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Regulars
51 Editor’s letter
65 Notices
Behind the scenes of the issue
142 Forces for Change
Labour MP Diane Abbott. Interview
by Nosheen Iqbal. Portraits by Misan
Harriman. Styling by Donna Wallace
154 Checklist
Rediscover fashion’s rebellious side
250 Stockists
Vogue trends
“Peak
76 Personnel style
How to organise your office wardrobe
practicality
is having
78 Decked out
Introducing the raddest skater denim a moment
81 Take it easy as fashion’s
Laid-back midi-dresses favourites
82 Bold comfort serve high-
Snuggle up in a look-at-me fleece performance
85 Hybrid theory fleece in
Coats: come rain or come shine
style”
86 Step change
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Bold comfort,
The best boots in town page 82

91 Vogue darling
Actor Lou Llobell

Jewellery & watches Shopping special

COVER LOOK 92 Out of the ordinary
The everyday inspiration for Tiffany’s 117 Ready-to-wear
new Knot collection. By Chloe Schama What, why and where to buy the
newest trends. By Donna Wallace
Zendaya wears velvet Arts & culture
playsuit with bow,
£3,390, Saint Laurent
Archive
by Anthony Vaccarello. 96 Novel ideas
White-gold and Anita Seth leafs through autumn 150 Woman’s realm
diamond rings, price
on request, Bulgari. fiction that offers a fresh perspective Robin Muir on the Vogue debut of
Get the look: make-up a model royal, October 1965
by Lancôme. Eyes:
100 Earthy delights
Hypnôse L’Absolu
De Noir Black Artist Anicka Yi’s sensual pleasures. Mr Vogue
Mascara and Hypnôse
Eyeshadow Palette By Hayley Maitland 152 We’ve been expecting you
in Smokey Chic.
Lips: L’Absolu Rouge Cary Joji Fukunaga, director of the
Drama Matte Lipstick Living latest Bond, speaks to Amel Mukhtar
in Ardent Sand. Skin:
Teint Idole Ultra Wear
24H Foundation. 105 Life & style Viewpoint
Hair by Living Proof. Julia Sarr-Jamois’s monthly edit
Curl Definer.
Hair: Ursula Stephen.
158 ON THE COVER
Make-up: Sheika 109 Inside scoop Healing power
Daley. Nails: Chaun
Peth. Set design: Gille Next-generation interiors dealers of Writer Clemency Burton-Hill’s
Mills. Styling: Law note with an eye for vintage finds. moving story about her path to
Roach. Photograph:
Craig McDean Truffled out by Naomi Smart recovery after a brain injury > 40

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“Explore the season’s
puffers and parkas amid
Iceland’s untamed
backdrops”
Adventures in wonderland, page 200
Beauty & wellness
Marine
biology, 168 ON THE COVER
page 170
Biohack your way to better health
Quick and easy DIY routes to
wellness. By Georgia Day
170 Director’s cut
Jessica Diner explores the life aquatic
173 Case studies
Collectable eyeshadow palettes.
Curated by Twiggy Jalloh
174 Beauty musings
Monthly must-haves, brought to
you by Hannah Coates
Fashion & features
178 ON THE COVER
The world according to Zendaya
Actor Zendaya tells Marisa Meltzer
why every day is a schoolday.
Photographs by Craig McDean.
Styling by Law Roach
190 A New York tale
Michael Kors is celebrating 40 years
of his eponymous brand, a global
phenomenon born in NYC. Some
city residents pay tribute. Interview by
Lynn Yaeger. Photographs by Justin
French. Styling by Dena Giannini
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200 Adventures in wonderland
Iceland provides an other-worldly
backdrop to puffers and parkas.
Photographs by Annie Leibovitz.
Styling by Gabriella Karefa-Johnson
220 Court favourite
How 18-year-old tennis star
Emma Raducanu won our hearts
at Wimbledon. By Olivia Marks.
Photographs by Scott Trindle.
Styling by Poppy Kain
226 Up-country
Your guide to embracing the
pastoral side of the season.
Photographs by Dan Martensen.
Styling by Clare Richardson
238 Cheek by jowl
Journalist Sarah Brown’s odyssey
to a more youthful countenance.
Photograph by Inez & Vinoodh.
Styling by Phyllis Posnick
242 Campbell’s stoop
Model Edie Campbell’s custom-built
lakeside retreat. Ellie Pithers pays
her a visit. Photographs by Simon
Watson. Styling by Tabitha Simmons
Vogue asks
280 What would Kaia Gerber do?
The model takes our quiz
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EDITOR’S LETTER
from £1,150, Aliétte.
Knickers, from £20,
Cosabella. Tights, £38,
Wolford. Right: a selection of
the star’s red-carpet looks.
Below: on page 242, Edie
Campbell gives Vogue a tour
of her new country idyll

returning in her generation-defining turn as

evenings filled with plans, settling into a long
stretch of office life, nights drawing in and the
allure of weekends at home becoming ever
stronger. This year feels different.
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Rue in the second series of teen paean Euphoria.
Not only is Zendaya a thought-leader for
younger viewers, she is also one of the most
adored fixtures on the contemporary red carpet.
She talks style and substance on page 178.
From the luxe minimalism of the Hollywood
Hills to the raw, breathtaking beauty of
Iceland. On page 200, photographer Annie
Leibovitz and fashion editor Gabriella Karefa-
Johnson take us to glaciers, deserted windswept

It is to be expected. Uncertainty will be our beaches and volcanos – how fabulous! – for a
companion for a while longer and the memory fantasia that mixes high wearability with more
of – and potential for more – time cooped up than a dash of high drama for the autumn
inside is as yet unshaken. That said, for those ahead. Meanwhile, on page 226, > 54
who can make it out into the world, the
seduction of the great outdoors – and how to
dress for it – feels very real.

Typically,
Accordingly, this issue has a happy emphasis
on roaming far and free. The first stop is Los
Angeles, where Zendaya, queen of the Zoomers,

October issues grants us an audience as she prepares for a

blockbuster few months in her career. Up

are about that

shortly for the actor, beloved by the Hollywood
elite and her 104 million (and counting)
Instagram followers alike, is a key part in Dune,

classic autumn-
director Denis Villeneuve’s updated adaptation
of the epic sci-fi novel, in which she will star
alongside Timothée Chalamet and Javier

term feeling… Bardem. Then she will reprise her role as MJ

in Spider-Man: No Way Home before, excitingly,

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model Paloma Elsesser travels to Upstate New
York to embody the slow chic and peaceful calm
of a perfect weekend in the country.
On page 190, we head south to Manhattan,
to hit the streets to photograph some of the
city’s coolest couples in a Michael Kors
extravaganza, while writer Lynn Yaeger speaks
to the designer himself.
Back on these shores, model and equestrian
Edie Campbell invites us in for an exclusive
look around her new Northamptonshire home,
on page 242. Built from scratch, with her
mother Sophie Hicks as architect, it stands
between two lakes on a patch of gorgeous
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Paloma Elsesser, on page 226.
Right: Emma Raducanu,
on page 220. Below right:
one of the couples in A New
York Tale, on page 190 –
Danny Bowien, on left, wears
jacket, £1,290. Strapless top,
to order. Both Michael Kors
Collection. Boots, from £170,
Syro. Jewellery, his own.
Sara Hiromi wears jacket,
£1,290. Dress, £1,050. Both
Michael Kors Collection.
Red net tights, £39, Wolford.
Black sheer tights, £18, Falke.
Boots, from a selection,
Dr Martens. Headband,
from £120, Leila Jinnah.
Jewellery, her own
countryside, and offers easy access to her
horses. It certainly feels like a dream 2021 setup.
Lastly, on page 220, we meet tennis’s newest
star, Emma Raducanu. After a spellbinding
Wimbledon earlier this year, in which she
became the first British woman to get to the
fourth round during her debut in almost half
a century, the charismatic teen from Kent is
the name on everyone’s lips. In her first
interview since the championships, she talks
talent, drive and – crucially – how we need to
evolve our attitudes to mental health in sport.
At 18, and only at the start of her career, one
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thing is certain: Emma is going to travel far.
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This year marks the 40th anniversary

of Michael Kors’s eponymous brand.
In A New York Tale, on page 190,
journalist Lynn Yaeger (left) interviews
him, while Justin French (below)
photographs some of The Big Apple’s
most talented couples in pieces from the
designer’s latest collection. “I’ve always
felt a special kinship with Michael,” says
Yaeger. “We grew up a few towns away
from each other on Long Island, and
both hung out at the All American
Hamburger Drive-In.”

MEET & GREET

Step into model Edie Campbell’s lakeside
home, on page 242, for a shoot styled by
Get to know the faces
Tabitha Simmons. “Edie’s house is magical,”
she says, “you instantly feel calm.”
behind this month’s issue
Nosheen Iqbal meets history-making politician
Stylist Law Roach Diane Abbott, on page 142. Abbott – who was
has worked with our Britain’s first black woman MP – has now been
October cover star, in Parliament for more than 30 years and, as
actor and singer Iqbal discovers, has been both a moral compass
Zendaya, for more than for the Labour Party and a thorn in its side.
a decade. This time, he
tells us, they looked to
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and 1990s supermodels
for inspiration.

In January of last year, writer,

broadcaster and young mother Clemency
Burton-Hill had a brain haemorrhage
that she was lucky to survive. “Just
before I emerged from a long coma,”
she says, “I know I chose life. I am
determined to keep choosing it.”
On page 158, she writes about what
the near-death experience taught her.
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The past 18 months
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the benefits of the
great outdoors.
It’s clearly filtered
into fashion.

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 “YOU JUST CAN’T let fear get in
the way.” That is Jourdan Dunn’s takeaway
from her many, many years as a model and
her main piece of advice to all those starting
out. In a fun and thought-provoking Vogue
Visionaries class, in partnership with YouTube,
31-year-old Dunn takes us through the highs and
lows of her time in the fashion industry, from her early
rejections to the headline-grabbing catwalk moments that
defined her career. Following stellar tutorials from the likes
of novelist Bernardine Evaristo, singer Celeste, hairstylist Sam
McKnight, actor Naomi Scott and fashion designer Alexa Chung,
Dunn shares everything she’s learnt from her career as one of the
world’s most sought-after models. She demonstrates her three perfect
poses, offers advice on getting your portfolio noticed by agents, gives
her number one tip for good skin and, above all, shares how important
knowing your self-worth is for success. “Giving up is the easy option,” she
says. After all, “What’s the worst they can say?” n
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Four decades
of STYLE
Carolina Herrera is celebrating
40 years with a fabulous capsule
that is as vibrant as her first
IT’S BEEN 40 YEARS since
Carolina Herrera stormed on to the New
York fashion scene with a Metropolitan
Club show to remember. The Studio 54
regular, who brightened up society pages
alongside the likes of Bianca Jagger,
channelled her knack for elegant dressing
into a womenswear brand that was catnip
for Manhattanites. Herrera’s personal
uniform – a fresh white shirt tucked into
a voluminous skirt – became an exemplar
of everything the house stood for: class
and refinement, but always with a dash
of playfulness. Herrera broke glass
ceilings when she founded her label at
the age of 40, and now her successor Wes
Gordon is paving the way for another
four decades of Carolina Herrera style.
To celebrate the anniversary of the
brand’s founding, Gordon is designing
a special Ruby collection in honour of
his predecessor. Encompassing the
alegría de vivir, or joy of living, that quintessential glamour of the Carolina
Carolina Herrera has always been known Herrera world is as strong as ever.
for, the capsule features a sweeping It’s no coincidence, then, that the
paillette gown, a Swarovski embellished collection – alongside the brand’s range
Good Girl fragrance infused with of special customisable make-up and
signature notes of jasmine, and a best-selling perfumes (Good Girl is a
similarly designed customised lipstick, top 10 feminine fragrance in the UK)
intended to hold the iconic Herrera Red – is launching exclusively at Harrods
310 shade. Symbolising the house’s in September, just in time for the party
dedication to fabulousness – and also season. After all, Carolina Herrera is
including the Matryoshka tote and and will always be a fashion and beauty Carolina Herrera at
Metropolitan Insignia evening clutch leader, with female empowerment at work in her atelier
– the Ruby capsule shows how the its core. n
 “My go-to beauty products are The
VOGUE DARLING
Ordinary 100% Organic Cold-
Pressed Rose Hip Seed Oil [£9], The “I like a good
Body Shop Brow & Lash Gel [£10] local venue. “I listened to
and my Muji eyelash curler [£7].” Satan’s Celeste every
Whiskers is time I had a
a Bethnal serious scene.
Green She always
cocktail bar got me in the
that looks mood for my
like an character.”
abandoned
“Imbue Coil Awakening building.”
Sulphate Free Cream
Cleanser [£9] is a beauty
trick I learnt on set. It has
changed my hair.”

“My family goes to a small fishing

village in Almería every summer.
Some of my favourite places to be
“I’d love a vintage Chanel suit. are along Spain’s south coast.”
I’d wear it with nothing
underneath and slightly baggy.”
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of art I’ve seen. I wish I could watch
it for the first time again.”

“During lockdown, I wanted

to support black-owned
businesses and found Our
Lou Llobell
Lovely Goods. Its One “Comedy, action, indie… I’m dying to do it
Evening candle [£20]
is their best-smelling.” all,” grins Lou Llobell. The 26-year-old – who
Lou wears cotton was born to a Spanish father and Zimbabwean
jacket and wrap mother, and grew up in Spain and South
skirt, from a
selection, Proenza Africa before moving to Britain to pursue
Schouler. Ring, acting – made her debut in this year’s sci-fi
£600, as part of set, hit Voyagers, for which she was cast shortly
Charlotte Chesnais.
Photograph: after graduating with a master’s degree from
Juliette Cassidy. the Drama Centre London. This month,
Styling: Eniola Dare
she appears in Apple TV’s Foundation – an
epic television adaptation of writer and
professor Isaac Asimov’s trilogy that many
“Currently on my sci-fi fans have been waiting decades for.
shopping list?
Margiela’s black Tabi
Llobell plays Gaal, a gifted mathematician,
boots and a who was written as a white male in the novels
Boots, Jacquemus handbag.” but has been reimagined for the screen. “She’s
£720, “I often
Maison use the a young woman in a position where she’s not
Margiela cute in control, but finds a way to take control.
big-eyed
Bag, £480, Jacquemus Someone we can all relate to,” says Llobell.
emoji –
it covers “Every year for my “She’s from a rural planet and moves to the
a lot of birthday I go to a new big city to chase her dreams – doe-eyed,
emotions.” restaurant. This year, I’m
going to Kol – a Mexican- where everything is shiny and new to her,”
British fusion restaurant.” she says. “A bit like how I feel.” Soey Kim

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diamond earrings,
£5,750. White-gold,
diamond and
tsavorite bracelet,
price on request.
Both Tiffany. Jacket,
£4,200. Shirt, £2,800.
Both Louis Vuitton.
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Make-up: Lucy Burt.
Nails: Chisato
Yamamoto. Digital
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 JEWELLERY

Out of the
ORDINARY With its latest Knot collection, Tiffany turns everyday
elements of the New York City landscape into art, says
Chloe Schama. Photographs: Ben Weller. Jewellery
director: Rachel Garrahan. Styling: Poppy Kain

W
hen Alexandre Arnault moved introduced to the world by Tiffany in 1974. it adopted by the baseball team. When Arsham
to New York in the January of Despite its refinement, though, the collection went into the Tiffany archive at the outset of
2021, it was a very different offers an edginess true to the spirit of both the the project, he was struck by the number of
place from the one he’d grown city and the brand. (Sure, Holly Golightly first items that were conceived with function and
up visiting. The city, of course, was in the throes gazes into Tiffany’s windows in a pavement- durability in mind: a custom key, for instance,
of the pandemic’s winter surge – muted streets, skimming ball gown, but don’t forget she’s also that also served as a bottle opener. “It was >
shuttered theatres, abandoned parks. But the sipping a deli coffee pulled
emptiness gave the 29-year-old LVMH scion from a throwaway paper
a chance to see the urban landscape anew, and bag.) And with their deftly
to absorb a little on-the-ground inspiration – hidden clasps, the bracelets
which he promptly funnelled into his new role mirror the structural marvels
as executive vice president of product and of the city. “If you hold the
communications at Tiffany (LVMH had products in your hand,”
bought the brand that same month). It was an Arnault says, “they are really
essential re-education, even for someone engineering beauties.”
familiar with the east-coast metropolis. “If you Tiffany has, as Arsham
were to ask anyone in the world to name three reminds me when we
New York brands,” he says, “probably the first speak, always had one eye
one that comes to mind would be Tiffany.” on elevating quotidian
Inspiration struck, however, not among the design. (I think of my
marble edifices of Fifth Avenue, but from a children’s silver Tiffany
more humble feature of The Big Apple’s baby spoons tucked away
architecture: the chain-link. The brand’s new in my cutlery drawer, the
Knot collection, which launches this month, perfect size to deliver mushy
does not, however, resemble the fencing around peas or mashed potatoes.)
a vacant lot. These are necklaces, earrings, He is wearing a New York
bracelets and rings fashioned from yellow and Yankees cap. The famous
Artist Daniel Arsham
rose gold, some lined with pavé diamonds. interlocking N and Y logo with the bronze box he
There is also a special-edition white-gold was, he explains, originally has created to house
bracelet – produced in a one-time collaboration designed by Tiffany as the limited-edition
Tiffany tsavorite bracelet.
with the artist Daniel Arsham – adorned with part of a tribute to an NYC Photograph: Zander
diamonds and tsavorite, a rare green gem police officer shot in the Taketomo
discovered in Tanzania and Kenya, and line of duty, only later was

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“It’s an
interesting way
to reiterate
the idea that
our products
are eternal,”
says Alexandre
Arnault

Gold and
diamond
earrings, £4,300.
Gold and
diamond
necklace,
£30,100.
Both Tiffany.
Asymmetric-
sleeve sweater,
£740, Celine by
Hedi Slimane.
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a kind of luxury that was about taste more than
price,” he says.
Arsham also wanted to riff on the iconic
robin’s-egg-coloured Tiffany box to create
something that could, in theory, be used for
purposes beyond its initial intent. The
resulting container, one of only 49 that will
be produced – and the home to the limited-
edition tsavorite bracelet – is a bronze
sculpture that reimagines the jewellery’s
packaging as part of Arsham’s Future
Archaeological series, a long-standing project
that toys with concepts of time, modernity
and antiquity. A little corroded, a little scarred,
the boxes (which are themselves housed in
containers that emulate art-packing crates)
seem beaten up by weather and wear, as
though they were unearthed from Atlantis or
the ashes of Pompeii. “The idea of something
both decaying and crystallising, of backward
and forward motion, at the same time is
appealing to me,” Arsham says.
“It’s an interesting way to reiterate the idea
that our products are eternal,” Arnault adds.
“The more patina they have, the more cachet,
the more stories to tell.” Of course, the
collaboration continues another kind of story
as well, since Tiffany has a long history of
collaborating with New York artists, from
Andy Warhol to Jasper Johns and Robert
Rauschenberg. And, as Arnault says, “Daniel
is the essence of 21st-century New York art.”
The precise chemical wash that Arsham
applied to the boxes to bring about the look
of accelerated ageing is actually a special
mixture called “Tiffany blue”, though the
coincidence is a little beside the point since
Arsham is colour-blind and, as he tells me,
“It’s debatable if the Tiffany blue that I see is
the same one the world sees.”
Nonetheless, there is a certain serendipity
in the convergence of Arsham’s approach
with Arnault’s desire to honour the past of the
184-year-old company while simultaneously
continuing to push it forward. “Jewellery can
be a time capsule,” Arsham says – something
that contains the essence of a moment, but
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ARTS & CULTURE

MATRIX
by Lauren Groff
The world of 12th-century nuns
is brought to life in this evocative
novel, in which the rebellious
Marie de France is cast from
courtly life and sent to England to
work as the prioress of an abbey.
BURNTCOAT Utterly absorbing, Groff shows
by Sarah Hall how her protagonist’s fearless
“Those who tell stories survive,” spirit transforms the world around
begins this atmospheric novel, which her. Published on 23 September
multi-prize-winning author Sarah Hall (Hutchinson Heinemann, £13)
started on the first day of lockdown
in March 2020. As celebrated
sculptor Edith Harkness, who is at
the heart of this beguiling book,
confronts her final days, Hall writes HARLEM SHUFFLE
in exquisite prose about desire and by Colson Whitehead
death in the midst of a national crisis. Though he has won the
Published on 7 October (Faber, £13) Pulitzer Prize twice, this
blistering love letter to
Harlem is so powerful it
may just win Colson
Whitehead a third. Set
in the early ’60s, it follows
Ray Carney, a furniture
salesman-turned-crook. A
scorching portrayal of race
and power. Published on 14
September (Fleet, £17)

