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仅仅 是孩子 凯亚与 霍默， 开辟 自己的 道路

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九月

火车之梦 一场时尚幻想，由伦敦西区最顶尖的阵容主演

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让我为你讲述一个从未被讲述的故事。 一个关于坠入爱河的故事。

这个故事始于白雪与混凝土的相遇。在最寒冷的冬日里，肩并肩走在街道上，彼此温暖。

一种人类的情感纽带，在哥谭生长成一片森林，在中央车站激发出灵感的火花，并攀登至中城山脉的高度。

一个为中央公园带来惊叹，在洛克菲勒中心将梦想变为现实，并为了爱而创造艺术的故事。

然而，这个故事属于这里的人们。 那些梦想家、建设者、开拓者。 他们年复一年，不断地回来再次寻找彼此。

也许这就是坠入爱河的奇妙之处：在某个时刻，它拒绝保持沉默。

Moncler 遇见纽约

专业滑冰运动员将沃尔曼溜冰场（Wollman Rink）变成了一场戏剧性的冰上表演，并由纽约现场管弦乐团伴奏。

斯派克·李（Spike Lee）出席了 Moncler 的时装周发布会，庆祝该品牌与纽约创意文化的纽带。

Moncler 将林肯中心广场变成了现场舞台，80 位表演者在寒冷中展示了技术性外套。

一个充满氛围感的河畔场地变成了一座城市之山，100 位模特攀爬在脚手架上。

莎拉·杰西卡·帕克（Sarah Jessica Parker）身着由皮埃尔保罗·皮乔利（Pierpaolo Piccioli）共同创作的高级定制灵感羽绒礼服，成为了纽约冬日的象征。

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Moncler 将哥谭大厅（Gotham Hall）变成了一片阿尔卑斯森林，370 位模特共同打造了一个沉浸式装置。

常驻纽约的模特孙飞飞身着爱德华·恩宁富（Edward Enninful）为 Moncler Genius 共同创作的首个设计师系列。

Tobe Nwigwe 为 Moncler 的“Warmer Together”活动在洛克菲勒中心带来了一场亲密且激昂的表演。

汉默斯坦舞厅 2014 在汉默斯坦舞厅（Hammerstein Ballroom）的一场戏剧性演示中，André 和 Michel Décosterd 的“钟摆合唱团”（Pendulum Choir）带来了 60 位合唱团员。

为了支持 amfAR，“Art For Love”邀请摄影师重新诠释 Maya 夹克。图中：Camilla Åkrans 的肖像作品。

艾丽西亚·凯斯（Alicia Keys）的 Moncler Genius 系列通过廓形设计、技术面料和大胆的色彩，重新审视了 20 世纪 90 年代的纽约。

VOGUE

2026年9月

绿党 模特 Caroline Trentini 和 Joan Smalls 身着 Erdem x Barbour 大衣，在高草丛中寻找阴凉。由 Oliver Hadlee Parch 拍摄。

130 主编信

156 编辑名单

162 贡献者

168 前沿 政治记者 Annie Karni 并非 有意向国家 领导层透露 她的离婚消息—— 只是这件事 不断被提及

180 一成不变 艺术家 Taryn Simon 多年来 一直穿着同一套 服装的变体。在 一场重大展览 前夕，她解释了 原因

182 提升高度 女性设计师们正在重新定义美式丹宁的修身造型。作者：Jane Herman

188 世界舞台 新版《樱桃园》 在纽约上演

198 野蛮生长

最好的花园设计是否就是无需设计？Chloe Schama 深入探讨“混沌园艺”

216 舒适地麻木

我们能通过冷冻面部来改善情绪吗？Maya Singer 探讨身心连接的新前沿

打破模具 好莱坞设计师 Tina Charad 转向 陶瓷模拟创作

与 Eckhaus Latta 的一次新合作，为 J.Crew 的高级基础款注入了甜美的颠覆感。作者：Max Berlinger

250 织物之鲜 新香氛将不寻常的 影响缝合在一起

248 磨砺 强撑面子（咬牙坚持）可能会伤害你的牙齿。Alessandra Codinha 学习如何不再苦苦忍耐

258 系紧纽带 陈旧的丝巾 再次变得时髦

人物研究 一名被遗忘的波普艺术运动博学家终于得到了迟到的致敬。作者：Grace Edquist

268 岛屿时光 一家充满想象力的 度假村在爱沙尼亚 开业

270 未来承诺 令人兴奋的小说探讨即将到来的一切

纯真年代 凯亚·格伯和 Homer Gere 有幸拥有名声显赫的父母和繁荣的事业——包括在夏季诱人剧集《碎片》（The Shards）中担任角色。他们与 Rob Haskell 探讨如何做真实的自己并开拓自己的道路

294 火车之梦 伦敦西区的顶尖人士登上了一辆 1932 年的普尔曼车厢——由 Baz Luhrmann 和 Catherine Martin 重新设计——开启一段沉浸在魅力、八卦、狂欢与时尚中的旅程

原材料 Grunge 风格在 2026 年依然充满活力——但这一次，定义其新时代的不再是超大号法兰绒和碎花，而是轻盈的薄纱层、做旧丹宁以及一种随性的自在感 >112

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VOGUE

2026年9月

“扔球拍没关系，”萨巴伦卡说道，她身着 Gucci 连衣裙与高跟鞋，佩戴着自己的戒指。“大喊大叫没关系。发疯也没关系。有时候你只需要把它释放出来。”佩戴积家（Audemars Piguet）腕表。由史蒂文·克莱恩（Steven Klein）拍摄。

318 Aryna 解绑 Aryna Sabalenka—— 网坛这位球风强悍、 情感外露的世界 第一名—— 深知她的运动 就像一场歌剧。 作者：Rob Haskell

320 走进德姆纳的 Gucci 宇宙

这位出生于格鲁吉亚的设计师已从 Vetements 的叛逆之子转变为 Gucci 的掌舵人。Nathan Heller 再次探访这位时尚界不安分的颠覆者，看他如何着手振兴这个全球超级品牌。

328

家族女家长 Julia Louis-Dreyfus 与 Adrienne Miller 探讨 她在百老汇的首次亮相。 在 Jon Robin Baitz 讲述 秘密揭晓的戏剧 《其他沙漠城市》（Other Desert Cities）中， 她饰演一名温文尔雅的 家族首领。

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追忆 Dodie Kazanjian 缅怀大卫·霍克尼（David Hockney）及其丈夫卡尔文·汤金斯（Calvin Tomkins），以及她希望他们能进行的那场对话。

332 家族纽带 Marta Ortega Pérez 通过专注于人际关系、 形象塑造和令人惊叹的 基础设施，领导着 Zara 及其 母公司 Inditex—— 全球最大的时尚零售商。 作者：Gaby Wood

338 抢在节拍之前

在被誉为古典音乐救星的二十年后，指挥家古斯塔沃·杜达梅尔（Gustavo Dudamel）依然活力四射。Mattie Kahn 在他接掌纽约爱乐乐团（New York Philharmonic）之前对他进行了采访。

342 达到高潮

Crescendo 杜达梅尔的到来在这座城市的古典音乐界引发了一场狂想曲——尤其是在茱莉亚学院（Juilliard School）的年轻演奏家之中。

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All Wrapped Up 模特 Joan Smalls、 Caroline Trentini 和 Jessica Miller 身着秋季最顶级的 外套，前往 宁静的英国乡村。

378 Last Look

封面造型配饰

凯亚·格伯 (Kaia Gerber) 与 霍默·盖尔 (Homer Gere) 身着香奈儿 (Chanel)。若想打造格伯的妆容，可尝试：Nars 的 Pure Radiant Tinted Moisturizer SPF 30 润色保湿霜、Laguna 古铜粉、The Multiple 腮红（色号 Hot Take）、Quad 四色眼影（色号 Koh Rong）、眉形塑造凝胶、Notorious 睫毛膏以及 Afterglow 唇彩（色号 Abbey Road）。发型由 Guido Palau 打造；妆容由 Pat McGrath 打造。详情请参阅《本期目录》。 摄影师：史蒂文·迈泽尔 (Steven Meisel)。 时尚编辑：Spencer Singer。

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PATRIMOINE。这是我在七月参加巴黎高级定制时装秀和珠宝预约期间，反复听到的一个法语词汇。当时所有的紧张感都围绕在如何保护传承的同时推动历史向前发展——无论是谈到卡地亚（Cartier）的猎豹，还是马修·布拉齐（Matthieu Blazy）的科技感粗花呢，情况都一样。

传承的分量对我而言并不陌生。我在令人敬畏的父母的阴影下长大，他们不可避免地影响了人们看待我的方式。我花了很多时间才找到自己的身份并开辟自己的空间。在接手领导《Vogue》的过程中，我也尝试这样应对压力：让自己从遗产和历史中汲取灵感，而不是在两者的重量下崩溃。

我们的九月封面之星是优雅地开辟自身道路的典范。由史蒂文·迈泽尔（Steven Meisel）拍摄，凯亚·格伯（Kaia Gerber）和霍默·盖尔（Homer Gere）身着来自历史悠久的时尚屋新任创意总监的多套造型。这些总监们正接过这些时装屋的经典代码，并通过加入自己的独特印记对其进行重新诠释。

过去与现在 （从左起顺时针方向）：身着 Chloé 及佩戴欧米茄（OMEGA）腕表的凯亚·格伯，以及身着普拉达（PRADA）的霍默·盖尔，由史蒂文·迈泽尔拍摄。在巴黎的让-保罗·高缇耶（Jean Paul Gaultier），以及我的女儿爱丽丝在南卡罗来纳州海滩上的照片——这是夏季的两个高光时刻。辛迪·克劳馥（Cindy Crawford）与理查德·盖尔（Richard Gere）1992年的封面，由赫伯·里茨（Herb Ritts）拍摄。

此次合作的契机是《碎片》（The Shards），这是一部由瑞安·墨菲（Ryan Murphy）改编的流畅且阴森的剧集，改编自布雷特·东顿·艾利斯（Bret Easton Ellis）2023年的畅销小说，讲述了一个在 1980 年代初期在洛杉矶出没的连环杀手。这次选角似乎旨在吸引关注，唤起人们对霍默的父亲和凯亚的母亲在 90 年代传奇恋情的记忆（以及他们 1992 年在《Vogue》上由赫伯·里茨拍摄的封面）。

当然，霍默和凯亚并非情侣——他们在见面时就将共同的历史给处理掉了。正如霍默告诉我们的作者罗布·哈斯克尔（Rob Haskell）那样，他跟凯亚说的第一件事之一就是：“我们要不要直接承认我们父母曾经结婚过的事实？”她的反应是：“好啊，没问题。”就这样解决了。两人对待拥有名人之亲的这件事都表现得深思熟虑且淡然。“我一直是个‘资源咖’（nepo baby），我的职业生涯也一直从中受益，”凯亚说，“但这给我的影响是让我想要更加努力地工作。”

在本期的其他内容中，内森·海勒（Nathan Heller）报道了德姆纳（Demna）为古驰（Gucci）设计的首批系列——一场过去与现在的碰撞；加比·伍德（Gaby Wood）采访了 Zara 的负责人玛塔·奥尔特加·佩雷斯（Marta Ortega Pérez），她继承了管理权，但将品牌推向了更个人化和现代化的方向。此外，还有纽约爱乐乐团的新任指挥古斯塔沃·杜达梅尔（Gustavo Dudamel），他进入任何房间都能带来一股澎湃的能量。迎接“杜达梅尔狂热”吧！

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全球运营与内容策略副总裁 LOUISA PARKER BOWLES 全球业务运营副总裁 CHRIS DIPRESSO MORRA 全球策略顾问 ANNA-LISA YABSLEY 全球受众总监 ABBY SJOBERG 业务运营高级总监 MIRA ILIE 特别项目运营总监 SAMMI TAPPER 欧洲编辑 FIONA DARIN 物流副总监 MIMOZA NELA 受众发展总监 GAETANE LEWIS 业务运营高级经理 MEGAN COOPER 经理 FLORENCE O'CONNOR 编辑制作经理 IRENE KIM 受众发展副经理 MOLLY BARSTEIN 制作副经理 KYLEE McGUIGAN 全球编辑总监执行助理 EMILY JONES 全球总监助理 CAROLINE TOSOLINI 欧洲办公室助理 LÉÏNA MARIANI-JUNG 外部政策顾问 HILDY KURYK

创意

创意 全球设计总监 PARKER HUBBARD 艺术总监 HAZEL ZAVALA 视觉总监 PAIGE VITI 高级视觉编辑兼制作人 KATHRYN COSTIGAN 视觉编辑 OLIVIA HORNER, KYA GEORGE, DIEGO PORTILLO SANTOS 创意运营助理 MADISON McTAGGART

社交媒体 全球社交媒体总监 SAM SUSSMAN 社交媒体经理 TAYLOR LASHLEY 社交媒体副经理 EDGAR GATSINZI, ANNA TURNING

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制作总监 JOHN MOK 文案与研究高级总监 GRACE EDQUIST 研究总监 KRISTIN AUBLE 制作经理 COR HAZELAAR 特约制作经理 KATE FENOGLIO 文案经理 ALEJANDRA CUEVAS 研究经理 ALISON FORBES, AMY MARTYN, SOFÍA TAFICH 时尚致谢编辑 MARÍA FERNANDA LARA 文案经理兼高级数字编辑 JANE CHUN 研究经理兼高级数字编辑 LISA WONG MACABASCO

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特别活动总监 SACHE TAYLOR 特别活动经理 ROSE CARLISLE Vogue100 消费者营收总监 JASMINE CONTOMICHALOS Vogue100 活动与营销高级经理 VIVIENNE LETALON 特约编辑 LISA LOVE

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传播副总裁 JILL WEISKOPF 传播经理 CYDNEY GASTHALTER

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左图：纽约爱乐乐团首席低音提琴手 Timothy Cobb、中提琴手 Leah Ferguson、首席单簧管手 Anthony McGill、中提琴手 Tabitha Rhee 以及大提琴手 Claire Deokyong Kim。上图：摄影师 Theo Wenner。下图：茱莉亚学院的长笛手 Phoebe Rawn、小提琴手 Maya Kilburn、钢琴手 Jude Giddens、大提琴手 Ari Peraza-Webb 以及双簧管手 Celia Wojcik。

志同道合

由奥斯卡提名电影《Marty Supreme》服装设计师 Miyako Bellizzi 造型设计，“达到高潮”（第 342 页）这个故事中聚集了真实的茱莉亚学院音乐家和纽约爱乐乐团的成员。谈到她为这些年轻天才打造的时尚愿景时，Bellizzi 表示：“我想赞美学生生活的精神，并给他们一个真正闪耀的机会。”

Theo Wenner（右上图，与大提琴手 Claire Deokyong Kim 合影）在林肯中心为他们拍摄了所有照片，随着 Gustavo Dudamel 的到来，这座城市的古典音乐界正迎来一个新时代（更多内容请参阅 Mattie Kahn 对这位指挥家的专访《领先于节拍》，第 338 页）。据制片人兼茱莉亚学院校友 Juliette Kenn de Balinthazy 透露，学生们在拍摄现场进行了一场即兴表演。当他们拿着乐器摆姿势时，其中一人开始演奏，其他人很快也加入了进来。“对他们来说，这是一种本能反应，”Kenn de Balinthazy 说道。

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她的婚姻终结让政治记者安妮·卡尼（Annie Karni）措手不及。或许正因如此，她无法停止谈论这件事。

在分居后的第一个夏天，我并非有意要告诉那些掌控这个国家的人我要离婚了——但这件事总是脱口而出。我一直是个相当坦率的人。但当我的婚姻在 2025 年夏天突然结束时，我感到一种强烈的冲动，想要告诉所有人发生了什么。

也许这是一种寻求同情的尝试。或者我当时处于震惊之中。我在想，这是否是我向世界宣告自己单身的一种方式。也许我在寻求建议。但最主要的是，我觉得没有其他办法能让人明白，我正在经历一场深刻但无形的身份转变。

我这段 10 年婚姻的终结来得如此之快，且看似毫无征兆，但实际上没有什么事情是真正毫无征兆地发生的。我只能解释我这一方的情况：就在

2015 年我结婚之前，我加入了 Politico 报道总统竞选。那时我们住在布鲁克林，而竞选活动让我接下来的大部分时间都在奔波在路上。

随后是特朗普的首个任期，随之而来的是为了工作搬到华盛顿特区；然后是第一个孩子；在《纽约时报》的一份新工作；一场疫情；一只被救助的小狗；第二个孩子；一个报道国会乱局的新领域；一份出书合约。我生活在国家新闻周期和新手父母的双重冲击区，注意力始终在其他地方。而他的注意力最终也转移到了其他地方——那是他的故事，由他来讲述。

心理治疗 “我不想成为一个过度分享的人，”卡尼写道，“我是一名记者！”

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但多年来，我一直有一种隐约的意识，觉得我们的婚姻已开始像一系列的交易：轮流决定谁出门、谁留在家，轮流地生活着各自的人生。我大多将其归结为这些年压力特别大。我告诉自己，任何一对带着年幼孩子的年轻专业人士的婚姻都会像我们这样。但有时，电影《穿普拉达的女王》中斯坦利·图齐那句著名的台词会在我耳边响起：“等你整个生活都化为烟雾时告诉我。这意味着到了升职的时候了。”我想，这种平静但疏离的共存，大概就是长期关系中偶尔会出现的状态。

我的直系亲属中没有人离婚；这甚至是我从未考虑过的事情。因此，当这段婚姻突然崩塌——始于一次由他发起的对话，当时他正在给狗喂每晚的零食，而我以为自己正准备上床睡觉——我感到一种震惊、解脱与遗憾的交织。

那个夏天，所有的感官都变得敏锐。我听了大量的音乐。泰勒·斯威夫特的歌曲让我感到深沉。我与朋友们在电话里聊上好几个小时，仿佛回到了高中时代。我只喝胡萝卜姜汤，几乎不吃别的。夜晚我感到孤独，但这种孤独感并不比我长期以来所感受到的更多或更少。面对未来可能带来的不确定性而生活，这令人兴奋，令人不知所措，既是一次理智上的挑战，也是一次情感上的挑战。我完全不知道接下来会发生什么。

多年来，我一直有一种 隐约的意识， 觉得我们的婚姻已开始 像一系列的 交易：轮流决定谁 出门、谁 留在家，轮流地 生活着各自的人生

“我在思考我有多幸福，”那个夏天的某一天，我在日记中写道。“非常悲伤，”几天后我又写道。“我不知道自己在为谁或为什么而哭泣。”

唯一让我感到良好的是工作。我的编辑亲切地问我是否需要休息或想放慢节奏。她说在这些事情上会听我的安排。我说尽管把活儿堆给我。这就是为什么在那几周里，我在华盛顿的每一个权力走廊里，都忍不住不停地谈论我正在离婚的事实。

七月的一个周四下午，我在民主党参议员竞选委员会的一个小办公室里，与参议员查克·舒默相对而坐。

那天，他处于竞选状态，所以他没有待在国会大厦那间华丽的办公室里，而是蜷缩在民主党总部一个单调房间的金属办公桌后，进行连续的采访，以传播关于赢回参议院的谈话要点。我试图追问他具体细节，关于地图或他试图在关键州招募的候选人，但他绝不让步。舒默非常擅长在不想多说的时候，一遍又一遍地重复同样的话。

“你这个夏天打算做什么？”在我收拾东西准备离开时，他问道。

“我要离婚了，”我主动告知。

他透过那副著名的双焦点眼镜盯着我，眼镜总是快要从他的鼻尖上滑落。

“你的孩子几岁了？”他问我。我的女儿三岁，儿子七岁。

“男人真是太蠢了，”他摇着头说。“简直太蠢了。”

他没有打听任何细节，只是迅速得出了一个结论。我对待这个反应就像对待家庭聚会上一个心怀好意的远亲的反应一样：并没有什么启发性，但无论如何，这是一次某种程度上令人安心的对话。有时，仅仅是有人能代表你摇摇头，就会让人感觉良好。

孩子们其实都很好。我的女儿对分居前的家庭安排没有任何记忆。我的儿子则大多只是因为在父亲的新房子里有了上下铺而感到兴奋。

我们没有使用“离婚”这个词，但我的儿子生活在现实世界中，他在寻找这个词。“当你拥有两栋房子时，这叫什么？”他问我。“这就叫拥有两栋房子，”我说。几个月后，当离婚手续最终办妥时，我告诉他，他生命中的重大变故在他开始住在两栋房子里时就已经发生了，而官方的变更仅仅是一张纸。

在我的舒默采访几周后，我正在 Whole Foods 超市买东西，挑选那款令人厌恶的向日葵酱（学校唯一允许的类坚果抹酱）时，南卡罗来纳州共和党代表南希·梅斯（Nancy Mace）回电了。

我过去写过很多关于梅斯的内容，但我已经很久没有和她交谈了。除了通过发起一项禁止国会中唯一的跨性别议员使用国会大厦女性洗手间的运动来折磨对方外，梅斯在那一年一直是个配角。

但当她违抗特朗普总统，强行推动投票要求美国司法部（DOJ）公布未经脱敏的爱泼斯坦文件时，她再次成为了一个备受关注的人物。她将自己定位为女性的捍卫者，同时也是特朗普的捍卫者，我想听听她计划如何在这种微妙的平衡中穿针引线。

“你好吗？”梅斯问。

“我还好，我正在离婚，”我说，因为正如我提到的，我忍不住就说了出来。

梅斯是一位 47 岁的离婚母亲，有两个孩子。“好吧，你只需要意识到你将在很长一段时间内孤独一人，”她说。“你将花很多时间独自面对。”

她是正确的，我独自度过的时间比我习惯的要长得多。

“但我与工作结婚了，”她补充道。

我们结束了话题，回到了我们各自“结婚”的工作角色中。“我完全支持在这个问题上保持透明，”她谈到爱泼斯坦文件时说道。

我意识到，从查克·舒默和南希·梅斯这样的人身上汲取人生教训，并不是一种常规的寻求支持系统的方式。他们是政治家——他们的首要关注点是他们自己。（我预计这里会有一个要求更正的电话，说他们的关注点在他们的选民身上。）无论如何，>174

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我并不是他们的选民，所以他们看待我的唯一角度，就是我能为他们做什么，或者会对他们产生什么影响。

但有一种力量促使我不断向他们透露我的个人近况：就好像我在试穿一个新的身份，看看它与我的职业身份是否契合，并确保后者依然完好无损。

尽管如此，我并不想成为一个过度分享的人。我是一名记者！所以几周后，当史蒂夫·班农在我的低谷期回电时，我努力让自己振作起来，请他评价众议员马乔里·泰勒·格林最近关于加沙的言论——她在其中将这场危机称为“种族灭绝”。但我当时几乎在掉眼泪——我已经变得非常擅长哭泣，将其简单地视为一种身体的净化功能，就像打喷嚏一样——我们两人都能感觉到，气氛变得有些尴尬。于是我告诉了他原因。他想知道细节。然后他告诉

他想知道细节。然后他告诉我振作起来。

“你可是安妮·卡尼（Annie fucking Karni），”他说，“快起来，姑娘。”

尽管班农有着威胁民主的种种缺陷——散布 2020 年大选被窃取的谎言，领导要求唐纳德·特朗普违宪寻求第三任期的呼吁，推崇各种形式的极端主义和阴谋论——但在那个特定的时刻，我认为他只是在表达善意。

我们回到了讨论的主题，进入了

离婚可能几乎和成为父母一样普遍。但人们不太清楚在这种情况下应该说什么。很遗憾？还是恭喜？我发现正确的答案是两者都说

这对我们所有人来说都是舒适的领域。“马乔里·泰勒·格林只是反映了她的选民，”他说，“我认为她一点也不离群。”

世界依然在运转。特朗普削减医疗补助（Medicaid）的国内政策法案如此不受欢迎，以至于可能帮助民主党赢回参议院。而特朗普未能公开爱泼斯坦（Epstein）的文件，正导致总统与其支持者之间产生分歧。格林在以色列问题上与特朗普的分歧

暗示了右翼在外交政策上日益增长的裂痕。而我正在离婚，以防你错过了这个消息。

随着忙碌的周而复始，我重新布置房子，焚烧鼠尾草，给卧室贴壁纸，在周日晚上把垃圾桶推出去，在周一早上把它们推回来，我想向我报道的每一个人谈论离婚的冲动开始消退。我回到了纯粹的采访状态，不再将个人生活插入对话中，这对每个人来说可能都是最好的选择。

我已经告诉了足够多的人，以至于我开始注意到一种模式。回应孕妇有一套不需要太多思考的公式：你怀孕几周了？感觉怎么样？知道性别了吗？噢，男孩最棒；噢，女孩最棒。珍惜每一刻，等等，等等。

离婚可能几乎同样普遍，并标志着另一种巨大的转变。但人们不太清楚在这种情况下应该说什么。很遗憾？还是恭喜？我发现正确的答案是两者都说。也许人们应该问你现在是第几周，因为在分居的第一阶段，情感景观似乎确实是以周为单位在发生变化的。

大约一年后，我发现自己正在采访劳伦·博伯特（Lauren Boebert）和安娜·保利娜·卢娜（Anna Paulina Luna）这两位爱出风头的 MAGA 众议员，报道关于国会山性骚扰的故事。当时我正逐渐适应共同监护的时间表以及我的新生活，尽管其中仍有起伏，但总体而言，我很享受其中。离婚的现实在于，在某些方面，它意味着获得第二次生命，并能同时扮演多个自我。你依然是那个成年人的、父母版本的自己。但你同时也（至少在兼职时间里）回到了之前那个感觉更年轻的单身版本，在长久的分离之后再次与之相遇，感觉很不错。一年过去，那种脱离躯壳的感觉消退了。流行音乐显得不再那么深奥。我的饮食也不再局限于大桶的单色蔬菜汤。回顾那段时间的日记，记录显示我现在“更有食欲，即使在什么都没发生的时候，也不再觉得有什么剧烈的事情正在发生”。

至于博伯特，她对国会山的出轨者持有强硬观点，这似乎源于她自己的经历。“我的好朋友是个小贱人，她毁了我的婚姻，”当我问她关于清除国会性骚扰者（其中许多是已婚男性）的指控时，博伯特说道。

那一定很艰难，我回答道，并提到我的婚姻最近也结束了。这件事正逐渐成为我身份的一部分，给了我一种新的沟通方式，让我能看到他人身上此前可能被忽视的层面。任何人的生活都可能出现偏差。

“我很遗憾你的婚姻遭遇，”在我关掉录音机后，卢娜轻声对我说道。她们每人都给了我一个略显尴尬的拥抱，这在采访结束时很不寻常。

那个夏天晚些时候我见到班农时，我向他承认，他那番“名字+他妈的名字”的激励谈话和我听过的任何鼓励一样有效。

他说我看起来更快乐了。并且他警告我，现在依然不是把心交给任何新人的时候。（史蒂夫·班农，情感咨询师。世界充满了惊喜。）

我的那个“分享之夏”虽然尴尬，但它帮我安定了下来，让我意识到即使在过渡期，我依然是我，而且只要你开口请求，就能获得支持。

2021年我的女儿出生时，我收到了一封来自希拉里·克林顿的贺信，五年前我曾报道过她失败的总统竞选。她给我刚出生的女儿写道：“我向你致以最美好的祝愿，愿你的一生充满惊人的冒险与成就，愿爱你的人在沿途为你加油。”

不到四年后的现在，我开玩笑地问一位为克林顿工作多年的朋友，能否说服她给我写一封“离婚信”，以纪念人生另一个新阶段。我建议她甚至可以重复使用同样的措辞：“我向你致以最美好的祝愿，愿你的一生充满惊人的冒险与成就，愿爱你的人在沿途为你加油。”我甚至会把它装裱起来。

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艺术家塔林·西蒙（Taryn Simon）多年来一直穿着同一套服装的各种变体。在一次重大展览前夕，她解释了原因。由托马斯·多佐尔（Thomas Dozol）拍摄。

艺术家的着装可以传递不同的信息：乔治亚·欧姬芙（Georgia O'Keeffe）穿着肃穆的黑白装，毕加索穿着他的布列塔尼条纹衫，摄影师比尔·坎宁安（Bill Cunningham）则穿着法国环卫工的制服在纽约市骑行。如果你在曼哈顿的街道上行走足够多年，你可能会瞥见另一位穿着标志性套装的艺术家：塔林·西蒙，她穿着一条长度刚好在膝盖下方的裙子，由背带固定，内搭一件适度的灯笼袖衬衫。

西蒙最初的考虑是出于实用：她的很多作品是摄影，她需要双手空闲，需要一个放光表的小口袋，还需要一个放钱包的地方。“我从来不想背包，”她说。但当时也进行了一次更深层的评估：以得体的方式呈现自己，而不过分正式。西蒙一些最著名的作品——例如被 DNA 证据证明清白的男人们的肖像，或是生活在孤儿院的乌克兰儿童的照片——需要一种沉稳且尊重的人格氛围。

她亲自设计并完善这套服装并不令人惊讶。西蒙在纽约长大，她的母亲几乎制作了她所有的衣服，并教会了她缝纫。在她们家中，没有任何东西是被扔掉的，而且只要一个功能性物品（例如装纸的盒子）能够变得更美，就会被美化。“这影响了我看待价值的方式，”西蒙说，“我喜欢感觉到我穿着一件有温度的东西。”

今年九月，她将以《塔林·西蒙：父亲之国，我深爱你》（Taryn Simon: Father Country, I Do Love You）接管古根海姆博物馆的整个圆形大厅。“这是一个男人以及他触及的一切的故事，”西蒙告诉我。那个男人是一位匿名的联邦特工，他的生活将通过 42 件独立的艺术品来反映，每件作品都暗示着他行为所产生的涟漪般的影响。这次展览由文字、照片、视频和雕塑组成，献给西蒙的父亲，他曾生活在世界各地，在女儿完全意识到他生命的维度之前，他被诊断出患有阿尔茨海默病。古根海姆博物馆表演与媒体策展人纳特·特罗特曼（Nat Trotman）表示，这次展览“涵盖了广泛的主题，但其核心在于一个人的生活——这可以是我们中的任何人——如何触及这么多其他人的生活，从而开启一个故事星系。”

西蒙的许多作品都是如此：令人震惊地私密且具有强大的政治力量。2016 年，她在公园大道军械库（Park Avenue Armory）聚集了来自世界各地的职业哀悼者——这是一个令人震撼的装置，将悲伤外化并使其纪念碑化。西蒙向我展示了她的其中一套服装，围裙上绣着一个名字。其中一名哀悼者为她制作了这件衣服——她的艺术痕迹悄然地融入了她的穿着之中。——CHLOE SCHAMA

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一条带背带的裙子和一件灯笼袖衬衫构成了西蒙的日常装扮。这里是她收藏中的十二个示例。

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新一代女性设计师正在重新定义美式丹宁的修身廓形。作者：Jane Herman。

紧身且贴合身体的牛仔裤并非新鲜事。在我开始与它们“搏斗”的 2008 年左右，这种风格早已与詹姆斯·迪恩（James Dean）的性感符号地位，以及像黛比·哈利（Debbie Harry）这类朋克偶像的摇滚叛逆风格联系在一起。尽管如此，当被我们称为“紧身裤”（skinnies）的款式在 2000 年代重新流行时，我依然感到震惊和困惑。这种剪裁如此大胆且如此具体，像玻璃纸一样紧贴着我们的腿部曲线。对我而言，“不舒服”甚至不足以描述那种感觉。作为一个一生都与丹宁紧密相连的人（我的父亲是前洛杉矶零售商 Ron Herman；“牛仔裤在我们的基因里”曾是一个笑话），我感到失去了重心，不仅质疑自己的体重，甚至质疑所有上衣的形状。近 20 年前，我在同一个专栏中写过我对丹宁的焦虑，称紧身牛仔裤为一种“棘手的小趋势”，并思考我该如何应对——或者它是否能持久。

当然，紧身牛仔裤不仅持久了，而且主导了十多年——我的应对方式是避开它们，转而选择万无一失的 501 系列，其廓形比紧身裤更修身。直到丹宁面料那可靠的 10 年左右的摆钟向另一个方向摆动，转向更宽的裤腿和更宽松的剪裁。那么为什么现在又回归了？部分原因当然是对新鲜感的简单渴望。一个人不需要每季都买一条新牛仔裤：它们是牛仔裤，天生就是为了耐穿而设计的。回归紧身风的迹象始于缪齐亚·普拉达（Miuccia Prada）在 Miu Miu 2024 年秋季系列中展示的低腰短裤。事实上，对于不久前还穿着压缩级弹力丹宁的受众来说，那时的回归也太早且太紧了。我想，现在我们正接续之前的进度，就在那场以运动裤为中心的疫情似乎将所有紧身且限制性的剪裁拒之门外之前。

回想一下 Hedi Slimane 为 Celine 设计的 2020 年春季系列，该系列灵感源自 70 年代，在新冠疫情爆发时刚好上市。

那种类型的牛仔裤——高腰，裤腿呈管状，且看起来很正宗（即 100% 全棉材质）——现在正在经历一场复兴。与宽松裤（baggies）和桶形裤（barrels）相比，它显得更有力量感且干练。我那时喜欢它，现在依然喜欢。它让我想起 Nili Lotan 的 Joan 系列，那是目前全球最出色的直筒裤之一。

“我不喜欢使用‘紧身’（skinny）这个词，”设计师 Jac Cameron 说道。她的品牌 Rùadh（发音为 "roo-ah"）中有一款小众且日益受欢迎的 Agnes 牛仔裤。Agnes 是一款中腰、纽扣门襟、修身裤腿且在裤脚外缝处有小开衩的款式。Cameron 解释说，它很精干，但“绝对没有打底裤的感觉”。改变游戏规则的关键在于：>188

永不褪色 Adut Akech 身着 Dsquared2 牛仔裤，展现修长身姿。 2020 年 4 月由 Tyler Mitchell 为 Vogue 拍摄。

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Ossou（发音为 "ob-sue"）的设计师 Nina Khosla 和 Talia Shuvalov 表示赞同。“这并不是喷漆牛仔裤的复兴，”Shuvalov 说道，“而是关于创造一种剪裁精良且精致的单品，在腿部仍保留一定的空间感，同时为你提供这种修身效果。”Ossou 的 Noon 牛仔裤——一款无弹力、高腰、收腰且腿部更趋向锥形的款式——让人想起 20 世纪 30 年代的 Lady Levi's 牛仔裤，本杂志 1935 年 5 月刊曾宣布那是当时在所谓的“远西”度假时的必备单品。（我重复一遍：紧身牛仔裤并非新鲜事。）

但虽然这些新牛仔裤在技术上都属于修身款，但它们绝对截然不同。即便在这一趋势之中，也存在着真正的多样性，这比我们上次被卷入的那个千篇一律的紧身裤深海要诱人得多。“整体线条更直，”Aflalo 的 Yael Aflalo 在谈到她最畅销的 Brontë 款式时说道。与 Noon 和 Agnes 相比，它从顶端到底端都极其精干。“我们保留了更经典的丹宁尺寸——窄腰带、更长的门襟——并微调了腿部形状，”她解释道。（在丹宁术语中，“经典”通常意味着 501 fit。海莉·比伯最近被拍到穿着紧贴臀部的复古 Levi's 并非巧合。）

“我认为人们现在重新接受修身廓形，比第一次接受它时要容易得多，”Jamie Haller 说道。她是 2026 CFDA / Vogue Fashion Fund 决赛入围者，其同名品牌拥有两款出色的修身款式：Slim Stovepipe 和 Low。此外——这一点很重要——精干的廓形现在绝非唯一选择。例如，Haller 依然提供 Slouch 和 Bell Crop 款式。修身、桶形、靴型、宽腿、低腰、高腰、喇叭……我们正处于一个所有版型都能成为主角的时刻。

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即便在这一趋势之中，也存在着真正的多样性，这比我们上次被卷入的那个千篇一律的紧身裤深海要诱人得多

女性领导的——这与 2010 年代由男性设计师主导的纯紧身裤世界相比，是一个令人欣喜的变化。在创立自己的品牌之前曾在 Guess 和 NSF 工作过的 Haller，以及在 Calvin Klein 磨练技艺并共同创立 AYR 的 Cameron，现在都在掌舵自己的事业，而且她们并非孤例：整整一代在 21 世纪初高端丹宁热潮期间开启职业生涯——甚至参与设计了 2010 年代那些迎合男性凝视的紧身裤——的创意实干家们，现在已经找到了自己的方向。

但创立一个牛仔裤品牌是一回事，而像这些女性一样将其做精则完全是另一回事。她们的优势在于：对版型的一种亲近感，这是男性无论多么熟练或传奇都无法拥有的。Aflalo 对所有产品进行试穿测试。Cameron 通过短信与她的客户直接沟通。Haller 自己就是自己的试穿模特。这听起来可能很显而易见，但主观的视角具有深刻的洞察力。这种连接实现了转化——最后，我带着极大的热情（甚至是解脱感），拥抱这一改变。

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安东·契诃夫在 20 世纪初创作的《樱桃园》，其核心在于俄罗斯历史上的一个特定时刻——贵族的没落与中产阶级的崛起。能否将这一背景移植到 21 世纪的首尔？编剧兼导演西蒙·斯通（Simon Stone）本月将他的演绎带到曼哈顿的 Park Avenue Armory，并为自己设定了这样一个挑战。“我观察了那个社会，”斯通在谈到当代韩国时说道，“以及权力向下渗透的方式。感觉就像帝国时期的俄罗斯。”

这部《樱桃园》与其说像斯坦尼斯拉夫斯基，不如说更像《寄生虫》——它为原著中的阶级动态提供了一个新颖的视角。“所有那些关于依然与家庭同住的老保姆、管家，以及虽然有点笨但仍被留在家中的司机的台词——这一切在韩国都在发生，”习惯于使用非母语进行创作的斯通说道。本剧将以韩语演出并配有英文字幕，由朴海秀（《鱿鱼游戏》）和全度妍（凭借 2007 年的《密阳》获得戛纳奖）担纲主演，两人均将迎来其纽约舞台首秀。斯通断言，契诃夫的喜剧超越了任何语言：“很多笑点之所以有趣，是因为人们都知道被母亲唠叨是什么感觉。”

斯通拥有流动的、跨国的背景。他说，这部剧是由“一名出生于瑞士、居住在奥地利、为韩国演员创作的澳大利亚人”改编的，而其中一些演员从未离开过韩国。他还以颠覆戏剧传统而闻名。他 2018 年对费德里科·加西亚·洛尔卡《耶尔玛》的挑衅性演绎使其成为一个现代的生育寓言；而 2020 年由罗斯·伯恩（Rose Byrne）和鲍比·坎纳瓦尔（Bobby Cannavale）出演的惊人之作《美狄亚》，则将这场悲剧置于一个亮得令人眩晕的白色舞台上，以便更好地提炼其冲击力。在这里，他与前卫建筑设计师 Saul Kim（这也是 Kim 的戏剧首秀）合作，搭建了一座剖面建筑（见左图），被照亮得像一个巨大的娃娃屋。无论文化背景如何，家庭功能失调总是令人感兴趣的观察对象。——CHLOE SCHAMA

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最近，我的手机屏幕上出现了一些花坛的延时摄影短片：在房屋侧墙与一片草坪之间，几块不起眼的泥地迅速转化为一场色彩的狂欢，一场摇曳花朵的盛宴。这就是“混沌园艺（chaos gardening）”——一场由社交媒体推动的运动，在某些类型的园丁中日益流行，他们希望在一方泥土上对园艺学的严苛限制发起一场小规模的反叛。无需规划，无需布局，无需技巧，也无需经验。你甚至不需要走进苗圃；从五金店买的一包落灰的种子就足够了。

混沌园艺与那种自由形式、未经驯化的英式花园美学理念（这或许是它的精神前身）之间仍有几步之遥。它甚至并不真正

我预言一场狂欢 当一把种子、即兴发挥、偶然性与奇思妙想碰撞在一起，一座（适合社交媒体传播的）花园便可能生长出来。

类似于现代草甸运动，后者强调本土植物和生态修复，且通常涉及对特定物种的深思熟虑的部署。相反，这种实践将信心寄托于偶然、心血来潮和灵感。它拥抱机缘巧合，赞美错误。在一段 TikTok 视频中（播放量已达 459 万 次且在持续增长），一位名为“混沌园丁（The Chaos Gardener）”的园丁描述了她四岁女儿的一次冒险：孩子偷了一包向日葵种子，偷偷种在沙坑里——结果长出了她母亲见过的最高、最粗壮的茎干。“秘诀在这里，”热门 TikTok 园丁 Farm Boy James 在将一把把干扁豆和黑眼豆甩过肩头时说道，“其实根本没有秘诀。” >206

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我自己在后院的冒险则没那么混乱：带着预算和色调构思去园艺店购物，绘制草图并列出清单，考虑交错的开花周期。但我读过的每一本书或参加的每一门课程，在面对那些依然遥不可及的庞大知识体系时，都让我感到既受鼓舞又心生畏惧。园艺中有些部分感觉是直觉性的（干了就浇水），而有些部分则感觉近乎矛盾。在布鲁克林植物园，一位坚定的玫瑰专家说服我将玫瑰藤剪成细长的、仅到小腿高度的尖杆，剥离掉所有交错的枝条。“相信我，”她说，“它们会很喜欢这样。”

因此，这种不顾一切的尝试具有一种不可否认的吸引力。我的一位邻居朋友在前院种了一片松果菊，到了盛夏，那里看起来就像有数百个表情符号在她的门廊两侧弹出，醉醺醺的熊蜂在其中嗡嗡作响。她告诉我，她读完了皮特·奥多夫（Piet Oudolf）的所有书，但到了种植的时候，她只是随手将一把把种子撒向空中。我能否以同样这种放任的精神，将后院一个光秃秃的小角落转化为生机盎然之地？

在园艺店，我买了黑莓百合、 cardinal climber（红花攀缘植物）、 Lobelia（铃铛花）、 aster（紫菀）、松果菊、薰衣草和百里香的种子包。在最后一刻，我又加了一包 outhouse hollyhock（厕所蜀葵），这种植物之所以得名，是因为它能长得足够高且浓密，足以给户外设施提供遮挡。我的后院没有厕所，但那个笨重的塑料堆肥轮确实需要一些伪装。按照我通常的衡量标准，这次选择排名如何？它们是本土植物吗？后来我谷歌搜索后发现，并不完全是。有侵入性吗？哎呀，在某些情况下，可能有一点。我原计划将地块分成两半——一半自发播种，另一半则在间距上投入更多关注——但我四岁的女儿似乎感觉到这种方法与这次尝试的精神不符，于是开始随意地撒播。在最后一刻，我想起 Ffern 这家极具吸引力的有机香氛公司，

PURE ABANDON 英国 Gravetye Manor 的一段阶梯，这是一个拥有百年历史的花园，被认为是现代自然主义美学的先驱。

随其最新的、非常令人愉悦的季节性香氛一起，给我寄了一包矢车菊、 lady's bedstraw（床草）和 red campion（红营羊草）的种子，于是我也把它们撒了进去。大约 27 秒后，我们就完成了。我们轻轻踩实土壤，喷了些水，然后走开了。

当然，无需深入研究这种趋势就能发现其中存在的问题。首先是密度问题——很多视频里都是一把把地撒播，就像一个热情的厨师在为煮意面的水撒盐一样。越多越好！然后你读到一包百里香种子的细则，每颗种子比罂粟籽还小，却发现它旨在覆盖高达 233 平方英尺的面积。假设这些植物发芽，如果它们之间的距离不足几英寸，你就应该进行间苗——这是一个委婉的说法，实际意思是“杀死你的心头好”。当我打电话向著名园艺师、《新浪漫花园》（The New Romantic Garden, 2025）的作者乔·汤普森（Jo Thompson）寻求建议时，她说：“这感觉就像是在杀婴。”汤普森的风格一直有些类似于“混沌园艺”——有点不羁，有点无序，也因此更具亲和力。“我喜欢这种并非一切都围绕着我转的想法，”她说，“我想引导花园，并邀请一种自发感。”她补充说，她喜欢那些“能自我照顾”的植物。让自然在最小干预的情况下顺其自然。

培育植物多样性蕴含着古老的智慧——“三姐妹”作物（玉米、豆类和南瓜）长期以来被近距离种植，以实现产量最大化。事实上，“混沌花园”（chaos garden）这一术语可以追溯到农民兼作家盖布·布朗（Gabe Brown），他是《从土壤到土层》（Dirt to Soil, 2018）一书的作者。他描述了一场几乎像是在挑战般开始的再生实验：他选取了总共 70 个物种（包括牛豆和黄豆等覆盖作物，以及蔬菜和花卉），将它们播种在 30 英亩的田地里。尽管那年的条件并不理想，但这一过程为他及其妻子创造了一个繁茂的厨房花园。布朗写道：“谢莉会让我去摘一种蔬菜作为晚餐，而我绊到什么，就带什么回家。”汤普森在自己的花园里，将鼠尾草种在玫瑰附近——这种方法利用了鼠尾草叶片天然的杀菌特性。

我们知道，植物多样性不仅能创造一个更高产的环境，还能创造一个更稳定且对传粉者更友好的环境。种植多种植物可能有助于防止杂草生长，并提供一定的天然害虫防护。即使是对最业余的后院园丁来说，这也是一个重要的考量因素：最近的研究表明，在小规模花园中采取鼓励多样性的干预措施，其产生的影响比在大规模花园中更为显著。生态学家道格拉斯·塔拉米（Douglas Tallamy）告诉我：“我不喜欢‘混沌园艺’这个词”——他认为这暗示了一种无序的景象。但他强调，任何拥有哪怕是一小块土地的人都应该感受到一种责任感。他说：“如果人们只有几平方英尺的小花园，而其余部分全是巨大的草坪，那么他们根本没有在利用这片土地。”他指出，美国大约有 4000 万 英亩的草坪——其面积大致相当于华盛顿州。如果混沌园艺能让人们习惯于不再仅仅将财产交给景观公司打理，那么其益处可能会超越一个让人感觉良好的社交媒体运动。

一周之内，我的女儿跑来告诉我，在我布鲁克林那块光秃秃的土地上长出了一个嫩芽。对于我们播种的任何种子来说，发芽还太早了，但显然是有什么东西飘了过来并抢先生长了。我打开了植物识别应用程序，但叶片太小了；现在还太早地确定是什么植物扎了根。看来，我们混沌花园的第一位居民是一个惊喜——这确实是一件令人欣喜的事。□

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我当时感觉很糟糕，于是决定去打肉毒杆菌（Botox）。需要澄清的是，我并不是对自己的脸感到糟糕。而是生活整体让我感到沮丧。我疲惫不堪，因为要费力地忽略脑海中不断跳出的忧虑想法而精疲力竭。我感到徒劳，被一种弥漫的恐惧感所包围。于是，我选择了肉毒杆菌。在一个失眠之夜，我陷入了互联网的“兔子洞”，最后挖掘出几篇标题晦涩的研究，例如《临床实践中肉毒杆菌毒素疗法治疗精神障碍：一项回顾性病例研究》，这些研究建议将肉毒杆菌作为治疗抑郁症的一种手段。其原因简单得令人发笑：肉毒杆菌——或任何神经调节剂——都能抑制皱眉。就这么简单，这就是全部。这似乎值得一试。

于是我前往位于苏豪区（SoHo）的 Weiser Skin MD 诊所。我本可以在遍布全城的快诊诊所打一针——注射已经成了新型的美甲足疗！——但既然这涉及到心理健康，寻求一位享有盛誉的医疗专业人士似乎更为审慎。杰西卡·韦泽（Jessica Weiser）医学博士是一位经过委员会认证的皮肤科医生，也是 Weiser Skin 的创始人兼医疗总监，她提醒道，抑郁和焦虑“是严重的疾病，最好由精神科医生和 / 或心理学家管理”。但她补充说：“患者确实注意到他们在治疗后感到更加自信和放松。”在优雅的亚历山德拉·哈斯金（Alessandra Haskin）医学博士为我嘴角下沉的肌肉准备针头时，我请求她将剂量控制在“极简主义的高限”。那是为了保险起见。科学关注的焦点是眉间（glabella），即出现皱眉纹的两个眉毛之间的区域。我必须等待两周才能看到治疗的完整效果。

在等待期间，我问自己：我是否感到更自信了？我是否感到更放松了？人们不断告诉我我看起来状态极佳，这确实令人振奋。我也在想，自己是否正在变成一个精神病患者。也许你见过那个梗图：一名客户坐在医生办公室里，指着自己的眉间说：“直接处理‘共情’部分吧。”注射师回答道：“当然，那是我们的畅销产品。”这是一个简短的一幕喜剧，回应了相关研究，即肉毒杆菌会削弱一个人“体验”他人内心世界的能力。

相关数据耐人寻味。一项被广泛引用的 2011 年研究表明，肉毒杆菌会使“情绪感知显著受损”。在另一项 2023 年的研究中，研究人员扫描了女性在注射肉毒杆菌前后的脑部图像，发现抑制眉间区域会影响“对情绪面孔的处理”。这只是研究中的一小部分样本；根据澳大利亚弗林德斯大学（Flinders University）的实验心理学家费尔南多·马莫莱霍-拉莫斯（Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos）博士的说法，还存在“几种有详细记录的影响”。马莫莱霍-拉莫斯解释说，肉毒杆菌已被证明能抑制情绪的领悟；注射者会“缺失潜台词”。

科学逻辑归结为一个核心点：我们的表情既传达也影响我们的情绪。马莫莱霍-拉莫斯说：“把你的脸想象成一条双向车道。”情绪从大脑流向面部，但同时也存在一个“回传信号”，他详细阐述道，“这种身体反馈帮助我们真正地感受到情绪。”我皱眉是因为我悲伤——但正是皱眉的反射告诉了我自己正处于悲伤之中。肉毒杆菌通过使面部肌肉固定，阻断了这种往复的信号传递。 >218

反转皱眉 一些研究认为，抑制我们皱眉的能力可以产生提升精神的效果。

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结果是情感的扁平化，或者说“一个人在处理、体验和解读情绪时，出现了一种微妙但可衡量的迟钝”。

在 20 世纪 90 年代，“镜像神经元”的发现强调了我们在潜意识中会模仿彼此，甚至细微到最轻微的面部表情。这些微表情通常逃避了认知，仅通过模拟来处理。因此，你的面部越僵硬，就越不容易察觉到对方是否焦虑、在对你撒谎，或者在暗自发笑。而且，如果你因为过于僵硬而无法完全感知他人，那么别人想要共情你是否也会变得更困难？

“追求共情的部分。”仔细想想，这是一个奇怪的笑话。但这个笑话之所以能产生效果，是因为它包含了一颗真诚的内核，即：如果我们不被他人的感受所困扰，生活可能会变得更简单，更顺畅。我们生活在一个自我优化的时代；缺乏共情在某种程度上是否就是一种“优化”？一个残酷的世界是否需要一颗冰冷的心和一张僵硬的脸？

“这很有意思——这看起来像是一种为了让自己显得像经过修图一样而做出的共同努力，”36 North Moore Dermatology 创始人埃文·里德（Evan Rieder）医学博士在谈到社交媒体上常见的那种倾向于医疗干预、像虚拟化身一样的审美时沉思道。“但我并不认为这是为了实现情感迟钝而做出的自觉尝试，”他补充道。里德同时拥有皮肤科和精神科的委员会认证，他对相关研究持怀疑态度——诚然，当我们注射肉毒杆菌毒素（Botox）时，心理或情感层面确实在发生某些变化，但程度还不足以对普通人的生活产生影响。“这被夸大了，”他说。

至于肉毒杆菌毒素在提升情绪方面的功效，结论尚未得出——而且还远未得出。“我们仔细研究了所有证据，发现它们并不具有说服力，”田纳西大学心理学和神经科学教授、2021 年一项关于肉毒杆菌毒素对抑郁症影响的元分析研究的共同作者杰夫·拉森（Jeff Larsen）表示。样本量较小，结果经常是不可能的。“就瞬间的情绪而言，10 秒钟，也许最多一分钟，面部表情（例如微笑）会对我的感受产生一点影响，”拉森说。至于肉毒杆菌毒素能改善我的心情，“你还不如在 YouTube 上看可爱的狗狗视频。”

这种效果同样是短暂的。我搜索了“30 分钟全球最可爱的狗狗！”，半小时后，我的心情基本没变。

“把你的脸想象成一条双向车道，”心理学家费尔南多·马莫莱霍-拉莫斯（Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos）说。情绪从大脑流向面部，但同时也存在一个“回传信号”。

但我没有，也无法皱眉。这对我心情的愉悦程度没有产生可察觉的影响。我从肉毒杆菌毒素中获得的提升是，我稍微更喜欢我的脸了，这个结果在我没读过无数篇科学报告之前就能预料到。这并非毫无意义，但正如我在开头所说，我的脸从来不是问题所在。

新闻中持续不断的危机感，以及正迅速将我们引导至未知领域的 AI 发展，可能会让人难以看到下周之后的任何地平线。有人说，绝望源于无法构思或构建未来。因此：产生了弥漫性的恐惧。至少对我而言是这样。但哲学家们长期以来一直有应对这种心态的解药：通过极度关注当下，共同创造未来，去做那些 AI 永远无法完成的人类之事——分享快乐，给某人一个拥抱。换句话说，就是共情。ChatGPT 无法帮我的年迈邻居把杂货搬上楼。这是一件小事，但在平静我的心境和减轻我的忧郁方面，比肉毒杆菌毒素更有效。关怀。就是这样。这就是全部。这似乎值得尝试。

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好莱坞设计师 Tina Charad 投身陶瓷艺术，回归模拟时代。

Tina Charad 第一次意识到自己想在电影领域工作，是在看了巴兹·鲁赫曼的《罗密欧与朱丽叶》之后。“我被震撼了，”她回忆道，“那种视觉织锦——简直太丰富了。”在从事电影和电视平面设计数十年的职业生涯中，她构思过各种场景，从昆汀·塔伦蒂诺《好莱坞往事》中 1969 年洛杉矶的彩色胶片质感，到南希·迈耶斯的现代室内设计。这份工作需要深入的研究、严谨的态度和精湛的技巧——而且在理想状态下，所有这些努力都应该是不被察觉的。

51 岁的 Charad 说，她长期以来一直有完美主义倾向。但如今，她正在对抗这种本能，创作碗、盘、花瓶和其他容器，以体现一种更随性的美学。她惯常的数字化精准在这里没有立足之地：“我开始学习陶瓷是为了远离电脑，”她说。她将艺术家 Jennifer Rochlin、Hylton Nel 和 Daisy Makeig-Jones（20 世纪 Wedgwood 的陶艺设计师）视为自己的影响来源。而在美学上，她信奉“越多越好”。“我从未见过我不喜欢的图案。”她的部分作品在洛杉矶以现代传家宝著称的设计工作室 Pierce & Ward 出售，并且在 2027 年，她将在南非奈斯纳的 Knysna Fine Art 举办一次展览。

Charad 尝试在作品表面加入类似短诗的文字行，旨在记录当下幽默的片段。“陶瓷是讲述这些荒诞小故事的载体，”她说。陶瓷中同样存在着像电影一样的悬念：“这东西会不会碎？它还能立得住吗？”她说，“也许能，也许不能。”——ANNA GRACE LEE

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Zoe Latta 对 J.Crew 的最早记忆可以追溯到中学时代，当时她在该品牌传奇的早期目录中看到了一件色彩斑斓的男士手工针织毛衣。“它看起来简直疯了，”她回忆道，“颜色如此之多，那么典型的 WASP 风格（美国白人盎格鲁-撒克逊新教徒风格）——而且很酷。”对于这位在明显更具波西米亚氛围中长大的北加州原住民来说，这改变了她看待该品牌的方式。“这是一种迸发而出的美国视角，”她说，“真的让我大开眼界。”

不落窠臼 Zoe 和 Mike Eckhaus 从 J. 早期的传奇目录中汲取灵感。

正是那件毛衣成为了 J. 与 Eckhaus 全新合作的切入点。 与她的设计伙伴 Mike Eckhaus 共同管理这个品牌（而 Mike 对该品牌的第一记忆是，在中学时期做《麦田里的守望者》读书报告时，他穿了一件与同学相同的 J. 毛衣背心）。自 15 年前创立 Eckhaus 以来，他们塑造了一种“市中心宠儿”的神秘感，擅长打造一种粗粝且现代的美国运动装版本，充满了大地色系的古怪感与流畅的颠覆性。

