37 - Fall 2023

L'OFFICIEL USA

Men’s and Women’s fashion magazine

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L'officiel USA
CHAIRMAN Dr. Calvin Choi CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER Xavier Zee CHIEF CONTENT OFFICER Giampietro Baudo CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Benjamin Eymère CHIEF REVENUE OFFICER Anthony Cenname DEPUTY CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Maria Cecilia Andretta CHIEF CONTROL OFFIC
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Head over Heels
It’s been more than seven years since Jorja Smith, now 26 years old, dropped her debut single “Blue Lights” in 2016. She quickly followed up with “Where Do I Go?,” which received international exposure after Drake singled it out as one of his favorit
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MESSAGE In A BOTTLE
When Henry Cremona founded his haute parfumerie Henry Jacques, the mission was simple: To create bespoke scents that embody the personality, emotions, and memories of an individual. Almost a century later, the maison has expanded into signature perfu
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MEMORY Machine
HAIR: Lewis Stanford MAKEUP: Nancy Sumner PHOTO ASSISTANTS: Will Corry and Tom Green STYLIST ASSISTANT: Flora Leahy ■
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A Stitch in TIME
Usually, it would be bad form to send a piece of clothing down the runway unfinished. But the process of designing a piece of clothing isn’t fully revealed just from looking at the finished form. Sometimes, it takes stripping things down to their mos
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Brooching THE SUBJECT
Over the past year, seemingly outdated objets have catapulted to the forefront of fashion. First, from the runway to the street to the red carpet, the opera glove was back. And now, another accessory belonging to the era of Audrey Hepburn has popped
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MADE to TREASURE
The trench coat has captivated generations with its refined elegance and edgy charisma since the early 20th century. This fall, leather trenches were the workhorses in numerous collections, but cut, quality, and suppleness set those pictured here apa
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Leather, Lace, AND OTHER Drugs
The first woman to helm Chloé since its founder Gaby Aghion, designer Martine Sitbon synthesized rock and roll and French romanticism—critically termed “rock ‘n’ romantic”—and elevated the heritage brand to epitomize French Cool Girl style in the lat
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LIVE with LIGHT
“We wanted to create our dream Hamptons home, just closer to the city, and live there full-time,” Emily DiDonato explains. In short, the model and co-founder of vegan skincare line Covey was looking to live every New Yorker’s fantasy. Ultimately, she
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Café Culture
In the mid-1950s, while Grace Kelly was sitting for a royal portrait announcing her marriage to Prince Rainier, a single camera flash immortalized the charming coffee bean leaf necklace delicately suspended around her neck. Now, nearly 70 years later
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L'o
The term “quiet luxury” was a persistent note this year, spiking to a crescendo with the much-anticipated series finale of Succession, which richly illustrated (pun intended) the concept. Designers, as ever, were one step ahead of the zeitgeist, anti
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EMMA IN Paris
When Emma Corrin was asked to walk in Miu Miu’s Fall/Winter 2023 show earlier this year, it brought back memories of a chapter of their life most of us are unaware of. In 2017, Corrin walked for the British designer Molly Goddard in a pouffy white dr
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Clocking in
HAIR: Francesco Avolio MAKEUP: Erica Vellini PHOTO ASSISTANTS: Andrea Murelli and Alessandra Alba STYLIST ASSISTANT: Livia De Franco ■
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The SMART SET
Everything was coming up camellias at Chanel this fall, in an exploration of one of the house’s most iconic symbols. Not one to be outdone, Gucci served a Tom Ford throwback in honor of the horsebit’s 70th anniversary, while our favorite Jimmy Choo s
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Whisper CAMPAIGN
Quiet luxury, ever heard of it? In theory, you shouldn’t have. Quiet luxury, or “stealth wealth,” as it’s also described, is the idea that truly high-quality things—like $1,500 Loro Piana cashmere sweaters and $925 The Row flip-flops—do not announce
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PERFUMER OF Dreams
When you have a conversation with Francis Kurkdjian about fragrance, you won’t find yourself talking about scents and flowers, but rather about art, in an array of mediums. The award-winning founder of Maison Francis Kurkdjian luxury fragrances and P
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About FACE
The term supermodel entered the discourse in the 1980s, when the women most coveted by a certain designer became synonymous with the brand itself. However, the term had already appeared at the beginning of the 1950s in several, primarily American, ma
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L'o
HAIR: Davide Barberi MAKEUP: Emma Miles MANICURE: Julie Luong MOVEMENT DIRECTION: Andrea Carrucciu MAKEUP ASSISTANT: Wenhsin Lee ■
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Off Duty
HAIR: Davide Perfetti MAKEUP: Carolina Antonini PRODUCTION: Rita Rainis PHOTO ASSISTANT: Simone Filpa STYLIST ASSISTANT: Sofia Sole Piras ■
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Looking for PARADISE
A leading figure of Pop Art and Arte Povera, Michelangelo Pistoletto interrogates space and time, trying to capture reality in his works. Pistoletto began his artistic practice at the age of 14, restoring ancient artworks in his father’s workshop in
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SPATIAL Awareness
Architect and designer Hugo Toro mines his past for inspiration, creating warm, intricate spaces, whether they be commercial or residential. “I have a photographic memory, and many memories that feed my work. My head is like a moodboard,” he says. To
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WOMEN’S Voices Of GLOBAL Cinema
The inaugural L’OFFICIEL Global Cinema Award, created under L’OFFICIEL’s global approach, pays tribute to the world of international film, and celebrates those women whose careers have defined the best practices of international cinema. “Cinema has a
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Paco Rabanne’s Groundbreaking Collections Continue To Revolutionize How We Understand And Interact With Fashion.
The 2020s have seen the loss of many iconic designers, recently counting Paco Rabanne among the late greats. Rabanne, born in 1934 in Spain’s Basque Country, was an integral designer during the youthquake fashion movement of the 1960s, creating a spa

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