Penelope Cruz Covers ELLE Spain April 2024 in Very Best Images by Xavi Gordo

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Penelope Cruz Covers ELLE Spain April 2024 in Very Best Images by Xavi Gordo

Penélope Cruz covers the April 2024 issue of ELLE Spain, working with photographer Xavi Gordo [IG] to deliver some of the most precious images of the actor I remember. Cruz turns 50 on April 28, and Gordo has captures her inner spirit, as well as her physicality in these simple but so revealing images. He and Penelope have quite a dance going on.

Penelope Discovers Women’s World

Cruz’s mother was a hairdresser and she and her sister spent a great deal of time in a salon after school. It was there that Penelope observed the women carefully, understanding not only their desire to be pretty in their lives, but practicing rituals thousands of years old. The young daughter Penelope developed insights that would fuel her future success as an actor, after she first paid her way and contributed to the family finances as a model.

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Eeva Lioni for Tiffany & Co in ELLE Italia December 2023 by Xavi Gordo

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Eeva Lioni for Tiffany & Co in ELLE Italia December 2023 by Xavi Gordo

Model Eeva Lioni covers the December 2023 issue of ELLE Italia styled by Laura Seganti on behalf of Tiffany & Co.

Lioni’s sleek, hip, modern, black tailoring is a perfect canvas for Tiffany HardWear, Tiffany Lock and the Tiffany T collections, lensed by Xavi Gordo [IG].

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Fall Fashion 2023 Style by Xavi Gordo for ELLE Italia September 14, 2023

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Fall Fashion 2023 Style by Xavi Gordo for ELLE Italia September 14, 2023

Barcelona-based photographer Xavi Gordo [IG] turns his lens to rising model Polina Rudenko in a fall fashion story ‘Valley Girl’ for ELLE Italia [IG] September 14, 2023.

Laura Seganti styles Rudenko in a luxe but ordinary, casual mix of fashion choices. Thinking minds understand that “outdoors” pleasures may not last forever, with an increasingly fragile mother earth.

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Monica Bellucci Assumes Icon Status in Harper's Bazaar Spain September by Xavi Gordo

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Monica Bellucci Assumes Icon Status in Harper's Bazaar Spain September by Xavi Gordo

The September 2023 issue of Harpers Bazaar Spain delivers two cover women — Monica Bellucci and Kendall Jenner — who personify what it is to be an icon in the 21st century.

In these images, film star legend Monica Bellucci is lensed by Xavi Gordo [IG] with styling by EIC Imma Jimenez Mateos, who is also creative director of HEARST Spain, and Claudia Laukamp. Bellucci wears Nina Ricci by Harris Reed above./ Hair by John Nollet Paris

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Tasha Tilberg As For-Real Lady Farmer Who Loves Denim in ELLE Italia Fashion Story

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Tasha Tilberg As For-Real Lady Farmer Who Loves Denim in ELLE Italia Fashion Story

Model Tasha Tilberg is back in a denim-rich fashion world cover story for ELLE Italia. Barcelona-based Xavi Gordo [IG] is behind the lens.

I have the same response to this fashion story that I did eco-warrior Tasha Tilberg’s story for Fashion Canada April 2022. The clothes were great — and these denim clothes have terrific styling by Laura Seganti. But which are the sustainable choices?

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Toni Garrn in 'California Dream' Summer Style by Xavi Gordo for ELLE España May 2023

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Toni Garrn in 'California Dream' Summer Style by Xavi Gordo for ELLE España May 2023

Top model Toni Garrn and actor husband Alex Pettyfer welcomed their baby daughter Luca Malaika in July 2021. Toni has kept a low profile since Luca’s birth, but she came roaring back today in ‘California Dream’, styled by Sylvia Montoliu.

Photographer Xavi Gordo [IG] flashes Toni in hot and sexy, summer-fun swimwear and casual bits for ELLE España May 2023./ Hair and makeup by Vicky Marcos

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Tina Kunakey by Xavi Gordo for Harper's Bazaar Espana December 2021

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Tina Kunakey by Xavi Gordo for Harper's Bazaar Espana December 2021 AOC Fashion

Model Tina Kunakey, aka Mrs. Vincent Cassel, wears unadulterated elegance in fashion and Bvlgari High Jewelry styled by Inmaculada Jiménez. Xavi Gordo [IG] captures ‘TK’ from the Villa Necchi garden in Milan, as she extols the wonderfulness of Spanish culture, under the brim of a Cordovan hat, for Harper’s Bazaar Spain December 2021./ Hair and makeup by Harold James

In a 2017 interview with Vogue Italia, Tina Kunakey discussed her family background. “Your father is from Togo but he lived first in Morocco and then in France. Your mother is from Sicily, South of Italy. You were born in Toulouse, as well as your two brothers. You are really a cosmopolitan girl. In which ways your family heritage has influenced, and of course helped you, in your life?”

Speaking of her eclectic background, Kunakey told Vogue Italia:

I think that every person of multiple origins benefits from a much wider socio-cultural capital. It’s like a passport, the more visa you got the more you’ve discovered hahah… It has always helped me and will help me in life. It opened my mind. I consider it as great advantage.

Valentina Sampaio's Armani Mood by Xavi Gordo for Harper's Bazaar Spain

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Valentina Sampaio's Armani Mood by Xavi Gordo for Harper's Bazaar Spain

Rising model Valentina Sampaio shares the cover of Harper’s Bazaar Spain’s November 2020 issue with Italian fashion maestro Giorgio Armani. Inside Sampaio is styled by Beatriz Machado in an Armani fashion story lensed by Xavi Gordo./ Makeup by Miriam Langelotti; hair by Alessandro Rebecchi

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Xavi Gordo Flashes 10 Luxe Jewelry Beauties for Madame Figaro

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Xavi Gordo Flashes 10 Luxe Jewelry Beauties for Madame Figaro

Top models Blanca Padilla, Cindy Bruna, Coco Rocha, Daria Strokous, Doutzen Kroes, Elsa Hosk, Eva Herzigova, Martha Hunt, Sasha Luss, and Taylor Hill are styled by Cecile Martin in luxe sweaters and fine jewelry lensed by Xavi Gordo for Madame Figaro./ Hair by Delahaye Stephane; makeup by Yumi Endo