Kaia Gerber's Vogue US December 2024, Marc Jacobs Cover Story Life Is a Grand Salon

Kaia Gerber's Vogue US December 2024, Marc Jacobs Cover Story Life Is a Grand Salon

Kaia Gerber's Vogue US December 2024, Marc Jacobs Cover Story Life Is a Grand Salon

American Vogue’s [IG] December 2024 issue is guest-edited by Marc Jacobs [IG], who turned to his close friend and former protegé Kaia Gerber [IG] as his Marc Jacobs cover girl. Photographer Steven Meisel [IG] captures Gerber, who has spread her career-girl self with unassuming but very wide wings into what Iowa calls a West Coast/East Coat elitist, snob-fest for pseudo intellectuals. For the record, Kaia Gerber is not that person.

A simple example of Gerber’s search of life’s opportunities was her appearance in the i-D Spring 2020 Icons Issue, interviewed by ‘Slave Play’ playwright and now good friend Jeremy O. Harris.

In a six-degrees-of-separation moment, Gerber notes in her Library Science book club interview below of Will Arbery that he is a friend of Jeremy O. Harris, whose ‘Slave Play’ production took London’s West End theatre culture by the throat in the second half of 2024.

Dana Spiotta’s interview ends on a high note, an evening at legendary The Chelsea hotel, with a Library Science [Kaia’s book club] event. One of Gerber’s favorite books is ‘Just Kids’, Patti Smith’s memoir of New York in the early ’70s.

This night the supermodel, actor, activist, and thoughtful human being was hosting readings by authors connected to the legendary Chelsea. One was Alexandra Auder, author of the memoir ‘Don't Call Me Home’.

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Karen Elson Is 'Fast and Furiously Chic' in W Magazine Fall Fashion by Craig McDean

Karen Elson Is 'Fast and Furiously Chic' in W Magazine Fall Fashion by Craig McDean

Model, singer/songwriter Karen Elson adds her blazing red hair to W Magazine’s Fall 2023 Volume 4 fashion issue. Fellow redhead Grace Coddington styles ‘Fast and Furiously Chic’ in images by Craig McDean [IG]. / Hair by Orlando Pita; makeup by Francelle Daly

The fashion story isn’t yet posted on W’s website for all the product info, but it will be.

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Anok Yai in 'Changing Direction' by Rafael Pavarotti for British Vogue February 2023

Anok Yai in 'Changing Direction' by Rafael Pavarotti for British Vogue February 2023

Photographer Rafael Pavarotti [IG] brings his infectious, ubuntu vibe to ‘Changing Direction’, a fashion story for British Vogue’s February 2023 issue.

Top model Anok Yai is the star, but Pavarotti brings all the players into the pictures. Super stylist Grace Coddington’s haircut is a knockout. It’s been shorter, but the shape is perfect.

Hair is by Eugene Souleiman and makeup by Ana Takahashi — and they join the images, too. Add Bianca Parisotto and Michael Cukr, and clearly the ringleader Rafael Pavarotti has orchestrated a coming ‘Age of Aquarius’ fashion shoot, where we see all the creators behind ‘Changing Direction’.

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Gigi Hadid Covers Vogue Italia September 2022 Fashion by Rafael Pavarotti

Gigi Hadid Covers Vogue Italia September 2022 Fashion by Rafael Pavarotti

Supermodel Gigi Hadid covers the September issue of Vogue Italia, styled by Grace Coddington. The fashion legend deserves applause for transforming Gigi in a high-fashion, fall style statement.

Photographer Rafael Pavarotti [IG] captures Gigi’s smartwoman, street-style vibe in this all-cylinders are firing together fashion story.

In a single moment, the fashion performance begins and they ALL row together in an ensemble performance bringing old-fashioned tears to the eyes of Franca Sozzani. And the fashion story involves a bit of artistic risk — and isn’t that fab!

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Craig McDean Flashes Meghan Collison in Retro Modern Style in W Magazine Fall 2021

Craig McDean Flashes Meghan Collison in Retro Modern Style in W Magazine Fall 2021

The A team arrives in W Magazine’s Fall 2021 issue with model Meghan Collison fronting ‘Retro Never Looked So Modern’. Craig McDean captures stellar imagery with perfect-pitch background colors. Grace Coddington rarely has a bad day; and her luxury label mix “of the chicest clothes of the moment” do indeed “evoke bygone eras without relying on nostalgia.” Bravo!

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Julianne Moore Plays Grace Coddington, Shot by Craig McDean in Document Journal

Julianne Moore Plays Grace Coddington, Shot by Craig McDean in Document Journal

Hollywood Reporter wrote in September 2016 that Grace Coddington listed the actors who should play her in ‘Grace’, a movie about her life optioned in 2015 by independent production company A24. “In my head, I’d like it to be focused on the early years, so it’s not the me you know, it’s more in the 1970s. It has to be someone quite young, and maybe we haven’t found them yet, because first we have to write the movie, and the movie is a very long winded thing to do, you know. I’ve been talking about it for three, four years now. I love all the young British people like Saoirse [Ronan] and Kiera Knightley and Carey Mulligan, she’s in there,” she added. “I would like it to be a British person and an English director would be great, because I’d like to keep an English sense.

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Karen Elson, Natalia Vodianova, Aldis Hodge in 'Earthly Delights by Annie Leibovitz

Karen Elson, Natalia Vodianova, Aldis Hodge in 'Earthly Delights by Annie Leibovitz AOC Fashion

Models Karen Elson, Natalia Vodianova and Aldis Hodge come together in ‘Earthly Delights’, pure fashion poetry styled by Grace Coddington & Michael Philouze. Master photographer Annie Leibovitz [IG] captures the trio in an impossibly-beautiful, visual oasis for Vogue US September 2021./ Hair by Julien d’Ys; makeup by Francelle Daly

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Tianna St Louis Strikes Regal Poses, Lensed by Craig McDean for Vogue UK August

Tianna St Louis Strikes Regal Poses, Lensed by Craig McDean for Vogue UK August

Model Tianna St. Louis is styled by Grace Coddington in ‘Cornucopia Of Delights’, lensed by Craig McDean for British Vogue August 2021./ Hair by Julien d’Ys; makeup by Francelle Daly

Tianna St. Louis’ background of Australian, German, Irish, Italian and Jamaican ancestry channels the ‘Elizabethan meets Bloomsbury’ mood of the fashion story.

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Binx Walton in Deserted New York by Craig McDean for Vogue UK April 2021

Binx Walton in Deserted New York by Craig McDean for Vogue UK April 2021

Top model Binx Walton poses in the deserted streets of New York in austere images that channel post-WWII Britain. British Vogue EIC Edward Enninful reflects that the Craig McDean [IG] fashion story in the April 2021 issue captures the spirit of the moment, in images that remind Enninful of Norman Parkinson, “when he photographed Bath’s empty streets for British Vogue in 1948.”

Adut Akech + Rianne Van Rompaey by Craig McDean for Vogue UK February 2020

Adut Akech + Rianne Van Rompaey by Craig McDean for Vogue UK February 2020

Top models Adut Akech and Rianne Van Rompaey are styled by Grace Coddington in ‘Enduring Love’, a collection of new fashion created to last decades. Photographer Craig McDean captures the fashion story for British Vogue February 2020. / Set Design Stefan Beckman; makeup by Francelle Daly; hair by Jawara