Innholdsfortegnelse for November 2020 i Vogue

Like millions of other people, I lost my sense of smell last spring when I contracted COVID-19. As Brooklyn was descending into lockdown in the middle of March—all of us frantically washing our chapped hands and learning the choreographies of social distancing—I was entering two weeks of total quarantine: shivery nights and throbbing muscle aches; my abilities to smell and taste suddenly hiding on the other side of an invisible wall. While the sirens wailed beyond our apartment windows, I was sequestered not only from the world but from my own senses—taunted by clementine oranges and cookie dough and peanut butter and lilies and green-apple dish soap; taunted even by missing things whose smell I’d never loved: plain yogurt, Windex, the stink of my daughter’s diaper bin when I’d forgotten…

For more than 150 years, Rothschild-family members have been the stalwart stewards of the Médoc-region vineyards at Château Lafite Rothschild. As the story goes, Baron James de Rothschild—son of German Rothschild scion Mayer Amschel—purchased the vineyard in 1868, after being dispatched by his father from Frankfurt to Paris decades earlier. (Mayer Amschel placed all of his five sons in European cities to buttress the family’s banking empire.) By then, Château Lafite had already earned its reputation—appreciated by stately oenophiles like Thomas Jefferson and anointed the King’s Wine, owing to the Ancien Régime’s predilection. James would die months after acquiring Château Lafite (whether he ever visited was long debated), and it has since been looked after by his male successors—until 2018, when then-31-year-old Saskia de Rothschild took over. Around that time,…

On a crisp, promisingly bright New York morning a few weeks ago, I slid on a pair of running shoes, grabbed a baseball hat, adjusted my mask, and walked 50 blocks uptown. I’d just returned to Manhattan from a family quarantine upstate. My first order of business, even before a proper trip to the grocery store, was telling: a haircut. It had been nearly six months since I’d stepped inside the sweeping second-floor salon owned by Oscar Blandi, the perennially smiling Neapolitan charmer I’ve faithfully seen every six to eight weeks for my entire professional life. I met Oscar when I was 22 and he had just opened his original space at the Plaza Hotel, a sumptuous little jewel box where one could imagine Eloise hiding out in the cloakroom.…

Naomi Campbell is asking me whether I need proof that it’s safe to be in her presence. Having panic-bought every protective item I could find before entering the house she is renting in an old, moneyed part of Central London, I was expecting to be the one reassuring her. Naomi, after all, is not just a supermodel instantly recognizable the world over, she is the prophetess of COVID-era cleanliness. But Campbell receives me warmly, encouraging me to peel back my several layers of clear plastic, latex, and barrier-resistant fabric: “You don’t have to wear all that for me,” she says. A world away from the “Pandemic fly on the runway, in my hazmat” Campbell (immortalized in Beyoncé’s “Black Parade”), the woman greeting me is one soft layer all over—smooth skin,…

Alessandro Michele, Designer, Gucci Marvin, Beatrice, Geraldo, Yuri, Junayd, Min: The “models” in Gucci’s latest look book are the very designers who made the collection alongside Alessandro Michele. When lockdown forced the brand to scrap its yearly destination show, the creative director remembered a time as a young assistant when a piece he had been working on for months was pulled for a show and he never saw it again: “It was like someone tried to take from you your son.” Putting the spotlight on his colleagues, though, was “something beautiful,” he said. (It’s a policy that the company is getting behind in other areas, as it expands its Gucci Changemakers grants and scholarships initiative to address not just culture, education, and social justice but also health equity and wellness.)…

While quarantining in Brighton, England, earlier this year, the actor Marisa Abela maximized her time at her childhood home. She started running 5Ks and even taught herself how to surf. But it was the many hours she logged indoors, refining the art of the Zoom audition, that proved most valuable to her career: “It’s all about angles and where you place the camera,” says the 23-year-old breakout star of Industry—a new HBO series about entry-level investment bankers in London, out this month. These nuances also turned Abela on to the transformative power of makeup: how a wash of powder can diffuse the light or how a long-lasting liquid lipstick can translate over even the most pixelated of frames (and stay in place underneath a mask). “I’m normally quite low-key,” she…

