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FEBRUARY
REGULARS

26 EDITOR’S LETTER

NOTICES
Behind the scenes of the issue

28 TRIBUTE
The true legacy of
Vivienne Westwood.
SHINING THROUGH,
page 140

By Sarah Mower

82 FORCES FOR CHANGE

Inside Vogue’s inaugural gala

84 CHECKLIST
How to wear colour now

199 STOCKISTS

TRENDS

46 VIVID IMAGINATION
Play with proportion,
palettes and personality in
our accessories special.
Edited and styled by Jessica Gerardi.
Photographs by Maxime Imbert
JEWELLERY
SPOTLIGHT

61 THOUGHT PATTERNS
Duro Olowu collaborates
65 CROWN GLORIES
A new Boucheron collection
gets the royal treatment.
with Max&Co. By Rachel Garrahan
By Laura Hawkins
SUSTAINABILITY

66 GREENER PASTURES
Ecofriendly fashion, on film.
By Dana Thomas

ARTS & CULTURE

68 SPINNING AROUND
Caroline Polachek releases
her wild side.
By Liam Hess

DARLING

72 SOPHIA BROWN
The actor’s favourite things.
By Radhika Seth

LIVING

COVER LOOK 74 A PLACE FOR

EVERYTHING
Enter Maria McManus’s New
Priyanka Chopra Jonas wears vinyl trench coat, LaQUAN SMITH, at Browns.
Get the look: make-up by MAX FACTOR. Eyes: Masterpiece Max Mascara and York atelier-cum-apartment.
GREG WILLIAMS

Masterpiece Nude Eyeshadow Palette in Golden Nudes. Lips: Colour Elixir Lip
Cushion in Majestic Berry. Skin: Facefinity All Day Flawless Foundation and By Tilly Macalister-Smith
Facefinity Blush in Sunkissed Rose. Hair by KERASTASE. Mousse Bouffante.

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Hair: TAMARA McNAUGHTON. Make-up: FARA HOMIDI.
Nails: KIMMIE KYEES. Set design: SPENCER VROOMAN. LIFE & STYLE
Photograph: ZOE GHERTNER. Styling: LAW ROACH By Julia Sarr-Jamois > 20

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VIEWPOINT
MAGNETIC CHARGE,

80 LESSONS IN EXCESS page 130

One writer recounts her time
tutoring the superrich.
By Sarah Thomas

BEAUTY & WELLNESS

90 BACKSTAGE
CONFIDENTIAL
Go behind the curtain for
spring/summer 2023.
By Lauren Murdoch-Smith

92 DIRECTOR’S CUT
An array of flawless,
glow-giving make-up. FASHION & FEATURES
By Jessica Diner

95 HIGHER POWER
Skincare gets an upgrade.
100 WITH EVERY
HEARTBEAT
Priyanka Chopra Jonas on
By Twiggy Jalloh. Photograph surrogacy, marriage and her
by Thomas Brown new love: motherhood.
By Jen Wang. Photographs

96 BEAUTY MUSINGS
How best to rest and
recuperate this month.
by Zoë Ghertner. Styling by
Law Roach

By Lauren Murdoch-Smith
110 CHANGING DIRECTIONS
Set your sartorial course for
the new season ahead.
Photographs: Rafael Pavarotti.
Fashion editor: Grace Coddington

122
CHANGING DIRECTIONS, ABIDING VALUES
page 110 In celebration of all-American
godfather Ralph Lauren.
By Sarah Harris. Photographs
by Sharif Hamza. Styling by
Dena Giannini

130 MAGNETIC CHARGE

Take eveningwear to a
whole new dimension.
Photographs by Elizaveta Porodina.
Styling by Poppy Kain

140 SHINING THROUGH

From London to Los Angeles,
meet the 31 silver-screen stars
Vogue tips for awards season.
Photographs by Greg Williams.
Styling by Dena Giannini

162
RAFAEL PAVAROTTI; ELIZAVETA PORODINA

CELESTIAL BEING
Ring in the Year of the
Rabbit in style.
Photographs by Theo Liu. Styling
by Gabriella Karefa-Johnson

VOGUE ASKS

200 WHAT WOULD EMMA

CHAMBERLAIN DO?

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CLASSIC FUSION ORLINSKI

Titanium case set with diamonds.

Self-winding movement.
 hen it comes to finding one’s path
in this ever-evolving world, there is
nothing to touch the guiding power
of a story shared. Take this month’s
cover star, the one and only
Priyanka Chopra Jonas, who has
made it her mission to speak out on
so many issues during her dazzling,
globe-spanning, two-decade career,
whether it be campaigning for
improved rights and education
access for girls or making space for
better representation on screen.
Rarely, however, has the actor,
entrepreneur and advocate spoken
so candidly about her family life
as she does to Vogue this month, in
With Every Heartbeat, on page 100. When, at the beginning of last year,
Priyanka and her husband, Nick, announced the birth of their first child,
no one outside the family bubble knew about the weeks of unimaginable
worry that had preceded it. Born via surrogate at only 28 weeks, baby
Malti Marie had the most fragile of arrivals into the world, while her
parents spent every hour permitted with her at the NICU.

MEET & GREET Introducing the faces behind this month’s issue

“We didn’t really start off with a

concept,” Grace Coddington admits.
“Then as we were shooting, hairstylist
Eugene Souleiman stepped into the
frame and we decided, on the spur of
the moment, it might be interesting for
everyone to see all the people it takes to
make a fashion picture.” Bold colour
contrasts, layering and oversized
silhouettes are all incoming for s/s ’23
as our contributing fashion editor
styles Anok Yai in Changing
Directions, on page 110.
For this month’s cover story, Jen Wang met
Priyanka Chopra Jonas at the LA home she
shares with her husband, Nick, to learn
about their first year as parents. “Part of the
conversation took place inside a playpen,
after baby Malti woke up from her afternoon
nap,” says Wang of the interview, Chopra
Jonas’s first since her daughter was born.
“My questions came from a desire to
understand what ground Priyanka finds
herself standing on after this seismic shift.”

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 EDITOR’S LETTER

For Priyanka – someone who

experiences both the love and the
scrutiny of a vast fanbase – the months
since her daughter came home from
the hospital, fit and well, have also
been delicate. It seems everyone’s a
critic these days, even when it comes to
Opposite:
how and why we choose to have our PRIYANKA
CHOPRA JONAS
children, and so I am especially grateful discusses motherhood
on page 100.
to her for sharing her story with writer Jen Wang. We all need to feel more This page: THUSO
MBEDU (left) and
comfortable in our conversations around the variety of ways it is possible to PAUL MESCAL
spread starshine,
create families these days, and I hope Priyanka talking about her experiences on page 140

makes other parents feel a little less isolated.

Elsewhere this month, we salute the best
performances on the big screen, with Vogue’s annual
awards portfolio and, courtesy of photographer
Rafael Pavarotti and contributing fashion editor
Grace Coddington, offer a first glimpse of some of the
key pieces from the new season.
But first, you will find Vogue’s farewell to
Vivienne Westwood, who died in December leaving
a deeply felt void in fashion. She was quite simply a
colossus of British style, a woman whose vision,
artistry and fearless voice will echo through many
decades to come. I shall miss her terribly.

Every year, as awards season comes upon

us, Vogue celebrates the brightest stars of
ZOE GHERTNER; RAFAELA PROELL; ALEXIS SIMONIAN;

cinema with our Hollywood portfolio.

This year, 31 favourites grace our pages: On page 80, novelist
Cate Blanchett is highlighted for her work Sarah Thomas tells
in Tár, Michelle Yeoh for her mind- extraordinary tales
blowing turn in Everything Everywhere from her time as a
All At Once; and then there’s Naomi private tutor to the
Ackie, Jamie Lee Curtis, Vicky Krieps,
GREG WILLIAMS; GETTY IMAGES

superrich. “It took me

Micheal Ward, Paul Mescal and many to more glamorous
more, all shot by Greg Williams, back for a places than I could
third year capturing the stars. “I love it have ever imagined,”
because my shoots are always about she says of the decade
character and authenticity,” he says of that inspired her
his return. “I have always been debut book, Queen K.
influenced by timeless, classic Hollywood, “But ironically, the
so the opportunity to use that as a thread main thing it taught
in this year’s folio was really lovely.” me was compassion.”

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 RADICAL
CHIC
The late VIVIENNE
WESTWOOD was
a true revolutionary
at WORK, writes
SARAH MOWER
T
he near-impossible task of honouring Vivienne Westwood
has to begin by saying this: above all, she was a great
Englishwoman – a unique designer who pushed fashion
history forward, and who then used all of her power to
stand up for the future of the world. Her death, on
29 December 2022, sent waves of images reverberating
through memory. Vivienne as the provocateur of punk.
Vivienne pioneering Pirates and mini-crinis. Vivienne
as a modern-day Boudicca in a magnificent cape, riding
a tank past the constituency home of then-prime minister
David Cameron to protest against fracking in 2015.
It feels only right to quote Vivienne’s call to action
– one snippet of speech in her nonstop campaigning –
which her family and husband, Andreas Kronthaler,
posted on their announcement of her death. “Stop climate
change. This is a war for the very existence of the human
race. And that of the planet. The most important weapon
Above, from we have is public opinion.” She commanded, “Become a
left: Naomi freedom fighter!” At 81, Vivienne Westwood was as
Campbell on
the a/w ’93 aligned to what young people care about as ever; the
runway. grandmother battling forward in her hand-scrawled Buy
Vivienne Less T-shirt, and to hell with the establishment.
Westwood, As a young journalist, I had a crick in my neck looking
photographed
for Vogue, up to her. Partly, that was because she set her catwalks
October 2009 high. It certainly was on the unforgettable day she sent
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Sara Stockbridge and Susie Bick (now Cave) waltzing out,
throats dripping with pearls and bosoms bouncing above
corsets printed with François Boucher’s rococo painting
Daphnis and Chloe. Risqué bloomers bedecked in tassels
and luscious bows flirted along. Hourglass dresses were
gilded with elaborate 18th-century patterns. It was 1990,
her Portrait collection. The astonishing thing – our mouths
were open in wonder, watching it – was how many times
one woman was capable of turning the tide of fashion,
eyes sparkling with conviction, against the travails of
pennilessness and public derision. Instead of some
underground presentation, there we were under chandeliers
in Pall Mall, in the grand home of the Institute of Directors.
It was something of a shock, in true Vivienne mode.
She hadn’t, as she explained, “sold out”. Instead, she had
turned to high culture – studied at London’s Wallace
Collection, and through deep classical and philosophical
reading – to introduce radical thinking to a dullard modern
world dominated by minimalism. “Orthodoxy is the grave
of intelligence,” as she mellifluously quoted from Bertrand
Russell in the introduction to Painted Ladies – her eye-
opening documentary series on fashion, costume and art.
That latest turn, as she saw it, was merely the intellectual
continuation of her life’s mission: “The only reason I’m
in fashion is to destroy the word conformity.” By the time

Clockwise from above: Kate Moss
walks in the s/s ’94 show; Vivienne
on the Fashion Rocks runway with
Andreas Kronthaler, 2005;
receiving her damehood in 2006; at
her King’s Road shop, Sex, in 1976
I came in, she’d already radicalised a generation of teenage
punks and scandalised the nation with the fetish and
bondage suits, Naked Cowboy and God Save the Queen
T-shirts that streamed out of 430 King’s Road, the ever-
changing shop she presided over with Malcolm McLaren.
First called Let It Rock in 1971, then Too Fast to Live,
Too Young to Die a year later, it became Sex in ’74 and,
in 1976, Seditionaries. By the early 1980s, it was renamed
Worlds End, as it remains – a place of pilgrimage where
teenagers have forged their identities, and found their
TIM WALKER; PAUL WETHERELL; GETTY IMAGES; SHUTTERSTOCK
people, for more than 50 years.
Yet it was only when Vivienne left McLaren that she
came into her own. Their breakup was a painful one.
McLaren had no scruple about dismissing her as his mere
seamstress; and she was to battle against disrespect and
outright ridicule as an untaught designer – even as she
continued to design collection after influential collection.
Mark Tarbard, the expert pattern-cutter who Vivienne
asked to help with 1981’s Pirate collection, saw the
originality of her technique firsthand at her Clapham flat.
“She’d made everything herself, on herself. No drawings,
patterns. She had a mini-crini with one of her kid’s Hula
Hoops as the boning. Her method was completely alien
to classical fashion education. I was literally shaking as I
watched,” he testifies. “Her genius was that her cut fitted
TRIBUTE
Right: for the
September 2019
issue of British
Vogue, Vivienne
returned to the
primary school
where, as a
young woman,
she had worked
as a teacher
anybody, any size, any sex, and made them look incredible.”
Ever confident, Tarbard recalls, “She was convinced her
punk followers would swarm to be pirates overnight – and
they did.” He remembers too how the Pirate collection
was “rejected by everyone. They were all afraid of her –
except Grace Coddington, who photographed it in British
Vogue. That made a huge difference.”
Perhaps her self-conviction and resilience were there
from birth. Vivienne Swire was born in 1941, in Tintwistle,
Derbyshire. A northern war baby who grew up during
rationing, she taught herself to sew clothes from the
smallest amount of fabric. She moved to London with
her parents, and briefly went to Harrow Art School, but
diverted, needing to earn, to become a primary school
teacher. At 21, she married Derek Westwood, and had a
son, Ben, in 1963. Dissatisfied with domesticity, she left
to live with her brother, who fatefully introduced her to
McLaren. She gave birth to their son, Joe Corré, in 1967.
In the late ’80s, Vivienne was appointed a professor of
fashion at the Vienna Academy of Applied Arts. There
she met Andreas Kronthaler, a student who she eventually
married. He would codesign on her label too, which, from
a/w ’16 onwards, became known as Andreas Kronthaler
for Vivienne Westwood. In 2006, Queen Elizabeth II made
Vivienne a Dame Commander of the British Empire, an
upgrade from the OBE she received in 1992, swirling
knickerless in a circle skirt outside Buckingham Palace.
How to encompass the vastness of her legacy? Her
punk phase is eternally referenced, morphing onwards
through generations, and turning up through time in the
safety-pinned collections of Gianni Versace and many more.
In the days following her death, hundreds of people have
posted memories of how her clothes led to self-discovery.
Fashion academics have told me that students today quote
her as their inspiration, both as a designer and as an activist.
Her allegiance to youth, and to what matters, passed on
her courage to so many designers to be themselves, from
John Galliano to Matty Bovan. That radical power of
Vivienne’s will continue, undiminished, long into the future.
The last time I saw her was in October. On a street
in Kensington, I heard an unmistakable voice loudly
discussing the politics of international finance following
Liz Truss’s appointment as prime minister. I turned and
saw it was Vivienne, strolling with Andreas. As they
walked away, I saw they were holding hands.
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 SPOTLIGHT
From left: Duro Olowu
with model Enya Davis,
who wears satin jacket
and stretch-satin
trousers, MAX&CO
& DURO OLOWU

THOUGHT PATTERNS
How one photographer’s ARTFULLY eclectic compositions led designer
DURO OLOWU to his latest COLLABORATION. By LAURA HAWKINS.
Photographs by ZOEY GROSSMAN. Styling by ENIOLA DARE
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Model: ENYA DAVIS

