Indholdsfortegnelse for Volume 4, 2019 i W Magazine

When historians look back at pop culture at the beginning of the 21st century, they will surely note that the music and entertainment industries were obsessed with youth, and that success was measured by one’s prominence on social media. Movies and theaters had gone out of fashion, and something that was generally still called TV but was not watched anymore on television screens was the dominant creative outlet. Indeed, television, the medium that hit its stride in the 1950s, is having a new golden age—even if most of us are streaming shows and videos on our laptops and smartphones. Traditional film studios are now competing with Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu, which are not only producing some of the most original content in years but also providing actors new and familiar…

Today’s top designers are a diverse lot, but their fall collections had a common thread. If there is one item to buy this season, they seemed to all suggest, it’s a suit. And then they each went their own way. The result is a wide-ranging survey of what tailoring ought to look like in 2019—and just in time, given that a record number of female candidates are running for president. Today, women don’t need a stiff pantsuit to empower them; they already have power. What they need is a way to express it in their own singular manner. (“Fuck, yeah!” as the artist Ashley Longshore, who is pictured in this portfolio, enthuses.) Those of us looking for something beyond a traditional, classic cut have a wealth of options to choose…

To just about any other Hollywood hopeful, Nico Parker’s career plan might sound a bit backward. Her very first experience with acting was starring opposite Colin Farrell and Danny DeVito in Tim Burton’s live-action Dumbo, which hit theaters this spring. She hopes, however, to one day fulfill her longtime dream of becoming a waitress. “I definitely want to act,” says the 14-year-old native Londoner, “but I also really want to work in a café. There was this film I watched all the time when I was 6 or 7, Barbie: Princess Charm School, and that’s what she did, and it just looked so fun.” Chalk up some of this thinking to naivete; Parker is, after all, barely a teenager. But as the daughter of the actress Thandie Newton and the…

Opening a museum in New York, a city that already boasts nearly 150 of them, is a move so bold that it rarely happens. “It’s kind of a stupid thing to do, isn’t it?” asks Jan Broman, who is nevertheless doing just that, with his brother, Per, this September, with the opening of Fotografiska New York, a photography museum on Park Avenue South, in Manhattan. (It’s the same space that the fraudster wannabe socialite Anna Sorokin, aka Anna Delvey, claimed she was developing as a cultural center.) Since the siblings founded the original Fotografiska, in their native Stockholm, in 2010, the museum has drawn over 4 million visitors; this past June, they opened an outpost in Estonia, and after New York they plan to launch in London and Shanghai. The…

If you were to rely primarily on Google and Instagram to form your opinion of Leslie Cohen Amon, chances are you’d start out with the wrong impression. Her online footprint includes the website for her successful swimwear line, Leslie Amon, which affirms that she and her friends can generally be found “on the cliffs of Il Pellicano or lounging poolside at Cala di Volpe.” Sprinkled around the Web are photos of Amon engaging in various forms of jet-set idleness with Giambattista Valli and other BFFs. In one shot, Amon is riding a white horse under a series of giant crystal chandeliers while surrounded by a group of people dressed as 18th-century French courtiers. It was taken during her 2017 wedding reception—at the Château de Versailles. Okay, the image of Amon…

Hair stylist Tina Outen used the playful prairie girls on Batsheva’s fall 2019 runway as a springboard for the fanciful look shown here. “I envisioned an adventurer making her way in the world, collecting souvenirs and using them as hair charms,” she says. To introduce volume and color to model Olivia Vinten’s locks, Outen added extensions in shades of sunburnt gold, yellow, copper, red, and purple. Next she worked in a dab of Bumble and bumble Don’t Blow It (H)air Styler for shine and hold, and wove large pieces of hair into loose, chunky, almost-misshapen plaits. The stylist then added whimsical trinkets collected on her own travels, including a rose badge from London, a cactus from Miami, beads from Barcelona, a Hawaiian lei, a fairy from her Christmas tree, and…

The provenance of the wide-brimmed fur fedora is a dubious one. I’m no historian, but I imagine it first emerged on a street corner, sometime in the 1970s, atop a colorful and rather suspect character with a cane, a Cadillac, and a name like Sammy Dynamite. Pamela Anderson, daredevil that she is, cheekily subverted the style with her own enormous bubblegum pink fedora, worn with a bustier and heavy blue eyeshadow, at the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards—a look that was in turn co-opted by Kim Kardashian for a Halloween bash last year. But it wasn’t until Tom Ford, who makes everything he touches feel sexy and rich, sent a series of pastel faux-fur toppers down his fall runway, that the classic pimp hat seemed truly cool again. Pictured here…