Indholdsfortegnelse for Volume 2, 2022 i W Magazine

Este, Alana, and Danielle Haim Models and collaborators, “The Annual Balboa Gold Rush and Fashion Bazaar” (page 102) Did you stage any memorable photo shoots when you were kids? There’s one infamous Haim sisters photo shoot we did after Este won a digital camera in a school raffle. We took “model” shots in our backyard. The photos were awkward. Needless to say, we still don’t know what to do with our hands in photos. What was the first image that served as a source of inspiration for you? Kate Moss at Glastonbury in 2005. Which film has made you cry? Moonlight. Which film gives you nightmares? Mean Girls. Jack Davison and Denis Villeneuve Photographer and director, “Future Human” (page 120) Who do you think is an underrated Hollywood legend, and…

As one of the great studio photographers of the 20th century, Robert Mapplethorpe has had his storied life played out ad nauseum. And yet, despite Mapplethorpe’s notoriety, his jewelry designs—an important part of his creative output that predates his photography—remain criminally overlooked. “He was fascinated with adornment, especially jewelry, which he made from an early age,” says Michael Stout, Mapplethorpe’s former lawyer and the president of the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. “And he was always very interested in expanding his artistic imprint into the world of fashion.” Mapplethorpe, who died of AIDS in 1989, may finally be getting his wish. Next month, at the behest of the foundation, Gaia Repossi, the creative director of the eponymous third-generation company, unveils 10 new high jewelry pieces inspired by Mapplethorpe’s originals from the early…

On a sunny afternoon in Madrid, around 1992, a girl in her late teens had just washed her long, dark hair. She was an aspiring actress who had recently made her screen debut in a coming-of-age film (which also starred her future husband, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves), and for as long as she could remember, she had wanted to work with Pedro Almodóvar. She had even dreamed of him at night—in one nocturnal imagining, she searched Madrid for Almodóvar and found him, finally, in a bar. When their eyes locked, it was love at first sight. But that was just a dream. The girl had repeatedly told her friends and family about her Almodóvar fixation. She had seen his films multiple times, especially Tie Me Up! Tie…

Maggie Gyllenhaal is standing behind the camera monitor, her gray eyes wide and focused. “This one is so cinematic!” she says of a photo of herself styled like Sean Young in Blade Runner. Gyllenhaal is wearing a sharp-cornered black and red Saint Laurent dress, standing beside the large freight elevator at the Highline Stages in New York, which is doubling as a set backdrop for the final look of the day for her W cover shoot. Two weeks earlier, Gyllenhaal and her elder daughter had watched Blade Runner for the first time. “I liked the idea of a dystopian noir,” says Gyllenhaal, noting the strangeness of starring in the shoot as well as directing it. “I thought, Maybe it’s all kind of a character, different characters.” The smell of hairspray,…

The Directors Issue, now in its fourth iteration, is one of my favorite annual projects to work on as an editor. At W, we always collaborate with the best fashion photographers, but once a year, we get to work with the greatest film directors in the world. It is a special treat. We started in October with Pedro Almodóvar, who invited me, Editor at Large Lynn Hirschberg (who first wrote about Almodóvar in 2004, around the time his film Bad Education premiered), Visuals and Content Director Alexandra Ben-Gurion, and Senior Style Editor Allia Alliata di Montereale to his hotel room while he was in New York to screen his newest film, Parallel Mothers, at the New York Film Festival. It came as no surprise that Almodóvar wanted to pay tribute…

The feeling of anxiety is visible, almost palpable. A woman sits in an upholstered chair in a simple room where golden curtains are pulled back to reveal a pine forest. But inside and out, animals have taken over. Above her head, a large white hobbyhorse is lurching through the air, perhaps chasing the white horse running through the forest outside. Next to her stands a hyena that seems to be lactating. And the woman has an animalistic edge as well, with hair like a lion’s mane and pointy black leather ankle boots that echo the hyena’s claws. Both hyena and woman stare directly at us. This self-portrait, painted by the British-born artist and writer Leonora Carrington around 1938, before her crippling paranoia led her to a psychiatric hospital in Spain,…

