KAROLIN WOLTER BY AMY TROOST

We love supporting new talent. Every issue, we try to feature a few commissioned works from some of our favorite artists. We give them free rein of a full-spread; the only limitations are the generous dimensions of the page. For our Fall 2014 issue, photographer Kava Gorna sent over a vivid series of stark nudes and lush landscapes.

Back in our seventh issue, photographer Karim Sadli captured an intense, mysteriously alluring Joan Smalls wearing big coats, white sneakers, and little else.

Hellin Kay, stylist and editor of Champagne and Heels, picks her favorite films from this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

Our fashion director Alastair McKimm picks the ten best men’s Fall 2015 collections from Paris Fashion Week, including Comme des Garçons Homme Plus, Dior Homme, Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci, Lanvin, Louis Vuitton, Maison Margiela, Paul Smith, Raf Simons, Rick Owens, and Saint Laurent.

Ballet can often seem a hermetic world, sealed off by French terminology, acute melodrama, and unnervingly perfect posture. Glimpses within are few and far between, and tend, in popular culture, to hew along the bombastic lines of Black Swan, Darren Aronofsky’s frantic 2010 film which starred Natalie Portman as an increasingly fevered prima ballerina and featured future Paris Opéra Ballet director Benjamin Millepied as her haughty partner.

The new documentary Ballet 422, however, extends an open invitation to a quiet look behind the scenes at New York City Ballet, following dancer and choreographer Justin Peck as he prepares for the 2013 première of his brand-new Paz de la Jolla.

For our Fall 2014 issue, Josh Olins captured Saskia de Brauw’s raw, natural beauty on the sand-speckled Irish coast for our series of fashion spreads. Take a look at our cover story by Jeff Burton and our other fashion stories by Lachlan Bailey, Max Snow, and Nick Dorey.

Our fashion director Alastair McKimm picks the eight best Fall 2015 collections from Milan Fashion Week, including Bottega Veneta, Calvin Klein Collection, Dolce & Gabbana, Gucci, Jil Sander, Neil Barrett, Prada, and Versace.

For our Fall 2014 issue, Maciek Kobielski contributed a daring collection of photographs for our series of fashion spreads. Take a look at our cover story by Jeff Burton and our other fashion stories by Lachlan Bailey, Max Snow, and Nick Dorey.

J.J. Martin, the acclaimed fashion and design journalist and Milan resident, has been amassing a collection of vintage clothing and objects for fifteen years. Now, with the launch of her e-commerce site LaDoubleJ.com this week, she is offering up these rare finds, for a price. Part of the inspiration was Martin’s own approach to vintage. She insists that vintage should be worn on a daily basis, preferably together with the latest trends and designer delectables. “I only buy pieces that make me jump up and down,” Martin says. “That could be a fifty-dollar, no-name printed cotton Sixties jumpsuit or something valuable from Valentino or Oscar de la Renta in the Seventies. I am not a snob about it. I just love these clothes.”