PORTRAITS of RESILIENCE

Artist SHIRIN NESHAT looks back at her DECADESLONG practice of CELEBRATING the STRENGTH and COURAGE of WOMEN in her NATIVE IRAN

Soft POWER

MAX MARA is a byword for POWER DRESSING, but its steadfast commitment to HIGH-QUALITY, TRENDLESS CLOTHING has won the brand a NEW GENERATION of RADICAL FANS

THAT Girl

Curator, writer, fundraiser, and gal-about-town SARAH HOOVER is REINVENTING the New York MULTIHYPHENATE, in cartoon-pink Chanel

The CHICAGO SCHOOL

HOW the CITY'S reigning cadre of ARTISTS, GALLERISTS, CURATORS, and COMMUNITY BUILDERS has sidestepped ART-WORLD clichés and created a STYLE all its OWN

Emily Ratajkowski – Sounding Off

Emily Ratajkowski is one of the most obsessed-over people on the internet, but she’s always had something to say. What will it take for people to really listen?

Voices - The People and Ideas Shaping The Culture

Chelsea Handler, Sam Jay, and Amber Ruffin on reimagining the Late-Night Talk Show and rewriting the rules of comedy

SMOKE Show

Looking for a COZY WINTER SCENT? Blends laced with the appealingly warm, earthy aroma of TOBACCO strike a surprisingly COMFORTING NOTE.

FUN for the WHOLE FAMILY

RESORTS are TAILORING their programming and accommodations to ENSURE that KIDS-and GROWN-UPS-get a VACATION

RETAIL Renaissance

The PANDEMIC heralded the death of IN-PERSON SHOPPING. But a NEW WAVE of highly CURATED, MULTIDIMENSIONAL, singularly IMMERSIVE BRICK-AND-MORTAR STORES is bringing it BACK to LIFE-and REVOLUTIONIZING the experience of BUYING CLOTHES.

Seasons LOST, Joy REGAINED

In 1927, a Black seaside resort was STOLEN from its owners by the city of Manhattan Beach. Nearly 100 years later, it's been RETURNED to the family but, as IMANI PERRY writes, what was TAKEN can never be REPLACED.

Where the HEART IS

A BEST FRIEND gets you at a CELLULAR LEVEL, in a way that no one else can. MIRA JACOB explores the GRIEF that overtook her when hers MOVED AWAY after living in the SAME CITY for 22 years.

Making SPACE

For CREATIVE PEOPLE, HOME can be a WORKPLACE, a SANCTUARY, a room with a VIEW, a PLATFORM for SELF-EXPRESSION, or a font of INSPIRATION-sometimes ALL AT ONCE. But for these ARTISTS, WRITERS, DESIGNERS, CHEFS, CHOREOGRAPHERS, and MULTITALENTED MULTIHYPHENATES, it's SOMETHING much MORE IMPORTANT: THEIR OWN.

COUTURE Diplomacy

Designer MARIA GRAZIA CHIURI hasn't just TRANSFÖRMED DIOR in her SIX YEARS at the French house. She has swung open its doors to CELEBRATE ARTISTS and ARTISANS all over the world and, perhaps most important, the WOMEN who WEAR her CLOTHES.

Making Overtures

A pair of new public-art projects by Nina Chanel Abney and Jacolby Satterwhite explore the untold history of New York's Lincoln Center-and herald a very different future

You Gotta Have Faith

As he wraps 19 months of writing, directing, producing, and starring in the third season of his acclaimed eponymous TV series, ramy youssef looks back on the big questions that led him to big laughs

Miuccia Prada – Running With Scissors

Nearly three decades after founding Miu Miu, Miuccia Prada is at the peak of her artistic powers, even making one very tiny miniskirt go very viral

A Stitch in Time

To perfect a Schiaparelli look, designer Daniel Roseberry conducts five arduous fittings and that's just for the shoulder of one jacket

Charlize Theron – Big Picture

Charlize Theron has sustained a career in Hollywood for more than a quarter century because she still loves it and wants it to be better. (And because her kids are watching too.)

Good TASTE

CARVED from HUNDREDS of LAYERS of thinly sliced CELERY ROOT, the CELERIAC SHAWARMA at FARM-TO-TABLE mecca NOMA is a DISH that took YEARS to INVENT

Elements of Style

Jane Birkin and a.P.C.'s Jean Touitou have perfected the performer's iconic wardrobe for her first-ever fashion collection

Voices the People and Ideas Shaping the Culture Generosity of Spirit

The inimitable social swan Catherine "Deeda" Blair has distilled decades of know how on style and entertaining in a new book to benefit brain and mental-health research

Hailey Bieber – Model and Beauty Entrepreneur, 25

Hailey Bieber has been thrown some curveballs this year, including a serious health scare. But the model, style star, and newly minted beauty mogul is ready for anything.

Coming into Focus

Once thought to primarily affect overstimulated boys, ADHD has become an epidemic among adult women. For one writer, coming to terms with her diagnosis later in life has put her past and family history in a new light.

Bad Bunny – Rapper and Singer, 28

Bad Bunny blasted out of Puerto Rico to lead a global Latin music revolution and the rapper and singer is bringing his legions of devoted fans along for the ride

Amanda Gorman Poet, 24

Amanda Gorman, whose recitation of "The Hill We Climb" at the 2021 inaguration made her America's most famous poet, has never met a mountain she couldn't scale

Sunny VIBES

THE GOOD BUY: Chanel 2.55 Bag

Good JEANS

Despite its heralded DEMISE at the start of the pandemic, DENIM was EVERYWHERE on the FALL RUNWAYS, offered in a wide range of SILHOUETTES and luxurious FABRICATIONS

GHESQUIÈRE  Goes WEST

Almost a DECADE into the job, the LOUIS VUITTON creative director is putting out some of his most INSPIRED WORK YET, thanks, in part, to a LOVE AFFAIR with CALIFORNIA’S chilled-out VIBES

FLORENCE PUGH ACTOR, 26

FLORENCE PUGH's greatest GIFT as an ACTOR isn't her ABILITY to REVEAL the ESSENTIAL TRUTH in a CHARACTER. It's that she comes by it HONESTLY.

The Politics of Dancing

For members of the Kyiv City Ballet, who were stranded in paris by the russian invasion of Ukraine, continuing to perform has been a matter of survival but also an act of resistance