With Jegor Venned by Sølve Sundsbø on the cover, Tom Ford on the phone, Anwar Hadid by Collier Schorr, Jonathan Anderson in discussion, plus Alasdair McLellan, Terry Richardson and David Sims, a new creative generation meets the fashion stalwarts this season. Vogue Hommes Fall/Winter 2016-2017, out September 16.
In these troubled times, when long-held certainties and trusted models seem under threat and our horizons are clouded and uncertain, we tend to turn to what we see as safe havens.
Gold. Family. Bricks and mortar. Fashion itself, attuned as it is to events in the wider world, is no exception to this impulse. In these days when we are surrounded by destruction and mayhem, disorientated and mesmerized by the consequent sense of loss and rebirth, Vogue Hommes has decided to hold up the notion of ‘classic’, the style safe haven par excellence, to scrutiny.
Tom Ford moved the fashion goalposts and manhandled the politically correct when he was bannerman at Gucci and Saint Laurent. With his second film, Nocturnal Animals, nearing general release, the erstwhile designer and now film director agreed to give free reign to his worldview in an extended telephone interview.
Fashion designer J.W.Anderson is no shrinking violet either, when it comes to speaking his mind. Hugely gifted, a true radical and visionary, on a meteoric trajectory, his unflinching take on today’s worlds of fashion and luxury are needle-sharp: “No way a brand should try to please everybody,” he contends. That simple truth, we feel, applies equally to the face we, as individuals, present to the world, amply demonstrated in this latest of Vogue Hommes. It is the acid test of character. In a word: classic.
Vogue Hommes Fall/Winter 2016-2017 n°24, out September 16.
