Eye: Agent Provocateur's Seedy Autumn/Winter 2017 Campaign Walks A Trumpian Line In 'Tease & Hustle'

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Agent Provocateur's Seedy Autumn/Winter 2017 Campaign Walks A Trumpian Line In 'Tease & Hustle'

The always racy Agent Provocateur lingerie brand returns to its seedy, '90s roots in London's Soho district with its 'Tease & Hustle' campaign. Leading ladies Elise Crombez, Magdalena Frackowiakand Abbie Fowler as the “cloakroom girl” are lensed by Anton Corbijn - a film director, music-video producer, and photographer all rolled into one, who is behind films such as Control, The American and A Most Wanted Man. Corbijn cements the close relationship between the AP girl and music culture with Massive Attack’s “Pray For Rain” as the lead track throughout.

Agent Provocateur's creative director Sarah Shotton considers the campaign to be an extension of the brand's female empowerment positioning, although the campaign's 'Tease & Hustle' name puts it into the return of the alpha males trend in a post-Trump era. (Follow link above for Anne's Trumpian thoughts on the Agent Provocateur ad campaign.)

Eye: Is Taylor Swift Expressing A Fierce Born-Again Feminism in 'Reputation'? We'll See

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Eye: Is Taylor Swift Expressing A Fierce Born-Again Feminism in 'Reputation'? We'll See

As promised, Taylor Swift dropped her 'Look What You Made Me Do' music video, with perfect timing at the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards.  Then she moved it to YouTube, where it has nearly 75 million views. Billboard believes it will be No. 1 on next week's 'Hot 100'.

Swift's most ardent fans all believe that 'Reputation' is deeper than originally thought. Buzzfeed lists all the 'hidden meanings' fans are finding in the songs. We don't care about that, but #20 gets our attention.

20. But other people have a different theory -- that each song will be about a different, 'fake' Taylor' created by the media. 

Note that fans feel no complicity in creating this 'fake Taylor'. Fan complicity in creating stars that meet their own needs is never part of their adoration stories. Kim Kardashian understands this reality way better than old-school Taylor Swift. But Swift is perhaps now whip smart on the whole conversation. 

22. The scene where Taylor's standing above a tower of her past selves, all scrabbling to climb up, is full of meaning, too.

Some fans associate these scenes with Taylor Swift's proverbial climb to the top, only to take a fall. Others see it as an emergence of Swift's true self. 

23. And, finally, people have also noticed that this shot resembles a crucifixion. 

This visual brought the new Taylor Swift into strong focus for me. She is defiant, rising again as a Smart Sensuality woman in charge of her own agenda. Fans will never see this as any statement about them and not only the media, Kim and Kanye, and the adoring 'girl' who shared the stage before the entire world, as Kanye West grabbed her trophy, saying it belonged to Beyonce.

Bearing Witness

Doutzen Kroes Is Lensed By Cuneyt Akeroglu For S Moda September 2017 Cover Story

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Doutzen Kroes Is Lensed By Cuneyt Akeroglu For S Moda September 2017 Cover Story

Supermodel Doutzen Kroes delivers her radiant kind of natural beauty to S Moda's September 2017 cover story. Cuneyt Akeroglu flashes the Dutch superstar styled by Francesa Rinciari in Saint Laurent, Dries van Noten, Celine and more.

EYE: Balmain & L'Oreal Paris UNITED WE ARE INVINCIBLE Campaign Brings Fashion Tribes Together

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EYE: Balmain & L'Oreal Paris UNITED WE ARE INVINCIBLE Campaign Brings Fashion Tribes Together

In the age of Trump, the L'Oreal Paris and Balmain collaboration is exactly what we need. Olivier Rousteing's Balmain army stands strong with 12 diverse top models fronting the campaign behind the core message: UNITED, WE ARE INVINCIBLE.

The capsule collection includes 12 couture matte shades by Color Riche in shades ranging from deep plums to sweet pinks. Models Doutzen Kroes, Lara Stone, Cindy Bruna, Ming Xi, Luma Grothe, Neelam Gill, Alexia Graham, Valentina Sampaio, Soo Joo Park, Grace Bol and Maria Borges appear in the advertisements, lensed by Nico Bustos.

The diverse range of models, hailing from all over the world, was an intentional choice to not just show the play of color across various skin tones, but to champion diversity — an especially topical theme in the aftermath of Charlottesville and Barcelona.  

