Town & Country

Town & Country features the latest in luxury, from beautiful homes, sumptuous dining to exotic locations. In 11 gorgeous annual issues, Town & Country covers the arts, fashion and culture, bringing the best of everything to America's trendsetters

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From the TOP • The Metropolitan Opera gets its own superhero tale.

Et Tu, CANASTA? • The hottest tables today aren’t at restaurants. They’re wherever this game is raging.

DEALER’S CHOICE

All Hail the Hangman • A new garden celebrates the work of sculptor and mobile master Alexander Calder.

Meet Them in a Dark Room • The year’s best movies always come out in the fall. Grab a seat for these standouts and start your own awards season early.

Say Aloha, Queen • Khaleesi who? This season’s most powerful TV monarch’s kingdom isn’t fictional—and neither is she.

WORKING REMOTE • Tune into these must-watch shows of the season.

Give Us Mothering • Is Ragtime a musical event or a history lesson? When done this well, it’s both.

Cheer On the Racquet Tier • How 20-year-old Alexandra Eala became tennis’s favorite new phenom.

Introduce Yourself • How will you talk about the best books of the season? This page might be the only thing you need to read.

The Nut that Got Away • Once, the pistachio was a B-list snack, playing second fiddle to the cashew. Then all shell broke loose.

WHAT’S NEXT? • These ingredients are on deck to be the culinary world’s next big things.

Why Is Fashion So Schizo? • The fall runways were unhinged. But that might not be such a bad thing.

Anatomy of a Classic • Turns out the secret to aging well may not be so elusive after all.

This Old Thing? T&C Reviews: Lace • It’s delicate, exquisite, elegant. It may also lead the way to the future.

The T&C INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO • Queen Victoria, the original goth, knew how to find sublime glamour in the dark. So do we.

No Stones UNTURNED • What comes first, the necklace or the pearl? A Vuitton gemologist tells all.

The T&C Jewelry Wardrobe • So you want to be a collector? First, lay the foundation with a classic. This month: peridot.

Who’s the Hermit in the Presidential Suite? • In hotel penthouses around the globe, rock stars and heads of state have been displaced by cocooning patients looking to emerge as immortal butterflies.

THE WHISPER NETWORK • Postpone the Bleph!

THE CONSULT • T&C brings you advice from top doctors and experts. No appointment necessary.

PRECIOUS Vessels • When is a lipstick not just a lipstick? When it transports you to a Gilded Age grand tour.

COOL GIRL COLOSSUS • Kirsten Dunst has been a child star, an ingenue, a fashion muse, and a leading lady. Now she’s starring in one of the year’s buzziest movies, prepping her next Coppola collab, and rewriting the rulebook for being a true Hollywood original.

THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO • Marie Antoinette reigned in the ’80s. So did Gilded Age robber barons, Gordon Gekko, Patrick Bateman, MTV Spring Break, and poufs by Lacroix. What is it about the penultimate decade of a century that inspires such outsize ostentation? And is it just us, or does it all suddenly look strangely familiar? Guess what almost always happens next.

Why Can’t We Quit Her? • Too much clothing sent Marie Antoinette to the guillotine. Yet the first Queen of Excess still stokes our fashion dreams—and two new exhibits salute her style. Encore, encore.

EVERYTHING’S COMING UP ’80S…

THE QUEEN IS DEAD. LONG LIVE THE QUEEN • Is it coincidence that two current exhibitions celebrate Marie...