Ajok Madel Is Out of This World in Vogue Portugal September 2023 by Ruo Bing Li

Ajok Madel Is Out of This World in Vogue Portugal September 2023 by Ruo Bing Li

How enchanting! In the words of photographer Ruo Bing Li [IG], we are viewing: “A Lin editorial that unfolds between a scenario generated by technology and a make-up designed by human hands; between a background made of bits and bytes and a model in the flesh and blood…”

Model Ajok Madel is styled by Roberto Johnson in ‘Bellus ex machina’ [translated ‘Nice from the Machine’], in this otherworldly, smile-worthy fashion story for the September 2023 issue of Vogue Portugal [IG]. Wouldn’t people be happier working in this office environment? / Hair by Akihisa Yamaguchi; makeup by Jezz Hill

Read More

Chloé FW 2023 Campaign with Devyn Garcia and Raquel Zimmermann by Zoe Ghertner

Chloé FW 2023 Campaign with Devyn Garcia and Raquel Zimmermann by Zoe Ghertner

Introducing the Chloé [IG] Autumn-Winter 2023 campaign, referencing the Gabriela Hearst-designed collection inspired by the 17th-century artist Artemisia Gentileschi.

Models Devyn Garcia and Raquel Zimmermann pose in the season’s Renaissance-inspired silhouettes, travelling with photographer Zoe Ghertner [IG] to the white lunar beaches of Sarakiniko in Milos, Greece.

Camilla Nickerson works as stylist on the campaign, with art direction by Peter Miles.

Read More

Miriam Sánchez in 'Home Country' for Harpers Bazaar US September 2023

Miriam Sánchez in 'Home Country' for Harpers Bazaar US September 2023

Model Miriam Sánchez is styled by Katie Shillingford in ‘Home Country’, a cold-wind-coming, fall fashion story heavy on plaids, color and cozy fashion. Photographer Bibi Cornejo Borthwick [IG] is in the studio for Harper’s Bazaar US [IG] September 2023./ Hair by Soichi Inagaki; makeup by Niamh Quinn

Read More

Rolf Schrader and Victoria Fawole Cover HTSI Magazine Fall 2023 Wooly Bully Fashion

Rolf Schrader and Victoria Fawole Cover HTSI Magazine Fall 2023 Wooly Bully Fashion

The September 10, 2023 issue of HTSI Magazine [IG] takes us into their fall fashion edit, aptly described as ‘80s power dressing with less ‘The Bitch’ and more sexual restraint.

Models Rolf and Victoria Fawole have separate covers, with styling by Isabelle Kountoure. Photographers Louise [IG] & Maria Thornfeldt [IG] capture the fashion zeitgeist in ‘All the feels’, a nod to the uber-tactile nature of many fabrics — the fluffier the better. / Makeup by Patrick Glatthaar; hair by Christos Bairabas

There’s no info floating out there on the actual fibers used in these fashion fluffies.

Stella McCartney has pioneered the in-use Koba® Fur-Free Fur by ECOPEL [IG] is made with recycled polyester and up to 100 percent DuPont™ Sorona® plant-based fibers. Now, ECOPEL has gone a step further by creating a biodegradable faux fur, GACHA.

Read More

'Radical Etro' Reborn Fall Winter 2023 Campaign Lensed in Scotland by Zhong Lin

'Radical Etro' Reborn Fall Winter 2023 Campaign Lensed in Scotland by Zhong Lin

Etro reveals its Fall Winter 2023 Men and Women’s Advertising Campaign shot 1700 miles north of Italy in Inverness, Scotland. Etro’s Creative Director Marco De Vincenzo creates a dreamlike vision that is softly romantic and soothing — but also environmentally-aware in a humanist sense.

Featuring Argentina-Belgium model Nathaniël Ortiz and Israeli Sun Mizrahi, they are at one with nature and specifically water. The mood is one of great serenity and we can hear the soft ripples of the water — but there is also a disruptive undercurrent in both the images and the film.

Stellar photographer Zhong Lin [IG] is known for creating images that are both dreamy and simultaneously unsettling. Her January 2022 fashion story for Vogue Taiwan called ‘Heat Wave’ remains one of AOC’s most read and shared stories.

For the Fall 2023 collection Marco De Vincenzo worked diligently to mine and better understand the irreplaceable Etro archives. He is digging deep until he’s satisfied that he understands the very roots of the Etro vision.

In today’s world, such a search becomes a Radical Vision and the Fall Campaign is called ‘Radical Etro’.

Read More

Faretta Radic's Casual Menswear Style Lensed by Xavi Gordo for ELLE Italia

Faretta Radic's Casual Menswear Style Lensed by Xavi Gordo for ELLE Italia

Croatian model Faretta Radic, ka Faretta, covers ELLE Italia’s September 14, 2023 issue. Faretta suits up in a Louis Vuitton fluid, menswear suit worn with Church’s shoes.

Laura Seganti also chooses Celine by Hedi Slimane, Gucci, Prada, Saint Laurent by Anthony Vacarello and more, photographed by Xavi Gordo [IG].

