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Editor's Letter 8 Desert Way - editorial 12 Elvira Jain - cover story e interview with the super model 28 Lonely Party - editorial 40 Fashion Trends: what we're going to love dressing this season 52 Low Kei Luxe - editorial 70 Weekend Off - editorial 82 ART From Twilight to direction: interview with the actor Peter Facinelli 96 Back Home - editorial 100 Exhibitions not to be missed this fall/winter - 113 Indoor / Outdoor - editorial 114 Love for details: interview with illustrator Eris Tran 128 Sunshine Moments - editorial 134 BEAUTY The Climbing of Genderless in beauty - 144 Gender Freedom - editorial 158 Klub Kids - editorial 170 ACCESSORIES The perfect guide fo accessories for this fall/winter - 180 Entità Complementari - editorial 192 PARADISE Human Environment: the need to look the right way - 202 The Perfect View - editorial 212 The Brando: in the Philippines with luxury and sustainability - 226
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assword: Rebirth. We all know that the "new year" psychologically begins for everyone at the beginning of the new post-summer working season. This is therefore a moment of great ferment, projects, ideas for change. We do not yet know exactly how long the pandemic will keep us in this perennial (even mental) situation, but we can and must hope that the global vaccination campaign will lead to something definitive. As we see the situation gradually improving, it is normal to go through various mental phases including fear, rebellion, optimism and awareness. We have tried to retrace these phases by showing you our editorial version, crowned by other topics that are important to us such as climate change, the importance of gender free and, as always, our love for multi-ethnicity.
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Marta Forgione
COTTONTRADERS.COM
desert way
Photography Gautier Pelegrin c/o PS Artists Management Style Enrica Lamonaca Model Malta c/o Fashion Models Hair Style Mimmo Di Maggio c/o ProductionLink Makeup Erica Peschiera Photography Assistance Edoardo Conforti & Giulia Ghiazza Style Assistance Martina Repetto
Dress Dolce & Gabbana
How many times in this year and a half have we wanted to escape from reality? And by escape I mean literally. A rush, an outlet, an infinite desert of which we don't see the end, in which getting lost and not think. A parallel world, almost, where there is no pandemic nightmare. A dimension in which one could still live in a normal way the community. A place to relax, watch the sunset and find ourselves.
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Cloak, pants Ermanno Scervino Cover neck Sportmax Shoes Giuseppe Zanotti Opposite: Total look Jil Sander
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Silver All Over Sequin Maxi Dress ASHISH Black large Fedora Hat SUPERDUPER Black Boots Nicholas Kirkwood
Photography Paul Whitfield Style Laura Martin Cover Star Elvira Jain Makeup, Hair Style Lizzie Court Lizzie using Fudge & Rodial
Elvira
JAIN
Cover star of this brand-new LATEST Issue is model and businesswoman Elvira Jain. Jain started out as a model at a very young age, when she was only 16, after she was discovered by a Moldovian designer back in High School. Since then, she managed to achieve her dream every day, working with well-known agencies and brands all over the world. Jain has also kept her academic career, managing to successfully get her degree in Finance and an MBA in Finance at London Business School. This academic success, eventually helped her in consolidating herself in the fashion and luxury industry, ultimately taking her to achieve another big goal in her career. Currently, she’s planning to open a clinic in Dubai with new and exciting techniques for applying beauty touches to the body in a healthy and safe way. We spoke with her about her early days as a model, and her consolidated model agency. She also gave us precious advice to share if you want to pursue this career dream and how to stay grounded in the process, managing both the modeling career and the academic success.
interview by Ludovica Mucci - up to page 39
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Lonely Party
And here it is, after being invested by the sublime of the journey in nature, the joy returns. The uncontrolled joy, the one that makes us run, jumping and playing laughing like children. We feel free again, for a moment. We wipe out any bad thoughts from the mind. We are in a neutral place where it is possible to pretend that all is well, that nothing has changed in this year and a half. It's easy to let off steam in a healthy way here.
