Innholdsfortegnelse for Volume 5, 2025 i W Magazine

Campbell Addy Photographer, “Flash Forward: Paolo Carzana” (page 70) Who or what taught you it was okay to break some rules? My mother, a daredevil fashion icon who would wear sheer clothing to Jehovah’s Witnesses meetings. Major. What trend are you perfectly content to follow? The trend of self-love, improvement, and well-being. Therapy is a must. What’s the most original thing about you? There is only one me to ever exist. Ever. What’s your most contrarian belief? Despite being Ghanaian, I love the cold. Lauren Collins Writer, “Ahead of the Curve” (page 96) What’s the most original excuse you’ve ever used, and why? No one can top my mother on this one: “I’m sorry, I cooked my wallet.” (It was true.) What’s your most contrarian belief? You don’t really have…

According to Cassandra Peterson, “If a party is really good, you can’t remember it.” The actor, best known for her character Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, should know—she’s been to plenty. Before becoming Elvira, Peterson worked as a go-go dancer and Las Vegas showgirl, joined a couple rock bands, then landed bit parts in Federico Fellini and James Bond films. In 1981, because she was on her honeymoon with her now ex-husband, Mark Pierson, she missed an audition to host Movie Macabre, a campy show that broadcast low-budget horror movies on a local Los Angeles TV station. A few weeks later, the producers still hadn’t found anybody, so she wound up getting the part—for $350 a week, before taxes. Peterson admits that “people were likening the show to a car…

Paolo Carzana’s studio is just a tiny room above Smithfield Market, London’s main meat market, on the edge of the city’s financial district. Commuter trains rumble in and out of the tunnel underneath the space, which is crammed with clothes. Since starting his brand in 2022, the 30-year-old Welsh designer has made every garment himself here by hand, using intuitive and time-consuming draping techniques. “Each piece is like a life,” says Carzana, whose nails are bitten to the quick. He uses deadstock, organic, and antique fabrics that he dyes with natural ingredients. “I work with logwood, madder, turmeric, red onion skins, avocado stones.… A lot of the time, I’ll mix ingredients. Or I’ll work on a layer, then layer on top, then layer on top.” So far, Carzana has shown…

On a humid summer Sunday in Red Hook, the Brooklyn enclave across the water from Wall Street, Addison Rae, 25, appeared almost as a mirage as she stepped onto the sunbaked pavement for this W shoot. She wore an oversize Katharine Hamnett stay alive in 85 tee and Manolo Blahniks, with bare legs. Her cascading blonde hair shimmered as always, impervious to the sweltering heat. The jingle of an ice cream truck unexpectedly cut through the heavy July air. Seizing the moment, as if she were performing for her 88.3 million TikTok followers, Rae ran through the street, transforming Mister Softee’s surprise visit into impromptu street theater, pressing herself against the colorful truck and flitting between exaggerated body rolls and athletic thrusts. “With arms wide open, I welcome spontaneity and…

Fashion is always about moving forward, but sometimes it’s really fun to look back. One of my all-time favorite stories in the W archives is “The Clients,” shot by Juergen Teller for the March 1999 issue. As Teller told me, Dennis Freedman, W’s Creative Director at the time, had asked him to photograph the couture collections, but it was Teller’s idea to shoot the clothes on actual clients—including Marie-Chantal of Greece, Ann Getty, and Deeda Blair. When I asked Teller to revisit this iconic portfolio, he immediately said yes, and over a few days in July he captured the new couture clients, including Princess Olympia of Greece, the daughter of Marie-Chantal; Ivy Getty, granddaughter of Ann; Alexa Dell, one of Schiaparelli’s newest devotees; and entrepreneur Lauren Amos, in Demna’s final…

In Los Angeles, the most consequential heads of hair go to Mira Chai Hyde, the 67-year-old self-proclaimed “Godmother of Grooming.” Nicolas Cage’s publicist recommended her to Simu Liu, who hired Hyde to travel with him while he promoted Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings in 2021. Kaia Gerber’s hairdresser suggested Hyde to Austin Butler, who then passed her name to Baz Luhrmann; Hyde cut both men’s hair during the 2022 Elvis promotion tour. When comedian Matt Rife was in town with a bad cut, her name came up as the hairdresser who could fix it. A haircut with Hyde lands a client, be it an Oscar winner or just a banker in the know, in the detached garage of her West Hollywood home. Inside, there’s a barber chair…

