Innholdsfortegnelse for April 2021 i Vogue

WHAT DOES A YEAR AT HOME teach us? I’ve been thinking about this question quite a bit this winter. I’ve thought back 12 months, to March 2020, when everything changed—so suddenly, it seemed. We all have our turning points. For me, for whatever reason, the news of Tom Hanks contracting COVID-19 in Australia was that moment, a shift in mindset. I was at home when I read the news. And home is where I’ve been—more or less—ever since. This has not been altogether a bad thing. Of course, like you, I miss so many things—travel, restaurants, seeing friends, fashion shows, being out in the world. But there is another side to this year: We’ve turned our focus to our personal spaces in all sorts of interesting ways. We’ve had time…

Did you know that there exists a wild yeast that spends its winters hibernating on the backs of bumblebees? Or that most ancient medicinal texts, whether Chinese, Persian, or Greek, refer to vinegar (from the French vin aigre and the Latin vinum acetum, or soured wine) as a nostrum? Or that yeast, sugar, and bacteria exist in flower nectar, so that all fruits are, from the moment of their inception, on a natural path to becoming vinegar? I learned these facts from Oregon-based vinegar maker Kirsten Shockey on Zoom while I noisily pureed Cortland apples into a slurry and stirred a jar full of old wine. I had an early copy of Shockey’s upcoming book, Homebrewed Vinegar, a fold of cheesecloth, and several jars at my side. I’d swept everything…

Last September, at the London Design Festival, participants were asked to craft a desk that would fit our current housebound lives. The eponymous studio of British architect and designer Thomas Heatherwick submitted a glass-and-maple-wood structure with undulating legs from which plants sprouted. “Exposure to natural environments… has very tangible improvements to brain functioning,” he said at the time. It’s a scientific statement underlined by common sense and freshly embraced by the design world: Biophilic design is good for you. “There’s a reason why you have the aquarium at the dentist’s office,” says William D. Browning, coauthor of Nature Inside: A Biophilic Design Guide, published in late 2020. The naming of the philosophy can be traced back to 1964, when German-born thinker Erich Fromm coined the term bio (life) philia (lover)…

Though Ziggy Marley and his wife, Orly Marley, have lived in their sprawling Spanish Colonial since 2018, it wasn’t until last year that the house finally felt complete. First there was a manpower problem: Ziggy was on tour in Europe with his band, leaving Orly (formerly a vice president at William Morris Agency, now the head of Ziggy’s record label) to manage the move on her own; after that, the family was off to Israel (where Orly was born) for daughter Judah’s bat mitzvah. By the time they returned to Los Angeles—their house sits in charming Toluca Lake, near the Bob Hope estate—there wasn’t much time for finishing touches. “You move in, and you have all these dreams for your home, right?” Orly says. “But life started, and everyone went…

This may be little surprise, but the founder of Hill House Home—a collection of bedding, linens, and house-centric fashions, including a stylish and sleepable Nap Dress—considers herself a homebody. “It’s a sacred space for me,” Diamond says, speaking from her West Village town house, which has seen some recent additions: In October, she welcomed twins Willow and Sebastian to the family, giving siblings to her son Henry. “When their rocking chair was delivered,” she recalls of her time in lockdown, “it was the first time in five months that people not related to me had been in my home.” To follow Diamond on Instagram is to enroll in Marketing to Millennials 101—her loyal followers give Diamond direct feedback on fit and fabric (and stay for videos of Henry asleep in…

When Le Pigalle opened in 2015, around the corner from my old apartment in Montmartre, it instantly became my hangout. Many urban hotels aim for cult status with locals. This one delivered precisely because it didn’t—and still doesn’t—feel like a hotel. The lobby, with its terrazzo floor, functions more like a giant café, with sober red velvet banquettes, bentwood chairs, and really good espresso and natural wine. Near the front door, bathed in daylight (when there is any in Paris), is an oversized deep-brown marble table surrounded by mismatched vintage chairs that say, I’m good for meetings if you must. Or for cruising the branding consultants and graphic designers squeaking past in interesting sneakers if you like. “We wanted people to come in and say, ‘Wait, there are rooms upstairs?’”…

