Innehållsförteckning för Volume 6, 2022 från W Magazine

Grace Coddington Stylist, “Let’s Hear It for New York” (page 110) What’s your definition of family? Some humans and some animals. What’s your favorite holiday tradition? Eating Joe’s Stone Crab on Christmas Eve, going to the movies, and then eating more Joe’s Stone Crab for Christmas Day lunch! Do you have family recipes you enjoy making? Potatoes dauphinoise—it’s so rich and creamy and gives you that incredibly guilty feeling. What’s the most memorable gift you’ve ever received? An Edward Weston silver print of a cat. Bobby Doherty Photographer, “Gift Guide” (page 48) What’s your definition of family? My dad and my sisters and relatives. What’s the most memorable gift you’ve ever received? One year my dad bought a special drill and made a bunch of holes in different cool rocks…

Newlyweds Lauren Rodriguez Hall, a fashion designer and art director, and Chase Hall, an artist, just moved into a Los Angeles home together. “Our house is full of tchotchkes, so we have lots of fun things to look at. But I’ll open a drawer to start cooking, and I’ll be like, Oh, we don’t have a spatula,” Lauren says. The couple have been splitting their time between L.A. and New York City for years, but until now, they’ve usually stayed with friends and family while on the West Coast for the holidays. “This is the first time that we’ll have our own tree,” Chase says. “It’s exciting to think about nesting more seriously.” Their Christmas routine usually involves a morning at the beach for some surfing and a long walk…

the concept of work-life balance is an alien one to Evanie Frausto. “My work is my biggest passion—it’s my whole life,” says the Brooklyn-based hairstylist. “I have a railroad-type apartment, and half of it is devoted to my hair studio. If I had a separate workspace, I would never be home.” This dedication to his craft could explain why the fast-rising star has become a favorite collaborator of models like Bella Hadid and musicians like Beyoncé, whose upcoming video he worked on, and Lil Nas X, for whom he created the vertiginous pastel wigs in the musician’s “Montero (Call Me by Your Name)” video. For this story, Frausto and photographer Nadia Lee Cohen were inspired by vintage snaps of showgirls and performers in over-the-top hair and makeup. Frausto, whose parents…

The spinning wheel of a loading Zoom meeting finished its rotation, and a black box appeared on the screen with the name “Lisa Rinna” on the left-hand side. But when the camera finally turned on, it wasn’t the soap actress and Real Housewife who appeared, but her 21-year-old daughter, Amelia Gray. “Oh my god, does it say my mom’s name?” Gray asked with an embarrassed laugh. The New York–based model was calling from her parents’ house in Los Angeles, where she was decompressing after a fashion month during which she went from “another Bravo baby trying to make it in fashion” to a bona fide model. Between New York, Milan, London, and Paris, Gray proved her chops on nine runways, including the mud-covered one at Balenciaga. Originally, her sights had…

“Fantasy”…“Always Be My Baby”…“Butterfly”…we all have a favorite Mariah Carey song—at least everyone at W does. But when the weather starts to turn and Halloween pumpkins are traded in for Christmas wreaths, it’s suddenly all about “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” which has become a true holiday anthem since it was released in 1994. In a couple of long-ranging, late-night conversations (one of them from her bathtub!) with Contributing Features Writer Alex Hawgood, Carey speaks candidly about the personal and professional obstacles she’s faced in her multidecade career and the many barriers she’s broken (“It’s Mariah, Darling,” page 98). It’s a testament to the special place she has in our collective imagination that when Carey announced dates for her upcoming December concerts, they quickly sold out. As we…

