American model Dilone, of Dominican descent, is on AOC’s ‘more, please’ list. The actor/model poses in Brasilia, Brazil in the April 2023 issue of Vogue Netherlands.

Linda Gumus Gerritsen styles the athletic earth daughter, who wears modern-architecture, spare but fluid silhouettes and fabrications for the warm-weather fashion story lensed by Arran & Jules [IG].

Seeing the fashion story, the word ‘brutalist’ began ringing in our ears like a gong bonging while Dilone executes one of her perfect headstands. One couldn’t escape the word brutalist in 2022.

Brazil was a major home to brutalist architecture, long associated with independence movements in a post-colonial world. Against a verdant, tropical backdrop and with the addition of glass in some countries style preferences, the architectural style appears much warmer and human than that Parisian parking lot [see end of post].

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Related: The Unexpectedly Tropical History of Brutalism T Magazine

Related: The Parisian, multi-story ‘double helix’ parking lot designed by Ludovic Maillard and used as the set for a Brigitte Neidermair fashion story with Akon Changkou in V Magazine 2021.

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