Vogue August 2024

“EACH CAMPAIGN IS UNIQUE. But this one, the urgency is different. We know what’s at stake.” That’s America’s first lady, Dr. Jill Biden, in her cover interview this month, and her words carry uncommon weight. We know what’s at stake. All Americans do: The choice this November couldn’t be more consequential. And Dr. B, as she’s known by her students but also by seemingly anyone she comes into contact with, is meeting voters in states across the country to make the case for President Biden’s reelection. Her energy, her compassion, her directness, and her ability to listen and connect are what make her such a powerful advocate. To show her well outside the White House bubble, we sent the photographer Norman Jean Roy and the writer Maya Singer along with…

Sea Change As Virginie Viard bows out of Chanel, her winsome fall 2024 collection, presented at the Grand Palais Éphémère in Paris, took guests on something of a spiritual journey to Deauville, the resort town in Normandy where Coco Chanel once ran a boutique. So, to shoot “Deauville, Mon Amour” (page 94), a story fully outfitted in Chanel, Vogue’s Tonne Goodman and photographer Malick Bodian went directly to the source, capturing models Lulu Tenney and Angelina Kendall (above) on Deauville’s shimmering seashore. “We all felt time stand still,” Goodman says. It was “ghostly magic.” Born to Run “Our vision was to capture Sha’Carri as the incredible, confident young athlete that she is,” says Julia Sarr-Jamois (above, at right), the fashion editor for “On Your Mark” (page 80), Maya Singer’s profile…

Early on weekday mornings, Louise Trotter begins the 20-minute cycle from her home on Paris’s Left Bank to Carven’s headquarters just off the Champs-Élysées. By now, she knows the commute by heart: In February of last year, Trotter took up the role of creative director at the 79-year-old maison, reawakening it from a five-year slumber, and a chauffeur—customary for an artistic director at the helm of a Parisian fashion house—simply doesn’t fly with her bluff Sunderland upbringing. “As a designer, you have to remain part of society,” she explains. “How do you feel the world if you’re not in the middle of it?” Cycling through the streets of the French capital lets her observe at close range the “busy women” who inspire her work—she’ll often count how many are wearing…

In 1972, the designer Elsa Peretti bought a modest cottage she had seen in Spain for a few thousand dollars—all she could afford at the time. Since then, her fortunes grew and grew, and now to celebrate her legacy with Tiffany & Co.—a match made 50 years ago—the iconic jewelry and design house has launched three new pieces in her memory: A bone ring, a split cuff ring, and a bone cuff in 18-karat gold set with a teardrop of pavé diamonds. Organic and sensual, they are as relevant now as they were a half century ago, and they transport us to the village of Sant Martí Vell, in Spain’s Catalonia region, where Elsa discovered that house. It was passionate adoration from the moment she first saw the Casa Pequeña,…

Because we both know the limits of even the most diligent retinol routine, an actor famous for her kittenish smile and tailored separates levels with me. For a woman on the rise in this business, there are not just parts to consider, but procedures. Her face is her instrument, and it will require maintenance, but instead of using fillers—which she calls “the devil”—she will stall out the aging process with treatments and lasers like Morpheus8 and Fraxel. And then, before she turns 50, she will invest in a surgical solution. With a grin, she deems it a kind of au naturel aging: It’s her same skin, just less of it. As she explains: “It’s low intervention until the facelift.” Despite the omnipresence of so-called Instagram face, with its characteristic puffed-up…

A secessionist page-turner? Peter Heller’s riveting and closely observed new novel, Burn (Knopf), tells the story of two old friends on a hunting trip who hike out of the woods of northern Maine and into a drastically altered America. A small town is burned to the ground. A nearby bridge has been blown up. And is that artillery fire in the distance? With no cell reception, Jess and Storey must piece together the disquieting truth: Bold talk among local militias has exploded into something far more dangerous, and they are in the middle of it. Heller, as he’s shown in previous, celebrated novels like The Last Ranger and The River, is a literary novelist with a talent for suspense who writes about the natural world as well as anyone. In…