Phoebe Philo Returns in September 2023: Sound the Trumpets!

Phoebe Philo Returns in September 2023: Sound the Trumpets!

On Resee.com, Phoebe-era Céline is one of the top-three selling labels. Imagine that fact: Phoebe’s Céline follows Chanel and Hermès.

Phoebe understands us — the woman wearing her fashion — is a constant theme among her devoted. Lynette Nylander, the executive editorial director of Dazed, explained further. Down to the most finite detail “how wide her armholes are, the fact that she always paired things with trainers. This is someone who’s not living a curb-to-cab lifestyle. I’m on the subway, I’m sweating, but I still want to evoke some sense of fantasy. Phoebe was the master of doing that.”

Backed by LVMH, Phoebe Philo will be available to see and buy in September 2023. One assumes this will go well, because for every 20-year-old, who doesn’t even know about Phoebe Philo, there’s a 35-year-old who is thrilled to have her back in business.

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Ida Heiner's Coastal Escape by Josh Olins for WSJ Magazine Spring 2023 Fashion

Ida Heiner's Coastal Escape by Josh Olins for WSJ Magazine Spring 2023 Fashion

Model Ida Heiner is styled by Anastasia Barbieri as WSJ Magazine heads for Portugal’s Azores to showcase the most memorable new season style.

Josh Olins [IG]for WSJ Magazine Spring 2023 captures Alaïa, Balenciaga, Burberry, Dolce & Gabbana, Emporio Armani, Givenchy, Hermès, Loewe, Louis Vuitton, Michael Kors, Miu Miu, Rick Owens, Saint Laurent by Anthony Vacarello dress, Sportmax aand more.

The shoot takes place in Portugal’s Azores as ‘The Wildest Pieces to Pack for a Coastal Escape”.

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Dutch-Somali Model Muna Mahamed by Melanie+Ramon for Harper's Bazaar Italia No.2

Dutch-Somali Model Muna Mahamed by Melanie+Ramon for Harper's Bazaar Italia No.2

The new Harper’s Bazaar Italia [link] has published a second Spring 2023 issue.

Like the first one, the pages entice us with old-fashioned, gorgeous photography with style and model diversity among the fashion stories.

In this fashion story, Dutch-Somali model Muna Mahamed is styled by Sissy Vian in ‘The Silver Factory’, lensed by Melanie+Ramon [IG].

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Mica + Mona Take Monte Carlo for Michael Kors Collection Spring 2023 Campaign

Mica + Mona Take Monte Carlo for Michael Kors Collection Spring 2023 Campaign

American luxury brand Michael Kors Collection [IG] sets sail for Monte Carlo in its Spring 2023 campaign. Models Mica Argañaraz and Mona Tougaard take big fashion strides in wide-leg pants, plunging necklines and slashed skirts in the campaign lensed by Inez and Vinoodh [IG].

For spring 2023, bright poppy and lime green join an abundance of white and black. Spring 2023 trends turn up the volume even higher on skin revelation, after a long period of fashionable hibernation in a post #MeToo world.

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Gabriela Hearst Talks Nuclear Fusion. and Puma Women with WSJ Magazine

Gabriela Hearst Talks Nuclear Fusion. and Puma Women with WSJ Magazine

Prior to connecting with WSJ Magazine for a recent touchbase, Chloe designer Gabriela Hearst was in Egypt in mid-November 2022 for the COP27 climate conference.

The annual UN Climate Change conference taking place in Sharm El-Sheikh put Hearst on a panel speaking about fusion.

The future is fusion, in the eyes of Gabriela Hearst, who isn’t particularly concerned if we can or cannot read her new passion into the clothes that make up the Spring 2023 Chloe collection.

What is exciting about Hearst’s enthusiasm is that a huge breakthrough in the drive for fusion power happened days after Hearst returned from Egypt.

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Rising Model Lila Moss Joins YSL Beauty As New Ambassador

Rising Model Lila Moss Joins YSL Beauty As New Ambassador

Lila Moss, daughter of supermodel Kate Moss, is the newest US ambassador of YSL Beauty.

The rising model is set to appear in upcoming Yves Saint Laurent Beauty makeup campaigns featuring the brand’s must-have products such as the All Hours Foundation, Lash Clash Mascara, Rouge Volupté Shine Lipstick, and Rouge Volupté Candy Glaze Lip Gloss.

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Christian Dior SS2023 Campaign by Brigitte Niedermair Honors Catherine de Medici

Christian Dior SS2023 Campaign by Brigitte Niedermair Honors Catherine de Medici

The Christian Dior Spring 2023 Campaign celebrates femininity, power and grace, as explored through the eye and lens of frequent Dior photographer Brigitte Niedermair [IG].

Models include Carla Pereira, Freja Rothmann, Jen Thomson, Sherry Shi, and Stella Lucia.

Preparing for the season, Chiuri discovered a map of Paris in the Dior archives, one that put Avenue Montaigne at its center, even though the street doesn’t represent the actual center of the city.

In short order, the map became a focal print for the spring 2023 collection — a maverick toile de Jouy print that is a sophisticated addition to Dior’s already rich use of toile de Jouy.

Old World unique artistry and needlework inspire the Dior spring 2023 collection, and raffia is used to maximum advantage. Beautiful raffia coats are decorated with delicate flowers and birds, also in play on the accessories. The embroidery work is spectacular.

