A Private Look at Fall Style by Gosia Turczynska for Vogue Czech September 2024
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D Style October 2024 Luxury Accessories with Bibi Breslin Lensed by Drew Vickers
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Rising Brit model Bibi Breslin is one to watch, appearing in D Style’s [IG] d la Repubblica 10/13/2024 issue. Writing “so long summer”, D Style is rolling towards resort 2025 season, with a body-baring, accessories-rich, fashion story featuring Gucci loafers and YSL bangles on cover #1 and a Dior Saddle bag on cover #2, styled by Giulia Revolo. Photographer Drew Vickers {IG] makes the sensual accessories capture./ Hair by Akemi Kishida; makeup by Laura Dominique
Read MoreLouis Vuitton's 'Awakened Hands, Awakened Minds' High Jewelry in Vogue Taiwan September 2024
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Vogue Taiwan’s [IG] September 2024 issue shimmers with key pieces from Louis Vuitton’s ‘Awakened Hands, Awakened Minds’ high jewelry collection.
Pablo Patane styles the fashion story with jewelry selections by Chat Hsu. Model Ine Michelmann poses for photographer Tim Verhallen [IG]./ Makeup by Tiziana Raimondo
AOC featured the specifics and storyline behind the new Louis Vuitton ‘Awakened Hands, Awakened Minds’ high jewelry collection here.
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Boxing for Women's Health: Madame Figaro Paris Is Ringside with Karlina Caune
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Boxing for Women's Health: Madame Figaro Paris Is Ringside with Karlina Caune
AOC turns our attention to ‘Ring Parade’, and we’re not talking diamonds — although model Karlina Caune is sporting some serious watches in this fashion story for the September 2024 issue of Madame Figaro Paris [IG].
Stylist Sylvie Clemente is ringside, preparing Caune to fight, fight, fight — as women did in Sparta. Photographer Thiemo Sander [IG] photographs the fashion action for Madame Figaro; and AOC takes a seriously-informed deep dive into the health benefits of boxing. / Hair by Kazuko Kitaoka; makeup by Maria Olsson
Historical records and artwork from different civilizations reveal women engaging in activities like wrestling, running, and even boxing. Ancient Minoan artifacts, for example, depict women participating alongside men in athletic competitions, while the society of Sparta in ancient Greece famously encouraged women to train in physical exercises to strengthen them as future mothers of warriors — male and female.
All AOC can say is “Thank goddess for cave paintings.” Let’s go.
Read MoreDoutzen Kroes Covers Vogue Netherlands September 2024 by Lachlan Bailey
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Top model Doutzen Kroes covers the September 2024 issue of Vogue Netherlands. Géraldine Saglio styles Doutzen in casual fall fashion, with input by fashion director Linda Gumus Gerritsen. Lachlan Bailey [IG] is behind the lens at a campground in Ibiza — with an Airstream or two./Hair by Kalie Eklund; makeup by Anthony Preel
Read More'Cool Front' Fall Coats, Jackets, Leather & Lace in Bazaar US October 2024
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Models Sasha Pivovarova and Yasmin Warsame are styled by Dogi Nesanir in ‘Cool Front’, a fashion story of luxuriously-textured coats, jackets — with a bit of leather and lace.
Photographer Davit Giorgadze [IG] captures the fall luxury from Balenciaga, Celine, Chloe, Courreges, Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Fendi, Hermes, Loewe, Max Mara, Miu Miu, Ralph Lauren, Tods and more for Harper’s Bazaar US [IG] October 2024./ Hair by Joey George; makeup by Jamal Scott
Read MoreAbbey Lee's Futuristic Gucci Style by Cara Strickler for 10 Magazine Australia
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10 Magazine Australia’s [IG] Fall 2024 issue turns to photographer Cara Strickler [IG] for a 22nd century story featuring Aussie model Abbey Lee. Emma Jade Morrison styles the futuristic Gucci-sponsored fashion statement in a week where the Italian house got a new CEO, ex Louis Vuitton executive Stefano Cantino./ Hair by Mark Townsend; makeup by Emily Cheng
Read MorePrada Patrons Rafael Pavarotti's Exquisite Story for Perfect Magazine September 2024
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AOC is delighted to see Rafael Pavarotti’s [IG] Black beauty fashion story for the September 2024 issue of Perfect Magazine [IG]. With Edward Enninful no longer at British Vogue, Anne has had significant concerns about exactly what happens to fashion stories of this caliber and excellence. More than once in recent years, AOC has said that only brands can afford to underwrite these editorials.