Read More

Succubus Chic Queen ‘Fall Fatale With Gabbriette’ by Dan Beleiu for GEN V Magazine

Succubus Chic Queen ‘Fall Fatale With Gabbriette’ by Dan Beleiu for GEN V Magazine

Meet GEN V from V Magazine

GEN V is the renamed MINI V from V Magazine. and is AOC’s focus in this debut fashion story ‘Fall Fatale With Gabbriette’.

In the words of Mathias Rosenzweig [Editor-in-Chief, GEN V]

“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, maybe even sweeter.

So yes, MINI V has become GEN V.

Like, whatever. Things change.”

AOC fell down this rabbit hole, seeing the photographer credit for Dan Beleiu [IG]. ‘Fall Fatale With Gabbriette’ is styled by Anna Trevelyan with luxe looks from ALAÏA, Benneton, Chanel, Ferragamo, GCDS, Gucci, Kim Shui, Marc Jacobs, Valentino and more. And we ended up getting an education on succubus chic.

Read More

Ornella Umutoni Wears Tweeds and Tartans in T: The New York Times Style Magazine

Ornella Umutoni Wears Tweeds and Tartans in T: The New York Times Style Magazine

Model Ornella Umutoni comes from Kagali, Rwanda’s capital city and she takes a solo pose in a fashion story ‘This Fall, Tartans and Tweeds Get a Modern Twist” styled by Jasmine Hassett for T: The New York Times Style Magazine October 2023.

Jamaican-born filmmaker and photographer Jeano Edwards [IG], who has a close association with British Designer Grace Wales Bonner, is behind the lens. / Hair by Ryan Mitchell; makeup by Kiki Gifford

Read More

Karen Elson Is 'Fast and Furiously Chic' in W Magazine Fall Fashion by Craig McDean

Karen Elson Is 'Fast and Furiously Chic' in W Magazine Fall Fashion by Craig McDean

Model, singer/songwriter Karen Elson adds her blazing red hair to W Magazine’s Fall 2023 Volume 4 fashion issue. Fellow redhead Grace Coddington styles ‘Fast and Furiously Chic’ in images by Craig McDean [IG]. / Hair by Orlando Pita; makeup by Francelle Daly

The fashion story isn’t yet posted on W’s website for all the product info, but it will be.

Read More

Tyler Mitchell Captures Black Beauty Fall 2023 W Magazine | Aid to Morocco

Tyler Mitchell Captures Black Beauty Fall 2023 W Magazine | Aid to Morocco

Models Ajah Angau Jok, Akon Changkou, Amar Akway, Awar Odhiang, Nyawurh Chuol, and Rejoice Chuol pose in dramatic, shape-shifting, fashion formations created to command attention.

Photographer Tyler Mitchell [IG]gives thanks to EIC Sara Moonves, [IG] and Charles Levai and Kevin Tekinel, creative directors at large for W Magazine and now represented by Art + Commerce. Congrats to Levai and Tekinel on their fast rise./ Hair by Cyndia Harvey; makeup by Lucia Pica; set design by Julia Wagner

Our Deep Sadness for Morocco and Libya

AOC likes the fact that Tyler uses the words “Communion in an everlasting landscape” to describe the W fashion shoot. Except “everlasting” seems like an increasingly fragile word today.

Because Tyler set the mood, let us take a moment to consider the confirmed dead in Libya of 5,000 and heading as high as 10,000 in the devastating surge of floodwaters.

And also the growing death toll in our beloved Marrakech — a magical place that means so much to so many of us creatives. The current death toll is at 3,000 and climbing from the earthquake.

AOC shares Vogue Arabia ‘How to Help Morocco’ links. We are working on Arab-world recommended links for Libya. ~ Anne

Read More

Richard Phibbs ' 'Dances With Wolves' with Querelle Jansen for Harper's Bazaar UK October 2023

Richard Phibbs ' 'Dances With Wolves' with Querelle Jansen for Harper's Bazaar UK October 2023

Model Querelle Jansen is styled by Cathy Kasterine in ‘Dances With Wolves’, another deeply-personal exploration of women, nature and wolves.

Richard Phibbs [IG] captures the three companions moving in concert for Harper’s Bazaar UK’s October 2023 issue./ Hair by Kenna; makeup by Victoria Bond

Read More

Kaia Gerber and Steven Meisel Make Good Trouble in Valentino Black Tie Campaign

Kaia Gerber and Steven Meisel Make Good Trouble in Valentino Black Tie Campaign

What a superb new Valentino Fall/Winter 2023 Black Tie campaign! It soars sky high in creativity and self-assurance with Kaia Gerber playing a role that defines the very concept of je ne sais quoi.

Kaia’s acting lessons are having huge impact on her self-expression in the last year.

Pierpaolo Piccioli’s vision of luxury for rebellious rule-breaking, smarty-pants fashion lovers with unbridled confidence and positive spirit is unmatched.

Gerber is boss as she struts around Huntington, Long Island’s Oheka Castle. Even the fact that the film is shot in New York and not Europe is a rebellious gesture that succeeds.

There’s so much going on in this film, and yet it does not feel overdone. We don’t lose our way because a confident clarity rules this audacious, beautiful, inspiring Fall 2023 Valentino Black Tie campaign.

