Innehållsförteckning för Winter 2024 från Vogue

I DON’T REMEMBER WHEN I first met Sienna. She’s one of those people you feel you’ve known forever. She has that effect—so warm and open, it’s effortless becoming her close friend. And once you’re in her world, it’s a happy whirlwind. I’ll never forget visiting her tiny downtown hotel room before the Met Gala back in 2006. I found myself surrounded by an avalanche of beautiful clothes and empty suitcases. I could barely make sense of it, but in an instant she’d picked out a gold, very short, drop-dead-chic Burberry dress (at a time when not many people were wearing very short, drop-dead-chic dresses to the Met), and off we went. Her style is innate. It’s part of who she is. But that we’ve always known. The source of the…

When I was about seven or so—still barely aware of having an appearance—a friend brought to school a fashion magazine she had stolen from her mother and, pointing to the models, patiently explained that this was the way to look. Later that day, alone in the bathroom, I scrutinized myself. My face was okay, I decided; as soon as the freckles faded away, I could even give this modeling thing a shot. I remain endeared by the thought of that moon-faced, potbellied kid giving herself the once-over and concluding that the smattering of freckles was all that stood between her and a career on the runways. Ironically, 25 years later, my freckles are about the only physical trait I do share with models. Chloe Oh says that in high school…

Table of Contents: 22: On Usher: jacket and pants; willychavarria.com. Ami tank top; amiparis.com. On Murphy: jacket, skirt, and sandals; miumiu.com. Tailor: Susie Kourinian. Cover Look: 22: Sweater; gabrielahearst.com. Victoria’s Secret briefs. Manicurist: Yuko Tsuchihashi. Tailor: Matthew Neff at Carol Ai Studio. Editor’s Letter: 26: Top left photo: On Miller: jacket, tank top, and pants; stellamccartney.com. David Yurman hoop earrings; davidyurman.com. On Green: Ami coat; amiparis.com. Top left: Manicurist: Yuko Tsuchihashi. Tailor: Matthew Neff at Carol Ai Studio. Contributors: 28: Top right: Gucci jumpsuit, shoes, and necklace; gucci.com. Hair, Benjamin Muller; makeup, Kali Kennedy. Manicurist: Maria Cristina Fidanza. Tailor: Giulia Polverelli. Bottom: Wardrobe team: Alan Bennett and Jessica Simons. Hair/wigs team: Marcia Baird, Ashley Wise, and Anita Solomon. Makeup: Kirk Cambridge-Del Pesche and Jaylene Ogle. SIENNA IN BLOOM 46–47: Gown;…

Caught Up For the pictures accompanying “The MVP” (page 60)—Alessandra Codinha’s profile of Usher Raymond IV as he gears up for both the Super Bowl LVIII halftime show and the release of his ninth album, Coming Home—Vogue contributing fashion editor Max Ortega and photographer Campbell Addy (seen above) went to Las Vegas, where they shot Usher with model Carolyn Murphy; his dog, Scarlett; a flurry of Ush Bucks; and several adorable members of the local Jr Gaels 6U football team. In short, the session was “a dream,” says Addy. Journey to Italy Last fall, as Gucci prepared to move its design office to Milan, Sabato De Sarno, the Italian house’s new creative director, invited Jason Horowitz into his art-filled apartment in Rome’s Renaissance quarter (see “Renaissance Man,” page 70). Meanwhile,…

Bottega Veneta bag Extra, extra! Bottega Veneta’s latest bag in the maison’s signature intrecciato is not quite what it seems: Bits of newspaper clippings feature in the handbag’s woven construction, but of course it’s actually not newspaper at all. Creative director Matthieu Blazy et al. have printed bits and bobs of Italian press on to strips of leather and added a little rectangular pouchette splashed with headlines. (The rolled paper here, meanwhile, is just for show.) It’s quite literally news you can use.…

J.J. Martin is sitting cross-legged on the floor of the Broome Street Ganesha Temple, clad in a La DoubleJ patchwork ensemble that includes a pullover with sleeves that devolve into a welter of yellow feathers. Across from her sits her “sister,” a spiritual guide whose own La DoubleJ outfit—in bright orange—is only slightly quieter. “Calling our families of light,” Martin intones. “Opening up our channels, beyond the mind, the body, beyond this dimension, clearing our chakras.” I am crouched on a chair, my chakras no doubt hopelessly clogged, observing. Martin is the American founder of La DoubleJ, the exuberant Milan-based line of clothing and home goods. From its inception, her designs have relied on big, bold prints in easy shapes—the silk “swing” dresses boast blown-out blossoms; her ponchos reference abstract…

Dolly Alderton is something of a modern-day Nora Ephron, bringing a fresh and mordant perspective to the eternal struggle between the sexes. Her last novel, Ghosts, had the inscrutable male psyche as its subject; her new novel, Good Material (Knopf), tells the story of a breakup from a tortured male perspective. Its narrator, Andy, is a London comic in his mid-30s who, recently abandoned by his more corporate-minded girlfriend, finds himself having to redefine his place in the world among his coupled-up peers. He has the instinct (if not the perspective, in his lovelorn state) that—as Ephron would have put it—everything is copy, and the book finds the amusing angle in even the most poignant moments. Carrie Sun is the kind of epic overachiever that in a previous era might…

From certain high perches in Henderson, Nevada, where made-to-order modernist mansions bloom across the terraced mountain ranges, the city of Las Vegas unfurls below you like a magic carpet. On a recent fall afternoon, Usher Raymond IV, the 45-year-old artist known the world over simply as Usher, took in the view from the head of his outdoor dining table, his goldendoodle, Scarlett, asleep at his feet. “When is the last time you looked in a mirror and really looked at yourself?” he asks. That morning, I say. “When you looked in that mirror, did you tell yourself you loved yourself? Did you tell yourself that you forgive yourself?” Reader, I had. But only because when we spoke the prior afternoon Usher had suggested it. “I did, too, this morning,” he…