T’s Feb. 19 Women’s Fashion Issue

Highlights

The Season of Riley Keough
After captivating critics in ‘The Girlfriend Experience,’ the actress is becoming famous her own way. The tabloids are for the rest of her family.
By Taffy Brodesser-Akner
CreditPatrick Demarchelier. Styled by Marie-Amélie Sauvé
These ’80s Artists Are More Important Than Ever
The influence of the Pictures Generation, a loosely affiliated Reagan-era movement of New York artists, continues to resonate today.
By Gary Indiana
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For Spring, the New Spirit of Sport
A somewhat poetic stance on the tension of design, encapsulated by layered, precision-cut separates.

CreditPhotograph by Karim Sadli. Styled by Marie-Amélie Sauvé
Inside the New Saint Laurent
As Anthony Vaccarello assumes the storied mantle at the French house, the past is never far.
By Alexander Fury
CreditJackie Nickerson

Playing With the Power Suit
Experimental tailoring — checkered patterns, padded shoulders, missing sleeves — gives new shape to the workaday world.

CreditPhotograph by Robi Rodriguez. Styled by Elodie David-Touboul
For the Love of Italy
Take a 91-year-old Tuscan country chef, add the revered architect Renzo Mongiardino, and mix with the designs of Studio Peregalli — and you have some of the most exquisite restaurants in Milan, if not the world.
By Deborah Needleman
CreditBert Teunissen
The Woman Behind Martin Margiela
For all of the designer’s enigmatic influence over fashion, one person was by his side the entire time. This is Jenny Meirens’s story.
By Susannah Frankel
CreditDanilo Scarpati
Midcentury Dresses, Made Modern
The little housedress is not as sweet as it looks.

CreditPhotograph by Collier Schorr. Styled by Max Pearmain
The Look of ’70s SoHo — Captured in One Apartment
In ardently preserving one of the neighborhood’s original lofts, a couple has created a living memory of a vanished era.
By Mary Kaye Schilling
CreditFrançois Halard

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Wanderlust
Not All Scandinavian Design is Minimalist
Stockholm’s ubiquitous, pared-back aesthetic is being defrosted — by an infusion of surprisingly colorful, lushly textured Old World design.
By Alexa Brazilian
Tilda Swinton’s New Rose-Colored Glasses
In a marriage of devastating cool, the actress collaborates with Gentle Monster.
By Hannah Goldfield
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In the Air | Poolside Retro
This season, designers take inspiration from paradise.
By Charlotte Di Carcaci
A Picture and a Poem
An Artist and a Poet Contemplate Freedom
As part of an ongoing series, the artist Rashid Johnson responded to a poem by Robin Coste Lewis.
On Beauty
On TV, Does Bad Hair Signal a Better Show?
Hero or villain, black or white, gay or straight — most female characters seem to have the same perfect locks.
By Emily Witt
Anicka Yi Is Inventing a New Kind of Conceptual Art
She has used tempura-fried flowers, incorporated smell, and injected live snails with oxytocin.
By Alice Gregory
Another Season of Oversize Bags
Preferable to a lumpy tote or two is a truly extra-large bag with reinforced elegance.
The Faces of the Pictures Generation
From Cindy Sherman and Robert Longo to David Salle and Laurie Simmons, portraits of 17 of the movement’s key artist, critics and gallerists.
The Pictures Generation’s Greatest Hits
A selection of works by the group of New York artists who first came to prominence in the early ’80s.
Going Home With Chloë Sevigny
The actress, director and forever cool girl takes T on a tour of Darien, Conn., from her middle school to the “iconic teen hangout” (a Mobil station).
By Amanda Fortini