Luna Bijl for Vogue Greece July/August 2022

Το Απέραντο (The Big Blue) : Dedicated to the color blue, including the beautiful Greek Aegean Sea, Vogue Greece for their July/August issues explores the magic of the color blue, traveling from Naxos, Mykonos, and Hydra. Vogue Greece and their Editor-in-Chief, Thalia Karafyllidou also discuss the cult hit, The Big Blue (1988) and its impact on audiences. The issue also delves into professional water sports athletes like Vyronas Kokkalanis, surfer Efi Vraka, and waterski champion Nikolas Pyltas.

Vogue Greece then explains how the color blue has always been a tremendous source of inspiration for Greek designers like psychedelic prints of Mary Katrantzos, the blue waves by Giannis Tseklenis, and the ethereal dress designs of Angelos Bratis. Dutch Top Model Luna Bijl, graces the cover of this wonderful Blue Issue, with plenty of exploration from the villages of Naxos to the beaches of Agios Prokopios, Plaka, Glyfada, and many more beautiful locations of Greece’s endless shades of blue! Source: Vogue Greece

Credit to Zorka

Creative Team:
Editor-in-chief @thaleiavoguegr
Creative and Fashion Director @nicholasgeorgiou_
Art director @rinetta_._
Photographer @panosdavios @10artistsmanagement
Makeup artist @sophiakossada @beehive_artists
Hairstylist @stefanos.vasilakis @dtales_creativeagency
Casting Director @marina.fairfax
Model @lunabijl @premiermodels

Birgit Kos for Harper’s Bazaar UK July/August 2022

For their latest July/August 2022 issue, Harper’s Bazaar UK celebrates the power of women, paying tribute to fearless female icons like the fatest women in the UK, Dina Asher-Smith and Labout MP Stella Creasy! The July/August issue also highlights some of the most fashionable swimsuits and beachwear of the season. Top Model, Birgit Kos lands the cover of Harper’s Bazaar UK, doning some of the latest swimwear by brands such as Hermès, Miu Miu, Eres, and Chanel! Source: Harper’s Bazaar UK and Zorka

Creative Team:
Photography @yuliagorbachenko
Fashion Editor @sandyarmeni
Model @birgitkos
Hair @davidharborow
Makeup @kirstinpiggott

Swimsuits by (Left) Louis Vuitton and Hermès
Dress by Proenza Schouler

Photography by Yulia Gorbachenko

Swimsuit by Eres
Swimsuit by Versace x Fendi
Tops and skirts by Miu Miu
Top and skirts by Miu Miu
Shirt by Dior
Top by Chanel

Photography by Yulia Gorbachenko

Sunglasses by Chanel
Shirt and shorts by (Above) Max Mara Swimsuit by Eres

Laetitia Casta for CAP 74024 Magazine #14

For CAP 74024 #14, the publication dedicates its latest issue to “The Body We Live In.” The issue also celebrates its muses like new face Aurélien Enthoven, the Danish-Norwegian artistic duo Elmgreen & Dragset, and actress of the recent Selon la police (2022) and model Laetitia Casta. Some of the pieces are from Saint Laurent’s Spring 2022 Ready-to-Wear and Versace’s 2022 Ready-to-Wear collections. Sources: CAP 74024

Creative Team:
Photography @marcocella
Fashion @barbaraloison
Hair Diego Da Silva @diegodasilva_
Makeup @gregoris
Hermès Beauté

Raquel Zimmermann for W Magazine’s Volume Three Music Issue 2022

For the W’s Music Issue Volume Three, Christopher Bollen ruminates of late legendary Tunisian designer Azzedine Alaïa and the future of the Alaïa brand after the desinger and founder’s passing. Luckily the student of architecture and new creative director of Pieter Mulier, answered Bollen’s lingering question of the outlook of Alaïa in Mulier’s more than capable hands, emphasizing the Alaïa’s ideals around body consciousness and the beauty of imperfection. The model Raquel Zimmermann for the issue dons pieces from Alaïa’ Fall 2022 Collection with its theme of “a dedication to craft, and to clothing as sculpture, exploration of silhouette, experiment in form.” Sources: W Magazine and Maison-Alaia

Creative Team:
Photography @rafaelpavarotti_
Styling @kegrand
Writer @christbollen
Hair @vpintomoreira
Makeup @daniel_s_makeup

