Contents

Issue No. 734

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"I haven't spoken to the world in forever."

—JENNIFER LAWRENCE

Gift Guide

39 The Trimmings

Seventy-one gilded gifts inspired by the season's most engaging books, shows, music, and art, from a Jasper Johns retrospective to the return of HBO's Succession.

Vanities

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50 / Opening Act

Lucas Bravo, star of Emily in Paris, isGenZ's Mr. Big.

54 / My Stuff

Net-a-Por ter president Alison Loehnis's favorite things.

56 / Beauty

Nail artist Sojin Oh spins fantastical takes on nature's extremes.

58 / Books

Inside Annie Leibovitz's Wonderland.

60 / Fairground

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures gala brought Hollywood royalty together to celebrate cinema history.

Columns

62 The Juul Case

BY VANESSA GRIGORIADIS

The vaping giant came under fire for converting millions of Americans— including kids—to its addictive alternative to cigarettes. But what if, questionable marketing aside, they were onto something?

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"It's the charm of the Frencli people: They're never happy about anything."

— LUCAS BRAVO

Columns

64 She Was Walking Home

BY MELISSA JELTSEN

Sarah Everard's murder united women across the U.K., even as it exposed fault lines in attitudes toward how the police should keep them safe.

Features

68 A Happy New Year

BY KAREN VALBY PHOTOGRAPHS BY LACHLAN BAILEY

With her first film in years and a baby on the way, Jennifer Lawrence returns to the limelight as charming and unfiltered as ever.

80 Queen of the Desert

BY JOSEPH GIOVANNINI

Five years after her death, Iraqi-born architect Zaha Hadid's designs continue to make waves around the worldincluding, at long last, in the Middle East.

88 Do wn to Earth

BY NICK BILTON PHOTOGRAPH BY SEBASTIAN KIM

Jeff Bezos's laid-back, no-drama successor is in nearly everyway the Amazon founder's opposite—but no one has ever heard of him. Meet Andy Jassy.

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114 Pair of Aces

BY LISA ROBINSON PHOTOGRAPHS BY MARK SELIGER

Fourteen years ago, country-bluegrass artist Alison Krauss and former Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant surprised the music world with a hit album. Now they're back with a sequel.

Features

94 Eyes on the Prize

BY ALEXIS OKEOWO PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANNIE LEIBOVITZ

An exclusive interview with America's premier public intellectual, Nikole Hannah-Jones, on the eve of the book publication of her work that is rocking American history, the 1619 Project.

102 What to Wear to the Revolution

BY SULEMAN ANAYA PHOTOGRAPHS BY JUERGEN TELLER

From veiling Kim Kardashian West at the Met gala to upending the elitism of the runway, creative director Demna Gvasalia has ushered in a new era of prominence for the house of Balenciaga.

108 Up Ship Creek

BY JEFF WISE

The untold story of how a container ship got wedged in the Suez Canal—and made Santa late for Christmas.

118 The Second Coming of Guru Jagal

BY HAYLEY PHELAN

In an in-depth interview just before her sudden death, Katie Griggs, a.k.a. Guru Jagat, spoke to V.F. about the rift in kundalini yoga—now without its leader.

124 Rock Star

BY KEZIAH WEIR PHOTOGRAPHS BY SEBASTIAN KIM

On the bicentennial of Louis Vuitton's birth, the label's artistic director for high jewelry dishes on interstellar inspirations, fairytales, and a 1,758-carat diamond.

128 The End of Forever

BY SEBASTIAN JUNGER PHOTOGRAPHS BY TIM HETHERINGTON

The journalist and Oscarnominated documentarian weighs the cost of two decades of war in Afghanistan—and honors his fallen comrade.

28 Editor's Letter

32 Contributors

140 Proust Questionnaire

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