In the case of these exquisite images for Perfect, we can thank Prada, described as ‘Red-Hot’ on the cover in the story styled by George Krakowiak. / Hair by Ali Pirzadeh; makeup by Chiao Li Hsu
Read MoreCat Lady Lupita Nyong'o for Harper's Bazaar UK November 2024 by Alexi Lubomirski
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Beloved actor Lupita Nyong’o has not taken up painting. But today’s Harper’s Bazaar UK[IG] November 2024 cover story reminds us that not all fashion photography sets are created equal. Nyong’o covers Bazaar UK’s ‘The Art Issue: a celebration of colour, craftsmanship, pattern and print.’
Photographer Alexi Lubomirski [IG] hits all the high notes in a fashion story styled by Miranda Almond for Chanel’s newest global ambassador.Gorgeous and right on the money in terms of a huge trend emerging.
White Skin Does NOT Reflect God’s Will
Lupita again speaks of the issue of skin color — one we’ve written about many times, along with featuring her mind-changing interview with Alek Wek.
The actor has frequently told the stories of praying to God as a young woman, beseeching the divine to make her skin lighter.
Anne has done a lot of research on this topic and puts a new spin on this set of outrageous Christian beliefs about skin color.
Read MoreClaudia Schiffer Is Face of Hailey Bieber’s Rhode Skin's New Barrier Butter
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Hailey Bieber’s Rhode Skin joins the big league today, sharing news and photos of world-famous, 1990s supermodel Claudia Schiffer as the face of Rhode Skin’s new Barrier Butter product. Drew Vickers [IG] shot these wonderful images of Schiffer celebrating the new deep-hydration product arriving October 28 at 9am PT [noon on the East Coast].
Read MoreSporty & Rich Drops Core Collection October 2024 Faced by Andreea Diaconu
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Sporty & Rich founder Emily Oberg has dropped her new Core Collection, two months after filing a trademark application for a brand called Sensual Sport.
Top model Andreea Diaconu showcases the Core Collection, lensed by Dudi Hasson [IG].
Oberg isn’t selling a sustainability message for Sporty & Rich — although her approach to fashion itself may be more sustainable. But seeing Diaconu reminded me of her 2023 C2C Certified® cashmere campaign for Ralph Lauren. That campaign is very in sync with Oberg’s Sporty & Rich mindset.
Read MoreBazaar UK's 'Call of the Wild' by Agata Pospieszynska with Julia Berghoeff & Saffron Vadher
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Models Julia Bergshoeff and Saffron Vadher are styled by Charlie Harrington in ‘Call of the Wild’, a compendium of noble origins luxury looks.
Photographer Agata Pospieszynska [IG] captures the rolling, sometimes rugged fashion landscape for Harper’s Bazaar UK September 2024./ Hair by Craig Taylor; makeup by Natsumi Narita
Read MoreRocio Ramos Flashes 'Coquette' with Ros Georgiou for Vogue Arabia September 2024
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Photographer Rocio Ramos [IG] proves that she’s got range, baby! What a 180-degree turn from her penetrating, scalding images of Sokhana Niane for her 2023 ‘Structured Chaos’ fashion story for Vogue Arabia.
The new creative overload ‘Coquette’ for Vogue Arabia’s [IG] September 2024 issue is femininity on steroids. Fashion director Abraham Gutiérrez styles the new story featuring model Ros Georgiou.
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When You Marry Knee Pads with a LBD, You Don't Get a Tradwife | WSJ Magazine
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Who could resist sharing this WSJ Magazine September 2024 fashion story ‘Outfits That Let You Get Away With Sweatpants and Heels’ side-by-side with Sporty & Rich Drops Core Collection Faced by Andreea Diaconu! Not AOC.
