Harper's Bazaar April 2025

I n 1965, legendary photographer Richard Avedon guest-edited the April issue of Harper’s Bazaar. The first cover line read, “What’s Happening?” A lot was happening then: The war in Vietnam was picking up, and so were protests against it; the civilrights movement was in full swing, and a few months later President Johnson would sign the Voting Rights Act into law; the space race was on. It was a time of great upheaval, change, and political polarization. To answer the question posed on the cover, Avedon, who was the sole photographer for the issue, assembled writers and artists like Tom Wolfe, James Baldwin, and Roy Lichtenstein. Sixty years later, America is again at the crossroads of change. Our civil rights are being threatened; our collective progress is being erased. We…

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Executive digital director LYNETTE NYLANDER REVIVES Diana Vreeland’s ICONIC COLUMN WHY DON’T YOU…DINE at a restaurant that doesn’t require a Resy strategy. Emancipate yourself from being offered 10:15 p.m. on a Tuesday three months from now. Go somewhere terminally unhip. Somewhere that’s old-school and proud of it. Somewhere you can simply walk into. The food will be cheaper. Your night will be better. You’ll be home by nine. WHY DON’T YOU…DECORATE your bed to the standards you would dress yourself for a night out. The same care and dedication should go into sourcing the very best wardrobe for where you spend a third of your life. Think of a pleated dust ruffle as your bed’s Prada skirt, its decorative throw pillows as an Hermès scarf, and a downy duvet cover as a…

WHY DON’T YOU…? Make it a GARDEN PARTY with a BOUQUET of ACCESSORIES.…

WHY DON’T YOU…? RAISE the BAR with GRAPHIC ACCESSORIES.…

Guess has long occupied its own special place in the pantheon of American denim. Founded in Los Angeles in 1981 by French brothers Georges, Maurice, Armand, and Paul Marciano, the brand developed a distinctive continental-Europe-by-way-of-California aesthetic that soon became a pop-cultural hallmark, with its slim-fit stonewashed Marilyn jeans and unmistakable black-and-white ads featuring the likes of Claudia Schiffer, Carla Bruni, and Anna Nicole Smith. It was a universe of images that projected a kind of undone glamour—and a vision of denim worlds away from its workwear roots. Since then, Guess has continued to make a splash, tapping people such as Jennifer Lopez, Gigi Hadid, and Hailey Bieber to showcase both its classic and newer cuts. Last year, it embarked on an ambitious next chapter, launching a new Guess Jeans…