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Forged by Fire Heading into 2023, celebrations of the Chinese New Year—also known as the Lunar New Year or the Spring Festival—offered a joyful jumping-off point for “Ring In the New!” (page 82), a fashion story styled by global contributing editor Gabriella Karefa-Johnson and photographed by Theo Liu. In it, the striking shapes and colors of the clothes are set off by the work of Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang, who hosted the shoot at his rambling 28-acre property in Morris County, New Jersey. Born in Quanzhou, a port city on the Taiwan Strait, Cai came of age amid the gunfire and cannon blasts that accompanied the Cultural Revolution—an experience that later informed the large-scale explosion events and inventive use of gunpowder at the heart of his practice. (Remember those mesmerizing fireworks…