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Editor’s Letter 6 Resort 2020 Review article 10 Sparkling Sand editorial 16 H&M Conscious Collection article 28 Spectrum editorial 34 Valentina Quinn interview 46 Interwine Me editorial cover 52 Popular names in modern art article 62 In Your Room editorial 68 Must Have fall 2019 article 80 Gracieusement cover story 86 Sustainability at Design Week article 94 Rooftop editorial 98 Organic Cosmetic’s trend article 110 Soft Touch editorial 114 Stand Out: niche perfumes article 122 Smell Like Heaven editorial 126 Accessories must have F/19 article 134 Pose editorial 136 Ookioh swimwear interview 148 First Stage editorial 154 Best art exhibitions article 163 The Ocean Cay MSM’s Paradise article 164 Desert Dusk editorial 168
COVER STORY Photography Michael Groeger Style Gabriela Santighian Model Nya Gatbel c/o Louisa Models Makeup, Hair style Anja EL Sawaf c/o Les Artists Production Zero-8 Productions Digital Benedikt Greif
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assword: Hope. In the same historical moment where in fashion and art in general more and more movements like the #metoo, the inclusion, the interest towards sustainability are born, here we also live the return of the fear of the different, of the racism and extremist policies in our everyday lives. All that we can do is hoping for knowledge and intelligence, to avoid a new chaotic future. In this issue we talked about all these issues in two important interviews, and we tried to represent them in images in our editorials, looking for a bright path. Editor-in-chief Facebook: @marta.forgione Instagram: @martaforgione
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In the delirious landscape of today’s fashion, Resort collections are a central event, as much important as the traditional fashion weeks. Dreamy locations, selected clients and wearable collections are the three common denominators of those shows, which usually take place between May and June. The name Resort come from the purpose of those shows when they first appeared ten years ago: pre-collections for wealthy clients who use to spend holidays in exotic countries during the winter period. The event then rapidly grow and expanded, losing its first connotation and becoming preview of the following fashion weeks’ shows. The phenomenon is also linked with the fast fashion’s development, guilty of speeding up the production (as much as now it is scarcely sustainable). High fashion brands try to answer to the needs of modern consumers as well, who expect new trends and stimulation very often and very quickly. On the other hand, working out of the closed rhythm of fashion weeks makes it possible for designers to better present their works, and for clients to better enjoy new seasonal trends. In this sense it is not a huge leap to say that Resort collections are a breeding ground for luxury brands, which can now offer again real valuable products and experiences to their audience, composed of few selected consumers.
RESORT 2020
REVIEW Written by Giulia Greco - to page 14 Here: Dior cruise 2020, photo Giovanni Giannoni / WWD Opposite page: Chanel cruise 2020 photo Alessandro Lucioni / Gorunway.com
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The front row of Resort shows is highly variegated and “normal” clients sit next to international buyers and fashion editors. Those clients, as said before, are the wealthiest ones, willing to buy straight after the shows. Also, the locations where the runways take place are carefully chosen. Sometimes it is a city with a peculiar relationship with the brand or that fully interprets its values and style, as it was for the TWA Flight Center for Louis Vuitton. Some others cities are chosen because of the market, where the clients live and spend their money, and this is why in past few years Asiatic countries and Emirates have been popular destinations.
After Karl Lagerfeld’s death last February, Chanel was the most awaited show for the Resort season. For the first time Virginie Viard, thirty years right-hand of the Master, was alone in the background and her solo obviously arose a major debate - even if we should keep in mind that Lagerfeld revised this last collection, which cannot be considered totally independent. The location was, according to some, not very consistent and “empty”, if compared with the high level of spectacularization reached in the last years of Lagerfeld’s hegemony. The show, opened by Vittoria Ceretti in a black suit, presented both items which recalled Chanel’s traditional aesthetic and new and unusual elements. The Resort collection has been the first step towards a change that shall occur, even if no one already knows what direction to. The situation is a fertile ground for speculations and fake news. At the beginning of the show denim suits and military shapes’ jackets are softened by bows and ruches, underlining the meeting between feminine and masculine which has always been the fundamental characteristic of the French Maison. The street attitude is amplified with leggings and jumpsuits with Chanel’s patterns, balanced with classic jackets in sorbet colours’ palette, like mint green and red. A combination’s game that seems to be the fil rouge of the show and which acts also as a symbol for the turbulent sea Chanel is facing in this very moment. Leather is used as well for wide culottes, jumpsuits and skirts, and alternated with the traditional jacquard. Only towards the end of the collection the audience had the chance to find Lagerfeld’s touch: light and floating dresses, in blues, violet and pastel pink, with black satin refinements, and candid white tweed suits with floral patterns shirts - the omnipresent camelia, Coco’s flower. Shoes and accessories were faithful to Chanel’s models: chains and pearls, flat ballerine shoes and black-and-white boots, and a traffic light bag. To pay homage to Lagerfeld no-fingers gloves, as the one he used to wear everyday, in blue and pink, and shirts’ strict white collars.
