Featured Article: Eleven Covers of L’Officiel Hommes Italia Issue 23

L’Officiel Hommes Italia presents 11 covers for their latest edition, The Statement Issue. The cover stars are as follows:

1. Maluma in Versace by Alan Gelati, styling by Luca Guarini. Grooming by Gabry Trezzi, art direction Marco Ontano, creative direction Priscilla De Giorgi.

2. Lewis Hamilton in Tommy Hilfiger by Evan Browning, styling by Alicia Sereno. Grooming by Yuko Fredriksson.

3. Maurizio Cattelan in Gucci by Pierpaolo Ferrari.

4. Charlie Puth in Parajumpers and Prada by Ria Brahao, styling by Olga Yanul. Grooming by Claudio Belizario.

5. Alessandro Sartori and Alexis Ohanian in Zegna by Fabrizio Ferri, styling by Julie Ragolia. Grooming by Deborah Brider.

6. Alton Mason in Celine by Billy Kidd, styling by Charles Varenne. Grooming by Brent Lavett. Casting director Edward Kim.

7. Luca Lemaire in Prada by Emma Tempest, styling by Emil Rebek. Hair and makeup by Philippe Tholimet and Neil Young. Casting director Jessica Martinelli.

8. Fernando Albaladejo in Saint Laurent by Marianna Sanvito, styling by Raffael Lacampeggi. Hair and makeup by Massimo Gamba and Arianna Campa.

9. Tommaso Bellini in Les Hommes by Julian Hargreaves, styling by Fabrizio Finizza. Hair and makeup by Claudio Furini and Carolina Antonini, manicurist Roberta Rodi. Casting director Laura Motta.

10.Francisco Lachowski and Marlon Teixeira in Dior by Nicolas Wagner, styling by Gaultier Desandre Navarre. Grooming by Laurie Zanoletti. Executive producer and casting director Gabriel Rey.

11.Uta in Comme des Garçons by Chikashi Suzuki, styling by Kawasaki Takafumi. Grooming by Amano. Images courtesy of L’Officiel Hommes Italia. (source)

Dior Men Spring Summer 2020 Ad Campaign

Kohei Takabatake, Serigne Lam, Ludwig Wilsdorff, and Braien Vaiksaar stars in the Spring Summer 2020 ad campaign image of Dior Men photographed by Steven Meisel with styling by Melanie Ward. Hair and makeup by Guido Palau and Pat McGrath, set designer Daniel Arsham. (source)

Christian Dior Menswear Fall Winter 2019 Ad Campaign

Kim Jones paid tribute to house founder Christian Dior’s first vocation as a gallerist (Monsieur Dior was an art collector before he began his couture house) for the brand’s Menswear Fall Winter 2019 collection.

The white, paint-splattered walls, concrete floors and colourful stacked canvases for the accompanying ad campaign images, lensed by the legendary Steven Meisel, is inspired by Raymond Pettibon, whose distinct iconography was found on album covers by Black Flag, Sonic Youth, and several other prominent figures in the 1970s American punk movement.

The Californian artist also reinterpreted the Dior logo and writing it calligraphy-style for the current season. (source)

Dior Pre Fall 2019 Ad Campaign

Academy Award winner Jennifer Lawrence is back to be the face of Dior once again. (source)

Click the links to view past campaign images of Christian Dior: Spring Summer 2019, Cruise 2019, Fall Winter 2018, Pre Fall 2018, Spring Summer 2018, Resort 2018, Fall Winter 2017, Spring Summer 2017, Fall Winter 2016, Spring Summer 2016, Fall Winter 2015, Spring Summer 2015, Fall Winter 2014, Spring Summer 2014, Fall Winter 2013, Spring Summer 2013, and Fall Winter 2013.

Dior Homme Pre Fall 2019 Ad Campaign

The campaign images are photographed by Steven Meisel. (source)

Dior Spring Summer 2019 Ad Campaign

Ruth Bell and Selena Forrest stars in the Spring Summer 2019 ad campaign images of Dior captured by Harley Weir. (source)

Click the links to view past campaign images of Christian Dior: Cruise 2019, Fall Winter 2018, Pre Fall 2018, Spring Summer 2018, Resort 2018, Fall Winter 2017, Spring Summer 2017, Fall Winter 2016, Spring Summer 2016, Fall Winter 2015, Spring Summer 2015, Fall Winter 2014, Spring Summer 2014, Fall Winter 2013, Spring Summer 2013, and Fall Winter 2013.

