We return to another set of interior images — different poses, same clothes — for Vogue Arabia's June 2023 Lavender Saudi Issue: 10 Covers, 10 Top Models, 10 Saudi Designers Covers.

Photographers Domen & Van De Velde [IG] are in charge of all photography with models including Amira Zuhair, Candice Swanepoel, Coco Rocha, Donna Bahdon, Isabeli Fontana, Sara Sampaio, Sasha Luss, Sophie Alshehry, Taleedah Tamer, and Toni Garrn.

Fashion director Amine Jreissati and fashion market editor Mohammad Hazem Rezq are in charge of styling the covers and the interior fashion presentation./ Hair by Joeri Rouffa; producer Sam Allison

Saudi brands embracing the lavender hue project include Honayda, Yousef Akbar, Raghad Alblaihed, Atelier Hekayat, April by Noura Alsaif, ArAm by Arwa Alammari, Mashael Al Faris, and Kaf by Kaf, Loodyana, and Lurline.

If you missed the covers, the shades of purples and violets is a tribute to the Saudi Press Agency’s now official use of lavender for official and ceremonial occasions.

In the past AOC might have had an opinion of that decision. Given the altered-realities mess that is my own country of America, AOC’s focus is on our own hypocrisy first and foremost.

Actually, because of opening of the kingdom to tourism in a major, the Saudi Tourism Authority [STA] has made it very clear that LGBTQIA people are welcome in Saudi Arabiaa as tourists.

CNN covered this topic in detail in early May 2023. I am in no position to judge the accuracy of this information from the Saudi government, but CNN cites several helpful resources.

My advice always is to procede with great, well-researched caution in visiting any foreign country in today’s world. That includes America, where random guns shootouts are happening all across our great country — including Florida beaches. ~ Anne