After nearly a decade, Louis Vuitton and world renowned artist and icon, Yayoi Kusama, once again reignite their magical collaboration with a team of top models to celebrate the master artist endearing infinity polka dot motif. With the Maison’s lauded creative designs and Louis Vuitton’s savoir-faire, the collection stands as a testament to the beautiful fashion and craftsmanship of Louis Vuitton, but also a delightful celebration the art, passion, and legacy of Kusama through the polka dots she’s inspired so many across the decades.
An environmental crusader, lifelong horsewoman, lover of animals, and nature, Tatjana Patitz recently passed. Since the blossoming of her career in the late 1980s, The German born and Swedish raised Tatjana charted to the very top of the fashion world and alongside her sisterhood of supers or as the press would dub The Big Five (including Turlington, Crawford, Campbell, Evangelista, and Patitz herself) aided in the ushering of a new era of top model and a decade of truly unforgettable fashion.
In contrast to her contemporaries, Tatjana wasn’t much of a topic for headlines and rather reside in one of the meccas of fashion in New York, Tatjana chose to make her home in California among the nature and animals she deeply loved. Throughout her career, industry titans like Anna Wintour, Herb Ritts, and the late Peter Lindbergh, whom she had a long-standing working relationship with, admired Patitz mysterious disposition and reserved sophistication.
Whether as a model or in her personal life, Tatjana Patitz voiced her concerns for gender equality, ageism, the treatment of animals, and protecting the environment. Tatjana had a wonderful spirit full of love and she’ll be cherished as the mother, friend, advocate, and a model of humanity she represented to so many.
New York Magazine wanted to celebrate the city’s return to spontaneity since the tumultuous times of the pandemic with a creative and wacky epically shot Where’s Waldo inspired cover. NYMag miraculously got 72 New Yorkers including Spike Lee, Linda Evangelista, and even Ice Spice to converge on the corner of Little West 12th and Washington Street. The daylong shoot was photographed by Pelle Cass, an award winning photographer known for his spectacular snaps of crowds. Editor Christopher Bonanos delves into the making of the cover and how photo director Jody Quon and her time undertook the enormous project.
Dutch born Moroccan-Egyptian star Imaan Hammam and her younger sister Aicha grace the cover for Vogue Arabia for the magazine’s December 2022 issue, closing out the fashion year on a high note. Although Imaan is in New York and Aicha in the Netherlands, the waste no time in catching up for Vogue Arabia, discussing their bond as sisters, Imaan’s impact on diversity in the fashion industry, Aicha and Imaan’s upbringing in the Netherlands and their love for their Muslim and Afro-Arab heritage. Aicha also shares her growing interest in becoming a model because of her older sister’s influence and how she’s opened up as a person.
“I don’t shy away from my roots or my culture,” Imaan comments. “Everything I do, I want people to know where I come from. I’m just so happy that it’s possible now, and that the door is open.”
You can read more about Imaan and Aicha at Vogue Arabia
With her love of wearing pyjamas while travelling the world as a model, Karmen Pedaru has finally made her longtime passion into a reality with launching her luxurious, high-quality and timeless pyjamas collection aptly named Karmen Pedaru Sleep. Believing in the importance of self-care and wanting to share a more creative reflection of herself, Karmen Pedaru created a collection showing her multiple personalities, and even her more witty and sarcastic side.
The collection has 13 different colorful and creative pyjama sets and and sleep mask. One of the things I love most of the pyjamas is the witty name for the different sets like, “The Snuggly Poppies,” “Mix Business With Smoothie,” and “I’m Special.” Each pyjama set also has its own unique short story which range from the downright whimsical to heartwarming. Along with its fun creative designs, Karmen Pedaru’s pyjamas prides its products being made from 100% Mulberry silk which is regarded as the highest qualify silk in the world with a longer lifespan compared to other silk.
Karmen Pedaru Silk Quality:
100% mulberry 22 momme silk produced in China.
Dyed in Shandong by Zibo Daranfang Silk Group Co. Ltd.
Both OEKO-TEX 100 quality standard certificate and verified by the SGS testing organisation.
Located in Shengze town, Suzhou city, Jiangsu province, China. The famous silk town.
Suzhou and Hangzhou are China’s largest silk production bases. The quality from Suzhou is the best in China.
I’m so happy for Karmen and this amazing venture. She’s such a phenomenal model. You can see the creativity and how well thought out her pyjama designs are with the accompanying stories.
“My collection is a reflection of me. A reflection of my multiple personalities. Utterly feminine, yet wild and free. Bold and powerful, yet fragile and sensual. And occasionally a little child-like. Non-judgmental, witty and sarcastic enough not to take me too seriously.”
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