It was late spring, and Anna Wintour, the notoriously decisive editor of Vogue, was stymied. That is not a common state for her. But the presidential election had her in a bind, at least when it came to her December issue. She had to make a magazine in one reality and publish it in another. What to do?

Anna Wintour selects Marc Jacobs to be first US Vogue guest editor - ‘There was never anyone else in my mind,’ the Vogue editor-in-chief said of Jacobs

EDITOR’S NOTE: And now…go behind the scenes at Vogue and watch how the December issue—guest edited by Marc Jacobs—came together. The below video takes you the whole project, from start to finish. For Anna: hair, Andreas Anastasis; makeup, Melissa Silver. For Marc: hair, Sandy Hullett; makeup, Eduardo Jiménez.