If I had to name the single most rewarding element of my job, I’d say it was the people I get to work with: writers, editors, stylists and photographers who, more often than not, are simply the best at what they do. During my years in New York, where, more than a decade ago, I started my Vogue career at our American edition, then based in Times Square, I remember being fully starstruck by some of the staff in my first week: Grace Coddington and her striking red hair, inspecting a rail of near-impossible-to-secure ready-to-wear as she prepared for a shoot; Hamish Bowles striding past my desk in his perfectly tailored lilac suits; the late André Leon Talley, whose sonorous baritone echoed down the halls before he’d even entered the room – they were virtually rock stars to me.

Around the same time, a young woman named Emily Weiss was getting her start at the magazine. Her then boss, Vogue’s former style director Elissa Santisi, sat in an office just behind my cubicle and I would often see Weiss, then in her early 20s, scuttling to and from the fabled fashion cupboard with armfuls of exquisite clothes and accessories. While she didn’t work at Vogue for very long, Weiss – wide-eyed and fizzing with ambition – made an impression. As her former colleague, it has been thrilling to watch her ascent to beauty mogul in the years since. In her viewpoint Behind The Gloss, the famously press-shy 39-year-old writes about the extraordinary and tumultuous decade she spent as founder of her beauty behemoth, Glossier. “Like all good things,” she says, “it wasn’t always a smooth path.”

Her candour will no doubt resonate with Simon Porte Jacquemus. The 34-year-old French designer, who launched his label at the tender age of 19, has harnessed the power of social media, with a cheeky sense of humour and a total sense of ease, to turn his brand into a multimillion-pound empire. With a husband, baby twins, a star-studded friend group and a stunningly renovated new house in his native south of France, writer Nathan Heller encounters a modern maverick at the top of his game, with a steely focus lying just beneath all that irresistible Gallic charm.

As far as new names in fashion go, this month British model on the rise Celina Ralph is undoubtedly a face I’m excited about. Watching her bound down the runway with her razor-sharp buzzcut and fierce attitude at McQueen was a head-turning, who’s-that-girl moment for me. And, as writer Kate Lloyd discovers, she’s unapologetically herself in person too – a rebel at heart, helping to redefine the spirit of modelling for the 2020s.