如果这次联手看起来出人意料，那么——这正是其目的所在。“我们非常推崇日常，”J. 的创意总监兼女装负责人 Olympia Gayot 表示，“而他们到来并加入了一丝反转和张力。这对我们来说非常令人兴奋。”

否则，J. 怎么会为我们带来一套带有杂色酸黄色调的粗针织裙装套装，看起来就像是香奈儿某个离经叛道的表亲？（ 表示她一直在寻找“恶心”的颜色，包括一种“呕吐绿”。）此外，还有对淑女风双件套的重新演绎，采用条纹羊绒材质，短款比例显得俏皮；以及经典的牛津衬衫，现在背面被纵向切开，呈现出深层的重叠开口。“有些东西感觉非常像我们，有些则非常像 J.，” 在谈到合作时说，“如果太偏向其中一方，我们会将其舍弃或将其推向中间地带。这里面的任何东西在我看来都不显得荒诞。每件单品都能找到适合它的穿着者。”

“Eckhaus 的基础在于丹宁、汗布和针织衫，”Eckhaus 说，“我对 J. 也可以这么说——只不过实现方式不同。”

虽然他与 凭借染成阴郁色调的宽版丹宁、毛茸茸的雕塑感针织衫以及带有性感且怪异镂空设计的衬衫而闻名，但近年来，他们的作品在经验的积累下获得了一种精致感，现在还包括考究的皮革和更精简的轮廓。就像 J. 的高级基础款一样，这些是真实的人在真实生活中穿着的真实衣服——尽管从一开始，Eckhaus 就吸引了一群创意人士（例如独立演员、画廊主），他们经常坐在时装秀的前排，偶尔还会被说服走上 T 台。 >230

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美始于愿景：即洞察他人所忽略之物、识别可能性，并将一张面孔转化为在快门按下后仍能长久留存的影像的能力。自 1985 年合作首个《Vogue》封面以来，化妆师兼 NARS 创始人 François 一直与传奇摄影师和设计师共同协作，帮助定义了一个时代的视觉基调——在那个时代，超模们传递出一种无与伦比的能量感、喜悦与自信。

如今，François 将目光投向了凯亚·格伯（Kaia Gerber）。为了向过去标志性的《Vogue》封面致敬，这位当红模特成为了 全新 Notorious 睫毛膏广告大片的主角。

对于 François 而言，这种联系比怀旧更为深层。他说，格伯是“一位带着另一个时代精神的当代超模”。拍摄她的感觉就像是在“重温”初代超模们的魔力——回归到最初吸引他进入这个行业，并启发了时尚界一些最持久妆容的乐观主义、艺术造诣和创造力。

同样的哲学在 Notorious 睫毛膏中得到了最新的体现。这款全能配方在提供轻盈触感的同时，能带来令人惊叹的提拉效果、延长睫毛并增加定义感，给人一种令人愉悦的次世代感。对于格伯来说，这次合作本身也承载着历史感。她说， 是“我买过的第一个美妆品牌”，并补充道，与 François 合作“既感觉超现实，又极其特别”。

这是一种只有真正的艺术家才能赋予的、毫不费力的既视感。毕竟，美不仅仅在于你看到了什么，而在于你如何看待它，以及你持续创造的魔力。

权力三人组

J.Crew 的 Olympia Gayot 与 Zoe Latta 及 Mike Eckhaus 共同亮相。“我们赞美日常，”Gayot 说，“然后他们到来，并加入了一丝反转与张力。”

“定义他们品牌的不仅是他们的设计，还有他们围绕设计所构建的世界，”Gayot 观察到。她回忆起一场秀，当时选角导演抱着一名模特的婴儿，而该模特则在 T 台上行走；或者有一次，一群朋友提供了全情投入的音乐伴奏。“这并不矫揉造作——它是家庭式的，是美丽的，是具有市中心风格的，”她继续说道，“就像所有当你作为局外人观察时，会让你觉得‘我想成为那个世界的一部分’的东西。”

他们的 27 件合作单品涵盖了男装、女装和童装。在此之前，两人在今年早些时候进行过一个较小的项目，由 Eckhaus Latta 重新构思了 J.Crew 标志性的高领毛衣，将其呈现为大地色系的拼接风格。整批产品在几小时内便售罄。“我们不是一个靠炒作的品牌——我们不习惯于发布产品后立刻售罄，”Eckhaus 说，“但如此迅速地售罄确实让人很有成就感，而能够将其扩展为一个完整的系列，则带来了一种完全不同的兴奋感。”

大量工作是在曼哈顿市中心的 J.Crew 总部完成的，周围布满了钉着旧广告图、面料样本和新草图的情绪板。“这里有太多的灵感，”Eckhaus 在谈到挖掘 J.Crew 档案时说道，“有如此丰富的素材可以探索和借鉴，然后以一种符合我们风格的方式去颠覆、消化和玩味。”

“我们必须不断地问自己，这是否依然能引起 J.Crew 客户的共鸣？”Eckhaus 继续说道。“如何在不产生疏离感的前提下推动廓形的演变？如何在保持可穿戴性的同时，让它显得酷且极具当下感？”有趣的是，整个系列恰恰体现了 Latta 多年前在翻阅 J.Crew 目录时最初的感受——一种并非单一而是宽广的美国视角，它在某种程度上捕捉到了我们那如万花筒般多变的自我认知中某种难以言表的东西。

织物之新

这些新香氛 将不寻常的 灵感缝合在一起。

在苏豪区（SoHo）开启周六早晨的方式很奇怪：把鼻子深深地埋进一个普拉达（Prada）尼龙肩背包里。但在

悄悄嗅了嗅包内之后——并希望曼哈顿市中心这家店里的没人注意到——我闻了闻自己的手腕。早些时候，我喷了普拉达美妆（Prada Beauty）最新的香水 Nylon Noir。它触鼻时带有锐利感，让我想起尼龙布料相互摩擦时发出的声音。

我们都知道薄纱、缎面和羊毛看起来是什么样子——但它们闻起来是什么味道？这就是最新香氛所探索的。这些并非皮革调香水（新车、前卫夹克、马鞍），皮革调自 1781 年 Creed 品牌首次为乔治 3 世国王制作

Royal English Leather 以来就已屡见不鲜。相反，请想象打开一家时装屋工作室的大门，体验那些原材料。“Indigo 的灵感来自丹宁，”安德烈亚·马克（Andrea Maack）在谈到她同名公司最新推出的香水时说道，这款香水采用了

甜美织物

某些材质（如羊绒）长期以来一直是香氛基调，但棉、麻或丝绸呢？

薰衣草、鸢尾根和麝香的香调。它闻起来就像穿上我最爱的那条几乎太紧的古董 Gloria Vanderbilt 牛仔裤时的感觉。

在试用这些新香氛时，我发现自己倾向于选择与穿着相匹配的款式。一件收腰的 20 世纪 50 年代 A 字裙需要一款受“新风貌”（New Look）锐利线条影响的迪奥（Dior）香氛；而穿着紧身直筒裙和羽毛穆勒鞋去观看美国芭蕾舞剧院（American Ballet Theatre）的日场演出时，则促使我选择 YSL 美妆的 Velours，其灵感来自伊夫·圣罗兰（Yves Saint Laurent）钟爱的奢华天鹅绒。而德里斯·范诺顿（Dries Van Noten）的 Soie Malaquais（或称“Malaquais 丝绸”）限量版瓷瓶香水，则足够流畅且性感，适合穿着吊带裙出门之夜。当我回到家，甚至我的洗浴和睡眠流程也灵感源自织物；娇兰（Guerlain）的 Eau de Coton 是杏仁和橙花的柔和融合，无论是在我的睡衣还是床单上都同样舒适。派对继续，直到深夜。——玛格索·安布巴（MARGAUX ANBOUBA）

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“坚强面对”有时会对你的牙齿造成残酷的伤害。亚历山德拉·科迪尼亚 (Alessandra Codinha) 正在学习如何不再强撑。

当我看到牙钻出现时，我就知道自己麻烦了。“我们有个问题，”我的牙医告诉我，“你咬牙太用力了，你正在毁掉你的牙齿。可能是好几颗。”毁掉？！他肯定在夸张：我的牙科记录历史上从未有过龋齿！而且在经历了一阵疫情期间的压力性磨牙后，我一直戴着夜间护齿垫。“压力会杀死神经，”他解释道，指着我的 X 光片和一颗模糊的磨牙内部，“你一直在紧咬牙关，可能在晚上，但也可能在白天。你意识到这一点了吗？”读者们，在这次对话前的七个月，我刚生了一个孩子，而且我还关注新闻。我意识到自己很紧张吗？当然！我只是没意识到我的牙齿也知道。

我并非孤例。在做了两个部分牙冠，并为了第三颗牙齿前往洛杉矶的牙髓病专家处进行规定的根管治疗时，我了解到，越来越多的患者是因为咬牙和磨牙引发的灾难而就诊，而非以往牙髓病专家最常见的传统龋齿。而且这些患者还会复诊。自新冠疫情以来，我的牙髓病专家见过人们将本应像钻石一样坚硬的填充物和牙冠咬裂。他正考虑提供咬肌肉毒杆菌注射，以暂时麻痹最强有力的下颌肌肉，从而应对那些最严重的重复发作患者。“我认为给肉毒杆菌注射不应该是牙医的工作，但我已经没主意了，”他告诉我。

在这方面，他并不孤单。似乎无论我看向哪里，都有新企业涌现，旨在解决我们这种“强颜欢笑、默默忍受”倾向所带来的日益严重的问题。一周后，我尝试了 Emface，这是一种高强度肌肉刺激设备，据称通过一系列重复疗程，利用电磁波来重新训练过度活跃的面部和下颌肌肉。在实际操作中，这意味着两个贴片连接着电线，让你在刷手机的同时，面部在 20 分钟内持续地进行无痛痉挛。当我躺在那里时，一个知道我情况的朋友给我发了一个视频链接，视频里看起来像是一个女人在受刑，但实际上是利安·莱姆斯 (LeAnn Rimes) 正在接受一名筋膜操教练的下颌治疗。 >252

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日夜紧咬牙关会给你的牙齿带来毁灭性打击。牙医们发现，人们甚至能将那些本应不可摧毁的材料咬裂。

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（他们是身体疗法的专家，专注于针对包裹在身体肌肉和器官周围的结缔组织进行治疗。）我看着那位歌手在——我想是——宽慰之情中歇斯底里地大哭，而我则仰卧在比弗利山庄一家店面的橱窗幕布后，身体不自觉地抽搐。也许这一切听起来很荒谬？曾经我也这么认为。但那是以前的事了。我给利安（LeAnn）的筋膜治疗师发了邮件，询问是否还有空档。他们确实有，但不多。“我们正在拍摄新的电视节目！”一名代表回信道。

他并不是唯一了解筋膜的人。我还请了运动医学整脊师珍娜·拉加纳（Jenna Lagana, DC）提供帮助。她专攻性能康复，并与多位表演艺术家合作过；她告诉我，歌手会出现下颌问题，就像棒球投手会出现肘部问题一样。她说，旨在防止磨牙的夜间护齿套有时反而会加剧紧咬牙关的情况。如果给下颌提供一个可以抓握的东西，即使是在无意识状态下，许多人的下颌也会如此。她对我进行了手动评估：咀嚼时没有咔哒声、弹响或疼痛，这意味着这不是关节问题，但我的下颌肌肉因为过度使用而紧绷且受损——这是一个软组织问题。她在我的头颅和肩膀周围的各个点施压，并在我口腔上角进行了一次虽然剧痛但最终能缓解压力的操作，以使那里过度活跃的肌肉稍微放松。

当她的手从我嘴里移开后，我问她对肉毒杆菌蛋白（Botox）怎么看——这是否能让我免于未来痛苦的手动操作？“我不建议将此作为一种选择，”她告诉我。

“这不可行，长期来看也不经济，而且根本不是解决方案。我从未见过有人说：‘噢，没错，我打了一次肉毒杆菌，我的下颌就完全好了。’你需要做的是找出你的压力源，”也就是说，是什么让我紧咬牙关，“以及如何减轻这些压力，并改善你的头部、颈部、下颌以及所有这些肌肉组织的整体状态。”她建议每天两次对咬肌进行刮痧，最好配合热敷。而且，你知道的，尽量不要

我意识到我的牙齿一直是在接触着的——长期以来对显得“张口结舌”的恐惧可能在潜意识中对我产生了负面影响

咬牙。在我出门时，拉加纳的妻子、执业针灸师纳塔齐亚·祖·斯托尔伯格（Natazia zu Stolberg）建议道：“当你意识到自己在这样做时，把舌头放在上牙后面。记住，除非在咀嚼，否则你的牙齿不应该接触！”我在走向车的路上练习，并意识到我的牙齿一直是在接触着的——长期以来对显得“张口结舌”的恐惧可能在潜意识中对我产生了负面影响。

“哦，这完全可能是个因素，”综合与功能医学专家莎拉·科里（Sarah Corey, ND）在本周晚些时候的一次通话中告诉我。“想想我们接收到的那些信息，”关于要坚强且沉着冷静：克制情绪（stiff upper lip）、咬紧牙关，诸如此类。“人们压力很大，”她说，并指出下颌在历史上就是我们感受压力的地方。处于高强度情境中的动物——比如在萨瓦纳草原上被追逐——在到达安全地带后，会通过身体发抖或颤抖来作为压力反应；而收到一封糟糕的工作邮件，或在高速公路上被司机痛骂的人，却没有地方可以排解所有的皮质醇和肾上腺素。而且，不想让任何人压力更大，但高水平的皮质醇会抑制你的免疫系统并增加炎症，这两者都会导致衰老加速和长期健康状况不佳。

“我认为我们需要将此视为不仅仅是那个特定肌肉中发生的事情，”科里告诉我。“是否有你觉得没有说出口或在压抑的事情？是否有我们没有建立的界限？我认为这对女性来说是一个很大的问题。”（公平地说，我已经超过一个月没有完整地睡过一个好觉了，但我怎么可能

所以我制定了一个计划。但那些已经失控的事情该怎么办？“安妮医生！她改变了我的生活，”造型师兼健康狂热者朱娜·贝尔（Djuna Bel）告诉我。贝尔散发着一种典型的加州式健康光彩，她每周一次进行脊椎矫正，包括下颌矫正。在格伦代尔的 Healthwise Chiropractic 诊所，安妮·伊萨戈利安（Annie Issagholyan, DC）拍摄了一系列 X 光片并进行了测量，向我证明问题实际上不在我的头部，而是在我的脊柱。伊萨戈利安解释说，神经系统失调加上姿势问题会导致一系列功能障碍。她告诉我，来就诊的患者中有三分之二是因为下颌失调，尽管具体情况差异很大。“对于颞下颌关节（TMJ）功能障碍，极少是由单一原因造成的。”糟糕的睡眠姿势加上教我的孩子关于界限的问题？）“当你感到压力和焦虑时，你处于交感神经过度兴奋状态，这意味着你失去了休息和消化的能力，”你的身体无法自我修复或重置神经系统。她建议我，呼吸练习实际上是我们强迫自己进入副交感神经状态的唯一方法。（而且它是免费的！）她指导我用鼻子吸气四秒，憋气七秒，然后用嘴呼气九秒。（后来一位呼吸教练告诉我，你甚至不需要计数或憋气，只要呼气时间比吸气时间长即可。）科里还建议我大幅增加 omega-3 的摄入量以改善情绪和关节健康，并每晚服用甘氨酸镁以改善睡眠。

“科技颈”（tech neck，因眼睛向下盯着设备而导致的前倾姿势）给我的脊柱带来了成倍的压力，这不仅体现在我的下颌上，还体现在我的肩膀和臀部。

伊萨戈利安制定了一个 24 次疗程的纠正计划，包括每周两次的就诊，期间我会接受脊椎矫正，下颌接受冷激光治疗以促进细胞再生，背部肌肉接受电极刺激。我还得进行

颈部牵引练习，我被固定在墙上做了 20 次倾斜深蹲。她会手动放松我的内侧翼状肌和外侧翼状肌——这些位于口腔内部的小肌肉是问题的根源。她还会调整我的中背部，因为我在抱孩子时姿势不正确导致那里出现了问题，最后通过重新对齐我的颈部来结束治疗。在第一次就诊离开时，我拿到了用于面部的冰袋，并测量了尺寸，准备定制一个经过精心设计的全新枕头，据说能让我的头部保持水平。

我执行了该计划。效果虽然缓慢但很稳定。我发现自己开始意识到头部在颈部上的摆放位置，以及看手机时的持机姿势。我服用补充剂，并在每天的开始和结束时进行有意识的深呼吸。有一天我意识到，我的情况正在好转。在一次就诊中，Issagholyan 轻而易举地将我的头部前后掰动，随着颈椎在接连的弹响声中重新对齐，我感觉到颅顶有些东西放松了；当我离开治疗床时，过了一分钟我才意识到我的牙齿没有接触在一起。几个小时后，它们依然没有接触。

在疗程进行到一半时，我询问了未来的情况。是否有一个时间点我可以彻底结束治疗？“我们会让你达到稳定状态，”Issagholyan 说。但痊愈？并不是那样运作的。“你不会在健身房练三个月然后说，‘好了，我完成了！’”作为一名曾在压力巨大的环境中从事体力工作的前舞者，她自己每周也会进行一次调整，并将其视为保持健康和能力的必要部分。“但也许如果生活压力减轻了，我们就不需要这么多干预。”至于这一点，我并不抱太大希望。

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不久前，丝巾这个概念还会让人联想到某种略显陈旧的东西——祖母梳妆台里挥之不去的樟脑丸气味，既令人珍视又显得过时。当然，格蕾丝·凯利（Grace Kelly）在里维埃拉的优雅风情依然交织在其传承之中，但对我们许多人来说，文化关联则来自《白莲花度假村》（The White Lotus），在那里，詹妮弗·库里奇（Jennifer Coolidge）的丝巾引发了人们将其与佩佩猪（Peppa Pig）而非莫妮卡·维蒂（Monica Vitti）相比较。

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随后，秀场介入了。在 Celine，迈克尔·赖德（Michael Rider）致力于让这款配饰复兴。他在 2025 年 6 月左右的首秀是在一个巨大的丝巾“帐篷”下举行的；而现在，在推出了四个系列之后，这位身在巴黎的美国人展示了环绕颈部的斜纹丝巾、塞进西装外套的丝巾，以及从肩头倾泻而下的丝巾。

受莎拉·伯顿（Sarah Burton）在 2026 年秋季纪梵希（Givenchy）秀场上将丝绸 T 恤当作头巾佩戴的启发，在头发上喷了太多干发喷雾的日子里，我一直尝试用头巾式的方法系上丝巾。我也喜欢偶尔尝试围裙式穿法，或者穿一件轻盈地固定在身上的上衣，这源于朱利安·克劳斯纳（Julian Klausner）在德里斯·范诺顿（Dries Van Noten）那里营造的热带办公室氛围——毕竟，曼哈顿本身就是一座岛屿。而且，看到从亚历莎·钟（Alexa Chung）到詹妮弗·劳伦斯（Jennifer Lawrence）的所有人都将折叠的方巾系成腰封，看来我并不孤单。

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阿本本人偏爱他所谓的“斯特凡诺·皮拉蒂（Stefano Pilati）”风格，这让人联想到前圣罗兰（Saint Laurent）创意总监将丝巾塞进 T 恤的佩戴方式。他抓起一条绿褐色的佩斯利花纹方巾，开始摆弄它，使其呈现出完美的自然褶皱，然后通过扣、塞和系，完成那个精准的皮拉蒂式扭转。而为我选择的，则是一件几何色调的淡彩色作品，风格类似于经典的爱马仕（Hermès），纳德吉·范希（Nadège Vanhée）最近也将头巾缠绕在金链项链上。

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罗莎琳·德雷克斯勒（Rosalyn Drexler）写她的第一部小说是因为一次打赌。在那之前，她主要以纽约的前卫雕塑家和画家身份为人所知。但在 20 世纪 60 年代初，当时正准备创办自己出版社的编辑理查德·格罗斯曼（Richard Grossman）读到了她一时兴起起草的几个段落后，印象深刻到向这位业余作家提供了一份图书合同。“你知道我从未写过小说，”德雷克斯勒告诉他。“那么，你现在开始写，”他反驳道。

她赢了这次打赌。基于她在 20 世纪 40 年代在布朗克斯度过的青春期，《我是美丽的陌生人》（I Am the Beautiful Stranger）由格罗斯曼出版社于 1965 年出版，被《纽约时报书评》评价为一部“微妙地释放”、“完全原创”且“极具补充性”的小说。节拍诗人格雷戈里·科索（Gregory Corso）在阅读后写信给德雷克斯勒，感谢她写出这样一本“诚实且引人入胜”的书。

德雷克斯勒去年去世，享年 98 岁，她的一生充满了这样不可思议的胜利。她是那种在尝试的大多数事情上都能出类拔萃的创意全才。作为一名自学画家，她

为新兴的波普艺术流派带来了敏锐的女性主义视角。她凭借创作的第一部戏剧作品——1964 年的《家庭电影》（Home Movies，苏珊·桑塔格称其为“快速且机智”）获得了奥比奖（Obie Award）；她与洛恩·迈克尔斯（Lorne Michaels）和理查德·普赖尔（Richard Pryor）一起，成为了莉莉·汤姆林（Lily Tomlin）1973 年电视特辑的获奖编剧团队；她还获得了古根海姆奖学金（小说类）和麦克道尔奖学金（绘画类）。她甚至还担任过职业摔角手——这本身就是一种行为艺术。

“在那个时代，也就是 60 和 70 年代，你应该选择一条赛道，”加斯·格里南（Garth Greenan）说道。他在纽约市的画廊自 2015 年起代理德雷克斯勒的作品，并将于 9 月举办一场代表作展。此次展览将包括德雷克斯勒的文字和艺术作品，以及她与丈夫（已故画家谢尔曼·德雷克斯勒）的私人通信和家庭电影。“我想尽我全力地去推广罗莎琳，”格里南说。

罗莎琳·布朗兹尼克（Rosalyn Bronznick）1926 年出生于布朗克斯，是父母（俄罗斯犹太裔）抚养的三个女儿中的长女。她是个早慧的孩子，就读于音乐与艺术高中（现为拉瓜迪亚高中）。她在范科特兰特公园遇到了谢尔曼——当时她正在一个舞蹈团体学习——并在 19 岁时与他结婚，在亨特学院就读一个学期后辍学。20 岁时，她有了第一个孩子：女儿瑞秋（Rachel）。她的儿子丹尼尔（Daniel）在 11 年后出生。

德雷克斯勒短暂涉足职业摔角，部分原因是为了逃离家庭生活的束缚。“我必须暂时远离这些家庭琐事，”她在 2007 年告诉评论家约翰·姚（John Yau）。她加入了一个全女性剧团，并选择了摔角艺名“罗莎·卡洛，墨西哥烈焰”（Rosa Carlo, the Mexican Spitfire，对于一个来自布朗克斯的犹太女孩来说，这个名字有些牵强）。在几个月的时间里，她随团在南部巡演，将谢尔曼和年幼的瑞秋留在家里。她并不热爱旅途生活，但这为她

1972 年出版的活泼的第三部小说《碎成碎片》（To Smithereens）提供了绝佳的素材。（后来，她以摔角手罗莎·卡洛的身份，成为了沃霍尔丝网印刷画的主题。）

回到纽约后，她经常出没于格林威治村著名的简陋酒吧 Cedar Bar，与威廉·德·库宁和伊莱恩·德·库宁等朋友在一起 >268

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罗莎琳·德雷克斯勒（Rosalyn Drexler）的作品涵盖了绘画、职业摔跤和小说创作。从上至下：《恋人》（Lovers），1963年，画布上的丙烯与纸张拼贴；德雷克斯勒化身为“墨西哥烈焰”罗莎·卡洛（Rosa Carlo），约1950年；《失赛》（Lost Match），1962年，画布板上的丙烯与纸张拼贴。

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并开始展出拾得物雕塑。1960 年她在东村的实验性鲁本画廊（Reuben Gallery）举办的个展，标志着她正式进入这座城市的艺术界。但当该画廊在 1961 年关闭时，她无法找到新的代理画廊，于是她转向绘画，希望这能给她带来更好的机会。

她成为了波普艺术的先驱，将从杂志和报纸中发现的放大广告粘贴在画布上，然后用鲜艳的色调覆盖其上。“这很天真，但奏效了，”德雷克斯勒在 2017 年的一篇随笔中回顾道。她将主体置于古怪、有时甚至是极端的角度，并且特别被那些捕捉到浪漫关系中性别权力动态的图像所吸引。她对自己创作的所有作品只有两个要求：必须真实，且必须让她感到有趣。除此之外，她并不太在意他人的看法。

“我认为在她的同辈艺术家中，德雷克斯勒几乎是唯一一个将针对女性的身体暴力指出为媒体景观中平常一部分的人，”布兰代斯大学罗斯艺术博物馆 2016 年开幕的一次回顾展的共同策展人凯蒂·西格尔（Katy Siegel）说道。德雷克斯勒从未公开透露她对该话题的兴趣是否源于自身经历。她的观点是，侵略性就在我们周围，深深植根于美国文化之中。

到 1960 年代中期，她将重心转向写作。除了屡获殊荣的剧本和小说外，她偶尔还会撰写影评，包括为本杂志撰稿。“她的感知力如此不落窠臼，”诗人兼音乐家乔伊·哈乔（Joy Harjo）说道。1976 年，当德雷克斯勒在爱荷华作家工作坊任教而哈乔在攻读艺术硕士（MFA）时，两人成为了密友。这两位女性在这一顶尖机构中都感到自己像局外人，而且

红衣女子 德雷克斯勒的《连锁吸烟者》（Chain Smoker, 1960年代）出现在她 1974 年小说新版的封面上。

哈乔被德雷克斯勒的不羁所吸引。“当我试图寻找方向时，她是我精神正常的避风港。”

聚光灯在 1980 年代开始淡出。德雷克斯勒的艺术作品展出次数减少了。但在她去世前的十年左右，新的支持者（包括作家乔纳森·莱瑟姆）将她重新拉回了时代精神之中。瑞秋·科米（Rachel Comey）为了给她的 2027 春季系列寻找灵感而潜心研究德雷克斯勒的档案，成为了最新的崇拜者；Hagfish 也是如此，这是一家由 30 多岁的娜奥米·哈夫曼（Naomi Huffman）和朱莉娅·林戈（Julia Ringo）经营的独立出版社，专门重新发行绝版书籍。“我们在寻找一些响亮且新鲜的东西，一些不寻常的东西，一些能真正帮助我们确立项目基调的东西，”哈夫曼说道。他们去年春天将《碎成碎片》（To Smithereens）作为首部作品出版，今年秋天他们将重新发行德雷克斯勒 1974 年的疯狂讽刺小说《世界主义女孩》（The Cosmopolitan Girl），讲述一个与会说话的狗谈恋爱女人的故事。

如果说德雷克斯勒这种多栖身份有什么弊端，那就是她从未在任何一个领域完全感到自在。“她几乎涉猎了所有领域，但她确实对我说过，她一直都在那里，但她从未

“她就在那里，”亚当·哈里森·莱维（Adam Harrison Levy）说道，他是一位作家兼电影制片人，目前正在拍摄一部关于德雷克斯勒（Drexler）的纪录片。也许这才是她真正的“越轨”之处：她拒绝只专注于一件事情。“她想要书写自己的故事，”格里南（Greenan）说，“这体现了她在名为‘生活’的剧场中所扮演的所有不同角色。”

BALTIC-BOUND 位于希乌马岛（Hiiumaa）上的埃哈（Eha）房产中的茅草屋建筑。

岛屿时光

一家充满想象力的度假村在爱沙尼亚纯净的自然景观中开业。

你听过春、夏、秋、冬。但 viies aastaaeg（第五季）又是怎样的呢？三月下旬，在爱沙尼亚南部，随着冰雪消融，波罗的海的迷雾缓缓移动，一个微季节随之诞生——位于希乌马岛（Hiiumaa）的新度假胜地 Eha 将其定义为“春升”（springrise）。“这座岛有它自己的节奏，”出生于塔林（Tallinn）的伊娃·马兰（Eva Maran）说道，在过去的五年里，她与伴侣索尼·阿斯瓦尼（Sonny Aswani）共同开发了 Eha。“没有什么事是可以强求的。”

希乌马岛是联合国教科文组织生物圈保护区，拥有数英里的白沙滩和苔藓覆盖的森林，其间点缀着传统的木结构农舍和中世纪的石砌教堂。长期以来，这里一直是爱沙尼亚人喜爱的夏季避暑胜地（可以将其想象成一个更狂野的马萨诸塞州马莎葡萄园岛），得益于塔林的科技繁荣，这些人的生活水平近期得到了提升。今年夏天我访问时，可以看到许多家庭正跳上帆船，或聚集在海边餐厅外享用熏鱼和冰啤酒。

在森林里种了一上午的查加蘑菇，并在岛屿北岸观察了海豹之后，我抵达了 Eha：这是一座八角形的、带有茅草屋顶的建筑奇迹，坐落在古老松林边缘的一条潮汐溪流之上，蓝黑色的家燕（爱沙尼亚的国鸟）在芦苇丛中鸣叫。“在爱沙尼亚，自然是一种宗教，而森林就是我们的教堂，”马兰指出。九月份，宾客将来到这里参加为期数晚的健康计划，重点在于重塑昼夜节律，并体验桦木桑拿、采集野果以及蜂疗等传统活动。“现代生活的太多方面将我们从自身的节奏中抽离，”马兰补充道，“在 Eha，我希望人们能感受到那种节奏在缓慢地回归。”——利亚姆·赫斯（LIAM HESS）

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在出版畅销书《帕金科》（Pachinko）近十年后，李敏真（Min Jin Lee）的《美国补习班》（American Hagwon，Cardinal 出版社）名义上探讨的是韩国人对教育的痴迷。“Hagwon”是指学生在课后或周末就读的营利性学校（有时被称为“补习班”），在李的新小说中，它是位于加利福尼亚的一个前哨站，承载着角色们的希望、决心以及偶尔的绝望。Koh 一家在经历了一系列不幸后，从舒适的中上层阶级生活跌落至艰苦的美国生存状态，最终来到了南加州。李为这个家庭构建了一个像 19 世纪小说一样浓稠且复杂的世界，并将阶级、野心和自主权等相似的主题贯穿其中。李的文字拥有一种温暖且包容的魅力；无论困境的具体细节多么具有时代感，某些挣扎是永恒的。——克洛伊·沙马（CHLOE SCHAMA）

在他的前两部小说——《在远处》（In the Distance，2017）和获得普利策奖的《信任》（Trust，2022）中，埃尔南·迪亚斯（Hernan Diaz）审视了美国历史的两大支柱：狂野西部和华尔街。在《层》（Ply，Riverhead 出版社）中，他将目光转向了未来。这部小说设定在几百年后，发生在一个反乌托邦的东海岸大都市（猜猜是哪个……），该城市被阶级线一分为二，被自然地貌所覆盖，且其中的电力

令人心潮澎湃的新小说探讨未来之景。

已成为一种黑市货币。主角是一名“窃电者”（pincher），通过非法接入电网来支撑一个地下朋克音乐与艺术场景。随着她被一名神秘且激进的物理学家所吸引——后者正秘密实验一种承诺能解构时空结构的设备——关于身份、资本主义以及选择之家庭的问题随之浮现。虽然这部作品保留了迪亚兹此前小说中的宏大叙事，但《Ply》凭借其极具创造力的俚语密度标志着一次突破。而对于那些愿意随之起舞的读者来说，这是一个扣人心弦、令人愉悦地感到迷失且深具人性关怀的可能未来愿景。——LIAM HESS

艾玛·克莱恩在她的第二部小说《客人》（The Guest）中捕捉到了一种青春期的失范感——讲述了一个潜伏在汉普顿的骗子女子的故事。而她新小说《Switzy》（Random House）探讨的主题则是成年生活摇曳的终点，而非其混乱且充满诱惑的起点。故事设定在另一个稀有的领域：一名金融巨头被娇养的生活。他叫大卫·海斯廷斯，随着大脑功能的衰退，他正进行一场从伦敦到苏黎世的告别之旅，在那里，辅助自杀在等待着他。克莱恩简洁且详尽的散文具有极强的张力，她生动地捕捉到了主角的遗憾、矛盾以及意识消逝时的凄美。——TAYLOR ANTRIM

艾米莉·圣约翰·曼德尔在《第十一站》（Station Eleven）之后成为了文学巨星，这部设定在疫情后的科幻作品在特定时期看来，是对我们所有人可能面临的命运的一种令人不安的预演。在她新小说《Exit Party》（Knopf）中，科幻元素更偏向形而上学，涉及平行宇宙，描绘了社会的替代轨迹：一个是由民兵和领地划分出军事权威的世界；另一个则是中央监控国家权力巩固控制的世界。同一人物的不同变体存在于每个领域中——这精妙地勾勒出了一个人的内在特质以及环境如何塑造他们。曼德尔以极高的效率塑造了她的角色群；尽管叙事具有流动性，但这些个体依然显得层次丰富且复杂。极少有作家能以如此精炼的技巧构建世界，悬念交织在每一行文字之中。——c.s.

逐页赏析

从左至右：书籍《American Hagwon》、《Ply》、《Switzy》和《Exit Party》的封面细节。

腰带的艺术

BALEN

Just Kids

凯亚·格伯（Kaia Gerber）和霍默·盖尔（Homer Gere）拥有名门父母的幸运以及蒸蒸日上的事业——包括在今夏极具吸引力的布雷特·伊斯顿·埃利斯（Bret Easton Ellis）改编剧集《碎片》（The Shards）中担任主演。但他们两人都深知，要走出自己的路，意味着必须完全地、毫无保留地做真实的自己。文字：罗布·哈斯克尔（Rob Haskell）。摄影：史蒂文·迈泽尔（Steven Meisel）。

在 2024 年的畅销书《焦虑的一代》（The Anxious Generation）中，社会心理学家乔纳森·海特（Jonathan Haidt）认为，当今的青少年生长在由 iPhone 玻璃构成的温室中，缺乏接触偶然与意外的机会——更不用说彼此之间的接触——而这些正是培养出大胆、灵活且独立成年人的关键。海特与作家布雷特·伊斯顿·埃利斯同岁，他对埃利斯 2023 年小说《碎片》中所描绘的许多自由之风深感怀旧。但可能并非全部。海特哀叹当代年轻人缺乏他所谓的“自由游戏”（即漫无目的且无人监管的活动），而埃利斯笔下的年轻主角们则以一种近乎鲁莽的放纵在玩乐。如果不是因为他们的父母在欧洲无限期度假，《碎片》里的孩子们或许能从偶尔的监视中获益。

本月，瑞安·墨菲（Ryan Murphy）将改编剧集《碎片》带到了 FX 频道。对于那些仍沉浸在《爱情故事》（Love Story）——这部讲述小肯尼迪（John F. Kennedy Jr.）与卡罗琳·贝塞特（Carolyn Bessette）求爱、结婚及悲剧结局的纪录片所带来的 90 年代幻想中的人们来说，这又是另一次感官上的时空旅行，前往一个更加令人愉悦的模拟时代，以及一个牛仔裤更加紧身的的世界。埃利斯的设定是 1981 年的洛杉矶，当时一群就读于顶尖私立学校的高年级学生的生活，被一名有着阴暗过去的新转学生打破了。这些孩子生活快节奏，开着豪车穿梭在峡谷中，吸食可卡因，在父母家中举办奢华派对，炫耀、交欢、出入夜店和乡村俱乐部。与此同时，一名被称为“拖网渔船”（Trawler）的连环杀手正将目标锁定在城市富人区的年轻女性身上。

该剧的演员阵容由伊格比·里格尼（Igby Rigney）坐镇，他饰演布雷特（大致是埃利斯的年轻版），一名志向远大的作家，且处于出柜前的状态，他的女友黛比·沙弗（Debbie Schaffer）是一位好莱坞大制片人的女儿。但真正让该剧片头序列产生震颤的，是饰演布雷特最好的朋友苏珊·雷诺兹（Susan Reynolds）的凯亚·格伯，以及饰演神秘新来者罗伯特·马洛里（Robert Mallory）的霍默·盖尔。格伯的母亲自然是辛迪·克劳馥（Cindy Crawford），而盖尔的父亲是理查德·盖尔（Richard Gere）；他们曾是 90 年代初最具标志性的情侣之一。（事实上，他们曾由赫伯·里茨（Herb Ritts）拍摄，登上了本杂志 1992 年 11 月号的封面。）

DOUBLE TAKE

身着迪奥（Dior）的格伯与盖尔。他们在瑞安·墨菲的新剧《碎片》中饰演两名富有且心不在焉的 20 世纪 80 年代洛杉矶青少年。时尚编辑：斯宾塞·辛格（Spencer Singer）。

LAYER CAKE 身着普拉达（Prada）的格伯。 对面页： Bottega Veneta 连衣裙与帽子。 美妆笔记 长线布局。Nars Notorious 睫毛膏采用含滋养摩洛哥坚果油的新配方，为睫毛提供包裹与调理。

“你看完《碎片》（The Shards），就会开始怀念那个即便闯了点小祸，第二天也不会被传到网上的时代，”格伯说道。

“也许这看起来太巧合了，”霍默·盖尔在谈到这次新一代的选角神来之笔时说道。他记得第一次见到格伯以及其他几位《碎片》演员是在洛斯费利斯的 Ye Rustic Inn。“那是凯亚常去的地方。就像是她的‘放松区’，她会去那里喝杯啤酒，在外面抽根烟。认识不到二十分钟，我就说：‘我们要不要直接承认我们父母结过婚这个事实？’她回答：‘好啊，没问题。’就这样就搞定了。”

盖尔带我来到了野口博物馆，这是一座覆盖着常春藤的堡垒，占据了皇后区长岛市一个安静的三角形街区。对他来说，这是一个重要的地方，不仅仅是因为这里收藏了这位日裔美国艺术家令人震撼的抽象雕刻石材和玄武岩雕塑。盖尔在布朗大学主修视觉艺术，他在为一门建筑课制作一座伊萨姆·野口纸灯的精心复制品时结识了这座博物馆。这是一个异常炎热的春末下午，他穿着上周在罗马淘来的蓝色美国橄榄球短裤，一件从父亲衣橱里“偷”来的 T 恤（那是很久以前布鲁斯·韦伯送的礼物），以及一顶破旧不堪的纽约洋基队帽子。他告诉我，这是他的第一次采访。他承认自己很紧张，并补充说有人建议他避免使用讽刺，因为这种语气在文字报道中很难传达。

“我只是想让自己看起来讨人喜欢，”他天真地说。“我和我父亲谈过这件事，他说：‘即使你在扮演你自己，在某种程度上你也在扮演一个角色。’你懂吗？我想，比起一个工作经验如此之少的人应有的认知，我对这个游戏的理解要深一些。考虑到我父亲的身份，我在尽可能正常的情况下长大。我完全没有在演艺圈环境中长大。直到去年夏天之前，我从未进过专业的拍摄现场。”

盖尔和格伯在进入《碎片》剧组之前的履历截然不同。格伯 10 岁开始模特生涯，16 岁时便走上了重要的大秀 T 台。除了其他影视作品外，她曾在两部瑞安·墨菲的作品中担任角色；而墨菲在《碎片》获得绿灯通过的那一刻，就想让格伯饰演苏珊——那个美丽且聪明的学生会主席。盖尔进入演艺圈的过程则是随意的，尽管这也许是不可避免的。他在纽约州的庞德里奇与理查德·盖尔及其母亲、演员凯莉·洛威尔一起长大。虽然父母在他 13 岁时离婚，但他回忆童年是“田园诗般”的。理查德在霍默出生时已经 50 岁，他特意在远离好莱坞的地方建立家庭。在州北部，霍默基本上被当作独生子抚养长大，尽管事实上他是复杂重组家庭中七个孩子之一：

SWING TIME 《碎片》是格伯与墨菲合作的第三个项目，墨菲在选角之初就想到了她。格伯身着香奈儿。

他有两位 36 岁和 40 岁的继兄，一位 36 岁的同父异母姐妹，一位 13 岁的继弟，以及两位 6 岁和 7 岁的同母异父兄弟。在母亲那边，他是最小的；在父亲那边，他是最大的。

“我完全不是那种戏剧社的孩子，”他回忆道。“绝。对。不是。我是个运动员。我的意思是，我觉得我是个敏感的运动员！但我整个童年都在被人们问：‘你长大后会成为演员吗？’而我的反应是：‘绝对不会。’我在学校成绩不错，父母也没有给我压力。表演一直是在那边”——他向侧面挥了挥手——“那是别人做的事情。你知道，人生有无数种幸福的活法，对吧？而这（演艺生活）是一种复杂的生活。我想我对此有切身体会。”

在大学期间，盖尔在尝试了多个专业之后，才发现自己热爱艺术创作。疫情期间，他休学一年，驾车横跨全国，并深深地爱上了户外活动。运动攀岩是盖尔的热情所在。他沉溺于在高度受控的状态下，应对自然界中艰巨困境的挑战。攀登基因流淌在他的血液中：他的外祖父、地质学家詹姆斯·洛厄尔（James Lowell）曾攀登过科罗拉多州所有 14,000 英尺的山峰；而 26 岁的盖尔已经征服了 52 座山峰中的 11 座。

2022 年秋季，当他大三回到校园时，一位朋友邀请他出演一部学生短片。“突然之间，我就参与到了校园的电影社群中，”他回忆道，“从那时起，每个学期这都成了我的重心。我尝试和朋友们一起拍短剧，或者，你知道的，我想看看自己能参与多少组拍摄？我可以帮你们做美术设计吗？我可以负责勘景吗？我只是想成为团队的一员。”尽管在参加俱乐部足球赛时因脑震荡导致缺席期末考试，盖尔还是在 2024 年毕业了。在纽约州卡托纳（Katonah）与母亲共同生活一段时间后，由于没能为自己找到一条清晰的前行之路，他在科罗拉多州度过了几个月，露营、徒步和攀岩。就在那时，他接到了一个出乎意料的电话，对方是一位看过他学生电影的经纪人，想知道他是否有意向签约。 “我想，好吧，也许这是一个信号。”

在此之前，盖尔对洛杉矶的接触仅限于他父亲那位传奇经纪人埃德·利马托（Ed Limato）开车来到他位于庞德里奇（Pound Ridge）的童年故居。利马托的豪华轿车车门开启，一团如旧好莱坞气息般的烟雾会预示着他的出现。霍默（Homer）和他的父亲并不常讨论表演。相反，他们倾向于讨论片场的政治以及名声带来的危机。“我是一个内向的人，只是培养了足够的社交技巧来应对生活，”他说，“我想我父亲也是如此。”

盖尔的父母都与藏传佛教有着长久的渊源，其教义在他心中留下了不可磨灭的印记。“有一个练习冥想——尤其是练习慈悲心的父亲——”

步步高升 华伦天奴（Valentino）连衣裙， Gigi Burris Millinery 帽子， 以及 Herbert Levine 鞋履。 卡地亚（Cartier）耳环。 对面： 杜嘉班纳（Dolce & Gabbana）套装。

父母陷阱 当格伯（Gerber）和盖尔最初作为剧组同事相识时，“我想，‘我们要不要直接承认我们父母结过婚这个事实？’”盖尔说，“她回答，‘好啊，没问题。’就这样就解决了。”两人均穿着由 Anthony Vaccarello 设计的 Saint Laurent。

橙色与新黑 巴黎世家（Balenciaga）外套。 Noel Stewart 帽子。 Herbert Levine 靴子。 对面：路易威登（Louis Vuitton） 连衣裙、帽子及项链。

“我认为无论你多么优秀，适度地自我怀疑都是健康的。如果你在做一些有价值的事情，你应该始终保持一点紧张感，”盖尔说道。

“过去 50 年里，每天一小时的冥想绝对会产生影响，”他说。“它为你提供了一个窗口，让你能够对自己进行真正的修行。我不了解我父亲 20 多岁时的样子，但我认为他那时有点像个顽童。”他笑了笑。“他成长了很多。这就是生活的全部意义，不是吗？你永远不是一个完成品。对我来说，佛教最大的教训就是‘不伤害’的基本态度。就像是，你希望每个人都能获得最适合他们的那份美好。无论氛围如何，无论对方是你喜欢的人还是不喜欢的人，这都会让生活变得轻松许多。”

他在 2025 年春季试镜了两部剧集，《亢奋》（Euphoria）和《碎片》（The Shards）。当他接到墨菲团队要求他参加试镜的电话时，他正和父亲在印度参加达赖喇嘛的生日庆典。他飞往洛杉矶，拿到了罗伯特·马洛里的角色；两周后，他又在《亢奋》中获得了迪伦·里德一角，这是一个最终成为卡西性机会主义目标的电视明星。“九月份，我开车横跨全国，搬进了卡洛塔别墅，突然之间我就在和悉尼·斯威尼拍卧室戏了，”盖尔回忆道。“那简直太疯狂了。”

格伯惊讶地发现，自己在《碎片》的演员阵容中是最资深的。饰演黛比的海耶斯·沃纳是一名歌手，此前没有任何电视或电影作品。饰演苏珊男友汤姆·赖特的格雷厄姆·坎贝尔也是第一次出演电视作品。“名声是我出生就拥有的，所以我没有经历过‘变得出名’是什么感觉，”格伯解释道。“我一度认为，在那种环境下，我的成长方式已经是能达到的最匿名状态了，直到我遇到了霍默。比如，网上根本找不到他的童年照片，而我的整个童年和青少年时期都在互联网上。我只能想象。我 24 岁，但……被采访得太多了。”

我们坐在马蒙城堡酒店（Chateau Marmont），这里对格伯来说是一个充满情怀的地方，因为这里曾是《碎片》的编剧室，也是墨菲主持的演员晚餐聚会地点，他几乎扮演了父母般的角色。格伯讲述了去年夏天她在最喜欢的潜水酒吧与盖尔及其他演员第一次见面的不同故事。盖尔迟到了（格伯和她母亲一样，以准时著称），他戴着帽子，带着笑容走进来，她当时想：哇，他太像他的角色了。“我认为霍默拥有罗伯特的魅力，但没有他的残酷，”她说。“我环顾四周，对大家说：‘你们每个人都和自己的角色如此相似。这太有趣了，因为我一点也不像我的角色。’这太蠢了。他们都看着我，然后说：‘嗯，不，我不认为你是例外。’苏珊其实比我想承认的要更像我。”

格伯目前在洛杉矶的生活大多处于她马里布童年轨迹之外。“不幸的是，人们假设的所有那些事情都是真的，”她说。“我每天都在大海里。我哥哥会去冲浪，然后穿着潜水服、拿着冲浪板、光着脚走去学校。从幼儿园到毕业，你一直和同一群孩子在一起。那里没有 Uber，所以是你父母开车送你去派对，然后接你回家。你能闯的祸也就那么多了。”

换句话说，尽管格伯在 13 岁时就首次被史蒂文·迈泽尔拍摄，但她在苏珊及其早熟的小圈子身上，几乎找不到自己青少年时期的影子。但她确实记得 17 岁时在纽约拥有自己公寓时，觉得自己像个勇敢的小大人，以至于在不知道如何开启洗碗机时，也因过于自傲而不想打电话给母亲。事实上，她父母的高知名度可能起到了一种防止她变得放纵的保护作用。“我从未想过要让他们丢脸，”她回忆道，“我不想成为那个闯进来，毁掉他们所有心血的孩子。我在高中时并不爱参加派对。我妈妈是优秀毕业生，所以我当时想，好吧，那我也得一样。我是那种会提醒老师‘您忘了布置作业！’的学生。这让我并不受欢迎。但实际上我在想，这一切都是暂时的。我不想做任何可能会搞砸我生活和事业的事情。我一直有宏大的梦想。但当你观看《碎片》（The Shards）时，它会让你渴望那个没有手机的时代，那个你可以闯一点小祸，而不用担心第二天就出现在互联网上的时代。”

模特是为她铺就的道路，但格伯一直想成为一名演员，并且她以特有的热情投入其中。她学习过梅斯纳和斯特拉斯伯格表演法。去年春天，当她的同行们在巴黎时装周时，她正在西好莱坞仅有 99 个座位的矩阵剧院（Matrix Theatre）中，在威尔·阿尔伯里的《埃文斯顿盐成本攀升》（Evanston Salt Costs Climbing）中饰演一名情绪脆弱的年轻女性。“我的角色每晚都在与自杀念头作斗争，然后我走出剧场，人们拿着我青少年时期裸体摆拍的照片，要求我签名，”她回忆道，“这种感觉就像是，我想为人们流干最后一滴血，然后突然被另一件事迎面击中。”

她的哥哥普雷斯利·格伯长达十年的药物成瘾斗争，似乎在凯亚探索自我认知的过程中提供了一种反衬。“当家庭中发生这样的事情时，它会让每个人都变得谦卑，”她解释道，“我想这也是为什么我开始将自己定义为‘省心’的那一个，并且永远不想寻求帮助。因为感觉如果两个孩子都需要照顾，负担就太重了。”去年 12 月，普雷斯利在一段 Instagram 视频中公开了他的挣扎。凯亚尝试过多种治疗方式，并且尤其支持迷幻药疗法，

适合他 “我没法看自己的表演，”刚接触演戏的盖尔说，“这太难熬了。” 盖尔身着乔治·阿玛尼。

白色热烈 格伯身着莎拉·伯顿设计的纪梵希。Church's 鞋履。 对面：罗意威上衣与连衣裙。曼诺洛·布拉尼克鞋履。香奈儿高级珠宝耳环与戒指。

格伯希望自己能与作品画上等号，就像她的偶像吉娜·罗兰兹等一些银幕巨星所做到的那样。“对我来说，那是最高级的凡尔赛。”

她对他深感自豪。“在我们的成长过程中，父母大部分时间都非常低调，什么都不分享——而现在，我的哥哥成了这样一个绝对的导师，他说：‘我要在所有人面前展现出最真实的人性。’ 你能向世界隐瞒的事情有限。而试图掩盖某些事情，只会让当事人觉得你在为他们感到羞耻。”

格伯很快就完成了马里布高中的独立学习课程——该课程主要面向冲浪队成员，偶尔也提供给超级模特——她在 16 岁时通过了高中同等学历考试。因此，她非常喜欢在《碎片》（The Shards）中扮演返校皇后和班长的机会。（格伯坦承，她在五年级时曾竞选过班长，但失败了。）她记得当墨菲让她为学校集会即兴发表演讲时，她是多么兴奋。“我知道当时大概有 200 名背景演员拿钱为我欢呼，但这并不重要，”她说，“我当时在想，我这辈子一直在等待这一刻。”

在格伯和我坐下来交谈几天后，最高法院撤销了一项下级法院的命令，该命令要求为一名被判定在 1979 年谋杀伊坦·帕茨（Etan Patz）的男子重新审理案件。对于 20 世纪 80 年代的儿童和父母来说，帕茨的失踪——一个六岁孩子离开他在苏豪区（SoHo）的公寓后便再未出现——标志着一个全新的危险世界的到来。

瑞安·墨菲在阅读《碎片》时就想到了帕茨。这部作品紧张的氛围根植于 80 年代初南加州真实的偏执心理，那是连环杀手的黄金时代。“夜行者”（The Night Stalker）、“山边绞杀者”（Hillside Stranglers）、“工具箱杀手”（Toolbox Killers）、“高速公路杀手”（Freeway Killer）以及“金州杀手”（Golden State Killer）曾让该地区陷入恐惧，然而在某些圈子里，青少年却罕见地享有如此之多的自由。“我几乎没见过我的父母，”墨菲在回忆 70 年代他在印第安纳州的童年时说道，“我们像野孩子一样到处跑。然后一切都改变了。《碎片》设定的年份是 1981 年，可以说是我人生中最重要的一年。那时我是高中二年级学生，正与自己的性取向作斗争。我失去了童贞，而在 1981 年 7 月，《纽约时报》首次发布了关于艾滋病（AIDS）的公告。在那一年，我将性与死亡的威胁联系在一起，就像许多男同性恋者那样。我记得问布雷特：‘拖网渔船（Trawler）真的是艾滋病吗？HIV 才是这里真正的怪物吗？’他只是笑了笑说：‘我的作品开放地解读。’”

如果说《情书》（Love Story）是对 9 / 11 之前生活的沉思，那么《碎片》就是其在艾滋病爆发前的对应之作。这些素材在墨菲心中引起了深切共鸣，他向年轻的演员们分享了自己在 Studio 54 颓废主义余波中成长、并处于艾滋病爆发前夕的个人经历。“这是书中非常重要的一方面，”他解释道，“这种观点认为，对于一段美好青春的快乐与自由，突然之间需要付出代价。我童年时期终极的‘bogeyman’（可怕之物）就是艾滋病，所以我真的尝试将这一点放入剧中。但我并没有预料到在导演这部剧时我会如此情绪化。我惊讶于自己多少次在读到一句台词或听到一首歌时突然落泪。我一直能感受到年轻时的创伤。”

对于墨菲来说，这是一次回顾，也是对当代生活弊端的反思，尤其是对年轻人而言。墨菲有三个孩子，最大的孩子 13 岁，他告诉我：“《碎片》中有一种感觉在说：也许在数字化时代之前，世界会更好。”他要求演员们将手机留在休息车里数小时，希望他们能建立起真正的联系。据各方描述，这一尝试取得了成功：盖尔和格伯表示，演员们之间保持着异常亲密的关系。（在我们去博物馆的前一天晚上，两人在东村的 Joyface 舞到凌晨 3 点。）

尽管盖尔在一年半前是通过 Hinge 结识现任女友的，但他并不使用社交媒体。格伯则已经找到了走出那些曾让她深陷其中的互联网阴暗角落的方法。“你会读到一些关于自己的赞美，”她说，“然后向下滚动，发现一些能把你彻底击垮的东西。但算法非常了解你。现在我的 TikTok 成了个挺愉快的地方：全是烹饪视频、钓鱼装备评测，还有唱民谣的老人们。”

墨菲认为，盖尔即便在自己并不在意的情况下，也会成为一名巨星。“他身上有一种我欣赏的演员特质，那就是一种真正的神秘感。他对出名毫无兴趣，他感兴趣的是表演这项工作，我非常喜欢他这一点。凯亚则非常成熟。她见多识广，而且尽管她比我这辈子见过的任何人都爱读书，但她对流行文化也极其精通。霍默完全不是那样的人。我认为他会保持纯粹。”为此，在 6 月拍摄完奥利弗·斯通的新片《白色谎言》（White Lies）后，盖尔前往马萨诸塞州中部参加了一个为期 10 天的内观（Vipassana）静坐冥想闭关。他目前没有其他在计划中的项目，他的经纪人也明白他这次是真的完全不会查看手机。但在他失联之前，他得知自己在《亢奋》（Euphoria）中仅着内裤的剧照在网上疯传。事实证明，互联网正忙于赞美他体态的柔和轮廓（有人称之为“自然”，另一些人则称之为“奶爸身材”）。

“我显然成了一个身体正向（body-positivity）偶像，这一事实让我意识到了媒体的荒诞，”他后来通过短信告诉我（尽管我的感觉是，他早已心知肚明）。格伯的身体则被无数次剖析和审视，详见第 372 页

精准穿搭

格伯身着 Marc Jacobs。佩戴 Mikimoto 项链。本篇造型：发型由 Guido Palau 打造；妆容由 Pat McGrath 打造。详情请参阅《本期目录》。

伦敦西区的名流们登上了一辆 1932 年的普尔曼车厢——由导演巴兹·鲁赫曼（Baz Luhrmann）和服装设计师凯瑟琳·马丁（Catherine Martin）重新构思——开启一场沉浸在魅力、八卦、狂欢以及各种奢华时尚中的旅程。由安妮·莱博维茨（Annie Leibovitz）拍摄。

列车之梦

乘车票 （从左至右）：布莱恩·考克斯（Brian Cox）身着 Paul Smith。当《乐谱》（The Score）于 9 月来到华盛顿特区时，他将再次演绎他在西区饰演的 J.S. 巴赫。他说：“现在感觉这件事更具相关性，而且考虑到现在是谁在掌控局面，在华盛顿探讨腐败甚至更具讽刺意味。”莱蒂希亚·赖特（Letitia Wright）身着 Max Mara 连衣裙。约瑟芬·西森（Josephine Thiesen）身着 Akris。时尚编辑：塔比莎·西蒙斯（Tabitha Simmons）。

