CATEGORIES

Mischief and Magic

Josh O'Connor In the torrid tennis romance Challengers, shows he's a leading man of a particular stripe: sensitive, mercurial, and dreamy to the hilt.

Pure Imagination

At Glyn Cywarch, in northwestern Wales, romantic silhouettes and a restless sense of play - meet a grand and storied setting. Yet, as Amanda Harlech writes, her family's 400-year-old estate simply feels like home.

Good Thing Going

Once dismissed and derided, Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Merrily We Roll Along triumphantly returns to Broadway. Revived and reinvented or showing the heart it's had all along?

The Shape of Things to Come

At New York City's new Perelman Performing Arts Center a creative capstone of the World Trade Center's decades-long rebuilding architecture and optimism find form.

Lowe and Behold

At the Winterthur Museum in Delaware, the long-undersung American designer Ann Lowe gets her biggest survey yet.

Field Work

Dior's perfume maestro uses history to inform his new fragrance.

Squaring Off

The humble mandible is actually critical to facial appeal or so an abundance of new tools and procedures would have it. Mattie Kahn puts them to the test.

To the Max

Two new hotels in Paris embrace an all-encompassing aesthetic

In the Heights

Shorter than ever before, the micro-mini bang is having a moment

American Pastoral

While her contemporaries were focused on the figure, Shara Hughes uncovered new ground in landscape painting.

Stealing the Show

It's no secret that the history of fashion is laden with cultural appropriation but in a changed world, designers are finding thoughtful new ways to spotlight work rooted in heritage and tradition.

What's Real?

Modern life is getting weirder by the day. Maya Singer on the uncanny valley of our Ozempic-meets-AI era- and why connection still matters.

Squad Goals

For a new generation of US women's soccer stars, this summer's World Cup is everything. Alessandra Codinha reports.

Olivia 2.0

The sage of adolescent angst has left her teens behind her. Olivia Rodrigo is embarking upon a new decade, moving to a new city, and tinkering with her second album. But, as Jia Tolentino assures us, she is still singing her heart out. Photographed by Théo de Gueltzl.

Hello, Barbie!

It’s the movie of the summer, and the role Margot Robbie was born to play. Or not exactly—as Abby Aguirre discovers on a roller-skating, ice-cream playdate with Hollywood’s most indomitable heroine

Return of Serve

Former world-number-one Caroline Wozniacki reveals that she's packing her bags and bringing her family-for a triumphant return to tennis at the US Open. As told to Corey Seymour.

Hair Raisers

Taking a cue from the sculptural static and free-form flyaways on recent runways, Zoe Ruffner untames her tresses.

Bleu Note

Timothée Chalamet brings New York cool to Chanel's new fragrance.

The Secret History

London’s Old War Office enters a new era as a hotel with a rich past.

Jeremy Allen White – Something's Cooking

Jeremy Allen White of TV's The Bear a leading man of the throwback variety: grounded, irresistible, and perfectly suited to la vie bohème

Meet Me in Senegal

The electric streets and placid beaches of Dakar yield a poetic beauty and a vivid, textured wardrobe to match the mood

Postcards From Italy

In the northern region of Liguria, short dresses and breezy blouses signal a summer of sun-kissed days and nights mad with mischief

COUNTRY PURSUITS

Amid the wide grasslands and splendid mountains of Sichuan, in southwestern China, prim jackets and long, romantic skirts outfit a passage into pastoral paradise

Meet Me in Senegal

The electric streets and placid beaches of Dakar yield a poetic beauty and a vivid, textured wardrobe to match the mood

TAKE TWO

The third installment of our creative-swap project sees Stella McCartney and fledgling Chinese designer Shie Lyu repurposing and reinventing each other's work

Night Night?

From the Oura Ring to infrasonic devices to smart mattresses, resting well has become the ultimate aspiration

Brushing Up

Keep your ponytail high and your worries low

Nose in a Book

In the digital age, paper is at risk of becoming a limited-edition fragrance— and perfumers have taken note

Woman to Woman

For New York–based designer Ulla Johnson, there’s no feminine without the feminist

Story of Her Life

Brother Vellies founder Aurora James sidesteps the glamour to confront hard truths in her powerful new memoir.