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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.

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?

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?

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.

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.

Camp Friend CABAL

As one nepo baby recently demonstrated, the connections forged in cabins are intense, mysterious, and totally worth getting grounded over.

Once Upon a Time in Umbria...

…there was a beautiful estate dotted with secluded villas cherished by Hollywood royalty. The caretakers were a noble family living out a fairy tale of rustic extravagance

What to Expect When You're in WINE COUNTRY NOW

Vineyards today are design meccas commissioned by billionaire connoisseurs and conceived by the world’s most discerning oenophiles: architects. A Pritzker to pair with your rosé? Only in Provence!

Deep Secrets

For a milestone new collection, Tiffany dove into its archives and came back up with hands full of treasure.

The Battle for Nantucket

It has long been a playground for the wealthy, but even billionaires abided by an old-school code of conduct. Now a new cohort has arrived, and the vibe is anything but low-key.

AWAY WE GO

Many a friendship has been cemented or demolished on vacation. Jetsetting with companions is one of life’s great pleasures, but only if you can master its rhythms and rigors. Best of luck.

He’s Waiting for You…

During the last 15 years, tiny Bhutan has gone from a trickle of travelers to way too many. Well, that’s been fixed now! Welcome to the real magic kingdom.

The Ride OF HER LIFE

Starring in two of the year’s most anticipated blockbusters will make Rebecca Ferguson a movie theater mainstay. But to get there she had to go around the world—and out of it, too.

The Coup of the Year

Charles Lewis Tiffany was always a “just do it” kind of guy. One need only trace the early history of the house he founded in 1837 to see a theme emerge

Los Angeles, New York

L.A.’s first Keith Haring museum exhibition gives an East Coast mood its moment in the sun

Shmooze or LOSE

Oh, did you think getting ahead in 2023 wouldn't require leaving the couch? Stop scrolling and think again

THERE'S A LESSON IN THIS

If you haven't been able to get your hands on Jed Johnson's highly collectible book of interiors, your luck is about to change. A reprint of the design classic is out now, and his work is as classically radical as ever

The Queen Mum Defense

Could a 101-year-old matriarch who drank Dubonnet every afternoon be wrong? Yet suddenly teetotalers are everywhere, pouring you mocktails and proselytizing on your podcasts. Inside the new zero-proof doctrine

The Women Come and Go, for Michelangelo Searching

Can you sculpt back the clock?

The WOO WOO Establishment

Crystals, mushrooms, visions, and energy healing have evolved from follies of hemp-wearing hippies into status symbols for the one percent. So rev up your chakras, and don’t forget your credit card

DA VINCI WAS A DOUBLE MAJOR

After a decade of parents rushing to enroll their children in specialized math classes, and university humanities departments in crisis mode, a radical education movement is taking hold. Why not have students study Shakespeare and the quadratic formula? Prepare for a new Renaissance generation

Liar Liar: BRAIN ON FIRE

Welcome to the age of the fabulist. Facts are more accessible than ever, yet charlatans are thriving. Are humans getting more shameless? Or is brain science showing us that we just need something to believe in?

Where It All Begins

Americans’ greatest contribution to fashion is the confidence and ease of our style. Fifty years ago a group of designers, and this model, showed the French how it’s done, and changed how we dress forever

When one 3-star door closes, another opens.

David Kinch’s decision last November to close Manresa, his three-Michelinstarred Bay Area restaurant, didn’t garner much national attention at first, but then, a few weeks later, René Redzepi announced that Noma, his hugely influential restaurant in Copenhagen, would be closing to the public at the end of 2024.

Gods & Gardens

In a land famed for the architecture of the ancients, one man snuck behind the columns and found another Greece.

The Art OF THE Possible

Augusta Savage was a celebrated sculptor who opened a gallery to spotlight the work of Black artists. It lasted three months. Here is what we missed.

THE COLLEGE MONEY GRAB

How did one of the world's largest banks get tripped up by a college financial aid business to the tune of $175 million? Just ask any parent who has jumped through insane hoops to get their kid into good schools and then had to run the most daunting gauntlet of all: paying for it.

If She Builds It

...they will come to Mumbai. Nita Ambani is shaping her city's future one building at a time.

A Seat at the ROUND TABLE

To bring Camelot back to Broadway, the knights weren't the only ones who needed armor.

Bard of the SOIL

Speak to landscape architect Thomas Woltz about outdoor spaces and you will be caught up in a joyful avalanche of history and literature, art and science, aesthetics and ecology. Is it any wonder he oversees some of the most visionary projects in the world?