Paloma Elsesser Goes 'Up Country' by Dan Martensen in British Vogue October 2021

Rising model star Paloma Elsesser poses in ‘Up Country’, a sensual and bucolic country scene far away from the ordinary madness of fashion-industry life and pretension. Clare Richardson styles Paloma in fall luxury from Alberta Ferretti, Balenciaga, Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, JW Anderson, Max Mara, Miu Miu, Paul Smith, Salvatore Ferragamo, The Elder Statesman, Valentino.

Photographer Dan Martensen [IG] photographs Elsesser and friends for British Vogue’s October 2021 issue. We zero in on the lead image, one of six blankets created by JW Anderson’s new collab with artists Dame Magdalene Odundo DBE and Mississippi-born, one-armed ceramicist Shawanda Corbett (only called-out because the artist promotes her gift).

One of Corbett’s three blankets with JW Anderson. now a trustee of London’s Victoria & Albert museum, covers Paloma above. Learn more about Shawanda Corbett in this feature about the artist on Crafts Council UK.