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☆ The New Cultural Landscape of Berlin
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Jay Cheshes | Photography Robbie Lawrence For Wsj. Magazine | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

When I moved here it was still completely rubble and ruins,” says Klaus Biesenbach as we enter a leafy courtyard, facing a mustard-colored apartment building in former East Berlin. It’s mid-September, at the end of Berlin Art Week, and we are touring the few square blocks where the post–Cold War art scene, and Biesenbach’s life in the city, first took root. Shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, he moved into a former bicycle storage room here—without heat, hot water or a phone line. “I spent my first winter going to museums with my student card,” he says. “I could be there for hours, sipping tea to stay warm.”

As I drive through a gate high above Los Angeles’s Nichols Canyon, a tall man with unmistakably bushy eyebrows waves me into a precarious parking spot and says, “That’s $20. Leave the keys in the car.” My valet is Will Ferrell, clad in basketball shorts, slides and a T-shirt bearing the crest of the Los Angeles Football Club, of which he is a minority owner. Ferrell waves to his wife, Viveca Paulin-Ferrell, an art auctioneer and board member at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, as she sits idling in a blue Tesla , waiting to pull out. “It’s gonna be a tennis court,” Ferrell explains. “I don’t play, but you need one if you want to sip a gin and tonic.”

Leave the keys in the car.” My valet is Will Ferrell, clad in basketball shorts, slides and a T-shirt bearing the crest of the Los Angeles Football Club, of which he is a minority owner. On this October morning, Ferrell is playing a parking attendant for reasons beyond comic value: Although his three sons are already at school (one in college), his home is a hive of domestic activity. Ferrell waves to his wife, Viveca Paulin-Ferrell, an art auctioneer and board member at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, as she sits idling in a blue Tesla , waiting to pull out. “It’s gonna be a tennis court,” Ferrell explains. “I don’t play, but you need one if you want to sip a gin and tonic.”

☆ She Was In the CIA. Now She Makes Pajamas for the Royals.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Lane Florsheim | Photography Lyndon French For Wsj. Magazine | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Nine years ago, Emily Hikade was flying to meet with an agent affiliated with a known terrorist group for her job as a case officer at the CIA. Suddenly, the single-prop plane hit a storm. The plane started spinning sideways, careening toward the water. “All I can see is the faces of my kids,” says Ms. Hikade, a 45-year-old mother of four sons. “My youngest wasn’t even a year old and I thought, they’re going to grow up without a mom.”

She can impersonate an elusive chanteuse or an over-the-top Italian designer or make a phrase like “bubble bath” sound luxuriously burlesque. Rudolph as Donatella Versace during an "SNL" skit in 2002.

☆ Candace Cameron Bure Wants to Put Christianity Back in Christmas Movies
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( Ellen Gamerman | Photography Daniel Dorsa For Wsj. Magazine | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

CLAREMORE, Okla.—Candace Cameron Bure is on a fake-snow-covered set shooting a church scene for her new holiday movie, “A Christmas…Present,” when it comes time for her character to feel the sudden presence of God. A tech guy stands on a ladder, waggling two plates of glass in front of a light to create a shimmering effect on her upturned face. The crew uses black electrical tape to outline the church’s stained-glass cross so it will pop on-screen. Ms. Bure works herself into tears for each take, asking the crew to play an emotional Christmas song again and again so she stays in the mood. Ms. Bure isn’t just selling a made-for-TV moment, but a Christian epiphany for the masses.

☆ Jeremy O. Harris Starts Work at 2:30 a.m. and Lives Like a ‘Trust Fund Girl’
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Lane Florsheim | Photography Clifford Prince King For Wsj. Magazine | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

The playwright and actor has different breakfast routines depending on whether he wakes up feeling heavy or light; sometimes this means starting the day with an iced Americano. One of Jeremy O. Harris’s favorite parts of his home is something most New Yorkers loathe discovering during an apartment tour: a window that looks directly onto the side of the building next door. Harris, 33, has one in his office, a cozy, wood-walled space designed by Green River Project and filled with the playwright and actor’s mementos, including framed program covers from his debut major stage production, Slave Play. He loves the feeling of not knowing what time it is that comes from the lack of light—especially because he gets his best work done starting at 2:30 a.m. “I can be in any universe I want to be in,” he says. After working through the night, he’ll sleep in until noon or 1 p.m., if he doesn’t have a Zoom meeting with Tokyo or London.

☆ Jeremy O. Harris Starts Work at 2:30 a.m. and Lives Like a “Trust Fund Girl”
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Lane Florsheim | Photography Clifford Prince King For Wsj. Magazine | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Billie Jean King defeating Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes marked a historic moment for women's tennis, and sport. It’s their job now to step up, lead and shape the future.”Billie Jean King worked with fashion designer Tory Burch on the Billie Jean King Cup's 'winner's jacket.' Magazine IAnd inside the jacket, to remind the champions of the Billie Jean King Cup of the ‘fight’ and their place in it, is a message from King herself. “Congratulations on winning the 2022 Billie Jean King Cup,” King reads aloud. Billie Jean King, be bold.”

