Yevonde Inspires Miu Miu's Gigi Hadid 2024 Wander and Arcadie Bags by Steven Meisel

Yevonde Inspires Miu Miu's Gigi Hadid 2024 Wander and Arcadie Bags by Steven Meisel

When the National Portrait Gallery, London, reopened in June 2023 following a three-year redevelopment closure, its first exhibition ‘Yevonde: Life and Colour’ centered on British photographer Yevonde Middleton [1893-1975]. The art event, which focused on the sixty-year career of a paradigm-breaking woman photographer, was sponsored by The CHANEL Culture Fund.

With the release of its new 2024 Leathergoods Campaign, Miu Miu [IG] is also inspired by the British photographer Yevonde Middleton.

An ode to color, to femininity, to fashion and to feminism, Miu Miu celebrates its signature matelassé in images by photographer legend Steven Meisel with art direction by Edward Quarmby. Starring Gigi Hadid as a modern reflection of the Miu Miu persona styled by Lotta Volkova, the images focus on the Wander and Arcadie bags. / Makeup by Pat McGrath; hair by Guido Palau

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Swarovski SS-2024 Campaign Drips With Sea Jewels Worn by Imaan, Irina, Karlie, Fei Fei, Abby

Swarovski SS-2024 Campaign Drips With Sea Jewels Worn by Imaan, Irina, Karlie, Fei Fei, Abby

Showstudio calls them “Steven Meisel’s Supermodel Sirens”, five women “dripping in crystals.” Top models Abby Champion, Fei Fei Sun, Imaan Hammam, Irina Shayk and Karlie Kloss join forces in the new S/S 2024 Swarovski [IG] campaign inspired by Venus, the Roman goddess of love.

In ancient Roman mythology, Venus, the goddess of love and beauty, emerged from the sea fully grown and adorned with exquisite jewelry. The myth tells of Venus being born from the foam created when the Titan Cronus castrated his father Uranus and threw his severed genitals into the sea. This act led to the sea producing the goddess of love and desire.

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Zara Spring 2024 Studio Collection Campaign by Steven Meisel and Fabien Baron

Zara Spring 2024 Studio Collection Campaign by Steven Meisel and Fabien Baron

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.

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Dolce & Gabbana Spring-Summer 2024 Campaign by Steven Meisel

Dolce & Gabbana Spring-Summer 2024 Campaign by Steven Meisel

Designers Domenico Dolce & Stefano Gabbana work with art director Fabien Baron and stylist Karl Templer to create a Spring-Summer 2024 campaign rich with high-class swagger, penetrating eye confidence, and an attitude that says “judge me at your own risk — because I will take you down.”

With Steven Meisel [IG] on photography, the images will have these ingredients because Meisel often plays high-low with his human subjects. As a result, there are layers of meaning and interpretation that seep out of the images and into our own minds. They are created to be mildly disruptive, another characteristic that makes them interesting and one that Meisel understands deeply.

What AOC loves about Dolce & Gabbana is that their garden is an Italian garden in the same way Loro Piana and Brunello Cucinelli are Italian gardens. But they are planting different crops growing in different parts of Italy and Sicily and Sardinia — from Rome to Milan to Florence and Venice.

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Zara Studio FW 2023 Night Glamour Drops October 5, Lensed by Steven Meisel

Zara Studio FW 2023 Night Glamour Drops October 5, Lensed by Steven Meisel

Zara Studio [IG] channels Tom-Ford style, high-voltage glamour in a new Fall-Winter 2023 campaign with plenty of elegance and sex appeal.

We have well-executed model twinning from Angelina Kendall, Annemary Aderibigbe, Awar Odhiang, Ida Heiner and Nyawuhr Chuol and Sacha Quenby. / Hair by Guido Palau; makeup by Pat McGrath

Photographer Steven Meisel [IG] captures the black riches, sophisticated, night-scene fashion styled by Karl Templer with creative direction by Fabien Baron.

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Sofia Coppola Talks Priscilla Presley in W Magazine Vol-5 2023 by Steven Meisel

Sofia Coppola Talks Priscilla Presley in W Magazine Vol-5 2023 by Steven Meisel

Reading about Sofia Coppola’s young-girl life, we learn just how much time the entire Francis Ford Coppola family spent away from their home in California’s Napa Valley.