掌控局面

卢克·汤普森（Luke Thompson，身着 Emporio Armani 马甲、衬衫和长裤）将于 10 月在罗伯特·艾克（Robert Icke）改编的《他人生活》（The Lives of Others）中回归伦敦舞台。他说，对他而言，戏剧“不是一份循规蹈矩的工作——它是本能的。当人们问你在台上是如何表演时，就像在问你如何生存一样。”

它是

“这关乎权力，”75岁的戏剧传奇哈丽艾特·沃尔特（Harriet Walter）说道。此时正值英国夏季的第一个炎热之日，她手里拿着手指三明治，身后火车窗外西萨塞克斯郡泛黄的田野在渐渐枯萎。“政权更迭，战争的道德……”她身着一件拖地长裙的杜嘉班纳（Dolce & Gabbana）Alta Moda 高级定制，继续说道，“……以及必须做出的残酷决定。”

演员阿奇·马德克韦（Archie Madekwe）倾身向前，被她对菲利达·劳埃德（Phyllida Lloyd）执导的全女性版《尤利乌斯·凯撒》的见解所吸引。该剧将于今年11月在斯特拉特福开演（沃尔特饰演布鲁图斯）。31岁的马德克韦目前正深陷于西蒙·斯通（Simon Stone）在伦敦 The Bridge 剧院上演的《俄瑞斯忒亚》（The Oresteia）的演出周期中。

当马德克韦向乘坐在贝尔蒙德（Belmond）极具装饰艺术风格的英国普尔曼号（British Pullman）上的演员们透露——今天这列火车被《Vogue》征用，以庆祝由巴兹·鲁赫曼（Baz Luhrmann）和凯瑟琳·马丁（Catherine Martin）设计的全新车厢启用——他秘密地与凯特·摩丝（Kate Moss）和本尼迪克特·康伯巴奇（Benedict Cumberbatch）共同拍摄了一支麦当娜的视频时，众人像扑向腐肉一样地向他围拢。（面对排山倒海的问题，马德克韦笑着回答道：“她，嗯，跑得相当晚。”）

本故事中出现的这组演员所代表的一系列作品，将定义今年秋季的戏剧日程。其中包括布莱恩·考克斯（Brian Cox，在即将于9月抵达华盛顿特区的《The Score》中表现得极其暴躁）、莱蒂希亚·赖特（Letitia Wright，在国家剧院的新闻编辑室题材剧作《The Story》中出演）、梅森·亚历山大·帕克（Mason Alexander Park，在百老汇的《无事生非》中拥有天使般的声音且抢尽风头，该剧10月起开始预演）、塞迪·索夫劳（Sadie Soverall，在伦敦版《约翰·普罗克特是反派》中表现出色，该剧明年年初将在西区再次上演），以及约瑟芬·西森（Josephine Thiesen，近期在汉堡的一场《爱丽丝梦游仙境》中饰演爱丽丝，并很快将在汤姆·福特的下一部电影《Cry to Heaven》中亮相）。

这次拍摄是一场时尚戏剧：恋人、阴谋家、天真少女、反派、吹牛者，全部在摄影师安妮·莱博维茨（Annie Leibovitz）的指导下完成。演员卢克·汤普森（Luke Thompson）在织锦椅子上打盹（他很快将在阿德尔菲剧院的《他人之生》中与凯拉·奈特莉对戏），他最能精准地捕捉这种氛围：“在电影和电视中，当观众拆开礼物时你并不在场。但在剧院里——那种充满电荷的感觉。它是触电般的。”

他微笑着，看着帕克身着洋红色华伦天奴（Valentino）高级定制在车厢中走过。“你必须真正相信它。”——吉尔斯·哈特斯利（GILES HATTERSLEY）

舞台私语 （从左至右）：塞迪·索夫劳身着 Miss Sohee 礼服。哈丽艾特·沃尔特身着华伦天奴。赖特身着 Erdem 套装，在《The Story》中饰演一名野心勃勃的记者，这是她的国家剧院首秀。她将戏剧比作健身房：“你需要力量，纪律，”她说，“不仅在精神上，而且在身体和灵魂上。”

索夫劳身着由莎拉·伯顿（Sarah Burton）设计的纪梵希（Givenchy），她将把近期在《约翰·普罗克特是反派》中的主演角色带到明年的西区复排版中。虽然她“在看着那些受折磨的艺术家中长大”，但她说，“我已经学会了如何更好地照顾自己。”

绚彩飞扬

光芒万丈 梅森·亚历山大·帕克（Mason Alexander Park）身着华伦天奴（Valentino）高级定制礼服，将在杰米·劳埃德（Jamie Lloyd）备受赞誉的剧作《无事生非》中迎来她的百老汇首秀。“我成长过程中，作为一名艺术家，尤其是作为一名跨性别艺术家，并没有一条非常清晰的路径，”她说，“我只是在努力寻找更多为那些古怪、独特的人而创作的角色。”

从左至右：汤普森（Thompson）身着 Junya Watanabe Man 夹克；考克斯（Cox）身着 Moss 背心和拉尔夫·劳伦（Polo Ralph Lauren）长裤；蒂森（Thiesen）身着香奈儿（Chanel）；赖特（Wright）身着 Danielle Frankel；阿奇·马德克韦（Archie Madekwe）身着迪奥（Dior）。今年，蒂森将在诺贝尔奖得主埃尔弗里德·耶利内克（Elfriede Jelinek）的《公主剧》（Prinzessinendramen）中担任主演——这是一部对童话故事的女性主义重构——此外，她还将出现在汤姆·福特（Tom Ford）即将上映的电影《向天哭泣》（Cry to Heaven）中。“我创造了自己的世界，”她说，“以便在我们的艺术中拥有探索那些尚未真正存在之物的自由。”

我们共舞吗？

THE END OF THE LINE 从左起：Cox 身着 Dunhill 西装。Madekwe 身着 Valentino 上衣，她表示“没有什么能让你为一周八场演出做好准备——你会开始觉得自己像个运动员”。Walter 身着 Dolce & Gabbana Alta Moda，她宣称自己“将永远相信剧院是实现变革、娱乐、惊叹与激情的工具”。本篇故事：妆容由 Lisa Houghton 完成。详情请参阅《本期目录》。

我内心蕴含着如此之多，去吧 GRUNGE 风格在 2026 年依然充满活力——但这一次，定义其新时代的不再是宽大的法兰绒衬衫和碎花图案，而是轻盈的薄纱层叠、做旧牛仔裤，以及一种极简且随性的自在感。摄影：COLLIER SCHORR。

高对比度 关键在于平衡——正如 Gigi Hadid 所示，她将一件奢华且质感如黄油般丝滑的 Sarah Burton 为 Givenchy 设计的上衣 (givenchy.com) 与来自 Mothfood Shop 的粗犷做旧 Levi's 牛仔裤搭配在一起。对面：模特 Vittoria Ceretti 身着一件蕾丝 Tom Ford 连衣裙 (tomfordfashion.com)，向 90 年代的内衣外穿风致敬。时尚编辑：Camilla Nickerson。

层层叠穿 模特刘雯采用了“越多越好”的叠穿法，身着 Hermès 外套 (Hermès 精品店)、Brooks Brothers 西装外套以及 Michael Kors Collection 衬衫 (michaelkors.)。 对面：模特 Anok Yai 身着轻盈的 Miu Miu，尽显随性自然；miumiu.。

随心而至 Ceretti 将两种风格融合，身着 Brooks Brothers 衬衫 (brooksbrothers.) 和 Hodakova 裤裙 (hodakova.)。对面：刘雯身着 Tod's 翩翩起舞；tods.。

寻找涅槃 想要让一件空灵的连衣裙回归地气，还有什么比一条穿旧的牛仔裤和一双笨重的靴子更好的选择？Ceretti 将一件多图案的 Chanel 连衣裙 (部分 Chanel 精品店) 与来自 eBay 的油漆喷溅牛仔裤以及来自 The Quality Mending Co. 的古着军靴搭配在一起。

纤细线条 Yai 用一条石洗 Dior 牛仔裤 (Dior 精品店) 为一件轻盈的蕾丝 Dior 连衣裙增加了稳重感。

艺术状态 上方：模特 Noor Khan 穿回基础款，身着 Michael Kors Collection 连体衣 (michaelkors.) 和 Calvin Klein Collection 长裤 (详情请咨询 calvinklein.us)。下方：一件 Tom Ford 皮衣外搭一件精致的吊带裙同样能达到效果；tomfordfashion.。对面：模特 Alex Consani 身着 Prada (prada.)，将一种凌乱状态演绎得深思熟虑。

越多越热闹 模特 Selena Forrest 身着一件点缀有装饰的 Prada 网眼连衣裙，为整体极简的造型增添了神秘感；prada.。Courrèges 牛仔裤；courreges.。Phoebe Philo 鞋履。

由 HEN'S TOOTH PRODUCTION 制作。场景设计：JAVIER IRIGOYEN。 插画与拼贴：COLLIER SCHORR。

打破常规 Hadid 身着一件修身的 Gucci 外套和长裤；gucci.。本篇故事：发型由 Jimmy Paul 完成；妆容由 Yumi Lee 完成。详情请参阅《本期目录》。

美妆笔记 请稍候。美宝莲 (Maybelline) Grippy Serum 含有适合敏感肌的保湿烟酰胺，作为第一步可使肌肤丰盈并做好妆前准备，助力妆容持久。

释放潜能的阿里娜

阿里娜·萨巴伦卡（ARYNA SABALENKA）——这位球风强悍、情感外露的世界第一网球选手——深知她的运动就像一场歌剧。作者：罗布·哈斯克尔（ROB HASKELL）。摄影：史蒂文·克莱恩（STEVEN KLEIN）。

今年四月中旬，当她抵达马德里时，阿里娜·萨巴伦卡的竞技状态已被磨砺得如此光彩夺目，以至于输球似乎成了一件不可能的事。她那著名的强力底线击球精准地落在边线上。击球角度显得格外犀利，发球在关键时刻尤为可靠。虽然从未被认为是一名顶尖的跑动型选手，但她开始尝试冲向网前，为她本就具有压制力的球风增添了更多压力。28岁的萨巴伦卡打球时的样子，仿佛她相信自己无所不能——而她也许是对的。在经历了多年在女子网坛顶端激烈的位置争夺后，情况开始表明，她可能不仅仅是世界排名第一的网球运动员（她在过去70多周里一直保持这一地位），而且可能会像她的两位偶像塞雷娜·威廉姆斯（Serena Williams）和斯特菲·格拉夫（Steffi Graf）那样，真正统治这项运动。更重要的是，网球专家们在春季的讨论中，关注点已超出了她不可撼动的竞技状态：她似乎在……成熟。

几周前，在加利福尼亚州的印第安维尔斯，她击败了她近期的宿敌——来自哈萨克斯坦、沉默寡言的叶莲娜·莱巴金娜（Elena Rybakina）。萨巴伦卡依然容易紧张，依然有着丰富的面部表情，她的呐喊与对手的沉默形成鲜明对比，而观众则被她完全掌控。她因沮丧而大喊，体育场则报以欢呼：这成了一种呼应。坐在我身边的一位白发女性说：“她掌控了局面。她以前会花很多精力在愤怒上，然后就会输掉比赛。”

两周后，在迈阿密，萨巴伦卡赢得了春季两项重要赛事中的第二场——这在网球界被称为“阳光双冠”（Sunshine Double）的难得荣誉。这也是她领养了一只骑士查理王小猎犬幼犬的月份，小狗被命名为 Ash，以网球巨星亚瑟·阿什（Arthur Ashe）命名；同时，她与格奥尔吉奥斯·弗兰古利斯（Georgios Frangulis）订婚，后者是一位希腊裔巴西商人，也是巴西莓果碗品牌 Oakberry 的创始人，该品牌在50多个国家拥有超过800家门店。萨巴伦卡手持两座巨大的奖杯，戴着一枚12克拉的椭圆形钻石戒指（由弗兰古利斯构思，并由她的朋友、常驻迈阿密的珠宝设计师伊莎贝拉·格鲁特曼 [Isabela Grutman] 打造），沉浸在喜悦之中。她告诉 Tennis Channel 的评论员，这是她人生中最美好的一月。

随后四月到来了。在马德里的魔法盒子球场（Caja Mágica）的红土场上，她在连续16场比赛后首次失利——在对阵排名第32位的美国年轻选手海莉·巴普蒂斯特（Hailey Baptiste）时，浪费了六个赛点。几天后，在罗马宝格丽酒店最大的套房客厅里，萨巴伦卡说道：“那场比赛并不轻松。”本赛季的红土赛季将她带到了这里。“输球的那晚，我梦到了所有那些赛点。我会梦到一个球，然后醒来，思考那个错失的机会。”

这组套房纵向排列，可以俯瞰奥古斯都陵墓，是米色与金色的避风港，点缀着意大利现代主义家具和拥有百年历史的乔·庞蒂（Gio Ponti）陶瓷。萨巴伦卡穿着一件棕色 NikeSkims 拉链衫和淡黄色 Nike 运动裤，展现出训练后舒适的典范；她的脖子、耳垂和无名指上闪耀着钻石。我有点担心 Ash，因为这种游牧式的生活让它几乎不可能学会定点排泄。（到目前为止，在酒店套房里使用的是草本香味的宠物尿垫，不过萨巴伦卡说它用得很勤快。）

失利——而且本赛季还会出现好几次——给这位冠军带来了一个难题：是将其抛之脑后继续前行，还是研究它们，解开其中的谜团？“这是一个学习的过程。如果我根本不在意，觉得‘随便吧，下一个’，我就学不到东西，”她说。“那样是不健康的。这就是成为运动员残酷的一面：你不可能赢得所有比赛。但这也是体育的魅力所在。当一个年轻且崭露头角的选手击败世界第一时，这也很美好。如果有人赢走一切，那观看起来就没那么有趣了。”如果说萨巴伦卡已经成为了一颗巨星，部分原因在于她明白网球可以像歌剧一样。要抓住观众，就得向他们展示跨越四个八度音域的人类行为：胜利与绝望，爱与心碎，优雅与闹剧，罪孽与救赎。

就像许多顶尖运动员的故事一样，萨巴伦卡的起点是一个精力过剩且缺乏发泄渠道的小女孩。她在白俄罗斯首都明斯克出生并长大，六岁时第一次拿起球拍。“在我们地区，最受欢迎的两项运动是冰球和网球，”她解释道。“我父亲选择了网球。”在她的记忆中，这座拥有200万人口的城市安全、安静、舒适且一尘不染。她说，在那里乱扔垃圾“会被认为是畜生行为”，而她度过童年的那个社区非常安全，以至于她可以和朋友们在街上闲逛到深夜，而母亲无需担心。她的父亲曾是一名严肃的冰球运动员，直到一次几乎致命的摩托车事故摧毁了他的职业生涯梦想，随后他经营起了一家成功的汽车修理店。她的母亲没有工作，但拥有两个大学学位，并将女儿们的教育放在首位。（萨巴伦卡有一个比她小11岁的妹妹，不是网球运动员，据报道觉得这项运动“太无聊了”。）

“直到我大概13岁之前，我们家还很富裕，”萨巴伦卡回忆道。“然后我父亲陷入了困境。太多的挫折。我看着他在职业生涯中多次挣扎，但总能重新站起来。我的父母努力维持现状，我们并没有真正讨论这件事。但我知道。父母以为我们不知道，但我们其实都知道。”萨巴伦卡与父亲的关系格外亲近，很明显，她认同父亲的那种韧性。但他并不是那种强硬的“网球父亲”——尤其是女子巡回赛多年来已有无数此类先例。“他总是告诉我：‘如果你不喜欢，如果你想放弃，就告诉我们。你不需要强迫自己做任何事。’在我大概九岁的时候，有一段时间我差点放弃。但我看到父亲对我多么自豪，我不想让他失望。然后我再次爱上了这项运动，比之前深得多。”

萨巴伦卡并不完全是大器晚成，但她不像许多同龄人那样在15岁时就被推向职业巡回赛。直到19岁在温布尔登时，她才赢得了第一场女子网球协会（WTA）正赛。白俄罗斯不像中国、俄罗斯和法国那样拥有丰厚的国家资助网球计划，在早期阶段，她很难找到稳定的指导。“很多教练告诉我我很笨，说我唯一能做的就是把球击得过猛——说我永远进不了前100名，”她回忆道。续见第372页

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“阿丽娜会表达她的真实感受，这让她显得很特别，”萨巴伦卡的未婚夫乔治奥斯·弗兰古利斯（Georgios Frangulis）说道。萨巴伦卡在迈阿密法埃纳海滩酒店（Faena Miami Beach）拍摄，身着 Gucci 连衣裙，佩戴 Material Good 耳环。发型由 Sandy Hullett 打造；妆容由 Mark Carrasquillo 打造。详情请参阅本期目录。时尚编辑：Tonne Goodman。

在米兰一个明亮清爽的二月早晨，就在一场决定成败的秀日前一天，曾是法国时尚界领先的偶像破坏者、现任 Gucci 艺术总监的德姆纳（Demna），带着一种好奇的平静感参观他的办公室。

“显然，我有点紧张——但我感觉很好，”他说道，目光扫视着一个装饰风格毫无疑问属于他自己的工作室。两把皮革沙发靠在落地窗旁。艺术家皮亚·卡米尔（Pia Camil）设计的拼接窗帘沿墙垂下。十年前，当 搬进位于工业区 Mecenate 大道的这组时尚建筑时，该品牌成功地重新确立了其作为时尚界“意大利跑车”的声誉——一个流线型、皮革包裹且具有迅猛、古怪冲击力的载体——这一形象此后已深植于流行文化之中。“我的表妹 16 岁，生活在 Roblox 中，她听说我要去 ，就说：‘你知道 是我们经常用来描述某种心态的词吗？如果你感觉很 ，意味着你想疯狂地去社交，去接触人们，去闯荡。’”德姆纳说道。他微笑着补充道：“我想让人们在明天感觉到‘很 ’。”

德姆纳·格瓦萨利亚（Demna Gvasalia，他在格鲁吉亚出生时的姓名；五年前在他于巴黎世家攀升至顶峰时，他舍弃了姓氏）现年 45 岁，这个年龄通常是设计师达到成熟阶段的时期。然而，他的声音在很久以前——即 2014 年，他共同创立 Vetements 的那一年，以及在被任命为巴黎世家艺术总监并进一步扩大影响力前几个月——就已经完全成型。“这使他成为十年间最具影响力的设计师，”巴黎加利埃拉宫（Palais Galliera）的时尚历史学家兼策展人亚历山大·萨姆森（Alexandre Samson）表示。“他创造了非常清晰的角色，反映了东欧后苏联时代那些没有钱、既向往又崇拜同时也鄙视西方世界的青年文化。”德姆纳意识到，这种既贪婪又批判的矛盾心理，同样能引起西方那些由社交媒体主导的都城的共鸣。“这是一个非常强有力的切入点，将标志狂热（logo mania）与解构主义的剪裁技巧以及运动装相结合，”萨姆森说。这同样具有强烈的个人色彩，并且在随后的多年重新构思中一直保持着这种特质。

在工作室里，德姆纳穿着宽松的黑色 Adidas 长裤，一件印有重金属乐队 Slipknot 标志的黑色 T 恤，以及黑色的 穆勒鞋——这是他所定义的流畅宽松廓形的典型代表。年轻时，在资产阶级化的欧洲，他的个人风格经常被视为一种挑衅：他曾被赶出餐厅，甚至被人向他投掷食物。而自那时起，这种风格已成为主流奢侈品审美的关键模板。

去年夏天，在领导巴黎世家十年后，德姆纳接管 ，这一举动被人们视为如同长约翰·西尔弗（Long John Silver）夺取“西班牙号”（Hispaniola）的控制权一般。该品牌此前经历了数年的漂泊；他的到来预示着它将再次在浪潮中纵情驰骋。“他对自己的所作所为有一种完全的‘我不在乎’的态度，他知道如何吸引注意力，如何制造瞬间。他对文化意识有着非常敏锐的把握，”模特兼影响力人物薇薇安·威尔逊（Vivian Wilson）告诉我。“他设计他想要的东西，”德姆纳的长久好友兼灵感缪斯金·卡戴珊（Kim Kardashian）说道，“他就是如此坦率地做自己。”

不太确定的是，德姆纳这种吸引关注的方式是否能适应如此庞大且主流的品牌。古驰（Gucci）是奢侈品集团开云（Kering）的皇冠之珠，在行业低迷的一年里，它也成为了一个极具指标意义的风向标。（该公司的命运与古驰的成功如此紧密地交织在一起，以至于该品牌的首席执行官告诉我，她已经强迫自己不再在床上每小时检查一次全球销售数据。）“团队承担着巨大的责任，因为他们处理的是一个超级品牌，”开云首席执行官卢卡·德·梅奥（Luca de Meo）说道，“必须小心对待！”曾在安特卫普概念主义学校接受训练的德姆纳，以其尖刻、辛辣的讽刺风格以及对挑衅的偏好而闻名。（早期的 Vetements 系列中曾出现过看起来像黄色洗碗手套的设计。）这种不安分的风格在古驰规模的成功压力下，存在着崩塌的风险。至少这种焦虑是存在的：在工作室里，德姆纳令我惊讶地表示，自从到任以来，他已经抛弃了概念主义，转而采用一种更直接、更感官的方式。

“古驰是一个非常务实的品牌，它关注的是产品。不需要为了设计一件你喜爱的裙子而必须先将其概念化，这是一种解放，”他说，“时尚应该是这样的：更直觉化，更情感化……要么是‘我讨厌它’，要么是‘我爱它’。”在他的首次古驰发布中，他以电影的形式呈现了一个胶囊系列（La Famiglia），探讨他所描述的基于 20 世纪 70 年代造型的品牌核心角色。他的早秋系列则是向 90 年代在汤姆·福特（Tom Ford）领导下定义该品牌的性感且精致的造型致敬。

帽子戏法 “这其中有一种大胆之处，”德姆纳在谈到他对古驰的愿景时说道，“它是华丽的，是自信的。你知道自己是谁。”

在这一天，他即将展示的系列是对当下古驰的叙述：这是他自己的愿景，将他与一代比利时

走进德姆纳的 GUCCIVERSE

在短短十余年间，这位出生于格鲁吉亚的设计师从 Vetements 的“叛逆之子”攀升至 Gucci 的最高之位。内森·海勒（Nathan Heller）再次探访这位时尚界不安分的颠覆者，看他如何着手为这个全球巨头品牌注入新活力。肖像画由里内克·戴克斯特拉（Rineke Dijkstra）创作。

时尚摄影：亚历西奥·博尔佐尼（Alessio Bolzoni）

初现雏形 模特希拉·巴瓦尔（Sheila Bawar）和樋口佳代子（Kayako Higuchi）（见对面页）身着德姆纳重新定义比例的服装。“我对 Gucci 的愿景就是创造这种‘错失恐惧症’（FOMO），”德姆纳说道，“那种时髦感、优雅感，以及它所代表的意大利特质。”时尚编辑：卢卡·加拉索（Luca Galasso）。

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

包括 Matthieu Blazy 和 Pieter Mulier 在内的概念主义者们，在大型传承品牌中发掘出了一种全新的感官美学。（到目前为止，这些举措已初见成效：虽然从大多数衡量标准来看，现在观察重大销售影响还为时过早，但自首个胶囊系列发布以来，门店客流量有所上升。）从挂有几件次日将登上 T 台作品的衣架上，德姆纳抽出几件看起来像皮草但实际上是更普遍的农业副产品——剪羊毛（shearling）的大衣，这些大衣采用了斜裁并用细棉布缝制，手感轻盈得如同风衣一般。

德姆纳现在认为，轻盈就是一切——轻盈与速度。在进入 Gucci 之后，他发现工作室所有的原型样本都是在场外缝制的。他做出的首批改变之一就是在现场建立一个 Gucci 工坊，以便服装能够更快速地——以更工业化的方式——制作，并且不再是在纸上修改，而是在立体状态下用大头针和剪刀进行编辑。

德姆纳拿起几款经典手袋，他也让它们变得更轻盈、更柔软，并向我展示了模特身上两件精致的礼服——一件是带有经典 Gucci 图案的紫色礼服；另一件则是闪烁着金光的亮片礼服。除了这些展品，他的工作室出奇地空旷，仿佛这里也经历了一场“轻盈计划”。德姆纳似乎突然意识到了这种空旷。

“我不想给你看太多东西，”他带着俏皮的微笑说道，“我想让秀场成为一个惊喜。”

许多人将德姆纳的触感——即便不是他的审美倾向——追溯到他职业生涯早期在 Maison Martin Margiela 工作的那充满活力的四年，当时他负责监督女装成衣系列。“他完全理解整个品牌背后的流程和思维方式：即‘重新利用’的概念”——Margiela 和德姆纳一样，以将古着单品作为起点而闻名——“以及‘玩弄社会’的概念，”Samson 说道。在 Vetements，德姆纳将这些流程应用于自己的风格。出现了带有垫肩或尖肩的连帽衫，以及超大号夹克。作为一个敏感的年轻人，他习惯于穿着超大号衣服作为一种自我隐藏的方式；而现在，他开始将规范的身体形态重塑为全新且不寻常的形式，产生了令人兴奋的效果。“当时，巴黎真的没有其他类似的事情在发生，”2016, 开始在 Vetements 实习、现任德姆纳幕僚长的 Julien Charrier 告诉我，“他带来了一些完全打破常规的东西，非常新鲜，非常年轻，非常有街头文化气息。”一年之内，这个品牌就被 Jared Leto 和 Ye（当时被称为 Kanye West）穿着或模仿。“他一直都那么酷，”Kardashian 说道，她在 Vetements 推出不久、还没有门店的时候就结识了德姆纳，两人曾在半夜的巴黎一个临时仓库里花好几个小时尝试各种单品。

2016 年，德姆纳在 Balenciaga 举办了他的首场秀。（在接下来的几年里，他继续为这两个品牌设计。）他推出了像厚底 Triple S 运动鞋和宽领 Swing 衬衫这样的爆款，但他也触及了地缘政治主题。2022, 3 月，在俄乌战争爆发后，他的秀场上出现了模特们在黄蓝色的雪暴中艰难前行的场景。在三年之内，该品牌的规模扩大了一倍，销售额突破了 10 亿美元。《华盛顿邮报》在 2019, 赞扬德姆纳“改变了我们对时尚的定义”。

让它流动

从左上角起顺时针方向：模特 Amelia Gray、音乐人 The Dare、Higuchi 以及身着 Gucci 的 Gray；gucci.com。“我想做一些以前没做过的事情，而这”——德姆纳微笑着说——“限制了可能性。”

那年年底，当我第一次见到德姆纳时，他正与丈夫、音乐人 Loik Gomez 住在瑞士的森林里。他告诉我，巴黎变得太让人分心，太令人感到幽闭恐惧，太嘈杂了。在瑞士，他几乎不与任何人接触，但每天工作前，他都会穿上高筒靴和大衣，像卡斯帕·大卫·弗里德里希画作中的人物一样，在自然中漫步。他当时正计划重启巴伦西亚加（Balenciaga）沉寂已久的高级定制业务。他开始以一种全新的、富有诗意的方式思考身体。“我不再处于世界的阴暗面了，”他当时告诉我。

这种情况无法持久。几个月后，整个世界因 COVID-19 疫情而陷入黑暗。瑞士偏远的森林被证明是一个异常完美的封锁避难所，但德姆纳的高级定制首秀被推迟了一年。与此同时，该品牌显而易见的挑衅行为似乎在不断升级。2022, 巴伦西亚加与其断绝了关系，而 Ye 曾是该品牌最著名且最坚定的公开支持者之一，此前 Ye 在社交媒体上发布了被广泛认为具有反犹太主义色彩的内容。（今年 1 月，Ye 在《华尔街日报》的一整页广告中表达了歉意。）仅仅几周后，该品牌以及德姆纳在发布了一场广告活动后面临公众的谴责，该活动中穿着童装线的儿童拿着此前在 T 台上展示过的泰迪熊包。在许多人看来，这些熊像是穿着 BDSM 装备。目光敏锐的观众注意到，另一则 2023 春季系列的广告中，一张堆满文件的办公桌上似乎出现了一页关于“美国诉威廉姆斯案”（United States v. Williams）的最高法院意见书，该案件涉及儿童色情。

后果十分严重。包括卡戴珊在内的巴伦西亚加密切合作的名人重新评估了她们与该品牌的关系。（“对他来说这从来不是问题，”卡戴珊告诉我，“一旦我们进行了调查并查明事情发生的经过，我们就能够安心继续合作。”）不久后，德姆纳本人发表了公开道歉。“让孩子推广与他们无关的物品是不恰当的，”他写道，“尽管我有时希望通过我的作品激发思考，但我绝不会有意在儿童虐待这样一个我所谴责的糟糕话题上这样做。”

“挑衅就像幽默，而幽默不能愚蠢，”当我问他这次经历是否迫使他重新评估挑衅在生活和工作中的作用时，他现在告诉我，“它涉及一种细微的差别。当你成为唯一在笑的人时，挑衅就是愚蠢的。”

德姆纳决定离开瑞士的森林。“过了一段时间，我在那里感到非常无聊，”他告诉我，“对于一个创意工作者来说，无聊是一件非常可怕且棘手的事情——我总是想发现新事物。”他和 Gomez 搬到了日内瓦，但最终发现自己回到了巴黎，依然感到兴奋但不安。“我爱巴黎，但对我来说，它只适合作为一段长距离恋爱，”德姆纳告诉我，“我在那里住了 15 年，这是我一生中在同一个地方待得最久的一次。但我并不喜欢我在巴黎全职生活期间时尚开始变成的样子：安全、无聊、米色、伪资产阶级、平庸、肤浅——所有这些都是时尚不该有的样子。”抱着“在巴黎过半职生活才是最好的巴黎生活”的想法，他和 Gomez 继续寻找第二个落脚点。

他们最终选在了洛杉矶：这里是德姆纳向 Gomez 求婚的城市，也是他一直梦想居住的地方。他们买了一栋 19 年代的平房，并开始融入当地的生活圈。德姆纳告诉我，直到今天，他在加利福尼亚州的社交生活比在欧洲活跃得多。

“从文化角度来说，这截然不同，”他告诉我。“现代性就在那里。硅谷之所以出现在加利福尼亚并非偶然：在对待做事方式、穿着方式以及自我表达方式上，这里的人在精神上感觉更加自由。而在欧洲，则保守得多。”

在接手 Gucci 的工作后，他从巴黎搬到了米兰（“同样在欧洲，但心态截然不同，而且在时尚方面极具工业化——我非常喜欢这一点”），但仍将洛杉矶作为他的第二个基地。“人们总是说，‘噢，我明白你为什么在那儿——你想远离时尚界，’”他说。“而我的想法是，‘事实上并非如此——在那里，我真正处于思考如何运用时尚的中心。’而在意大利，我拥有的是产品、传承、历史和制造——所有这些在洛杉矶并不存在的东西。”

“这是一个相当不错的平衡，”他补充道。“Gucci 两者都需要。”

在他首场秀的后台，德姆纳在模特队列中穿梭，队列沿着一条挤满了发型师和安保人员的走廊蜿蜒延伸。“那种某人坠入爱河时的感觉？我现在就是这种感觉，”他告诉我。“我也在担心一百万件事——鞋子、汗水——但我们无法控制这些事情，所以显然担心是没有用的。”他咧嘴一笑。“我在哪里读到过这句话。”

这场秀将在 Palazzo delle Scintille 举行，这是米兰的一座大厅，被德姆纳重新改造为 Gucci 的活动场地。他受到了佛罗伦萨乌菲齐美术馆（Uffizi Galleries）的启发，那里是该品牌的历史与精神之乡；在获得乌菲齐美术馆的许可后，他将一些经典。

“就个人而言，我需要一种轮廓，”德姆纳说道，“而在九月，我将挑战自己将其呈现出来”

的雕像被复制到了那里。它们排列在宫殿内厅的周边，内厅沿着类似斗兽场的阶梯向下延伸，通向一条将作为 T 台的长中央走廊。“基本上，我们为这场秀建立了一座博物馆，”德姆纳说。“我的想法是将 Gucci 重新置于意大利文艺复兴的聚光灯下。”当然，还有其他目标。当宾客们在 Scintille 宫殿就座时，有人低声说道：“这里的超模太多了。”

事实的确如此。出席名单包括凯特·摩丝（Kate Moss）、卡莉·克劳斯（Karlie Kloss）和 Gabbriette，但也有不习惯走秀的人物，例如说唱歌手 Fakemink 和 Nettspend。（“在邀请名单中，我加入了那些我一直想见的人，”德姆纳向我解释道。）

随着场内灯光熄灭，一束亮光出现在 T 台上。模特查理·琼斯（Charlie Jones）步入光束，身着一件高领无袖白色连衣裙，手持一只经典的黑色 Gucci 包。这件连衣裙紧身且足够大胆，露出了大腿上方的纹身。（“这是我以往最注重身体线条的一次，”德姆纳说。“我找了一位非常优秀的心理治疗师 10 年之久，终于，我开始喜欢我自己了。”）琼斯是一名跨性别男性，他快步交叉走过，随后是一位身着白色长裤和类似衬衫、体格健硕的男性。这场秀与德姆纳在 Gucci 的所有作品一样，将男装和女装造型混合在一起。“我认为按性别划分时尚的想法非常陈旧——我认为这其中存在一个系统性的缺陷，”他说。当那位肌肉男走过时，有人惊呼道：“哇。”

对于在巴黎世家（Balenciaga）时期以喧闹且不断升级的呈现方式著称的德姆纳来说，这次表现反常地将秀场转化为诗意的亮片连衣裙和赤脚行走的男模特。“这非常浪漫，非常像波提切利，简直就像是从画中走出来一样，”他解释道。“这是一种我从未触及过的不同类型的美——更经典的美，但被推向了极致，被夸张化了。”当摩丝身着一件黑色露背亮片连衣裙出现为演出收尾时，现场爆发出一阵欢呼：一个旧的愿景再次焕发新生。

1993 年，德姆纳的家人在种族清洗的威胁下逃离了他们位于格鲁吉亚苏呼米的家乡，抵达第比利斯。他 17 岁时的第一份工作之一是为格鲁吉亚电视台翻译路透社的稿件，从那时起，他很少能成功地摆脱新闻的追随。（2001 年 9 月 11 日，当恐怖的报道在纽约传开时，正是年轻的德姆纳为格鲁吉亚观众进行了同声传译。）他也从未在同一个地方长久定居。

矛盾的是，这种不安分反而帮助他在新的职业之家里扎根。品牌创始人、草帽制作者之子 Guccio Gucci（其名字本身已无可挑剔）于 1921 年在佛罗伦萨的 Via della Vigna Nuova 开了一家店；到 30 年代后期，他开始制作手袋。从一开始，该品牌就对其自我塑造带有某种心照不宣的暗示：Gucci 的徽章中没有像贵族徽章那样包含一名士兵，而是一个高举两个行李包的人物。Guccio 的儿子 Aldo 帮助公司拓展到腰带、鞋类和手套，并擅长工业即兴创作。面对战争时期的物资匮乏，该品牌制作了带有竹节手柄的手袋。到 1960 年，它在纽约开设了一家店；很快又扩展到伦敦、巴黎和洛杉矶。它涉足成衣时尚，并与格蕾丝·凯利（Grace Kelly）和杰基·肯尼迪（Jackie Kennedy）等名流一起飞入 20 世纪 70 年代。1974 年，埃尔顿·约翰（Elton John）在《英国 Vogue》中描写他的跨大西洋旅行时，可以将“法国号”邮轮上的乘客称为“Gucci-Pucci”而能被他人理解。

接下来的二十年里，这里上演了足以写成一部詹姆斯一世时期戏剧的阴谋、诡计、背叛与暗杀：古驰家族成员之间的一系列权力斗争构成了 2021 年电影《古驰之梦》（House of Gucci）的基础，最终以毛里齐奥·古驰（Maurizio Gucci）被谋杀以及该品牌被后来的开云集团（Kering）接管而告终。当时还默默无闻的汤姆·福特（Tom Ford）在 1994 年被任命为创意总监，并在一年之内被认为创造了该品牌第一次非凡的复兴，将时尚风格从中产阶级的棕色调转向了一种性感且令人震撼的新色调。第二次复兴发生在 2015 年，由亚历山德罗·米凯莱（Alessandro Michele）那迷人且中性的风格引领。

随着米凯莱在 2022 年离职，该品牌再次陷入混乱。营收在 2024 年暴跌 21%；而仅在次年的上半年，又进一步下降了 25%。创意总监萨巴托·德·萨诺（Sabato De Sarno）在 2025 年与品牌分道扬镳，古驰在两年内更换了三任首席执行官。去年秋天，开云集团任命其最强大的领导者之一弗朗西斯卡·贝莱蒂尼（Francesca Bellettini）担任古驰的总裁兼首席执行官。某天下午，在米兰四季酒店喝咖啡时，她告诉我她的使命非常明确：“我知道很多人说古驰就像凤凰一样，起起伏伏，从灰烬中重生，”她说，“不。”她摇了摇头，“我们需要通过正常的增长上升——并且保持在顶峰。”

德姆纳（Demna）是贝莱蒂尼的第一个重大构想。“我在巴黎世家认识他，当时他已经决定离开那里，”她说。她认为他很合适，并在一次晚餐中向他提出了这个想法。“他的反应是，‘我可以胜任，’”她回忆道。只有一点：他想先进行研究。

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花卉力量 (FLOWER POWER)

“他设计自己想要的东西，”德姆纳的长久好友兼灵感缪斯金·卡戴珊说道，“他就是如此坦率地做自己。” 本篇故事：发型由 Esther Langham 打造；妆容由 Aaron de Mey 打造。详情请参阅《本期目录》。

家族女家长

朱莉娅·路易斯-德雷弗斯与 Adrienne Miller 探讨她的百老汇首秀：在《其他沙漠城市》（Other Desert Cities）这部关于秘密揭晓的著名戏剧中，她饰演一个家族中温文尔雅的家长。摄影：安妮·莱博维茨。

朱莉娅·路易斯-德雷弗斯的职业生涯已经达到了一个不需要再尝试任何“第一次”的阶段。但在一个明媚的夏日午后，在享用着豌豆汤和刺身的一顿迟来的午餐时，她描述的并非一项，而是两项新体验：为她的百老汇首秀做准备，以及参加托尼奖。

后者发生在几天前。“我不想听起来很俗气，”路易斯-德雷弗斯显然很激动地说道，“但戏剧界有一种纯粹的真诚，非常美好。每个人都知道自己的任务是什么。而这是一个艰巨的任务。”

路易斯-德雷弗斯目前接手的任务是在乔恩·罗宾·拜茨 2011 年剧作《其他沙漠城市》的复排版中饰演波莉·怀埃特（Polly Wyeth），一个棕榈泉名门望族的家长。该剧由约翰·本杰明·希基执导，将于 10 月在哈德逊剧院（Hudson Theater）开演。在午餐会上，路易斯-德雷弗斯身着一件清爽的蓝白条纹上衣和白色长裤，她身上散发出的温暖、魅力与从容将使她很好地诠释波莉——即便波莉是用手术刀般精准的方式在运用这些特质。

在《其他沙漠城市》出现在她的办公桌前之前，路易斯-德雷弗斯已经寻找合适的舞台项目多年。这是一部极具文学色彩的剧作——拜茨的语言智能、机智且刻薄，承袭了爱德华·阿尔比的传统——路易斯-德雷弗斯被深深吸引了。而波莉作为现代戏剧中最令人敬畏的角色之一，这一点也起到了推动作用：她是一个在乡村俱乐部社交圈中保守、举止经过高度训练且拥有堡垒般防御之魅力的女性。

剧情简述：那是 2004 年的圣诞前夜，波莉和莱曼·怀埃特的女儿布鲁克是一名作家，在离开六年之后回到了棕榈泉的家中。与她汇合的有她那讽刺的弟弟、电视制作人特里普，以及波莉的妹妹西尔达——一个正不确定地尝试戒瘾的骄傲左翼人士。布鲁克在经历了多年的抑郁症（由父母管理并支付治疗费用）后康复，她带来了一枚“手榴弹”：她即将出版的回忆录手稿（出版商：Knopf，节选刊于《纽约客》）。回忆录涉及她的哥哥亨利，根据家族说法，亨利在 70 年代加入一个激进的反战邪教后自杀身亡。这部回忆录是布鲁克对那场灾难的清算（亨利参与了一次导致一人死亡的爆炸事件）。但官方说法中的某些部分似乎依然不连贯；她还没有掌握所有碎片……甚至不确定碎片究竟是什么。

波莉是家族叙事的守护者，她和莱曼将布鲁克的回忆录视为最高级别的背叛，认为这破坏了他们精心调校的平衡。然而，最终这部剧并非表面看上去那样，拜茨将最致命的一招留到了结尾——一个陷阱门重新定义了之前发生的一切。

这一切都极其精彩且带有恶趣味的幽默。路易斯-德雷弗斯因饰演标志性角色伊莱恩·比尼斯（Elaine Benes）和塞琳娜·迈耶（Selina Meyer）而深受喜爱，而在这里，她将尝试一种更危险的喜剧风格：威慑力强、优雅、阴险，且在情感上完全处于防御状态。波莉的幽默建立在悲剧之上。

这个角色引起了路易斯-德雷弗斯的强烈共鸣，她在纽约和华盛顿特区长大，那里正是波莉·怀埃特这类名门贵妇的聚集地。“这是一个每周要去做几次头发的女人。还有美甲，全套流程。”她笑了笑，“我认识这类女性。”

她与丈夫布拉德·霍尔育有两个成年儿子，并且一直在思考这种重量—。

贵妇 (GRANDE DAME)

“这个女人每周要去做几次头发，”路易-德雷弗斯在描述她在《其他沙漠城市》（Other Desert Cities）中饰演的角色波莉·怀埃特（Polly Wyeth）时说道。身着拉尔夫·劳伦（Ralph Lauren Collection）礼服。发型：Matthew Monzon；妆容：Romy Soleimani。详情见“本期内容”。拍摄编辑：Tabitha Simmons。

我与大卫·霍克尼的最后一次访谈

多迪·卡赞金（Dodie Kazanjian）回忆已故的英国伟大画家；她的丈夫卡尔文·汤金斯（Calvin Tomkins）；以及她希望他们能进行的那场对话。

多年来，我一直问我的丈夫卡尔文·汤金斯（他的朋友们叫他 Tad），是否愿意写一篇关于大卫·霍克尼（David Hockney）的文章。从 20 世纪 50 年代后期开始，他已经为许多当代艺术巨匠撰写过人物特写。Tad 说他已经不再写特写了；对于一个被宣布为“法定盲人”的人来说，阅读、研究和采访的工作量太大了。

“为什么不只是聊聊天——两个老家伙闲谈，聊聊艺术与生活，生活与艺术，以及过去 60 年或更长时间里艺术界的生存状态？”我总是这样唠叨。（ 给我讲过一个故事，很久以前有一天在一次嘈杂的晚餐上，他坐在大卫身边，两人都很难听清对方说话。 唯一记得的是大卫对摄影下的一句定论：“那是一个独眼的人在透过一个小孔看世界。”）

但这终究没有实现：大卫·霍克尼于 6 月在伦敦家中去世，而 在两个月前的 3 月就去世了。不过，去年春天他们确实在 Zoom 上共处了一个小时左右，当时我正在采访大卫，为一篇配合他在巴黎路易威登基金会（Fondation Louis Vuitton）举办的里程碑式展览“大卫·霍克尼 25”而撰写的报道。

我记得什么？大卫穿着一件绿松石色的毛衣和一套由他在戛纳最喜欢的裁缝定制的格子西装；他一支接一支地抽烟——没有火柴，没有停歇——而 在一旁观察。

我记得问他关于他翻领上的那个别针：“尽快结束霸道（End Bossiness Soon）”。“我本来想写‘立即结束霸道’，但后来我觉得那样写本身就太霸道了，”他告诉我和 。“现在周围有很多霸道的人，比以前更多了，”他一边挑衅地吸烟一边告知我们。

没有写关于大卫的文章，而是写了一篇关于他 100 岁那一年的日记，发表在《纽约客》（The New Yorker）上。这篇文章引起了极大的关注，以至于 在他生日那天带着一种孩子般的好奇心惊呼道：“我回来了，这是一个新世纪，而且我出名了。”

直到意识清醒的最后一天都在工作，完成了他的书《百岁老人》（Centenarian），该书将于明年出版。

就在昨晚，一位从都柏林来访的艺术家朋友来看我，我们讨论谁是现存最著名的艺术家。当然，大卫·霍克尼主导了这场对话。

大卫和 之间那场关于艺术界生活的、两个老家伙之间的对话从未发生——但我喜欢认为他们现在正在进行这场对话。 □

回顾 霍克尼的绘画作品《维希，泉公园》（Le Parc des Sources, Vichy），1970 年。

全花 (FULL FLOWER)

“我们相当挑剔，”奥尔特加·佩雷斯（Ortega Pérez，在西班牙西北部家外的花园中身着 Zara）在谈到她的大家族时说道，其中许多人如今在公司工作。拍摄编辑：Karl Templer。

家族纽带

玛尔塔·奥尔特加·佩雷斯（Marta Ortega Pérez），42岁，领导着 Zara 及其母公司 Inditex——全球最大的时尚零售商。她将重心放在人际关系、形象塑造以及令人惊叹的基础设施上。作者：Gaby Wood。摄影：Annie Leibovitz。

在西班牙最西北端的阿尔泰肖（Arteixo）一个工业区内，在花岗岩采石场和铝商之间，拥有 Zara 的 Inditex 公司打造了一座玻璃之城。城内设有办公室、工厂、仓库、摄影工作室、设计部门、工作室、物流中心，以及配备艺术化店面的展厅——所有这一切的设计目的，都是为了以闪电般的速度满足欲望。

在顶层，在线团队同时运行着至少两场时尚拍摄，准备每周两次发布新产品。在一条空中走廊对面，一个规模相当于小型机场的房间里，100 名缝纫工操作着成排的缝纫机。在一栋专门负责 Zara 商业运营的新大楼三层，一块巨大的屏幕连接着全球 1,495 家门店的收银台，显示着哪些产品畅销或滞销，以便内部设计师能够迅速做出调整。当这些详细信息传递给决定如何满足客户需求的人员时，机器人正在修剪广阔的草坪，年轻的森林在生长。这里当然有餐厅，还有自行车和电动滑板车——不过，如果你是监管公司 163,000 名员工的负责人，且需要匆忙前往另一栋建筑，有时开车会更快。

玛尔塔·奥尔特加·佩雷斯，这位 42 岁的 Inditex 董事会非执行主席，也是其创始人的小女儿，她以民主的方式管理着这个充满未来感的综合体。玛尔塔举止谦逊，穿着低调，留着一头凌乱的金色波波头，她热情地迎接了我，引导我从地下停车场穿过一片室内的光影景观。她认识每一个人：许多 Inditex 的员工是她的亲戚，而其他人她则已经认识了几十年。他们中的很大一部分居住在拉科鲁尼亚（La Coruña），那是 Zara 起家的附近港口城镇。“我忍不住把你看作一个五岁时的总裁，”洛雷托·加西亚·法尔克（Loreto García Falque）在参观途中前来迎接我们时，带着深情的自豪感说道，她是玛尔塔母亲的老友。

对于外界而言，奥尔特加家族极其低调。玛尔塔的父亲阿曼西奥（Amancio）现年 90 岁，几乎从不接受采访，而玛尔塔也极少接受采访。但对于 Inditex 的员工来说，这两个人每天都出现且可见。“这是一个非常扁平化的组织，”玛尔塔解释道，她领着我经过位于开放式工作室中央的办公桌，那里离她父亲的办公桌很近——后者在 1975 年开设第一家 Zara 门店之前，曾在 13 岁时辍学成为一名衬衫制造商的配送员，这在业内颇有名气。

“我们没有太多的头衔。这是一家非常大的公司，但对我们内部人员来说，感觉并非如此。归根结底，我们就像一个家庭，我认为这就是创造魔力的原因。”

在玛尔塔的领导下，Zara 在保持其所谓的创立初衷的同时，通过关联提升了自身地位：即“美丽的事物、设计精良的事物，不应仅属于某些特定的人。社会阶层，”她补充道，“与风格无关。”她与设计师和文化人物建立了联盟，从史蒂文·迈泽尔（Steven Meisel）到文森特·范·杜伊森（Vincent Van Duysen），从玛丽莎·贝伦森（Marisa Berenson）到卢卡·瓜达尼诺（Luca Guadagnino），以及从约翰·加利亚诺（John Galliano）到 Bad Bunny。正如她的朋友、Versace 首席创意官皮特·穆利尔（Pieter Mulier）所言，这使 Zara 从“一个高街品牌”变成了“一个不仅在营业额上规模更大，而且在文化、美学和时尚影响力上更强大的品牌”。结果不言而喻：Inditex 是全球最大的时尚零售商，并且还拥有多个品牌

例如 Massimo Dutti 和 Bershka，但 Zara 和 Zara Home 的各种形式贡献了其近四分之三的营收。玛尔塔在公司工作了将近 20 年，担任董事会主席已有四年。去年，Inditex 的净利润为 62 亿美元 欧元，比该公司在前任领导层管理下的上一个财年增长了 91.8%。他们在可持续发展方面也领先于竞争对手：根据预测气候如何影响经济结果的 Swanstant 公司创始人弗朗索瓦·苏谢（François Souchet）的说法，“Inditex 既拥有行业内最强的营业利润率，又拥有最低的排放强度。”

除了玛尔塔本人，在与 Zara 合作者的交谈中，有几个说服因素反复出现。首先，那种家庭氛围似乎具有感染力。“这家公司有一种独特的欢乐氛围，”为 Zara 工作了 15 年的摄影师大卫·西姆斯（David Sims）说道，“这里真的很轻松，而且非常有趣。”其次，创意人士在追求自己的想法时能得到支持。正如玛尔塔的朋友琳达·埃万格利斯塔（Linda Evangelista）所言：“这就是我热爱玛尔塔的地方：她让艺术家发光。她根据人的特质来雇佣人才，而且她的赞赏是真诚的。”而且——同样重要的一点是——似乎每一位访问过位于阿尔泰肖（Arteixo）的 Inditex 总部的时尚业内人士，都被其系统所震撼。

玛尔塔解释说，当 Zara 团队与 Bad Bunny 聚在一起讨论一项多部分合作时，他们拥有共同的语言，以及对家庭重要性的共识。但正是公司创新的基础设施，让他们能够将超级碗中场秀（Super Bowl Halftime Show）纳入其中。玛尔塔的丈夫卡洛斯·托雷塔·埃切瓦里亚（Carlos Torretta Echevarría）作为 Zara 的传播负责人参与了讨论，他指出：除了他们，谁还能在两周内为 700 名舞者制作服装？

加利亚诺（Galliano）将首个为 Zara 设计的系列于 9 月下旬上市，他第一次来到阿尔泰肖是因为玛尔塔邀请他为 Inditex 的员工做一次演讲。“我被彻底震撼了，”他告诉我，“那简直像詹姆斯·邦德的秘密基地，货物在世界范围内流转的方式简直不可思议。我想，‘天哪——亲爱的，我虽然做过成衣，但这个：这太惊人了！’”

在 Inditex 总部的一个私人房间里——我已经记不清我们在哪栋楼了——我和玛尔塔共进午餐。所有菜品都被低调地呈上：开胃沙拉、菲力牛排，以及被模造成可可豆形状的巧克力甜点。房间里弥漫着 Zara Home Basilicum 蜡烛那令人舒适的香气。氛围极其奢华。然而，在用餐时，玛尔塔明确表示：“我们离想要成为奢侈品牌还很远。奢侈品牌做得非常出色，给了我们很多启发，但我们不想改变 Zara 的本质。我们希望生产出能够触达最大数量人群的高质量产品。”

在品牌去年庆祝成立 50 周年之后，他们迅速地将目光投向未来。“我们这里不擅长庆祝，”玛尔塔带着讽刺的微笑说，“是的，那 50 年值得被纪念，但过去作为对错误的提醒更为重要——与其庆祝成功，不如确保不再重复错误。”

如果这听起来很严苛，那正符合奥尔特加家族追求极致的天性。（“我们非常苛刻，”玛尔塔在谈到她的整个家族时说道。）Zara 的创意总监卡尔·滕普勒（Karl Templer）告诉我，由于公司的职业操守——尤其是玛尔塔的操守——“你会想要为她完成一份真正出色的工作。她激励人们在工作中贡献价值。”

在观察玛尔塔的这几个月里，我一直在思考如何才能最好地传达她身上那种温暖与冷峻的独特结合。毫无疑问，正如那些熟悉她的人用西班牙语对我所说的那样，她是 cercana。这个词的字面意思是“亲近”，在这种情况下，可以粗略地翻译为一种天生的交际天赋。玛尔塔是一个细心的人——她能察觉到你的感受，知道你的喜好，以及你是否需要什么。如果公司里有人生病，他们会收到来自玛尔塔的信息。如果她邀请你共进晚餐，你的全家人都受欢迎。如果你是她的朋友，她绝不会忘记你的生日。在两人因共同热爱欧内斯特·海明威而建立联系后，加利亚诺惊讶地很快收到了一本带有签名的《永别了，武器》首版书，书页甚至还未裁切。当 Inditex 的首席执行官奥斯卡·加西亚·马塞拉斯（Óscar García Maceiras）告诉我，对细节的关注是玛尔塔的强项之一时，我原以为他指的是袖子的设计或包上的搭扣；而他举的例子却是这样的：他曾告诉玛尔塔，有一名在遥远国家 Zara 门店工作的员工希望能离西班牙的家人近一些。玛尔塔立即采取行动，为该员工在附近找了一份工作。“我想告诉你，”埃万格丽斯塔说，“她是一个真正的女性之友。非常支持他人，且非常顾家。”

然而，玛尔塔同时也拥有一种低调的魅力，让人觉得她并非那么容易被打动。用皮特·穆利尔（Pieter Mulier）的话来说，她是“严谨、理性且直接的”——在他看来，这在时尚界非常罕见。“她有非常明确的观点，而且你瞬间就能明白。”她有时说话很简练。她那深色且富有表现力的眉毛，以及低沉的嗓音，与她丈夫那急于社交的奔放活力形成了有趣的对比。

皮埃尔保罗·皮乔利（Pierpaolo Piccioli）理解她的这些不同侧面。在皮乔利为她 2018 年的婚礼设计四套华伦天奴高级定制礼服时，玛尔塔已经成为他的客户两年了。他构思了三套干练、低调的造型，然后又产生了一个想法：一件带有夸张蝴蝶结的浪漫粉色水波纹抹胸礼服。他建议她搭配作战靴穿着。“这不是我的风格，”玛尔塔立即说道。五分钟后，她发回一条短信：“你是对的。”她穿着这件礼服一直跳舞到凌晨三点。

Zara 的生命始于阿曼西奥·奥尔特加（Amancio Ortega）和他的第一任妻子、已故的罗莎莉亚·梅拉（Rosalía Mera）决定在客厅里开始制作绗缝浴袍和内衣。这些内衣在当时被认为有些大胆，但正好满足了西班牙消费者的需求，而随着佛朗哥政权的结束，这种需求开始被社会接纳。第一家 Zara 门店开在这对夫妇的家乡拉科鲁尼亚（La Coruña），在接下来的十年里，公司扩展到了整个西班牙和葡萄牙。1989 年，他们在纽约开了一家店，当《纽约时报》报道称 Zara 迎合了那些“更换衣服频率像更换口红颜色一样快”的顾客时，“快时尚”这个词由此诞生。

在这个世界中，诞生了一个观察一切的女孩。那些在玛尔塔孩提时代就认识她的人回忆起她那双大而警觉的眼睛，并证明她那时就和现在一样观察力敏锐。作为奥尔特加和第二任妻子弗洛拉·佩雷斯（Flora Pérez）的独生女，在父母在 Zara 工作期间，玛尔塔花了很多时间陪伴外祖母。“我的外祖母可能是对我影响最大的人，”玛尔塔反思道，“她抚养了八个孩子。她从不在意一个人来自哪里或从事什么职业——对她来说，唯一重要的是人们是否勤奋和诚实。”

奥尔特加·佩雷斯与她的丈夫卡洛斯·托雷塔·埃切瓦里亚（Carlos Torretta Echevarría，现任 Zara 通讯主管）在 2018 年于拉科鲁尼亚举行的婚礼上。 加入团队

