FLOTATION Devices

FINDING JOY can be DIFFICULT-especially when the WORLD ITSELF doesn't seem particularly JOYFUL. But as DURGA CHEW-BOSE discovered, sometimes it FINDS YOU.

Banded TOGETHER

SUPER SMALLS founder MARIA DUEÑAS JACOBS keeps it all in the FAMILY

Super EVERYTHING

MODEL. ACTIVIST. ICON. The WORLD has spent more than THREE DECADES trying to DEFINE NAOMI CAMPBELL. But she'd rather DO THAT for HERSELF.

Going HOME

Kingston native KAI NEWMAN highlights the BEST of SPRING FASHION surrounded by FAMILY, COMMUNITY, and the vibrant SIGHTS, SMELLS, and TEXTURES of JAMAICA

Reconstructing PARIS

She INVENTED our century's MODEL of CELEBRITY, foreshadowing the INFLUENCER ECONOMY along the way. That was HOT, but with a new MEMOIR, a new BABY, and a new PERSPECTIVE on LIFE. PARIS HILTON is DROPPING the ACT.

The NEW '90s

Welcome (BACK) to the ERA of BROWN LIPS, DEWY SKIN, GRUNGE LINER, and SHAGGY CUTS. Here, why SPRING'S biggest BEAUTY LOOKS take a page from the DECADE of the SUPERMODEL-and how to make the trends FEEL MODERN.

IN CONVERSATION: BILL T. JONES AND HENRY LOUIS GATES JR.

Dancer and choreographer BILL T. JONES and historian and professor HENRY LOUIS GATES JR. discuss CONTRIBUTING to-and PRESERVING-the BLACK cultural LEGACY

The POWER of the SISTERHOOD

A TANTALIZING photograph of LITERARY SUPERSTARS before their ASCENT, including TONI MORRISON and ALICE WALKER, evokes the DREAM of ARTISTIC COMMUNITY

IN CONVERSATION: BILLIE JEAN KING AND TORY BURCH

Tennis legend BILLIE JEAN KING and designer and philanthropist TORY BURCH on CHANGING THE GAME for WOMEN-in SPORTS, BUSINESS, and LIFE

The Art of Body Sculpting

Detoxifying and remodeling massage treatments, popular in parts of Europe for nearly a century, are spreading across the U.S., flattening bloated bellies and slimming limbs

In Conversation: John Waters and Jack Pierson

Cultural renegade John Waters and artist Jack Pierson on the new exhibition of art from Waters's private collection, his decision to give it all away, and why he'll always be drawn to work that makes people angry

Patti Smith Keeps Working

As the artist, writer, and musician gears up for a new show, Smith looks back on an astonishing 50-year career and what drives her forward

On the BUTTON

Christie's deputy chairman SARA FRIEDLANDER on her transformational trench

THE EYE HAS TO TRAVEL New WAVE

A bustling CULTURAL HUB, DAKAR, Senegal, is home to an electric ART SCENE that's drawing INTERNATIONAL acclaim

PILE It On

Our compendium of the most FASHIONABLE tokens of LOVE, FRIENDSHIP, ADMIRATION, and APPRECIATION to give all the IMPORTANT PEOPLE in your life this HOLIDAY SEASON

The COLLECTOR'S EYE

After a slew of blockbuster FASHION EXHIBITIONS, MUSEUMS are now CLAMORING to BUILD OUT their own COUTURE COLLECTIONS and a handful of WOMEN have been HELPING them FILL the VOID

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