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 approach to building prints using different references, such as
Moroccan carpets, graphic 1930s motifs and colours inspired by
Ghirri’s pictures,” says Max Mara Group board member Maria
Giulia Prezioso Maramotti, who worked closely on the project.
“We also took inspiration from silhouettes within our own archives
and built out the moodboards from there.”
Cropped biker jackets and shirtdresses, lightweight ribbed knits
and headscarves: pieces in the collection are designed not for the
staunch stylistic rigour of resort towns, such as Capri or St-Tropez,
but for a liberated and adventurous spirit, and someone who flings
espite being warmly invited to take a seat before my interview
time-honed clothes into a suitcase and books a one-way ticket.
with Duro Olowu in his curiosity-filled Mayfair studio – while
“We also incorporated an off-white inspired by the colour of a
the Nigeria-born, London-based curator and designer wraps up
keepsake T-shirt that’s been worn and worn and rewashed,” Olowu
a phone call – I find it impossible to do so. I have, it appears, a
says. “I was also listening to Sade a lot. And thinking about her
case of the fashion fidgets. So captivated am I by a boxy black
sense of sharp but thrown-together dressing.”
jacket accented with bold graphic florals hanging on a rail near
Ghirri’s playful and surrealist visual style saw him distort
the front door, I find myself moving instinctively towards it. When
proportion and place, and expand the nature and realms of physical
Olowu materialises, I am keenly inspecting his signature highly
possibility. The works dabble in the human ability to dream. In
Salisburgo (1977), four women stand facing a majestic mountain
saturated limes, lemon yellows and fuchsias, in a similar way, it
transpires, to how he’s been admiring the potent, sun-soaked
scene, which the reader comes to realise is not a real Alpine landscape
but an illustrated map or mural. In Parigi (1972), one of Olowu’s
compositions of Italian photographer Luigi Ghirri, the inspiration
behind his spring/summer 2023 collaboration with fellow Reggio
favourite compositions, Ghirri captures the back of a boy, a floral
Emilia-originating brand Max&Co. bandana tied around his Afro, sitting against an unidentified watery
“There’s a dark orange, almost terracotta, that I call ‘Ghirri
backdrop and holding a miniature model of the Eiffel Tower. Olowu
orange’,” he enthuses of a colour synonymous with the trailblazing
and Max&Co’s collection is equally transportive. It allows its wearer
1943-born artist, who created a visual style that mediated between
to travel even if only in the imagination, flitting between heat-drenched
reality and fantasy, the banal and the kitsch, the vivid and time-
Italian and Senegalese streets or the enclaves of any dreamt-up
tinged, before his death in 1992. Olowu, whose art-suffused
destination. Ghirri’s minimal journeys? Now they’re endless.
collections abound with photographer
references such as Eileen Agar, Beth Lesser
and Lee Miller, specifically alludes to Brest “LUIGI GHIRRI’s studio Luigi Ghirri’s Brest
(1972), a photograph of a woman with a was the city, the TERRAIN,” (1972). Left: Parigi
(1972) . Below:
dark bob wearing a rich orange coat. Her
face is invisible but the silhouette of her says DURO OLOWU. “I Salisburgo (1977)

palms and back appear to the viewer pressed thought, ‘What if he’d had the
into frosted glass. “My favourite Ghirri quote
is, ‘I take photographs in colour because the OPPORTUNITY to travel?’”
real world is in colour,’” says Olowu.
Ghirri preferred “minimal journeys”
when seeking out his subject material, and
most of his expansively imaginative oeuvre
– be it scenes of wind-whipped beaches or
studies of metal shop shutters – was lensed
within three kilometres of his home. Despite
this near distance, Ghirri was obsessed with
maps, and in 1973 he put together Atlante,
a photographic series that wittily blew up
the cartographical illustrations of atlases,
such as the tree symbols of forests and the
blue squiggles of rivers. For his Max&Co
collaboration, which launches in February and comprises 35 pieces,
Olowu imagined Ghirri leaving Reggio Emilia and whirling high
above the oceans, roads and hills of his photographs, capturing the
topography of Mali’s capital, Bamako, and the shore-lined Saint-
Louis in Senegal. “Ghirri’s studio was the city, the terrain,” Olowu
ZOEY GROSSMAN; EREDI DI LUIGI GHIRRI

says. “I thought, ‘What if he’d had the opportunity to travel?’”

“I saw these big smiles on their faces,” Olowu says of the
Max&Co team’s reaction to his captivation with Ghirri. “It felt so
fortuitous that he also came from Reggio Emilia.” For his People,
Places, Colour collection, he has merged European and West African
tones and “geometric and psychedelic prints”, “Ghirri orange” and
burnished “Bamako brown”, watermelon pink and emerald green,
pointillist chevron stripes and undulating waves. “One of the most
incredible parts of working with Duro was seeing his eclectic

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Illustrated by Quentin Blake

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 JEWELLERY

CROWN
GLORIES
Boucheron’s latest collection
takes its lead from a ROYAL
favourite, writes RACHEL
GARRAHAN. Photograph
by FELICITY INGRAM.
Styling by JULIA BRENARD

White-gold, ruby and

pavé-diamond
convertible brooch,
BOUCHERON.
Cotton-taffeta
dress, MOLLY
GODDARD.
Hair: ANNA
COFONE.
Make-up: JANEEN
WITHERSPOON.
Set design: OLIVIA
GILES. Digital
artwork: DTOUCH
LONDON. Model:
MALIKA EL
MASLOUHI

er Majesty Queen Elizabeth II famously wore colour
so well, and while she possessed a world-class collection
of diamonds there were few jewels she wore more often
during her 70 years on the throne than a matching pair
of sky blue aquamarine Boucheron clips.
The brooches were of sentimental value, having been
a gift from the Queen’s father, George VI, on her 18th
birthday, in 1944. They had passed into the Royal
Collection after their original owner, the King’s younger
brother, died in a military air crash two years earlier.
When Claire Choisne, Boucheron’s creative director,
came across the clips in the archive, she was immediately
struck by two things: their emotional resonance for the
Queen, whom she considers a style icon, and their
symmetrical design. “I love the strength and the purity
of art deco but I also love how it’s balanced here by the
baby blue of the aquamarine,” she says.
The result is Boucheron’s first collection inspired
by a single jewel. Each piece began with the shape of
the originals but was refined in detail and altered in
function. Oval aquamarines become round, high
cabochons framed by a flourish of deep blue lacquer
on a dramatic cuff. A diamond and ruby brooch
mimics the original in one half, the other half
disappearing like a glitch in the matrix. And just as
Choisne’s original moodboard was peppered with the
Queen in all her colourful outfits, this collection is
an ode to Her Majesty in polychromatic glory.

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SUSTAINABILITY

Greener PASTURES
In a new documentary, AMY POWNEY brings FASHION
sustainability out into the OPEN, writes DANA THOMAS

W
hen Amy Powney, creative director for the London-based
brand Mother of Pearl, won the BFC/Vogue Designer
Fashion Fund in 2017, she decided to use the £100,000
prize to underwrite the company’s pivot from conventional
to sustainable practices. It was a major undertaking, Powney
states in Fashion Reimagined, a poignant and powerful
documentary, directed by Becky Hutner, about Mother
of Pearl’s journey to becoming an eco-responsible brand.
“Everything you create has a footprint,” Powney says
on-screen, “and in fashion it’s huge. We produce a hundred
billion garments every year, and three out of five end up
in landfill.” The entire process, as the film’s title states,
must be reimagined. To do her part,
Powney set out to understand how
our clothes are made. What she
discovered was it’s not so clear. She
wanted to use only organic cotton,
but no mills could pinpoint
where their cotton came
and went to visit them to confirm their practices were
indeed humane and ecologically minded.
Trudging across fields and interacting with agriculture
workers wasn’t foreign to Powney. She grew up on a farm
in Lancashire. “It wasn’t an easy life,” she told me. But it
was a good one, full of creativity and, in a way, fashion.
Her mother worked for a stretch in a fabric mill, and
would bring home remnants to make clothes. Through
this, Powney developed a love of textiles. She enrolled at
Kingston University, earned a BA in fashion and landed
a job as a studio assistant for Mother of Pearl, which, at
the time, was a small indie label that followed traditional
(read: polluting) practices. In a few short years, Powney
worked her way up from sweeping floors to running the
studio, and, in 2013, was appointed creative chief.
Then came the BFC/Vogue prize and the chance to
take the company green. As we see in the film, Powney’s
determination paid off. “All the fabrics are fully
sustainable,” she said during an interview last autumn.
NICK PRENDIVILLE; DUCK PRODUCTIONS

from or guarantee that it was
chemical-free. Wool, the
other material Powney
wanted for her eco-
conscious collection, called
Top and above: No Frills, was also tricky to
Mother of Pearl creative trace back to the original
director Amy Powney.
Right: cardigan, £295, source. She eventually
MOTHER OF PEARL found reliable suppliers,
She also insists that Mother of Pearl’s clothes are made
to last – the antithesis of fast fashion. “Durability is key,”
she explained. Once the garments come to their end of
life, most can be recycled. As honourable as all that sounds,
there is still work to be done. She pointed to the brand’s
signature hazelnut-size faux-pearl buttons. “They’re still
plastic,” she confessed, sounding slightly exasperated.
“We’ll figure something out.” Undoubtedly she will.
Fashion Reimagined will be in cinemas on 3 March

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SPINNING
around
With a NEW album,
POP’s smartest princess,
CAROLINE POLACHEK,
unleashes her wilder SIDE.
By LIAM HESS
 ARTS & CULTURE

n a drizzly grey October morning, I arrive at a nondescript address across a number of countries; wherever Polachek’s own headline
in a northeast London suburb where, I’ve been told, Caroline shows or her stint supporting Dua Lipa could accommodate a
Polachek is shooting the cover for her new album. Given the recording session. Along the way, she has also found the time to
musician’s knack for world-building – the delicately arranged burnish her image as a fashion favourite, appearing in campaigns
layer cake of Disney backdrops and ’90s Steven Meisel Versace for Loewe and Vivienne Westwood and walking the runway for
campaigns that informed the visuals for her 2019 record Pang, the likes of Chloé and Eckhaus Latta. “I think in some ways,
for example – I expect to arrive at a studio filled with extravagant I made peace with the chaos,” she reflects. “The jumbling up of all
sets and esoteric props. of it ended up feeling correct for the music.”
Instead, I find myself at an outdoor train museum, where Polachek’s instincts for pop songwriting have sometimes felt
Polachek is crouched inside an old Underground carriage, crawling almost mathematically precise; on Desire, they’re let off the leash
through a pile of sand. She’s wearing a dress covered in coffee to freakier and far more unexpected places.“I wanted to turn the
stains (intentionally, it’s worth noting), a lick of kohl across her volume up on this feeling of overflowing and overabundance,” she
eyelids, and she’s surrounded by extras playing oblivious commuters. explains. “Maybe even a bit more mania. I definitely hope there’s
“I wanted the cover to be a kind of explosion of being in the real humour in there, even if it’s just a sonic switch-up that catches you
world,” she explains – or at least her version of the rush-hour crush. off-guard,” she says, before adding, wryly, “or makes you scream.”
The cover Polachek is referring to is for her upcoming album, Polachek’s snap-crackle-pop energy relaxes a little when we
Desire, I Want To Turn Into You, out this February – the second chat about the music itself – even as she acknowledges the album
under her own name, though it’s technically her seventh. Now 37, is her most wilfully chaotic work yet. She talks of ancient Roman
she first came up as the lead singer of the Brooklyn indie duo cornucopias, of the ants and volcanoes and bottles of wine that
Chairlift, and when the group disbanded in 2017, Polachek found have become recurring visual motifs – emblems of her life’s
that success was far from guaranteed. A turbulent period in her unsteadiness over the past few years. Still, amid a relentless touring
personal life followed – divorce, moving from New York to London, schedule, she’s also managed to find a more grounded existence,
mysterious adrenaline rushes, bouts of insomnia – during which splitting her time between London and Los Angeles with her
she wrote Pang. An introspective and often self-deprecating partner, the British visual artist Matt Copson. (He codirects her
document of personal rebuilding, it served as one of 2019’s most videos, while she has soundtracked his laser projections and even
virtuosic pop records, earning Polachek an entirely new and fiercely contributed an aria to a recent Kurt Cobain-inspired opera he
loyal fan base, helped in no small part by the success of her sleeper directed in London; in their downtime, they play the collectable
hit “So Hot You’re Hurting My Feelings”. But a handful of shows card game Magic: The Gathering.)
into the tour, the pandemic arrived, throwing everything Polachek Polachek herself still hasn’t figured out the album’s title –
had planned into disarray. Desire, I Want To Turn Into You. “It could mean being in love and
What else was there to do, then, but wanting to fuse with someone, or the deep,
embrace the disruption? “It’s definitely an manic hunger that comes with being
extroverted album, and I’m playing a lot obsessed with someone,” she says. “But it
more with nonsense and abstraction,” says could also mean wanting to become desire
Polachek, framed by the whitewashed walls itself. Which is really the force that guides
of her home in Los Angeles when we us through our lives.”
reconnect over Zoom the morning before To her, that ambiguity makes the name
she’s about to head to South America on all the more accurate. “The moments of
tour. (That very afternoon – pending Jair sincerity, the moments of abstraction on the
Bolsonaro’s reaction to his defeat in the album, it’s all contained in that phrase,” she
Brazilian presidential election – she will be continues. With her second album, Polachek
LINDSAY ELLARY; AIDAN ZAMIRI

catching a flight to São Paulo; as it turns
out her performance will end up being a
kind of celebration.) Typically, Polachek
would hole up in a studio for weeks on end
to write, she tells me, but this album was
recorded in fits and starts and sporadic
bursts of creativity: across a number of years;
“I made peace with the chaos,” says
musician Caroline Polachek. Above: the
cover artwork for her second solo album
is ready to nudge her surreal, seductive strain
of pop in a new direction. A little more
louche, a little lewder and a little rougher
around the edges? “I think I like that,” she
says, with a mischievous smile.
Desire, I Want To Turn Into You is out on
14 February

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the Albatross Villa.
Below: a bedroom in
the Presidential Villa
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“If money were no

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Gold earrings and bag.” £990
gold necklace,
TIFFANY & CO.
Photograph:
JULIETTE
CASSIDY.
Styling: HONEY
SWEET ELIAS

Sophia
“I’m decadent with my
Brown
baths. I like to use fresh Just weeks before Sophia Brown was
lavender and light a cast as Eile, the fearsome warrior at
DIPTYQUE Baies candle
[from £33]. I took one to the heart of Netflix series The Witcher:
Iceland with me because Blood Origin, she had decided to stop
I knew it was going to acting. “It was really affecting me,”
be a tough shoot.”
the 31-year-old says of the relentless
auditioning cycle, which led her to
consider becoming a teacher, like her
parents, instead. She submitted a tape
for the blockbuster prequel thinking
it’d be “the last one”. Two months
later, she was in Iceland, filming jaw-
dropping stunts alongside Michelle
Yeoh. “It was epic,” she says – and well
overdue for the ArtsEd and Identity
School of Acting graduate from
HAIR: LAURAINE BAILEY. MAKE-UP: KENNETH SOH. NAILS: AMI STREETS.

