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Romee Strijd is styled by Anne Christensen in casual, crazy-cool looks from Louis Vuitton, Valentino, Chanel, Mary Katrantzou and more. Photographer Laurie Bartley captures the Victoria's Secret Angels for Elle UK January 2018.
Gucci's creative director Alessandro Michele continued the brand's undiluted embrace of extravagant artistry, unveiling yet another brilliant ad campaign for Spring/Summer 2018. This season Gucci taps Ignasi Monreal to create digital paintings that mimic great paintings from the Pre-Raphealite era to the Renaissance to Surrealism and beyond.
The January 2018 launch campaign is meant to conjure a “Utopian Fantasy” with a focus on three elements: the earth, the sea, and the sky in a series of imaginative landscapes. The beautiful works would be just at home in a sci-fi magazine as they would in a museum, making this campaign yet another tribute to an explosion of creative artistry in the fashion world -- a high-voltage sip of optimism and confidence in our Trumpian world.
Supermodel Carolyn Murphy is styled by Kristen Ingersoll & Fran Marto in 'Bamboleo Bambolea', lensed by Nino Muñoz for Harper's Bazaar Spain January 2018./ Hair by Italo Gregorio; makeup by Virginia Young
American heritage label Coach loves New York, unveiling its new Spring/Summer 2018 campaign, shot by Steven Meisel with an intention to "capture the tenderness of New York City." Meisel brings an all-star team to the campaign with creative direction by Fabien Baron, styling by Karl Templer, makeup by Pat McGrath and hair by Guido Palau.
The campaign features select pieces from the sprawling collection, including its homages to NYC street artist Keith Haring featured on bags, satin bombers and tees. The highlight of the Haring tribute is undoubtedly Coach’s new signature, which sees the timeless Coach pattern juxtaposed with Haring’s artwork “Tea Rose” rivets and matching hardware throughout.
Additionally, the brand’s biggest showpieces of this season are prominent, like the reimagined handbags that were first produced in 1972, with styles ranging from the Camera bag to the Mailbox.
Keith Haring was an American artist whose pop art and graffiti-like work grew out of the New York City street culture of the 1980s. Haring’s art blasted into hearts and minds with optimism, loud bursts of color, and bold graphic lines, fast-tracking his art career as a member of the underground art circuit where fashion, art, and music collided and collaborated.
Model Saara Sihvonen is styled by Lill Jenner in Sylve Colless images for InStyle Australia January 2018./ Hair by Keiren Street; makeup by Peter Beard
British model Jean Campbell is styled by Margherita Moro in 'The Sky of California', lensed by Matteo Montanari for Vogue Russia January 2018./ Hair by Rudi Lewis' makeup by John McKay
Juergen Teller Captures Adwoa Aboah, Family & Friends For Burberry's Zeitgeist Images
British model Adwoa Aboah skyrockets into another rung of fashion industry achievement, teaming up with photographer Juergen Teller in a new photo collaboration for Burberry. The images will drop throughout 2018 and feature Aboah together with her friends and family. In almost USA southern tradition, we meet Adwoa's including her cousins Alfie Husband, George Husband, Richard Theodore-Aboah and Kwame N’Dow, as well as Montell Martin and Mae Muller. The group occupies a park bench along Regent’s Canal in North London, wearing pieces from the brand's new collection, which will be available to buy from January.
Juergen Teller's work is popping up everywhere right now, with his trademark vision of scraping off glossy fashion veneer. Last night AOC featured The Cut's luxury jewelry and accessory baubles arranged in a first cousin of flower-arranging style Ikebana -- a look writer Stella Bugbee calls 'Freakebana'.
Perhaps I'm spending way too much time watching 'The Crown' in the age of Trump -- against the backdrop of Charlottesville and Harvey Weinstein. Writing for T Magazine, Deborah Needleman spoke of Ikebana's contemporary appeal to “its direct and personal connection to nature, its awareness of and emphasis on decay in an era in which our own ecological and environmental ruin feels more vivid than ever.”
There is something quite deep going on here, in these new Burberry images, in the shakeup at British Vogue and the rise of Edward Enninful as editor-in-chief.
Anita Hill, a woman who commands total respect among hard-line feminists and suburban moms alike, and is now a law professor at Brandeis University specializing in law and social policy, has agreed to lead a commission birthed out of the Harvey Weinstein Hollywood debacle. Hill emerged in the national dialogue on sexual harassment, after infamously testifying against Clarence Thomas's supreme court confirmation hearings in 1991. Thomas had been Hill's boss at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and she claimed very boorish, tasteless and ongoing harassment of a sexual nature from now Supreme Court Justice Thomas.
