British Vogue’s December 2022 issue drops with four covers lensed by Scott Trindle [IG] and featuring Elizabeth Debicki, Sienna Miller, Simone Ashley and Yasmine Finney. Jack Borkett styles the fashion project, with hair by Eugene Souleiman and makeup by Vassilis Theotokis.

Elizabeth Debicki

Actor Elizabeth Debicki has the plum acting role of playing ‘The Crown’s’ Princess Diana in her most glamorous and also beleaguered period. Giles Hattersley interviews Debicki, the Australian intellectual known as the opposite of flashy.

Naturally, she was a little spooked at the prospect. “I think in the very beginning that did overwhelm me, the idea of this kind of collective [of Diana disciples] out there,” she says. “It’s a trap, right? A swampy quagmire. So, I would stand over the kitchen sink and say, ‘I cannot do this.’”

Then a moment of cognition struck her, and she realised: “This isn’t meta. These are characters. It’s a part.” Still . . . there is the reality of the public in 2022. Will viewers make the distinction that Elizabeth Debecki is only playing a role?

There’s no disputing that Debecki became an ambassador for Dior Joaillerie, as the face of Rose Dior, in December 2021. She wears everything Dior in her British Vogue December fashion photos.

Sienna Miller

Actor Sienna Miller finally made her way into the world of streaming in Netflix’s very successful ‘Anatomy of a Scandal’, playing Sophie Whitehouse, a Tory MP’s wife. Next came her performance as American actor Lark in in Steve Coogan and Sarah Solemani’s ‘Chivalry’, with its focus on power and consent in the film industry in a post #MeToo world.

Next for Miller is a role in Apple’s ‘Extrapolations’, a climate change drama with a stellar cast with an incomplete list that includes David Schwimmer, Gemma Chan, Marion Cotillard and Tahar Rahim. Oh yes, Meryl Streep plays Miller’s mother.

The anthology drama series follows multiple stories of the reality of climate crisis impacting our work, world and personal lives in the near future. Miller is a ‘keen’ environmentalist and so is Marion Cotillard.

Olivia Marks visits Sienna Miller in her 16th-century cottage in Buckinghamshire, for the interview.

Sienna Miller wears Ralph Lauren on her British Vogue cover, embellished with Cartier jewelry. Her blue leather dress below is from Marc Jacobs with jewelry by Cartier.

Simone Ashley

British actor Simone Ashley had her breakout roles in Netflix’s Shonda Rhimes’s racy Regency romance ‘Brigerton’ and ‘Sex Education’. She grew up in Surrey with her older brother and South Indian Tamil parents who’d emigrated to the UK.

Like so many young actors and models, too, Simone Ashley had a performative streak from a young age and some way, some how, she was determined to be an actor. Her accountant mother and pharmacist father had no acting/Hollywood industry connections, and in her own words, as the daughter of parents who tried to instill a sense of academic discipline in her, the woman playing Brigerton heroine Kate Sharma “failed at so many subjects”.

At 16, she left school to attend sixth form at the performing arts institution Redroofs, and then ArtsEd drama school to study musical theatre. “It wasn’t right for me and I left after my first year,” Ashley tells British Vogue’s Radhika Seth.

At age 17, Simone Ashley moved to LA by herself at 17, and she hasn’t looked back.

Scott Trindle photographs the Brigerton season-three viscountess wearing Fendi and Chanel jewelry on the cover and acid-green Versace below.

Yasmin Finney

Many people believe that actor Yasmin Finney’s casting in ‘Doctor Who? “will change the world.” Amel Mukhtar meets the teen queen of ‘Heartstopper’ at Manchester’s Inflata Nation park, a palace of “brightly-coloured rubber’ where Finney learned to let loose.

Playing Rose, the companion to The Doctor [to be played by Ncuti Gatwa, another veteran from ‘Sex Education’ Netflix’s Sex Education) – is only going to heighten the hype around Finney. As a trans actor, she jumps into a key role in an iconic British drama ‘Doctor Who’ that will mark its 60th anniversary of its 1963 start date.

Finney auditioned for ‘Doctor Who’ before ‘Heartstopper’ came out. Director Euros Lyn alerted showrunner Russell T Davies to the talent coming his way.

Finney was so immediately right that Lyn fretted that 57 other shows would snap her up instead.” Watching Finney evolve been “an education”, he adds, “to see someone commanding such attention – and let’s face it, such enmity [referring to her trans status] – with grace and wit and a wonderful smile”.

Yasmin wears a turquoise stretch-satin minidress from Supriya Lele on the cover and below. She adds Versace shoes and Chanel fine jewellry.