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Season’s TREATINGS • Fragrance, finery and Oscar-worthy portraits: the time for gold, gifting and glamour is here at last

That’s a WRAP • Close the year in style with presents almost too good to give away, from gilded token gifts to budget-blowing munificence

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The 2023 VF GIFT GUIDE • 127 items for the sophisticated giver, inspired by the art and culture of this festive season

For the GILDED ONE • Let the gleaming pages of Elsa Janssen and Yvane Jacob’s Yves Saint Laurent: Gold be your guide

For the TASTEMAKER • The kitchen and the heart undergo transformations in Lessons in Chemistry

For the Radiant MINIMALIST • Take a page from CBK: Carolyn Bessette Kennedy: A Life in Fashion, by SUNITA KUMAR NAIR, where less is the most

CASE Study • Lipstick tubes have taken on outsize personas, from status objects to conversation pieces

Love it, SKATE IT • For those looking to up their steez, this Gucci board has a sharp shine, even if the only air it’s catching is from hanging on the wall like the work of art that it is.

ACCESS IS EVERYTHING

Bliss POINT • Interior designer BRIGETTE ROMANEK—a go-to for Beyoncé, Gwyneth, Demi, and more—finds joy in smoky scents and vintage seating

For the GOOD SPORT • Ascend to Olympic heights of sportif opulence with the Musée des Arts Décoratifs’ exhibit “Fashion and Sports: From One Podium to Another,” on view through April 2024

Press play on The World of Interiors • The cameras have been rolling at some of our most evocative locations. Transport yourself to the action!

Roman HOLIDAY • Those seeking another excuse for seasonal merriment might turn to the ancient festival of Saturnalia, a week near winter solstice spent celebrating the god of agriculture, harvest, and time, with help from old standbys: sacrifices and gag gifts. (The orator Calvus famously delighted his friend Catullus with a book of collected works by very bad poets.) This Van Cleef & Arpels diamond and sapphire necklace, with geometric qualities inspired by Roman mosaics, is a festival unto itself. Party on.

Getting GRAPHIC • Fresh life for French art house, ballet dancers twirl in couture, and more high style to linger on

Wordplay • The authors of eight of 2023’s buzziest books share their favorite gifts for the shelf.

For the BREEZY DREAMER • Lively up yourself with the heat, harmony, and perfectly soft-focus fashion of Bob Marley: One Love

For the SWEETIE PIE • The new Wonka—an origin story for Roald Dahl’s trickster chocolatier—is a world of scrumdiddlyumptious surprise and delight

Street DREAMS • Even if they’ve never been to the Pebble Beach car show, any auto enthusiast would rev at the chance to own a 1938 Bugatti Type 57SC—albeit a pint-size one. This model car, a replica of one in Ralph Lauren’s expansive personal (full-size) collection, is as slick as it is architectural.

OUTFOXED • Rupert Murdoch dumping Tucker Carlson wasn’t about one thing. It was everything

The Great • With Barbie, GRETA GERWIG injected billions into the box office and joy back into Hollywood. If she has her way—and there’s every reason to think she will—she’ll be doing the same thing for the next 40...