Nathan Heller

Sensory-deprivation tanks, once popular with stoners, are reentering our culture in more mainstream therapeutic forms.

With two tough-as-nails roles, the dauntless Claire Foy sheds her crown for a new set of armor.

Six p.m. in paris. Second floor of the Palais Bourbon. The designer Rick Owens, dressed in a black tank top, black wide-cut pants, and calf-high sneaker boots, puts on a pair of eyeglasses and leans toward a large screen. His raven-colored hair flows over his shoulders, which are pinched forward. It is December, and a cool night presses on French windows near his desk. “I was thinking on the toe, so it almost extends the toe and the sides of the foot are straight,” he says slowly. He is Skype co…

Can a 37-year-old Indiana mayor capture the White House? Nathan Heller checks in with Pete Buttigieg’s suddenly not-so-long-shot campaign.

From single-digit polling to top-tier status, Senator Elizabeth Warren has defied the odds with her presidential campaign. Can she go all the way?

IT IS THE RARE DESIGNER WHO CAN MOCK, shock, and unsettle the fashion industry while becoming one of its breakout heroes, but over the past decade Demna Gvasalia—the iconoclastic designer of Vetements and, since 2015, the creative director of Balenciaga—has turned insurrectionary energy into a constructive, covetable force. In 2014, Gvasalia cofounded Vetements, whose style (voluminous hoodies; ankle boots with cigarette lighters for heels; upcycled and repurposed denim) attracted a hundred imit…

His highly personal memoir, Unthinkable, is out now.

“Every generation has to fight to maintain the progress of the past and fight again to advance that progress into the future,” explains Congresswoman Terri Sewell. “The old battles have become new again.”

For a decade, Nicolas Ghesquière’s Louis Vuitton has thought big—globally big—with its mix of historic narrative and futuristic vision. Fashion still holds a powerful sway for Ghesquière—but so too, he tells Nathan Heller, does a life far, far away from work.

In Paris And Capri With Simon Porte Jacquemus, The Sun-Kissed Designer Of The Moment