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IDEAS
Autumn’s most
original reads. Chosen
by Anita Sethi

PEACES
by Helen Oyeyemi
“I many times thought
peace had come/When
peace was far away,” wrote CROSSROADS
Emily Dickinson in a poem by Jonathan Franzen
that forms the epigraph to In this, the first of a
this magical novel, in which planned trilogy, the
new couple Otto and foremost chronicler of
Xavier Shin and their pet American family life
mongoose embark on a brings us the unsettled,
mysterious train journey. Chicago-based
The author of Gingerbread Hildebrandt clan, and
takes us on a wild ride, tackles the themes he
exploring desire, identity writes best: the power
and how to find order in a of familial dynamics
turbulent world. Published and how to break free
on 4 November (Faber, £15) of them. Published
on 5 October
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 Earthy delights
Art, science and the senses collide in the
work of Anicka Yi, to unforgettable effect.
By Hayley Maitland. Photographs by
Andrew Jacobs. Styling by Patrick Mackie

Silk-crêpe dress,
£2,150, Balenciaga.
Leather boots,
£675, Jimmy
Choo. Jewellery,
Anicka’s own.
Hair: Eric Williams.
Make-up: Ai Yokomizo.
Production:
artProduction. Digital
artwork: Escape
Hatch Studio

I
n the past 10 years, Anicka Yi has injected live snails with oxytocin,
displayed tempura-fried blossoms inside giant plastic “bubbles”,
smeared gallery walls with butter (then allowed it to go rancid),
and exhibited a heady concoction made up – among other things
– of powdered Teva sandals, antidepressants, palm-tree essence, sea lice
and a mobile-phone signal jammer. So, when she uses the word “radical”
to describe the Turbine Hall opening in 2000, it carries real weight.
“Not that anyone invited me to be part of the conversation back
then, but putting art in what is basically a giant factory – it felt
revolutionary to me,” the South Korea-born, America-raised artist
says, recalling her first visit to Tate Modern. “Art can really breathe
in a space like that.”
Today, she’s perched in the light-filled sitting room of a rented barn
in New York’s Hudson River Valley, mismatched pearl earrings and
a pair of tortoiseshell Caddis glasses emphasising her delicate features.
Occasionally, she fields a text from her Bushwick studio – her only
fixed address after giving up her home in Long Island City during
the pandemic.
Some two decades after her first revelatory visit, the 50-year-old
conceptual artist will transform Tate Modern’s vast central atrium this
October for its prestigious Hyundai Commission. “It’s funny because
I’ve always struggled with the identity of ‘artist’, partly because I’ve
never fit the conventional definition of one,” she says. “But the level of
discretion and gravity around this job – it’s like being anointed.”
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Leather jacket,
£1,495. Wool

“Scent engages a different level of

sweater, £695.
Cotton shirt,

our consciousness and it reminds us

£395. Tutu skirt,
£595. All Simone
Rocha. Boots
and jewellery, that we’re part of the natural world”
as before.
For stockists,
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Above: blown-glass works-in-progress by

Anicka Yi. Below, from left: the artist’s 2019
Biologizing the Machine (tentacular trouble);
a detail from Lifestyle Wars (2017)

Even a passing glance at Yi’s multisensory oeuvre will be enough to
convince anyone that she’s well-equipped for the gig. Comprising a
genre-defying amalgamation of biology, philosophy and technology,
her works are known for their sensual qualities – particularly their
tactical deployment of fragrance. Take her 2015 exhibition at The
Kitchen in New York, for which she had a hundred female subjects
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a bookkeeper for other creatives in downtown Manhattan. It was only
at the age of 35 that she started considering how to “externalise a lot of
the knotted narratives” that she felt she had been carrying around inside
her since birth. “I just had these ideas that I felt I had to pursue, and I
would be by myself at like 2am, frantically writing questions on message
boards for NYU students about chemistry,” she says with a laugh.

cotton-swab themselves, then tasked an MIT bioengineer with synthesising A watershed moment came after she won a residency at the MIT
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the DNA collected from their mouths, armpits and vaginas into one Center for Art, Science & Technology in the mid-2010s, but it’s her
bacterium. The finished piece, named Grabbing at Newer Vegetables after 2016 Hugo Boss Prize that put her on the fashion world’s radar. For
a line from a John Ashbery poem, consisted of a glowing agar slab on her resulting installation at the Guggenheim, she collaborated with a
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which the bacteria flourished – filling the room with a peculiar, corporal
scent that left one male visitor gagging, much to her delight.
“Scent engages a different level of our consciousness, and it reminds
us that we’re part of the natural world, which is a source of deep, deep
trauma for a lot of people,” she explains of her interest in creating
olfactory works. “We’ve been taught to worship cleanliness and
odourlessness. Smells remind us that the alleged distinction between
humans and animals, plants, fungi and bacteria is a myth.”
The same logic gives her a more philosophical approach to Covid-19
than most. “Of course, there’s no denying the brutality of the pandemic,”
she says, “but maybe rather than a hysterical rejection of the virus, there’s
a better way forward. Anthropocentrism is a dangerous fallacy, and it’s a
self-centred way of approaching life. This is our collective opportunity
to zoom out again, and realise we’re part of a symbiotic planetary body.”
Perhaps one reason for Yi’s unique perspective? Her less traditional
path. As she would have it, she “came into [the art world] sideways”,
quitting a film theory degree at UCLA and eventually working as
team of molecular biologists to develop a perfumed artwork, Immigrant
Caucus, using compounds lifted from Asian-American women and
carpenter ants. A few years later, she made headlines for suspending
luminescent chrysalis-shaped pods made out of kelp at the 2019 Venice
Biennale, where she also managed to control a patch of Venetian soil’s
microbiome using specially developed AI.
What sort of chemistry experiments, then, does she have in store for
the Tate? “I’ve essentially built a world in the Turbine Hall,” she enthuses,
stressing that she’s been working on the exhibition for nearly two years
due to the pandemic. “It’s more than an art project, really. It’s something
else altogether.” While the precise nature of the installation has to be
kept under wraps, she is clear that it will touch on both the “industrial
heritage of London as a city and particularly the Turbine Hall”, as well
as being “really charged with the past 18 months of history”.
“Ultimately, nothing looks the same to us now as it did before,” she
says. And, for Yi, that can only be a good thing. n
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“Right now, one of my go-to
places is Croydon
Candles. Fabulously
coloured tapers are a
clever way to change up your
decor.” Candles, £15 each,
Croydon Candles

“The headscarf
is one of my
all-time
favourite looks,
and a hugely
undervalued
wardrobe
staple. I’ll take
“Some days, only a
mine in the
massive bag will do. I love
new Versace
this scarlet statement
monogram, La
piece from Khaite,
Greca.” Silk
Catherine Holstein’s
scarf, from
label.” Patent-leather tote,
£190, Versace
£1,750, Khaite

“The first black woman to

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shoot a British Vogue cover,
Nadine Ijewere’s
photography draws on her
Nigerian and Jamaican
roots, and her experiences
as a young woman of colour
in south-east London. I’m
excited for this month’s
release of her debut book.”
The pick of autumn’s house
Nadine Ijewere by Nadine
Ijewere (Prestel, £40)
and wardrobe crop. Edited by
Julia Sarr-Jamois

“Dreem “I’m not sure if this

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broad-spectrum whatever it is, it’s
CBD. Relaxing the perfect flash of
and sleep- colour for those grey
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those nights Leather coat, £3,600,
when counting Salvatore Ferragamo
sheep doesn’t
cut it.” Dreem “Is there anything better than the timeless perfection
Distillery Night of the Air Jordan? This season, I’m adding an all-white pair
Drops, £160 to my Nike collection.” Hi-tops, £110, Nike

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INSIDE
SCOOP
Meet the young interiors
dealers with a great eye
for vintage finds.
By Naomi Smart

JERMAINE GALLACHER
WHO Jermaine Gallacher has been instilling his punk energy into
wheeling and dealing offbeat objects and furniture since his days
at Camberwell College of Arts.

WHERE TO FIND HIM Joining the early risers at Ardingly

Antiques Fair, or at his showroom and bar attached to the Lant
Street Wine merchants in south London’s Borough. Serving as a
gallery space and shop for new design talent and vintage finds, the
place is a melting pot for the capital’s design-loving underground.
OLLIE GROVE; INDIA HOBSON

WHAT TO EXPECT The unexpected. Find everything from

postmodernist lamps to kinky chairs, and his own line of tables Above: vase, £450.
and candlesticks crafted in his signature zigzags. As he says, “I Right: chair, £800.
source what I like the look of. I’m not interested in names.” What’s Far right: shell,
more, Gallacher also takes interior design commissions, should you £500. All from
a selection,
be looking for a bigger overhaul. Jermainegallacher.com >
Jermaine
Gallacher

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WHO Friends Leah Forsyth-Steel and Victoria Spicer joined forces in
November 2020, leaving behind careers in museum curation and set design
respectively to turn their collecting impulses into Monument. How do they “We look for pieces
start their sourcing process? “We look for pieces that we believe can stand
alone. That are monumental in their own right.” that are monumental
USP “We’re a duo, so you’ll see a lot of juxtaposition within our curation in their own right”
– timeless stone sculptures next to mid-century studio pottery adorning
a 1980s marble table. We like to re-contextualise and present our collection
as simply that.” The pair are also inspired by the dealing community at
large. “There is a lot of support for each other and also purchasing from
each other – we’re all collectors, after all.”

FUTURE PLANS Monument’s own product line launching in 2022, and a

showroom to invite people to browse. Monumentstore.co.uk

Sculpture,
£130, from
a selection,
Monument

Coffee table, £2,600.

Left: sculptural table,
£2,100. Both from a
selection, AU Anna Unwin

AU ANNA UNWIN
WHO Anna Unwin worked as an interiors stylist for a
magazine and sourced and styled for private clients before
launching AU Anna Unwin in 2019. Based in Cambridgeshire, Dining chair,
she occasionally pops up with temporary stores connecting £600, from
customers IRL with her pared-back and timeless aesthetic. a selection, AU
Anna Unwin
USP If you love marble and travertine, look no further –
Unwin is an expert in both. She also hunts out the most
elegant 1970s dining and coffee tables, and is a go-to for
restoring sofas and chairs in elegant cream bouclé.

BEST FIND TO DATE “Without a doubt, it was a Carlo

Scarpa dining table. This proved extremely hard to let
go of, but at least it went to a fabulous home in LA.”

DESIGN HEROES “John Pawson and Axel Vervoordt.

Both have a huge appreciation of form and function.
I’d also love to own an Angelo Mangiarotti marble dining
table – it has such refined shape.” Annaunwin.com

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Right: artwork, £520.
Lamp, price on
request. Bookcase,
£760. All from a
selection, Max Keys

MAX KEYS
WHO Max Keys first started experimenting
with vintage clothes selling at local markets
near his home town of Worthing. Now based
between London and Paris, his offering spans
furniture, art, lighting and accessories.

KNOWN FOR The king of the “product drop”,

his Instagram-selling formula has earned him an
obsessive audience poised to slide into his DMs
to purchase. Drip-feeding teaser Stories of a
piece of the day means most finds sell within
minutes of their 6pm on-sale slot.

DESIGN HEROES “Rei Kawakubo, I’m still

longing to find some of her furniture, alongside
Maria Pergay and TH Robsjohn-Gibbings.”

DREAM FIND “A chain lamp by Franz West,

anything by Carlo Bugatti, or a sheep by
François-Xavier Lalanne.” Max-keys.com

Right: lamp,
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and heavy wrought-iron anchor Mantel’s offering.

BEST FIND TO DATE A restored pair of silver-plated Guido

Niest ribbon candlesticks (right) that were abandoned in an attic. A calming palette of metals, hand-
WHAT WE’RE BUYING Perry’s design collaboration of ceramics, carved woods and heavy wrought-
candles and wall hangings designed with Terra in Mexico support
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iron anchor Mantel’s offering
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Below: lamp, £390,

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WHO Dover Street Market alumnus Jenna Fletcher burst on
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of rainbow-hued, mostly Italian plastic pieces from the
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(decked out in some of her most-treasured finds). Plus
future cult classics, such as the LM Stool (far right) and
Selah Lamp (above) from Nigeria-based Nmbello Studio.

FUTURE PLANS “A very Capricorn list,” Fletcher says.

“A second guest house, retail residencies, establishing
an organic farm and hoping to open a café. Perhaps a
clothing archive, too? The list is never-ending.”
Instagram.com/oswalde.shop

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Cabinet, £850. Coffee table, £545.
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and fan base from Instagram has enabled Kardana
to open an M Kardana store off the back of his
online successes. Head to Hackney Road to see
and touch the most special pieces in person.

WOULD LOVE TO OWN Anything by

Armand-Albert Rateau.

INSPIRATIONS “I’m a big fan of Ron Arad, I love

his use of materials and quite radical approach to
design, and Barbara Hepworth for the organic and
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 Politically
SPEAKING
After more than three decades as an MP, Diane Abbott has lived it all –
and has the triumphs and battle scars to show for it. She grants a rare audience
to Nosheen Iqbal. Portraits by Misan Harriman. Styling by Donna Wallace

T
here is a tiny wine bar near where Diane Abbott remembers featuring on more Conservative posters – as the
lives in east London that hosts no more than six feared enemy – than Labour ones. Yet, when the ballots
customers at a time, and serves only bread and were counted, there she was: beaming in a red jacket and
cheese to soak up the booze. The Labour MP for pearls, set to become part of the first black and Asian intake
Hackney North and Stoke Newington arrives with minimal in Parliament for almost a hundred years.
fuss, sliding into a corner with a glass of Cabernet Sauvignon. It was a staggering and glorious win, but “there were a
She is slighter and quieter than the Abbott you know from lot of micro-aggressions,” she says, recalling the period.
TV, dressed head-to-toe in navy and wearing a slick of “Labour wasn’t thrilled any of us got elected in ’87.
black-cherry lipstick. The lighting is dim, the scene seems Fortunately for me – and unfortunately for them – they
set for a conspiratorial gossip. Abbott is unconvinced. weren’t able to [axe me].”
“I wouldn’t say I’m mistrustful, but I’m cautious,” she says In spite of all her electoral successes, it’s never been plain
drily, in those instantly recognisable tones. “You think people sailing. In 2017 (then shadow home secretary under Jeremy
are your friend, but they’re not.” Corbyn), she endured a general election campaign so brutal
Few people understand this as well as Abbott. For all her that Amnesty International revealed she was the target of
public profile and almost 35 years in Parliament – filled nearly half the abusive tweets sent to female politicians in
with both usual and unusual highs and the six weeks before election day. The
lows – she now occupies a pretty solitary “I just wanted to press wasn’t much kinder, until she
space in British politics. Largely adored
in her constituency, loved and loathed
change the world. The disclosed the physical toll that type two
diabetes was having on her health.

DIANE WEARS COAT, MAX MARA. TOP, EILEEN FISHER, AT FENWICK. NECKLACE, MOTLEY
within her party and the country at idea that you can be a For a while, in the aftermath of defeat,
large; at 67, she continues to face a
unique brand of scrutiny and abuse that
voice for the voiceless is she withdrew from the public eye.
“At one point, I felt completely
often surpasses her peers. An Abbott still very important” crushed by the volume of racist and
gaffe, such as stumbling over numbers sexist hate poured on me,” she says.
during interviews, is pounced upon, making her a butt of How did she cope? “Obviously, it’s painful. It’s designed to
jokes and memes. be. It’s dehumanising. It’s one thing when it’s anonymous
But her extraordinary accomplishments – first black woman people online but when it’s mainstream journalists, who
MP, first black MP at the PMQs despatch box, the only know me, who are defaulting to a stereotype of what I am
black person from a state school to study at Cambridge in and not who I am…” She trails off, pausing to consider
the 1970s – cannot be disputed. “There’s this narrative about what keeps her going. “There are so many issues that you
how I’m an idiot,” she says, bluntly. “I think most people want to engage with. You wake up in the morning, you hear
don’t realise I actually went to a reasonable university.” something on the radio, and you think, ‘Someone should
It’s an impressive legacy. But to understand the Abbott say something about that.’ And then you think, ‘I’ll say
conundrum you need to go back to the start. On 11 June something about that.’”
1987, the then 33-year-old turned up to Hackney Town It’s a Pollyanna-ish spirit that’s always been with her.
Hall on general election night expecting the worst. The Abbott grew up in Paddington and as a child dreamt of
campaign had been chaotic. The Conservatives’ Hackney political office, gabbing away to her mother about news
office was firebombed and Abbott’s HQ had its windows stories, declaring what she’d do as the UN secretary general,
smashed. She fought her own party to win a candidacy or how she’d take charge as prime minister. “I just wanted
(which the National Front also protested against) and to change the world,” she says, smiling at the memory. >

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 “The idea that you can be a voice for the voiceless is still
very important. It’s very current – just look at the way
migrants are demonised. Immigration and asylum have
always been a big part of my postbag.”
It’s an issue she understands. Abbott’s parents – a welder
and a nurse – both left school at 14 to move to Britain from
Jamaica as part of the Windrush generation. But, with a
confidence born of naivety rather than arrogance, Abbott
had a plan to succeed academically. She excelled at Harrow
County School for Girls and applied for a university place
at Cambridge, against her teachers’ advice. She graduated
with a history degree, before stints as an administrative
trainee at the Home Office and a reporter at Thames TV,
which led her to embark on a career in politics. In 1982,
she was elected to Westminster City Council, and from
there to Parliament.
Her transition to life as an MP was a challenge on many
fronts. With an energy that makes her gasp now, Abbott
describes being back at work a mere eight days after her
only son, James, was born in 1991. She’d carry him in a
Below, from left: Diane
sling in the Commons, to the annoyance of some male
Abbott, photographed in colleagues. She and her then-husband, Ghanaian architect
Hackney by Misan David Thompson, divorced when James was a baby. “It was
Harriman; with Jeremy
Corbyn at the 2018 very difficult to be a single mother with a young child, and
Labour Party Conference an MP,” she says, recalling that “regularly Parliament would
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carry on till 10 at night. I mean, just the logistics of that
were ridiculous.” Even now, she says, “it is still quite tough
to be a woman and an MP.”
Abbott is measured, sinking into long pauses before
speaking. She appreciates that experience has made her
guarded. “I’m very conscious that other people will make a
mistake and it’s fine, they made a mistake. I make a mistake
and it’s a huge thing,” she says. It’s an exhausting way to live.
Take mojito gate, when she was snapped with a Marks
& Spencer cocktail can on the London Overground in 2019.
Among the wave of fury and calls for her resignation, a
youthquake emerged as young people refused to let Abbott
be vilified. “At first, I was so embarrassed. You know, caught
drinking a mojito on the train.” Then, the junior staff in
her office told her it was seen as a “relatable moment” online.
“That’s when I realised it was going to be fine,” she smiles.
Does she still buy M&S tinnies? “Yes, occasionally!”
Despite it all, Abbott has never shied away from
controversy. She repeatedly defies the party whip, and has
publicly berated Labour leaders – in particular, Tony Blair.
“Was I undesirable?” she asks rhetorically. “For New Labour,
yes.” What about now? Last year, she blasted Keir Starmer
on Newsnight for the way she felt he had manoeuvred his
way into the role of Labour Party leader. “I’m not looking
for another big job [under Starmer],” she says. “It’s a very
different parliamentary Labour Party now.”
Several months later we meet again, this time in Abbott’s
new home. She has recently sold her four-bedroom Dalston
house (after her son moved out it was “too much for me on
my own”) and is renting a “stopgap” nearby. Since we last
spoke, the nation has been through the second wave of the
pandemic and Abbott’s main concern over the past few
months has been focused on the uptake of the vaccine in
her constituency, which has one of the lowest vaccination
rates in the capital.
On our second meeting, she is less harsh on the Labour
leader. “I think that there’s a tension between offering the
right criticisms, but not being seen by the public to be
nitpicking or negative or unpatriotic,” she says of Starmer’s
approach to taking the government to task. “And Keir has
sought to strike that balance.”