Although over 70% of Americans didn't believe Hill's testimony, women's rights advocates did, and remain unhappy with how Obama VP Joe Biden handled Hill's testimony as head of the Judiciary Committee. Biden refused to let more women coming forward against Thomas and suspended the hearing for a vote. As much as Democrat women like Joe Biden, they have never forgotten Anita's testimony and how she was treated by the white boys club in Congress.
In a recent interview with Teen Vogue, former senator and vice-president Joe Biden, who led the inquisition og Hill, said he wished he “had been able to do more” for her. He added: “I owe her an apology.”
The Commission on Sexual Harassment and Advancing Equality in the Workplace will be charged with tackling “the broad culture of abuse and power disparity” in media and entertainment, a statement from its organisers said. The commission on sexual misconduct has been organized and financed by Hollywood's most prominent figures, writes The Guardian.
Commission organisers include Kathleen Kennedy, president of Lucasfilm; Freada Kapor Klein, a venture capitalist and longtime advocate for sexual harassment victims; Nina Shaw, a Hollywood lawyer; and Maria Eitel, who co-chairs the Nike Foundation.
Eye: Bobby Doherty Captures The Cut's Freakebana Ugly Cool With Floral Design By Brittany Asch
I'm lovin' New York Magazine's new The Cut, and here's another example of why. Recently, The Cut introduced us to Freakebana: The New, Ugly-Cool Style of Arranging Flowers.
Ikebana is the Japanese art of arranging flowers, writes Stella Bugbee. The centuries-old discipline features spare, off-center compositions of local and seasonal foliage, positioned to emphasize form, line, and color. The practice evolved with Buddhist philosophy, rooted in minimalism and precision, with plants chosen carefully for their symbolism. And it’s an object of renewed interest of late: Deborah Needleman, writing for T Magazine, attributed Ikebana’s contemporary appeal to “its direct and personal connection to nature, its awareness of and emphasis on decay in an era in which our own ecological and environmental ruin feels more vivid than ever.”
"True," says Bugbee. "But there’s also something else happening that has less to do with nature and more to do with attitude."
Freakebana (pronounced free-ke-ba-na) is what I am calling it. The turnt cousin of Ikebana, Freakebana is the art of arranging whatever-the-hell, in a way that nods at the traditional Japanese art form, but subs out years of study for a naive, new-wave naturalism. In Freakebana, the components are more likely foraged from the corner deli, as opposed to a Shinto garden. Good Freakebana mixes sparse, eccentric elements for maximum surprise. Say: pink carnations, cubes of jello, an air plant, and Maldon salt crystals.
Enough romantic, farm-to-vase florists like Floret and Saipua. Yes, the allure of peonies and roses is intoxicating, but how about this more hallucinogenic trend? In this followup visual extravagance for The Cut, Stella Bugbee unleashes floral designer Brittany Asch with styling by Diana Tsui and photography by Bobby Doherty in a freakin' uptown freakebana tour de force.
Karolina Kurkova Is Cold-Weather Fuzzy By Gilles Bensimon For Elle Russia January 2018
Top model Karolina Kurkova goes snow bunny in colorful, cold-weather fakery styled by Ekaterina Mukhina. Photographer Gilles Bensimon is behind the lens for Elle Russia January 2018./ Hair by Helene Bidart; makeup by Lloyd Simmonds
Models Gisele Fox and Sara Grace Wallerstedt are styled by Elin Svahn in newsworthy patterns 'Fit To Print', lensed by Gregory Harris for Interview Magazine December/January 2017.18./ Hair by Cyndia Harvey; makeup by Sally Branka
Ajak Deng Blooms In 'Earthly Delights' Lensed By Ed Singleton For Elle UK December 2017
Model Ajak Deng is styled by Solange Franklin in sumptuous prints and a blooming paradise of 'Earthly Delights', lensed by Ed Singleton for Elle UK December 2017./ Makeup by Stoj; hair by Tetsuya Yamakata
Deng revealed recently that she auditioned for a role as a Bond Girl in the new James Bond film, but was rejected due to her 'good looks'. She was, alas, "too pretty".
A Seatbelt Maneuver Blows Up
America's post-Weinstein sexual-harassment/sexual assault reckoning reached the NFL over the weekend, in a series of swift moves that culminated in Carolina Panthers owner Jerry Richardsonannouncing that he will sell his franchise at the end of the season.
