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BEAUTY IS OFTEN discussed in aesthetic terms: the outward beauty of a person or a place as a physical or phenomenological attribute. But the relationship we have with beauty is frequently much more internal and the way we perceive it exceedingly ephemeral. There is the beauty in a moment, in an emotion or a realization. There is the shock of unexpected beauty, of surprise, delight, and discovery. There is beauty in self-expression, in confidence, in ritual, in upheaval, in learning to let go. There is also a beauty in experience, in who we’ve been and who we might become. Each season, fashion offers us new propositions and paradigms for beauty, new reflections and representations, new ways of seeing and being. So do Instagram and TikTok, in their vast, perpetual swirl.…

In 1953, the husband-and-wife duo of Ottavio and Rosita Missoni opened a small knitwear workshop in Gallarate, Italy. But it would be almost a decade before they would develop the colorful zigzag pattern that is now emblematic of the brand that bears their name, Missoni. At the time, Raschel machines—invented in the 19th century to produce three-dimensional textiles—were used to make shawls in a lightweight fabric that had a texture somewhere between a knit and a weave. By using a number of different yarns, the Missonis created a multicolored chevron pattern that they debuted on the runway in the mid-1960s. The jagged stripes in contrasting tones would soon become a hallmark of the house, appearing on sweaters, skirts, scarves, and accessories. Since then, the zigzag has been on Missoni’s runway…

I’m never moving again. It feels so good to say that! I was born in New York, and since then I’ve lived all over the country—in Atlanta, Montana, New Mexico—and that doesn’t include all the places I’ve lived temporarily on movie sets in the U.S. and around the world. But after I bought my current house in Los Angeles a few years ago, I made the choice to put down roots here and was surprised to find a real comfort in the idea that this is where I am going to live until I die. California is my home. California is an incredibly diverse and culturally rich place, but one that has already been impacted profoundly by the climate crisis, with the unprecedented (and near-apocalyptic) fires, floods, storms, and weather…

Getting to know Tokyo now is less about big skyscrapers and the neon-lit frenetics of Shibuya Crossing and more about small hidden places where one person makes a few things really well. That was the lesson of Wim Wenders’s latest film, Perfect Days: Even though the main character lives in one of the most energetic cities in the world, his life is profoundly analog. This appreciation for all things precious and retro is so bona fide in Tokyo that a vintage bookshop like Eureka gets as much street cred as the speakeasy Bar Nightingale. The cultish boutique Visvim General Store, opened two years ago by designer Hiroki Nakamura in several refurbished 1970s-era residences surrounding a meticulously designed garden, showcases brands like Indigo Camping Trailer, a clothing collection that aims to…

Straight off a red-eye flight from New York to London, I stare out of my taxi window and watch as the view turns to the countryside—specifically Malmesbury, England, the home of Dyson’s U.K. office. I explain to my driver that I’m in town to preview a new product: the at-the-time unreleased Supersonic Nural hair dryer. “My wife loves her Dyson hair dryer!” he exclaims. “Everyone in England has a Dyson vacuum in their home.” This devotion isn’t attributable just to the proximity to the Dyson offices; we’re equally obsessed with the brand stateside. You can find Dyson products at the Well New York or Barry’s (the latter is equipped with the brand’s hair dryers and air-purifying fans) and in luxury hotel rooms (like at the Equinox Hotel or Waldorf Astoria…

I love paintings when it feels like you’re intruding,” says Anok Yai. We are standing in front of Kerry James Marshall’s Untitled (Studio), which hangs in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. The painting is a glimpse into an artist’s workspace, with a model seated, her head in the hands of an artist’s assistant who is staring at the viewer. It is as if you’ve disturbed something—or maybe the viewer is the artist, about to tackle the half-completed canvas that sits to the left of the frame. “I fucking love this,” Yai says and immediately sits on a bench in front of the painting. It makes sense she’d be drawn to it. In addition to being that rare cultural phenomenon—a bona fide supermodel—Yai is also an artist. She taught herself…

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Something about Marc Jacobs has always represented the dream of fashion to me. I remember sneaking into one of his shows at the Puck Building in New York when I started out as an assistant. I always loved going to his old store on Mercer Street, which seemed like the epicenter of cool. I couldn’t afford much, but everything about it—from the cast of characters who worked there to the people who passed through—just seemed like a world I wanted to be a part of. And the clothes! The clothes were dreamy. One of my early splurges was a red cashmere hat—a luxe version of Jacques Cousteau’s signature beanie. To this day, I still wear that hat. It remains one of my favorite purchases of all time. It’s amazing to…

WHY DON’T YOU…? Stack the deck with a selection of GOLD BANGLES.…

The Silk Parka The Floral Bra Top The Mini Leather Duffel The Work Boots The Chino Pencil Skirt The Felt Brimmed Hat The Cat-Eye Sunglasses The Beaded Hairpin The Rose-Print Cardigan…

