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Finer Things ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Boucheron’s Serpent Bohème Bracelet in gold and diamond (3) continues the legacy of this distinctive motif. boucheron.com PURPLE HAZE: Patek Philippe is expanding its range of elegant watches for women with the new Calatrava self-winding Reference 4997/200R-00 in rose gold (5). patek.com On Beauty SPRING TO MIND: Gucci is embracing the season with a fresh addition to The Alchemist’s Garden collection: the new eau de parfum, Where My Heart Beats (6). selfridges.com SKIN IS IN: Meet your new skincare go-to: REN’s Everhydrate range, including a serum (2) that boosts hydration with a unique algae-activated complex. renskincare.com Style File BAGS OF CHARM: The spirit of the 1970s traverses Chanel’s Dakar 2022/23 Métiers d’art collection, including this canvas bag (1), with a velvet finish and wooden bead embroidery. chanel.com SPECS APPEAL: Louis Vuitton’s Star…

Abel Tesfaye, better known as The Weeknd, is the biggest pop star in the world, though he wears that mantle without ceremony. The way he puts it, success has been a natural progression: “My music was very culty in the beginning. And then it ended up bleeding into the mainstream, which then became the sound of mainstream.” As Dan Adler reports in his cover profile, Tesfaye has long desired to turn his creative attentions to film and television; The Idol, his new HBO show with Sam Levinson (of Euphoria fame), in which Tesfaye stars alongside Lily-Rose Depp, is such a high-profile debut that it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. The story of a struggling pop star (Depp) and her sketchy guru (Tesfaye) draws on Tesfaye’s unsparing view of the…

Julianne ESCOBEDO SHEPHERD “PLAZA SUITE,” P. 86 “This was a terrific excuse to rewatch Aubrey Plaza in everything she’s ever done,” says Escobedo Shepherd, a writer and editor whose forthcoming book, Vaquera, explores growing up Mexican American in Wyoming and the myth of the American West. Molly JONG-FAST “GREENROOM WITH A VIEW,” P. 30 Jong-Fast is the host of the podcast Fast Politics and a special correspondent at VF. She is working on a memoir about her complicated relationship with her mother, the writer Erica Jong, and has multiple dogs and teenage children—all of whom tried to talk to her while she worked on this month’s column. Mark SELIGER “AN IDOL MIND,” P. 34 A longtime VF contributor, Seliger’s forthcoming book, Vanity Fair Oscar Night Sessions: A Decade of Portraits From the After-Party, will be published in November.…

Bella Ramsey knows must-see-TV. After getting their start playing a fierce child warrior on Game of Thrones, HBO’s 19-year-old secret weapon captivated the world again with The Last of Us. It’s “absolutely terrifying” to know millions are watching them slay fungus-infected hordes opposite Pedro Pascal, Ramsey says—but it’s also the only life they can imagine. “I felt immediately at home on set. It’s the first time I ever felt I properly belonged somewhere. It wasn’t even like, ‘I want to do it forever’—I was like, ‘I have to.’ There’s no other option.” BORN IN Nottingham, England, Ramsey and their sister found acting through a children’s charity. “Nobody in my family were actors, but we are all very creative.” THE TROUPE got Ramsey their Game of Thrones audition. “It was weird, suddenly having…

IN 2019, Zach Lasry dreamed of turning Melrose Hill—an LA neighborhood with Craftsman homes and prop warehouses—into a walkable gallery hub, accessible to Echo Park artists and Beverly Hills collectors. When a space went up for sale, 32-year-old Lasry says, “I went to my dad and aunt and I was like, ‘I think we should buy one of these buildings.’” Lasry’s dad and aunt are the private-equity billionaire Marc Lasry, former co-owner of the Milwaukee Bucks, and Marc’s sister, Sonia Gardner, his cofounder at Avenue Capital Group. They bought more than 20 buildings. Four years later, it has paid off: David Zwirner just opened its first LA space (designed by Annabelle Selldorf and launched with solo shows by Njideka Akunyili Crosby and Stan Douglas) smack in the middle of Melrose Hill. Others…

“IF GIVING A facial was a movie…it would be ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once,’” Joanna Czech wrote on the eve of the Oscars, alongside an Instagram post of her Beverly Hills pop-up. It was a scene befitting the soon-to-be best-picture winner: glowing red panels and multipronged machines framing the model Anja Rubik, as the Polish-born facialist toggled between modalities. Czech, who tends to Jennifer Aniston and Hailey Bieber, works with LED, ultrasound, and microcurrent, but her signature moves hew closer to martial arts. Kinetic yet precise, she is known for her slapping (the good kind) and vigorous kneading, the better to awaken the skin with blood flow and oxygen. “The first technology,” she says from her Dallas home, “is my hands.” As the aesthetic pendulum swings from filled cheeks to chiseled…