Harper\'s Bazaar UK - 12.2019

PHOTOGRAPHS: AGATA POSPIESZYNSKA, RICHARD PHIBBS. SEE STOCKISTS FOR DETAILS

EDITOR’S LETTEREDITOR’S LETTER

Right: Letitia Wright, the

winner of our Breakthrough

Talent award (page 188).

Below: Ruth Wilson, our

Television Icon (page 216)

From a selection

Tasaki

Justine Pica rdie

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This velvet tuxedo dress is an

effortlessly graceful outfit for my final

Women of the Year Awards (held in

association with Armani beauty), along

with Chanel diamonds, lustrous

pearls, and black satin shoes

in which to dance off the

stage and towards

a new dawn...

EDITOR’S

CHOICES

★

£775

Manolo Blahnik

£1,995

Jimmy Choo

£3,550

Giorgio Armani

From a selection
Vacheron
Constantin

From a selection

Chanel Fine

Jewellery

when her beloved twins were babies – but I now realise that much

of what I have done at Bazaar is for her, a s well a s for a sisterly

community. One might think that an acknowledgement of death

should have no place in a magazine brimming with life, but

I believe that our understanding of love and loss is what makes us

cherish the joy and sweetness of all that we hold most dear. Bazaar

is essentially celebratory in tone – we publish the work of

exceptiona l contr ibutors, on subjec ts t hey feel pa ssionately about;

we are not in the business of denigration or scorn. And at a time

when sneering abuse is rampant elsewhere, it feels more important

than ever to champion the people we admire. Hence our annual

Women of the Year Awards, which highlight the greatest artists,

actresses, writers, musicians, campaigners and philanthropists.

But I would also add my entire editorial team to the list of those

who deserve to be applauded; for without their creativity, Bazaar

could not be the success that it is today. We have worked together

with the same closeness that I shared with my sister Ruth; and

t ha nk s to t hem, I have rediscovered t hat sisterliness ca n be

expressed in many different ways. So here’s to a mutual

understanding, and to everyone who loves Bazaar – past, present

and future. It has been the greatest privilege and pleasure to be

editor of this legendary magazine – and I leave it in the hope that

its unique heritage will shine a light for all those who lead the way

forward, in the promising years to come...