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Spring FORWARD • In this Prada coat, florals for spring really are groundbreaking. With its enveloping silhouette (and the brand’s trademark sustainable Re-Nylon, years in the making, which is manufactured using recycled plastic from oceans and landfills), this brainchild of co–creative directors Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons will delight eco-warriors and fashion darlings alike.

Seeing GREEN • What’s old is new again. These items—a bag riffing on archival silhouettes and crafted from scrap leather; a dress designed using stock fabric; a cream made from organic grapevines—refashion the past for a sustainable present and future

Lucky STRIPES • On the advent of her new book, Norma Kamali: I Am Invincible, the beloved designer shares her streamlined life

All in the FAMILY • MICHAEL GANDOLFINI on loss, confidence, and playing his father’s famous character

Man With a PLAN • “The world is paying attention to the problem,” BILL GATES says of the climate crisis, “and we’re setting big goals for dealing with it.” Now the philanthropist and activist has written a book that details his vision for a way forward

The Long GAME • In hair care, the push for sustainability is personal and global

SURVEILLANCE STATE • A new documentary uncovers FBI attempts to undermine the fight for civil rights

The Sound of MUSING • Stuck at home during the pandemic, celebrities descend on the nearly billion-dollar podcast industry

We Love LUCY • I Hate Suzie cocreator and Succession writer whiz Lucy Prebble talks her game

CHARMING BILLIE • In the last year, Billie Eilish scored five Grammys, went multiplatinum eight times, released the new Bond theme, and was forced to cancel a 49-date tour. Then, she turned 19

DOWN IN THE VALLEY • THE HELICOPTER RIDE SHOULD HAVE BEEN LIKE ANY OTHER: A SHORT, SCENIC CHOP TO THE MAMBA SPORTS ACADEMY, HOME IN TIME FOR DINNER. BUT THINGS DIDN’T GO AS PLANNED ON KOBE BRYANT’S FINAL FLIGHT

MAGA NON GRATA • Whether they head for the backwater luxury of New Jersey, the towering gilt of Park Avenue, or a $30 million Florida plot, Jared and Ivanka will reenter society as outcasts

GROWING UP IVANKA • I met Ivanka Trump at an all-girls school on the Upper East Side, and we were inseparable for more than a decade. Gradually, though, our differences divided us—“Why would you tell me to read a book about fucking poor people?” she once asked—and I watched her blow up her carefully curated image of refined privilege to embrace her father wholesale

SIR PETER AND THE AIRPLANE THIEF • A dashing American aviator built a fantasy air force for Lord of the Rings director PETER JACKSON. Then planes started to disappear

TOP BRASS • MUSICAL VIRTUOSO TROMBONE SHORTY ON HIS NEW ALBUM, THE FUTURE OF NEW ORLEANS, AND THE BIT TERSWEET BLISS OF BEING STANDARD-BEARER FOR A CITY’S SOUND

The MAYOR Leagues • As New York reels from COVID and its fallout, an election bears down on the city that never sleeps—nor produces particularly stellar leaders

Dear Mrs. L’Engle • When the prolific author of A Wrinkle in Time began a correspondence with a Black Panther imprisoned for a murder he didn’t commit, neither could have imagined what the relationship would...