Northampton, who dabbled in

musicals before compelling turns in
“Both my parents are
from near Montego Bay Clique, Guerrilla and Giri/Haji. “At
“At the minute, [in Jamaica] and they that time, as a Black performer [on
I’m obsessed with now have a place close by, stage], you were either in The Lion
Yussef Dayes, as well in the countryside. When
I was younger, I’d go to King or Motown,” she says. “It wasn’t
as Amaroun and
ERYKAH BADU.” DUNN’S RIVER – this as creative as I wanted it to be. Rather
ALAMY; GETTY IMAGES; HBO; PIXELATE.BIZ

magical place where you than just being nostalgic about Black
can climb up a waterfall. history, I wanted to play different types
I can’t wait to go back.”
of people.” Her next two releases fulfil
that wish: Borderland, a ’70s-set thriller,
and the Russell T Davies-produced
romcom You & Me. Next, the goal is
to produce, particularly projects “about
Black and brown families set in the
“The last great thing I bought was my ADIDAS Midlands. We need more stories
& GUCCI trainers.” £575 like that.” RADHIKA SETH

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THE ORIGINAL EAU DE PARFUM

& THE NEW LE PARFUM
LIVING

A PLACE FOR
EVERYTHING
In Manhattan, MARIA McMANUS’s
home strikes the perfect work-life balance,
finds TILLY MACALISTER-SMITH.
Photographs by KELLY MARSHALL

I
t’s unclear, at first, where the front door of Maria McManus’s New
York apartment is. Tucked between nondescript Tribeca shopfronts,
a lift buzzer offers a clue. A freight elevator clatters down, and
McManus, dressed in a grey wool double-breasted suit from her
pre-fall ’22 collection and nothing more – not even a scrap of make-
up – hauls open the heavy door. “Most people want the doorman,
the elevator, the gym,” she says by way of introduction. “But because
this wasn’t a full-service building, it was a great dollar-per-square-
foot, and we knew what we could do with the space.”
We journey up (although when she’s by herself she prefers to
conquer the five flights by foot). Upstairs, her open-plan apartment
is awash with a serene light, all the brighter thanks to white-oak
parquet floors. It’s no surprise this is a “shoes off ” home, a custom
she picked up while visiting Japan in her university days.
She and her husband, Mark, found their 3,000 sq ft home in
JEWELLERY, FROM A SELECTION, AGMES, AMBIE STAPLETON AND SOPHIE BUHAI
2018. Previously owned by a bachelor, it wasn’t, she explains, initially MARIA WEARS SHIRT AND SKIRT, MARIA McMANUS. MULES, BOTTEGA VENETA.
“organised in the way a family would live”. As a working mother of
two girls – Luella, 11, and Poppy Rain, nine – the Irish fashion
designer is a pragmatist. “I’m big into a floor plan and how you’re
going to live – the practicality of what life is like,” she says. “The
one thing I had said when we were buying is that we’re not doing
a renovation with two little kids, but of course, we walk in here
and…” Before McManus knew it, she was carving up the two-bed
layout, adding a third bedroom and a laundry room, while keeping
a sense of expansiveness with the corridor – equipped with flush
hidden storage – that runs the length of the property.
They enlisted architect Thomas W Ryan to carry out the gut
renovation, including uncovering the original beams and brick
walls. Ryan had already worked with the couple on their relatively
modest 1,000 sq ft Montauk home. “He’s so collaborative and I’m
not easy – what I want is so specific,” she admits.
After 20-something years working in the fashion industry, mostly From top: the kitchen cabinetry is by a boutique New York company called
Henrybuilt, while the arabescato corchia marble counter serves as a natural
as a merchandiser for larger American brands, McManus felt gathering place for guests; in the bathroom, charcoal-coloured plaster walls offset
compelled to launch her eponymous line – which will arrive at > the white-oak parquet floors, which run throughout the apartment

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“What I want is so
specific,” says designer
Maria McManus,
of her multitasking
Manhattan apartment.
Styling: PATRICK
MACKIE. Hair:
SABRINA SZINAY.
Make-up: KIKI
GIFFORD. Production:
MARCUS CHANG
 A pair of 1970s sofas –
one, a Mario Bellini
Camaleonda and the
other by Percival Lafer
– pull focus in the living
room. Below: on the
bedroom walls, Farrow
& Ball’s Cornforth
White paint works well
alongside bare brick
 LIVING

Selfridges in the spring – to tackle the issues she was witnessing

with responsible, or rather irresponsible, design. Founded in 2020
on the principles of creating consciously produced, timeless garments,
she’s applied much of her business ethos to her home, though she
acknowledges the challenges of “responsibly” renovating a property.
“Everything here is either vintage or made by a friend,” she says,
pointing to the Orior sideboard (“They sweetly sent it to me”),
ceramics by Jenny Min, and artworks by friends including Prune
Nourry and Jonathan Forsythe.
They kept what they could, reusing kitchen appliances that still
worked, sourcing as transparently as possible (flooring was found
at an upstate Forest Stewardship Council supplier), and insulating
well. “I don’t allow us to use AC, except at night,” she says, quoting
the US production of carbon as being more than three times the
global average. That’s the thing about McManus’s approach to
sustainability: she talks about it sensibly and without jargon.
She sourced all the furniture herself, scouring online auctions
and design stores the world over. Eileen Gray’s E1027 tubular chrome
side table was one of her first designer purchases. “There’s a classicism
in antiques and midcentury pieces that I don’t get sick of,” she says
as we wander over to the living room. Two elegant, contrasting sofas
are placed at a corner of the velvety cream Nordic Knots carpet:
Mario Bellini’s Camaleonda model upholstered in dusty pink velvet
(“We ordered this years ago, before it became such a thing”), and a
black leather and rosewood sofa by Percival Lafer.
We settle in the kitchen, around the arabescato corchia marble
counter (selected from ABC Stone in Brooklyn, although her
friend Jenna Lyons has since put her on to a female-owned marble
supplier she wishes she’d known about earlier). “Whenever we
have people over we always end up congregating here,” she says,
pouring chilled sparkling water. Two tiny delicate bowls of
cucumber and lime have been cut to add flavour.
She slides open a cabinet door, revealing shelves teeming with
crystal glass, Astier de Villatte and porcelain espresso cups. Every
morning the family gather here for breakfast – or some semblance
of it, McManus says, meaning a gulp of coffee for her. But they eat
together each night at the dinner table, an elongated oval of bleached
maple with bronze legs by BDDW, surrounded by 1959 Niels Otto
MARIA WEARS DRESS AND TROUSERS, MARIA McMANUS. SANDALS, BOTTEGA VENETA. JEWELLERY, AS BEFORE
“There’s a CLASSICISM in
antiques and MIDCENTURY pieces
that I don’t GET sick of”
would let their fields lie fallow and rotate the vegetables – proper
regenerative farming. We used to pick peas and dig potatoes there.”
Does she think her muddy-kneed upbringing shaped the
grounded ethos of her brand? “Yes. Mum always had a compost
heap. She always made our clothes.” Back then, her homemade
Communion dresses with white collars and ribbons became her
uniform of sorts (that is, until she started sneaking out aged 15 to
go to raves). Now, Maria’s own two daughters don’t wear a uniform
to their school in New York, as is standard in the city. She worries
about early-onset elitism, but she needn’t: “The girls tell me when
things are too expensive,” she says, opening the door to one of their
two immaculately tidy and stylish bedrooms, not a bit of plastic in
sight, yet still full of fun (Farrow & Ball’s Setting Plaster was the
compromise between her daughters’ tastes and her own). “It does
finally get to the point where they are one with you,” she says.
Even though she arrived in the city some two decades ago,
and expats often find themselves in a perpetual state of duality,
now that the dust is settling on her new renovation, does she
consider Manhattan home? “Yes, and it’s something we struggle
with, with raising children here and the politics and everything
going on… but I love it. I love New York City.”
Maria, with her desk,
which is positioned in
reach of the family’s
BDDW dining table

Moller rosewood dining chairs. A pendant light by Edward Wormley

is suspended above. Her office looks out from behind the dining
table, which often multitasks as extended desk space when design
sessions and fittings with her team spread out into the apartment.
(The first Maria McManus collection lookbook was even shot here,
before the renovation, on her friend the model Kiki Willems.)
A truly beautiful home can often be distinguished by its details.
McManus’s bathroom is case in point: a dark jewel box with a
custom belvedere marble sink and a ’60s Murano glass sconce by
JT Kalmar. “I’m a 1stDibs addict,” she deadpans.
A curved doorway leads into the impressive walk-in closet
(bigger than most New York kitchens). “I love Le Corbusier,” she
says. “I wanted to do the whole hallway with a curved ceiling but
it was too expensive.” Through the closet, you enter the master
bathroom, a staggering spa-like enclave of more white-oak parquet,
veined Breccia Capraia marble and brushed bronze Vola hardware,
tucked away at the back of her home. It’s a tranquil retreat, with
light diffused through linen blinds, and a soft glow from the
1960s Limburg handblown glass sconces and chandelier, all scored
from a German casino collection. She found the 1950s Peter
Hvidt armchair at Dagmar in London, a gift for Mark. A
sculptural piece of Montauk beach driftwood leans in the corner.
McManus grew up in St Margaret’s, Dublin. “A quintessential
Irish Catholic country school upbringing,” she says. “There was
an organic farm across the street, although we didn’t know what
organic farming was then, it was just the way it was done. They

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silver
a hand-beaten
“Take a sip from KE tumbler, inspired
C
ROSE UNIA eorgian design.”
by a classic G 420
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“Cold months call

for dreams of
tropical escape.
I’ve warmed up
to PUCCI’s
signature-print
one-piece in
vibrant tones and
an ultra-elegant
high-waisted
silhouette.”
Swimsuit, £360

“I’ve fallen for these glass

earrings by BOTTEGA
VENETA. The Italian
brand’s eclectic jewellery
pieces get more covetable
every season.” Earrings,
price on request

LIFE &
“The trend for bedazzling party flats is
going nowhere. I’ll be pairing these
ALAIA Mary Janes with distressed denim
and an XL puffer jacket.” Shoes, £830

“I’m circling
in on this
artisan-made
STYLE
candle from
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ahead, chosen by
lacquered in “Maximilian Davis’s interpretation of
vibrant yellow.” FERRAGAMO’s Wanda handbag
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Candle, £85 plays with bold proportions. I love this

horizontal shape, accented with classic
Gancio buckle hardware.” Bag, £1,855 JULIA SARR-JAMOIS
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 LESSONS IN EXCESS
TRAVELLING the world as a PRIVATE TUTOR to the offspring of the
OLIGARCHY, debut novelist SARAH THOMAS found herself thrown into
a glossily OPPRESSIVE life that she could never have IMAGINED
80

was in my early 20s, when I decided I wanted to write a
novel. After a bookish childhood, I had followed an
unremarkable middle-class trajectory: an English degree
at a top university followed by an entry-level job in
publishing. Reading five manuscripts a week left no time
to write anything of my own. I wanted a job that allowed
me free time, so I registered with a tutoring agency. A few
weeks later, I found myself in a speedboat cutting across
the Indian Ocean towards a superyacht the size of a ferry.
As I followed my new employers on to the deck,
uniformed staff proffered Champagne and scented
towels: I knew this new life would satisfy my writerly
voyeurism. Over the next decade I’d see giant turtles off
the coast of Madagascar, and underwater hotel rooms
in Dubai where sharks swam past the windows. My
patrons would be billionaires: some had made their
money from sweatshops, from authoritarian regimes and
from tech companies with profits hidden safely offshore.
My classrooms would be on yacht decks surrounded by
dolphins, in Monaco penthouses with infinity pools, and
in Mayfair town houses with halls full of Mapplethorpes.
Whenever I thought I’d seen it all, the job would
take me to new extremes. I remember a “doctor” fastening
20 electrodes to the skull of my pupil Cara, explaining
that they’d help her – 16, Prada-clad and passive – revise
for her biology GCSE; Cara’s mother telling me that
she’d flown him in from Zurich, and that the electrodes
would stimulate Cara’s “problem-solving brainwaves” as
she studied; Cara saying, “I think it’s working – I never
really got photosynthesis before”; her mother, transported
with excitement, exclaiming, “You see, darling, you see!”
For a while, the wild abundance of my employers sat
quite lightly with me, as I taught a conveyor belt of
overprotected and overworked children.
NAMES AND DETAILS HAVE BEEN CHANGED. JEFFREY BROWN/BREEDMEDIA
Vittorio, 12, holidayed amid modernist glamour in
Tuscany with three generations of his industrialist family.
When he did his school entry exams, his parents hired a
reflexologist to massage his pressure points as he fell asleep.
Maya’s parents had recently purchased a fourth home,
a villa on the Côte d’Azur. They didn’t like the trees so
ripped them out and had five ancient dogwoods delivered
from Spain. These arrived by steamboat, weeping white
blossom into the small port, while Maya did maths for
six hours a day, right through her Easter holidays. (Her
mother fed her so many vitamin supplements at breakfast,
it was only mid-afternoon that her nausea would subside.)
Lin Lin drank only ionised water at pH 9.0. Serving
her tap water was a sackable offence. Her mother bought
her a shih-tzu puppy called Merry and hired a trainer
to come over with six show dogs and demonstrate to
Merry what he too might one day achieve.
VIEWPOINT
“Look, Merry, look!” she cried, as the trainer’s dogs
leapt and twisted through hoops and tunnels and jumps.
As time passed, the novelty wore off. I travelled the
world, but it felt like the same place. Be it a yacht off St
Barts or a chalet in Gstaad, it was all eerily the same:
beige suede sofas, chrome objets, onyx chandeliers,
basement gyms, single scallops on oversized square plates,
hours spent in Saint Laurent loungewear watching the
Kardashians on 85-inch flatscreens, the air always 20
degrees no matter how near the equator.
I’d told myself that compared with other staff – those
who had to wear electronic bracelets that buzzed when
they were summoned – I had it pretty good. But that
started to change. I remember one mother telling me,
“Please, Sarah, when you aren’t teaching, either stay in
your bedroom or leave the property. This is a family
holiday.” I found myself having to wear dirty clothes
after being told by one of the richest families in Europe
that running the washing machine was “too expensive”.
On one particularly bad job, the housekeeper and I would
sneak to the end of the driveway at night to share
cigarettes. We had no common language, but one night
she tapped some words into Google Translate: bad family.
When I returned to London in 2019, back in flatshares
in a brutal rental market, the proximity to all that wealth
began to take a greater psychological toll. My first novel
didn’t work out. It got me an agent but not a book deal.
Vova, 13, was a turning point. “What have I done to
deserve this?” is how he greeted me, pulling his Gucci
hoodie over his face. He’d been deposited in a vast white
elephant of a house in Belgravia for the summer, with a
guardian and a tutor, because his parents thought his grades
needed improvement. They remained in Russia, and
between lessons Vova WhatsApped friends back home
and played Fortnite, machine-gun fire ricocheting around
this empty palace, hastily furnished with plexiglass tables
and chairs. Both loathing and understanding his hostility,
I began to think: maybe I should be writing about this.
It started as texture. I blended what I had seen in the
past 10 years, and characters began to form. At first this
was no more than easy satire. But I remembered the
woman who had told me not to use the washing machine,
and little scenes I’d witnessed between her and her husband
that gave me a sense – nothing I could put
my finger on – of a darkness in their dynamic.
Suddenly, I saw her treatment of me in a
whole new light. I began to see a character,
Kata, and to see her as a woman held hostage.
My novel, Queen K, is about to be
published. Strange that the job I took on to
support my writing became the very
inspiration I needed. On my last night, I sat
on the deck of a superyacht with the mother
who wouldn’t let me use the washing
machine, until long after everyone else had
gone to bed. She had married very young,
she told me, “before I knew how to read a
person’s character”. I confided a recent
heartbreak. “You are free,” she said. “Stay
open, but choose kindness.” She opened her
Queen K by Sarah Thomas
arms to encompass the ocean, stretching far (Serpent’s Tail, £15) is
as the eye could see. published on 13 February
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 Stella Maxwell, Rita Ora, Lorraine Pascale, Jodie
Turner-Smith, Edward Enninful, Neelam Gill,
Ikram Abdi Omar, Adut Akech, Susan Bender Fran Summers and
Whitfield, Irina Shayk and Leomie Anderson Grace Elizabeth

