The fall furs are fake but the fashion story is blueblood sumptuous, focused on cold weather for rising stars Clara Fossar, Ida Marie Bilberg,Katrine Just and Rikka Nora. Photographer Josephine Lochen [IG] captures the quartet as 21st century sorority girl, modern values aristocrats styled by Elodie David-Touboul for Harper’s Bazaar France [IG] August 2025/ Hair by Cim Majony; makeup by Trine Skjoth
Model Alyosi S [Salamatina] is styled by Aurora Sansone in a Dior exclusive shot by Noémi Ottilia Szabo [IG] in Laguna [Venice] for Vanity Fair Italia [IG] July 2025. /Hair by Alessandro Squarza; makeup by Cosetta Giorgietti
Aussie model Stella Hanan is one to watch. To speak insider facts, she has seven pages on Models.com and first walked the S/S 2025 shows including Alaïa, Chloé, Duran Lantink, Gucci, Khaite, Loewe, Michael Kors, Prada, Rabanne, Saint Laurent, Schiaparelli, Totêm, Versace and more. Not bad for a rookie.
Bruno Staub [IG] photographed Hanan in ‘The Sights’, a casual fashion tour of Paris, styled by Kate Phelan for British Vogue’s [IG] July issue. Designers include Emmanuelle Khanh, Gucci, Phoebe Philo, Ralph Lauren, Suspel Clothing and more. / Hair by Ramona Eschbach; makeup by Christine Corbel
Rocio Ramos [IG] captures top model Daphne Groeneveld in a series of up-close-and-personal images for Madame Figaro France [IG] July 18th, 2025. Styled by Julie Gillet in beach living casual clothers, Daphne gives Ramos a long runway for notching several person and graphically unusual shots.
It’s sensual ladies day on AOC, and of course Monica Bellucci enters stage left in her cover story for Marie Claire France [IG] August 2025. Jeanne Le Bault styled Bellucci in Ann Demeulemeester, Eres, Gucci, Intimissimi, Isabel Marant, Mango, Notshy, Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello. Photographer Fred Meylan [IG] captures the eternally beautiful film star and Cartier ambassador wearing only Cartier in the photo shoot. / Hair by John Nollet; makeup by Letizia Carnevale
Tabitha Simmons styles a model squad comprising Adut Akech, Alex Cosani; Ella Beatty, Jessica Miller, Karolina Spakowski, Liu Wen, Paloma Elsesser, Sarah Catherine Hook, Scarlett White, Stella Hanan and Whitney Peak in ‘Women at Work’.
The eclectic assortment of images and the title ‘Women at Work’ refers to the cast of women designers who created the editorial. Photographer Amy Troost [IG] captures the fashion story in VogueUS [.com] August 2025 issue.
Vogue Spain [IG] traveled to Málaga for its August 2025 issue, out today [Friday July 18 th]. On the cover top model Bibi Breslin previews the fall season, wearing a Maison Alaia coat and boots with shorts from Intimissimi.
Alicia Padrón styles Breslin in Abra, Chanel, Chloe, Dries van Noten, Emporio Armani, Fendi, Ferragamo, Hermès, Louis Vuitton, Maison Valentino, MiuMiu, Moschino, Schiaparelli, Swarovski and more, lensed by Julia Noni [IG].
Fresh off her 2023 success as ‘Barbie’ and a personal decision to take some time off for fear that audiences might be “sick of the sight of her” after her camera’s flashing daily global press tour, actor Margot Robbie has returned to our lives on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar France [IG] August 2025 issue.
The Chanel ambassador is styled by Andrew Mukamal exclusively in Chanel, with images by Colin Dodgson [IG]. Atelier Franck Durand provides creative direction./ Hair by Bryce Scarlett; makeup by Pati Dubroff
Bella Hadid fronts MIss Sixty’s Fall 2025 campaign from the privacy of her bedroom, finished with cherry-accented walls and plenty of shag. IB Kamara styles a blonde Hadid looking good in a range of denim styles from jean jackets and straight-leg jeans to flared jeans and mini skirts.
Carlijn Jacobs [IG], who photographed Bella in a retro supermarket in Mixx Sixty’s Spring 2025 campaign, gives another nod to the early 90s and 2000s. Love it.
Israeli model Dorit Revelis is among the most naturally-sensual of our young models; and the beauty industry has embraced her sensual DNA as well. Authenticity is a buzzword of the decade, but Dorit projects a beauty that is both ancient and modern, traits that make it authentic and not contrived.
These images by her ‘love’ Dudi Hasson [IG] for Harper’s Bazaar France [IG] June 2025 issue belong to a beauty story called ‘Le Nouveau Régime Crétois’.
Crete and The Dawn of Minoan Civilization
The Minoan civilization represents the dawn of Crete's history, flourishing during the Bronze Age from approximately 2600 to 1100 BCE. This civilization, named after the legendary King Minos, is considered Europe's first advanced society, showcasing a high degree of sophistication and complexity.
Crete was largely conquered by the Myceneans around around 1450 BCE. And while their diets were compatible in many ways, one distinctive feature is that the Cretans ate fish and the Myceneans were heavy meat eaters.
Actor, activist, wife of Ryan Gosling and mom to their two daughters, Eva Mendes is a fabulously sensual woman. Much of American culture would call her a sex bomb.
Eva Mendes also calls herself a sex bomb, highly influenced by her husband’s deep appreciation for her sex appeal.
