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How British comfort food won over the French
Marine Cacciaguerra and Marine Pourtauborde, Parisian friends in their early thirties, both grew up with enthusiastic home cooks as...
Nicole Kidman On ‘Practical Magic 2,’ Why She Works Harder Than Ever, and Why She’ll Never Stop
When I first talked to Nicole Kidman in London in late August, we met in a curtained alcove of a blandly grand hotel restaurant in Mayfair. Decanted from a transatlantic flight—she had gone home to Nashville to settle her two teenage daughters, Sunday Rose, 17, and Faith Margaret, 14, into a new school year before returning here to finish filming Practical Magic 2 with Sandra Bullock—she shimmered in a white silk jacquard sundress and gold ballerina slippers.
ケイト・ウィンスレットが伝説の写真家リー・ミラーに自らを重ねた理由 | Vogue Japan
6月末のある金曜日、ケイト・ウィンスレットはロンドンの暗く、窓のない編集室にこもっていた。ここでは今まさに、映画『リー・ミラー 彼女の瞳が映す世界』（公開中）のアフレコ作業が行われているところだ。ケイトが主演し、自ら製作総指揮も務めたこの映画は、リー・ミラーという女性の生涯を追った作品だ。リーはヴォーグのモデルから写真家、さらには従軍記者に転じ、第二次世界大戦の終了時には、強制収容所での血も凍るような光景を写真で伝えた。ちょうどこの時期に、リー自らが被写体となり、ヒトラーが暮らしていたアパートの浴室で撮影された写真も、世に広く知られている。...
Adrien Brody se confie sur son rôle incomparable dans The Brutalist, pour lequel il vient de marquer l'histoire aux Oscars 2025
Adrien Brody n'avait que 29 ans quand il a remporté l'Oscar du meilleur acteur pour Le Pianiste de Roman Polanski où il campait le rôle d’un musicien juif dans le ghetto de Varsovie. Il était le plus jeune lauréat de l'histoire – record qu'il détient toujours.
Adrien Brody se confie sur son rôle incomparable dans The Brutalist
Adrien Brody n'avait que 29 ans quand il a remporté l'Oscar du meilleur acteur pour Le Pianiste de Roman Polanski où il campait le rôle d’un musicien juif dans le ghetto de Varsovie. Il était le plus jeune lauréat de l'histoire – record qu'il détient toujours.
A Adrien Brody le atraen los personajes arriesgados, pero ninguno es comparable con el que interpreta en ‘The Brutalist’
Adrien Brody tenía solo 29 años cuando ganó el Oscar al mejor actor por El pianista, la inquietante película de Roman Polanski ambientada en el gueto de Varsovia. Fue el ganador más joven de la historia de la categoría, un récord que aún se mantiene. El inmenso esfuerzo que le demandó la preparación del papel –dejar su apartamento de Nueva York, evitar a sus amigos y pasar hambre para comprender la pérdida y el aislamiento– lo dejó deprimido y exhausto. Tardó un año en volver a trabajar.
«Sì, è difficile essere la sindaca di Parigi»: Anne Hidalgo si racconta a Vogue
Anne Hidalgo, la sindaca di Parigi racconta a Vogue le sue sfide quotidiane Lo scorso 8 marzo, in occasione della Giornata internazionale della donna, Anne Hidalgo, sindaca di Parigi dal 2014, ha convocato presso l’Hôtel de Ville una conferenza dal titolo “Una donna = un uomo? Una questione di potere”.
“Die Fotografin”: Kate Winslet über die achtjährige Arbeit an ihrem neuen Film, Lee Miller und Sexismus in Hollywood
"Die Fotografin" feierte am 2. Juli Europapremiere beim diesjährigen Filmfest München. Im vergangenes Jahr besuchte VOGUE sie während der Dreharbeiten und traf sie zum Gespräch. London, an einem Freitag Ende Juni, in einem dunklen, fensterlosen Schnittstudio. Alle Welt ist draußen und genießt den Sommertag. Wir sitzten drinnen, Staub flirrt im Licht der Monitore.
“El estadio es la ciudad”: la alcaldesa de París, Anne Hidalgo, tiene un gran verano por delante
El pasado 8 de marzo, Día Internacional de la Mujer, Anne Hidalgo, alcaldesa de París desde 2014, convocó una conferencia en el magnífico Hôtel de Ville del siglo XIX, sede del ayuntamiento, bajo la pregunta: ¿Una mujer = un hombre? Una cuestión de poder. Ataviada con un discreto y elegante vestido azul marino con botones dorados, la regidora estaba en su elemento, declamando ante una audiencia de compañeras feministas, defensoras de la justicia social y políticas socialistas.
