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Photography by Alec SothStyled by Max Ortega
Ahead of Vogue World: Hollywood—a celebration of fashion and the extraordinary, kaleidoscopic work of making movies—we gathered people involved in all different sides of production, from sound to craft services, to find out how the dreams are spun. Ready, set, action!
Photographed by Alec Soth. Vogue, November 2025.
Producers Dylan Golden, Frida Perez, and Alex Coco
Golden, a frequent collaborator of director Darren Aronofsky’s, wears Miu Miu and Manolo Blahnik boots. Perez, cocreator of Apple TV+’s The Studio (for which she’s also a writer), wears Christopher John Rogers and Victoria Beckham shoes. Coco, known for his work with the director Sean Baker, wears Calvin Klein Collection and Officine Creative boots.
Boom operator Heather Fink, second assistant director Yani Gutierrez, and cinematographer David Bolen
Fink, who has worked on Euphoria and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, explains that a boom’s job involves “weighing actor movement, camera frames, and lighting to get the optimal sound, based on mic placement.” She wears a Lii vest and Kallmeyer pants. Gutierrez, in Tory Burch, characterizes a 2nd AD’s functions—overseeing personnel and equipment logistics, managing the production schedule—as requiring “the perfect blend of left brain logic and right brain creativity.” Bolen, whose work includes the 2020 documentary Some Kind of Heaven and the 2024 feature Thelma, starring June Squibb, wears Prada.
Craft-services department head Teddy Yonenaka and wrangler and animal trainer Lisa Brown
Yonenaka (left), who has also worked for years as a personal chef cooking for the likes of Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, and Brie Larson, wears a Louis Vuitton Men’s jacket and shorts and Loro Piana boots. Brown, the secret weapon on Jordan Peele’s Nope and Kevin Costner’s Horizon: An American Saga, wears a Khaite jacket and a Los Angeles Apparel turtleneck. (She holds an Andalusian crossbreed named Moonstone.)
Casting director Victoria Thomas, film editor Crispin Struthers, and FX artist Bonnie Ephraim
Thomas, whose credits include Straight Outta Compton, Hidden Figures, The Morning Show, and The Last of Us, wears The Row. Struthers, a member of the Oscar-nominated editing teams behind Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle, wears Ferragamo. Ephraim, who worked on Everything Everywhere All at Once and Alien: Romulus, explains that the term FX artist covers “a multitude of skill sets involved in the fabrication and creation of practical effects,” such as creature suits, puppets, miniatures, and prosthetics. She wears Louis Vuitton.
Writer and director Alex O’Keefe
O’Keefe, who has been a speechwriter for Senator Elizabeth Warren, helmed an ad for Senator Ed Markey, and written for both FX’s The Bear and WWE Raw, wears a Bode jacket and Junya Watanabe shirt and trousers.
Director of photography Autumn Durald Arkapaw
Durald Arkapaw, the DP on Ryan Coogler’s Sinners and Gia Coppola’s The Last Showgirl, says that her role involves “defining the overall look and feel of a film”—a wide yet essential brief. She wears Victoria Beckham.
VFX supervisor Azra Alkan
Alkan (in Coach with Khaite boots), who has worked on the visual effects for projects such as Masters of the Air and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, explains that in her role, she conjures “everything from fire-breathing dragons and massive explosions to set extensions that are very hard to tell apart from the rest of the scene.” Put another way: Her job is “to make the impossible elements look real.”
In this story: hair, Hikaru; makeup, Lilly Pollan; tailors, Hasmik Kourinian and Irina Tshartaryan for Susie’s Custom Designs.
Produced by PENNY. Set Design: Colin Donahue.
