I personally went back over Virgil’s older shows and the influence of the menswear design studio is strong in the Fall 2023 collection. This is not about radical change.
AOC remains a believer that Beccari and Arnault will take the menswear design group for an innovative spin — sort of a design laboratory that focuses on the future studio workplace.
But to hear in March that Colm Dillane gets his LV men’s position would not surprise us. AOC believes strongly that elegance is in the wind. I did keep asking myself “Would Jay-Z wear these clothes? Would the NBA players wear these clothes because the LV Men’s NBA clothes are fabulous.
We are positive that LVMH will make some kind of investment in Dillane. His whole story and his talent are pretty irresistable.
Rising South Sudanese model Adit Priscilla is styled by Rebecca Bleynie in Chanel jewelry and fragrance for Numero 235, end-of-year all Chanel editorial content issue. Supremely-gifted, Dutch photographer Bastiaan Woudt [IG] is in the studio.
Woudt began his own self-taught photography practice from scratch about five years ago. The exceptional talent also does his own post-production work, infusing a modern, graphic vision with classical DNA and elegance into his black and white images. He’s a WOW!
Supermodel Anja Rubik is the perfect woman to remind us that visible sensuality in fashion is making a comeback, even at Zara [IG].
Tapping into utilitarian and manly silhouettes, tailoring strikes a perfect balance in neutral colors cargo pants, jumpsuits, bustiers, crop tops and sexy-heels slides.
The look is dazzling and easily adopted by Zara Woman femmes worldwide.
The artisan and natural world DNA in LOEWE Perfumes [IG] and home gifts is gallery-inspiring with its relentless pursuit of beauty and creativity.
In a fashion and style world so grounded in glitz and status, LOEWE always brings us down to earth. And the candles do actually smell of the vegetables.
Photographer Nicolo’ Novelli [IG] captures Siin Kim in Parisian landmark Café Palais Royal for ‘Melancholy in Paris’. The quiet fashion story getaway to the City of Lights is published by L’Officiel India [IG] January 2023.
Fresh off their December 2022 fashion story in Flaunt Magazine, Parallel Mothers actor Milena Smit and photographer JUANKR [IG] create a new editorial for Harper’s Bazaar España’s ‘Butterfly’ February 2023 issue.
In just four years, Milena Smit has earned two Goya nominations, a film — Parallel Mothers, acting with Penelope Cruz and directed by Pedro Almodóvar — and being an ambassador for@yslbeauty y @ysl.
Top model and Chanel-exclusive Vivienne Rohner travels to New York City’s downtown for Chanel's latest Spring Summer 2023 Pre-Collection images, lensed by Theo Wenner [IG].
We circle back to Maison Alaïa Holiday 2022.23 accessories that make bold statements about the brand’s sensual DNA under Pieter Mulier. Aleksandra Woroniecka styles the fashion story lensed by Tanya + Zhenya Posternak [IG] with models Athieng Bul and Tomiwa.
South Sudanese, London-raised, British model Nyaueth Riam is styled by Alba Roces in ‘And There Was Light’ [Y Se Hizo La Luz]. Photographer Wai Lin Tse [IG] captures Riam for Vogue España January 2023./ Hair and makeup by Adrian Rux
“I believe true sexiness comes from self-confidence. A woman who feels great in her own skin is always beautiful and sexy to me. It's basically a timeless concept and it’s all within you”, says Vogue Spain [IG] February 2023 cover star Irina Shayk.
Irreverence and rebellion are center stage in the new issue, with Shayk wearing Louis Vuitton on the cover, styled by Poppy Kain.Elizaveta Porodina [IG]brings her signature lens to the fashion story that expresses the many levels of psychological awareness required for women to feel comfortable in our own skin.
We’re late to Lizzo’s November 2022 Vanity Fair US cover story event — and what a reading experience it is. Now that New York’s Governors Ball has announced Lizzo in its 2023 edition June 9-11 at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens, it’s time we do some serious Lizzo duty.
