Now and Forever

From corsetry and embroidery to the fineness of tailoring, this season's most beguiling silhouettes offer a palpable sense of history and craft.  Liya Kebede and her children connect the dots between past, present, and future.

While the baby albums of most people teem with pizza parties and petting zoos, eyes reddened by the unruly flash of disposable cameras, mixed into Suhul and Raee Kebede’s family photos are portraits by Annie Leibovitz and Arthur Elgort. For as long as their mother, Liya Kebede, has been working, her son and daughter (now 23 and 18) have also been in the picture, literally or otherwise: Liya was already expecting Suhul during her breakout season as a model, when Tom Ford sent her slinking down Gucci’s fall 2000 runway in Milan; she was a few months pregnant with Raee on Vogue’s May 2005 cover, shot by Steven Meisel; and when she launched Lemlem, her line of sustainable resortwear, in 2007, it was all children’s clothes.