LATELY, I’VE BEEN ruthlessly cinching my waist. The obsession started with a leather jacket from Phoebe Philo’s rabidly awaited first collection; the coat takes a viciously sharp turn at the drop waist, creating a 90 degree angle at the midsection. Inspired, I found a butter-soft double-breasted vintage leather jacket with a belt on eBay. When I tied the belt at my midsection, using a grip so tight that I launched my spleen into my esophagus, the bottom portion branched out into a severe peplum and I cut a Coke-bottle figure. For the record, I’ve never felt better. I don’t feel constricted when my waist is tightly cinched. The jacket’s clutch around my torso transforms my most banal tasks into militant missions. I feel a glimmer of Grace Jones in her…

If you’re looking for an excuse to invest in more skincare, consider this: “The ritual of a regular self-care routine can improve mental health as a form of mindfulness,” says Blair Murphy-Rose, a dermatologist based in New York City. Neuraé, a new skincare brand rooted in neuroscience, aims to do just that by buoying spirits not just through the ritual of applying creams but via the products themselves. Developed by Sisley executives Philippe and Christine d’Ornano with the brand’s laboratories, Neuraé’s debut line is designed to make you both look and feel better starting from a cellular level. “Can we influence the link between skin cells and emotional aging?” asks Christine d’Ornano. Neuraé is backed by more than 10 years of clinical research prioritizing three key neuromodulators that facilitate communication…

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FEATURED TRACKS 1. “BREATHING SONG” Samia 2. “INDIANA” Adrianne Lenker 3. “AM I TOO BLUE” Lucinda Williams 4. “POWERFUL MAN” Alex G 5. “THE VALLEY” Ethan Gruska 6. “KILL ME” Al Menne 7. “PAPA WAS A RODEO” The Magnetic Fields 8. “PORNSTAR” Renny Conti 9. “DAUGHTER” Loudon Wainwright III 10. “BLOODY MOTHER FUCKING ASSHOLE” Martha Wainwright 11. “I’M EASY” Keith Carradine 12. “HARD DRIVE” Evan Dando 13. “I SPENT MY LAST $10.00 (ON BIRTH CONTROL AND BEER)” Two Nice Girls 14. “LOVE ON MY BRAIN” Jim Ford 15. “I WON’T HURT YOU” The West Coast Pop Experimental Band 16. “LAMINATED CAT” Jeff Tweedy 17. “DON’T TELL OUR FRIENDS ABOUT ME” Blake Mills 18. “WHY CAN’T I?” Liz Phair The Stranger Things star, who recently appeared in Maestro, voices the character…

WHY DON’T YOU…? Balance out the BOLDNESS with a NEUTRAL FITTED TOP.…

LaToya Ruby Frazier’s photographs document the challenges and inequities faced by people across America’s heartland but also serve as calls to action to help address them. Born in 1982 in Braddock, Pennsylvania, a once-bustling steel town near Pittsburgh, Frazier began capturing the profound toll that years of deindustrialization, economic devastation, and environmental abuse had taken on her community while she was still a teenager. Since then, she has continued to create images and videos that provide an intimate window into the lives of her subjects, often spending months and even years with them at a time. The new exhibition “LaToya Ruby Frazier: Monuments of Solidarity,” which opens on May 12 at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, surveys nearly 25 years of the artist’s practice. For the show, Frazier has…

When I was a child, visiting family in Korea was a cause for unbridled excitement. That all changed one summer when my grandmother took me and my cousin Sangyoon to her local salon to get our hair permed. I was eager to match my cousin, whom I adored, mostly for the fact that she was older than me. At the salon, a slight woman bowed to my grandmother and surveyed us. She immediately gasped. “What happened to her face?” I turned to my cousin, curious, only to find that everyone was staring at me. “What’s wrong?” Alarm lifted my voice high. “She’s American,” my grandmother said. “They don’t mind freckles over there.” The hairdresser shook her head. “We have lightening creams. We can make her look like a true Korean.”…

Ispy Christy Turlington Burns before she sees me. She’s curled up on a couch in a common area of the openplan TriBeCa, New York, offices of Every Mother Counts, the nonprofit she founded 14 years ago to make pregnancy and birth safe for women across the globe. At a glance, Turlington Burns, 55, looks like anyone else wrapping up a workday: eyes fixed on her laptop, immersed in her work. She’s dressed, well, for a Tuesday at a nonprofit job, which is to say nothing is too fancy or precious: high-waisted camel-color pants, a floral blouse, flats. Her hair is pulled back in an easy bun, and she has on not a stitch of makeup. It’s a picture of Turlington Burns that belies the fact that she is also not…