The fiftieth Anniversary Concern of W is an all-out supermodel celebration that includes 17 cowl stars starting from the world’s most well-known names to ladies who’re nicely on their approach to whole vogue domination. See each cowl mannequin right here and skim Jenny Comita’s essay concerning the evolution of the sweetness requirements that outline the trade right here.
You returned to modeling across the age of 40 after a profitable stint in Hollywood. What impressed you to come back again to modeling full time?
I took a bunch of years off to behave and lift my son. I’d do issues periodically, like a particular shoot for a marketing campaign, a handful of jobs right here and there. I by no means had a doubt that I may choose up the place I left off. That sounds smug, however I knew I may work, that there was a spot for me. After I got here again to vogue eight years in the past, I had been on some TV reveals, and the final one had left a nasty style in my mouth. I wasn’t the place I needed to be. I had extra ardour for vogue, and I noticed I may use all of the storytelling expertise I realized from working in movie and tv to be extra impactful. I felt like I may dictate extra of what I needed to do, and modeling, for me, has at all times been about being artistic.
Hermès gown and high; Tiffany & Co. earrings; Elsa Peretti for Tiffany & Co. cuffs; Coperni socks; Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello footwear.
How have you ever seen the sweetness requirements shift within the trade?
There weren’t ladies actually modeling at my age a decade in the past. Up to now, each now and again you’d see a mannequin in her 40s, however it was type of tokenism. This isn’t tokenism; I’m getting enormous jobs.
Coperni gown, headpiece, and socks; Tiffany & Co. ring.
Chanel jacket, skirt, and bag; Tiffany & Co. earrings; Elsa Peretti for Tiffany & Co. bracelet.
Ralph Lauren Assortment jacket and skirt; Tiffany & Co. earrings and bracelet; Falke tights; Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello footwear.
What kind of recommendation would you give to as we speak’s technology of fashions?
It’s so essential for any younger particular person on this trade to domesticate their personhood exterior of what they do. I speak to the younger ladies and guys as we speak, and so they’re speaking about the identical shit that we have been. It doesn’t matter their dimension, age, gender—there’s at all times a difficulty of feeling insufficient and insecure as a result of our trade is about the best way we glance. And till you could have a certain quantity of clout, individuals typically don’t actually respect fashions. However social media has given these men and women a possibility to be greater than a reasonably face or a clothes hanger, to truly present their beliefs and values. The ladies I grew up with within the trade all had dynamic lives exterior of vogue—whether or not it was Christy [Turlington Burns] making a basis for moms or the work Naomi [Campbell] has been doing in Africa. That has turn out to be much more essential and on the forefront of many careers.
Giorgio Armani coat; Tiffany & Co. bracelet and ring; Falke tights; Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello footwear.
Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello gown and bracelets.
The photographer Michael Thompson is accountable for a lot of W’s most recognizable photos from the Nineteen Nineties and early aughts. For this subject, he reunited with Amber Valletta, Christy Turlington Burns, and Shalom Harlow for a shoot that embodies his playful, minimalist fashion and showcases the rebellious spirit that unites all three fashions.
Senior fashion editor: Allia Alliata di Montereale. Hair by Eugene Souleiman at Streeters; make-up by James Kaliardos on the Wall Group; manicure by Yuko Tsuchihashi for Chanel Le Vernis at Susan Worth NYC. Set design by Set Store. Mannequin: Amber Valletta on the Society Administration; casting by Michelle Lee at Michelle Lee Casting.
Produced by Lola Productions; manufacturing supervisor: Tucker Birbilis; manufacturing coordinator: Hannah Westbrook; photograph assistants: Shinobu Mochizuki, Sam Kang; digital technician: Roy Beeson; retouching: Timothy Sexton/SelecaoNYC; vogue assistants: Julia McClatchy, India Reed, Natalya Clarke; manufacturing assistant: Michael Lighston; hair assistants: Christine Moore, Anastasiia Milyaeva; make-up assistants: Aimi Osada, Cyler Daigle; tailor: Lindsay Wright