Spring Fashion

The Anna Wintour of the Middle East

Vogue Arabia’s first-ever editor-in-chief is also bona fide royalty. By Amy Larocca

The Fleabag Mystique

Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s show isn’t just another an anti-heroine comedy. By Noreen Malone

'The Kids Think I’m a Shoe'

Stan Smith was no Serena Williams, but he scored big in footwear. By Lauren Schwartzberg

Au Revoir to All That

The former queen of French fashion, dethroned. By Joan Juliet Buck

What Does Virgil Abloh Know?

Kanye’s creative director has an in with the youth. By Carl Swanson

Trends: The Now of the New

A portfolio of spring’s best giant bags, oversized earrings, deconstructed trench coats. Plus, the biggest trends organized, simplified, and explained. By Amy Larocca, Rebecca Ramsey, and Véronique Hyland. Photographs by Bobby Doherty.

Portfolio: Eight Legendary Women

Jessica Lange dresses up in iconography. By Sandro

Intelligencer

The National Interest

Trumpism isn’t supposed to make sense.

49 Minutes With Rukmini Callimachi

Heading to the airport with the New York Times’ ISIS expert.

Notebook

Illustrating refugee stories.

Parlor Game

Daily Intel evaluates the Trump appointees, from bad to monstrous.

Fake News

Imagining the White House’s Black History Month plan.

Reread: September 29, 1980

In 1980, Elite Models and other agencies had begun signing barely pubescent young women. Thirty-six years later, we asked one of the girls in our cover story: Were you too young for this?

Strategist

Best Bets

Drake’s streetwear store, sculptural vases for Valentine’s flowers, and Tribeca’s speed-beauty district.

Look Book

The tenth-grader who says ’80s fashion is �extremely in.’

The Restaurant Review

L.A. import Sugarfish wants to democratize the fine art of omakase.

The Dish

Lalo’s California-inspired kasha varnishkes.

Openings

First look at Norman, the Nordic-inspired design studio cafeteria from Fredrik Berselius and Claus Meyer.

Openings

Union Square Cafe’s next-door takeaway shop, Daily Provisions, is now open.

Where to Eat Along the Second Avenue Subway

A seeming culinary wasteland has turned into something of a gastronomic hot zone. Here’s a brief guide to what to eat after riding the Q.

Culture

The Winner

Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Golden Globe winner, on turning himself toxic for Nocturnal Animals.

The Sundance Bunch

Portraits of attendees, from Jon Hamm to Mary J. Blige.

The Apprenticeship of Marin Ireland

No longer a theater-world secret.

What Is 'Gun Fu,' Exactly?

Worthwhile additions to your cultural lexicon.

Super Ambitious

Can Legion, FX’s latest show, bridge the gap between superheroes and prestige TV?

The Artwork That Jerry Saltz Can't Stop Thinking About

Glenn Ligon’s conceptualist text piece is neither protest nor poetry.

The TV Review

Big Little Lies is all surprise, no suspense.

The Book Review

George Saunders’s first novel lacks Saundersian flights of fancy.

The Movie Review

Asghar Farhadi’s The Salesman is a gripping portrait of life under a repressive regime.

The Movie Review

The Lego Batman Movie starts great but plunges precipitously.

To Do: February 8�February 22, 2017

Twenty-five things to see, hear, watch, and read.

Departments

Comments: Week of February 6, 2017

Readers sound off on Andrew Sullivan's love letter to America, Putin’s Moscow, and more.

The Approval Matrix: Week of February 6, 2017

Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.