“It’s all last-minute,” says the restaurateur Lori Chemla of her gifting philosophy. Not that she needs to worry—between her and her daughters, the family could open their own extremely chic gift shop. Lori is the cofounder of Carissa’s the Bakery, an East Hampton mainstay known for its artisanal bread and provisions; Alison is the designer behind Alison Lou, the colorful jewelry brand; and Lili is the founder of Leset, a set-dressing label that counts Gigi Hadid and Selena Gomez among its fans. For Alexandra, the founder of the art-tech start-up ArtBinder, sourcing gifts is a more considered process: “I’m not gonna gift them software, so I do put a decent amount of thought in,” she quips. The French-Tunisian-Jewish Chemla clan is based in New York City, where Alison, Alexandra, and…

Set design by Olivia Aine at ArtList.…

You’re cousins and the fourth-generation co-owners of Russ & Daughters, a New York institution known for supplying the city’s finest lox, caviar, bagels, and bialys, among other Jewish staples. The original store, on East Houston Street, has been open since 1914. Now you have multiple locations, plus a cookbook and a scripted television series on the horizon. What does originality mean to you? Josh Russ Tupper: For us, originality is staying true to who we are and what we do. These days, originality is nearly impossible—it’s cobbling together influences. But as owners of a 109-year-old business, we find it easier to maintain our traditions, which can be considered “the originals.” Niki Russ Federman: Originality, to me, is about letting things evolve and take on the patina of life. A Yiddish…

What to give the woman who has everything? It’s a question that consumed Pierre-François-Pascal Guerlain when he was tasked with creating a fragrance to commemorate Empress Eugénie’s marriage to Napoleon III, in 1853. While the perfumer got to work on blending notes of bergamot, lemon, neroli, and petitgrain, he turned to the master glassmaker Pochet du Courval to design a bottle that was as stylish and memorable as its spirited young recipient. Guerlain’s fragrance, Eau de Cologne Impériale, was presented in a distinctive flacon engraved with the emperor’s coat of arms and adorned with bees—a long-standing emblem of the French empire—hand-gilded with fine gold. Its cylindrical design was inspired by the Napoleon I column in the Place Vendôme in Paris, located just a spritz away from Guerlain’s first boutique. The…

A few years ago, Coperni cofounder Sébastien Meyer came upon the technology that sparked his vision for a spray-on dress. But it wasn’t until this year’s spring/summer 2023 runway show that he and Arnaud Vaillant, his partner in business and in life, decided to bring the idea to fruition. “It was the perfect moment, because the collection was a celebration of women—their bodies, their feelings, how they age, how they behave, how they’re strong, how they’re fragile,” Vaillant says. Yet, even after months of preparation with their friends Kevin Tekinel and Charles Levai, the creative directors of Maybe agency, followed by days of rehearsals leading up to the Paris Fashion Week performance, concerns loomed: Could they actually pull off the stunt, and even if they could, how would everyone respond?…

“During the year, our children always tell us Santa Claus doesn’t exist,” Valérie Messika says. “But when Christmas arrives, they say, ‘You know, I think at the end of the day, he does exist.’ They’re afraid they won’t have anymore gifts if not.” This year, the founder and creative director of the fine jewelry brand Messika Paris and her husband, Jean-Baptiste Sassine, who helms the company’s business development side, will be spending Christmas in the French countryside with their extended relatives, followed by a ski trip to Megève, in the Alps. The family’s typical Christmas Eve follows a classic playbook: “We put a glass of milk and cookies in front of the tree. We listen to Mariah Carey or Michael Bublé. We love to watch Love Actually,” Messika says. “They’re…

Wearing his usual uniform of dark sunglasses, a black T-shirt, black pants, and white sneakers, Pierpaolo Piccioli is sitting in the Paris headquarters of Valentino on the Place Vendôme, with its majestic views over the square and onto the facade of the Ritz Hotel, talking about how he sees the rarefied world of haute couture. For decades, there has been an ongoing discussion about whether clothing made entirely by hand for the most limited of audiences still makes sense, but Piccioli rejects the premise of the question. “I don’t think that couture has to be modern in the way you think, in terms of form or shape,” he explains. “To me, modernity means embracing the world that is around us. Couture works if, at the end, it is worn by…