Headlines in today's news include How Germany Deals With Neo-Nazis and a truly-sad one Calais Brawls leave 20 migrants injured. The fighting of 200 migrants threatening each other with sticks and iron bars involved five mass brawls that mainly pitted Afghans against Eritreans.

The real world is knocking on fashion's door.  While we drift above it, the knocking is louder every day, making this Balmain/L'Oreal Paris campaign unusually relevant. For all politically-correct types who might critique it as superficial, I say it's great. 

"No matter your origin, no matter your tribe. Come together, be seen, be heard. United, we are invincible. Because we are all worth it," Balmain's 31-year-old Olivier Rousteing says about the collaboration.

Chloe 2018 Resort Collection Features Neutral Looks With Southwest Influences

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Chloe 2018 Resort Collection Features Neutral Looks With Southwest Influences

New Chloe design director Natacha Ramsay-Levi's first collection is scheduled for September. Meanwhile the brand's design team has produced Chloe's Resort 2018 collection, relying on the label's roots that include  signature bohemian dress, ponchos, crop jackets, as well as logo print sweater and knit pants.

Related: Natacha Ramsay-Levi On What We Can Expect From Her Chloé Vogue UK

Caroline Trentini Wears Luxe Beach Beauty Style For Agua De Coco Spring-Summer 2018

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Caroline Trentini Wears Luxe Beach Beauty Style For Agua De Coco Spring-Summer 2018

Top model Caroline Trentini is beach-ready, headlining Agua De Coco's Spring-Summer 2018 Campaign. Fabio Bartelt captures the color-saturated images of colorful prints, off-the-shoulder silhouettes and coverups in a beach house we love.

David Hughes Eyes Alek, Natalie, Kiki & Friends For Marc Jacobs Fall Winter 2017.18

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David Hughes Eyes Alek, Natalie, Kiki & Friends For Marc Jacobs Fall Winter 2017.18

Marc Jacobs' Fall Winter 2017.18 assembles a first-rate model gaggle starring Alek Wek, Cara Taylor, Casil McArthur, Hanne Gaby Odiele, Kiki Willems, Natalie Westling, and Slick Woods. The campaign is styled by W Magazine's new contributing fashion creative director Katie Grandin images by David Hughes. / Hair by Guido Palau; makeup by Diane Kendal

Binx Walton, Charlee Fraser, & Jegor Venned Front Tom Ford Fall 2017.18 Campaign, Lensed By Mario Sorrenti

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Binx Walton, Charlee Fraser, & Jegor Venned Front Tom Ford Fall 2017.18 Campaign, Lensed By Mario Sorrenti

Photographer Mario Sorrenti shoots Binx Walton, Charlee Fraser & Jegor Venned for Tom Ford's Fall 2017.18 campaign, one that returns to Ford's roots celebrating the strong, sexy, powerful woman. Did I mention ruthless? For Ford-- who I adore -- she can be ruthless., although we both agree that she is preferably strong, sexy, smart and with great heart. 

Horst Diekgerdes Captures Prada's My Theresa Collection Campaign July 2017

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Horst Diekgerdes Captures Prada's My Theresa Collection Campaign July 2017

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Luxury line retailer MyTheresa.com.introduces a collab with Prada, inspired by the brand's spring collection. Featuring a collection of footwear, handbags and separates including gloves, the capsule collection turns to feather-trimmed embellishments, splash prints and vivid colors including emerald green and fuschia pink. Horst Diekgerdes photographs the collection.

Harley Weir Shoots Stella McCartney Fall 2017 Campaign At Landfill In Eastern Scotland

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Harley Weir Shoots Stella McCartney Fall 2017 Campaign At Landfill In Eastern Scotland

If there's one word I hate in today's modern vocabulary, it’s "authentic". It's one of the most over-used words to describe what voters want. Why is Donald Trump the president of the United States? His voters found him to be “authentic”, say the talking heads. Sigh. 

Stella McCartney is another topic entirely. The British designer sources 53 percent of her label's materials from sustainable sources and is proudly vegetarian. She is constantly pressing the fashion industry to do more for the environment, challenging luxury labels and mass marketers alike to move on sustainability issues. Generally, the fashion industry is considered to be the second largest polluter on the planet. 

