Innholdsfortegnelse for Winter 2021 - Holiday Entertainment - Resort Fashion i L'OFFICIEL USA

Dan RUBINSTEIN WRITER “To the Max” “Kelly Wearstler has a near god-like amount of energy and drive that makes anyone speaking to her just admire her even more. I’ve covered her work on and off for nearly 20 years, and her impact on American style looms large.” Alison EDMOND STYLIST “Elle the Great” “I styled Elle Fanning for the first time ten years ago, and we have collaborated many times since then. I always know that we are going to have great fun and produce amazing images—she’s the best.” Jacques BURGA PHOTOGRAPHER “Queen Z” “Grateful and glad to have had the opportunity to work with lovely and talented Whitney Peak on this photoshoot involving one of my favorite brands: Chanel.”…

Back in November, less than a year before she would attend her first class at Stanford University, Eileen Gu became the first woman to land a Double Cork 1440. At the Stubai Glacier ski resort in Austria, the Chinese-American freestyle skier exploded from a Red Bull–branded ramp, and, like a human fidget spinner, rotated her body four times clockwise and upside down twice. She was just practicing. In her still-nascent sports career, Gu, who has competed for China since 2019 and will represent the country this February at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, has made a routine out of breaking records. At the 2021 X Games in January, she became the first female rookie in the event’s 25-year history to earn three medals: golds in the superpipe and slopestyle…

KINN, USA When Jennie Yoon founded Kinn in 2017, she initially wanted to replace the family heirlooms that her parents had lost in a home robbery. Today, she creates minimalist jewelry in her Los Angeles studio that shoppers can pass down to their family members. Most pieces are made with recycled 14-karat gold or other metals that are then melted down and refined for a high-quality feel, and every gem is ethically sourced and handpicked by Yoon. Through Kinn’s Repurpose Project, Yoon and her team also refurbish or recycle old jewelry pieces into new, custom designs. COMPLETEDWORKS, United Kingdom Before she was an up-and-coming jewelry designer, Anna Jewsbury studied mathematics and philosophy at Oxford University. Jewsbury leans heavily on the idea of reductionism in her designs for Completed works: bracelet…

Roberto Capucci, the Italian maestro by whom even Christian Dior was awestruck, is 92 years young, sketching incessantly to this day. With a delicate soul and iron will, he rose to the fore as a creator of dreams, garnering worldwide fame for the wearable, diaphanous masterpieces he architected for the world’s most elegant icons: Jacqueline Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, and the ladies of the fabled Agnelli family of Italy, just to name a few. Having earned the genius status to which he is often referred, his vision endures. Based in London, Robert Wun was born and raised in Hong Kong, and although 60 years Capucci’s junior, he creates with the same uncompromising attitude towards fashion and style. An indisputable talent, Wun saw his career take off right after he graduated from…

Keeping up with interior designer Kelly Wearstler sounds utterly exhausting. On a fall afternoon that appears to be completely normal for the 54-year-old powerhouse, she is personally overseeing a five-day photo shoot of her latest hotel, the 148-room Downtown LA Proper; working on various residences and commercial projects, including another hotel in Miami; churning out new products and collaborations with artists; and ramping up her own e-commerce efforts to include limited-edition pieces created in collaboration with artists and craftspeople she’s commissioned in the past. Not to mention designs for a 200-foot, new-construction yacht—”probably the most detail-oriented project I’ve ever done”—and various mixed-use developments. Sounds a bit manic, doesn’t it? Not to Wearstler. “I have about 60 people working in my studio now, and we take a very curated selection of…

When Whitney Peak was 14, she was working at Wendy’s in Vancouver, Canada, not spending her after-school hours at “Dumbo Hall” or hanging out with Manhattan’s elite. Her real life was “just very different from what Zoya is going through,” the 18-year-old actress says of her Gossip Girl character. On the hit HBO Max show (rebooted from the mid-aughts CW sensation), Zoya Lott is a transplant into a world of privilege that envelops the teens of New York City’s elite private schools. However, as the young half-sister of Julien Calloway, Constance Billard’s queen bee, she is soon initiated into the partying, scheming, and social hierarchy of her classmates, thus becoming one of Gossip Girl’s key targets. The Ugandan-born talent still keeps her perspective grounded in her early years, growing up…

Over the past year, we have celebrated 100 years of L'OFFICIEL, a magazine that began publishing in 1921, bringing French fashion to the world and introducing trends, culture, and art from all over the globe. The idea of an archive and looking back at our own history is a relatively new one, and seems to be the expression of a postmodern state of mind. For the majority of the past century, we were too invested in creating and designing the future to think about the past and the idea of “heritage.” Very few designers or brands kept an archive; not until the 1980s did this become a more common practice: looking back at history and re-mixing it with the present, especially as the future became more unpredictable and dystopian. The…

