Ib Kamara

3 weeks ago | vogue.com | Malick Bodian |Ib Kamara

From sumptuous cobalt and indigo to navy and turquoise—and from fantastically patterned jackets to dresses that follow the body like water—a blue mood has never seemed quite so appealing. MATCH POINTSModel and photographer Malick Bodian (who shot this story), far left, mirrors Gueye’s (far right) floral Wales Bonner jacket and shirt (walesbonner.com) and a Margaret Howell white shirt—while Fall holds the center in a Carolina Herrera dress (carolinaherrera.com).

1 month ago | vogue.com | Malick Bodian |Ib Kamara |Eric Mcneal

When I learned that The Met was celebrating the Black dandy, I was a bit blown away, to be honest. Black dandyism, the men who came before us—curator Monica L. Miller’s work and how she explains this history in the exhibition “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style”—it’s all so important to learn. What hit home hardest is how far back it goes, and that there are so many different ways to present as a man; you don’t have to be traditionally masculine.

Feb 11, 2025 | vogue.com | Abby Aguirre |Steven Meisel |Ib Kamara

To fully appreciate the global phenomenon that is Sabrina Carpenter, you have to go to one of her shows. You have to hear with your own ears a sold-out arena chanting the very sexual and ungrammatical lyrics of her nu-disco earworm “Espresso”—“Say you can’t sleep, baby I know / that’s that me espresso”—which has 1.9 billion streams on Spotify and is still omnipresent nearly a year after it came out.

Oct 8, 2024 | vogue.com | Alessandra Codinha |Mikael Jansson |Ib Kamara

It was late in the summer in Los Angeles, with all the dry heat and burnished sunlight that implies, and Billie Eilish was sitting in a dark room, busy changing her mind. The singer was halfway through editing the music video she had directed for “Birds of a Feather,” her latest astronomically successful hit song (nearly 1 billion streams) off her latest astronomically successful hit album (nearly 4 billion streams at the time), when she encountered a problem: She realized she hated it.

Sep 17, 2024 | vogue.com | Hamish Bowles |Mikael Jansson |Ib Kamara

When I was 14, in 1978, having won a special mention in British Vogue’s annual talent contest for young writers, I was asked by Bea Miller, then the editor in chief, if she could do anything for me.