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☆ Jony Ive on Life After Apple
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( Elisa Lipsky-Karasz | Photography Alasdair Mclellan For Wsj. Magazine | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

I can always write an awful lot that I can’t draw,” Jony Ive , the mastermind behind Apple ’s most revolutionary products, says as he holds up a Space Age–style coffee cup. “If I draw this, it only captures certain attributes.”Ive is sitting in the garden of a Pacific Heights carriage house high in the San Francisco hills, a building he converted into a private studio and occasional crash pad for friends. Apart from the cup—devised by Ive’s business partner and fellow designer, Marc Newson, and made by the Japanese brand Noritake—Ive designed nearly every indoor and outdoor element of this deceptively simple space, down to the gray marble bathroom sink and the garden’s round, rough-hewn stepping stones.

The hottest blonde ever.” This was the infamous script description given for Margot Robbie’s character in The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), directed by Martin Scorsese. Widely credited as Robbie’s breakthrough, the role instantly helped establish her as one of the biggest movie stars. Yet Robbie—Australian born and then still relatively new to Hollywood—says that she had little interest in further riffing on the blonde-bombshell theme: “I was going to have to show people that I could do something different. I didn’t want to get pigeonholed.” Accordingly, her next roles gave the middle finger to the hot-blonde paradigm.

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The leather motorcycle jacket has achieved timeless status in its near-century of existence. While never out of style, it goes through cycles of being more in from time to time. One of those times is now. Fall 2023 runways were revved up with the retro-inspired leather jacket look, tweaked here and there via proportion and surface treatment to bring it up to speed. It was distressed at Versace, branded at Burberry , oversized at Saint Laurent and Dolce & Gabbana, neat and fitted at Loewe and Givenchy and classic at Polo Ralph Lauren and Celine.

Maya Rudolph doesn’t need to say anything to make us laugh. Audiences around the world want to watch her perform, and only the slightest twitch of her face begets giggles. She can impersonate an elusive chanteuse or an over-the-top Italian designer or make a phrase like “bubble bath” sound luxuriously burlesque. But years ago, when it came to public-facing parts of her job—interviews, talk shows, red carpets—she would find herself unable to be funny. “It would always feel like someone was stealing my soul,” says Rudolph, 50, sitting comfortably in a velvet armchair on a late September afternoon.

☆ How World Central Kitchen Went to War
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Joshua Robinson | Photography Chien-Chi Chang For Wsj. Magazine | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

IN A DIM HOTEL BAR in the middle of a war, long after Kyiv’s nightly curfew, José Andrés is holding forth on Moldovan apples. The thing about them, he says, is that they were being sold in huge numbers to Russia before Russia began its invasion of Ukraine in late February. So when Andrés, the gregarious Spanish-American chef and founder of World Central Kitchen, landed in the region in March, he saw a confluence of crises that could be solved with a creative solution: There were hungry people in Ukraine and spare apples in Moldova. There was only one thing to do.

☆ The Architect Behind New York’s Most Exciting New Building
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( Sarah Medford | Photography Martien Mulder For Wsj. Magazine | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History in New York are some of its most popular attractions, a marriage of art and science transmuted into lifelike encounters with snarling jaguars, rapt penguins and blasé zebras standing rump-first to the glass. Even in the CGI age, their realism is startling. The earliest dioramas owe a debt to Carl Akeley, a sculptor, taxidermist, inventor and big-game hunter who worked at the museum from about 1909 to 1926. Akeley pioneered a method of scooping plaster and papier-mâché over wire armatures to create lifelike creatures and their habitats. Playing around with a hose, a hill of dry concrete and some forced air, he also invented sprayable concrete, a material that could bond to metal-mesh walls and ceilings, enacting a supersized version of sculpting that would later revolutionize the swimming pool industry, among others.

What sets him apart is that he understands innately something that Messi and Ronaldo had to learn on the fly: In order to be a global icon in the world’s most popular sport in 2022, it’s no longer enough just to play that sport. You must play it brilliantly, virally, and embrace everything that comes alongside it—a permanent reinvestment in your own image.

Laurene Powell Jobs doesn’t tend to court the limelight. Over the past decade, she’s given only 10 interviews for publication. So why speak now, when there’s hardly a pressing reason for her to take the public stage? “My main reason is to cut through the misunderstanding and misconceptions,” says Powell Jobs—the ones about her 11-year-old organization, Emerson Collective, which is part philanthropy, part Sand Hill Road venture-capital powerhouse, part artistic patronage and part immigration-education-environmental advocacy group. It doesn’t help that most of Emerson’s giving has been anonymous, she says.

Kravitz said the script, which she co-wrote, “was born out of a lot of anger and frustration around the lack of conversation about the treatment of women, specifically in industries that have a lot of money in them, like Hollywood, the tech world, all of that.”The 33-year-old had heard stories about powerful men inviting women to remote islands for hazy hedonist free-for-alls. What’s the version of that reality that I myself would want to see, Kravitz wondered. Then she started writing.

FashionCelebrities are enlisting professional help to dress their young ones: “They’re like, Is it my turn yet? When is Mommy going to be done?”

Jacob GallagherJacob Gallagher is the men's fashion columnist on the style news desk of The Wall Street Journal, where he covers style trends. He is the author of "The Men's Fashion Book," published by Phaidon.

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