Photography, Creative Direction Lesley Edith Style, Production Stacey Soluade Model Isabelle Regnier c/o Select Models Makeup Sian Duke using Charlotte Tilbury Style Assistance Maryam Oloyede
Hat Shrimps Dress Gemy Maalouf
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must have
During this pandemic year, real supporters have been created. Covid-19 exists, it doesn't exist. The vaccine is necessary, the vaccine is a way to control and modify our DNA. Sport makes us happy and makes states win during competitions. Sport only serves to create gatherings during competitions. The green pass is a great idea, the green pass takes away our freedom. A lot of these fans are obviously given by ignorance, but much is also fueled by a total lack of communication and reassurance from the media. Likewise, for next season the Trends have suffered the same fate. Cowboys and Indians, one of the biggest human fights in the world ever. Just like then, man's internal conflict is making itself felt. Even if you are a cowboy, you can't help but side with the Indians, a little. Therefore, during the fashion shows, we see collections in which both styles are present, inspired by both sides. Same show, same collection, same designer. This is to show that we all are, in life, a bit on the bad side and a bit on the good one. There is no black or white, only the middle way can be decisive. The way of respect, compassion and listening. A little less than a conflict, but still a division, there are the "rest at home" teams and the "Party People" teams. Still not feeling ready to leave the comforts and softness of your sofa? For this fall/winter you will find an endless list of enveloping duvet jackets, completely similar to quilts. The maxi trend is Maxi, so go ahead to oversize in the true sense of the word. Also for accessories. Real slippers instead of normal shoes, hairy or not. Comfortable and slippery suits. If, on the other hand, you have experienced the pandemic suffering mainly from the lack of parties, fun and madness, now is the time to overdo it. Nobody can blame you. Then go crazy bright colors, metallic fabrics, futuristic shapes, huge coats in ecological fur (of course), and the inevitable gold and silver. Fall/winter 2021/22 trends
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It may be a habit by now in the living room - sofa - blanket, but some just still can't abandon the idea of comfort. And why not, here the jackets look like real quilts. To carry with you, on you, stay warm and soft but with style. And if you believe this trend is only for those who slip in the first thing they find, to go running errands, you are wrong. Ours is a comfortable "daytime" look, yes, but very stylish and perfect for a long working day. Jacquemus' satin midi skirt and Simone Rocha handbag make the ensemble more elegant. Proenza Schouler slippers and Bottega Veneta cat-eye glasses give it the right modern sprint.
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1. Raf Simons FW2021/22 Runway show 2. Brunello Cucinelli Long down jacket in virgin wool with hood seen at mytheresa.com 3. Jacquemus Satin midi skirt with chain seen at mytheresa.com 4. Bottega Veneta Two-tone acetate and metal Cat-Eye sunglasses seen at modaoperandi.com 5. Balenciaga Knitted cotton blend sweater with log seen at modaoperandi.com 6. Proenza Schouler Leather Slippers with shearling seen at mytheresa.com 7. Simone Rocha Daisy crossbody bag in pearl micro perspex seen at modaoperandi.com
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Photography Paul Whitfield Style Laura Martin Model Grace Anderson c/o Premier Model Management Makeup Jolanda Coetzer using Hourglass Hair Style Massimo Di Stefano Location Temple Bowling Club
Low Kei luxe There comes a time that almost everyone has experienced, but no one wants to admit it. That day, that night you went out, you saw your friends, you had a good time. And for a moment you let your guard down. You relaxed, vaccinated and felt safe, a bit like if everything was back to normal. When will normality return? Will come back? Everyone dispenses advice and is keen to point out that this is the only time since the beginning of the pandemic in which they are taking risks among the people. Everyone justifies theirself, without anyone asking him. Complete enjoyment is still impossible, as long as there is this fear that lingers in the air. The two too many cocktails at the end of the evening now make themselves felt and you move from the super party phase to the emotional one. The only thing you really miss now is your bed.
Black Corset Esaú Yori
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Calm has returned to your mind. The desire for rebirth takes another turn, the healthy one. Let's leave our problems behind. For a while, for a weekend. Let's move out of the city and really enjoy time in nature, in total physical and mental peace. We find our internal balance. Let's forget the rush and commitments for a moment. Or, why not, we could start a process of recalculating our existence and lived times. Will it be possible to completely get out of daily hysteria?
