Vanity Fair

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Vanity Fair

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VANITIES • SIMU LIU is up, up, and away as Shang-Chi’s title character

Peachy KEEN • For Hermès creative director NADÈGE VANHEE-CYBULSKI, life parallels work: a personal touch and objects made to last

Isle HIGH • In Grand Cayman, chef GERARDO GONZALEZ perfects the art of collaboration

Lord of the RINGS • After a star turn on Kim’s Convenience, SIMU LIU is Marvel’s latest superhero

Whisk It Up • In Nadiya Bakes, Nadiya Hussain, 2015 winner of The Great British Bake Off, serves mouthwatering recipes from a molten chocolate cake to no-bake vegan mousse. Here, her culinary recommendations.

Taste TEST

Vitamin SEA • Set that out-of-office reply, swap the Zoom-bored for a surfboard, shake the dust off your socializing skills, and sink into the lucid colors of summer

Flower POWER • The produce-driven edibles brand ROSE is championing a new kind of cannabis ecosystem

Playoff PLAYLISTS • What’s pumping through those headphones during workouts, warm-ups, and pregame locker-room rituals? With the WNBA season under way and the NBA Finals in high gear, here are some favorite tunes that energize hoops stars

On a ROLL

SUMMER Sessions • Four talents—gracing music halls, theaters, mountains, and streets—take new beauty launches for a spin

Wheels of FORTUNE • A new exhibit at MoMA takes a hard look at our complicated love affair with the car

On the Road • The museum’s collection of automobiles showcases decades of innovation—and the cultures that created them

Rocket MAN • JON M. CHU, the box office–blazing director of In the Heights, Crazy Rich Asians, and G.I. Joe: Retaliation shows us his L.A. office, filled with inspiration both literal and…figurine

Art PARTY • Get thee once again to galleries and museums, anywhere in the world

TURN ON • A museum of medieval art hosts an ultracontemporary concert series—on screens now

PLUGGED IN • Aria Dean, a forward-looking L.A.-born artist, critic, and curator whose solo exhibition “Suite!” is on view at REDCAT, shares what’s currently capturing her attention

Taking a PAGE • This summer’s crop of books is guaranteed to entertain and engage, as getaway reading once again becomes a possible pastime

Fighting for the SOUL OF FRANCE • Pitched battles—political, cultural, and racial—are roiling the heart of la République

She, Herself, and WE • As the other half to WeWork’s billionaire founder, Rebekah Neumann carved out her own little space as a woo-woo exec—and the company’s downfall isn’t stopping her

3 2 1 DUA • BEFORE SHE ROCKETED INTO THE POP STRATOSPHERE, BEFORE SHE DELIVERED A RECORD OF CLUB CATHARSIS TO A WORLD STUCK DANCING IN ITS BEDROOM, BEFORE SHE BROKE THE BILLION-STREAM BARRIER, BEFORE THE GRAMMYS…DUA LIPA HAD TO LEARN TO BELIEVE IN HER OWN POWERS. ERIN VANDERHOOF MEETS A STAR MIDFLIGHT

THE MOGUL AND THE MONSTER • Of the many mysteries that still surround the life and crimes of JEFFREY EPSTEIN, the source of his wealth, and thus his power, might be the greatest. His relationship with his most prominent client, billionaire retail magnate LESLIE WEXNER, holds the key

HOUSE OF DREAMS • TO A LEGION OF DESIGN ENTHUSIASTS, LOS ANGELES’S STAHL HOUSE IS AN EMBLEM OF CALIFORNIA MODERNISM. BUT FOR ONE FAMILY, IT HAS SIMPLY BEEN HOME

XOXO, Tavi, • Fashion...