Brazilian Amanda Wellsh Speaks Of Motherhood, Self Growth In Xavi Gordo Images For Madame Figaro France

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Brazilian model Amanda Wellsh is profiled in Madame Figaro France January 2019, sitting down with Paola Genone in her Miami home. Cecile Martin styles Wellsh with images by Xavi Gordo./ Hair & makeup by Paco Garrigues

Already a mother of Pedro, age 6, Wellsh is now pregnant with a girl and she dreams of returning to Brazil so that her children can learn the same traditions that have formed her essence. Amanda shares her deep respect for fellow Brazilian Gisele Bundchen. "I was inspired by her sincerity and her strength, but also by her commitment to the environment. Ecology is one of our priorities to save the planet and ensure a future for our children. I recycle, I consume organic and I am angry when I see so much plastic used for packaging. I often talk about it to my son. "

Amanda hates clichés: those of the perfect wife and mother in particular. The former student in architecture explains:

Candice Swanepoel Brings Sexy With Shape Swim Bodies To Moda Operandi

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Candice Swanepoel Brings Sexy With Shape Swim Bodies To Moda Operandi

Supermodel Candice Swanepoel takes her Tropic of C pre-fall 2019 swimwear brand to online retailer Moda Operandi The collection features 2000’s inspired one-pieces, high-waisted bikini sets and bandeau styles, including polka dot and leopard prints. 

Adriana Lima Is Radiant In Chopard's 'Magical Setting' Collection, Lensed By Michael Schwartz

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Adriana Lima Is Radiant In Chopard's 'Magical Setting' Collection, Lensed By Michael Schwartz

What better place than Miami for Adriana Lima to showcase luxe jeweler Chopard’s new Magical Setting collection. Photographer Michael Schwartz captures the shimmering diamonds clustered in floral shapes in a unique, breakthrough collection of necklaces, earrings and rings. Elizabeth Sulcer styles Adriana with hair by Peter Gray and makeup by Georgi Sandev.

The skills of the maison's high jewellery department are put to task with this new setting, as the diamonds seem to be floating freely, with no links or claws holding them together. They come together in an explosion of sparkle, unencumbered by heavy metal prongs or claws, as if linked together by the tap of a wand. The collection features diamonds, blue sapphires from Sri Lanka, rubies from Mozambique and Madagascar, or emeralds from Colombia and Zambia. Each flower is anchored by a focal stone, that's surrounded by an array of precious gems. 

Related Jan 2019 articles: Glamour with a Conscience: With Chopard’s mission towards sustainable luxury in full swing, all that glitters is indeed (ethical) gold Portfolio

Caroline Scheufele Expands Chopard’s Commitment to Sustainable Luxury Whitewall

Writer Nicole Dennis-Benn Shares Her Brooklyn-Based, Black Beauty Fashion Inspirations

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Writer Nicole Dennis-Benn Shares Her Brooklyn-Based, Black Beauty Fashion Inspirations

Nicole Dennis-Benn Finds Her Voice Through Fashion ELLE US

Bern explains that given that “I’ll always be ‘alien’ as a black person in America’, originally from Jamaica, she wears clothes from people who have her back. Literally. Bern bagged dressing to assimilate for years, trading her lower style profile to dressing to be seen in clothes created by black designers.

I have found community in black-owned boutiques. Martine’s Dream, in the heart of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, brings to mind the Caribbean with its island-inspired, bohemian-chic airy cotton dresses and skirts, its kimonos and caftans. TracyChambers Vintage and Indigo Style Vintage, also both Brooklyn-based, sell timeless pieces— from sweaters reminiscent of Denise Huxtable’s wardrobe on The Cosby Show to pleated dresses with shoulder pads and gold buttons that are very Clair Huxtable.

From Motherhood To Mossad Agent, Diane Kruger Is 'In the Lead' Lensed By Benjamin Vnuk For Porter Edit Jan 25, 2019

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From Motherhood To Mossad Agent, Diane Kruger Is 'In the Lead' Lensed By Benjamin Vnuk For Porter Edit Jan 25, 2019

Actor Diane Kruger is styled by Tracy Taylor in sensual neutrals for ‘In the Lead’, lensed by Benjamin Vnuk for Porter Edit January 25, 2019.

Kruger sits down with Jane Mulkerrins for a chat on motherhood and possible marriage, and the secret training involved in her role as an Israeli intelligence Mossad agent in the upcoming film ‘The Operative.

