Billel B.

@SZA wearing custom @Marni and jewels by @Bulgari at the 2024 Grammy Awards, styled by @AleHerself ☄️ I contributed a salt grain compared to the mountains of work that go into these kind of projects, but what a process to be a part of. Thank you for always trusting and bringing me into new spaces - literally and figuratively, @AleHerself ❤️‍🔥 I’ll always be in awe of how you can put together a LOOK with any tool, for any occasion, and under any circumstance - whether designer, vintage or self-made pieces, for red carpets, music videos, live performances, street style and beyond. You’re a REAL creative!! 😮‍💨 Congrats to you, @F3rniture , @KayleaDanielian , @just_me_king and the rest of Team Ale! 🌟🌟🌟 Congrats to SZA, TDE and team for the Grammy wins! Thank you @dontcallmedexter and the Marni team, and thank you to Bulgari! #SZA #Marni #Bulgari #GrammyAwards

Big LONE during Paris Men’s Spring/Summer ‘26 shows, some of his latest covers + @DestroyLonely Broken Hearts 3 ᐸ/3³ mixtape out TODAY, while we wait for the Antagonist 2.0 Euro dates 🤭🧛🏿🦇 #PFW #DestroyLonely #BrokenHearts3 #3Paradis #424inc #RickOwens #PlayboiCarti #Diesel #MarineSerre

@Bambi.nho for @Numero_Netherlands cover, fresh off his @OneChampionship win - thank you @Gabriella.Norberg and everyone involved ✨💫 Talent: Bampara ‘Bambi’ Kouyate @Bambi.nho at Men Model Mgmt @menmgmt Photographer: Fabien Montique @fabienmontique at Home agency @homeagency Stylist: Gabriella Norberg @gabriella.norberg Image consultant: Billel Bensalem @BillelB Hair: Dalibor Vrtina @dvhclub for @balmainhair Makeup: Thomas Lorenz thomaslorenzmakeup at By Jane Kate @by_janekate using @maccosmetics Nails: Christine Pho @christineph0 Casting: Remi Felipe @remi.felipecast Production: Jonas Farro @jonas_prod Lighting: Philip Skoczkowski @skoczkowski Styling assistant: Lia Chanturia @likunasss Editor: Timi Letonja @timiletonja Interview: Marek Bartek @marekbartek Cover design: Arthur Roeloffzen @arthurroeloffzen #MuayThai #DriesVanNoten #LoroPiana #Givenchy #Zegna

Mia Khalifa is a tool of the US Empire Mia Khalifa built a global platform on an orientalized stage name created for the adult industry. A white passing name like Sarah Joe Chamoun had no SEO value in outrage economy. She claims she’s “reclaiming” the name. In reality, she’s licensing the only name she has with commercial traction. At the Oxford Union (2023), the interviewer paused the session for a round of applause after she declared her brand was a “big middle finger to most men in the Middle East.” A chilling moment of synergy: the UK, a historic and modern accomplice to US intervention, clapping for a woman using the exact “civilizing mission” logic used to justify the destruction of the region. By framing the majority Middle Eastern male population as the ultimate villain (terrorists!), she doesn’t challenge the status quo; she provides the Western elite with a “liberated” brown face to validate their own imperial biases. “Liberate the Arab woman” has been the permission slip for every Western invasion from Afghanistan to Iraq, and now Iran. Sarah Joe, performing Arab submission in a hijab at the height of the War on Terror, functioned, structurally, as the exact content needed to make those campaigns legible to Western audiences. She never apologized for the harm. Instead, she minimized it, claiming the scene was “satirical” and that Hollywood depicts Muslims in a “far more negative way than any pornographer could.” It is a classic move: deflecting personal accountability by pointing at a larger villain to maintain her victim status. Her own parents publicly disowned her, stating her image dishonors her family and Lebanon. She has no documented cultural grounding in the region, yet uses a fictional Arab name to speak for a country she has been banned from. She once praised Lebanon for being the “most Westernized” nation in the Middle East. When the community reacted to her adult career and tattoos (opening line of the National Anthem and the Lebanese Forces Cross) she doubled down. She said the uproar proved the nation was “devastatingly archaic and oppressed.” (CONT’D IN COMMENTS) #FreePalestine #ManufacturingConsent #WhiteFeminism

I would 1000% attend a Ye concert in this climate. Food for thought (or hot take?) 🤔 These kind of posts usually get unfollows, but atp it’s not my role to scream louder that I’m not antisemitic. Those who matter already know. My issue is with the system and those who uphold it, not with my neighbor. I see people shaming others for attending @ye ‘s shows or celebrating his UK cancellation. The reality? I’d 1000% attend his concert in this climate. Not to endorse past hateful comments, but as a FCK YOU to a system that picks and chooses its morality. Where is the same energy for Lady Gaga’s questionable positioning, or Beyoncé’s Harris endorsement + Cowboy Carter era, where heavy US-flag imagery felt less like art and more like state propaganda? I‘m thankful to get invitations to shows, really enjoy discovering new artists at festival, and value the joy music provides and its ability to bring people together. The UK wants us to believe these cancellations are about morals, yet history shows they sent Jewish populations to Palestine specifically because an antisemitic UK government wanted them gone. We hear about “incalculable” damage from words, but you know what damage is calculable? The *ongoing* physical destruction the US and Isxxxl have been causing, with the complicity of the West. Today, the leading cause of antisemitism is Isxxxl just as the US government makes Americans disliked abroad. If we’re pointing fingers at fans, let’s point them at everyone booking flights to Isxxxl or the US (or any Western country for that matter.) Maybe for some it’s political. And maybe, in this messy world, people just want to go to a concert to forget, and remember better times. Congrats to the UK for taking that away from their people. Peace. #WirelessFestival #KanyeWest

