Drielle Valeretto & Mandy de Wolff | Signe Vilstrup | Vanity Fair Italia January 11, 2012

Bettina Casanova styles a luxe, lush editorial ‘Scalda Cuore’ featuring Drielle Valeretto and Mandy de Wolff, lensed by Signe Vilstrup for Vanity Fair Italia, January 11, 2012.

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Film | Kim Willecke, Zack Zublena & Laura Forman | Bell Soto | 'Private Affair'

Peruvian born, New York and London based photographer Bell Soto has created a mini masterpiece with ‘Private Affair’ featuring Kim Willecke, Zack Zublena and Laura Forman.

Describing the film ‘Private Affair’, Bell Soto writes:

“It is a wonderful experience to work with a team that understands your vision, and this film is very special to me.

I was inspired by the early physique photography and the Italian cinema in black and white. I wanted to create many layers with the ambiguity of the characters, the dance scenes, the subtle gestures of the actors.

The music is a very important element in my work. For this film, I mixed barroque music from XVIII century in contraposition with a modern mix of a 60s song, both songs talk about the same theme : The Lost love “.

Full credits at end of post.

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Alice Luker | Poseidon's Courtesan | The Creatives

Stylist Holly Cox is inspired by the sea in UK photographer Alice Luker’s photo shoot ‘Poseidon’s Courtesan’. The focus of the shoot is a young goddess woman seriously absorbed in her own beauty. Luker reminds us that beauty and vanity can also be a curse with a much darker side.

Stopping by Alice Luker’s website:

Alice’s photographic works offer a visual representation of her unique perspective, exploring the depths of beauty and fantasy. Whilst portraying elements of a classical painterly aesthetic, her work retains relevance to 21st century culture, exploring the realm of the ‘ideal’ and emphasising its influence on high fashion.

On the subject of beauty, vanity and aging, both Anne and AOC contributor Ellen Gayda wrote submissions to Vogue Italia’s Citizen Journalism #2 Body: treatment or obsession.

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Adrien & Valeriia | Nicolas Guerin | FIASCO Magazine Annual Issue 2011

Adrian @ Marilyn and Valeriia @ Oui Management are lensed by Nicolas Guerin for FIASCO Magazine’s Annual issue. Sophie Clauzel styles the duo in sensual, mostly-modest, nature-inspired ensembles. /Makeup by Vichika Yorn; hair by Mike Desir. Nicolas Guerin assisted by Aude de Cazenove. Fiasco website.

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Natalia Zakharova | Stratis | 'Prelude To Love in the Making' | Nakedbutsafe #1

‘Prelude to Love in the Making’ is the smashing kind of editorial we love at AOC. Photographed by Stratis in Greece and styled by ‘fashion boss’ Manos Samartzis, Natalia Zakharova provokes all our sensual demons for Nakedbutsafe #1. (website)

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Sophie Holmes | Signe Vilstrup | TMRW Fall 2011 | 'Forget Her'

Sophie Holmes is a dreamy, ethereal fashion fairy, styled in pure romanticism and fine accessories by Simone Guidarelli for TMRW Fall 2011. Signe Vilstrup makes the style capture ‘Forget Her’.

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Cato van Ee | Alique | Jackie Dutch January 2012 | 'In the Game!'

Renu Kashyap styles Cato van Ee in perfectly understandable, womanly fashions with a tie or twist, lensed by Alique for Jackie Dutch January 2012 as ‘In the Game’.

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