Innholdsfortegnelse for November 2019 i Vogue

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TRAVEL Sailing the jagged coastline of Indonesia’s Komodo National Park, David de Rothschild was stunned to see 20 giant manta rays gliding alongside his boat—an otherworldly presence with a sobering effect. “You realize we really are just one of many incredible species on this planet,” de Rothschild says, “and we’re so systematically and aggressively ruining it.” With a new trip conceived for luxury travel agency Black Tomato, de Rothschild hopes to instill this sense of wonder and environmental urgency, particularly for the threatened giant manta ray population. As something of a 21st-century Jacques Cousteau—he once embarked on a journey from San Francisco to Sydney on a catamaran constructed from 12,500 recycled plastic bottles—de Rothschild knows the power of an intimate encounter with nature. His five-day itinerary sets sail from the…

TALENT “If you had asked me, ‘Did you always know you wanted to do this?,’ I would’ve said no,” Anthony Ramos tells me, scrolling through his phone. “Then my mom found this letter I wrote in the third grade.” He locates a picture of the note and starts reading from it: “If I had the opportunity to be on television, I would like to entertain all the people. I would sing some funny songs and some romantic songs. The tone would be high and low.” It seems nine-year-old Ramos had a sense of his future that not even the adult Ramos can quite comprehend. We are sitting inside a buzzing Park Slope diner, around the corner from Ramos’s Brooklyn apartment, where he lives with his fiancée, Jasmine Cephas Jones. The…

MUSIC A couple of days after releasing his piercingly melancholic single “Persephone,” Tamino-Amir Moharam Fouad got an Instagram message from a certain @LanadelRey. “She said she thought my voice was beautiful,” he explains, sounding astonished still. “I couldn’t believe it.” Months later, the 22-year-old was onstage opening for del Rey at Malahide Castle in Dublin. The singer, who performs as Tamino, tends to have that effect on people, turning them into rabid fans upon their first listen. Though the attention from the platinum-album artist took him by surprise, a certain worldliness runs in his genes. Tamino—named after the hero of The Magic Flute—is the grandson of iconic singer and actor Moharam Fouad, perhaps the man who most defined Egypt’s golden age of cinema in the 1960s. But Tamino, who grew…

TELEVISION It’s 2:58 a.m. when word starts making its way through the staff of ratings top-dog The Morning Show that longtime cohost Mitch Kessler (Steve Carell) has been fired for a series of affairs with young staffers. By 7 a.m. his work-wife of 15 years, Alex Levy (Jennifer Aniston), equal parts pissed-off and bereft, poignantly announces Mitch’s removal on-air, essentially filing for a public workplace divorce. What the audience sees is a network decisively dealing with yet another #MeToo monster, but behind the scenes it’s a skirmish on multiple fronts, with Alex scrambling to maintain her position. Meanwhile, there’s a new kid in town, says-it-like-it-is small-town reporter Bradley Jackson (Reese Witherspoon), brought in after producers spot her in an impassioned viral video. The Morning Show, one of the first shows…

Twenty years ago, Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez met at Life nightclub in Manhattan and discovered that each was on the cusp of studying at Parsons. “I was a big hippie with dreads to here who used to sew my own clothes in high school and went on tour with the Grateful Dead,” remembers McCollough (a glassblower at the time). “He was the total opposite—a kind of jock from Miami.” Nevertheless, Hernandez was fashion mad too. He idolized Gianni Versace and had once solicited his advice. “If you want to be a designer, you should do it, and you can do it,” Versace told him, an injunction that empowered Hernandez to leave med school to follow his path. (He told his Cuban father that he was going to study architecture,…

IN EVERY NOVEMBER ISSUE from 2004 onward we have introduced you to the 10 finalists of the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund. We started the fund in response to the turbulent landscape for young designers after 9/11, when many of them were struggling to keep themselves and their businesses afloat, and over the years, many of our finalists have gone on to international acclaim. (To name just a few: Proenza Schouler, Alexander Wang, Rodarte, Altuzarra, and Thom Browne.) Of course, the world in which they started their businesses is now almost unrecognizable. At the time of the fund’s inception there was no Instagram, there were no influencers, and e-commerce was but a fraction of what it is today. And while it’s been only 15 years since, if one measures that earlier era…

MOVIES Hollywood’s fortunes may be tied to comic book spectacle these days, but this month’s best films prove there’s room for chamber pieces too. Two people talking! That’s all it takes sometimes—and nowhere more so than in Noah Baumbach’s staggeringly moving Marriage Story (a Netflix film, which opens theatrically this month and then arrives on the streaming service in early December). Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson play a Brooklyn playwright and a Los Angeles–born movie actress whose marriage has run aground, a scenario that offers unavoidable comparisons to Baumbach’s own split from Jennifer Jason Leigh. Neither wants a messy divorce, but Baumbach’s film—achingly compassionate and ferociously uncompromising—shows the way good intentions can devolve into passive aggression, out-and-out recriminations, and high-priced lawyers. All the while their eight-year-old is on the sidelines—a…

BEAUTY It wasn’t all that long ago that dental-care products languished on dusty drugstore shelves: Waxed green floss and ho-hum tubes of toothpaste sat destined for the back of the medicine cabinet. Now even regular brushing has been transformed into an Instagram-worthy experience. Kendall Jenner has lent her name (and flashbulb smile) to Moon’s on-the-go whitening pen; Twice—a line of toothpastes infused with essential oils—counts Lenny Kravitz as a cofounder; and start-ups such as Goby and Quip are trying to master the direct-to-consumer game. This mouthy moment is hardly news to Jon Marashi, D.D.S., whose practice in Los Angeles serves regulars like Justin Timberlake, Halsey, and Kate Hudson. Square-jawed and with a skateboarder’s spirit, Marashi is something of a trade secret—but that stands to change with the recent launch of…