As About Time: Fashion and Duration was preparing to open on October 29, Andrew Bolton, the Wendy Yu Curator in Charge of The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, spoke to Hamish Bowles about his process of reflection and re-curation. To be honest, it’s been wonderful to revisit “About Time”—a luxury that I’ve never had in any previous exhibition. As I have said, I wanted to stage an exhibition that was a meditation on fashion and temporality—drawing out the tensions between change and endurance, transience and permanence, ephemerality and persistence. Originally the idea was to create two timelines: a linear chronology of fashion from 1870 to 2020, celebrating the Met’s 150th anniversary and focusing on the fleeting and fugitive rhythm of fashion. The second timeline—the “interventions”—would represent a…

The notoriously pared-back stylist Danielle Goldberg has a piece of beauty advice for her coterie of A-list clients, which includes Laura Harrier, Camille Rowe, and Katherine Waterston: Start buffing your nails. “I instantly feel more done because my nails are polished in this natural way,” Goldberg says of rubbing her nail bed with foam blocks until a natural sheen emerges that rivals the fresh-from-the-salon finish of a glossy top coat. “It’s a very minimalist, low-key look,” confirms Amy Ling Lin, the founder of New York’s Sundays nail studios, who launched her own do-it-yourself buffing-and-shaping set—an extensive 23-piece collection that includes two smoothing buffer blocks and a hydrating cuticle serum—in April after finding success with virtual classes on the art of at-home nail maintenance. And it seems to have staying power.…

Magic happens every evening in Lecce, a beautiful limestone city in Puglia, Italy’s stiletto heel. The spell is cast shortly before dusk, when the city seems to glow as swallows dart and sing in the darkening sky. Yet tonight, from my position on a rooftop overlooking the Piazza del Duomo, a new magic—a kind of human alchemy—is afoot in Lecce. In the square below, Dior is holding its cruise 2021 show. This marks both a significant departure—the house has never before shown in Italy—and a significant homecoming: Antonio, the father of Dior’s creative director, Maria Grazia Chiuri, was born right here in Puglia. “For me,” she says, “to be here is to come back to my memories of the summers I spent here when I was young. I still spend…

Table of contents: 14: Top, skirt, and corset, priced upon request; (800) 929-DIOR. Manicurist, Nelly Ferreira. 22: Top ($1,350), shorts ($640), and shoes (price upon request); prada.com. Tailor, Thao Hyunh. Cover look: 22:Dress, price upon request; special order at (800) 929-DIOR. Tailor, Thao Hyunh. The class of 2020: 42: On Alara: Prada shoes, $950; prada.com. Free range: 54: Styled by Sara Mathers. NAOMI 72: Dress, $6,650; Versace, NYC. 73:Dress, price upon request; valentino.com. 74: On Abdi: Top, $1,175; victoriabeckham.com. Pants, $1,080; Bergdorf Goodman, NYC. Hijab, $20; hautehijab.com. On Campbell: Dress, price upon request; special order at (800) 929-DIOR. On Mason: Jacket, $3,900; gucci.com. Shirt, $447; emmawillis.com. Tie Bar tie, $22; thetiebar.com. Pants, $625; matchesfashion.com. 75: Bodysuit ($1,200), skirt ($10,210), and boots ($1,480); maison-alaia.com. 76: Jacket ($1,925), blouse ($795), and pants ($995);…

Where Mona Lisa’s face would usually appear is a trio of Louis Vuitton’s Capucine PM handbags—each given a special treatment by artists Liu Wei (left), Henry Taylor (center), and Zhao Zhao (right). Wei transmogrified his with warped metal, Taylor 3D-printed one of his portraits (A young master, 2017), and Zhao’s creation swirls with embroidery. Still two more creatives (see below) conjured this triptych-like composition: It’s art within a work of art.…