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VA NITIES VANITAS VANITATUM
Notes From the ATMOSPHERE • How do the latest fragrances reflect our times? The author Carmen Maria Machado takes in the vapors and follows the scents
Check It OUT • Tone poems to the Scottish Highlands and even the Beach Boys, these cozy marriages of squares and textiles would make Cher and Dionne squeal
Dancing QUEEN • ARIANA DEBOSE talks The Prom, Spielberg, and Broadway jitters
In fine FORM • HIGH-PERFORMING, environmentally friendly and good-looking, Form yoga mats are true all-rounders that will take any workout to the next level.
Culture • RICH READS Eight new books—from a cartoon collab to a dim sum how-to—fulfill all manner of desires
Masculin FÉMININ
Daughters of the AMERICAN REVOLUTION • Tiffany Trump, as she made clear in her Republican National Convention speech, has drunk her dad’s Kool-Aid. Other GOP daughters? Not so much. Here, a spectrum of filial piety.
Attention, SHOPPERS! • The hottest place to see and be seen in Hollywood: a grocery store. Inside the cult of Erewhon
Darkness VISIBLE • What might have been written off as Trumpist madness—the conspiracy of QAnon—is seeping into every corner of America’s mind. And the danger is real
The Art of SKINCARE • LA PRAIRIE HAS always had art at its core, but a new partnership with Fondation Beyeler strengthens this keen cultural connection
TRAVEL • SOLVITUR AMBULANDO (WALK, AND IT WILL BE SOLVED)
Editor’s Letter
The Winter BLUES • THE NIGHTS ARE DRAWING in and the temperature is dropping—it’s time to escape the seasonal gloom and head for the distant shores of Milaidhoo in the Maldives
Insider VOICES • Smart tourism has never been more important
Fantasy HOTEL • Picture your perfect property with staff poached from around the world. Here is our dream team…
SWEET Spot • Hotels that make you feel all is right with the world
Hellenic HIDEAWAY • FOR A HOLIDAY THAT combines energy-boosting fitness and pure relaxation, head to the hotel that has it all: F Zeen on the Greek island of Kefalonia
Moments OF GRACE
Fuelled by WONDER • KATHRYN D. SULLIVAN flew on three shuttle missions, including the one that deployed the Hubble Space Telescope, and was the first American woman to spacewalk in 1984. In June 2020, she became the first woman to reach the deepest point of the world’s oceans, the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench. Here, she recalls her early impulse to roam
Recollections OF REALITY
Perpetual MOTION
A LONGING TO MOVE • Think back to last year. At any given moment, there were about a million people up in the air on a plane. Many more would have been on the move at ground level, in cars, buses, boats and trains, or on foot, whether commuters, refugees, business travellers or holidaymakers. It was a time of the greatest recorded movement of humankind.
THE ISLE OF SKYE
Paradise FOUND • WHAT MAKES KUDADOO Maldives truly idyllic? The freedom and luxury, of course, but also the authentic welcome and eco-conscious credentials
A League of Her Own • THREE YEARS AGO, Gal Gadot ROCKED THE WORLD AS WONDER WOMAN. IN THE...