For a city that never sleeps, New York is surprisingly lacking in 24-hour eateries—especially late-night joints that don’t induce regret come morning. But at the intersection of West Broadway and Grand Street in Manhattan arrives Soho Diner, a spot that pays homage to the city’s greasy spoons of yore (Florent, Jerry’s), while offering a polished update on retro-swank decor: pistachio-colored terrazzo floors, booths of black and white vinyl, and punchy peach pendant light fixtures. At a Formica-and-steel-trimmed bar, patrons can order up coffee, cocktails, and, of course, a stack of pancakes, served with sun-dried strawberry butter. Conceived by GrandLife Hotels and its frequent collaborator Ray Pirkle, Soho Diner hopes to achieve mainstay restaurant status with its never-not-open-dependability. “I’ve always romanticized diners for being reliable, approachable, and inclusive to all types…

Atlein By Nicole Phelps ANTONIN TRON, 35, the designer behind the three-year-old French label Atlein, is quite comfortable with contradictions. Though he calls fashion’s claims to sustainability “fake,” his designs are far greener than those of his peers. And while he’s certainly passionate about his own brand, he’s also a passionate activist working with Extinction Rebellion in Paris—in fact, some meetings of the local chapter of the environmental organization (which has been behind recent nonviolent civilian disobedience actions on the Pont de Sully and the Trocadero) have been held in Tron’s 20th-arrondissement atelier. “When I was on the bridge getting gassed by the police, I was thinking, What am I doing here?” he says. “I reconcile it with this idea of doing things our own way—with Atlein, we carry certain…

ART On a Wednesday afternoon in the dog days of summer, a trickle of tourists strays hopefully through the Museum of Modern Art’s staff entrance, only to be gently shown a reopening october 21 sign, followed by the door. For a closed museum, however, the place is exceptionally busy. Carts, dollies, buckets, trestle tables, and concertina platforms are rolled around the open floors in a complex yet orderly choreography. It’s as if the legacy of Philip Johnson’s modernist strictures—Johnson served in the museum’s architecture department in the ’30s and expanded its original 1939 structure in 1964—is conferring its own set of minimalist manners on the building’s current occupants. I am handed a rather chic white hard hat bearing MoMA’s distinctive black logo and escorted on a work-in-progress tour by a…

THEATER Let’s outline the obvious: A production begins with casting, continues with rehearsal, then the audience arrives, and it all happens again the next night. But what if 101 actors were cast, rehearsals were nonexistent, and the performance (on loop) was extended for 24 hours? Such is the sui generis format of Nat Randall and Anna Breckon’s The Second Woman, which arrives this fall at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival, part of a series of productions making their American debut under BAM’s new director, David Binder. A two-person play, the work is essentially a repetition of one scene, inspired by John Cassavetes’ 1977 cult film Opening Night, in which a man and a woman come together in an apartment to converse, laugh, and dance. In a feat…

“We didn’t have art in our schools, so instead I did graffiti,” explains Roberto Lugo, a ceramist raised in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia. Lugo eventually sought out a formal fine arts education, including a residency at a studio in Kecskemét, Hungary, which equipped him with the technical skills to apply icons of the street culture of his youth (Air Jordans, bubble letters, portraits of the Notorious B.I.G.) to classically sculpted porcelain. At this month’s Salon Art + Design show in Manhattan, Lugo will debut new objects in his Stuntin’ series. “Historically, anthropology used ceramics to let us know what was happening,” he says. “I see my role as an artist but also as an archivist. I don’t want things we are doing in my community to get lost.”…

BEAUTY When Bella Hadid arrived at the 2019 CFDA Fashion Awards with her nails painted pale pink and the tips Chiclet-white, the throwback manicure seemed like an understated way to complement her black-sequined Michael Kors Collection gown. But when she reworked the combination a few weeks later—replete with a sassy swirled edge, courtesy of nail artist Mei Kawajiri—the effect read as delicious overstatement. The attitude-packed style was soon a staple of New York’s downtown creative set, seen on model Paloma Elsesser, filmmaker Pam Nasr, photographer Petra Collins, and vintage-clothing dealer Olivia La Roche. “You see it on exotic dancers and soccer moms,” says La Roche, 29, of the classic look associated with American alt-heroines, from Carmela Soprano to Cher Horowitz—and repurposed on spring runways from Khaite to Prabal Gurung. “It’s…

Rihanna is ready. First she moved our interview from Thursday to Wednesday. Then from evening to afternoon. When I get word of this latest change, on a slick and humid August day in Los Angeles, I have just enough time to shower and get to the Hotel Bel-Air. Waiting for Rihanna is practically a journalistic genre all its own. That the Barbadian superstar is now running ahead of schedule seems evidence of her new life as global fashion mogul. Only three and a half years have passed since she presented her first Fenty x Puma collection at New York Fashion Week, a vision of gothleisure delivered to a clamoring world (“if the Addams Family went to the gym” was how she put it). At the time, design was something she…

Only connect!” Edward Morgan Forster writes in Howards End, his enduringly powerful 1910 novel about class, morality, and love in Edwardian England; “only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height.” In this line, the humanist Forster suggests the importance of linking what he describes as the “Inner life” and the “Outer life”: surface and depth, public image and private self. His book’s complex and vividly drawn characters are defined by their abilities to make these bridges, by their respective levels of hypocrisy, empathy, or compassion. But in playwright Matthew Lopez’s eviscerating and entirely absorbing new work, The Inheritance, the iconic line takes on an additional layer of meaning. The two-part, seven-hour play deftly connects Forster’s novel to…