I’m a sucker for a good opinion piece, even more so when it’s from Vogue. There’s just something special about reading the world through someone else’s eyes. It satiates my craving for human connection and understanding in a media landscape where that’s very much lost.
When I was doing my usual perusal of the Vogue website homepage, I was captured by the different articles ranging from cookware rankings to fine details of celebrity style. With this in mind, I wondered what the best articles of 2025 are, but there are almost too many to choose from. I tried my best to accumulate a ranking that I hope you enjoy!
“Is Having a Boyfriend Embarrassing Now?”
We can’t talk Vogue 2025 without mentioning the viral, iconic opinion piece “Is Having a Boyfriend Embarassing Now?” I must admit, this admired essay is what sparked my interest in digging for the best Vogue articles of 2025 in the first place.
Written by Chanté Joseph in late October, her article begins with the sharp line, “If someone so much as says ‘my boyf–’ on social media, they’re muted.” Joseph continues, “There’s nothing I hate more than following someone for fun, only for their content to become ‘my boyfriend’-ified suddenly.”
This piece was the talk of social media the moment it was published. Once it was released in British Vogue, people had a plethora of opinions, and it was so popular that Joseph even wrote a follow-up titled “My Story Asking if Boyfriends Were Embarrassing Went Viral. Here’s What That Says About the State of Heterosexual Dating.”
Although slightly controversial, depending on the algorithm you inhabit, this article is so worth the read. It singlehandedly revived Vogue 2025 for me, even though I don’t completely agree with it. Sometimes a good article just needs to be appreciated for what it is.
“The Wholesome, Healing Pleasures of an Adult Sleepover”
Written by Jen Wang in early November, “The Wholesome, Healing Pleasures of an Adult Sleepover” stood out to me because it perfectly summarized the feeling I so often miss: young girlhood. Wang summed up the feelings of so many women, saying, “What I want more than anything these days is time. My girlhood sleepovers offered time in excess.”
So, Wang set out to do exactly that, and make time. She dove right into her plans, explaining, “I set out to schedule some low-key sleepovers across the two weekends a month when my kids were with their dad.” We all know that there’s just something different about a fun night in with your girlfriends. The best memories aren’t planned out to perfection; rather, they’re created out of thin air.
The article ends with Wang describing the outcome of the sleepovers with her friends, “We slapped K-beauty masks on our faces and sticky patches to the soles of our feet that promised to draw out all of our toxins. We talked about loss and grief and family estrangement, old heartbreak that looked funny in hindsight — Kristin’s first serious girlfriend left her for a mortician — and topics of absolutely no consequence, like which nepo babies we didn’t hate for being nepo babies (Jamie Lee Curtis, for one).”
“On Learning to Play Tennis (and Learning to Lose)”
In Lia Picard’s fantastic article “On Learning to Play Tennis (and Learning to Lose)” from late August, she examines her decision to pick up a new sport in her late 30s. The piece begins, saying, “I’m standing on the deuce side of the tennis court, getting ready to serve in a doubles match. As my partner stares ahead, the two women on the other side of the net look at me — and I just want to die.”
The article is incredibly introspective and is an unexpected lesson on persistence and courage. She examines the relationship between competition and camaraderie between women in the tennis scene and explains the many joys of tennis and humanity she has learned in her journey.
She persists, “The truth is, you have to lose to win. I ended my first season with zero match wins, but instead of throwing in the towel, I signed up for another league, and then another.”
“Paris Is for Grievers, Too”
Isa O’Connor’s August article “Paris Is for Grievers, Too” dives into her grief following the loss of her big sister, Ivy, and her decision to go to Paris afterwards. This piece was so shockingly powerful to read, and I find myself thinking about it quite often, especially in the face of my own grief.
O’Connor explains how Paris was the thing that jolted her back to life in the immediate wake of Ivy’s death. She described, “I tried new foods I had previously sworn off. I laughed at things she would’ve found funny. I sang karaoke.”
While the piece deals with strong themes, it’s beautifully written, and I felt like I was experiencing Paris through O’Connor’s eyes. She wrote, “At home, it felt like everything was there to remind me that my sister was dead. But in Paris, it felt like everything was there to remind me that she was once alive.”
She continues the explanation of her journey, reminiscing on the fact that “My friends from Paris — and life after — have never known me as a little sister, but at least they do know me.”
“‘There’s a Fire, Mommy’: The Desperate Hours Before a Los Angeles Evacuation”
Written in early January, “‘There’s a Fire, Mommy’: The Desperate Hours Before a Los Angeles Evacuation” was a striking article in the face of the California fires. In this piece, Lesley M. M. Blume writes about her experience in the evacuation and her struggles and fears of leaving her home behind. The title in itself is obviously catching, and it keeps you hooked before you even begin reading.
Blume explains the moment her fears began to grow, “My young daughter came home from school. We ran her bath as the sun set. ‘There’s a fire, mommy,’ she told me, looking out the bathroom window. In the dark, the coastline had turned electric orange with flames. It was a jagged, awful line. We are safe here, I told my daughter, but God help our friends on the coast.”
The California fires were nothing short of devastating, and this article examines Blume’s fears in an incredibly realistic way. It was a deep read, but worth it in whole. Her writing is very eloquent and illustrative, and there are many powerful quotes.
I’m an avid Vogue stalker, so I have favorites coming out of my ears. Honorable mentions that I almost included are “I Want What They Have: Leighton Meester and Adam Brody,” written by Anna Cafolla in February, “I Want My Funeral to Be Fun” by Margaux Anbouba in May, “The Aviation Aesthetic: A Visual History of Fashion and Flight in Vogue” released in October, and “The 87 Best Documentaries of All Time,” published in July.
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