Olivia Palermo has been a contributing editor for Vogue UK and Elle magazine, a model, stylist, an actress, a woman with a lot going on including a new lifestyle blog. Her life has been — interesting. Christos Karantzolas snaps Olivia for Schon! Magazine February 2012 with an interview promoting herself and new blog. Kyle Anderson styles ‘American Rose’ with an accessories-rich treasure trove of black lace, transparency and sensuality.
Fresh off her appearance in Louis Vuitton’s spring 2012 campaign, Kati Nescher is lensed by David Sims in Alexander McQueen for the March issue of Vogue Paris. Joe McKenna styles Kati, who isn’t only a modeling sensation in the current fashion cycle after opening 9 shows in New York Fashion Week and closing three last week. In an industry obsessed with dressing up 14 year-olds to look 35, Kati is an ‘older woman’ and a mom, breakinginto modeling at 27.
Read New York Magazine’s Kati interview ‘Meet the New Girl: Kati Nescher Believes ‘It’s Not About Ae, It’s About Personality’.
Note | Nudity The fabulously sensual Edita Vilkeviciute glows like a sun goddess in Greg Kadel’s sultry cover shoot for Vogue Spain March. Edita wears sparely there pieces from Givenchy, Balmain, Versace and company styled by fashion editor Havana Laffitte with a scorching visual effect. /Hair by Franco Gobbi; makeup by Mariel Barrera; supervised by Belen Antolin
Loris Kraemerh seems caught between two men Antonio Bevilacqua and Vinicius Postiglion, and the whole Brazilian town is involved in ‘segundas intenções’, translated ulterior motives. Susana Barbosa styles this traditional values meets the modern age sensual lovefest, lensed by Bob Wolfenson for Elle Brazil’s January issue.
Joan Smalls is one of two models in Daniel Sannwald’s artistic extravaganza for Pop Magazine’s Spring/Summer issue. Daniel collaborates with artist Anselm Reyle in this experimental Dior futuristic vision styled by Tamara Rothstein. Set designer Sophear Froment expands the creative ensemble. /Hair and makeup by Tina Outen and Janeen Witherspoon. Casting by Angus Munro @AM Casting.
Anais Pouliot gets the Ellen von Unwerth treatment, with a bit of backup from male model Leebo Freeman for Vogue Russia’s March issue. Ekaterina Mukhina styles a sultry Anais in the very sensual ‘Your Leisure’./Hair by Tie Toyama; makeup by Cathyanne Macalister; set by Fabienne Eisenstein
Alyssa Miller’s ambassadorship with Intimissimi lingerie may be over, but her Mediterranean bombshell status is intact. The smoldering beauty is sensuality incarnate, lensed by Driu + Tiago with styling by Cristina Bernezzo for Amica’s March issue. Wearing Versace, Dolce & Gabbana, Roberto Cavalli and more, Alyssa’s religious accessories remind us that somehow female sensuality and the Vatican coexist in Italy. When then, must the word be condemned in the 2012 presidential election process? Anne
Charles Vareen styles Ginta Lapina as a very modern tribal goddess in this vivid, larger-than-life accessories statement lensed by Benjamin Lennox for Muse Magazine’s March issue. /Makeup by Maud Laceppe’ Hair by Bok Hee
Anna Selezneva assumes a strong stance on behalf of accessories, lensed by Liz Collins in ‘Anna’, a dramatic lighting, studio-effects editorial for Numero #131. Irina Marie styles ‘Anna”s spare, sexy luxury from Louis Vuitton, Bottega Veneta, Jean Paul Gaultier and more. /Hair by Ali Prizadeh; makeup by Miranda Joyce.
We were just having a FB conversation two nights ago about women smoking cigars in a Gentlemen’s Club’. It seems that Constance Jablonski maintains a more traditional woman relationship with hard wood and leather. Our sexy femme and blushing bride in waiting and hoping is lensed by Yelena Yemchuj with styling by Samuel Francois for Numero #131, March issue. /Makeup by Romy Soleimani; hair by Romina Manenti.