Matthew M. Williams’s spring 2022 show for Givenchy started with black and ended with white. Both looks—the opening one a tough neoprene number with a bustier and a zippered front; the finale a cascade of soft ribs, razor-sharp pleats, and amoeba-esque eyelets—were paradigms of the design vocabulary that Williams has been perfecting for years: vigorously technical, sexy, and serious all at once. But across many of the 70-something ensembles between the two, some very unexpected elements appeared. On a glowing oval runway, a parade of black gave way to shades of red, camel, lilac, and pistachio. Some models carried chain-strap purses shaped like antifreeze canisters and gallon bottles of bleach; others wore jeans covered in basketballs with jack-o’-lantern faces. A series of knits featured a shadowy figure in a cloak…

AT A HOUSE IN THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY, Paul Thomas Anderson, the writer-director of Boogie Nights, Magnolia, and, most recently, the coming-of-age comedy Licorice Pizza, which has been nominated for three Oscars, was setting up a photograph of his newest star, Alana Haim, next to an icy blue, kidney-shaped pool. This ranch-style house, which Anderson owns but does not live in, was built in 1951 and has been lovingly preserved: The kitchen has bright yellow floral wallpaper and knotty pine cabinets; the wall-size fireplace is made of slabs of granite; and the window seats, which span the outer border of the living room, are turquoise cotton rectangles. Like Licorice Pizza, which is set in 1973, the house recalls the scenic charms of California’s past, a history that endlessly intrigues Anderson. “My…

Grace Coddington & Nicolas Ghesquière first met in 2000, when she was the creative director at Vogue and he was a young designer starting to make waves in the Paris fashion world. The setting: a Steven Meisel photo shoot in an abandoned classroom at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, in which Ghesquière appeared alongside other up-and-coming designers who were, as the story’s headline put it, “Changing the Course of Fashion.” Ghesquière remembers, after getting over the awe of finally meeting Coddington, “falling in love right away.” The pair shared a meal after the shoot and have remained friends ever since, collaborating on countless editorials and even on a pet-themed accessories capsule collection for Louis Vuitton. Coddington, 80, is now an independent stylist, and Ghesquière, 50, is the artistic director at Louis…

For Kate and Laura Mulleavy, the sisters behind Rodarte, the parties that follow their biannual runway shows are just as important as the romantic, red carpet–ready looks they design each season. “A party lets you take that experience and put it in perspective,” Laura says. The brand, which the duo started in 2005, when Laura was 24 and Kate was 25, has become a favorite of Kirsten Dunst, Chloë Sevigny, and Elle Fanning—close friends of the sisters who wear Rodarte dresses at premieres and house parties with equal ease. “When you look back on what fulfills you, it’s not necessarily just the tangible things that you’ve made,” Laura says. “In a way, you remember the process and your interactions with people more.”…

“My father had a book obsession,” says the art dealer Victoire de Pourtalès, touring the overstuffed library in the main Louis XVI–style manor at the Château du Marais, an imposing gold-stone confection on her family’s sprawling ancestral estate outside Paris. Portraits of her illustrious forebears line the walls of a nearby reception room designed for entertaining. “For me, this is such a happy place. It has a great energy,” she says. The property, where de Pourtalès spent the first years of her life, is only an hour’s drive from the city, past Orly airport, but seems a thousand miles from anywhere, with its 247 acres of rolling farmland and deep forest, and water on all sides (“marais” translates to “swamp”). De Pourtalès grew up swimming in its 1,800-foot-long reflecting pool.…

A BEING ARRIVES ON PLANET EARTH to investigate the ruins of a cliffside home in Malibu. Silver reflective orbs levitate around her. A pair of hawks swarms the mountains in the distance. Shimmering and statuesque, she stands, arms outstretched, face toward the warmth of the sun. This mythical, alien figure is embodied by someone who is larger than life in her own right: Zendaya. The actress has had a whirlwind year, appearing in Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Dune and in her third Spider-Man film, and stepping back into the shoes of Rue, the teenage addict on Euphoria, for the HBO series’ highly anticipated second season. But here, she poses for a still image, waving her arms up and around her for photographer Jack Davison, with direction from Villeneuve. As Villeneuve…