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Costume Drama

Giorgio Armani 1934−2025 • Anna Wintour remembers her late friend.

Contributors

The Island • As a teenager, the novelist Lily King fell for a boy she met on the beach. In the decades that followed, he would shape her life far beyond their initial encounter.

DEVICE EX MACHINA • Can AI help us solve our deepest psychological struggles? Fiorella Valdesolo takes the therabots for a spin.

MORE IS MORE • Fall movies run a bumper crop.

LIGHTS UP • Devoted makeup minimalist Mattie Kahn plays with the latest full-glitter glam.

FEARLESS • Scores of movies, heaps of awards, and a parade of unforgettable fashion moments. But Nicole Kidman is as voracious as ever: more risk, more everything. “Why stop?”

ADULTING • Major roles, fashion cred, a nice life in LA—at 30, Ayo Edebiri knows what she’s doing. Now if she could just find the trailhead….

WONDERLAND • For Greta Lee, fame and fashion-icon status are confusing, amusing, and energizing—all at once. “I want to squeeze life dry and milk it to the bone,” she says.

SCENE STEALERS • What happens when contemporary fashion designers reinvent or reanimate legendary costume moments from Hollywood history? Here, looks from eight iconic films—Barry Lyndon, Marie Antoinette, Dune, Black Panther, Orlando, Edward Scissorhands, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, and The Great Gatsby—meet seven custom looks inspired by the worlds they conjured—real or imagined.

LOS ANGELES, MON AMOUR • Saint Laurent’s Anthony Vaccarello has long had an affinity for LA’s cinematic way of life. Now he’s extending his creativity beyond fashion—as worn by his friend Gwyneth Paltrow—to make the kind of movies he loves.

Family Affair • Robert Icke’s new production of Oedipus—starring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville—makes a 2,500-year-old play strikingly modern.

Leveling Up • Becoming a breakout actor is one thing. With his acclaimed film Urchin, Harris Dickinson, 29, has added another line to his résumé: writer-director to watch.

YOUTH IN REVOLT • How Isla Johnston became Baz Luhrmann’s next movie heroine: Joan of Arc.

BEHIND THE CAMERAS • Ahead of Vogue World: Hollywood—a celebration of fashion and the extraordinary, kaleidoscopic work of making movies—we gathered people involved in all different sides of production, from sound to craft services, to find out how the dreams are spun. Ready, set, action!

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