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José Castellar [IG] photographs Nassia Matsa with key pieces in Christian Laboutin’s ‘Greekaba’ capsule collection, created with Greek artist and illustrator Konstantin Kakanias.
This year’s beneficiary of Christian Louboutin’s captule philanthropy contribution is ‘Together for Children’ (TFC).
Read MoreV Magazine #136 rolls on with more 5-star content , sharing 11-alarm fire images of Latina actor Eliza Gonzalez. The Mexican television star and action movie hero has worked in acting since she was a teenager.
It was Eliza’s idea to abandon her brunette locks for the fashion story ‘The Eliza Effect’, lensed by Jack Bridgland. “I called Jack the day before and I was like, “I really wanna bleach my hair and eyebrows, and he’s like, ‘Oh my God, really?’ and even on the day of, they were on the fence, [but] I was like, ‘Let’s just do it. It’s gonna be so cool!’”.
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Read MoreThe message behind the new Ashley Graham X Knix Collection is clear.
Read MoreIt's time that all of us lived unapologetically free. Free from judgement. Free from self-doubt. Free to be yourself. That's why all our products, from the most comfortable wireless bras to super absorbent underwear, are designed to make you feel more comfortable in your own skin.
AOC works hard to identify any backstories or cultural references in fashion stories and ad campaigns. We came up empty-handed all over Instagram checking the individual IGs of the cast of this Vogue Scandinavia
The Scandinavian countries are deeply admired for many reasons, but environmental awareness and a necessary austerity due to the impact of fashion-world consumption on nature are well-established in the culture.
So AOC kept looking for clues, unearthing astounding new research on an old Scandinavian artifact.
Read MoreOne of my favorite new shows is Washington, DC-raised, master sommelier Carlton McCoy’s Sunday night show ‘Nomad’ on CNN.
Tonight, May 23, McCoy — one of three Black [note that McCoy is biracial] Master sommeliers in America — is in Ghana.
Read MoreGhanaian model Dede Mansro poses in ‘From Roots We Grow’, a fashion story styled by Esmeralda Schipper-Zijp on location in Ghana. Photographer Kwabena Appiah-Nti captures Mansro in the Aburi Mountains for the June 2022 issue of Vogue Netherlands.
Read MoreSuperwoman Adriana Lima is at the Cannes Film Festival 2022, sharing an image of her ravishing self on her own IG. Lima, who is pregnant with a baby boy, wrote: Thanks @badgalriri for opening the door. Lima was at the premiere of the new ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ movie, wearing Balmain and Chopard.
NOTE: Rihanna gave birth to a baby boy May 13, 2022. She and A$AP Rocky are at home with their son in Los Angeles.
Lima is six months pregnant in this series of four covers and one fashion story image styled by Marcell Maia in images by Josefina Bietti [IG]. Creative direction by Luciano Schmitz.
Read Moreadidas steps up with longtime partner Karlie Kloss to co-create a new collection, dropping phase one today, May 17th. Kloss is committed to helping the next generation of girls and women lead active and informed lifestyles.
The supermodel’s project priorities consistently promote a healthy and agile brain and body, while supporting Gaia and Planet Earth. Karlie is committed to being a super-activist in their perilous fight to recover environmental vitality after centuries of aggressive neglect and environmental abuse.
Read MoreThe travel ban out of Saudi Arabia remains a problem for jailed dissidents including Raif Badawi, and Amnesty International has just released on May 9, 2022 a new campaign called ‘#LetThemFly’.
"Saudi Arabian authorities' arbitrary use of travel bans against activists and human rights defenders reflects a bleak reality in the country, where dissenting voices continue to be ruthlessly silenced while leaders speak of progressive reform," Lynn Maalouf, Amnesty's Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa, said in a statement on Monday, citing the release of Raif Badawi, whose sister Samar is also on the travel ban list.
Raif Badawi’s wife Ensaf Haidar and three children left Saudi Arabia for Canada after his arrest in 2012. The Canadian government has legalized an order to grant him immediate citizenship upon his arrival in Canada.
Relations between Canada and Saudi Arabia have been strained over Canada’s offer of asylum to numerous Arab world dissidents. Presumably the Biden administration — not particularly popular either in Riyadh — will also get involved in this discussion to reunite Raif Badawi with this wife and children..
Read MoreAcne Studios is headquartered in Stockholm, producing men's and women's ready-to-wear fashion, footwear, accessories and denim. In 2021, the brand launched a project to turn excess textiles into new capsule collections.
