Kendall Jenner Channels Venus | Jean Paul Gaultier Loves His Ancient Muses
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Louis Vuitton SS2023 Capucine Campaign Teaches Us Kintsugi with Lea Seydoux
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Louis Vuitton’s Capucine bag heads into its second decade, showcased for Spring/Summer 2023 by maison ambassador Lea Seydoux.
In this moment of so many challenges central to our lives, the Spring 2023 Capucine bag with a handle made using the ancient Japanese Kintsugi technique may be the most special.
Seriously, can the handle of a Louis Vuitton Capucine bag teach us a life lesson?
In an throwaway, one and done, age of mass production and reckless disposal, ‘kintsugi’ is not only focused on repairing our favorite chipped vessels.
Now we learn that ‘kintsugi’ is also a way of crafting — even mending — our lives. It’s very Zen and challenges humans to consider the contemplation of imperfection, as well as the constant flux and impermanence of all things.
Read MoreKendall and Irina by Tyrone Lebon for Marc Jacobs Spring 2023 Campaign
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Top models Kendall Jenner and Irina Shayk take no prisoners in the Marc Jacobs Spring 2023 Campaign. In-demand photographer Tyrone Lebon shot the campaign in Los Angeles with a focus on spring’s Bucket and Tote bags.
Read MoreShanina Shaik Covers Harper's Bazaar Arabia February 2023 by Ellen von Unwerth
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New mom Australian model Shanina Shaik covers the February 2023 issue of Harper’s Bazaar Arabia. Anna Castan oversees Shaik’s styling for the fashion story shot in Paris by Ellen von Unwerth. / Makeup by Kelly McClain; hair by Eduardo Bravo
Read MoreRafael Pavarotti Shoots Maximilian Davis' Ferragamo Spring Summer 2023 Campaign
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Models Chol Mabior, Colin Jones, Kai Newman, Mona Tougaard, Silas Lutz, Vittoria Ceretti and Yoomi Sun front the February 2023 drop of Ferragamo’s Spring Summer 2023 campaign.
The New York Times profiled Maximilian Davis, Salvatore Ferragamo’s new young Black designer, last fall. The emerging designer dropped out of the 2022 LVMH Prize for young designer competition to take the Ferragamo position.
Photographer Rafael Pavarotti [IG] shoots the models in Ferragamo’s updated-hues studio with art direction by Edward Quarmby and styling by Mavi Staiano.
Read MoreEtro Unveils 'Eden of Etropia' Spring 2023 Campaign Lensed by Zhong Lin
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Etro unveils ‘Eden of Etropia’, the first campaign for new creative director Marco De Vincenzo celebrating the spring 2023 collection.
Not only is the campaign beautiful on a visceral level. It drives a dagger [literally in the video] into the apple and a search for the truth of women’s identity.
Inspired by the paintings and portraits of the Pre-Raphaelites, Marco De Vincenzo communicates his poetic vision, creating a new paradise centered around the apple, the iconic fruit of the collection and a potent symbol of love, seduction and eternity.
That’s great copy. But the truth is also that the word ‘malus’ besides being Latin for ‘apple’ is also a very negative word associated with bad, evil and wicked. From a religious perspective the apple reference with Eve didn’t even appear in versions of the New Testament until 500 AD.
I wrote about this discovery after watching a PBS show ‘Mysteries of the Garden of Eden’, first released in 2007. The documentary will be purchased before sundown at whatever price.
Read MoreDigging Deeper Into Pharrell Williams' Real Mission at Louis Vuitton Mens
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A fashion industry earthquake happened this week with the appointment of Pharrell Williams as Creative Director at Louis Vuitton Men’s, replacing his close friend Virgil Abloh who passsed in November 2021. The hip hop mogul, business entrepreneur, social activist with a high-volume voice on racial and gender-justice has drawn major criticism from fashion writers who argue that Pharrell’s lack of a formal design education indicates that all that matters to LVMH is his celebrity status.