“Maire est un métier difficile. Mais j’ai une vision” - Anne Hidalgo se livre à Vogue avant les Jeux olympiques
Le 8 mars dernier, pour marquer la Journée internationale des droits des femmes, Anne Hidalgo a organisé une conférence sur le thème : “En 2024, une femme = un homme ? Une question de pouvoir”. De nombreuses invitées de renom ont répondu à son appel, telles que les anciennes présidentes Michelle Bachelet (Chili) et Dilma Rousseff (Brésil), ou le Prix Nobel de la paix Shirin Ebadi. “Vous êtes des exemples, leur a dit la maire de Paris en guise de bienvenue.
Paris’s Mayor Anne Hidalgo Has A Very Big Summer
On International Women’s Day this year, March 8, Anne Hidalgo, mayor of Paris since 2014, convened a conference at the magnificent 19th-century Hôtel de Ville under the title question: “A Woman = A Man? A Question of Power.” Dressed in a discreetly chic, navy dress with gold buttons, Hidalgo was in her element, addressing an audience of fellow feminists, social justice advocates, and socialist politicians. “You are all examples!” she said, welcoming them.
時尚界永恆的智者，深度專訪Miuccia Prada：「每天我都在決定自己是15歲的少女，還是接近死亡的老太太」
十一月的威尼斯，在這座建於十八世紀的王后宮（Ca’ Corner della Regina），也就是Prada基金會在威尼斯的所在地。Miuccia Prada正以大運河為背景接受拍攝，她披著一件紅色絲綢外套（來自她1988年首個個人系列），內裏搭配青檸色毛衣，襯著外頭灰色天空與充滿橙紅、赭色和青銅綠的威尼斯市容，看起來更顯明豔動人。她臉上未施脂粉，那一頭金褐色的長髮也沒有刻意造型，僅柔軟地垂落肩上。當微風拂來，她開玩笑說看起來非常的九零年代，像站在電扇前的Cindy Crawford一樣。 之後，我們幾個人圍著一張桌子用餐。這位被大家尊稱為「Prada夫人」的女士，脫下頸上的兩條大金項鍊（其中一條造型是獅子頭）與其他墜飾，放在一旁的椅子上，彷彿卸下千斤工作重擔，然後開始像義大利媽媽一樣把一匙又一匙米飯舀進我們的盤子裡。午餐菜色很簡單：雞肉餅、燉菊苣、菠菜和沙拉。她說，這些蔬菜都來自她在托斯卡尼的花園──喔是的，她點點頭表示，她對種菜很感興趣。後來我才了解，Prada對任何事都抱有極大興趣。...
"I try to respect women—I tend not to do bias dresses, super-sexy. I try to be creative in a way that can be worn, that can be useful.”: exclusive interview with Miuccia Prada
It was November and a little windy on the balcony of the Ca’ Corner della Regina, the 18th-century palazzo that is home to the Prada Foundation in Venice, where Miuccia Prada was posing for photographs against the backdrop of the Grand Canal. She clasped a red silk coat (from her very first collection in 1988) over a citrine sweater, bright and sharp against the gray sky and the terra-cotta, ochre, and verdigris of deliquescent Venice.
Así ve el mundo Miuccia Prada
Era noviembre y hacía un poco de viento en el balcón del Ca’Corner della Regina, el palacio del siglo XVIII que alberga la Fundación Prada en Venecia, donde Miuccia Prada posaba para fotografías con el Gran Canal de fondo. Se abrochó un abrigo de seda rojo (de su primera colección en 1988) sobre un suéter citrino, brillante y nítido contra el cielo gris y el terracota, ocre y cardenillo de la delicuescente Venecia.
Miuccia Prada: "Eso de reducir una mujer a una silueta bonita, ¡ni hablar! Yo intento respetar a las mujeres, volcar mi creatividad en cosas que sean ponibles, útiles”
Un día ventoso de noviembre en el balcón de la Ca’ Corner della Regina, el palacio del siglo XVIII que alberga la sede de la Fundación Prada en Venecia, Miuccia Prada posa con el Gran Canal de fondo. Lleva un abrigo de seda rojo (de su colección de debut de 1988) sobre un suéter amarillo dorado, de un brillo agudo que resalta contra el cielo gris y los tonos terracota, ocre y verdín de la húmeda decadencia veneciana. No lleva maquillaje o no se nota.
“J’essaie de respecter les femmes… J’essaie d’être créative avec des pièces que l’on peut porter, des pièces utiles” : rencontre exclusive avec Miuccia Prada
Un vent frais d’automne souffle sur le balcon du palais vénitien de la Fondazione Prada. C’est cet endroit que Miuccia Prada a choisi pour son shooting photo : son manteau de soie rouge, issu de sa toute première collection en 1988, et son pull citrin forment un contraste frappant avec le ciel de novembre, l’eau du Grand Canal d’un gris argenté et l’emblématique ocre qui habille les immeubles d’une Venise déliquescente.