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Art Direction, Style Konstantinos Gkoumpetis Photography Anelia Janeva Model Roos c/o ACE Models Makeup, Hair Style Anelia Janeva Assistant Nico Sutor
2019: THE CONSCIOUS FUTURE By Giulia Greco
H&M CONSCIOUS COLLECTION Capsule Collection Conscious Exclusive 2019 by H&M: fashion of tomorrow. ​
H&M Conscious Exclusive 2019 Campaign Photography Josh Olins Models Imaan Hammam, Alanna Arrington & Oumie Jammeh Courtesy of ©H&M
Last April 11th H&M launched its 9th Capsule Collection Conscious Exclusive, available online and in selected stores all over the world. The 2019 Collection, already sold out on the website, is inspired by the Planet Heart, not in shapes, patterns and colors only, but also in fabrics. The photo-shooting itself took place into a botanical garden, standing above the city landscape: buildings and skyscrapers are the background for plants, flowers and the models of course, all smiling in natural makeup and hairstyle. This is a visual metaphor which underlines the real essence of the Conscious Collection, an ideal comeback to nature against uncontrolled urbanization and pollution. The year 2019 - we’ve already said it many times - is all about sustainability, but H&M’s “green” journey has started many years ago already. The new Capsule Collection is only the last step of it, made of small but important achievements which only now, with this renew interest into sustainability, have been recognized and appreciated.
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SPECTRUM “The image is indivisible and elusive. It depends both on our consciousness and on the real world it tries to recreate. If the real world is cryptic, the image is cryptic too […] Even if we are not able to grasp the Universe in its whole, the image can express this totality.” This is how Andrej Tarkoskij used to speak about one of his masterpiece: The Mirror. In the movie time disappears and the poetic of image dominates the stage. Extremely powerful form of communication, the picture can overcome barriers usually founded in other media, such as language, and communicate also what is normally uncommunicable. It directly stimulates our inner sensibility, hits hard and in depth. Through mirror we see not only our image, but our image into the surrounding world. It is a contextualized image. There’s no line between dream and reality, there’s no line between inner soul and extern landscape.
Photography & Art Direction Alessandro Esposito c/o Productionlink Style Vittoria Rossi Provesi Film Giorgia Benazzo Makeup Barbara Bonazza Using Maccosmetics Hair Style Matteo Bartolini @Freelancer Agency Using Dysonair & Randco Model Kely Ferr c/o Elite Model Milano Photography Assistant Luca Trelancia Style Assistant Chiara Denaro Set Assistant Federica Lampone Casting Direction Vanessa Contini c/o Productionlink
“The White Snake” by Ludovica Mucci
An environmentalist and humanitarian spirit, Valentina Quinn, who presented in 2015 documentary “One Rock Three Religions” about the difficult path towards peace in the Middle East, winner of the US Congress Award Recognition and of many other awards, will now discuss about our dangerous dependency from oil. “The White Snake” documentary will surely leave a mark. Valentina Quinn, born Castellani, has always been surrounded by art in every form, both in her studies and in her life. After the sudden death of her husband Francesco Quinn, son of Oscar winning actor Anthony Quinn, Valentina founded the Quinn Studios with her partner Massimiliano Musina, to honor his memory. Photo by NUNU- nunupictures.com
Valentina Quinn exclusive interview
The production and post-production house has always produced some interesting projects from a humanitarian perspective, informing the public about crucial events that are often not stressed enough or of which disinformation is rampant. Therefore, Valentina’s goal is to open the doors to issues of vital importance both for men and for our planet, inviting to create a dialogue and a constructive confrontation, in order to find solutions to the progressive decline of our Earth and with her, of what makes us human: solidarity, comprehension and the power to act for the better. We had the pleasure to interview Valentina Quinn about these and many other issues that are addressed in “The White Snake”. The documentary is still being filmed and will be distributed in a year to Festivals and to the world.