There’s a reason fashion insiders call Pat McGrath “Mother.” It started on set in the 1990s, with models, artists, and crew members using the moniker “because I nurtured, guided, and sometimes bossed them a little,” says the legendary makeup artist and founder of the cosmetics company Pat McGrath Labs. So it’s fitting that McGrath, who is responsible for some of the most iconic editorial and runway looks of the past 30 years (not to mention myriad viral makeup trends—glass skin, anyone?) should be the creative force behind what might be the mother of all beauty collaborations: a super luxurious makeup collection for Louis Vuitton that debuted in August with 55 richly pigmented lipsticks, 10 sheer lip balms, and eight gorgeous eye palettes, including one inspired by the cocoa hue of…

Ivy Getty Can you see out of that mask? You can, but not enough where I’m like, Oh, that’s how the models walked. This is part of couture—it’s not meant to be easy to wear. You’re doing it for fashion. When did you start going to shows? My first ready-to-wear Fashion Week ever was in 2015. It was Paris, and I was with my grandma [philanthropist and fashion darling Ann Getty]. For couture, I think it was with the photographer Ellen von Unwerth in 2021. I was very excited that Ellen wanted to go with me to the Giambattista Valli show. Right before it, she came to my room and was like, “Let’s have a photo shoot right now.” A couple months later, she said, “Are you coming to the…

In Rome, water cavorts across courtyards, cascades through aqueducts, bursts from the mouths of stone gods, and pirouettes from ledges with such theatrical flourish that it feels directed by a stylish deity. As part of Fendi’s centenary celebrations this year, Delfina Delettrez Fendi, the house’s artistic director of jewelry, has channeled that baroque bravura into Eaux d’Artifice, a collection that glimmers with movement, illusion, and the surreal lyricism of the Eternal City’s fountains. The name isn’t incidental. Eaux d’Artifice pays homage to Kenneth Anger’s obscure 1953 short film of the same name. Shot in the misty fountains of Villa d’Este (the estate near Rome, not the hotel in Lake Como), the experimental 13-minute film has long had a devoted following among cineasts and occultists. It shows a tiny woman in…

46% of women take 10 minutes or less to apply their makeup. Meanwhile, Rita Ora’s makeup routine has up to 37 steps. 56% of Gen Z “care a lot” about how they look. 6% wear makeup daily. 39% of parents take skincare advice from their children. 38% of women wear makeup to the gym. Lipstick sales grew by 16% in the first half of this year. For the first time in its 171-year history, Louis Vuitton has launched a makeup line. A single tube of lipstick costs $160, and refills are $69. A monogrammed canvas mini-trunk for the lipstick is $2,990. In 2007, Guerlain released KissKiss Gold and Diamonds lipstick, which came in a tube made with 110 grams of 18-karat yellow gold. It was encrusted with 199 diamonds and…

Stepping into Chemena Kamali’s newly renovated Chloé office, in Paris’s 8th arrondissement, is a bit like stepping into her mind. Both are fresh, focused, and warmly lit—in the case of the room, with a Diptyque Feu de Bois candle; in the case of the woman, with a desire, she says, to “carry on working with the heritage of the house while writing a new legacy for Chloé,” where she has served as creative director since 2023. Try to find a screen—you won’t. Kamali has politely turned her phone face down on a table laid with canisters of cashews, a box of chocolates, and a bowl of blueberries. On her desk, a stack of leather-bound journals overwhelms a closed laptop, and an old-school fan whirls away. “When I arrived here yesterday,…

Ethel Cain Musician You just released your second album, Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You, a Southern Gothic epic that runs from folk to shoegaze. Your personal story—growing up as Hayden Silas Anhedönia in Florida’s evangelical Panhandle, transitioning in your early 20s—isn’t what you explore in your music. Instead, you’re telling the fictional story of a character named Ethel Cain. How do you want people to know who you are? There are so many facets to my story. I’m like, However people come to know it is how they come to know it. The more I try to control the narrative, the more I find myself chopping pieces off to make it fit. Ethel Cain is a preacher’s daughter in 1980s Alabama who is corrupted by booze, crime, and deadbeat…