Innehållsförteckning för Volume 6, 2021 från W Magazine

Jack Pierson and Tommy Kha Photographers, “A Change of Perspective” (page 62) What is your definition of family? Tommy Kha: It shifts a lot. There’s a lot of Asian collectivism I’m still unpacking, while trying to be my own self outside of this notion. So much of my family is also made up of my closest friends. How are you celebrating the holidays this year? TK: Spending time with my gran. What is the most memorable gift you’ve ever received? TK: A metal luggage tag in the shape of Mississippi that I was given during my research into the Mississippi Delta Chinese community. It features symbolic pieces of their identity within the American South. Helena Tejedor Stylist, “All in the Family” (page 70) What is your definition of family? Unconditional…

If the strength of a family could be measured by its hospitality alone, there would be no greater dynasty than that of Missoni founder Rosita Missoni and her two remaining children, Angela and Luca. Rarely does a Fashion Week pass without a lavish bacchanal at one of their residences in Milan or the nearby town of Brunello. “We were brought up liking gatherings,” says Angela, the fashion label’s creative director from 1997 to this spring, when she stepped aside from designing. (Luca is artistic director of the Missoni Archive.) “The nice thing about when we entertain, even when it’s just family and not for work, is that every age is invited. It’s always been transgenerational.” As it happened, we reached Rosita and Angela during a three-week mother-daughter tour of Egypt…

My dad is a uniform guy, and has been for longer than I’ve been alive. When I was a kid, I used to show my friends his closet as a gag, joking that it looked like something out of The Twilight Zone. Each drawer contains dozens of the exact same shirt, sweater, and sock; each hanger sports an identical navy Comme des Garçons suit (or one re-created by a tailor in Shanghai; he panicked when the brand stopped making that particular cut). In the 1980s and ’90s, he would add a bowtie to his daily ensemble, always a subtle pattern against the same shade of bordeaux. That last bit, in all its jaunty professorial glory, became a symbol for the man himself. Someone once bought him a needlepoint pillow in…

Manicure by Anaïs Cordevant for Dior at Agence Saint Germain. Model: Lais Hames at Elite Paris. Set design by Henri Pier at WorldPlus.…

Hair by Damien Boissinot for René Furterer at Art + Commerce; makeup by Christelle Cocquet at Calliste; manicure by Sylvie Vacca at Streeters. Models: Raynara Negrine at Industry NY; Victoria Fawole at the Claw; Greta Hofer at the Society; Alix Bouthors at Apparence; Sofia Hansson at Nisch Management; Quinn Mora at Premier Model Management. Casting by Michelle Lee at Michelle Lee Casting.…

Your confessional, comedic videos of you drinking iced coffees while shopping in SoHo and cutting your own hair have earned you more than 10 million subscribers on YouTube. The New York Times even went as far as to say you single-handedly “changed the world of online video.” I’m curious how someone with those credentials defines originality. It’s near impossible to create something completely from scratch. What makes something original comes down to whether or not it feels distinctly different than anything that has been done before. The musician Mac DeMarco is a great example of someone who is truly original. He has taken little pieces of music he admires and combined them with his own innovative ideas to create a sound that is so uniquely his. You recently attended Paris…

Louise Nevelson was arguably her own most special creation. A towering figure of 20th-century art, the American sculptor is remembered as much for her theatrical ensembles as for her trailblazing, room-size installations. While Nevelson, who died in 1988, routinely adorned herself in piles of jewelry collected from far-flung travels, less known is the fact that many of the totemic pieces she wore like talismans were designed and made by her in the last 25 years of her life. “These jewels were important mini sculptures,” says Arne Glimcher, the legendary New York art dealer and founder of Pace Gallery, which has represented Nevelson and her estate for 60 years. “I’m surprised it’s taken the fashion world so long to pay attention.” The wait is over, now that Celine’s Hedi Slimane has…

A sideways glance, the locking of eyes, a wink. Historically, that was the queer gaze: furtive, coded, clandestine. And now? In shows that sell out before they open, paintings by a group of emerging artists in New York have pulled back the curtain to let the public stare openly at queer carnality and domesticity. Same-sex intimacy no longer feels transgressive; it’s at the center of art world conversations. “The question is, will I sell the big landscape I made?” said Doron Langberg, 36, who is known for scrutinizing the male body as sensuously as Delacroix or Courbet depicted the female nude. “Because there is a movement in the art world to support queer content, something like a landscape might not sell.” At various Chelsea galleries last fall, Jenna Gribbon, 42,…

I’ve been profiling fashion houses for longer than I can remember, and nobody I’m close to has much cared—until I told a bestie with a closet full of marquee Belgians that I was going to Reggio Emilia, Italy, to write about Max Mara, to commemorate its 70th anniversary. “Girl,” she said, making a sound like she was dropping dead, “Max Mara is the best. So chic, easy to wear, well made. You put it on, and you’re good.” More or less the same rhapsody poured forth from every woman I talked to that week. Max Mara, a pragmatic label that specializes in executive suite–ready tailored separates, captivates women in a way that flightier fashion brands simply cannot. (The group includes eight subsidiary companies, the best known of which are Sportmax…

Hair by Dylan Chavles for Oribe at MA World Group; makeup by Raisa Flowers for MAC Cosmetics at EDMA; manicure by Eri Handa for Chanel Le Vernis at Home Agency. Model: Lexi Boling at Heroes New York. Casting by Michelle Lee at Michelle Lee Casting.…