What a perfect segue for AOC to say “Listen up, Emily Oberg. This transition into putting on a LBD is for you.”
WSJ’s fashion message is clear in “Outfits That Let You Get Away With Sweatpants and Heels”. Forget old-fashioned rules for hanging out at the King Cole Bar in cocktail dresses from your nana’s closet. Photographer Luna Conte [IG] captures models Abuk Adier and Valerie Scherzinger styled by Alexander Fisher. / Hair by Nero; makeup by Allie Smith
Above, we begin with a Loro Piana jacket [left] paired with Nike bike shorts hanging out with a Balenciaga jacket [right] and Nike. Below a Louis Vuitton LBD [left] kisses up to a Harry Winston necklace and earrings and Nike knee pads while Coperni Paris [right] sides with a De Beers necklace.
Other brands include Alaïa, Bally, Champion, Dolce & Gabbana, Dries Van Noten, Fabiana Filippi, Giorgio Armani, Hermès, High Sport, Isabel Marant, Khaite, Loewe, Michael Kors Collection, Prada and more.
Reflections on Nike Knee Pads and Peggy Noonan
Note that we have no tradwives in these images, but many a modern man could have evil thoughts racing through his mind with those Nike knee pads.
Opus Dei needs to banish this fashion story from its very long forbidden-reading list because fashion is a great corruptor of young minds. It’s precisely these kinds of ‘innocent’ images that begin a pure mind’s descent into secular degradation.
Anna Wintour tried to alleviate those Opus Dei concerns about secular contamination of society with her ‘Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination’ theme of her 2018 Met Gala. Nice try, Anna, but repression got worse.
Today we have Pulitizer-prize winning WSJ columnist Peggy Noonan raging artfully against the decision of presidential candidate Kamala Harris not to attend Archbishop Timothy Dolan’s Al Smith dinner. Anne left a comment juicier than the steak on Dolan’s plate, trying to explain that maybe Harris isn’t in the mood to have a good laugh with the notoriously-jovial archbishop.
Not when maternal death rates are soaring in America and 65% of Catholics support abortion rights, according to Pew Research 2024. No institution in America is more directive in stripping American women of our rights than the Opus Dei right-wing of the Catholic Church with adherents now dominating the US Supreme Court.
Yes, the US Supreme Court is at odds with American Catholics at-large.
Maybe VP Harris doesn’t want to have a jolly good laugh, photographed seated next to the Archbishop on October 17, 2024 and shooting the breeze with her magnificent laugh.
Women are dying in Georgia and Noonan is still attacking Harris trying to deliver some joy to the nation. Just yesterday Anne learned about Noonan’s 2020 obsession with the VP’s laugh — AND dancing. Yup, Harris was dancing and that event also prompted condemnation from Noonan.
Former Senator Claire McCaskill really let Noonan have it on Morning Joe in 2020 [will post the video]. It’s kind of a contradiction when Peggy Noonan herself has a repressed revulsion of darkness — whether she knows it or not.
You would think the writer of some of Reagan’s most genuinely-inspiring speeches would celebrate Harris carrying a Status of Liberty torch out of Trumpism’s hate-filled loathing of democratic principles into the light of positivity.
Nope. Peggy Noonan sees no certifiable joy in Kamala Harris’ very existence. Noonan hasn’t called Kamala a witch yet — although I better search my assumption. But she does believe Harris is a total fraud — an imposter.
Even WSJ men readers are calling Noonan harsh and inaccurate about reality in recent weeks. Anne kept is simple, writing that Peggy Noonan is no Liz Cheney. Too many Republican women are openly supporting Harris for Noonan to be crouching behind the couch but still yelling bad things about Kamala Harris far and wide.
Sorry WSJ Magazine, but you gave Anne too good an opening with those knee pads and a little black dress. I could continue, but will be a good Noonan-vintage, former-Catholic girl and take my foot off the gas pedal.
No need to lose my AOC drivers license a month before the election. Have a good day, everybody. ~ Anne
Louis Vuitton's Awakened Hands, Awakened Minds High Jewelry for SCMP Style
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