Harper's New Look | Bloomberg Launches Bloomberg Pursuits | Franca Sozzani on Empty Wealth

Gwyneth Paltrow’s New Look

Harper’s Bazaar US editor Glenda Bailey has revealed her hew look for the March edition on newsstands Feb. 14. The leggy blonde wearing a sexy, skin-baring black stealth dress from comparatively new designer Anthony Vaccarello is Gwyneth Paltrow. Yes, it is daring to not show the model’s face. Read on at AOC Style.

Bloomberg’s Luxury Magazine

Subscribers with a $20,000 annual user fee to Bloomberg Terminal are getting a beautiful new magazine gratis, reports WWD. Bloomberg Pursuits is a spin-off of Bloomberg Markets, the monthly business magazine also part of Bloomberg Terminal. Dual circulation of the two titles is 375,000 with non-Terminal copies going to subscribers and newsstand buyers.

Bloomberg Pursuits will distinguish itself against WSJ., Departures, ForbesLife, Robb Report and the Financial Times’ How to Spend It with a focus on the real lives of readers.

Stories in the first issue include profiles of a Bloomberg subscriber who travels to Antarctica on an icebreaker to witness a solar eclipse. Read on at AOC Style

Franca Sozzani on Values

Vogue Italia editor Franca Sozzani was in Paris earlier this week, reflecting on a sonnet written by W. Wordsworth.  “The poet emphasized the deceitful way of thinking, so fashionable at the time, based on the belief that fame and wealth are everything in life,” writes Sozzani. Wordsworth “enhanced simplicity and purity of feelings, disapproving of the fake greatness that does nothing for us and those close to us.”

Just take a look at the newspapers from all over the world for the amazing stories of men who have lived with greatness of means and then have vanished into thin air, forgotten by history and often also by friends. Read on at AOC Apple Valley

Luxury Dreams : Madame X Film by Mariano Vivanco with Kendra Spears for Muse Magazine

Madame X

Kendra Spears | Mariano Vivanco | Muse December 2011 | ‘Madame X’

Tiffany & Co.

Tiffany & Co by Peter Lindbergh. Laetitia Casta stars.

Chopard

Chopard Fall/Winter 2011 by Christian Coigny. Model Alyssa Miller is styled by Claire Dhelens. via Mdls

David Parfitt Photography | Karl Lagerfeld @ Visionaire 61 | Bergdorf Goodman Muse Fall 2011

David Parfitt Photography

Curves Ahead | David Parfitt Photography | Scott Beatie @ Plum Bar SN Living

Karl Lagerfeld & Strong Women

Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Lady Gaga & Karl Lagerfeld | Visionaire #61 Preview SN Sweet Dreams

If I was back at the university, I would write my master’s thesis in fashion on Karl Lagerfeld’s psychological relationship with women. This new Visionaire 61 preview image has got to be my favorite Karl Lagerfeld image ever in my whole life, until I die. Anne

Guinevere van Seenus as Bergdorf Goodman Muse

Guinevere Van Seenus | Sofia Sanchez & Mauro Mongiello | Bergdorf Goodman Fall 2011 ‘Muse’ AOC Style

Modern Luxury, Ancient Journeys | Katkies Hotel in Oia Santorini | Niskala Spirits @ Amankila, Bali | Ithaca

Ionian Sea Memories

Sailing Towards Ithaca | Paul Coelho | CP Cavafy AOC Health & Happiness

Rocking in the quiet waters of the Ionian Sea, my unconscious mind was electrified beyond dream state, waking me at 3am, shaking my groggy mind out of bed … guiding me over my sleeping fiancé, then pushing me like a gusty wind at my strong, straight back . . . up out of the cabin and into the night air.

Our traveling companions smiled at me “We’ve been waiting for you.” Enraptured by the night, we three talked quietly, as our precious hours slipped into dawn, and then a Greek sunrise.

Katkies Hotel in Oia Santorini

Katikies Hotel in Oia Santorini | Another Sensual Greek Adventure AOC Shop

After one look at this private pool in a Mediterranean igloo, an inviting hideaway at the Katikies Hotel in Oia Santorini, I am filled with desire. 

The travel guides say: 300 feet above the azure waters of the Aegean, perched on the Caldera cliffs, Katikies The Hotel in Oia Santorini provides an experience of unparalleled romance and prestigious luxury.

Niskala Spirits @ Amankila, Bali

Totally Exposed by Niskala Spirits in Amankila, Bali AOC Sensually Yours

Amankila, one of several jewels in the Aman Resorts group,  was exactly as promised, and my appreciation for our escape increased with each forward motion upwards into the night. Finally, we reached our oasis of solitude, at the very top of the steep hill. It had an expansive, majestic view I would not appreciate until morning.

As night settled in, deception reigned. The invisible life forces called Niksala danced around me, hatching a tiny plot, incubating an inspiring, personalized, au natural welcome to Bali. Perhaps I was targeted by these devious spirits waiting in darkness for me.