Weekend Off Photography Oliver Beckmann Style, Art Direction Elke Dostal c/o Nina Klein Models Celiné c/o Modelfabrik and Tasha c/o M4 Models Hair Style, Makeup Jane Jakobi c/o Nina Klein Style Assistance Julia Mitzka
Full Looks Odeeh
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Back Home Now that we have spent our moment in nature, a moment that made us realize that our life was taking a wrong turn, we are ready to go home. From here we have to start again. Putting stakes on our physical and mental resources, making a list of priorities and taking back our spaces. For example have you noticed how, "thanks" to social media, no one seems to have any more time of their own? You receive a business email, the emails become 100 but most people expect a response in a very short time. And if by any chance they see on a social network that you are online, then the answer must come immediately. Because no one conceives of free time anymore, there is only work left now. We need to break away from this whirlwind and learn to let people understand that we are not robots (yet). And for those who do not understand, who cares? Our free time is important to recharge the batteries. Don't sell it off.
Photography Rakuto Makino c/o Take Creative Style Christiane Graf c/o Nina Klein Model Emmanuelle Lacou c/o Mirrrs Models Makeup, Hair Style Dennis Brandt c/o Bigoudi using Oribe and Fenty Beauty
Top Bajanova
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INDOOR OUTDOOR Balance is something subtle, something that seems elusive but that acquires substance if we think about design. The evolution that concerns the sphere of living becomes the interpreter of a new way of thinking about the space around us, in a stimulating game of cross-references between interiors and exteriors. A fluid and creative dialogue between in and out, in which forms, materials, colors and architectures of the space link with fashion and harmonize. The charm of the interior with the naturalness of the exterior.
Photography, Art Direction Domenico Petralia c/o Production Link Style Nadia Bonalumi c/o Wib Milano Agency Casting Vanessa Contini c/o Production Link Model Ania Kisiel c/o Fashion Models Makeup Giovanni Iovine c/o The GreenApple Italia Hair Style Erisson Musella c/o Blend management using @randcoitaly Post Production Virgil Hritcu Production Passepartout4u by Johannes March Style Assistance Silvia Lazzaroni Photography Assistance Chiara Lomarini, Stefano Mattiocco Special thanks to Seehotel-Ambach
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Jacquard wool blazer dress with silk fringes and maxi belt Salvatore Ferragamo
Love for details brought me closer to the world of fashion: in conversation with:
Eris
TRAN
The field of illustration in fashion is still partly obscure. Many young guys have not yet been able to understand how many great possibilities it could give but we are sure that, over time, more and more young people will approach this type of work. Also thanks to social media, of course, which allow you to show your portfolio in a way that was previously impossible, even to imagine. Eris Tran is still a very young boy, of Vietnamese descent, but he already possesses an incredible command of what he does. In love with details, he is clearly fascinated in particular by haute couture collections, where applications, embroidery and shiny fabrics are a must. Despite her young age, Eris has already collaborated with major fashion brands and we expect to see him illustrate much more in the future. Practice and patience, he tells us, are qualities that an illustrator cannot give up. And judging by the accuracy of his designs, we can say that his great effort has paid off.