I don’t mean to sound sassy, but knowing that Louis Vuitton doubled its volume from $10 billion to $20 billion in the last four years suggests that this executive team knows what it’s doing. I’m a maverick to the core and rarely silent on important topics.
But I do show respect to professionals who have just accomplished unimaginable results in business, results that defy logic. Before accusing them of being money-hungry Las Vegas strippers ready to trash the most valuable brand in the luxury world for a few bucks, I dig deeper.
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'Tár' Actor Cate Blanchett Covers Vanity Fair US February 2023 by Elizaveta Poorodina
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Star actor Cate Blanchett covers the February 2023 issue of Vanity Fair, styled by Stella Greenspan in Acne Studios, Dilara Findikoglu, Dries Van Noten, Gauntlett Cheng, Richard Quinn, Simone Rocha and more. Photographer Elizaveta Porodina [IG] makes the captures in New York City last September.
Read MoreJonathan Segade Shoots Esther Afolayan for Mujer Joy January 2023
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Nigerian model Esther Afolayan covers the January 2023 issue of Mujer Hoy. Photographer Jonathan Segade is in the studio, capturing the season’s essential fashion pieces, distilled by stylist Sara Bascuñan.
Read MoreKim Kardashian Burns Down the Italian Villa in Dolce & Gabbana Spring 2023 Campaign
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Kim Kardashian deepens her relationship with Italian luxury brand Dolce & Gabbana, fronting the deeply sensual Spring 2023 campaign lensed by Mert & Marcus [IG].
Jack Borkett and Dani Levi style Kim in these blistering hot images. Kim’s hair is by close friend Chris Appleton; makeup by Ariel.
The haters will take jabs at KK but I think she looks and performs spectacularly. AOC is not interested in anybody’s opinions about what model could have done a better job.
Whatever one thinks about Kim Kardashian, the world knows her as a sexy and beautiful woman, as a genuinely-devoted mother, and as a business tycoon who has built an uber-successful $3.2 billionaire SKIMMS brand, which could soon rival the crippled Victoria’s Secret.
Read MoreSaskia de Brauw Defines Modern Sensuality in SS2023 Roberto Cavalli Campaign
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Top model Saskia de Brauw is not the first person who comes to mind for a Roberto Cavalli campaign. The whip smart, 41-year-old Dutch earth goddess is a writer and observer of global life, loaded up with art books and musings about famous people.
Sicilian-born designer to the stars Fausto Puglisi understands overt glamour as experienced in the Mediterranean. As’flashy’ as his designs might seem, there is also a lightness and a particular attention to detail in all aspects of the clothes.
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Rihanna, A$AP Rocky + Most Beautiful Baby Boy Cover British Vogue March 2023
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The best story about Rihanna’s and A$AP Rocky’s impossibly-enchanting baby boy being on the cover of British Vogue is how the parents responded to a split second flicker of a camera lens in the distance on the day of the March 2023 issue photo shoot.
The sun was beginning to set on a private stretch of beach in Malibu. The pending moment was a true coming out party, as baby prepared for his global debut. His charming and infectious smile was ready to be beamed out over countless websites and IG shares — on strict terms set by his mama and papa.
Photographers Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin [IG] were ready to shoot the cover. British Vogue EIC Edward Enninful found the setup absolutely perfect. All systems were go.
Read MoreLucie Rox Eyes Spring Brights Style with Nyawurh Chuol for T Magazine February 2023
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South Sudan model Nyawurh Chuol is styled by Jeanie Annan-Lewin in ‘The Bright Side’, a visual feast of dopamine-dressing, saturated colors from Alexander McQueen, Dolce Gabbana, Etro, Feben, Herno, Issey LaQuan Smith, Missoni, Miyake, Ulla Johnson and more. Paris-London based photographer Lucie Rox [IG]is behind the lens for T: The New York Times Style Magazine.
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The Beautiful Pharrell Williams has been Named Louis Vuitton Men’s Creative Director
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