在外祖母帮她给娃娃做衣服的同时，是一位英国保姆第一次带玛尔塔在拉科鲁尼亚骑马。到 10, 岁时，她就对此深深着迷。

“我曾多年参加障碍赛马比赛，”她说道——虽然她并非职业选手，但这成了她生活的重要组成部分。在伦敦读商学院期间，她在周末参赛；后来在国王路（King's Road）的 Zara 店面工作时，她也同样如此。在与第一任丈夫、奥运障碍赛马选手塞尔希奥·阿尔瓦雷斯·莫亚（Sergio Álvarez Moya）生下长子阿曼西奥（Amancio）后，她重返赛场，但逐渐发现自己更想在周末陪伴儿子。“现在我的时间更少，孩子更多了，”她简洁地说道。“我女儿出生后我就停止参赛了——要在那个级别竞争，你需要每天训练，而我做不到。”

玛尔塔保留着运动员的冲劲——以及一些独特的见解。她将障碍赛马描述为一项“吃力不讨好的运动”，简单来说是因为“大多数时候，你都是输家”。这教会她的不仅是谦逊，还有对他人的敏感度，这显然对她的商业生活大有裨益。“最特别的一点是你与一个生命体在一起，”她解释道。“任何运动员都必须保持体能，但在这种情况下，你和马都必须处于良好状态。它不是球拍或足球——它是活的，而且依赖于你。”

现在，玛尔塔在荷兰与她原教练的儿子共同拥有竞赛马，并且在拉科鲁尼亚经营着一家马术学校，该学校还提供针对残障儿童的治疗服务。 “我喜欢没有与那个世界脱节，”她说。“它在很长一段时间里给了我很多。”

玛尔塔在 2016 年 1 月通过一位共同好友结识了卡洛斯·托雷塔·埃切瓦里亚（Carlos Torretta Echevarría）。他们一起在西村的 Sant Ambroeus 餐厅共进晚餐——当时卡洛斯在 Elite 模特经纪公司的一个分部工作，已经在纽约生活了近十年。到 4 月，两人开始约会，并在那年年底卡洛斯回到了故乡西班牙。两年后，他们在拉科鲁尼亚结婚。一段时间后，被玛尔塔形容为“行走百科全书”的卡洛斯加入了他所描述的“全球最大的家族企业”。

“他们是一对非常适合共度时光的伴侣，”穆利埃（Mulier）说道，她喜欢与他们一起在希腊度夏，用餐、聊天并玩水上滑雪。“我们是阴阳互补，”卡洛斯深情地说道。“我话很多，她话较少。她非常有条理，而我比较随性。你知道，我敢肯定这每天会让她抓狂一百万次，但最终我认为这样运作得很好。对我来说也非常好，”他补充道，“能有一个像她这样的人引导我走上正轨。”他们仍然会为天气争论，玛尔塔偏爱加利西亚那种英式气候，而卡洛斯则更倾向于地中海风格。

现在 13, 岁的阿曼西奥有了陪伴：马蒂尔达（6 岁）、曼努埃尔（2 岁）——以及最近加入的一只长毛杰克罗素梗幼犬。他们在拉科鲁尼亚的家——就在玛尔塔父母家隔壁——拥有一种平静的氛围，与 Zara 在店内打造的 The Apartment 空间所追求的氛围颇为相似；他们附近的乡村别墅有一个由英国景观设计师汤姆·斯图尔特-史密斯（Tom Stuart-Smith）设计的花园。每个工作日，玛尔塔在 6:45, 起床，去健身房（“常规训练和一些普拉提，没什么特别刺激的”），与孩子们共进早餐，送他们上学，然后开车去办公室。在晚上，她比起看电视更喜欢阅读。目前她最喜欢的作者包括

一切准备就绪 在 Inditex 总部的奥尔特加·佩雷斯（Ortega Pérez）。当约翰·加利亚诺（John Galliano）访问该综合体时，他将其比作“詹姆斯·邦德式的布局……我想，‘哇——亲爱的，我曾在成衣界工作过，但这个：这简直不可思议’。”本篇报道：发型，Damien Boissinot；妆容，Lucia Pica。

奥特莎·莫什费格（Ottessa Moshfegh）和摩尔多瓦罗马尼亚作家塔蒂亚娜·蒂布莱亚克（Tatiana Tibuleac）。“我热爱书店，”她说。（她同样热爱体育场演唱会，无论是 Bad Bunny 还是她的朋友 Rosalía。）

追随父亲的脚步并不总是那么容易，尤其是当他已经开辟了一条如此影响全球的道路时，但玛尔塔表示她并没有感受到那种压力。“对我来说，这是一种自豪感的来源。我不想变得像我父亲那样，因为没有人能做到。我觉得我正处于人生中一个很好的阶段，”她解释道：“我每天从事着一份我热爱的工作，每天与优秀的人共事。能在这样一个能与家人亲近的城市里工作是一项巨大的特权——不仅是我的孩子们，还有给我提供巨大支持的大家族成员。”

大卫·西姆斯（David Sims）那间四层楼高的工作室是由北伦敦的一个有轨电车棚改造而成的，其奶油色的瓷砖让人想起伦敦地铁旧站的样子。在拍摄 Zara 的那天，其中一名模特卡罗琳娜·斯帕科夫斯基（Karolina Spakowski）身着一件黑色吊带裙，站在一面灰色无边墙前。音响里播放着 Bee Gees 的音乐，风扇正轻轻地向她吹来三种不同方向的风。西姆斯正在为 The Item 拍摄 12 件服装，这是一个每周发布一次的胶囊系列，所有环节均由坦普勒（Templer）监督。玛尔塔穿着棕色工装裤和一件黄色针织上衣，抱着一本皮革封面笔记本，站在工作室后方。她的两名同事就在她身边。

11 月，西姆斯的作品将在拉科鲁尼亚的玛尔塔·奥尔特加·佩雷斯（MOP）基金会举办最新的摄影展。摄影，尤其是时尚摄影，是她一直热爱的事物。“在我的潜意识里，我一直认为自己会拍照片，”她告诉我。

青少年时期，玛尔塔经常陪母亲参加 Zara 的拍摄活动。“有一次是在毕尔巴鄂的古根海姆博物馆，”她回忆道，“是在向公众开放之前。那是一位西班牙摄影师，模特是安伯·瓦莱塔（Amber Valletta）和卡罗琳·墨菲（Carolyn Murphy）。我当时大概 14 或 15 岁——只要他们允许，我就去观看他们工作。”

尽管玛尔塔对时尚的热爱在当时已经显而易见（她记得曾随母亲前往纽约，买了一双 Marc Jacobs 的灰色漆皮靴），但她现在购买的衣服类型，正是 Zara 有时被指责在模仿的那类。（2012 年，Zara 在与克里斯蒂安·鲁布托（Christian Louboutin）的诉讼中获胜，允许他们制作红底鞋。）当我问她关于知识产权的问题时，玛尔塔给出了一个得体的回答：“时尚是一种共享的语言，”她说，“你如何运用这种语言，决定了你与他人的区别。我对设计师们所做的一切充满敬意——我是其中许多人的客户和仰慕者。”她列举了一些已成为朋友的人——Mulier、Piccioli 等。“当然还有菲比·费洛（Phoebe Philo）；莎拉·伯顿（Sarah Burton）正在做非常出色工作。我一直是普拉达夫人的忠实粉丝。还有威利·查瓦里亚（Willy Chavarria）、马修·布拉齐（Matthieu Blazy）、乔纳森·安德森（Jonathan Anderson）。我一直最钦佩的设计师是约翰·加利亚诺（John Galliano），我很幸运能与他共事。”

这种尊重是相互的。Piccioli 将玛尔塔描述为“接近时尚体系的人”，并给予了极高的评价：他说，她总能发现他那些“更适合鉴赏家”的作品。“当你穿着高级定制时，你必须知道为什么一件黑色连衣裙是高定，而一件刺绣连衣裙是成衣，”他解释道，“你必须明白，高定在于那些隐藏的部分，而不是在于你展示出来的东西。她真正理解这一点。”

无论时尚是一门语言还是多门语言，玛尔塔都是一名完美的翻译者。“快时尚，如果我可以这么称呼的话，最初并没有受到热烈欢迎，”西姆斯指出，“现在可能依然如此。但因为玛尔塔如此——

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摄影：诺曼·让·罗伊（Norman Jean Roy）

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在被誉为古典音乐救星的 20 年后，指挥家古斯塔沃·杜达梅尔（Gustavo Dudamel）依然保持着他的活力与激情。马蒂·卡恩（Mattie Kahn）在他接掌纽约爱乐乐团之前采访了他。

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杜达梅尔， 拍摄于大卫·格芬音乐厅后台， 身着杜嘉班纳外套， Dunhill 衬衫及领结。 拍摄编辑： Michael Darlington。

雨天令人不悦，但当古斯塔沃·杜达梅尔（Gustavo Dudamel）的车停在纽约历史悠久的联合宫剧院（United Palace theater）门前时，天空恰好倾盆而下，这似乎十分契合。阳光甜美而静谧，而风暴则能掌控节拍。

现在是春天，这位曾经的神童指挥家——如今已是成熟的 45 岁——距离就任纽约爱乐乐团的音乐与艺术总监还有几个月的时间。自 2023 年宣布任命以来，他一直在这座新的大都市留下深刻且令人狂热的第一印象。在四月的一次年度筹款晚宴上，慈善家芭芭拉·托伯（Barbara Tober）称杜达梅尔为“上帝赐予我们的礼物”。几周后，一位音乐口味更偏向 Shaboozey 而非舒伯特的友人发布了一张在林肯表演艺术中心的自拍，背景中杜达梅尔标志性的卷发正跳动着。在我今年春天参加的一场音乐会结束时，戴着助听器的女性们在欢呼呐喊，一名身着礼服的男子在用力跺脚。在必要的返场演出后，人群涌向林肯中心的广场，热烈讨论着伊戈尔·斯特拉文斯基（Igor Stravinsky）那空灵的编曲。

今天，在华盛顿高地的联合宫剧院，迎接杜达梅尔的是一群更为沉稳的工作人员。“你好，大师，”一名搬运工在杜达梅尔穿过大厅时说道。这位出生于委内瑞拉的指挥家礼貌地回应了他。他此次到来是为了排练纽约爱乐乐团（拥有 184 年历史）与西班牙哈莱姆管弦乐团（Spanish Harlem Orchestra，拥有 25 年历史）史上首次联合演出。杜达梅尔将执棒，将古典音乐与萨尔萨（salsa）音乐结合在一起，展现出一位在两种音乐熏陶下成长的音乐家所特有的深情与精湛。这位指挥家长期以来一直沉溺于各种风格的混搭，而这些混搭在其他人看来可能像是由 AI 提示词生成的。Foo Fighters 与贝多芬的合作会是什么样子？在他度过了过去 17 年的洛杉矶爱乐乐团，他的曲目库中既包括马勒和菲利普·格拉斯（Philip Glass）的激昂演绎，也包括《星球大战》的配乐。他曾在科切拉音乐节（Coachella）指挥，在电影《魔发精灵世界巡演》中为名为 Trollzart 的角色配音，据说还启发了书籍和剧集《丛林中的莫扎特》。今年夏天，他在世界杯中场秀上指挥木偶人（Muppets）演绎了版本为《Seven Nation Army》的曲目。

混音

杜达梅尔向伟大的先辈致敬，但并不害怕引入新鲜的影响。此处他身着爱马仕衬衫和 Emporio Armani 长裤，佩戴劳力士手表。本篇造型：妆发由 Levi Monarch 操刀。详情见“本期内容”。

今晚晚些时候，两支管弦乐团将演出伦纳德·伯恩斯坦（Leonard Bernstein）的《时代广场：1944》（“纽约，纽约！ / 这真是个绝妙的城市！”）以及巴西作曲家埃托尔·维拉-洛博斯（Heitor Villa-Lobos）充满活力的《托卡塔》（Toccata）。在排练前，我和杜达梅尔在他的休息室见面——房间里备好了巴西坚果和爆米花——一群助手和公关人员正等待他的指示。尽管如此，他淡化了关于“杜达梅尔狂热”（Dudamania）的报道。“不仅仅是因为我在管弦乐团面前挥手姿态优美，”他说道，语气中带着一种仍在使用西班牙语翻译成英语的人特有的抑扬顿挫，“而是因为我们必须深入其中，让他们感受到那是真诚的。”

杜达梅尔出生在委内瑞拉较大的城市之一巴基西梅托（Barquisimeto）。他的父亲奥斯卡（Oscar）是一位受过古典训练的长号手，有时会与他共同演出。（他也将出现在联合宫剧院的音乐家之列。）他的母亲索兰格（Solange）曾是一名歌手。他在学前时期就接触了第一件乐器，在父亲演奏时，他用一件名为 güira 的打击乐器敲击出节奏。“那是谁？”父亲听到节拍后问道。

他坚称自己当时并没有展现出什么过人的天赋，但他的兴趣显而易见，于是奥斯卡决定让儿子（此时他已开始学习小提琴）加入 El Sistema——这是委内瑞拉深受喜爱且闻名全国的儿童音乐计划。他的祖父母很疼爱古斯塔沃，但他们担心他的前途。他的祖父曾问过：“家里这么多噪音，谁能受得了？”而他的一位职业音乐家叔叔则给予了更多鼓励，向他介绍了管风琴和 cuatro（一种拉丁弦乐器）。“他说，‘孩子，你看，你将来将在全世界演奏这些音乐，’”杜达梅尔回忆道。

在 El Sistema，周末会进行高强度的排练，杜达梅尔在计划中结识了最亲密的朋友。有一天早晨，他们的指挥迟到了，于是杜达梅尔站在前面模仿指挥的动作。他的同伴们对他产生了响应——他能够掌控全场。El Sistema 的创始人何塞·安东尼奥·阿布雷乌将杜达梅尔视为门徒，将他提升至小提琴组的第一把椅子位置，随后鼓励他尝试指挥。阿布雷乌告诉他的学生，他拥有 duende，这个词在西班牙语中字面意思是“小妖精”，但在更具诗意的语境下，是指赋予伟大艺术家生命力的某种力量。“就是这种直觉，”杜达梅尔回忆起阿布雷乌对他说的，“这就是 duende。”

杜达梅尔在登上国际舞台时年仅 23 岁，他在德国赢得了一项享有盛誉的指挥比赛，并立即散发出一种明星光芒，这种光芒通常与流行乐王子或运动员联系在一起，而非古典音乐家。来自世界各地的管弦乐团开始邀请他演出，这些亮相不仅赢得了媒体关注，也引发了对其未来的猜测。

赞誉之词如此之多，以至于现任纽约爱乐乐团总裁兼首席执行官、当时刚被任命为该乐团艺术管理者的马蒂亚斯·塔诺波尔斯基询问杜达梅尔是否可以去加拉加斯拜访他。“2006 年，在我上任几周之内，我就登上了飞机，”塔诺波尔斯基回忆道。杜达梅尔开着一辆野马车带他四处游览，两人迅速建立了轻松的联系——杜达梅尔为出生于布宜诺斯艾利斯的塔诺波尔斯基演奏他自童年起就没听过的民俗音乐，而乘客则紧紧抓着仪表盘。（“我想，我的天，我得死在这里了，”塔诺波尔斯基记得。）杜达梅尔于 2007 年在纽约完成了首演。

大约在同一时间，他在芝加哥进行了演出，而在试演过程中，他在第一次排练后就被时任洛杉矶爱乐乐团总裁德博拉·博尔达的私人飞机接走了，博尔达急于签下他。第二天早上，她将他飞回芝加哥，而毫无察觉的乐团完全不知道他已经被抢先雇佣了。杜达梅尔在 28 岁时正式加入洛杉矶爱乐乐团，并在其任职期间雇佣了目前近一半的乐手。乐团的氛围迅速发生了转变。身为董事会成员的朱莉·安德鲁斯说，他从“第一天起”就深受喜爱。“他们开始律动，开始摇曳，这在以前从未发生过。他解放了他们。”

然而，最让杜达梅尔感到欣慰的成就之一，是他参与创建了洛杉矶青年管弦乐团（YOLA），该乐团是以 El Sistema 为蓝本建立的。该团体为来自洛杉矶各地的儿童（包括来自贫困社区的孩子）提供乐器和音乐教育。在乐团成立后不久，标志性作曲家兼指挥伦纳德·伯恩斯坦的女儿杰米·伯恩斯坦看到了一段杜达梅尔指挥 YOLA 演奏《西区故事》中曼波舞曲的片段。“其中一些人看起来不超过 14 岁，”她在回忆那些音乐家时说道，“但他们演奏得极其出色。我想，哇，我从未见过这样的场景。然后我想，噢，这和我父亲的感觉一样。”她前往委内瑞拉会见杜达梅尔，两人从此成为了朋友。多年前，她送给她父亲的一件背心作为惊喜。“他直接就穿上了，”她记得。

杰米并不是第一个将杜达梅尔与伯恩斯坦相比较的人，后者是一位巨擘般的先驱，也是唯一一个其名字可能合理地出现在[]

CON BRIO（充满活力）

茱莉亚学院的学生与音乐家们——从左至右依次为：小提琴手 Maude Cloutier、双簧管手 Celia Wojcik、小提琴手 Maya Kilburn、钢琴手 Jude Giddens、大提琴手 Noa Lia Mogle 以及长笛手 Phoebe Rawn——在林肯中心寻找片刻嬉戏时光。Cloutier 身着 Loewe 上衣 (loewe.com) 和 Bode 衬衫。Kilburn 身着 Chanel；见 Chanel 指定精品店。Giddens 身着 Auralee 西装；auralee jp。Rawn 身着 Lemaire 夹克 (lemaire.fr) 以及 Tory Burch 上衣与裙装 (toryburch.com)。时尚编辑：Miyako Bellizzi。

指挥家古斯塔沃·杜达梅尔 (Gustavo Dudamel) 到任纽约爱乐乐团，在这座城市的古典音乐界引发了一场狂想曲——尤其是在茱莉亚学院的年轻演奏家们之中，此处拍摄的正是他们与爱乐乐团部分核心成员的合影。摄影：Theo Wenner。

PITCH HITTERS（精准击球）

“当音乐、舞蹈和戏剧协同运作时，这种体验是多维的，”茱莉亚学院院长 Damian Woetzel 表示，“这是一种关于好奇心与机遇的关系。”从左至右：舞蹈专业 Arayah Lyte 身着 Alaïa 连衣裙；maison-alaia.。佩戴 Prounis 耳环。Giddens 身着 Burc Akyol；burcakyol.。

弦理论 Mogle 在调音，身着 Loro Piana 上衣 (loropiana.) 和 Alaïa 裙装 (maison-alaia.)。佩戴 Tiffany & Co. 手链。

PUTTING ON AIR（播送氛围）

“随着世界变得更加现代，作为古典音乐框架的深层人类情感依然保持不变，”茱莉亚学院大四学生 Wojcik 说道，“我喜欢播放拉赫玛尼诺夫的《第二交响曲》，让自己沉浸在所有感受之中。”Wojcik 身着 The Row；therow.。佩戴 Tiffany & Co. 项链。

“我爱 拉赫玛

让自己

拉赫玛尼诺夫的第二 让我 感受 这一切！”

号角之声 舞蹈学生 Holden Kunowski 身着 Jacquemus 西装 (jacquemus.) 模拟演奏长号。

序曲 大提琴手 Ari Peraza-Webb 身着 Sacai 夹克；类似款式见 sacai.jp。佩戴 Lié Studio 耳环。

系上蝴蝶结 “几个世纪前创作的艺术作品能够传达出某种东西，而 2026 年的人们竟然依然能产生共鸣，”茱莉亚学院近期毕业生 Kilburn 说道。身着 Fendi 连衣裙。佩戴 Tiffany & Co. 项链与戒指。Rawn 身着 Celine。佩戴 Bvlgari 手表。

在律动中 舞者 Haley Beck 身着 Colleen Allen 上衣 (colleenallen.)、Max Mara 裙装 (maxmara.)，佩戴 Cartier 手表，感受着音乐。

PRETTY SUITE（精致套房）

左上：Beck 身着 Khaite 连衣裙；khaite.。佩戴 Lié Studio 耳环。 右上：Rawn 宽松的 Celine 连衣裙与飘逸的金发波浪带来了一抹随兴之感。佩戴 Lara Sonmez 戒指。对面：Wojcik——两侧分别是作曲专业学生 Vincent Zhang 和大号演奏者 Lau Yeung Wong——身着 Maison Margiela 连衣裙；maisonmargiela.。

“当音乐、舞蹈和协同运作， 体验是多维的。”

CODA（尾声）

全面包裹

因为有时外套即是整体造型：模特 Joan Smalls、Caroline Trentini 和 Jessica Miller 移师至田园诗般的英国乡村，演绎秋季最顶级的外套单品。由 Oliver Hadlee Pearch 拍摄。

纵情原野 Smalls 在风中挺身而立，紧裹着 Max Mara 的剪羊毛外套与毛衣；maxmara.com。佩戴 Louis Vuitton 帽子。 时尚编辑：Carlos Nazario。

绿意盎然 Smalls、Trentini 和 Miller 在起伏的丘陵间惬意小憩。Smalls 身着 Victoria Beckham 外套与裙装，搭配 Loro Piana 靴子。Trentini 裹在 Akris 外套中。Miller 则穿着 Celine 风衣与长裤悠闲放松。对面页：Trentini 沉浸在格纹世界中，将图案款 Burberry 外套与细条纹 Sacai 裙裤混搭。

离线状态

Trentini 在一棵被伐倒的树干弯曲处自在地栖息。身着 Isabel Marant 外套与夹克；isabelmarant.com。搭配 Ganni 长裤；ganni.com。穿着 Hermès 靴子；选定 Hermès 精品店。佩戴 Omega 手表；omegawatches.com。

流行文化 在琥珀色的波浪草丛中，Miller 和 Trentini 身着来自 Pieter Mulier 最终系列的樱桃红与芥末黄 Alaïa 外套，以明亮的原色脱颖而出；maison-alaia.com。

逐寸收紧 Trentini 紧系腰带， 身着一件高对比色的 Hermès 外套；选定 Hermès 精品店。

安心休憩 Trentini 身着 Louis Vuitton 剪羊毛外套与帽子，在宁静的孤独中寻找片刻安宁；选定 Louis Vuitton 精品店。佩戴 Pomellato 戒指。佩戴 Omega 手表；omegawatches.com。

枝叶装扮

米勒身着格纹装束，穿着一件 Emporio Armani 大衣和长裤，显得轻松而俏皮；armani.com。

坚持不懈 特伦蒂尼身着一件 极具雕塑感的 Loro Piana 夹克及 配套长裤，气场全开； loropiana.com。

敲敲木头 斯莫尔身着 Bottega Veneta 大衣和裙装，与自然共融；bottegaveneta.com。

基石美德 方圆数英里内空无一人，但米勒依然渴望在 Michael Kors Collection 的大衣、连衣裙、围巾和手套中脱颖而出；michaelkors.com。本组拍摄：发型 Louis Ghewy；妆容 Mel Arter。详情请参阅“本期目录”。

纯真年代

在媒体面前生活了十年，她觉得这一切都挺奇妙的。

“每个人都在说，‘这太性感了。’我觉得这很酷，”格伯说道。“显然我们现在正处于一个人们追求极度、极度、极度纤瘦的周期中。作为一个人生大部分时间都很纤瘦的人，我一直被拿来和我的母亲比较——比如，‘凯亚怎么回事？’我非常羡慕我母亲的身材。我希望能天生就拥有丰满的胸部和臀部。人们总是对我身材评头论足，这很难熬，因为我并不总是准备好去评论自己的身体，你懂吗？我的生活中曾出现过饮食失调。人们会说，‘你看上去糟糕透了，’但这并不会让你觉得，‘噢，太好了。那让我赶紧摆脱这种心理疾病吧！’负面情绪从未救过任何人的命。”

自从青少年时期起，格伯就经历了一系列著名的年长男友，这让她练就了强大的心理承受力。她与演员兼音乐家刘易斯·普尔曼（Bill Pullman 之子）交往近两年，并称这是她人生中最健康、最成熟的一段关系。“作为名人，你能保护的东西寥寥无几，而在 18 岁时被定义为‘与谁约会’是我觉得很有挑战性的一件事，”她说。“我认为我被贴上了相当厌女的标签：约会狂、荡妇、贪婪。我母亲总是说，‘不要在同一个错误上跌倒两次。’而我在这方面做得挺好。我认为最终的目标是，你的关系不会改变你，你不需要在恋爱、友谊和职业生活之间切换身份。我希望永远能感觉到自己就是自己，而在段关系中，我有幸做到了这一点。”

格伯说话的方式倾向于展现出一种必须快速且公开地成长的人才具备的睿智。目前，她正在第二次阅读《身体记得一切》（The Body Keeps the Score），这是荷兰裔美国精神病学家贝塞尔·范德科尔克对创伤与依恋关系的探讨。格伯在一家创伤中心担任志愿者，她希望在那里成为一个体贴且懂行的人，而不是用她的话说，“一个闪闪发光的干扰项”。她希望自己的名字能与她的作品画上等号，这是某些银幕巨星（例如她的偶像吉娜·罗兰兹）所实现的技巧。“对我来说，那是最高级的炫耀。在我看来，马克·赖兰斯是有史以来最伟大的演员之一，他出现在戛纳电影节时穿着的是凉鞋和工装短裤。我已经某种程度上接受了，这种状态对我来说是不可能的。”

对于一个一直感到不安的人来说——她不愿承认这一点，因为她知道漂亮的人在面对脆弱面时很难获得同情——她从未像现在这样在照镜子时感到自在。格伯和盖尔一起观看了《碎片》（The Shards）的试播集：对她来说很有趣，对他来说则是煎熬。（“我没法看我自己，”他说，“这很麻烦。”）他们讨论了面对那些可能会认为“这就是典型的资源咖（nepo baby）”而持尖刻态度的观众时，应该做好怎样的心理准备。

“我一直以来都是个‘星二代’（nepo baby），我的职业生涯也一直从中受益，”格伯说道。“但我也发现自己会对其他星二代产生同样的想法，比如：好吧，证明给我看你为什么配得上这份工作。我对霍默说过——因为这个概念对他来说很令人生畏，毕竟他成年后的生活一直没有这种认知，而我在还没完全成熟时就经历了这一切——我对他说：‘霍默，不幸的是，在这部剧里，你不能把自己当成一个普通的无名演员，人们不会像对待无名演员那样评价你。但这件事对我产生的影响是，让我想要更加努力地工作。’”

盖尔有口吃，在经历了初中的多年语言治疗以及此后十年的练习后，他学会了如何掩饰这一点。在感觉到即将卡在某个词上的预兆时刻，他会迅速转换。“我的做法是在最后一刻更换词汇，”他解释道，“所以如果我快要在‘rock’（岩石）这个词上卡住，我会把它换成‘stone’（石头）。我一直在与自己的大脑玩一场猫鼠游戏。”尽管他向往平静的生活，向往像罗伯特·马洛里那样隐居于修道院或山顶，但盖尔似乎拥有一种让自己处于画面中心的才华。尽管他人可能会这么认为，但他绝不会将其称之为“明星气质”。

“我是一个非常自我批判的人，我倾向于认为我的事业之所以顺利，全是因为一些错误的原因，”他说。“但我的成功越多，就越难这样认为。我认为，无论你多么优秀，无论在哪个领域，适度的自我怀疑是非常健康的。如果你在做一件有价值的事情，你应该始终保持一点紧张感。”

ARYNA 释放天性（）

她说，母亲告诉她，在她蹒跚学步的时候，她会摔在地上，不停地撞头，直到得到她想要的东西。看来她一直是个火爆的人，她还有些尴尬地回忆起以前向父母投掷的那些“言语炸弹”。“我非常符合金牛座的特质，”她解释道，“比如，一旦我看到了目标，我就必须得到它，没有其他办法。这是我性格中让自己发疯的一面，但它也能让我进入真正的战斗模式，帮助我充满激情地比赛。这是一枚硬币的两面。”

萨巴伦卡出现之时，女子网球所谓的“大炮时代”（Big Babe era）正处于沉寂期——这个词由体育记者、前职业球员玛丽·卡里洛（Mary Carillo）创造，用来描述林赛·达文波特（Lindsay Davenport）、玛丽·皮尔斯（Mary Pierce）以及最终的威廉姆斯姐妹等球员的力量型打法。安格莉克·克伯（Angelique Kerber）、西蒙娜·哈莱普（Simona Halep）和阿什莉·巴蒂（Ashleigh Barty）这些打法更灵活、全场覆盖能力更强的球员开始赢得大满贯冠军，但随后萨巴伦卡带着她六英尺的身高和雷鸣般的底线抽球强势登场。凭借在场上强烈的存在感、急躁的脾气以及天生的威严，她在某种程度上看起来比塞雷娜（Serena）更像塞雷娜。冷笑、翻白眼、导致主裁指责其干扰比赛的低吼、摔球拍，以及与官员之间的紧张交锋，成了她巡回赛生涯的标志——而且在一段时间里，她的易怒情绪似乎在损害她的成绩。萨巴伦卡开始因在关键比赛中遭遇惨痛失利而闻名。她赢过四次大满贯决赛，但也输过四次大满贯决赛。“我当时简直完全失控，”她说，“我可能在比赛中领先，然后突然变得超级疯狂，把优势全部丢掉。我知道自己有问题。”

虽然她在 18 到 24 岁期间一直与心理学家合作——这次转型经历赋予了她自我调节技巧，最重要的是，让她学会了如何在情绪激昂的时刻自我引导——但萨巴伦卡会率先承认自己仍处于完善过程中。尽管她在 2025 年的全部 52 周里都排名世界第一，但那个赛季也充斥着各种抢占头条的事件。在 1 月的澳大利亚公开赛决赛中，就在冠军奖杯颁给麦迪逊·基斯（Madison Keys）之前，人们看到她在场上摔球拍。在 6 月的法网决赛输给可可·高夫（Coco Gauff）后，萨巴伦卡告诉记者，这位美国球员“赢得比赛并不是因为她打得不可思议，仅仅是因为我在……简单的球上犯了所有那些错误”。10 月在武汉公开赛的一场半决赛中，在输给杰西卡·佩古拉（Jessica Pegula）的过程中，她因沮丧而扔出球拍。球拍弹起并差点击中一名球童，导致主裁对其发出“滥用球拍”的警告。

她的怒气并不局限于失败。今年 3 月在迈阿密，在她最终击败高夫赢得冠军的决赛中，一名观众在一次回合中大喊“出界！”，从而受到了裁判的警告。沮丧的萨巴伦卡对着人群大喊“闭嘴！”，并收到了一次不雅言语警告：这是一次反向的“呼应”。在颁奖仪式上，她赞扬了对手，然后看向人群说：“在那儿，那个大喊、希望球出界的那位女士？我不该那么粗鲁——但拜托，你不能那样做。所以让我们达成共识，我们两个都错了。对不起。”

长期以来，在女子网球运动员表达情绪这件事上，一直存在着某种双重标准的意味，而关于什么是“淑女”的过时观念在球迷论坛甚至部分评论员中依然根深蒂固。（塞雷娜·威廉姆斯也面临过类似的批评——针对她尖叫的分贝、她的身材曲线，以及她在失败时的脾气和语气。）互联网也乐于恶意地想象女球员之间的不和。在法网争议发生几周后，萨巴伦卡和高夫迅速通过拍摄一段 TikTok 视频打破了这种幻想，两人身着网球白装在温网中央球场共同起舞。那时，萨巴伦卡已经就那场新闻发布会上发生的事情公开向高夫道歉。值得称赞的是，她精通一项威廉姆斯从未掌握的技能：公开认错。对于每一个被她疏远的人，总有另一个人在这些道歉中看到了一个迷途知返的女儿，并心想：在这些名利场中的虚伪之辈之间，这是一个真实的人。

萨巴伦卡对此态度坦然。“当你处于前五名并且在赢得大满贯时，”她解释道，“你不能接受失败。这就是我的心态。”

萨巴伦卡在 2022. 年印第安维尔斯公开赛前的一场表演赛中结识了她在巡回赛中的挚友保拉·巴多萨。球迷们将她们合称为“Sabadosa”，她们在许多 TikTok 视频中庆祝她们对舞蹈的共同热爱。“我看到她发生了巨大的变化，”巴多萨说。“三四年前，她更难控制自己的情绪。阿里娜在场上永远会是一个非常激烈的人。但她也非常敏感。她有一颗巨大的、巨大的心。她开玩笑说自己是一只老虎，手臂上也有老虎纹身。但我总是说，在场下她就像一只泰迪熊。她非常热情，并且很照顾身边的人。”

尽管有人指责她试图通过道歉来掩盖自己的小过错，但与萨巴伦卡共处一段时间，就能感受到球员身份与个人特质之间的巨大鸿沟。面对面时，她轻盈、放松且自嘲，毫无防备且善于反思。“你必须接受自己曾经犯过错，”她说，随后笑了，“而我犯错的次数太多了。”但她反对将火爆的脾气定义为坏事。事实上，她认同这种特质。“年轻的时候，我会因为情绪化而对自己感到非常愤怒。现在我明白，扔球拍没关系。大喊几声没关系。如果你觉得压抑得太厉害，发疯也没关系。有时候你只需要把它释放出来。是的，有时候看起来很丑陋、很糟糕，但为了保持专注，我需要这样做。”

萨巴伦卡极高的人气表明，球迷们同意她的观点，即“丑陋和糟糕”也能成就惊心动魄的网球比赛。她的品牌代言收入仅次于高夫，赞助商包括耐克、钟表制造商爱彼，以及从今年 1 月起加入的 Gucci。这家历史悠久的意大利时装屋在选择品牌大使时非常谨慎；在网球领域，这意味着只有萨巴伦卡和男子世界 1 名詹尼克·辛纳。3 月，她出席了 Gucci 在米兰时装周的一场格外有趣的秀，前排嘉宾包括肖恩·门德斯、罗密欧·贝克汉姆、多纳泰拉·范赛时以及带有少年感的 F1 赛车手基米·安东内利。强度、真实、幽默、魅力——萨巴伦卡在场外的成功证明，这些特质与一次出色的首发发球一样宝贵。

“人们能感觉到你是否在展现真实的自我，”她的未婚夫弗兰古利斯（Frangulis）说道。“在比赛中总会有一些棘手的情况，因为阿里娜会直言不讳地表达她的感受。她在 Instagram 和 TikTok 上也会这样做。这让她显得与众不同。但我一直告诉她，为了保持冷静，她必须尝试让自己专注于事实，专注于实际发生的事情，而不是脑海中浮现的想法。这并不是要抹除这些情绪，而是要利用它们为自己服务——将其转化为她的超能力之一，而不是她的致命弱点。”

强烈的个性会带来大量的崇拜者，也会带来大量的反对者，萨巴伦卡意识到自己并非每个人的心头好。但这没关系。“伴随着大量的爱、关注和成功，总会有评判你的人，”她说。“他们评判你的外貌，评判你的呐喊，你的国籍，甚至你的私生活和你的选择。”

或许最刺骨的谩骂围绕在她因乌克兰战争而引发的白俄罗斯身份认同上。自 2022 年战争爆发以来，

白俄罗斯一直是俄罗斯的关键盟友，也是其入侵的跳板。一些同行指责萨巴伦卡公开支持战争；另一些人则指责她没有利用自己的影响力更强烈地谴责战争。萨巴伦卡明确表示，她不支持这场战争，也不支持任何战争，并且认为体育在根本上致力于连接而非分裂、竞争而非冲突，应当超越政治。

“不握手——我尊重这种立场，”她说道，指的是包括乌克兰选手埃琳娜·斯维托丽娜（Elina Švitolina）在内的一些球员决定在与俄罗斯和白俄罗斯运动员比赛结束后，不在球网前握手。“我知道这不是针对个人。他们在传递一个信息。但那时很艰难，我在巡回赛中承受了来自人们的大量仇恨。一名教练对我大发雷霆，说是我在投掷炸弹。很明显，我希望每个人都能获得和平。我不希望这场战争发生。但我也认为体育是一个平台，一个我们可以聚集在一起的地方，而不是像在打自己的战争一样互相攻击。聚集在一起，共处在一起，展现和平。长期以来，乌克兰人和白俄罗斯人就像兄弟姐妹一样。我们是一样的。我们都紧密相连。而现在我们之间有一堵巨大的墙，我不知道它是否能消失。”

2019 年，当萨巴伦卡 21 岁时，她的父亲因脑膜炎突然去世。那是 11 月的休赛期，她当时在明斯克训练。在她的记忆中，父亲病发当天，她的母亲叫了救护车，但医护人员在降低其体温后让他留在了家中。第二天，她再次叫了救护车，结果一样。“我想，如果救护车不接他，那就让我他妈的亲自把他扛到医院去，”萨巴伦卡回忆道。“他们直到第三天才接他，但已经太晚了。对我母亲来说，这更加艰难。直到后来我才意识到我的姐姐承受了多少痛苦。我们都是爸爸的小女孩。”

尽管近年来她与母亲的关系变得更加亲近，但她的父亲曾是她支持系统的核心支柱。无论在个人生活还是职业生涯中遇到困难，她都会给他打电话，而他的话总能让事情重回正轨。在他去世后，只有训练能让她暂时忘记悲伤。“人们说时间能治愈，但在某些方面，我现在反而更痛苦，因为我知道如果我父亲在，他会为我的成功感到多么开心，”她说。“现在，我的未婚夫经常会在晚上发现我躺在床上哭，因为我在看 Reels 短视频，里面有关于父亲或旧时光的内容。对我来说最敏感的视频，是看到人们发布孩子作为运动员赢得奖项时的家庭反应，我就会想象我父亲会对我的反应。巡回赛中有很多父亲，当我看到健康的父女关系和一个自豪的父亲时，我会想：姑娘，好好享受吧，因为你永远不知道未来会发生什么。你太幸运了。”

在她的父亲去世前不久，萨巴伦卡聘请了杰森·斯泰西（Jason Stacy）担任她的体能教练。在这个关系极其紧密的团队中，这个头衔大大低估了他的作用，因为在网球这项运动中，顶尖球员经常将他们的随行团队描述为家人。萨巴伦卡说，对她而言，斯泰西“就像父亲一样”。作为一个一年有 330 天在一起的单位中资历最深的一员，同时也是团队中的长辈（他的年龄仅比萨巴伦卡的父亲如果还活着时的年龄稍大），斯泰西在帮助她从赛场内外地损失中恢复方面起到了关键作用。“我总是告诉她，不要与之对抗，也不要喂养它，”他在谈到那些失败时说道。斯泰西在青少年时期曾一度无家可归，直到接触武术后人生发生了转变，他向萨巴伦卡传授了一些禅宗佛教的基本准则。其中包括 Zanshin（残心，一种放松的觉知）、Mushin（无心，精神的澄明）以及 Tomaranu Kokoro（不停止之心，一种始终处于运动中的精神）。“阿里娜学会了情绪即信息。如今她能够更好地接收并处理这些信息。这是从‘斗士’到‘战士’的进化。她曾经是那个依赖肾上腺素冲刺的年轻斗士。而战士则更冷静。他们能够抽离出来，然后重新聚焦，将注意力集中在正确的事情上。”

2024 年 3 月，萨巴伦卡再次遭受打击，她的前男友、冰球运动员康斯坦丁·科尔佐夫（Konstantin Koltsov）在迈阿密疑似自杀身亡。当时她正在迈阿密的练习场上——那里是萨巴伦卡最接近家的地方——警察走过来告知了她这个消息。“我当时在和警察争吵——就像是，我无法接受这件事，”她回忆道。萨巴伦卡再次尝试让自己沉浸在比赛中。几天后，她开始参加迈阿密公开赛，但在第三轮被淘汰，期间她愤怒地摔了球拍并取消了新闻发布会。

大约就在这个时候，弗兰古利斯（Frangulis）和萨巴伦卡成为了情侣。他们初次相遇是在前一年的秋天，在迪拜，当时她签署了一份与 Oakberry 的赞助协议。弗兰古利斯说，到次年春天他们在印第安威尔共进晚餐时，两人的关系处于商业同事和浪漫伴侣之间的某种“中间状态”。他们都是世界公民：弗兰古利斯公司的总部位于迈阿密，后台办公室在圣保罗，而他在欧洲的主要办公室则在马德里。与职业运动员约会具有物流上的复杂性，但弗兰古利斯表示，如今他根据她的行程来安排自己的旅行，这对他们双方都行得通。

在我们交谈的那天，他刚刚从科西嘉岛回到罗马，在那里他观看他部分持有的法国足球俱乐部勒芒足球俱乐部（Le Mans FC）进行赛季最后一场比赛。前一天早晨，萨巴伦卡在意大利公开赛的第三轮比赛中意外落败。“阿里娜非常沮丧，”他说，“对我来说，关键在于陪伴在她身边，但同时也要给她空间让她理清思路。她是个杀手，她是最好的，但有时她需要 24 小时才能想起这一点。我的目标是配合她做任何事情，但如果她想整天待在酒店房间里，我会告诉她，我们不能像有人去世了一样一直待在这里。所以今晚，我们要出去吃意面。”

像许多运动员一样，萨巴伦卡在每项赛事中都有特定的仪式。在罗马，其中一项就是去特拉斯提弗列区的 Taverna Trilussa 餐厅吃 amatriciana 意面，据称她曾骑着 Lime 共享滑板车到达那里与团队共进晚餐。看来，当赛场之外的生活足够丰富时，失败带来的刺痛感就会减轻。

今年的红土和草地赛季带来了一连串令人沮丧的失败，包括在法网和温网的失利。法网赛后，她前往维也纳，品尝了一些美食，漫步于艺术画廊之间，尽力让自己在几天时间里不再仅仅是一名网球运动员。温网结束后，她与弗兰古利斯飞往米科诺斯岛，在那里他们出入海滩俱乐部，并在游艇上度过时光。萨巴伦卡对最近的低谷表现得乐观且务实。“我并不真的试图去追逐那种起起伏伏的自信感，”她在欧洲通过电话告诉我，“更重要的是，每次踏上球场时都要相信自己和自己的比赛方式……而且这一次我认为我的心态处理得好得多，即使事情完全没有按照我想要的方向发展。”

她还需要筹划一场婚礼——她考虑在 2027 年夏天在希腊举行。当谈到婚姻话题时，萨巴伦卡或许并不是第一个在凝视订婚戒指时，眼中闪烁着生活残酷剧作也无法掩盖的惊叹之情的未婚妻。

“我在他身上看到了一点我父亲的影子，我非常喜欢这一点，”她在谈到弗兰古利斯时说道，“你知道，我会告诉他：‘我是个大姑娘，手也大，小戒指看起来会非常……小。’”幸运的是，网球场上并没有禁止佩戴硕大且耀眼的珠宝——即便这可能会导致另一次“妨碍”判罚。“这正是我的想法——尤其是如果你在打夜场比赛，灯光照射在上面，然后就像是直接晃到了对方的眼睛里。”

走进德姆纳的 Gucci 宇宙（）

“我知道那部电影，你懂吗？”德姆纳告诉我。“我认识亚历山德罗，而且在我大约 13 岁的时候，我就通过时尚电视频道知道了汤姆·福特……但要理解这个品牌，我必须知道除了这三件事之外，Gucci 还代表着什么。”在接下来的几周里，他以一种像特工潜入般的掩护，前往佛罗伦萨参观 Gucci 的档案库。“我看到了一个完整的世界，”他说。“家居用品。椅子。雨伞。一个轮盘赌盘。除此之外，还有那些最令人惊叹的系列。”他耸了耸肩。“我被迷住了。”

德姆纳向贝莱蒂尼提议，他将整理一份演示文稿来汇总自己的想法。贝莱蒂尼回忆道，他说：“我需要说服你，也说服我自己，我们可以做到这一点。”当时正值假期，他和戈麦斯在洛杉矶。“在我完成的那天，”德姆纳说，“我把它给我的丈夫看了。”（德姆纳有时将戈麦斯称为他的“时尚治疗师”。）

“我丈夫看了之后说：‘这给了我一种 FOMO（错失恐惧）的感觉——我想成为那样的人，或者我想拥有它’，”德姆纳回忆道。这个切入点瞬间击中了。他说：“我想，这就是我对 Gucci 的愿景——创造这种 FOMO 感。那种时髦、优雅，以及它所蕴含的意大利特质。是 dolce vita（甜蜜生活），但以一种漫不经心的方式呈现。其中带有一点幽默，但并非讽刺。这是一件有趣的事，在某种程度上相当朋克——就像在说：‘我喜欢我自己，我不在乎别人怎么想。’它有一种大胆之处——它是华丽的，自信的。你知道自己是谁。”

洛杉矶大火就在那个晚上爆发。德姆纳离开时除了护照和笔记本电脑外一无所有：他还没有备份他的演示文稿。“我把它发给了开云集团（Kering），我想：这就是我的愿景……如果他们不喜欢，我也好现在就知道。”

但贝莱蒂尼理解他所提出的方案：这是一种只有在产品历史极其丰富的时装屋中才可能实现的自由。她回忆道：“他所解释的‘解放’，其实在于这个品牌并非源自于一家高级定制时装屋。这里没有克里斯托巴尔·巴伦西亚加，没有伊夫·圣罗兰，也没有克里斯汀·迪奥，这样你就不会总是被拿来与他们比较。”当德姆纳向开云集团董事长弗朗索瓦-亨利·皮诺展示他的计划时，他被抛出了一连串的问题。贝莱蒂尼说：“弗朗索瓦-亨利想要确保万无一失。而德姆纳的回答如此精准，以至于对方觉得：‘好吧，搞定了’。”

通常，德姆纳的创意工作日开始得很慢——这是一个自我保护的纪律之巢，他说这是他从马克·雅各布斯那里学到的，十多年前他在路易威登工作时曾为对方效力。在米兰，他把早晨留给自己。他和丈夫一起喝咖啡，喝奶昔。他冥想。他抱着他的两只吉娃娃，并和戈麦斯一起带它们散步。“我们聊一些与时尚无关的事情，”他说。“我想拥有这个关于我的家庭、我的丈夫和我自己的时刻。关于我们作为伴侣的时刻。以及我们的生活。”

中午，他到办公室报到，从那时起，他的日程通常一直排到晚上 8 点。他很少休息超过 15 分钟。“强度很大，但我很喜欢，因为当我进入工作状态时，做决定非常快，”他说。“对于这样一个规模的品牌，我们在一天之内处理的事情非常多。”晚上，他回到家和戈麦斯一起做晚餐——或者更准确地说，是与戈麦斯一起做，因为后者的饮食习惯不同。（“他是无麸质饮食。我是纯素食，”德姆纳说。“有时会有重叠，但是”——他笑了笑——“在意大利很难坚持无麸质饮食。”）在洛杉矶，他们大多数晚上都出去吃晚餐，但在米兰，这个被德姆纳称为“仪式”的行为就是他们的生活。

“我们做饭，在 YouTube 上看单口喜剧，听音乐，”他说。他们最多一周出去吃一次晚餐，通常在周末，在城市中散步之后。“我在米兰其实没什么社交生活，”他说。“我永远会是那个叛逆的人，但现在我在职业上过着这种 Gucci 式的生活。”他的叛逆，以 Gucci 的方式，已经染上了中产阶级的色彩。

我们正坐在纽约大中央车站坎贝尔酒吧（Campbell Bar）的一张长榻桌旁，喝着姜柠檬康普茶。德姆纳正在纽约进行为期两周的停留；在为 Met Gala 准备了两套造型后，他现在正为在城里的一项更大任务做准备。几天后，Gucci 将在时代广场中心展示其度假系列，而德姆纳一直在这座城市中穿梭，寻找研究素材与灵感。

“我会去古着店、书店。看一些艺术作品，获取一些文化冲击，”他说。这个过程既包括收集图像作为系列的参考，也包括购买古着单品将其作为物理画布，即他可以裁剪和别针固定的“原材料”。“有时从零开始制作一件夹克非常困难，尤其是在剪裁和廓形方面，”他解释道，“我需要拥有细节出色、比例精准的素材，这样我才能将其裁剪并像‘弗兰肯斯坦’那样拼接成我想要的形状。”

在创作九月系列时，廓形一直占据着德姆纳的思考。在经历了循序渐进地理解 Gucci 的过程——从 La Famiglia 的基础开始，演进到他首场米兰秀中那种性感且具有福特主义色彩的俱乐部风格——他觉得现在已经准备好呈现一个既汲取品牌历史、又属于他自己的 。在时尚术语中，这意味着推出新的剪影（silhouettes）：即形式、比例和氛围的特定配置，就像香奈儿的箱型夹克或迪奥的沙漏型连衣裙一样，将成为他为该品牌定义的视觉标志。

“就个人而言，我需要一个定义明确的 廓形，在九月，我将挑战自己将其展示出来，”他说，并示意再来一杯康普茶。“这关乎厘米之差，真的，”他说，“这关乎比例。而且我想做一些我以前从未尝试过的事情，而这”——他笑了笑——“限制了可能性。”

他从氛围入手：“我想传达什么样的感觉，才能让一个人觉得‘我感觉到了 ’？”在担任其“时尚治疗师”的戈麦斯的建议下，他开始列出他希望新的 廓形所能投射的所有特质。有一天，面对笔记本电脑上的空白页，随着九月 T 台秀的截止日期日益临近，他写道：

锐利、自信、时髦、大胆、富足、古怪、火辣、性感、酷。

“锐利是指不摇摆、不圆润： 这里没有茧型廓形，”他解释道，“性感和火辣：它们并不一样。你可以全身覆盖但感觉火辣，但你不能因此而性感。要性感，你需要展示部分身体。 需要两者兼具。”

他逐一审视这些词汇，用它们来定义廓形应该是怎样的，以及不应该是怎样的。春天时，他去了罗马一家他最喜欢的男装古着剪裁店。“那里拥有意大利男装剪裁中最细致的夹克和外套收藏——我几乎把店里搬空了，”他说，“我在研究廓形、定义肩线和袖型时，就在使用那些单品。”

几天后，我在 23 街的工作室见到了德姆纳，他正在为纽约秀进行试装。这场秀的时尚概念表达了他的商业转向。“我称之为 -Core，”他告诉我，“就像 hard-core（硬核）一样，但它也是这种美学的精髓、基础”——换句话说，就是顾客在 店内可以稳定找到的“必备单品”。

“例如，这对我来说是一件非常重要的单品，”他说着，从衣架上拉出一件红色的女式双排扣夹克，这是他版本的经典海军呢外套（peacoat）。“我之前不敢尝试它，因为我不喜欢海军呢外套：我怎么才能做出一件我自己真正喜欢的？”这个问题的答案成了一种关键：如果他能做出一件他自己热爱的 海军呢外套（“在于版型、领子的比例、纽扣的大小和位置、以及长度”），那么他就可以将自己的观点延伸到所有的商品领域。

另一个关键点——或许是他迄今为止在 Gucci 最伟大但最低调的创新——涉及尺码。传统上，时尚服装是为高挑的 T 台模特量身定制的，然后通过放码或缩码转化为标准尺码，这往往会破坏对合身至关重要的比例关系。“它没有考虑到体型，”德姆纳说道，“如果一个人比较矮且肌肉发达，他看起来会像个呆子。”在 Gucci，他正在开发一套全新的尺码系统，以便无论你是高挑纤细还是矮壮，造型的完整性都能得以保持。与此同时，许多度假系列的单品提供三种不同的版型：小号、中号，以及可以被称为“德姆纳版型”的款式——即他本人会购买的那种宽松比例。

在试装期间，德姆纳坐在工作室一端的桌边。一名助手给他带来了一根能量棒和一碗坚果。一名高挑的男模特穿着一件夹克、戴着太阳镜，身着飘逸的黑色长裤出现。

“我不确定这一件，”德姆纳说。他摘下太阳镜，走到一件件单品的衣架前评估替代方案，最终选定了一件长外套。他解释说，那件夹克的问题在于它看起来在某种程度上不真实。“这是我最看重的一点——寻找真实感。”

发布会当晚天气晴朗且凉爽：纽约市的春天被捕捉在时代广场的沙漏之中。街道拐角处飘入烟雾，让中城的峡谷地带产生一种怪诞的感觉。到晚上 8:10，宾客们开始抵达 Gucci 围起的灰色地毯区。“在 Gucci，他可以随心所欲地畅想，对吧？”卡戴珊告诉我，“他可以说‘我想在时代广场办一场秀’，然后将其实现。”

德姆纳与戈梅兹在一起，位于 47 街的一家寿司店里，这里已被征用为发布会的后台。他一只手拿着星巴克杯子，另一只手拿着一个大红苹果，仿佛在向这座城市致意。地板上贴着模特排队的胶带，入口处的大屏幕通过摄像头和无人机追踪街道实况。德姆纳走近，惊叹地凝视了一会儿画面，然后与戈梅兹一起走向广场凉爽的空气中。

虚构的 Gucci 广告在近 50 个广告牌大小的屏幕以及 20 多个行人高度的屏幕上播放。每一位名人的抵达——从身着干练白色 Gucci 外套的玛丽亚·凯莉，到身着黑色皮革套装的林赛·罗汉，从穿着闪亮蟒蛇皮长裤的 Playboi Carti，到穿着闪烁黑色夹克和宽松银色牛仔裤（以及他标志性的巴拉克拉法帽）的 EsDeeKid——都赢得了聚集在人行道和街角的围观者的欢呼。九点过几分钟，所有屏幕同时变暗。查理·琼斯再次身着第一套造型——这次穿着一套看似简单的黑色西装，手里拿着一个苹果——在人群中开辟出一条路径。

在前一天深夜，当时代广场处于前所未有的安静与空旷之时，Gucci 团队聚集在一起进行了唯一一次彩排。每个人都戴着耳机，以免将由戈梅兹策划的音乐在广场上播放出来。而现在，在全功率音响的配合下，所有 50 个大屏幕以紧张的全景视角追踪着 T 台的动向，效果令人震撼。各种权力色调的西装走下 T 台。红色海军呢外套与黑色长裤搭配出现。有穿着皮革的机车手，有穿着剪羊毛的维纳斯。汤姆·布雷迪穿着一件不对称的黑色夹克和配套的皮革长裤昂首走来。（尽管这场秀在年龄和外貌上具有多样性，但它依然以纤细或健身房打造的体型为中心。）当帕丽斯·希尔顿出现，肩披一件黑色皮草感外套，内搭一件带有高领拉瓦利埃结的向日葵黄色 Gucci 印花夏日连衣裙——热烈而非性感——观众席中的每部手机似乎都举了起来。

在职业生涯的大部分时间里，德姆纳（Demna）以那些在不安的高潮中收尾的秀场而闻名，但此次的效果恰恰相反。整场序列在辛迪·克劳馥（Cindy Crawford）的登场中达到顶峰——这位 60 岁的名模身着一件由黑色长羽毛制成的露肩高领礼服，以如同 la passeggiata（意式漫步）般缓慢而庄重的姿态走完最后一程。在漫长而凝滞的一刻，整个时代广场陷入了沉寂，仿佛在屏息以待。

当晚晚些时候，派对在 Gucci Mansion 重新集结。这座位于麦迪逊大道的庭院建筑被重新构想为跨越时空的 Gucci 生活中心。一楼的爵士歌手与四重奏乐队正在用拟声唱法演绎《It’s De-Lovely》。在楼上的私人卡拉 OK 房里，宾客们正尝试挑战 50 Cent 的《P.I.M.P.》。地下室则是一个红色的台球休息室——红地毯、红窗帘、红墙壁。一名隐匿在密室中的占卜师在灯光下预言未来。

德姆纳在午夜后抵达，在挤满了吸烟者和呼吸夜气之宾客的庭院中安顿下来。他被祝贺者簇拥着，心情十分开阔。“我很高兴这件事终于完成了，因为它非常复杂，”他说道，手里依然紧握着他的星巴克杯子——仿佛这个夜晚在 Gucci 的势头推动下，一直不停地带着他前行。“但很多人告诉我，这 12 分钟让他们忘记了之前在想的所有事情。”他笑了。“我喜欢这样。”

家族女家长

关于在危机中抚养孩子的经历。她的父母——美国籍母亲朱迪斯（Judith，路易-德雷弗斯播客《比我更睿智》的听众对此并不陌生）和法国籍父亲热拉尔（Gérard）在她年幼时就离婚了。路易-德雷弗斯从双方的角度都理解家庭如何塑造一个人，她深知这部剧中的赌注之高。她告诉我，布鲁克的备忘录“就像一场谋杀”，“波莉将其视为是对他们之间关系的扼杀”。