What was the spark that ignited your will to start working on this amazing project?
We were still shooting our previous Film “One Rock Three Religions” and we had the opportunity to meet in Washington DC with the Founder of the US Energy Security Council, which is the Government organization, created to reduce our dependency to oil. We thought right away that OIL was an exceptional subject to tackle. Oil dominates our politics, economy and society. Yet I am always inclined on producing projects with a strong humanitarian personality. I always stand with the people, the minorities, the ones that have no voice and the ones who carry an important message and represent a fundamental part of our society. When the Saga of Standing Rock started to make the daily news, I thought “This Is It”. It is about the Native Americans, it is about giving them a voice, it is about our water and our environment, and most importantly it is about our integrity as a society and the way we use our resources. It is in our responsibility the way we use OIL as an energy, without destroying communities, and their traditions.
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Interdependence. Close correlation that binds all beings on Earth, events and phenomena as we know them. Everything has its causes and conditions, nothing can exist in a truly independent way.
Interwine me
Analog Photography Mag Juchnik Style Sylwia Morawska Models Julita Formella, Marta Wieczorek, Aly Turska c/o Rebel models Makeup Katarzyna Olkowska Hair Style Joanna Imroth Style Assistant Natalia Radecka
Contemporary art takes inspiration from the masters of last century and tries to draw an inclusive future. At the very center of the interest is the human situation with its problems, old of centuries or new, explored through innovative and sometimes unexpected techniques. We have had a look to the art works of four big names of the contemporary artistic landscape to understand their values and how they put them into their works, but also to find out the needs of the actual audience they’re talking to.
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Most Popular Names in Modern Art. by Giulia Greco
Keith Haring. Everyone of us knows, maybe only by sight, Keith Haring’s works of art. They flooded streets, fashion items and household objects and forniture. But little of us probably know the story behind the artist and the creation of the very well known little and colorful stickmen. Haring, died at 31 years only, travelled around the world and left a piece of his art in each country he crossed, risking arrest many time because he used to paint cities’ walls and public spaces. Haring’s visual language is manly composed of Radiant Babies (literally stickmen which radiate light) and Barking Dogs: they are realized in few childlike features, but in the meantime they encompass all the human experience. Life, fear, love, peace, death, all steps of human life we already know, but, thanks to Haring’s art, they acquire a new and unexpected power. His men hug each others, walk, talk and live their life. It’s a universal issue, as the medium is. It’s street art, which everyone can access, not only privileged people (rich or art’s connoisseurs) and Haring himself used to say “It’s every day clearer to me that art is not an elitist activity bound to small audiences”. He was famous for the very natural and easy going attitude, which led him to draw his figures everywhere and for everyone interested to, from commercials on the streets to fans’ t-shirts. “Popular Art”, that is. Inspirations came from comics, of which Haring was great passionate, but also from Picasso, street artists and the American artistic landscape of the 80s. Artist’s favorite colors were yellow, green, blue and red, with no shadows nor shades, and bordered by thick black or white lines. A pure genius, who had the power to create, with his fantasy only, a parallel universe we are all invited to dive in.
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IN YOUR ROOM
Analog Photography Martin Tomecko | Style Zuzana Laucikova Model Alexandra K c/o Focus mm | Makeup, Hair Style Mischel Warenits
must have by Laura Zanovello
Fasten your seatbelts because we are going on a trip, a journey among colours, a rollercoaster of temperatures, a dive into fabrics. Take a sneak peak of what will come next season, we are sure you will find something you love, no matter your style, because the theme this time is definitely variety. Variety and layering to be fair, are both very central, especially in seasons like autumn and spring because they can be very unexpected when it comes to temperatures: one minute you are wearing a huge wool jumper, and the next you find yourself sweating and in need of a fan. Have no fear because we got you (un)covered! Starting from the outer layer we have a new favourite: a coat so long it will keep you warm and cozy on those cold mornings when rolling out of bed is an even harder task. Moving onto a breezier option we find feathers which are pretty and versatile enough to go on every item in your wardrobe, but we imagine them being particularly suitable on jackets you can wear on your Sunday afternoon strolls in the city. Our journey continues on with skirts and dresses for the next layer, when it starts to get warmer. The skirt is pleated and caters for a classic-more formal look, while the dress has a very romantic and boho vibe, reinforced by the floral pattern. Lastly, the grand finale. In some occasions no one really cares about layers anymore and on these very occasions it is suitable to wear something special like a golden frock. Accompanying accessories are staple pieces everyone should own such as the high block heeled boots, the big tote, the wide brim hat. Make-up-wise we want to keep it very basic and bare with an additional focus on skincare and hair. Autumn 2019 Trends
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Wrap yourself in feathers from head to toe and fly towards the warmer fabrics. Jackets, dresses and even shoes, the runway showed us how to make every look become interesting and flirty. A simple denim jacket with a checked skirt and a pair of evergreen sneakers is made a lot cooler by adding some plumage around the neck. Wanna keep the attention on your clothes and go make up free? Make your skin glow with this micellar water spray.
