Vogue April 2025

GIGI HADID IS SOMEONE VOGUE has grown up with. As she’s appeared in our pages again and again, we’ve watched her become the woman she is with affection and even something like awe. She was a teenager during her first shoot for this title, in images that paid homage to Peter Lindbergh’s cover of Michaela Bercu in jeans and Christian Lacroix from 1988. (I have a personal connection to that amazing photograph, of course; it marked my own arrival at Vogue.) Gigi had only started modeling that year—2014—and we knew her more as the bemused daughter of Yolanda Hadid on reality television than as a working fashion model. But her ascent would be swift. One could count the Vogue covers (Gigi has six), but there’s so much more she’s accomplished:…

The Big Picture “We were really after the essence of Sarah, both as a performer and when she’s just herself,” says photographer Jesse Lizotte. He’s referring to the actress Sarah Snook—pictured above in a Prada sweater and Max Mara pants—who, two years after hanging up her corporate-chic suiting as Shiv Roy on HBO’s Succession, makes her Broadway debut this spring in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. (Read all about that whirlwind of a show in Hannah-Rose Yee’s “Into the Wild,” page 90.) Working with sittings editor Kaila Matthews in the Australian countryside, Snook made it all very easy. “She’s incredibly warm and down-to-earth,” Lizotte says. A Man for All Seasons To mark the arrival of a sprawling new David Hockney exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris—set…

As I ascend the staircase at the Moschino offices near Milan’s stazione centrale, I’m greeted by a headless Greek statue resembling a Venus de Milo wearing black stockings—a set piece from a late-’80s advertising campaign sculpted in my childhood memory. When creative director Adrian Appiolaza took over the brand in January 2024, he placed the statue at the building’s entrance—and used the vintage campaign image in his first show. Upstairs, Appiolaza, with a slightly mischievous smile, welcomes me into a large, bright room filled with the 40 or so ’80s and ’90s Moschino pieces that inspired his recent work. There’s a smiley yellow leather jacket from 1992; a shirt with the archangel Gabriel exclaiming “Yo, Mary!” in Neapolitan dialect from 1994; another jacket from 1993 embroidered with a childlike drawing…

I was inverted in the cavelike yoga studio at Hume, the almost alarmingly chic new Los Angeles fitness club in Venice, considering my pedicure, when one of my classmates asked what I was doing after. “A few of us are going to sauna, cold plunge, and then get matchas on the roof,” she said. I told her I’d catch up after my massage. “Ooh,” she said. “Ask about a B₁₂ shot, and then come join.” I might as well—I wasn’t going anywhere. For as long as humanity has liked to sweat, we have liked to do it together. See: the Greek palaestra, Turkish baths, the YMCA, the contemporary preponderance of workout-minded meetups. And really, all with good reason: Studies have shown that community and social connection are as important for…

Katie Kitamura writes with a spare, economical efficiency, but that doesn’t limit the complexity of her characters or the dynamics she depicts. Like Lisa Halliday’s Asymmetry or Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies, Audition (Riverhead) is divided into sections with distinctly different perspectives—each ricocheting off the other to make you wonder how we assemble narrative and understand truth. In the first portion, a young man appears in the life of a middle-aged actress, convinced that he is her son. The second depicts a reality in which he actually is her son. The unsettling pendulum swing catches you off guard—the mark of truly exciting fiction. Vincenzo Latronico’s Perfection (NYRB) is the first book from the Italian author to be translated into English, but it undoubtedly won’t be the last. This delightfully cutting satire…

We love the chase!” Kerry Taylor, founder of Kerry Taylor Auctions, is crowing about acquiring a 17th-century gentleman’s ruff, but she’s equally excited about a 1960s Rudi Gernreich Kite dress that is about to go on the block. For the past four decades, the London-based Taylor has been a one-woman vintage whirlwind. After joining Sotheby’s in 1980, fresh out of art college, she spent the next 23 years there before striking out on her own—and the history of her business could serve as a primer to the rise in desirability, value, and prices of collectible fashion. It wasn’t always thus. “It never used to make any money,” she says, laughing. But how things have changed: An iconic Saint Laurent Mondrian dress from 1965 sold in one of Taylor’s early auctions…