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JOHN HOMANS 1958–2020
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AESTHETIC PLEASURE • This season’s best new art books offer a sweeping exploration into identity, a crucial contemporary painter, and the delightful, pop-up whimsy of houseplants
Notes From the Music Makers • Three new books from behind the scenes illuminate the private lives of stage stars
Just the TICKET
Hail the KING • KINGSLEY BEN-ADIR takes the lead, one hero at a time
Terror on Television • Most onscreen horror can’t rival this year’s real-world insanity, but that doesn’t mean we don’t like to watch. Here, three nail-biters.
A High NOTE • In a new book, perfume publisher FRÉDÉRIC MALLE reflects on his creative roots and the art of heady collaborations
The Shift Key • To create Byredo’s debut makeup collection, founder Ben Gorham tapped London makeup artist Isamaya Ffrench for a future-forward lineup
Lash Impressions
Primary SOURCE • On gray October days, take inspiration from the clean lines and crisp tones of Piet Mondrian’s Composition With Red, Blue, Black, Yellow, and Gray—the perfect blend of playful abstraction and pure geometry
Kitchen WHISPERER • HAWA HASSAN, whose line of sauces reflects her native Somalia, finds connection at home in Brooklyn
Knowledge BASE • LUCA GUADAGNINO annotates a script page from his first television series
Costume DRAMA • After four years and endless speculation, Melania Trump’s fashion rarely says anything
LONG MAY SHE REIGN • She triumphed in her first truly adult role, playing royalty in the bawdy, boisterous series The Great. Coming up, ELLE FANNING costars with sister Dakota in The Nightingale, based on the best-selling novel. She talks to JANCEE DUNN about stepping into her own power
love, actually • In its new season, The Crown tackles the saga of Prince Charles and Diana Spencer. Julie Miller catches up with actors Emma Corrin and Josh O’Connor about portraying one of the most famous (and ill-fated) couples of the 20th century
TIME OUT OF MIND • LOUIS VUITTON’S CREATIVE MASTERMIND, NICOLAS GHESQUIÈRE, SETS A PACE FOR THE FUTURE OF FASHION
The Good Fight • Less than a decade after being shot in the head at close range, former congresswoman Gabby Giffords is closer than you think to redefining America’s relationship with guns, DAVE CULLEN reports
SUPER BAD TRUE LOVE STORY • TWO TRUMP FAVORITES, BOTH ALIKE IN IGNOMINY, STEPHEN MILLER AND KATIE WALDMAN FOUND LOVE IN A HATEFUL PLACE
PATTERN PLAYER • SUPERMODEL IMAAN HAMMAM HAS BUILT A CAREER PLAYING BY HER OWN RULES—AND SHE’S WINNING THE GAME
AVEDON ASCENDAN • Making his name in the fashion world, the legendary portraitist RICHARD AVEDON came of age, artistically and sexually, in the high bohemia of the 1940s and ’50s. Biographer PHILIP GEFTER asserts that the photographer and his creative contemporaries were forecasting the future of the culture—and the modern American woman
VERA WANG • The legendary fashion designer on Shakespeare, Elizabeth I, and Proust himself
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THINK PINK • Garage Italia’s new Hublot Big Bang is a rosy ode to gender neutrality
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