Rising model Anisya Ansimova @avanthunt make her second appearance in AOC in two days, touching down Tuesday like an earth goddess for ‘Corre con el Viento’. Ansimova again styles herself in images by Jonathan Headley for Vogue Latino America’s May June 2020 issue. / Makeup and hair by Jerome Costa; photography assistant Nobuhiko Satoh; style assistant Irina Namakarskaia

It’s clear to me why people are talking to me about Anisya Ansimova. What spirit, confidence and competence. More is coming about Anisya soon, and we shared a bit of her Angolan/Russian background yesterday. (See second editorlal bottom of page.)

I very much like the message of Vogue Latin America ‘s ‘Corre con el Viento’ (Run with the Wind’. via Google translator:

“Times come when you seek power in Nature and eternal things. The dynamics are in you and only you can decide where to land your Next Steps.

The words remind me of Clarissa Pinkola Estés, an American writer and Jungian psychoanalyst, whose book ‘Women Who Run with the Wolves’ was a New York Times bestseller for almost three years. From what I’ve been told about Anisya Ansimova and her persona in these images for Vogue Latino America, these words from the book would resonate deeply with her.

“Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. Her name is Wild Woman, but she is an endangered species. Though the gifts of wildish nature come to us at birth, societies attempt to ‘civilize’ us into rigid roles has lundered this treasure, and muffled deep, life-giving messages of our own souls. Without Wild Woman, we become overdomesticated, fearful, uncreative, trapped.”

One of these “tamed, uncreative, trapped” young women crossed my path today. It was very unpleasant, but Anisya Ansimova spins my head around with a life force that vibrates all that is an ancestral Wild Woman: It’s she who says to us “Follow me; I know the way.” ~ Anne