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Stan Smith, adidas.com 1. Valentino FW19 Runway show Photo: Alessandro Lucioni / gorunway.com 2. Petar Petrov, skirt farfetch.com 3. FaceD instant glow micellar water spray, faced.com
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COVER STORY Photography Micheal Groeger | Style Gabriela Santighian Model Nya Gatbel c/o Louisa models | Makeup, Hair style Anja EL Sawaf c/o Les Artists using Chanel & Redken | Production Zero-8 Productions Digital Benedikt Greif | Assistants Dominik Patzelt & Felix Konrath
Coat Escada Opposite and on cover: Outfit ETRO Shoes Mango
Editor’s letter Sustainable ITINERARY
AT THE DESIGN WEEK
©Louis Vuitton | new 2019 collection Objects Nomades
The 2019 edition of the Design Week has hosted many international artists in Milan, bringing forward a message of openness and sharing, having at the centre of the creative process the idea of a more sustainable approach to life. by Ludovica Mucci
This year, the 2019 edition of the Design Week has hosted many international and national artists that have presented very visionary works at Salone del Mobile and at Fuorisalone in Milan, works full of aesthetic meaning but also of cultural depth. Intelligence, experimentation, creativity and sustainability have been the key works of this event, around which a clear and definite path has been created. Indeed, by exhibiting these wonderful creations, Milan’s annual event does not only represent the excellence of creativity, but also a mirror on the cultural changes that design, art and architecture want to convey both to the new public and to those interested in exploring the world of design with a critic eye. Many have been the paths dedicated to those issues shaking the asset of our society. Design then, serves as a tool with which one can pose his or herself some p.94
questions and attempting to give some answers, both to our daily necessities and to the long-term ones. This intention has been concretized through the realization of works characterized by “a poetic simplicity”, as Salone del Mobile stated. A simplicity that aimed at spreading a message of inclusivity, of exaltation of artistic influences that go beyond the limits of the known, in order to reach also a transnational public. Going back to primitive and old influences has been the expressive formality of this simplicity, a past that flourished through the use of renaissance scenarios or rudimental raw materials. However, the necessity and the desire of the new is inherent to modernity together with the awakening of the past. Indeed, it is in this way that the past and the new blended together, and created a combination enriched with futuristic and dissonant undertones. Another important point of this 2019 edition to consider is the theme linked with ecology and sustainability, which are really crucial issues that are shaping these last few years. It is really this sustainable path that Fuorisalone has highlighted the most, through the concept of re-use, very visible in the materials implied in some creations. This path was able to transmit to the public an extremely important message of environmental safeguard but also of some delicate issues about inclusivity and acceptance of unknown universes that could bring new design traditions to the table and by doing so, enriching those already known.
PLEASE-SIT cover Ph. Max Monnecchi
Another example of design that annuls the divisions was offered by the association called De Rerum Natura – Rinascimento, that presented “Design Collisions: The power of collective ideas” in occasion of the design week. It was about an exposition of 15 projects conceived for the community, curated by Laura Traldi, the founder of designatlarge.it. She declared: “Design collisions stages projects to mend the fractures that surround us, those between man and nature: helping businesses, governments and consumers to replace a linear economy with a circular. But also social, economic and cultural, those between institutions and citizens and between the work of man and automation.”
