Innholdsfortegnelse for December 2024 i Vogue

At Balthazar, over two double chicken paillards (mine with a side of mash), Anna handed me a large envelope. I opened it as she explained, “I would like you to be the guest editor of our December issue.” Wow! Inside the envelope were spreads that Anna had mocked up, with me in mind, of what December could look like. Instantaneously that awful voice in my head, my inner saboteur said, “You can’t do this, what do you know about putting together a magazine?” Oh, shut up! With a weekend to think it over, I came to the conclusion that I would only regret not doing this. Cut to my first meeting at the Vogue offices. “We want you to go for it!” Anna told me. “What would you like to…

KATE MOSS When I first met Marc, I remember thinking that he was so cool, so cute. I walked in his Perry Ellis show in 1992, that historic collection that got him fired but was later celebrated as way ahead of its time. All the major girls were there; it was really exciting, and you could feel a buzz in the air. In London we had our own version of grunge that my friends and I were all wearing, so when I saw the collection I wasn’t shocked. It was more like relief. Like, Someone else gets it. Marc is always pushing the boundaries of what is new. Everybody rallied around Marc when he started his own collection. We would get dressed and do hair and makeup in one place,…

Who was the real Maria Callas? Given the American-born Greek opera singer’s tumultuous career and her dark, dazzling glamour, it’s a question that many have attempted to unpick. The latest name you can add to that list: Angelina Jolie, the star of Maria, a new biopic that peels back the layers to reveal the woman behind the “La Divina” myth. And not least through its ravishing costumes, which span everything from her most iconic stage outfits to her bedroom dressing gowns. “I see fashion as a form of art, even unrelated to my work as a filmmaker,” the director Pablo Larraín tells me over the phone from Chile, where he’s just returned after promoting Maria at the fall film festivals. (Maria opened in theaters in November before streaming on Netflix.)…

I them. It’s not often that I’ve had to suffer for beauty, or to pull off the kind of extreme looks that I sometimes embrace—but as an undergrad on the dance floor in Chicago, I did wear size 26 raw denim that I’d slept in for a week so they would hug and squeeze every nuance of my hips as I swayed Later, though, when I worked at Barneys in LA, many of the men I attempted to sell this process-dependent denim to found even the thought of wearing jeans two sizes too small for days (or even weeks) before they gave way to be abhorrent, that extreme labor for aesthetics akin to torture. Imagine, then, having the patience—or is it the endurance, the fortitude, or, maybe, the sheer swing-for-the-fences…

Table of Contents: 32: Jumper and skirt; maison-alaia.com. Shoes; michaelkors.com. Tailor: Jacqui Bennett at Carol Ai Studio. Manicurist: Jin Soon Choi. Cover Look: 46: On Gerber: Marc Jacobs dress and gloves; bergdorfgoodman.com. Manicurist: Jin Soon Choi. Tailor: Lars Nord. Editor’s Letter: 60: For Anna: hair, Andreas Anastasis; makeup, Melissa Silver. For Marc: hair, Sandy Hullett; makeup, Eduardo Jiménez. Contributors: 68: Top left image: Chanel High Jewelry bracelet; select Chanel boutiques. ROLE PLAY 116–123: Manicurist: Jin Soon Choi. Tailor: Lars Nord. DANCE, DANCE, DANCE! 126: On Breslin: ERL pants; Dover Street Market for similar styles. On Angelina: Lu’u Dan jeans; luu-dan.com. 128–129: On Williamson: Bonbonwhims necklace. On Gray: T-shirt; marc jacobs.com. Moschino boxer shorts; cncpts.com. Don’t Let Disco necklaces and bracelets. Nialaya necklaces and bracelets. On Tenney: Lu’u Dan jeans; luu-dan.com.…

Dogged Pursuit Typically, Vogue’s Last Look (page 186) comprises one very special accessory captured in an artful still life—so when the featured piece has an actual model it’s a bit of a moment. This issue presented just such an instance, with a darling little smooth-coated Brussels griffon puppy named Carl showing off a major bracelet from Chanel. (That’s him, top left.) It was a competitive gig, to be sure: Our guest editor, Marc Jacobs—a devoted dog lover—wanted a “character” for the page, inspired by an Instagram-famous Brussels griffon named Proshka (handle: @griffy.girl). And so began a weeks-long search for the right pup, requiring about seven casting decks. Among the very cute close calls? Clockwise from top right: Monkey, Proshka himself, Eleanor, Maple, and Barney. Flower Power The portfolio “Blossoms Dearie”…

The well-to-do Weiland family in Sara Sligar’s Vantage Point (MCD) is subject to a curse of untimely deaths. Their contemporary affliction is more digital in nature: Clara, whose brother, Teddy, is running for Senate, finds herself the victim of an explicit viral video that just might be a cunning deepfake. Clara and Teddy have been raised on a remote island in Maine surrounded by generational wealth, and there is an acutely rendered upstairs-downstairs dynamic that plays out in the novel as well, offering acerbic social commentary laid on top of a propulsive and highly entertaining plot. An alternate title for Playworld (Knopf), Adam Ross’s dazzling and endearing new novel, could be The Lying Life of Children Treated Like Adults. Loosely based on the author’s years as a child actor in…

Kaia Gerber sees new plays whenever she can—particularly small, off-Broadway plays. That is how she and I came to be at a theater on the Upper East Side of Manhattan on a balmy night in September. Kaia had chosen a drama about two women confronting the consequences of the new spate of anti-abortion laws. Though neither of us knew much about the play ahead of time, Kaia is drawn to difficult subjects that can lead to interesting discussions. After an intense 70 minutes without an intermission, we were both eager to discuss what we’d just seen. We stood in front of the theater waiting for our car, wondering about the actual details of the Texas anti-abortion law described in the play. But we’d only traded a few sentences when a…

On an unseasonably warm October day in the Hudson Valley, Ariel Dearie—a florist whose arrangements and installations have graced campaigns for Loewe, Michael Kors, and Bvlgari, as well as the halls of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Frick Collection, and a Sofia Coppola movie—trooped with photographer Stephen Shore around Rhinebeck, New York, where the two happen to live some 10 minutes apart. (Another neighbor is Annie Leibovitz, with whom Dearie has worked more than once—including on an elaborate, flora-inspired sword for Leibovitz’s induction into the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris last March. After wandering through Leibovitz’s sprawling property, collecting branches and mushrooms from its trails, Dearie transformed her gatherings into the exquisite copper heirloom, inspired by the work of French sculptor Claude Lalanne.) The goal for Dearie and Shore’s…

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Chanel bracelet Jaunty and jeune, Chanel’s Charismatique bracelet—forged from gleaming white gold, cultured pearls, tanzanite, sapphires, and diamonds—could not be more perfectly named. Under normal circumstances, it would soak up all the attention, though its wearer here offers some stiff competition: Meet Carl, a smooth-coated Brussels griffon puppy who gets sleepy on the subway, likes the very edge of the sidewalk best, and—thankfully—is no stranger to staring. It’s a perfect match.…