Innholdsfortegnelse for No. 32 - Winter 2022 i L'OFFICIEL USA

Nicolas Ghesquière’s locations for his Louis Vuitton cruise shows have spanned the globe, from the TWA Flight Center at New York’s JFK airport to the MAC in Rio de Janeiro and the Miho Museum in Japan. For the brand’s Cruise 2023 show the fashion set descended upon the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego, an imposing, Brutalist building designed by Louis Kahn in the early 1960s. Though Ghesquière’s designs are often seen alongside some of the world’s most iconic architectural locales, the maison took things a step further for Cruise 2023, timing the show to take place during a blazing sunset, which cast golden rays on the building’s central courtyard and brought the collection’s jacquard, silk, and tweed fabrics to vibrant life. Light reflected on the collection’s metallic…

HAIR: Alessandro Firenze MAKEUP: Clarissa Carbone PHOTO ASSISTANT: Giancarlo Esposito STYLIST ASSISTANT: Mattia Boscolo STUDIO ASSISTANT: Federico Terenzio…

MODEL: Stephanie Quezada HAIR: Ben Jones MAKEUP: Akiko Owada PROP STYLING: Milena Gorum CASTING: Margeaux Elkreif PRODUCTION: FAMILY Projects PHOTO ASSISTANTS: Jesse Gouveia and Ji Ou STYLIST ASSISTANT: Giau Nguyen PRODUCTION ASSISTANT: Ian King HORSES COURTESY OF MORGAN HORSES AND MARY ANN COLE…

Back in 2014, when Maggie Rogers was an intern at Spin magazine writing about other people’s music, she kept a running list of good descriptive words. “I had a document on my computer of crunchy adverbs and adjectives,” she told me in late October as she prepared to leave on the international leg of her Feral Joy tour. Music writing, Rogers knows, is notoriously difficult to do well; capturing the feeling of a song can sometimes feel like writing a whole new one. When she talks about music (her own, or that of an artist she admires), Rogers often ends up invoking sensations—smell, color, mouthfeel—in ways that can feel synesthetic. That’s on purpose. “Music is this thing that you don’t get to see,” she says, “so you have to rely…

MODELS: Woosang Kim and Anden Scudder HAIR: Joeri Rouffa MAKEUP: Liselotte Van Saarloos PHOTO ASSISTANT: Laura Berrou STYLIST ASSISTANT: Simona Williams…

MODEL: Alva Claire at IMG HAIR: Christos Bairabas MAKEUP: Victoria Bond MANICURE: Nichole Williams SET DESIGN: Lizzy Gilbert CASTING: Troy Westwood PRODUCTION: Mink Mgmt POST-PRODUCTION AND RETOUCHING: The Banksia Pod DIGITAL TECH: Brian Cleaver PHOTO ASSISTANTS: Ryan Rivers and Nathalie Théry STYLIST ASSISTANT: Aline Swoboda…

To say that Maggie Rogers’ 2022 album Surrender struck a communal chord would be selling it short. The singer-songwriter will soon embark on her first post-pandemic tour, dubbed Feral Joy, a surprisingly astute way to sum up fans’ elation in going to see live music once again. Both as a fan of live music and a musician herself, Rogers is embracing the idea of being back on stage and performing again: “It feels like going home.” Across the globe, a different kind of band has just given the performance of a lifetime. Elite footballers have descended upon Qatar’s pitch in pursuit of World Cup glory. Though Paris Saint-Germain defender Presnel Kimpembe had to sit out the matches due to an injury, he supports his fellow teammates for the love of…

Yann Le Coadic and Alessandro Scotto are the duo behind Lecoadic-Scotto, a Paris-based design and architecture firm whose portfolio of work includes hotels, boutiques, and apartments. Specializing in melding unpretentious elegance with refined discretion, Lecoadic-Scotto embodies a unique contemporary style that has cemented their place in the world of architecture. Le Coadic attended the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, and after graduating became the personal assistant to Christian Astuguevieille, who was the creative director of Comme des Garçons fragrances. “I worked behind closed doors; he was a very demanding person and therefore a great introduction to work. It was by his side that I fell into fashion,” says Le Coadic. Before settling in Paris, Scotto started his career at Locatelli Partners and worked on projects for brands like Missoni…