«Fare vestiti era come un incubo, per me. Mi vergognavo tanto, ma l’ho fatto comunque. L’amore per le cose belle ha prevalso». La nostra intervista a Miuccia Prada
Miuccia Prada ricorda per certi versi la regina Elisabetta II: una signora minuta, abbigliata magnificamente, con un portamento regale e una genuina curiosità per le cose e le persone. È novembre, e tira vento sul balcone di Ca’ Corner della Regina, il palazzo settecentesco che ospita la Fondazione Prada a Venezia. È qui, sullo sfondo del Canal Grande, che Miuccia Prada sta posando per alcuni scatti.
「成功に関心はない。志を持ち、いい人でありたい」。ミウッチャ・プラダのこれまでの軌跡と心の内、15,000字インタビュー
11月のある日、ヴェネツィアの中心部に建つパラッツォ、カ・コルネール・デッラ・レジーナのバルコニーには、少し強い風が吹きつけていた。この建物は18世紀に建てられた邸宅で、現在はヴェネツィアにおけるプラダ財団の拠点となっている。この館で、ヴェネツィア名物の運河カナル・グランデを背景に、写真撮影に臨むミウッチャ・プラダは、淡い黄緑のセーターに赤のシルクのコート（1988年に発表した自身初のコレクションからのアイテム）を合わせたいでたちだ。その明るい色彩は、灰色の空と、テラコッタ、オークル、緑青色といった色彩が溶け合うヴェネツィアの街並みと、はっきりとしたコントラストをなしている。ミウッチャは見たところ、ノーメイクのようだ。ブロンドと飴色がグラデーションになったロングヘアは洗いざらしで、柔らかなカールが肩のあたりで揺れている。そよ風で髪が広がると「まるで1990年代みたい」と、ジョークを飛ばす――そう、送風機の風を受けて髪が舞う、シンディ・クロフォードを思わせるというのだ。...
How Miuccia Prada Sees the World
It was November and a little windy on the balcony of the Ca’ Corner della Regina, the 18th-century palazzo that is home to the Prada Foundation in Venice, where Miuccia Prada was posing for photographs against the backdrop of the Grand Canal. She clasped a red silk coat (from her very first collection in 1988) over a citrine sweater, bright and sharp against the gray sky and the terra-cotta, ochre, and verdigris of deliquescent Venice.
“The Second Year of War is the Hardest”: A War Reporter on Resilience in Ukraine
At the beginning of a crisis it’s the adrenaline that gets you through. When Ukrainians woke up on the morning of February 24, 2022, they were jolted into a world of urgency and alarm. Explosions, jets screaming overhead, tanks on their highways. I remember reading headlines in the sleepy village on the coast of Brittany where I live, when an email from an editor popped into my inbox: Do you want to go to Ukraine for us?
Kate Winslet on ‘Lee,’ the Film She Was Born to Make, for Vogue’s October Cover
London, one Friday in late June, the scene is a dark, windowless editing suite. Kate Winslet is recording dialogue for Lee, a film she produced and stars in, about the life and work of Lee Miller, the Vogue model turned photographer turned war correspondent who documented the horrors of the concentration camps in the Second World War and was famously photographed in Hitler’s bathtub. This kind of carefully synced audio work requires precision and practiced technique.
The Reluctant Feminists of the 1960s
What is historical fiction for? If you ask devotees of Michael Shaara’s Civil War books or Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy, you may hear that historical fiction not only lets readers comprehend long-ago events intellectually but also captures some of their emotional reality. Mantel herself said, in a 2017 Radio 4 talk, that studying history “helps us put our small lives in context.
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Ravenous by Henry Dimbleby — hungry for change
“One egg or two for breakfast?” This simple question is now fraught.
One Great Read: Before the fall
Good afternoon. British journalism, I wrote two weeks ago, is in a golden age. But one storied outlet is struggling: the Evening Standard. In last week's New Statesman, I took a look at its future as part of a piece on Evgeny Lebdev, and the changing face of his loss-making empire. The media companies in which Lebedev is the primary shareholder – the Independent (print and digital) and the Evening Standard – have lost £150 million since 2011.
Margot
A moving portrait of a young woman's struggle to break free of her upper-class upbringing amid the whirlwind years of the sexual revolution. It's the mid-1950s and Margot Thornsen is growing up between a Park Avenue apartment in New York and her family's sumptuous Oyster Bay estate as the presumed heir to her late grandfather's steel fortune. Her domineering mother has charted a course for her-to forego education and marry well-but Margot is more interested in microscopes and beetles and books.
