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Naomi Campbell is photographed by friend and collaborator Nick Knight for Vogue Greece’s April 2024 cover story, wearing transformative fashion by Maison Margiela, Mugler and The Rock’s Francesca Lake. The April issue, is a celebration of Vogue Greece’s half-decade journey and also a reflection of its evolution.

CREDITS

Vogue Greece April 2024 Covers

Editor-in-Chief: Thaleia Karafyllidou

Photographer: Nick Knight

Fashion Director: Nicholas Georgiou

Fashion Editor/Stylist: Karen Langley

Make-up Artist: Angloma

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Gabriella Khalil — the hotelier behind the celebrity-approved Palm Heights in Cayman Islands — wears Diotima Fall/Winter 2024 as she invites the Into The Gloss team into her salle de bain for a breakdown of her beauty faves.

Into The Gloss is a beauty website that explores the routines of inspiring women, and was founded Emily Weiss, founder of skincare and make-up brand Glossier.

Interview by: Daise Bedolla

Photographed by: Alexandra Genova in New York on March 12, 2024

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Saint International model Tami Williams is lensed in Paris by photographer Rob Rusling for the 10 Magazine Dare To Dream editorial. The edit, described as by fashion editor Karen Binns as a “surrealist idea .. of a # hypnagogia state of mind”, appears in issue 72 of the biannual luxury fashion magazine.

CREDITS

Photographer: Rob Rusling

Fashion Editor: Karen Binns

Model: Tami Williams

Location: Studio Apolo Paris

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Model Kai Newman shows off luxury leather looks for The Gentlewoman Issue 29 Spring/Summer ‘24 editorial. The Gentlewoman is a London-based biannual magazine.

CREDITS

Photographer: Zora Sicher

Fashion Editor/Stylist: Emma Wyman

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Jamaican designer Edvin Thompson discusses the stark financial realities of running a fashion brand with Chavie Lieber for The Wall Street Journal.

Edvin Thompson had everything a young designer could hope for: accolades from Vogue and the CFDA, dresses selling at Bergdorf Goodman and a spot on the official New York Fashion Week calendar.

Then, with just two weeks’ notice, he cancelled his February runway show.

His sponsors had fallen through, he said, which meant he’d be paying around $125,000 out of pocket to stage the show — a move that could put his brand in dire financial straits. The choice was obvious. After he called off the show, he said, “I slept like a baby.”

“I want to be here for a long time, not a short time,” Thompson, 31, said on a recent morning from the Manhattan studio of his brand, Theophilio. “And I want my business to stand on its own, regardless of the New York Fashion Week calendar.”

It is harder than ever to be an independent designer. Wholesale opportunities are dwindling, as department stores face decline and luxury shopping sites are losing money. Commercial real estate rates are climbing, ruling out brick and mortar for most upstart designers, and even indie e-commerce is a financial and logistical challenge. Between materials, studio space, production, labour, marketing and distribution, the costs can be staggering, running from just under six figures into seven for a small indie brand. Even successes like Thompson struggle to make it work.

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We spotted the Brandon Blackwood Mini Kuei bag in US trackstar Sha’Carri Richardson’s Circle To Search ad for Google Android.

Circle to Search, a new way to search anything on your phone with a simple gesture — without switching apps, was introduced in January. Google Android has used the charisma of Richardson, and basketball prodigy Bronny James to spread awareness about the new system update.