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T's Dec. 2 Holiday Issue

Highlights

  1. Black Male Writers for Our Time

    These 32 American men, and their peers, are producing literature that is essential to how we understand our country and its place in the world right now.

     

    CreditCreative direction by Boots Riley. Styled by Carlos Nazario
  2. Letter From the Editor

    T’s Holiday Issue: All Together Now

    The idea of the artist (or designer or director or author) creating in a vacuum has always been a romance and has never seemed more mythical than it does today.

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    The four covers of T’s Holiday issue.
    CreditCreative direction by Boots Riley. Styled by Carlos Nazario
  1. The Comforting Appeal of Herbs

    In bouquets and on the plate, the workhorses of the kitchen reclaim their mystical powers.

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    An arrangement of herbs atop a beef shank. From left: sage, multiple varieties of salvia, lavender, lemon verbena, savory, bay leaves, thyme, Japanese burdock and a swallowtail butterfly.
    CreditPhotograph by Sharon Core. Styled by Joshua Werber
  2. At Giorgio Armani’s Weekend Retreat, Live Swans and Gilded Arches

    For decades, the fashion designer has been escaping to an estate outside Milan that proves even minimalists (sometimes) like a little coziness.

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    Giorgio Armani leans on an antique rocking horse in front of a Giovanni Battista Tiepolo painting in the dining room.
    CreditSimon Upton
  3. Why Is Japan Still So Attached to Paper?

    Washi is to the Japanese something like what wine is to the French — a national obsession and point of pride.

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    Japan’s centuries-long fascination with traditional papermaking means there’s still a robust analog culture in a country known for its embrace of the modern.
    CreditPhotograph by Kyoko Hamada. Set Design by Arielle Casale and Maxwell Sorensen. Altered images: Daj/Getty Images; Bernard Allum/Getty Images. Origami: Beth Johnson. Photographer’s assistant: Jonah Rosenberg
    Notes on the Culture
  4. It Took 800 Hours to Make This Chanel Dress

    Capturing one incredible piece in the middle of its creation. This month: a silk tulle sheath.

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    At one of Chanel’s haute couture ateliers in Paris, a seamstress sews a temporary trim motif for the client’s second fitting.
    CreditMarion Berrin
    Rough Draft
  5. How the Myth of the Hedonistic Artist Lost Its Allure

    These days — despite longstanding clichés about art and excess — the creative impulse can actually be more closely tied to asceticism.

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    An original work for T Magazine, “Because I Have To.”
    CreditDuane Michals
    The Artist’s Life

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    Make T Something | Paul Andrew

    The women’s creative director of Salvatore Ferragamo accepts T’s challenge to make something in less than one hour with only a few select items — and reinterprets a classic design.

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    The Academy | On Being a Black Male Writer in America

    A behind-the-scenes look at how 32 extraordinary black male writers came together for a T Magazine photo shoot at the Brooklyn Historical Society, where they shared tributes to their favorite black female writers.

    By Yvonne Shirley

     
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