“I’m very conscious that
other people will make a mistake
and it’s fine. I make a mistake
and it’s a huge thing”
She has no time for the culture war that is constantly
being stoked. “There’s no such thing as woke culture,” she
tuts. “It’s a way of denigrating people.” She continues, “It’s
bizarre, the way the right have this sense of being victims
when we have a right-wing government, we have a largely
right-wing media. What more do they want?”
If Abbott has sometimes been a thorn in Labour’s side,
she’s also helped steer its moral compass. Back when it was
considered career suicide, Abbott voted consistently against
the Iraq War. She’s also voted against tuition fees and
renewing the UK’s Trident nuclear weapons system; she
was one of only 18 MPs to vote against the coalition
government’s 2014 Immigration Act, which made the
Windrush scandal possible. Instead, she has lobbied for gay
rights, for jobs and financial support for the young, and on
measures to prevent climate change.
When Corbyn was elected leader of the party, Abbott
was thrust into the limelight. She and Corbyn were firm
friends, and the media latched on to their decades-old
intimate relationship. “Jeremy was the first Labour leader,
that I can remember, who tried to have genuinely progressive
policies on immigration,” she says, ever-loyal to the now
sunk Corbyn project. Of Labour’s dealing with anti-
Semitism in the party, she says, “there’s no question it
could’ve been handled better because ultimately it was right
down the chain.” She’s referring to the leaked internal report,
which also exposed racist remarks made by party members
about Abbott and fellow black MPs Dawn Butler and Clive
Davis. It made, she says tactfully, for “ugly reading”. Has
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she had an apology? “No,” she says. “None.”
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Perhaps her biggest inconsistency seems to be mirroring
her politics with her personal life. Abbott criticised her
colleagues, including Blair, for not sending their children
to state schools while promising to achieve a fairer education
for all. But when her son turned 13, she sent him to a fee-
paying school, saying she had to choose between her
reputation and her son’s interest, as, “Once a black boy is
lost to the world of gangs, it’s very hard to get them back.”
“I’m not talking about my love life,” she says coyly, when
I ask if she’s dating. “That is one of the sacrifices you make
[for this job] really.” Is she in love? “At this moment, no.”
It is her friends, she says, “that have been able to support
me when things were difficult”.
Abbott’s days are simpler now, out of the shadow cabinet
– early walks, reading the papers and “a little tweeting” have
become a morning routine. Nevertheless, from the backbench
you can still “push on the national picture,” she says, and
education remains a key focus for her.
There is, she concedes, “life after politics” but for now,
she is disinterested in stepping away from the job. “Apart
from the things I’ve been able to do for Hackney, the thing
I’m proudest of is that I’ve lived to see a whole new
generation of young black women coming to Parliament,”
she says. “The first 10 years, I was there on my own. Now,
I’ll be going to chamber and there will be these black women!
I never cease to get a kind of thrill out of it.” Indeed, she
says, her most active Parliament WhatsApp group is called
Sisters in the House.
The night before our second meeting, Abbott went to
see J’Ouvert at the Harold Pinter (theatre is one of her great
passions). Afterwards, the cast, having spotted her in the Clockwise from bottom
left: Abbott speaking at
audience, came to say hello. “What struck me was how an Anti-Racism Action
excited they were that I was there,” she says, sounding conference in 1992; at the
dumbstruck. “It genuinely takes me aback to see myself in House of Commons with
Bernie Grant, centre, and
the eyes of younger women.” Jeremy Corbyn, right;
It is these interactions that help her go on. “It’s the people addressing activists from
Extinction Rebellion in
who come up to me in the street and say, ‘I wrote to you all Parliament Square, 2019;
those years ago and you got me this flat,’” Abbott says. She Abbott in 2004 on
stands to put her coat on, and a murmur of recognition This Week, which she
frequently appeared on
whispers through the bar. “But on a macro-level,” she says, alongside Conservative
smiling, “it’s still the 1997 general election. It’s hope.” n Michael Portillo
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 Take note: Nike and soccer
star Megan Rapinoe are
creating a brand partnership
that is truly one of a kind

“I FEEL LIKE this is kind of an

evolutionary process for me and Nike,
because I feel like I’m getting… you
know, I’m 36 years old,” Megan Rapinoe
tells Vogue over Zoom. In stacked chains
and gold rings, with her trademark
cropped pink hair and a vintage Dennis
Rodman T-shirt, the American soccer
player’s style is certainly her own. So,
too, is her ability to use her public-facing
platform to fight for equal pay and
social justice.
“Obviously, this collaboration isn’t
like, ‘OK, this person is 23 years old,
they have all this potential, and we’re
going to invest in that.’” she says. “It
was sort of investing in a different thing,
and I think that the evolutionary part
 VOGUE PARTNERSHIP

for Nike is understanding that this is a I think it’s really

little bit of a different kind of a model important for them
from what we’re used to, which is getting to understand my
athletes young, and following them big vision, and
through their whole careers.” where I’m seeing
This year marks a new dawning for all this going. This
Nike and Rapinoe. For the first time ever, isn’t just like,
the brand is not only fully supporting a ‘Oh, I have an
female athlete, but also placing opportunity to
marginalised communities at the heart have a big deal
of a new partnership. It’s a welcome move with Nike.’ This
and a sign of changing times. is so much more
“I think after the last Fifa Women’s than that.”
World Cup [in 2019], it was like The long-term
something just happened, like lightning partnership will
in a bottle, and a lot of things changed,” involve a series of
explains Rapinoe, who currently plays for collaborative
the US women’s national team. “I think stages. First up:
for both of us, it was like, ‘OK, how do Rapinoe has selected pieces from both Above: Megan
we do something special with it?’” the women’s and the men’s current Rapinoe selects
pieces from Nike’s
To kick things off, it’s been a meeting collections. As an Olympic gold current collections
of minds. “It has been a lot of vision- medallist, two-time World Cup winner
sharing and understanding,” Rapinoe says. and 2019 Ballon d’Or female player of
“I want Nike to wrangle the universe and the year, Rapinoe certainly knows what
bring it back to me, and they’re like, ‘OK, she wants from her sportswear.
we can wrangle a couple planets right “I think the first non-negotiable is
now,’” she says, laughing. “But, you know, always the functionality of the piece,” >
she says. “Whether that’s a chair that
you’re sitting in, or the shoes that you’re
wearing, or a piece of jewellery, or
whatever it is – if you’re uncomfortable
in it, if it doesn’t perform the technical
tasks that it’s designed to perform, then
it’s not even worth really getting
involved in. So, that’s a big part of it.”
For Rapinoe, it’s important to stress
that the collection isn’t gender neutral.
“I think when I look at sportswear, I
don’t even like to say ‘gender inclusive’
or ‘gender neutral’. I think that still puts
so much constraint on what we’re
doing,” she explains.
“I think traditionally, things have been
designed by men, and it’s just assumed
that they’re for everyone. Whereas
anytime anything is designed by a
woman, a black person, a gay person, or
a person marginalised by gender –
whatever it may be – it’s like for that
specific thing. So for me, it’s really
important not to do that because I feel
like that’s in my fashion. I can, you
know, wear this vintage T-shirt of
Dennis Rodman but I can also rock a
Gucci gown. I’m not trying to shape
shift by being like, ‘Oh, I’m more
masculine today or more feminine today,
or in the middle.’ I think that really is
at the heart of fashion.”

For Megan
Rapinoe, fashion
is important –
and great design
has to perform
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“I feel like we’re all
in this together,”
says the soccer
star and Nike
collaborator

Rapinoe isn’t the first female athlete

with a strong interest in fashion to
collaborate with Nike.
GOAT Serena Williams is actively
incorporating diverse perspectives into
design through Serena Williams Design
Crew; while fellow tennis player Naomi
Osaka helps give young girls access to
sport through Play Academy. Like
Williams and Osaka, Rapinoe’s
collection has more depth to its design
– and it couldn’t be more timely.
“This deal was all tied up just a couple
months ago, but we’ve been in talks
basically since the Women’s World
Cup,” she explains, of a year that also
saw her announce her engagement to
her partner, Sue Bird. “So, going through
2020 in our country, and the civil rights
uprising and the political uprising, and
so many other marginalised groups
finding their voice and getting a much
bigger voice – I feel like I can’t really
pin down one thing that the deal
signifies, but I think the whole point is
that Nike really met the moment to
understand, ‘OK, we have to capture all
of what Megan is, which is definitely
not one thing.’”
Rapinoe is certainly different from
many of her peers. The women’s national
team has been fighting for fair contracts
for decades, but after their Women’s
World Cup win, their fight for equal
pay has increased tenfold with Rapinoe
leading the charge. This is where her
universal appeal lies: every woman can
see a bit of themselves in her, whether
they follow soccer or not.
It’s something that Rapinoe feels
“amazing ” about. “ Women are
marginalised people who have this shared power that we have to speak on behalf put the full weight of the Nike machine
understanding. I feel like I can look at of and with so many other women. I behind that to amplify what we’re both
you right now and you totally understand think us being willing to do that, and trying to do?” she says. “I think we both
it,” she says, referring to the fight for wanting to do that also galvanises more have such a deep commitment to
women’s rights. “I think if it were you in people. I feel like we’re all in this progress, and to pushing the envelope,
the position that we’re in, I would expect together, we just happen to be the ones and – both from an on- and off-field
you and want you to carry that mantle. that have the microphone, and perspective – being the absolute best
We play for the women’s national team; everybody has a responsibility and a job that you can possibly be. And so
we have huge audiences and we have to do within it.” bringing those things together to craft
huge social media following. You know, It ’s this type of change-maker a different kind of partnership that’s
we’re one of the best, most successful attitude that Rapinoe is also applying never really been done in a sports
teams in our country. to her Nike partnership. She has landscape before.” n
“It kind of started as our own personal reimagined it for herself, asking, “How Discover the collection – which launches
fight. But very quickly, we realised the do we take everything that I am, and this autumn – for yourself at Nike.com

WOMAN’S REALM
Robin Muir looks back at the Vogue debut of a high-achieving
model royal, photographed by Norman Parkinson, October 1965
P
rincess Elizabeth of Toro – Vogue’s “Princess from
the Mountains of the Moon” – is the Princess Royal
of the ancient Kingdom of Toro (also known as
Tooro), which lies on a high plateau between two
great lakes on Uganda’s south-western border.
In 1962, shortly before Uganda gained independence from
British rule, Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of Rukidi III and
Kezia of Buganda, graduated from Cambridge. In 1965, the
year of her first Vogue shoot, she was called to the bar, London’s
first female East African barrister. Of her education, which
included school in England, she told Vogue, “I enjoyed myself
but never forgot why I was here. I have been given enormous
privileges, so many opportunities that it would have been a
total calamity if I had failed. I could not have borne the
disappointment of those who have helped me.” Later she
would write, candidly, “I felt that I was on trial and that my
failure to excel would reflect badly on the entire black race.”
She returned to Uganda to practice law but fled when
Milton Obote swept to power (he would shortly abolish the
hereditary monarchies). The princess’s poise led to a career
as a model. Certainly expedient, she thought it might also
serve a purpose: the promotion of African culture. Princess
Margaret invited her to London, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
to New York, and in 1969 she featured on the cover of Harper’s
ARCHIVE
Bazaar. This prompted an all-staff memo from American
Vogue’s Diana Vreeland, who admired her “fantastic figure”
and “enormous aristocratic manner”. She said, “It is a great
mistake that we are not using her more – and I really mean
this.” That same year, Elizabeth made a dazzling appearance
in British Vogue’s Christmas issue, photographed by David
Bailey. Her modelling continued into the new decade.
Meanwhile, in Uganda, Obote was overthrown by his one-
time army chief-of-staff, Idi Amin. In 1974, the princess was
summoned back, appointed initially as a roving peacemaker
for an increasingly erratic administration, and latterly and
briefly, minister of foreign affairs for a now unstable dictator.
Falling out of favour – she is said to have declined Amin’s
offer of marriage – she fled again. Under a benign new regime,
she became, in turn, Uganda ambassador to the United States,
to Germany and to the Vatican, as well as a tireless promoter
of African causes abroad. Diana
A distinguished career in public life still lay before her Vreeland
when she sat for photographer Norman Parkinson in 1965.
He found the young Elizabeth refreshingly, perhaps admired her
unexpectedly, down to earth. Smoothing down a fold in her “enormous
Guy Laroche dress, he told her, “You look just like a princess.”
“I don’t think that I particularly want to,” she replied. “You aristocratic
can’t help it,” he said as his camera whirred into life. n manner”
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MR VOGUE

We’ve been
expecting you
New Bond director Cary Joji
Fukunaga talks to Amel Mukhtar.
Photograph by Paul Wetherell.
Styling by Julia Brenard

I
t’s obviously been annoying as each potential
release came along and was pushed,” says No
Time To Die director Cary Joji Fukunaga, hoping
– along with legions of fans – that it will be
third time lucky for his beleaguered Bond movie.
The 44-year-old Californian joins the 007 family
at a milestone moment, this – the 25th film in Eon’s
franchise history – will be Daniel Craig’s last outing
as the British spy. So, how to put a fresh spin on it?
For Fukunaga, it meant avoiding the distract-them-
with-explosions and “don’t worry about story” route
suggested to him by a successful director. “I care
about my characters,” he laughs. He wanted to
deepen Bond’s interior world and explore his
priorities in middle age. To do so, he has looked to
his own life. “There are elements of my experiences
and feelings throughout the whole story,” he says.

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There’s no shortage of material. Fukunaga wanted
to be a pilot until his vision faltered, and was a pro
snowboarder until his leg broke – in fact, it was
while he was injured that he developed his writing
at a theatre group. Several reroutes later (including
a stint as a stylist) he entered film school, aged 24.
With easy charm and leading-man looks, it’s a
surprise he didn’t opt to be in front of the camera,
but, he says, he had already “sort of lived and played
different roles”. Born to a Swedish-American mother
and Japanese-American father, he felt “neither white
nor Asian”. Brought up in Oakland, he connected
to east coast hip-hop and Malcolm X. At first,“I was
like, ‘Who am I?’” he laughs, but now he embraces
the versatility of being a “third-culture kid”.
“Whatever I’m interested in, I just do it.”
Right now, that’s directing the Steven Spielberg
and Tom Hanks-produced miniseries Masters of
the Air, and adapting his favourite book, A Soldier
of the Great War. After so many high-profile projects
he’s learnt that, “if you get too in the weeds about
the expectations of the world, the studio and yourself,
you’re not going to be able to perform at your best.
It doesn’t have to be the best in the world… I’m aiming
for something that affects people, hits the heart.” n
No Time To Die will be released in cinemas on 1 October

Wool jacket, £1,800. Cotton shirt, £500. Wool

trousers, £570. All Dior. Silk pocket square, £70,
Turnbull & Asser. Leather shoes, £1,350, John Lobb.
Socks, £13, Pantherella. Grooming: Kat Thomas

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 PRETTY IN PUNK
It’s time to explore the rebellious side of fashion.
Edited by Itunu Oke. Photograph by Leandro Farina

A BIGGER SPLASH
The Louis Vuitton Capucines
bag has had another makeover.
The third instalment of this
collaborative project sees artist
Gregor Hildebrandt bring his
signature work to the French
maison. This screen-printed
creation is more than an
accessory, it’s art.
Bag, £6,250, Louis Vuitton
& Gregor Hildebrandt
 CHECKLIST
Necklace,
Jacket, £3,640,
price on
Alexander McQueen
request,
Pomellato
Earrings, Necklace, £750,
£756, Chanel
Givenchy Bracelet,
£3,700,
Gucci

Corset, £820,
Vivienne Westwood Gloves, £895,
Dolce & Gabbana

Vogue, May 2013

Bag, £2,280,
Valentino

Boots, £895,
Manolo
Blahnik

Shoes,
£1,050, Dior

Trainers,
£580, Saint
Laurent by
Anthony
Vaccarello
PAOLO ROVERSI
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Valentino
Beauty Twin
Liner in Black
& Nero, £36
Vogue, June 2019

Bobbi Brown
Crushed Shine
Jelly Stick in
Cranberry, £25

Estée Lauder
Pure Color
Whipped Matte
Liquid Lip in
Bar Noir, £26

Christian Louboutin
Beauty Noir Nail
Colour in Khol, £41

Fenty Beauty
Full Frontal Volume,
Lift & Curl Mascara
in Ivy League, £11

Mac Cosmetics
Pro Longwear
Paint Pot in Black Beauty Pie Quantum
Mirror, £18 Bronzer Matte in Ain’t
THEO SION

No Sunshine, £26
Lancôme
Hypnôse Palette in Marc Jacobs Perfect Intense
Smokey Chic, £44 eau de parfum 50ml, £85
 HEALING POWER
When writer and broadcaster Clemency Burton-Hill suffered a catastrophic brain
injury, her life changed forever. Here, she tells us about her road to recovery
O
n the morning of 20 January 2020, only weeks before
the pandemic turned the world upside down, I suffered a
catastrophic brain injury. One moment I was in a meeting
in New York (where I live with my husband and two
children), briefly distracted by the play of light as bright winter sunshine
bounced off the East River and poured through the windows; the next
– nothing. I was in a coma for 17 days, and when I came round,
I couldn’t speak, walk, write or move the right side of my body, but one
of the hardest things was having to accept that, in an instant, my life
had changed forever.
My brain injury, it turned out, was the result of a rare condition, an
arteriovenous malformation (or AVM) – blood vessels connecting my
arteries and veins had formed “incorrectly” in the womb. Nobody – no
doctor, no parent, nobody – could have known.
A few days previously I had been flying back to NYC from London,
where I was born and grew up. If my AVM had started to rupture over
the Atlantic, it would have been fatal. As it happened, I was admitted
to the emergency room quite shortly after I lost consciousness. There
were heroic doctors and nurses on standby; an expert brain surgeon,
Dr Christopher Kellner was paged; my life was saved. Timing is everything.
When I was discharged, months later, the pandemic had rendered
life unrecognisable – just as my brain injury had rendered me
unrecognisable. Navigating the cognitive dissonance of the new world,
of my new world, has been exhausting and distressing. And yet I feel
like the luckiest woman in the world that I even get to try.
There are, of course, occasional moments of relief, even joy. Brain
injury or no, watching my kids, now aged seven and three, go about
their little lives is mostly a source of pleasure. But it’s not uncomplicated.
Observing them growing up and being unable to (inexpertly) kick a
football, (impatiently) take them to the park or (soothingly) plaster a
grazed knee, let alone have a real conversation, is agony. While I am
Clockwise from top left: Clemency
on the streets of New York, 2019;
in occupational therapy, March
2020; scars of a cranioplasty
necessitated by the removal
of the left part of her skull
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working hard to regain language, even trying to speak a few sentences
exhausts me. I can’t properly tell them how much I love them. How
much I love them. How much I love them.
Before my brain exploded I had my ups and downs, of course. But
even in my lowest moments (I had three grief-sodden miscarriages
and have experienced extended periods of depression since my teens),
I could always count on the loves of my life to get me through. People,
books, music, art, theatre, London, travel, friends, going to the pub,
watching my beloved Arsenal play – these were all part of the tool kit
that I relied on for diversion and distraction.
As a writer and broadcaster, my career was dedicated to communication
and expression, storytelling and connection. My god, how I loved my
work. But now, every exchange is such an effort. I cried in frustration
writing this piece – left-thumbed on the Notes app, as I can no longer
type or write – because I’m now afflicted with the twin curses of aphasia
and apraxia, common for many brain-injury survivors.
Interacting with the outside world is difficult, too. It’s hard for me
to leave my neighbourhood without help. The world is more complicated
– physically, neurologically, cognitively. The spectre of another major
seizure, or worse, another serious brain haemorrhage, is always hovering.
In my former existence, my horizons seemed infinite. Now, I can’t move
much, let alone drive or fly, and being in a car, train or bus makes me
feel anxious and physically sick. There are few days when I can leave
my very circumscribed life. Privileged I may be, but my life is bound
by a few Manhattan blocks.
People ask me if this experience has revealed a new side of myself,
maybe one that I am thankful for. It would be tempting to say it has.
Thank you, brain injury, for uncovering a more enlightened me. Sure,
there’s compromised speech and mobility, cognitive fog and chronic
pain, but no hangovers! No late nights! A more healthy existence!
Truthfully, I don’t think so. I’m still me. I miss those late nights. I miss
drinking. I miss conversations. I miss my cities. I miss my work.
And yet… I go for a short walk most days, if I am physically up to
it, and I’m working on just being here. There’s nothing like the possibility
of death at 38 to sharpen your gratitude for life, for actually being alive.
Savouring the sounds of the city, the colour of the sky, the taste of an
excellent cup of coffee. How lucky am I! If this is the extent of my life
ANDREW STAPLES/COURTESY OF CLEMENCY BURTON-HILL; JAMIE STOKER
right now, what a life! Because the timing of the pandemic and my
brain injury coincided, I still can’t see my best friends or my family. But
looking at their faces via video chat, or stealing a moment alone with
my beloved husband, watching our sons while they sleep, I appreciate
these small things, which is actually everything. The pleasure of a
heart-stopping sentence in a book, a forgotten favourite song coming
on shuffle, a breathtaking sunset after the rain, a belly laugh with a
dear friend 3,000 miles away – if there are words and music and light
and humans communicating, then I know it’s going to be OK. It has
to be, doesn’t it?
Just today, I happened to be sitting outside a coffee shop on Lexington
Avenue, when I caught sight of an old friend. He was walking on the
other side, masked, outside his neighbourhood. It felt like the universe
was throwing me a signal: don’t give up! I hobbled after him and the
crosswalk lights changed in my favour. With all the force I could muster,
I called out his name. He turned around. He had never seen me in my
“new” life. Yet, he still recognised me. “There you are!” he exclaimed.
Then he shook his head. And smiled. We embraced. “There you are.” n
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SIGHT
With a whole new spacious environment to
approach, BMW’s design team considered
the i range’s interiors with the perspective
of a living space. This is achieved by a
clever combination of geometry, colour
and ingeniously absorbed technology to
complete the sensory experience.
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ELECTRIC
A feat of design and engineering, the
innovations of BMW’s latest iX and
i4 cars appeal to all the senses and

FEEL
propose a brand new way to drive.

