Models Lu Hongfei and Zoe Fang are styled by Yoshi Miyamasu in ‘Prameny’. Tokyo-based photographer/director John Clayton Lee [IG] captures this fashion editorial excellence, with creative direction by Alexander Bel, for Vogue Czechoslovakia [IG] November 2023./ Hair by Takuya Baba; makeup by Yuka Hirac
Known primarily as a very successful stylist, Cathy Kasterine [IG] is the photographer, shooting Jean Campbell in a cover fashion story for the October 21, 2013 issue of HTSI [IG]. / Hair by Soichi Inagaki;makeup by Niamh Quinn
Called ‘How to Spend It Wisely: New Conscious Attitudes’, the feature is devoted to “vintage, pre-loved and investment pieces in a homage to the ethos: Buy less, choose well and take care of things.”
The elegant and beautiful model Sora Choi covers Wallpaper China’s October 2023 The Design Issue. Wallpaper.com is also devoted to promoting China art, architecture and travel.
The message of ‘Glow and Grace’ is very appropriate for the botanical fashion story styled by Jeff Lee in images by Shanghai-based Leslie Zhang [IG]. / Hair by Lee Hyun Woo; set design by Jeon Minkyu
Model Jordan Rand reaches ‘Brave New Heights’ in the pages of Grazia International, striking veiled poses in a Cartier fashion story shot in Paris. Rand points out on IG that Cartier was just fine with her braids and the result is not “too street” for the pages of Grazia’s ‘Elemental’ 15th print edition.
Anna Castan styles the ethereal atmosphere fashion shoot lensed by Mattia Guolo [IG]./ Makeup by Alisonn Fetouaki; hair by Jean Luc Amarin; creative direction by Dane Stojanovic
Top model Anna Ewers shares three covers [there’s more] for W Magazine China [IG] Volume #4 2023. The issue’s focus is “the New Urbanism’, with Ewers shot in Los Angeles by Seng+Seng [IG]. It doesn’t take long to view the fashion story as a Chanel-sponsored editorial, but it’s neither tagged nor listed in credits. Cathy Dong, Creative Director of W China, worked on the fashion story with styling by Jessica Jiang.
Jennifer Lopez has appeared before with Intimissimi lingerie. Now the brand’s global ambassador serves as a co-designer of the new collection, inviting us all to experience ‘la dolce vita’.
Anne of Carversville has always stood for the nurturing benefits of beautiful lingerie and we’re thrilled with the new Jennifer Lopez “This is Me…Now” collection.
Both Italy and France have long celebrated the sex appeal of older women, unlike America where we’ve been washed up at age 35. There’s a good reason why Anne so loves Italy and France and why she’s worked so hard professionally to change America’s perception of aging and sensual women.
Brazilian model Alamanda Bidiandé radiates a vivacious and commanding beauty that remains elegantly inviting to discover. This bold balance of jewel-colors fashion, tropical-rainforest-inspired makeup and abundant flowers is styled by fashion editor Yumi Kurita.
Photographer Richard Machado [IG] captures Bidiandé in ‘Alto Impacto’with bird of paradise makeup beauty by Mari Kato for L’Officiel Brazil September 2023.
The images are lovely, and we did pull a 9-image collage screenshot from Machado’s IG that we didn’t have in the gallery. It’s too beautiful to ignore.
Mixte Magazine’s Fall/Winter 2023 #32 is focused on ‘Audacity’. Turning to De Beers High Jewelry [IG], models Toto Matoch and Godwin Alwell-Okereuku wear De Beers treasures from the umbrella ‘Metamorphosis’ collection. The precious, audacious jewelry designs are inspired by the fall and winter seasons, and you can see all the details at Mixte.
Franck Benhamou styles the shoot, lensed by Billy Kidd studio [IG] with creative direction by Mixte’s Bertrand Bras./ Hair by Ben Mignot; makeup by Maria Olsson
Punk glamour has emerged as a strong trend in fall forward fashion. Among high-end luxury brands, we can call it ‘the Schiaparelli effect”.
For fall 2023 Moschino [IG] presses the style envelope with true grit glamour that teeters on the edge of elegance. Model Sherry Shi supports that style message in Moschino’s fall 2023 ad campaign.
Relax everyone. This Moschino woman just loves being a provocateur. And Carlyne Cerf de Dudzeele knows how to style the look, so that it becomes French bourgeois to the max.
Russian model Anne Vyalitsyna, known as Anne V, has just gone to the dogs in a charming denim jeans fashion story for the October 12th issue of ELLE France [IG]. Claire Dhelens styles Anne V in all the best jeans for those who are remembering that we’re looking at a best denim jeans for fall 2023 fashion story.
