Ajok, Dara, Maty, Nyaduola and Sunira by Malick Bodian for Vogue US Met Gala May 2025
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Bella Hadid Walks Out of an '80s Enjoli Commercial Straight into Miss Sixty
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Bella Hadid Walks Out of an '80s Enjoli Commercial Straight into Miss Sixty
Bella Hadid looks like Miss Texas in the new Miss Sixty [IG] commercial lensed by Carlijn Jacobs [IG] and styled by Ib Kamara.
Bella Hadid: Miss Texas
Was it on anyone’s bingo card that Bella Hadid would be named the National Cutting Horse Association's (NCHA) 2024 Limited Age Event (LAE) Rookie of the Year . . . after "entering the cutting community a little over a year ago."
Somehow Bella Hadid has managed to create a whole new life in Texas with her love Adan Banuelos.
I’ve read stories about Bella sleeping in the van, getting up at 5am and making breakfast — not for the Miss Sixty crew — but for her beloved cowboys. I can just see her — with the 2 hr. time difference — flipping pancakes with one hand as the sun rises, while on the phone with New York, dealing with the crisis of Orabella sold-out products all over America.
I swear that woman walked into the Miss Sixty photoshoot, straight out of an old-school Enjoli commercial. And I just love it. ~ Anne
Read MoreAngelina Kendall Covers British Vogue January 2025, Lensed by Mikael Jansson
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Brazilian-Kiwi model Angelina Kendall covers the January 2025 issue of British Vogue [IG], wandering London streets for a fashion story ‘The Making of a Supermodel.’
Ib Kamara chooses a blue Maison Valentino gown for the cover shot, accented by Tiffany & Co jewelry. It’s one of several Maison Valentino gowns from Alessandro Michele’s debut collection.
Mikael Jansson [IG] photographs Kendall in strapless gowns, jersey dresses and leather jackets — all with a late 1950s — 60’s retro Vogue vibe.
Read MoreNyajuok G Is Stylish Warrior Woman by Mikael Jansson for Dazed Magazine Autumn 2024
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Dazed Magazine [IG] makes South Sudanese model Nyajuok G a cover girl for their Autumn 2024 ‘The Impossible’ issue. Nyajuok emerged as a new face of Gucci in Sabato De Sarno’s Gucci Ancora Spring 2023 campaign.
Ib Kamara styles Nyajuok G for the Dazed story lensed by Mikael Jansson [IG]. / Hair by Ali Pirzadeh; makeup by Jamal Scott
Read MoreKylie Jenner Is First Clan Member to Cover British Vogue in September 2024 Fashion Issue
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Kylie Jenner covers the September 2024 issue of British Vogue [IG], wearing a purple coat by Prada and earrings by Bulgari styled by Ib Kamara. Jenner is the first Kardashian-Jenner woman to cover British Vogue and she is lensed by Luis Alberto Rodriguez [IG]./ Hair by Mustafa Yanaz; makeup by Sam Visser
Giles Hattersly interviews Kylie Jenner over a period of time that includes Paris couture week, and Kylie in New York and LA.
Kylie Jenner’s Post-Partum Depression
Kylie speaks to her battle with post-partum depression with both her children daughter Stormi, 6, and son Aire, now 2. Travis Scott is the father of both kids. Her “major baby blues” were worse with Aire.
For the paps trailing Kylie Jenner’s every move, she shares news that she has a place in New York and enjoys the High Line incognito.
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Justin French Captures Fall Style Rituals for Dazed Magazine 'Beyond the Borders' Issue
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Dazed Magazine’s EIC Ib Kamara styles ‘Field of Dreams’, a country fun fest that comes to life with photographer Justin French [IG].
Models include Amir Mohammad, Ayan Osman, Hani Nur, Jeon Younghoon, Jum Kuochnin, Manyuon Deng, Naun Kim, Nyadora Jany and Peng Chang creating smiles in abundance for Dazed Autumn 2023 ‘Beyond the Borders’ issue. / Makeup by Chiao Li Hsu; set design by Thomas Bird
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Michaela Coel Covers Vogue US November 2022, Lensed in Accra by Malick Bodian
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In November, Michaela Coel will appear as Dora Milaje warrior Aneka in ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’, the second in Marvel’s blockbuster Afrofuturist series. Vogue editor Chioma Nnadi interviews the screenwriter and actor in the exciting Vogue US November 2022 cover story Michaela Coel on Creativity, Romance, and the Path to ‘Wakanda Forever’.