Coppola is styled by Karl Templer in an abundance of Chanel Haute Couture in images by Steven Meisel [IG]. Additional luxury names include Dries Van Noten, Hermes, Prada, Schiaparelli and more. Spectacular jewelry is from Cartier.

Priscilla Presley is the focus of the younger Coppola’s new film Priscilla, in theaters November 3.

Millions of women can relate to the director’s reflection about her own young woman’s life. Pining for a young man who wasn’t interested in her, Coppola says she can relate to Priscilla’s short-term lack of need to develop her own self-identity because it was so much easier to be the girlfriend of some guy and assume his identity.

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Kaia Gerber and Steven Meisel Make Good Trouble in Valentino Black Tie Campaign

Kaia Gerber and Steven Meisel Make Good Trouble in Valentino Black Tie Campaign

What a superb new Valentino Fall/Winter 2023 Black Tie campaign! It soars sky high in creativity and self-assurance with Kaia Gerber playing a role that defines the very concept of je ne sais quoi.

Kaia’s acting lessons are having huge impact on her self-expression in the last year.

Pierpaolo Piccioli’s vision of luxury for rebellious rule-breaking, smarty-pants fashion lovers with unbridled confidence and positive spirit is unmatched.

Gerber is boss as she struts around Huntington, Long Island’s Oheka Castle. Even the fact that the film is shot in New York and not Europe is a rebellious gesture that succeeds.

There’s so much going on in this film, and yet it does not feel overdone. We don’t lose our way because a confident clarity rules this audacious, beautiful, inspiring Fall 2023 Valentino Black Tie campaign.

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FENDI Hugs Retro Glamour in Astrology Summer 2023 Beachwear Campaign by Steven Meisel

FENDI Hugs Retro Glamour in Astrology Summer 2023 Beachwear Campaign by Steven Meisel

Luxury fashion house FENDI merges high fashion with whimsical elements, presenting the Astrology Summer 2023 Beachwear Capsule Collection with a Mediterranean luxury flavor.

Artistic Director Fendi womenswear and couture Kim Jones chooses top model Irina Shayk to showcase the new capsule. Steven Meisel IG] — who has a full dance card this season — is behind the lens, creating a retro, 1960s travel poster vibe.

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Louis Vuitton LV by the Pool Summer 2023 Lisbon-Inspired Getaway Hits East Hampton

Louis Vuitton LV by the Pool Summer 2023 Lisbon-Inspired Getaway Hits East Hampton

Luxury brand Louis Vuitton continues its summer getaway mood, moving from Friday’s post of Gisele Bundchen headlining Louis Vuitton luggage’s “Horizons Never End” campaign to this new Louis Vuitton azure blues fashion and bags focus with the “LV By the Pool Collection”.

Photographer Steven Meisel captures a saucy campaign spirit that only comes through with the video. Much of the collection is inspired by Azulejos tiles in tones of blue that also evoke open skies and ocean depths. These tiles are prevalent in Spanish and Portuguese architecture in cities like Lisbon.

LV by the Pool dropped into the Village of East Hampton, NY at 1 Main Street +1.631.561.0075, with ready-to-wear, leather goods and accessories for women and men and home accessories.

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Gigi Hadid Fronts New Miu Miu Matelassé Arcadie Bag Campaign

Gigi Hadid Fronts New Miu Miu Matelassé Arcadie Bag Campaign

Supermodel Gigi Hadid fronts a new campaign breaking Thursday for Miu Miu’s matelassé in two styles — the already-iconic Wander, and the newly-debuted Arcadie — lensed by Steven Meisel. [The photographer now has a very quiet Official IG page posting older images.]

For the first time — after taking a huge leap on Lyst’s hottest brands list in 2022, over their mini skirt — Miu Miu has the second place position. Mothership Prada has the top slot in first quarter 2023, after replacing Gucci in fourth quarter 2022.

The Wander [pouch] and the newly debuted Arcadie [rectangle] style in the signature matelassé series offer great promise to become new “pillars” of the Miu Miu bag category, following the iconic history of Miu Miu’s Pocket.

