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For this special edition of Strategist, we subjected six great metropolises�London, Paris, Los Angeles, Sydney, Rome, and Miami�to the same scrutiny we bring to our own city every week. Now all you have to do is get on the plane.

A portrait of the feminist as an unhappy portrait subject.

Johnny Weir is the best male figure skater in the United States�and the most outrageous. This is the fitness routine that got him to the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.

Cover model Louise Pederson likes staying in so much, she’s bought two (and a half) houses.

The creative director of Garrard plays with the price of the most expensive pearl necklace from her latest line of jewelry.

123 reasons to love New York.

The environmentally conscious supermodel gives us her very green gift list.

The designer won rave Fashion Week reviews with her ethereal jersey dresses, and now she’s got funding to expand her business. She tells us how she’d spend the cost of one season’s samples.

The Odeon and Union Square Cafe would seem to have little in common other than the fact that they’re both celebrating anniversaries this month (25 and 20, to be exact). Yet each created not only a neighborhood�Tribeca and Union Square, respectively�but a new way of eating. Here, a look at the history of each.

The next Northern European design invasion has begun.