The uber talent well on her way to becoming a super star is making waves across America, and we’re here for it. Vanity Fair November was a long-interview pit stop with Lisa Robinson and it came with a perfect title: ‘Everything’s coming up Lizzo, and it’s about damn time.’
Lizzo was styled by the one and only Patti Wilson, with photography by Campbell Addy [IG].
I’m writing and switching paragraphs around so that this next tough-talking paragraph from her Vanity Fair interview is followed by Lizzo’s 2021 TEDMonterey Talk.
If you are a white woman who thinks she sounds a little bit too hostile in her VF interview, consider her flute playing at the Library of Congress on September 26.
I am so disturbed over what happened, I probably would have gone to jail.
Model Abigayl Anderson is styled by Sophie Pera in ‘Powder Dressing’, lensed by Daniel Sachon for Tatler UK February 2023./ Hair by Oskar Pera; makeup by Phoebe Walters
Model Abby Champion is styled by Swarovski Creative Director Giovanna Engelbert in the Swarovski Valentines Day [IG] 2023 Campaign.
Photographer Carlijn Jacobs [IG] captures the ‘Powered by Passion’ pink hues, uber-modern mood that also includes bathed-in-pink model Lucas El Bali./ Makeup by Masae Ito; hair by Olivier Schawalder
Madonna covers the ICONS issues of Vanity Fair Italy, France, and Spain in a first-ever joint collaboration among the magazines. The new annual “Icon Issue’ project celebrates legends who “contribute[s] to shape the modern culture.”
Madonna’s regular stylist, Swedish B. Åkerlund [IG] chooses Dolce & Gabbana, Gucci, Jean Paul Gaultier, John Galliano for Maison Margiela and more for the two-day shoot that involved more than 80 collaborators.
Fashion editors Michael Philouze and Marcus Chang styled the cast.
Images from the shoot will be part of a Sept. exhibition by Luigi & Iango at the Palazzo Reale Museum in Milan.
Madonna and Religion
As society, are we moving on from that [patriarchal] world? We definitely are not moving on, we are moving backwards. Otherwise, we wouldn’t be having discussions on whether or not women are allowed to make choices over their bodies in America.
Are you a pessimist? I have to be optimistic otherwise I don’t know how I could go on.
Model Paulina Pitsikalis poses in ‘Center of Attention’, lensed by London-based Morgan Roberts [IG] for Vogue Arabia [IG]December 2022./ Hair by Hiroshi Matsushita
Paolo Roversi [IG] captures the Giorgio Armani [IG] S/S 2023 Men’s Campaign. Ludivine Poiblanc styles the models including Aleksandar Rusic, Ibrahim Idoow and Taemin Park.
At first glance Natalie Portman’s new Miss Dior Blooming Bouquet campaign seems straightforward enough. The floral scent features notes of bergamot essence, Damascus rose, and peony with the tagline: “Love is a bouquet.”
The music to Natalie Portman’s new Miss Dior Blooming Bouquet campaign is Janis Joplin for heaven’s sake. I thought I was going to lose my mind.
When Natalie Portman looks straight at me in a Janis Joplin music commercial and says WAKE UP, she has my undivided attention.
AOC wrote in 2019 about Natalie Portman’s human connection and deep respect for Catherine Dior. The Miss Dior fragrance was named for Christian Dior’s sister who was a member of the French resistance during WWII. Catherine was sent to multiple concentration camps in Germany.
In the 2019 interview for Harpers Bazaar UK, the Hollywood star had sober words for progressive optimists:
“I think it’s a mistake to think of humanity as evolving,” the intellectually-accomplished Portman explains. You want to believe it, for sure, but it’s more like cycles of violence. Yet we’ve had an extraordinary lifetime of peace, too, so it’s allowed us to live in this belief that progress is being made.”