Kiki Willems Wears Fall's 'Key Codes' for HTSI Magazine July 2022

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Kiki Willems Wears Fall's 'Key Codes' for HTSI Magazine July 2022

Model Kiki Willems is styled by Isabelle Kountoure in the July 2022 issue of HTSI Magazine from London’s Financial Times.

As a stand-alone magazine of the conspicuous consumption lifestyle of the 1990s and 2000s, How To Spend It lived up to its name. Today, however, FT invites readers “to interpret the ‘S’ in line with their own deeper interests”.

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Hermès' New French Workshops and Rolling Big on MycoWorks [Mushroom] Leather

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Hermès' New French Workshops and Rolling Big on MycoWorks [Mushroom] Leather

The development of an artisanal approach is different from what is being labeled ‘ethical’ by websites like Good On You.

Leather is a perfect example. Hermès will never be called ethical because they are using leather. Even though they agree to the highest possible worker standards and environment-friendly policies in tanning and how the animals are treated, it’s leather.

Note, though, that even Stella McCartney can’t get a top rating on Good on You, which suggests a bleak future if even she can’t cut it with the uber-progressives. Stella does get a ‘good’ — or a B on a 5-point scale. Note Stella McCartney’s rating is 2018.

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Versace Resort 2022 by Lea Colombo Delivers a Big Spirit, Mega Dose of Optimism

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Versace Resort 2022 by Lea Colombo Delivers a Big Spirit, Mega Dose of Optimism AOC Fashion

Donatella Versace demands that we put on our big-boy pants — and no granny skirts allowed — and march forward into optimism. “I think there’s a renewed sense of optimism right now and I wanted this collection to speak to that,” said Versace via email to Vogue about the 2022 resort collection. “This season is about having fun again and it feels right to put something positive into the world. We’ll never return to the old world or to the old ‘normal,’ there’s no going backwards. This is what the new now looks like to me.”

If COVID reality and raging white nationalism have dampened Donatella’s spirits seven months later, she’s keeping her angst under wraps in a mind over matter Versace Resort 2022 Campaign that has an infectious, optimistic spirit.

The Medusa has taken a psychedelic spin toward a Summer of Love, lensed by Lea Colombo [IG]. It may be 110-degrees in Puglia or its reverse — snowing in July seaside — but optimism is self-created, even when circumstances are dire.

If we’re not in denial and actively trying to save the planet, our heads are in the right place. If we’re still marching for social justice, the activewear should be polished.

We’re doing our best to find a new groove, inspired here by Versace models Akon Changkou, Alyda Grace, Habib Masovic, Kelvin Adewole, Kiki Willems and Ryan Park. Just make refusal your middle name, and we’re going to get through this.

NEVER let them see you sweat. That’s the AOC approach, and I speak from experience. ~ Anne

Kiki Willems, Awar Odhiang Front Saint Laurent Winter 2021/22 Campaign by Juergen Teller

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Kiki Willems, Awar Odhiang Front Saint Laurent Winter 2021/22 Campaign by Juergen Teller AOC Fashion

Models Kiki Willems and Awar Odhiang front Saint Laurent’s [IG] Winter 2021 advertising campaign, lensed by Juergen Teller with art direction by YSL designer and creative director Anthony Vaccarello. The campaign was shot at Reynisfjara beach in Iceland, which was the site for the Saint Laurent fall-winter fashion show the luxury brand presented via video link.