Mine penge eller dit liv: Mød Beiruts nye bankrøvere
Moderne Tider 21. januar 2023 Den 11. august greb en arbejdsløs, 42-årig libaneser sit haglgevær og hankede op i en stor dunk benzin. I T-shirt og badesandaler gik Bassam al-Sheikh Hussein ind i en filial af Libanons Føderale Bank i Beirut. Han havde tænkt sig at begå et røveri. Da han var inde, smækkede han den tunge gitterport efter sig for fuld kraft. »Det lød som en eksplosion,« fortæller han.
In war-weary Ukraine, a hunt for the real meaning of borscht
Lviv, the old Habsburg city in the relatively peaceful west of Ukraine, has become a kind of Casablanca, a hub for diplomats,...
How things are changing for women in the kitchen
A couple of years ago, I interviewed Ana Roš, the self-taught chef of the double Michelin-starred restaurant Hiša Franko in the Slovenian...
‘What Strange Paradise’ Explores Two Sides of a Migrant Crisis
Fiction July 20, 2021 WHAT STRANGE PARADISE By Omar El Akkad In his first novel, “American War,” Omar El Akkad upended the world order with a long-running civil war in a future America, precisely describing the violence and miseries he had witnessed as a reporter covering Afghanistan, Guantánamo and the Arab Spring for The Globe and Mail in Canada.
A cider maker extraordinaire
If “apples” was an idiom for a certain kind of crazy, the way “nuts” or “bananas” are, Patrick Tallec would be “apples”.
The battle to revolutionise food
When Stéphane Quere took over his parents’ farm in Brittany 16 years ago, he didn’t have any particular desire to turn it organic. He had grown up seeing his parents labour to grow broccoli and shallots and cauliflower on their 30 hectares, helping out from the age of seven, working through the summer holidays as a teenager. His main thought was: I have to find a different way to farm, one that isn’t so hard.
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How to Feed a Dictator — cooking for despots
For Witold Szablowski, the research for his latest book began with a simple, almost childlike question: “What did Saddam Hussein eat...
Who Needs a Sweeping Epic About the Red Century? You Do
Fiction Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, around 1950.Credit...Three Lions/Getty Images April 14, 2020 THE EIGHTH LIFE By Nino Haratischvili Tolstoy had intended to set “War and Peace” in his own era, but realized that in order to understand the aftermath of the Crimean War he had to go back to the Decembrist uprising of 1825. Then he realized that in order to understand those events, he had to go back to Napoleon’s invasion of Russia, a generation earlier.
Bunker food: Wendell Steavenson’s creamy white bean gratin
I’m in lockdown with my mother, which is kind of great actually because she has basically been hoarding food for years.
Marriage for a night
On my first day in the Islamic Republic of Iran, all I could think about was my hijab, the Islamic covering which I was required to wear as a matter of law whenever I was in a public space. My headscarf itched under my chin; my coat felt tight under my arms. I worried about the inch of hair that was showing; I reached up constantly to adjust it, smoothing, checking. I felt oppressed. I saw how men walked and worked, wearing trousers and shirts just as they liked.
Farmed fishing is the future — but can it be sustainable?
I was holed up in Brittany this winter, pretending to write.
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Donald Trump’s populist genius even extends to his revolting diet
The writer is author of a novel, ‘Paris Metro’ It is impossible to resist mocking the mocker-in-chief.
Global food supply chains are caught in a honey trap
In November, following a complaint by a member of the public, a jar of Tesco own-brand honey, costing £1.35 for 454g, was sent for...
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How cookie-decorating became an art form — and a YouTube craze
I fell down the cookie-decorating rabbit hole while scrolling Instagram one afternoon.
A Cheesemonger’s History of the British Isles — blessed be the artisans
For years I have sought to persuade people that food is much more than recipes and restaurants, that it is not just the social glue that...
PizzaExpress lost its identity in a corporate wash
Another UK casual dining chain is in trouble.
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What René Redzepi did next
I went to Copenhagen in August.
PARIS METRO by Wendell Steavenson Read by Elisabeth Rodgers
Narrator Elisabeth Rodgers portrays the complicated life of a journalist in the Middle East with intensity. Like the author, Catherine "Kit" Kitteridge is an American-British reporter covering war in the Middle East from her home in Paris. Kit marries a secretive Iraqi named Ahmed and adopts his son--actions that don't turn out so well. The listener is as much in the dark as Kit about what is going on in her own family. Is her husband or young son a terrorist?
PHOTOS: Vanilla Boom Is Making People Crazy Rich - And Jittery - In Madagascar
80% of the world's vanilla is grown by small holding farmers in the hilly forests of Madagascar. For a generation the price languished below $50 a kilo (about 2.2 pounds) but in 2015 it began to rise at an extraordinary rate and for the past four years has hovered at ten times that amount, between $400 and $600 a kilo. The rise is partly due to increased global demand, partly due to decreased supply, as storms have destroyed many vines, and a lot to do with speculation.
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