Vogue US Magazine - November 2024

In this issue

Nothing Like Her - As she sets out on tour without her family, Billie Eilish is finally getting to know herself.

Mother Superior - Audra McDonald takes on Gypsy.

Simon Says - Designer Simon Porte Jacquemus, at work and at play. By Nathan Heller...

Off the Beat - Mainly known as a producer, O'Connell Finneas is releasing a new heartfelt LP.

Finneas O’Connell likes to disappear. A tendency toward self-effacement may seem like an unexpected character trait for the youngest person ever to win a Producer of the Year Grammy, a prize that has pride of place in Finneas’s living room, alongside the other nine he’s earned for his work with his sister, Billie Eilish. But seated at the dining table in his LA home, the 27-year-old musician elaborates. “When you hear a song and you’re like, ‘Wow, who made this?’ That’s what I’m trying to do when I write,” he says. “He can really tap into the other person,” says frequent collaborator Ashe, née Ashlyn Rae Willson. “He is a phenomenal listener.”

3 mins

Northern Light

Long an escape for British royals, Norfolk is fast becoming a creative haven.

1 min

Written in Stones (and Etched in Metal)

Three years after taking the reins at Bottega Veneta, Matthieu Blazy unveils his first fine jewelry collection.

4 mins

Canvas the City - Martha Diamond captured the brisk energy of Manhattan.

How do you capture a city as frenetic as New York? For the late artist Martha Diamond, it meant looking up. In her soulful paintings of New York City’s skyscrapers, Diamond used loose ropes of color that land somewhere between abstraction and figuration. Though sparse in detail, her buildings teem, as the city does, with life. Diamond made most of her paintings in her loft on the Bowery, where she lived from 1969 until her death last December, at age 79. Throughout her five-decade career, she didn’t so much re-create what she saw as channel its slippery essence. “I know the city has straight lines or edges,” she said in 1989, “but as I walk around, the ending or beginning of substance becomes less absolute.” Her buildings sway in the wind and glisten in the light. “I think her work is still startling,” says poet Eileen Myles, who was a longtime friend of Diamond’s. “It’s there to wake people up.”

2 mins

The Wizard

Paul Tazewell’s costumes for the film adaptation of Wicked conjure their own kind of magic.

3 mins

Spinning a Web - Not muscle, not bone, but fascia the network of tissue that connects it all is grabbing the therapeutic spotlight.

Are you in pain?” Cadence Dubus, a Brooklyn-based fitness instructor who has developed a program for “fascia release,” asks, sending me spiraling before our session begins. There’s that twinge in my shoulder and the carpal tunnel at night—but aren’t such annoyances simply the conditions of modern life, of getting older? “Some,” I answer, shy to cop to any of it. Dubus then has me walk back and forth, squinting at my gait.

4 mins

Different Stages

A trio of novels spirits you far away.

2 mins

WALK THIS WAY

THE FASHION FOR OUR FUTURE MARCH HAD A SINGULAR PURPOSE: TO GET OUT THE VOTE.

1 min

Nothing Like Her - Billie Eilish was adored by millions before she fully understood who she was. Now, as she sets out on tour without her family for the first time, she is finally getting to know herself.

It was late in the summer in Los Angeles, with all the dry heat and burnished sunlight that implies, and Billie Eilish was sitting in a dark room, busy changing her mind. The singer was halfway through editing the music video she had directed for “Birds of a Feather,” her latest astronomically successful hit song (nearly 1 billion streams) off her latest astronomically successful hit album (nearly 4 billion streams at the time), when she encountered a problem: She realized she hated it. Well, not hated. “I was like, this ain’t it,” she says.

10+ mins

MOTHER SUPERIOR

The character of Rose in Gypsy is the acting Everest for many one-name acting legends. This fall, Audra McDonald takes it on.

8 mins

Simon Says

Simon Porte Jacquemus, much like his label, resonates with the sunny, breezy French South-but behind the good life, as Nathan Heller discovers, is a laser focus and a shoulder-to-the-wheel work ethic.

10+ mins

STAGING A COMEBACK

Harlem's National Black Theatre has been a storied arts institution in need of support. A soaring new home is shaping its future.

10 mins

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