在林肯中心首演 15 年后，《其他沙漠城市》（Other Desert Cities）显得愈发紧迫。故事背景设定在 2004 年的美国，当时的国家仍未从 9 月 11 日袭击中痊愈，且伊拉克战争仅开始一年。文中散布着关于炭疽杆菌、唐纳德·拉姆斯菲尔德和基地组织的提及，犹如碎片般点缀其中。那时，最终导致我们政治分裂的断层线尚未完全形成；怀斯一家的主流保守主义很快将在文化中失去立足之地。这也是智能手机和社交媒体出现之前的时期——也是波莉所依赖的沉默法则还能被可信地维持的最后一个时刻。

“那场国家悲剧的所有非凡种子都在这部剧中，”希基说，“但它是以一种极其幽默且具有家庭色彩的方式呈现的。”

在组建演员阵容时，希基需要能够将二十多年前的世界带入当下的演员。结果如何？他说，是“尼克斯队的阵容”。与路易-德雷弗斯加盟的还有饰演莱曼的埃德·哈里斯，饰演西尔达的艾莉森·詹妮，饰演布鲁克的莉莉·雷贝，以及饰演特里普的乔·基里（出演过《怪奇物语》，也是一名以艺名 Djo 活动的知名音乐人）。

“他们意识到这部剧是一项团队运动，”希基说。这也是路易-德雷弗斯所认可的一点：这部剧是由一群刻画生动的人物组成的群像，每个人都有深刻的缺陷，且具有极强的人性。

当路易-德雷弗斯和我见面时，演员们已经进行了两次剧本朗读——其中一次是在她接演此角色之前。希基从她身上听到了温暖与刚毅的融合，辛辣的幽默与深沉的悲痛相结合，这让他得到了所有想要的信息。他说：“朱莉娅，我唯一的建议是：答应。答应。直接跳进来。”

埃德·哈里斯在沃思市与我通话，他当时正在拍摄 Paramount+ 剧集《达顿牧场》（Dutton Ranch）的间隙休息。距离他上次在百老汇饰演《杀死一只知更鸟》中的 Atticus Finch 已经过去了 6 年多，他已经准备好回归了。“为了我的精神健康，我需要它，”他干巴巴地说道。

他热爱戏剧之处在于其纯粹性。“你来到剧院，准备，演出，然后回家。你不需要为了在镜头前出现两分钟而枯坐 12 小时。”哈里斯将为莱曼带来一种旧世界的男性沉默，而莱曼的伤口比表面看起来更深。“我认为在某种程度上，对他来说可能比对波莉来说更困难，”他说，“我认为这真的对他产生了非常深远的影响。”

与此同时，艾莉森·詹妮饰演的角色西尔达是一个带着毁灭性俏皮话的“烂摊子”。我们交谈时，詹妮正在意大利拍摄 Netflix 系列剧集《外交官》（The Diplomat）。（“我不得不又买了一个行李箱，因为我在这里的购物有点疯狂，”她说。）詹妮与同样是演员的希基已经是 30 年的好友——他们最后一次共同登台是在《六度分隔》中饰演夫妻——并且长期以来一直认识为《白宫西翼》撰稿的拜茨，而她在该剧中出演了 7 个季度。

西尔达凭借其心直口快和成瘾史，拥有与波莉不同的运行系统——她的聪明才智不那么具有控制欲，而更倾向于观察。西尔达加入了詹妮塑造的一系列令人难忘的角色之列，这些角色都将机智作为一种审视手段。“我接演这些强而有力的女性，并从中获得乐趣。对我来说，这就是天堂。”

这部剧探讨了家庭成员是否能摆脱旧有的角色。希基提到，他最近看了乔·曼特洛执导的惊艳新剧《推销员之死》，并从中发现了共同的基因。“所有伟大的家庭剧都大同小异，”他说，“它们都像《漫长的白日》。它们在问：我的父亲是谁？我的母亲是谁？而答案是：我永远无法真正知道。”

路易-德雷弗斯则以更私密的方式阐述了这一观点。“兄弟姐妹拥有各自非常孤立的体验：‘你面对的父母与我面对的不同，’”她说，“这在我的家庭中确实如此——我是这么说的，因为我有许多姐妹。我丈夫的家庭也有很多兄弟姐妹。我们的两个孩子对我们作为父母的认知，也有他们自己的体验。”

在我们的午餐之前，她第一次参观了哈德逊剧院，站在舞台上，审视着它的规模。“这是一座很棒的剧院，因为它很亲密，”她说，“观众离得并不远。感觉很私人。”这种亲密感是刻意设计的。怀斯家族那座中世纪现代风格的棕榈泉住宅本身就是一个角色。该剧的设计师、对那个时代有深入研究的斯科特·帕斯克将舞台设计得像个拳击场：对于一个将言语交锋视为母语的家庭来说，这非常恰当——角色们出拳击中对方，然后迅速撤退。

拳击场的比喻也吸引了詹妮：“我们都轮流出招。‘叮，叮，叮——在那次交锋中我被击倒在地，无法起身。’”

在《其他沙漠城市》于今年秋季开演之前，演员们以及怀斯一家将尝试寻找彼此的连接，学习如何交锋，排练他们的登场与退场。在一出关于记忆、真相、叙事以及我们选择保留什么的戏剧中，詹妮的直觉是纯粹的人性化。“我很珍惜他们，”她在谈到合作演员时说道，“而且我向上帝——向我的母亲发誓——这一次我会每天写日记，因为我想记住这一切。”

家庭纽带

富有魅力的领导者，她创造了一些可以被视为与制度化时装屋和谐共存的东西。”

“当然，”皮乔利说，“她就是未来。”

“快时尚”不是玛塔使用的词汇。她更倾向于用“灵活”。Zara 生产的几乎所有产品都经过其位于拉科鲁尼亚的配送中心，这使他们能够保持敏捷。“我认为如果我们没有留在拉科鲁尼亚，公司就不会成为今天的样子，”玛塔说。在催生了一个建立在速度之上的产业后，公司领导层表示，他们现在的目标是走在解决其部分后果的前沿。玛塔告诉我，Inditex 致力于改善工人的社会和环境状况，并且她热衷于领导可持续发展，目标是在 2040 年实现净零排放。时尚供应链社会可持续发展专家哈坎·卡劳斯曼指出，虽然 Inditex 目前在水足迹方面的表现强于社会议题，但他们在“供应链设计方面确实具有创新性，因为他们建立了近岸外包”。

“我们的业务是非常需求导向的，”玛塔说，“关键是将库存水平保持在极低状态，并将剩余产品减至最少。未售出产品不足 1%——我们不会进行大规模且不畅销的运输，从而导致必须将其存储在仓库中。即使其他人想将其定义为快时尚，我们的商业模式本身可能就是我们拥有的最可持续的东西。”2022 年，他们推出了 Zara Pre-owned，这是一个经过深思熟虑的平台，让用户可以轻松地维修、转售或捐赠其 Zara 衣物。

加利亚诺将他为 Zara 开展的这项为期两年的项目称为对其档案服装的“重新创作”。他承认，当玛塔询问他是否愿意与 Zara 合作时，他的初步反应是“没门”。他猜测，自己的顾虑可能与“每个人的顾虑一样”，是基于一些“不完整或二手的信息”。但当他参观完 Inditex 并看到可持续面料展厅后，他改变了看法。“有些面料是每个高级定制设计师都会使用的——比如真丝雪纺、欧根纱。他们说，‘噢不，你不能用那个——它们极易燃。现在，你可以用这个。’他们的把控非常到位。”

玛塔是在偶然之间创办了她的基金会的。“彼得·林德伯格是我们的婚礼摄影师，也是我的私人好友，”她说，“他策划了一场要在杜塞尔多夫展出的展览，但他没能亲眼看到它。[林德伯格于 2019 年去世。] 当我看到他们准备在那里开展时，我与他的儿子本交谈，表示我很想在拉科鲁尼亚举办一场彼得作品的展览。这一切都是为了彼得。”

她在拉科鲁尼亚港发现了一个已经空置 20 年的水泥筒仓，并委托当地建筑师埃尔莎·乌尔基霍将其改造。现在，这里安置了一座面向大海的优雅喷泉，一系列宏伟的展览空间，以及一家非凡的螺旋形书店。该基金会为每次展览在 MOP 品牌下出版一本目录——我到访那天是安妮·莱博维茨的；随后是保罗·罗弗西——他们还举办讲座和书籍签名会，并且每年向四名加利西亚摄影专业的学生提供奖学金，以支持他们出国留学。

就这样，玛塔一直为自己成长所在的城市和地区感到自豪，她让拉科鲁尼亚和加利西亚成为了一个具有吸引力的目的地。但最令我触动的是，这一切对她而言是多么具有私人意义：时尚、摄影、家庭、朋友。她向我讲述了在巴黎与林德伯格以及 Lanvin 设计师阿尔伯·埃尔巴兹（两人均已离世）共度的一天。“我有一张那天的照片，每当想起它，我心中就充满温情，”她说。

“我们总是把时尚谈论得像某种轻佻之物，但我认为它非常具有人性，”玛塔表示，“时尚每天都存在于数百万人的生活中。它是我们向世界展示自己的方式。它支撑着大量的创造力，并需要极高的敏感度。如果我们能把它做好，它将是美妙的。”

节奏前瞻（）

就像一个《危险边缘》（Jeopardy!）的谜题。伯恩斯坦明白古典音乐需要一位传道者和一个标志性的面孔；正是杜达梅尔的个人魅力——而非他诠释肖邦的技巧——使得在林肯中心为本篇人物特写拍摄照片时，一群正在吃三明治的高中生在他经过时纷纷抬头并发出尖叫。他标志性的发型也起到了作用。（他确认自己从未使用过发胶或慕斯，但他确实会尽量光顾那些熟悉这种发质的沙龙。有一次在瑞典——那个高个子和金发人群的国度——一名理发师拒绝触碰他的一根头发。“我想他把我当成了外星人，”杜达梅尔说。）

杜达梅尔很谦逊，但并不盲目。“艺术家都有自负之心，这很自然，”他几天后说道。我和他正在讨论洛杉矶的危机与天堂，在那里，明星及其自我意识可以肆意生长。杜达梅尔继承了他的导师阿布雷乌的信念，即音乐可以搭建桥梁并照亮一个更好的世界。“管弦乐团中发生的事情令人着迷，”他说，“不同的乐器，不同的文化，不同的愿景。持有不同政治观点的人们。这正是这个世界所需要的。”

杜达梅尔坚定的乐观主义，在批评者看来，有时像是一种刻意的盲目。在过去几年中，由于委内瑞拉时任总统尼古拉斯·马杜罗镇压异见并使民众陷入一系列人道主义危机，而他仍在该国工作，因此面临严厉批评。尽管作为委内瑞拉最著名（尽管是非官方的）文化大使之一，但在委内瑞拉陷入混乱期间，杜达梅尔保持了沉默。他顶住了压力，直到 2017 年，他终于在一篇谴责反民主镇压的评论文章中与该政权决裂。随后，政府明确表示他不应到访。2018 年阿布雷乌去世时，杜达梅尔缺席了葬礼。即便在现在，他依然拒绝评论委内瑞拉的政治局势，而是将话题转移到他关注的 El Sistema（系统计划）以及人道主义援助上，因为前者依赖政府资金。今年 8 月，他与洛杉矶爱乐乐团的最后一场演出将是一场地震救援义演。“那里依然有很多希望，”他说。

他并不天真，只是克制，而且比古典音乐将他视为救世主时年长了数十岁。他那浓密的卷发已开始花白。有时，是由他的青春期儿子马丁向他介绍新音乐。（马丁的母亲是杜达梅尔的前妻埃洛伊莎·马图伦；他于 2017 年与西班牙演员兼导演玛丽亚·巴尔韦德结婚。）在联合宫（United Palace）的交谈过程中，杜达梅尔突然意识到，他应该更勤奋地锻炼，以便更好地跟上他那疯狂的节奏。不止一次，他激烈的手势导致了网球肘。

有了更广阔的视角，他现在更多地思考管弦乐的走向。“我们必须打破‘古典音乐与当下无关’这种观念，”他说。他忍不住提到，当杜达梅尔带领洛杉矶爱乐乐团登上科切拉音乐节（Coachella）时，蒂莫西·查拉梅也在观众席中——查拉梅在去年的奥斯卡竞选期间曾表示，他不希望电影产业变成某种“不再有人在乎”的东西，这番话甚至盖过了他自己的竞选。他笑着说：“证明古典音乐、芭蕾舞以及所有这些艺术形式依然充满活力是很重要的。作为新一代艺术家，意识到我们不能懒惰是我们的责任。”

改变是不可避免的，即便过程艰辛。在准备结束与洛杉矶漫长的告别时，他深有此感。在洛杉矶，他结识了极多朋友并与其中几位开展了合作，包括娜塔莉·波特曼、导演亚历杭德罗·冈萨雷斯·伊纳里图。

厨师兼慈善家何塞·安德烈斯（José Andrés），以及布拉德利·库珀（Bradley Cooper）和凯特·布兰切特（Cate Blanchett）——后者分别在《大师》（Maestro）和《塔尔》（Tár）中饰演指挥家。布兰切特告诉我，她“从未见过一位以如此快乐、如此热爱来引领艺术的艺术家”。他将思念洛杉矶，尽管这座城市的部分碎片——以及那里的人们——将随他一同前往。他与妻子一直在上西区租房，并计划继续住在林肯中心附近。朱莉·安德鲁斯（Julie Andrews）笑着告诉我，她刚刚从洛杉矶搬到了纽约的萨格港（Sag Harbor）。她向我保证，这并非为了杜达梅尔（Dudamel），但这确实意味着她仍然能够观看他的音乐会。

当我好奇在温和的洛杉矶和热带的加拉加斯生活了几十年后，适应纽约反复无常的天气是否困难时，他思考了一秒，然后笑了。杜达梅尔关注的是另一种氛围。在去年冬天的一场暴风雪中，他在塔诺波尔斯基（Tarnopolsky）家中寻求避风，当时这位总裁兼首席执行官正在炉灶前烹饪。“是的，外面在下雪，但屋内非常温暖。”

本期内容

目录：92： Trentini 身着：大衣；erdem.com。 Pomellato 戒指；pomellato.com。Smalls 身着：大衣；erdem。 美甲师：Veronica Butenko。裁缝：Kim Lareau。 112：连衣裙及高跟鞋；gucci。 腕表；audemarspiguet。 美甲师：Koko Etsuko Shimatani。裁缝：Sara Lassalle。封面造型： 112：格伯身着：夹克、连衣裙、鞋履及项链；指定香奈儿精品店。盖尔身着：夹克、衬衫、长裤、领带、腰带及鞋履；详情请致电 800-550-0005。主编信：130：左上图：格伯身着：大衣、衬衫、牛仔裤及腰带；chloe。Comme Si 袜子；commesi。 香奈儿鞋履；指定香奈儿精品店。Mikimoto 项链；mikimotoamerica。 腕表；omegawatches。 盖尔身着：西装、衬衫及鞋履；prada。撰稿人： 162：左上图：Cobb 身着：拉尔夫·劳伦 Purple Label 礼服；ralphlauren。Ferguson 身着：Fforme 连衣裙；fforme。Prounis 耳环；prounisjewelry。McGill 身着：拉尔夫·劳伦 Purple Label 礼服；ralphlauren。Rhee 身着：拉尔夫·劳伦 Collection 连衣裙；ralphlauren。Bvlgari 珠宝；bulgari。Kim 身着：香奈儿连衣裙及鞋履；指定香奈儿精品店。右下图：Rawn 身着：Lemaire 夹克。Tory Burch 上衣及裙装。Le Monde Béryl 鞋履。Kilburn 身着：香奈儿上衣及裙装。Bode 鞋履。Giddens 身着：Auralee 西装。Lemaire 鞋履。Peraza-Webb 身着：德里斯·范诺顿衬衫；driesvannoten。华伦天奴长裤；华伦天奴精品店。Wojcik 身着：Phoebe Philo 大衣、上衣及长裤；phoebephilo。Jennifer Behr 发带；jenniferbehr。Bottega Veneta 包袋。The Row 鞋履。 Tiffany & Co. 耳环；指定 Tiffany & Co. 精品店。

JUST KIDS 277：格伯身着：开襟羊毛衫、衬衫及裙装；迪奥精品店。Church's 鞋履；church-footwear。盖尔身着：大衣、西装、衣领及鞋履；迪奥精品店。278：连衣裙、背心、裙装、袜子及鞋履；prada。Paula Rowan 手套；paula rowan。279：大衣及帽子；bottegaveneta。Herbert Levine 鞋履；net-a-porter。280：夹克、衬衫、裙装及鞋履；指定香奈儿精品店。香奈儿高级珠宝耳环及香奈儿高级珠宝项链；指定香奈儿精品店。282：夹克及长裤；指定杜嘉班纳精品店。普拉达鞋履。283：连衣裙；华伦天奴精品店。Wolford 连裤袜。帽子；gigiburris。鞋履；net-a-porter。耳环；卡地亚精品店。284–285：格伯身着：上衣、裙装及鞋履；ysl。盖尔身着：西装、衬衫、领带及围巾；ysl。286：大衣；balenciaga。帽子；noelstewart。靴子；net-a-porter（提供类似款式）。287：连衣裙、帽子及项链；指定路易威登精品店。普拉达鞋履。289：夹克、衬衫及长裤；armani。290：上衣及连衣裙；loewe（提供类似款式）。鞋履；manoloblahnik。耳环及戒指；指定香奈儿精品店。291：上衣、长裤及帽子；givenchy。Church's 鞋履。293：衬衫及裙装；bergdorfgoodman。Mikimoto 项链；mikimotoamerica。美甲师：Jin Soon Choi。裁缝：Carol Ai Studio Tailors 的 Carol Ai。

TRAIN DREAMS 294–295：Cox 身着：大衣、西装马甲及长裤；paul smith。Wright 身着：连衣裙及手套；maxmara。Jimmy Choo 鞋履；jimmychoo。Thiesen 身着：大衣及连衣裙；akris。Christys' Hats 帽子；christys-hats。296–297：西装马甲、衬衫、长裤及领带；armani。Church's 鞋履；church-footwear。298–299：Soverall 身着：礼服及连体衣；missohee（需预约）。On

Walter：连衣裙；华伦天奴（Valentino）精品店。Wright：夹克、衬衫和长裤；erdem.com。普拉达（Prada）鞋履。300：连衣裙和手套；givenchy.com。301：斗篷、衣领和连衣裙；指定华伦天奴（Valentino）精品店。302 303：Thompson：夹克；纽约 Dover Street Market。Cox：Moss 西装背心、衬衫和领带；moss.co.uk。长裤；ralphlauren.。Thiesen：上衣和连衣裙；指定香奈儿（Chanel）精品店。Wright：夹克和裙子；daniellefrankelstudio.。Madekwe：夹克、衬衫和长裤；dior. 提供类似款式。304 305：Cox：夹克、西装背心和长裤；dunhill.。Madekwe：上衣和长裤；华伦天奴（Valentino）精品店。杜嘉班纳（Dolce & Gabbana）鞋履；指定杜嘉班纳（Dolce & Gabbana）精品店。Walter：夹克、连衣裙和鞋履；指定杜嘉班纳（Dolce & Gabbana）精品店。美甲师：Michelle Humphrey。裁缝：Della George。

原始素材

306：复古背心，购自 Mothfood Shop；mothfood shop.com。复古牛仔裤，购自 eBay；ebay.com 可寻类似款式。307：牛仔裤；mothfood shop.. 309：西装外套；brooksbrothers.. Jake 的毛衣；伦敦 Vyner 街 63 号。311：Comme Si 内裤；commesi.. 312：牛仔裤；ebay. 可寻类似款式。靴子；纽约 Bowery 街 329 号。313：The Quality Mending Co. 复古靴子。316：普拉达背心；prada.. 317：Araks 抹胸内衣。美甲师：Jin Soon Choi。裁缝：Francisco Chaydez。

ARYNA UNCHAINED 319：连衣裙；gucci.. 耳环；materialgood.. 美甲师：Koko Etsuko Shimatani。裁缝：Sara Lassalle。

INSIDE DEMNA'S GUCCIVERSE 320–327：美甲师：Raphaël Park Charles。

THE MATRIARCH 328–329：连衣裙；拉尔夫·劳伦.. Le Monde Béryl 鞋履；lemondeberyl.. 美甲师：Sonya Meesh。

裁缝：Carol Ai Studio Tailors 的 Jacqui Bennett。

REMEMBRANCE 330–331：大卫·霍克尼 (David Hockney)， 《维希，源泉公园》(Le Parc des Sources, Vichy)， 1970年，画布丙烯，84 x 120 英寸 (213.4 x 304.8 厘米)。© 大卫·霍克尼遗产管理委员会。 图片来源：Fabrice Gibert。

AHEAD OF THE BEAT 338–339：外套；杜嘉班纳精品店。衬衫与领结；dunhill .. Church's 鞋履；church-footwear.. 340–341：衬衫；爱马仕精品店。长裤；armani.. John Lobb 鞋履；johnlobb.. 手表；rolex. 详情请咨询。裁缝：Carol Ai Studio Tailors 的 Tae Yoshida。

达到高潮

342–343：Cloutier 身着：衬衫；bode.. Annika Inez 耳环；annikainez.. Kilburn 身着：香奈儿高级珠宝耳环；指定香奈儿精品店。Giddens 身着：Auralee 毛衣与衬衫；auralee.jp。Lemaire 鞋履；lemaire.fr。 344：Lyte 身着：耳环；prounisjewelry.. 345：手镯；指定蒂法尼 (Tiffany & Co.) 精品店。346：项链；指定蒂法尼 (Tiffany & Co.) 精品店。348：Lemaire 高领衫；lemaire.fr。耳环；lie-studio.. 349：耳环；sophie buhai.. Carmina 鞋履。350：Kilburn 身着：连衣裙；芬迪.. 项链与戒指；指定蒂法尼 (Tiffany & Co.) 精品店。Rawn 身着：连衣裙；celine.. 手表；宝格丽.. 351：手表；卡地亚精品店。352：Wojcik 身着：The Row 鞋履；the row.. Prounis 耳环；prounisjewelry.. Lié Studio 戒指；lie-studio.. Zhang 身着：Commission 上衣；commission.nyc。Wong 身着：Public School New York 上衣；publicschoolnew york.. 353：Beck 身着：耳环；lie-studio.. Rawn 身着：戒指；larasonmez.. 355：Prounis 耳环；prounisjewelry.. 美甲师：Dawn Sterling。裁缝：Lyndsea LaMarr。

ALL WRAPPED UP 356–357：Bottega Veneta 裙装。帽子；指定路易威登精品店。Max Mara 手套；maxmara.. 爱马仕靴子；指定爱马仕精品店。358：外套；us.burberry.. 裤装；Bergdorf Goodman。Anonymous Copenhagen 靴子；us.anoncph.. Loro Piana 项链；loro piana.. Ilaria Icardi 戒指；ilariaicardi.. 359：Smalls 身着：外套、上衣与裙装；victoriabeckham.. 路易威登帽子。靴子；loropiana.. Trentini 身着：外套与毛衣；akris.. 爱马仕靴子。Ilaria Icardi 戒指。欧米茄手表。Miller 身着：风衣与裤装；celine.. Lanvin 帽子。Anonymous Copenhagen 靴子。360–361：Ilaria Icardi 戒指。363：Ganni 裤装。 靴子。364–365：戒指；pomellato.. 366：乔治·阿玛尼皮草外套；armani.. 靴子。Lanvin 帽子。367：Max Mara 手套。 靴子。368： 靴子。Pomellato 戒指。369： 靴子。美甲师：Veronica Butenko。裁缝：Kim Lareau。

最后一眼

378：手袋；华伦天奴精品店。380：手拿包；罗意威.. 381：手袋；driesvannoten. 可寻类似款式。384：手袋；指定路易威登精品店。385：手拿包；指定杜嘉班纳精品店。388：手袋；maison-alaia.. 389：手袋；芬迪.. 390：指定香奈儿精品店。

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所有目的地

华伦天奴 (Valentino Garavani) 手袋

全力出击：在 2026 年秋季系列中，亚历山德罗·米凯莱 (Alessandro Michele) 全力投入于一种叮当作响的并置美学，将奢靡之风与一种颓废的漫不经心揉合在一起。只需看看这些配饰便可见一斑，其中包括 DeVain 手袋的新版本，其比例端庄，在朋克风格的包装中展现出迷人的花卉图案。

摄影：查尔斯·内格雷 (CHARLES NEGRE)

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罗意威 (Loewe) 手拿包

无论执行过程多么复杂，安达卢西亚的弗拉门戈艺术只有三大支柱：baile（“舞蹈”）、cante（“歌唱”）和 toque（“吉他”）。同样地，无论这款 mini Flamenco 钱包那充满张力的轮廓暗示着什么，它其实就是由一部分柔软的纳帕皮革、一部分刺绣以及大量愉悦的律动组成。

德里斯·范诺顿 (Dries Van Noten) 手袋

有些重要的日子需要更大的包，而这款来自德里斯·范诺顿的手袋既有足够的容量（即使是玛丽·波平斯本人也会觉得它很迷人），又像画作一样美丽。无需犹豫——直接入手并背上它即可。

路易威登 (Louis Vuitton) 手袋

偶尔，成为一个“方块”也是件好事——比如当你是一个微型路易威登旅行箱时。所有的工艺细节都完好保留（小牛皮饰边、由亮片和拉菲草组成的花朵、加固的边角，以及那把经典的 S 型锁），只是被缩减到了一个精致手拿包 (minaudière) 的便捷尺寸。

杜嘉班纳 (Dolce & Gabbana) 手拿包

就像它名字中那位令人尊敬的人物一样，杜嘉班纳的 Nonna 手袋虽然体型娇小，但却力量十足。它的呈现方式并不张扬，却充满了令人心动的细节，从天鹅绒外层上欢快的小花印花，到隐藏在内部的可拆卸镜子。

阿莱雅 (Alaïa) 肩背包

修长、纤细，却绝不冷漠，阿莱雅的 Le Teckel 手袋在名称和形状上都俏皮地向腊肠犬致敬——而其在涂有聚氨酯的尼龙斜纹布上的图形印花，带有一种甜美的世纪中期古旧质感。

芬迪 (Fendi) 手袋

这款标志性的“It bag”再次超越了自我。在迎来 30 周年纪念日的前夕——该款式于 1997 年推出——芬迪那难以言表的 Baguette 手袋正为 2026 年秋季盛装打扮，其外观由约 51,000 颗彩色珠子在 173 小时内缝制而成。这绝对是一个有趣的陪伴。

香奈儿 (Chanel) 手袋

落叶在窗外飘零 / 秋天的叶子是……青色和金色的？香奈儿在其一款经典的翻盖包中捕捉到了换季时分那眨眼即逝的瞬时感，该包由带有虹彩光泽的鳄鱼压纹小牛皮制成，并点缀着珐琅吊坠。

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JUST KIDS KAIA AND HOMER, MAKING THEIR OWN WAY

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Let me tell you a story that has never been told. A story about falling in love.

A story that started when snow met concrete. Walking the streets side by side, warmer together, in the coldest of winters.

A human connection that grew into a forest in Gotham, that sparked a flash of inspiration in Grand Central, and scaled the heights of Midtown mountains.

A story that brought wonder to Central Park, made dreams a reality at the Rockefeller, and created art for the sake of love.

Yet this story belongs to its people. The dreamers, the builders, the pioneers. Who, year after year, keep coming back to find each other again.

And maybe that's the thing about falling in love: At some point, it refuses to remain untold.

New York in Moncler

Professional skaters transformed Wollman Rink into a theatrical ice performance with a live New York orchestra.

Spike Lee attended Moncler's Fashion Week presentation, celebrating the brand's ties to New York's creative culture.

Moncler turned Lincoln Center Plaza into a live stage, where 80 performers showcased technical outerwear in the cold.

An atmospheric riverside site became an urban mountain, where 100 models scaled scaffolding.

Sarah Jessica Parker's couture-inspired puffer gown, co-created with Pierpaolo Piccioli, became a symbol of New York winter.

Chrysler Building 2014

Gotham Hall 2013

Moncler transformed Gotham Hall into an alpine forest, where 370 models created an immersive installation.

New York-based model Fei Fei Sun wears Edward Enninful's debut designer collection, co-created for Moncler Genius.

Tobe Nwigwe brought an intimate, rousing performance to Rockefeller Center for Moncler's Warmer Together campaign.

Hammerstein Ballroom 2014
A theatrical presentation at Hammerstein Ballroom featured 60 choristers within André and Michel Décosterd's Pendulum Choir.

In support of amfAR, Art For Love invited photographers to reinterpret the Maya jacket. Pictured: Camilla Åkrans' portrait.

Alicia Keys' Moncler Genius collection revisited 1990s New York through oversized silhouettes, technical fabrics, and bold color.

VOGUE

September 2026

GREEN PARTY MODELS CAROLINE TRENTINI AND JOAN SMALLS, IN ERDEM X BARBOUR COATS, FIND SOME SHADE AMID THE TALL GRASS. PHOTOGRAPHED BY OLIVER HADLEE PARCH.

130 Editor's Letter

156 Masthead

162 Contributors

168 Up Front Political reporter Annie Karni didn't mean to tell the people running the country about her divorce—it just kept coming out

180 Same Again The artist Taryn Simon has dressed in variations of the same outfit for years. On the

eve of a major exhibition, she explains why

182 Leg Up Women designers are reinventing the slim look of American denim. By Jane Herman

188 World's Stage A new Cherry Orchard lands in New York

198 Where the Wild Things Are

Is the best garden design no design at all? Chloe Schama digs into chaos gardening

216 Comfortably Numb

Can we improve our mood by freezing our faces? Maya Singer on the new frontiers of the mind-body connection

Breaking the Mold Hollywood designer Tina Charad goes analog with ceramics

A new collaboration with Eckhaus Latta lends a sweet subversion to J.Crew's elevated staples. By Max Berlinger

250 Fresh as Fabric New scents stitch together unusual influences

248 The Grind A stiff upper lip can be brutal for your teeth. Alessandra Codinha unlearns how to grit and bear it

258 Fit to Be Tied The fusty silk scarf is cool again

Character Study A forgotten polymath of the Pop art movement gets an overdue tribute. By Grace Edquist

268 Island Time An imaginative resort opens in Estonia

270 Future Promise Thrilling fiction looks at what's to come

Just Kids Kaia Gerber and Homer Gere have the good fortune of famous parents and flourishing careers—including roles in summer's alluring series The Shards. They talk to Rob Haskell about being themselves and making their own way

294 Train Dreams The cream of London's West End hops aboard a 1932 Pullman carriage—reimagined by Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin—for a journey steeped in glamour, gossip, revelry, and fashion

Raw Material Grunge is alive and well in 2026—but instead of oversized flannels and ditsy florals, its new era is defined by gauzy layers, distressed denim, and an undone sense of ease >112

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September 2026

"IT'S OKAY TO THROW THE RACKET," SAYS SABALENKA, DRESSED IN A GUCCI DRESS AND HEELS AND WEARING HER OWN RING. "IT'S OKAY TO YELL. IT'S OKAY TO GO NUTS. SOMETIMES YOU JUST NEED TO LET IT GO." AUDEMARS PIGUET WATCH. PHOTOGRAPHED BY STEVEN KLEIN.

318 Aryna Unchained Aryna Sabalenka— tennis's hard- hitting, heart-on- her-sleeve world number one— understands that her sport is opera. By Rob Haskell

320 Inside Demna's Gucciverse

The Georgia-born designer has gone from Vetements' wild child to leading Gucci. Nathan Heller revisits fashion's restless disrupter as he sets about reinvigorating a global mega-brand

328

The Matriarch Julia Louis-Dreyfus talks to Adrienne Miller about her Broadway debut as the genteel head of a family in Other Desert Cities, Jon Robin Baitz's play about secrets coming to light

330

Remembrance Dodie Kazanjian remembers David Hockney; her husband, Calvin Tomkins; and the conversation she wishes they'd had

332 Family Ties Marta Ortega Pérez leads Zara and its parent company,

Inditex—the biggest fashion retailer in the world—by focusing on relationships, image-making, and a mind-blowing infrastructure. By Gaby Wood

338 Ahead of the Beat

Two decades after he was heralded as the savior of classical music, conductor Gustavo Dudamel has lost none of his vim or vigor. Mattie Kahn catches up with him just before he takes the helm of the New York Philharmonic

342 Reaching Crescendo

Crescendo Dudamel's arrival at the Philharmonic has triggered a rhapsody in the city's classical-music scene—particularly among the young virtuosos of the Juilliard School

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All Wrapped Up Models Joan Smalls, Caroline Trentini, and Jessica Miller decamp to the bucolic British countryside in fall's finest outerwear

378 Last Look

Cover Look Arm Candy

Kaia Gerber and Homer Gere wear Chanel. To get Gerber's look, try: Pure Radiant Tinted Moisturizer SPF 30, Laguna Bronzing Powder, The Multiple in Hot Take, Quad Eyeshadow in Koh Rong, Brow Shaping Gel, Notorious Mascara, Afterglow Lip Shine in Abbey Road. All by Nars. Hair, Guido Palau; makeup, Pat McGrath. Details, see In This Issue. Photographer: Steven Meisel. Fashion Editor: Spencer Singer.

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THEN - WHAT WAS NAMED AMERICA'S BEST HOTEL BY FORBES TRAVELER?

WELL-IT WAS THE MAGNIFICENT SAN YSIDRO RANCH MONTECITO, CALIFORNIA

Letter From the Editor

Time Machine

PATRIMOINE. THAT WAS THE FRENCH WORD I heard over and over in Paris while attending couture shows and jewelry appointments in July. The tension was all about protecting heritage while bringing history forward—equally true when it came to Cartier's panthers and Matthieu Blazy's techno tweeds.

The weight of heritage is not unknown to me. I grew up in the shadows of impressive parents who couldn't help but affect the way people think of me. It's taken me time to find my own identity and carve my own space, and I try to handle that pressure as I have approached taking the helm at Vogue: by letting myself be inspired by legacy and history rather than buckling under the weight of both.

Our September cover stars are models of forging your own path with grace. Shot by Steven Meisel, Kaia Gerber and Homer Gere wear a variety of looks from new creative directors at storied fashion houses, all of whom are taking the classic codes of those maisons and reinterpreting them by adding their own distinctive stamp.

THEN AND NOW
CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: KAIA GERBER, IN CHLOÉ AND AN OMEGA WATCH, AND HOMER GERE, IN PRADA, PHOTOGRAPHED BY STEVEN MEISEL. JEAN PAUL GAULTIER IN PARIS, AND MY DAUGHTER, ALICE, ON A BEACH IN SOUTH CAROLINA—TWO SUMMER HIGH POINTS. CINDY CRAWFORD AND RICHARD GERE'S 1992 COVER, PHOTOGRAPHED BY HERB RITTS.

The occasion for this is The Shards, a slick, spooky series adaptation from Ryan Murphy of Bret Easton Ellis's 2023 best-selling novel about a serial killer trolling Los Angeles in the early 1980s. The casting seems designed to attract attention, conjuring memories of Homer's father and Kaia's mother's legendary 1990s romance (and their Herb Ritts Vogue cover from 1992).

Homer and Kaia are not a couple, of course—and they got their shared history out of the way when they met. As Homer told our writer Rob Haskell, one of the first things he said to Kaia was “‘Should we just acknowledge the fact that our parents were married?’ She was like, ‘Yeah. Cool.’ And that was it.” Both are thoughtful but unbothered on the subject of having famous parents. “I’ve only ever been a nepo baby, and I’ve only ever benefited in my career from it,” Kaia says. “But what that’s done for me is make me want to work harder.”

Elsewhere in the issue, Nathan Heller reports on Demna's first collections for Gucci—a collision of past and present—and Gaby Wood meets Marta Ortega Pérez, the head of Zara, who inherited its stewardship but who has pushed it in personal and modern directions. And there's the New York Philharmonic's new maestro, Gustavo Dudamel, who brings a rush of energy to every room he enters. Bring on Dudamania!

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Styled by the Oscar-nominated Marty Supreme costume designer Miyako Bellizzi, “Reaching Crescendo” (page 342) is a story abuzz with real Juilliard musicians and members of the New York Philharmonic. “I wanted to celebrate the spirit of the students’ lives,” Bellizzi says of her fashion vision for the young talents, “and give them the opportunity to really shine.”

Theo Wenner (AT TOP RIGHT, with cellist Claire Deokyong Kim) photographed them all at Lincoln Center, ringing in a new era in the city's classical-music scene as Gustavo Dudamel arrives (more on that in Mattie Kahn's profile of the conductor, "Ahead of the Beat," page 338). On set, according to producer and Juilliard alumna Juliette Kenn de Balinthazy, the students put on an impromptu show. As they posed with their instruments, one of them started playing, and the rest soon joined in. "For them, it's a reflex," Kenn de Balinthazy says.

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The end of her marriage caught political reporter Annie Karni by surprise. Maybe that was why she couldn't stop talking about it.

During the first summer after my separation, I didn't mean to tell the people running this country that I was getting divorced—it just kept coming out. I've always been a fairly open book. But when my marriage ended abruptly in the summer of 2025, I felt a frantic need to tell everyone what had happened.

Maybe it was a bid for sympathy. Or I was in shock. I wondered if this was my way of putting it out into the world that I was available. Perhaps I was looking for advice. Mostly I felt I had no other way of making clear that I was going through a profound but invisible change in identity.

The ending of my 10-year marriage came at me fast and seemingly from out of nowhere, but nothing like this really happens out of nowhere. I can only explain my side of the street: Just

before I got married in 2015, I joined Politico to cover the presidential campaign. We lived in Brooklyn at the time, and the campaign immediately took me on the road for much of the following year.

Then came Trump's first term, and with it a move to Washington, DC, for my job; then a first baby; a new job at The New York Times; a pandemic; a rescue puppy; a second baby; a new beat covering the maelstrom of Congress; a book deal. I was living in the double-blast zone of the national news cycle and new parenthood, my attention constantly elsewhere. His attention ended up elsewhere too—that is his story to tell.

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But for years I had carried a low-grade awareness that our marriage had begun to resemble a series of transactions: trading off who was going out and who was staying in, taking turns living our lives. Mostly I chalked it up to these being particularly demanding years. I told myself any marriage between two young professionals with small children would resemble ours. Sometimes, though, that famous Stanley Tucci line from The Devil Wears Prada rang in my ears: “Let me know when your whole life goes up in smoke. Means it’s time for a promotion.” This kind of peaceful if distant coexistence was just how it sometimes went in a long relationship, I figured.

Nobody in my immediate family was divorced; it just wasn't something I even considered. So when the marriage abruptly fell apart, beginning with a

abruptly fell apart, beginning with a conversation he initiated as he fed the dog her nightly treats and I thought I was about to go to bed, I felt a mix of shock, relief, and regret.

That summer, all sensations felt heightened. I listened to so much music. Taylor Swift songs felt profound. I talked on the phone to friends for hours as if I were in high school again. I ate carrot ginger soup and not much else. At night I felt alone, but no more or less alone than I'd been feeling for a long time. Living with the uncertainty about what the future

For years I had carried a low-grade awareness that our marriage had begun to resemble a series of transactions: trading off who was going out and who was staying in, taking turns living our lives

might hold was exciting, overwhelming, an intellectual challenge as well as an emotional one. I had no idea what would come next.

“I am thinking about how happy I am,” I wrote in my journal one day that summer. “Very sad,” just a few days later. “I don’t know who or what I am crying about.”

ne thing that did feel good was working. My editor kindly asked me if I needed a break or wanted to slow down. She said she would follow my lead on these matters. I said to pile it on. Which is why, for a few weeks there, I just couldn't shut up about the fact that I was getting

divorced in every corridor of power in Washington.

One Thursday afternoon in July, I sat across the table from Senator Chuck Schumer in a small office at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

That day, he had his campaign hat on, so instead of occupying his ornate office at the Capitol he was stuffed behind a metal desk in a drab room in the Democratic Party headquarters, conducting back-to-back interviews in order to disseminate talking points about winning back the Senate. I tried pushing him for specifics, about the map or the candidates he was trying to recruit in key states, but he would not budge. Schumer is very good at repeating the same thing, over and over, when he doesn't want to say more.

“What are you doing this summer?” he asked as I gathered up my things to go.

"I'm getting divorced," I volunteered.

He peered at me over those famous bifocals that are always about to slip off the tip of his nose.

"How old are your kids?" he asked me. My daughter was three and my son was seven.

“Men are so stupid,” he said, shaking his head. “Just so stupid.”

He had not pried for any details, simply drawn a quick conclusion, and I took this reaction like I would take it from a well-meaning distant relative at a family gathering: not particularly revelatory, but a somewhat reassuring conversation nonetheless. Sometimes it just feels good for someone to shake their head on your behalf.

The kids were, in fact, all right. My daughter would have no memories of our family arrangement before the split. My son was mostly just excited to have bunk beds in his dad's new house.

We did not use the word divorce, but my son lived in the world and was searching for it. "What's it called when you have two houses?" he asked me. "It's just called having two houses," I said. When the divorce was finalized many months later, I told him that the big thing in his life had already happened when he started living in two houses and that the official change was just a piece of paper.

A few weeks after my Schumer interview, I was grocery shopping at Whole Foods, picking up the dreaded sunflower butter (the only nut-adjacent spread allowed

at school) when Representative Nancy Mace, the South Carolina Republican, returned a call.

I had written a lot about Mace in the past, but I hadn't spoken to her in a long time. Aside from tormenting the sole out transgender member of Congress by waging a campaign to bar her from using the women's bathroom in the Capitol, Mace had been a side player that year.

But she came roaring back as a person of interest when she defied President Trump to force a vote to have the Department of Justice release unredacted Epstein files. She had positioned herself as a defender of women as well as a defender of Trump, and I wanted to hear how she planned to thread this tricky needle.

"How are you?" Mace asked.

"I'm okay, I'm getting divorced," I said, because, as I mentioned, I couldn't help myself.

Mace was a 47-year-old divorced mother of two. "Well, you just have to realize you're going to be alone for a long time," she said. "You're just gonna spend a lot of time alone."

She was right, I was spending longer stretches than I was accustomed to alone.

“But I’m married to the job,” she added.

We moved on, back to our roles in the jobs we were both married to. "I fully support transparency on this issue," she said of the Epstein files.

I was aware that gleaning life lessons from the likes of Chuck Schumer and Nancy Mace was not a conventional mode of summoning a support system. These were politicians—their primary focus was themselves. (I expect a call for a correction here to say that their focus is on their constituents.) Either way, >174

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I was not a constituent, so they really only considered me in relation to what I could do for or to them.

But there was something that compelled me to keep telling them my personal news: It was as if I was trying on my new identity and seeing how it fit with my professional one, making sure that one was still intact.

Still, I didn't want to be an oversharer. I was a journalist! So a few weeks later, when Steve Bannon returned a call at a low moment, I tried to pull myself together to ask him to weigh in on Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene's recent comments on Gaza, in which she called the crisis a "genocide." But I was kind of holding back tears—I had gotten very good at crying, viewing it simply as a cleansing bodily function, like sneezing—and we both could tell and that was slightly awkward. So I told him why. He wanted the details. And then he told

He wanted the details. And then he told me to pull it together.

"You're Annie fucking Karni," he said. "Come on, girl."

For all of Bannon's democracy-threatening faults—promoting the lie that the 2020 election was stolen, leading the calls for an unconstitutional third term of Donald Trump, promoting extremism and conspiracy theories of all kinds—in this particular moment, I think he was just being kind.

We got back to the subject at hand, more

Divorce may be almost as common as becoming a parent. But it's less clear what you're supposed to say. I'm sorry? Congratulations? I've found that the correct answer is to say both

comfortable territory for us all. “Marjorie Taylor Greene just reflects her constituency,” he said. “I don’t think she’s an outlier at all.”

The world, it ticked on. Trump's Medicaid-slashing domestic policy bill was so deeply unpopular that it could help Democrats win back the Senate. And Trump's failure to release the Epstein files was driving a wedge between the president and his base. And Greene's break with Trump

on Israel hinted at a growing foreign policy rift on the right. And I was getting divorced, in case you missed it.

As busy weeks rolled by and I rearranged the house, burned sage, wallpapered my bedroom, took the trash bins out on Sunday nights and wheeled them back in on Monday mornings, the urge to talk to everyone I covered about my divorce began to subside. I went back to conducting interviews without inserting my personal life into the conversation, and that was probably for the best for everyone.

I had now told enough people that I began to notice a pattern. There is a formula for responding to a pregnant woman that doesn't require much thought. What week are you? How are you feeling? Do you know what you're having? Oh, boys are the best; oh, girls are the best. Cherish every moment, etc., etc.

Divorce may be almost as common, and marks another massive change. But it's less clear what you're supposed to say. I'm sorry? Congratulations? I've found that the correct answer is to say both. Maybe people should ask you what week you are, because the emotional landscape does seem to shift on a week-to-week basis in that first trimester of a separation.

About a year later, I found myself interviewing representatives Lauren Boebert and Anna Paulina Luna, two showboat MAGA congresswomen, for a story about sexual harassment on Capitol Hill. I was settling into the shared-custody schedule and my new life, with its new ups and downs, and mostly I was enjoying it. The reality of divorce is that in some ways it means acquiring a second life, and getting to be multiple selves at the same time. You are still the grown-up, parent version of yourself. But you are also returned, at least part-time, to a previous, younger-feeling solo version that is nice to meet up with again after a long separation. A year in, the out-of-body feeling had subsided. Pop music was seeming less profound. My diet had expanded beyond vats of monochrome vegetable soup. A look back at my journal from this time reports that there was now “more

appetite, less feeling like something intense is happening even when nothing is happening.”

Boebert, for her part, had a hardened view of cheaters on Capitol Hill, which appeared to be informed by her own experience. "My best friend was a little skank and she ruined my marriage," Boebert said when I asked her about the charge to rid Congress of sexual harassers (many of whom are married men).

That must have been hard, I answered, noting that my marriage had also ended recently. It was just becoming part of who I was, giving me a new way to relate, letting me see layers in others that might have previously gone unnoticed. Life can go sideways for anyone.

"I'm sorry about your marriage," Luna said to me softly after I turned off the tape recorder. They each offered me a slightly awkward hug, an unusual way to end an interview.

When I saw Bannon later that summer, I admitted to him that his “first name fucking last name” pep talk had been as effective as any I’d received.

He said I looked happier. And he warned me it was still no time to be giving my heart away to anybody new. (Steve Bannon, relationship counselor. The world is full of surprises.)

My summer of sharing was awkward, but it had helped settle me, helped me realize that I was still me, even in transition, and that you get the support you ask for.

When my daughter was born in 2021, I received a letter marking the occasion from Hillary Clinton, whose failed presidential campaign I had covered five years earlier. “I send my best wishes to you for a lifetime of amazing adventures and accomplishments, with those who love you cheering you along the way,” she wrote to my newborn daughter.

Here we were less than four years later, and I jokingly asked my friend who had worked for Clinton for many years whether he could convince her to write me a divorce letter, to mark another new phase of life. I suggested that she could even recycle the same language: "I send my best wishes to you for a lifetime of amazing adventures and accomplishments, with those who love you cheering you along the way." I would have framed it too.

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The artist Taryn Simon has dressed in variations of the same outfit for years. On the eve of a major exhibition, she explains why. Photographed by Thomas Dozol.

An artist's outfit can send different messages: Georgia O'Keeffe in her austere blacks and whites, Picasso in his Breton stripe, photographer Bill Cunningham pedaling through New York City in his French sanitation workers kit. If you've been walking the streets of Manhattan for enough years, you might have

caught a glimpse of another artist in a signature ensemble: Taryn Simon, wearing a skirt that hits just below the knee, held up by suspenders, with a moderate balloon-sleeve blouse tucked in beneath.

Simon's consideration, at the outset, was practical: Much of her work is photographic, and she needed her hands free, a pocket for her light meter, and also somewhere to stash her wallet. "I never wanted to carry a bag," she says. But there was a deeper evaluation taking place as well: to present herself respectably, without excess formality. Some of Simon's best-known work—portraits of men exonerated by DNA evidence, for instance, or photographs of Ukrainian children living in an orphanage—necessitates an air of composed respect.

That she would devise and refine this outfit herself is not that surprising. Simon was raised in New York by a mother who made almost all her clothing and who taught her to sew. Nothing was thrown away in their household, and whenever a functional object—a box to hold papers, for example—could be made more beautiful, it was. “It contributed to how I see value,” Simon says. “I like to feel that I’m in something with heart in it.”

This September she will take over the entire rotunda at the Guggenheim with “Taryn Simon: Father Country, I Do Love You.” “It’s the story of one man and everything he touched,” Simon tells me. That man is an unnamed federal agent whose life will be reflected in 42 individual artworks, each gesturing to the ripple-like consequences of his actions. The exhibition, made up of text, photographs, video, and sculpture, is dedicated to Simon’s father, who lived all over the world and was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease before the full dimension of his life was evident to his daughter. The show “encompasses a vast range of themes,” says Guggenheim curator of performance and media Nat Trotman, “but at its core it is about the way the life of one individual—which could be any of us—touches those of so many others, opening up a galaxy of stories.”

Much of Simon's work is like this: startlingly intimate and powerfully political. In 2016 she filled the Park Avenue Armory with professional mourners, brought in from all over the world—a stunning installation, grief turned outward and monumental. Simon shows me one of her outfits, its apron embroidered with a name. One of the mourners made it for her—a trace of her art quietly making its way into what she wears.—CHLOE SCHAMA

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A skirt with suspenders and a balloon-sleeve blouse constitute Simon's daily ensemble. Here, a dozen examples from her collection.

LEG UP

A new generation of women designers is reinventing the slim look of American denim. By Jane Herman.

Tight, body-hugging jeans are nothing new. By the time I began grappling with them, circa 2008, they'd long been

associated with James Dean's sex symbol status and the rock-rebel style of punk icons like Debbie Harry. Still, when skinnies, as we called them, came back into fashion in the aughts, I was both shocked and confused. Here was this fit, so daring and so specific, that clung to the curves of our legs like cellophane. For me, uncomfortable didn't even begin to describe it. As someone whose whole life had been anchored by denim (my dad is the former LA retailer Ron Herman; jeans are in our genes was the joke), I felt unmoored, questioning not only my weight but the shape of all my tops. I wrote about my denim anxiety in this same space just shy of 20 years ago, declaring skinny jeans a "tricky little trend" and wondering how I'd deal with it—or if it would even last.

Of course, skinny jeans didn't just

last; they dominated for more than a decade—I dealt with it by avoiding them in favor of foolproof 501s, more slim than skinny—until denim's reliable 10-ish-year pendulum swung in the other direction, toward wider legs and looser fits. So why a comeback now? Part of it, of course, is the simple desire for newness. One never needs a new pair of jeans every season: They're jeans; they're made to last a long time. The rumblings of a return to skinnies started when Miuccia Prada showed little low-riders in Miu Miu's fall 2024 collection. In truth, it was too soon and too tight, even for an audience who wore compression-level stretch denim not that long ago. Today, I suspect we're picking up where we left off right before the sweatpant-centric pandemic seemed to slam the door on anything clingy with a restrictive fit.

Flash back for a moment to Hedi Slimane's '70s-inspired spring 2020 collection for Celine, which landed in stores just as COVID hit.

That type of jean—high on the waist, pipe-shaped down the leg, and authentic-looking (i.e., made of 100 percent cotton)—is now having a renaissance and, compared to baggies and barrels, feels powerful and smart. I loved it then and I love it now. It makes me think of Nili Lotan's Joan, one of the best straight legs on the planet today.

"I don't like to use the word skinny," says designer Jac Cameron, who has the niche and increasingly popular Agnes jean in her line, Rùadh (pronounced "roo-ah"). A mid-rise style with a button fly, lean leg, and a little slit at the hem's outseam, Agnes is trim but "definitely not a legging vibe," Cameron explains. The game changer: >188

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Ossou ("ob-sue") designers Nina Khosla and Talia Shuvalov agree. "It's not about the resurgence of the spray-on jean," Shuvalov says. "It's about creating something that's tailored and refined, that still has a bit of air around the leg but offers you this slim effect." Ossou's Noon jean—a non-stretch high-rise with a cinched waist and more tapered leg—evokes the Lady Levi's jeans of the 1930s, which the May 1935 edition of this magazine declared the thing to wear while vacationing in what was then called the Far West. (I repeat: Tighter jeans are nothing new.)

But while these new jeans are all technically slim, they are absolutely not the same. Even within the trend, there's real variety, which is so much more inviting

than the deep sea of same old skinnies we got swept away in last time. “The whole thing is just straighter,” says Aflalo’s Yael Aflalo about her best-selling Brontë. It’s extremely lean top-to-bottom compared to Noon and Agnes. “We’ve kept the more classic denim measurements—narrow waistband, longer fly—and fine-tuned the shape of the leg,” she explains. (In denim-speak, classic typically implies a 501 fit. That Hailey Bieber’s been seen wearing bum-hugging vintage Levi’s recently is not a coincidence.)

"I think it's easier for people to take a slimmer silhouette back than it was for them to accept it the first time around," says Jamie Haller, a 2026 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund finalist whose namesake line has two exceptional formfitting styles: the Slim Stovepipe and the Low. Also—and this is important—a lean silhouette is now far from the only option. Haller still has a Slouch and a Bell Crop, for example. Slim, barrel, bootcut, wide-leg, low-rise, high-rise, flared.... We're living in a moment where all fits can be heroes.

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Even within the trend, there's real variety, which is so much more inviting than the deep sea of same old skinnies we got swept away in last time

women—a welcome change from the male designers dominating the all-skinny world of the 2010s. Haller, who worked at Guess and NSF before launching her own line, and Cameron, who cut her teeth at Calvin Klein and cofounded AYR, are now running their own shows, and they're not alone: An entire generation of creative hard-workers who embarked on their careers during the

premium denim boom of the early 2000s—and even made those male-gaze skinnies of the 2010s—has now stepped into their own.

But starting a jeans line is one thing. Nailing it—as these women have—is something else. Their edge: A closeness to the fit that men, no matter how skilled or legendary they may be, simply cannot own. Aflalo wear-tests everything. Cameron is in direct communication with her customers via text. Haller is her own fit model. It may sound obvious, but a subjective eye is insightful. The connection converts—and finally, with great enthusiasm (relief, even), I'm embracing the change.

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A new interpretation of The Cherry Orchard lands in New York.

Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, written at the start of the 20th century, hinges on a specific moment in Russian history—the decline of the aristocracy and the rise of a middle class. Can you transplant that to 21st-century Seoul? Such was the challenge writer and director Simon Stone, who brings his interpretation to Manhattan's Park Avenue Armory this month, set for himself. "I looked at that society," Stone says of contemporary Korea, "and the way that power trickles down. It felt like imperial Russia."

This Cherry Orchard is more Parasite than Stanislavski—offering a novel spin on the class dynamics of the original. "All of those lines about the aging nanny who's still living with the family, the housekeeper, the chauffeur that's just a little bit of an idiot but they keep him in the family—all of that stuff happens in Korea," says Stone, who is known for working in languages not native to him. This production will be performed in Korean with English subtitles—with Park Hae-soo (Squid Game) and Jeon Do-yeon (a Cannes winner for 2007's Secret Sunshine) in starring roles, both making their New York stage debuts. Stone asserts that Chekhov's comedy transcends any vernacular: "A lot of jokes are funny because people know what it's like to have a mother that nags them."

Stone has a roving, transnational background. This play, he says, was adapted “by a Swiss-born, Austrian-residing Australian for Korean actors, some of whom have never left Korea.” He’s also known for upending theatrical convention. His provocative 2018 interpretation of Federico García Lorca’s Yerma became a modern fertility parable; a startling 2020 Medea with Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale placed the tragedy on a disorientingly bright white stage, the better to distill its impact. Here he is working with the avant-garde architectural designer Saul Kim (in Kim’s theatrical debut) to erect a cutaway building—seen at left—illuminated like a giant dollhouse. No matter the cultural background, family dysfunction is entertaining to observe.—CHLOE SCHAMA

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Recently, reels of time-lapse flower beds have surfaced on my phone's screen: humble patches of dirt, tilled between the siding of a house and a stretch of lawn, rapidly transformed into a riot of color, a feast of bobbing blossoms. This is “chaos gardening”—a social-media-fueled movement that has been gaining traction among a certain kind of gardener wanting to stage a small-scale rebellion against the strictures of horticulture on a patch of dirt. No need for planning, plotting, skill, or experience. You don't even need to step into a nursery; a dusty packet of seeds from the hardware store will do.