Sabrina Elba

Leah Williamson
Bianca Jagger Nikkie de Jager and Maya Jama

Jodie Turner-Smith

Emma Thynn

Zoe Saldana,
Naomi Campbell,
Edward Enninful,
Victoria Beckham
and Eva Longoria

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 FORCES for CHANGE

Vanessa Kingori, Sinéad Burke

and Priya Ahluwalia

Clara Amfo, Christine

Quinn and Adut Akech

Pierpaolo Piccioli
and Simona Caggia

Vanessa Kingori, Malala

Yousafzai, Edward Enninful
and Naomi Campbell Clara Amfo

RISING TO
THE OCCASION
British Vogue’s inaugural FORCES
FOR CHANGE gala honours the
women making a DIFFERENCE
With a delectable, star-studded dinner at The Londoner,
NIC FORD; DARREN GERRISH; ROWBEN LANTION; GERMAN LARKIN

British Vogue celebrated the extraordinary recipients of

its 2022 Forces for Change initiative. The movement,
launched in the Duchess of Sussex-edited September
2019 issue, has evolved into a global project, in partnership
with BMW, Nike and YouTube, that spotlights leading
figures of positive change across fashion, culture, politics
and beyond. Guests – including Malala Yousafzai, Naomi
Campbell, Victoria Beckham and Sinéad Burke – toasted
this year’s remarkable honorees: sustainability advocate
and fashion designer Priya Ahluwalia, Girls United
founder and champion of global female access to sport
Romina Calatayud, and five courageous Iranian activists Mahsa Alimardani,
Roxanna Vatandoust,
pushing for systematic change from the UK, Shiva Elika Ashoori, Shadi Sadr
Mahbobi, Roxanna Vatandoust, Mahsa Alimardani, Elika and Shiva Mahbobi
Ashoori and Shadi Sadr. LAURA HAWKINS

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 Purse, £475,
SMYTHSON

Coat, £775,
MARC CAIN

Bag, £790,
GIORGIO ARMANI

Vogue, December 2017

Trousers, £366,
NOON BY NOOR

Sunglasses,
£420,
BOTTEGA
VENETA

DIOR Rouge
Dior Forever
Lipstick, £35

Bag, £550,
PAUL SMITH
NICOLE MARIA WINKLER

MOUNT ST RESTAURANT
This modern London eatery brings together
food and drink, craftsmanship and culture,
alongside world-class contemporary art.
41-43 Mount Street, W1
Trainers, £760,
HERMES
 CHECKLIST

FEELING BLUE
It’s the Baguette, just not as we
know it, as this season Fendi’s
beloved bag is reimagined
by Tiffany & Co. Rendered
in the brand’s signature blue,
with accents of white gold
and diamonds, this irresistible
update is sure to become
a girl’s best friend.

Bag, £4,000. Nano bag

(attached), £2,550. Both FENDI

Colour
POP
Simple SHAPES in mood-boosting
HUES set the TONE for the SEASON.
Edited by HOLLY TOMALIN.
Photographs by COLIN ROSS
SPOT ON
First revealed on the cruise
2023 runway, this season
we see part two of the
Capucines BB collaboration
between Louis Vuitton and
Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama.
Bringing the artist’s signature
dots to the house’s monogram
canvas, the bags become
magical pieces of art that
transcend time and space.

Bag, £5,800, LOUIS

VUITTON &
YAYOI KUSAMA

Absolute
CLASSIC
Go back to BASICS with hero pieces
in timeless BLACK and WHITE
 CHECKLIST

Parka, £1,050,
MONCLER

Skirt, £1,600,
PRADA

Jacket, £125,
HUNTER
Vogue, March 2020

Sunglasses,
£330,
Bag, £1,052, ALEXANDER
MICHAEL KORS McQUEEN
COLLECTION
Trousers,
£395,
WHISTLES
Coat, £3,200,
ANEST
COLLECTIVE
COLIN ROSS; BENJAMIN VNUK

Trainers, £99,
CLARKS

Sweatshirt, £52,
CHAMPION
 BEAUTY &
WELLNESS
EDITED BY JESSICA DINER
ERDEM
JAMES COCHRANE
 ERDEM
Backstage
CONFIDENTIAL
HEALTHY skin, ULTRA-SHINY
HAIR and show-stopping touches are
the order of the day, as LAUREN
MURDOCH-SMITH reports from
behind the scenes of S/S ’23

Clockwise from above left: CLE DE PEAU BEAUTE

Intensive Brightening Mask, £85 for six. Luminizing Face
Enhancer, £75. DIOR Forever Glow Veil, £40. 111SKIN
Celestial Black Diamond Brightening Essence, £85.
VICTORIA BECKHAM & AUGUSTINUS BADER
Cell Rejuvenating Priming Moisturiser, from £58

FACIAL EXPRESSION
A skincare-first approach was apparent at the shows – with some
brands creating mini pop-up spas to provide facials for the models. At

CHLOE
Erdem, for example, 111Skin aestheticians executed bespoke facials
complete with multiple masks, depuffing cryo tools and lymphatic
drainage. Common techniques included mixing skincare with make-up
and using fine layers of foundation for a bare glow. “There was no
blanket, uniform trend,” explains Hannah Murray, who led the make-up at
Chloé. “We didn’t look to correct blemishes or pigmentation.” At Eckhaus
JW ANDERSON

Latta, a super glossy Freeman Beauty peel-off mask was painted on to

some of the models’ faces and left on for the catwalk. Meanwhile at Tory
Burch, make-up artist Diane Kendal used Clé de Peau Beauté skincare to
bestow a healthy glow, whereas at Victoria Beckham, she used
Beckham’s Augustinus Bader collaboration to prep the skin.
Left: AVEDA
Nutriplenish Styling
Treatment Foam, £27.
LUSTRE FOR LIFE Below: BUMBLE
GIORGIO ARMANI

For hair, megawatt shine led the way, & BUMBLE

be it a super gloss or a post-shower Hairdresser’s Invisible
wet look. At Balmain, hairstylist Sam Oil Ultra Rich
McKnight used gel to emphasise the Mask, £35
comb marks synonymous with the
style. In the wake of lockdowns, and
the routines we embraced during a
time when professional treatments
weren’t accessible, good hair habits
have trickled on to the catwalk with
styles enhancing individual hair types
and showing off natural qualities. At Above, from left: THIS HAIR OF MINE Scalp Serum, £46. HAIR BY SAM
Giorgio Armani, the sleek ponytails McKNIGHT Self Control Gel, £26. KERASTASE Chroma Absolu Soin Acide Gloss,
in particular felt fresh and healthy. £40. L’OREAL Professionnel Metal Detox Anti-Deposit Concentrated Oil, £26

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HALPERN

SIMONE ROCHA
Below, from far left:
ISAMAYA FFRENCH
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From BOLLYWOOD to Hollywood, actor,
producer and entrepreneur PRIYANKA
CHOPRA JONAS has always fought to
MAKE her MARK. Yet nothing could have
prepared her for her JOURNEY to
MOTHERHOOD, finds JEN WANG.
Photographs by ZOE GHERTNER.
Styling by LAW ROACH

“It’s been 20 years of

working at breakneck
speed,” says Priyanka
Chopra Jonas, “but now
I feel I have a centre, a
sense of calm, because
every decision ends up
being about her.”

Priyanka wears suede dress,

FERRAGAMO. Rose-gold,
ruby and diamond necklace
and rose-gold and diamond
ring, BULGARI. Wedding
band (throughout),
Priyanka’s own. Malti
Marie wears dress, KISSY
KISSY, at Nordstrom.com

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 t the end of a winding, two-hundred-metre long driveway, inside
a sprawling Los Angeles estate that could be mistaken for a modern
mountaintop monastery, with walls upon walls of oversized steel-
framed windows to take in the commanding views of the San
Fernando Valley below, Priyanka Chopra Jonas is feeling rather
penned in. Although there’s plenty of space to spread out across
the 23,000 sq ft home she shares with her husband, Nick Jonas,
the 40-year-old actor, producer and businesswoman seems happiest
this afternoon confined, “crisscross applesauce”, within a baby
playpen in the family room, while her 10-month-old, Malti Marie,
energised from a second nap, barrel-rolls around her to reach various
baubles scattered about the floor.
“Good job! You made it to your toys!” Chopra Jonas cheers.
Nicknamed “M” by her famous parents, the baby girl puts a dummy,
clipped to her shirt, in her mouth all on her own, which elicits
another congratulatory response (“Yes, ma’am!”) from Priyanka,
who has taken the past year off from acting to focus on her favourite
role to date: being a mother.
It’s a big change of pace. As Bollywood’s most successful
crossover star, since a career-launching win at the Miss World
beauty pageant in 2000, Priyanka has been, in her own words,
“grinding”. Audiences who discovered her eight years ago, when
she secured the lead role of Alex Parrish in ABC’s FBI drama
Quantico, may not even be aware that she had already appeared in
more than 50 films before she arrived in Hollywood. With her
production company, Purple Pebble Pictures, she’s launched a dozen
film projects and, in 2021, added New York Times bestselling author
to her résumé with her memoir, Unfinished.
This May, she’ll star in romantic comedy Love Again, with Sam
Heughan and Céline Dion, playing Mira Ray, a woman who finds
new love after losing her fiancé. Chopra Jonas suggests audiences
may be surprised by the beloved French Canadian diva’s performance.
“She’s so funny in this movie,” she gushes. Then, later this year,
there’s the Russo brothers’ thriller series Citadel, in which she’ll
play a spy opposite Richard Madden. The show is being touted as
the first of its kind, with spinoffs set in other countries and character
crossovers galore. Much of her character’s backstory, she says, will
be told in the Amazon Prime Video franchise’s Indian offshoot.
She’s always thought big. “It’s been 20 years of hustling and
working at breakneck speed. I’ve always been like, ‘What’s the
next thing?’” she says, at the start of our interview, while Malti is
still napping. With the ease of a confident hostess, she kicks off
her woven leather slippers and tucks up her feet on a kidney-shaped
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white sofa below the soaring ceilings of her living room (a series
of mezzanines on the house’s first floor give new meaning to the
idea of “open-plan”). “But now I feel I have a centre, a sense of
calm, because every decision ends up being about her,” she says,
nodding to the coffee table. Among the art books and orchids
there, Chopra Jonas has positioned an iPad Mini, connected to a
camera in the nursery, directly in her line of sight. “I have, like,
seven cameras in her room,” she says. “There’s really nothing more
satisfying than seeing her face as soon as her eyes open.”
Nick wanders in from the kitchen. The 30-year-old recording
artist and actor looks boyishly rumpled in a Casablanca track
jacket, dad jeans and sneakers. “Can I order you two lunch?” he
asks in a quiet voice, listing off a few options. Priyanka lets him
pick, which seems slightly uncharacteristic for someone brought
up from birth to be a decision-maker. At seven years old, she was
sent to an all-girls boarding school in Lucknow, India, for three
years and then, at 12, to America, bouncing from Iowa to New
York to Indiana to Massachusetts, to live with relatives. “My
parents” – mother Madhu and late father Ashok, both physicians
in the Indian army – “were such a big part of me being able to
have autonomy in my life and choices at a time when other people
were like, ‘Really?’” she says, calling her independent upbringing
“atypical” for an Indian family.
And yet – dressed in a cosy rust-coloured knit top and trousers,
wearing no discernible make-up, chestnut hair in a low ponytail
– she admits to feeling guarded about this inter view.
“Vulnerabilities are difficult for me. You see me all over socials
and all over the world, talking about all the things, but if you
actually look, I’ve really just scratched the surface,” she says,
smoothing the ends of her honey-blond-streaked hair.
Chopra Jonas surprised her 80 million-plus Instagram
followers in January of last year with a simple, picture-less post
heralding Malti’s arrival: “We are overjoyed to confirm that we
have welcomed a baby via surrogate. We respectfully ask for
privacy during this special time as we focus on our family. Thank
you so much.” This succinct, somewhat boilerplate disclosure
garnered more than three million likes, and a seemingly equal
amount of outrage, nasty speculation and misogynistic judgement.
The first-time mother was accused, among other things, of
“outsourcing” her pregnancy, “renting” a womb out of vanity, and
acquiring a “ready-made baby”, which one critic implied the
global entertainer wouldn’t have the same maternal attachment
to as her surrogate. Was she expecting that reaction? > 106
“Vulnerabilities are difficult
for me. I’ve been really
protective of this chapter of
my life with my daughter.
Because it’s not about my
life only. It’s hers too.”

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“I get affirmations from
Nick all the time, to
remind me of my value.
He just sees through the
fog for me. He sees the
best in people.”

