Vogue August 2022

WHAT FUN IT WAS TO see Jamie Hawkesworth’s images of the actor Emma Corrin this month. His cover shoot, with Vogue contributing editor Alex Harrington, staged inside the main rail station in Newark, New Jersey, one warm Sunday in May, is playful and mischievous and channels Corrin’s up-for-anything personality to a tee. My favorite is the picture of Emma in a lobster costume. Jamie told me he was inspired by half-century-old lobster costumes he discovered at a children’s theater in his hometown of Ipswich, England, hand-sewn out of window curtains. Alex ran with the idea and had replicas made. Just above you’ll find Emma and a young extra on our shoot, seated with Jamie, dressed as twin crustaceans. To me, that picture captures the theme of this issue, which is…

The Lady in Pink Anna Diop, the Senegalese-born, Toronto-based star of Nikyatu Jusu’s horror film Nanny—which claimed the U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in January and comes to Prime Video this fall—doesn’t take her visibility as an actor for granted. “When I was young, there was such a lack of Black women onscreen—dark-skinned women especially,” says the 34-year-old, one of five rising actors photographed by Amy Troost this month (see page 10 and “Great Expectations,” page 82). That has changed a bit since the aughts, when Diop first began working (she had a recurring role on the sitcom Everybody Hates Chris as a teenager), and actors like Viola Davis came to the fore—but she’s eager to see Black representation onscreen continue to evolve. “It’s exciting to start showing…

MARC JACOBS From an early age, I was considered by other cisgender males of my age to be effeminate. I didn’t play sports—I liked to do arts and crafts, and I hand-painted my jeans, and I had very long hair and walked on my toes, and so they decided that I had to be gay. And they had much less-friendly words for it back then. I knew I was attracted to other boys, but I didn’t really have any vocabulary or way to talk about that. I didn’t feel there was something wrong with me, or that I was broken. I just had fear growing up around young people who frightened me. I was brought up with a very liberal mother and father, but I had that very jaded New…

I’ve always loved a white tank top. It’s the pinnacle of high-low fashion: I can wear one with nameless vintage boot-cut jeans—or a pair of archival Gucci tie-dye velvet pants. In my early days in New York, whenever I was in a pinch I’d steal the Hanes versions from boyfriends, and when I dumped them I’d just go to the local drugstore and buy a pack of five. And the more I wore them, the better they got: After a few washes, these cheap yet chic pieces fit just right. I have long taken my white tank styling cues from Carlyne Cerf de Dudzeele, the stylist who has often used a bare-bones piece to highlight the glam of her work. For the January 1992 Vogue, she shot Claudia Schiffer in…

Three years ago, when Chase Hall was 25 and doing a residency at Skowhegan in Maine, he had a revelation about his art. “One of the teachers there, the artist Sondra Perry, and I had been having deep conversations every day,” he tells me, “and near the end of my time, she said, ‘You love Black history, but your mom is white. Where is that in the work?’ It kind of ruined me, but it also made me.” Hall has a white, blond mother and a Black father. “Growing up, in my white family, I was the Black kid. In my Black family I was always the whitewashed Black kid, not fully Black,” he says. What he took from that conversation with Perry was that his biracial experience carried its…

Without love, where would you be now? The Doobie Brothers lyrics are blasting out of Tory Burch’s laptop on an early morning in her Manhattan office. Burch is bopping along to the beat, watching the screen as the model Imaan Hammam leads a frolicking cast across a beachside hillscape, channeling the halcyon vibe of Bill Backer’s classic “I’d Like to Buy the World a Coke” ad. “There were five words: love, freedom, joy, magic, and peace,” Burch tells me of the concept behind the video, which will serve as the campaign for Essence of Dreams, her five piece fragrance collection out in August and inspired by the idea of visualizing a better world, and countering chaos with unity. It’s a tall order for a fragrance, let alone five of them,…