Angelina Jolie Covers Harper's Bazaar US December 2019-January 2020, Lensed by Solve Sundsbo

Angelina Jolie Covers Harper's Bazaar US December 2019-January 2020, Lensed by Solve Sundsbo

Angelina Jolie covers Harper’s Bazaar US holiday December 2019-January 2020 issue, styled by Patrick Mackie. The ‘Maleficent: Mistress of Evil’ costar who will play in Marvel’s ‘The Eternals’, release date Nov. 6, 2020, is lensed by Sølve Sundsbø in ‘A Prayer for the Wild at Heart’./ Hair by Malcolm Edwards; makeup by Val Garland

In their introduction to their end of one decade, launch of the 2020s interview, Harper’s does a quick survey of Angelina Jolie — the founding muse of AnneofCarversville.com. I remember well reading Angelina’s Esquire interview on a warm Sunday morning in Carversville. It was a moment that changed my own trajectory, returning me to a life of activism in a post-September 2001 world.

Considering Angelina’s thoughts about beheaded by ISIS WSJ reporter Daniel Pearl — in a moment of pure impulse — AOC was born.

Harper’s introduction to Angelina’s interview — answers delivered digitally — makes me proud to know we have covered every step of issues that matter deeply to Angelina Jolie. Read those articles in Angelina’s widget and other Winning Women members at AOC. ~ Anne

Adut Akech Wins 'Model of the Year 2019' at British Fashion Awards in London

Adut Akech winning Model of the Year, getting a big hug from Naomi Campbell at Monday night’s British Fashion Awards 2019. © Darren Gerrish via British Vogue

In the words of British Vogue, “Adut Akech brought down the house”, winning Model Of The Year at Monday night’s British Fashion Awards celebration in London. Adut wore a voluminous Valentino gown that featured a ruffled midriff and a thigh-high split. Of course Adut used her speech to highlight the need for the fashion industry to continue its high-gear march towards far greater diversity.

The South Sudanese model is at the vanguard among the huge wave of creatives of color across the fashion industry, a trend that impacts photographers, stylists and countless other categories of vibrant talent virtually ignored by fashion industry leaders.

Adut Akech also brought her voice and status as a refugee born in then Sudan, now South Sudan, whose family migrated to Adelaide, Australia in an effort to remake their lives.

“It is important for all of us to remember that someone like me winning this award is a rarity,” she pointed out after expressing her gratitude for the statuette. “This is for the young women and men who found representation and validation in my work. I want them to never be afraid of dreaming big like I once did. To them, I say this: Whatever it is you want to do, whether it’s modelling or acting or medicine, you should never doubt yourself. Don’t let the world convince you that it is not possible.”

Akech appeared on the prestigious September 2019 covers of British Vogue, Vogue Germany and Vogue Japan. The British Vogue issue was guest edited by Her Royal Highness Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle and featured women who are ‘Voices of Change’.

At a time when ‘refugee models’ are making their marks across the fashion and luxury market industry, Adut stands high on the list of beautiful young women enjoying their own mercurial success in an industry that has long shunned them.

The Aussie beauty’s activism and seizure of every limelight moment to discuss issues that matter to her is unrelenting, and in her own words: “I Will Always Be a Refugee”. As the model reminded us in her article ‘Refugees Are Just Like Everybody Else’ for British Vogue’s September 2019 issue:

“You don’t wake up thinking, I’m going to be a refugee. The only difference between a refugee and someone who grew up in the Western world is that we were forced out of our own country, out of our homes, because of fear – not out of choice.”

TIME Magazine honored Adut Akech on their 2019 TIME 100 Next list. Follow Adut Akech’s archives @ AOC.

