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Byline: Anna Wintour
This year's Escapes issue-in which we celebrate the pleasures of summer and leisure-makes me feel oddly nostalgic. It occurred to me, as we finally assembled Vogue's monthly jigsaw, that so many of the wonderful women we feature have grown up into ever more beautiful exemplars of how to live lives that are valuable and stylish. Take Gisele Bundchen: How admirable that this unpretentious young woman from Brazil has almost single-handedly kept the supermodel alive, on whose continued existence so many jobs depend. And Amber Valletta: It's very gratifying to have seen this all-American girl evolve into the actress, environmentalist, and wonderful mom that she is now. Then there's Uma Thurman, who is as candid and brilliant and funny with Julia Reed as she was when Vogue first met her as a precocious teen in 1988. These women grasp that celebrity, ...