Bette Franke is styled as a sensual, dancing gypsy is an electic, exhuberant editorial by Brian Molloy and Belen Antolin for Vogue Spain’s March issue. Jason Kibbler is behind the camera for ‘Uno, Dos, Tres … Mambo’.
Long-time model major model Yasmin Le Bon, also of Duran, Duran fame for her marriage to Simon Le Bon, is lensed by Jan Welters in ‘Y vivieon Felices’ for Vogue Spain’s March issue. The editorial is styled by Barbara Baumel with hot sensuality and religious iconography.
The prolife movement would picket Vogue US offices, if they ever styled an editorial like this one. How about a fashion industry stying rally for American women’s right to choose self over duty to country (i.e. making as many babies as possible, which is what Santorum and the Pope want for American women)?
Greg Kadel takes on the case of attacks against Smart Sensuality women worldwide, in this ‘creepy’ but brilliantly executed editorial of Sigrid Agren for Numero 131, which is devoted to Sirens, if you remember. Patti Wilson styles Sigrid in Givenchy, Roberto Cavalli, Calvin Klein and Rick Owen — all channeling women’s wisdom, and the price that women have paid globally for our sensuality.
This is another of those editorials that when I read comments on other blogs, I see the gulf of wisdom between myself and others in how we interpret editorials. It’s really a chuckle and a key reason why American photographers must go to Europe and beyond to make artistic, controversial fashion editorials.
There are moments when I think American women have gone totally braindead. But then so many young women are becoming my friend on FB. “Flaw free hair and makeup by Franco Gobbi and Mariel Barrera complement the blonde’s strange ensembles.”/Set design by Peter Klein
Sorry for being a bitch, but I can’t resist. The stakes are too high these days for American women, who are totally under assault as this fashion editorial communicates. If we fall, goodness knows what happens to women in poor countries.
English 101 French style: ‘double entendre’. A double entendre is a figure of speech in which a spoken phrase (or fashion editorial) is devised to be understood in either of two ways. Often the first (more obvious) meaning is straightfoward, while the second meaning is less so and often risqué or ironic.
And to complete my Friday morning rant, I can accept no nudity by Emmanuelle Alt, but this is the kind of editorial vision she could represent — as Numero and Vogue Spain dished out this month — instead of the fashion pablum she feeds us from Paris. If Carine Roitfeld were at the helm, there would be a real rumble going on. Anne
Model Sarah Stephens and photographer Steven Chee make major style drama, envisioned by Marina Didovich for Fashion Quarterly New Zealand’s March 2012 issue. The use of scarlet red is spectacular, in contrast to nature and in concert with Sarah’s sensual persona. This team is firing fashion magazine gilt on all cylinders.
Kaitlin Ass and Querelle Jansen were last paired for W Magazine’s February issue. Kaitlin and Querelle now twist and redefine the vision of ‘Cameo Attitude’ with a bohemian style provocation styled by Nicoletta Santoro. Willy Vanderperre lenses the red and blue Victorian-no-more editorial for Vogue China’s March issue.
Mikael Jansson lenses an action-packed editorial ‘Diva of the Plains’ starring Daga Ziober for Vogue Japan’s April issue. George Cortina styles the symbolism rich fashion statement that nods to the Western trend while probing sensuality, wild horses, and the desire of many women to be free, while grabbing hold of the reins of testosterone-rich, masculine horsepower.
Jacquelyn Jablonski stars in a glamorous, retro editorial wearing Giorgio Armani, Dolce & Gabbana, Chanel and more styled by Ekaterina Mukhina. Greg Lotus makes the artistic capture for Vogue Russia’s March issue.
Caio Cesar presented a male fantasy femme editorial, lensed by Dean Isidro for GQ Brasil’s December issue as ‘Novos Tempos’. /Hair by Moiz Alladina; makeup by Lottie S.
Corinne Lucquiaud styles Hanna Wahmer and Kate Howat in sensual ambiguity, smoke and mirrors for ‘The Story Of Three Loves’, lensed by Ralph Wenig for Soon International Spring 2012.
Karlina Caune delivers a starkly personal fashion editorial ‘The Shattered Silence’, styled by Mattias Karlsson. Paul Wetherell captures the edgy and classically aloof editorial for 10 Magazine’s spring issue.
