Vogue October 2023

THE ASSIGNMENT CLEARLY STRUCK a chord. For years Annie Leibovitz and I have exchanged ideas for Vogue, and these are some of my favorite conversations. She always has such a clear vision of how to shoot a subject, or there’s a fantasy fashion portfolio already forming in her mind. And the idea I raised, of Kate Winslet on our cover as the legendary midcentury photographer Lee Miller, who Winslet was finally portraying in a film she’d been working on for years, clearly electrified Annie. As it had me. I’d been in touch with Winslet about Lee for a long time. Lee Miller famously became a war correspondent for Vogue during WWII, and so her history—one of adventure, restless creativity, and courage—was intertwined with ours. Winslet wanted to tell Miller’s story…

The Real Deal For “Good Press” (page 136), a preview of the Broadway-bound Gutenberg! The Musical!, menswear editor Michael Philouze and photographer Stefan Ruiz found the perfect place to capture stars Andrew Rannells and Josh Gad. Their show—opening this month at the James Earl Jones Theatre—is about two friends, Bud and Doug, who have written a musical about Johannes Gutenberg, inventor of the movable-type printing press, “without knowing much about him,” Philouze explains. So, he thought, why not find the actors an actual press? Cut to the South Street Seaport Museum, where printing paraphernalia from the 19th and early 20th centuries is still in operation—and where Rannells and Gad had no trouble making a joyful scene. A Sense of Occasion “My hope in styling a very visible public servant is…

Omega Farm sits on top of a hill, the highest point in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, with sweeping views over fields and farms, the Sourland Mountains unfurling in the distance to meet a big and open sky. When you sit on the deck the sun rises on your right, just beyond a barn and another field and chicken run, a rooster crowing. The sun sets in spectacular fashion across the valley. The midday heat, which comes on hard and thick in July, is cut in half by a canopy of enormous oaks and ash. So complete is the canopy that a satellite image on Google shows only trees—no house. There are neighbors. There is mail and package delivery, the mailbox at the bottom of a long gravel driveway, but somehow…

In letters inviting friends to her Sussex home, Virginia Woolf would often sign off with a simple directive: “Bring no clothes.” Not that she was expecting them to arrive naked—although, given the famously tangled love lives of the Bloomsbury group, her aristocratic band of early-20th-century British creatives, that wouldn’t be entirely outside the realm of possibility. She merely meant that visitors should come as they were. Woolf ’s words, writer and curator Charlie Porter argues in the exhibition “Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and Fashion” and its lively accompanying book, reflected a broader shift—from the stuffy corsets of Victorian England to the free-spirited bohemianism embodied by Bloomsbury. (The trust that oversees Charleston, the former home of Woolf’s sister Vanessa Bell and her partner, painter Duncan Grant, is behind the show, which…

It’s a baking hot summer evening in Connecticut, and Chloë Sevigny is preparing to try on a shoe. She’s spending the week with her mother and her threeyear-old son while her husband, gallerist Siniša Mačković, travels to an art fair. “I thought it would be more fun than single-parenting in the city for a week,” Sevigny says with a wink from her brother’s bedroom, where she’s illuminated only by the glow of her iPhone screen over FaceTime. From a powder pink box, with all the ceremony of a white-gloved art handler appraising a masterpiece, Sevigny lifts a pair of brogues in lacquered tobacco leather. The piece is the product of a new collaboration between Miu Miu and British shoe manufacturer Church’s: Available as either a lace-up or a monk strap,…

I love fashion, and I love drawing clothing,” says the rising art star Drake Carr. In early 2023, members of Carr’s extended family—everyone from stylist Dara Allen to downtown artist Rose Mori to club luminary “Connie Girl” Fleming to the models Karlie Kloss and Pat Cleveland—showed up in all their rarefied glory to have their portraits drawn by Carr during his ad hoc residency at the studio of his friend, the photographer Ethan James Green. Carr’s drawings, paintings, and installations, at once unblinking and delicate, have an uncanny ability to distill the essence of his subjects. In an age of AI, where we are increasingly victims of bland manufactured content, the defiantly handmade quality of Carr’s work is subtly rebellious. As his friend Green puts it: “He manages to capture…