For a special summer issue of W, we asked a few of our favorite photographers—who are all inveterate travelers—to suggest some of their go-to destinations, cherished memories, and personal snapshots. …
Few It bags better define an era than the Balenciaga Motorcycle. Introduced during the fall/winter 2001 show, toward the beginning of creative director Nicolas Ghesquière’s 15-year run at the hallowed …
In Oh, Mary!, a historical fever dream written by and starring Cole Escola, they portray former first lady Mary Todd Lincoln as a narcissistic problem drinker and would-be cabaret singer …
When Hailey Bieber begins a statement with “the Internet is a scary place for a pregnant woman,” you can’t be entirely sure what will follow. Will she detail the cognitive …
Every Saturday night for five years in the mid-2000s, New York’s coolest kids descended on the Misshapes, a weekly downtown dance party. Come Monday morning, the rest of the world …
Africa, with its 54 countries and more than 3,000 languages, is not a cultural monolith—and pop music is finally embracing its diversity. In recent years, African women have become some …
Amanda Lepore didn’t move to Manhattan to become a club icon. A native of New Jersey, she left a bad, early marriage in the late 1980s and decided to make …
On a cloudy, muggy spring Monday in Austin, Texas, 5,000 people filed into the Moody Amphitheater, an outdoor concert venue in Waterloo Park; a few dozen more gathered on the …
If David Armstrong hadn’t been a photographer, he would have made a brilliant writer. He was a keen lover of words, wisecracks, and stories, and to this day, a decade …
“Nobody can understand the food,” the Nigerian songbird Tems tells me, beaming. “Plantain and eggs, this bean stew called ewa riro, and this really soft, dense bread called agege. It’s …