LATEST INTERVIEW
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Photography Aldona Karczmarczyk c/o Van Dorsen Artists Style Maciej Spadło c/o Van Dorsen Artists Model Kinga Kinowska c/o AS Models Hair Style, Makeup Kasia Olkowska
sunshine
MOMENTS
Golden days, sunrays, and bright clear skies. I place the emphasis on warm weather and the fact that sunshine gives me a mental high. Sunshine, golden rhymes I am on cloud nine nothing can make me feel better. Let it be known that you touch my soul. You are the one thing I give permission to start my day. As a matter of fact, I wouldn't have it any other way! When you peek through the sides of the blinds you also tell me that it is time to go! You tell me that obstacles that stand in my way I cannot allowed to crush my day. Sunshine, lifeline, by design oh how I wish I could have you with me every day! Sunshine you allow me to focus on each new adventure. I don my sunglasses and you ride with me as I drive across town. When I walk down the street, I feel your warm heat. Oh, sunshine please shine down on me! by J L Price
Dress Victoria Beckham | Scarf Hermès | Shoes Sportmax
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Beauty products for this fall/winter? The answer is
Gender Less
Our beloved fashionistas already know that beauty rituals are not just for women. On the contrary. And finally the brands have understood this great need to put products on the market that are created and suitable for both sexes, genderless. In short, skin is skin. Until recently, it was thought that there were substantial hormonal differences between men and women, and therefore the products had to be different. We have learned in recent years that this is not so true. There are no male or female skin types. There are oily, dry and combination skins. Delicate and not delicate. These are just the principles to be based on when looking for a product to buy. Whether you are a man or a woman. Furthermore, the growing need of many people not to feel pigeonholed into a specific sexuality has made gender less an imperative, even in the beauty sector. We have chosen for you a series of organic, cruelty free and vegan brands and products to remain faithful to what we like best. We have deliberately avoided all the makeup palettes that you have already seen recommended elsewhere. Instead, we focused more on the truly "beauty" aspect regarding the base of our skin, hair, the work to be done before applying pink mascara or orange eyeshadow. By following these simple steps you will be so radiant that any kind of additional make-up will be good. Pay attention especially to the upcoming cold season, skin care becomes even more important. It tends to get dry more easily and struggles to throw out, without the heat, all toxins that you accumulated in the middle of city traffic.
Photography Elena Kuznetsova Style Edgar Balseca Almagor Model Luca Suss c/o Scout Model Agency Hair Style, Makeup Nina Tatavitto Floral design Jocelyne “Pivone et Piment Rouge”
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LATEST BEAUTY Shirt Ermenegildo Zegna
l mondo della cosmetica è ultimamente protagonista di un cambiamento molto lontano dall’essere
Foto by Daria Shevtsova
Smart Mirror - HiMirror
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Photography Rakuto Makino Style Ippei Ishida Model Gabi c/o West Management Hair Style, Makeup Akemi Ezashi
GENDER
Freedom We have already started talking about this topic in the previous beauty article, and now it's time to point out the concept. The future is genderless. So why not starting now? We have to begin stop thinking about clothes as something definite that is possible to wear only if you are man or woman. Each of us can feel in one way or another, depending on the day, and it is not right - nor modern the concept that a skirt is only for women. If you think about it, moreover, depending on the time and place fashion have been, and still is, very different. Tell a Scotsman that kilts on men are weird, or tell a man of the 1700s that make-up and wigs are only for women.
Full Look Rick Owens
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KIDS Klub Let's stay on the gender subject. Klub Kids is now one of the biggest drag events in the UK. We chose to shoot our story here to give a voice to a minority that is still practically without rights. The problem, of course, is not drag queens but our society's transphobia. If there now it seems to be a vague acceptance of the gay community, the same cannot really be said about all the rest of sexual orientations, or sexual identities. Already with regard to lesbians, compared to gays, there is a sort of silent rejection. For the drag, then, we are still on the high seas. How unacceptable they feel is shown by the fact that none, in the end, wanted to be filmed during the shoot. For us, this terror of the different continues to remain a mystery and we can only hope that one day something will change.
Photography David Newby Style Laura Martin Model Barbara Maldonado c/o Premier Model Management Makeup Molly Aitken using NARS Hair Style David McNeil using L’Oréal Professional
Multi Print Jumpsuit Helen Anthony | Gold Hoops Missoma
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the balance between the desire to escape and the need for protection story by Silvia Stefanini | photography Stefano Lanza words Ludovica Mucci
F/W 2022 accessories During recent months the advent of the vaccine has certainly accelerated the escape from the darkest period of the pandemic, and shed more light on the moment of transition that we are going through. These are still uncertain times, of course, but perhaps more positive. This is also reflected in fashion, whose latest spring-summer collections have expressed more than ever the desire for openness, rediscovery and adventure, in the name of color, cocktail dresses and evening gowns to show off at outdoor events. The proposals for fall winter 2021/'22 are not entirely different, on the contrary they perfectly represent the balance between the desire to escape and the need for protection. For this reason winter fashion looks are really interesting, especially considering the latest trends in accessories. From the proposals that the LATEST team has selected, different trends emerge alongside several ways of dealing with the coming winter.
