Jeano Edwards at Monkey Island Estate for WSJ Magazine November Stellar Market Report

Jeano Edwards at Monkey Island Estate for WSJ Magazine November Stellar Market Report AOC Fashion

Brooklyn and London-based photographer Jeano Edwards [IG] and stylist Chloe Grace Press raise the bar on what defines a market report, packing up models Ajayi Temitope and Baba Chogwu and heading for the gardens of the Monkey Island Estate hotel. WSJ Magazine’s November 2021 issue is not playing at fashion dress-up — not even in a standard market report. A little muscle-flexing, perhaps?

Situated on a private island in England’s River Thames. the recently-restored Monkey Island Estate hotel is located in Bray, a mere spec on the map village beloved of international gourmands for its four Michelin-starred restaurants.

'Team Too Much' by Carlijn Jacobs Blasts into Ancestral Future for Dazed Magazine Winter 2021

'Team Too Much' by Carlijn Jacobs Blasts into Ancestral Future for Dazed Magazine Winter 2021 AOC Fashion

If only Anne had been the quiet muse in the room, my spirit hovering up in the corner of the ceiling with no body attached, when photographer Carlijn Jacobs [IG} and Dazed EIC, stylist extraordinaire Ibrahim Kamara conceived ‘Team Too Much’.

It’s not like Carlijn needs a lot of coaxing when it come to visual flights of imagination, but this story is creative DNA on steroids. And in case anyone hasn’t noticed, Ib Kamara’s creative engine transmits a high frequency power supply to others in his orbit. His is not a one-act play, but a serial novel — a Shakespearean mind gone 21st century modern, with deep ancestral African roots.

In three words: creative awe blitzkrieg. Kamara’s got a lot of people living in his head. He’s a spiritual, creative, limitless empath of the highest order. Give him room, people. A lot of room. Let him live in free fall some of the time and see where he lands,

Let his fairy dust fall on the creative minds around him. Carlijn is great on her own, but I can’t help thinking that 1+1=3 here.

‘Team Too Much’ models, actors, players include Abeny Nihal, Babafemi Mustapha,, Dave Cho, Delphi McNicol, Diana Achan, Goy Manese, Grace Sharp, Hugo Fulton, Leo Comanescu, Temitope Ajayi, Tsunaina and Xue Huizi,/ Hair by Kiyoko Odo; makeup by Ammy Drammeh

For her part, Jacobs quips on IG that the lead image invokes “prepping for that new lockdown”. She posted the image yesterday, and sadly, Carlijn is spot on. The new variant is called Omicron. ~ Anne