The star wears a Gucci Made To Measure Dress by Alessandro Michele on the cover, with Gucci jewelry, styled by Ib Kamara [IG] and lensed by Senegalese-Italian model/photographer Malick Bodian [IG].
Coel Addresses Gay Hate in Africa | AOC Blames the US Evangelical MAGA Crowd for Years
AOC looks beyond Vogue to confirm that it’s US right-wing MAGA evangelicals who are stirring up anti-LGBTQ-hatred in Ghana, as they have done for well over a decade in Uganda. Open Democracy estimates that more than 20 US Christian groups known for fighting against LGBT rights and access to safe abortion, contraceptives and comprehensive sexuality education have spent at least $54m in Africa since 2007.
Read MoreTrailblazer Anok Yai by Rafael Pavarotti in W Magazine #50 | Anok Reflects on Prada Spring 2018
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Anok Yai is among the jawdropping list of cover stars, both print and digital, photographed here by Rafael Pavarotti [IG] for W Magazine’s 50th anniversary issue. The photographer works with his frequent stylist partner Ib Kamara.
Jenny Comita chats with Anok Yai about her experience of being discovered at Howard University in October 2017, and then opening the Prada show at Milan Fashion Week. Anok says she didn’t know at the time that she was the first Black model to have the honor since Naomi Campbell, 20 years earlier.
Read MoreKayako Higuchi in Burberry for Dazed Issue V Summer 2022 by Rafael Pavarotti
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Dazed Magazine releases their Summer 2022 issue with cover stars including A$AP Rocky, Naomi Osaka, Maty Fall, Bree Runway, and in this fashion story Kayako Higuchi.
The spirit of Virgil Abloh permeates the entire issue of Dazed Summer — the fifth under editor-in-chief Ib Kamara, the prolific talent who is also the new Art and Image director of the deeply beloved Abloh’s Off-White brand.
Kamara joins a collective of creatives, who will be the vision and engine of Off-White, with the uber-talented stylist overseeing the artistic direction. LVMH will also playing a major role in the development of Off-White.
In Kayako Higuchi’s cover and all-Burberry pre-fall-2022 fashion story, Kamara joins forces with frequent collaborator, photographer Rafael Pavarotti [IG] to tap the issue’s “Virgil-flavoured themes of culture-splicing, remixing and outer-limits innovation.”
Read Moreadidas x Gucci Is Pure Excellence on Steroids Imbued with Heavenly Creative Talent
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Not all collaborations are created equal. Designed by Gucci Creative Director Alessandro Michele, adidas x Gucci is spectacular in a business-smart kind of way. The design hybrids created by this fusion of business brilliance go way beyond wearable and visually appealing.
The two brands adidas and Gucci look like they were made for each other . . . like adidas should just buy Gucci [ relax Kering].
Read Morelb Kamara Becomes Artistic Head of Off White
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According to an Instagram post shared on Saturday by Off White, Ib Kamara “will be joining a collective of creatives and overseeing the artistic direction of the brand.” Off-White is part of the New Guards Group portfolio of brands, which is owned by Farfetch.
Read MoreH&M Innovation Stories 'Cherish Waste' Collection Launches April 21 Lensed by Rafael Pavarotti
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Sustainability is in the house, with H&M’s reveal of the fifth drop in their Innovation Stories series. What the world needs now — more than ever — is Love Sweet Love, and H&M is onboard with the theme. The new ‘Cherish Waste’ collection is birthed from recycled garments, ocean-bound plastic and other waste or low-impact materials.
In the world of trendy fashionistas: garbage, garbage, garbage.
The sound minds, visionary team of Rafael Pavarotti and Ibrahim Kamara return to H&M to shoot and style the new campaign, with set design from Ibby Njoya.
