Innholdsfortegnelse for June 2018 i Vogue

BEFORE GEORGINA CHAPMAN chose to break her silence to Vogue writer Jonathan Van Meter, she spent a lot of time soul-searching, wondering whether she should do so or not. Just after the very serious allegations of harassment, abuse, and assault against her husband, Harvey Weinstein, first became known last October, they separated. She disappeared from the public eye, retreating to look after their two young children, and trying to create some semblance of normality in her working life at Marchesa, the fashion label she founded with her business partner and lifelong friend Keren Craig. But how does one ever even begin to cope? When I went to see Georgina not long after the news broke, she was near mute with shock, trying to process the emotions—anger, guilt, revulsion, fear—as well…

In Dominic Cooke’s On Chesil Beach, a touching adaptation of Ian McEwan’s novel about the bad old days of 1962 England, naive newlyweds Florence Ponting (Saoirse Ronan) and Edward Mayhew (Billy Howle) have the worst wedding night in history. Charting Florence’s and Edward’s emotional shifts with enormous sympathy, this intimate film reminds us that the line between bedroom farce and tragedy can be scarily thin. Music is the food of love for Frank Fisher (Nick Offerman), the hero of Brett Haley’s tuneful empty-nest comedy Hearts Beat Loud. With his life coming apart, this Brooklyn widower is feeling blue until he talks his reluctant daughter Sam (Kiersey Clemons) into forming a band with him. Clemons fills the screen with her radiance: When she sings, this amiably shambling movie suddenly takes wing.…

ON THE DAY IN LATE FEBRUARY when I arrive at Georgina Chapman’s town house in the West Village to interview her, it’s unseasonably hot, nearly 80 degrees. I am ushered to the parlor floor, where, even though it feels like August outside, a fire is roaring away. As I wait, it suddenly dawns on me that I am sitting in Harvey Weinstein’s living room. He purchased the six-story house in 2006, the year before he married Chapman, and she has since put her stamp all over it: black floors and white rugs, chinoiserie, lots of gilt and glass, hydrangeas in a vase, a Jo Malone candle burning. On a console table are silver-framed photographs from happier times, mostly of the couple’s children: India and Dashiell, seven and five. All evidence…

THE IMAGES in Nicolas Party’s paintings are simple, vivid, inexplicably funny, and profoundly odd. He paints the face of a man in a brown hat with a large snail on top, against a background of cerulean blue. Or a still life of three pears, one red, one yellow, and one green, cuddling up to one another like kittens. Or a landscape of red, leafless, sticklike tree trunks whose sparse upper limbs reach out but fail to connect. Party’s paintings are figurative and grounded in the three traditional genres of landscape, still life, and portraiture, and he is never at a loss for things to paint. “There’s a big traffic jam of images in my head,” he tells me when I visit him in his Brooklyn studio. “They’re calling out, ‘Hey,…

Delhi-born actor Ali Fazal happened upon acting via a happy accident. When he dislocated a shoulder in college and could no longer play basketball, a friend suggested he get out of his slump by trying out for the school play—Shakespeare’s The Tempest. “I was instantly, madly in love,” says Fazal, who recently wrapped Amazon’s Mirzapur and is now on to filming Milan Talkies. Canadianborn Avan Jogia (next page), though, couldn’t get enough of the spotlight from a very early age. “My parents worked fulltime, so I ended up doing a lot of things on my own,” says Jogia, who took that entrepreneurial spirit and turned it into a career that includes a role in Gregg Araki’s show Now Apocalypse; an ongoing musical venture, Saint Ivory; a book of poetry titled…

Nine years ago, when Deanna Needell was in grad school at UC Davis, she was beset by stomach pain after a bull’s-eye rash swelled around a bug bite—a telltale sign of Lyme disease. “Because I live in California, where Lyme is less common, none of the doctors I saw early on even mentioned it,” she says. The lapse was costly: Needell developed migraines so impervious to medication that she often wound up in the ER; years later, when she started having muscle spasms, her doctor was concerned she might have ALS. (Left untreated, Lyme bacteria can spread to the muscles, nerves, brain, and heart, triggering debilitating complications.) A friend finally floated the possibility of Lyme, and Needell got tested. After a diagnosis and intermittent courses of antibiotics, most of her…

REIGNING OVER FIN-DE-SIÈCLE PARISIAN society was no simple matter, at least according to Marcel Proust. His epic novel, In Search of Lost Time, recounts the intricate network of affairs, betrayals, put-downs, and comeuppances linking a coterie of aristocrats with rare outsiders who, by wealth, flattery, or talent, gain access to their gilded salons. At the summit of this fictional beau monde, the Duchesse de Guermantes—in Proust’s words, “the most cheated-on, if the most beautiful, woman in Paris”—exerts a particular fascination. Her lineage, high style, dry wit, and sophisticated tastes captivate the narrator, until he is drawn closer into her world. This indelible character didn’t spring fully formed from the author’s imagination. In Proust’s Duchess, Caroline Weber, a professor of French at Barnard and the author of an acclaimed study of…