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Valentino DI.VA Florence Pugh Rocks Valentino Garavani Campaign 2023 and Met Gala

Valentino DI.VA Florence Pugh Rocks Valentino Garavani Campaign 2023 and Met Gala

Florence Pugh, the talented English actress known for her roles in ‘Midsommar’, ‘Little Women’, and ‘A Good Person’, is the new face of luxury Italian fashion brand Valentino. The 27-year-old actor stars in a new campaign lensed by Steven Meisel called "An Encyclopaedia Of Feelings.”

Pugh showcases a range of emotions while posing with Valentino Garavani Rockstud23 bag, styled by Joe McKenna.

Piccioli chose Pugh as the new Valentino DI.VA (DI.fferent VA.lues) ambassador because of her authenticity, vulnerability, and fearless self-expression both on and off-camera. This collaboration is about sharing values and standing for the same things, rather than just focusing on aesthetics or numbers of social media followers.

AOC has written about the growing importance of a brand’s values for years now. In a recent discussion about Valentino, we spoke about the HENRYS with Heart: Luxury Brands Selling Democratic Values [[High-Earners-Not–Rich-Yet].

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Sunseekers Bella Hadid, Ouyang Nana in Louis Vuitton 2023 Sunglasses by Steven Meisel

Sunseekers Bella Hadid, Ouyang Nana in Louis Vuitton 2023 Sunglasses by Steven Meisel

Bella Hadid greets longer days and brilliant sun as the face of Louis Vuitton 2023 sunglasses campaign, joined by Taiwanese singer, musician and actor Ouyang Nana.

Carine Roitfeld styles the campaign with Bella and Ouyang in images by Steven Meisel. / Hair by Guido Palau; makeup by Pat McGrath

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Louis Vuitton x Yayoi Kusama Taps Cate Blanchett & Justin Timberlake + 4 | May 2023 New York Opening Awaits

Louis Vuitton x Yayoi Kusama Taps Cate Blanchett & Justin Timberlake + 4 | May 2023 New York Opening Awaits

Louis Vuitton taps six new talents and image-makers to its second drop in the Louis Vuitton x Yayoi Kusama 2023 collaboration.

Mega stars Australian actor Cate Blanchett and Amercan music artist Justin Timberlake, a ‘friend of the house’ but not an ambassador, are joined by South Korean actor HoYeon Jung, French actor Lea Seydoux, tennis pro Naomi Osaka and Chinese actor Zhou Congyu.

Photographer Steven Meisel is again behind the lens with Carine Roitfeld in charge of styling. Creative Director Ferdinando Verderi worked with makeup artist Pat McGrath to create henna-like tattoos on the faces and bodies of the talents that twin the artworks decorating their corresponding Capucines and Monogram handbags.

Yayoi Kusama will open her largest exhibition in New York on May 12. Her exhibition, titled “I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers,” will include new paintings, sculptures featuring her signature flower and pumpkin motifs and a new Infinity Mirrored Room.

David Zwirner’s West 19th and West 20th street galleries will host the event.

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Zara Studio's 'Spirited Romance' S/S 2023 Campaign Imagines Women in Solidarity

Zara Studio's 'Spirited Romance' S/S 2023 Campaign Imagines Women in Solidarity

A‘Spirited Romance’ swept through global cyberspace this week, as Zara Studio launched its S/S 2023 Campaign. The limited-edition, top tier of Zara’s spring offering inspires a spiritual pause on sleepless nights and digital frenzy.

Do you still remember the smell of fresh grass? Did you ever eat clover? How about just lying on on a blanket and seeing a sky so beautiful, it seems impossible that a climate emergency is at hand?

Models Annemary Aderbrigbe, Ava Christian, He Cong and Ida Heiner are the spring muses lensed by Steven Meisel. Frequent collaborator Fabien Baron acts as creative director in a moment where fashion swings back to sensual elegance and beautiful clothes, styled here by another Meisel-Baron collaborator Karl Templer.

There will always be contrived fashion around us, but the trend to clothes that we wear as honest pleasure — as opposed to them wearing us as artifice, an IG photo op and to feed some designer’s ego is real.

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Naomi Campbell in 'There's only one Naomi' by Steven Meisel for Vogue Italia July 2008

Naomi Campbell in 'There's only one Naomi' by Steven Meisel for Vogue Italia July 2008

In July 2008, Vogue Italia produced its memorable ‘Black Issue’, an entire magazine devoted to Black beauty, under the adventurous and cultured editorial eye of EIC Franca Sozzani.

