Kate Moss Covers Harper's Bazaar France March 2024, Lensed by Robin Galiegue
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'Edie & Iselin' in Moto Style for Harper's Bazaar France March 2024 by David Sims
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British top model Edie Campbell and Norwegian model Iselin Steiro come together in the March 2024 issue of Harper’s Bazaar France [IG].
In a trademark Emmanuelle Alt edit, the former EIC of Vogue France styles the duo in her own personal style. The black leather jacket is a must-have in every French woman’s closet.
Photographer David Sims [IG] is behind the lens at Arlington Road Studio in London.
Read MoreImaan Hammam for Zara Swimwear | Even Stone Age Humans Loved Swimming
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Top model Imaan Hammam fronts the late February 2024 release of Zara Swimwear. The images remind us that spring is coming in to the northern hemisphere, and swimming is on our minds.
Some of the earliest examples of ancient swimmers include the frescoes in the Cave of Swimmers in Egypt, dating back to around 10,000 years ago.
These paintings in Egypt’s Al Wahat Al Dakhla Desert depict figures swimming in a naturalistic style, suggesting that swimming was already a part of human culture at that time.
Additionally, water holds immense symbolic significance in various global religions due to its powerful and transformative nature. In many belief systems, water is seen as a source of life and purification.
In Christianity, water plays a central role in rituals such as baptism, symbolizing spiritual purification, rebirth, and the washing away of sins. It is viewed as a medium through which believers are cleansed and enter into a new life of faith.
Read on about the role of water in Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam and indigenous cultures.
Read MoreRianne Van Rompaey Takes Paris in Holiday Magazine N392 Lensed by Robin Galiegue
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Rianne Van Rompaey lives her Parisian dream with her husband, her boyfriend and also her girlfriend inspiring her sensual persona in ‘Paris Is Ours’.
Emmanuelle Alt styles Rianne in Chanel, Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Givenchy, Isabel Marant, Loro Piana, Louis Vuitton, Prada, Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello and more.
Photographer Robin Galiegue [IG] is behind the lens for Holiday N392 PARIS issue.
Read MoreImaan Hammam Covers Harper's Bazaar France May 2023 by Robin Galiegue
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The fabulous Imaan Hammam [IG] covers the May 2023 issue of Harper’s Bazaar France [IG]. This is the third issue of a French edition of Harper’s Bazaar, led by the Prisma presse group, which acquired the licence for France.
Emmanuelle Alt [IG] styled Hammam in images lensed in a variation of black and white by Robin Galiegue [IG]. The former EIC of Vogue France is expected to have a more influential voice at the magazine, as her contractual obligations to Conde Nast expire.
Read MoreMassimo Dutti Limited Edition Collection of Chic, Elevated Basics Is Worth a Look
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The Case for Elevated Basics
The fashion trends term describing the Spring 2023 Massimo Dutti Limited Edition collection is ‘elevated basics’. Every fashion-aware person self-defines their own vision of ‘elevated basics’, but Massimo Dutti’s 2023 vision is one of sophisticated, chic simplicity and clarity.
The new campaign highlights models Ella Mccutcheon, Imaan Hammam, Tara Halliwell and Yilan Hua in images by Ezra Petronio [IG].
The vision is not a boring one, but more of a timeless, body-aware, polished, sensual approach in black and cream.
Skirts are longer for seekers of elevated basics, silhouettes are fluid. AOC asks if the long column of a dress is a modern woman’s caftan.
Note that caftans are showing up in men’s collections also, but the narrow, sleeveless column dress remains a typically female choice, except in the LGBTQIA+ community.
Read MoreMica + Mona Take Monte Carlo for Michael Kors Collection Spring 2023 Campaign
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American luxury brand Michael Kors Collection [IG] sets sail for Monte Carlo in its Spring 2023 campaign. Models Mica Argañaraz and Mona Tougaard take big fashion strides in wide-leg pants, plunging necklines and slashed skirts in the campaign lensed by Inez and Vinoodh [IG].
For spring 2023, bright poppy and lime green join an abundance of white and black. Spring 2023 trends turn up the volume even higher on skin revelation, after a long period of fashionable hibernation in a post #MeToo world.
Read MoreGisele Bundchen Does a Dance Class, Lensed by David Sims for M Le Magazine du Monde
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Supermodel Gisele Bundchen loves to dance, so much so that it’s part of her inner-self and private identity.
Gisele covers the November 26, 2022 issue of M le Magazine du Monde, styled in a fashion story with a “Hi, I’m Gisele; this is another side of me” vibe.
Emmanuelle Alt styles Bundchen in ‘Le Ballet de Giselle’, lensed by David Sims [IG].
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LVMH's Camille Miceli Flies Gloriously High in Capri, Italy Launch of 'New Pucci'
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Emilio Pucci’s new creative director Camille Miceli [IG] made a vibrant splash with her first summer 2022 campaign and fashion capsule launch for the famous Italian luxury house on April 29 in Capri. In the ad campaign supporting the unveiling of Miceli’s Pucci vision, top model Vittoria Ceretti is styled by Emmanuelle Alt in images by Lachlan Bailey [IG].
Read MoreRumor Mill: Is Hedi Slimane at Celine Taking on Anna Wintour Over Emmanuelle Alt?
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When asked about Vogue Runway’s failure to cover French luxury brand Celine’s spring 2022 virtual show, a Vogue source said “It was not our decision to not cover spring 2022, but we look forward to covering the brand’s next show,” writes WWD.
