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CHLOE MALLE
HEAD OF EDITORIAL CONTENT, VOGUE U.S.
@CHLOEMALLE
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CHLOE MALLE
HEAD OF EDITORIAL CONTENT, VOGUE U.S.
@CHLOEMALLE
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We had a big week at Vogue: after months of Pentagon Papers-level secrecy, it was a relief to release our May cover to the world. (We’ll trade you The Devil Wears Prada 2 for two devils wearing Prada any day!) I also hosted Alice’s unicorn-themed fourth birthday party, went to Cats: The Jellicle Ball, watched Jack Black host SNL, and hunted many Easter eggs.
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Vogue editors real and imagined
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Two grand dames, both alike in dignity, came together for an interview conducted by Greta Gerwig, and a photo shoot with Annie Leibovitz and Grace Coddington. It has been such a wild ride seeing this story come to life: from gingerly asking Anna whether she would ever consider being on the cover with Meryl back in October, to Meryl finally convincing Anna that it would be them together or nothing. Listen to Virginia Smith and me talk all about it on Tuesday’s episode of The Run-Through.
Alice turned 4 on April Fool’s Day, and because it was spring break, she came to the office for a cafeteria feast of chicken and French fries, followed by mini pies from the adorable bakery Fillings. Then, over the weekend, we hosted a unicorn-themed party at our apartment with a few of her friends and a spectacular unicorn-sleeping-on-a-rainbow-cloud cake made by my sister and niece, both expert bakers. (The pink glitter cotton candy clouds were a highlight.) Of course, the next day was Easter, and so we all swapped unicorn horns for bunny ears and hopped uptown for egg-hunting at my mother’s apartment.
Today we announced our second big Vogue Book Club event: a screening of The Devil Wears Prada 2, coupled with a conversation with former Vogue editors about what it was like to work at Vogue in the early aughts. But you don’t need to wait until the end of April to get your dose of DWP fact-checking! Today’s episode of The Run-Through was one of my favorite episodes to date: an interrogation of three of Anna’s former assistants—Marley Marius, Sache Taylor, and Sammi Tapper, all now in senior roles at Vogue—about what it’s really like to work in Anna’s office.
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Studio 8H, the Heaviside Layer, and the movies
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Saturday Night Live
When a person hosts Saturday Night Live for the fifth time, they are inducted into what is known as “The Five-Timers’ Club”: a dark wood and leather-accented clubhouse where veteran members gather in velvet smoking jackets. Jack Black joined that club on Saturday night and my mother was among the five-timers who joined the sketch welcoming him in. Graham and I went to the taping and had the best time. I always love being able to see the frenetic but focused energy backstage at the show, and am consistently blown away by the speed with which the team swaps out sets and costumes. It reminded me of the great piece we did on the SNL wig room and wig doyenne, Jodi Mancuso.
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Cats: The Jellicle Ball
Last Thursday, I went to a preview of Cats: The Jellicle Ball at the Broadhurst Theater with my friend Perrin, a feline fiend. The production—which transforms the setting of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s classic musical from the backstreets of London to the Harlem ball scene—is joyous and raucous but also quite moving. The audience was thrilled to be there, including a gentleman in a T-shirt simply bearing the name “Tilda Swinton.” Octogenarian musical theater legend André De Shields plays Old Deuteronomy, and he told New York magazine that he had to have a younger cast member explain that “bitch” now means “darling,” as he was quite offended when a fan yelled at him, “Bitch, you ate!”
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Film Forum and the Metrograph
This week the Film Forum began their Ernst Lubitsch festival, called The Lubitsch Touch—a term made famous by Billy Wilder to describe the ineffable wit, charm, and “polished nonchalance” that makes a Lubitsch film so exceptional. With the way April is looking for me, I likely will not make it to a screening myself—but the series has inspired me to conduct a mini version at home. Last night we watched The Smiling Lieutenant, starring a delightful Maurice Chevalier as a roguish officer in 19th-century Vienna. Of course, The Shop Around the Corner is the most influential romantic comedy of all time (it directly inspired You’ve Got Mail!), so I would love to see that in a theater. Meanwhile, this Saturday at 11 a.m., Metrograph is playing Bringing Up Baby, another cornerstone of the rom-com canon and a personal favorite film of mine. Sadly, I will be heading to two gymnastics parties at Chelsea Piers that day…but go enjoy yourselves!
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It Brits and spring things
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The Other Bennet Sister and Young Sherlock
There’s something about Mary! While the rest of you are tucking into Season 3 of Euphoria, I can’t wait to watch The Other Bennet Sister, a new series coming soon to BritBox—my holy grail. I’m not alone in being a Mary Bennet evangelist (she’s not annoying, she just finds your marriage plot silly!), and I can’t wait to see what’s been drummed up for her. It will be a perfect follow-up to Young Sherlock—my current It-Brit viewing—the Guy Ritchie romp that tracks Sherlock’s coming of age at Oxford. (He’s played by the winning Hero Fiennes Tiffin, nephew of Ralph and Joseph.)
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Trench Weather
There is a brief and fragile period twice a year when the transitional jackets gathering dust in everyone’s closets get their short time to shine. From swingy car coats to statement blazers and embroidered chore jackets, these layers really only work for the few weeks between summer and fall and winter and spring, if that. I’ve been wearing a cropped Burberry trench and a burgundy satin Liberowe peplum jacket myself, while colleagues are wearing bouclé Chanel and quilted Bode—jackets that get you to work but are so crucial to the outfit that they tend to stay on throughout the day. When my colleagues Nicole Phelps and Irene Kim arrived at the Vogue Vintage Market in their matching trenches, it was as sure a sign as any that spring outerwear was underway!
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Stylist Bags
Tonne Goodman recently came in for a run-through, looking crisp and perfect in her signature uniform—which this time included a black nylon crossbody bag slung over her chore coat. I am always inspired by what handbags stylists choose to travel with and wear on set, because they always manage to make the practical also feel very chic. It’s no wonder, then, that I loved Minty Mellon’s piece on Vogue stylists’ favorite bags.
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Burberry Cropped Trench Jacket
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