Christopher Brandon and Matthew Hechter have built up their West Village spot Hudson Clearwater into one of the most buzzed-about restaurants in New York City. Now, with their new Low Country–inspired restaurant, the Heyward—with partner Che Stipanovich—they cross the East River to make their mark on Williamsburg.

A resonator is a type of guitar built for a sound many generations old. It hums and shines, as if an acoustic guitar was broadcast through a tinny phone line. Rather than a wood sounding board, the heart of the guitar is a metal cone, ornately decorated, that brittles the sound and projects it even without electronic amplification. Resonators are rarer now; they’re hard to come by. But they carry a unique magic in their sound, their history, and their owners.

Johnny Flynn’s resonator is a bit of a mystery. “No one knows where it was between 1940 and 2004, which is when I bought it,” Flynn says. “It has quite a strong spirit.”

Our fashion director Alastair McKimm picks the eight best Fall 2015 collections from London Collections: Men, including Alexander McQueen, Astrid Andersen, Burberry Prorsum, Christopher Shannon, Craig Green, JW Anderson, KTZ, and Margaret Howell.

This was a big weekend for Desiree Akhavan. Last Friday, her debut film, Appropriate Behavior, hit American theaters, the culmination of twelve months of festivals, screenings, and prizes, including a nomination for an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay. “It was just a roller coaster,” she says of the past year spent promoting her movie, a Sundance favorite she wrote, directed, and starred in that led to comparisons to Lena Dunham and her being hailed as, yes, the voice of a generation. “Some parts are really, really fun, like sinfully fun, and then some parts are such bullshit. It’s a really funny mix of lovely and terrible, but mostly lovely.”

British TV personality, model, and author Alexa Chung’s laid-back tomboy look has inspired yet another collaboration, this time with global denim and lifestyle brand AG Jeans.

We’ve been around awhile now, and we know a lot of our readers might not have had the opportunity to experience our earlier issues. So we wanted to give you the chance to discover some of our favorite stories. This week we present Jauretsi Saizarbitoria’s Fall 2009 profile of then-rising British actress Felicity Jones, whose latest film, The Theory of Everything, just earned the talented actress her first Oscar nomination.

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 Nicholas Alan Cope offers a contrast between stark Brutalist architecture and Rick Owens’ sculptural designs styled by Alastair McKimm.

We asked legendary hairstylist Yannick d’Is for his favorite beauty products. Here are his must-haves, straight off his latest shoot.

We’ve been around awhile now, and we know a lot of our readers might not have had the opportunity to experience our earlier issues. So we wanted to give you the chance to discover one of our favorite stories from our archive. Some of them feature actors, musicians, or artists who eventually made it big, […]