Indholdsfortegnelse for Volume 3, 2019 i W Magazine

When Lauren Halsey was getting her B.F.A. at the California Institute of the Arts after studying architecture in community college, she began making supersize photoshopped collages that brought together L.A. imagery and ancient sites like Cleopatra’s Pool, in Turkey. “I was remapping and remixing L.A. city blocks with these images from National Geographic,” she says, “and bringing in local heroes and things I was collecting at the time, like figurines from discount stores and menus from the burger joint. I was ‘funkatizing’ the city.” Parliament-Funkadelic’s music, she stressed, was a source of inspiration not just for the way it layers sounds but for how it celebrates “the full spectrum of blackness.” Since graduating, Halsey, 31, has been creating densely textured installations that reference the urban detritus, trauma, and optimism associated…

Sauntering into a photo shoot at her New York office, a bemused smile on her face, the architect Elizabeth Diller, who last year was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people, is a picture of coolness. That is, until she puts on her eyeglasses for a portrait, only to find that they are totally crooked. The photographer Brigitte Lacombe proclaims them “charming,” but Diller quickly discards them. “I fell asleep with them on,” she explains, laughing. Given the dizzying number of high-profile projects that her architecture firm, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, currently has on its plate, that’s understandable. In New York alone, these include the $400 million expansion of the Museum of Modern Art, set to be unveiled this fall; a public art space called the Spur that…

A few minutes before my interview with NAOMI SCOTT, the 26-year-old Londoner who plays Princess Jasmine in the new live-action version of Aladdin, I get a call from the director Guy Ritchie that puts me on alert. Ritchie isn’t generally the type to offer up immoderate praise, but on the subject of Scott he gushes with abandon. “Naomi is something of a nuclear reactor when it comes to radiating generosity and talent,” he says, adding that her natural charisma is downright “intergalactic.” So of course I’m prepared for a letdown when Scott turns up that morning at a West Hollywood restaurant. What if her allure is merely interplanetary? But shortly after she settles into a corner booth, wearing a white top and chunky boots, I start to see what Ritchie…

Before the 33-year-old British designer Daniel Lee became the creative director of Bottega Veneta last year, replacing Tomas Maier, he was at Celine, working under Phoebe Philo as the director of ready-to-wear. No wonder, then, that Lee’s debut pre-fall collection was streamlined and sensual, with strokes of elevated weirdness. In his hands, the house’s quiet craftsmanship got a one-two punch: Leather pieces assumed a utilitarian toughness; intrecciato woven bags took outsize proportions; and many of the men’s and women’s coats, trousers, and shorts were virtually indistinguishable from each other. It was a gender-fluid spirit that, for a “sleeping giant” of a brand, as Lee described it, felt young, fresh, and entirely of the moment.…

HANNE GABY ODIELE Since being discovered at a music festival 15 years ago, the Belgian model Hanne Gaby Odiele has walked pretty much every designer catwalk there is. More recently, she’s become a tireless advocate for interACT, a nonprofit organization that promotes human rights for children who, like her, were born with intersex traits. “For me, it was very important to share my story,” she says. “Being intersex hasn’t stopped me from doing anything at all.” Compared to her celebrated bold street style, the model’s off-duty beauty routine is pared down. “Maybe if I come home from work with a great statement makeup look, I will keep it on for the night,” she says. The best part about the giant glittery eyes that Odiele rocks here? “They’re actually stickers, so…

“People always ask me if my parents were hippies,” says the English actress Nell Tiger Free about her decidedly unusual name. “They definitely weren’t. ‘Free’ is actually my dad’s last name, and I got my middle name because my mom said that being pregnant with me felt like carrying a tiger. I guess I was fierce and restless in there.” Growing up southwest of London, Free—the daughter of a yoga teacher and a corporate recruiter—was constantly bouncing off the walls. “I was driving my mother insane, so she sent me to a Saturday school for singing and dancing just to blow off some steam,” Free, now 19, recalls. “I ended up getting scouted.” She nailed her first big audition, for the part of Princess Myrcella Baratheon in Game of Thrones,…

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Several times over the past year, HENRY GOLDING has been struck by the peculiar turns his life has taken. One morning not long ago, for instance, he was in Los Angeles, strolling through West Hollywood in black jeans, a black T-shirt, and black shades, a faint spray of black scruff across his cheeks. Having flown in from his home in Singapore two days earlier, he was a bit caffeine starved and entered an airy little coffee joint to grab an iced cappuccino. When he reached for his wallet, the cashier blushed, grinned, blushed some more; she seemed, for an awkward few seconds, to have lost the ability to speak. Once she found her voice, she informed Golding that his drink was on the house. “Because you’re amazing!” she exclaimed. “I just…

If you talk to any musician who’s made a record at Mission Sound, the Brooklyn music studio, chances are you’ll hear stories about a precocious little girl named Mikaela Straus. By the time she was 8 years old, the self-described studio rat (her father, Oliver Straus, is the place’s owner) was spending her after-school hours hanging with indie musicians like Arctic Monkeys and Cat Power, providing commentary on their songs, whether they asked for it or not. Soon she was doing background vocals for some of the bands, and at 11 she was taking meetings with Virgin Records. Offered the main singing role in an animated series the label was developing, Mikaela surprised everyone by turning it down. “I was a ballsy kid, but I knew I wasn’t ready,” she…

Early last year, when the Italian curator Milovan Farronato found out that he’d been nominated for the plum job of overseeing his country’s pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale, he was surprised. “I’ve never really had an institutional profile,” says Farronato, who’s made his name curating ephemeral exhibitions and festivals in out-of-the-way spots. What didn’t surprise him was that he had won the subsequent competition, beating out nine other nominees. “I thought I did a good job on my proposal,” he says with a shrug and a wry smile. Based in London, Farronato, 45, is used to going his own way. As the director of the Fiorucci Art Trust, for which he and the founder, Nicoletta Fiorucci, conceived the annual Volcano Extravaganza, a summer artistic gathering held on the volcanic…

Hedi Slimane prefers to play his cards close to his vest, so it’s hard to know exactly what he’s thinking. But the man likes his music, and he clearly let his song choice speak for him at the fall women’s-wear show for Celine, his second for the French brand: “J’ai un plan pour te garder.” Sung over and over in a playful woman’s voice, the message—“I have a plan to keep you”—seemed directed toward those who had criticized him for dropping the logo’s accent aigu and forgoing the 74-year-old house’s bourgeois history in favor of his own signature youthful rock ’n’ roll aesthetic. Indeed, he does have a plan, and not just when it comes to the clothes, which were pure 1970s Parisian chic, and the highlight of Fashion Week.…

Ellie Bamber Few people get to know one legendary designer, let alone two in quick succession—but Ellie Bamber did just that, walking in Chanel’s Métiers d’Art show in Paris shortly after her role in Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals put her on everyone’s rising-talents list. Both Ford and Karl Lagerfeld, Bamber observes, treated clothes in an extremely exacting way, using them to tell a story. “I also try to reflect my moods when I get dressed,” she says. “I wear a Chanel item almost every day, whether it’s just a bag or earrings, even with trainers. Karl was very good at updating tradition with a buzz of youth.” And yet, when it came time for her to hit the runway, Bamber found herself shaking with nerves. “Karl came to me and…