Agueda Lopez Covers Harper's Bazaar Vietnam Winter 2024 by Alberto Gonzalez
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Spanish model and Univision host Águeda López is married to award-winning, Puerto Rican singer-songwriter Luis Fonsi.
This Is Sotheby's? The Stories Kristina O'Neill Can Tell As Head of Sotheby's Media
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Kristina O’Neill, former EIC of WSJ Magazine is now installed at Sotheby’s as Head of Sotheby’s Media and editor-in-chief of a revamped Sotheby’s Magazine.
What an exciting creative road lies ahead of her. AOC raises this topic because O’Neill seems perfectly primed to tap into the creative and business evolution going on at the world’s largest auction house. Visually, it’s one that expands the customer base and also acquires “heart” along the way.
O’Neill can catch the modernized Sotheby’s football and run with it. Her decade of work at WSJ Magazine reveals her status as a change agent. Only someone like AOC who can easily call up a decade of her work for review is aware that O’Neill was featuring Black talent long before the summer of 2020.
British-Ghanaian photographer Campbell Addy comes to mind. Outside of a small feature in British Vogue in 2018, Addy shot for WSJ Magazine before any of the other major magazines.
Read MoreGrace Gay and Mila Bergsma as 'The Doves' by Koto Bolofo in Numéro 244 February 2024
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The opposite of stress is serenity, and the February 2024 issue of Numéro 244 does its very best to deliver a calming hope to a world in serious need of some. It is — in the words of the magazine — an offering of Love, Peace and Serenity to accompany the Hope, as the only possible response to these dark times we live in. Some more than others, but this is a truly dark and catastrophic time for large numbers of the world’s people.
One of the warmer, gentler, human lights on planet Earth is photographer Koto Bolofo [IG] and he creates a moment of collective peace to nourish our collective humanity and the poignant awareness of the suffering of others with his fashion story ‘Les Colombes’ [the doves].
Models Grace Gay and Mila Bergsma are styled by Rebecca Bleynie in modern goddess, fluid and ethereal fashion./ Hair by Anne Sofie Begtrup; makeup by Maria Olsson
Read MoreLVMH Reports Record 2023 Financial Results Adding $30 Billion to Market Value
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Louis Vuitton, Moët & Chandon and Hennessy [LVMH] reported 2023 year-end sales of 86.15 billion euros [$93.46 billion], representing a 10% organic increase in fourth quarter and a 13% organic growth yearly increase against 2022.
Profit from recurring operations stood at €22.8 billion for 2023, up 8%. The current operating margin remained stable with respect to 2022. In addition, LVMH has advised the markets that it anticipates no further price increases across its business units in 2024.
Now that he is back to being the richest man in the world, thanks to a 12% rise in LVMH’s stock price on Friday, Arnault’s practice of engaging his children in collective conversations around every aspect of the entire LVMH business over Zoom lunches — early breakfast in New York — reminds us that the family is not a Rupert Murdoch-like clan of cannibals.
Read MoreJulianne Moore Reflects on Her 'Gig' Work, Lensed by David Roemer for Harper's Bazaar UK
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Actor Julianne Moore is styled by Miranda Almond in her cover story for the February 2024 issue of Harper’s Bazaar UK, lensed by David Roemer [IG].
In 2020, the New York Times named Julianne Moore one of the greatest actors of the 21st century. This Hollywood season Julianne Moore is playing opposite Natalie Portman in the controversial May December.
The film is the fifth time Moore has worked with director Todd Haynes.
Yesterday, we learned that Moore will star with Tilda Swinton in The Room Next Door, first English-language film from Oscar-winning Pedro Almodóvar.
In the world of fashion, Moore has been more devoted to Tom Ford than anyone else. Having just become an ambassador for Bottega Veneta, the actor says "I’ve known Matthieu [Blazy, the designer] since he was an assistant at Calvin Klein," she says. "He’s a tremendous talent."
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Kendall Jenner and A$AP Rocky Stage Bottega 'Viral' Pre-Spring 2024 Campaign
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Bottega Veneta launches the ‘Readymade’ Pre-Spring 2024 campaign, with A$AP Rocky and Kendall Jenner featured in ‘paparazzi style’ images.
The rapper is fresh off becoming PUMA x Formula 1’s new creative director. Note that the new father of son #2 knows the inside business strategies of PUMA, due to partner Rihanna’s longstanding FENTY X PUMA relationship.
The Bottega Veneta campaign was actually shot by paparazzi who license images through Getty Images and Backgrid. The stars are always pursued by street-style photographers, so Kendall Jenner and A$AP Rocky just dressed in the new Bottega Veneta Pre-Spring [Resort] collection and hit the streets — knowing that the images would go viral.