The taste-making founder of Sincerely, Tommy—Brooklyn’s cult-favorite fashion-and-lifestyle boutique—moved into her Bedford-Stuyvesant brownstone a few months before the lockdown. (A native of the area, she counts both her mother, Lisa, and grandmother Doreen as neighbors.) By design, the place was already deeply tranquil—Avent-deLeon and her husband, Nate, favored a muted color story inspired by the desert—but what it was missing, she soon determined, was a sense of play. In the backyard, she cleared away shrubs to make the space easier to move around in and, breaking from the elegant restraint of much of the rest of the house, she covered the floor of her family room with pillows. “I wanted it to be a place where we could literally fall out,” she says. And when her two-year-old son, Che, isn’t…

“I feel like no one knows me as well as my bedroom,” says Philippines-born, London-raised singer-songwriter Beatrice Laus, better known as Beabadoobee (a Finstagram handle that stuck as a stage name). “It’s seen me go through the worst and best times of my life.” It’s also where the 20-year-old singer—who rose to fame on social media—has been holed up, writing new music and pursuing her many other creative outlets. She’s created, in a nook above her bed, a mood board–like gallery wall pinned with pictures of Tom Hanks and Robert De Niro movie posters; elsewhere in the room, she doodled directly on the wall with pastels and paints. “My room is very cluttered, quite messy,” she says, “and that says a lot about how I think—I just have tons of…

“People assume all the time: Your husband got the van, and he’s dragging you along,” says Hagner. Russell chimes in: “It’s the opposite—though I wouldn’t call it dragging me along, either.” She grew up between Houston and Chapel Hill, North Carolina, backpacking with her father, including a traverse through the Rockies and four weeks on the Appalachian Trail. He spent a youth mostly outdoors at the Colorado ranch belonging to his parents (Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn). In 2018, the couple, both actors, purchased a Mercedes Sprinter van retrofitted with a Scandi-style blond-wood interior and equipped with all the trimmings—stovetop, dining banquette, modular seating, and sleeping areas—for #vanlife. “Vacations were always a little difficult because we have to plan last-minute because of our jobs,” explains Russell, who currently stars in…

Theoretically, you should be able to tour designer and dealer Jermaine Gallacher’s London home in mere minutes. Located on the lower ground floor—“subterranean,” he calls it—of a 19th-century apartment building in Borough, in a neighborhood where early Victorian London and the dreaded contemporary luxury-development London uneasily coexist, his four compact rooms arranged off one narrow passageway would seem to contain just enough space for him and his cat, Rita. But who wants a speedy tour when it’s the rakish and garrulous Gallacher, 32, who’s leading it? His erudite and uproarious conversational gambits flit from railing against the soulless corporatization of a city he adores (and has called home since he arrived there 15 years ago from Brighton to study) to tales of house parties he has known and loved, nights…

The same summer of 1967 that Joan Didion went to San Francisco to report on the hippies, a term she put in quotation marks, my parents had converted an old school bus to a groovy if primitive house on wheels and caravanned from St. Louis to Eugene, Oregon, where they were starting a new life. As Didion was listening to the ramble of paranoiacs in Golden Gate Park and encountering the famous Susan, a five-year-old in white lipstick who was being regularly dosed with acid by her mother, my parents and my older brother were moving their bus between state and county parks around Eugene, in order to keep ahead of ordinances designed to discourage long-term parking. They had no money, and my father’s teaching job didn’t begin until September…

For Holly Tupper, creating clean scents that riff on classic notes (honeyed orange blossom, rich tuberose) isn’t just about leaning on nontoxic formulas. “Natural ingredients just have a greater nuance and magic to them on the skin,” says the 65-year-old perfumer, who worked in finance before launching her luxury brand Cultus Artem at Bergdorf Goodman last fall. But Tupper’s commitment to fostering a greener approach to perfume goes beyond responsible sourcing and small-batch production. In 2014, after moving from Singapore to Texas to manage her family’s ranch, Tupper purchased a 13,000-square-foot former Southwestern Bell Telephone Exchange building in San Antonio and converted it into a laboratory for her in-house chemist, a salon for private appointments, a climate-controlled room for storing raw materials, and designated areas for filtering and bottling. A…