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Gigi Hadid Poses in 'Baby, Light My Fire' Mode for Self-Portrait Spring 2023 Campaign

Gigi Hadid Poses in 'Baby, Light My Fire' Mode for Self-Portrait Spring 2023 Campaign

Gigi Hadid fronts Self-Portrait’s [IG] Spring Summer 2023 Campaign, a collection of skimpy little pieces guaranteed to help any woman find her inner tigress. It’s raw and sensual — just the way the Self-Portrait woman wants it, says Han Chong, Founder and Creative Director of Self-Portrait.

Photographer Tyrone Lebon and Gigi brought the campaign to life in a series of videos and images, shot in the perfect New York parking lot.

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Naomi Campbell in 'There's only one Naomi' by Steven Meisel for Vogue Italia July 2008

Naomi Campbell in 'There's only one Naomi' by Steven Meisel for Vogue Italia July 2008

In July 2008, Vogue Italia produced its memorable ‘Black Issue’, an entire magazine devoted to Black beauty, under the adventurous and cultured editorial eye of EIC Franca Sozzani.

Supermodel Naomi Campbell appeared in a Steven Meisel uber-sumptuous and elegant fashion story ‘There’s only one Naomi’as a key feature of the collectible, treasured July issue.

Campbell was styled by her close friend, now British Vogue EIC Edward Enninful, who is also European editorial director of Vogue today. Mary Howard acted as set designer for this fantastic story, with makeup by Pat McGrath and hair by Guido.

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Luna Bijl in Spare 'Modern Classic' Bodies by Betina du Toit for Harper's Bazaar UK

Luna Bijl in Spare 'Modern Classic' Bodies by Betina du Toit for Harper's Bazaar UK

Harper’s Bazaar UK’s Spring 2023 Fashion Issue puts sleek, black and white, modern-dance silhouettes in the spotlight, interpreted by top model Luna Bijl.

Tania Rat-Patron styles the spare, intellectual fashion story ‘Modern Classic’, with photographer Betina du Toit [IG] in the studio.

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Erykah Badu 'Radical, Relevant, Real' for Vogue March 2023 by Jamie Hawkesworth

Erykah Badu 'Radical, Relevant, Real' for Vogue March 2023 by Jamie Hawkesworth

Erykah Badu has been a doula for about 20 years, and was preparing for her first multiple birth of twins with mother Summer Walker when Vogue’s Chioma Nnadi connected with the certified Reiki master in her South-Dallas childhood home.

Alex Harrington styles the photo shoot for The Second Coming of Erykah Badu, showcasing the four-time Grammy winner wearing a metallic Marni x Erykah Badu coat on the cover and other unique fashion artworks from their new co-designed collection.

Those of us who know Erykah Badu indeed consider her to be a shamanic priestess of a higher order. Both her interview and video tour of her private spaces confirm that the spiritual persona suits her. In multiple aspects, Erykah Badu has always been lighter than air . . . ethereal and spiritual but also possessed of ancient wisdom.

DJ and producer Questlove, who first saw Badu at the 1996 Soul Train Awards in Los Angeles, reflects:

“She had on the tallest turban I’ve ever seen in my life,” he says. “It was like she was hiding a three-year-old standing on her head, that’s how tall her headwrap was. I was just transfixed.”

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Zimmermann Spring 2023 Campaign with Lineisy Montero by Benny Horne

Zimmermann Spring 2023 Campaign with Lineisy Montero by Benny Horne

Zimmermann’s Spring 2023 collection is inspired by Wonderland City, a poetic landmark amusement park that was once the largest open air amusement park in the southern hemisphere.

Zimmermann’s creative director Nicky Zimmermann found herself enchanted by the history of the Tamarama beach attraction, which opened in 1906 and closed in 2911.

She enlisted model Lineisy Montero and photographer Benny Horne to inject new life into the history of stylish ruins, in a spring 2023 campaign styled by Romy Frydman.

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Rebecca Leigh Longendyke Saddles Up in Texas for V Magazine 140 Sp Preview 2023

Rebecca Leigh Longendyke Saddles Up in Texas for V Magazine 140 Sp Preview 2023

American model Rebecca Leigh Longendyke takes her luxury-model, sassy-gal self to the Lone Star state, joining the boys club as a cowgirl at Saunders Ranch in Weatherford, Texas. V Magazine ponies up the cash for a fantastic fashion shoot styled by Gro Curtis for V140 Spring Preview 2023.

Photographer Blair Getz Mezibov [IG] captures wild west Texas style, just a 20 minutes’ drive from Dallas-Fort Worth. Did the team dine at Los Vaqueros? Or drink beer at Antebellum Ale House? I hope Longendyke kept a diary of her experiences in Weatherford,Texas, because this ‘Saddle Up’ fashion event was one terrific idea.

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Daniel Lee's Burberry Spring 2023 Campaign by Tyrone Lebon Targets British Identity

Daniel Lee's Burberry Spring 2023 Campaign by Tyrone Lebon Targets British Identity

It was difficult to miss the equestrian knight motif racing across the new Spring 2023 Burberry Campaign as part of “the first creative expression” shared by Daniel Lee, Burberry’s Chief Creative Officer.

For AOC, our focus was on the faces of the British heritage brand Burberry, the visualization of who wears this brand.

Daniel Lee, with roots in West Yorkshire, England agrees. “Burberry flies the flag for Britishness and for the UK and for culture. So, we have to use our platforms because we have a responsibility to communicate those things,” Lee told ‘Vogue Runway’ in December.

The designer continued:

"I don’t know if this is the right way to say this, but more than surprising people, I really would like them to see the new vision and feel reassured — like, ‘Oh, yeah, this makes sense: This is what Burberry should be.’”

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