Ravi Gevinson in The Gentlewomen

 

Tavi Gevinson

Tavi is wearing an indigo denim jacket with contrast stitching by DIANE VON FURSTENBERG.

Tavi
Gevinson

From bedroom blogger to new-media mogul: Tavi’s passion project becomes big business

Text by Sophie Elmhirst
Portraits by Clara Balzary
Styling by Emma Wyman

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Issue nº 17, Spring & Summer 2018

Tavi Gevinson is the original social media starlet. Arriving in 2008, aged just 11, she was greeted with bemusement by her Gen X and baby-boomer media peers as they grappled with the new digital frontier. Tavi powered ahead regardless, amassing an adoring, mostly female young audience through sheer ingenuity and intellect mixed with good old-fashioned fun.

Margaret Atwood in The Gentlewoman

 

Margaret Atwood

The unexpectedly optimistic outlook of Canada’s uncannily accurate foreteller of times ahead.

Text by Sophie Elmhirst
Portraits by Alasdair McLellan
Styling by Alice Goddard

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Issue nº 20, Autumn & Winter 2019

Thirty-four years after her most famous novel was published, Margaret Atwood, 79, has written its sequel, The Testaments. It is fresh on the shelves and has already been longlisted for the Booker Prize. In the interim, the events heralded by The Handmaid’s Tale seem distressingly to have been coming true. 

Scarlett Johansson / Simmons her Superpowers

Scarlett Johansson was photographed at the home of Inez & Vinoodh on Long Island wearing a fur-free recycled acrylic coat by STELLA McCARTNEY. In the opening image, she’s in a black polo-neck and white shorts, both by MIU MIU, with white patent slingback shoes by JIMMY CHOO. Scarlett wears her own jewellery throughout.

Scarlett Johansson SUMMONS HER SUPERPOWERS

Text by Sophie Elmhirst
Portraits by Inez & Vinoodh
Styling by Mel Ottenberg

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Issue nº 23, Spring & Summer 2021

Back in the leather catsuit for the eighth time this summer, Black Widow, Scarlett Johansson’s sassy Marvel character, has her own film at last. Over 30 years in show business, the 36-year-old actor has soared steadily from indie darling to box office draw, and she now has the powers to cast a woman in the director’s chair. It’s Scarlett’s fanatical commitment to outlandish parts that keeps fans coming back for more. And with her own production company, she’s free to make work as rich and as challenging as she is herself.

Zadie Smith / Adventures in Paris, London and New York with the peerless British novelist

 

Here and in the opening image, Zadie’s in a chrome blue extra-fine silk shantung coat by THE ROW.

Zadie Smith ADVENTURES IN PARIS, LONDON AND NEW YORK WITH THE PEERLESS BRITISH NOVELIST

Text by Sophie Elmhirst
Portraits by Inez & Vinoodh
Styling by Jonathan Kaye

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Issue n° 14, Autumn & Winter 2016

There is cause for celebration — a new Zadie Smith novel is in our midst. And this time, the fearless British writer has moved beyond the familiar setting of her other books, the decidedly ungentrified London postcode of NW6. Having left the area in 2010 and relocated with her family to New York, where the 40-year-old happily teaches the lucky students of NYU, her ear for dialogue and vivid storytelling are opening up to tales of her adopted city and of west Africa, where her book Swing Time is set. When the writing’s done, though, the former jazz singer likes nothing more than a good old singsong around the piano or a blast of uncensored hip-hop. Eclecticism, for Zadie, is an essential source of constant revelation.

 

Clockwise from top left: A Very Private School by Charles Spencer; Lauren Oyler; Under the Hornbeams by Emma Tarlo; Sathnam Sanghera; The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt; Rose Boyt; Maurice and Maralyn by Sophie Elmhirst; and Salman Rushdie.

Nonfiction to look out for in 2024

From Salman Rushdie’s account of the attempt on his life to Sathnam Sanghera’s thoughts on imperialism via the story of the Tory party’s decline, here are the big hitters coming your way next year

Rachel Cooke

1 January 2024

What are the trends in new nonfiction? From where I’m sitting, nature writing and major biography appear to be on their way down, history and health are still rising, and every other publisher’s list is littered, somewhat dispiritingly, with what they call genre-defying but I think of as bitty, not-one-thing-or-the-other kinds of books: group biographies of people about whom tons has already been written; collections of essays with no unifying theme; texts that combine fact with a certain kind of fiction in a sometimes rather desperate bid to make the austere and the arcane seem newly “relevant”.