Case Study: My Role in Navigating the Cultural Gap Between French Luxury and French Rap Following the BLM global reckoning, I saw the fashion industry’s disconnect: brands from Dior to AMI weren’t just playing it safe. They were operating from unexamined bias and a lack of cultural bagage. While Virgil Abloh’s 2019 collaboration with PNL was historic, it took an American designer at an American house (Off-White) to acknowledge French-African excellence. Locally, French luxury still clung to safe proxies to buffer the culture. My past work building with Dinos served as the definitive counter-model. While that chapter is now closed for me, the legacy of that collaborations remains a blueprint for what the industry couldn’t do at the time. (Still can’t?) What started with independent actors like myself, building authentic narratives in the trenches, has finally found its way to mass-market powerhouses like IMG with the historic signing of JolaGreen23 in 2025. I give myself my own flowers. 💐 #CulturalCuration #CreativeStrategy #LuxuryMarketing #FrenchRap #CulturalEquity

The Italian market can be a hard shell to crack, but for Milan Fashion Week, Shannon and Shannade did it via the VIP entrance with direct invites from Glenn Martens for Diesel, Adrian Appiolaza for Moschino, and Giuliano Calza for GCDS FW26-27, and from Giorgia Tordini for The Attico SS26. In Europe, the Clermont twins already conquered the music video scene for the UK market with FKA Twigs 🇬🇧, it Italy with Tony Effe 🇮🇹, and recently unlocked the German market with UFO361 🇩🇪 (last slide). Now I’m just waiting on the French music scene to step up, but… can you afford the rate? 😜 #Diesel #Moschino #GCDS #TheAttico #UFO361

Influence looks different depending on who holds it To close Paris Men’s, Shannon and Shannade hosted an intimate dinner party with friends - the kind of night that exists whether cameras are there or not. Guests included Playboi Carti, Destroy Lonely, Alton Mason, Dina Ayada, Lukas Sabbat, Siobhan Bell, to name a few… a strong room, but for them, standard. The Clermont twins have long operated at the center of music and fashion without needing to announce it. Real relationships, real proximity. Not clout, not performance. Influence that moves quietly and lands loudly. The kind artists trust. The kind that shapes rooms before the industry names it. I’ve been in countless settings like this with them and some of their most notorious friends and, much to my PR frustration, there’s almost never documentation. They’re private because they’re accustomed. Photo ops have never been the currency in these settings. But influence reads differently depending on who holds it. Men of the same industry are canonized in real time. Black women are asked to contextualize their presence, justify their access, translate their impact. Even when they’re the ones everyone is orbiting. This time, I captured a glimpse :)

The Clermont Twins and Destroy Lonely attend Rick Owens Men’s Fall 26 show Three years ago, during our first fashion week together, these women I then knew as the Clermont Twins took me to my first Rick Owens show, one of the most difficult rooms in fashion to access, with a front row that has always been tightly controlled. Not in a conceited manner, but as a reflection of authenticity. I’ve watched the fashion industry cycle through movements, repackage language, and prioritise visibility over coherence, but Rick Owens never operated that way. It never performed inclusion or compromised its identity to meet the moment. What stayed with me wasn’t the access itself, but how Shannon and Shannade moved within that space. They were part of the ecosystem - aligned with the house’s elusive point of view, present without needing an explanation. Nothing about their presence felt provisional. It didn’t feel like arrival. It felt like recognition. That distinction between being invited and being integral is often where their story gets flattened.  Their influence isn’t loud or urgent. It comes from holding a clear point of view and carrying it intact into spaces that usually demand compromise. In rooms that rarely shift for anyone, the Clermont twins’ clarity is exactly what’s recognized. #ClermontTwins #DestroyLonely #RickOwens #Usher

Shannon and Shannade @ClermontTwins by @Foxxatron Photo @foxxatron MUA @assia.caiazo Hair @dali_vrtina Production @yonathanrichterphoto @foxxatron #ClermontTwins

With the release of @FKATwigs ’s ‘Cheap Hotel’ starring The @ClermontTwins , a look back at some of your favorite artist’s favorite muses’ iconic music video moments 👯‍♀️🌟🌟 #ClermontTwins #FKATwigs #NickiMinaj #Amaarae #TravisScott #Future #21savage #TonyEffe #YoungThug #LilWayne #MIA

Fam time from Paris men’s ss26 :) 🖤 📸 @antoniogavinci