The problem, according to WWD, is Celine’s artistic, creative and image director Hedi Slimane’s immense frustration and displeasure with the departure of Emmanuelle Alt from her position as EIC of Vogue Paris, now renamed Vogue France.
Slimane has banned people from his shows before — the entire fashion staff at New York Magazine and Cathy Horn, writing for the New York Times, were banned from the Saint Laurent show in October 2012. Horn’s ban was for writing in 2004 [paraphrased by Horn to New York Magazine] “without Mr. [Raf] Simons’s template of slim tailoring and street casting, there would not have been a Hedi Slimane — just as there would never have been a Raf Simons without Helmut Lang. Fashion develops a bit like a genetic line.”
What could have upset Slimane? The Vogue-related changes began in December 2020, with the announcement that Anna Wintour would assume greater responsibilities as Vogue global director and Condé Nast chief content officer, while continuing to oversee Vogue U.S.
Simultaneously, the widely-praised and celebrated top editor at British Vogue, Edward Enninful, was promoted to European editorial director of Vogue for the markets owned and operated by Condé Nast. Those markets — which include the U.K., France, Italy, Germany and Spain — saw the departures of EICs at those Vogue titles.
Eugénie Trochu was named as Alt’s successor in France, but with the title of head of editorial content. She announced in October that Vogue Paris would become Vogue France immediately. The assumption is that Enninful will play a significantly larger role in European content creation and sharing, including greater synergies between American Vogue and European titles.
A spokeswoman for Celine dismissed the rumor that Celine had pulled both show invites and advertising from Condé Nast — and/or Vogue Runway — over Slimane’s displeasure with Alt’s departure.
AOC notes that: “WWD also understands from sources that Slimane has expressed his frustration to Vogue global director and Condé Nast chief content officer Anna Wintour and hit the brakes on some advertising with the Vogue brand.”
For her part, Emmanuelle Alt styled an excellent fashion story featuring Rianne Van Rompaey for a late November issue of M le Magazin du Monde. AOC admits to being impressed with the freshness — and we were not alone. Sometimes, change is good for all parties involved.
Rianne Van Rompaey Honors the 1990s in M le Magazine du Monde | AOC Is Standing Guard
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Top model Rianne Van Rompaey covers the November 27, 2021 M le Magazine du Monde in a fashion story that honors the ‘90s. M’s IG describes the 1990s as a “decade of demanding style, of which the Japanese designers were the masters. A clean style, a little cerebral, overflowing with energy. For uncompromising elegance.”
The 1990s Were a Setback on Many Fashion Fronts
Some have pointed out that this decade of demanding style demanded size 0 bodies in fashion magazines. The size 4-6 supermodels were increasingly no longer the body types favored by fashion editors and the fashion business leaders who sought to disempower the supers.
Many of us are digging our feet deeply into the pavement, determined to NOT have any 90s redo in a literal sense.
AOC believes that an entire rollback to size 0 white women models tripping over each other for prime time exposure will not happen in the age of social media. Then again, AOC didn’t believe the January 6 insurrection at the US capitol was possible. And we never believed that Donald Trump would become president.
Read MoreAnna Ewers' Sensual Red Stockings by Sam Rock in Vogue Paris
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Top model Anna Ewers makes a welcome appearance in the latest issue of Vogue Paris. Aleksandra Woroniecka styles Ewers in the femme fatale day and night fashion story ‘Elle Est So Jolie’. her red stockings for ‘Elle Est Si Jolie’. Photographer Sam Rock [IG] celebrates the red stockings colorful summer, as promised by EIC Emmanuelle Alt for the June-July 2021.
Read MoreAnna Ewers Covers Vogue Paris February 2021 in Tribute on Chanel's Virginie Viard
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Anna Ewers Covers Vogue Paris February 2021 in Tribute on Chanel's Virginie Viard
Top model Anna Ewers is styled by Vogue Paris EIC Emmanuelle Alt in ‘La Discrète Éclatante’, a fashion tribute to Chanel’s Virginie Viard, lensed by Inez Van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin {IG} for the February 2021 issue./ Hair by Damien Boissinot; makeup by Lisa Butler
Vittoria Ceretti Dazzles in Vogue Paris August 2020 by Nathaniel Goldberg
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Vittoria Ceretti Dazzles in Vogue Paris August 2020 by Nathaniel Goldberg AOC Fashion
Top model Vittoria Ceretti is styled by Emmanuelle Alt in shimmering, metallic fluidity in ‘Brilliant, Absolument’. Nathaniel Goldberg flashes Ceretti for Vogue Paris August 2020./ Makeup by Christelle Cocquet; hair by Stephane L’ancien
Anna Ewers, Mariam de Vinzelle by Inez and Vinoodh for Vogue Paris
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Anna Ewers, Mariam de Vinzelle by Inez and Vinoodh for Vogue Paris
Models Anna Ewers and Mariam de Vinzelle are styled by Vogue Paris editor-in-chief Emmanuelle Alt in ‘Kisses from Berlin’. Photographers duo Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin capture the style scene in Berlin for the April 2020 issue. / Makeup by Val Garland; hair by James Pecis
Rebecca Longendyke, Vittoria Ceretti in Alluring Style for Vogue Paris March 2020
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Rebecca Longendyke, Vittoria Ceretti in Alluring Style for Vogue Paris March 2020
Top models Rebecca Longendyke and Vittoria Ceretti are styled by Emmanuelle Alt in ‘Simplissime’, lensed by Mikael Jansson for Vogue Paris March 2020./ Hair by Shay Ashual; makeup by Mark Carrasquillo
