Hammam wasn’t the only model blown away by the pageantry and pyrotechnics of Vogue World 2025, as I soon learned after crossing the room to grab a moment with a jewel-clad Winnie Harlow. “The best part of tonight was seeing how everyone came together in the spirit of old Hollywood, and Hollywood in general,” the supermodel praised. “Sometimes it’s hard to do a theme without it being too costume-y, but I feel like everyone really paid attention to what inspired them.”
As the night wound on, the prescient Charli XCX prophecy “Everything Is Romantic” rang true in the air. At one point, I found myself navigating past two people engaged in a passionate embrace—they shall remain nameless, as Vogue certainly does not tell of who’s kissing and telling. To their left, a handsome man applied himself to the daunting task of smoking two cigarettes at once. When at the Chateau, do as the movie stars of yore did pre-camera phones.
The hotel is famous for its labyrinthine layout and abundance of hideaway spots, meaning the gossip-prompting moments at the Vogue World 2025 after-party were being exchanged out of sight—a boon for the evening’s guests, if not for this intrepid party reporter. Still, the surreal opportunity to spot Machine Gun Kelly working the room, only to find myself refreshing my lipstick in the powder room mere inches away from a wavy-bob-sporting Maude Apatow moments later was not lost on me.
Before decamping to the afters with a cross-section of my Vogue colleagues at a West Hollywood bar best-known for Soviet iconography and pleasantly strong drinks, I caught up with two of the night’s most instrumental participants: costume designers Arianne Phillips and Sandy Powell, whose iconic work on films including Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood and Sally Potter’s Orlando were rightfully celebrated on the Vogue World 2025 runway. “We’re never together, except for at award competitions,” laughed Phillips, with Powell adding: “Everyone thinks that we’re rivals, but we’re all friends. We understand each other.”
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