Photographs by Mitch Payne

 S
eldom can a brand claim to have reinvented wheels.” The feeling Geidobler
the wheel, but BMW ’s re volutionar y describes – a welcoming
development of electric vehicles in recent years sensation that begins on
has done just that. The company’s journey has opening the car’s door – has
been a long one – starting with its first electric been achieved through three
prototype in 1972 – and has most recently key colour schemes, which
produced two new electric models, the iX and the i4, which resonate with modern interior
have redefined many of the marque’s own high standards. design, and a brilliant use of
By placing the driver’s experience at the heart of its design forward-thinking materials. By
process, BMW has brought new technologies to life and exploring the idea of tactility,
created totally fresh ways to see, hear and feel its cars along BMW has created spaces that
the way. you’ll actually want to stay in
Fittingly, it was by looking to the senses of sight, sound and enjoy – which won’t remove
and touch that BMW approached the innovative design the prospect of traffic jams
and technology created for the iX, a cleverly conceived sports entirely, but will guarantee
activity vehicle, and the i4, a high-performance coupé. “It they’re a lot more pleasurable.
forced us to think in a different way,” explains Claudia “We started looking from the
Geidobler, head of BMW i colour and material design “From inside out,” explains digital
a designer’s point of view, it’s great because it’s a blank design experience lead Jessica
canvas,” she says. “You can create your own designs on [it] Covi.“Not just inside the car
and come up with unique solutions.” but inside the passenger and
For the design team, driver, how they feel.” For
this meant approaching her team, the most intricate
the space less like a challenge with the interiors in
traditional car and more the i range was finding a way
as a living space. “We to incorporate innovative
talked internally and technology in a subtle, stylish
said, ‘OK, what do you and integrated way. The result
have in your own living is something that BMW
room?’ Where do you has christened “shy tech” –
want to hang out and information and entertainment
what materials make technology, which is there
you enjoy staying in a when you need it, and easily
space? We wanted to summoned and dismissed.
hav e a real l y cosy Reinforcing the important
environment, not only tactile quality of the car, this
through geometry but involves aspects such as the use
The i series takes
integrated technology with colour and feel. of gesture over physical contact
to an elegant new level We basically thought of for actions that inc lude
it as a living room on increasing the stereo volume, as
well as an impressive cutting
down of “gadgetry” in general.
It’s for this reason that the cars
are as much a multisensory
pleasure to drive as they are to
simply hang out in. As Covi
succinctly puts it, “The beautiful
sculpture of the car itself and
the beauty of digital design, they combine into one unit.”
Perhaps an inevitable effect of technology borne from
the aim of both best serving the planet and enjoying one’s
space with the iX and i4 are their clever use of environmentally
conscious materials and production. Though today new
design shouldn’t need to shout so loudly about its sustainable
virtues (customers should legitimately expect that such
considerations have been made), there are aspects within
the design of BMW’s i range that do deserve highlighting
for the interesting story they tell.
For example, many of the materials used in the iX are the
products of years of development, experimentation and
The iX retains all of exploration, from an Econyl microfibre recycled from fishing
BMW’s classic bold nets to door panels that incorporate the super-low-footprint
character but explores
all new territory
kenaf plant and the removal of hard-to-recirculate chrome
inside and out from its paint. In fact, everywhere you look, material
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SOUND innovation is there. The unique challenge of these materials here, with a list of
Outside, the iX and – distinct from those of clothing, for example – is the high impressive stats to back
the i4 give off standards of resistance that they must meet, a very difficult that up. The i4 is the
minimal noise, but feat to achieve alongside biodegradability. world’s first all-electric
inside, the cars
come with a BMW One conversation that has recently come to the fore with gran coupé, with the
Iconic Sounds clothing manufacture surrounds traditional chemical dyeing M50 promising 544
Electric feature, a
curated series of
methods, which are among the most hazardous of processes horsepower and the
sound packages to to the environment. With this in mind, BMW’s challenge eDrive40 a 365-mile
enhance the driving was to find a way to achieve the crimson red for the iX’s range. Meanwhile, the
experience. Expect
the latest curation leather upholstery without negatively impacting the planet. iX boasts a sports car
by composer Hans The solution was eventually found in the juice of olive leaves level of acceleration,
Zimmer to arrive – a natural, pioneering innovation and just another example and can reach 74 miles
early next year.
of the brand’s holistic approach to solving design issues. of range from just 10
It’s also worth noting that such advances in the physical minutes of charge when
and smart elements of the car don’t come at the cost of using a rapid charger
driving performance. The iX and i4 are leading the field capable of 195kW. >
 The newly angled conversation around the relationship
between person and space at the centre of BMW’s i range
has also been made emphatically in the marque’s voice. One
great example of this is the classic kidney grille that has
been a central aspect of BMW’s visual identity since 1933
and was historically used for supplying cool air to the engine.
Today, with no more need for its original purpose, the iX
and i4’s kidney grille has been transformed into a smart
hub, using inbuilt cameras and radar functions to
supply hundreds
of pieces of data
to the cars’ “How can we give
intelligent driving people something that is
systems. There
are further great
more of an experience
innovations, too, than they ever had with
such as brake
energy recovery
their petrol engines?”
and a superbly
aerodynamic, lightweight construction, that mean that the
cars are prepared to reach optimum performance, both on
and off the road.
Of all the innovations BMW has made in honing the
feel of driving, one of the most interesting has come from
filling the space created by the absence of engine noise.
With the frequencies experienced by a driver eliciting an

WLTP RANGE FIGURES OBTAINED AFTER BATTERY FULLY CHARGED, SHOWN FOR COMPARABILITY PURPOSES. MAY NOT REFLECT REAL LIFE DRIVING RESULTS
EMISSIONS: 0 G/KM. ELECTRIC ENERGY CONSUMPTION (COMBINED): 16.1 TO 18.4 KWH/100KM / 2.8 – 3.9 MILES/KWH. THE I4 ELECTRIC RANGE 258 – 366 MILES.
KWH. THE IX XDRIVE40 ELECTRIC RANGE: 246-257 MILES. THE IX XDRIVE50 ELECTRIC RANGE: 366-380 MILES. BMW I4 MPG (L/100KM): NOT APPLICABLE. CO2
invisible yet deeply emotional effect, the “clean sheet” now

BMW IX MPG (L/100KM): NOT APPLICABLE. CO2 EMISSIONS: 0 G/KM. ELECTRIC ENERGY CONSUMPTION (COMBINED): 20 TO 21 KWH/100KM / 2.9 – 3 MILES/
available was handed over to an expert in the field. Legendary
composer, producer and Academy Award winner Hans
Zimmer was the surprising and brilliant choice to re-imagine
the aural experience, as he was tasked with creating an audio
landscape that will soon be absorbed into the existing iX
and i4 models.
“How can we give people something that is more of an
experience than they ever had with their petrol engines?”
asked Zimmer of the proposition, “and make it even more
exciting and even more joyful to drive?” Such questions led
the top composer to write music that reflects the serenity
of hitting the open road and the excitement that lies at the
heart of driving. Standing back to assess the score he has
created for BMW, Zimmer says, “We have developed a
driving sound which accentuates their emotional driving
experience particularly vividly and ensures their performance
can be felt with even greater intensity.”
What all this adds up to is a truly unique driving
experience. Behind the wheel, what strikes you most about
both the iX and i4 is the physical, emotional and even
intellectual pleasure you get from realising just how cleverly
BMW have capitalised on the
economy of space that eliminating
TOUCH much of what we have grown used to
No longer as essential in a vehicle has given.
dominated by Add to that the attention to detail
controls and applied to every aspect of the car and
machinery, the feel
of the car is the natural reaction is not so much
simpler, cleaner one of shock as a sense of, “Why
and more in tune
with the driver and
hasn’t it always been like this?”As we
passenger. With all get back to both experiencing the
integrated world afresh and thinking about it in
technology serving
a relationship both wholly different ways, there has never
between driver and been a more perfect time to take a
car and car and wheel that has been reinvented, in a
road, it presents a
new, symbiotic sense, and feel it for yourself. n
experience. For more information, visit Bmw.co.uk
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Hair: Anna Cofone.
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A healthy gut is a core principle of
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Although the science behind it is limited, few would
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What better way to start the new season than with a showstopping signature scent? Happily, a slew of fragrances from some of the world’s
biggest fashion houses promise straight-off-the-runway confidence. Hermès’s Twilly Eau Ginger is warm, sparkling and soft, while Valentino’s Voce
Viva Intensa leaves a rich and powerful trail. In its hundredth year, the eternal Chanel No5 is still the perfect companion to any occasion, including
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HARVEST SEASON has a refreshing effect on the soul; those cool autumn mornings clear the mind like nothing else.
It’s life-affirming. Edie Campbell knows the feeling only too well, as she invites us to her new home (designed in tandem with
her mother, architect Sophie Hicks) in a secluded corner of the English countryside. Elsewhere, Annie Leibovitz embraces
far frostier climes, when she travels to Iceland with a trio of models dressed in the season’s pick of puffers, parkas and
piled-up knits. It seems that now, more than ever, we look to our clothes for protection and comfort – sensuality, even –
which is something Dan Martensen captures beautifully in a day on the farm with model Paloma Elsesser. Of course, the
great outdoors isn’t only about rural or rugged landscapes. As far as we’re concerned, it’s wherever makes your heart sing,
and for Michael Kors – currently celebrating the 40th anniversary of his brand – that’s New York City. We take his latest
collection to its streets to help him mark the occasion. Zendaya, at only 25 years of age, already has a lot to celebrate.
Fashion’s favourite film star and this month’s cover star has lived many lives and learnt much along the way. What a journey.

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 The
world
according
to
Zendaya
To Generation Z, she is the ultimate influencer.
To those who know her, she is – at just 25 – an old soul.
Here, the actor Zendaya talks to Marisa Meltzer about
what her already more than decade-long career has
taught her, and why there is so much left to learn
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“I’m trying, I’m learning
every day, I really am,”
says Zendaya. “There’s
so much I want to do.”

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 Velvet body, £310.
Velvet skirt, £650.
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I
“We got in a nice, beautiful rhythm,
where we were able to snap
into focus on scenes but we had
fun, too,” says Timothée Chalamet
t’s lunchtime on a spotlessly sunny day in LA, and
Zendaya and I are in a corner booth in the back room of a hotel in West
Hollywood discussing her workaholic tendencies. “I hate spare time,”
she says, wrinkling her nose a little. “I just don’t know what I’m doing
when I’m not working. I’m like, I don’t know what this [and here the
actor waves her hands over her body] is.”
Unlike most twentysomethings, Zendaya (her last name is Coleman
but, as with Rihanna or Adele, who needs it?) already has a long and
varied career behind her. A veteran of two different Disney series, she’s
been working a “nine-to-five since I was 13”. Her extracurricular activities
include competing on Dancing with the Stars (she was runner-up aged
16) and co-designing a capsule collection for Tommy Hilfiger (she’s
also the face of Lancôme, Bulgari and Valentino). She has had a Barbie
made in her likeness and met all of her heroes: Beyoncé (“so supportive”),
Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama. With upwards of 104 million
Instagram followers, next up is, presumably, world domination.
Take the autumn she has planned, which will see her take over the
big and small screens. In December, she will reprise her part as MJ in
Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home (what can she say about it?
“Nothing!”), but not before she will star opposite Timothée Chalamet
in the hugely anticipated remake of legendary 1965 cerebral sci-fi novel
Dune this October. Then comes the second season of Sam Levinson’s
defining Gen Z show Euphoria, in which Zendaya plays teen addict
Rue, a role that, last year, made her the youngest woman to win
outstanding lead actress in a drama series at the Emmy Awards.
We meet during a gruelling week of night shoots for the latter. If not
instantly recognisable (it’s those bewitching eyes and slightly downturned
mouth that give her away), you’d think that 5ft 10in Zendaya would be
unmissable, but she slides into the back room so quietly that it takes a
moment to notice she’s arrived at the table. She’s wearing a white tank
sans bra, as all cool young women do these days, Tommy Hilfiger trousers,
Converse Chuck Taylors and seemingly no make-up. Half of her long
hair is swept up off her face, the rest falls in soft curls reaching halfway
down her back. Her phone lights up with a call from Levinson, and as
she reaches for it, I spot a yellow-diamond ring (at least five carats, maybe
six), from Bulgari. “This is my splurge, my treat-myself,” she smiles. “I
do get a little employee discount,” she laughs shyly. “It feels like it’s gonna
be an heirloom, like one day I can give it to my grandchildren.”
Grandchildren? If that feels premature from a woman who, when we
meet, is still 24, it is in keeping for someone who gets “called ‘Grandma’
a lot”. Like many child actors, Zendaya is someone who seems at once
young and old, world-weary and a little… not naive, but open and
excited to learn everything she can about life, which she’s largely seen
from the vantage point of filmsets and publicity appearances. A friend’s
16-year-old son told me that when he watched her play a teenage spy
on her Disney series KC Undercover, she struck him as an old soul. She
laughs and nods. “I’ve been told that many, many, many times.”
This year feels like Zendaya’s career is catching up to that reputation.
Her last film, Malcolm & Marie – a smart two-hander also starring John
David Washington, shot in crisp black and white, and released at the
start of 2021 – felt like her coming-of-age moment; her transition from
starlet to star. Conceived and filmed entirely in lockdown, it also marked
Zendaya’s first credit as a movie producer; one who ensured that part
of the proceeds of the film went to the charity Feeding America.
If Malcolm & Marie was an indication of her ambition, Dune – directed
by Denis Villeneuve – shows her determination to take her career
trajectory into her own hands. The film centres on the Atreides, a family
of interplanetary aristocrats who have recently taken over management
of the desert planet Arrakis, where spice, the most valuable substance
in the universe, is mined. Zendaya set her sights on playing Chani, a
mysterious figure who Paul Atreides (Chalamet), the scion of the family,
keeps having visions of and who seems somehow connected to his future.
“Before they were even looking at people, I heard about it,” recalls
Zendaya. “And I was like, ‘I really want to get in the room.’ They weren’t
looking in my direction. And I was like, ‘Hey, I’m here!’” Zendaya was
eager to work with Villeneuve – “I don’t think he makes bad movies”
– and had never met Chalamet before but, like everyone else, thought
he was special. It seemed to her like a dream team.
Villeneuve didn’t take much convincing. “I remember meeting Chani
for the very first time when Zendaya made me believe that she has been
raised on an alien planet, in the deep desert, in the roughest environment,”
he tells me of the audition. “We all know Zendaya is a brilliant actress
but I was particularly amazed by the high precision of her acting skills,
her intelligence, her graceful patience and her great generosity. She’s
one of the most professional artists I’ve ever worked with.”
Zendaya felt like Chalamet, in particular, appreciated her presence.
“I was the only other person closer to his age on the cast. So he was
like, ‘Awesome, someone who understands my jokes!’” They threw dance
parties in her trailer. “He just rolled up with his little boom box,” she
laughs, and would play “2000s dance songs like Soulja Boy”.
“We got in a nice, beautiful rhythm, where we were able to snap into
focus on scenes but we had so much fun, too,” Chalamet tells me, describing
Zendaya as a “total icon” and a “great friend”. They text and see each
other when she’s in New York or he’s in LA. “He’s obviously a very
talented actor, but just a wonderful person and a good friend to have,”
she says. “Especially in this industry, it’s nice to have other people who
are going through it too and that you can talk to.”
Zendaya isn’t someone who wears the world too lightly. Does she have
a therapist, I ask? “Yeah, of course I go to therapy,” she says. “I mean, if
anybody is able to possess the financial means to go to therapy, I would
recommend they do that. I think it’s a beautiful thing. You know, there’s
nothing wrong with working on yourself and dealing with those things
with someone who can help you, someone who can talk to you, who’s not
your mom or whatever. Who has no bias.” The pandemic brought with
it her “first kind of taste of sadness where you wake up and you just feel
bad all day, like what the f**k is going on? What is this dark cloud that’s
hovering over me and I don’t know how to get rid of it, you know?”
You can see how she may be channelling some of those depressive
moments into her role as the often numb Rue in Euphoria, a show that
deals with subjects such as addiction, sex and violence. But, she points
out, she is also “the most sober person you could ask to play this part.
I can only understand it to an extent, and then I have to lean on Sam.
He was an addict for many years as a teenager. And he’s been clean since
he was 19 years old. That’s the thing that makes me hopeful. > 186
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£10,670, L’Enchanteur

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 “Yeah, of course I go to
therapy… it’s a beautiful
Duchesse-satin dress,
£1,495. Duchesse-
thing. You know, there’s
satin gloves, to order.
Both Emilia
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and strass sandals,
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Earrings and
working on yourself”
tights, as before
 Zendaya and her stylist have started
building her an archive. “I want to
reuse my clothes. I want to be able
to wear that dress again when
I’m 40 and be like, ‘This old thing?’”