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Photography Damian Weilers Art Direction Beatrice Hurst Style Celine Sheridan Models Ronja Susi c/o Titanium Management and Marlon Pendlebury c/o Wilhelmina Models Hair Style, Makeup Nadia Alinbas Location ACS Studio Hand Prints Sarah England Darkroom Lab Labyrinth Photographic
ENTITA'
complementari We complement each other. We, humans, we complement each other. Not we men and we women, nope. We, in general. We as different ethnic groups, as different identities, we all are part of the same design. An incomprehensible design, it is true. But not less beautiful when we carefully looked it. The fear of the different is something atavistic, animal, natural. It is also true. But we do nothing but say how much we have evolved, compared to animals. How modern, technological, avant-garde we are. How much do we know about medicine, physics, astronomy. But yet we cannot overcome some faded primordial instincts in which the different came to steal our house, the hunting area, the offspring. We have lost the powerful sense of smell, physical elasticity, strength and stamina, acute eyesight. But we are still afraid. And as Flint Sky said in the wonderful film Apocalypto: "Fear is a disease. It crawls into the soul of those who feel it. It has already contaminated your peace. I did not raise you to live in fear. Erase it from your heart."
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Trench coat Toga Top, trousers, boots Ami Earrings Susan Caplan
Human
ENVIRONMENT "Human Environment" is about human connection with climate change using artistic ideas within photography. This series is inspired by the beauty of the earth, including different weather conditions and various landscapes, such as oceans, glaciers and volcanoes. David PD Hyde worked alone creating this series of images, including art direction, making props and painting the model for photographs. His intention was to get the message to more people that we should take care of our planet. Otherwise, in the future we will experience even stronger and more devastating consequences for the climate, to the point of having to face our own extinction as species. It's not the planet that won't make it, it's us.
Photographer and Artist David PD Hyde Model Anastasia Semikhodskaya
Silk Blouse Maison Margiela Briefs BriefsWolford Wolfort Beret Utowo Boots Gianvito Rossi at Vestiaire Collective
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vibes
MEDUSIAN With this editorial we close our new issue and we put the emphasis on the climate change theme. How beautiful is our world, huh? It would be terrible to see it become arid, to see the coral reefs disappear, to see the glaciers at the poles retreating. It would be awful to see it and accept it, but still it'd be more terrible the sequel. If we think that diving into an ocean without a reef would be painful, we're still not realizing what will happen next. What will be of the world with all these changes? Simple. It will fall apart, with us watching. We will not be able to do anything, at that point, to repair. It will be late. Eventually the general climate will be unsustainable for life. Our life too. And when there will be nothing left, the planet will begin a slow, very slow cycle of repair and shine again. In that cycle, however, we will no longer be included.
Photography Esther Appel Style Janina Cüpper & In-cut-styling Model Anna-Lena Knop c/o Promod Model Agency Makeup, Hair Style Sarah Kim Meier
THE BRANDO
Sustainable luxury resort
here & opposite: courtesy of thebrando.com
LATEST PARADISE by Marta Forgione up to page 231
This would be the perfect reward for enduring a year and a half like this. Still, most people are now looking for places to have fun, certainly not a place of total isolation like the one we are about to offer you. But it all depends on what "type" of pandemic you have been through. Some of us, who continued to work, did nothing but hear the complaints of all people day by day. Those against the vaccine, those of the health dictatorship, those of the no mask, anyone was angry and vented as they could, whenever they could. That was in the workplace, for the most part. Not to mention the incredible amount of things to do more than usual, in an attempt to stay afloat in a moment of so much uncertainty. So yes, the lack of fun is felt but the desire for a moment of total peace is incredibly strong. Waking up, breathing in pure air deeply, hearing the sound of the waves, watching the curtains move slightly with the wind, knowing that you are really on vacation, without worries. With no problems from anyone to listen to. With nothing to organize. Time marked only by the moving of the sun. Speaking of Polynesia there are a thousand places that we could mention, and a whole magazine would not be enough to talk about it. But this Tetiaroa atoll is special. Marlon Brando, who was there in 1962 for the shooting of the film Mutiny on the Bounty, immediately understood this. He bought the atoll soon after and lived there with his third wife for a long part of his life.
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