Read More

Grace Elizabeth In Business Class Fashion for Sunday Times Style September 10, 2023

 Grace Elizabeth In Business Class Fashion for Sunday Times Style September 10, 2023

Top model Grace Elizabeth covers the September 10, 2023 The Big Fall Fashion issue of Sunday Times Style, wearing a skirt suit and handbag by Miu Miu.

Inside the ‘Business Class’ fashion story, styled by associate fashion editor Verity Parker, the mini check, cashmere coat from Ferragamo’s Maximilian Davis takes center stage, with The Row’s Idaho bag reminding us the turbo bags are the season’s must have for women with a lot to do.

Read More

David Yurman Sculpted Cable Collection with Sofia Richie Grainge by Glen Luchford

David Yurman Sculpted Cable Collection with Sofia Richie Grainge by Glen Luchford

On September 5, American ‘it girl’ Sofia Richie Grainge [IG] became an ambassador for jeweler David Yurman [IG], fronting the David Yurman Sculpted Cable Collection.

Photographer Glen Luchford [IG] shot Richie Grainge in the David Yurman Fall 2023 campaign at the Kellogg Doolittle House in Joshua Tree, California.

Read More

Bella Hadid's Futuristic Life Is Marc Jacobs Heavenly, Lensed by Carlijn Jacobs

Bella Hadid's Futuristic Life Is Marc Jacobs Heavenly, Lensed by Carlijn Jacobs

Supermodel Bella Hadid returns to the spotlight in Heaven by Marc Jacobs [IG] fall 2023 campaign. The futuristic images with a transmutation undercurrent were lensed by Carlijn Jacobs [IG], with styling by Danielle Emerson.

The Heaven by Marc Jacobs campaign is focused on new ‘Kiki Group’, a group of 2000s-era ready-to-wear and accessories that meld Y2K nostalgia with a dominant futuristic vibe.

Carlijn Jacobs did explore the idea of multiple selves in the recent Kylie Jenner for Acne Studios campaign, as noted by Fashionista. Beyond that fact, the two campaigns are speaking to visually very different imagery and context.

It’s also truth that Carlijn’s images of Kylie are garnering a lot of praise and — let’s see —this one has 2, 951, 012 IG likes. They average 1.2 million.

Many people believe that Jacobs visually amplified Kylie Jenner in a major new way. AOC is in that group.

Read More

Kristen Drab in 'Wild Frontiers' by Agata Pospieszynska for Harper's Bazaar UK October 2023

Kristen Drab in 'Wild Frontiers' by Agata Pospieszynska for Harper's Bazaar UK October 2023

Model Kristin Drab is styled by Charlie Harrington in woolen tweeds, plaids and surface textures cold weather clothes from Alberta Feretti, Alexander McQueen, Celine by Hedi Slimane, Chanel, Dior, Erdem, Etro, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Max Mara, Miu Miu, Molly Goddard, Moschino, Tod’s, Vivienne Westwood and more.

Photographer Agata Pospieszynska [IG] sets up the autumn fashion shoot in Dartmoor National Park, an upland area in southern Devon, England. Read about how Dartmoor functions and practices conservation in the “land of granite’.

Read More

Anok Yai and Vittoria Ceretti Take Greenwich Village for Michael Kors Collection Fall 2023

Anok Yai and Vittoria Ceretti Take Greenwich Village for Michael Kors Collection Fall 2023

Anok Yai and Vittoria Ceretti stroll together arm-in-arm in Greenwich Village and Washington Square Park for the Michael Kors Collection Fall ’23 campaign. Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin capture the two, very successful, fashion industry models styled in the theme of ‘Urban Bohemia.’

Gloria Steinem’s Ms. Magazine turned 50 last year, and Gloria herself is nearing 90. Michael Kors was inspired by not only Steinem in designing his Fall 2023 collection. The Kors moodboards this season were peppered with 1970s activist, determined women including Ali McGraw, Cher, Jane Fonda, Lena Horne, Tina Turner and more. Disciplined and laser-focused on change, these women also embraced Greenwich Village style — especially because of its proximity to New York University.

Read More

Fall 2023 Big Bags Lensed by Thiemo Sander for Madame Figaro September 8, 2023

Fall 2023 Big Bags Lensed by Thiemo Sander for Madame Figaro September 8, 2023

Rising model Ajak Dhieu [IG] — identified by Dazed fashion director Imruh Asha [IG] as one to watch — is styled by Agnes Poulle [IG] in this beautiful ‘big bags’ luxury brands fashion story.

Photographer Thiemo Sander [IG] captures Dhieu for the September 8, 2023 issue of Madame Figaro.

Read More

Coco Gauff Nails It! Wins US Open and First Grand Slam Title in Women's Tennis

Coco Gauff Nails It! Wins US Open and First Grand Slam Title in Women's Tennis

Gauff wins her first Grand Slam title after defeating Aryna Sabalenka, 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 in just over two hours. This was only Gauff’s second appearance in a Grand Slam final, after losing to Iga Swiatek in the finals of the French Open in 2022.

Read all the details at New York Times.

Read More