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THE DAILY EDITION · FRI. NOV. 13
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HOW TODraw Your Lashes On: The 1966 Trick That Still Beats FalsiesBy the Beauty Desk
BOX SETTalking Heads Made 'Fear of Music' in a Loft. The Box Set Lets You In.By the Music Desk
CURTAIN UPJulianne Moore Joins Community Theater. Community Theater Should Be Worried.By the Screen Desk
SOUVENIRBEAMS Turned Two Jackets Into Clogs. The Jackets Have Survived Worse.By the Fashion Desk
HOW TOSmudge It: How to Wear Eyeliner Like You Slept at the ShowBy the Beauty Desk
ON VIEWPeggy Guggenheim Wore One Earring for Each Side of the ArgumentBy the Art & Culture Desk

Fashion

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the jumpsuit gets the steps.
The Met Gala Gets Dressed for WorkBy the Fashion Desk
BEAMS Turned Two Jackets Into Clogs. The Jackets Have Survived Worse.By the Fashion DeskCharli xcx Found Her Tour Wardrobe on Vinted. Now It's Going Back.By the News DeskBalenciaga's Le City Turns 25 Covered in Damien Hirst's SpotsBy the News DeskMaison Margiela Paints a Rimowa White and Waits for It to CrackBy the Fashion DeskPrada Hires a Disney Legend and Lets the Snow Fall by HandBy the Fashion DeskALL 439 FASHION STORIES ▶

Beauty

Maybelline Finally Lets Everyone Be Born With ItBy the Beauty DeskThe Best Perfume in the Room Smells Like ChurchBy the Beauty DeskLoewe Puts a Jack-in-the-Box on Its PerfumeBy the Beauty DeskAll beauty ▶

Film

Pedro Almodóvar Turns His Writer's Block Into a Christmas MovieBy the Screen DeskThe Best-Dressed Rock Movies, RankedBy the Screen Desk'Blade Runner 2099' Gives Michelle Yeoh a Little More LifeBy the Screen DeskAll film ▶

Music

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NOV.
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HALL PASSJoy Division Make the Rock Hall. The Band Won't Make the Same Stage.

Joy Division and New Order are inducted Saturday in Los Angeles, 50 years after two Salford kids watched the Sex Pistols in a half-empty room. Peter Hook will be there. Standing with his old band is another matter.

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SPIN IT AGAINPink Floyd's Pig Got Loose in 1976. 'Animals' Is Still Running.
THE NUMBERSThe CD Came Back. Half Its Young Buyers Don't Own a Player.
NEW RECORDDesperate Journalist Make a Party of Getting Older
GATEWAY RECORDSYou Like Goth. You Just Don't Know It Yet.
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FROM THE VAULT

the stuff we still can’t shut up about
THE PREMIERE ISSUEThe Tribe of Life: An Interview with Michael Rapaport and Phife DawgBy Matt Cohen
THE SUPERNATURAL ISSUEUncloaking the Coven: Spiritualists, Wiccans, Witches and PagansBy Sarah Marloff
THE FUTURE ISSUEGirls Can, Too: 5 Amazing Women Who Are Breaking StereotypesBy Sarah Marloff
DISPATCHESFROM THE SCENE

Dispatches

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dispatchAustin After Darkphoto diaryNaina Singla: Portrait of a Stylistphoto diarySTAGE: David Ives’ Venus in Fur
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Art & Culture

gallery hopping, but make it feral
THE CAL 2027The Pirelli Calendar Goes to India, and Says Goodbye to a LegendBy the News Desk
OCCULT CULTUREThe Witch Is BackBy the Art & Culture Desk
THE PREMIERE ISSUEObsessions in PortraitureBy Kate Reeder
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Travel

postcards from wherever we land
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postcard no. 1Six Rock Clubs Worth the Plane Ticket. Pack Earplugs.
postcard no. 2Sweden's Straw Goat Turns 60, If It Survives the Weekend
postcard no. 3Lyon Lights a Candle in Every Window
The Premiere IssueThe Art IssueThe Punk IssueThe Future IssueThe Supernatural IssueThe Holidaze Issue
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LATEST

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FashionCharli xcx Found Her Tour Wardrobe on Vinted. Now It's Going Back.From Nov. 16, pieces from the "Music, Fashion, Film" tour and her own archive go up for resale, with proceeds to Rainbow Railroad. Start with the leather jacket.By the News DeskFashionBalenciaga's Le City Turns 25 Covered in Damien Hirst's SpotsThe house signs the anniversary "Damienciaga," hangs the 2001 prototype in Paris and gives the bag of the paparazzi years a pill habit.By the News DeskFashionMaison Margiela Paints a Rimowa White and Waits for It to CrackThe limited Bianchetto set, a Classic Cabin and a 5AC XL bag brushed by hand in white paint, lands Nov. 19. The damage is the point.By the Fashion DeskFashionPrada Hires a Disney Legend and Lets the Snow Fall by HandDrawing Prada, the house's Holiday 2026 campaign, sets Glen Luchford's photographs inside winter worlds animated by John Pomeroy, the hand behind "The Secret of NIMH" and Pocahontas' John Smith.By the Fashion DeskFilmNetflix's 'The Age of Innocence' Has Eight Hours to Beat ScorseseEmma Frost's limited series casts Camila Morrone as Ellen Olenska and arrives Feb. 18, 2027. The first photos suggest the opera boxes are in good hands.By the Screen DeskFashionStella McCartney Lets Yoshitomo Nara's Bad Kids Loose in the WoodsThe third collaboration, a "rock 'n' roll forest" of crochet, knits and a reworked adidas track shoe, launches Nov. 11. Start with the crocheted faces.By the Fashion DeskTravelSix Rock Clubs Worth the Plane Ticket. Pack Earplugs.Five legendary rooms that are still open, from a converted Amsterdam church to a Minneapolis bus depot, plus one address on the Bowery you'll visit only to stand there.By the Travel DeskFashionHow to Wear a Leather Jacket Like You Mean ItThe motorcycle jacket is 98 years old and still the fastest way to look like you have plans later. How to buy one, break it in and stop babying it.By the Fashion DeskBeautyMaybelline Finally Lets Everyone Be Born With ItThirty-five years after "Maybe she's born with it," Miley Cyrus fronts a rewrite that swaps two words and adds a period. Small edit, smart move.By the Beauty DeskFashionDiemme Sends the Desert Boot Up a MountainThe Italian bootmaker gives three Clarks Originals icons its lug sole and hiking hardware. They landed Nov. 5.By the Fashion DeskFashionElliott Smith Wore a White Suit Once. Supreme Gave Him a Work Jacket.Supreme's seven-piece Elliott Smith collection, made with his estate and built around Autumn de Wilde's photographs, drops Nov. 12. It's the gentlest thing the brand has made in years.By the Fashion DeskMusicJoy Division Make the Rock Hall. The Band Won't Make the Same Stage.Joy Division and New Order are inducted Saturday in Los Angeles, 50 years after two Salford kids watched the Sex Pistols in a half-empty room. Peter Hook will be there. Standing with his old band is another matter.By the Music Desk

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