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 Crêpe minidress,
£3,505, Saint
Laurent by Anthony
Vaccarello. Leather
and strass sandals,
£790, René Caovilla.
Oval diamond ring
and rectangular
diamond ring, Bulgari.
Tights, as before
 “I’m always like, ‘I will always need
Because if I don’t work then
everything can be gone tomorrow”
When we have all this really dark shit – especially this season breaks
my heart for Rue – there’s a glimmer of hope because I know that she
is a version of him.” It’s touching the way she talks with such emotion
about both Levinson’s past and the fictional Rue, who is part Zendaya,
part Levinson and part her own person altogether.
“It’s such a brutal season,” emails Levinson, “and what I love the most
about Z is she’s able to go to those dark places and then as soon as I
call cut, she’s hanging out behind the monitor, eating Cheesecake Factory
and cracking jokes.” He goes on, “She’s also family. We just shoot the
shit all day. We talk about the show, the characters, life, movies, politics.
She’s one of the most grounded human beings I know.”
It seems Zendaya’s most important relationships straddle the line
between business and pleasure. (“I like being on set,” she shrugs, “it’s
my social life.”). She was the first major client of her stylist and close
friend Law Roach, who she met when she was 14, around the time
Roach owned a vintage store in Chicago. They hit it off and he took
her shopping for an outfit to wear to a premiere. Now they communicate
in shorthand, sending each other screenshots of inspiration – Zendaya
scrolls through her phone showing me the references for her Vogue
shoot, such as Cindy Crawford and other supermodels in power poses.
They have also started work building her an archive of designer clothes.
“I want to reuse my clothes. I want to be able to wear that dress again
when I’m 40 and be like, ‘This old thing?’ Really finding good vintage
pieces that I want to invest my money in.”
Mostly though, she has a hard time spending on herself. “My mother’s
a saver, and so I try to keep that in mind. Then my dad’s like, ‘You know,
you can’t spend it when you’re dead,’ kind of thing. I’m somewhere
in-between.” At 23, she took her first holiday to Greece and told her
assistant Darnell Appling (they met when he was her stand-in on KC
Undercover and remain incredibly close, living together in her home in
the San Fernando Valley) to take her card, pay for everything, and not
tell her how much so she wouldn’t stress out.
It’s something she talks to her therapist about. “The hope is to have a
career where you can be in a position, financially, to just do things you
want to do because you enjoy the work and not have to worry about
the other things,” she says. She’s not sure she’s there yet, revealing the
weight of duty behind her drive. “But I’m always like, ‘I will always need
to work.’ Because if I don’t work then everything can be gone tomorrow.”
Z
endaya grew up in Oakland, in the San Francisco Bay Area
in Northern California. It’s a city that never lost its radical
edge (it was home to the Black Panthers), though in recent
years tech-world money has crept in. Zendaya has a white
mother, Claire Stoermer, and a black father, Kazembe Ajamu
Coleman, both teachers who are now divorced. “My parents worked very
hard to provide me with everything that I could have ever wanted as a
child,” she says. During the summers, her mother worked for a Shakespeare
festival. “I grew up in the theatre. I was a little kid watching Richard III.”
In that sense, she was the classic precocious only child surrounded
by adults. Actually, she has five half-siblings – three sisters and two
brothers – though they are much older. Even so, they’re tight-knit – her
sister works for her and her brothers don’t live far – and they have
children who are close to Zendaya’s age. To them, she’s Auntie Daya.
“I like to think I’m the cool aunt, I had this whole situation the other
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to work.’
day where my little niece had friends over. I’m like, ‘Do you want to
hang out? Do you need a ride?’” she says in an overly eager manner.
“But she seems to be not too embarrassed for me. Euphoria helps with
that.” But she ribs them, too: “My niece, who is two years older than me,
was wearing a side-part and skinny jeans, and I was like, ‘Uh oh, you
didn’t hear? Skinny jeans are cancelled. You’re out honey, you’re out.’”
Her family help ground and protect her, including in her very private
but much-dissected love life. Zendaya has acted opposite pretty much
all of the internet’s boyfriends: Chalamet in Dune; Jacob Elordi in Euphoria;
John David Washington in Malcolm & Marie; Zac Efron in The Greatest
Showman. “Yeah. I’ve seen those tweets,” she laughs. But dating her
IRL is, she insists, a tall order. The list of approvals is long – “my dad,
my brothers, it’s a whole thing. Good luck to whoever wants to take that
on,” she scoffs. Perhaps her Spider-Man co-star Tom Holland, who has
long been rumoured to be her boyfriend, is up to the task? After all, the
following day, photos appear of the pair kissing in a car after our lunch.
Who can blame her for being reticent to go public with something as
intimate and potentially dramatic as your love life in your mid-twenties?
This is someone who refused to have her first kiss on-screen as a teenage
Disney star. “I remember being on Shake It Up and being like, ‘I’m not
gonna do this. I’m going to kiss him on the cheek because I haven’t
been kissed yet so I don’t want the kiss to be on camera,’” she remembers.
Anyway, she’s not out shutting down Hollywood clubs, she’s a homebody
who spends her time watching movies and listening to true-crime podcasts.
During lockdown, she started painting – her Euphoria co-star Hunter
Schafer bought her some oils. “If it’s not f**king Picasso first time I do
it, I’m upset about it,” she says of getting to grips with the pastime. For
those astrologically inclined: yes, she is a perfectionist Virgo.
But for all her inclination towards perfectionism, Zendaya’s not
interested in a timeline. “I’ve never been like, ‘I want to do this at this
time, then from this age, I want to do this.’ One day I’ll have a family,
but I’m not trying to put a number on it, it’ll happen if it’s meant to
happen.” True feminism, she says, has to be intersectional and encompass
“women that look like you, women who don’t look like you, women
whose experiences are different than you. That means black women,
that means trans women, that means all women.”
Does she think about what she might tell her future children about
what it’s like being black in America in this moment? She sighs. “I mean,
that’s a big question. I don’t know – I don’t know what I’m going to tell
them. Hopefully, they’ll be able to look at what I’ve done and my body
of work and see it.” Art, she believes, is “a huge catalyst for change. If
I ever do become a film-maker, I know that the leads of my films will
always be black women.” And that’s certainly on her list. On set, she
likes to sit near the monitors and ask questions about storyboarding
shots. “I gotta hurry up and figure out how to f**king become a director,
man. I’m trying, I’m learning every day, I really am. There’s so much I
want to do.” Levinson predicts she’ll be “an astonishing film-maker”.
Before she gets too far ahead of herself, she still has this autumn to
get through. We wrap up before she heads back into another long night
of filming. Still on the horizon are two press tours for Dune and Spider-
Man, as well as her 25th birthday at the start of September. There won’t,
she tells me, be a party this year – she’ll be in Venice, working. “It’s not
a bad way to spend your birthday,” she smiles. n
Dune will be released in cinemas on 21 October
Satin minidress,
£965, Maximilian,
at Net-a-Porter.com.
Tights, shoes and
ring, as before
 Embellished viscose
gown, £3,560, Paco
Rabanne. Knickers,
from £20, Cosabella.
Leather and crystal
sandals, £470,
Aquazzura. Tights and
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 Dating her is, she insists, a tall
order. The list of approvals is long –
“my dad, my brothers, it’s a whole
thing. Good luck to whoever
wants to take that on”
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Stretch-velvet
and leather legging
boots, £2,430,
Saint Laurent by
Anthony Vaccarello.
Earrings, as before.
Prices on request
unless otherwise stated.
For stockists, all
pages, see Vogue
Information.
Hair: Ursula Stephen.
Make-up: Sheika
Daley. Nails: Chaun
Peth. Set design: Gille
Mills. Production:
That One Production.
Digital artwork:
Gloss. With thanks to
Vogue entertainment
director-at-large
Jill Demling

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 A New York
TALE
His brand of laid-back American chic made Michael Kors
a billionaire, but his story began in The City That Never Sleeps.
Lynn Yaeger visits the designer at his 42nd Street HQ, while a few
of the city’s residents wear highlights from his autumn/winter
2021 collection and tell Vogue why they heart New York, too.
Photographs by Justin French. Styling by Dena Giannini

B
ellmore, Merrick, Freeport, Baldwin!” Michael Kors shrieks
when he sees me in the corridor outside his conference
room on 42nd Street. “Massapequa, Seaford, Wantagh!”
I shout back, while his assistants stare, open-mouthed, at
this goofy recitation. But it is not strange to the two of
us. These are the stops on the Long Island Rail Road that the conductor
bellows on the train to Manhattan, the golden land for Kors and me
when we were growing up a few droopy suburban towns away from
each other on Long Island. Manhattan. That sceptered isle where
everything was possible, where there were no limits, where you went
as far as your imagination and sheer guts could take you.
“I thought New York was Oz,” Kors says of the city where he made
his reputation, the place that gave birth to his enormous success, the
town that he loves fiercely. This is the 40th year that Kors has been at
the helm of his eponymous business, an enterprise built on his light-
hearted reverence for meticulous, classic American clothes, an empire
that now comprises clothing for men and women, shoes, handbags,
watches, jewellery, eyewear, perfume and more.
The designer is at this point a beloved billionaire, a national treasure,
recipient of countless honours, known to millions for his role as a
judge on Project Runway and his charitable work in the fight to end
hunger. And though his is a quintessential American story – really, a
New York story – the rest of the world has embraced his vision (he
now boasts 820 shops internationally). As it turns out, the longing
for the perfect turtleneck, a beautifully cut trouser, a classic coat with
just a soupçon of transgressive wit, is universal.
Are you surprised at how huge it all became? I ask him as we settle
in – masks off, we’re vaccinated – on a summer afternoon in this very
strange year. “I am,” he replies. “I came of age when there were such
distinct borders for a designer. I thought, ‘You’re an American designer,
you’re going to design for Americans.’ English designers dressed English
women, the French dressed the French. I never thought that American
fashion, other than Levi’s, could be something that would be embraced
globally. When I first saw my clothes at Harvey Nics I thought, ‘Wow,
I’m international now!’ I mean, did I ever think that I would walk down
the street in Kuala Lumpur and see five Michael Kors watches and
seven Michael Kors handbags? No, I did not.”
He showed talent early – there was never any real doubt about his
future métier. By the time he was 12, Kors was operating a boutique
– albeit in his mother’s basement. “Everyone shopped at Iron Butterfly,”
he laughs. “We sold copper-wire jewellery, batik, little leather belt
COURTESY OF MICHAEL KORS

bags… When I was very young I was a model, and I was always very
entrepreneurial. My mother was like, ‘You’re gonna bank the money,
right?’ And I would be like, ‘Um, I bought a Bottega Veneta clutch bag.’
And she said, ‘Why?!’ ‘Why? Because it changes my life – it’s everything!’”
Michael Kors by If anyone understands how a handbag can change a life, how material
Inez & Vinoodh things can give joy and solace, it is Kors. “I think I made my own reality,”
he says. It helped that his open-minded family gave him the > 196

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ASHLEY GRAHAM
& JUSTIN ERVIN
“I gave my twenties to NYC,”
says Ashley Graham. “I met the
love of my life here.” The model
and entrepreneur is, of course,
referring to her husband of 11
years, cinematographer and
director Justin Ervin. So, do the
couple have a favourite spot
there? “Brooklyn is a special
place for us. That’s where we
got married, became pregnant
and had our first child.”
From left: Ashley wears wool/
cashmere puffer jacket, £1,420.
Cashmere dress, £985. Leather
shoes, £450. Jewellery, her own.
Justin wears herringbone parka
and trousers, to order. T-shirt,
£45, Intimissimi. Boots, £109,
Dr Martens. Beanie, stylist’s own.
Clothing and accessories,
throughout, Michael Kors Collection,
unless otherwise stated
DOMINIQUE
JACKSON & EDWIN
TORRES JR
From Hell’s Kitchen to
Washington Heights, The Big
Apple is special to actress
Dominique Jackson and her
manager and fiancé Edwin
Torres Jr, not just because it’s
where they met and fell in love,
but also because it’s where they
made it. “New York City can
eat people alive,” says Jackson,
“and we not only survived it,
we thrived and conquered it.”
From left: Dominique
wears leather coat, £2,925.
Cashgora dress, £1,550.
Suede boots, £820. Leather
clutch, £715. Jewellery, her
own. Edwin wears wool coat,
herringbone trousers and
leather shoes, to order.
Sweater, £25, Uniqlo. Hat,
from £100, Lack of Color.
Jewellery, his own
 IGOR
VISHNYAKOV
& SASHA
PIVOVAROVA
Artist Igor Vishnyakov and
model/artist Sasha Pivovarova
may have met in Moscow,
but they have made New York
their home. Their special
place? “Williamsburg,
Brooklyn,” says Pivovarova.
“We had our first apartment
there.” And what makes New
York City special? “It is the
most multicultural city on earth,
and I love the energy here.”
From left: Igor wears
cashmere sweater, to order.
T-shirt, £30, Calvin Klein
Jeans. Sasha wears
patent-leather coat, £2,205.
Cashmere dress, £720

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 AYODELE CASEL
& TORYA BEARD
“I always thought NYC was
the place to be if I wanted to
live out my dreams,” says
Michigan-native Torya Beard,
a stage director and creative
consultant. “Moving here
confirmed that.” Ayodele Casel
– her wife, a tap artist and
choreographer – couldn’t
agree more. “I grew up feeling
like NYC was the greatest
city in the world,” says the
Bronx-born Casel. “New
Yorkers are among the most
authentic people, and express
their identities and cultures with
so much pride. I love that.”
From left: Ayodele wears
cashmere sweater, £690.
Wool trousers, £720.
Hat, from £180, Lola Hats.
Torya wears wool coat,
£1,820. Jewellery, her own
TYGAPAW &
AVION PEARCE
The magic and myth of
New York often prove an
irresistible pull. “Coming here
from Jamaica was a giant
leap,” says artist, musician
and producer Tygapaw, who
arrived in the city 19 years
ago. “It has opened up my
entire world, and I’ve learnt
a lot from these streets and
communities.” Meanwhile,
New Yorker Avion Pearce,
their artist girlfriend, says,
“I was born here. I’ve moved
away many times but always
find my way back.”
From left: Tygapaw wears
duchesse-satin coat, £2,290.
Leather trousers, £1,690.
Vest, £88, Re/Done, at
Matchesfashion.com.
Shoes and jewellery,
their own. Avion wears
sequined coat, £4,230.
Boots, from £165, Syro

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 confidence to face the world unafraid. He recalls visiting a particularly
groovy aunt – he had persuaded her to take him to see his idol, Bette
Midler – and said aunt took him over to visit some of her friends
before the show. “I knew I was gay, but I didn’t know what that meant.
I didn’t know what kind of life this would be,” remembers Kors.
“We walk in, there’s a bubblegum-pink kitchen, all these guys were
there, an art director, someone in film… The bell went off, and I was
so relieved. I found my people!”
He found more of his people at New York’s Fashion Institute of
Technology, though he didn’t last long. “I quit school. I just kept
thinking, ‘I kind of know what I love and what I feel, I want to get
dirty and learn how to do it.’” If life sometimes imitates art, it can
also imitate a 1930s black-and-white melodrama, the kind of film
where the working girl makes good. For Kors, this moment came
when – while still a student – he got a job at the beyond-trendy
boutique Lothar’s on 57th Street, across from Bergdorf Goodman.
“I always wanted a pair of tie-dyed French Lothar’s jeans, I was a
swizzle stick back then, and you got a free outfit if you worked there.
I wanted to be on the sales floor, I wanted to be around the clothes.
To this day, my favourite thing in the world is being on the sales floor,”
says Kors. This love of spending time with clients has been a challenge
for him over the past year. “Zoom has been a lifesaver during lockdown,”
he confesses, “but I am such a people person that the flat monotony
of Zoom is something that I never truly fell in love with.”
At Lothar’s he met the women he calls the global rich, people whose
effortless elegance and nonchalant chic informed his own ideas about
style. “I thought they were so intriguing – Marella Agnelli, women like
that. But also celebrities, Muhammad Ali and his wife Veronica, Goldie
Hawn, Diana Ross. It was the ’70s, they were just walking around.”
But suddenly – how fickle is fashion! – Lothar’s tie-dye aesthetic cratered,
and the boutique’s owners asked Kors if he’d like to design a few things.
“Everything was one of a kind. If it was raining, I made a raincoat, if it
was hot out, I made a linen dress.” One day when Kors was in the window,
his mouth full of T-bar pins, he saw, “this tall elegant woman staring
at me, and she comes in and says, ‘Who designed these clothes?’ I said,
‘I did.’ Then she said, ‘My name is Dawn Mello, and I am the fashion
director of Bergdorf Goodman. If you ever do your own line call me.’
I literally went home and sketched the entire collection that night.”
In short order, he made the samples, begged and borrowed equipment,
got a friend to model and showed the results to Bergdorf. They bit.
“I delivered everything in my aunt’s Mercedes, in garment bags.” He
convinced the store to give him a trunk show, and they were stunned
when the cream of Park Avenue society showed up. How did a 21-year-
old kid know this crowd? “From Lothar’s! They came to my trunk
show, and they all bought something. And I was off to the races.”
Asked whether this kind of origin story is possible for a 21-year-old
kid today, he is reflective. “What I would say to a young designer starting
out is, be willing to fly by the seat of your pants. I didn’t have a fashion
show for the first three years. You’re wasting your money if you’re not
ready. I realise the light and the glare of the internet is so intense, but
don’t try to design a whole collection, focus on something you really
love, keep it small at first. I am always excited to see designers who have
a point of view and know their customer; a combination of creativity,
empathy and business savvy. I think Telfar does a brilliant job. I am also
a fan of Peter Do and of Bode. I think they are all carving their own
niche.” Well OK, Michael, I guess it depends on what you mean by
small? “I was in such a rush,” he confesses. “I thought by the time I was
25 I could be a household name, but I didn’t know it could be global.”
He got the first inkling of the future of fashion in the late 1990s.
“When I became the designer for Celine, I realised, this isn’t so cut up
by region anymore.” He had always been shoe- and bag-obsessed – “maybe
because I’m so casual” – and it dawned on him that, unlike clothing,
accessories are impervious to the size and age of the wearer, and the
climate where she lives. He found himself thinking, “Does something
work in Jakarta, what’s going in Sydney, in São Paulo, instead of does
that work in Chicago? There was a world out there – a bigger world.”
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“I WAS IN SUCH A RUSH.
I THOUGHT BY THE
TIME I WAS 25 I COULD BE
A HOUSEHOLD NAME,
BUT I DIDN’T KNOW IT
COULD BE GLOBAL”
The ascent of accessories and their essential democratic character
– if you couldn’t have the ensemble, you could maybe have the stilettos,
or the bumbag, or the stockings, or the card case – coincided with
what Kors calls the casualisation of fashion. “I have to say, I’m guilty
– personally and as a designer,” he confesses. “What we put on the
runway in Michael Kors Collection can be opulent, but it’s pretty
laid-back. I can moan and groan, and say why are people going out
in bike shorts, going to the movies in a jog bra, but the reality is, this
breakdown of the rules has been happening my entire career, and we
can’t go back. How do we find the happy medium?”
He is, he admits, also trying to find a happy medium, a balance, in
his own frenetic life. Asked what he has learnt from the past year, he
answers, “One word: appreciation. Appreciation for every little thing
– a store that sells chocolate-covered almonds that you like, a favourite
restaurant, your friends, the people you work with, touching something
in a store, the rustle of the tissue paper. I am such a Type A, so speedy,
maybe it’s good to slow it down a notch?”
Kors is an unrepentant theatre fanatic, hell-bent on seeing every curtain
rise from Broadway to the West End. In fact, for his autumn/winter
2021 show, he filmed his models (no live audience last April) sauntering
in feathers and leather near the Great White Way, marquees for still-
shuttered shows shining in the distance. (He confides that were he not
a designer he would have loved to be a Broadway producer.) This
consummate entertainer – his charisma is legendary – also lives to be
entertained. As soon as New York opened just a little, he called a bunch
of close pals and said, “Let’s watch Holly on a big screen,” and hosted
a viewing of the quintessential Manhattan movie, Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
But sometimes this latter-day Holly Golightly’s desire to speed
through life has been put to wonderful purpose. “My kind of good
fortune is so rare, and then to succeed beyond your wildest dreams
doing it! It started for me here in New York City, what could I do to
give back?” Kors explains. “I’m very result-orientated. I need immediate
gratification. Back in the 1980s, when we were torn apart by the Aids
crisis, I heard about God’s Love We Deliver… Someone needs food?
OK, we can bring it. The hunger thing really snowballed as I started
travelling globally. I thought, there is enough food, how do we partner?
How do we lasso the power of social media, our fans, our customers?”
This October will be Kors’s ninth year supporting the Watch Hunger
Stop campaign – so far, more than 24 million school meals have been
delivered to children around the globe through the organisation.
To give back, to fully appreciate the small things along with the bigger
things – and the unfathomably huge things – these are the lessons that
Kors has learnt over four decades as an American designer who is also
a citizen of the world. And if humanity has determined anything over
the past 18 months, it is that we are one world, one global family. Kors
shares one of his favourite stories: “We were in the South Pacific, we’re
on a little speck of an island and there’s a lovely little pearl shop in the
middle of nowhere. We walk in, and the girl is wearing a dress from
the Michael Michael Kors diffusion collection. She kind of looks at
me, and says, ‘Are you…?’ I say, ‘You’re wearing one of our dresses!’
She says, ‘You know the piece?’ ‘Of course,’ I tell her, ‘I know every
piece that we make!’ ‘Even still?’” she asked this boy from Long Island,
looking at his own work, no doubt beaming just a little, a million miles
from his beloved New York City. “Even still.” n
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& GRACE
CODDINGTON
Two of New York’s most
legendary fashion-industry
imports also happen to be a
couple. French hairstylist Didier
Malige was the first to land
stateside, in the 1970s, while
Welsh fashion editor Grace
Coddington arrived a decade
later – transferring from British
to American Vogue. Paris and
London’s loss was The Big
Apple’s gain. For our April
issue, Coddington “ventured
on to the streets of New York
City with the photographer
Craig McDean. We took the
model Binx Walton on to
the freezing sidewalks to
record a moment in time,
to capture the spirit of this
crazy past year.” Job done.
From left: Didier wears
shirt and jeans, to order.
Jacket, his own. Grace
wears wool coat, £1,550
 DANNY BOWIEN
& SARA HIROMI
Danny Bowien and Sara
Hiromi met at New York
Fashion Week – when the
chef/restaurateur and the set
designer both walked for
Eckhaus Latta – but they fell in
love over Sara’s kabocha
croquettes the following
Thanksgiving. So, where would
they spend a fun Saturday
night in NYC? “Usually, Danny
has to work late,” says Hiromi,
“but after, we’ll go decompress
at our favourite, secret sushi
place in Midtown.”
From left: Danny wears
flannel jacket, £1,290.
Strapless flannel top, to
order. Jewellery, his own.
Sara wears jacquard jacket,
£1,290. Jacquard dress,
£1,050. Headband, from
£120, Leila Jinnah.
Jewellery, her own

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 JUNO MITCHELL
& JACLYN
KITCHENMAN
“We fell in love with New
York City’s energy,” say model
Juno Mitchell and, his girlfriend
of three years, dog groomer
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Jaclyn Kitchenman. For this pair

of vegans, a fun Saturday night
involves truffling out the best
restaurant, while a romantic
Sunday means visiting a
gallery or museum.
From left: Juno wears tuxedo
jacket, £2,150. Tuxedo
trousers, £970. Vest, £90,
Re/Done, at Selfridges.
Hi-tops, £75, Converse.
Jewellery, his own. Jaclyn
wears cashmere sweater,
to order. Wool/cashmere skirt,
£570. Knee-highs, £10, Falke.
Loafers, £110, GH Bass.
For stockists, all pages,
see Vogue Information
Hair: Evanie Frausto.
Make-up: Holly Silius.
Nails: Mar y Soul. Casting:
Studio Bauman. Production:
That One Production. Digital
artwork: Frisian Post. With
thanks to Please Space Studio

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 Hot pursuit: even near
Fagradalsfjall – an active
volcano some 25 miles
outside of Reykjavík –
model Anok Yai keeps
her cool in Marc Jacobs.