Photographer Matthew Brookes [IG] shoots the endearing fashion statement in Paris with his own dog Bingo and his pals from his dog school Alpha Dogs House [IG].
LVMH announced plans today to create a 21,500 square feet dedicated space for LVMH-associated craftsmanship in Paris' eighth arrondissement. Conceived as a holistic hub of LVMH craftsmanship, the home for aspiring artisans will serve as a physical home for LVMH’s Institut des Métiers d’Excellence, the vocational training program founded in 2014.
Alexandre Boquel, Head of Development for LVMH’s Métiers d’Excellence, asserts that through this new Parisian venture, LVMH plans to hire 22,000 specialized craftspeople by the end of 2025, including 8,000 in France.
Chantal Gaemperle, LVMH's Executive Vice President of Human Resources/Synergies, conveyed to WWD: “The pandemic has fueled people’s need to find meaning and make something that they can understand and touch. There’s a desire to have a concrete impact and be together.”
Polish model Maria Zakrzewska poses in ‘Heart of Stone’a rugged elegance, no frills fashion story from Chloé, Fendi, Ferragamo, H&M Studio, Louis Vuitton, Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello, Tod’s and more, styled by Carola Bianchi.
Photographer Danilo Scarpati [IG] is behind the lens for ELLE Italia [IG] October 12, 2023.
London-based model Akira Reid [IG] poses in a gorgeous fashion story lensed by Koray Parlak [IG].
She poses [or is placed] against a backdrop straight out of a Rothko painting. Not the one I had in mind, but this is visually fantastic to Anne and an inspiring juxtaposition of cerebral and cosmic rituals with modernism.
90’s supermodel Shalom Harlow is styled by Dena Giannini and Alvin Yu in Vogue China’s November 2023 issue. Photographer Ned Rogers [IG] is in the studio for Harlow’s fashion story in VC’s Legends & Luminaries issue./ Hair by Evanie Fausto; makeup by Min Kim
Models Kayako Higuchi, Lulu Wood and Sara Grace Wallerstedt are fall 2023 fashion peacocks styled by Anna Trevelyan in Alexander McQueen, Ferragamo, GCDS, Giorgio Armani, Givenchy, Gucci, Hermes, Loewe, Miu Miu, Moschino, Prabal Gurung, Versace and more.
Photographer Rob Rusling [IG] shot actor Halle Bailey in the lead-up to her summer 2023 ‘Little Mermaid’ movie for V142. Now Rusling captures ‘Alley of the Dolls’.
Rianne Van Rompaey lives her Parisian dream with her husband, her boyfriend and also her girlfriend inspiring her sensual persona in ‘Paris Is Ours’.
Emmanuelle Alt styles Rianne in Chanel, Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Givenchy, Isabel Marant, Loro Piana, Louis Vuitton, Prada, Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello and more.
Photographer Robin Galiegue [IG] is behind the lens for Holiday N392 PARIS issue.
Italian quiet luxury brand Loro Piana held a dinner party in Malibu on October 10th. The purpose was a cozy celebration for its third ‘Cocooning Collection’, appropriately held at a private beachside villa along the Pacific Coast Highway.
The evening was rich in Loro Piana’s preference for neutral colors. In concert with the natural beachside environment, neutrals permeated every visualization from the guests’ attire to the interior design and even table settings.
The fine-tuning evolution around the LVMH brand Loro Piana [called Loro by insiders] is led by chief executive Damien Bertrand, who took the veins of the deeply respected luxury house about two years ago. He is passionate about his assignment.
“We have the best fibres in the world, and this is the work of the Loro Piana family for six generations. These are fibres, and people tend to forget, that come from animals; like humans, if they are eating well, being treated well and sleeping well, the quality of the fibres is better. If you are looking at what we have done at Loro Piana, there is no one else that does it.”
Nineties fashion star Kristen McMenamy has always challenged traditional beauty standards, appearing as a good witch, an ethereal divine goddess or the consummate, goth fashion vampire to her adoring fans.
In 1993 Kristen McMenamy told Harper’s Bazaar"All I ever wanted was for people to not pick on me."
Thirty years later, the similar refrain of young fashion models on Instagram is rebroadcast in Gavanndra Hodge’s new interview with the 58-year-old, Pennsylvania-original in today’s October 15, 2023 Sunday Times Style [IG].
Returning to W Magazine’s Volume #4 2023, Mert Alas turns his lens to very top model Anok Yai.
Anok describes herself as a prolific artist, working mostly in oils but now experimenting with fire. Yes . . . fire. She has also taken up knife fighting lessons as a way of coping with restlessness. I believe she is now at a level of expertise in knife fighting, that she can land movie roles in major scenes.
“When I’m fighting, it feels like a dance that goes so fast, you have to meditate,” she says. “Because the second you lose focus, you’re hit with a knife.”