.
In Nepal and India, large numbers of women do not have the right to touch food or crops while they are menstruating, because they can cause bad luck to their families. A 2019 study found that 77% of west-central Nepali girls and young women actively practice menstrual exile, even though it is now illegal in India.
Girls in Bolivia are still told that their period blood causes illnesses like cancer in other people.
‘The Crown’ actor Elizabeth Debicki, who plays Princess Diana, covers the January 2023 issue of Madame Figaro. Debicki joined Dior in December 2021 as an fashion ambassador, followed by her appointment in late October 2022 as a brand ambassador for Dior Joaillerie’s Rose Dior collection.
Writer Isabelle Girarduses an intriguing phrase to describe Diana’s public life, explaining that the princess “never found her place between shadow and light. It is this ambivalence that characterizes her.”
