Vogue August 2023

Show Time WHEREVER YOU WERE, HOWEVER YOU saw it, last year’s Vogue World was electrifying. Serena Williams on the heels of her triumphant US Open farewell, striding down our runway like the champion she is. The marathon runners that started it all, the dancers, the bikers, the models, and Lil Nas X giving us all a performance of joyful abandon. Vogue World was imagined as an event to lift the spirits of a pandemic-bruised New York. It did more than that. It lifted spirits everywhere. And so to London, where we have been planning a sequel. Vogue World will take place at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London’s West End on September 14, and like New York before it, the event will be live streamed around the world. If…

Field Day Capturing highlights from Daniel Lee’s debut collection as chief creative officer of Burberry, “Changing of the Guard” (page 64) required a very English backdrop—which photographer Scott Trindle and contributing fashion editor Tabitha Simmons discovered not 30 miles outside of London. “Tabitha had the idea to shoot in bluebell fields weeks before the shoot, wondering if they might pop in time,” Trindle says. “Sure enough, the timing was spot-on.” England still being England, however, it rained—and by the day’s end, Simmons reports, “we were knee-deep not only in bluebells, but also the mud!” Just for Kicks Ahead of the FIFA Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand this summer, where Team USA will vie for a history-making third consecutive title, Alessandra Codinha met four of American soccer’s most…

I was 11 and sitting alone in the guest room of the penthouse apartment that my parents owned in the San Remo, on Central Park West, when my world changed entirely. I had flown to New York with my mother, Demi Moore, and her partner at the time, Ashton Kutcher, for an event the night before. I had worn a mink capelet—I felt awfully grown-up and was very pleased with myself—and I wanted to see if my outfit had made the party pages of any of the style websites. So I opened my laptop and went to the usual places (this was the heyday of Perez Hilton; celebrity kids were fair game), and there I was in my tweenage awkwardness, standing beside my famously beautiful mom. Then I found my…

Watching instructional packing videos on YouTube isn’t so much going down a rabbit hole as stalking a forever-looping luggage carousel: utterly mesmerizing, but you’re forever waiting to take something away. It’s entirely possible to learn how to pack for a transcontinental trip with only a carry-on, but there’s always one thing missing: the emotional impulse that drives us to get dressed every day. That’s why we decided to ask three women—makeup artist Raisa Flowers, stylist Yohana Lebasi, and interior designer CeCe Barfield Thompson—to tell us how they’d go about packing only a Rimowa Original Cabin carry-on in a way that truly reflected their sense of style. RAISA FLOWERS Dealing with limited space does and doesn’t phase this makeup artist. “I always overpack, and my suitcase ends up being insane, but…

Inspired by the real correspondence and (extensive) diaries of Anne Lister—an English landowner often dubbed “the first modern lesbian”—and her erstwhile lover Eliza Raine, Learned By Heart (Little, Brown and Company) is Emma Donoghue’s richly imagined novelistic account of a 19th-century love affair. (Donoghue, the Booker Prize–winning author of Room, has also produced several significant works of historical fiction, including 2016’s The Wonder, recently adapted for Netflix.) Raine, the Madras-born daughter of an English surgeon, first meets the rule-flouting, Latin-spouting Lister at their small boarding school. With time, the intimacies of isolated schoolgirls yield to full-tilt desire. That first fire eventually sputters, but not without leaving behind some beautiful embers. Caroline O’Donoghue’s delightful novel, The Rachel Incident (Knopf), is narrated by a woman looking back at love affairs and friendships…

Fifty-seven Whitehall in London’s Westminster has had a long and storied history: Once the palace of the Tudors and the Stuarts, its time as a royal residence came to an abrupt end in 1698 when a servant set the building alight by hanging linens too close to the fire. By the end of the Victorian era, the British government was in desperate need of a new war office—the existing headquarters, located in Winchester House on St James’s Square, sat upon a cesspit so noxious that employees frequently caught “Winchester House sore throat.” A heroically imposing structure was then built on the Whitehall grounds to serve the British Armed Forces at the turn of the century. When WW I broke out, those quarters served as the base to defend the free…