Puffer hood, £1,530.

Wool anorak, £5,800.
Body, £1,630.
Padded wool skirt,
£3,225. Socks and
shoes, from a selection.
All Marc Jacobs, at
Bergdorfgoodman.com

Adventures in
WONDERLAND
A glorious – and unexpectedly glamorous – spirit runs rampant
as Vogue explores the season’s puffers and parkas
amid Iceland’s untamed backdrops.
Photographs: Annie Leibovitz.
Fashion editor: Gabriella Karefa-Johnson

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 Roadside attractions:
a pit stop becomes an
impromptu walkabout.

From left: Sherry

wears Econyl and
wool coat, £2,195.
Wool flares, £675.
Both Stella McCartney.
Wool-mix sweater,
£995, Isabel Marant.
Akon wears quilted
bomber jacket,
£3,500, Hermès.
Quilted gilet, £770,
Max Mara. Wool bra
top, £650. Wool skirt,
£980. Both Fendi.
Anok wears denim
and faille jacket,
£2,990. Denim skirt,
£890. Embellished
boots, £790. All
Alexander McQueen.
Socks, from a
selection, Lands’ End

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 Striking out: Vogue
takes Thom Browne’s
golden gown and
Kei Ninomiya’s
woollens to the beach
– Reynisfjara Beach.

From left: Anok

wears lamé gown
with quilted skirt, to
order, Thom Browne.
Akon wears wool
scarf, oversized
wool sweater and
tulle and wool-mix
skirt, to order, Noir
Kei Ninomiya, at
Dover Street Market.
Leather boots, £795,
Simone Rocha

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 Take a hike: but bundle
up in style. Who said
luxury fashion couldn’t
be practical.

From left: Akon wears

parka, £6,550. Quilted
gilet, £2,810. Sleeveless
wool/cashmere sweater,
£2,900. Wool skirt,
£2,500. All Louis Vuitton.
Socks, from £32 for two
pairs, LL Bean. Hiking
shoes, £105, Merrell.
Shoes, hanging from
rucksack, £350,
Jacquemus. Sherry wears
gaberdine and nylon
puffer coat, £2,030,
Sacai. Wool apron skirt,
to order, Matty Bovan.
Boots, to order, Chloé &
Moon Boot. Climbing
shoes, hanging from
rucksack, £115, Scarpa.
Anok wears upcycled
patchwork coat, from a
selection. Cashmere/wool
dress, £1,610. Both
Chloé. Boots, to order,
Chloé & Moon Boot.
Climbing shoes, hanging
from rucksack, £115,
Scarpa. Outdoor
equipment, from a
selection, Arc’teryx,
Gregory, Helly Hansen,
Klean Kanteen, Metolius,
The North Face,
Patagonia, REI, SealLine

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 Silver belles: in a medley
of metallics, this trio
finds a shockingly good
answer to the frosty
surrounds of the
Svínafellsjökull glacier.

From left: Sherry wears

hooded puffer scarf,
£937, Lanvin.
Embellished tulle gown,
£17,000, Valentino.
Anok wears sleeveless
bomber jacket, £1,200.
Wool sweater, £790.
Embellished skirt, to
order. All Celine by
Hedi Slimane. Leather
boots, £379, Red Wing
Heritage. Akon wears
wool-jersey puffer
jacket, £5,645. Wool
sweater, £2,430.
Embellished gown,
£6,950. All Ralph
Lauren Collection.
Leather boots, £379,
Red Wing Heritage.
Socks, from a selection,
LandsÕ End

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 Taking the waters:
dramatic proportions,
strong colours and other
elevating touches give
the tried-and-trusted
puffer its moment in the
sun in the Jökulsárlón
glacier lagoon.

From left: Akon

wears embellished
puffer jacket, from
£1,410, Area, at
Browns, Flannels
and Selfridges. Wool
dungarees, £6,005,
Chanel. Sequined top,
£2,620, Gucci. Anok
wears ripstop parka
and fleece trousers, to
order, Balenciaga.
Sherry wears
puffer coat, from
£2,560. Long dress,
from £10,260.
Both Givenchy

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 Cool runnings: the
perfect performance-
wear makes some
bold moves on
Diamond Beach.

From left: Sherry

wears puffer jacket,
£2,261, Lanvin.
Mohair dress, £1,115,
Salvatore Ferragamo.
Socks, from £25,
Brother Vellies. Shoes,
£135, Merrell. Anok
wears puffer coat,
from £940. Silk dress,
from £1,600. Both
Ottolinger, at Ssense.
com. Akon wears
puffer jacket, £2,420.
Wool top, £210. Linen
skirt, £640. All
Jacquemus. Socks,
from £32 for two
pairs, LL Bean.
Boots, £160, Teva

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 Let’s get lost: near
Vestrahorn, on the
Stokksnes peninsula,
merrily mixed-up
patterns and textures
are ready-made
for rambling.

From left: Anok wears

gilet, £825, 2 Moncler
1952. Wool sweater,
£320. Wool/mohair
shorts, £440. Both Etro.
Akon wears faux-fur
hood, wool-mix sweater
and denim and faux-fur
skirt, to order, Junya
Watanabe, at Dover
Street Market.
Socks, from £32 for
two pairs, LL Bean.
Shoes, £105, Merrell.
Sherry wears puffer
jacket, to order, Shuting
Qiu. Cashmere sweater,
£1,885. Wool skirt,
£7,320. Both Chanel

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 Don’t fence me in: in
the wide-open spaces
of Hvalnes, everybody
drops their defences.

From left: Akon

wears puffer jacket,
£270, The North
Face. Embellished
minidress, £7,770.
Choker, £1,255. Both
Saint Laurent by
Anthony Vaccarello.
Sequined dress, £855,
Tory Burch. Sherry
wears sequined
puffer, £1,345, Michael
Kors Collection.
Sequined stole,
£3,300. Sequined
dress, £8,500. Both
Prada. Anok wears
puffer jacket, £270,
The North Face.
Embellished top,
£4,860. Embroidered
shorts, £7,285. Both
Saint Laurent by
Anthony Vaccarello

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LIKE WERE FOLLOWED THROUGHOUT THIS PHOTOSHOOT
 Holding pattern: how
to keep triply warm
on Hjörleifshöfði?
Colourful puffers,
knits and huddle.

From left: Akon wears

puffer jacket, from
£1,785. Paillette top,
from £5,025. Both
Versace. Wool-knit
skirt, to order, Matty
Bovan. Anok wears
crochet puffer jacket,
£2,600. Crochet
sweater, £1,800.
Crochet scarf, £350. All
Miu Miu. Sherry wears
puffer coat, £2,700,
Khaite. Embellished
sweater, £3,853,
Raf Simons.
For stockists, all
pages, see Vogue
Information.
Hair: Nigella Miller.
Make-up: Romy
Soleimani. Set design:
Mary Howard Studio.
Production: Frostfilm.
Models: Akon
Changkou, Sherry
Shi, Anok Yai

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 Court
Favourite
At this year’s Wimbledon, newcomer Emma Raducanu
took a shot at tennis history and captured the nation’s
imagination in the process. Now, as the 18-year-old heads
to the top of her game, Olivia Marks catches up with her.
Photographs by Scott Trindle. Styling by Poppy Kain
S
woosh! Emma Raducanu’s tennis racket slices through
the air to the approving coos of spectators, as dust rises
from where her feet have gracefully landed on the ground.
From underneath her cap, she stares straight ahead,
focused, serious. Then the camera clicks and the 18-year-
old from Kent breaks into a wide, toothy grin.
Raducanu – the young tennis star who, this summer,
appeared as if from nowhere to become the nation’s most exciting
player in a decade – is in a north London studio being photographed
for Vogue, offering the assorted collection of delighted onlookers (stylist,
make-up artist, assistants) a tiny snapshot of the talent that helped
make her the first debuting British woman in 42 years to get to the
fourth round of Wimbledon.
Whirlwind doesn’t adequately describe the life-changing days that
the teenager experienced on the fabled grass courts, which saw a wild
card – then ranked world number 338, she is, at the time of writing,
184 – take on three of the world’s top players (Vitalia Diatchenko,
Sorana Cîrstea, Markéta Vondroušová) and eviscerate each one. Then,
five days after her first match, when she was the only Briton left in the
singles, Raducanu’s tournament ended as dramatically as it began, when
she had to bow out of her match against Ajla Tomljanovic halfway
through the second set, after she started experiencing difficulties with
her breathing. It was a crushing disappointment for Raducanu and her
new legion of fans. But no matter: she had already claimed the hearts
of the British public, arguably the hardest-to-win prize of all.
“At one point mid-game, I just let my racket go because I just didn’t
believe I made that shot,” she says two weeks later, shaking her head,
still in disbelief. Throughout the tournament, her sheer, unabashed
enjoyment of the game was, she believes, “genuinely shining through”,
which is one of the reasons she thinks she got the public on side so
quickly – “and also the fact that I feel I relate to the younger audience,
you know, who are still in school”.
Until a few months ago, Raducanu was too. She’s still awaiting her
A-level results when we meet, and the night before her Vogue shoot,
she was dressed up to the nines on a golf course in Orpington at her
school prom (she attended a nearby grammar, the same, coincidentally,
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as another of Britain’s superstar athletes, Dina Asher-Smith) surrounded
by her proud, gobsmacked classmates. To them, Raducanu laughs,
she is still the “kid from year seven”, the “quiet one who didn’t really
raise her hand”.
Trying to reconcile the young woman in front of me leaping through
the air in an Alexander McQueen gown – the same one that I watched
whip up the crowd on Centre Court, enjoying shouts of “It’s coming
home, Emma!”– with the image that she paints of herself as the shy
schoolgirl, is nigh on impossible. “I think the confidence comes from
just inner belief,” Raducanu says, tucking into a lunch of tuna and
salad in a break between photos. “My mum comes from a Chinese
background, they have very good self-belief. It’s not necessarily about
telling everyone how good you are, but it’s about believing it within
yourself. I really respect that about the culture.”
Sport has undoubtedly played its part in growing the enviable,
easy self-confidence that Raducanu radiates today. Born in Toronto,
an only child, she moved to Britain with her Chinese mother, Renee,
and Romanian father, Ian, (both of whom work in finance) when she
was two. Growing up in Bromley, from a young age she had the
kind of extracurricular schedule that is exhausting merely to read –
while her mother was “more traditional” and took her to ballet
and tap lessons, her father introduced her to golf and the worlds of
motorsports, karting and dirt biking. And, of course, tennis. “He’s all
about being different,” she says, “and not caring what other people
may have thought at the time.”
Being the “odd one out” was something Raducanu, at first, had to
grow used to, but then took pleasure from. “When I was younger, I was
the only girl in my group karting or doing motocross, and I thought it
was pretty cool,” she says, with such pure enthusiasm that, for a moment,
you’re reminded just how young she still is. “For example, one time, my
motocross teacher was like, right, we’re going to do press-ups. And
I was the only one who could do it, so I was proud of myself for that.”
Even when she first started playing tennis, “The whole squad I was in
was all boys. It was quite intimidating in the beginning to, you know,
get out of my shell and actually begin to really enjoy what I was doing
because I was so scared. I’m not sure of what.” > 224
 “I don’t feel like
anything is different,
in a way,” says Emma
Raducanu after her
Wimbledon debut.
“I was straight
back to work.”

Crêpe minidress,
£4,200, Valentino.
Shorts, £755, Louis
Vuitton. Socks, £125,
Gucci. Trainers, £80,
Nike. Baseball cap,
£500, Hermès. Pearl
earrings, £1,150,
Sophie Bille Brahe.
Hair: Syd Hayes.
Make-up: Laura
Dominique. Nails:
Pebbles Aikens. Set
design: Josh Stovell.
Digital artwork:
IMGN Studio

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 “AT ONE POINT
MID-GAME, I JUST
LET MY RACKET
GO BECAUSE
I JUST DIDN’T
BELIEVE I MADE
THAT SHOTÓ

Strapless tulle dress

with corsage, £9,400.
Trainers, £780. Both
Dior. Socks, £75,
Molly Goddard.
Leather belt, £1,650,
Hermès. White- and
brown-diamond and
kunzite earrings.
White-gold and
black-diamond
necklace, £4,700.
Gold and black- and
white-diamomd ring.
White-gold, onyx and
black- and white-
diamond ring. All Ara
Vartanian. Gold,
pink-tourmaline and
enamel pinky ring,
£1,395, Noor Fares

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Jacquard top,
£690, Gucci, at
Matchesfashion.com.
Embroidered
duchesse-silk skirt,
£1,150. Baseball cap,
£315. Both Gucci.
Pearl earrings, £825,
Sophie Bille Brahe

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She was five when she started playing at the Bromley Tennis Centre,
and as her hobby got more serious and weekends started to be given
over to travelling and competing in tournaments, motorsports had to
take a backseat (it became a matter of natural selection, she jokes). But
it is still a great passion – her next ambition is “to get my motorbike
licence,” she says, grinning. “So I can get back out there.”
That courageousness (how many people, really, do you know who
want to race motorbikes?) is evident both on court and off. It is hard
to fathom what it must feel like to play a match in front of a home
crowd, with the nation’s hopes on your shoulders, and then be forced
to retire, on medical advice, halfway through. England footballer Marcus
Rashford is one of the few who can understand that unique pressure,
and was among the first to reach out to console Raducanu on Twitter.
It was, she says, “very comforting in that moment. I was feeling like
I let people down, so for him to reassure me like that – I was extremely
grateful.” A week later, and it would be Rashford who people were
endeavouring to console and defend from a barrage of vile comments
after his missed penalty in the Euro 2020 final.
Raducanu made “a purposeful decision to not check social media”
during the tournament (her Instagram following has exploded), adding
that she has avoided the news for the past month, giving her phone to
her physio for safekeeping. Which means she has probably – hopefully
– avoided comments made by the likes of broadcasters Piers Morgan
and John McEnroe, who suggested she quit her last match owing to
mental health pressures. From her point of view, there’s always going
to be someone who “has something to say, and I respect everyone’s
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“PLAYING SPORT,
AND HAVING TO
BE FEARLESS, IT’S
GIVEN ME INNER
STRENGTH”
thoughts and decisions,” says Raducanu, “so
I don’t really hold anything against anyone”.
Ultimately, Raducanu knew “it was the best
decision for my health and my body” to retire
from the match. Equally, she thinks, on the
matter of Naomi Osaka opting out of press
conferences, and eventually from the French
Open in May, that you have to “prioritise
yourself ”. “If that’s the best thing for her health,
mental health and wellbeing then I think
that that’s the right thing to do, because at the
end of the day, you’re on this journey alone, no
matter how many people are in your corner.”
And Raducanu has many – from astronaut
Tim Peake to former Oasis frontman Liam
Gallagher, who both tweeted their support for
her. Does the latter name mean anything to
an 18-year-old? “Of course! You can’t not
respect such an icon,” she says, adding, that
Oasis have “some good throwback hits. You
gotta have a diverse music selection.”
But her parents remain the people Raducanu wants to impress the
most – and who, perhaps, remain the hardest to. “They’re very tough
to please and have high expectations,” she says. “So that’s a big driving
factor as to why I want to perform.” They’re not ones given to big
celebrations. Instead, their role has been “to keep me grounded,” she
continues. “I think they’ve done a really great job. Because I don’t feel
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like anything is different, in a way. I was straight back to work. And
I think that’s a result of many years of them just being super-focused,
and not getting too high, but at the same time, not getting too low
when the losses come.” After her final Wimbledon match, “they said,
‘I’m proud of you.’ That was all I needed.”
It’s time to get back in front of the camera, and once the shoot is
over, to prepare for her trip to America where Raducanu, awarded
another wild card, will compete in the Mubadala Silicon Valley Classic
tournament, and after that dedicate the next part of her life to being
a professional player. Since Wimbledon, Raducanu has been invited
back to her primary school to meet the students. Inspiring children
and young girls is something she is already passionate about. “When
I was growing up, there wasn’t a female that I was like, ‘Wow, I want
to be like her,’” she says. “I feel like I want to give back to everyone
who’s helped me.”
Before she leaves, I ask what tennis has given her. “I was a very shy
little girl who didn’t talk much at all,” she says. “And through playing
sport, and having to be bold on the court and fearless and fight, it’s
given me inner strength. If you have that,” she smiles, “then you can
really achieve whatever you want.” n
Opposite: silk-jacquard
dress, £10,630, Chanel.
White-gold and
diamond star earrings
with removable posts,
from £7,000, a pair.
White-gold and
diamond necklace,
£6,600. All Chanel Fine
Jewellery. White-gold,
diamond and pearl
earring, sold as a pair,
£6,400, Annoushka.
This page: leather
and faille biker jacket,
£4,500. Faille skirt,
£2,270. Both Alexander
McQueen. Socks, £125,
Gucci. Hi-tops, from
a selection, Nike,
at Presentedby.com.
White-gold and
diamond earrings,
£22,800, Cartier.
Black-diamond,
sapphire and emerald
orbit ring, £8,950.
Black-jade and
diamond ring, £5,600.
Both Hannah Martin.
Prices on request
unless otherwise stated.
For stockists, all pages,
see Vogue Information

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 How to improve on
Miu Miu’s cottagecore
crochet? Add a kid.

This page: crochet

and satin dress,
£3,500, Miu Miu.

With its dreamy lounge

dresses, Sleeper has
introduced a new type
of day-to-night dressing.

Opposite: linen dress,

from £231, Sleeper

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UP-COUNTRY

Embrace the new season’s softer side in some

of its most romantic pastoral looks.
Photographs by Dan Martensen. Styling by Clare Richardson
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 Paul Smith plus The Elder Statesman equals
the perfect formula for knitwear.

Button-through wool cardigan, £250. Tube skirt, £250.

Both Paul Smith. Bra, from £50, Cuup. Crochet hat,
from £210, The Elder Statesman

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Nobody does pure
seduction better than
Dolce & Gabbana.

