Score a home run for the simply magnificent ‘The Little Mermaid’ Halle Bailey, styled by Anna Trevelyan in the best looks of couture with Bulgari Jewelry accents.

Photographer Rob Rusling [IG] returns with another IA-generated fashion story for V142 Summer issue. His first — also with Anna Trevelyan — was Maika Inga Poses in AI-Generated Fashion Story for 10 Magazine SS-2023.

This is the first time AOC has run back-to-back IA-generated content, and it’s 100% organic!

Hours ago we posted Bella Hadid on the cover of Vogue Italia, lensed by Carlijn Jacobs, as today’s first AI discussion.

You better be careful, guys, because you may raise Carl Jung from the dead with these mermaid images.

Mermaids occupied a significant space in the theories of Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. Carl Jung's theory is the collective unconscious. He believed that human beings are connected to each other and our ancestors through a shared set of experiences that are transmitted from one generation to the next.

We use this collective consciousness to give meaning to the world.

Additionally, I updated yesterday’s British Vogue Haile Bailey story after learning that Hans Christian Andersen was heavily influenced by Carl Jung. His learning centre in Denmark has a major section devoted to that influence.

Scholars are generally annoyed that ‘The Little Mermaid’ and other famous works of the author are regarded as children’s books. Commenting on the genre of what is called Fantastic Literature, Andersen scholars are committed to seeing “Andersen the story-teller in a perspective vastly broader than the worn-out international cliché notion of him as a children's author.”

So enough of Carl Jung — except to say that when I saw these images, my response was visceral for one more reason. Of all the thousands of fashion stories in AOC, there is one that truly symbolizes what Anne of Carversville is all about.

I moved 'The Girl From Atlantis' [2010] by Sølve Sundsbø Remains a Fervent Love at AOC next door to this new post. It’s the first editorial since ‘The Girl From Atlantis’, 13 years ago, that spoke to me with similar references to the divine feminine, Jung’s ancient symbolism of rebirth and especially the vast ocean of time, generations and collective, ancient wisdom.

Thank you Solve Sundsbo. For me the ‘Girl From Atlantis’ images have always been a true gift.

In text by Kevin Ponce, V Magazine digs deep into the process behind Rob Rusling’s work with IA. This discussion went deeper than Carlijn Jacobs’ introduction to it for Vogue Italia.

Meaning it took days with IA image boards created for critiquing.I can only describe it as a more art agency approach. CGI image and video maker Nik Gundersen [IG] worked with Rusling and Trevelyan on this project, as he did the first Maika Inga shoot for 10 MAGAZINE.

Rusling worked as first assistant to Nick Knight, now in Paris. While he is crafting his own unique style of photography that may be influenced by AI, working with a visionary like Nick Knight sets a high bar of creative execution and excellence. Clearly, the photographer is on a gifted path.