With Her ‘Plan de Paris’ Dior Vision, Maria Grazia Chiuri Triples Dior Revenues in 7 Years
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Spring 2023 Dior Gardening Capsule Collection by Ellen Von Unwerth Pts 1 & 2
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The Dior Gardening Capsule from the Spring-Summer 2023 collection by Maria Grazia Chiuri has an abundance of flowers and fauna — such style abundance that we’ve split the photoshoot into two sections.
Punctuated with the dreamy Dior Petites Fleurs and Dior Birds prints created by Tassinari & Chatel by Lelièvre Paris, the capsule bridges elegance with functionality for a group of sweet young fashionistas gone a little bit wild.
Elin Svahn styled the large fashion shoot with models including Carla Pereira, Freja Rothmann-Pallesen, Kiki Wei, Lineisy Montero [major], Lulu Tenney [major], Mary Alexandridi, Raynara Negrine, Tina Diedhiou and more, lensed by Ellen Von Unwerth [IG]. / Hair by Guido Palau; makeup by Peter Palau; set design by Alexander Bock
Read More'Dior Or' Ramadan Capsule Collection 2023 Reigns with Discreet Modern Luxury
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Dior Creative Director Maria Grazia Chiuri introduces her latest Dior Or capsule collection, inspired by gold’s history as a symbol of luxury in the maison.
While golden threads remain prominent in the new capsule, other luminous metallic threads and fabrics — especially silver — weave their way in the ready-to-wear and accessories, which were a timed-release with Ramadan.
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Christian Dior SS2023 Campaign by Brigitte Niedermair Honors Catherine de Medici
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The Christian Dior Spring 2023 Campaign celebrates femininity, power and grace, as explored through the eye and lens of frequent Dior photographer Brigitte Niedermair [IG].
Models include Carla Pereira, Freja Rothmann, Jen Thomson, Sherry Shi, and Stella Lucia.
Preparing for the season, Chiuri discovered a map of Paris in the Dior archives, one that put Avenue Montaigne at its center, even though the street doesn’t represent the actual center of the city.
In short order, the map became a focal print for the spring 2023 collection — a maverick toile de Jouy print that is a sophisticated addition to Dior’s already rich use of toile de Jouy.
Old World unique artistry and needlework inspire the Dior spring 2023 collection, and raffia is used to maximum advantage. Beautiful raffia coats are decorated with delicate flowers and birds, also in play on the accessories. The embroidery work is spectacular.
Read MoreLVMH Moves: Pietro Beccari Will Lead Louis Vuitton | Delphine Arnault At Helm of Dior
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LVMH made major news this morning with significant executive suite moves at motherlode brands Dior and Louis Vuitton.
Pietro Beccari, the chairman and CEO of Christian Dior Couture, has been appointed chairman and CEO of Louis Vuitton, succeeding Michael Burke.
Delphine Arnault, the executive vice president of Louis Vuitton, who oversees all of its product-related activities including the blockbuster January 2023 Louis Vuitton x Yayoi Kusame collaboration, has been named chairman and CEO of Christian Dior Couture.
Read MoreNatalie Portman and Yara Shahidi Front New Rouge Dior Forever Campaign
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Peter Philips, the Creative and Image Director for Dior Makeup [IG], never met a red lipstick he didn’t love. Speaking in late December 2020 about his modern reboot of Dior’s iconic Rouge Dior lipstick, Philips said it was his fascination with the “crimson pout” that initially seduced him to become a makeup artist.
Today, Peter Philips is obessed with Rouge Dior Forever, three words that the beauty director agrees sound like a manifesto. “This new generation of Dior lipsticks is loud when it has to be loud, and discreet when wanted and for sure, always beautiful.”
Read MoreDior Resort 2023 Fashion Story with Allana Santos Brito in Harper's Bazaar Brazil
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Harper’s Bazaar Brazil’s August 2922 issue tributes Dior’s Resort 2023 Collection. Model Allana Santos Brito fronts the cover story styled by Paris-based Raphaël Nicolas De Castro. Photographer Stéphanie Volpato [IG] captures Brito at the Bergerie Nationale in Rambouillet, France.
Whether funded by Dior or not, AOC is intrigued with this gorgeous and sensual editorial in Harper’s Bazaar Brazil’s August 2022 issue. We always feel the push and pull of feminism and women’s history in today’s Christion Dior’s collections.
Read MoreHannah Motler in Dior Spring 2022 Bold Colors Lensed by Elizaveta Porodina
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Dior’s dopamine-dressing stoplight colors of yellow, green and red give tired spirits a welcome style-jolt. DIOR MAGAZINE No. 37 says ‘Let’s Play!’