An example of this message was of course the project named “Please Sit per Sartoria Migrante”. Starting on the 7th of April 2019, the collection was composed of 21 chairs created by artist Denis Bonapace. These were made with the help of women and men coming from foreign countries that have enriched the design with multiple and different handcraft competences. The project was developed thanks to a nonprofit association called “Connecting Cultures” founded by Anna Dethridge. The association has always taken care of projects dedicated to sustainability and it has always promoted integration through art and design projects. The chairs were produced by waste wood chairs and each one of them was accompanied by a passport, some general information on the composition, on the manufacturing techniques, on the designer and on the artisan, who produced it. They represented the identity of those who put the hands in the project. The final result was that of a small community guided by the same purpose, that has used the design the transmit messages of inclusivity, innovation and sustainability.
05-14/04 CASCINA CUCCAGNA, MILANO De Rerum Natura. Rinascimento
Rooftop rooftop Photography Det Kempke Style, Production Hinda Sarva Model Freya c/o Promod Makeup, Hair Style Karina Asmus
Organic cosmetics: a trend born to LAST
by Ludovica Mucci
LATEST BEAUTY l mondo della cosmetica è ultimamente protagonista di un cambiamento molto The world of cosmetics is at lontano the centredall’essere of a change that is very far from being just a temporary trend, indeed it is about a definite revolution, an attitude born to last. The crucial themes like those involving environmental, social and economic sustainability do not concern just the fashion world but also the one of beauty, which companies are even more careful about the raw materials implied in the creation of the product and about a responsible consumption for the sake of nature. Indeed, the consumer’s needs to know themselves and recognise themselves in the brand’s philosophy before buying the products and the fight for sustainability are just a couple of reasons behind the choice of old and new brands to proceed in this direction. Amongst the variety of products, the most sold are those for hair and face, because these are generally the body parts more exposed to a stressful lifestyle. The raw materials implied are different depending on the products, the most used are for example essential and vegetal oils, such as the orange oil, jojoba, linseed, almond oil and much more, each one of them implied for different body’s needs. Very well-known are the aloe-vera, fish oil and the extracts of Neem, a vegetal oil made from cold pressing of Azadirachta Indica seeds, coming from the family of Meliaceae, used for its antibacterial and anti- inflammatory properties.
Foto by Daria Shevtsova
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White is the non-color par excellence. Clean, ethereal, light. White is possibility, because everything can still be written on an empty canvas. The latest generation cosmetics are inspired by this and try to have the least possible impact on the environment and on our skin. Transparent, because it is natural beauty that emerges in the final performance. Like white, which is there but cannot be seen and is the indispensable surface on which to bring out our colors.
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touch Photography Elizabeth Gibson Style Maureen Vivian Model Anja Konstantinova c/o Premier Model Managment Makeup, hair style Lica Fensome using Mac Cosmetics
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LATEST BEAUTY by Giulia Greco
photo courtesy of extrait.it
STAND OUT niche perfumes In the last period the general market is going back to a greater sophistication and consumers ask for individuality. This is a natural reaction to the long exposure to mass production and consumption, that makes us be all the same, while the human being is willing to differentiate and show unique personality among the group. Perfume’s market is voted to sophistication by definition, and it is now living an interesting moment of development, since an increasing number of consumers asks for gourmand and niche fragrances. The best example of customization is the trend of molecular perfumes. All perfumes are theoretically molecular, because they are all composed of molecules, but when speaking about Molecular
Perfumes we are referring to a certain type of products coming from a specific research, very different from the traditional scents’ art. Molecular perfumes are composed of a single molecule of synthesis, that blends with the natural smell of one’s skin and creates a very personal perfume, different for each of us. Molecular perfumes can be considered non-perfumes and they activate only when meeting our skins. The idea comes from Geza Schone, German perfumer who decided to create a single-molecule scent, because of his personal preference for “iso e super” molecule. His first molecular perfume is Molecule 01, made only of iso e super, with a strong woody note.
Nowadays it is very easy to find molecular perfumes with low prices, which suit the most exigent clients as well. The Juliette Has a Gun for example, composed of cetalox, and the Supraem Series, a collection of fragrances with chashmera, triplal, kephalis and musc T. Perfume’s history started many centuries ago, mostly related with religion. From the Middle East, considered the place of birth of perfumery, Alessandro Magno spread it through all European countries. Going back in time we can find traces of perfume in the Ancient Egypt, with a purification meaning, in the Bible and in the far East obviously, where spices and aromas’ market is part of the popular culture since the beginning of time. Then, in the modern society of the ‘700, perfumes were used to cover bad smell due to a lacking personal hygiene and at the end of the century the modern perfumery is eventually stated in all the modern European courts. In 1828 Pierre Francois Guerlain opened his maison in Paris, marking a turning point in perfume’s history. In the same year chemical researches led to the production of the first synthetic elements - synthesis indeed - which combined with natural scents and fixatives create perfumes as we today know them.