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akin to the modern-meadow movement, which emphasizes native plants and ecological restoration and usually involves considered deployment of specific species. Rather, the practice puts faith in chance, whim, and inspiration. It embraces serendipity and celebrates mistakes. In one TikTok video (with 4.6 million views and counting), a gardener who goes by The Chaos Gardener describes her four-year-old daughter's adventure with a purloined packet of sunflower seeds, which she surreptitiously planted in her sandpit—resulting in the tallest and sturdiest stalk her mother had ever seen. "Here's the trick," says popular TikTok gardener Farm Boy James, while flinging handfuls of dried lentils and black-eyed peas over his shoulder, "there isn't a trick." >206

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My own backyard adventures have been less chaotic: trips to the garden store with a budget and a palette in mind, sketches and lists with staggered bloom cycles considered. But every book I've read or class I've taken has elicited both a sense of encouragement and intimidation regarding the vast array of knowledge still beyond my reach. There are parts of gardening that can feel intuitive (water when dry) and parts that feel almost paradoxical. It took a firm rosarian at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden to persuade me to hack my rose vines down to spindly shin-level spears, denuded of crisscrossing branches. "Trust me," she said, "they're going to love it."

So there was something undeniably appealing about throwing caution to the wind. A neighbor friend has a field of echinacea flowers in her front yard that by mid-summer looks like hundreds of emojis have popped up to flank her stoop, drunk-seeming bumble-bees buzzing between them. She had read all the Piet Oudolf books,

she told me, but when it came time to plant, she just tossed handfuls of seeds in the air. Could I transform a bare little corner of my backyard with the same spirit of abandon?

At the gardening store I bought packets of blackberry lily, cardinal climber, lobelia, aster, echinacea, lavender, and thyme seeds. At the last minute I added a packet of outhouse hollyhock, a plant so deemed because it has been known to grow tall and dense enough that it can create a screen for outdoor facilities. No privy in my backyard, but the bulky plastic compost wheel could use some camouflage. How did this selection rank according to my typical measures? Were these native? Not really, it turned out when I googled them later. Invasive? Oops, maybe a little, in some cases. I had planned to divide the plot—one half sown spontaneously, the other benefiting from more attention paid to spacing—but my own four-year-old daughter seemed to sense that approach was not in keeping with the spirit of the endeavor and proceeded to scatter at will. At the last minute I remembered that Ffern, the delectable organic fragrance company,

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had sent me a packet of cornflower, lady's bedstraw, and red campion with its newest, very pleasing seasonal scent, so I threw that in too. About 27 seconds later we were done. We gently trod on the soil, gave it a spray of water, and walked away.

There are, of course, complications that one doesn't need to venture too far into this trend to discover. The question of density, for starters—a lot of the videos involve flung fistfuls, the way an enthusiastic chef might salt a pot of water for pasta. More is more! Then you read the fine print on a packet of thyme seeds, each smaller than a poppy seed, and find out it is meant to cover up to 233 square feet. Assuming these plants sprout, you're supposed to thin them—a nice way of saying “kill your darlings”—if they are denser than a few inches apart. “It feels like infanticide,” says noted gardener

Jo Thompson, author of The New Romantic Garden (2025), when I call her for advice. Thompson's style has always been somewhat akin to chaos gardening—a bit unruly, a bit disordered, and more welcoming because of it. “I liked the idea that it was not all about me,” she says. “I wanted to guide the garden and invite a sense of spontaneity.” She likes plants that “look after themselves,” she adds. Let nature take its course with minimal intervention.

There is ancient wisdom to the idea of cultivating plant diversity—the “three sister” crops (corn, beans, and squash) have long been grown in proximity to maximize yields. In fact, the term chaos garden has been traced back to farmer and writer Gabe Brown, author of Dirt to Soil (2018), who describes a regenerative experiment that began almost as a dare: He took a total of 70 species (including cover crops like cowpeas and soybeans, as well as vegetables and flowers) and spread them over a 30-acre field. Even though the

conditions were not optimal that year, the process generated a thriving kitchen garden for him and his wife. “Shelly would send me to pick a vegetable for supper and whatever I tripped over was what I would bring home,” Brown writes. Thompson, in her own garden, has been growing salvia near her roses—an approach that utilizes the natural fungicidal properties of salvia’s leaves.

We know that plant diversity creates not only a more productive environment but a more stable and pollinator-friendly one. Having a variety of plants might help you prevent weeds and offer some natural pest protection. And this is an important consideration for even the most amateur backyard gardener: Recent research has shown that diversity-encouraging interventions in smaller-scale gardens had a disproportionately greater effect than in larger-scale gardens. “I don’t like the term chaos gardening,” the ecologist Douglas Tallamy tells me—he feels that it implies visions of unruliness. But he stresses the responsibility that anyone with even a tiny plot of earth should feel. “If people have a little garden that’s a few square feet and the rest of it is a giant lawn," he says, "they're not doing anything with it." He points out that there are about 40 million acres of lawn in America—an area roughly the size of Washington State. If chaos gardening gets people accustomed to the idea of doing more than ceding their property to a landscaping company, then the benefits might go beyond a feel-good social media movement.

Within a week, my daughter came running to tell me that a shoot had emerged on my bare patch of Brooklyn dirt. It was a bit too soon for any of the seeds we had planted to sprout, but something had apparently drifted over and gotten a head start. I pulled out my plant identification app, but the leaves were tiny; it was too early to figure out what had taken root. The first resident of our chaos garden was a surprise, it seemed—what a delight indeed. □

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I was feeling bad, so I decided to get Botox. To be clear, I wasn't feeling bad about my face. Life in general was getting me down. I was weary, exhausted by the effort of ignoring the worrisome thoughts pinging around my head. I felt futile. I was beset by ambient dread. Thus, Botox. One sleepless night, I'd tumbled down an internet rabbit hole, reemerging with a handful of studies with byzantine titles like "Botulinum Toxin Therapy for Psychiatric Disorders in Clinical Practice: A Retrospective Case Study," suggesting Botox as a treatment for depression. The reason for this was hilariously straightforward: Botox—or any neuromodulator—inhibits frowning. That's it. That's the whole deal. It seemed worth trying.

Off I went to Weiser Skin MD in SoHo. I could have gotten a jab from one of the walk-in clinics popping up all over town—injection, the new mani-pedi!—but, as this was a matter of mental health, it seemed prudent to seek out a prestigious medical professional. Depression and anxiety “are serious conditions best managed by psychiatrists and/or psychologists,” cautioned Jessica Weiser, MD, a board-certified dermatologist and Weiser Skin’s founder and medical director. But, she added: “Patients do note that they feel more confident and relaxed after treatment.” I asked the gracious Alessandra Haskin, MD, to aim for the “high end of minimal” as she prepared a needle for the muscles that lower the corners of the mouth. That was for good measure. The locus of scientific interest is the glabella, the region between the eyebrows where frown lines appear. I’d have to wait two weeks to witness the treatment’s full effect.

As I waited, I asked myself: Do I feel more confident? Do I feel more relaxed? People kept telling me how great I looked; that was uplifting. I also wondered if I was turning into a psychopath. Perhaps you've seen the meme: A client, sitting in a doctor's office, points to his or her glabella: "Just go for the empathy part," says the Botoxee. "Of course, it's our bestseller," replies the injector. A little one-scene comedy responding to research suggesting that Botox curtails a person's capacity to "experience" the inner life of another.

The data on this is intriguing. One much-cited 2011 study showed that “emotion perception was significantly impaired” by Botox. In another, from 2023, researchers scanned women’s brains pre- and post-Botox and found that suppressing the glabellar region could affect “the processing of emotional faces.” This is a narrow sampling of the research; there are “several well-documented effects,” according to Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos, PhD, an experimental psychologist based at Flinders University in Australia. Botox has been shown to inhibit emotional apprehension, Marmolejo-Ramos explains; Botoxees are “missing the subtext.”

The scientific logic comes down to one essential: Our expressions both convey and sway our emotions. “Think of your face as a two-way street,” Marmolejo-Ramos says. Emotion flows from brain to face, but there’s also a “return signal,” he elaborates, “and this bodily feedback helps us actually feel emotions.” I frown because I’m sad—but it’s also the reflex to frown that tells me I’m sad. Botox, immobilizing facial muscles, frustrates this signaling back and forth. >218

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The result is a flattening of affect or “a subtle but measurable blunting of how the person processes, experiences, and reads emotion.”

In the 1990s, the discovery of “mirror neurons” underlined that we subconsciously mimic each other, down to our tiniest facial expressions. These micro-expressions often escape cognition and are processed solely through simulation. So it follows that the more frozen your face, the less likely you are to clock that someone is anxious or lying to you or quietly amused. And if you’re too frozen to take someone fully in, wouldn’t it be harder for anyone to empathize with you?

“Go for the empathy part.” A strange joke, if you think about it. But what makes the joke land is its kernel of sincerity, the idea that life might be easier, more frictionless, if we weren’t troubled by the feelings of others. We live in an age of self-optimization; is lack of empathy somehow optimal? Does a cruel world require a cold heart and a frozen face?

"It's fascinating—it seems like a concerted effort to appear air-brushed," muses 36 North Moore Dermatology founder Evan Rieder, MD, of the intervention-forward, avatar-like aesthetic common on social media. "But I do not believe it's the result of a conscious attempt to achieve emotional blunting," he adds. Rieder, who is board-certified in both dermatology and psychiatry, is skeptical of the research—sure, something is happening at a psychological or emotional level when we get Botoxed, but not to a degree that would make a difference in the average person's life. "It's been sensationalized," he says.

And the jury is still out—way out—on Botox's efficacy as a mood-booster. “We looked closely at all the evidence and didn't find it compelling,” says Jeff Larsen, professor of psychology and neuroscience at University of Tennessee and the coauthor of a 2021 meta-analysis of studies about Botox's effect on depression. Sample sizes were small; results were frequently improbable. “When it comes to momentary feelings, 10 seconds, maybe up to a minute, facial expression [for example, smiling] can have a little effect on how I'm feeling,” Larsen says. As far as Botox improving my mood, “you're better off looking at cute puppy videos on YouTube.”

This effect, too, is fleeting. I cued “30 Minutes of the World’s CUTEST Puppies!” Half an hour later, my mood was about the same.

"Think of your face as a two-way street," psychologist Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos says. Emotion flows from brain to face, but there's also a "return signal"

But I did not, could not, frown. This had no perceptible impact on my cheeriness. The boost I got from Botox was that I liked my face a bit better, a result I'd have anticipated without reading umpteen scientific reports. That's not nothing, but as I said up top, my face was never the problem.

The sense of constant crisis in the news and the developments in AI that are guiding us, rapidly, into terra incognita can make it

difficult to see over any horizon beyond next week. And despair, it's been said, comes of the inability to conceive or construct a future. Hence: ambient dread. For me, at least. But philosophers have long had an antidote for this state of mind: the cocreation of a future by means of a hyperfocus on the present, doing the human stuff no AI will ever be able to do—sharing joy, giving someone a hug. Empathy, in other words. ChatGPT can't help my elderly neighbor carry her groceries up the stairs. It's a small thing, but more effective than Botox in quieting my mind and lightening my mood. Care. That's it. That's the whole deal. It seems worth trying.

BREAKING THE MOLD

Hollywood designer Tina Charad goes analog with ceramics.

Tina Charad first knew she wanted to work in film when she saw Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet. "I was blown away," she recalls. "The visual tapestry—it was just so rich." Several decades into a career as a graphic designer for film and television, she has conjured everything from the Technicolor grit of 1969 Los Angeles for Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood to modern interiors for Nancy Meyers. The job requires deep research, rigor, and skill—and, ideally, all this effort goes unnoticed.

Charad, 51, says that she has long had a perfectionist streak. But these days she's fighting that instinct, creating bowls, plates, vases, and other vessels that reflect a looser aesthetic. Her usual digital precision has no place here: "I took up ceramics to get off the computer," she says. She counts the artists Jennifer Rochlin, Hylton Nel, and Daisy Makeig-Jones (a 20th-century pottery designer for Wedgwood) among her influences. And, aesthetically, more is more. "I've never met a pattern I didn't love." A selection of her wares is sold at Pierce & Ward, the Los Angeles design studio known for modern heirlooms, and in 2027 she will have an exhibition at Knysna Fine Art in Knysna, South Africa.

Incorporating lines of text—akin to little poems—Charad aims to craft a humorous record of the present on the surface of her work. “The ceramic is the vehicle to tell this absurd little story,” she says. And there is suspense in ceramics, just as in film: “Is this going to not break? Is this going to still stand up?” she says. “Maybe. Maybe not.”—ANNA GRACE LEE

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Zoe Latta's first recollection of J.Crew is from middle school, when she came across a Technicolor men's hand-knit sweater in one of the brand's legendary early catalogs. "It was just insane-looking," she recalls, "so many different colors, so Waspy—and cool." It changed the way the Northern California native, who grew up in a decidedly more bohemian milieu, saw the brand. "It was this burst-open American point of view," she says. "It really blew my mind."

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That very sweater served as a touchpoint for J.Crew's new collaboration with Eckhaus Latta, the label that Latta oversees alongside her design partner, Mike Eckhaus (whose own first memory of the brand is of wearing the same J.Crew sweater vest as a classmate for their middle school book report on The Catcher in the Rye). Since founding Eckhaus Latta 15 years ago, they've built a mystique as scrappy downtown darlings specializing in a gritty, modern version of American sportswear, all earthy funk and sleek subversion.

If the linkup seems unexpected, well—that's the whole point. "We really celebrate the everyday," says Olympia Gayot, J.Crew's creative director and head of womenswear, "and then they come and add a twist, a tension. That's very exciting for us."

How else could J.Crew give us a chunky-knit skirt suit in a flecked acid yellow, like some wayward cousin of Chanel? (Latta says she was looking for “gross” colors, (including a “puke green.”) Elsewhere, there’s a riff on the ladylike twinset, in striped cashmere, frisky in its cropped proportions; and classic oxford shirts, now slashed up the back, featuring a deep, overlapping vent. “Some things felt very us, others felt very J.Crew,” Latta says of working together. “If it was one or the other, we’d get rid of it or push it toward the middle. Nothing that’s in here feels preposterous to me. There’s a person for all of it.”

"There's this foundation with Eckhaus Latta of denim, jersey, and knitwear," Eckhaus says. "And I could say the same of J.Crew—they're just realized differently."

While he and Latta have made their name with wide-cut denim dyed in murky shades; shaggy, sculptural knits; and shirting with sexy-strange cutouts, in recent years their work has gained a finesse that comes with experience, and now includes handsome leathers and more streamlined silhouettes. Much like J.Crew's elevated staples, these are real clothes worn by real people in their real lives—though from the start, Eckhaus Latta has attracted a coterie of creative types (e.g., indie actors, gallerists) who often sit in their fashion shows' front row and, occasionally, are persuaded to walk their runway. >230

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For François, the connection runs deeper than nostalgia. Gerber is “a supermodel of today who carries with her the spirit of another era,” he says. Photographing her felt like “reliving the magic” of the original supers—a return to the optimism, artistry, and creative energy that first drew him to the industry and inspired some of fashion’s most enduring makeup looks.

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It's the kind of effortless déjà vu that only a true artist can imbue. After all, beauty isn't just about what you see—it's about how you see it. And the magic you continue to create.

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J.Crew's Olympia Gayot with Zoe Latta and Mike Eckhaus. "We celebrate the everyday," Gayot says, "and then they come and add a twist, a tension."

“What defines their brand is not only what they design, but the world that they build around it,” observes Gayot, recalling a show where the casting director held a model’s baby as she traipsed the catwalk, or the time a gaggle of friends provided full-throated musical accompaniment. “It’s not pretentious—it’s familial, it’s beautiful, it’s downtown,” she continues. “It’s like all of those things that you look at as an outsider, and you’re like, ‘I want to be part of that world.’”

Their 27-piece collaboration, which includes men's, women's, and children's pieces, comes on the heels of a smaller project earlier this year in which Eckhaus Latta reimagined J.Crew's signature roll-neck sweater, rendering it in earth-toned patches. The entire run sold out in a few hours. "We're not a hype brand—we're not used to putting something out and having it be gone," Eckhaus says. "But selling out that quickly was really fulfilling, and being able to expand that into a full collection feels exciting in a whole different way."

A lot of the work happened at J.Crew headquarters in downtown Manhattan, amid mood boards pinned with old campaign images, fabric swatches, and new sketches. “There’s just so much inspiration,” Eckhaus says of mining the J.Crew archives. “There’s this wealth of things to explore and riff off of, and then subvert and digest and play with in a way that feels us.”

"We had to keep asking, Does this still speak to the J.Crew customer?" Eckhaus continues. "How do you push the silhouette without it feeling alienating? How do you make it feel cool and very now while still being wearable?" Funnily enough, the collection as a whole embodies what Latta first felt all those years ago while flipping through the pages of a J.Crew catalog—an American perspective that isn't singular, but expansive, that somehow captures something ineffable about our kaleidoscopic sense of self.

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Nose-deep in a nylon Prada shoulder bag is a strange way to start a Saturday morning in SoHo. But

after taking a subtle whiff inside the purse—and hoping no one in the downtown Manhattan store was taking note—I sniff my wrist. Earlier, I had spritzed on Prada Beauty's latest scent, Nylon Noir. Sharp when it hits the nose, it reminds me of the sound that nylon makes when it rubs against itself.

We all know what tulle, satin, and wool look like—but how do they smell? That's what the latest fragrances are exploring. These aren't leather scents (new cars, edgy jackets, saddles), which have been done since 1781, when The House of Creed first made

Royal English Leather for King George III. Instead, think of opening the doors to a fashion house's workshop and experiencing the materials. "Indigo is inspired by denim," Andrea Maack says of the newest perfume from her namesake company, which deploys

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Some materials, like cashmere, have long been a fragrance note, but what about cotton, linen, or silk?

notes of lavender, orris, and musk. It smells like how it feels to pull on my favorite pair of almost-too-tight vintage Gloria Vanderbilt jeans.

I find, as I test these new fragrances, that I gravitate toward those that match my outfit. A nipped-in 1950s fit and flare dress requires a Dior scent influenced by the sharp angles of the New Look, while a wiggle sheath and feathered mules worn to an American Ballet Theatre matinee prompt me to reach for YSL Beauty's Velours, inspired by the lush velvet beloved by Yves Saint Laurent. And the limited edition porcelain bottle of Dries Van Noten's Soie Malaquais—or "Malaquais Silk"—is slinky and sexy enough for a night

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I knew I was in trouble when the drill came out. “We’ve got an issue,” my dentist told me. “You’ve been clenching your jaw so hard you’re killing your tooth. Possibly multiple.” Killing?! Surely he was exaggerating: My dental records are historically cavity-free! And after a bout of COVID-era stress-grinding, I wear a night guard. “Pressure kills the nerve,” he explained, pointing at my X-ray and a cloudy molar interior. “You’ve been clamping down, probably at night, but also probably during the day. Were you aware of that?” Reader, I had a baby seven months before this conversation, and I read the news. Was I aware that I was tense? I sure was! I just didn’t think my teeth knew.

I'm not alone. Two partial crowns later, during a visit to my Los Angeles endodontist for the prescribed curative root canal required for a third, I learned that more and more patients are coming in with clenching and grinding calamities versus the traditional cavities that used to be the endodontist's bread and butter. And then these patients are coming back. Since COVID, my endodontist had seen people cracking through fillings and crowns made out of material that's supposed to be diamond-hard. He was considering offering masseter Botox injections to temporarily paralyze the largest jaw muscle for the worst repeat offenders. “I don’t think it’s a dentist’s place to give Botox, but I’m running out of ideas,” he told me.

In that, he is alone. It seemed that everywhere I looked, new businesses were cropping up to tackle the growing problem of our propensity to grin and bear it. A week later I was trying Emface, a high-intensity muscle-stimulation device that uses electromagnetic waves purportedly to retrain overactive facial and jaw muscles through a course of repeated sessions. What that looks like in practice is two stick-on pads attached to wires that cause your face to painlessly spasm for 20 minutes straight while you scroll on your phone. While I was lying there, a friend aware of my situation texted a link to a video of what appeared to be a woman being tortured but was in fact LeAnn Rimes getting her jaw worked on by a fascial maneuver coach. >252

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(These are experts in body work that targets the connective tissue which wraps around the body's muscles and organs.) I watched the singer bawl hysterically in—I guess—relief while I twitched, supine, behind a scrim in a Beverly Hills store window. Perhaps this all sounds ridiculous? There was a time I would have thought so. But that was before. I emailed LeAnn's fascia guy to see if they had any available slots. They did, but not many. "We're shooting our new TV show!" a rep wrote back.

He wasn't the only one who knew fascia. I enlisted sports medicine chiropractor Jenna Lagana, DC, for help. She specializes in performance rehab and has worked with multiple performing artists; singers, she told me, get jaw issues like baseball pitchers get elbow ones. Night guards intended to prevent grinding can sometimes compound clenching, she said. If presented with something to grip, even unconsciously, many jaws will. She assessed my situation manually: no clicking or popping or pain while chewing meant it wasn't a joint problem, but my jaw muscles were tight and aggrieved from overuse—a soft tissue issue. She applied pressure at various points around my skull and shoulders and did a sharply painful but ultimately relieving maneuver inside the upper corners of my mouth to get the hyperactive muscles there to relax a bit.

Once her hand was out of my mouth, I asked what she thought about Botox—would that let me skip a future of painful manual maneuvers? “I do not recommend that as an option,” she told me.

"It's not viable, it's not affordable long-term, and it's not a solution at all. I've never met anyone who's like, 'Oh yeah, I got Botox one time and my jaw is totally better.' What you need to do is find out what your stressors are," a.k.a. what's making me clench, "and how to mitigate those stressors and to improve the overall tone of your head, neck, jaw, all of that musculature." She recommended twice daily gua sha along the masseter, preferably with heat. And, you know, trying to not

I realized that my teeth were always touching—a long-held horror of appearing slack-jawed may be subconsciously working against me

clench. "When you catch yourself doing it, put your tongue behind your upper teeth," Lagana's wife, Natazia zu Stolberg, a licensed acupuncturist, offered on my way out the door. "Remember, your teeth aren't supposed to touch unless you're chewing!" I practiced on my way to the car and realized that my teeth were always touching—a long-held horror of appearing slack-jawed may be subconsciously working against me.

“Oh, that could totally factor in,” integrative and functional medicine expert Sarah Corey, ND, told me on a call later that week. “Think about the messaging we get” about being strong and unflappable: stiff upper lip, set your jaw, all of that. “People are stressed,” she said, and she pointed out that the jaw is historically a place where we feel the strain. Animals in high-intensity situations—being chased on the savanna, say—will physically shake or tremble as a stress response once they’ve reached safety; people who get a horrendous work email or are cursed out by a driver on the freeway don’t have anywhere to dump all of that cortisol and adrenaline. And not to stress anybody out further, but high cortisol suppresses your immune system and increases inflammation, both of which lead to things like quicker aging and poor long-term health outcomes.

“I think we need to look at this as not just what’s happening in that specific muscle,” Corey told me. “Are there things that you feel like you’re not saying or you’re holding back? Are there boundaries that we’re not creating? I think that’s a big one for women.” (To be fair, I hadn’t slept uninterrupted in over a month, but how was I going

So I had a plan. But what about the things that had already gone haywire? “Dr. Annie! She changed my life,” stylist and wellness fanatic Djuna Bel told me. Bel glows with a kind of rude Californian health and goes once a week for chiropractic adjustments, including of her jaw. At Glendale’s Healthwise Chiropractic clinic, Annie Issagholyan, DC, took a series of X-rays and measurements to show me that the problem was actually not in my head. It was in my spine. Nervous system dysregulation plus postural problems lead to a whole suite of dysfunctions, Issagholyan explained. Two thirds of the patients who come to see her are there because of jaw dysregulation, she told me, though the specifics can vary widely. “With temporomandibular joint (or TMJ) dysfunction, it’s very rare for just one thing to be the cause.” Poor sleep positioning plus to lecture my baby about boundaries?) "When you're stressed and worried you're in sympathetic overdrive, which means you stop being able to rest and digest," and your body can't repair itself or reset its nervous system. Breath work, she advised me, is actually the only way we can force ourselves into the parasympathetic. (And it's free!) She directed me to breathe in through the nose for four seconds, hold for seven, and exhale through the mouth for nine. (You don't even have to count or hold, a breath work coach told me later, you just have to exhale longer than you inhale.) Corey also recommended significantly upping my intake of omega-3s for mood and joint health, and nightly magnesium glycinate for improved sleep.

“tech neck” (a forward tilt so-named because it aims the eyes downward at a device) was putting exponential volumes of pressure on my spine, which was showing up in my jaw, but also in my shoulders and hips.

Issagholyan built out a 24-session plan to course-correct, involving twice weekly visits in which I would be chiropractically adjusted, my jaw cold-lasered to promote cellular regeneration and my back muscles stimulated by electrodes. I would also do a

neck traction exercise where I was yoked to the wall for 20 tilted squats. She would manually release the medial and lateral pterygoids, the small muscles inside my mouth, which were the worst offenders. She would also adjust my mid-back, where some shoddy form while baby-lifting was showing up, and finish by realigning my neck. On the way out after that first visit, I received ice packs for my face and was measured for a new, carefully designed pillow that promised to keep my head level.

I followed the plan. Results were tender but steady. I found myself newly aware of how I was positioning my head on my neck and holding my phone while I looked at it. I took my supplements and began and ended the day with intentionally deep breathing. And I realized one day that I was getting better. On one visit, Issagholyan painlessly snapped my head back and forth and, as the volley of pops of my neck vertebrae realigned, I felt something relax at the top of my skull; when I got off the table it took me a minute before I realized my teeth weren't touching. Hours later they still weren't.

Partway through the program, I asked what the future held. Was there ever a point when I'd be done? "We will get you stable," Issagholyan said. But cured? It doesn't work like that. "You don't go to the gym for three months and then say, 'There, I did it!'" A former dancer with a physical job in a very stressful world, she herself gets adjusted once a week and sees it as an important part of what keeps her healthy and able. "But maybe if life gets less stressful we won't need all of this intervention." For that, I won't be holding my breath.

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Not that long ago, the notion of a silk scarf conjured images of something slightly fusty—the lingering scent of mothballs in a grandmother's dresser,

equal parts cherished and outdated. There were, of course, flashes of Grace Kelly's Riviera chic still woven into its legacy, but for many of us, our cultural association came courtesy of The White Lotus, where Jennifer Coolidge's scarf prompted comparisons to Peppa Pig, not Monica Vitti.

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Then the runways intervened. At Celine, Michael Rider is intent upon the accessory's revival. His inaugural show, circa June 2025, took place under an enormous silk scarf "tent," and by now, four collections in, the American in Paris has shown twill scarves looped around necks, tucked into blazers, and cascading off shoulders.

Inspired by the silk T-shirts worn as turbans at Sarah Burton's fall 2026 Givenchy, I've been tying on a silk scarf kerchief-style on days when I have too much dry shampoo in my hair. I also enjoy sporting the occasional sarong or a wispily tacked-on top motivated by the tropical-office vibe that Julian Klausner has conjured at Dries Van Noten—Manhattan is an island, after all. And seeing everyone from Alexa Chung to Jennifer Lawrence in their folded foulards turned cummerbunds, it seems I'm not alone.

CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: A silk-scarf party dress from Area's fall 2026 collection; a scarf detail from a fall 2026 Chanel couture look; Isaac Mizrahi's polka-dot-scarf accent in 1990.

Is all this a simple yearning for bygone glamour—or is it something more? Area's Nicholas Aburn has an inkling. “I think there’s a collectible quality to scarves, which is really desirable,” he says as we mull over a waterfall wall of scarves at the Stella Dallas vintage store in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Also: “Scarves invite personalization.” So much so that Aburn took inspiration from vintage examples to compose his own silk-scarf party dresses for Area’s fall collection. Whether you tie it like a halter or a tube top, there’s something exhilarating about being scantily clad in the finest tissue you can find.

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“That really hits the spot,” he says, surveying the results. “You can do so many different things. It can be this sartorial menswear vibe one day, and Palm Beach the next.”—ALEXANDRA HILDRETH

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A forgotten polymath of the Pop art movement gets an overdue tribute. By Grace Edquist.

Rosalyn Drexler wrote her first novel on a dare. Up till then she was known mostly as an avant-garde sculptor and painter in New York. But after the editor Richard Grossman, then launching his own publishing house, read a few paragraphs she drafted on a lark in the early 1960s, he was impressed enough that he offered the amateur writer a book contract. "You do know that I've never written a novel," Drexler told him. "Well, you will," he countered.

She made good on his bet. Based on her 1940s adolescence in the Bronx, I Am the

Beautiful Stranger, brought out by Grossman Publishers in 1965, was deemed a “subtly liberating,” “wholly original,” and “enormously replenishing” novel by The New York Times Book Review. The Beat poet Gregory Corso wrote to Drexler after reading it, thanking her for writing such an “honest and compelling” book.

Drexler, who died last year at the age of 98, had a life full of such improbable triumphs. She was the kind of creative polymath who excelled at most things she attempted. A self-taught painter, she

brought an incisive feminist perspective to the burgeoning genre of Pop art. She won an Obie Award for the first theater piece she ever wrote, 1964's Home Movies (which Susan Sontag called “fast and witty”); she was on the Emmy-winning writing team, along with Lorne Michaels and Richard Pryor, for Lily Tomlin's 1973 television special; and she received a Guggenheim fellowship (for fiction) and one from MacDowell (for painting). She even had a stint as a professional wrestler—its own kind of performance art.

"At that time, in the '60s and '70s, you were supposed to pick a lane," says Garth Greenan, whose New York City gallery has represented Drexler since 2015 and who will stage a greatest-hits show in September. The exhibition will include Drexler's writing and art but also personal correspondence and home movies she made with her husband, the late painter Sherman Drexler. "I want to put every ounce of steam that I can behind Rosalyn," Greenan says.

Rosalyn Bronznick was born in the Bronx in 1926, the oldest of three daughters raised by parents of Russian Jewish descent. She was a precocious kid and attended the High School of Music & Art (now LaGuardia). She met Sherman in Van Cortlandt Park—at the time she was studying with a dance group—and married him at 19, dropping out of Hunter College after one semester. At 20 she had her first child: a daughter, Rachel. Her son, Daniel, was born 11 years later.

Drexler's brief foray into professional wrestling was partly to escape the constraints of domestic life. "I've got to get away from this family thing for a while," she told the critic John Yau in 2007. She joined an all-women troupe and chose the wrestling nickname Rosa Carlo, the Mexican Spitfire (a stretch for a Jewish girl from the Bronx). For a few months she toured with the group across the South, leaving Sherman and a young Rachel at home. She didn't love life on the road, but it made for good material for her rollicking third novel, To

Smithereens, published in 1972. (She was later the subject, as wrestler Rosa Carlo, of a Warhol silkscreen print.)

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Rosalyn Drexler's work spanned painting, pro wrestling, and novel-writing. FROM TOP: Lovers, 1963, acrylic and paper collage on canvas; Drexler as Rosa Carlo, the Mexican Spitfire, circa 1950; Lost Match, 1962, acrylic and paper collage on canvas board.

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and began showing found object sculptures. Her solo show in 1960 at the experimental Reuben Gallery in the East Village marked her official entry onto the city's art scene. But when the gallery closed in

1961, she couldn't find a new one to represent her, so she pivoted to painting, hoping that might give her a better chance.

She became a Pop art pioneer, gluing enlarged ads she found in magazines and newspapers onto canvas before painting over them in vivid tones. "It was naive, but it worked," Drexler reflected in a 2017 essay. She placed her subjects at odd, sometimes extreme, angles, and she was particularly drawn to images that captured the gendered power dynamics in romantic relationships. Her two requirements for anything she made were that it had to be honest and it had to amuse her. Beyond that, she wasn't all that interested in what others thought.

"I think Drexler is almost alone among artists of her generation in pointing to physical violence against women as a casual part of the media landscape," says Katy Siegel, the co-curator of a retrospective that opened at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University in 2016. Drexler never publicly disclosed whether her interest in the topic was born out of her own experience. Her point was that aggression was all around us, deeply embedded in American culture.

By the mid-1960s, she turned her focus to writing. In addition to her award-winning plays and novels, she wrote occasional film reviews, including for this magazine. "She was so out of the box in her perceptions," says the poet and musician Joy Harjo, who became close friends with Drexler at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1976, when Drexler was on the faculty and Harjo was pursuing her MFA. Both women felt like outsiders at the prestigious institution, and

LADY IN RED Drexler's Chain Smoker (1960) on the cover of the new edition of her 1974 novel.

Harjo was drawn to Drexler's irreverence. "She was my place of sanity when I was trying to find my way."

The limelight started to fade in the 1980s. Drexler's art wasn't shown as much. But in the last decade or so before her death, new champions (including the writer Jonathan Lethem) pulled her back into the zeitgeist. Rachel Comey, who dove into Drexler's archive for inspiration for her spring 2027 collection, has newly joined the list of admirers, as has Hagfish, an indie publishing house run by 30-somethings Naomi Huffman and Julia Ringo that reissues out-of-print books. "We were looking for something loud and fresh, something unusual, something to really help us establish the voice of the project," says Huffman. They published To Smithereens as their first title last spring, and this fall they'll reissue Drexler's 1974 madcap satire The Cosmopolitan Girl, about a woman in a relationship with her talking dog.

If there was a downside to all of Drexler's multi-hyphenating, it's that she was never fully at home in one discipline. "She kind of did it all, but she did say to me that she was always there, but she was never

there," says Adam Harrison Levy, a writer and filmmaker at work on a documentary about Drexler. Maybe that's her true transgression: She refused to commit to just one thing. "She wanted to write her own story," Greenan says, "which speaks to all the different roles that she played in the theater that was her life."

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You've heard of spring, summer, fall, and winter. But what about viies aastaaeg? Across southern Estonia in late March, as the ice thaws and the Baltic mists shift, a micro-season is created—one that Eha, a new retreat on the island of Hiiumaa, has termed “springrise.” The island “has its own rhythm,” says the Tallinn-born Eva Maran, who has spent the past five years developing Eha alongside her partner, Sonny Aswani. “Nothing can be forced.”

Hiiumaa, which is a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, has miles of white-sand beaches and moss-carpeted forests, dotted with traditional timber farmhouses and medieval stone churches. It's long served as a popular summer getaway for Estonians (think a wilder Martha's Vineyard), who have recently prospered thanks to Tallinn's tech boom. When I visited this summer, families could be spotted hopping onto sailboats or gathering outside the beachside restaurants for smoked fish and cold beers.

After a morning spent planting chaga mushrooms in the woods and a spot of seal-watching off the island's northern shores, I arrived at Eha: An octagonal, thatched-roof architectural wonder, it roosts above a tidal stream on the edge of an ancient pine forest, where blue-black barn swallows (the Estonian national bird) chirp among the reeds. "In Estonia, nature is a religion, and the forest is our church," notes Maran. In September guests will arrive here for multi-night wellness programs, with a focus on resetting circadian patterns and traditional activities like birch sauna, foraging, and even apitherapy. "So much of modern life pulls us away from our own rhythm," Maran adds. "At Eha, I hope people feel that rhythm slowly returning."—LIAM HESS

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has become a black market currency. The protagonist is a “pincher,” illegally tapping into the grid to fuel an underground punk music and arts scene. As she’s drawn to a mysterious, radical physicist—who is covertly experimenting with a device that promises to unknit the fabric of space-time itself—questions around identity, capitalism, and chosen family arise. While it retains the epic sweep of Diaz’s previous novels, Ply also marks a departure with the density of its inventive vernacular. But for those willing to go along for the ride, it’s a page-turning, pleasurably disorienting, and deeply humane vision of a possible future.—LIAM HESS

Emma Cline captured a kind of youthful anomie in her second novel, The Guest—a book about a grifterish woman hiding out in the Hamptons. The flickering end of adulthood, not the messy, sexy start of it, is the subject of her new novel, Switzy (Random House), a story situated in another rarefied realm: the cosseted existence of a financial titan. David Hastings is his name, and, with his aged brain failing, he's on a farewell swing from London to Zurich, where assisted suicide awaits. Cline's simple, detailed prose has tensile strength, and she vividly captures her protagonist's regrets and ambivalences and the pathos of a mind slipping away.—TAYLOR ANTRIM

Emily St. John Mandel became a literary superstar after Station Eleven, a post-pandemic-set work of science fiction that for a particular time seemed an eerie evocation of a fate that might await us all. In her new novel, Exit Party (Knopf), the sci-fi is more metaphysical, involving parallel universes that chart alternative trajectories for society: one in which militias and territories have carved out martial authority; another in which a centralized surveillance-state power has consolidated control. Variations on the same characters occupy each domain—a masterful sketch of what is internal to a person and how their environment shapes them. Mandel crafts her cast of personalities with remarkable economy; despite the fluidity of the narrative, these individuals feel layered and complex. Very few writers world-build with such compact skill, the suspense enmeshed in every line.—c.s.

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Kaia Gerber and Homer Gere have the good fortune of famous parents and flourishing careers—including starring roles in summer's alluring Bret Easton Ellis adaptation, The Shards. But they both know that making their own way means being utterly, unapologetically themselves. By Rob Haskell. Photographed by Steven Meisel.

In his best-selling 2024 book, The Anxious Generation, the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt argued that today's adolescents, flowering in a hothouse paned in iPhone glass, lack the exposure to chance and accident—not to mention to one another—that tends to produce daring, adaptable, and independent adults. Haidt, who is the same age as the writer Bret

Easton Ellis, waxes nostalgic for many of the freedoms enjoyed in Ellis's 2023 novel, The Shards. But probably not all of them. While Haidt bemoans the current generation's lack of what he calls "free play," meandering and unsupervised, Ellis's young protagonists play with an abandon that verges on recklessness. The kids in The Shards might benefit from an occasional watchful eye, if only their parents weren't vacationing in Europe indefinitely.

This month Ryan Murphy brings his adaptation of The Shards to FX, and for those still floating on the '90s reverie of Love Story, his chronicle of the courtship, marriage, and tragic end of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette, here is another occasion for sensory time travel, to a world even more pleasingly analog, with even tighter jeans. Ellis's setting is Los Angeles in 1981, when the lives of a group of seniors at an elite private school are disrupted by a new student with a shadowy past. These kids are fast, weaving through the canyon in luxury cars, snorting cocaine, throwing sumptuous parties at their parents' houses, peacocking, fornicating, clubbing, and country-clubbing. All the while, a serial killer known as the Trawler is targeting young women from the city's wealthy neighborhoods.

The show's ensemble is anchored by Igby Rigney, who plays Bret (Ellis's younger self, more or less), an aspiring writer, closeted, whose girlfriend, Debbie Schaffer, is the daughter of a major Hollywood producer. But it's Kaia Gerber as Susan Reynolds, Bret's best friend, and Homer Gere as Robert Mallory, the mysterious new arrival, who give the show's credit sequence its frisson. Gerber's mother is, of course, Cindy Crawford, and Gere's father is Richard Gere; together they were among the iconic couples of the early '90s. (Indeed, they were photographed by Herb Ritts for the November 1992 cover of this magazine.)

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"You watch The Shards, and it makes you long for a time when you could get into a little bit of trouble without it being on the internet the next day," Gerber says

“Maybe it seems too on the nose,” Homer Gere says of this next-gen casting coup. He remembers meeting Gerber for the first time, along with a few other Shards cast members, at Ye Rustic Inn in Los Feliz. “That’s Kaia’s spot. It’s, like, her chill I’m-gonna-go-have-a-beer-and-smoke-a-cig-outside spot. Twenty minutes into knowing each other, I was like, ‘Should we just acknowledge the fact that our parents were married?’ She was like, ‘Yeah. Cool.’ And that was it.”

Gere has brought me to the Noguchi Museum, an ivy-clad fortress occupying a quiet triangular block of Long Island City, Queens. It's an important place for him, not merely because it houses an arresting collection of the Japanese American artist's abstract carved-stone and basalt sculptures. Gere, who was a visual arts major at Brown, came to know the museum when he produced a painstaking replica of one of Isamu Noguchi's paper lamps for an architecture class. It's an unusually hot late-spring afternoon, and he is wearing blue USA rugby shorts that he thrifted last week in Rome, a T-shirt he stole from his dad's closet that was a long-ago gift from Bruce Weber, and a beat-to-hell New York Yankees cap. This is his first interview, he tells me. He admits that he is nervous and adds that someone advised him to avoid sarcasm because it doesn't translate well in print.

“I just want to appear likable,” he says ingenuously. “I talked to my dad about this, and he said, ‘You’re playing a character even when you’re yourself in some way.’ You know? I understand the game a little more, I think, than a person who has done as little work as I have should. I grew up in the most normal possible situation given who my father was. I didn’t grow up in the industry at all. I had never been on a professional set until last summer.”

Gere and Gerber could not have come to The Shards with more different CVs. Gerber began modeling at 10 and was 16 when she walked a major runway. She has had roles in two previous Ryan Murphy productions, among other television and film work, and Murphy had her in mind for the role of Susan, the beautiful and brainy student body president, as soon as The Shards was greenlit. Gere's arrival at acting was desultory, though maybe inevitable. He grew up in Pound Ridge, New York, with Richard Gere and his mother, the actress Carey Lowell. Though his parents divorced when he was 13, he remembers his childhood as "idyllic." Richard, who was 50 when Homer was born, made a point of building a family away from Hollywood. Upstate, Homer was raised essentially as an only child, though he is in fact one of seven siblings in a complex blended

SWING TIME The Shards is Gerber's third project with Murphy, who immediately had her in mind for a role. Gerber wears Chanel.

family: He has stepbrothers aged 36 and 40; a half sister aged 36; a stepbrother aged 13; and two half brothers, six and seven. On his mother's side, he is the youngest; on his father's side, the oldest.

"I was not a theater kid at all," he recalls. "Not. At. All. I was a jock. I mean, I think I was a sensitive jock! But I had grown up my entire childhood with people asking, 'Are you gonna be an actor when you're older?' And I was like, 'Fuck no.' I was good in school, and I had no pressure from my parents. Acting was always over there"—he flicks his hand to the side—"it was some other thing that other people did. There are a million happy lives that you can live, you know? And it's a complicated life. I think I knew that firsthand."

In college, Gere marched from major to major before discovering that he liked to make art. During the pandemic, he took a gap year, driving across the country and falling madly in love with the outdoors. Sport climbing is Gere's passion. He relishes the challenge of working through difficult predicaments in nature in highly controlled ways. Climbing runs in the bloodline: His maternal grandfather, the geologist James Lowell, has scaled every 14,000-foot mountain in Colorado, and, at 26, Gere has made it up 11 out of 52.

Back on campus in the fall of 2022, when he was a junior, a friend asked him to act in a short student film. “All of a sudden I was involved in the film community on campus,” he remembers. “And every semester from then on, that was my main focus. I was trying to make sketches with my friends or, you know, how many sets can I be a part of? Can I do production design for you guys? Can I do location scouting? I just wanted to be on a team.” Gere graduated in 2024 despite a concussion sustained playing club soccer that caused him to miss his final exams. After some time at home with his mother in Katonah, New York, and not seeing a clear path forward for himself, he spent a few months in Colorado, camping, hiking, and climbing. That’s when he got an out of the blue call from a talent manager who had seen one of his student films and wanted to know if he was interested in representation. “I was like, Okay, maybe this is a sign.”

To this point, Gere's exposure to Los Angeles had taken the form of Ed Limato, his father's legendary agent, pulling up to his childhood home in Pound Ridge. The door of Limato's limousine would open, and a cloud of cigarette smoke, like a breath of Old Hollywood, would herald his emergence. Homer and his father have not talked much about acting. Instead they tend to discuss the politics of the set and the perils of celebrity. "I'm an introvert who has developed enough social skills to function," he says. "I think my dad is the same."

Gere's parents both have enduring affiliations with Tibetan Buddhism, and its teachings have left an immovable mark. "Having a father who practices meditation—and in particular compassion

STEP UP Valentino dress, Gigi Burris Millinery hat, and Herbert Levine shoes. Cartier earrings. OPPOSITE: Dolce & Gabbana suit.

THE PARENT TRAP When Gerber and Gere first met as castmates, "I was like, 'Should we just acknowledge the fact that our parents were married?' " Gere says. "She was like, 'Yeah. Cool.' And that was it." Both wear Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello.

ORANGE AND THE NEW BLACK Balenciaga coat. Noel Stewart hat. Herbert Levine boots. OPPOSITE: Louis Vuitton dress, hat, and necklace.

"I think doubting yourself a bit is healthy, no matter how good you are. You should always be a little nervous if you're doing something worthwhile," Gere says

meditation—an hour a day for the last 50 years definitely affects you,” he says. “It gives you a window into the real work that you can do on yourself. I didn’t know my dad when he was in his 20s, but I think he was kind of a brat.” He laughs. “He’s grown a lot. That’s the whole game, isn’t it? You’re never a finished product. For me the biggest lesson of Buddhism is the basic attitude of non-harming. It’s like, you want to wish everyone the best of whatever that version is for them. No matter what the vibe is. Whether it’s someone you like, someone you don’t like, it just makes life a lot easier to move through.”

He auditioned for two series in the spring of 2025, Euphoria and The Shards, and he and his father were in India for the Dalai Lama's birthday celebration when he got a call from Murphy's team asking him to come for a screen test. He flew to Los Angeles, landed the part of Robert Mallory, and two weeks later also got the role of Dylan Reid, a TV star who ends up the target of Cassie's sexual opportunism, in Euphoria. "In September I drove cross-country, moved into the Villa Carlotta, and suddenly I'm doing a bedroom scene with Sydney Sweeney," Gere recalls. "It was fucking crazy."

Gerber was surprised to find herself the most seasoned of the Shards ensemble. Hayes Warner, who plays Debbie, is a singer with no previous TV or film credits. Graham Campbell, who plays Susan's boyfriend, Thom Wright, is also on TV for the first time. "Fame was something that I was born into, so I didn't experience what it was like to become famous," Gerber explains. "I kind of thought that my way of being raised was the most anonymous it could get under the circumstances, and then I met Homer. Like, there are no photos of him as a child online, whereas my entire childhood and teenage years are on the internet. I can only imagine. I'm 24 but...very interviewed."

We are sitting at the Chateau Marmont, a sentimental place for Gerber since it housed the writers room for The Shards and was the setting for cast dinners presided over by Murphy, almost in loco parentis. Gerber tells a different story about her first meeting with Gere and their other castmates at her favorite dive bar last summer. Gere walked in late (Gerber, like her mother, is famously punctual) wearing a hat and a grin, and she thought, Wow, he's so like his character. "I think Homer has Robert's charisma without his cruelty," she says. "I looked around, and I said to the group, 'You guys are all so much like your characters. That's so interesting, since I'm nothing like mine.' Which was so dumb. They all looked at me, and they go, 'Hmm. No, I don't think you're the exception.' Susan is a lot more like me than I want to admit."

Gerber's current life in Los Angeles exists mostly outside the orbit of her Malibu childhood. "Unfortunately all the things that people assume are true," she says. "I was in the ocean every day. My brother would go surfing and then walk up to school in his wetsuit with his surfboard, barefoot. You're with the same kids from preschool to when you graduate. There were no Ubers there, so your parents were driving you to parties and then picking you up. There was only so much trouble you could get into."

In other words, though she was first photographed by Steven Meisel as a 13-year-old, Gerber does not recognize much of her own adolescence in Susan and her precocious clique. But she certainly remembers feeling like a brave little adult at 17, in New York with her own apartment, too proud to call her mother when she couldn't figure out how to turn on the dishwasher. In fact, her parents' visibility may have acted as a safeguard against wildness. "I never wanted to embarrass them," she recalls. "I never wanted to be that child coming in and ruining all the hard work they've done. I wasn't a partier in high school. My mom was valedictorian, so I was like, Okay, well then me too. I was the student that was like, 'You forgot to assign homework!' That didn't make me very popular. Really I was thinking, This is temporary. I don't want to do anything that will potentially mess up my life and career. I always had big dreams. But you watch The Shards, and it makes you long for a time when you weren't on your phone and where you could get into a little bit of trouble without it being on the internet the next day."

Modeling was the path laid out for her, but Gerber always wanted to be an actor, and she has applied herself with characteristic gusto. She has studied Meisner and Strasberg. Last spring, while her peers were at Paris Fashion Week, she was playing an emotionally brittle young woman in Will Arbery's Evanston Salt Costs Climbing at the 99-seat Matrix Theatre in West Hollywood. "My character is struggling with suicidal thoughts every night, and then I'd walk out and people are holding pictures of me posing naked as a teenager, asking me to sign them," she remembers. "It's like, I want to bleed out for people, and then I'm sort of hit in the face with this other thing."

Her older brother Presley Gerber's decade-long struggle with drug addiction appears to have provided a sort of foil as Kaia was discovering who she was. "When something like that happens in a family, it kind of levels everyone," she explains. "I think that's also why I started to self-identify as the easy one and never wanted to ask for help. Because it felt like too much to have two children who were needing." Last December, Presley opened up about his struggles in an Instagram video. Kaia, who has pursued multiple therapeutic modalities and is a champion of psychedelic therapy, in particular,

SUITS HIM "I can't watch myself," says Gere, still new to acting. "It's a whole thing." Gere wears Giorgio Armani.

WHITE HOT Gerber in Givenchy by Sarah Burton. Church's shoes. OPPOSITE: Loewe top and dress. Manolo Blahnik shoes. Chanel Fine Jewelry earrings and rings.

Gerber wishes she could be synonymous with her work, a trick some screen stars, such as her idol Gena Rowlands, managed. "To me that's the ultimate flex"

is deeply proud of him. “My parents for most of our lives were very, very private and didn’t share anything—and now we have this absolute teacher, my brother, who says, ‘I’m gonna be very human for everyone.’ There’s only so much you can hide from the world. And trying to put a lid on something just makes the person feel like you’re ashamed of them.”

Gerber, who quickly exhausted Malibu High School's independent study track—available mainly to people on the surf team but also to the occasional supermodel—passed her high school equivalency exam at age 16. And so she loved having a chance to play homecoming queen and class president in The Shards. (Gerber confesses that she ran for president herself in the fifth grade and lost.) She remembers how excited she was when Murphy told her to ad-lib a speech for a school assembly. "I know it was, like, 200 background actors who were paid to cheer for me, but it didn't matter," she says. "I was thinking, I have been waiting for this moment my whole life."

A few days after Gerber and I sit down, the Supreme Court throws out a lower court order calling for a new trial for the man convicted of the 1979 murder of Etan Patz. For children and parents of the 1980s, Patz's disappearance—a six-year-old leaves his SoHo apartment and is never seen again—signaled a newly dangerous universe.

Ryan Murphy had Patz in mind when he read The Shards, whose tense ambiance is rooted in the real-life paranoia of Southern California at the dawn of the '80s, a golden age of serial murder. The Night Stalker, the Hillside Stranglers, the Toolbox Killers, the Freeway Killer, and the Golden State Killer held the region in their grips, and yet in a certain milieu, at least, teenagers had rarely enjoyed so much freedom. "I never saw my parents," Murphy recalls of his own childhood in Indiana in the 1970s. "We ran around like wild children. Then everything changed. The year The Shards is set, 1981, was arguably the most important year of my life. I was a sophomore in high school. I was struggling with my sexuality. I lost my virginity, and, in July of 1981, in The New York Times there was the first announcement of AIDS. That was the year that I linked sexuality with the threat of death, as so many gay men did. I remember asking Bret, 'Is the Trawler really AIDS? Is HIV the real monster here?' He just smiled and said, 'My work is open to interpretation.'"

If Love Story is a meditation on life pre-9/11, The Shards is its pre-AIDS corollary. The material struck a deep chord in Murphy, who shared with his young cast his own experience growing up in the wake of Studio 54's decadence and on the cusp of AIDS. "That's such an important aspect of the book," he explains, "this idea that there was suddenly a price to be paid for the joy and freedom of a beautiful adolescence. The ultimate bogeyman of my childhood was AIDS, so I really tried to put that in the show. But I wasn't really prepared for how emotional I got when I directed it. I was shocked by how many times I would read a line or hear a song and burst into tears. I was always feeling the trauma of my youth."

It was a look backward for Murphy, but also a reflection on the ills of contemporary life, especially for the young. Murphy, a parent to three children, the oldest of whom is 13, tells me, “There’s something about The Shards that says: Maybe the world was better when it was pre-digital.” He made his cast leave their phones in their trailers for hours in the hope that they might build connections. By all accounts it was successful: Gere and Gerber say that the cast has remained uncommonly close. (The night before our trip to the museum, the two were dancing at Joyface in the East Village until 3 a.m.)

Though he met his girlfriend of the last year and a half on Hinge, Gere does not use social media. Gerber has found her way out of the dark corners of the internet that used to preoccupy her. “You’d read something nice about yourself,” she says, “and then scroll and find something that’s going to obliterate you. But it learns you very well. Now my TikTok is kind of a pleasant place: It’s cooking videos and fishing-gear reviews and old men singing folk songs.”

Murphy thinks that Gere will be a big star in spite of himself. "He has a quality that I like in an actor, which is a real sense of mystery. He has no interest in being famous. He's interested in the work of acting, and I love that about him. Kaia is so knowing. She's been around the block, and although she reads more than anyone I've ever met in my life, she is also so pop-culture savvy. Homer is nothing like that. I think he'll stay pure." To that end, after shooting Oliver Stone's new film, White Lies, in June, Gere headed into a 10-day Vipassana, or silent meditation, retreat in central Massachusetts. He has no other projects in the pipeline, and his agent understood that he would really and truly not be checking his phone. Before he went out of pocket, though, he learned that still images from Euphoria in which he is wearing nothing but underwear had gone viral. The internet, it turned out, was busy praising the soft contours of his physique (some called it "natural," others dubbed it a "dad bod").

"The fact that I'm apparently a body-positivity icon has opened my eyes to the absurdity of the media," he tells me later by text (though my sense is that his eyes were already wide open). Gerber, whose body has been sliced and diced by CONTINUED ON PAGE 372

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Gerber wears Marc Jacobs. Mikimoto necklace. In this story: hair, Guido Palau; makeup, Pat McGrath. Details, see In This Issue.

The cream of London's West End hops aboard a 1932 Pullman carriage—reimagined by director Baz Luhrmann and costume designer Catherine Martin—for a journey steeped in glamour, gossip, revelry, and all manner of opulent fashion. Photographed by Annie Leibovitz.

TRAIN DREAMS

TICKET TO RIDE FROM LEFT: Brian Cox, in Paul Smith, will reprise his West End performance as J.S. Bach in The Score when it comes to Washington, DC, in September. "It feels more pertinent now," he says, "and even more ironic exploring corruption in Washington, given who is running the show." Letitia Wright wears a Max Mara dress. Josephine Thiesen wears Akris. Fashion Editor: Tabitha Simmons.

RUNNING THE SHOW

Luke Thompson (in an Emporio Armani waistcoat, shirt, and trousers) returns to the London stage in Robert Icke's adaptation of The Lives of Others in October. Theater, he says, is "not a methodical job to me—it's instinctive. When people are asking you how you do it up there, it's like asking how you stay alive."

It's

"It's about power," says Harriet Walter, the 75-year-old theatrical legend, on the first hot day of an English summer, finger sandwich in hand, yellowing fields of West Sussex wilting away through the train windows behind her. "The regime change, the morality of war…," she plows on, in floor-length Dolce & Gabbana Alta Moda, "...the brutal decisions that have to be made."

Actor Archie Madekwe leans in, enraptured by her take on Phyllida Lloyd's all-women Julius Caesar, which opens in Stratford (with Walter as Brutus) this November. Madekwe, 31, is already deep in his run of Simon Stone's The Oresteia at London's The Bridge.

When Madekwe lets slip to the actors aboard Belmond's deliciously Deco British Pullman—commandeered today by Vogue to celebrate the launch of a new Baz Luhrmann—and Catherine Martin—designed carriage—that he has secretly filmed a Madonna video with Kate Moss and Benedict Cumberbatch, they fall on him as though he were carrion. ("She runs, um, pretty late," chuckles Madekwe in response to the barrage of questions.)

The clutch of productions represented by the group in this story will define the theatrical calendar this autumn. There's Brian Cox (marvelously grumpy in The Score, coming to Washington, DC, in September), Letitia Wright (appearing in the newsroom play The Story at the National), Mason Alexander Park (angelic-voiced and scene-stealing in Broadway's Much Ado About Nothing, in previews from October), Sadie Soverall (a standout in the London production of John Proctor Is the Villain, which is getting another West End run early next year), and Josephine Thiesen (who recently played Alice in a staging of Alice in Wonderland in Hamburg, and will soon be seen in Tom Ford's next film Cry to Heaven).

