L'OFFICIEL USA Winter 2021 - Holiday Entertainment - Resort Fashion

Dan RUBINSTEIN WRITER “To the Max” “Kelly Wearstler has a near god-like amount of energy and drive that makes anyone speaking to her just admire her even more. I’ve covered her work on and off for nearly 20 years, and her impact on American style looms large.” Alison EDMOND STYLIST “Elle the Great” “I styled Elle Fanning for the first time ten years ago, and we have collaborated many times since then. I always know that we are going to have great fun and produce amazing images—she’s the best.” Jacques BURGA PHOTOGRAPHER “Queen Z” “Grateful and glad to have had the opportunity to work with lovely and talented Whitney Peak on this photoshoot involving one of my favorite brands: Chanel.”…

When Whitney Peak was 14, she was working at Wendy’s in Vancouver, Canada, not spending her after-school hours at “Dumbo Hall” or hanging out with Manhattan’s elite. Her real life was “just very different from what Zoya is going through,” the 18-year-old actress says of her Gossip Girl character. On the hit HBO Max show (rebooted from the mid-aughts CW sensation), Zoya Lott is a transplant into a world of privilege that envelops the teens of New York City’s elite private schools. However, as the young half-sister of Julien Calloway, Constance Billard’s queen bee, she is soon initiated into the partying, scheming, and social hierarchy of her classmates, thus becoming one of Gossip Girl’s key targets. The Ugandan-born talent still keeps her perspective grounded in her early years, growing up in…

In an evening dedicated to style, memories, and, of course, incredible champagne, L’OFFICIEL joined forces with storied French house Moët & Chandon to celebrate a shared major milestone: the magazine’s centennial, and the 100-year anniversary of Grand Vintage Collection 1921. The grand fête at the Château Moët & Chandon, on the Saran estate, brought together guests from the worlds of fashion, music, art, and design, who sipped on vintage Moët & Chandon champagnes from the years 2013, 2004, 1985, 1952 and 1921, all paired with experimental cuisine by three Michelin-starred chef Yannick Alléno. Among those in attendance were the scintillating supermodel—and L’OFFICIEL September 1971 coverstar—Pat Cleveland, and her daughter Anna Cleveland; fashion designer Nicola Lecourt Mansion; and Italian socialite Bianca Brandolini D’Adda. Musical sibling duo Joséphine and Alexandre de la Baume provided…

Back in November, less than a year before she would attend her first class at Stanford University, Eileen Gu became the first woman to land a Double Cork 1440. At the Stubai Glacier ski resort in Austria, the Chinese-American freestyle skier exploded from a Red Bull–branded ramp, and, like a human fidget spinner, rotated her body four times clockwise and upside down twice. She was just practicing. In her still-nascent sports career, Gu, who has competed for China since 2019 and will represent the country this February at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, has made a routine out of breaking records. At the 2021 X Games in January, she became the first female rookie in the event’s 25-year history to earn three medals: golds in the superpipe and slopestyle competitions…

A travel diary that has entered into myth. The charm of Fifth Avenue swans. Holidays on Mediterranean island escapes. All this and more were inspiration for the Resort 2022 collection Ian Griffiths designed for Max Mara. “It all started during the lockdown,” explains Griffiths. “Not being able to travel, I started reading and traveling with my imagination. And in my dream of freedom, I came across Truman Capote’s Local Color.” The 1950 novel, written in a carnet de voyage style, details the various locales Capote lived in or visited, including the Italian island of Ischia, which largely inspired the collection. “I thought of the nostalgia of a certain refined way of traveling more slowly; where travel is not an obligation or a simple movement, but a pleasure,” Griffiths shares. Exemplifying this…