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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.

The Point of the Past

Early on, Zadie Smith became something of a reluctant poster child for multicultural Britain. Her new, historical novel excavates her country's history. Zing Tsjeng goes along for the journey.

Supersonic

In a colorful riot of '90s nostalgia, four Supers - Linda, Cindy, Christy, and Naomi talk about a new documentary on their (fabulous) lives and legacy. Sally Singer listens in.

Open and Shut Case

The iconic Rimowa carry-on has traveled the world over since the ’50s. But how would three coolly individualistic women pack it up now?

My Father, Myself

To come to terms with her father’s diagnosis, Tallulah Willis has had to reckon with health struggles of her own. As told to Rob Haskell.

Cloud Cover

Airy pastel eyes light a way beyond leaden makeup tutorials, and many of us are ready to brighten up

Paris, Texas

Daniel Roseberry, the creative director of the Surrealist-rooted Maison Schiaparelli, is the toast of the couture. Nathan Heller finds that his path from the Dallas suburbs to the Place Vendôme is equally out of the ordinary.

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.