up: photo “Annik” brand - courtesy of Fragrantica.it down: photo “Floris” brand - courtesy of labarberia.it
When we speak about “niche” market we are speaking about a small portion of clients with high and peculiar requests, sometimes difficult to accomplish and far from mass production. The definition is even more meaningful when referred to the perfumes’ market, since the term niche acquired its meaning just thanks to perfumers. Niches were small compartments where, in ancient time, perfumers used to hide their precious raw materials. In the perfumes’ niche market protagonists are small factories and artisans, whose philosophy is based on tradition: ideas coming from literature, visual stimulations, musical notes and dreamy landscapes are traduced into fragrances.
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SMELLLIKEHeaven Analog Photography Mag Juchnik | Model Agata Wojtasik c/o Mango models and Premium Paris Style Sylwia Morawska | Makeup, Hair style Katarzyna Olkowska
“Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions, or will. The persuasive power of an odor cannot be fended off, it enters into us like breath into our lungs, it fills us up, imbues us totally. There is no remedy for it.” - “Perfume: The Story of a Murderer”
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he accessories shaping
FALL WINTER 2019
This year, the accessories created for FW19 are the result of a combination of styles that are born on one hand from a profound balance of influences, on the other are created by a mix of contrasting tones that convey a fascinating game of blends. The union of different tendencies that reformulate the old and create something new, is characteristic of many fashion shows. Sometimes this renewal is all about small details coming together. An example of this is the last Louis Vuitton’s FW show which under the creative direction of Nicolas Ghesquière presented the classic Monogram bags with new models, like the Art Folder bag, or the coloured reinterpretation of the Mini Luggage BB. The reinterpretation of styles and iconic motives is a trend that is full of surprises and more importantly it manages to capture new potential customers and inspires them to discover the past and future of the brand. The belts are also very interesting, a timeless, sometimes necessary accessory that opens itself up to a new decoding. An example is the Louis Vuitton’s belt with a squared clasp that recalls futuristic elements. They shape even more the silhouette because they are nowadays worn in pairs but also thanks to their thickness and size: an example is offered by Longchamp, that enriches it with studs, creating a scratchy look, but also by Off-White, that enhanced a more sportive wearability and by Stella McCartney, who presented a maxi woven belt created by artist Sheila Hicks. This eclectic style is also recognizable in the last Dior fashion show by Maria Grazia Chiuri; her creations recalled the 50s and the iconic Tailleur Bar made by Christian Dior, that in occasion of the FW19 show, was reinterpreted in combination with the Teddy Boys’ style.
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Therefore, classicism and rebellion blended together, and created some clothes that are extremely modern; and so even the accessories, characterized by tapered shoes with small heels and by the bucket hat, which has been revisited by many other fashion houses, such as Valentino. Chiuri’s hats are in leather black, some with a net that nearly covers the face, the others are in tartan. The combination of multiple styles and motives is balanced by a return to the essential, expressed by John Galliano for Maison Margiela, which proposes leather black or rubber black and blue Mary Janes, or round- toe and square-toe heeled boots with the red heel. This minimal tendency is juxtaposed to a pair of flamingo sequence print satin square-toe heeled boots. Breaking with the classics are surely the sunglasses which shapes evoke a futuristic world. An example of that is Gucci and Lanvin. A sophisticated and cheerful touch is given by the feathers, used on clothes and shoes. One can think of those of Giambattista Valli and Valentino, that are placed on heeled or flat sandals. A brand-new trend is the Bitty Bag. Even smaller than the mini bags, the Bitty bag is very tiny, and its efficiency is pretty arguable, but the effect it has when it is worn with clothes is surely remarkable, one can think about the last Chloe show or Jacquemus’. The next season will be full of choices to make, choices that go beyond the preference of an accessory over another; it is indeed their adaptability to different styles, their versatility, that pushes us to go beyond the limits of our creativity, and by doing so, they let us discover new fluid styles that are the symbol of our era. By Ludovica Mucci
The fall-winter season will be full of news, thanks to the accessories born out of multiple influences. In-between the reinterpretation of the classic and a jump into the future, the bags, shoes, belts and more will reformulate the grey of winter with some new and interesting shades.
