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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.

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?

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.

Cloud Cover

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

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.

American Pastoral

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

To the Max

Two new hotels in Paris embrace an all-encompassing aesthetic

Back to The Future

A debut makeup line from the house of Paco Rabanne honors the late designer’s iconic metalwork and prompts an experimental streak

Are You There Rock? It's Me, EMERALD.

The dialogue between the earth and your brooch is the subject of a new exhibit. Listen carefully.

Social Climb...BUT KEEP IT CLASSY

One man's quest to make friends in high places. All in the name of great literature, of course.

Imagine This City

There's a certain fantasy of how to live in New York. Here's what it looks like.

Duke, Baruch, or BUST

Where you get into college has become a winner-take-all proposition. At least, that's what certain schools would like you to think. But now some families are choosing to defy conventional wisdom and take their chips off the table.

NOW YOU SEE THEM, NOW YOU DON'T

An elite squad of criminals was convicted for the theft of $130 million in jewels. Was getting caught the cost of doing business or just the beginning of the Great Green Vault Grift?

[DRINK TO] The Champagne-Sake Continuum

\"The future of sake is the wine audience, Richard Geoffroy tells me over dinner at Joji, George Ruan's omakase restaurant in midtown Manhattan.

[CHECK IN] And Look Down in Venice

While the Vanderbilts of the Gilded Age are best known for expertise in railroads and social climbing, they aren't often credited for their contributions to design.

Silicon Valley at Sea

The tech industry is navigating uncharted waters. As anxiety sinks in, Bitcoin billionaires look for their next life raft.

QUEEN of the TIKTOKRACY

As you read this, countless aspiring It girls are striving to capture that perfect alchemy of style, taste, charm, and fizz that creates fame and fortune seemingly overnight. Sofia Richie Grainge shows them how it's done.

MAY THE ROSE BE WITH YOU

George Lucas and Mellody Hobson found respite from Hollywood by restoring a vineyard in the south of France with designer Michael S. Smith. Then they opened the doors to their hidden cinema paradiso. Will the next Jedi rise in Provence?

[SPEND TIME] Alone in a Room with Rothko

When the Rothko Room-which houses four of the Abstract Expressionist Mark Rothko's works in a snug, serene space-opened in 1960 at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, the artist's wishes were considered when it came to hanging his pieces and planning the lighting.

The New Face at the Frick

The days of the Breuer Building as a museum are waning.

VENUS de Meisel

Back in 1988, New York Fashion Week was the last stop on the international ready-to-wear collections circuit.

Ka-ching, Ka-ching...

Went the chain mail. In a sea of quiet luxury, the cognoscenti hear Julien Dossena's Paco Rabanne loud and clear.

You Aren't Getting Any Younger...or Are You?

Forget anti-aging, we have entered the era of de-aging. Meet the test that has become the new 23andMe.

Endless Summer

Designer Silvia Tcherassi opens her first boutique in Capri, a beloved holiday destination for her family.

It's Livvy's World

With more than 13 million social media followers and a seven-figure paycheck, gymnast Olivia Dunne is the future of college sports.