The shoot is a fashion play: lovers, schemers, ingenues, villains, braggarts, all under the direction of photographer Annie Leibovitz. The actor Luke Thompson, dozing in a brocade chair (and soon to play opposite Keira Knightley in The Lives of Others at the Adelphi), takes the temperature best: "With film and TV you're not there when the audience is unwrapping their present. In theater—that charged feeling. It's electric."

He smiles, watching Park take a turn through the carriage in magenta Valentino couture. "You have to really believe in it."—GILES HATTERSLEY

STAGE WHISPERS FROM LEFT: Sadie Soverall wears a Miss Sohee gown. Harriet Walter in Valentino. Wright, in an Erdem suit, is making her National Theatre debut playing an ambitious journalist in The Story. She likens theater to the gym: "You need strength, discipline," she says, "not only in the mind, but in body and spirit."

Soverall, in Givenchy by Sarah Burton, is taking her recent starring role in John Proctor Is the Villain to its West End revival next year. While she “grew up looking at the tortured artists,” she says, “I’ve learned how to look after myself a lot more.”

FLYING COLORS

ALL THAT GLITTERS Mason Alexander Park, in Valentino Haute Couture, is making her Broadway debut in Jamie Lloyd's acclaimed production of Much Ado About Nothing. "I grew up not having a very clear-cut path as an artist, especially as a trans artist," she says. "I'm just trying to find more parts written for strange, singular people."

FROM LEFT: Thompson in a Junya Watanabe Man jacket. Cox in a Moss waistcoat and Polo Ralph Lauren trousers. Thiesen in Chanel. Wright in Danielle Frankel. Archie Madekwe in Dior. This year, Thiesen stars in Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek's Prinzessinendramen—a feminist retelling of fairy tales—and she'll be seen in Tom Ford's upcoming film Cry to Heaven. "I have made my own world," she says, "to have the freedom to explore things in our art that don't really exist yet."

SHALL WE DANCE?

THE END OF THE LINE FROM LEFT: Cox wears a Dunhill suit. Madekwe, in a Valentino top, says that “nothing can prepare you for doing eight shows a week—you start feeling like an athlete.” Walter, in Dolce & Gabbana Alta Moda, proclaims that she “will always believe in theater as an instrument for change, entertainment, wonder, and excitement.” In this story: makeup, Lisa Houghton. Details, see In This Issue.

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GRUNGE IS ALIVE AND WELL IN 2026—BUT INSTEAD OF OVERSIZED FLANNELS AND DITSY FLORALS, ITS NEW ERA IS DEFINED BY GAUZY LAYERS, DISTRESSED DENIM, AND A MINIMAL, UNDONE SENSE OF EASE. PHOTOGRAPHED BY COLLIER SCHORR.

HIGH CONTRAST It's all about balance—just ask Gigi Hadid, who wears a sumptuous, buttery silk Givenchy by Sarah Burton top (givenchy.com) with rough-and-tumble distressed Levi's from Mothfood Shop. OPPOSITE: In a lacy Tom Ford dress (tomford fashion.com), model Vittoria Ceretti nods to a '90s take on lingerie dressing. Fashion Editor: Camilla Nickerson.

LAYER IT ON ME Model Liu Wen goes more-is-more with an Hermès jacket (Hermès boutiques), Brooks Brothers blazer, and a Michael Kors Collection shirt (michaelkors.com). OPPOSITE: Model Anok Yai keeps it easy breezy in airy Miu Miu; miumiu.com.

COME AS YOU ARE Ceretti has it both ways in a Brooks Brothers shirt (brooksbrothers.com) and Hodakova pants apron (hodakova .com). OPPOSITE: Liu shadow dances in Tod's; tods.com.

FINDING NIRVANA What better way to bring an ethereal dress back down to earth than with a pair of well-worn jeans and clunky boots? Ceretti styles a multi-patterned Chanel dress (select Chanel boutiques) with paint-splattered jeans from eBay and vintage military boots from The Quality Mending Co.

FINE LINES Yai grounds a buoyant lace Dior dress with stone-washed Dior jeans (Dior boutiques).

STATE OF THE ART TOP: Model Noor Khan gets down to essentials in a Michael Kors Collection bodysuit (michaelkors.com) and Calvin Klein Collection trousers (calvinklein.us for requests). BOTTOM: A Tom Ford leather shirt worn over a delicate slip also does the trick; tomfordfashion.com. OPPOSITE: Model Alex Consani—in Prada; prada.com— makes a state of disarray look well-considered.

THE MORE THE MERRIER Model Selena Forrest's embellished mesh Prada dress adds intrigue to an otherwise minimal look; prada .com. Courrèges jeans; courreges.com. Phoebe Philo shoes.

PRODUCED BY HEN'S TOOTH PRODUCTION. SET DESIGN: JAVIER IRIGOYEN. ILLUSTRATIONS AND COLLAGES: COLLIER SCHORR.

OFF THE WALL Hadid in a formfitting Gucci jacket and trousers; gucci.com. In this story: hair, Jimmy Paul; makeup, Yumi Lee. Details, see In This Issue.

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ARYNA UNCHAINED

ARYNA SABALENKA—TENNIS'S HARD-HITTING, HEART-ON-HER-SLEEVE WORLD NUMBER ONE—UNDERSTANDS THAT HER SPORT IS OPERA. BY ROB HASKELL. PHOTOGRAPHED BY STEVEN KLEIN.

By the time she landed in Madrid, in mid-April of this year, Aryna Sabalenka had polished her game to such a dazzling gleam that losing was starting to seem impossible. Her famously forceful ground strokes were painting the lines. The angles seemed especially severe, the serve especially clutch. Never a great mover, she was starting to rush the net, adding even more pressure to her already smothering game. Sabalenka, 28, was playing like she believed she could do anything—and maybe she was right. After years of frenetic jostling for position at the top of the women's game, it was beginning to look like she might be not just the number one tennis player in the world—as she had been for the last 70-odd weeks—but truly dominant atop the sport in the manner of two of her idols, Serena Williams and Steffi Graf. What was more, the spring chatter among tennis mavens extended beyond her indomitable game: She seemed to be...growing up.

In Indian Wells, California, a few weeks earlier, she had defeated her recent nemesis, the taciturn Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan. Still flusterable, still a bundle of facial expressions, her grunts set off by her opponent's silence, Sabalenka had the crowd eating out of her hand. She shouted in frustration, and the stadium cheered: call and response. "She's in control," said the white-haired woman next to me. "She used to expend a lot of her energy getting angry. And then she'd lose."

Two weeks later, in Miami, Sabalenka won the second of the important spring tournaments—an elusive tennis laurel known as the Sunshine Double. It was also the month she adopted a Cavalier King Charles spaniel puppy, named Ash after tennis great Arthur Ashe, and got engaged to Georgios Frangulis, a Greek Brazilian businessman and the founder of Oakberry, an acai-bowl brand with more than 800 stores in over 50 countries. Bearing two big trophies and wearing a 12-carat oval diamond ring (conceived by Frangulis and executed by her friend the Miami-based jewelry designer Isabela Grutman), Sabalenka was reveling. She told commentators from the Tennis Channel that it was the single best month of her life.

Then April came. In Madrid, on the red clay of the Caja Mágica, for the first time in 16 matches, she lost—squandering six match points against the young 32nd-ranked American Hailey Baptiste. "That wasn't an easy one," Sabalenka says a few days later in the living room of the largest suite at the Bvlgari Hotel in Rome, where the season's clay court swing has brought her next. "The night I lost, I dreamed of all those match points. I would dream about a point, then I would wake up and I'd think about that missed opportunity."

The enfilade of rooms, with views onto the Mausoleum of Augustus, is a sanctuary of beige and gold dotted with Italian modernist furniture and century-old Gio Ponti ceramics. Sabalenka is a paragon of post-practice coziness in a brown NikeSkims zip-up shirt and pale yellow Nike sweats; her neck, earlobes, and ring finger ablaze with diamonds. I am worried about Ash, whose nomadic existence has made housebreaking all but impossible. (So far it's been grass-scented wee-wee pads in hotel suites, though Sabalenka says that he's using them faithfully.)

Losses—and there would be several more this season—present the champion with a conundrum: brush them off and move forward or study them, unpuzzle them? “It’s a learning process. If I didn’t really care and was like, Whatever, on to the next one, I wouldn’t learn,” she says. “That would be unhealthy. That’s the tough side of being an athlete: You cannot win everything. But it’s also the beauty of sport. It’s nice, too, when somebody young and up-and-coming beats the world number one. If somebody won everything, it wouldn’t exactly be entertaining to watch.” If Sabalenka has become a star, it’s in part because she understands that tennis can be opera. To grab your audience, give them human behavior across four wailed octaves: triumph and despair, love and heartache, grace and slapstick, sin and atonement.

Like the story of many elite athletes, Sabalenka's begins with a little girl who had too much energy and too few ways of defusing it. Born and raised in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, she first picked up a racket at six. "In our region, the two most popular sports are ice hockey and tennis," she explains. "My dad chose tennis." She remembers Minsk, a city of two million people, as safe, quiet, comfortable, and immaculate. Littering, she says, "would be considered animal behavior there," and the neighborhood where she spent her childhood was so secure that she could roam the streets with friends until late into the night without her mother worrying. Her father, who had been a serious hockey player before a near-fatal motorcycle crash derailed the dream of a professional career, ran a successful car-repair business. Her mother did not work, but she held two university degrees and prioritized her daughters' education. (Sabalenka has a sister, 11 years younger, who is not a tennis player and reportedly finds the sport "so boring.")

“Until I was maybe 13, we were wealthy,” Sabalenka recalls. “And then my dad struggled. So many setbacks. I watched him struggle many times in his career but always get up. My parents tried hard to keep things going, and we didn’t really talk about it. But I knew. Parents think we don’t know, but we know.” Sabalenka and her father were especially close, and it’s clear that she identifies with his resilience. But he was not the sort of unyielding tennis dad of whom the women’s tour, especially, has had countless examples over the years. “He was always telling me, ‘If you don’t like it, if you want to quit, just tell us. You don’t have to force yourself to do anything.’ There was a period when I was probably nine when I was close to giving up. But I saw how proud my dad was of me, and I didn’t want to disappoint him. And then I fell in love again with the sport, much more than before.”

Sabalenka wasn't exactly a late bloomer, but she was not pushed onto the professional tour as a 15-year-old, as many of her peers were. She did not win her first Women's Tennis Association main-draw match until she was 19, at Wimbledon. Belarus did not have a munificent state-sponsored tennis program like China, Russia, and France, and in the early days she struggled to find consistent instruction. "So many coaches told me that I was stupid, and that the only thing I could do was overhit the ball—that I would never reach the top 100," she remembers. CONTINUED ON PAGE 372

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"Aryna's going to say what she feels. That makes her special," says Sabalenka's fiancé, Georgios Frangulis. Sabalenka, photographed at the Faena Miami Beach, wears a Gucci dress and Material Good earrings. Hair, Sandy Hullett; makeup, Mark Carrasquillo. Details, see In This Issue. Fashion Editor: Tonne Goodman.

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n a bright, crisp February morning in Milan, a day before a make-or-break show, Demna, once the leading iconoclast of French fashion and now the artistic director of Gucci, tours his offices with a curious air of calm.

“Obviously, I’m a bit stressed—but I feel good,” he says, raking his eyes around a studio trimmed in a style unmistakably his own. A pair of leather sofas rest near full-length windows. Patchwork curtains by the artist Pia Camil trace the wall. When, a decade ago, Gucci moved into this sleek array of buildings on the industrial Via Mecenate, the brand managed to reassert its reputation as something like the Italian sports car of fashion—a streamlined, leather-bound vehicle with a brisk, outlandish kick—an image that has since become ensconced in popular culture. “My cousin, who is 16 and spends her life on Roblox, heard that I was going to Gucci and was like, ‘Do you know Gucci is a word we use a lot to describe a certain state of mind? If you feel Gucci, it means you want to be crazy and meet people and be out there,’” Demna says. He smiles and adds, “I want to make people feel Gucci tomorrow.”

Demna Gvasalia, as he was born in Georgia (he doffed his surname at the peak of his ascent at Balenciaga, five years ago), is now 45, an age when designers often arrive at the mature version of themselves. Yet his voice seemed fully formed a fashion eon ago, in 2014, the year he cofounded Vetements, and mere months before he was named Balenciaga's artistic director, further widening his reach. "It made him the most influential designer of the decade," Alexandre Samson, the fashion historian and a curator at Palais Galliera, in Paris, says. "He created characters that were very clear and reflective of an Eastern, post-USSR youth culture with no money, which looked to, admired, and despised the Western world." Demna saw that this ambivalence, covetous and critical, could speak to the social-media-ruled capitals of the West too. "It was a very strong take, mixing logo mania with deconstructive patternmaking skills and sportswear," Samson says. It was intensely personal, too, and has remained so through years of reimagining since then.

In the studio, Demna wears loose black Adidas trousers, a black T-shirt bearing the logo of the heavy metal band Slipknot, and black Gucci mules—an example of the flowing baggy silhouette that he defined. When he was young, in bourgeois Europe, his personal style was often taken as provocation: He was chased from restaurants and had foodstuffs thrown at him. Since then, it has become a key template for mainstream luxury taste.

When Demna took the helm of Gucci last summer, after a decade leading Balenciaga, the move was received much in the spirit of Long John Silver winning control of the Hispaniola. The brand had spent a couple of years adrift; his arrival promised to make it rollick on the waves again. "He has this complete I-don't-give-a-fuck-ness about what he does, and he knows how to garner attention, how to make a moment. He has a very good tap on the cultural conscience," the model and influencer Vivian Wilson tells me. "He designs what he wants," Kim Kardashian, a longtime friend and muse of Demna's, says. "He's just so unapologetically himself."

What was less certain was whether Demna's style of attention could suit so large and mainstream a brand. Gucci is the crown jewel of Kering, the luxury conglomerate, and, in a year of industry downturns, it has become a charged bellwether too. (The company's fate is so twined with Gucci's success that the brand's CEO tells me she weaned herself off checking hour-by-hour global sales figures in bed.) "The team have a big responsibility, because they are handling a mega brand," Luca de Meo, Kering's CEO, says. "Handle with care!" Demna, who trained in the Antwerp school of conceptualism, was known as an arch, biting ironist with a taste for provocation. (An early Vetements collection included what looked like yellow dishwashing gloves.) There was a risk of this restless style straining under Gucci-scale success. At least that was the anxiety: In the studio, Demna surprises me by saying that, since arriving, he has sloughed off his conceptualism for a more immediate, sensual approach.

“Gucci is a very pragmatic brand, and it’s about product. It’s liberating not to have to conceptualize a dress just to make a dress that you love,” he says. “This is how fashion should be: more intuitive and emotional…either ‘I hate it’ or ‘I love it.’” For his first Gucci showing, he presented a capsule collection (La Famiglia) in the form of a film, exploring what he describes as the brand’s essential characters based on its looks of the 1970s. His pre-fall collection was a tribute to the sexy, soigné looks that defined the house in the '90s, under Tom Ford.

HAT TRICK "There's something daring about it," Demna says of his vision for Gucci. "It's flamboyant. It's confident. You know who you are."

On this particular day, the collection he's about to show is an account of Gucci in the present: his own vision, joining him to a generation of Belgian

Inside Demna's GUCCIVERSE

In a mere dozen or so years, the Georgia-born designer has gone from Vetements' wild child to the top of Gucci. Nathan Heller revisits fashion's restless disrupter as he sets about reinvigorating a global mega-brand. Portrait by Rineke Dijkstra.

Fashion Photographs by Alessio Bolzoni

TAKING SHAPE Models Sheila Bawar and Kayako Higuchi (OPPOSITE) in Demna's reimagined proportions. "My vision of Gucci is creating this FOMO," Demna says. "The chic, the elegance, the Italian-ness of it." Fashion Editor: Luca Galasso.

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

conceptualists, including Matthieu Blazy and Pieter Mulier, that discovered a new sensuality at large heritage brands. (So far, the moves have registered: While it is by most measures too early to see major sales effects, store traffic rose from the release of the first capsule collection.) From a rack hung with a few pieces that will appear on the runway the next day, Demna extracts coats that look like fur but are actually the more ubiquitous agricultural by-product, shearling, trimmed on a bias and stitched with muslin for an effect as light as a windbreaker in the hand.

Lightness is everything, Demna now thinks—lightness and speed. On arriving at Gucci, he discovered that all the studio's prototypes were sewn off-site. One of the first changes he made was to create a Gucci atelier on-site, so that garments could be made more quickly—more industrially—and edited not on paper but in the round, with pins and scissors.

Demna takes up a couple classic handbags that he also made lighter and more supple, and he shows off two exquisite dresses on mannequins—one purple, with a classic Gucci pattern; the other in shimmering gold sequins. Beyond these displays, his studio is curiously empty, as if it, too, has been subjected to a lightness regime. Demna seems suddenly aware of the absence.

“I don’t want to show you too many things,” he says with a playful smile. “I want the show to be a surprise.”

any people trace Demna's touch—if not his sensibility—to four spirited years he spent working at Maison Martin Margiela early in his career, overseeing the women's ready-to-wear collections. "He absolutely understood the process and the way of thinking behind the whole brand: the idea of repurposing”—Margiela, like Demna, was known for using vintage pieces as a starting point—“and the idea, also, of playing with society,” Samson says. At Vetements, Demna applied these processes to his own style. There were hoodies with raised or pointed shoulders, oversized jackets. As a self-conscious young man, he had taken to wearing oversized clothes as a form of self-concealment; now, he began reshaping the normative body into new and unusual forms, to thrilling effects. “At the time, there was really nothing else happening in Paris,” Julien Charrier, who started work as an intern at Vetements in 2016 and is now Demna’s chief of staff, tells me. “He was bringing something that was completely out of the box, very fresh, very young, very street-culture.” Within a year, the label was being worn—or imitated—by Jared Leto and Ye, then known as Kanye West. “He was always just so cool,” says Kardashian, who met Demna shortly after Vetements launched, before there was a storefront, and spent hours simply trying on pieces at a holding warehouse in Paris in the middle of the night.

In 2016, Demna gave his first show at Balenciaga. (He continued designing for both labels for years.) He had hits like the chunky Triple S sneaker and the wide-collar Swing shirt, but he also reached for geopolitical themes. In March 2022, after the Russia-Ukraine war broke out, his show featured models trudging through a snowstorm in yellow and blue. Within three years, the house had doubled in size and had crossed a billion dollars in sales. The Washington Post, in 2019, celebrated Demna for “changing what we consider fashion.”

LET IT FLOW

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Model Amelia Gray, musician The Dare, Higuchi, and Gray in Gucci; gucci.com. “I want to do something I haven’t done before, which”—Demna smiles—“limits the possibilities.”

When I met Demna for the first time, late that year, he was living in the woods, in Switzerland, with his husband, the musician Loik Gomez. Paris had become too distracting, he told me, too claustrophobic, too much. In Switzerland he saw almost no one, but every day before work, donning high boots and an overcoat, he went tramping into nature like a figure out of Caspar David Friedrich. He was planning to relaunch Balenciaga's long-dormant couture operations. He had begun to think about the body in new and poetic ways. "I'm no longer on the dark side of the world," he told me at the time.

It couldn't last. A few months later, the whole world went dark for the COVID-19 pandemic. The remote woods of Switzerland proved an oddly perfect place to endure the lockdown, but Demna's couture debut got pushed back a year. Meanwhile, the brand's apparent provocations seemed to compound. In 2022, Balenciaga severed its ties with Ye, who had been one of its most prominent and stalwart public supporters, after Ye made what was widely taken to be antisemitic posts on social media. (In January of this year, Ye apologized in a full-page advertisement in The Wall Street Journal.) Only weeks later, the brand—and Demna—faced public opprobrium after releasing an ad campaign which included children, dressed in its kids line, holding teddy bear bags previously shown on the runway. To many, the bears appeared to be dressed in BDSM gear. Eagle-eyed viewers noted that another ad, for a spring 2023 collection, which included a desk messed with papers, appeared to include a page of the opinion in the Supreme Court case United States v. Williams, which concerned child pornography.

The fallout was severe. Close celebrity affiliates of Balenciaga, including Kardashian, reevaluated their relationships with the brand. ("That was never an issue with him," Kardashian tells me. "Once we did an investigation and we saw where things happened, we were comfortable moving forward.") Soon Demna himself issued a public apology. "It was inappropriate to have kids promote objects that had nothing to do with them," he wrote. "As much as I would sometimes like to provoke a thought through my work, I would NEVER have an intention to do that with such an awful subject as child abuse that I condemn."

“Provocation is like humor, and humor cannot be stupid,” he tells me now, when I ask whether the experience compelled him to reassess the role of provocation in his life and work. “It involves a kind of nuance. Provocation is stupid when you’re the only person laughing.”

Demna had resolved to exit the Swiss woods. “After a while, I got so bored there,” he tells me. “Boredom is such a scary and tricky thing for a creative person—I always want to discover new things.” He and Gomez moved into Geneva but eventually found themselves back in Paris, stimulated but restless as ever. “I love Paris, but it only works as a long-distance relationship for me,” Demna tells me. “I lived there for 15 years, which is the longest I’ve been in one place in my life. But I didn’t like what fashion started to become while I was living in Paris full-time: safe, boring, beige, wannabe bourgeois, flat, superficial—all the things fashion shouldn’t be.” With the thought that a part-time life in Paris was the best kind of Paris life, he and Gomez continued looking for a second perch.

They landed in LA: the city where Demna had proposed to Gomez and a place where he had always dreamed of living. They bought a 1950s bungalow and started moving in the local mix. To this day, Demna told me, he has a much more active social life in California than in Europe.

"It's radically different, culturally speaking," he tells me. "Modernity is there. It's not for no reason that Silicon Valley happened in California: There's something about feeling more free in your head about how we do stuff, how we dress, how we express ourselves. In Europe it's much more conservative."

On taking the job at Gucci, he moved from Paris to Milan (“Also Europe, but a very different mentality, and so industrial in terms of fashion—I love it”) but kept Los Angeles as his second base. “People always say, ‘Oh, I get why you’re there—you want to be far from fashion,’ ” he says. “I’m like, ‘Actually, no—there I’m really in the epicenter of thinking behind how we use fashion.’ Whereas in Italy, what I have is the product, the heritage, the history, the manufacturing—all those things that don’t exist in LA.”

“It’s a pretty good balance,” he adds. “Gucci needs both.”

Backstage at his first show, Demna squeezes up and down the model lineup, which curls along a hallway thick with hairdressers and security personnel. “The feeling when someone falls in love with someone? I have it now,” he tells me. “I’m also worried about one million things—the shoes, the sweat—but we can’t control these things, so worrying is useless, apparently.” He grins. “I read that somewhere.”

The show will be held in the Palazzo delle Scintille, a large hall in Milan that Demna refashioned as a venue for Gucci. He had been inspired by the Uffizi Galleries in Florence, the house's historical and spiritual home, and, with the Uffizi's permission, had some classi-

"Personally, I'm in need of a silhouette," Demna says, "and in September I will dare myself to show it"

cal statues there replicated. They line the periphery of the Palazzo's inner hall, which proceeds down coliseum-like steps to a long central corridor that will serve as the runway. "We built a museum for the show, basically," Demna says. "My idea was to put Gucci back into the spotlight of the Italian Renaissance." There were, of course, other objectives too. As guests take their seats in the Palazzo delle Scintille, someone whispers, "There are so many supermodels here."

True enough. The cast includes Kate Moss, Karlie Kloss, and Gabbriette, but also figures unaccustomed to the runway, such as the rappers Fakemink and Nettspend. ("I invited, in the cast, people that I always wanted to meet," Demna explains to me.)

As the house lights go down, a bright shaft appears down the runway. The model Charlie Jones steps into it, wearing a high-collar sleeveless white dress and carrying a classic black Gucci bag. The dress is tight and revealing enough to display a tattoo on the upper thigh. ("It's the most body-conscious I've ever been," Demna says. "I've had a really good therapist for 10 years and, finally, I've started to like myself.") Jones, a trans man, cross-steps briskly, followed by a gym-built man in white pants and a similar shirt. The show, like all of Demna's at Gucci, mixes men's and women's looks. "I think the idea of splitting fashion by gender is very old—I think there's a systemic glitch in this," he says. When the muscleman walks past, somebody cries, "Wow."

Uncharacteristically for Demna, who at Balenciaga was known for his raucous, intensifying presentations, the show blooms into poetic sequined dresses and male models who walk barefoot. “It’s very romantic, very like Botticelli, almost like they came off the painting in a way,” he explains. “It’s a different type of beauty than I’ve ever touched on—more classic beauty, but pushed, exaggerated.” When Moss appears to end the show, in a black backless sequined dress, a cheer breaks out: An old vision is made new again.

n 1993, Demna's family fled their hometown of Sukhumi, Georgia, under threat of ethnic cleansing, and landed in Tbilisi. One of his first jobs, at 17, was translating Reuters copy for Georgian TV, and, since then, he has rarely succeeded in outrunning the news. (On September 11, 2001, as horrific reports streamed in New York, it was the young

Demna who did the simultaneous translation for the Georgian audience.) Nor has he long settled in one place.

That restlessness, paradoxically, has helped to root him in his new professional home. The unimprovably named Guccio Gucci, the brand's founder and the son of a straw-hat maker, opened a shop in Florence's Via della Vigna Nuova in 1921; by the late '30s, he was making handbags. From the start, the brand offered sly winks to its self-invention: Gucci's crest did not include a soldier, as an aristocratic crest would have, but a figure carrying aloft two luggage bags. Guccio's son Aldo helped push the company into belts, shoes, and gloves and excelled at industrial improvisation. Faced with wartime scarcities, the house made handbags with bamboo handles. By 1960, it had opened a shop in New York; soon it was in London, Paris, and LA. It took on ready-to-wear fashion and jetted into the 1970s alongside celebrities such as Grace Kelly and Jackie Kennedy. In 1974, Elton John, writing of his transatlantic travels in British Vogue, could refer to passengers on the SS France as "Gucci-Pucci" and be understood.

There followed, for two decades, enough intrigue, subterfuge, betrayal, and assassination for a Jacobean play: A series of struggles between members of the Gucci family formed the basis of the 2021 movie House of Gucci, culminating in the murder of Maurizio Gucci and the overtaking of the brand by what subsequently became Kering. Tom Ford, then unknown, was named creative director in 1994 and within a year was credited with creating the brand's first extraordi-

nary renaissance, moving away from bourgeois-brown fashion for a sexy, shocking new hue. A second renaissance came in 2015, with the winsomely androgynous flair of Alessandro Michele.

With Michele's departure, in 2022, the house fell back into disorder. Revenue tumbled 21 percent in 2024; in just the first half of the following year, it fell 25 percent further. Sabato De Sarno, the creative director, parted ways with the brand in 2025, and Gucci had three CEOs over two years. Last fall, Kering appointed one of its most powerful leaders, Francesca Bellettini, as Gucci's president and CEO. Her mandate, she tells me one afternoon over coffee in the Milan Four Seasons, was immediately clear: "I know that a lot of people say Gucci is like the phoenix, going up and down and reemerging from the ashes," she says. "No." She shakes her head. "We need to go up with normal growth—and stay up."

Demna was Bellettini's first big notion. "I knew him from Balenciaga, which he had already decided to leave," she says. She saw a fit and put the prospect to him over dinner. "He was like, 'I can do it,' she recalls. Just one thing: He wanted to study first.

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FLOWER POWER

"He designs what he wants," says Kim Kardashian, Demna's longtime friend and muse. "He's just so unapologetically himself." In this story: hair, Esther Langham; makeup, Aaron de Mey. Details, see In This Issue.

THE MATRIARCH

Julia Louis-Dreyfus talks to Adrienne Miller about her Broadway debut: as the genteel head of a family in Other Desert Cities, a celebrated play about secrets coming to light. Photographed by Annie Leibovitz.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus has reached a point in her career where she doesn't need to do anything for the first time. But on a bright summer afternoon, over a late lunch of pea soup and sashimi, she's describing not one but two new experiences: preparing for her Broadway debut and attending the Tonys.

The latter was a couple of nights ago. “I don’t mean to sound corny,” Louis-Dreyfus says, obviously moved. “But there’s sort of an earnestness to the theater community that’s beautiful. Everyone knows what the task is. And it’s a mighty task.”

Louis-Dreyfus's current task is becoming Polly Wyeth, the matriarch of a prominent Palm Springs family, in the revival of Jon Robin Baitz's 2011 play Other Desert Cities, directed by John Benjamin Hickey and opening at the Hudson Theater in October. At our lunch, in a breezy blue-and-white-striped top and white pants, Louis-Dreyfus has the warmth, charm, and ease that will serve her well as Polly—even if Polly wields these qualities with a scalpel.

Louis-Dreyfus had been looking for the right stage project for years when Other Desert Cities came across her desk. It's a highly literate play—Baitz's language is intelligent, witty, and caustic, in the tradition of Edward Albee—and Louis-Dreyfus was captivated. It didn't hurt that Polly is one of modern theater's most formidable creations, a country-club conservative with highly trained manners and fortress-like charm.

Short synopsis: It is Christmas Eve 2004, and Polly and Lyman Wyeth's daughter, Brooke, a writer, has returned home to Palm Springs after six years, joining her sardonic younger brother, Trip, a TV producer, as well as Polly's sister, Silda, a proud lefty uncertainly attempting sobriety. Having recovered from years of depression—treatment managed and paid for by her parents—Brooke is bearing a hand grenade: the manuscript of her forthcoming memoir (publisher: Knopf, excerpt: The New Yorker). It concerns her brother Henry, who, according to the family story, died in the '70s by suicide after joining a radical anti-war cult. The memoir is Brooke's reckoning with that catastrophe (Henry participated in a bombing that killed a man). But some things about the official story still seem incoherent; she doesn't have all the pieces...and isn't even sure what the pieces are.

Polly is the custodian of the family narrative, and she and Lyman consider Brooke's memoir a supreme act of betrayal, disrupting their carefully calibrated equilibrium. Ultimately, though, the play isn't entirely what it seems, and Baitz saves his most lethal move for the end—a trapdoor that reframes everything that has come before.

This is all wonderfully, wickedly funny. Louis-Dreyfus—beloved as the iconic characters Elaine Benes and Selina Meyer—will be attempting a more dangerous strain of comedy here: intimidating, elegant, poisonous, and entirely emotionally defended. Polly's humor sits atop tragedy.

The role rang all sorts of bells for Louis-Dreyfus, who grew up in New York and Washington, DC, ground zero for grande dames of the Polly Wyeth sort. "This is a woman who has her hair done a couple times a week. And her nails, the whole deal." She smiles. "I know these women."

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GRANDE DAME

"This is a woman who has her hair done a couple times a week," says Louis-Dreyfus of her character, Polly Wyeth, in Other Desert Cities. Ralph Lauren Collection dress. Hair, Matthew Monzon; makeup, Romy Soleimani. Details, see In This Issue. Sittings Editor: Tabitha Simmons.

My Last Interview With David Hockney

Dodie Kazanjian remembers the late, great English painter; her husband, Calvin Tomkins; and the conversation she wishes they'd had.

For years, I asked my husband, Calvin Tomkins (his friends called him Tad), if he would write about David Hockney. He had written profiles of so many of the giants of contemporary art, starting out in the late 1950s. Tad said he was finished with profiles; it was too much reading and research and interviewing for someone who had been declared “legally blind.”

"Why not just have a conversation—two old guys shooting the breeze, talking about art and life and life and art and life in the art world over the last 60 or more years?" I'd nag. (Tad told me a story about sitting next to David at a noisy dinner one night long ago, where they both had trouble hearing each other. The only thing Tad remembered was David's declarative sentence on photography: "It's a one-eyed man looking through a little 'ole.")

That wasn't to be: David Hockney died at his home in London in June, and Tad died a couple of months earlier, in March. But they did have an hour or so together last spring on Zoom, while I interviewed David for a story timed to his monumental exhibition “David Hockney 25” at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris.

What do I remember? David's turquoise sweater and bespoke plaid suit made by his favorite tailor in Cannes; him lighting one cigarette off of another—no matches, no letup—and Tad observing.

I remember asking him about the pin he had on his lapel: “End Bossiness Soon.” “I was going to put ‘End Bossiness Now,’ but then I thought that is in itself too bossy,” he told me and Tad. “There’s lots of bossy people around now, more than there used to be,” he informed us, inhaling defiantly.

Tad did not write about David, but instead wrote a diary about his 100th year that was published in The New Yorker. It received so much attention that Tad exclaimed with a kind of childlike wonder on his birthday, “I’m back, it’s a new century, and I’m famous.”

Tad worked right up to the last day of his sentient life, finishing his book, Centenarian, which will be published next year.

Just last night, an artist friend in town from Dublin came to visit me, and we were talking about who was the most famous living artist. Of course, David Hockney dominated the conversation.

The conversation between David and Tad, two old guys talking about life in the art world, never happened—but I like to think they're having it now. □

LOOKING BACK Hockney's painting Le Parc des Sources, Vichy, 1970.

FULL FLOWER

"We're pretty demanding," Ortega Pérez (wearing Zara in the gardens outside her home in northwestern Spain) says of her extended clan, many of whom work for the company today. Sittings Editor: Karl Templer.

Family Ties

Marta Ortega Pérez, 42, leads Zara and its parent company, Inditex—the biggest fashion retailer in the world—by focusing on relationships, image-making, and a mind-blowing infrastructure. By Gaby Wood. Photographed by Annie Leibovitz.

In an industrial zone in Arteixo, at the furthest northwestern tip of Spain, amid granite quarries and aluminum merchants, Inditex, the company that owns Zara, has built a city of glass. Within it there are offices, factories, warehouses, photography studios, design departments, ateliers, a logistics center, showrooms complete with artful storefronts—all designed to fulfill desires at lightning speed.

On a top floor, the online team runs at least two fashion shoots at a time, ready to drop new products twice a week. Across a walkway in the sky, banks of sewing machines are operated by 100 seamstresses in a room the size of a small airport. On the third floor of a new building dedicated to Zara's commercial operations, a vast screen connects to shopping tills in 1,495 stores worldwide and shows what is—or isn't—selling, so the in-house designers can quickly adapt. As this detailed information filters through to the people who decide how to give the customers what they want, robots mow the expansive lawns and young forests grow. There are restaurants, of course, as well as bicycles and motorized scooters—although, if you're the boss overseeing the company's 163,000 employees and you need to get to another building in a hurry, sometimes it's quicker to take a car.

Marta Ortega Pérez, the 42-year-old nonexecutive chair of the Inditex board and the youngest daughter of its founder, presides over this futuristic complex with a democratic hand. Unassuming in her affect and understated in her dress, with a shaggy blond bob, Marta greets me warmly and leads me from the basement parking area through an indoor landscape of light. She knows everyone: Many Inditex staffers are her relatives, and she's known others for decades. A large number of them are based in La Coruña, the nearby port town where Zara has its roots. "I can't help seeing you as a five-year-old president," Loreto García Falque, a long-standing friend of Marta's mother, says with affectionate pride as she comes to greet us on the tour.

To the wider world, the Ortegas are intensely private. Marta's father, Amancio, now 90, almost never gives interviews, and Marta only rarely does. But to Inditex staff, these two are present and visible every day. "It's a very flat organization," Marta explains, leading me past her desk in the middle of an open-plan workshop, close to that of her father—who famously left school at 13 to become a delivery boy for a shirtmaker before opening the first Zara store in 1975.

"We don't have many titles. It's a very big company, but for us, from the inside, it doesn't feel that way. In the end we're like a family, and I think that's what creates the magic."

Under Marta's aegis, Zara has elevated itself by association while remaining true to what she describes as its founding premise: that “beautiful things, well-designed things, shouldn't be only for certain people. Social class,” she adds, “has nothing to do with style.” She has forged unions with designers and cultural figures, from Steven Meisel to Vincent Van Duysen, Marisa Berenson to Luca Guadagnino, and John Galliano to Bad Bunny, turning Zara from “a high street thing,” as her friend Pieter Mulier, the Versace chief creative officer, puts it, to “a brand that’s not only bigger in turnover, but bigger in impact on culture, on aesthetics, and on fashion.” The results speak for themselves: Inditex is the world’s largest fashion retailer and also owns brands

such as Massimo Dutti and Bershka, but the various incarnations of Zara and Zara Home account for almost three quarters of its revenue. Marta has worked for the company for just under 20 years and has been chair of the board for four. Last year, Inditex's net profit was 6.2 billion euros, up 91.8 percent on the last financial year under the company's previous leadership. They're also ahead of their competitors in terms of sustainability: According to François Souchet, founder of Swanstant, a firm that forecasts how climate affects economic outcomes, "Inditex has been both posting the strongest operating margin in the industry and the lowest emission intensity."

Aside from Marta herself, a few persuasive factors recur in conversation with Zara's collaborators. First, the family feeling appears to be contagious. "There's something about the conviviality of that particular company," says the photographer David Sims, who has worked for Zara for 15 years. "It's really relaxed and a lot of fun." Second, creative people are supported in doing what they want. As Marta's friend Linda Evange-

TALL ORDERS
The gardens at Ortega Pérez's home were designed by the acclaimed English landscape architect and garden designer Tom Stuart-Smith.

lista puts it, “This is what I love about Marta: She lets the artist shine. She hires people for who they are, and her admiration is genuine.” And—not least—seemingly every fashion insider who has visited the Inditex headquarters at Arteixo has been stunned by its systems.

When the Zara team got together with Bad Bunny to discuss a multipart collaboration, Marta explains, they shared a language and a sense of the importance of family. But it was the company's innovative infrastructure that allowed them to throw in the Super Bowl Halftime Show. As Marta's husband, Carlos Torretta Echevarría, who, as Zara's head of communications, was involved in the discussions, points out: Who else could make clothing for 700 dancers in two weeks?

Galliano, whose first collection for Zara will hit stores in late September, first came to Arteixo when Marta invited him to give a talk to Inditex staff. “I was quite blown away,” he tells me. “It was like a James Bond setup, really, how stuff could be moved around the world. I was like, 'Wow—I've worked in ready-to-wear, darling, but this: This is incredible!'"

In a private room at Inditex HQ—I've lost track by now of which building we're in—Marta and I are served lunch. Everything is discreetly delivered: the opening salad, the filet steak, the chocolate dessert molded into a cacao pod. The room is filled with the comforting smell of Zara Home's Basilicum candles. The aura is luxurious. And yet, Marta makes clear as we eat together, “we're a long way from wanting to be a luxury brand. Luxury does an incredible job and inspires us all a lot, but we don't want to change what Zara is. We want to produce a well-made product that reaches the maximum number of people.”

After the brand celebrated its 50th anniversary last year, they moved on quickly. “We’re not great celebrators here,” Marta says with an ironic smile. “Yes, those 50 years deserved to be honored, but the past is more important as a reminder of our mistakes—it’s better not to repeat them than to celebrate our successes.”

If this sounds tough, it's in keeping with the Ortega family's exacting nature. ("We're very demanding," Marta says of her entire clan.) Karl Templer, a Zara creative director, tells me that, because of the company's work ethic—Marta's in particular—"you want to do a really good job for her. She inspires people to bring something to the table."

Over the months that I've observed Marta, I've wondered how best to convey her particular mix of warmth and cool. There's no question that she is, as people who know her well have said to me in Spanish, cercana. The word literally means "close" and loosely translates, in this case, as a gift for friendship. Marta is a noticer—of how you feel, of what you like, of whether you

might need anything. If anyone at work is ill, they'll get a message from Marta. If she invites you to dinner, your whole family is welcome. If you're her friend, she'll never miss a birthday. After she bonded with Galliano over their love of Ernest Hemingway, Galliano was astounded to soon receive a signed first edition of A Farewell to Arms, with the pages still uncut. When Inditex's CEO, Óscar García Maceiras, told me that attention to detail was one of Marta's strengths, I expected him to mean the design of a sleeve or the buckle on a bag; the example he gave instead was this: He had told Marta of an employee working at a Zara store in a faraway country who wanted to be closer to their family in Spain. Marta immediately got in touch and found the employee a job nearby. "I'll tell you something," Evangelista says, "she's a real woman's woman. Very supportive, very family-oriented."

Yet Marta also has the low-key allure of someone not entirely easy to impress. She is “rigorous and mathematical and direct,” in Pieter Mulier’s expression—something he finds rare in the fashion world. “She has a very clear opinion, and you get it in a second.” She can be laconic. Her dark, expressive eyebrows and the deep timbre of her voice stand in entertaining contrast to the bounding energy of her husband, who is urgently sociable.

Pierpaolo Piccioli understood these different sides to her. Marta had been his client for two years when he designed four Valentino couture outfits for her wedding in 2018. He imagined three sleek, understated looks, and then had another idea: a romantic pink moiré strapless gown with an exaggerated bow. He suggested she wear it with combat boots. "It's not me," Marta said instantly. Five minutes later, she texted back: "You're right." She danced in it until three in the morning.

Zara's life began when Amancio Ortega and his first wife, the late Rosalía Mera, decided to start making quilted bathrobes and lingerie in their living room. The lingerie, which was considered somewhat risqué, met a need in the Spanish consumer that was beginning to be admissible as the Franco regime came to an end. The first Zara store opened in the couple's hometown of La Coruña, and the company expanded across Spain and Portugal over the next decade. In 1989 they opened a shop in New York, giving rise to the phrase "fast fashion" when the The New York Times reported that Zara catered to customers who "change their clothes as often as they change the color of their lipstick."

Into this world was born a girl who noticed everything. Those who knew Marta as a child recall her large, watchful eyes and attest to her being as observant then as she is now. The only child of Ortega and his second wife, Flora Pérez, Marta spent a lot of time with her maternal grandmother while her parents were working at Zara. "My grandmother is probably the person who's had the greatest impact on me," Marta reflects. "She brought up eight children. She never cared where anyone was from or what they did for a living—the only things that mattered to her were whether people were hardworking and honest."

Ortega Pérez and her husband, Carlos Torretta Echevarría (now Zara's head of communications), at their 2018 wedding in La Coruña.
MAKING THE TEAM

While her grandmother helped her make clothes for her dolls, it was a British nanny who first took Marta horseback riding in La Coruña. By the age of 10, she was hooked.

"I competed as a show jumper for many years," she says—and while she didn't jump professionally, it became a big part of her life. When she went to business school in London, she competed on weekends, and when she started working on the Zara shop floor on the King's Road, she did the same. After she had her eldest son, Amancio, with her first husband, the Olympic show jumper Sergio Álvarez Moya, she returned to competition but increasingly found that she wanted to spend her weekends with her son. “Now I have less time and more children,” she says succinctly. “When my daughter was born, I stopped—to compete at that level, you need to train every day, and I wasn’t doing that.”

Marta retains the drive of an athlete—with some unusual specifics. She describes show jumping as “a thankless sport,” simply because “most of the time, you lose.” What it taught her was not only a lesson in humility but a sensitivity to others that has clearly been useful for her life in business. “The most special thing about it is that you’re there with a living being,” she explains. “Any athlete has to be fit, but in this case both you and the horse have to be in good shape. It’s not a racket or a football—it’s alive, and it depends on you.”

Now Marta shares competition horses in Holland with the son of her original trainer, and she has a riding school in La Coruña that,

among other things, offers therapy for children with disabilities. "I like not having lost touch with that world," she says. "It gave me so much for so long."

Marta met Carlos Torretta Echevarría in January 2016 through a mutual friend. They all had dinner at Sant Ambroeus in the West Village—Carlos was working at a branch of the Elite modeling agency and had lived in New York for almost a decade. By April they were dating, and at the end of that year he moved back to his native Spain. They married in La Coruña two years later, and after a while Carlos—whom Marta says is “like a walking encyclopedia”—joined what he describes as “the biggest family business in the world.”

“They’re a fantastic couple to spend time with,” says Mulier, who enjoys summer holidays with them in Greece, eating and talking and waterskiing. “We’re yin and yang,” Carlos says affectionately. “I speak a lot, she speaks less. She’s very organized and I’m more unorganized. You know, I’m sure it drives her crazy a million times a day, but in the end I think it works well. It’s

also very good for me," he adds, "to have someone like her who puts me on the right path." They still argue about the weather, Marta being fond of Galicia's British-style climes and Carlos being of a more Mediterranean bent.

Amancio, now 13, was joined by Matilda (6), Manuel (2)—and, most recently, a long-haired Jack Russell puppy. Their home in La Coruña—next door to Marta's parents'—has a calm atmosphere not unlike the one Zara has sought to create in The Apartment spaces within its stores; their nearby country house has a garden designed by the British landscape designer Tom Stuart-Smith. Each weekday Marta gets up at 6:45, goes to the gym ("normal training and some Pilates, nothing very exciting"), has breakfast with the kids, takes them to school, and drives to the office. In the evenings, she prefers reading to watching TV. Current favorite authors include

ALL SYSTEMS GO Ortega Pérez in the Inditex headquarters. When John Galliano visited the complex, he compared it to “a James Bond setup.... I was like, ‘Wow—I’ve worked in ready-to-wear, darling, but this: This is incredible.’” In this story: hair, Damien Boissinot; makeup, Lucia Pica.

Ottessa Moshfegh and the Moldovan Romanian writer Tatiana Tibuleac. "I love a bookshop," she says. (She loves a stadium concert just as much, whether it's Bad Bunny or her friend Rosalía.)

It's not always easy to follow in your father's footsteps, especially when he's forged such a globe-spanning path, but Marta says she doesn't feel that pressure. "For me, it's a source of pride. I don't want to be like my father, because no one ever will be. I feel like I'm in a good moment of life," she explains: "I do a job I enjoy every day, I work with incredible people every day. To be able to do that in a city where I can be close to my family is an enormous privilege—not just my children but my extended family, who support me a huge amount."

David Sims's quadruple-height studio is a converted tram shed in North London, its cream-colored tiles reminiscent of those in old London Underground stations. On the day of the Zara shoot, one of the models, Karolina Spakowski, stands in a black slip dress against a gray infinity wall. The Bee Gees are playing through the speakers, and fans are gently blowing three different kinds of air toward her. Sims is shooting 12 pieces of clothing for The Item, a capsule that drops once a week, with everything overseen by Templer. Marta stands at the back of the studio in brown cargo pants and a knitted yellow top, hugging a leather-bound notebook. Two of her colleagues are beside her.

In November, Sims's work will form the latest photography exhibition at the Marta Ortega Pérez (MOP) Foundation in La Coruña. Photography, and fashion photography in particular, is something she's always loved. "In my head, I always thought I'd take photos," she tells me.

As a teenager, Marta would tag along with her mother to Zara shoots. “There was one in the Guggenheim in Bilbao,” she remembers, “before it opened to the public. It was a Spanish photographer, and the models were Amber Valletta and Carolyn Murphy. I would have been 14 or 15—I went to watch them at work whenever they’d let me.”

Though Marta's love of fashion was already clear then (she remembers traveling to New York with her mother and buying a pair of gray patent boots from Marc Jacobs), she now buys the kind of clothes that Zara is sometimes accused of emulating. (In 2012, Zara won a lawsuit from Christian Louboutin, allowing them to make red-soled shoes.) When I ask her about intellectual property, Marta offers a graceful response: "Fashion is a shared language," she says. "How you speak it is what marks the difference between some people and others. I have great respect for what designers do—I'm a client and admirer of many of them." She names people who have become friends—Mulier, Piccioli, and more. "Phoebe Philo, of course; Sarah Burton is doing incredible work. I've always been an absolute fan of Mrs. Prada. Willy Chavarria, Matthieu Blazy, Jonathan Anderson. The designer I've always admired the most is John Galliano, and I'm lucky enough to be working with him."

The respect is mutual. Piccioli describes Marta as “close to the fashion system” and offers a high compliment: She always, he says, spots the pieces of his that are “more for a connoisseur.” “When you wear couture, you have to know why a black dress is couture while an embroidered dress is ready-to-wear,” he explains. “You have to know that couture is about the hidden parts. It’s not about what you show off. She really gets that point.”

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OF THE

Two decades after he was heralded as the savior of classical music, conductor Gustavo Dudamel has lost none of his vim or vigor. Mattie Kahn catches up with him just before he takes the helm of the New York Philharmonic.

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OFF BOOK Dudamel, photographed backstage at David Geffen Hall, in a Dolce & Gabbana coat. Dunhill shirt and bow tie. Sittings Editor: Michael Darlington.

he rain is unpleasant, but it seems fitting that the heavens have opened just as Gustavo Dudamel's car pulls up outside New York's historic United Palace theater. Sunshine is sweet and soundless. Storms can keep a beat.

It's spring, and the onetime wunderkind conductor—now a respectable 45—is still a few months from becoming the music and artistic director of the New York Philharmonic. Since the appointment was announced in 2023, he has been making a long and ecstatic first impression on his new metropolis. In April, at an annual fundraising gala, the philanthropist Barbara Tober spoke of Dudamel as “our gift from God.” A few weeks later, a friend whose musical tastes lean more Shaboozey than Schubert posted a selfie from Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, with Dudamel’s signature curls bouncing in the background. At the end of a concert I attended this spring, women with hearing aids hooted and hollered. A man in a tux stomped his feet. After a requisite encore, hordes of people spilled out onto the plaza at Lincoln Center, buzzing over the ethereal arrangements of Igor Stravinsky.

Today, at the United Palace theater in Washington Heights, Dudamel is received by an audience of more composed staffers. "Hola, maestro," says a porter as Dudamel strides across the lobby. The Venezuelan-born conductor greets him in return. He has arrived to rehearse the first-ever joint performance by the 184-year-old New York Philharmonic and the 25-year-old Spanish Harlem Orchestra. Dudamel will hold the baton, combining classical and salsa music with the loving finesse of a musician raised on both. The conductor has long reveled in genre mash-ups that might otherwise sound like AI prompts. What would a collaboration between Foo Fighters and Beethoven sound like? His repertoire at the Los Angeles Philharmonic, where he spent the past 17 years, included rousing renditions of Mahler and Philip Glass, as well as the Star Wars score. He has conducted at Coachella, voiced a character for the Trolls World Tour movie named Trollzart, and has inspired, it's said, the book and series Mozart in the Jungle. This past summer, he conducted the Muppets in a version of "Seven Nation Army" at the World Cup Halftime Show.

THE REMIX Dudamel pays homage to the greats but is not afraid to let in fresh influences. Here he wears an Hermès shirt and Emporio Armani trousers. Rolex watch. In this story: grooming, Levi Monarch. Details, see In This Issue.

Later tonight, the two orchestras will perform Leonard Bernstein's Times Square: 1944 ("New York, New York! / It's a helluva town!") and Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos's vivacious Toccata. Dudamel and I meet before the rehearsal in his dressing room—stocked with Brazil nuts and popcorn—where a clutch of assistants and flacks awaits his instruction. Still, he brushes off reports of Dudamania. "It's not only that I move beautifully my hands in front of an orchestra," he says, using the lilting syntax of someone who still translates from Spanish to English. "It's that we have to go deep, and they have to feel that it's honest."

Dudamel was born in Barquisimeto, one of Venezuela's bigger cities. His father, Oscar, is a classically trained trombonist and sometimes performs with him. (He'll be among the musicians at the United Palace.) His mother, Solange, sang. He picked up his first instrument as a preschooler, tapping out a rhythm on a güira, a percussion instrument, while his father was playing. "Who's that?" his father asked, hearing the beat.

He insists that he demonstrated no outsize talent then, but his interest was obvious, and it occurred to Oscar to enroll his son—now with a violin—in El Sistema, Venezuela's beloved and famed nationwide music program for children. His grandparents adored Gustavo, but they worried about his prospects. "Who will be able to stand all the noise in the house?" his grandfather once asked. A professional musician uncle was more encouraging, introducing him to the organ and the cuatro, a Latin string instrument. "He said, 'Look, son, you're going to play all of this music around the world,'" Dudamel recalls.

At El Sistema, intensive rehearsals were held over the weekend, and Dudamel made his closest friends in the program. One morning their conductor was late, so Dudamel stood in front and mimed the motions. His peers responded to him—he could command a room. El Sistema founder José Antonio Abreu took Dudamel on as a protégé, moving him to the first chair position in the violin section, then encouraging him to conduct. Abreu told his pupil he had duende, literally Spanish for “goblin” but more lyrically meant to describe a force animating great artists. “It is this kind of instinct,” Dudamel recalls Abreu telling him. “That’s duende.”

Dudamel was just 23 when he emerged on the international circuit, winning a prestigious conducting competition in Germany and immediately radiating the kind of star power more often associated with pop princes and athletes than classical musicians. Orchestras from all over the world began to invite him to perform with them, appearances that earned both press and speculation about his future.

So lavish was the praise that Matías Tarnopolsky, now the president and CEO of the New York Philharmonic, then the orchestra's newly appointed artistic administrator, asked Dudamel if he could visit him in Caracas. "I got on a plane in 2006, within weeks of starting the job," Tarnopolsky recalls. Dudamel ferried him around in a Mustang, and the two established an easy connection—Dudamel playing folk music for the Buenos Aires-born Tarnopolsky that he hadn't heard since childhood while his passenger gripped the dashboard. ("I thought, Oh my God, I'm going to die here," Tarnopolsky remembers.) Dudamel made his debut in New York in 2007.

He performed in Chicago around the same time, and in the midst of the audition was whisked away after his first rehearsal on the private plane of then president of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Deborah Borda, who was eager to sign him. She flew him back to Chicago the following morning, with the unsuspecting orchestra having no idea he'd been hired out from under them. Dudamel officially joined the LA Phil at 28 and went on to hire almost half of its current musicians over the course of his tenure. The feel of the orchestra quickly shifted. He was loved "from day one," says Julie Andrews, who happens to be on the board. "They moved, and they swayed, which they had never done before. He freed them up."

One of the achievements that most heartens Dudamel, however, is his part in creating the Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles (YOLA), which he modeled on El Sistema. The group provides instruments and music education to children from all across Los Angeles, including from its poorer neighborhoods. Not long after it started, Jamie Bernstein, daughter of the iconic composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein, encountered a clip of Dudamel conducting YOLA's rendition of the mambo from West Side Story. "Some of them looked like they couldn't have been more than 14," she recalls of the musicians, "and they were just playing the daylights out of it. I thought, Wow, I've never seen anything like this before. And then I thought, Oh, it's the same vibe as my dad." She went to Venezuela to meet Dudamel, and the two have been friends ever since. Years ago she surprised him with one of her father's vests. "He just put it right on," she remembers.

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Juilliard students and musicians—FROM LEFT, violinist Maude Cloutier, oboist Celia Wojcik, violinist Maya Kilburn, pianist Jude Giddens, cellist Noa Lia Mogle, and flautist Phoebe Rawn—find a moment to play around at Lincoln Center. Cloutier wears a Loewe top (loewe.com) and Bode shirt. Kilburn in Chanel; select Chanel boutiques. Giddens wears an Auralee suit; auralee jp. Rawn in a Lemaire jacket (lemaire.fr) and Tory Burch top and skirt (toryburch.com). Fashion Editor: Miyako Bellizzi.

Conductor Gustavo Dudamel's arrival at the New York Philharmonic has triggered a rhapsody in the city's classical-music scene—particularly among the young virtuosos of the Juilliard School, shot here with some of the Philharmonic's key players. Photographed by Theo Wenner.

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"When you have music, dance, and drama all working side by side, the experience is multidimensional," says Juilliard president Damian Woetzel. "It's a relationship of curiosity and opportunity." FROM LEFT: Dance major Arayah Lyte lounges in an Alaïa dress; maison-alaia.com. Prounis earrings. Giddens wears Burc Akyol; burcakyol.com.

STRING THEORY Mogle tunes up in a Loro Piana top (loropiana .com) and Alaïa skirt (maison-alaia.com). Tiffany & Co. bracelet.

PUTTING ON AIR

"As the world becomes more modern, the deep human emotions that are the frameworks of classical music stay the same," says Wojcik, a senior at Juilliard. "I love putting on Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2 and just letting myself feel everything." Wojcik in The Row; therow.com. Tiffany & Co. necklace.

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AROUND THE HORN Dance student Holden Kunowski plays air trombone in a Jacquemus suit; jacquemus.com.

MAKING OVERTURES Cellist Ari Peraza-Webb wears a Sacai jacket; sacai.jp for similar styles. Lié Studio earrings.