Bustier dress, £1,300,

Dolce & Gabbana

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 Loungewear has
stepped up a gear, and
Salvatore Ferragamo’s
knitted romper is vital
veranda attire.

Cashmere/silk knit
playsuit, £885,
Salvatore Ferragamo.
Cashmere socks,
£185, The Elder
Statesman, at
Harvey Nichols and
Matchesfashion.com
 Revel in Blumarine’s
Noughties nostalgia.

Knitted minidress,
£590, Blumarine

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Lean into insouciant elegance for your country walks,
courtesy of Valentino and Dior.

Wool tank top, £1,100, Valentino. Wool/silk skirt,

£3,400, Dior. Leather boots, £1,190, Alaïa

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 Shawanda Corbett’s
artwork translated into
a hand-knitted blanket?
JW Anderson is
elevating the everyday
with extreme finesse.

Wool blanket, £4,650,

Shawanda Corbett
& JW Anderson.
Sleeveless knit body,
£590, Alaïa

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Those seeking their
own pastoral fantasies
need look no further
than Balenciaga.

Silk-jacquard
dress, from £1,700,
Balenciaga. Bra,
Paloma’s own

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 Achieve the ultimate
lit-from-within glow
with a few drops of the
ultra-light Mac Studio
Radiance Face and
Body Radiant Sheer
Foundation, £27.

Mohair sweater,
£310, Alberta Ferretti.
Hair: Tomo Jidai.
Make-up: Romy
Soleimani.
Set design: Kadu
Lennox. Production:
Creative Chaos.
Digital artwork: 4C
Imaging. Model:
Paloma Elsesser. With
thanks to Greenlawn
Farm and Kinderhook
Farm, New York State

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Layer up in Max Mara

for the ultimate in
aspirational ease.

Ribbed vest, £230.

Silk-mix skirt,
from £800. Both Max
Mara. Crochet hat,
from £210, The
Elder Statesman.
For stockists, all
pages, see Vogue
Information

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 Cheek by
JOWL
When the ageing process started pulling her cheeks down
by her chin, journalist Sarah Brown embarked on Project Jowls.
Her mission? To lift, tighten and turn back time.
Photograph by Inez & Vinoodh. Styling by Phyllis Posnick
J
owl: noun. The lower part of a person’s or animal’s cheek
when it is fleshy or drooping.
Are there many things more horrifying than jowls? Does
the entirety of the English language contain a less attractive,
more cheerless word? Even the sound – jow-lz – is dreary,
glum. Like howl, but worse. Jowl is a word so bleak, it
almost feels sorry for itself.
But here we are. Jowls.
They happen slowly. You don’t have to be old. Or even oldish. Or
particularly gluttonous, as the word might suggest. Jowls sneak up on
you. They snuck up on me. One day you are happily going about your
life, thinking that perhaps, at most, it might be time for a Botox refresher.
The next, a badly lit selfie or regrettable interaction with a three-way
mirror stops you in your tracks. “Who’s that?” you gasp.
Slowly, slowly, my oval-shaped face was starting to look stretched
out, drab, like more of a droopy rectangle than a smoothly contoured
egg. Something (gravity) was pulling my cheeks down by my chin; they
appeared heavy, chipmunky. It looked like the bottom two-thirds of
my face was a candle that was melting into my neck. Everything was
sliding. All I wanted to wear were turtlenecks. My hair, a wavy 1920s
bob cut at a steep incline to flatter my angular features, suddenly no
longer worked. Interminable Zoom, WhatsApp and FaceTime calls
(does no one simply use the telephone anymore?) were making it
impossible to escape my reflection and the invitation to silently analyse,
nitpick and despair. I rarely felt my best. I rarely even felt like myself.
Whatever was going on beneath the surface of my previously quite
perky-looking face needed to be interrupted and reset – immediately.
Thanks to the modern marvels of dermatology, I learnt that, to a certain
degree, it could. Marshalling London and New York’s finest, I sought
answers, advice and action.
Over a series of initial video consultations, the all-star panel of skin
experts I assembled explained that the slow and steady, imperceptible at
first, collapse of the natural architecture of one’s face is due to a constellation
of unavoidable events that arrive, one by one, “with age” (thanks).
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First of all, degradation of collagen and elastin affects skin quality and
firmness. Fat pads – the plump little cushions that help give a face shape
– thin out, shift and slide south. The gradual loss of bone (I’m talking
about your skull) literally shrinks the structural foundation upon which
muscle, fat and skin rest, contributing to overall laxity and sag. Everything
begins to settle at the bottom of your face, like a puddle.
“It’s all gravity at work. You’re losing that scaffolding that’s keeping
everything tight and high. That gets manifested as jowls,” explained
Dr Alexis Granite, consultant dermatologist at uber-aesthetician Sarah
Chapman’s Skinesis Clinic in Chelsea. “What creates a youthful face
is high cheekbones and good jawline structure,” added Dr Benjamin
Kauffholz, cosmetic wizard to the A-list of London and Paris, who
works between Dr Dray’s offices in both cities. “It’s about restoring the
natural bone structure without changing the features.”
Project Jowls was going to be a three-pronged mission that would
include gently hoisting up everything that was beginning to slip (from
the eyebrows down), tightening the lower portion of my face from deep
within, and sculpting the contours.
My first stop: the Upper East Side office of dermatologist to Manhattan’s
social set, Dr Macrene Alexiades. “These are new. You didn’t have jowls
before,” she murmured, visibly frowning behind her mask, face shield and
goggles. “It’s just not you. We are going to work on vanishing these,”
she said, confidently. Dr Alexiades wanted to get right down to business
and bring out the big guns. And by big guns, I mean something that
actually looked like a gun (Star Trek-style) and was apparently so powerful
that instead of involving multiple sessions spaced weeks apart, like so
many in-office treatments, this would take just 45 skin-searing minutes
(priced at a cool $5,000). Called Profound, it is a device that shoots
radio-frequency sound waves out of its microneedle tips. Applied in
a stamping motion along my jawline, under my chin, and up and down
my neck, the microneedles would create tiny holes 6mm deep that
would kick-start the formation of fresh collagen and elastin as part of
the body’s natural wound-healing response. The radio frequency would
heat the tissue, encouraging a tightening, contracting effect. >
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Earring, stylist’s own.

Hair: Orlando Pita.
Make-up: Dick Page.
Nails: Megumi Yamamoto.
Set designer: Jill C
Nicholls. Production:
VLM Productions.
Digital artwork:
StereoHorse. Model:
Rebecca Longendyke
 Strong jawlines on the cover of Vogue:
clockwise from left, an unknown model
photographed by John Rawlings, August 1942;
in profile for December 1941, by Horst;
Naomi Campbell by Steven Meisel, March 2019;
Kate Moss in silhouette for December
2000, by Nick Knight

Dr Alexiades, who had been the principal investigator on Profound’s

multicentre clinical trials, described potential results as “30 per cent of a
lower facelift”. I would be swollen and bruised for about 10 days following
the treatment; results would reveal themselves gradually over the next year,
and last until my face started sagging again on its own… about two years,
estimated Dr Alexiades. “It takes a month to see some tightening, and
then it really starts to become apparent after two months,” she explained.
The day of the procedure, I arrived partially numb, thanks to a prescription
cream I had smeared all over my face in advance, at Dr Alexiades’s direction,
and braced myself for what she had warned me was “the only thing that’s
not super comfortable”. Swooping down overhead like an enemy aircraft
came the most terrifying thing I’d ever seen: a “multi-injector” Franken-
syringe armed with three 32-gauge needles, which she repeatedly plunged
into my face and neck. It was filled with lidocaine – a pain reliever – which
was ironic. “It feels like a bee sting, right?” she said cheerfully, as I winced
and squirmed on the table. The actual treatment was mellow in comparison.
Dr Alexiades held the handpiece against my face, pulling the trigger and
covering ground in neat rows. Each zap felt like lightning looks when it
crackles in the sky. Though it was not painful, I could feel, and hear, the
electricity under my skin. “That’s the current,” she said. To help mitigate
some of the expected bruising, Dr Alexiades’s assistant zapped me a
few times with the V-Beam laser directly following the service. Still,
the next day I looked like I’d been strangled. Mottled, black, blue and
tender to the touch. I laid low. Turtlenecks 24/7. Full-coverage concealer
applied with a brush and shadowy lighting for unavoidable Zoom calls.
Meanwhile, three blocks up Park Avenue, Dr Amy Wechsler, another
top New York derm and Chanel’s resident skincare expert (she created
the brand’s culty La Solution 10 cream), was planning Phase Two. As a
complement to the tightening effects of Profound, Dr Wechsler
recommended CoolMini, a treatment that would target the submental
area directly under my chin. Lately, my chin had begun to resemble an
on-ramp to my neck. When Dr Wechsler explained that two treatments
of CoolMini – the latest iteration of CoolSculpting, equipped with a
smaller handpiece – could essentially vaporise 50 per cent of the fat
nesting beneath my chin, further refining my profile, it did not take me
long to say yes. The treatment (priced at $1,000 per session) worked
DOES THE ENTIRETY
OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
CONTAIN A MORE CHEERLESS
WORD THAN JOWLS?
via cryolipolysis: the extreme cold froze, and killed, the localised fat
cells, which were then metabolised (flushed out of the body via the
lymph system) over a period of several months. Fat cells can expand
and contract as weight fluctuates, but after puberty, they lose their ability
to multiply. Once removed, they would not be coming back. Ever. So,
as we say in my family: basta, presto, ciao.
“For the first five to seven minutes, it’s going to be cold, colder and then
so cold you’re going to hate it,” said Dr Wechsler. “But once you feel like
you can’t tolerate it anymore, 30 seconds later you’re numb and you
should feel nothing. I promise it’s worth it.” For the treatment, she
handed me over to her sought-after lieutenant for all things cosmetic,
Laura Dyer, who, it turns out, has done the most cases of CoolSculpting
in America (18,000 and counting), and regularly trains other doctors
on her technique, which has been adopted as the global standard. The
handpiece clamped beneath my chin with the strength of an industrial
vacuum cleaner, attached to a long, accordion-like tube that was faintly
Mad Max: Fury Road. Despite the awkward hard plastic contraption
suctioned on to my face, 23 minutes in, I could have taken a nap. When
an assistant entered the room at some point and offered me an assortment
of snacks, it reminded me, wistfully, of being on an aeroplane. The next
day, I was sore, a bit swollen and numb (a sensation that would last for
weeks), but nothing I would particularly consider “downtime”.
Next up in Dr Wechsler’s master plan: the injectable fixer-upper,
whereby strategic Botox and filler would help lift the falling features
that were contributing to my budding jowelettes. This would create
the most immediate, visible difference, and provide a nice dose of
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and much longer-lasting effects of the Profound and CoolMini to
manifest themselves.
As Dyer evaluated my face from different angles, I showed her a
photograph that hangs at the top of my stairs. It is a portrait taken by
Brigitte Lacombe some years ago of my mother and me. The contours
of my face look smooth and sleek, streamlined. This picture is so familiar
to me, yet sometimes I stare at it and wonder, where have I gone? “You
don’t look that far off,” Dyer said, reassuringly. “You look a little like…
like you’ve been through a pandemic. What’s happened between that
picture and now is just some basic ageing.”
Desperately needed Botox gave an immediate lift to the brow (and
everything beneath it), which made me look happier, more polished.
Less beleaguered. That, combined with a trip to my masterful eyebrow
archer, transformed and cheered me immeasurably. It was as if everything
was starting to pop back into place, and into focus.
I wasn’t counting the vials of Restylane Lyft Dyer plowed through, but
let us assume it was a lot, as she subtly restored the framework of my face,
filling out hollows near my temples, building back my cheekbones, which
were apparently looking “quite flat”, and replacing lost mid-face volume.
“The heaviness that’s extending here is changing the shape of your face;
you’re getting longer and heavier,” she explained. “As we start to fill, it’s
going to lift all of that back up. You’re going to feel like yourself again.”
It was not so much about attacking the jowls as treating everything that
was contributing to them. Think of a pair of stretched-out jeans that
you wash and, once they come out of the dryer, suddenly fit like they’re
supposed to again. I was wary of having filler injected along my jawline
(would it add bulk?), but Dyer explained that, injected deeply, close to
the bone, it would “help expand the framework” and sharpen the line.
Two weeks later, I was back in Dyer’s chair for what she called
“the refinement appointment: to see what we can do better, without
overdoing anything”. It reminded me of the back-and-forth one might
have with a good tailor: going in for several fittings and small adjustments
to make sure everything was perfect. Still mid-pandemic, I was pretty
much only leaving my house to go to the grocery store and to see Dyer.
She added a little more lift to the cheek and a few shots of Botox to the
platysmal bands, a set of muscles in the neck that date back to prehistoric
times, when we were running around on all fours and our heads needed
more support. “Once these muscles relax, they’ll bounce up and you’ll
get 2 to 3mm of lift. It has such an impact on the profile,” she promised.
I’d be back to see her in about four to six months, as the Botox wore off,
but the Restylane Lyft could last as long as a year and a half, she said,
recommending a touch-up for good measure midway through.
Deeper change, it appeared, was afoot, too. When I took off my mask
upon sitting down to a blustery socially distanced outdoor dinner with
my mother, whom I had not seen in several weeks, she immediately made
a comment about my jawline and neck. She saw a difference. I knew the
CoolMini was working when my husband asked if he could try it, too.
My friend Megan and I did a FaceGym “private training” session
together over Zoom, where we learnt toning/sculpting/detoxifying
exercises such as “finger ripping”, a tapping movement to the jaw and
cheek that our trainer, Madalaina, described as “high-intensity cardio”
for the face (which has more than 40 different muscles). “This is a beautiful
movement to lift the jowls,” she cooed as we learnt the “palm pull-up”,
pressing our palms to either side of our cheeks, Home Alone-style, and
lifting up through the temples for several reps. “Even two minutes a day
can make a difference,” she lectured, encouraging us to practice the
techniques while cleansing or applying moisturiser each morning.
I jade-rollered and gua sha’ed with zeal, looking for any competitive
edge. Dr Granite sent the famed Facialift manual roller from Skinesis,
the big white wheels of which look like they belong on a moon buggy,
but are designed to lift, tighten, detoxify and release jaw tension.
It was three months after the initial Profound treatment and the
beginning of my jowl odyssey – truly, it had become an odyssey – when
I went back to Dr Alexiades’s office to check in. “Your jawline is tighter
and more lifted, no question about it. I’m happy,” she said. After squinting
at me sideways, she decided to give me a touch more filler, injected
invisibly in front of the ear, for the slightest extra lift, before proclaiming
me “done”. I was overwhelmed by what a lot of work it required to look
as though you’ve had no work at all. To just look, hopefully, as you always
have, and as you have remembered. As a final touch, Dr Alexiades held
her iPad up to my face and took a series of triumphant “after” photographs.
A few days later, a message pinged in my inbox. Dr Alexiades had
created an animation, superimposing my “after” photographs over the
“befores” from my original appointment. It was possible to witness, from
three different angles, my face change in slow motion. I gasped. But what
was more astonishing than the undeniable improvement the video revealed
was the change to the rest of the way I looked. I had more light in my
eyes. I was sitting up straighter. I was holding my head higher. It worked.n

Clockwise from
left: Angelina Jolie
by Craig McDean,
March 2021;
Adwoa Aboah for
December 2017,
by Steven Meisel;
a Peter Lindbergh
image of Linda
Evangelista,
September 1992;
a photograph by
Irving Penn, for
August 1950

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 CAMPBELL’S
STOOP
Model Edie Campbell’s search for a rural retreat
ended when she found a plot of
Northamptonshire land complete with
two lakes. The next step was to design
and build a home. By Ellie Pithers.
Photographs by Simon Watson.
Styling by Tabitha Simmons

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 “Obviously, it’s very
different to the other
residential buildings
around here,” says Edie
Campbell. “But I also
don’t think you can
build a brand-new
‘ye olde stone cottage’.
That looks weird, too.”

Opposite: wool coat,

£1,535. Quilted jacket,
£815. Velvet skirt, £1,025.
All Max Mara. Cashmere/
silk poloneck, £540,
Gabriela Hearst. Leather
boots, £1,250, Dior.
This page: wool sweater,
£1,980. Cotton shirt,
£550. Both Valentino.
Hair: Alfie Sackett.
Make-up: Ciara O’Shea.
Sittings editor:
Miranda Brooks.
Production: Susannah
Phillips. Digital
artwork: DigitalFilm

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 The built-in
dining table is
surrounded by
chairs bought for
£5 each online
W
ant to test your relationship with your mother?
Design and build a house with her. “It was the
most polite and understanding we’ve been to
each other – ever,” confides Edie Campbell,
slouched in a stripy deckchair on the balcony of
the Northamptonshire homestead she recently constructed with her
mum, Sophie Hicks. “In the past, we’ve had a slightly fractious
relationship. You’re always ruder to your mother than you are to your
friends. But suddenly we were in this professional situation and we
were quite agreeable to each other.”
It helps that the 30-year-old model – an art history graduate who
has fronted campaigns for Fendi and Versace, and is a regular presence
in the pages of Vogue – has a sophisticated understanding of contemporary
architecture. And that 60-year-old Hicks is a former British Vogue
fashion editor turned prize-winning architect whose precise style has
lent an elegant practicality to stores for Chloé and Paul Smith, and to
homes for the Le Bon family. Still, both mother and daughter seem
quietly thrilled with how the “house between two lakes” has turned
out – and with how their relationship has been fortified by a 14- to
15-month build spread over national lockdowns. “Mum is full of
opinions,” Edie laughs, affectionately. “But I know what I like, and I
don’t flip-flop, and that was good for her. She just wanted me to know
what I wanted, and then she could enact it.” Sophie, for her part,
describes her daughter as the perfect client. “Edie was very good to
work for because she is very decisive. Once she’s made up her mind,
that’s it. It makes life so much more efficient.”
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After nearly three decades in London, as well as a whirlwind 15-year
fashion career measured out in red-eye flights, Edie had been looking
for a rural retreat for some time. She chose Northamptonshire, an
understated, underrated county in the East Midlands, because she knew
it well (Sophie has rented a cottage in the area since 1985, and the
family has been coming here every summer) and because it was well-
located for national horse trials (Edie is an amateur rider who has been
competing semi-professionally since she was a teenager, with her horses
in livery nearby). Campbell had seen a dozen places before she came
across a fishery surrounded by farmland. The site of a former brick
quarry, the previous owner had erected a handful of miscellaneous
buildings, dug two lakes and stocked them with pike, and was running
a coarse fishing business. Edie was immediately taken with the plot.
“It had a nice energy, it was very quiet,” she says. And it had space for
stables and paddocks for her horses. By May 2018, it was hers.
The buildings – a tired-looking bungalow and a falling-down shed
among them – had to go. But Edie was adamant she didn’t want
anything “slick and shiny and graphic” in their place. “Hedge-fund
manager in the countryside” and “Bond villain’s lair” were red flags.
Rather, she wanted the house to feel “in some way, of its world”. She
simultaneously pets Pam the schnocker (a lively mix of miniature
schnauzer and cocker spaniel) and gestures to the grey corrugated
fibreboard that clads the long, thin house, giving it the appearance of
a local barn. “Obviously, it’s very different to the other residential
buildings around here,” she says. “But I also don’t think you can build
a brand-new ‘ye olde stone cottage’. That looks weird, too.” >
 An open fire warms
the living room during
the winter months.
Above left: a guest
bedroom’s bobbin bed.
Above: tartan jacket,
£1,750. Denim jacket with
leather collar, £1,100.
Cashmere bandeau top, to
order. Wool trousers, £740.
Leather hi-tops, £650. All
Celine by Hedi Slimane

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 This page: from left,
Sophie wears wool jacket,
£2,500. Leather boots,
£1,350. Both Hermès.
Silk/cashmere trousers,
£2,010, The Row. T-shirt
and necklace, Sophie’s
own. Edie wears
cashmere/wool cardigan,
£4,590. Cashmere/wool
sweater, £3,520. Both
The Row. Poloneck body,
£490, Victoria Beckham.
Leather boots with sock
detail, to order, Chloé.
Opposite: from left,
the Bette bathtub is
enamelled in the same
green as the lake water;
the windows from Edie’s
bedroom afford a perfect
view of the sunrise