Here, from left: Giambattista Valli shoes, Stella McCartney belt, Gucci sunglasses, Givenchy bitty bag, Pagina precedente: cinture White Grillo e Marni | foto Alessandro Viero e Alessandro Lucioni Valentino hat |all photos byOff Armando / courtesy of Gorunway.com Qui: sandali Giambattista Valli, cintura Stella McCartney, Occhiali daViero sole /Gucci, borsetta Givenchy Previous page: belts from Off White and Marni, photos by Alessandro courtesy of Gorunway.com
cappello Valentino | tutte le foto by Armando Grillo courtesy of Gorunway.com
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To pose in front of the camera means stopping time, for a while, and showing a certain image of ourselves to others. Never natural, it is the opposite. The pose is, in greater or lesser amount, a choice. Eye contact only seems to not conform to the rule. It creates a special connection, not possible to be controlled by rationality. It allow us to go beyond our constructed stories, and to experiment a totally different kind of connection.
pose Photography Oliver Beckmann c/o MN-CREATIVE Style Elke Dostal c/o Nina Klein Model Vera Amores c/o Uno models Makeup, Hair Style Yurema Villa c/o Anaprado Mgmt and MMG Artist Digital Assistant Fred Nebas
Ookioh “Modern swimwear with a splash of nostalgia, made with 100% regenerated materials” by Giulia Greco
Summer 2019 is (finally) knocking at our door and the usual questions pop up in our mind, punctual as always: what are the new swimwear trends? What should I wear this year on the beach? The answer, today, can be only one: sustainability. If you are not able to change your habits already and go back to your old and still good bikini, then at least be sure to make the right choices and buy eco-friendly and ethically. We had a talk with Vivek Agarwal, creative director and founder of OOKIOH, swimwear’s brand based in Los Angels with an international spirit. According to Agarwal, sustainability is no more an option, but a moral duty that everyone of us, consumers and brands together, must accomplish. He told us about his inspirations, the magical atmosphere you can breathe on the beach in LA and also something very special about Japanese culture.
Vivek Agarwal exclusive interview
The mission of your brand is to make good products for women and good products for the environment: what do they have in common? How can, in your opinion, a good environment affect and improve our way of life? Life exists because of a good environment and not the other way around. It is crucial that we take care of the eco-system for future generations and us. Otherwise, there won’t be life as we see it now. A product that doesn’t harm the environment should be a core tenet for everyone and not just us. We happen to be catering to women. In this context, I believe wearing products that don’t put a burden on the planet does make one feel better about doing the right thing and being smart. That feeling radiates outwards. You mention a “splash of nostalgia”: what do you mean?
As a 80s kid and 90s teen, I was fascinated by the larger-than-life photography of that era (and the United Colors of Benetton ads shot by Oliviero Toscani) and supermodels such as Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell and Christy Turlington. That era and the colors inspire our designs and photography. You are based in Los Angeles: does a close contact with the ocean impact your work? Definitely. Los Angeles has a laidback vibe that has been fuelled by the beach and the two major industries in the area - Fashion and Entertainment. It is safe to say that LA is the fifth Fashion Capital of the World. It is a major tourist destination, as well; we see people from all parts of the world visiting this beautiful city. The influx of people, the local talent and the fashion potpourri that it creates on the beach has inspired our designs and colors.
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fSTAGE irst Those days long past of chasing the wind, of asking each other for a kiss and wanting a hundred more, one of these days you’ll remember them. You, love who runs away, will come back to me. One of these days you’ll remember them. You, love that flees, to me will return. And you who with eyes of a different color tell me the very same words of love, in a month, in a year, you’ll have forgotten them. Love who comes to me, from me you will flee. In a month, in a year, you’ll have forgotten them. Love who comes to me, from me you will flee. Hailing from sunshine or from cold, cold shores, lost in November or with a summer breeze, I loved you always, I never loved you, you, love, who comes and who goes. I loved you always, I never loved you, you, love, who comes, you, love, who goes. © 1966 Fabrizio De André (English translation) “Amore che vieni, Amore che vai” Art Direction Rachel Freeman Photography Drew Shearwood Style Alicia Ellis Female Models Nina K c/o Titanium Model Management, Courtney Smith c/o MP Management Male Model Sandy Nuttall Makeup Rachel Freeman using Anastasia Beverly Hills Hair Style Chloe Frieda using Color Wow
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