Titled Seasons 7 & 8, the latest collection continues this mission by reimagining woven silk, jersey, fleece and eco-printed denim fabrics.
Read MoreNot all collaborations are created equal. Designed by Gucci Creative Director Alessandro Michele, adidas x Gucci is spectacular in a business-smart kind of way. The design hybrids created by this fusion of business brilliance go way beyond wearable and visually appealing.
The two brands adidas and Gucci look like they were made for each other . . . like adidas should just buy Gucci [ relax Kering].
Read MoreThe appointment of supermodel Bella Hadid as ambassador for jeweler Swarovski has generated its first campaign, dripping with color-saturated, visual appeal. Conceptualized by creative director Giovanna Engelbert, and shot by photographers Mert Alas and Marcus Piggot, the brand message is transformative for Swarovski.
AOC always does a last 24 hours Google search on our posts, and the Jerusalem Post’s story on Israel’s rejection of Bella Hadid as Swarovski ambassador is in the #3 position, ahead of the press release.
The Yalon group, which owns Swarovski stores in Israel, has issued a statement distancing itself from Bella Hadid as the new ambassador for the jewelry brand. Limited headlines in the Israeli press — but including the important Jerusalem Post — carry a similar message, calling Bella Hadid a “top model and anti-Israel activist”.
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Babacar N'doye's Dopamine Dressing Mens Fashion Story for Port Magazine #30 AOC Fashion
Model Babacar N’doye gives weary global spirits a welcome jolt of dopamine dressing, posing in ‘This Must Be the Place’ for Port Magazine issue 30. Stylist Mitchell Belk chooses sophisticated hot weather clothes from Boss, Canali, Dior, Fendi, Giorgio Armani, Gucci, Hermes, Margaret Howell, Polo Ralph Lauren, Prada, Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello, Tod’s and Zegna in blindingly beautiful colors.
Having just bought a modern yellow sofa, I so appreciate another jolt to my visual senses, captured by photographer Lars Bronseth [IG] in Fuerteventura, the second largest of Spain’s Canary Islands, off the north coast of Africa.
I am deadly serious about surrounding myself with color in blooms, furniture, art — everything that matters to me. Even Babacar sends a message on his IG: No fighting!
As our lives are turned inside out on so many levels, I cannot go through life as a black widow, mourning the threatened state of our world and the loss of every personal right we’ve gained in America in the last 50 years.
Republicans want us to trust that only abortion rights are on the line. But we know better. It’s contraception, LGBTQ2+, racial justice, freedom from the government monitoring our every action. I’m such an optimistic person, but between the US Supreme Court Alito draft decision and Putin in Ukraine, I’m shaken to my core.
So thanks Port Magazine and all the designers for a bit of fashion joy so beautifully executed. Call it fashion escapism, but for me it’s a huge vitamin pill for which I am grateful. ~ Anne
‘Euphoria’ star Sydney Sweeney fronts the new Miu Miu ‘Wander’ handbag campaign, shot by Tyrone Lebon. Sweeney is deeply embedded in pop culture consciousness, playing the villain Cassie in season two of ‘Euphoria’ and starring as the easily antagonized Olivia Mossbacher in ‘The White Lotus.’
Sweeney compares the two roles, saying “I don’t think as many people took me seriously in ‘euphoria’ because I took my shirt off.” In ‘The White Lotus’, Sweeney keeps her clothes on and people call her “amazing”.
This is exactly the kind of rebellious, young woman candor that Miuccia Prada loves.
Read MoreTop model Joan Smalls covers the May 2022 issue of Vogue Italia. Ally Macrae styles Smalls in images by Cho Gi-Seok . Samira Larouchi talks topics including her close family ties in Puerto Rico and the fertility treatments she is undergoing.
Joan Smalls is also reading a well-known book ‘A New Earth’ by spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle. Since Christmas Smalls is working on the intentional life she’s currently manifesting.
Read MoreSimone Biles holds a combined total of 32 Olympic and World Championship medals, tied with Shannon Miller as the most decorated gymnast of all time. Biles and Miller are also tied for the most Olympic medals won by an American gymnast.
These feats don’t happen by accident. “As a child, my mother would take us to her office to write down our short-term and long-term goals on a piece of paper. It is a practice that I maintain, because that list reminds me why I do things.”
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