Everyone has a love story to tell. Rachel Tabb’s is with fashion—although, for the record, she did meet her boyfriend at the salad bar in Erewhon. In fifth grade, while Tabb’s friends were shopping for Hollister graphic tees and Aeropostale skinny jeans at the mall, she made her way across the street to the charity thrift store with a $20 bill, and walked out with a pair of Miu Miu heels, roller skates, and a bag of dollar-rack clothes she could cut up and sew. From there, she went on to fuel that passion by modeling, interning for designers, and, later, while still in college, working as a product designer for Brandy Melville. However, after years of sourcing fabric samples and selling her flea market finds on Instagram, Tabb made…

From its inception in 1832, Longines has continuously prided itself on its ability to craft watches that exude elegance while prioritizing precision. The watchmaker has a history of reliability and pioneership, from timekeeping sporting events across disciplines in the 1880s to the chronograph worn by Amelia Earhart on her 1932 transatlantic flight. This year, the watchmaker extends The Longines Master Collection with new, decidedly feminine 34 mm styles. Fashioned in chic steel or with leather straps, each model includes sapphire glass with a multi-layered internal and external anti-reflective treatment, and three polished metal hands that gracefully tick past diamond hour markers or painted Arabic numerals. Dials are rendered in a classic silver, blue sun ray, mother of pearl, or a new champagne sun ray variation. A transparent case back shows…

From her earnest start as a community theater actress in Texas to landing big roles on Broadway—she played Annie!—and beyond, it seems that Sadie Sink’s star was always destined to ascend. In 2017, at age 14, she joined the cast of Netflix’s supernatural hit Stranger Things as a skateboarding tomboy named Max. She was quickly embraced by Hollywood and fashion brands alike, and the stans came out in droves. In December, there will be another performance to applaud as Sink, now 20, flexes her dramatic muscles in A24’s highly anticipated The Whale, directed by Darren Aronofsky and adapted from Samuel D. Hunter’s play of the same name. Sink plays Ellie, a troublesome teenager who is summoned to the cramped apartment of her obese and housebound father, Charlie, (Brendan Fraser) amid…

MODELS: Aaliyah Buford, Alice Barbosa, Binta Sine, and Salma El Hami HAIR: Chiara Marinosci MAKEUP: Francesca Rezzola…

The story of Presnel Kimpembe is one of many second-generation Frenchmen, but in the world of soccer he is almost an exception, coming to Paris Saint-Germain from the outskirts of the city. Yet the defender succeeded, beginning in Beaumont-sur-Oise and culminating in wearing the PSG captain’s armband, as well as competing in the 2018 World Cup in Russia with France. Born to a Congolese father and Haitian mother, Kimpembe, 27, had clear ideas for what he wanted to accomplish. Since the age of six, when he took his first soccer steps in the Louis-Larue stadium in nearby Éragny, he had only one goal in mind: to play for Paris Saint-Germain. At the age of 10, he was able to enter the Parisian youth league. Kimpembe’s athletic idols at the time…

No matter what year we’re ringing in, New Year’s Eve has always been the consummate moment for glitz, glamour, and over-the-top celebration. In order to fête in style, partygoers choose punchy, exuberant ensembles to match the excitement and promise of the turn of the calendar page. Decades come and go, but some things never change: Playful extravagance is the common thread that weaves through past, present, and future iterations of the quintessential New Year’s Eve look. Sequins, feathers, metallics, sheer, ruffles, and satin are all in steady rotation. Celebration was marked by intricate beading and jewels in both the 1920s and ‘60s, and by floor-length, draped gowns by Christian Dior and Pierre Balmain in the ‘50s. The ‘70s heralded satiny simplicity, with sweeping gowns and androgynous silk suiting; geometric silhouettes…