It comes as no surprise, then, that Stella McCartney teamed up with cool-girl photographer Harley Weir in a Fall 2017 campaign shot at a landfill in Eastern Scotland. Models Birgit Kos, Iana Godnia and Huan Zhou lounge on a rusted-out car or piles of trash.

Erdem's Exquisite Resort 2017.18 Collection Arrives With News Of Erdem's Nov 2 H&M Global Launch

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Erdem's Exquisite Resort 2017.18 Collection Arrives With News Of Erdem's Nov 2 H&M Global Launch

Canadian and Turkish fashion designer Erdem Moralioglu presents his new 2017.18 resort collection, inspired by the works of Wisconsin-born, Mexico-lover surrealist painter Sylvia Fein and German Dada artist Hannah Hoch.

Fashion photographer Billy Ballard captures the lavish prints in linear, elegant silhouettes./ Makeup by Anna Priadka; hair by Richard Phillipart

Vogue's Sarah Mower shared her chat with "London's most successfully romantic, cinematically minded independent designer" on July 13 about his decision to develop a new H&M collection. The decision is a major break with the designer's 12-year history of avoiding commercial ventures with his label. 

Rianne Van Rompaey Visits Iceland In Jamie Hawkesworth's Alexander McQueen Fall-Winter 2017.18 Campaign

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Rianne Van Rompaey Visits Iceland In Jamie Hawkesworth's Alexander McQueen Fall-Winter 2017.18 Campaign

The Alexander McQueen Fall/Winter 2017.18 ad campaign sets down in Iceland to shoot its new campaign starring Dutch model Rianne Van Rompaey, lensed by Jamie Hawkesworth.

“Alexander McQueen’s Autumn/Winter 2017 campaign is set in the emotive and extreme landscape of Iceland. Drawing parallels with the mystical landscape of Cornwall, the inspiration behind the collection, Iceland provides a duality between the rugged and the romantic.“

Theo Wenner Captures Steffy Argelich In Jimmy Choo Pre Fall 2017 Ad Campaign

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Theo Wenner Captures Steffy Argelich In Jimmy Choo Pre Fall 2017 Ad Campaign

Model Steffy Argelich fronts the Jimmy Choo Pre Fall 2017 campaign. Sarah Richardson styles Steffy in a range of heels, pumps, flats, sandals, trainers, wedges, clutches and tote bags lensed by Theo Wenner./ Hair by Cyndia Harvey; makeup by Thomas de Kluyver

Eye| Nicolo & Carlotta Oddi Show Alanui's S/S 2018 Collection | GlamTribal Woolly Mammoth Jewelry

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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. 

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Frida Aasen Is Pure Beach Bunny Sizzle, Lensed By Zoey Grossman For S/S 2017 Campaign

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Frida Aasen Is Pure Beach Bunny Sizzle, Lensed By Zoey Grossman For S/S 2017 Campaign

Swimsuit brand Beach Bunny always sizzles and the new Summer 2017 campaign walks its Bunny talk. Model Frida Aasen is the face of the retro chic looks, shot by Zoey Grossman at Los Angeles' Stahl House. 

Petra Collins, Hari Nef, Lena Dunham: From Gucci to Planned Parenthood Via Lenny Letter

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Petra Collins, Hari Nef, Ali Micheal

Petra Collins, Hari Nef, Lena Dunham: From Gucci to Planned Parenthood Via Lenny Letter

Petra's commitment to body sovereignty was on display in this October 2012 Planned Parenthood video 'You Don't Own Me', published as a motivator to American women to vote in the 2012 presidential election.

In January 2016, Lena Dunham's Lenny Letter published 'Hypervisibility', in which Hari Nef reflects "on being a visible member of a marginalized community."  A year later, Nef joined a '100 Years' Planned Parenthood tribute narration cast that includes Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, America Ferrera, Constance Wu, Mindy Kaling and many more. Kirsten Lepore handled the animation; Abrams and musician Jack Antonoff contributed music.

The film '100 Years', The History of 100 Years of Women's Health Care at Planned Parenthood, was produced by Dunham and J.J. Abrams . 

“This film reminds us of the tremendous progress that’s been made for women’s health and rights just days before the new president is inaugurated — and at a moment when extreme politicians are trying to defund and shut down Planned Parenthood,” Dunham wrote in a note for Lenny Letter.

Lena Dunham, Hari Nef