T’s spring women’s fashion issue celebrates the free thinkers whose distinct visions shape our culture today. On the cover is Bjork, whose genre-bending songs and mastery of design, technology and visuals have been pushing music forward for the past three decades, and who is being honored with her first retrospective at MoMA next month. We pay a visit to Sharjah, where the progressive sheikh’s daughter, Hoor Al Qasimi, has inherited — and subsequently boosted the profile of — a humble but growing art expo with some serious indie cred. Stateside, we take a closer look at Philip Johnson’s iconic Glass House, which may be the late architect’s greatest achievement (even if it’s not quite right to call it his home). And in the never-dull French capital, where politicians have been known to air their laundry for all to see, Liesl Schillinger spins a true-life tale of sex, lies and presidents truly befitting the City of Light. Elsewhere, Cathy Horyn assesses the promise and perils of a post-trend fashion world; a pair of authors and a visual artist spill secrets from their diaries; a writer with a rare skin condition that keeps her isolated from the outside world sheds light on her life in the darkness; the talented and at-times controversial French-Canadian filmmaker Xavier Dolan sets his sights on Hollywood; and the prolific makeup artist Pat McGrath gets a close-up of her own in By the Numbers. See all stories from the issue >>