Leah Faye Cooper

New York

Digital Style Director at Vogue

writer + editor ; enjoys fashion

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The New York Liberty Brought Championship Style to the 2025 Met Gala

1 week ago | vogue.com | Leah Faye Cooper

Photo: Getty Images“I dress powerful women,” designer Sergio Hudson tells Vogue the evening before the 2025 Met Gala. So there was perhaps no group more fitting to arrive at the affair in his designs than New York Liberty owner Clara Wu Tsai and three of the team’s standout players: Sabrina Ionescu, Jonquel Jones, and Breanna Stewart. “To see Clara being such a boss is quintessential Sergio Hudson,” the designer says of Tsai, who is attending the Met Gala for the first time this year.
Family Album: Staffers and Friends of Vogue on the Black Dandies in Their Lives

3 weeks ago | vogue.com | Leah Faye Cooper

Back in October, when the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that the forthcoming Costume Institute exhibition would examine and celebrate the Black dandy, a few images began to crystalize in my mind: a family photo taken at my great-uncle Charles’s wedding to Aunt Nan, the fine tailoring of his tuxedo discernible even in a 1950s-era black and white picture; my father on the way to work in the ‘90s, wearing a tailored Armani suit and carrying a black leather briefcase; the sea of impeccably...
할머니의 빈티지 스커트 컬렉션, 632벌의 이야기

3 weeks ago | vogue.co.kr | Leah Faye Cooper

미국 미네소타 출신의 여성 오드리 휴셋(Audrey Huset)은 지난 2022년 99세를 일기로 세상을 떠났습니다. 그녀는 생전 춤을 추며 휴일을 즐겼고, 아코디언을 연주했으며, 아주 열정적으로 빈티지 울 스커트를 수집했죠. “할머니는 한때 1,000개가 넘는 스커트를 가지고 계셨을지도 몰라요.” 휴셋의 손녀 매 콜번(Mae Colburn)이 미국판 <보그>와의 인터뷰에서 전한 말입니다. 역시 미네소타 출신으로 현재는 브루클린에 거주 중인 콜번은 낡고 버려진 천을 활용해 러그를 만드는 아티스트입니다. 그녀는 할머니가 간직하고 있던 스커트를 정리하기 시작했습니다. 처음에는 콜번과 콜번의 부모 모두 스커트를 러그로 재활용할 생각이었죠. 콜번의 가족은 아주 옛날에도 할머니의 오래된 스커트로 러그를 만든 적이 있었거든요. “어린 시절, 집에 있던 많은 러그들이 그렇게 해서 만든 것이었어요.” 이런 경험은 콜번이 러그를 소재로 작업하는 아티스트가 된 데에도 영향을 미쳤죠.
Spring 2025 Will Be Chromat’s Last Collection-At Least For Now

3 weeks ago | vogue.com | Leah Faye Cooper

The triangle-top bikinis, high-waist one-pieces, and swim skirts that comprise Chromat’s spring 2025 collection were 15 years in the making—a culmination of the aesthetic and brand identity Bex McCharen has shaped since launching the label in 2010. They’re ending this chapter of Chromat on a high note; last week, McCharen shared with Vogue that spring 2025 will be Chromat’s final collection—at least for the foreseeable future.
Star-Studded and Superfine: The Making of the May Issue

4 weeks ago | vogue.com | Leah Faye Cooper

A celebration of Black dandyism nine months in the making, Vogue’s May issue features four cover stars—each 2025 Met Gala co-chair—and a suiting portfolio featuring Black talent across fashion, entertainment, sports, and fine art.
A$AP Rocky on New Music, Family Ties, and Celebrating Black Excellence

1 month ago | vogue.com | Leah Faye Cooper |Tyler Mitchell

It’s past 1 a.m. on a Tuesday in downtown Manhattan, and A$AP Rocky, in a white long-sleeve tee and relaxed jeans—his khaki Saint Laurent trench and Chanel trapper hat slung across a chair—is contemplating his next pool shot. These late weeknight hours are usually reserved for working, Lindsey, a member of his production-management team, tells me, as Rocky paces around a corner nook at Soho House, behind him a delightful display of glass candy jars situated on sage-green lacquered shelving.
How Russell Westbrook Styled Georgia Amoore for the 2025 WNBA Draft

1 month ago | vogue.com | Leah Faye Cooper

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Crystal, Leather, and Faux Fur: How Usher Hits the Stage for His Past Present Future Tour

1 month ago | vogue.com | Leah Faye Cooper

Some people may find an audacious faux fur coat complete with a train to be a bit… extra. But Usher is not one of those people. When he takes Vogue behind the scenes of his Past Present Future tour ahead of a show at London’s O2 Arena, the R&B superstar dons the coat backstage as comfortably as one wears a T-Shirt. “You leave me in the room with the clothes, I’m gonna try everything on,” he says, cracking his signature smile.
Hope For Flowers Fall 2025 Ready-to-Wear Collection

1 month ago | vogue.com | Leah Faye Cooper

CoverageCollectionInspiration abounded for Detroit-based designer Tracy Reese as she conceived the Hope for Flowers fall 2025 collection. A brown corduroy blazer with a matching A-line pleated skirt? “Like you’re going to Spelman in 1952,” Reese said while presenting the range in New York. A ruffled floral blouse? “We used to do bedding, and this is the kind of print that I would totally put on a sheet set,” she added. “I’ve always loved woodblock florals, and I’m always researching them.
Artist Mae Colburn Talks Archiving Her Grandmother's Vintage Skirt Collection, For All To See

1 month ago | vogue.com | Leah Faye Cooper

Audrey Huset loved dancing, holidays, and playing the accordion, but no hobby was more pronounced—or tangible—than the Minnesota native’s passion for collecting vintage wool skirts. “She might have had, at some point, over 1,000,” Huset’s granddaughter, Mae Colburn, tells Vogue.