Adut Akech’s September 2019 Vogue Covers

Adut Akech, Alton Mason Channel Malick Sidibe Images for Vogue Australia December 2019

Fresh off her London honors as Britain’s Fashion Awards ‘Model of the Year 2019’, Adut Akech and Arizona-born Alton Mason are in total sync. The duo stars in ‘Where You Lead, I Will Follow, styled by Jillian Davison as an ode to Malick Sidibe’s “spontaneous photographs of youths at dances in Mali in the 1960s”. (Note, Sidibe died in 2016.) Photographer Nathaniel Goldberg captures the rhythm and chemistry for Vogue Australia’s December 2019 60th anniversary issue. / Hair by Lloyd Simmonds; makeup by Marc Lopez

Aymeline Valade Is Pure Smart Sensuality, Lensed By Chris Colls For Equipment Fall 2018 Campaign

Aymeline Valade Is Pure Smart Sensuality, Lensed By Chris Colls For Equipment Fall 2018 Campaign

French model and actor Aymeline Valade fronts Equipment's Fall 2018 Campaign, styled by Camille Bidault Waddington in images by Chris Colls./ Hair by Esther Langham; makeup by Sil Bruinsma

Angelina Jolie Premieres 'First They Killed My Father' in Cambodia, Writes NYT Op-Ed on Refugees, Supports Turkish Series On Refugee Family

Angelina Jolie Premieres 'First They Killed My Father' in Cambodia, Writes NYT Op-Ed on Refugees, Supports Turkish Series On Refugee Family

On Saturday February 18, Angelina Jolie traveled with her children Maddox, 15, Pax, 13, Zahara, 12, Shiloh, 10 and eight-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne to Siem Reap, Cambodia for the première of her new film 'First They Killed My Father' based on the memoir of close friend Loung Ung. 

Jolie, whose eldest son Maddox was adopted in 2002 from an orphanage in Battambang, Cambodia gave a free public screening of the memoir-based drama. The Netflix film tells the story of the war time experiences of Angelina's friend Loung Ung, a Cambodian author and human rights activist, who survived the Khmer Rouge regime. Jolie has co-written the screen adaptation with Ung and acted as producer as well as director the film.

Angelina Jolie Impresses Critics With 'By the Sea'

By the Sea Trailer

The first trailer for Angelina Jolie’s new film ‘By the Sea’, written and directed by Jolie who also stars with husband Brad Pitt. The period film is set in 1970s France and focuses on the couple and their unhappy marriage. It will be released on November 13.

The couple previously worked together in ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith’. Read more about the film in our February 2015 Angelina Jolie Collects New Most Admired Woman Honor in International Voting — 5 key reasons why we love Angelina Jolie. 

The Guardian wrote about ‘By the Sea’:

After impressing with her first feature in the director’s chair – In the Land of Blood and Honey – Angelina Jolie disappointed with her studio-sized sophomore drama, Unbroken, which reeked of a desperate bid to be taken seriously by awards voters with its schmaltz tone and massive scale. For her third feature, By the Sea, Jolie has gone in the opposite direction to serve up an intimate character study. It seems like the transition has brought out the best in Jolie.

Jolie is the founding muse of Anne of Carversville.

Louis Vuitton's Yayoi Kusama First 2012 Collaboration

Another Look at Global Artist Yayoi Kusama's First Collab with Louis Vuitton in 2012 AOC Fashion & Style

These images are from the first collaboration in 2012, when Marc Jacobs was the Louis Vuitton creative director. Photographer Angelo Pennetta [IG] captured models Anais Pouliot and Romee Strijd, who were styled by Katie Grand. / Hair by Tina Outen; makeup by Miranda Joyce; set design by Robbie Doig

Original 2012 Text: No, this is not revenge of the pink dalmatians. Rather, it’s a rendering of a Louis Vuitton pop-up store, opening inside its New York’s SoHo boutique on July 10.

One of seven pop-ups globally, the boutique celebrates the LV collaboration with Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, who “never met a dot she didn’t like”, writes WWD. Other pink hot spots will appear in Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo.

On July 12, Yayoi Kusama’s major retrospective opens at the Whitney Museum in New York, with Louis Vuitton as the sponsor. The entire operation pink spots will “climax” on Aug. 23 with major installations in the Printemps flagship in Paris and another at Selfridges in London, breaking ranks and celebrate pumpkins.

Now 82 and living in a hospital for the mentally ill, Kusama has been painting since age 10, and has applied dots to canvases, tree trunks, entire rooms and even people.