Picture Perfect

Books by (and about) creatives light a festive spark.

Home Is Where the Art Is

Online design retailer Abask expands.

Put a Bow on It

Preppy, princess, or punk the humble hair ribbon is once more flying high.

True Tone

A new generation is experimenting with the idea that your \"season\" determines your most flattering shades. Lynn Yaeger, a devotee of the muted palette, spins the color wheel.

Fashionable Figures

Marley Marius investigates the rich history of artists working with clothes in their lives and, more urgently, in their work.

Sneak Peak

An under-the-radar new wellness destination.

The Play's the Thing

For Sarah Paulson, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Appropriate proved an irresistible lure back to Broadway.

Wake Up!

I HAVE LONG BEEN OF the belief that a low, sultry eyelid is a thing of beauty. Lauren Bacall made a career on it! Eyes down, then flicked up, two arrows through Humphrey Bogart’s heart. You know how to whistle, don’t you? Zendaya too. These days you can find the white-hot starlet in any number of high fashion advertisements, eyes elegantly lowered to half-mast, a modern master of the “smize”—a Tyra Banks–credited invention from America’s Next Top Model, employed as shorthand to entreat the aspiring Christys and Naomis and Kates to “smile with their eyes” in a sort of purposeful, unwrinkled microsquint, transforming an image from average to alluring.

BIG LIGHTS

This month, Hell’s Kitchen, a new musical based on Alicia Keys’s years growing up in that vibrant but rough Manhattan neighborhood, arrives at the Public Theater. It’s a New York story, for everyone.

Barn This Way

When a young Brooklyn family fell hard for rural Connecticut, an unprepossessing dairy farm turned into a busy, bustling home away from home.

Rebel Rebel

Angelina Jolie has always done things her way. Is it any surprise, then, as Chioma Nnadi discovers, that she's shaking up the world of fashion?

Melody Maker

Finding hidden music in a role has long been a theme of Carey Mulligan's astonishing career but never more so than in the symphonic new film Maestro.

Seed of Change

A line of outdoor textiles springs from a historic restoration.

Lights, Camera...Cashmere

Sofia Coppola's collaboration with Scottish heritage house Barrie is simple, sumptuous and utterly exquisite.

Rothko's Rooms

A sweeping retrospective of the work of Mark Rothko heads to the Foundation Louis Vuitton.

Pastoral Care

A fresh breed of British getaways Is redefining the rural wellness experience.

Out of the Past

Hermès's Collection Hors-Série, created from leftover fabrics and employing exquisite needlework, melds tradition with modernity.

The Second Year

War is a long story, with many chapters. Reporting from Ukraine, Wendell Steavenson sees dogged optimism, banished illusions, inspiring acts of generosity, and resilience in all its forms.

The Hot Seat

Karine Jean-Pierre has made history as President Biden's White House press secretary. She's also made waves.

In Her Shoes

The always-original Chloë Sevigny tries out the surprising new collaboration between Miu Miu and Church's.

The Art of Being Lee Miller

Lee Miller was a photographer, war correspondent, fashion model, art world muse, and an adventurer par excellence. For Kate Winslet, she’s the role of a lifetime.

The Long Run

Maryland's governor Wes Moore is a former Rhodes Scholar and paratrooper inspiring great expectations. His message? Service will save us.

Facing the World

Vogue's first-ever global open-casting initiative gathered 60,000 submissions, from everywhere on Earth. Here are eight finalists.

GOOD PRESS

Gutenberg! a musical about the inventor of the printing press might just be the unlikeliest thing to hit Broadway in years, and also the most delightful. Marley Marius meets its champions.

Balearic Boom

A new guard of hotels is quietly leveling up Mallorca's offerings.

Lost and Found

Recalling a beloved Chanel lipstick, Chloe Schama searches color databases, high-tech matching tools, and the complexities of memory.

The Italian Job

Ginori issues a line of home furnishings and fabrics.

Fine Lines

Drake Carr's provocative artwork imbues fashion illustration with a louche glamour.

Eternal Moments

A new exhibition and book plot out the Bloomsbury group’s influence on fashion.

Of the Farm

In the 1970s, Martha McPhee lived on a rambling property with siblings, half-siblings, and her frequently naked parents. The farm was named after a utopia—but for a sensitive young girl coming of age, life was far from it.