The 2019 LVMH Prize: Stefan Cooke Makes Old Ideas New

A fascination with the liminal space between the real and the unreal is a hallmark of the Japanese designer’s work, manifesting as a fabric that changes color when exposed to ultraviolet light and garments designed from detail shots blown up by three hundred percent.

As an aspiring writer newly enamored of Bruce Springsteen in an English working-class town in the Eighties, the young actor pushes forward in his quest to reframe the way minorities are portrayed onscreen in the new film Blinded by the Light.

Marco Cilia, a native son of Rome, returns to his hometown after stints at Blakes and the Hotel Americano to launch a new line of boutique hotels designed to upend expectations.

With a role on the bilingual series Los Espookys and his first stand-up special My Favorite Shapes on HBO, the Salvadoran comedian and writer breaks out from his behind-the-scenes role on Saturday Night Live with his idiosyncratic sense of humor.

After roles in Beautiful Creatures and Top of the Lake, the Australian actor makes a star turn in the new film Them That Follow, as the daughter of a pastor of a snake-handling sect in Appalachia who loses her religion.

The young choreographer and dancer tackles the complicated legacies of tap, swing, and jazz head on through collaborations with everyone from beatboxers to new music composers to Regina Spektor, bringing the forms into a new age and offering a vision of hope on stage.

After her American visa was denied, the English actor found herself in Canada making her feature début as the lead of Pippa Bianco’s striking new HBO film Share, as a teenager coming to terms with the boundaries of consent after she awakes from a night of heavy drinking.

The Japanese-American actor has built a career out of playing dark characters—including The Female, part of a band of vigilantes exposing hypocrisy in the new Amazon series The Boys—but says the best thing about her work is getting close with her audience.

With roles in Showtime’s new Boston cop drama City on a Hill and the forthcoming film Brian Banks as the eponymous real-life NFL player who spent years fighting a wrongful conviction of rape, the actor looks to stretch his talents in projects that tackle institutional racism in the real world from both inside and out.