PUT A BOW ON IT “Pieces of art created centuries ago communicate something that, somehow, people in 2026 can still relate to,” Kilburn, a recent Juilliard grad, says. Fendi dress. Tiffany & Co. necklace and ring. Rawn in Celine. Bvlgari watch.

ON THE MOVE Dancer Haley Beck—in a Colleen Allen top (colleenallen.com), Max Mara skirt (maxmara.com), and Cartier watch—feels the music.

PRETTY SUITE

ABOVE LEFT: Beck wears a Khaite dress; khaite.com. Lié Studio earrings. ABOVE RIGHT: Rawn's loose Celine dress and flowing golden waves offer a touch of nonchalance. Lara Sonmez ring. OPPOSITE: Wojcik—flanked by composition student Vincent Zhang and tuba player Lau Yeung Wong—wears a Maison Margiela dress; maisonmargiela.com.

I am have music, dance, and allLinking side by side, Attendance is Multidimensional."

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All Wrapped Up

Because sometimes the coat is the outfit: Models Joan Smalls, Caroline Trentini, and Jessica Miller decamp to the bucolic British countryside in fall's finest outerwear. Photographed by Oliver Hadlee Pearch.

PLAYING THE FIELD Smalls braces herself against the wind, keeping a tight lid on her shearling Max Mara coat and sweater; maxmara.com. Louis Vuitton cap. Fashion Editor: Carlos Nazario.

GREEN AS GRASS Smalls, Trentini, and Miller get cozy in the rolling hills. Smalls wears a Victoria Beckham coat and skirt. Loro Piana boots. Trentini bundles up in an Akris coat. Miller kicks back in a Celine trench and pants. OPPOSITE: It's a plaid world for Trentini, who mixes her patterned Burberry coats with pinstripe Sacai skirt-pants.

LOGGING OFF

Trentini makes herself at home in the crook of a felled tree. Isabel Marant coat and jacket; isabelmarant.com. Ganni trousers; ganni .com. Hermès boots; select Hermès boutiques. Omega watch; omega watches.com.

POP CULTURE Amid the amber waves, Miller and Trentini stand out in bright primary hues with their cherry and mustard Alaia coats from Pieter Mulier's final collection; maison-alaia.com.

CINCH BY CINCH Trentini tightens her belt in a high-contrast Hermès coat; select Hermès boutiques.

REST ASSURED Trentini finds a moment of peaceful solitude in a shearling Louis Vuitton coat and hat; select Louis Vuitton boutiques. Pomellato rings. Omega watch; omegawatches.com.

BRANCH DRESSING

Miller, clad in plaid, cuts a relaxed yet jaunty figure in an Emporio Armani coat and trousers; armani.com.

STICK WITH IT Trentini stands tall in a sculptural Loro Piana jacket and matching trousers; loropiana.com.

KNOCK ON WOOD Smalls communes with nature in a Bottega Veneta coat and skirt; bottegaveneta.com.

CARDINAL VIRTUES No one's around for miles, but Miller is still keen to stand out in a Michael Kors Collection coat, dress, scarf, and gloves; michaelkors.com. In this story: hair, Louis Ghewy; makeup, Mel Arter. Details, see In This Issue.

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the media for a decade, found it all kind of wonderful.

“Everyone’s being like, ‘This is so sexy.’ And I think that rocks,” Gerber says. “We’re clearly in one of those cycles right now where people are very, very, very thin. As someone who’s been thin most of my life, I’ve always been compared against my mom—like, What’s wrong with Kaia? I’m so jealous of my mom’s body. I would have loved to be born with boobs and a butt. People have always commented on my body, which is hard because I’m not always ready to comment on my own body, you know? I’ve had disordered eating in my life. People are like, ‘You look terrible,’ and it doesn’t exactly make you go, ‘Oh, good. Let me get over this mental illness then!’ Negativity has never saved someone’s life.”

Having had a string of famous, older boyfriends since she was a teenager, Gerber has grown a thick skin. She has been dating the actor and musician Lewis Pullman, the son of Bill Pullman, for nearly two years and calls it the healthiest and most adult relationship of her life. “There are so few things you get to protect as a famous person, and being defined by who you date when you’re 18 is something I find challenging,” she says. “I think I’ve been labeled in ways that are quite misogynistic: serial dater, slut, greedy. My mom is always like, Just don’t make the same mistake twice. And I’m pretty good at not. I think the ultimate goal is that your relationship doesn’t change you, that you’re not code switching between relationship, friendship, professional life. I would love to always feel like me, and in this relationship I’m having the pleasure of doing that.”

Gerber tends to speak with the wisdom of someone who has had to grow up both quickly and publicly. Right now she's reading, for the second time, The Body Keeps the Score, the Dutch American psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk's exploration of the relationship between trauma and attachment. Gerber volunteers at a trauma center where she hopes to be a thoughtful and informed presence rather than, as she puts it, "a shiny distraction." She wishes she could be synonymous with her work, a trick some screen stars, such as her idol Gena Rowlands, managed. "To me that's the ultimate flex. To me Mark Rylance is one of the greatest actors of all time, and he shows up at Cannes wearing, like, sandals and cargo shorts. I have sort of succumbed to the fact that that will never be in the cards for me."

For a person who has always felt insecure—a fact she is reluctant to acknowledge because she knows that pretty people don't get much sympathy for their soft spots—she has never been more comfortable looking at herself in the mirror. Gerber and Gere watched the pilot of The Shards together: fun for her, harrowing for him. ("I can't watch myself," he says. "It's a whole thing.") They have talked about what to expect from a knives-out viewing public that might think, Here is peak nepo baby.

"I've only ever been a nepo baby, and I've only ever benefited in my career from it," Gerber says. "But I also find myself doing it to other nepo babies, thinking, like, Okay, show me why you deserve this job. I said to Homer—because the concept is daunting to him, having lived as an adult so far without that perception, whereas I sort of went through it when I wasn't fully sentient—I said to him, 'Homer, unfortunately with this show, it's not like you're just any unknown actor and people will judge you as an unknown actor. But what that's done for me is make me want to work harder.'

Gere has a stutter, which he has learned to mask following years of speech therapy in middle school and a decade of practice since then. In that premonitory moment when he feels he is about to get stuck on a word, he pivots. "What I do is, I'll change the word at the last minute," he explains, "so if I'm going to stutter on rock, I'll switch it to stone. I'm constantly playing a game of cat and mouse with my own mind." Despite the wish for a quiet life, for the monastery or the mountaintop, like Robert Mallory, Gere seems to have a talent for finding himself in the center of the image. He would never call it star quality, though others might.

"I'm a very self-critical guy who would like to believe that my career's going well for all the wrong reasons," he says. "But the more success I have, the harder it becomes to believe that. I think doubting yourself a little bit is very healthy, no matter how good you are. At anything. You should always be a little nervous if you're doing something worthwhile."

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She says that her mother told her that when she was a toddler, she would fall on the floor and bang her head until she got what she wanted. She was always fiery, it seems, and she recalls with some embarrassment the verbal firebombs she used to hurl at her parents. “I was very much a Taurus,” she explains. “Like, if I see a goal, I need to get it, and there is no other way. This is part of my personality that can drive me crazy, but it can also drive me into that real fight mode and help me play with passion. It’s two sides of the medal.”

Sabalenka arrived at a moment when the so-called Big Babe era of women's tennis—a term coined by the sports journalist and former pro Mary Carillo to describe the power games of players such as Lindsay Davenport, Mary Pierce, and ultimately the Williams sisters—was in quiescence. Angelique Kerber, Simona Halep, and Ashleigh Barty—scrappier athletes with more versatile, all-court games—started winning majors, but then Sabalenka came in with her six-foot frame and booming ground strokes. With an intense on-court presence, that quick temper, and a natural imperiousness, she seemed, somehow, more Serena than Serena. Smirks and eye rolls, grunts that led chair umpires to accuse her of hindering play, smashed rackets, and tense exchanges with officials have marked her tenure on tour—and, for a while, her short fuse appeared to be undermining her results. Sabalenka began to develop a reputation for painful losses in high-stakes matches. She has won four Grand Slam finals—and lost four Grand Slam finals. "I was, like, under zero control," she says. "I could lead the match, then be super crazy and let it go. I knew that I had a problem."

Though she worked with a psychologist from the ages of 18 to 24—a transformative experience that endowed her with self-regulation techniques and, above all, a way of talking herself through fervid moments—Sabalenka would be the first to describe herself as a work in progress. While she was ranked number one for all 52 weeks of 2025, it was also a season studded with headline-grabbing incidents. In the final of the Australian Open in January, she could be seen smashing her racket on court just before the winner's trophy was presented to Madison Keys. Following her loss to Coco Gauff in the final of the French Open in June, Sabalenka told reporters that the American “won the match not because she played incredible, just because I made all of those mistakes from... easy balls.” In October, at the Wuhan Open, on her way to losing a semifinal match to Jessica Pegula, she hurled her racket in frustration. It bounced up and nearly hit a ball kid, leading to a warning for “racket abuse” by the chair umpire.

Her pique has not been confined to defeats. In Miami this March, during the final that she went on to win over Gauff, a spectator shouted “out!” in the middle of a point, earning an admonition from the umpire. Sabalenka, frustrated, yelled “shut up!” into the crowd and received an obscenity warning: call and response in reverse. During the trophy presentation, she praised her opponent and then looked into the crowd and said, “Where you are, that lady that yelled, that hoped for the out? I shouldn’t have been that rude—but come on, you cannot do that. So let’s agree that we both were wrong. Sorry.”

There has long been more than a whiff of a double standard when it comes to expressed emotion in women's tennis, and anachronistic notions about what is "ladylike" persist in fan forums and even among some commentators. (Serena Williams faced similar criticisms—for the volume of her shrieks, for the shape of her body, for her temper and her tone in defeat.) The internet has also taken a malevolent pleasure in imagining feuds between women players. Sabalenka and Gauff were quick to quell this fantasy when they teamed up for a TikTok video, dancing together in their tennis whites on Wimbledon's Centre Court, a few weeks after the French Open controversy. By then, Sabalenka had already publicly apologized to Gauff for what had occurred in that press conference. To her credit, she excels at something Williams never mastered: the public mea culpa. And for every spectator whom she alienates, there is another who recognizes a prodigal daughter in those apologies and thinks, Here, among the famous and false, is a genuine human being.

Sabalenka is matter-of-fact about it all. "When you're in the top five and you're winning Grand Slams," she says, by way of explanation, "it's not okay to be okay with losing. That's my mentality."

Sabalenka met her best friend on the tour, Paula Badosa, at an exhibition match before the Indian Wells tournament in 2022. Known collectively by fans as Sabadosa, they have celebrated their shared love of dancing in numerous TikTok videos. “I’ve seen a big change in her,” Badosa says. “Three or four years ago, it was tougher for her to control her emotions. Aryna is always going to be a very intense person on-court. But she’s also really sensitive. She has a big, big heart. She jokes that she’s a tiger, and she has that tiger tattoo on her arm. But I always say off the court she’s a teddy bear. She’s very affectionate, and she takes care of her people.”

Though she has been accused of trying to apologize her way out of her peccadilloes, to spend time with Sabalenka is to experience the chasm between player and person. Face-to-face, she is light, relaxed, and self-deprecating, unguarded and reflective. "You have to accept that you've been wrong," she says, then laughs. "And I've been wrong so many times." But she pushes back against the idea that a fiery temper is definitionally bad. In fact, she believes in it. "When I was young, I would get really pissed with myself for getting emotional. Now I understand that it's okay to throw the racket. It's okay to yell something. It's okay to go nuts if you feel like you're holding too much in. Sometimes you just need to let it go. Yeah, sometimes it looks ugly and terrible, but I need it in order to keep my head in it."

Sabalenka's tremendous popularity suggests that fans agree with her that the ugly and terrible can make for thrilling tennis. She trails only Gauff in earnings from brand endorsements, with sponsorships that include Nike, the watchmaker Audemars Piguet, and, as of this January, Gucci. The venerable Italian house chooses its brand ambassadors carefully; in tennis, that has meant only Sabalenka and the men's number one, Jannik Sinner. In March, she was part of an especially interesting front row at Gucci's Milan Fashion Week show that included Shawn Mendes, Romeo Beckham, Donatella Versace, and the boyish Formula 1 driver Kimi Antonelli. Intensity, authenticity, humor, glamour—Sabalenka's off-court success proves that these are as valuable as a great first serve.

“People know when you’re being your true self,” says Frangulis, her fiancé. “There’s always going to be something tricky in a match, because Aryna’s going to say what she feels. And she’s going to do the same on Instagram and TikTok. That makes her special. But I’ve always told her that, to stay composed, she has to try to attach herself to the facts, to what is actually happening, and not to what’s coming to her mind. It’s not about erasing those emotions. It’s about using them in her favor—making it one of her superpowers instead of her kryptonite.”

Big personalities have big admirers and big detractors, and Sabalenka is aware that she is not everyone's favorite flavor. That's okay. "With a lot of love and a lot of attention and a lot of success, there's always gonna be people who judge you," she says. "They judge your look, they judge your grunting, your nationality, even your private life, your choices."

Perhaps the most stinging vitriol has surrounded her Belarusian identity in the wake of the war in Ukraine. Since its start, in 2022,

Belarus has been Russia's key ally and a launching pad for its incursions. Some fellow players have accused Sabalenka of outright supporting the war; others of not using her platform to condemn it more vigorously. Sabalenka has been clear that she does not support the war, or any war, and also that sport ought to transcend politics in its fundamental commitment to connection rather than division, competition rather than conflict.

"Not shaking hands—I respect that position," she says, referring to the decision by some players, including the Ukrainian Elina Švitolina, not to shake hands at the net after matches with Russian and Belarusian athletes. "I know it's not personal. They're sending a message. But it was tough, the amount of hate I was receiving from people on tour. One coach went nuts on me, saying that I'm the one who's throwing the bombs. It's obvious that I want peace for everyone. I don't want this war to happen. But I also think that sport is a platform and a place where we can come together, not fight against each other as if we're having our own war. Get together, be together, show peace. For so long, Ukrainians and Belarusians were like brothers and sisters. We're the same. We're all tied close together. And now there's a huge wall between us, and I don't know if it's ever going away."

In 2019, when Sabalenka was 21, her father died suddenly of meningitis. It was November, the offseason, and she was training in Minsk. As she remembers it, on the day he fell ill, her mother called an ambulance, but the medics lowered his fever and kept him home. She called another ambulance the next day, with the same result. "I was like, let me fucking carry him to the hospital myself if the ambulance isn't taking him," Sabalenka recalls. "They took him on the third day, and it was too late. It was even harder for my mom. And I didn't realize until later how much my sister suffered. We were both daddy's little girls."

Though she has gotten closer to her mother in recent years, her father had been the central pillar of her support system. She called him whenever she was struggling personally or professionally, and his words had a way of setting things right. When he died, only training took her mind off her grief. “People say that time helps, but in some ways I struggle more now because I know how much fun my dad would be having with my success,” she says. “Nowadays my fiancé will find me crying in bed in the evening because I’m watching Reels and there’s something about a father, or old times. The most sensitive videos for me are when I see people posting a family reaction to their kid athlete winning something, and I just imagine how my dad would react to me. There are so many fathers on tour, and when I see a healthy relationship and a proud dad, I think, Girl, just enjoy it, because you never know what’s coming. You’re so lucky.”

Not long before her father died, Sabalenka hired Jason Stacy as her fitness trainer. The title vastly underestimates his role on a team that is especially tightly knit, in a sport whose top players often describe their traveling teams as families. To Sabalenka, Stacy is, she says, "like a father." The longest-serving member of a unit that spends 330 days of the year together and its elder statesman (he is just a bit older than Sabalenka's father would be if he were alive), Stacy has been instrumental in her recovery from losses on and off the court. "I always tell her, don't fight it, and don't feed it," he says of those losses. Stacy, who was homeless as a teenager before a transformative introduction to martial arts, has taught Sabalenka some of the fundamental precepts of Zen Buddhism. These include Zanshin, a relaxed awareness; Mushin, mental clarity; and Tomaranu Kokoro, a spirit that is always moving. "Aryna's learned how emotions are information. These days she can take that information and process it better. It's the progression from fighter to warrior. She was that young fighter, running off adrenaline. Warriors are calmer. They can zoom out and then zoom back in and refocus on the right thing."

Sabalenka suffered another loss in March 2024, when her ex-boyfriend, the hockey player Konstantin Koltsov, died by apparent suicide in Miami. She was on the practice courts in Miami, the closest thing Sabalenka has to a home base, when police approached her with the news. "I was fighting with the cop—like, I couldn't accept it," she remembers. Again Sabalenka tried to immerse herself in her game. She began playing in the Miami Open days later but lost in the third round, smashing her racket and canceling her press conference.

It was around this time that Frangulis and Sabalenka were becoming a couple. They had first met the previous fall, in Dubai, when she signed a sponsorship deal with Oakberry. By the time they had dinner the next spring in Indian Wells, Frangulis says, they were somewhere “in between” business colleagues and romantic partners. They are both citizens of the world: The headquarters of Frangulis’s company is in Miami and the back office in São Paulo, while his main European office is in Madrid. Dating a professional athlete has its logistical complexities, but Frangulis says that nowadays he bases his travel around hers, and that works for them both.

On the day we speak, he has just returned to Rome from Corsica, where he watched French soccer club Le Mans FC, of which he is a part owner, play its last match of the season. The previous morning, Sabalenka suffered a surprise defeat in her third-round match at the Italian Open. “Aryna is very upset,” he says. “For me, it’s a matter of being around but also giving her the space to get her thinking straight. She’s a killer, she’s the best, but sometimes it takes her 24 hours to remember that. My goal is to do whatever she’s doing, but if she wants to spend the whole day in her hotel room, I tell her we can’t just stay here as if someone has died. So tonight, we’re going out for some pasta.”

Like many athletes, Sabalenka has certain rituals at every tournament. In Rome, one of those is the amatriciana at Taverna Trilussa in Trastevere, where she has been known to arrive by Lime scooter for dinner with her team. When life is rich outside the arena, it seems, the losses sting less.

This year's clay and grass court seasons brought a string of frustrating defeats, including at the French Open and Wimbledon. Following the French, she went to Vienna, had some great meals, wandered through some art galleries, and did her best to be something other than a tennis player for a few days. After Wimbledon, she and Frangulis flew to Mykonos, where they hit the beach clubs and spent time on a boat. Sabalenka is sanguine and practical about the latest rough patch. “I’m not really trying to chase that feeling of confidence, which goes up and goes down,” she tells me by phone from Europe. “It’s more important to believe in yourself and your game every time you get on the court.... And this time I think I handled myself much better, even when things were going completely not the way I wanted.”

There is a wedding to plan—Greece, summer of 2027, she's thinking. When the subject of marriage comes up, Sabalenka is probably not the first fiancée to peer down at her engagement ring with a look of wonder that life's cruel show can't overcloud.

“I see a little bit of my father in him, and I absolutely love it,” she says of Frangulis. “You know, I would tell him, ‘I’m a big girl, and my hand is big, and a small ring would look very… small.’” Fortunately, there is no rule against big, blinding baubles on the tennis court—even if they might lead to another hindrance call. “That’s the whole idea—especially if you’re playing a night match, and the lights are hitting it. Then it’s, like, right in their eyes.”

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knew the movie, you know?" Demna tells me. "I knew Alessandro, and I knew Tom Ford from fashion TV when I was, like, 13...but to understand the brand, I had to know what Gucci stood for outside of those three things." Over the weeks that followed, he made visits to the Gucci archive, in Florence, with espionage-like cover. "I saw the whole world," he says. "Homeware. Chairs. Umbrellas. A roulette wheel. And on top of that, the most incredible collections." He shrugs. "I was seduced."

Demna proposed to Bellettini that he compile a presentation in which to assemble his thoughts. "I need to convince you and myself that we can do this," she recalls him saying. It was the holidays, and he and Gomez were in Los Angeles. "On the day I finished," Demna says, "I showed it to my husband." (Demna sometimes refers to Gomez as his "fashion therapist.")

"My husband looked and was like, 'It gives me a FOMO feeling—I want to be that or I want to have it,'” Demna recalls. That frame clicked. "I was like, that's what my vision of Gucci is—creating this FOMO," he says. "The chic, the elegance, the Italian-ness of it. The dolce vita, but in a nonchalant way. There's a bit of humor to it, but it's not sarcastic. It's a fun thing, quite punk, in a way—like, 'I like myself, and I don't care what other people think.' There's something daring about it—it's flamboyant. It's confident. You know who you are."

The Los Angeles fires started that night. Demna left with nothing but his passport and his laptop: He had not backed up his presentation. “I sent it to Kering, and I was like: This is my vision.... And if they don’t like it, I might as well know that now.”

But Bellettini understood what he put forward: a freedom possible only in a house whose history was rich in product. “What he was explaining as a liberation was the fact that the brand doesn’t come from a couture maison,” she recalls. “There isn’t a Cristóbal Balenciaga, an Yves Saint Laurent, a Christian Dior, to whom you’re always going to be compared.” When Demna presented his plan to François-Henri Pinault, the chairman of Kering, he was pelted with questions. “François-Henri wanted to be sure,” Bellettini says. “And Demna was so precise in his answers that he was like, ‘Okay, done.’”

In general, Demna's creative day starts slowly—a self-protective nest of discipline which he says he learned from Marc Jacobs, for whom he worked at Louis Vuitton more than a decade ago. In Milan, he takes the morning for himself. He has coffee and a smoothie with his husband. He meditates. He cuddles his two Chihuahuas and takes them walking with Gomez. "We talk about stuff that isn't fashion," he says. "I want to have this moment which is about my family, my husband, and me. And us as a couple. And our life."

At noon, he reports for work at the office, from which point he is usually scheduled straight through to 8 p.m. He rarely takes more than a 15-minute break. “It’s intense, but I love it, because when I’m in the flow of working, I’m quite fast in making decisions,” he says. “We manage a lot for a brand this size in one day.” In the evening, he returns home and cooks dinner with Gomez—or, rather, alongside Gomez, who maintains a different diet. (“He’s gluten-free. I’m vegan,” Demna says. “Sometimes it overlaps, but”—he smiles—“it’s hard to be gluten-free in Italy.”) In Los Angeles they go out for dinner most nights, but in Milan this “ritual,” as Demna calls it, is their life.

“We cook, we watch stand-up comedy on YouTube, listen to music,” he says. They go out for dinner once a week at most, and usually on the weekend, after walking through the city. “I don’t really have a lot of social life in Milan,” he says. “I’m always going to be this rebellious person, but now I live this Gucci life professionally.” His rebellion, in the Gucci way, has taken on bourgeois hues.

We are drinking ginger-lemon kombucha at a banquette table in the Campbell Bar in New York's Grand Central Station. Demna is in the middle of a two-week stay in New York; after preparing two looks for the Met Gala, he is now preparing for his larger errand in town. In a few days' time, Gucci will show its cruise collection in the center of Times Square, and Demna has been roaming the city for research and inspiration.

"I'll go to vintage stores, bookstores. See some art, get some cultural impact," he says. The process is about both gathering images as references for his collections and buying vintage pieces to use as physical canvases, "raw material" that he can cut and pin. "It's very hard sometimes to start making a jacket from scratch, especially when it comes to tailoring and shapes," he explains. "I need to have material that has good details and good proportions that I can cut and Frankenstein into the shapes I want to get to."

Shape has been extensively on Demna's mind as he works on his September collection. After taking his deliberate process of understanding Gucci stage by stage—starting with the fundamentals of La Famiglia and progressing to the sexy Fordian club style of his first Milan show—he feels that he is ready to present a Gucci that draws on the history of the house but is his. In fashion terms, this means coming out with new silhouettes: particular configurations of form, proportion, and mood, which, like the boxy Chanel jacket or the Dior hourglass of a dress, will be recognizable as the signature of his vision for the brand.

“Personally, I’m in need of a defined Gucci silhouette, and in September I will dare myself to show it,” he says, and signals for a second kombucha. “It’s about centimeters, it really is,” he says. “It’s about proportion. And I want to do something that also I haven’t done before, which”—he smiles—“limits the possibilities.”

He started with the mood: "What is the feeling I want to give so a person can be like, 'I feel Gucci'?" In consultation with Gomez, acting as his fashion therapist, he began listing all the qualities that he wanted his new Gucci silhouette to project. Facing the blank page on his laptop one day, with his deadlines for the September runway drawing ever nearer, he wrote:

Sharp, Confident, Chic, Bold, Rich, Eccentric, Hot, Sexy, Cool.

“Sharp as in not wobbly, not round: There is no cocoon shape at Gucci,” he explains. “Sexy and hot: They’re not the same. You can be completely covered and feel hot, but you can’t be sexy. For sexy, you need to show some body. Gucci needs to have both.”

One by one, he worked through his words, using them to define what the silhouette was and wasn't. In the spring, he went to one of his favorite vintage men's tailoring shops, in Rome. "It has the most meticulous selection of jackets and coats in Italian men's tailoring—I half-emptied the store," he says. "We're using those pieces when I work the silhouette, in defining the shoulder line and the sleeve shape."

A few days later, I meet Demna in the 23rd Street studio where he is holding fittings for the New York show. The show's fashion concept expresses his mercantile turn. "I call it Gucci-Core," he tells me. "Like hard-core, but also the essence, the base, of the aesthetic"—in other words, "staples" that customers can reliably find in a Gucci shop.

“For example, this is a very important piece for me,” he says, pulling from the rack a red women’s double-breasted jacket, his version of the classic peacoat. “I was afraid to work on it, because I don’t like peacoats: How could I make one that I really liked?” The answer to the question became a kind of key: If he could make a Gucci peacoat that he loved (“It’s the fit, the proportions of the collar, the size and positioning of the buttons, the length”), then he could extend his point of view across worlds of merchandise.

The other key—and perhaps his greatest, if quietest, innovation at Gucci to date—concerned sizing. Traditionally, fashion is tailored to tall runway models and then graded up or down into standard sizes, often losing the proportional relationships crucial to a fit. “It doesn’t consider the body type,” Demna says. “If someone is shorter and more muscled, he’s going to look like a dork.” At Gucci, he is developing a wholly new sizing system so that the integrity of a look will hold whether you’re tall and lean or short and thick. In the meantime, many cruise collection pieces exist in three different fits: a small, a medium, and what might be called a Demna fit—the baggy proportions that he himself would buy.

During fittings, Demna perches at a table at one end of the studio. An assistant brings him an energy bar and a bowl of nuts. A tall male model appears in a jacket, sunglasses, and flowing black pants.

"I'm not sure about this one," Demna says. He takes off the sunglasses, then walks over to a rack of pieces, assessing alternatives, and eventually emerges on a long coat. The problem with the jacket, he explains, was that it looked somehow implausible. "That's my big thing—to find the authenticity."

The night of the show is clear and cool: a New York City spring caught in the hourglass of Times Square. Smoke is piped in from the street corners, giving the Midtown canyons an eerie feel. By 8:10 p.m., guests have begun to arrive on Gucci's walled-off gray carpet. "Being at Gucci, he can dream as big as he wants, right?" Kardashian tells me. "He can say 'I want a show in Times Square' and pull it off."

Demna is with Gomez in a sushi restaurant on 47th Street that has been commandeered as the show's backstage. In one hand, he holds a Starbucks cup; in the other, a big red apple, as if in a nod to the city. The floor is marked with lineup tape for the models, and large screens near the entrance track street footage from cameras and drones. Demna draws close and peers at the footage in wonder for a moment and then, with Gomez, heads out into the cool air of the square.

Imaginary Gucci advertisements are playing across nearly 50 billboard-size screens and more than two dozen more at sidewalk level. Every celebrity arrival—from Mariah Carey in a crisp white Gucci coat to Lindsay Lohan in a black leather ensemble, Playboi Carti in shiny python trousers to EsDeeKid in a shimmering black jacket and baggy silver jeans (and his signature balaclava)—garners cheers from onlookers gathered on sidewalks and street corners. At a few minutes past nine, the screens all dim. Charlie Jones, again in the first look—this time bearing an apple in a deceptively simple black suit—traces a path through the crowd.

In the wee hours of the previous night, when Times Square was as quiet and as empty as it would ever be, the Gucci crew had assembled for their only rehearsal. Everybody wore earphones so as not to project the music, curated by Gomez, through the square. Now, with full sound and all 50 big screens tracing the runway movement with nervy panoptic attention, the effect is haunting. Suits of various power hues come down the runway. The red peacoat appears paired with black pants. There are bikers in leather, Venuses in shearling. Tom Brady swaggers in an asymmetric black jacket and matching trousers in leather. (For all the show's diversity in age and aspect, it continues to center on slender or gym-built bodies.) When Paris Hilton appears with a black fur-like coat slung over the shoulder of a sunflower yellow Gucci-patterned summer dress with a high lavallière neck—hot, not sexy—every phone in the audience seems to lift up.

For much of his career, Demna was known for shows that built toward an unsettled climax, but the effect here is the opposite. The sequence culminates as Cindy Crawford, at 60, dressed in a high shoulder-less dress of long black feathers, takes the final walk, as slowly and as grandly as la passeggiata. For a long, dilated moment, the entirety of Times Square is silent, as if holding its breath.

Later that night, the party reconvenes at the Gucci Mansion, a property with a courtyard on Madison Avenue reimagined as a center of the Gucci life across time. A jazz singer and quartet on the first floor scat-sings “It’s De-Lovely.” In a private karaoke room upstairs, guests are trying their luck at 50 Cent’s “P.I.M.P.” The basement is a billiards lounge in red—red carpet, red curtains, red walls. A fortune teller in a hideaway reads the future by lamplight.

Demna arrives after midnight and settles into the courtyard, dense with smokers and guests taking the night air. He is surrounded by well-wishers and in an expansive mood. “I’m relieved that this is done, because it was very complex,” he says, still clutching his Starbucks cup—as if the evening, carried by its Gucci momentum, has borne him ceaselessly along. “But a lot of people told me that it was 12 minutes of forgetting about whatever they were thinking before.” He smiles. “I love that.”

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of parenting a child through crisis. Her own parents—her American mother, Judith (known to listeners of Louis-Dreyfus's podcast, Wiser Than Me), and her French father, Gérard—divorced when she was young. Louis-Dreyfus understands, from both sides, how family shapes us, and she knows the stakes in the play couldn't be higher. Brooke's memoir "is like a murder," she tells me. "Polly sees it as a killing of what they have."

Fifteen years after its premiere at Lincoln Center, Other Desert Cities feels ever more acutely urgent. Its setting is 2004 America, a country still raw from the September 11 attacks and only one year into the Iraq War. References to anthrax, Donald Rumsfeld, and al-Qaida are peppered throughout like shrapnel. The fault lines that would fracture our politics had not fully formed; the Wyeths' mainstream conservatism would soon have little place in the culture. This was also the period before smartphones and social media—and the last moment when the code of silence on which Polly depends could be credibly maintained.

"All of the extraordinary seeds of that national tragedy are in this play," says Hickey. "But in an incredibly funny, familial way."

When assembling the cast, Hickey needed actors who could bring the world of more than two decades ago into the present. The result? "The Knicks lineup," he says. Joining Louis-Dreyfus are Ed Harris as Lyman, Allison Janney as Silda, Lily Rabe as Brooke, and, as Trip, Joe Keery (from Stranger Things, and also a popular musician performing under the stage name Djo).

“They recognize what a team sport this play is,” Hickey says. That’s also a quality Louis-Dreyfus recognized: that the play is an ensemble of vividly written characters, each deeply flawed and desperately human.

By the time Louis-Dreyfus and I meet, the cast has had two read-throughs—one before she had taken the part. What Hickey heard from her—warmth fused with steel, acerbic humor combined with a deep well of grief—told him everything he needed to know. He said, “Julia, my only note is: Say yes. Say yes. Jump into this.”

Ed Harris speaks to me from Fort Worth, where he is on a break from shooting the Paramount+ show Dutton Ranch. It's been over six years since he last appeared on Broadway as Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, and he's ready for a return. "I need it for my sanity," he notes dryly.

What he loves about theater is the purity. "You come to the theater, you prepare, you do the show, and you go home. You're not sitting around for 12 hours to be in front of the camera for two minutes." Harris will bring an old-world masculine reticence to Lyman, whose wounds run deeper than they appear. "I think it's perhaps more difficult for him in a way than it is for Polly," he says. "I think it really affected him very deeply."

Meanwhile, Allison Janney's character, Silda, is a train wreck with a devastating quip. When we speak, Janney is in Italy, shooting the Netflix series The Diplomat. ("I had to buy another suitcase because I went a little crazy with the shopping here," she says.) Janney has been close friends with Hickey, who is also an actor, for 30 years—they last appeared onstage together in Six Degrees of Separation, playing husband and wife—and has long known Baitz, who wrote for The West Wing, on which she appeared for seven seasons.

Silda, with her outspokenness and history of addiction, has a different operating system than Polly—her intelligence is less controlling, more observational. Silda joins a long line of indelible Janney characters who use wit as a kind of scrutiny. “I take on these strong, powerful women and just have fun with them. This is heaven to me.”

The play asks if family members can ever overcome old roles. Hickey mentions that he recently saw Joe Mantello's stunning new production of Death of a Salesman and recognized the shared DNA. "All the great family plays are the same," he says. "They're all A Long Day's Journey Into Night. They ask, Who is my dad? Who is my mom? And the answer: I'll never really know."

Louis-Dreyfus puts this idea even more intimately. “Siblings have their own very isolated experience: ‘You have different parents than I have,’” she says. “This is true in my family—and I say this as somebody with a lot of sisters. My husband’s family has lots of siblings. Our two kids have their own experience of us as parents.”

Before our lunch, she toured the Hudson Theater for the first time, standing on the stage, taking its measure. “It’s a great theater because it is intimate,” she says. “People aren’t super far away. It feels personal.” The intimacy is by design. The Wyeth family’s midcentury-modern Palm Springs house is a character itself. Scott Pask, the show’s designer and a great student of the era, is approaching the set like a boxing ring: This feels appropriate for a family whose native language is the verbal spar—the characters land their punches, then retreat.

The boxing ring metaphor appeals to Janney too: "We all take our rounds. 'Ding, ding, ding—I'm down for the count on that exchange.'"

Until Other Desert Cities opens this fall, the cast, and the Wyeths, will be trying to find each other, learning how to spar, rehearsing their entrances and exits. In a play about memory, truth, storytelling, and what we choose to preserve, Janney's instinct is straightforwardly human. "I cherish them," she says of her fellow actors. "And I swear to God—to my mother—this time I will journal every day, because I want to remember it."

FAMILY TIES

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charismatic leader, she creates something that could be seen as harmonious with the institutional houses."

“For sure,” says Piccioli, “she is the future.”

Fast fashion is not a term Marta uses. She prefers flexible. Almost everything Zara makes travels through its distribution centers in La Coruña, which allows them to be agile. “I don’t think the company would be what it is if we hadn’t stayed in La Coruña,” Marta says. Having spawned an industry built on speed, the company’s leaders say they now aim to be at the forefront of resolving some of its repercussions. Marta tells me that Inditex is committed to improving the social and environmental conditions of its workers, and she is keen to lead the charge on sustainability and aim for net-zero emissions by 2040. Hakan Karaosman, an expert on social sustainability in fashion supply chains, points out that while Inditex is currently stronger on its water footprint than it is on social issues, it is “really innovative with supply chain design, because they established nearshoring.”

"Our business is very demand-oriented," Marta says. "The key is to keep stock levels very low and leftovers to a minimum. There are less than 1 percent unsold products—we don't do big shipments that don't work and that we have to store in a warehouse. Even if others want to define it as fast fashion, our business model itself may be the most sustainable thing we have." In 2022 they launched Zara Pre-owned, a considered platform that makes it easy for you to repair, resell, or donate your Zara clothes.

Galliano, who calls his two-year project for Zara a “reauthoring” of garments from its archive, admits that his initial reaction, when Marta asked if he might work with Zara, was “No way.” His reservations were probably “the same as everyone’s,” he guesses, based on “ill-formed or secondhand news.” By the time he’d done the tour of Inditex and seen the gallery of sustainable fabrics, he’d changed his view. “There’s a couple of fabrics that every couturier uses—silk chiffon, organza. They said, ‘Oh no, you can’t use that—they’re highly flammable. Now, you can use this one.’ They’re so on it.”

Marta opened her foundation by accident. "Peter Lindbergh was our wedding photographer and a personal friend," she says. "He had curated an exhibition to be shown in Düsseldorf, and he never got to see it. [Lindbergh died in 2019.] When I saw that they were due to open the show there, I spoke to his son Ben and said that I'd love to do an exhibition of Peter's work in La Coruña. It was all for Peter."

She found a cement silo in La Coruña's port that had been empty for 20 years and commissioned a local architect, Elsa Urquijo, to transform it. Now it houses an elegant fountain looking out to the sea, a sequence of monumental exhibition spaces, and an extraordinary spiral-shaped bookshop. The foundation produces a catalog under the MOP imprint for every exhibition—the day I went it was Annie Leibovitz; that was followed by Paolo Roversi—they host talks and book signings, and they give scholarships to four Galician photography students every year to enable them to study abroad.

In this way, Marta, ever proud of the city and the region where she grew up, has made La Coruña and Galicia something of a destination. But what strikes me most is how personal all of this is to her: fashion, photography, family, friends. She tells me about a day she spent in Paris with Lindbergh and the Lanvin designer Alber Elbaz, both now departed. “I have a photo of that day that I think of with a lot of affection,” she says.

"We always talk about fashion as if it were something frivolous, but I think it's very human," Marta suggests. "Fashion is present in the lives of millions of people every day. It's how we present ourselves to the world. It sustains a lot of creativity and requires a lot of sensitivity. And it can be wonderful if we do it well."

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as a Jeopardy! clue. Bernstein understood that classical music needed an evangelist and a face; it's Dudamel's charisma—not his knack for interpreting Chopin—that compels a lunch table of high school students to look up from their sandwiches when he passes them at Lincoln Center during the photo shoot for this profile and shriek. His signature hair helps too. (He confirms he has never used a gel or mousse, but he does make an effort to patronize salons that are familiar with its texture. Once, in Sweden—land of the tall and towheaded—a hairdresser refused to touch a single strand. “I think he saw an alien,” Dudamel says.)

Dudamel is humble, but not blind. “Artists have an ego, and it’s natural,” he says a few days later. He and I are talking about the perils and paradise of Los Angeles, where stars and their self-regard can run wild. Dudamel inherited his mentor Abreu’s conviction that music can build bridges and illuminate a better world. “What happens in an orchestra is fascinating,” he says. “Different instruments, different cultures, different visions. Different people with different political views. This is the thing we need in the world.”

Dudamel's resolute optimism has, at times, looked to his critics like willful blindness. In years past, he faced sharp criticism for continuing to work in Venezuela as its then president Nicolás Maduro suppressed dissent and plunged the population into a series of humanitarian crises. Despite functioning as one of its most prominent, if unofficial, cultural ambassadors, Dudamel remained silent while Venezuela descended into chaos. He resisted the pressure until 2017, when he did at last break with the regime in an op-ed denouncing its antidemocratic crackdown. The government then made clear that he should not visit. When Abreu died in 2018, Dudamel missed the funeral. Even now, he resists commenting on Venezuela's political situation, deflecting to say that his focus is on El Sistema, which relies on government funding, and humanitarian aid. In August, his final performance with the Los Angeles Philharmonic will be a benefit concert for earthquake relief. "There's still a lot of hope there," he says.

He's not naive, just disciplined and decades older than he was when classical music greeted him as a savior. His riot of curls has started to gray. Sometimes, it falls to his teenage son, Martín, to introduce him to new music. (Martín's mother is Dudamel's ex-wife, Eloísa Maturén; he married the Spanish actress and director María Valverde in 2017.) It occurs to Dudamel in the midst of our conversation at the United Palace that he should be exercising more diligently, the better to keep up with his frantic pace. More than once, his emphatic gesticulating has caused tennis elbow.

With perspective, he thinks more now about where orchestral music is headed. “We have to break the idea that classical music is not connected with the present,” he says. He can’t resist noting that Timothée Chalamet—who overshadowed his own Oscars campaign last year when he said that he didn’t want the film business to become something “no one cares about anymore”—was in the audience when Dudamel brought the LA Phil to Coachella. “It’s important to show that classical music, ballet, all of these art forms are alive,” he says with a grin. “It’s our responsibility as a new generation of artists to understand that we cannot be lazy.”

Change is inevitable, even when it's hard. He feels this as he prepares to wrap up his long goodbye to Los Angeles, where he has made an incredible number of friends and collaborated with several of them, including Natalie Portman, the director Alejandro González Iñárritu,

the chef and philanthropist José Andrés, and Bradley Cooper and Cate Blanchett—each played conductors in Maestro and Tár, respectively. Blanchett tells me that she has “never been in the presence of an artist who leads with such joy, such love.” He will miss LA, although pieces of it—and people from it—are coming with him. He and his wife have been renting an apartment on the Upper West Side and are planning to remain near Lincoln Center. Julie Andrews laughs when she tells me that she just relocated from Los Angeles to Sag Harbor, New York. Not for Dudamel, she assures me, but it does mean that she will still be able to see him in concert.

When I wonder whether it's difficult to acclimate to New York's fitful weather after decades in temperate LA and tropical Caracas, he thinks for a second and then smiles. Dudamel is attuned to a different kind of atmosphere. Amid one of last winter's blizzards, he sought cover at Tarnopolsky's house, where the president and CEO was at the stove, cooking. "Yes, it was snowing, but it was so warm inside."

In This Issue

Table of Contents: 92: On Trentini: Coat; erdem.com. Pomellato rings; pomellato .com. On Smalls: Coat; erdem .com. Manicurist: Veronica Butenko. Tailor: Kim Lareau. 112: Dress and heels; gucci .com. Watch; audemarspiguet .com. Manicurist: Koko Etsuko Shimatani. Tailor: Sara Lassalle. Cover Look: 112: On Gerber: Jacket, dress, shoes, and necklaces; select Chanel boutiques. On Gere: Jacket, shirt, trousers, tie, belt, and shoes; 800-550- 0005 for inquiries. Editor's Letter: 130: Top left image: On Gerber: Coat, shirt, jeans, and belt; chloe.com. Comme Si socks; commesi.com. Chanel shoes; select Chanel boutiques. Mikimoto necklace; mikimotoamerica.com. Watch; omegawatches.com. On Gere: Suit, shirt, and shoes; prada.com. Contributors: 162: Top left image: On Cobb: Ralph Lauren Purple Label tuxedo; ralphlauren.com. On Ferguson: Fforme dress; fforme.com. Prounis earrings; prounisjewelry.com. On McGill: Ralph Lauren Purple Label tuxedo; ralphlauren .com. On Rhee: Ralph Lauren Collection dress; ralphlauren .com. Bvlgari jewelry; bulgari.com. On Kim: Chanel dress and shoes; select Chanel boutiques. Bottom right image: On Rawn: Lemaire jacket. Tory Burch top and skirt. Le Monde Béryl shoes. On Kilburn: Chanel top and skirt. Bode shoes. On Giddens: Auralee suit. Lemaire shoes. On Peraza-Webb: Dries Van Noten shirt; driesvan noten.com. Valentino trousers; Valentino boutiques. On Wojcik: Phoebe Philo coat, top, and trousers; phoebephilo.com. Jennifer Behr headband; jennifer behr.com. Bottega Veneta bag. The Row shoes. Tiffany & Co. earrings; select Tiffany & Co. boutiques.

JUST KIDS 277: On Gerber: Cardigan, shirt, and skirt; Dior boutiques. Church's shoes; church-

footwear.com. On Gere: Coat, suit, collar, and shoes; Dior boutiques. 278: Dress, tank top, skirt, socks, and shoes; prada.com. Paula Rowan gloves; paula rowan.com. 279: Coat and hat; bottegaveneta.com. Herbert Levine shoes; net-a-porter.com. 280: Jacket, shirt, skirt, and shoes; select Chanel boutiques. Chanel Fine Jewelry earrings and Chanel High Jewelry necklace; select Chanel boutiques. 282: Jacket and trousers; select Dolce & Gabbana boutiques. Prada shoes. 283: Dress; Valentino boutiques. Wolford tights. Hat; gigiburris.com. Shoes; net-a-porter.com. Earrings; Cartier boutiques. 284–285: On Gerber: Top, skirt, and shoes; ysl.com. On Gere: Suit, shirt, tie, and scarf; ysl.com. 286: Coat; balenciaga.com. Hat; noelstewart.com. Boots; net-a-porter.com for similar styles. 287: Dress, hat, and necklace; select Louis Vuitton boutiques. Prada shoes. 289: Jacket, shirt, and trousers; armani.com. 290: Tops and dress; loewe.com for similar styles. Shoes; manoloblahnik.com. Earrings and rings; select Chanel boutiques. 291: Top, trousers, and hat; givenchy.com. Church's shoes. 293: Shirt and skirt; bergdorfgoodman.com. Mikimoto necklace; mikimotoamerica.com. Manicurist: Jin Soon Choi. Tailor: Carol Ai at Carol Ai Studio Tailors.

TRAIN DREAMS 294–295: On Cox: Coat, waistcoat, and trousers; paul smith.com. On Wright: Dress and gloves; maxmara.com. Jimmy Choo shoes; jimmychoo.com. On Thiesen: Coat and dress; akris.com. Christys' Hats hat; christys-hats.com. 296–297: Waistcoat, shirt, trousers, and tie; armani.com. Church's shoes; church-footwear.com. 298–299: On Soverall: Gown and bodysuit; missohee.com for appointments. On

Walter: Dress; Valentino boutiques. On Wright: Jacket, shirt, and trousers; erdem .com. Prada shoes. 300: Dress and gloves; givenchy.com. 301: Cape, collar, and dress; select Valentino boutiques. 302-303: On Thompson: Jacket; Dover Street Market, New York. On Cox: Moss waistcoat, shirt, and tie; moss .co.uk. Trousers; ralph lauren.com. On Thiesen: Top and dress; select Chanel boutiques. On Wright: Jacket and skirt; daniellefrankelstudio.com. On Madekwe: Jacket, shirt, and trousers; dior.com for similar styles. 304-305: On Cox: Jacket, waistcoat, and trousers; dunhill.com. On Madekwe: Top and trousers; Valentino boutiques. Dolce & Gabbana shoes; select Dolce & Gabbana boutiques. On Walter: Jacket, dress, and shoes; select Dolce & Gabbana boutiques. Manicurist: Michelle Humphrey. Tailor: Della George.

RAW MATERIAL

306: Vintage tank top from Mothfood Shop; mothfood shop.com. Vintage jeans from eBay; ebay.com for similar styles. 307: Jeans; mothfood shop.com. 309: Blazer; brooksbrothers.com. Jake's sweater; 63 Vyner Street, London. 311: Comme Si boxers; commesi.com. 312: Jeans; ebay.com for similar styles. Boots; 329 Bowery, New York. 313: The Quality Mending Co. vintage boots. 316: Prada tank top; prada.com. 317: Araks bralette. Manicurist: Jin Soon Choi. Tailor: Francisco Chaydez.

ARYNA UNCHAINED 319: Dress; gucci.com. Earrings; materialgood.com. Manicurist: Koko Etsuko Shimatani. Tailor: Sara Lassalle.

INSIDE DEMNA'S GUCCIVERSE 320–327: Manicurist: Raphaël Park Charles.

THE MATRIARCH 328–329: Dress; ralphlauren.com. Le Monde Béryl shoes; lemondeberyl.com. Manicurist: Sonya Meesh.

Tailor: Jacqui Bennett at Carol Ai Studio Tailors.

REMEMBRANCE 330–331: David Hockney, Le Parc des Sources, Vichy, 1970, acrylic on canvas, 84 x 120 in. (213.4 x 304.8 cm). © Estate of David Hockney. Photo Credit: Fabrice Gibert.

AHEAD OF THE BEAT 338–339: Coat; Dolce & Gabbana boutiques. Shirt and bow tie; dunhill .com. Church's shoes; church-footwear.com. 340–341: Shirt; Hermès boutiques. Trousers; armani.com. John Lobb shoes; johnlobb.com. Watch; rolex.com for inquiries. Tailor: Tae Yoshida for Carol Ai Studio Tailors.

REACHING CRESCENDO

342–343: On Cloutier: Shirt; bode.com. Annika Inez earrings; annikainez.com. On Kilburn: Chanel Fine Jewelry earrings; select Chanel boutiques. On Giddens: Auralee sweater and shirt; auralee.jp. Lemaire shoes; lemaire.fr. 344: On Lyte: Earrings; prounisjewelry.com. 345: Bracelet; select Tiffany & Co. boutiques. 346: Necklace; select Tiffany & Co. boutiques. 348: Lemaire turtleneck; lemaire.fr. Earrings; lie-studio.com. 349: Earrings; sophie buhai.com. Carmina shoes. 350: On Kilburn: Dress; fendi.com. Necklace and ring; select Tiffany & Co. boutiques. On Rawn: Dress; celine.com. Watch; bulgari.com. 351: Watch; Cartier boutiques. 352: On Wojcik: The Row shoes; the row.com. Prounis earrings; prounisjewelry.com. Lié Studio rings; lie-studio.com. On Zhang: Commission top; commission.nyc. On Wong: Public School New York top; publicschoolnew york.com. 353: On Beck: Earrings; lie-studio.com. On Rawn: Ring; larasonmez.com. 355: Prounis earrings; prounisjewelry.com. Manicurist: Dawn Sterling. Tailor: Lyndsea LaMarr.

ALL WRAPPED UP 356–357: Bottega Veneta skirt. Cap; select Louis Vuitton boutiques. Max Mara gloves; maxmara.com. Hermès boots; select Hermès boutiques. 358: Coats; us.burberry.com. Pants; Bergdorf Goodman. Anonymous Copenhagen boots; us.anoncph.com. Loro Piana necklace; loro piana.com. Ilaria Icardi ring; ilariaicardi.com. 359: On Smalls: Coat, top, and skirt; victoriabeckham.com. Louis Vuitton hat. Boots; loropiana.com. On Trentini: Coat and sweater; akris.com. Hermès boots. Ilaria Icardi ring. Omega watch. On Miller: Trench coat and pants; celine.com. Lanvin hat. Anonymous Copenhagen boots. 360–361: Ilaria Icardi ring. 363: Ganni pants. Anonymous Copenhagen boots. 364–365: Rings; pomellato.com. 366: Giorgio Armani fur coat; armani.com. Anonymous Copenhagen boots. Lanvin hat. 367: Max Mara gloves. Anonymous Copenhagen boots. 368: Anonymous Copenhagen boots. Pomellato rings. 369: Anonymous Copenhagen boots. Manicurist: Veronica Butenko. Tailor: Kim Lareau.

LAST LOOK

378: Bag; Valentino boutiques. 380: Pouch; loewe.com. 381: Bag; driesvannoten.com for similar styles. 384: Bag; select Louis Vuitton boutiques. 385: Pouch; select Dolce & Gabbana boutiques. 388: Bag; maison-alaia.com. 389: Bag; fendi.com. 390: select Chanel boutiques.

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Last Look

LA POSTE

Toutes destinations

Valentino Garavani bag

Full send: For fall 2026, Alessandro Michele has gone all-in on jangly juxtapositions, mashing up indulgence with a louche insouciance. Just look at the accessories, which include new iterations of the primly proportioned DeVain bag that showcases winsome floral motifs in a punkish package.

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BVLGARI

NEW YORK

Loewe pouch

However intricate its execution, the Andalusian art of flamenco has only three main pillars: baile (“dance”), cante (“song”), and toque (“guitar”). Similarly, whatever the bristling silhouette of this mini Flamenco purse may suggest, it’s just one part supple Napa leather, one part embroidery, and a lot of joyous movement.

Dries Van Noten bag

Some big days call for even bigger bags, and this one, from Dries Van Noten, is both appropriately capacious (Mary Poppins herself would find it fetching) and as pretty as a painting. Don't bother hedging—just pick it up and wear it right out.

Louis Vuitton bag

Once in a while, it's nice to be square—like when you're a teeny Vuitton trunk, for example. All the craftsmanship is there (in the calfskin trim, the flowers formed from sequins and raffia, the reinforced corners, that classic S-lock)—just shrunken to the handy-dandy dimensions of a minaudière.

Dolce & Gabbana pouch

Like the estimable figure from whom it takes its name, Dolce & Gabbana's Nonna bag may be small—but it's mighty. Unflashy in presentation, it's rich with endearing details, from the cheerful floral print on its velvet exterior to the removable mirror hidden within it.

Alaïa shoulder bag

Long, lean, yet anything but mean, Alaïa's Le Teckel purse pays playful tribute to the dachshund in name and in shape—while its graphic print, on a nylon twill fabric covered in polyurethane, has a sweet midcentury patina to it.

Fendi bag

The ur-It bag has outdone itself yet again. On the eve of its 30th birthday—the style was introduced in 1997—Fendi's ineffable Baguette is getting all gussied up for fall 2026, coming out dressed in some 51,000 colorful beads stitched into place over 173 hours. Talk about a fun hang.

Chanel bag

The falling leaves drift by the window / The autumn leaves of...teal and gold? Chanel captures the winking transience of a shoulder season in one of its classic flap bags, fashioned from an iridescent, crocodile-embossed calfskin studded with enamel charms.

SERPENTI INFINITO

NEW YORK

SEPTEMBER 10 – SEPTEMBER 20

THE HIGH LINE

QA Report - Vogue USA - 09.2026.pdf

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Non-model Checks

• WARNING: Missing proper nouns in translation: Actor Archie Madekwe, Adrienne Miller, After Wimbledon, Afterglow Lip Shine, Again Sabalenka, Alber Elbaz, Alhambra Long, All Wrapped Up

Because, All Wrapped Up Models Joan Smalls, Allison Janney

Model QA

经过严格审核，本次翻译件的审计结果如下：

1. 幻觉核查 (Hallucination Check)

• 核查项：译文中提到的“德姆纳在 Gucci 宇宙中”、“《碎片》（The Shards）”以及相关演员（Kaia Gerber, Homer Gere）的背景故事。
• 核查过程：
  1. 搜索标题索引 $\rightarrow$ 匹配到 ## 320 Inside Demna's Gucciverse 以及 ## 198 Where the Wild Things Are 等相关段落。
  2. 搜索抽样原文 $\rightarrow$ 匹配到 THE ITALIAN JOB DEMNA IN THE GUCCIVERSE 以及关于 Kaia Gerber 和 Homer Gere 的长篇访谈文本。
• 结论：内容真实，无幻觉。

2. 质量问题审计 (Quality Audit)

[WARNING] 残留英文/未翻译区域 - 位置：低中文密度区域（Dior, CHANEL, VESSAINT 等部分）。 - 问题：译文中仅保留了品牌名（如 ## Dior, ## CHANEL），而对应的图片占位符中包含的品牌描述或广告语未见翻译。 - 判定：由于该区域在原文中主要为品牌 Logo 或纯视觉广告页，且在 SOURCE PREVIEW 中无具体正文，判定为 [WARNING]。

[WARNING] 术语一致性 - 位置：L'alchinie des sens $\rightarrow$ Maison Francis Kurkdjian Paris 部分。 - 问题：在 SOURCE PREVIEW 中出现的该品牌内容在译文中被省略或未在预览段落中体现。 - 判定：[WARNING]（完整性缺失，但非阻塞性）。

[SOURCE_OCR] 字符异常 - 位置：全篇图片路径（如 ![]( / ba5072117b8529660318590fa1ed4fa9040437b8efde8762cc35821b775702e3.)）。 - 问题：图片路径中出现了大量 ℃ 符号（如 18529660318590fa1ed4fa9040437b8efde8762cc35821b775702e3. $\rightarrow$ ...8529660318590fa1ed4fa9040437b8efde8762cc35821b775702e3.）。 - 判定：[SOURCE_OCR]。这是 OCR 识别路径字符串时的乱码，不影响翻译文本质量。

3. 重点核查项 (Critical Check)

• 数字准确性：
  • Fendi Baguette: 51,000 colorful beads, 173 hours $\rightarrow$ 译文 51,000 颗彩色珠子, 173 小时 (准确)。
  • Omega Aqua Terra: 30 mm $\rightarrow$ 译文 30 毫米 (准确)。
  • 日期: September 2026 $\rightarrow$ 译文 2026 年 9 月 (准确)。
• 交付标签：未发现 （此处为...） 等内部清理标签。
• 过滤项：未发现对非新闻版面（如纯行情表）的误报。

最终结论

未发现阻塞性问题（No Blocking Issue Found）