Featured Article: Rosamund Pike for Town & Country December 2018/January 2019

Rosamund Pike is the cover star of Town & Country’s December 2018/January 2019 issue – on newsstands now.

The self-described Hollywood chameleon tackles the life story of war correspondent Marie Colvin and exclusively for T&C (photographed for the cover by Liz Collins and styled by Nicoletta Santoro in Dior and Cartier), Colvin‘s fellow war correspondent Janine di Giovanni talks to Pike about A Private War (in theaters now).

Inside her T&C cover story, Pike, a former Bond girl who broke out in the U.S. in 2015 with an Oscar-nominated performance in Gone Girl, opens up about why she wanted to play Marie Colvin, her hope for audiences seeing the film, family life in London, and the surprise her second son’s early birth gave her.

On what she wanted to achieve by playing Marie Colvin: “I wanted to capture her spirit of rebellion. But I also had to dive into Curie’s bitterness.”

On her hope for audiences after seeing A Private War: “I want people to care about journalism again.”

On the surprise of her second son’s early birth: “There was no time for pain medication, no time to get to the clinic, so I just let my body take over. I thought, If I can let my mind go somewhere else, my body will do the job.”

On life with her family in London: “People might recognize me, but I think they just see me as a mother trying to handle small kids on the subway.” Image courtesy of Town & Country. (source)

Featured Article: Michelle Obama for Elle US December 2018

In advance of the release of her highly anticipated memoir, Becoming, the former First Lady, Michelle Obama (photographed by Miller Mobley wearing Dior) stars on the December cover of ELLE US and gets candid with Oprah Winfrey about her struggles with Barack, the threats to her children’s lives, and her vow to be a force for good.

The image is styled by Meredith Koop with hair and makeup by Yene Damtew and Carl Ray.

On Donald Trump’s birther claims: “In order for my children to have a normal life, even though they had security, they were in the world in a way that we weren’t. To think that some crazed person might be ginned up to think my husband was a threat to the country’s security; and to know that my children, every day, had to go to a school, and soccer games, parties, and travel; to think that this person would not take into account that this was not a game—that’s something that I want the country to understand. I want the country to take this in, in a way I didn’t say out loud, but I am saying now. It was reckless, it put my family in danger, and it wasn’t true. And he knew it wasn’t true.”

On going to counseling with her husband: “It was about me exploring my sense of happiness. What clicked in me was that I need support and I need some from him. But I needed to figure out how to build my life in a way that works for me.”

On the pressure of being the first black family: “We felt the pressure from the minute we started to run. First of all, we had to convince our base that a black man could win. It wasn’t even winning over Iowa. We first had to win over black people. Because black people like my grandparents—they never believed this could happen. They wanted it for us. But their lives had told them, “No. Never.” Hillary was the safer bet for them, because she was known. Opening hearts up to the hope that America would put down its racism for a black man—I think that hurt too much. It wasn’t until Barack won Iowa that people thought, Okay. Maybe so.” (source)

Click here to view last year cover featuring Gal Gadot, here to view 2016 cover featuring Haley Bennett, here to view 2015 cover featuring Daisy Ridley, here to view 2014 cover featuring Rihanna, here to view 2013 covers featuring Lea Michele, here to view 2012 cover featuring Jennifer Lawrence, here to view 2011 covers featuring Jessica Biel, here for 2010 cover with Jessica Alba.

Dior Homme Spring Summer 2019 Ad Campaign

Kim Jones‘ first Dior collection campaign is shot by Steven Meisel featuring models Nikolai Frederiksborg (aka Prince Nikolai of Denmark), Romaine Dixon, Malick Bodian, Valentin Caron, and Lukas Gomann. (source)

Vanessa Axente for Harper’s Bazaar Spain November 2018

Harper’s Bazaar Spain tries on a different pose for their November 2018 newsstand cover featuring top model Vanessa Axente (wearing Dior, Max Mara and Totême). The monochrome image and the subscriber cover (Vanessa in Balenciaga) are captured by Agata Pospieszynska with styling by Ana Tovar. Hair and makeup are the courtesy of Jordi Fontanals and Egon Crivillers. (source)