Supermodel Edie Campbell delivers an astonishingly personal and top-drawer professional, two-part on AOC fashion story for the September 18, 2024 issue of ELLE Italia [IG].

Edie’s partner in creating this visual masterpiece is photographer Giampaolo Sgura [IG], who takes us to eternally-inspiring Puglia, a gift-giving backdrop for the sensual heat that pulsates throughout these images.

Part 2 of Edie in Puglia continues: Edie Campbell in Puglia by Giampaolo Sgura for ELLE Italia Pt 2 AOC Fashion

George Cortina styles Edie in select fall essentials for a huge fashion story that is more lifestyle-directed. These creatives are not delivering a seasonal hit-parade of fall fashion 2024 must-haves.

In fact, these images reflect a thoughtful, grounded lifestyle that many of us consider the ultimate good life. / Hair by Franco Gobbi; makeup by Georgi Sandev

AOC resists lavish praise for ordinary editorials, so that when we dish it out, our words mean something.

In a digital world where many are called supermodels, simply for being on the cover of a magazine, Edie Campbell — who is ONLY age 33 —sets the pace for what it is to be photogenic, empathetically-engaged with the camera and worthy of the term ‘supermodel’.

On AOC, Edie Campbell deserves her crown.

For all the pros who argue that detached models with a superior, ‘let them eat cake’, vacuous-stare attitude are properly-positioned to advance the luxury market business in 2024, I say “you are wrong”.

US presidential candidate Kamala Harris insists: “we are not going back.”

Should Harris become the next US president, based on November election results and not Trump’s guaranteed attempt to attempt to overthrow our votes, her “we are not going back” call to action will be a uniquely-strong, subliminal messages in global culture.

Like recent images of Gigi Hadid, our best models and talents, working with our best photographers create layers of visual interest and meaning.

They invite us into their rarified world, rather than implying that we’re not good enough to be part of it. Today’s luxury customer landscape is not a private, whites-only country club and maybe Jews are allowed. Or maybe no Jews. It’s a vote.

America’s Augusta National Golf Course took 78-years to admit women members in 2012; and “we are not going back.”

Today’s luxury world is a values-rich, aspirational treasure chest of financial privilege but also an understanding of our collective humanity.

It’s a balancing act of positive action and utilization of those gifts — not to wield fake power over people that’s grounded in narcissism — but to unite us in collective, human advancement.

Anne noted in her recent September WSJ comment that more than 250 billionaires and millionaires at Davos 2024 renewed their call on elected representatives of the world’s leading economies to introduce higher taxes on the very richest in society.

When I see images like these created between Campbell and Sgura, Anne of Carversville remains defiant about our own standards of excellence and our best-efforts at promoting individuals and brands who embody that excellence, while understanding their larger roles in the human community.

Thanks Edie Campbell, Giampaolo Sgura, George Cortina and ELLE Italia. Your beautiful and inspiring-to-me fashion story unleashed a torrent of internal emotion that demanded release this morning.

There’s a reason why I always kissed the ground when my monthly journey landed me on Italian soil for well over a decade. And you tapped into it with these images ~ Anne