Silk-jersey top and

silk-taffeta skirt,
RALPH LAUREN
COLLECTION.
White-gold and diamond
earrings, white-gold and
diamond bracelet, and
white-gold, diamond and
emerald bracelet, BULGARI

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 “I was in the OPERATING room
when she CAME out.
She was so SMALL. I didn’t know
if she would MAKE it or not”
“I’ve developed a tough hide when people talk about me,” she
says, naturally a little rattled still. “But it’s so painful when they
talk about my daughter. I’m like, ‘Keep her out of it.’ I know what
it felt like to hold her little hands when they were trying to find
her veins. So no, she’s not going to be gossip.” She pauses. “I’ve
been really protective of this chapter of my life with my daughter.
Because it’s not about my life only. It’s hers too.”
Neither Priyanka nor Nick addressed the internet mob directly
at the time (never mind that most of the ire was directed, predictably,
at Chopra Jonas and not her husband). Their decision to stay quiet
was due in large part to a set of much greater difficulties emanating
from the circumstances surrounding their child’s birth.
Malti had to be delivered preterm, a full trimester before her
due date. Babies born this early are considered “extremely”
premature and often incur significant, long-term health issues. “I
was in the OR [operating room] when she came out. She was so
small, smaller than my hand,” Chopra Jonas recounts, her voice
halting as she holds out her palm for scale. “I saw what the
intensive-care nurses do. They do God’s work. Nick and I were
both standing there as they intubated her. I don’t know how they
even found what they needed [in her tiny body] to intubate her.”
For the next three months, the new parents had to shuttle
daily to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), first at Rady
Children’s Hospital in La Jolla, a few hours south of Los
Angeles, and then at Cedars-Sinai in LA. Malti’s birth coincided
with the first omicron wave in the US, which meant only Chopra
Jonas and her husband were allowed to visit their newborn,
despite the fact that both of their extended families had flown
in to help. “We spent every single day with her on my chest,
on my husband’s chest,” Chopra Jonas says tenderly. “I didn’t
know if she would make it or not.”
Despite the turbulence of those early days with Malti, Priyanka’s
gaze is steady – her warm, wide-set brown eyes don’t break eye
contact – and her smoky voice stays calm when she recounts what
happened. She prefers to keep private the specific circumstances
that led her and her husband to surrogacy. “I had medical
complications,” she explains, so “this was a necessary step, and I’m
so grateful I was in a position where I could do this. Our surrogate
was so generous, kind, lovely and funny, and she took care of this
precious gift for us for six months.”
But for the internet trolls who made a sport of theorising
why the couple enlisted a surrogate, Chopra Jonas’s tone takes
on an edge. “You don’t know me,” she says. “You don’t know what
I’ve been through. And just because I don’t want to make my
medical history, or my daughter’s, public doesn’t give you the
right to make up whatever the reasons were.”
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At this moment, Nick pokes his head in from the kitchen to
announce the food has arrived. The edge softens. “Hi, Babu,” she
says, sweetly. “What did you get?” One thing about hanging out
with the Jonases is that they won’t allow a guest to go hungry. In
the first hour of our meeting they’ve offered me tea, water, a
charcuterie plate laden with fruit, nuts and meat, more tea, and,
finally, a chicken salad and Mediterranean dip, ordered from Gwyneth
Paltrow’s Goop Kitchen. “Gwyneth, take my money,” Chopra Jonas
jokes of how often they order from the nearby takeaway spot.
Naturally, Chopra Jonas has professionalised her gift for feeding
people as part owner of Sona, a chic Indian eatery that debuted
in 2021 in New York City’s Flatiron District. The fledgling
restaurateur points out that I’m drinking tea from a cup – painted
with green palm trees – that’s part of Sona Home’s first collection.
“I didn’t want paisley as a representation of Indian culture. It’s so
stereotypical to me that I go in the opposite direction.” Yet food
is also one of the aspects of motherhood she’s been struggling with
recently. Malti has just begun eating solids, and even though she
is now healthy and thriving, her rocky beginnings have left an
indelible mark. “The first time she had a solid morsel,” Chopra
Jonas says, “she gagged and I thought I’d killed her.” Having the
support of her mother and her in-laws, Kevin Sr and Denise Jonas,
has been a balm. “They talk me through a lot of this. Like, ‘They’re
gonna gag. It’s normal.’ But because I’m a NICU mommy, the
stakes are so high,” she says. “And I have to shed that. I will,” she
promises, her take-charge attitude returning.
Malti starts to stir on the iPad monitor. “I’ll go up really quickly,
if you don’t mind,” she says. She returns a few minutes later with
her baby, who’s wearing all black except for the cream-coloured
headband bow on her downy head, and an armful of toys and books.
Malti’s face, which has been mostly obscured in the few photographs
Chopra Jonas has publicly shared of her, looks a lot like her father’s,
but in miniature. “Most people say she looks like Nick,” Chopra
Jonas confirms. “I don’t believe it,” she says, with a laugh. With her
baby in her arms, Priyanka is a different person – softer, less guarded.
She takes me over to the white marble mandir, or temple, on the
far side of the living room, which sits across from their towering
Christmas tree, shimmering in shades of silver and ruby red. With
Shiva at its centre, this mandir is the first place Priyanka and Nick
led Malti after bringing her home from the hospital. Saying their
prayers with their daughter remains a nightly ritual.
Aside from the occasional date night and travel – they went
to Cabo San Lucas in Mexico for Priyanka’s 40th birthday and
Arizona to golf for Nick’s 30th, celebrations they planned for one
another – the star couple reconnects through another ritual called
“show and tell”, which began on their honeymoon. Although it >
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dress, OFF-WHITE.
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 “Hopefully I’ll OPEN doors for the
next GENERATION of GIRLS. I want
to commemorate the SUCCESS of
SOUTH ASIANS outside of India”
sounds risqué, the game is more a “getting to know you” exercise.
“We did go zero to 60,” Chopra Jonas admits, about their notoriously
brief two-month courtship that resulted in a multiday, multi-event
wedding in Mumbai and Jodhpur less than seven months later.
“We didn’t know each other’s careers before we met. Like, didn’t
know them well. So we do a show and tell once in a while and
share random things that we’ve done to show the other person
what we were like when we were younger,” she reveals.
Recently returned from a trip to India with Unicef, for which
she’s a global ambassador, Priyanka and Nick played the game the
night before. They watched YouTube clips of old press interviews
Chopra Jonas had done years ago. “There were just so many videos
of my savage remarks,” she says, shocked. “I was like, ‘What was
I on when I was in my 20s?’” As she details how she and Nick
have arranged their travel schedules so that one parent is always
at home with Malti while the other is away working, he returns
to the living room, holding a mug.
“What are you drinking?” she asks, as Malti swats at the pages
of The Little Engine That Could.
“A ginger chai something,” he says, unsure.
“Wow, drinking tea, huh?”
“It’s nice, though. It’s like a gingersnap. Sweet,” he says. As
Malti wiggles in her mother’s grip and pushes her book aside for
her favourite toy, a Baby Einstein Take Along Tunes, which she
waves at Nick, he says softly, “Hi, Malti.” Then he looks at Priyanka
and the two lock eyes, and this feeling that, for months, it was the
three of them against the world, against the odds, becomes palpable.
I ask him how he feels about fatherhood. “Nothing better,” he says.
“Overwhelming. The joy, the anxiety, all of the things.” After Nick
repairs upstairs for a fitting, Priyanka tells me that he’s the mature
one in the relationship, despite his being 10 years her junior.
“He’s a wise man beyond his years,” she says. “I get affirmations
from him all the time, to remind me of my value when I forget
or when I get insecure. He just sees through the fog for me. He
sees the best in people.” After decades spent going from one job
to the next without a break, she credits Nick for helping her stay
grounded in the moment. “‘Take a second. Take tonight to be
excited about this award or be excited about this new deal,’” she
says of the encouragement he offers.
She insists that though she and her husband are temperamentally
different people – “I talk a mile a minute and my husband does
not” – their values align when it comes to parenting. There is no
live-in nanny and, after 10 months, the couple has yet to hire a
babysitter for the night. Priyanka’s mother has been living with
them for the past six months to help out. “My mom doesn’t know
what’s happening in her own life, except for the baby,” she says.
Madhu’s asleep upstairs, recovering from rotator cuff surgery, but
soon will be down in time to feed her first grandchild dinner.
Mealtimes are a family affair. “When Malti eats there are, like,
seven people around her. There will be my mom and her brother,
and then Nick’s brother and their parents” – Nick’s older brother,
Joe, and his wife, actor Sophie Turner, live in the same Encino
neighbourhood, while his parents have a home one state over in
Las Vegas. Family support is what allows Priyanka and Nick time
to themselves. “I’m like, ‘Mom, you got her? Great. We’re going
off for the weekend.’” (One of the more absurd theories circulated
about the couple’s decision to use a surrogate was that their “busy
schedules” didn’t allow them time to conceive.)
Malti starts to fuss and emits one lone cry. “She needs to roam,”
declares her mother, so it’s off to the playpen. While Chopra Jonas
apologises on more than one occasion for having to continue our
interview in what is effectively Malti’s fun room, it’s clear that
being with her child is her happy place. Her voice gets faster and
more animated, toggling between cooing at her baby – “Do you
want to walk? Run? What do you want to do?” – and talking about
her upcoming projects. A deft ability to move back and forth from
mum mode to work mode goes a long way towards explaining
why she has worn so many hats in her career. She’s recently begun
to regard acting as merely her “day job”.
“After 20 years, I’ve reached a place where I’m like, ‘There’s
got to be more than this…’ I have my own production house
where I can tell other people’s stories, where I’m working with
new filmmakers who want to jump off the diving board – and
my shoulders are the diving board. I’m getting to create stories
with women behind the camera, which I almost never saw when
I was growing up.” With a first-look deal with Amazon Studios,
and a comedy with Mindy Kaling in the works at Universal
Pictures, she wants to continue breaking down racial and ethnic
barriers in entertainment.
“Hopefully I’ll open doors for the next generation of girls.
Hopefully we’ll see more Indian or South Asian actors in
Hollywood. I want to commemorate the success and achievements
of South Asians outside of India, in the international sphere,
because we deserve that position,” she asserts. “Why shouldn’t
we be on the main stage?”
For now, though, the most important audience to Chopra
Jonas is right beside her on that playpen floor. And that little girl
is signalling, with a look towards the kitchen, that it’s time for
dinner, an almost imperceptible cue only her mother observes.
“I want her to be able to look back and be proud of my choices,”
Chopra Jonas says, her eyes lighting up as she lifts Malti into her
arms. “I want to do right by her.”
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the VOGUE team – led by photographer
RAFAEL PAVAROTTI and fashion editor
GRACE CODDINGTON – are on hand to
show you THE WAYS of the new season
 Put your back into
s/s ’23! Photographer
Rafael Pavarotti lends a
hand as Anok Yai sports
knits from Raf Simons’s
final collection.

Red knit playsuit, camel

knit polo shirt, and
leather shoes, RAF
SIMONS, at Ssense.com

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 The ordinary gets
extraordinary. It’s no
surprise hairstylist
Eugene Souleiman can’t
let go of Miu Miu’s
layered-up basics.

Cashmere/silk knit top,

jersey T-shirts, and stretch-
suede boots, MIU MIU

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 Zip it! The inflated
fastenings of Louis
Vuitton’s matching crop
top and skirt emphasise
spring’s play on
extreme proportions.

Structured top with

oversized rolls, skirt with
oversized rolls, and leather
boots, LOUIS VUITTON

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 Ready for your close-up?
Make-up artist Ana
Takahashi complements a
Chanel look inspired by
French New Wave cinema.

Tweed jacket, tweed trousers,

and leather and strass belt,
CHANEL. Leather Mary
Janes, PRADA

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In the American psycho-
drama that inspired Maison
Margiela’s collection, the
sweeping opera coat signals
main character energy.

Padded nylon coat

and crystal shoes,
MAISON MARGIELA
ARTISANAL BY
JOHN GALLIANO

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 The classic white shirt
gets sheared into an
ultra-precise minidress at
Valentino. Vertiginous
platforms essential.

Two-tone cotton dress,

VALENTINO. Vinyl
shoes, VALENTINO
GARAVANI

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If the shoe fits…
styling assistant Bianca
Parisotto slips our star
into buckled Dior heels.

Seersucker jacquard
dress and patent-leather
shoes, DIOR

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 Camera shy? Like
videographer Michael
Cukr, turn heads towards
the bouncing silhouette of
Loewe’s polo-shirt dress.

Cashmere minidress and

vinyl mules, LOEWE

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 Strike a pose in Prada’s
one-piece, and make your
move in Mary Janes.

Cotton jumpsuit and leather

Mary Janes, PRADA

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 Eyes on the prize.
There’s no missing the
blinking anatomical
elements that inspired
Alexander McQueen’s
asymmetric gowns.

This page: draped faille

dress and sock boots,
ALEXANDER
McQUEEN.

In the director’s chair.

Grace Coddington
and Anok celebrate a
monochromatic moment,
courtesy of Dries Van
Noten tailoring.

Opposite: woven jacket,

woven shorts, and
leather shoes, DRIES
VAN NOTEN.
For stockists, all pages,
see Vogue Information.
Hair: EUGENE
SOULEIMAN. Make-up:
ANA TAKAHASHI. Nails:
MAKI SAKAMOTO.
Set design: IBBY NJOYA.
Production: PRODN.
Model: ANOK YAI

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 “The reason it still works
is because I am who I am,”
is how Ralph Lauren sums
up his enduring success.
“If you like my style you
will like my clothes.”

From left: Jade wears cotton

shirt, silk bralette, draped
cotton-jersey skirt, and
patent-leather sandals.
Mariam wears crêpe jacket,
cotton-jersey skirt,
patent-leather sandals,
leather bag, and felt beret.
Hiandra wears satin dress,
crystal-embellished sandals,
and pearl earrings. Grace
wears silk-jersey top, silk
skirt, patent-leather sandals,
and leather bag. Assa wears
satin varsity jacket, silk
bralette, chiffon trousers,
leather sandals, and lapis
and crystal earrings. Clothes,
accessories and jewellery
(throughout), RALPH
LAUREN COLLECTION

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 After more than five DECADES at
the very top, RALPH LAUREN
is still FLYING the red, white and
blue for the AMERICAN Dream,
as he tells SARAH HARRIS.
Photographs by SHARIF HAMZA.
Styling by DENA GIANNINI

