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Halle Berry raises major eyebrows for her beautiful sensuality lensed by Ruven Afanador and styled by Deborah Waknin for the March 2011 issue of Ebony Magazine. The actress talks about her custody battle with Gabriel Aubry over daughter Nahla, which is mired down in very series arguments over Nahla’s racial identity.
Halle Berry says in her Ebony interview that Hahla is black because of the one-drop rule. I daresay we’re all black under that rule. Marcia Dawkins writes for Huff Po Halle Berry and Nahla: Not So Mixed, Not So Happy.
Steven Pan Eyes Mali Koopman & Jessie Bloemendaal For Vogue Japan November 2018
Models Mali Koopman and Jessie Bloemendaal are styled by Carlotta Oddi in 80s glam, sexy looks in ‘Doing My Own Thing’. Photographer Steven Pan is behind the lens for Vogue Japan November 2018./ Hair by Joey George; makeup by Cyndie Komarovski
Marc Jacobs muse Tyg Davidson and Chanel fav Elizabeth Davison do their sister act best, styled byCarlotta Oddi in goth looks for 'The Romance of the Dark Side'. Photographer Steven Pan is behind the lens for Vogue Japan December 2017./ Makeup by Violette; hair by Adam Markarian
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Nicolo & Carlotta Oddi Show Alanui's Spring/Summer Collection At Pitti Uomo
Carlotta Oddi cut her design chops as a styling assistant to Anna Dello Russo at Vogue Japan, although her design aesthetic couldn't be more different than Russo's. Oddi describes herself as a true bohemian at heart, describing her own design aesthetic as 'chameleonic/eclectic'. in general, a crossover brew of different world inspirations."
Brother Nicolò Oddi developed the knitwear brand under the name Alanui, which translates to 'large path' in Hawaiian.
“Alanui has started its journey as a brand with a collection that focuses on a single item, produced in a variety of patterns: a buttonless oversized jacquard cashmere cardigan, edged with a dense fringe and closed with a two-tone belt. That’s it: an adaptable piece with no immediate gender connotation and no season. The colorful jacquards pay homage to the Indian America iconography, but this is just the beginning of a path that can lead in many different directions.
GlamTribal Design Jewelry & Gifts is inspired by the migration of humanity and animals out of Africa. In our pursuit of elephant conservation and news around the perils of elephant conservation in the modern world, we met mammoths, and woolly mammoths in particular.
Elephants no longer live in the American Southwest or in the south of France, near the caves of Lascaux. They live in Africa, imperiled by the insatiable greed of humans in pursuit of ivory.
In the last two years, woolly mammoths have emerged as a strong design influence for GlamTribal, unifying collections like Alanui's American Southwest, native people's inspiration with tribal heritages in Africa. We regularly use their bone beads and our featherweight decoupage wooden beads with woolly mammoth imagery in our jewelry designs.
When we began our woolly mammoth journey, the tie supported concerns about elephant extinction and also the religious disputes around creationism and human evolution. I've spoken with customers at high-quality artisan shows who told me that it was impossible that the woolly mammoth bones were 10,000-100,000 years old because God made the world much more recently.
I do not have the patience for these conversations and generally end them quickly. A recent discovery near a highway in San Diego -- the bones and teeth of a mastodon dated at 130,000 years -- is rewriting our scientific understanding of when humans first reached North America.
We delight, however, in the emergence of the woolly mammoth -- and mammoths generally -- as a unifying element in linking our human evolution heritage globally, leaving no doubt that GlamTribal's woolly mammoth jewelry looks simply fabulous with the gorgeous, over-sized sweaters from Alanui's spring/summer 2018 collection.
Models Marie Damian, Regan Garrett & Tandi Reason Dahl are styled by Carlotta Oddi in a color/pattern burst of fashion artistry. The trio is captured in rich images by Lacey for Vogue Japan June 2017./ Makeup by Jenny Coombs; hair by Martin Cullen
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Sizing PS268: 20"L, 24" or 30”L Pendant measures 3"L x 1 1/2"W. Earrings 1 3/4"L
Finding: 11mm x 7mm swivel antique gold lobster clasp, brass chain, 11mm surgical steel earwires
10% of retail price supports Kibera (Nairobi) School for Girls and elephant conservation in Kenya.
Africa: Sandcast vintage olive bead; brass donuts; African jasper rondelle; bone spacers. Other materials: 1 woolly mammoth bone bead, brass leaf, twig, elephant & bee charms, tiny picasso cubes, leather
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