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Dressed to Win The Ukrainian fashion brand Bazhane came of age—and flourished—in wartime

By Eleanor Harmsworth

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New & Noteworthy

Hot Stuff Things I love right now

By Linda Wells

The Royals

Sins of the Father What does Prince Andrew’s scandal mean for Britain’s hardest-working princesses, Beatrice and Eugenie?

By Hilary Rose

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The View from Here Following the Bezos bloodbath at The Washington Post, a legendary investigative reporter gives a rallying cry for his embattled craft

By James B. Steele

Chiltern Firehouse’s Slow Burn André Balazs on the fire that brought down his hotel—beloved by Hollywood stars and housed in a former fire station, no less—and what lies ahead for the London hot spot

By Laura Pullman

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Eye of the Beholder If sleep is the new sex, what to do about performance anxiety? Our chronically rested beauty-and-wellness columnist investigates the latest attempts to lull us into a medication-free slumber

By Linda Wells

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Sourcery at Work As luxury brands play hard to get, a new class of fashion insiders is working its magic to secure the season’s most coveted pieces

By Alyssa Vingan

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Block Head Nathan Sawaya left his Wall Street law firm to play with Lego. Now his painstaking brick creations sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars

By Matt Rudd

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A Stylish Entrance After a three-year hiatus, le Bal des Débutantes returns to the Shangri-La Paris hotel

By Ashley Baker

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Access Denied Quintessentially, the accounting-error-prone concierge company that once organized parties at Buckingham Palace, is reportedly facing a takeover

By Hilary Rose

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In the Haute Seat

Lisa Eisner The American jewelry designer answers 40 questions on fashion sense and other sensibilities—and makes the case for going vintage

Mass Appeal

Uncut Gemstones If the Safdie brothers made a movie about a Christian mega-church, it would look a lot like a Hillsong service

By Nathan King

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Shakespeare on Pointe Balanchine’s 1962 adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a magical tale of love and longing, returns to New York City Ballet

By Matthew Brookoff

Extreme Body Makeovers Dr. Ryan Neinstein’s kneecap-to-neck approach to surgery nearly bisects the waist and requires a four-week recovery. Yet people are scrambling for a slot on his schedule

By Brennan Kilbane

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The Art of the Steal Within the world of art thievery, there are those who do it for the money, those who do it because it’s easy … and those who do it because they love it

By Milton Esterow

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Going Viral Ben Smith, the former BuzzFeed editor and New York Times columnist, discusses Fox’s firing of Tucker Carlson, the Gawker–Hulk Hogan scandal, and his new book on the age of disinformation, Traffic

By Jim Kelly

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Owning the Lits Fringe scholars have long argued that Shakespeare wasn’t really Shakespeare. So why has it suddenly become an article of faith among young conservatives?

By George Pendle

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Spring Migration The Ghanian artist Serge Attukwei Clottey brings an iteration of his “Afrogallonism” series to the Venice Architecture Biennale

By Osman Can Yerebakan

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The Fantastic Ms. Fox Julia Fox’s life has been filled with sex, drugs, and Kanye West. Unbowed and unashamed, she’s now taking on motherhood with the same riotous spirit

By Julia Llewellyn Smith

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The Attention-Whore Index Lizzo takes a Mean Girl swerve, Prince Harry keeps getting paid, and Commander won’t stop biting the hand that feeds. Who deserves your vote?

By George Kalogerakis

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Scandal

It Never Ends with Them As their frenzied mudslinging intensifies, Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni seem to share a single goal: mutually assured destruction

By Stuart Heritage

T.G.I.S.

The Attention-Whore Index Can anyone dethrone Harry as he looks for his third straight No. 1 ranking? It’s up to you! Plus: news of the week that’s not to be missed

By George Kalogerakis

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The View from Here Will a billionaire yachtsman and former Republican become mayor of oh-so-woke Los Angeles?

By Todd S. Purdum

Hey, Genius Cécile McLorin Salvant sings art songs for the new 20s

By David Yaffe

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