“We had to do some strange things,” Kruger explains. “Like having to convince a stranger in the street to walk you somewhere, and having to knock on someone’s door and convince them to let you into their home.” Kruger poses as tourist in the city. “And if you act believably, most people will go out of their way to help you,” she reflectgs out loud. “But I found it really hard to lie to people like that.” Even worse was training requiring her to travel through airport security on a fake passport. “There was a real possibility of getting arrested. It was terrifying.”

Lies, Lies & More Lies

If lies and deception are unsettling, Kruger must abandon her inner voice for her role in a second film ‘Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy’. ‘JT LeRoy’ (played on screen by Kristen Stewart) was presented in an elaborate hoax that fooled both Hollywood and the publishing industry in the 1990s and early 2000s.

Presented as a literary wunderkind and the author of “several supposedly semi-autobiographical books detailing a luridly hardscrabble childhood”, JT LeRoy was an entirely fictitious character, “created by writer Laura Albert, and played – in glasses and a wig – by her sister-in-law Savannah Knoop. “ Knoop (portrayed by Laura Dern in the film) co-wrote the screenplay.

Why Sierra Leonean Women Don’t Feel Protected By Domestic Violence Laws

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Why Sierra Leonean Women Don’t Feel Protected By Domestic Violence Laws

By Luisa T. Schneider, Postdoctoral research fellow, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. First published on The Conversation

Sierra Leone has a long history of sexual and gender based violence, dating back to the colonial era and stretching into the years of independence which began in 1961. The country’s civil war, which raged between 1991 and 2002, brought international attention to the high levels of violence against women.

In this way, Sierra Leone is similar to many young democracies in Africa with a violent history; it struggles with patriarchal attitudes and high levels of violence against women and girls.

After the war, several legal changes were made to try and address this kind of violence. One was the Domestic Violence Act, ratified in 2007. It criminalises all forms of violence – physical, sexual, emotional and economic — against women and outlines strict punishments for perpetrators.

A Frenzied John Galliano Reimagines Haute Couture Decadence For Maison Margiela Artisanal Spring 2019

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For Maison Margiela Artisanal’s haute couture Spring/Summer 2019 collection, John Galliano used a podcast to address decadence in art, film, literature — and life. Nowhere is that perceived decadence better expressed than in the insatiable thirst for technology, especially among Gen Z types.

‘’The overstimulation of computer-generated imagery alters reality and degenerates the truth. Chaotic and unsettling, it is a confusion of the senses rooted in an over-satiation that inevitably overspills’’, said the show notes. With that, Galliano presented his haute couture collection against an eye-popping graffitied backdrop that totally dominates the visual presentation of his collection.

The gender fluid bodies “replicated that visually chaotic mural as a print using any number of inventive treatments, from traditional hand-embroideries and feather fronds to state-of-the-art reflective fabrics,", writes Vogue’s Hamish Bowles., describing them as “often combined to create a shimmering effect as though you had looked too hard at the sun and then closed your eyes. With mirror underfoot to fracture and multiply the looks, the effect was even more discombobulating and powerful. “

Galliano confessed that he is “feeling so much energy in the world” and the result is a collection that reinvents the vision of haute couture in 2019.

Marco Sierra Captures The 'Next Generation' Of Relaxed Sophistication For ELLE Spain February 2019

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Cast Carmen Celli, Gala Houlihan, Mayka Merino, Nora Vara, and Nuria Rothschild are styled by Inmaculada Jimenez in ‘Next Generation’, lensed by Marco Sierra for ELLE Spain February 2019./ Hair and makeup by Paula Soroa, Manu Moreno, Vicky Marcos, and Victor Mareso,

Tim Walker Flashes Julia Garner, Kiki Layne + Sadie Sink In Kate Spade SS 2019 Campaign

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Actors Julia Garner, Kiki Layne and Sadie Sink front Kate Spade’s Spring/Summer 2019 Campaign. Sara Moonves styles the trio in quirky, vivid images by Tim Walker, photos that captures the DNA the brand is known for. / Makeup by Sam Bryant

Irina Lis Costanzo Flashes Sofia Resing In Romantic Spring Knits For ELLE Bulgaria February 2019

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Irina Lis Costanzo Flashes Sofia Resing In Romantic Spring Knits For ELLE Bulgaria February 2019

Model Sofia Resing is styled by Grace Maier in hyper-feminine, cozy fabrics fashion images by Irina Lis Costanzo for ELLE Bulgaria February 2019.

