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Color STORY • DANIEL ROSEBERRY, artistic director of Maison Schiaparelli—and the first American designer to lead an established French couture house—channels Matisse in his West Village apartment
Fit to Be TIED • This Technicolor dream world draws inspiration from peace and love, the keen paintings of Brooklyn-based artist Grace Weaver, ’70s Halston, and maybe a little Pink Floyd
Flight SONG • MAYA HAWKE made an impact on Stranger Things. Now she’s making music too
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Cool INTENTIONS • Architect STEPHANIE GOTO has a portfolio that spans from New York’s Aldea to work with the Calder Foundation—and her personal taste is just as eclectic
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La Vie EN ROSE • Huge character and tiny dogs populate DANIELLE STEEL’s Paris apartment
Found OBJETS
JAM SESSION • A new cookbook from Sqirl, the cult-favorite Los Angeles café, revisits its origin story at a moment when the pantry is a pleasure center
The Spirit MOVES • The Portland Trail Blazers All-Star point guard and rapper DAMIAN LILLARD brings his game on the court and on the mic
Court ORDER • RICHARD LAWSON reviews the newest iteration of a classic legal drama
About FACE • When our bodies fall out of view, what remains onscreen has our undivided attention. MARISA MELTZER considers the new primacy of the face
Undercover OPERATIONS
Traitors AMONG US • Pop culture goes soft on some of the more controversial women in American history
There Went the NEIGHBORHOOD • Racism has always been a problem in my Minneapolis
Sex and VANITY • The author of Crazy Rich Asians is back with a new satire dripping in luxury, with this riff on Forster perfectly made for our times
VIOLA’S VOICE • Poised to star as both Michelle Obama and blues legend Ma Rainey, Viola Davis says the key to a character is discovering what they’re fighting for and what holds them back. She talked to V.F. about her own extraordinary journey out of poverty and into the deeply troubling Hollywood system
IN PLAIN SIGHT • “Where in the world is Ghislaine Maxwell?” For the past year, that question vexed the authorities, the press, and the women who have accused Jeffrey Epstein’slongtime friend, lover, and alleged accomplice of luring them into a web of sexual abuse. The answer: closer to home than many imagined
NOT SO BORED IN THE HOUSE • With hundreds of millions of followers and fame stretching far beyond their platform, these TikTok stars are a new kind of celebrity
LIP SERVICE • Through her masterful Trump lip syncs, SARAH COOPER has become the voice of a nation—without saying a word
The Second Coming • THE PRESIDENT’S CAMPAIGN RALLIES—PART TENT REVIVAL, PART ROMAN COLOSSEUM—FEATURE A BIZARRE GOSPEL OF NUMEROLOGY, TWEETOLOGY, AND WHITE SUPREMACY. THERE, TRUMP IS GOD, AND JEFF SHARLET JOINS THE FAITHFUL
HOMICIDE AT ROUGH POINT • In the fall of 1966, billionaire Doris Duke killed a close confidant in tony Newport, Rhode Island. Local police ruled the incident “an unfortunate accident.” Half a century later, compelling evidence suggests that the mercurial, vindictive tobacco heiress got away with murder
THE ESCAPE ARTIST • When auto king Carlos Ghosn fled house arrest in Japan by hiding in...