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 t first glance, Ralph Lauren’s high-rise head office on Manhattan’s
Madison Avenue – a great big tower of glass and steel aggressively
jutting skywards – doesn’t really tally with, well, Ralph Lauren.
Until that is, the lift doors slide open on to the sixth floor and
you’re immediately enveloped by what looks like Ralph Lauren’s
flagship on Bond Street – all cosy and low-lit with wood-panelled
walls, moody oil paintings, and love-worn leather sofas scattered
with plaid cushions. They’ve even built a sweeping mahogany
staircase into this modern skyscraper, to connect his design teams
across its multiple floors.
Along a wide corridor is Ralph Lauren’s office. It’s overwhelmingly
cluttered with curios, so much so you don’t know where to look
first, let alone have any clue about where to set down a tall glass of
water. Books are piled high on every surface; framed artworks,
magazine covers and awards line the floor, propped up against all
four walls. Look up and there are two ’50s plane models crafted in
what looks like parchment paper, which swoop above a vintage-
looking shiny black bicycle (a gift, never ridden). Silver-framed
photographs of his impossibly good-looking family – his wife, Ricky,
three children, Andrew, David and daughter Dylan, and five
grandchildren – cover the desk, along with other knick-knacks such
as a pair of tiny cowboy boots, and an array of tin robots, toy cars
and helicopters. A space no bigger than a dinner plate is left bare
(probably not for Lauren to actually have lunch here, because why
would you when you have your own Polo Bar restaurant a few
blocks away and the promise of Ralph’s filet mignon).
“Hello,” he says welcomingly, walking over to greet me.
Charismatic and softly spoken, he’s slim (he works out with a personal
trainer for 90 minutes every morning) and wears distressed bleached
blue jeans, shirt and tartan blazer and box-fresh white sneakers; his
aquamarine eyes are all the more twinkling against his tanned, lined
skin. He just returned from Los Angeles, where he presented his
spring/summer ’23 collection – remarkably, it was the first time he
has staged a show on the West Coast – attended by Jennifer Lopez
and Ben Affleck, John Legend, Laura Dern and Diane Keaton (a
friend since the ’70s, when he dressed her for her role in Annie Hall).
As ever, the collection had all the touchpoints of classic
American style with a hint of Englishness: cowboy boots worn
with flirty prairie dresses, rugged Navajo-style blanket skirts, preppy
sweaters with crisp white tennis shorts, tailoring and Old Hollywood
glamour by way of sinuous, floor-skimming evening gowns. “The
reason it works, and still works, is because I am who I am. I am the
product,” he says. “If you like my style you will like my clothes.”
Here’s the truth: it isn’t, and has never been, about fashion.
Lauren has always been more interested in lifestyle, in the life
lived in the clothes, which has undoubtedly added to the sum of
his success over the years. He urges you to dream. When you buy
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a Ralph Lauren sweater you’re not only buying a sweater, you’re
buying into a world of refinement and good taste, of chiselled
jawlines and flawless skin, where everyone owns a horse and a
sports car, and picnics on immaculately manicured lawns – and
yet somehow it all manages to look terribly attainable.
To that end, he has always worked more like a film director
than a designer. “I’m not Karl Lagerfeld,” he acknowledges, adding
that the late Chanel creative director once told Ralph he should
have been president. Probably he wasn’t wrong. “I liked Karl a lot,”
he says. “Karl was a designer and he was unique, but I don’t see
myself as that. I see myself as…” he pauses, “a cool guy.” His
memory for names may have been letting him down lately, but
his self-belief shows no sign of waning, and nor should it.
Today Ralph Lauren Corporation is worth more than $7.4
billion, and although he stepped down as CEO in 2015, he remains
executive chairman and chief creative officer and presides over
every line: Ralph Lauren Collection, Polo Ralph Lauren, Purple
Label, Double RL and more. There are 1,246 directly run Ralph
Lauren stores and concessions globally, five restaurants, and
numerous coffee shops. “It’s mine, and it’s something I built. I’m
proud of it because I built it with integrity and taste, but one
doesn’t really feel everything that you’d think you would feel. I’ve
always worked hard, I don’t rest on my laurels.”
There is very little Ralph Lauren, 83, hasn’t seen or done; Audrey
Hepburn, a film-star heroine of his childhood, has handed him a
CFDA lifetime achievement award, he’s hung out with Cary Grant
at the race track, and he’s given advice to Frank Sinatra. “It starts
with being who you want to be when you’re growing up. I wasn’t
wealthy – not poor, but not wealthy – I dreamt like everyone else
about a life that was good. I wanted a house in the country, I wanted
a racing car; they were boyhood dreams that I turned into a reality.”
Born Ralph Lifshitz in 1939 (he changed to “Lauren” after
Lauren Bacall when he was 16 years old), he was the youngest son
of Jewish immigrants from Pinsk, now in Belarus. His father was
an artist, but more often would make ends meet painting houses.
“When I was growing up I loved John F Kennedy, people that stood
out to me as being special. They inspired me to be something more.”
He wasn’t a top-grade student and he wasn’t particularly interested
in fashion (he didn’t go to a fashion school). He still isn’t (he rarely
looks at other designers and what they’re doing), although he
remembers reading a newspaper article on Yves Saint Laurent. “I
admired him, I found it interesting that he was in his 20s. I didn’t
necessarily like his clothes but I liked his greatness. He had magic.”
Success is something he always recognised and that deeply resonated
with him even at a young age, growing up in the Bronx.
His passion was films, and the starry appeal of leading men such
as Steve McQueen and Paul Newman: “I always liked the > 128
“It’s mine, and it’s
something I built,” says
Lauren of his empire. “I’m
proud of it because I built it
with integrity and taste.”

Silk-gaberdine trouser
suit and twill shirt

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“I did know that if I
wanted something, then
other people would want
it too,” says Lauren, who
had no formal training in
fashion. “It was all instinct.”

Opposite, from left: Jade

wears viscose gown and
patent-leather sandals.
Annemary wears viscose
jumpsuit, leather belt,
and leather sandals.

This page: embellished

jersey gown

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 “I LIKE things that last. CLOTHES, CARS,
I like life THAT LASTS. I know life is short,
and I ENJOY what I HAVE”

kind of actors who would wear my clothes.” It’s why there is always in Colorado, a home in Jamaica to holiday in, and a vast collection
a narrative to Ralph Lauren: he’s a storyteller who conjures the kind of sports cars to play with – “a bad habit”, albeit a brilliant
of optimistic world that the world wants to live, to belong, in. investment said to be worth hundreds of millions.
He has spent his five-decade-plus career as master purveyor of As far as his own celebrity is concerned, Lauren now prefers a
the American Dream but he’s also the embodiment of it. His story quieter life. “I used to like to be stopped, to be looked at, but I don’t
is well documented: an aspirational young man who started out like it now. Sure, it’s nice to get seated in a restaurant, but I like
designing and selling neckties and saying no to Bloomingdale’s more privacy these days.” Obviously his success has given him wealth,
when it wanted to place an order, but on condition that he made but he has given plenty back: he has a long history of supporting
the ties narrower. Most other start-up designers would have fist- organisations dedicated to the fight against cancer. The company
pumped the air and asked, “How has donated millions to breast
narrow?” Not Lauren. “I said, cancer care and research, from
‘I can’t,’ and then I walked out,” Harlem to London’s Royal
he recalls of the story he never Marsden Hospital, and supports
tires of telling. “They came back initiatives increasing access to
six months later and said, ‘We education and advocacy for
want to buy your ties.’”That small underserved communities.
collection of ties racked up sales It’s clear he has no interest in
of half a million dollars in its first slowing down. He goes to the
year. “So they said, ‘What else can office five days a week and
you do?’ I was only a kid but I remains as driven as he has ever
knew ties weren’t enough; I knew been. “I like building new things,”
someone would knock them off, is how he puts it, whether that’s
so that’s why I did shirts next, and collections, restaurants or stores.
then womenswear. It wasn’t “I still do it because I don’t feel
trendy, but it was new, and that’s like quitting. I love what I do, it
what I’m about,” he summarises. feels good.” Our conversation,
“I told Bloomingdale’s, ‘Give me unsurprisingly, turns to succession,
a shop. Let me do it.’” He opened but he’s vague on the details. “I
his store there in 1969. have a lot of good talent, some
For all of his classicism, it have been here for 30 or 40 years;
is easy to underestimate how they’re very loyal because I take
pioneering Lauren was. “I never good care of them. But I really
wanted to do what everyone else don’t think about how the brand
was doing. If someone has already will look when I’m no longer here,
done something, then it doesn’t what it might be like in 20 or 30
interest me. I didn’t know that years. I’m not concerned about it.
any of it was going to be successful I design for forever, it’s not for
but I did know that if I wanted ‘fashion’. The clothes get better
something, then other people with age. It’s not about newness
would want it too. It was all instinct,” he says. He was the first or oldness, it’s about timelessness and the way you wear it that makes
American designer to open a freestanding boutique in the US (in it better; not necessarily the clothes but how you put them together.
Beverly Hills, 1971), and he had a presence in Europe way ahead I like things that last; clothes, cars, I like life that lasts. I know life
of any other American designer. Furthermore, he has long embraced is short, and I enjoy what I have, and I’ve enjoyed my life.”
diversity and inclusion, “because I believed it was right”, and his Before leaving, I wonder what he might have done had he not
casting has always included all ages and races – a concept most of been Ralph Lauren. “I’d be the doorman in my building,” he answers
the industry is only now beginning to understand. He was also the without hesitation. “I think about it often,” he admits, smiling.
first fashion designer to launch homeware, in 1983, another innovative “It’s true. Every morning he says, ‘Hello, Mr Lauren,’ and I think,
move that he simplifies with a shrug: “I mean, I know I’m not an ‘That could have been me.’ Why not? I’m not a genius. He has a
interior designer but I know how I want my homes to look.” family, he has a life, he has his struggles, and he’s happy. I just had
SIMBARASHE CHA

Of these there are several. He spends weekends with his family the opportunity to do everything I wanted to do in my life. I
at their mansion in Bedford, New York. (When asked the secret wanted to do something great. I wanted to be great. Do I feel
to his 58-year marriage he answers with a knowing smile, “You fortunate? Yes. Am I satisfied? Yeah, I think so,” he says, pausing.
would have to ask Ricky.”) There is also their 16,000-acre ranch “I don’t have any regrets, I’m very lucky.”

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“It’s not about newness
or oldness, it’s about
timelessness and the
way you wear it that
makes it,” says Lauren
(pictured opposite).

From left: Annemary wears

scuba body and belted
silk-taffeta skirt. Amar wears
silk-taffeta gown. Jade wears
scuba body, silk-taffeta
skirt, and leather sandals.
For stockist, all pages, see
Vogue Information.
Hair: GUIDO. Make-up:
DIANE KENDAL.
Production: TIGHTROPE
PRODUCTIONS. Digital
artwork: ARTWORKS.
Models: ANNEMARY
ADERIBIGBE, AMAR
AKWAY, ASSA
BARADJI, GRACE
ELIZABETH, HIANDRA
MARTINEZ, JADE
NGUYEN, IRINA
SHAYK, MARIAM
DE VINZELLE
 MAGNETIC
CHARGE
IRINA SHAYK brings her own
preternatural power to the season’s
ELECTRIFYING eveningwear.
Photographs by
ELIZAVETA PORODINA.
Styling by POPPY KAIN

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 A lesson in luxuriation.
Goddesses shine in
body-gliding gowns,
particularly when
they’re by Fendi.

Silk gown, FENDI.

Sequined corsage,
VV ROULEAUX.
Leather sandals,
AQUAZZURA.
Hair: CLAIRE MOORE.
Make-up: ISAMAYA
FFRENCH. Nails:
ADAM SLEE. Set design:
AFRA ZAMARA.
Production: CONCRETE
REP LIMITED. Digital
artwork: INK RETOUCH
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 Art of darkness. Versace’s
crinkled silky slip and veil
is laden with sombre chic.

Satin and lace corset gown

with jewelled veil,
VERSACE

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Alexander McQueen’s
gown is lit up by flashes of
frill and fierce sparkle.

Tulle gown with crystal

embroidery and jewelled
choker, ALEXANDER
McQUEEN. Crystal-
embellished shoes,
CHRISTIAN
LOUBOUTIN.
White-gold, diamond and
tourmaline quartz necklace,
GRIMA. White-gold, onyx
and black- and white-
diamond ring and gold,
pearl and black- and
white-diamond ring,
ARA VARTANIAN
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Boudoir to ballroom. Dolce
& Gabbana’s feathers and
corset denote daring
out-of-the bedroom style.

Feather jacket, satin

and tulle corseted body,
and silk skirt, DOLCE &
GABBANA. Gold, ruby and
black- and white-diamond
ring and gold, pearl and
black- and white-diamond
ring, ARA VARTANIAN

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 Flair of the phoenix.
Alberta Ferretti’s
flame-licked folds imbue
after-dark dressing with
immortal energy.

Organic-chiffon gown with

leaf embroidery, ALBERTA
FERRETTI. Crystal-
embellished sandals,
SAINT LAURENT
BY ANTHONY
VACCARELLO

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Beyond the veil. Dare to
bare in Dior’s gossamer
delicates, inspired by the
sartorial leanings of
Catherine de’ Medici.

Silk bralette and

silk shorts, DIOR
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 Caught in the light, eyes
are accentuated with
mesmerising glints of icy
silver. For pigments with
impact, use the Isamaya
Industrial Colour Pigments
Eyeshadow Palette, £95.

Embellished tulle top,

matching skirt, and
lingerie, MIU MIU.
Crystal-embellished
shoes, CHRISTIAN
LOUBOUTIN.
White-gold, pearl and
diamond earrings and
white-gold, Tahitian pearl
and diamond ring, YOKO
LONDON. Platinum,
pearl and diamond ring
(ring finger), TASAKI
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 Cloud nine dressing
takes a weathered turn.
Prada’s wilfully worn-in
separates lead our
fashion forecast.

Satin top and satin skirt,

PRADA. Corsage, VV
ROULEAUX. White-gold,
pearl, onyx and diamond
ring, CARTIER.
For stockists, all pages,
see Vogue Information
LIGHTING DIRECTOR: JOSEF BEYER

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 SHINING
THROUGH
Today’s most LUMINARY
performers take DELIGHT in
some OLD HOLLYWOOD
glamour. Photographs by
GREG WILLIAMS. Styling
by DENA GIANNINI

ove, feuds and fights for survival. Shame, grief and a

longing to be seen. From zoomed-in stories of
parenthood to epic tales that transcend universes, the
most thrilling films of this awards season vary vastly
in scale, but the performances that have broken through
from them all nonetheless speak to the very core of
what it means to be human.
There’s Cate Blanchett, whose turn in Tár, as a
genius composer spinning out of control, gained her
a standing ovation at Venice; Vicky Krieps, who
brought a ferocious Austrian empress back from the
dead in Corsage; Viola Davis, who roared with power
as General Nanisca in The Woman King; and newcomers
too, such as Thuso Mbedu, who sparkled in her
breakthrough role alongside her.
And what more suitable way to celebrate a
glittering crop of 2020s talent than by inviting them
to take on a touch of the style and shimmer of the
Roaring Twenties? Across London, New York, Los
Angeles and a ranch in Durango, Mexico, Vogue
gathered the actors who lit up screens this year. Take
Taylor Russell (pictured opposite), who swaps the
messy cannibalism of Bones and All for Gucci pleats
and old-school glamour. Or Michelle Yeoh, who glows
as she reclines on the candy-striped sunloungers of
The Peninsula in LA, after a frantic, fantastic turn in
Everything Everywhere All At Once.
This year’s portfolio – and video series, now available
to watch at Vogue.co.uk – is not only a celebration of
31 actors at the top of their game, but an ode to
Hollywood, and its ever-evolving ways. >

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 TAYLOR RUSSELL
Bones and All
Who is your Old Hollywood icon?
I’m very into Louise Brooks, a
1930s icon. I also love Dona
Drake. She’s a beauty icon and
also super smart.
Is there anyone you’d like to play?
My answer for this is not
from a film, it’s from OutKast’s
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below.
Rosario Dawson’s interlude
on that album is the one thing
I wish I could do.
Silk-chiffon gown with
embroidered cape, GUCCI.
White-gold and diamond earring,
DIOR JOAILLERIE. Diamond
necklace and chrysoprase and
diamond ring, TIFFANY & CO.
Hair: MUSTAFA YANAZ.
Make-up: TYRON
MACHHAUSEN. With thanks
to HOTEL CHELSEA, New
York. London production:
DIANA EASTMAN. Los
Angeles production: RHIANNA
RULE. New York production:
PAIGE VITI. Digital artwork:
DTOUCH LONDON

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She is HYPNOTIC
– delivering STEELY
GRANDIOSITY
and twitching
PARANOIA