Anna Ewers for W Magazine’s Music Issue Volume Three 2022

In W’s Volume Three 2022, The Music Issue, stylist Max Pearmain and photographer Karim Sadli with Anna Ewers brilliantly show off the best short dress for the summer of 2022 and beyond! Some of the dresses featured are from brand names such as Loewe, Bottega Veneta, Versace, Valentino, Miu Miu, Gucci, Saint Laurent, and Prada. Sources: W Magazine and @wmag

Creative Team:
Photography @KarimSadli
Styling @MaxPearmain
Hair @damienboissinothair
Makeup @christellecocque

Happy Birthday Karen Mulder: ‘You’re My Sunshine, You’re My Rain’

A few years ago, I had this idea of doing a Karen Mulder tribute based on her career in the 1990s. For some reason a couple of Oasis songs from their Definitely Maybe (1994) and (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? (1995) albums really stuck with me, especially their 1994 single, Supersonic. Everything from Karen’s beautiful countenance, bright spirit, and noir femme fatale fashion style mirrored the sound and look of Oasis in the 90s.

Karen wasn’t part of the big five or six, but in her day, she was an absolute force and an even more brilliant star on the catwalk. She had a ton of personality in her poise and walk that you couldn’t help but be enamored in her style and ambience. Her work for Thierry Mugler and Versace alone, are some of the coolest and most iconic looks to me. Karen could be her own Frank Miller, Cruella de Vil or Maleficent kind of character, yet be lovable, slapstick, and class personified all in one.

A fashion valkyrie, blonde with class or Supersonic sentient, there’s truly not enough I can say about Karen Mulder. She’s probably impacted my life just as much as Chris Cornell, and she’s one of my all time heroes. And even as the world is seemingly going mad as it is of late, Karen Mulder is always someone who reminds me of the tremendous beauty in the world and innate goodness in people. So Happy Birthday Karen Mulder, wishing you peace, love & happiness, forever and a day.

Credit to stefmodels and ArianaVSCouture for images
And @dedicated_to_karen_mulder is great!

Thierry Mugler

‘Cause God gimme soul in your rock and roll, babe
‘Cause God gimme soul in your rock and roll, babe
And I get so high I just can’t feel it
And I get so high I just can’t feel it
In and out my brain
Running through my vein
You’re my sunshine
You’re my rain

Sittin’ on my own, chewin’ on a bone
A thousand million miles from home
When something hit me
Somewhere right between the eyes
Sleepin’ on a plane, you know you can’t complain
You took your last chance once again
I landed, stranded
Hardly even knew your name

Paint no illusion, try to click with whatcha got
Taste every potion ’cause if yer like yerself a lot
Go let it out, go let it in, go let it out

Life is precocious in a most peculiar way
Sister psychosis don’t got a lot to say
She go let it out, she go get it in, she go let it out
She go let it out, she go get it in, she go let it out

Is it any wonder why princes and kings
Are clowns that caper in their sawdust rings
‘Cause ordinary people that are like you and me
We’re the keepers of their destiny

Yves Saint Laurent

Is it my imagination
Or have I finally found something worth living for?
I was looking for some action
But all I found was cigarettes and alcohol

You could wait for a lifetime
To spend your days in the sunshine
You might as well do the white line
‘Cause when it comes on top
You gotta make it happen
You gotta make it happen
You gotta make it happen
You gotta make it happen

Is it worth the aggravation
To find yourself a job when there’s nothing worth working for?
It’s a crazy situation
But all I need are cigarettes and alcohol

Yves Saint Laurent

I know you think you deserve
An explanation on the meanings of life
But what you think that you heard
Slipped away out the back of your mind

You’ll get your mucky fingers burnt
You get your truth from the lies you were learned
When all your plastic believers will leave us
And they won’t return
(Walk on)

And when you look in the mirror
And you’re tying up your buttons and bows
And as you face your disease
You can squeeze into the emperor’s clothes

You found your God in a paperback
You get your history from the union jack
And all your brothers and sisters have gone
And they won’t come back

I’m fed up with life in the city
All the phonies have blown my mind
When I’m gone, yeah, you look like you’d miss me
So come along with me
But don’t ask why
Cos it’s all mine

Versace
Chanel
Jacques Fath
Oscar de La Renta
Jeanlouis Scherrer
Christian Lacroix
Gianfranco Ferre