Lily James Plays London's West End, Lensed As Eve By Lucian Bor For Sunday Times Style January 6, 2019

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Actor Lily James is styled by Flossie Saunders in ‘All About Lily’, lensed by Lucian Bor for The Sunday Times Style Magazine UK January 6, 2019./ Hair by Halley Brisker; makeup by Mary Greenwell

Lily James joins Gillian Anderson in West End London, playing Eve to Anderson’s Margo Channing in Ivo Van Hove’s adaptation of the 1950s Hollywood classic ‘All About Eve’. Read on about the play at The Evening Standard.

Stella Maxwell + Jordan Barrett Torch Act 1 Magazine #3, In Sebastian Faena's Ode To Duduism

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Model stars Stella Maxwell and Jordan Barrett joined forces with photographer Sebastian Faena in The Daily’s third annual limited-edition art magazine launched in Miami at Art Basel. Perhaps inspired by other events in Trumplandia, the trio collaborated around the theme of Duduism, which Faena describes as “a form of artistic anarchy born out of disdain for the social, aesthetic, and cultural values of the time. It embraces elements of art, music, poetry, combat, and romance.”

Only two weeks earlier, Barrett’s supporters were pushing back against rumours that his hard-partying and ‘bad behaviour’ had hurt his career. Hey, AOC loves Sebastian Faena , so kudos to his artistic vision! Proceed with full knowledge that the trio torches the place. ~ Anne

Erika Astrid Creates Bold Images Of Francesca Dello Russo For Harper's Bazaar Mexico and Latin America

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Model Francesca Dello Russo is styled by Alejandra Muñoz in ‘Encanto en el Bosque’. Photographer Erika Astrid brings her provocative, confrontational images to the pages of Harper’s Bazaar Mexico and Latin America.

Zoey Grossman Captures 'New Bohemians' Beauty For Harper's Bazaar US December-January 2018.19

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Coach delivers an enchanting spring fashion story ‘New Bohemians’, styled by Miguel Enamorado. Photographer Zoey Grossman captures models Brigette Lundy-Paine, Harleth Kuusik, Indira Scott and Kiko Mizuhara, joined by 20-year-old music talent with legendary DNA Selah Marley.

EYE: Fashion Should Embrace Real Women Warriors -- AOC Updates 'Combat Appeal' Fashion For ELLE Italia

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EYE: Fashion Should Embrace Real Women Warriors -- AOC Updates 'Combat Appeal' Fashion For ELLE Italia

In real life, there is no such thing as ‘Combat Appeal’ and fashionistas need to get with the program. Even the notoriously apolitical American Vogue is now leading the charge against flagrant abuses in our rights by the Trump administration. There’s a difference between obsessive political correctness — which AOC detests — and challenging ourselves to reframe simple statements like ‘Combat Appeal’ in an embrace of utilitarian, unisex dressing that doesn’t celebrate war. We give you one example:

Model Cato van Ee is styled by Miki Sessa in images by Gilles Bensimon for ELLE Italia January 17, 2019.

With money tight in magazines, ELLE Italia could promote these same fashion images with a cover headline that said ‘New Combat Zones’. Inside, they could have a text page that celebrates Doutzen Droes and Behati Prinsloo with a brief update on their work against elephant and rhino poaching. And they could do a quick intro to two women seriously involved in ‘combat’ to save big game in Africa:

Both women have military backgrounds, with Faye Cuevas now leading the charge against elephant poaching in Kenya, and arms trafficking expert Kathi Lynn Austin taking on the illegal gun trafficking industry. The original ‘Combat Appeal’ fashion headline gets a 2019 update that no longer makes war glamorous — which it is NOT and NEVER was. ELLE Italia devotes a few short paragraphs to celebrating models and non-glam women fighting to save big game.

In the case of Cuevas and Austin, the magazine briefly educates readers. Hey, they could even link back to AOC online, in a way of supporting small websites. So there! We have an editorial fix that resonates deeply.

Millennials and even younger readers are not amused by fashion celebrating war. Their values are not in some stylish handbag that they wear on certain occasions. Their fusion brains are always evaluating the totality of a brand’s DNA and messaging, and that includes magazines. If magazines can’t honor this growing shift in consumption consciousness, they will die. ~ Anne

Rasmus Mogensen Flashes 'Noces Blanches' For Madame Figaro France January 4th, 2019

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Models Liu Na, Tiah Beye, Marie Lucassen, and Valeriia Karaman are styled by Agnès Poulle in untraditional wedding looks in ‘Noces Blanches’ (White Weddings). Photographer Rasmus Mogensen is behind the lens for Madame Figaro France January 4, 2019./ Hair by Cyril Lalou; Carole Lasnier