Read MoreNews: Regina King on Vanity Fair US | Amanda Gorman @ Estee Lauder | Marie Claire US
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Regina King Covers Vanity Fair US October 2021
Actor, director, producer Regina King covers the October 2021 issue of Vanity Fair Magazine wearing a Balenciaga gown and earrings by Taffin. Nicole Chapteau styles King in the cover and accompanying fashion story lensed by Jackie Nickerson.
Jesmyn Ward interviews Regina King about her current role as Trudy Smith in ‘The Harder They Fall’. AOC will excerpt the interview and fashion story but you can read it now.
For those of us who love Regina King to death, watching her incorrigible chic cowgirl ‘Treacherous’ Trudy Smith character ride up to the front of a train, stopping the conductor to shoot him dead before he can utter a racist slur, is a bit unsettling. Still, we’re not dreaming. Reginia King is riding in great company. Idris Elba, Jonathan Majors, LaKeith Stanfield, and Zazie Beetz really are starring with King as a band of outlaws.
Marie Claire US Ceases Print Publication
The US print edition of Marie Claire is ending its 27-year-run. The magazine was sold by Hearst to British publisher Future Media in May, with news breaking September 10 that Marie Claire’s Summer 2021 issue would be its last in America.
Harper’s Bazaar EIC Samira Nasr made the announcement, adding that Marie Claire subscribers will instead receive a print copy of Harper’s Bazaar US, a Hearst publication. Nasr added that Marie Claire would publish select special editions sold on newsstands.
In breaking the story, the New York Post reminded readers that the pandemic has only accelerated trends already playing out in a fractured media landscape.
Hearst quietly reduced Marie Claire’s frequency from 11 to 7 times a year in 2020. In May 2020 Hearst reported that Marie Claire’s total circulation hovered around 900,000 with newsstand sales hitting just around 11,000 copies sold. Just three years earlier, Marie Claire’s circulation totaled 1.1 million, according to the Alliance for Audited Media., a nonprofit media audit firm.
Marie Claire’s most recent circulation figures were not available, but whatever they are, they are likely to give the smaller Harper’s Bazaar a much-needed bump. Bazaar’s total circulation totals roughly 740,000 with less than 25,000 copies sold at the newsstand, the glossy said.
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US Open Tennis Women’s Final
Emma Raducanu, [left], 18, from Britain and Leylah Fernandez [right], 19, from Canada.
Update: Emma Raducanu Defeats Leylah Fernandez for the U.S. Open Title New York Times
Leylah Fernandez and Emma Raducanu Steal Some Grand Slam Spotlight New York Times
Emma Raducanu, 18, of Britain and Leylah Fernandez, 19, of Canada will now play in Saturday’s singles final at the US Open.
Before Wimbledon, Raducanu was only the 10th ranked player in her own country, but she will be British No. 1 on Monday and potentially the first British woman to win a major singles title since Virginia Wade won Wimbledon in 1977.
Dior at Brooklyn Museum
‘Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams’ Comes to Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn Museum
After stops in London, Shanghai and Chengdu, Dior’s exhibition, “Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams,” now has an American twist: being reinvented by curator Florence Müller in collaboration with Matthew Yokobosky. the exhibition opens in New York at Brooklyn Museum from Sept. 10, 2021 until Feb 20, 2022.
Amanda Gorman Aligns Herself with Estee Lauder
Biden Inauguration Poet Amanda Gorman will become the first Estée Lauder “Global Changemaker”. In this new role — presumably created for Gorman, she will be an ambassador or “face’, even a spokeswoman. These are all roles currently in the Estée Lauder family performed by women like Liz Hurley and Carolyn Murphy.
Gorman’s new role steps up that role while bringing Gorman into the corporate offices under the philanthropy umbrella.
The Harvard graduate and first person named National Youth Poet Laureate will also work with the beauty industry giant to create Writing Change, a set of grants worth $3 million to promote literacy among girls and women — and with it access to equity and social change.
This step for Gorman in her carefully-planned entry into major halls of power and influence in the business world is what she calls “the space I now occupy”.
According to Jane Hertzmark Hudis, the executive group president of the Estée Lauder Companies, she called Ms. Gorman’s agent as soon as the poet walked offstage, and they first spoke within an hour of her appearance, writes Vanessa Friedman for NYT.
“I felt as committed and passionate about creating a partnership as I’ve been about anything,” Ms. Hudis said — and she has been with the group for 35 years. “We essentially came to them with a blank page, because we knew we could do something that hadn’t been done before.”
