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SWAK: The Positive Health Benefits Of A 6-Second Kiss
“When I think about it, just holding a kiss in my relationship changes the whole dynamic in that moment,” Nina Westbrook tells me over Zoom from London. “Rather than just moving along in your routine, it helps you to boost the positive feelings that you have towards your partner.” A licensed marriage therapist, founder of the wellness platform Bene by Nina, and host of the relationship podcast Do Tell, Westbrook is used to talking about what real life with her husband, NBA star and Vogue fashion darling Russell Westbrook, looks like. (Cute photos of the couple, below.) Ahead of back-to-back makeout holidays, today's National Kissing Day and July 6th's International Kissing Day, we’re gabbing about clips circulating in social feeds of Drs. John and Julie Gottman recommending the 6-second kiss in which “oxytocin gets secreted” at that point” which “can create a sense of psychological safety and connection and bonding.”
Turns Out Princess Charlotte and Prince George Are Swifties
Prince George and Princess Charlotte are at the Eras Tour—and loving it. Earlier today, Taylor Swift posted a selfie of the two young royals with Prince William and Travis Kelce backstage at her concert in London. In it, the singer wears her signature red lip while Charlotte stands beside her in a sparkly top. George, meanwhile, stands between his father and Kelce. Both children have wide smiles on their faces.
Happy Birthday, Meryl Streep! 10 Things You Might Not Know About the Screen Icon
The great Meryl Streep, who celebrates her 75th birthday today, was born in Summit, New Jersey, on June 22, 1949, the daughter of a pharmaceutical executive and an artist. After graduating cum laude from Vassar College in 1971, and earning her MFA from the Yale School of Drama four years later, she made her Broadway debut in a 1975 production of Trelawny of the Wells at the Vivian Beaumont Theate. Her first film role, in Fred Zinnemann’s feminist melodrama Julia, starring Jane Fonda and Vanessa Redgrave, would follow in 1977.
See Gisele Bündchen Break a Sweat in a Sporty 1999 Vogue Editorial
Editor’s Note: Ahead of Vogue World Paris, a celebration of the intersection of fashion history and athletics, we are resurfacing “Team Player,” photographed by Steven Meisel, which was first published in the February 1999 issue of Vogue. Fashion Editor: Camilla Nickerson. Hair, Garren of Garren New York; makeup, Pat McGrath.
10 Years of Loewe by Jonathan Anderson Menswear Collections, Ranked
This spring 2025 season marks a particular milestone for Jonathan Anderson. While the designer was officially hired at Loewe back in 2013, it wasn’t until June of 2014 that he presented his first collection for the house, a tightly edited spring 2015 men’s lookbook. This men’s Paris Fashion Week marks 10 years of his collections. Much has happened over the decade: viral pixelated hoodies, a congregation of Internet boyfriends in his front rows, copper jackets, and foliage-clad coats.
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Two days ahead of the Lu’u Dan showroom visit, I was walking down rue Saint Martin when I spotted founder and designer, Hung La, seated at a table outside playing mahjong—his well-acknowledged pastime. Later that afternoon, I began seeing Lu’u Dan campaign posters in different parts of the city, featuring two portraits from some underworld. Finally arriving at our official appointment, I was no longer surprised to find La back outside, this time playing with his models, whom he introduced as, “little gangsters—should I call you that?”
Put Some Respect on the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders’ Good Names
It’s all too easy to dismiss cheer as a male-fantasy-oriented thorn in the side of the feminist movement, but if you’ve ever actually seen a high-level cheer practice take place (or even just watched Bring It On on a hungover Sunday), you hopefully already know the danger of underestimating cheerleaders. The intense amount of preparation and physical sacrifice that professional-level cheer squads submit to in order to captivate their audiences is front and center in Netflix’s new docu-series America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, which hit the streaming service on June 20 and already has the potential to fill the vacuum left by the 2020 sensation Cheer (though hopefully with a less disturbing behind-the-scenes story.)
Two Vogue Writers Debate the Merits—And the Motivations—of Charli XCX and Lorde’s “Girl, So Confusing” Remix
When Charli XCX dropped her sixth studio album, Brat, on June 7, the internet was immediately set ablaze. While plenty of songs prompted discourse—“360,” with its flock of It girls; “I think about it all the time,” with its reflections on the weirdness of having friends with kids—“Girl, so confusing” started a different sort of conversation, thanks to Charli’s allusions to a famous frenemy with “the same hair” as hers. It took all of five seconds for sleuths to deduce that the subject of the song was Lorde—though that conclusion was somewhat complicated by the fact that Lorde had quickly taken to Instagram to sing Brat’s praises.
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There was a storm brewing above Levi Palmer and Matthew Harding’s studio in east London, where the designers were reflecting on a perhaps even gloomier climate for independent fashion brands like theirs. In the six months since Palmer Harding released its fall 2024 collection, the British e-commerce giant Matches fell into administration, causing substantial losses for the boutique labels it once stocked. But 13 years in fashion has taught this duo to prepare their own life rafts, and the preemptive development of a successful direct-to-consumer business will keep them smooth sailing.
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In London, the first warm days of summer are rolling in, and it seems the Jenny Packham woman is ready to party. Describing the client she was designing for this season as “international, independent, determined, free,” it was a notably youthful-feeling offering, with Packham’s signature glitz and sequins dialed up to the max.
