Issue
No. 244
March 16, 2024
New York
Como
Mariupol
Rafah
Kobe
GETTING THE BAND BACK TOGETHER
In an exclusive excerpt from his new book, The Blues Brothers, Daniel de Visé recalls the bumpy beginnings of John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd’s now storied band, and the movie it spawned …
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Levant
It’s a fortunate coincidence that Levant is making its long-awaited arrival at the exact moment many of us in the Northern Hemisphere…
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David Hicks: A Life of Design
The world will never get enough of David Hicks, the late British interior designer who transformed English…
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Geier Gloves
There’s something reassuring about companies that make only one thing. If they’ve lasted for any length of time, chances are…
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Until August
Before Nobel Prize–winning author Gabriel García Márquez died, in 2014, he made clear to his two sons that his manuscript for…
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Merz b. Schwanen
Merz b. Schwanen has officially opened the doors of its New York City flagship store, on Canal Street—their first outpost outside of…
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Corruption
In July 2011, the British paper News International published a full-page apology to its readers—signed by Rupert Murdoch,…
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Levant
It’s a fortunate coincidence that Levant is making its long-awaited arrival at the exact moment many of us in the Northern Hemisphere…
Read
David Hicks: A Life of Design
The world will never get enough of David Hicks, the late British interior designer who transformed English…
Wear
Geier Gloves
There’s something reassuring about companies that make only one thing. If they’ve lasted for any length of time, chances are…
Read
Until August
Before Nobel Prize–winning author Gabriel García Márquez died, in 2014, he made clear to his two sons that his manuscript for…
Shop
Merz b. Schwanen
Merz b. Schwanen has officially opened the doors of its New York City flagship store, on Canal Street—their first outpost outside of…
Watch
Corruption
In July 2011, the British paper News International published a full-page apology to its readers—signed by Rupert Murdoch,…
Photography’s Shooting Star
Francesca Woodman again sends forth her siren call, luring us in to puzzle out this puzzling girl. Only this time her haunting song—by turns enchanting, beguiling, slippery, and dangerous—is transatlantic, arising in both New York City, where Gagosian is celebrating its newly announced representation of the Woodman Family Foundation with the show “Francesca Woodman,” and London, where the National Portrait Gallery features her work in a joint exhibition with the Victorian photographer Julia Margaret Cameron, “Portraits to Dream In,” opening on March 21. READ ON
Francesca Woodman, Untitled, c. 1977–78.
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Dressed in allegiance to the brand, fashion devotees scan the catwalk in anticipation of the next offerings. The model’s strutting performance passes so fast, while I was sketching at speed at the Truman Brewery, on Brick Lane in London, for autumn-winter 2024.
It’s standing room only behind the bobbing front row, the crowd clutching their phones to capture a fleeting glimpse of couture striding by. Camera shutters click, and it’s all over before you know it as the fashionista gang moves on to the next show.
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Graydon Carter and Alessandra Stanley
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Writers at Large
Lili Anolik Johanna Berkman Joseph Bullmore Vassi Chamberlain William D. Cohan Rich Cohen Michael Hainey Stuart Heritage George Kalogerakis Sam Kashner James Kirchick Alexander Lobrano Alexandra Marshall Daphne Merkin Sam Wasson
Contributing Artists
Monica Ahanonu Barry Blitt André Carrilho Pip Carter Paul Davis David Downton Andrea Ferolla Josh Gosfield Cathy Graham Eric Hanson Angelica Hicks Hilary Knight Danielle Kosann Michael Lindsay-Hogg Ross MacDonald Joe McKendry James McMullan Donald Robertson Charles Dare Scheips Grant Shaffer Ed Sorel Ralph Steadman
Contributing Photographers
Jonathan Becker Justin Bishop Alex Board James Emmerman Marcos Fecchino Daniel Paik Art Streiber Sharon Suh Justin Weiner
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Basil Walter
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Rachel LeSage
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Merritt Johnson
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In Memoriam
Peter Bogdanovich Duncan Hannah Douglas McGrath Richard David Story André Leon Talley
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