POSE, RYAN MURPHY’S evocative new eight-episode series (premiering June 3 on FX), weaves a narrative between the worlds of eighties Gordon Gekko–esque high finance and Trumpian conspicuous consumption on one hand and the tragedy, invention, and joy of the competitive Harlem ball scene on the other. A decade ago, following on the success of his series Nip/Tuck, Murphy had been working on Pretty/Handsome, a pilot about a trans character, played by Joseph Fiennes, and was devastated when the studio he was working with decided not to pursue the show because they felt their advertisers wouldn’t support it. A mere month later, though, Murphy’s Glee was green-lit, and then American Horror Story, The Normal Heart, American Crime Story, and Feud, and now, with a decade of phenomenal success under his belt,…

SCHOOLGIRL CRUSH Head to England via Julia Whelan’s debut novel, My Oxford Year (William Morrow), which follows Ella, an ambitious and ever-on-track student whose study-abroad experiences are what college dreams are made of. Ella’s return to Washington, D.C., where a coveted job awaits her, comes into question when she falls for Jamie—who is, of course, her English-lit professor. If this tale sounds more Hollywood than Oxford …well, that might be by design: The story is in the midst of its big-screen adaptation. HOUSE OF CARDS Across the bay from the sceney Hamptons lies the town of Orient—the summertime destination of moneyed Manhattanites who prefer to leave the social circuit behind. In Judy Blundell’s The High Season (Random House), Ruthie rents out her beachfront home in Orient each summer to stay…

MONCLER WAS IN EXCELLENT financial condition when its Italian CEO, Remo Ruffini, recently decided to upend its business model. With a turnover of more than $1.5 billion in 2017, the ski jacket–maker didn’t need fixing. But Ruffini saw what was happening on Instagram and came to the conclusion that twice-yearly product releases just weren’t going to cut it with consumers anymore. His new strategy, which he’s dubbed Moncler Genius, involves monthly product releases, along with accompanying editorial projects with a group of eight name-in-lights designers. “The idea was to talk to different generations,” Ruffini says, “the young and urban; women looking for a coat for a special occasion; and people who take a more conceptual approach.” Unveiled at the start of Milan Fashion Week, the Geniuses are a truly impressive…

FIRST CAME THE INSTAGRAM feed of envy-inducing interiors featuring an elegantly curated selection of whimsical old-world objects. Then came the Amagansett pop-up. This June, Annabelle Moehlmann will launch Land of Belle’s second temporary store, in Manhattan’s Nolita; a website; and a wedding registry. Her collection includes internationally sourced wares like hand-blown drinking glasses from Murano, one-of-a-kind Iznik vases from Turkey, and ceramic anemones (left) from the Naples-based porcelain house Riccio Caprese. Not everything had to cross an ocean; the table linens are hand-sewn in New York. “I wanted to create a destination where like-minded people could find unique pieces from different parts of the globe in one place,” says Moehlmann.…

“BACKSTAGE, I ONLY have five or six bottles of foundation in my kit because I can mix them together for a perfect shade match,” says makeup artist Peter Philips. “We can’t expect the everyday woman to do that.” Still, in an age when pro products fly off the shelves and tutorials come at the tap of a finger, there’s room for an arsenal rigorous enough for life on set and user-friendly enough for the real world. That’s what Philips, creative and image director for Dior Makeup, had in mind for Dior Backstage, a sweeping new 61-piece collection. Only this time, along with finely tuned eye shadows, lip colors, specialized brushes, and a contour palette (“inspired by Bella Hadid—she loves it”), he’s delivering something that for a long time didn’t exist:…

IT’S A FOGGY SPRING NIGHT in Paris, and Rihanna has just wrapped up a meeting with her accountant in the penthouse suite of the Four Seasons hotel, a place that will serve as her makeshift office for the next few days. The evening panorama from the terrace is about as picture-postcard pretty as Paris gets, though at this late hour the lights on the Eiffel Tower have long since gone out. Robyn “Rihanna” Fenty is a night owl. Her most intense bouts of creativity often come after midnight, a rhythm she picked up early in her music career. In the dark, soundproofed environment of a recording studio, time is elastic. And when you’re Rihanna, and the world is your oyster, then time is really elastic. It’s perhaps why she doesn’t…

Land does not come easily in the Cotswolds, a sought-after area of outstanding natural beauty. It is countryside with exquisite views of green fields, unfolding wolds, and valleys that roll into the distance. Sylvia Plath once described this part of England as “a country on a nursery plate.” There are no towering crags here, no unruly romantic chasms. There’s also not much spare land hanging around, populated as it is by sundry gentry, ex–prime ministers, general cognoscenti, and the occasional media villain. Nevertheless, seventeen years ago photographer and collector Hugo Rittson Thomas stumbled upon Walcot House, a sixteenth-century farmhouse that had been almost demolished by the Duke of Marlborough in order to provide cut stone and masonry for Blenheim Palace, and promptly snatched it up. The remnants of the original…

IF YOU ARE SEARCHING FOR MEANING, or solace, or even just a bit of laughter in the dark in these wildly uncertain times, why not do so with a burst of cadmium yellow slashed across your face? Think about it: You can either bury your features in foundation and hope to fade into the landscape, or you can paint up and go forth boldly into that good night. On fall runways from New York to Milan to Paris, makeup artists emphatically chose the latter course. “What feels modern, and strong, is to be playful with makeup,” Thomas de Kluyver, the man behind the take-no-prisoners eyes at Sies Marjan, explains. “That Instagram ideal of beauty, where there’s a lot of foundation, is quite fake,” he adds, “and with the conversations of…