Supermodel Naomi Campbell appeared in a Steven Meisel uber-sumptuous and elegant fashion story ‘There’s only one Naomi’as a key feature of the collectible, treasured July issue.

Campbell was styled by her close friend, now British Vogue EIC Edward Enninful, who is also European editorial director of Vogue today. Mary Howard acted as set designer for this fantastic story, with makeup by Pat McGrath and hair by Guido.

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Louis Vuitton x Yayoi Kusama 2023 Campaign Preview with Gisele by Steven Meisel

Louis Vuitton x Yayoi Kusama 2023 Campaign Preview with Gisele by Steven Meisel

Fashion world got a major wakeup this morning with a preview of the January 2023 Louis Vuitton x Yayoi Kusama campaign.

Yayoi Kusama, Age 93, Rolls Again with Louis Vuitton

LV makes a big move putting Gisele Bundchen front and center in a second, historical collaboration with revered Japanese creative Yayoi Kusama, one of the world’s pre-eminent artists at age 93.

“One of the aspects of her [Yayoi Kusama’s] work is happiness, and we thought it would be really refreshing after the pandemic to have the worlds of Vuitton and the world of Kusama meet again,” Arnault explained. The successful first collaboration between the two global giants happened in 2012.

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Fendi Pops Into NYC Soho for 25th Anniversary Baguette Celebration

Fendi Pops Into NYC Soho for 25th Anniversary Baguette Celebration

Fendi [IG] has popped into New York City for a holiday celebration of the Winter Capsule 2022 - 25th Anniversary Baguette Collection. Located at 90 Prince Street in Soho, the shop will be open until December 23.

Created by Silvia Venturini Fendi in 1997, the baguette bag became a phenom attached to Sarah Jessica Parker and ‘Sex and the City’, who famously said “This is not a bag—it’s a Baguette.”

In addition to providing color inspo, the LVMH Tiffany & Co brand was brought into the anniversary celebration to provide diamond baguettes for the Fendi baguettes. The constant cross-pollination of the LVMH brands always adds an extra bit of verve to these events.

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Tiffany & Co Rose Gold Eau de Parfum by Steven Meisel with Fei Fei Sun

Tiffany & Co Rose Gold Eau de Parfum by Steven Meisel with Fei Fei Sun

Master photographer Steven Meisel turns his focus to Tiffany & Co Rose Gold Eau de Parfum in a new campaign featuring FeiFei Sun. Trey Laird [IG] serves as Creative Director, fresh off his new campaign with ambassador Kim Kardashian for Stuart Weisman.

Joe McKenna works as stylist on the campaign, with Guido Palau on hair and Pat McGrath on makeup.

Inspired by diamond cuts and luminous metals, Tiffany & Co. Rose Gold Eau de Parfum features notes of fruity blackcurrant, delicate blue rose and a warm finish of ambrette seed.

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Bella Hadid in Brooklyn Girl Crew Ports 1961 FW 2022 Campaign by Steven Meisel

Bella Hadid in Brooklyn Girl Crew Ports 1961 FW 2022 Campaign by Steven Meisel

Top models Achenrin Madit, Bella Hadid, Mila Van Eeten, Sora Choi, and Vittoria Ceretti come together in the streets of Brooklyn for the Ports 1961 [IG] fall-winter 2022 campaign. A top-tier crew comes together consisting of photographer Steven Meisel and stylist Karl Templer, with art direction by Fabien Baron.

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Gisele Bundchen's 'Wonder Woman' British Invasion by Steven Meisel for British Vogue

Gisele Bundchen's 'Wonder Woman' British Invasion by Steven Meisel for British Vogue

Bündchen’s masterclass in bombshell-meets-earth mother glamour shut down New York’s Casa Cipriani lower Manhattan hotel. Styled by Edward Enninful and photographed by Steven Meisel, the images are stop-you-in-your-tracks fantastic. The storied establishment has witnessed its fair share of debauchery.

Nothing could have prepared the hotel for the 41-year-old Gisele Bundchen draping herself across a room service trolley wearing sequins and a ferocious pair of platforms. In the words of British Vogue, there are fashion shoots and then there are Gisele Bündchen fashion shoots.

We say Amen!

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