“I believe that it is time to turn the franchise over to new ownership,” Richardson said. “Therefore, I will put the team up for sale at the conclusion of this NFL season. We will not begin the sale process, nor will we entertain any inquiries, until the very last game is played. I hope everyone in this organization, both on and off the field, will be firmly focused on just one mission: to play and win the Super Bowl.”
On Sunday rapper and music mogul Sean Combs, aka P Diddy, took to Twitter saying that he would like to buy the Panthers, promising to be "the best NFL owner that you can imagine". Diddy promised to consider hiring Colin Kaepernick, who launched the NFL's players feud with President Trump, and was at the center of NFL players taking a knee worldwide.
If Diddy were to own the Panthers by himself, he would become the league's first majority African-American owner. Our instincts say that the list of African American sports players who would join an ownership syndicate run by Diddy is huge. So he can raise the money.
Back that with a national social media campaign with Americans of every skin color supporting this bid, and Diddy's group would have the upper hand, leaving the NFL owners to fight sexual harassment allegations in the league, the Colin Kaepernick ongoing story and a Trumpian/post-Charlottesville mindset among progressives that would trash the NFL owners beyond belief if the league retained its white owners status.
Craig McDean Captures Ruth, Selena, Jess PW & Kiki In Dior For AnOther Magazine A/W 2017.18
Models Ruth Bell, Selena Forrest, Jess PW & Kiki Willems are styled by Katie Shillingford in Dior's fall collection, lensed by Craig McDean for AnOther Magazine Autumn/Winter 2017.18./ Hair by Damien Boissinot; makeup by Val Garland; set design Jean-Michel Bertin
Paulo Vanier Captures Style Artistry In 'Todo Poder' For Elle Brazil December 2017
Models Aisha Mbikila, Loïc Koutana, Maria Oliveira, Nabillah Sedar, Nérida Cocamáro and Woolmay Denson Pierre are styled by Lucas Boccalão and Anderson Rodriguez in 'Todo Poder' (All Powerful). Photographer Paulo Vainer is in the art studio for Elle Brazil December 2017./ Hair & makeup by Helder Rodrigues
Erdi Kogan Flashes Olena Kets In Technicolor For Elle Turkey December 2017
Model Olena Kets owns the night, styled by Oguz Erel in images by Erdi Dogan for Elle Turkey December 2017./ Hair by Ferit Belli; makeup by Elçin Mutlu
Merkel & Macron Called King & Queen of Europe
Euro News calls German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron the king and queen of Europe.
Choreographed or not, the moment epitomised the unity and common purpose that the two leaders want to present, now that a British Prime Minister is no longer able to build alliances to challenge their countries' positions as the pre-eminent forces of the European Union.
It appears that Brexit has only driven them closer together. Not only do they finish each other's sentences, but they broke with tradition at the EU Summit, giving a joint press conference.
The German Chancellor has heaps of problems on her plate, including forming a government in limbo after the September elections. Leaders of Germany's center-left Social Democrats (SPD) agreed on Friday to enter talks on a new government led by Merkel conservative Union bloc (CDU). Merkel's earlier attempts to form a coalition with two smaller parties collapsed in November. What seems clear is that SPD is seeking an arrangement that will keep Merkel as Chancellor and thwart any possibilities that the German government will collapse.
In France, Emmanuel Macron's popularity has recovered in what Politico Europe calls an 'unprecedented' bounceback. Fifty-two percent of respondents in a new poll are now satisfied with Macron's presidency, an increase of six points.
Codie Young Goes 'Bold Red' In Dennis Leupold Images For Vogue Taiwan December 2017
Model Codie Young is styled by Melina Chen in 'Bold Red' femme-power looks from Balenciaga, Dior, Altuzarra and more. Photographer Dennis Leupold is behind the lens for Vogue Taiwan December 2017.
Maggie Maurer Shimmers, Flashed by Sølve Sundsbø For Numéro 'Stellaire' #189 Dec/Jan 2017.18
Model Maggie Maurer continues photographer Sølve Sundsbø's solo-vision, silvery, shimmering fashion pages called 'Stellaire' for Numero #189 December/January 2017.18.
Models Saskia de Brauw, Daan Duez, Henry Kitcher and Joseph Signoret are styled by Olivier Rizzoin 'Vivienne Westwood and (husband) Andreas Kronthaler: Clothes for Heroes'. Photographer Willy Vanderperre captures the edgy, goddess-inspired, regal looks for AnOther Magazine Autumn/Winter 2017./ Hair by Tina Outen; makeup by Thomas de Kluyer
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