Read MoreGoddess Icon Naomi Campbell by Rafael Pavarotti for W Magazine February 2022
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Supermodel Naomi Campbell assumes the goddess position in ‘Naomi Forever’, as her adoring creatives pay homage to their queen in the pages of W Magazine’s Spring 2021 issue. Photographer Rafael Pavarotti [IG] and stylist Ib Kamara [IG] unleash the full range of their creative vision to honor one of fashion’s truly iconic models. / Hair by Jawara and Fekkai; makeup by Chiao Li Hsu
Naomi transcends categories, but it’s also important to acknowledge and embrace her status as a towering, inspiring and sensual, motherly figure among Black creatives. AOC includes models as members of creative teams, and we are well aware of what Naomi means psychologically and emotionally to this extraordinary group of supremely talented, new visionaries in fashion.
Read MoreH&M Hugs the Brilliance of Ib Kamara and Rafael Pavarotti with Innovation Circular Design Story
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H&M welcomes 2022 with Innovation Circular Design Story, their newest foray into sustainable design. For all the fraidy cats out there, who think putting sustainability front and center in selling exciting fashion is high risk and sales depressing, could we get some perspective, please?
H&M — one of the the world biggest retailers — a company who cannot afford to screw up in the month of December with all the gifting and holiday parties going on — has chosen to make sustainability its big December story. The project launches online and in select stores on December 9.
Read MoreErdem Moralıoğlu Is Photographer of 'Vintage' for Vogue Poland November 2021
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Erdem Moralıoğlu Is Photographer of 'Vintage' for Vogue Poland November 2021 AOC Fashion
“It’s gone by extraordinarily quickly,” Erdem Moralıoğlu says about the 15th anniversary of his brand Erdem. “If I close my eyes, I can still imagine being a student at the Royal College putting together my graduate collection,” reflects the designer who has embraced a poetic femininity with deep roots in the strong, often renegade, women of history.
In fact, Erdem’s depth of historical context underpinning the collections — combined with an overarching respect or craftsmanship and artistry — is unmatched in the world of luxury fashion brands. A key element in the recent evolution of the Erdem brand vision is the extraordinary synergy emanating from Ibrahim Kamara, who has styled all of Erdem’s collections and shows since 2019.
New Vogue Poland editor-in-chief, photographer Ina Lekiewicz invited Erdem Moralıoğlu, accompanied by Ib Kamara, to create this visual masterpiece in the November issue. In a new role, the designer is the photographer for the fashion shoot on location at the 17th-century Southside House in London.
Models in ‘Vintage’ include Florence Hutchings, Lily Nova, Ngozi Anene, Sienna King and Wang Han./ Hair by Teiji Utsumi; makeup by Thom Walker
Celestial Grade Synergy
Now the Dazed editor-in-chief, Ib Kamara is extraordinary adept at upending reticence or plain ignorance in how to weave the visual narrative of race, colonialism and fashion together in a modern way. Gender and sexuality are also key undercurrents in Kamara’s work, but the visionary stylist’s brilliance is his emotional and intellectual willingness to take historical realities and weave them in a web of revised history.
The result is an unabashed modern and progressive vision of a better truth, if you think like we do. Others may shatter a mirror or two over the audacity of Erdem Moralıoğlu and Ibrahim Kamara revising colonial history in a shared vision. In another ironic twist, both talents admire strong women and they seek out unique and unconventional personalities as their seasonal muses.
Kamara makes no attempt to shun the often painful facts of history, being a son of the African continent. Rather, he reweaves them into new visual narratives that travel far beyond their original reality. This revised visual statement says “it didn’t have to be this way.”
Erdem Moralıoğlu is the beneficiary of Kamara’s insights and visual interpretations, and one imagines that the synergy between the two super-talents is nothing less than blinding at times. Born in war-torn Sierra Leone, Ibrahim Kamara benefits from Erdem’s insights as the son of a Turkish father and an English mother. Erdem was born in Montreal, Canada and shuttled between Montreal and Birmingham, England.
Ibrahim Kamara says about his relationship with Erdem Moralıoğlu:
“It’s very valuable to meet someone with whom you can perform a creative dance. “
To those of us watching, the tango is breathtaking. ~ Anne