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Anne V and Her Goddess-Worship Entourage by Petros Kouiouris for Numéro Netherlands
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Anne Vyalitsyna is known for casting a spell in a crowded room. Lucky for us, New York-based photographer Petros Kouiouris [IG] was in the studio for the latest issue of Numéro Netherlands [IG], with this digital cover of Anne V and her goddess-worship, fashion-story entourage.
Altorrin [IG] styles the fashion story.
Read MoreSabato De Sarno’s Gucci Ancora Campaign Lensed by David Sims
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Gucci Ancora is creative director Sabato De Sarno’s ad campaign for his debut Gucci collection. The director’s choice of the word Ancora is an Italian terms that translates “again” in English.
Gucci Ancora is creative director Sabato De Sarno’s ad campaign for his debut Gucci collection. The director’s choice of the word Ancora is an Italian terms that translates “again” in English.
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Birgit Kos Wears Mermaids in Sergio Rossi's SS 2024 Campaign by Claire Rothstein
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Top model Birgit Kos fronts Italian shoemaker Sergio Rossi’s [IG] Spring-Summer 2024 campaign, where all-white leather Mermaid sandals deliver a seductive twist.
Photographer Claire Rothstein [IG] shot the campaign in Sorrento, a coastal town in southwestern Italy. CRothstein also has a long commitment to imagery of strong, sensual, confident women and is the genesis of Girls, Girls, Girls Magazine [IG].
Mermaids have captivated human imagination for centuries, touching ancient civilizations from Mesopotamia to Africa to China.
In ancient civilizations, tales of mermaids emerged as a way to explain the mysteries that lay beneath the vast expanses of water. They should not be confused with sirens, who are half human and half-birds.
Read MoreAlessandra Ambrosio Is Pure Va-Va-Voom by Ellen Von Unwerth for Schön! Magazine 04, 2023
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AOC has shared images of supermodel Alessandra Ambrosio since 2007. Photographer Ellen von Unwerth [IG] manages to cultivate the va-va-voom in every woman — including the former Victoria’s Secret Angel.
Alessandra walks on the wild side —being a blonde bombshell for a day — styled by Mike Adler for Schön! Magazine 04, 2023 [IG]./ Makeup by Vincent Oquendo; hair by Eduardo Bravo
Read MoreCandice Swanepoel Promotes Hailey Bieber's Rhode Skin Pineapple Refresh Cleanser
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Candice Swanepoel and Hailey Bieber are two of the smartest women in the fashion and beauty sectors. Now they are teaming up in the launch of Bieber’s Rhode Skin calendar girls, with Swanepoel owning January and July.
Low-Key Cross Promotion
As of this moment, Candice has her @Rhode images on her personal IG, not Tropic of C. That may change in a few days, but Monday, this is Swanepoel’s only action. The sequence of three images and one video has 255,000 likes in 3-4 days.
No fanfare, no endorsements. Just the two women together as the friends they are in real life. Moving over to Rhode [IG], Candice appears again as Miss July and this time she’s carrying a big tube of the new Rhode Pineapple Refresh Cleanser.
Read MoreAmerica’s Black Cowboys, As Tributed by Pharrell Williams for Louis Vuitton Fall-Winter 2024 Men’s Collection: Pt 1 of a French-American Cowboys Story
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America’s Black Cowboys, As Tributed by Pharrell Williams for Louis Vuitton Fall-Winter 2024 Men’s Collection: Pt 1 of an American-French Cowboys Story
Historians estimate that in the latter half of the nineteenth century, one in four American cowboys was black. Anne of Carversville seriously doubts that this reality is taught in the history classes of American schools. Additionally, an estimated 12% of cowboys were Mexican.
Thanks to the January 18th Louis Vuitton Fall-Winter 2024 Men’s Collection show at the Jardin d’Acclimatation in Paris, this historical lens of exploration is opened wide. AOC is both incredulous and excited to tell this story. But first — a look at the highly-praised, Louis Vuitton Men Creative Director Pharrell Williams Fall-Winter 2024 show.
Black Cowboys and Slavery
The history of black cowboys in America is deeply intertwined with the legacy of slavery and the Civil War. Prior to Emancipation, many enslaved African Americans were forced into labor on plantations, including working with cattle. Other African Americans went west to California as slaves of gold miners and to Utah as slaves of Mormons.
Texas became the largest home to black cowboys.
Read MoreVeronika Kunz in 'Tuscan Retreat' by Simon Elmalem for Vogue Poland January 2024
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Model Veronika Kunz enjoys a ‘Tuscan Retreat’ getaway in the pages of Vogue Poland January 2024. Lorna McGee styles Kunz on location in Val D’orcia, close to Florence, in images by Simon Elmalem [IG]./Hair and makeup by Emil Zed
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'Amor e Cia' for Vogue Portugal December 2023 Explores Skin Color Beauty
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