Adele Covers Two Continents: Here in American Vogue US November 2021 by Alasdair McLellan

On the British side of the Atlantic, Adele signals the return of va va voom dressing. Not only has Adele walked out of the shadows and into the light — but her new-found roar is heard on both sides of the Atlantic in the first-ever cover star collab between American Vogue and British Vogue.

In America, Adele is much more subdued, compared to her Steven Meisel images in British Vogue. She looks fabulous on the cover, wearing a green Valentino Haute Couture gown. Photographer Alasdair McLellan [IG] captures the star, who is styled by Tonne Goodman./ Hair by Frankie Boyd; makeup by Akki Shirakawa

Vogue writer Abby Aguirre catches up with Adele at Heart & Hustle, a private gym in West Hollywood.

We learn that Adele has been doing rigorous weight-lifting and circuit-training sessions every day for three years and counting. Sometimes, Adele works out twice in one day if her anxiety is running high. The world agrees on very little at this point, and women who lose weight are slammed regularly on social media for betraying the sisterhood and our core argument that all bodies are beautiful.

Adele now has an attitude regarding all the criticism thrown her way about her diet and exercise routine, and she’s very direct in her British Vogue interview. The star’s attitude about the public response to her new image is “I couldn’t give a flying f**k” (about what anyone thinks of her image). Spellbinding glamour comes from within and not from Instagram likes is Adele’s message to her women critics and humans at large.

We leave her for now, with Adele doing deep squats with pounds of weight on her shoulders. She’s been watching Rocky movies over and over and over at Heart & Hustle, and no one should be surprised when she belts out:

“Getting strong nooowww!”