Karen Elson & Yilan Hua in London by Martin Parr for British Vogue July 2024
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An Elegant Paloma Elsesser Covers Vogue Brasil May 2024, Lensed by Zee Nunes
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Top model Paloma Elsesser graces the pages of Vogue Brasil’s [IG] May 2024 issue. Elsesser is styled by Rita Lazzarotti in a Dolce & Gabbana animal print cover, accented inside by Balenciaga, Maison Alaia, Marc Jacobs, Maison Margiela and more.
Photographer Zee Nunes [IG] is behind the lens with art direction by Julia Filgueiras and set design by Emma Magidson and Henrique Cirilo. / Hair by Sonny Molina; makeup by Raisa Flowers
Read MoreSeafolly 'Passport to Summer' 2024 Swimwear Campaign Follows the Sun to Sicily
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AOC just got a serious dopamine dressing hit, feasting our eyes on the new Seafolly [IG] ‘Passport to Summer’ campaign.
British model Megan Williams basks in the many health benefits of sunshine, water leisure, recreation — and serious water sports. Properly managed with protection from the sun’s most intense rays, of course.
Seafolly’s ‘Ciao Bella’ capsule channels sunshine culture halfway around the world in Sicily. The influence of Mediterranean culture runs deep with sun-loving, spirit-chasers worldwide and always here at Anne of Carversville.
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Town & Country Summer 2024 at Louis XIV's Kitchen Garden with Ellen von Unwerth
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‘Euphoria’ cast actor Chloe Coutau and model Brian Nicklen cover the Summer 2024 issue of Town & Country [IG], centered around Paris.
The title of photographer Ellen von Unwerth’s [IG] fashion story is a bit ambitious: The Royal Garden that Might Save the Planet.
Couture extravagance is completely at home in these surroundings, and Town & Country shares key haute couture pieces styled by Hannah Teare.
Read MoreMario Sorrenti in Italy's Amalfi Coast with 4 Beauties for Bazaar France 14 2024
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The June-July 2024 issue of Bazaar France [IG] heads south to Italy, with a summer sun-chasers fashion story featuring models Angelina Kendall, Awar Odhiang, Devyn Garcia and Ella McCutcheon set along the Amalfi Coast, styled by Elodie David Touboul.
Neapolitan-born photographer Mario Sorrenti [IG] captures world-reknowned places that are home to the Sirens: a destination where the sky and sea become one.
Read MoreGreta Hofer in 'Second Act' Lensed by Amy Troost for Dior Magazine #46
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Model Greta Hofer is styled by Jay Massacret in key pieces from Dior’s Pre-Fall 2024 collection. Photographer Amy Troost [IG] captures ‘Second Act’ for Dior Magazine 46 Spring/Summer 2024./ Hair by Lucas Wilson; makeup by Jen Myles
Filled with her earliest memories of New York City life, Dior creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri hosted the Pre-Fall 2024 collection at the Brooklyn Museum.
Read MoreNike SS 2024 Media Taps Dan Beleiu's Personal, Colorful, Energetic Images
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If this isn’t the first Nike project for Dan Beleiu, AOC doesn’t know about the other ones — and I just looked. Beleiu’s sophisticated, modern, high-energy style is perfect for Nike.
With Dan’s IG always hopeless, AOC followed an Ian Salter set design link on IG, which is where we hit paydirt and a bigger understanding of the project.
The Nike Spring/Summer 2024 Campaign was styled by Mindy LeBrock with makeup by Rika Shimada. We also met key Nike execs in charge on the client end of the shoot.
Read More'Margiela Artisanal' Couture Story for W Magazine China June 2024
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W Magazine China’s [IG] June 2024 icon issue shares a fantastic fashion story featuring the ‘Margiela Artisanal’ 2024 couture collection starring model He Cong lensed by Zhong Lin. W also makes high-impact points in their commentary about creativity.
Creative Directors Examined
For the second time this week, my own brain has been interrupted externally with the reinforcement of thoughts already playing out here on AOC.
In preparing this W Magazine China fashion story over the course of two months, six sets of haute couture fashion traveled across the seas. The magazine “exclusively” documented this fashion moment, along with its fascinating behind-the-scenes story.
Read MoreSheila Bawar's Surreal Fashion Deal by Rafael Pavarotti W Magazine July 2024
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Brazilian model Sheila Bawar brings a priceless expression to ‘The Surreal Deal: Fashion That Leans Into Fantasy’, a fashion story for W Magazine’s July 2024 issue.
Photographer Rafael Pavarotti [IG] joins forces with stylist Katie Grand who chooses a sheer cape from Giorgio Armani; a voluminous red gown Chen Peng; the memorable Prada blue cardigan and skirt above.
Read MoreIsa Boulder SS 2024 Campaign Lensed by Guen Fiore Prompts Anne's Bali Reverie
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The Spring/Summer 2024 Isa Boulder campaign that got our attention just now, featuring models Komomo Nakazono and Michiko Foy.
SJ Todd, art director of AnOther Magazine provides art direction for the campaign, with styling by Morgane Camille Nicolas. Talented photographer Guen Fiore [IG], who promotes herself as based in Paris but very Italian, captures the raw but sophisticated spirit of Isa Boulder. / Hair by Akemi Kishida; makeup by Anthony Preel
Read MoreConspiculous Luxury Consumption in China Challenges Growing Income Inequality
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Top model He Cong graces the pages of Marie Claire China’s [IG] June 2024 issue. The Hunan-region beauty is styled by Austin Feng in red-inspired, fashion elegance lensed by Zhong Lin [IG].
