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Chanel SS-2024 Campaign | Zara Spring 2024 Studio Campaign Goes ‘Mad Men’ | Ralph Lauren’s Steady Rise
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Coco Chanel's connection to Villa Noailles [IG] is a fascinating chapter in fashion history. That unique relationship is expressed in the Chanel [IG] Spring 2024 ad campaign and also in lush floral prints inspired by the villa itself, located in Hyères, in the heart of the South of France.
This year, the campaign stars actor Riley Keough, named days ago as Chanel’s new ambassador, alongside longtime Chanel muse, supermodel Rianne Van Rompaey.
Villa Noailles was celebrated at Chanel’s Spring 2024 PFW runway show last October. The new campaign by frequent Chanel collaborators Inez and Vinoodh [IG], unfolds in the villa’s garden and its iconic pink room, envisioned as sanctuaries of creativity and happiness for the Chanel woman.
Zara [IG] drops its Studio Collection twice a year, with today’s Spring 2024 drop called Rêveries.
Real-world models include Fei Fei Sun, Nyawurh Chuol, rising model Rosalieke Fuchs and Vivienne Rohner. Are they pondering Betty Friedan’s life-changing book ‘The Feminine Mystique’ [1963] — but are not quite ready to tackle the deeply philosophical and life-unsettling Simone de Bouveoir treatise ‘The Second Sex’ [1949]?
Steven Meisel [IG] shoots the quartet in rich, mid-century midtones, sheerish blouses, cardigans and pencil skirts, complemented by interior furniture in sensual hues and slowly-increasing sunlight.
Ralph Lauren Collection Spring 2024 releases key images on Instagram and Ralph Lauren online, presumably with a print campaign to follow. Models in the first release include Adele Aldighieri, Bruno Tenorio, Felice Nova Noordhoff, Maty Fall and Sui He are lensed by Carter Berg [IG].
Whatever you think of this bold Ralph Lauren design formula, it’s working in the corporate financial statements.
Excellent Holiday 2023 Performance at Ralph Lauren
Ralph Lauren reported its third quarter sales — which include holiday 2023 — on February 8, 2024. The results put Ralph Lauren in LVMH territory, with their organic revenue growth of 10%, and not Kering Group, who reported a 5% holiday sales decrease.
WWD shared the unconfirmed rumor that Louis Vuitton hopes to take over the defeated proposal for a 109-key Cheval Blanc hotel on the 50,000 sq foot property on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills.
LVMH thought they had a deal going last spring for the Cheval Blanc in Beverly Hills. AOC knew LVMH had the wrong team negotiating on their behalf, long before we wrote the end of the very close vote story.
Weekend Paris Protests at New Louis Vuitton Hotel Site
The circumstances of the 2023 Cheval Blanc Beverly Hills no-vote is even more relevant today, after protesters took over the Paris construction site of the new Louis Vuitton hotel and store in Paris this weekend.
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Bella Hadid for Vogue Italia | Cameron Russell on Being an ‘Agreeable Model’ | Pamela Anderson on Positive Aging for HighSnobiety | Vittoria Ceretti As ‘Ultimate Supermodel’
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Precious words come from supermodel, businesswoman, activist Bella Hadid, who covers the April 2024 issue of Vogue Italia — and presumably other April Vogues as well.
In response to the question “How are you?”, asked by interviewer Sofia Viganò, Bella responds:
“Very good: for the first time since I can remember I am clear and present. I have the feeling that, by showing my most authentic self, things and people have aligned with my destiny."
Hadid is styled by Alex Jordan Harrington in inner cleansing-mode clothes, devoid of showstopping jewelry and other beautiful distractions, with Zoe Ghertner behind the lens.
Bella’s Texas State of Mind
With her enduring love of horses and now spending major amount of time in Ft. Worth, Texas with her guy National Cutting Horse Association Riders Hall of Famer Adan Banuelos, Bella should be fronting the Fall 2024 Louis Vuitton Men’s cowboys campaign.
Top model Cameron Russell, now 36, has a new memoir ‘How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone’, and it sounds hot. On the book’s cover, original supermodel Christy Turlington calls it “A unique and honest perspective on the fashion industry.”
Verity Parker styles the outspoken fashion industry and environmental activist in the usual luxury brands lineup, with cover looks by Miu Miu shot by photographer Clément Pasca [IG].
Reading her Sunday Times UK [IG] interview with Megan Agnew in the March 10th issue, we learn that on her second fashion shoot, the young-model Russell was told she had “cocksucker lips”.
The Goal Was Model Submission
Russell comes at the topic of this hopefully-waning, fashion-industry reality from a fresh perspective, not an exclusively sexual one.
Sitting at the intersection of streetwear and luxury, Highsnobiety [IG] is so worth watching. Today the Zalando-owned media brand delivers a fashion story featuring Pamela Anderson, now 56 years old.
If Highsnobiety is busy reinventing what defines a successful media landscape in a challenging business-world, Pamela Anderson is at work with a slow living, brilliantly-executed reinvention of her famous life as a top Playboy Bunny. Her personal evolution story is one with defined by sincerity and personal integrity.
More Interesting with Age
“My face gets more interesting with age,” says Pamela Anderson, speaking about her fashion story for Issue 34 of Highsnobiety Magazine.
Vittoria Ceretti covers the March 2023 issue of ELLE US in a fashion story ‘Vittoria Ceretti Is the Ultimate Supermodel’ lensed by Mario Sorrenti [IG]. Alex White styles the engaging Italian in Alaïa, Dolce & Gabbana, Ferragamo, Gucci, Khaite, Marc Jacobs, Prada, Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello, Schiaparelli, Willy Chavarria and more./ Hair by Tomo Jidai; makeup by Diane Kendal
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‘Medal Ceremony’ for SCMP Style | Les Gaston Vuitton Fine Jewelry and Accessories | Emmanuelle Lacou’s Bold, Fiery Jewelry | Chaumet’s ‘Un Air de Chaumet’ Takes Flight |
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