Zoe Kravitz in Saint Laurent by Collier Schorr for AnOther Magazine FW 2021

Zoe Kravitz in Saint Laurent by Collier Schorr for AnOther Magazine FW 2021 AOC Body

Zoë Kravitz is “the cool kids’ cool kid,” writes Lynette Nylander for AnOther Magazine’s FW 2021 issue. As a fashion front row favorite, Zoë Kravitz is styled by Avena Gallagher in almost total Saint Laurent fall fashion head to toe in images by Collier Schorr [IG].

“I feel like me and Anthony [Vaccarello] inspire each other. We talk about inspiration pictures and send things back and forth. Me and Anthony are tight,” Kravitz says about the YSL designer and her four-years relationship with the luxury brand.

Nicole Kidman Covers Harper's Bazaar US October 2021 by Collier Schorr

Nicole Kidman Covers Harper's Bazaar US October 2021 by Collier Schorr AOC Fashion

American-born, Australian actor and producer Nicole Kidman covers the October 2021 issue of Harper’s Bazaar US. Stella Greenspan chooses a rich collection of fashion and Bulgari jewelry from Balenciaga, Burberry, Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Max Mara, Prada, The Row, Valentino and more. Collier Schorr [IG] photographs the 5’11” tall actor with creative direction by Laura Genniger./ Hair by Tamas Tuzes

Amanda Fortini speaks trans-Pacific with Kidman on the degree to which prestige TV has fueled a stunning period of reawakening and reinvention in the interview ‘The Golden Age of Nicole Kidman’.

If you’re a Nicole Kidman fan, the interview is 5-stars. Amanda Fortini shares a compendium of Kidman’s current projects and it’s a long list. The exchange probes Kidman’s deep psychological involvement in her characters, a reality that also impacts her family. The actor has spoken previously on this topic, one that is accentuated by a profound empathy that she has for humans generally.

Kidman’s visceral ability to feel her surroundings and people deeply — reading the room intuitively and not in a calculating, rational-mind manner — has placed her in the flow with American television writer and producer David E. Lynch. Kelley is involved in ‘Big little Lies’, ‘The Undoing’ and Hulu’s ‘Nine Perfect Strangers’.

“Her characters in these series are difficult, often inscrutable women who, in less skilled hands, would not be remotely sympathetic: spoiled women, insufferably out-of-touch women, a woman who defends her murderous husband, another who oversteps her guests’ boundaries and, at times, infringes upon their safety,” writes Fortini.

Rereading the interview for the third time, I don’t find throwaway paragraphs. Especially if you are a creative, each segment will speak to you.

“I suppose the artist spirit, a lot of times, is saying, ‘I don’t care what it’s gonna cost me as a human being, because my thrust is deeply artistic,’” Kidman says, pulling her hair down and putting it up again. She tells me that while filming the intense marital altercations in Big Little Lies, she would come home with bruises and have to explain to her young daughters where they came from. “And that’s probably just a massive push-pull in any person who’s a painter, a writer, you know?” she says contemplatively, treating the notion with the gravity it obviously holds for her. “If you’re really dedicated to it over a lifetime, that push-pull will collide with your existence and your connections with your family and all the people in your life. How much will that cost them? How much will it cost you personally? And how important is that artistic contribution?”

Gigi Hadid's Uber-Serious Fashion Mood by Collier Schorr for Harper's Bazaar US

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Gigi Hadid's Uber-Serious Fashion Mood by Collier Schorr for Harper's Bazaar US AOC Fashion

Supermodel Gigi Hadid covers the August 2021 issue of Harper’s Bazaar US. Hadid wears dour-looking clothes in a fashion story styled by Ludivine Poiblanc. “Come’on, Anne. Chin up, girl. It’s only fashion. “

Sorry. Gigi looks dour. The clothes are dour. The images by Collier Schorr are dour. Everything is dour, dour, dour. Durga Chew-Bose’s interview with Gigi is not dour.

Between the depressingly dour fashion story and the subheadline: “At 26, Gigi Hadid isn’t done playing the role of supermodel. But with a new baby , new priorities, and a new regard for her own mental health”, she’s carving out space to do it on her own terms” — Harper’s Bazaar had me genuinely worried about Hadid.

AOC has been ferociously supportive of Gigi Hadid from the first day. We don’t specialize in armchair criticism of models. I can name three situations where Gigi was in the hot seat, and we defended her. Think fortune cookies and a plane ticket cancelled for Shanghai.

Wait up, here. I’m looking at a short video of the shoot, and Gigi Hadid looks delightfully happy and serene. In the video she doesn’t look dour at all.

Deciding to feature Gigi Hadid as all doom and gloom was an executive decision. It’s as if she and Collier Schor were having all kinds of fun and a voice from the heavens said “WHY ARE YOU TWO JUMPING FOR JOY IN MY PHOTO SHOOT!!!”.

In her interview, Gigi shares insights into the family dynamic, in a way I don’t remember reading. She’s reflective about her own mannerisms and way of communicating, and does differentiate between herself and sister Bella. Of course Gigi talks about race.

Some AOC readers may not know that when Gigi, Bella, and Dua Lipa took a strong stand on their support for Palestine in the recent conflict, a full-page ad ran in The New York Times condemning Gigi, Bella, and Dua Lipa [brother Anwar’s girlfriend] for that support of their own heritage.

Hadid does share an interesting psychological story of keeping multiple journals. “During my pregnancy, I had one journal that I called my good journal and one journal that I called my bad journal. They weren’t that literal, but one was more for the memories, for Khai. Maybe one day I’ll give her the bad journal just to be real about it.”

What was inside the “bad” journal?

“Anxieties and days where I felt like, ‘Am I good enough to be a mom?’” she says. “I didn’t want to feel guilty about feeling those things or writing those things down. I just liked the separation. . . . “

THOSE are the words of a thoughtful, resourceful young woman with major psychological insights about the human condition and how it works for us and against us simultaneously.