CATE BLANCHETT
Tár
The way Cate Blanchett plays
conductor Lydia Tár is so real that
viewers have found it hard to
believe that Tár is not a biopic. In
this intense, absorbing descent
into the world of a fictional
renowned musician with a
spiralling personal life, Blanchett
is hypnotic – delivering steely
grandiosity and twitching
paranoia in a performance that
ranks with the best of her career.
Bustier embroidered with sequins
and crystals and silk-faille trousers,
GIORGIO ARMANI PRIVE.
Stylist: ELIZABETH
STEWART. Hair: EAMONN
HUGHES. Make-up:
MARY GREENWELL
 JAMIE LEE CURTIS
Everything Everywhere
All At Once
What’s the best advice you’ve had?
I’m an old woman. The advice
would have been long ago,
probably from my mom. I think she
said, “Just be you, even though it’s
going to feel bad a lot of the
time,” which it did.
What advice would you give to
your younger self?
The same advice I give young
people who want to do what I get
to do: “It’s so f**king fast – you will
be shocked at how fast it all is. Try
to be in the present moment.”
Velvet and tulle dress, TOM
FORD. Bracelets, ALEXIS
BITTAR. Hair: SEAN JAMES.
Make-up: GRACE AHN. With
thanks to the GETTY VILLA
MUSEUM, Los Angeles

MICHEAL WARD
Empire of Light
What has been your most embarrassing moment on set?
I was really scared of the pigeon I had to work with in Empire of Light.
Obviously it was really tiny, but it felt like the biggest thing in the room.
Have you ever stolen anything from set?
On Empire of Light, I really wanted a top, but they wouldn’t give it to me.
Then my main costume woman bought me one that looked exactly like it,
which was amazing, so I didn’t need to nick it. But I was planning a heist.
Velvet jacket and silk bow tie, GIORGIO ARMANI.
Cotton shirt, CANALI. Grooming: EYESHA YATES.
With thanks to THE RITZ LONDON

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 NINA HOSS
Tár
What’s hardest about being a
creative in this decade?
Finding people to finance the
things you want to do, to be part
of good, challenging storytelling.
What do you dislike most about it?
Getting up at three o’clock in the
morning. And all the waiting.
Faille coat and faille catsuit,
DOLCE & GABBANA.
Crystal-embellished shoes,
GIANVITO ROSSI. Diamond
earrings and pink-sapphire, citrine
and diamond brooch, TIFFANY
& CO. Hair: BEN SKERVIN.
Make-up: MARY WILES.
Nails: SREYNIN PENG.
With thanks to CHATEAU
MARMONT, Los Angeles

HARRIS DICKINSON
Triangle of Sadness
What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received?
At a party once, I was nervous because I hadn’t been in that sort of
industry setting before. Denzel Washington walked in. He locked eyes
with me and walked over and said, “Hey, man, lighten up.” And I was
like, “Yeah, I do need to lighten up!”
What do you think you’d be doing if you weren’t an actor?
Carpenter. Less self-indulgent.
Velvet tuxedo jacket, CANALI. Silk shirt, DOLCE & GABBANA. Steel
watch, TIFFANY & CO. Ring, Harris’s own. Grooming: ELLE
FAVORULE. With thanks to CHATEAU MARMONT, Los Angeles

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 “If I weren’t an actor,
I’d be HOMESTEADING
on a coastal FARM on an
ISLAND off Vancouver”

STEPHANIE HSU
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Which actor do you most aspire to be like?
I love Joaquin Phoenix so much. He seems like someone who is able to
stretch his range with every project, and one of the few greats in this era.
What do you think you’d be doing if you weren’t an actor?
I’d be homesteading on a coastal farm on an island off Vancouver. I
won’t tell you which one because I don’t want you to buy property there.
Crystal-embellished jacket and tuxedo trousers, ALEXANDER McQUEEN.
Vinyl mules, GIANVITO ROSSI. Diamond earrings and diamond ring,
CHOPARD. Hair: DALLIN JAMES. Make-up: HINAKO.
With thanks to THE PENINSULA BEVERLY HILLS

DIEGO CALVA
Babylon
Tell us about your first audition.
I was a boom operator. The actor
didn’t show up, so it was like,
“Diego, we can use an actor!”
Any embarrassing moments on set?
Shooting a violent scene, when my
mother was on set watching me in
the monitor for the first time. I heard
her screaming, “No, Diego! No!”
Who would you like to play you in
a movie about your life?
Me – why not?
Flannel suit, tie, and pocket square,
ANDERSON & SHEPPARD.
Cotton shirt, JOHN HENRIC. Tie
pin, TATEOSSIAN. Grooming:
HEE SOO KWON. With
thanks to CHATEAU
MARMONT, Los Angeles
 KATE HUDSON
Glass Onion: A Knives
Out Mystery
Which actor do you most admire?
I just love Cate Blanchett so much.
She inspires me with her bravery.
What’s the best advice you’ve had?
As a successful woman, you are
tabloid fodder. My dad Kurt said,
“As long as they spell your name
right, just don’t listen. Put your
head down. Do good work.”
Sequined crochet dress, COPERNI.
Knickers, WACOAL. Satin shoes,
STUART WEITZMAN. Pearl
and diamond earrings, TIFFANY
& CO. Headscarf, stylist’s own.
Hair: CAMERON RAINS.
Make-up: TONYA BREWER.
With thanks to CHATEAU
MARMONT, Los Angeles

VIOLA DAVIS
The Woman King
As soon as you see Viola Davis – blade in hand, shoulders by her ears
– in the first moments of The Woman King, you know the Hollywood
trailblazer is about to tear through Gina Prince-Bythewood’s historic epic
about an all-female unit of warriors defending the historic African
kingdom of Dahomey. Davis plays war-hardened but emotionally
wounded leader General Nanisca with unstoppable swagger.
Faille corset gown, ALEXANDER McQUEEN. Ring, BOUCHERON.
Stylist: ELIZABETH STEWART. Make-up: AUTUMN
MOULTRIE. Hair: JAMIKA WILSON

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 MICHELLE YEOH
Everything Everywhere
All At Once
When was your funniest time on set?
In Everything Everywhere when I
had these frigging dildos being
slung in my face.
What’s your “I’ve made it” moment?
Arriving in London, and an
immigration officer asked, “What
are you doing here?” I said, “I’m
here to work.” He’s like, “What
are you working on?” “A Bond
movie…” “Oh, my God!”
Tweed jumpsuit and strass earrings,
CHANEL. Cotton shirt, TOM
FORD. Tourmaline, garnet, spinel,
onyx and diamond ring, VAN
CLEEF & ARPELS. Ring (on
ring finger), Michelle’s own. Hair:
BERTRAND W DELACOURT.
Make-up: MAI QUYNH. With
thanks to THE PENINSULA
BEVERLY HILLS
 When SPIELBERG
CASTS you as a
character inspired by
his MOTHER,
you know you’re going
to have to bring
YOUR A-GAME

MICHELLE WILLIAMS
The Fabelmans
When Steven Spielberg casts you
to play a character inspired by his
mother, you know you’re going to
have to bring your A-game. And
Michelle Williams does just that in
The Fabelmans. Her enchantingly
kooky performance, in the
director’s mostly autobiographical
film about coming of age, is
a scene-stealer.
Feather cape, DOLCE &
GABBANA. Silk gown,
GALVAN LONDON.
Archive diamond and emerald
necklace and archive diamond
bracelets, TIFFANY & CO.
Rings, Michelle’s own.
Hair: CHRIS McMILLAN.
Make-up: ANGELA LEVIN.
With thanks to THE
BEEKMAN, New York

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LETITIA WRIGHT
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
What’s the hardest thing about
being a creative in this decade?
Social media and having to keep
up with it. I love the way actors of
past generations could just do the
work and kind of disappear.
What’s your “I’ve made it” moment?
Going into the Apple Store to buy
a laptop – you know, full cash.
Slashed wool jacket and cotton shirt,
ALEXANDER McQUEEN.
Tights, AMINA MUADDI &
WOLFORD. Leather loafers,
CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN.
Hair: ALEXANDER ARMAND.
Make-up: JORDANA DAVID.
With thanks to THE
MILLENNIUM BILTMORE
LOS ANGELES
 JEREMY POPE
The Inspection
How would you describe your job?
Professional liar.
What’s your “I’ve made it” moment?
I went to my grandfather’s house
to surprise him, and on his coffee
table he had all the cuttings of my
New York Times articles and any
type of review. He had gone out,
printed them, got them laminated.
I was like, “He’s so proud.”
Mohair/wool suit, PRADA.
Corsage, stylist’s own. Grooming:
JAIME DIAZ. With thanks to THE
PENINSULA BEVERLY HILLS

EDDIE REDMAYNE
The Good Nurse
What has been your most embarrassing moment on set?
In the Fantastic Beasts movie, doing the Erumpent mating dance. It was
humiliating anyway, but I managed to rip my trousers. My arse was on
show for everyone to see on a night shoot in the middle of Watford.
What’s the best piece of advice you've had?
What Chekhov wrote to his actress wife, Olga Knipper: “Take life step by
step, slowly, slowly, pace by pace, and leave the competition to others.”
Three-piece wool suit, POLO RALPH LAUREN. Neckerchief, RALPH
LAUREN PURPLE LABEL. Shirt, JOHN PEARSE.
Socks, PANTHERELLA. Vintage shoes, CONTEMPORARY
WARDROBE. Hat, LOCK & CO. Grooming: PETRA SELLGE.
With thanks to THE RITZ LONDON

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“ I STOLE a necklace
– one of DIANA’S
from the set of
THE CROWN”

EMMA CORRIN
My Policeman, Lady
Chatterley’s Lover
What’s your funniest time on set?
Filming a miniseries called Retreat
in New Jersey. I was getting my
wisdom teeth, so they put me on
really strong US painkillers. I was
so out of it that I thought I was
being attacked by bees. They had
to send me home because, every
take, I was swatting bees away.
Have you stolen anything from set?
Yes, I stole a necklace – one of
Diana’s from the set of The Crown.
Cady top with feathers, cotton and
silk shirt, jersey knickers, and
leather loafers, MIU MIU. Tights,
WOLFORD. Rose-gold, onyx and
diamond earring and tricolour gold
ring, CARTIER. Hair: DANIEL
MARTIN. Make-up: GINA
KANE. With thanks to UNION
CHAPEL, London
 DANIELLE
DEADWYLER
Till
Which person has been the most
influential on your career?
My mother. She’s the one who
noticed the intuitive spirit of
creativity. She’s the one who
harnessed it through childhood
and encouraged it into adulthood.
What do you dislike about acting?
I don’t think I dislike anything.
You’re supposed to have the nasty,
hurtful, wounding portion in the
ecstatic, erotic life of it all.
Jacquard body, top with bead
embroidery, and skirt, GIORGIO
ARMANI. Crystal-embellished
sandals, AQUAZZURA. Diamond
bracelet, TIFFANY & CO. Hair:
ARAXI LINDSEY. Make-up:
AUTUMN MOULTRIE.
With thanks to CHATEAU
MARMONT, Los Angeles

JESSIE BUCKLEY
Women Talking
Director Sarah Polley has described Jessie Buckley as magnetic on the set
of Women Talking – crew members would come to watch her perform.
The adaptation of Miriam Toews’s novel – a true story about a group of
women who try to escape an isolated religious community – stars Buckley
alongside Claire Foy, Rooney Mara and Frances McDormand. Buckley’s
raw, affecting turn as Mariche, a victim of abuse, proves that she’s
capable of incredible things.
Wool jacket, BOTTEGA VENETA. Jewellery, Jessie’s own. Hair:
GARETH BROMELL. Make-up: FLORRIE WHITE

Buckley’s RAW, affecting

turn as a victim of abuse
proves she’s CAPABLE of
INCREDIBLE things

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THUSO MBEDU
The Woman King
What’s been the hardest thing about being a creative in this decade?
The self-tapes that were required during the pandemic. I hate self-tapes.
What do you dislike most about acting?
People thinking they can have an opinion about your personal life.
Embellished midi-dress and headscarf, PACO RABANNE.
Velvet shoes, GIUSEPPE ZANOTTI. Hair: SHARIF POSTON.
Make-up: REBEKAH ALADDIN. With thanks to TCL CHINESE
THEATRE, Los Angeles

BEN WHISHAW
Women Talking
What do you love about acting?
Somehow forgetting yourself and
being lost in imagination.
Have you stolen anything from set?
Three or four pairs of socks that
belonged to the character Q.
They were very nice socks.
What advice would you give
your younger self?
I’d like him to give me some
advice. I feel a bit lost now. I think
I knew more when I was younger.
Wool suit, PAUL SMITH. Silk
shirt, OLIVER BROWN.
Cufflinks, TATEOSSIAN.
Grooming: JODY TAYLOR and
NATHALIE ELENI. With thanks
to THE LANGHAM, London
 DEBORAH
LUKUMUENA
Last Dance
What’s the hardest thing about
being a creative in this decade?
Creating without much
representation, especially in
France – there’s not a lot of Black
women or men in the industry.
Who would you like to play you in
a movie about your life?
Oh, my God. Viola Davis.
Fringed crêpe dress, TALLER
MARMO, at Matchesfashion.com
and Net-a-porter.com. Velvet mules,
JIMMY CHOO. Headpiece,
EMILY-LONDON. Gold and
diamond earrings, gold and
diamond brooch, and diamond-set
vine motif rings, TIFFANY & CO.
Hair: KIERON LAVINE.
Make-up: ESTHER EDEME.
With thanks to THE
BEAUMONT, London

SADIE SINK
The Whale
Who would you like to play you in a movie about your life?
If we can manipulate time, a young Kate Winslet.
Have you ever stolen anything from set?
I’ve never stolen anything from set but I politely begged to take home the
Walkman my character Max uses in season four of Stranger Things.
Embroidered tulle top, EMPORIO ARMANI. Beaded hair accessory,
GUCCI. Gold and diamond ring, CHANEL FINE JEWELLERY.
Hair: LACY REDWAY. Make-up: TYRON MACHHAUSEN.
With thanks to JW MARRIOTT ESSEX HOUSE, New York

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 CLAIRE FOY
Women Talking
Who would you like to play you in
a movie about your life?

