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The Push Pin Attitude How the scrappy, ingenious founders of New York City’s Push Pin Studios revolutionized 20th-century graphic design—and left a lasting mark on the culture

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The Rare Eccentricity of Isabella Rossellini Daughter of Ingrid Bergman, face of Lancôme, and now a farmer, the Italian actress reflects on the unexpected joys of aging and being nepo-baby royalty


King of the Costume Drama Amid constant fights, infidelity, and financial woes, James Ivory and his partner, Ismail Merchant, created the most elegant films of the era

So Long, Fashion Victims After stints at Halston, Rochas, and Schiaparelli, Marco Zanini has struck out on his own. The only catch? To buy his clothes, you have to fly to Japan

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A Boy’s Best Friend … At Andy Warhol’s suggestion—”she’s so-o-o interesting”—a biographer pulls back the curtain on the artist’s mother, an unsung painter in her own right

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Concrete Jungles From Marcel Breuer’s early modernist designs to Le Corbusier’s pocket gardens, two new books speak to the enduring allure of brutalism

Giant Girls Don’t Cry Edna Ferber’s great-niece pulls back the curtain on the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer’s personal life—and the sacrifices she made for her craft


Pretty Women A new book chronicles the myriad extremes that women have gone to across four centuries in pursuit of the ideal face and form

Lifting the Veil The Seed of the Sacred Fig, which dramatizes the ongoing turmoil in Iran, is itself an act of protest

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Richard Christiansen’s L.A. Christmas Story The founder of Flamingo Estate, his home in the L.A. hills and of the lifestyle brand it inspired, is Australian, but Angeleno culture has crept into his holiday traditions

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The Vocal Minority What’s behind the growing popularity of Ivy League student Republican clubs?

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