Koto Bolofo Creates 'Polo' with Louise and Mika for Numéro September 2023
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Banana Republic's Spring 2023 Campaign by Richard Phibbs Lands In Taos
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Banana Republic’s Spring 2023 March campaign drop takes us to Taos, New Mexico, with photographer Richard Phibbs [IG] bringing his deep understanding of humanity, nature and ancestral roots to the campaign.
A currently incomplete model list includes Ella Eckerson, Louise de Chevigny, and Maria Borges. We will fill out the rest over the weekend, with other pieces of this Banana Republic Spring 2023 campaign.
Personally, I feel that Banana Republic is back on the right track, and I don’t want them to mess up. And a part of me was wondering how Phibbs could go to Taos and not have adobe buildings or any shots connected to Georgia O’Keeffe in the imagery. How about an indigenous model or two?
The photographer did all of the above in the Banana Republic Spring 2023 campaign. But it’s a compliment to Richard Phibbs that I refused to believe that this sequence of images constituted the campaign.
They’re lovely but also a very incomplete story for him. Not for 80-90% of the photographers I can name, but not Phibbs. What matters to me also matters to him. ~ Anne
Read MoreBanana Republic Holiday 2022 by Richard Phibbs Connects Humans in United Experience
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The Banana Republic Holiday 2022 Campaign is terrific, as are the images by Richard Phibbs [IG]. I see the Polo vibe here, but it feels like sound ground Banana is standing on.
Note that as recently as August 2022, Fast Company was asking if Banana Republic will ultimately be forced to change its name. This question comes within a larger America’s public school’s movement whereby students, parents and some civic leaders argue they shouldn’t have to go to a school named after presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
AOC does not support the eradication of all references to America’s past, because our past is very complicated. Our role is to move forward.
The cast of the Banana Republic campaign includes Cherokee Jack, Chinchin Hsu, Louise de Chevigny, Nya Gatbel and Ryan Porter and the campaign was shot in Iceland.
Many in the cast have worked on other Banana Republic campaigns this year.
Read MoreLouise De Chevigny in 'The Big Easy' by Giampaolo Sgura for Sunday Times Style UK
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Louise De Chevigny in 'The Big Easy' by Giampaolo Sgura for Sunday Times Style UK AOC Fashion
French model Louise De Chevigny covered the January 2, 2022 issue of Sunday Times Style Magazine UK. Verity Parker styles the model, who is a close friend of the house of Chanel, in ‘The Big Easy’, lensed by Giampaolo Sgura [IG]. / Hair by Franco Gobbi; makeup by Cosetta Giorgietti
Inez and Vinoodh Shoot Chanel Cruise 2022 Campaign Inspired by Cocteau and Provence
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Chanel Creative Director, Virginie Viard was inspired by the simplicity of the 1959 film ‘Testament of Orpheus’, made by Gabrielle [Coco] Chanel’s close friend Jean Cocteau. In her own words:
The simplicity, the precision and the poetry of Cocteau’s film made me want to create a very clean collection, with a very distinct two-tone, made up of bright white and deep black. Echoing the extreme modernity of Cocteau’s film, I wanted something quite rock. Lots of fringes, in leather, beads and sequins, t-shirts bearing the face of the model Lola Nicon like a rock star, worn with tweed suits trimmed with wide braids, and pointed silver Mary-Janes. A look that recalls as much the modernity of the sixties as that of punk – Virginie Viard
Read MoreLouise, Mica, Rianne, Vivienne As Chanel Snow Bunnies in Fall 2021 Campaign
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