“AS LONG as it’s

My daughter told me I look like
Billie Eilish, which is the biggest
compliment I’ve had in my life.
TRUE, and from What’s the best advice you had?
It was from an article by Hugh

YOU, it WILL Ross when I was playing Lady

Macbeth. I was very anxious
about doing Shakespeare and
be new” Hugh said, “As long as it’s true,
and from you, it will be new.”
Wool tailcoat, RALPH LAUREN
COLLECTION. Tank top,
FOUNDATIONALS. Wool
tuxedo trousers, BANSHEE OF
SAVILE ROW. Leather shoes,
RALPH LAUREN PURPLE
LABEL. Vintage hat, COSTUME
STUDIO. Feather plume,
EDWINA IBBOTSON. Gold and
silk brooch, TIFFANY & CO.
Hair: CHRISTIAN WOOD.
Make-up: KELLY CORNWELL.
With thanks to WIGMORE
HALL, London
 HUGH JACKMAN
The Son
What has been your most
embarrassing moment on set?
I pissed my pants on stage. It’s the
doozy of all doozies. The doctor
told me I was dehydrated so,
following direction, I drank so
much water that by the time I was
doing this number – in red tights,
as Gaston in Beauty and the Beast
– I basically had a choice of
pissing my pants or not singing.
Who would you like to play you in
a movie about your life?
Paul Newman, although he’s a
hell of a lot cooler than I look.
Jacket and shirt, TOM FORD.
Grooming: THOMAS DUNKIN.
With thanks to MINETTA
TAVERN, New York

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 GABRIELLE UNION
The Inspection
What do you think you’d be doing
if you weren’t an actor?
I was studying for law school
before I casually got into acting
and modelling. I guess I’d have
got into a second-tier law school
and be practising law, miserably.
Tell us about your first audition.
It was Saved by the Bell: The New
Class. I auditioned for “mistletoe
girl number two” and I got it. And
I had a made-up résumé.
Sequined gown with cape,
HALPERN. Diamond earrings
and diamond bracelet, GRAFF.
Hair: LARRY SIMS. Make-up:
VINCENT OQUENDO.
With thanks to JW MARRIOTT
ESSEX HOUSE, New York
PAUL MESCAL
Aftersun
Tell us about your first audition.
It was for The Phantom of the
Opera. I sang “I Can See Clearly
Now”. I was incredibly nervous
and was told to stand up straight
and look strong. My whole body
was shaking – I was a hot mess.
What do you think you’d be doing
if you weren’t an actor?
Gaelic football. I would’ve broken
many more bones in my body, so
I’m happy to not be going down
that avenue.
Embroidered wool suit and silk
poplin shirt, ALEXANDER
McQUEEN. Tie, THE SAVILE
ROW COMPANY. White-gold
watch, CARTIER. Grooming:
LIZ TAW. With thanks to THE
SAVOY HOTEL, London
“I was told to stand
up STRAIGHT and look
STRONG. My whole
body was shaking –
I was a HOT MESS”

VICKY KRIEPS
Corsage
Stomping, snapping and
finger-flipping, Vicky Krieps storms
her way through Corsage as
Austrian Empress Sisi as she turns
40. The unconventional biopic,
directed by Marie Kreutzer, has
been a standout with critics since it
landed at Cannes last year.
Following the 19th-century royal
as she sets fire to her public
image, Krieps’s trigger-happy take
on the empress is hard to tear your
eyes from.
 
Cotton-lace dress and straw hat,
DANIELA VILLA. Hair and
make-up: ATENEA TELLEZ

NAOMI ACKIE
I Wanna Dance with Somebody
What’s the hardest thing about
being a creative in this decade?
Social media. Not a big fan.
What has been your most
embarrassing moment on set?
When I forget my lines in front of
actors I admire. I did it with
Stanley Tucci on I Wanna Dance
with Somebody. I was like, “I’m
sorry, this has never happened
before,” and he was like, “Ugh,
don’t lie, you just didn’t learn it…”
Satin blouse, SAINT
LAURENT BY ANTHONY
VACCARELLO. Tulle gloves,
MISCREANTS. Crystal brooches
(worn as hair clips), BUTLER &
WILSON. Pearl and diamond
necklace and multistrand pearl
necklace, CHANEL HIGH
JEWELLERY. Hair: NICOLA
HARROWELL. Make-up:
KENNETH SOH. Nails:
CHIARA BALLISAI.
With thanks to THE MAINE
MAYFAIR, London

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 KERRY CONDON
The Banshees of Inisherin
What do you think you’d be doing
if you weren’t an actor?
I’d probably work with animals or
give facials – but I don’t know if I
could listen to my clients moaning
about their problems.
What’s your “I’ve made it” moment?
It happened really recently,
actually. I bought a farm. I’ve
always wanted to farm. I turned
my horses loose in the field and
you could see them thinking, “We
can run all the way down here!”
Silk-satin dress, ERMANNO
SCERVINO. Hair: DAVY
NEWKIRK. Make-up: KIRIN
BHATTY. With thanks to the
GETTY VILLA MUSEUM,
Los Angeles

BILL NIGHY
Living
What do you think you’d be doing if you weren’t an actor?
I was supposed to be a priest – my grandmother wanted to throw one
back for God. But they told me you’d hear a voice, and it never came.
Who would you like to play you in a movie about your life?
Julia Roberts, without question. She’s one of my favourite actors of all
time. If she were not available, then Scarlett Johansson would be a pretty
close second. And if neither of them was available, then maybe Zac
Efron? Or anyone else who’s impossibly good-looking. Paul Mescal?
Wool suit, THE ANTHOLOGY. Shirt, MARGARET HOWELL.
Glasses, CUTLER & GROSS. Tie, Bill’s own. Grooming:
NADIA ALTINBAS. With thanks to THE RITZ LONDON

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“ When THEY
make me
ROLL in the
mud or put
FAKE BLOOD
on me…”

DOLLY DE LEON
Triangle of Sadness
What do you dislike about acting?
Scenes that make you physically
dirty: when they make me roll in
the mud or put fake blood on me.
Who is your Old Hollywood icon?
Bette Davis. I’ve adored her ever
since watching What Ever
Happened to Baby Jane? She’s
brave and strong and she’s such a
fighter but she also seems like a
cool person to be friends with.
Feather coat, CHRISTIAN
COWAN. Embroidered lamé dress,
GIVENCHY. Crystal-embellished
sandals, CHRISTIAN
LOUBOUTIN. Gold, platinum
and diamond bracelet and tsavorite
and diamond ring, TIFFANY &
CO. For stockists, all pages,
see Vogue Information. Hair:
ARTHUR JOHNS. Make-up:
KELLY GOLDSACK. With
thanks to THE MILLENNIUM
BILTMORE LOS ANGELES
 CELESTIAL
BEING

This LUNAR New Year,

CELEBRATIONS – framed
by CAI GUO-QIANG’s
gunpowder PAINTINGS –
call for EXCITING shades,
SHAPES and shimmer.
Photographs by THEO LIU.
Styling by GABRIELLA
KAREFA-JOHNSON

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 A show of hands! It’s
time to inhabit the
Year of the Rabbit, and
commemorating wearing
Louis Vuitton – beside Cai
Guo-Qiang’s Snow Lotus
No1 (2020) – gets our vote.

Silk dress, tights, crystal

earrings, and crystal
necklace, LOUIS
VUITTON. Leather shoes,
TORY BURCH

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 Symbolic sparkle. Valentino’s
shimmering crimson and
aquamarine sequins denote
growth and prosperity.

From left: He wears jersey body,

embellished tulle skirt,
and tights, VALENTINO.
Patent-leather shoes,
VALENTINO GARAVANI.
Sherry wears stretch-viscose
knit top and embellished wool
trousers,VALENTINO.
Sequined shoes, VALENTINO
GARAVANI

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Stroke of fortune.
Celebrate in the
featherlight folds of this
dress from Maximilian
Davis’s Ferragamo debut,
which is set against Cai’s
Welcoming Pine: Project
for the Winter Olympics
Opening Ceremony (2022).

Satin dress and suede

sandals, FERRAGAMO.
Earrings, ARIANA
BOUSSARD-REIFEL
& JASON WU

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 Come into bloom. Like
orchids, peach blossoms
and Cai’s Pink Poppy No2
(2021), Simone Rocha’s
florals have festive flair.

Tulle top with tails, twisted

silk top, and chain necklace,
SIMONE ROCHA. Denim
jeans, CALVIN KLEIN
JEANS. Leather sandals,
MICHAEL KORS
COLLECTION

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 Wishing-tree ready.
We’re making our offerings
to the future in the
merriest of dramatically
draped magenta Versace.

Satin dress and satin

sandals, VERSACE.
Crystal necklace,
SWAROVSKI

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 A (zodiac) sign of the
times? Keep your
personality out of the
shadows with Chanel’s
golden party dress.

Velvet dress, CHANEL.

Gold-plated earrings,
PAULA MENDOZA.
Chain necklaces,
IPPOLITA and JACK
VARTANIAN. Crystal
choker, SWAROVSKI

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Close observation. We’re
revelling in moon cycle
rituals in Peter Do’s
jubilantly draped dress,
as Poppy Hallucination:
Year of Rabbit (2022)
dominates Cai’s studio.
The striking shapes and
colours of the clothes in
this story are set off by
the work of artist Cai
Guo-Qiang, who hosted
the shoot at his 28-acre
property in New Jersey.
Born in Quanzhou, China,
Cai came of age amid the
gunfire and cannon blasts
of the Cultural Revolution
– an experience that would
later inform the explosion
events and inventive use of
gunpowder at the heart
of his practice.

Crêpe wrap dress,

PETER DO. Hoop
earrings, PANCONESI.
Chain necklace,
JACK VARTANIAN.
For stockists, all pages,
see Vogue Information.
Hair: CHARLIE LE
MINDU. Make-up:
FARA HOMIDI. Nails:
MIKU TSUTAYA.
Set design: GRIFFIN
STODDARD. Production:
HEN’S TOOTH
PRODUCTIONS. Models:
SORA CHOI, HE CONG,
SHERRY SHI

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SNOW HOMES
Who wouldn’t want to escape to their very own piste-side
property? It’s time to get your skis on and explore the
finest homes across the Alps and beyond

CHALET ST CHRISTOPHE,
SWITZERLAND
One of Verbier’s largest private chalets, this
13-bedroom residence can be subdivided into
two halves or combined to create one huge
family home. With mountain views from all
sides, its interiors are warm and inviting, with
high, beamed ceilings, open fireplaces and
fantastic living spaces. POA.
Sphere Estates: 020 3617 1360

months or even years in advance to Pictured above is Chalet St

secure the most in-demand dates. Christophe, a truly breathtaking house

I
f you love to ski, the idea of owning
a chalet in your favourite resort
is likely to be somewhere at the
top of your wish-list. There’s the
appeal of simply jumping on a plane
and arriving in a cosy home-from-
home, with no need to lug around
cumbersome ski equipment or face the
prospect of booking accommodation
Indeed, properties in the mountains
remain perennially popular, no matter
what the political or economic climate.
‘Prime residential ski property demand
has remained undeterred,’ says Jeremy
Rollason, head of Savills Ski. ‘It’s an
attractive store for accumulated wealth,
as well as a sentimental, life-aspiration
purchase for many.’
within walking distance of the centre
of Verbier. At over 13,000 square feet,
it’s one of the resort’s largest private
homes, and with 13 bedrooms, there’s
plenty of space to host friends and
family. Set across four floors, it has
panoramic mountain views towards
the Trient Glacier and the French
and Italian borders. The generously
 SILVERSTONE LODGE, FRANCE
Located in the smart resort of Val D’Isère, Silverstone
Lodge is a collection of seven apartments set on the slopes.
Ranging from three to seven bedrooms, they have high
ceilings and a rustic look, and their private ski rooms give
easy access straight to the slopes. From €4.8 million.
Savills: 00 33 629 382 668

CHALET LARA, SWITZERLAND

Completed in 2016, this piste-side property is tucked away in the charming Swiss
village of Grimentz. Finished to a high standard using local materials, it’s got plenty of
outdoor living space, as well as a private garden. CHF 3.25 million.
Alpine Property Finders: 020 7692 0786

FOUR SEASONS RESORT

AND RESIDENCES, USA
Vail in Colorado has long been a
magnet for keen skiers, and what
better place to base yourself than
at a private residence that’s part
of a Four Seasons resort? You
can enjoy all the comfort and
amenities of a luxury hotel, while
having the independence of a
self-contained home.
fourseasons.com/vail
 sized living and dining areas make this
a fantastic spot to gather and unwind;
and the restaurants, shops and nightlife
of one of Switzerland’s smartest resorts
are also on your doorstep.
Val D’Isère is another perennially
popular spot for those who enjoy the
après-ski as much as spending a day on
the slopes. Occupying a prime spot is
Silverstone Lodge, a new collection of
seven apartments which have the huge
advantage of being ski-in, ski-out, so
you’re spared the effort of trudging to
the nearest lift.
Or, if peace and quiet is a priority,
MEGÈVE, FRANCE Knight Frank is selling a six-bedroom
This recently refurbished chalet is set on an enviably large plot in the village chalet surrounded by trees in the village
of Choseaux, on the Mont d’Arbois side of the Megève ski area. There’s a of Choseaux. Conveniently close to the
well-proportioned living room with a large fireplace and a generous master
bedroom, as well as four further bedrooms. €6.8 million. shops and restaurants of Megève, it’s the
Knight Frank: 020 7861 1727 best of both worlds.

CHAMONIX, FRANCE
Try a different approach to property
with August Collection’s shared-
ownership scheme. You can own
a share in five properties across
Europe – such as this elegant, newly
renovated apartment in Chamonix,
with a private sauna in the main
bedroom – for a single fee. August’s
prices start from €280,000.
augustcollection.co.uk

LA FERME DES DRUS,

FRANCE
Located a short distance
from the popular resort
of Chamonix is a 19th-
century farmhouse that has
been transformed into a
contemporary retreat. There
are multiple balconies and
terraces from which to admire
the Alpine views, and a spa
area with an indoor pool and
Jacuzzi. €10.23 million.
Home Hunts: 020 8144 5501
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Thirty apartments with leisure residence permits,

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and views over the highest peaks of the Austrian Alps.
4-7 4-7 400-700m2 Ski in/out

For more information contact:

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The latest property news, from exciting new
developments to essential services

THE LETTINGS
EXPERT
Based in Knightsbridge
and boasting an
impressive network
of contacts, Tunstall
Property is perfectly
placed to help
both landlords and
prospective tenants in
prime central London.
LORDING IT ‘The strength of the
Overlooking the historic Lord’s Cricket Ground and close to lettings in this area
Regent’s Park, One St John’s Wood is a collection of striking new (and indeed across the
apartments in one of central London’s most desirable residential UK) has been loudly
reported in the press
neighbourhoods. Built by Regal London, the 112 properties
this year, with Savills and
include an elegant penthouse that’s been decorated by the
Knight Frank reporting
interior design company Angel O’Donnell, with plenty of bespoke
annual growth of more than 12 per cent,’ says the company founder,
elements and a warm, contemporary atmosphere. Finishing Mark Tunstall. If you have a property that you’d like to rent out or
touches come from the special One St John’s Wood are looking for a place to live, he’s got the inside knowledge to help
home-accessory collection that has been curated by the you navigate this rapidly changing market.
homeware brand Kalinko – a fitting way to celebrate the launch For more information, visit tunstallproperty.co.uk
of this smart new project.
For more information, visit regal-london.co.uk

SECOND HOMES WITHOUT THE STRESS

Whether it’s a cottage in the Cotswolds or a chalet in the Alps, purchasing a second
home seems like an incredibly appealing prospect – at least until you star t quizzing
those who already own one. Conversations inevitably turn to the rather mundane
subjects of endless maintenance tasks, constant bills, and the logistical stress of
letting it out, be it to friends or strangers.
Enter August, a company that facilitates
shared ownership of a number of different
proper ties, curating a selection of unique
residences in the most desirable European
locations. It streamlines the entire process –
finding and vetting like-minded co-owners;
establishing a co-ownership company;
buying and transforming the homes; as well
as managing the proper ties. There’s a very
big upside – you get to own a share in five
proper ties instead of just one, making
holidays a lot more interesting. You also get
to enjoy all of the advantages of owning
multiple homes without any of the boring bits.
From €280,000.
For more information,
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