Harper\'s Bazaar UK - 10.2019

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EDITOR’S LETTER

Justine Pica rdie

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‘Blue jeans are the most beautiful

things since the gondola,’ proclaimed

Diana Vreeland, the former fashion

editor of Bazaar. I am equally

enamoured of stripy tops and the

Dior Bar jacket; each as timeless

as the perfect pair of jeans, and

altogether, an outfit to make

the heart sing.’

EDITOR’S

CHOICES

★

Right: Athena Wilson wears

Alexander McQueen in ‘Touch

the sky’ (page 228). Below: a

shot by Er ik Madigan Heck

from the fashion story ‘The

lady of the lake’ (page 202)

£85
Levi’s

£685

Saint Laurent

by Anthony

Vaccarello

£4,025

De Beers

£2,900

Dior

£2,350

Dior

From a selection

Harry Winston

Ring, £1,825

De Beers

t he dust...’ That sense of tra nsience is inherent to t he

poignancy of fleeting allure; yet as one grows older,

so, too, does beauty become apparent in trust and

friendship; or as Juliet Nicolson writes, ‘in the eyes of

the person who listens to you and in discovering you

a re able to listen in ret ur n’.

It therefore seems somehow appropriate that our

cover star this month is Kristen Stewart, who

remembers how she used to be characterised as an

‘awkward’ teenager; and has now grown into a

woman who prefers not to be defined by labels

(either in terms of her sexuality or in her career).

‘Evolution is weird – we’re all becoming incredibly

ambiguous,’ she says in her interview with Sophie

Elmhirst, ‘and it’s this really gorgeous thing.’

But t he la st word must go to Toni Mor r ison

(though her passion was always for sustaining a

na r rative, rat her t ha n coming to a n end). ‘I a m

a storyteller and therefore an optimist,’ she said,

addressing her class of graduating students at

Princeton University. ‘I’m a believer in the power of

knowledge and the ferocity of beauty, so from my

point of view, your life is already artful – waiting, just

waiting, for you to make it art.’

£830

Dior