China’s Monitoring of Flaunting Money on Social Media
This month [May 2024], China’s new ‘Clear and Bright’ campaign swung into action on social media. The campaign vows to crack down on influencers who create "ostentatious personas to cater to vulgar needs, and deliberately display extravagant lifestyles filled with money".
Jing Daily weighed in this morning, writing that across Chinese social media platforms like Weibo, Tencent, Douyin, and Xiaohongshu all reflect suspended accounts this week.
China Tackles Its Growing Income Gap Culture
The drive to reduce ostentatious displays of wealth [or internet cleanup, as Jing Daily calls it] “is part of a larger effort by Chinese authorities to curate and control social cultures to tackle China’s widening income disparity and wealth inequality.”
Read MoreMeet OMEGA Speedmaster Ambassador and Olympic Runner Noah Lyles
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American athlete and OMEGA ambassador since 2019, Noah Lyles is one of the fastest sprinters in the world and he’s headed to Paris, fashion capital of the world.
Lyles is pictured here wearing his OMEGA Speedmaster watch in action images lensed by Sharif Hamza [IG].
Scrolling through a GQ magazine feature on Instagram, one of the biggest names in track and field noticed that the featured “best outfits worn by professional athletes as they walked into stadiums around the world” had no athletes from track and field.
“Why aren’t there any track and field people in here?” Lyles wondered out loud to NYT writer Talya Minsberg.
Read MoreChanel Coco Beach 2024 Campaign Drifts in Calm Waters As Chanel Changes Course
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Luxury brand Chanel [IG] delivers a fresh and modern summer Coco Beach 2024 campaign starring Danish model Olivia Vinten lensed by Cass Bird [IG].
At Chanel, Let the Good Times Roll
Chanel is riding high off a 16 percent revenue increase in annual sales over 2023. Price increases alone drove up sales by around 9 percent, according to BoF.
Chanel CFO Philippe Blondiaux praised Virginie Viard’s contributions to Chanel’s major growth in his BoF interview. Days later, the artistic director was escorted out the door.
With Viard seeming out-of-touch with the world at large at times, and given Coco Chanel’s own delicate political history in Europe, AOC is on the record saying we’re watching the brand like a hawk. We continue to write today from that updated perspective.
Read MoreSophie Turner, Good Mother, for British Vogue June 2024 by Mikael Jansson
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British actor Sophie Turner covers the June 2024 issue of British Vogue [IG], meeting up with Chioma Nnadi at London Zoo’s Gorilla Kingdom for the cover story Sophie Turner Is Doing Just Fine.
Camilla Nickerson styled Turner in a Louis Vuitton yellow top and white jeans for the cover, in a fashion story lensed by Mikael Jansson [IG].
We return to the charming London Zoo gorilla Effie, not awarded high marks by the zookeeper.
“Do you see how she’s dangling her baby by one arm? That’s actually not the best way to handle their newborns.”
Effie has had four attempts to get it right, and good mothering escapes her. Sophie Turner, mother of two girls, can relate. According to Nnadi, “ . . . it is, in fact, Turner who has been subjected to mom-shaming—of the most egregious kind.”
Read MoreVogue Greece June 2024 'Mediterranean Touch' Issue and 'Multicultural Aesthetics'
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The June 2024 issue of Vogue Greece travels to Messenia for a cover story featuring rising Israeli model Sun Mizrahi. Nicholas Georgiou acts as creative director, styling the photo shoot lensed by Phil Poynter [IG]. Hair by Stelios Chondros; makeup by Athina Karakitsou
Vogue Greece Names ‘Multicultural Aesthetics’
The loudest voices in our culture would have you believe that the global landscape was originally a very pure and culturally-uncorrupted place, where humans lived idyllic lives in harmony with each other.
Reality is that traders of every hue have been on the high seas for thousands of years and especially in the Mediterranean world. And early humans cracked each other’s skulls.
Read MoreTeti Mar in Louis Vuitton Lensed by Alfonso Anton Cornelis for Harper's Bazaar Mexico May 2024
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Rising Ukraine model Teti Mar and Karisha Kh grace the pages of Harper’s Bazaar Mexico’s May 2024 issue. Ellen Mirck works styling and art direction for the Louis Vuitton Spring 2024 fashion story.
‘Vides Paralelas’ [Parallel Lives’ ] is lensed by Alfonso Anton Cornelis [IG], who also provides creative direction. / Hair by Erisson Musella; makeup by Jury Schiavi; nail art by Isabella Facchi
Read MoreAOC Firebirds: Jodie Comer by Elizaveta Porodina in Modern Weekly China June 2024
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Photographer Elizaveta Porodina [IG] brings her creative combustion talents to a fashion story for Modern Weekly [China] Style [IG] June 2024, featuring ‘Killing Eve’ actor Jodie Comer.
Kingsley Tao styles the shoot, with set design by Louis Simonon./ Hair by Shon; makeup by Miranda Joyce
‘The Bikeriders’ Are Coming
Comer will hit June 21, 2024 movie screens in Jeff Nichols’ film ‘The Bikeriders’, also starring Austin Butler and Tom Hardy. There is such disorder in the movie house, that there is no way we can conflate Porodina’s images with a blood and guts Chicago biker gang — even one with Austin Butler.
The film is such a unique story about packs of Harley Davidson riders in 1960s midwestern America, that it requires its own post.
Read MoreGigi Hadid Brings 'Audacity and Athletic Elegance' to Vogue World: Paris via Vogue France
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