ADELE: The British Icon, Reborn + More

The legendary Steven Meisel works with superstar Adele and British Vogue to deliver Va-Va-Voom glam in every shot. For the cover alone Adele is styled in a custom yellow bustier top by Vivienne Westwood (first shot) and as a special treat for the subscriber cover (last shot) wears a beautiful Christian Dior dress.

Adele discusses with Giles Hattersley her hiatus from singing, “I feel like this album is self-destruction,” she replies, carefully, “then self-reflection and then sort of self-redemption. But I feel ready. I really want people to hear my side of the story this time.”

Editor-in-Chief for British Vogue Edward Enninful is incharge of styling and includes a mix from Bodo Bar Or, Helen Yarmak, Louis Vuitton, Woldford, Dolce & Gabbana, Falke, N°21 and Chanel. Rounding out the team Guido Palau is on hair, Pat McGrath on make-up, Jin Soon Choi on manicure, Mary Howard in charge of set design and PRODn in charge of production.

“She hasn’t spoken to a journalist since 2016, and on top of, you know, a pandemic and the general day-to-day of being a single mum, she’s been married and divorced in that time. In paparazzi terms, she essentially lives off-grid, in what the papers love to call her “compound in Beverly Hills”, next door to Jennifer Lawrence et al. For a certain sort of prickly Brit, the worry is that reality might have become a foreign land to her – but the signs are good. Formal pleasantries dispensed with, it takes four minutes to get to how she’s done with lambasting her exes in her lyrics. “I have to really address myself now,” she says, earnestly. Then, “Instead of being like, ‘You effing… ’” at this point, she drops her first delicious C-bomb of the day and falls about laughing.” -British Vogue