In Honor of Its 70th Birthday, the Legendary Ukrainian Diner Veselka Opens a New Outpost in Brooklyn
I’m on a hunger-inducing tour of Veselka’s kitchen at the venerable Ukrainian restaurant’s new outpost in Brooklyn. Massive pots of purple borscht are simmering, sizzling potato pancakes come fresh out of the fryer. Would I like to try some plump Pestrogi, the brand’s pastrami-stuffed-pierogi collaboration with Katz’s Deli? Don’t mind if I do. “But this time of year, you can’t go wrong with borscht,” proprietor Jason Birchard tells me as New York bakes in a heat wave outside. “The potato and short rib pierogies are amazing, too.”
A Journey Along the Camino de Santiago, Spain’s Most Famous Pilgrimage Route
“Tu mochila es tan pesada como tus miedos,” says Leonardo San Sebastián, as he lifts the bottom of my backpack to check its weight. We’re standing before the Santuario de Santa María a Real do Cebreiro, an oval-shaped, thatched-roof church located in a mountaintop town that feels more likely to be in Ireland than in Galicia, an autonomous region in northwestern Spain. I enter the building and make an offering before lighting a candle within a red votive holder. I place it at the front of the church, near the altar, then take a seat in one of the old wooden pews to contemplate the last several days spent hiking the Camino de Santiago. I’ve walked over 100 miles, which has left my feet and legs tired and sore, but has given me hundreds of hours to be with myself and my thoughts amid rolling fields of poppy and wheat.
The Best Courtyard Gardens in Paris
Hidden amid the busy streets of France’s capital, these lush courtyard terraces are intimate retreats and perfect places to enjoy the sunny days and warm evenings of summer in the city. From an Italian restaurant, to an American-style burger joint, to an iconic palace hotel, here find Vogue’s guide Paris’s most beautiful courtyard terraces.
Two Gen Z Vogue Editors React to Gracie Abrams’s New Album, The Secret of Us
Singer-songwriter Gracie Abrams’s second studio album, The Secret of Us, has just dropped, and two Vogue editors who happened to be stuck on an Air France flight together took down their reactions to it in real time. The conclusion? They love nepo babies and, as fellow Gen Z’ers, they can relate to most of Abrams’s lyrics about love and friends.
Unsuitable Traces the Lost History of Lesbian Fashion
When historian Eleanor Medhurst was studying the history of queer fashion for her masters degree from the University of Brighton, she found herself repeatedly frustrated. “I realized just how little there was about lesbian fashion history, particularly even within studies on queer fashion,” she says. After graduating, Medhurst...
Using a CPAP Machine Has Completely Changed My Sleep—and My Skin!—for the Better
I’ve been with my partner for two and a half years, but we only started regularly sharing a bed a few months ago. No, we didn’t suddenly reconcile after a dramatic sleep divorce, or at least not an intentional one: I’m just a heavy snorer dating a light sleeper, and for years that equation added up to me snoozing on the couch whenever I stayed over at their house. We tried noise-blocking earbuds, Breathe Right strips, and even mouth taping (I don’t doubt that it works for some people, but I felt like I was being kidnapped by the Joker), all to no avail—that is, until I finally acquiesced to my partner’s repeated request that I see a sleep doctor.
CondéFuture's Legacy: a conversation with a PhotoVogue artist and a CondéFuture alumna
Creating connections both inside and outside our reality is a fundamental belief for PhotoVogue. Last month, we talked with PhotoVogue artists Ramona Wang and Sophia Wilson about the lesson they gave to CondéFuture students, discussing their careers and giving practical advice. This time, we wanted to revisit the origins of CondéFuture and its relationship to PhotoVogue. We spoke with Zeinab Keita, a former CondéFuture student, and Samuel Trotter, a PhotoVogue artist who exhibited his work at the Festival in 2022. Their paths crossed during a photoshoot for Zeinab's final project at CondéFuture.
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Fifteen Max Mara Atelier coats were presented in Venice at the modernist Olivetti store, a spare, elegant space overlooking St. Mark’s Square, designed in 1958 by Italian architect Carlo Scarpa. It was a fitting frame for the high-end offer, which showcased Max Mara’s industrial savoir faire augmented by artisanal handmade finishes.
The Health Benefits of Rock Climbing Are Not Just Physical, They’re Mental, Too
As far as workouts go, rock climbing is about as full-body as it gets—not only does it target the arms, back, and shoulders, but it also engages the legs and the core to improve strength and flexibility. And, that’s not all: rock climbing is also an incredible workout for the mind: it takes an immense amount of concentration, focus, and spatial awareness to scale a vertical wall, after all. Not to mention, confidence and courage.
Emma Stone Taps Into Her Dark Side at the Kinds of Kindness Premiere
Bella Baxter who? Emma Stone has officially shed her Academy Award-winning character’s bushy eyebrows and voluminous pastel dresses in favor of a much darker look. Fresh off her Oscar win in March, Stone has already pivoted to promoting her next film: Kinds of Kindness, also from Poor Things director Yorgos Lanthimos. While the forthcoming collection of three interwoven short stories is still largely under wraps, British Vogue’s Radhika Seth wrote that it “makes Poor Things look like a Disney movie.”
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