Was Pharrell Williams’s Louis Vuitton menswear debut the most epic fashion show ever to take place in Paris? Or was it the most intimate Jay Z concert of all time? The answer, in 2023, was both. Vogue Runway’s most-read stories of the year were about the intersection of fashion and entertainment, a very busy corner indeed.
Pharrell wasn’t the only A-lister with a fashion project that captivated our readers. Beyoncé’s collaboration with Balmain’s Olivier Rousteing drew eyeballs, even if she didn’t wear anything from the special collection on stage during her record-breaking Renaissance tour. Angelina Jolie’s announcement that she was getting into the rag trade, with a purpose-driven collection named Atelier Jolie, was a top story as well, without so much as a sample or sketch to showcase her vision for the brand.
We suspect that our coverage of newcomer Louis-Gabriel Nouchi’s spring 2024 men’s show in Paris saw uplift from the celebrity cameos by Emily in Paris’s Lucas Bravo and White Lotus’s Stefano Gianino, too. That’s what star power can do. At The Met’s Costume Institute, it’s the clothes that are the celebrities, and with its focus on 250 items from its own vast archives, the upcoming exhibition “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” promises to be big news through the first half of 2024.
Read on to see the full list of Vogue Runway’s most-viewed stories.
The untimely passing of the German-Estonian beauty stayed in the news, when her fellow supers were the subjects of a four-part Apple TV+ docuseries.
Photographed by Peter Lindbergh, Vogue, August 2012
According to The Met’s CEO Max Hollein, the upcoming show “will heighten our engagement with masterpieces of fashion by evoking how they feel, move, sound, smell, and interact when being worn, offering a deeper appreciation of the integrity, beauty, and artistic brilliance of the works on display.”