Prada sponsors an excellent, much-appreciated style ride onto the covers and interior story of Vogue Korea’s April 2024 issue. At the helm from her perch atop the world of successful models, Vittoria Ceretti is styled by Eunyoung Sohn in cinematic images lensed by Luigi & Iango [IG].

AOC has no issue at all with luxury-brand fashion stories. We hope to see far more of them, frankly.

As we renew one old fashion story a day and also add ones never posted to the old fashion channel, it’s shocking to see just how much creativity and thoughtful visual content has been lost — even in the last five years.

We have no issue with videos, which are a fantastic addition. The challenge is the overhead of print media and its accompanying revenues with a customer base that rarely reads print media anymore.

If Prada has to pay for a Vogue Korea fashion story shot on location [or AI where it works] — and in color — in order for us to have Vittoria Ceretti and Luigi & Iango at the helm, so be it.

We are grateful, and given the geographic composition of readers of websites like AOC, the story will travel its own ‘Silk Road’ internet route to far and wide exposure and influence.

I can’t imagine that Prada is sponsoring the same fashion story reprinted in 3-5 Vogues. But hey — AOC is rarely wrong, but I’ll eat cake, if it rolls in with global duplicates. Everybody has an ‘off’ day. ~ Anne