Leaving a fashion PR job in New York to become the proprietor of The Colony, one of Palm Beach’s treasured hotels, is not a typical career trajectory. But that’s exactly what Sarah Wetenhall did, with her husband Andrew, when they took over his family hotel in 2016. Bob Wetenhall bought the fabled hotel in 1969, which for decades drew the likes of Judy Garland, John Lennon, Frank Sinatra, and Sophia Loren. But the property was in need of a refresh. Sarah brought in Celerie Kemble and her mother Mimi McMakin of Kemble Interiors to add a modern twist to this bastion of Palm Beach prep. While the couple is intent on keeping all the old-world charm (there is a wildly popular Bingo night), their mission is also to keep it…

During the COVID-19 pandemic, when most hotels were downsizing or closing altogether, the Maybourne Hotel Group—which is owned by the hotelier Paddy McKillen and the royal family of Qatar, and counts jewels like Claridges and The Connaught in London and The Maybourne Beverly Hills among its properties—was doubling down on its expansion. McKillen has been overseeing the company’s first new-build property on the Côte d’Azur—a place the Belfast-born hotelier knows well, having spent most of his summers in Cap Ferrat with his family. The May bourne Riviera, which opened quietly this past summer, is a dramatic, modernist hulk—think a Case Study house meets an Art Deco cruise liner—sculpted right into the cliffs above the picturesque village of Roquebrune-Cap-Martin. “It’s one of the great sights on earth with its views of…

In an evening dedicated to style, memories, and, of course, incredible champagne, L’OFFICIEL joined forces with storied French house Moët & Chandon to celebrate a shared major milestone: the magazine’s centennial, and the 100-year anniversary of Grand Vintage Collection 1921. The grand fête at the Château Moët & Chandon, on the Saran estate, brought together guests from the worlds of fashion, music, art, and design, who sipped on vintage Moët & Chandon champagnes from the years 2013, 2004, 1985, 1952 and 1921, all paired with experimental cuisine by three Michelin-starred chef Yannick Alléno. Among those in attendance were the scintillating supermodel—and L’OFFICIEL September 1971 coverstar—Pat Cleveland, and her daughter Anna Cleveland; fashion designer Nicola Lecourt Mansion; and Italian socialite Bianca Brandolini D’Adda. Musical sibling duo Joséphine and Alexandre de la…

Since opening his studio six years ago, Milanese interior designer Fabrizio Casiraghi, 35, has built a portfolio rife with high-profile projects throughout Paris, Cannes, London, and the US. Casiraghi has brought prestige into each of his designs while maintaining a core sense of balance, making us prefer Verbier to Courchevel, and Ramatuelle to Saint-Tropez. Like Achille Castiglioni and Renzo Piano before him, Casiraghi studied urbanism and architecture at the Politecnico in Milan. Shortly after graduating, he moved to Paris to work for Dominique Perrault, who designed the National Library of France. Casiraghi then returned to Italy and joined a group of volunteers at the Fondo Ambiente Italiano, a private foundation that, since 1975, has been concerned with the protection of some 60 Italian monuments and national parks, such as Milan’s…

Even un-made-up, on Zoom, at some ungodly hour in the morning on her one day off that week, Elle Fanning appears to actually be glowing. A steadily-working actor since before she was three years old, at 23 Fanning should, by all accounts, be an absolute menace. And yet, there’s nothing arch or knowing in her manner, no thunderous ego or terrifying riptide of emotional damage to contend with when I meet her virtually in early October. She is among the brightest stars of her generation of performers, and she is kind, loose, funny—in other words, utterly charming. And yes, she has the delicate bone structure of a Disney princess, which she has, in fact, played twice (in Maleficent and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil): truly, it should be very easy to…

Fashion is a global entity and force. Changing fashions move textiles and garments, styles, and concepts around the world, and have done so for centuries, if not millennia, as an integral part of society. But fashion globalism—which addresses and interprets the whole world through fashion—means more than trading networks that criss-cross the globe, producing cultural transformations beyond our imagination. Understanding fashion within a worldwide frame also means cultivating a sense of global citizenship that comes with rights, responsibilities, and a history. The pages of L’OFFICIEL have always sought to engage with a worldwide audience, and its centenary gives us occasion to reflect on the fashion industry’s interest in creative engagements with a diverse range of cultures and ethnicities. In both of these senses, the role that fashion magazines have played…