Liam Hess
Liam Hess brings fashion and culture together through the settings, celebrations, and journeys that surround them, focusing on weddings, travel, parties, and the cultural calendar rather than just the runway. He serves as Vogue’s senior lifestyle and weddings editor, overseeing coverage of homes, travel, food, design, parties, and weddings. Alongside commissioning and editing, he writes widely across music, film, books, and fashion shows, with a particular emphasis on how clothes, places, and people intersect at major moments.
Celebrity weddings as fashion narratives
Weddings are a central pillar of Hess’s work, and he treats them as fully realized fashion stories rather than simple event recaps. Recent coverage includes a detailed look inside Dove Cameron and Damiano David’s wedding at a medieval Tuscan estate, following the couple’s multi-day celebrations and the couture choices that defined them. He pairs that with close-up reporting on the bride’s process, such as Dove Cameron’s final fitting for her “celestial” Valentino wedding dress in Rome, tracing how a concept becomes a finished look on the body.
Similar treatment is given to Finneas and Claudia Sulewski’s garden wedding in Montecito, documenting the event through décor, wardrobe, and the emotional arc of the day, and to Adam Baidawi and Alex Marxsen’s New York City Hall wedding, positioned as a love letter to their adopted city through minimalist tailoring and intimate details.
Hess is also drawn to unconventional bridal style and uses those stories to expand the idea of what a wedding can look like. His profile of Gabbriette’s Matières Fecales wedding looks foregrounds nontraditional silhouettes, darker palettes, and avant-garde construction, framing them as an expression of personality rather than deviation from a norm. Across these pieces, he writes in a clear, descriptive mode, balancing dress credits and designer names with narrative moments from fittings, ceremonies, and receptions. The consistent through-line is that weddings are fashion stories first, with guest lists, venues, and rituals serving to deepen the visual and stylistic portrait.
Hotels, travel, and design-led escapes
Travel writing is another core strand of Hess’s beat, and it is tightly tied to design and fashion-adjacent lifestyle.
He produces service-led hotel guides - such as the best hotels in Milan, Istanbul, Shanghai, New York City, and Dublin - that combine practical recommendations with attention to interiors, atmosphere, and the kind of guest experience that attracts the fashion crowd. These stories highlight grand palazzos, intimate boutiques, literary grande dames, and design-forward gems, with emphasis on architecture, art, and how a property fits into its city’s creative scene.
Alongside lists, Hess writes narrative destination features that center singular properties or regions.
His piece on a historic royal palace in India reframes it as a breathtaking contemporary retreat, focusing on how restoration, design choices, and service transform a legacy building into a modern escape. He covers buzzy coastal hotels and newly launched beach clubs, a reimagined grande dame in the hills of Florence, and a beloved Umbrian hotel branching into a lifestyle brand, consistently tying hospitality stories back to aesthetics and the fashion world’s interest in them. A series of spa profiles, from Somerset to Marrakech, extends this lens to wellness, showing a preference for locations where design, landscape, and thoughtful programming come together.
The tone across this body of work is polished and exact, with clear descriptions that make the spaces legible to readers who care about both style and substance.
Parties, festivals, and the fashion crowd
Hess devotes significant attention to parties and cultural events, treating them as live tableaux of fashion in motion. His report on the Serpentine Summer Party captures London’s art and fashion glitterati in the middle of a heatwave, balancing guest names, looks, and the mood of the night. At Venice Film Festival, he tracks the most glittering parties and star-heavy dinners, including Miu Miu evenings and Cartier Cinema Club celebrations, using these gatherings to show how film, luxury brands, and personal style intersect.
Similar pieces follow Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin’s fantastical Belmond train carriage party in London and the glitziest events of Milan Design Week, with particular attention to how décor, location, and dress codes build a unified visual story.
Within this event coverage, Hess often elevates specific figures as fashion focal points.
He profiles front rows and red carpets - from the Vogue World 2026 front row, framed as a Mount Rushmore of Italian fashion, to John Malkovich as an unexpected Venice Film Festival style king. Met Gala coverage, including Gwendoline Christie’s artful mask, Doja Cat’s silicone Saint Laurent dress, and other highly constructed looks, emphasizes craftsmanship and concept as much as celebrity. Across these stories, he writes in concise, declarative sentences, foregrounding clothes and atmosphere over commentary, and consistently situates fashion within the real-time social context of parties, festivals, and industry gatherings.
Runway and pop culture coverage
Beyond weddings, travel, and parties, Hess maintains a steady presence on the runway and in broader pop culture. His runway reviews focus on designers often associated with London and cutting-edge fashion - Chopova Lowena, Knwls, Toga, Mowalola, Bora Aksu, 16Arlington, John Alexander Skelton, Charles Jeffrey Loverboy, Emilia Wickstead, and others - highlighting silhouettes, references, and how collections fit within a designer’s evolving narrative. These pieces are direct and visual, emphasizing what appears on the catwalk and what it signals about a brand’s direction.
In culture, he covers music, film, TV, and books through a fashion-aware lens. Profiles and reviews of Empress Of, Ryan Beatty, Ravyn Lenae, Kim Petras, Naomi Scott, and Kim Gordon connect albums and performances to image-making, stagewear, and creative collaboration.
He compiles lists such as the best releases from the Venice Film Festival, the best queer movies of all time, standout TV shows of the century, true crime podcasts to listen to now, and the best books of the year, often noting stylistic or thematic elements that resonate with the fashion world. His magazine features, including high-profile cover stories, use a similar approach: they weave personal narrative with visual identity, touring schedules, and how an artist presents themselves. Across this breadth of work, the defining trait is a consistent, unornamented prose style that keeps the focus on the subject - whether a wedding dress, a hotel lobby, a party, or a record - and on the way fashion animates each of these spaces.
Role within Vogue’s lifestyle and weddings coverage
Hess’s editorial role underpins the range of his bylines. As senior lifestyle and weddings editor, he oversees stories across homes, travel, food, design, parties, and weddings, shaping the way Vogue approaches high-end lifestyle coverage around the world. His own writing reflects that remit: it moves fluidly from intimate wedding slideshows to destination guides, event reports, and cultural criticism, always tying back to fashion and the visual culture that surrounds it.
For subjects and stories that sit at the intersection of style, place, and occasion, his work shows a steady preference for precise description, strong sense of setting, and an emphasis on how clothes are lived in rather than just displayed.
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