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“I LIKE THINGS TO BE
DISCREET AND A BIT
RESTRAINED,” SAYS
SOPHIE HICKS
The starting point was a writing task: Sophie asked Edie to put
200 words down on paper about how she imagined living in her future
home. “I was surprised,” recalls Edie. “It felt more romantic than I
had imagined her or the process to be.” But the psychology of modern
living is what fascinates Sophie. “Everybody lives and feels a place
in a different way,” says Hicks. “The thing with architecture is to
understand the character and the behaviour of the people you’re
working for, so you can try and do something for them that makes
them feel comfortable.” What Edie detailed – a desire for openness
rather than cosiness, a sense of flow between inside and outside, to
be able to occasionally see her horses from a distance – ended up being
a manifesto. “She was adamant about the fact that she didn’t want a
‘designer’ house,” recalls Sophie. “And I don’t like statement architecture
either. I like things to be discreet and a bit restrained, to settle into
their position and use a bit of local vernacular. So I totally got what
she was saying.”
Nevertheless, neither mother nor daughter could resist a “f**k-off
location”. Rather than choose the site of the former owner’s home, in
a sheltered corner of the plot where Edie now has a manège for her
horses, they decided the narrow strip of land between the two lakes
was the optimal dramatic spot. Steel rods going 60ft into the boggy
ground, on to which a steel frame was welded, provided a simple
modular structure. Almost every addition from then on was standard
issue, from the glazing to the corrugated fibreboard to the precast
concrete planks that comprise the ceiling and floor. The only deviation
was a “visor” of corrugated fibreboard, which softens the flat roof and
stops water running down the glass windows, and two swooping interior
walls, enlivened with a rough sand and cement render in putty pink,
which conceal the functional stainless-steel kitchen at one end of the
house and the bedrooms at the other. “I was worried the house would
feel a bit miserable and cell-like if every room had straight lines,”
explains Edie. “They’re a nightmare for hanging any art. But they’re
really nice to live with.”
The Campbell women are a frugal bunch, and a tight budget dictated
much of the project. Hicks, a lifelong hoarder, wanted to reuse materials
from past homes and projects that have lain dormant “in various
country barns” for several decades. Old oak bookshelves and wardrobes
that once graced Edie’s childhood home in west London were trimmed
down and inserted in the living room and bedrooms, while a brass
door that has acquired a weathered golden tinge since it was salvaged
from a 1990s project of Hicks’s lends a grandeur to the entrance.
In the living room, the free-standing sofa was a cast-off from Edie’s
father, and the dining chairs were £5 each, snagged on auction website
The-saleroom.com. Artwork was the major expense. Sculptural
ceiling lights inspired by a Franz West exhibition Edie visited at Tate
Modern in 2019 were made by her best friend, the artist Christabel >
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 Wool/cashmere sweater,
£315. Tie, £100. Both
Margaret Howell. Cotton
shirt, £175, MHL by
Margaret Howell. Cotton
jodhpurs, £750, Hermès.
Boots, Edie’s own

MacGreevy, and side tables were crafted from chunks of pine from a
spinney on the property by the designer James Shaw.
Resolutely unflashy, the house now possesses an airy, tranquil feel.
Edie and her girlfriend Hanna Hanra, a journalist, awake early to red- LAZY SUMMER
streaked sunrises. They potter down to the stables to muck out and AFTERNOONS ARE
SPENT READING,
exercise the horses – Bruno, Tinker, Dolly, Ed and an as yet unnamed

SOCIAL DISTANCING RULES WERE FOLLOWED THROUGHOUT THIS PHOTOSHOOT

pony, a gift from Edie to Hanna on her 40th birthday, now reside in a
“horse palace” in a field behind the bigger of the two lakes – and raid
the polytunnel for lunch provisions. Lazy summer afternoons are spent
reading the Lonely Planet guide to Guatemala (they’re planning a trip),
swimming in the lake or sunbathing on an inflatable unicorn float leftover
from a recent party. (“Three farmers gatecrashed!” giggles Edie, quickly
adding that the gathering was outdoors and Covid-compliant. “They
were very sweet, so I let them stay.”) Come nightfall, in front of an open
fire in the winter, the couple work their way through 2021’s Oscar-
nominated movies on a television ingeniously concealed in the lid of the
ottoman. When we meet, though, they’re gearing up for a summer of
Love Island. “I watch it with my dad and then we text about it. It’s fab.”
The house has become a sanctuary for Campbell. In May 2019, she
suffered a serious brain injury – with faultless timing, she notes wryly,
during Brain Injury Awareness Week – after falling off her horse. It
took her more than six months to recover. “I’m back competing again,
which is good,” she says, “but I am very forgetful.” She seems, to me,
to be back to her caustic, clever best, pointing out an Eglantyne rose
in full bloom and then stopping to laugh at herself. “I’m obsessed with
rose names – such an old woman these days.”
SWIMMING IN THE
LAKE OR SUNBATHING
On the subject of roses, Sophie and Edie were determined that the
unglamorous, boggy scrubland surrounding the house and the lakes
should remain relatively wild, though a tidy up was required. For that,
they enlisted the help of Sarah and Steve Husband and their son Alfie,
who cut back the brambles and the undergrowth, planted bird cherry,
damson, alder, silver birch, crab apple and hawthorn trees native to
Northamptonshire, and positioned ferns and water mint under the
decking. In time, wildflowers and grasses will flank the quarry stones
that lead from the driveway to the front door. “It’s about playing the
long game,” says Edie, “which is strange for me. My life was always
about things happening right now – ‘You need to go to New York,
today!’ – or not at all. So, it’s a new feeling, being patient, letting
nature take its course. I love it.” n

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 The ottoman
standing in front of
the living room’s
built-in sofa hides
the television.
Above left: ferns and
water mint have
been planted
beneath the decking
to add lush texture.
Above: viscose
sweater, £790.
Loden trousers,
£980. Both Miu Miu.
Hi-tops, as before.
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ART IN RESIDENCE
As Frieze art fair returns to the capital this autumn,
it’s time to explore the many new residential developments
that place creativity firmly in the frame

HARCOURT HOUSE, W1
Occupying a prime spot just a short stroll from
both Mayfair and Regent’s Park, this imposing
Edwardian building is now a collection of 25
apartments, ranging from two to five bedrooms.
The 3.6-metre-high ceilings make them perfect
for art collectors. From £5.85 million.
Knight Frank: 020 7861 5461 One particularly elegant example is relocation of the charity Tannery Arts to the
Harcourt House in Marylebone, pictured site – a new gallery space, studios and an arts
above, a collection of apartments with hub are in the process of being completed,
unusually high ceilings that r plenty of and will attract a variety of painters, sculptors
wall space for even the most monumental and mixed-media practitioners to the area.

E
very October, London becomes a city
d with art, as Frieze London
and Frieze Masters attract dealers,
collectors and artists from around the
globe. Some of the capital’s most exciting
new developments either have paintings or
sculpture as focal points, or simply provide
ideal blank canvases on which to curate a
collection of your own.
works. Overlooking Cavendish Square, the
Grade II-listed property is subdivided into
25 spacious apartments, starting from 1,722
square feet.
Over in Bermondsey, creative types will
be drawn to London Square, a landmark
development that has art at its core, and spans
three separate buildings. Next year will see the
Residents at London Square Bermondsey
will have the opportunity to see the artists at
work in the studios, as well as being able to
attend exhibitions in the gallery spaces.
At Chelsea Barracks, the 19th-century
former garrison chapel that sits at the heart
of the 12.8-acre development is being trans-
formed into a gallery and community space to
 ONE CROWN PLACE,
EC2
Designed by Studio Ashby,
the residents’ lounge of
One Crown Place features
a collection of artworks from
local galleries and artists.
For those who work in the
City and love the vibrancy
PHOTOGRAPH: Ingrid Rasmussen

of east London, this new

development is an ideal base
for both work and play.
From £995,000.
CBRE: 020 7205 2697

LONDON SQUARE, SE1

With an arts centre on your doorstep, there’s plenty of creativity afoot in London Square Bermondsey.
The development spans three buildings, including the Pickle Factory, a converted factory that has been
transformed into a set of apartments brimming with original industrial features. From £640,000.
London Square Bermondsey: 0333 666 4343

TWENTY GROSVENOR
SQUARE, W1
Overlooking one of London’s
largest garden squares, these
37 apartments have been
designed to a remarkably high
standard. With service and
amenities provided by Four
Seasons, they represent the
height of luxury, at one of
Mayfair’s top addresses.
From £17.5 million.
Twenty Grosvenor Square:
020 3019 0630

CHELSEA BARRACKS, SW1
Chelsea Barracks is becoming one of London’s most sought-after residential
developments. The former army barracks still retains its original chapel,
pictured, which is being transformed into an art gallery and studio space to
be occupied by The Prince’s Foundation. Apartments from £5.25 million.
Chelsea Barracks: 020 7801 3081
100 SYDNEY STREET, SW1
The apartments at this brand-
new development just off the
King’s Road in Chelsea are bright
and airy, making them perfect for
displaying art. The eight residences
have high ceilings, oak floors, and
spacious dressing rooms with
walnut joinery. POA.
100 Sydney Street: 020 7629 0239
be occupied by The Prince’s Foundation, to promote arts,
culture and education in the local neighbourhood. The
Foundation, which focuses on heritage arts and crafts, will
use the space to showcase its work and host workshops
for the public. Chelsea Barracks is also participating in
London Craft Week, which runs from 4 to 10 October.
In some high-end apartments, art can be bought already
in situ. ‘The bigger developers tend to work with the
Mayfair galleries who r a collection for the show
apartments on loan until sold,’ says Sophie Rogerson
of buying agency RFR Property. ‘We negotiate with the
galleries direct, who agree to leave all pieces in situ for a
lump sum.’ So if you’ve got the cash but not the time, you
can move into a turnkey property, masterpieces and all.
250 CITY ROAD, EC1
Close to Shoreditch and the City, 250 City Road imaginatively
combines low-rise and high-rise architecture. It’s enlivened
by three larger-than-life sculptures by Ian Rank-Broadley, who
also created the recently unveiled tribute to Diana, Princess of
Wales. Prices from £815,000 for a one-bedroom apartment.
Berkeley: 020 3773 3990
 Nr Fowey, Cornwall
Fowey 4 miles, Par Station 2 miles, Bodmin/A30 8 miles, Truro 21.5 miles, Exeter 70 miles
An elegant Listed grade II* Queen Anne house in a rural setting near the Fowey Estuary with 4/5 bedrooms and facing south
over established gardens towards undulating countryside beyond. 3,251 sq ft

Guide £1.65m 01326 617447

Nr Boconnoc, Cornwall
Main A38 3 miles, Fowey (via Boddinnick Ferry) 7 miles, Bodmin Parkway main line station 8 miles, Liskeard 9 miles
An exquisite, private property, with a long drive and set in 20 acres of gardens and pasture. 4 bedrooms, kitchen-dining room with AGA,
guest suite, party barn and pool. 5,011 sqft, EPC E

Guide £2.65m 01326 617447

JONATHAN
CUNLIFFE jonathancunliffe.co.uk
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e natalie@kaicarterestates.com

C H A R T E R S E S TAT E
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“ Charters offers a L U X U R Y P E N T H O U S E A PA R T M E N T I N
A S E C U R E , G AT E D 2 4 A C R E E S TAT E
unique lifestyle 24 hour security and concierge
for discerning Extensive leisure facilities

residents.” Exceptional golfing and dining nearby

20 minutes from London Heathrow
3 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms
Entertaining suite and bar
Wrap-around terrace
Smart home technology

£2,250,000 FOR MORE INFO


Dream Team
From left,
Chloe Leefe,
Hannah Aykroyd,
Edward Towers
and Sophie Bonsor
IN PURSUIT OF PERFECTION
Leveraging their under-the-radar network with utter dedication
to delivering for clients, Aykroyd & Co are independent advisors who act solely on
the acquisition of top-notch residential property in Prime Central London
I
f you are looking to buy your dream home
in Prime Central London, a buying agent is
not so much a luxury as a necessity. “We are
currently in a highly competitive seller’s
market for best in class family houses and
large apartments, and the result is the majority
of these properties are not being openly
marketed,” says Hannah Aykroyd. “More than
70 per cent of homes we are acquiring for
clients are quietly off-market. We regularly end
up in tense best bid situations against other
buying agents. If you are not represented, you
don’t stand a chance.”
As a case in point, Aykroyd tells of acquiring
a property in Holland Park for clients who
undertook an unsuccessful solo search for
nearly five years. “They retained us three
months ago and last week we exchanged on
a beautiful family house. The education
process is a key part of what we offer, writing
comparable reports on properties, giving
people transparency on market prices. Our
WARD & CO INTERIORS, RANDLE SIDDELEY
role is not just about sourcing, it’s about giving
clients the confidence to offer what they need
in order to secure a property.”
Independent, experienced and forensic in
deploying their due-diligence know-how,
Aykroyd & Co holds an unparalleled reputation
as a stellar boutique operation. They save
PROPERTY | PROMOTION
clients time, money and make the emotional
experience of connecting to a new home as
enjoyable as possible. So much so that the team
has expanded to meet demand: Aykroyd,
Sophie Bonsor and Edward Towers MRICS
have been joined by experienced agent Chloe
Leefe and associate Suzie Goodhew. Each
agent works with only four or five clients. It is a
time-intensive process uncovering and
previewing properties, employing a tried-and-
tested team of professionals to assess all
potential challenges, overseeing every element
of a transaction until completion and beyond.
As a law graduate, Aykroyd herself is known
for her attention to detail and a comprehensive
understanding of the conveyancing process.
“Speed is critical. We usually offer five
working day exchanges so we will work solidly
until we have safely done so, with often a long
completion. And we always encourage our
clients to write a personal note to accompany
an offer letter to create a human connection.”
Equally, as objective advisors, they can
diffuse situations where emotions are running
high and are not afraid of tackling comp-
licated matters on behalf of private clients
or investors.
aykroydco.com
 B R I TA I N | P R O P E R T Y

NOTEBOOK
A round-up of the latest property news,
at home and abroad

PHOTOGRAPH: Sim Canetty-Clarke

RIVIERA LIVING
Monaco’s largest-ever residential development, Testimonio II, is currently under way,
and at its heart is Bay House, which will comprise 61 spacious residences designed
with families in mind. Built by the developers behind Tour Odéon – the principality’s LATER LIFE LUXURY
tallest high-rise – the properties at Bay House include five rooftop villas of up to 2,500 Few retirement properties are as stylish as those in Auriens Chelsea.
square metres, which are incredibly rare for Monaco, where space is at such a premium. The 56 apartments have light-filled interiors with smoked-oak floors,
In a place that’s home to more millionaires and billionaires than anywhere else in the bookmatched marble and wood-panelled walls – they’ve also been
world, these apartments stand out as the pinnacle of luxury. The development is set for designed for independent living and are intelligently future-proofed.
completion in 2024. From €17.5 million. With on-site restaurants and bars, a cinema, a gym, a spa and a private
For more information, visit www.bayhouse.mc garden, there’s plenty to do within the development, and the King’s Road
is a short stroll away. ‘In everything we do, we believe in challenging the
perceptions around age,’ says David Meagher, CEO of Auriens Group. ‘The
people living here will be trailblazers for a new form of later life living.’
For more information, visit www.auriens.com

CREAM OF THE CROP

If you’re seeking to rent a standout
home in prime central London,
Mark Tunstall Property is the place
to go – the company lets and
manages some of the capital’s most
desirable residences. Currently
on its books is a townhouse in
Victoria Road, Kensington. At 5,792
square feet, it’s got everything
you could wish for, including an
indoor swimming pool. Another
A MODERN CLASSIC
remarkable property is in Hanover
Enjoy contemporary comfort in the traditional environs of Chelsea’s Old
Terrace, right next to Regent’s Park
Church Street with this spectacular semi-detached townhouse. Spanning 3,821
– a six-bedroom terrace house
square feet, the newly built property is set over four floors, with four bedrooms
with a 52-foot garden leading to a
including a generous main bedroom suite. The main living areas and kitchen
wrap around an enclosed courtyard, which provides a peaceful haven in the separate mews house at the rear: a
heart of the city. With interiors by the award-winning designer Andrew Martin, prize find indeed.
it’s the perfect modern urban base for a busy family. £9 million. For more information, visit
For more information visit www.residential.jll.co.uk www.tunstallproperty.co.uk
 1, 2 and 3 bedrooms apartments and penthouses
available from £815,000*

Located in the heart of Zone 1 and within easy reach of Old Street,
the City and Shoreditch, 250 City Road is a landmark development
with five-star residents’ facilities, including a leisure suite with pool,
rooftop gym, yoga studio and terrace along with a screenings room,
reading room, games room and 24-hour concierge.
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Now more than ever, a countryside bolt-hole is top of many
people’s wish lists – here are five of the best,
from S
T
here’s nothing like escaping the
city at the weekend – especially
if you’ve got a bucolic country
cottage waiting for you. England
is filled with charming rural spots – many of
them within a few hours’ drive of the capital.
Since the pandemic hit, country cottages
have been more in demand than ever, and
tend to sell fast, so anyone seeking a second
home will need to move quickly when it
comes to securing the perfect place.
At the edge of the little Wiltshire village of
Winterbourne Stoke, Till Cottage is tucked
away down a long track, and is a particularly
charming two-storey house made from cob
and thatch. The interiors are as chocolate-
box pretty as the exterior, with an Aga in
the kitchen, an inglenook fireplace in the
B R I TA I N | P R O P E R T Y
WEEKEND
RETREATS
stershire
TILL COTTAGE, WILTSHIRE
Tucked away down a wooded track and surrounded
by mature gardens, this 18th-century thatched
property near Salisbury is the ideal rural bolt-hole.
At 2,108 square feet, it has four bedrooms and a
separate annex for guests. £945,000.
Savills: 01722 426820
sitting room, and upstairs, a triple-aspect
main bedroom with views across the River
Till. The gardens, too, make the most of the
riverside setting: the green-fingered current
owners have created herbaceous borders that
brim with roses, tulips and lavender. It’s also
a haven for wildlife – you can spot herons,
kingfishers and swans from your front door.
Meanwhile, Winkworth is selling a 16th-
century farmhouse in a tiny village near
Ipswich. It’s been painted a traditional shade
of S pink and is steeped in atmosphere,
with flagstone floors and ancient beamed
ceilings. The Grade II-listed house sits in
a conservation area, and has views across
open countryside. There’s a walled kitchen
garden, paddocks and two former garages
that are currently being used as a gym but
could easily be converted into a home .
There’s also a vegetable garden, an orchard,
a paddock and chicken pens, so there’s plenty
of opportunity to try self- ncy.
Down in Cornwall, there’s a very rent
kind of weekend retreat for sale – an old
chapel set on the Carclew Estate near Truro.
Surrounded by rolling countryside and
located at the end of a tree-lined driveway,
the Grade II*-listed building, with its high,
arched windows and carved stone pediments,
looks like something that’s sprung straight
out of a gothic novel. Buy any one of these
properties, and it’s likely that you’ll end up
making it your full-time home.
 COOPERS FARM,
SUFFOLK
This 16th-century house
comes with an acre of land,
and is full of character. It has
four bedrooms, with timber
beams and vaulted ceilings,
inglenook fireplaces and a
kitchen that’s been recently
renovated but retains its
period charm. £875,000.
Winkworth: 01787 326740-

STABLE COTTAGE,
GLOUCESTERSHIRE
In the charming village of
Winchcombe, just
a 10-minute drive from
Cheltenham, is this three-
bedroom terraced house.
Built of Cotswold stone, it has
a traditional period façade
and is set well back from the
road, with gardens to the
front and rear. £550,000.
Knight Frank: 01242 246951

THE OLD CHAPEL,

CORNWALL
Occupying a tranquil spot on the Carclew Estate near Truro,
this architectural gem sits on 2.5 acres of mature grounds.
It has three bedrooms, and a soaring, high-ceilinged
sitting room with views towards the nearby creek.
Offers over £700,000.
Lillicrap Chilcott: 01872 273473

TUMBLY, DEVON
This thatched cottage enjoys one of the best positions on Dartmoor,
with complete privacy yet spectacular views that stretch for miles. Sitting
on 1.6 acres of land, the Grade II-listed property has three bedrooms, a
library and a number of outbuildings. Offers over £850,000.
Knight Frank: 01392 848842
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