“I started off kind of pretending that I lived in England—you know, with roses and those kinds of traditional plants,” says writer and photographer Hickson of her garden. “But I’ve come to accept that where I live is very different from England.” Where she lives—with her husband, Ed, and their three children, Daisy, 12, Tom, 10, and Harriet, 8—is a weatherboard farmhouse on a pecan farm in the Dumaresq Valley on the New South Wales–Queensland border. A dozen years into her country life after relocating from Sydney, Hickson has not only embraced the tempestuous weather (“It’s drought and then flooding rain”) but in 2020, she launched Galah, a magazine dedicated to rural Australia. “I’ve had quite a productive kind of lockdown,” she says. In the garden, she’s planted big, soft…

Ghilaga is not an impulsive person: A career spent meticulously selecting objects—first as a buyer at Moda Operandi, now at Over the Moon—instilled in her a sense of thoughtfulness when it came to the things she brought into her life. “I spent all this time thinking about what I wanted my home to be like,” she says, “from the types of blankets on my bed to the soap dish I wanted to use.” But within a week of setting foot in Costa Rica for the first time, in the winter of 2017, she decided to buy a three-acre piece of undeveloped land in Nosara—a beach bohemia on the Western coast of the country that has long lured both yogis and surfers. “When you’re driving on the roads, you’ll see a…

It’s early in the New Year, and Selena Gomez is hidden away north of Manhattan, tucked in a room in an anonymous Tudor nestled in the crook of a picturesque village’s curving hills. The sky is fogged to white; the Bronx River ruffles the heavy quiet. Lightly mesmerized, I walk up to the wrong front door and am greeted by a kindly man in a suit and an N95 mask. “Selena?” he says. “Selena’s across the street. She seems lovely. Good luck.” Selena Gomez is, in fact, across the street, in an oversized Nirvana shirt and black leggings and a ponytail, waiting on a big white couch, with her caramel Maltipoo curled on top of a furry green throw at her bare feet. Behind her, a fireplace crackles obediently; a…

The creative polymath Ashley Hicks’s artistic adventures in lockdown are enough to make even the most productive aesthetes quake in admiration. At home in the English countryside, for instance, he insouciantly transformed his bathroom with a fresco of figures after Michelangelo: He now describes it as “The Sistine Bathroom.” He created a collection of obelisk table ornaments that appear—thanks to his alchemical paintbrush—to have been assembled from shards of lapis, porphyry, or malachite. He’s made a group of vibrantly colored resin sculptures and a series of chiaroscuro trompe l’oeil panel paintings—all while assiduously keeping up a lively design-centric Instagram account (@ashleyhicks1970) and a series of virtual tours of storied houses on Instagram Live. And when his collaborator Martina Mondadori relocated from a London town house to an apartment in her…

DILONE & FAMILY: 67: top row, from left: Dilone’s brother Christian, her nephew Sage, her niece Jessamarie, her sister Dianna, Dilone, her brother Jonathan, and her sister Lisa. center row, from left: Dilone’s niece Leilani, her sister Judi, her father, Benigno, her sister Marilin, her mother, Maria, her sister Kiara, her niece Lorelei, and her best friend, Briana. front row, from left: Dilone’s brother Danny, her nephew Joshua, and her niece Juliet. Table of contents: 24: On Ghilaga: Skirt, $2,025; net-a-porter.com. Cover look: 24:Dress, price upon request; ysl.com. Cartier High Jewelry earrings, price upon request; (800) CARTIER. Manicurist, Tom Bachik. Tailor, Susie’s Custom Designs. Editor’s letter: 30: On Clarke: Nick Fouquet hat. On Trunfio: Polo Ralph Lauren dress, $228; ralphlauren.com. Linea Pelle Vintage belt, $125; lineapelle.com. Frye boots, $348; thefryecompany.com.…

With all the time spent at the family compound in Rome (which lodged some 20 or so Fendis of all ages during quarantine), Silvia Venturini Fendi didn’t have to look far for inspiration. Her current collection celebrates those Italian handicrafts learned, generation after generation, at the kitchen table—like the a jour embroideries, once popular with Italian housewives, that appear on the veil covering this dainty handbag. Beneath, the baguette-style purse blooms with floral macramé embroidery and patent-leather florets the shade of a clementine. In short, it’s a bag worth writing home about.…