Contents

The Style Issue /No. 737

16 Editor's Letter

18 Contributors

94 Proust Questionnaire

"Infamy is kind of fun.' — GRIMES [P. 34]

Vanities

21

21 / Opening, Act

Actor and model Hoyeon on Squid Game and beyond.

24 / Beauty

Ronnie Spector as makeup muse. Plus, eyeliner picks from Avril Lavigne, John Waters, and more.

25, 27 / The Gallery

Shoes festooned with flowers; statement-making earrings.

26 / Books

Coffee-table books that meld fashion and fine art.

28 / Trending

Glittering glam rock from head to toe.

29 / My Stuff

Menswear designer Emily Adams Bode Aujla details her favorite items, old and new.

Columns

30 Hedging Their Bets

BY CHRIS SMITH ILLUSTRATION BY QUINTON MCMILLAN

Dems worried about Biden's approval ratings are looking for a 2024 plan B—and floating every name from AOC to The Rock.

32 The Mildewed Age

BY RACHEL DODES ILLUSTRATION BY ASHKAN HONARVAR

Spiraling inequality be damned, billionaire excess is all the rage.

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Features

34 Planet Grimes

BY DEVIN GORDON PHOTOGRAPHS BY STEVEN KLEIN

The genre-bending pop star talks new music, life on Mars, and building a family with Elon Musk.

50 The Prince and the Predator

BY MARK SEAL

Prince Andrew's disgraceful Jeffrey Epstein bromance: a tragedy in three acts.

56 All That Breathe

BY MAY JEONG PHOTOGRAPHS BY AN RONG XU

A year after the Atlanta spa shootings, survivors reckon with the loss.

Features

64 Drivers Wanted

BY DAN ADLER PHOTOGRAPHS BY NICK RILEY BENTHAM

Thanks to a new TV series, Formula One racing has accelerated to the cultural fore—and made celebrities of its dynamic young drivers.

74 In Search of Lost Time

BY JULIAN SANCTON

From Paul Newman's $17.8 million Rolex to "God's timepiece," V.F. goes inside the tony, madcap world of vintage watch collecting.

80 The Big Red Flag

BY JOY PRESS

Inside the bitter succession scandal shaking up Scholastic, the beloved children's publisher that gave us The Baby-Sitters Club, Captain Underpants, and Harry Potter.

ARMS RACE

$17,800,000

Amount Paul Newman's '60s-era Rolex Daytona Cosmograph fetched at auction in 2017. [P. 74]

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