I asked AI to explain how neuroimaging would differentiate brain activity in a person who particularly enjoys fragrant flowers, dancing, and swimming with heightened awareness and intense pleasure. Someone like Eva Mendes.
AOC has been a huge fan of brain science for years because our brains are truthful when different regions are activited.
The basic idea I want to communicate is that our brains are a fingerprint of sorts of who we are. In the case of Eva Mendes, I promise you that she has highly-elevated SPS, as defined in point 4.
She also has elevated Openness to Experience, as defined in my Louis Vuitton analysis from Monday, see final notes in article link.
Delfina Delettrez Fendi is featured in a stunning visual presentation of her recent Fendi High Jewelry Collection ‘Radici Romane’ for Harper’s Bazaar Italia [IG] June 2025 ‘The Jubilee’ issue.
Maria Giulia Riva styles the shoot, using creations from the House of Fendi lensed by Szilveszter Makó [IG]. Stefano Tonchi is editorial director of Bazaar Italia, with Sissy Vian as creative fashion director. /Hair by Franco Gobbi; makeup by Cosetta Giorgetti
Actor Emma Stone became a Louis Vuitton ambassador in October, 2017, one month after she appeared in this delicious Dior fashion story in the September 2017 issue of Marie Claire US.
Earlier in 2017, Stone won a Best Actress Oscar for ‘La La Land’. Also in 2017, the actor bagan dating veteran comedian and writer, director David McCary, who she married in 2020. The couple has one daughter.
Stone and McCary also formed a production company ‘Fruit Tree’ in 2020, with A24 having a first option.
Today, Emma Stone is seen in new work as a Louis Vuitton ambassador, shot by Ethan James Green in the Fall 2025 Campaign.
Supermodel Anok Yai delivers a commanding presence on the August 2025 issue of French Vogue [IG] styled in a wide range of grandiose, majestic animal print designs by Alastair McKimm. Photographer Mario Sorrenti [IG] captures Anok in Saint Barth, wearing Saint Laurent on the cover.
Claire Thomson Jonville says that Anok — as a Vogue France cover star and talented artist — “embodies a different kind of power - vibrant, magnetic and alive.”
AOC agrees absolutely./ Hair by Tomo Jidai; makeup by Jamal Scott
Louis Vuitton Women taps House Ambassadors Emma Stone and Hoyeon Jung for the Fall/Winter 2025 Campaign, lensed by Ethan James Green.
Before Speedy Came Express
Bags and luggage are the visual currency of the Louis Vuitton brand. They also ring the cash register at critical levels to support LV’s position in the LVMH heirarchy. The FW25 Campaign is focused on its latest handbag: the Express, a roomy reprise of the original name of Vuitton’s signature Speedy handbag.
Louis Vuitton’s Chairman and CEO Pietro Beccari delivered press comments detailing the important role ‘The Louis’ marks on the new journey the luxury brand is taking into the DNA of Louis Vuitton itself. Reinforcing key buzzwords, Beccari stressed the importance of Louis Vuitton’s spirit of travel being experienced not only by crossing national borders, “but through ideas, emotions and inspiration.”
Anne drills down on exactly what Beccari’s words mean.
Supermodel and Mrs. Antoine Arnault, Natalia Vodianova covers the July/August issue of ELLE Arabia [IG]. The LVMH-owned Guerlain ambassador reflects on her evolving definition of beauty and how true elegance lies in authenticity, presence and inner calm.
“Radiance is an energy. It comes from being at peace with yourself,” Vodianova tells ELLE.
Bryce Anderson [IG] captures Vodianova in Patou [red cover] above and Givenchy from Sarah Burton’s debut collection [top cover below]; followed by Dior, Louis Vuitton, Schiaparelli and more, styled by Hugo Toucas at the Cheval Blanc Paris. / Makeup by Hindash; hair by Deena Alawaid
It was good to see Dutch model Birgit Kos in Goop [IG] brand’s G Label Spring/Summer 2025 Campaign on social media. Photographer Alexandra Nataf [IG] aka Alexandra Nataf-Taghizadeh captures quiet style looks that murmur elegance and relaxed sophistication.
I’ll not derail this spectacular British Vogue [IG] August 2025 issue cover story starring Doechii, with the origin of the expression ‘hell on wheels’. Or how it morphed into a gender-specific phrase applied to women.
Stella Greenspan styles Doechii in regal clothes from top luxury houses, lensed by Elizaveta Porodina.
Vogue writer Jazmine Hughes, author of Doechii’s cover story ‘“I Was Born To Do This”: Hip-Hop Disruptor Doechii On The Year She Entered The Stratosphere’ covers a wide berth in the interview.
Life is good for Florida’s self-described Swamp Princess, who grew up in Tampa, Fla. Here we get a taste of Doechii’s sound.
Model Awar Odhiang walks softly in ‘Spirited Away’, a fashion story set in in the Ninh Binh province of Northern Vietnam. Carlos Nazario styles the shoot, choosing fluid designs from Alexander McQueen, Bottega Veneta, Chloe, Khaite NY, Loro Piana, Louis Vuitton, Maison Valentino, Prada, Proenza Schouler, Ralph Lauren, Stella McCartney, The Row, YSL and more.
Photographer PH Hugo [IG] captures one of 2025’s most poetic, deeply-beautiful and discreetly-sensual fashion stories of the season for Harper’s Bazaar US [IG] June 2025 issue./ Makeup by Michaela Bosch