It was late spring, and Anna Wintour, the notoriously decisive editor of Vogue, was stymied. That is not a common state for her. But the presidential election had her in a bind, at least when it came to her December issue. She had to make a magazine in one reality and publish it in another. What to do?

Anna Wintour selects Marc Jacobs to be first US Vogue guest editor - ‘There was never anyone else in my mind,’ the Vogue editor-in-chief said of Jacobs

For the December issue of Vogue, guest editor Marc Jacobs commissioned a single portrait of his own house—a historic Frank Lloyd Wright home outside of New York that he has been painstakingly restoring since 2019.