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Photography by Lit Ma What’s News. 43 Electric-Powered Vintage VW Beetles Take Off 46 Inaugural Photo London Fair Debuts Jane Fonda Stars in a New Netflix Comedy A Capsule Collection of Plush Pillows 48 The Nano-Current Skin-Care Device to Buy Now Spring’s Best Espadrilles 50 An Infusion of Chic Openings in the Windy City True-Life-Inspired Books 52 Artist Keith Edmier’s Take on the “It” Bag Christian Liaigre’s Line of Wood Furniture Hot Chip’s Arty Album Covers Moncler Launches New Leather Jacket Line 54 The Cult of French Luxury Brand Moynat Oenophiles’ Latest Obsession: Unicorn Wine 56 A Glassmaker Tests the Limits of His Medium 58 Northern Italy’s Second Renaissance Three New Hotels to Book in Venice and Milan 60 Max Mara’s Legacy of Art Patronage 62 South of Pigalle Emerges as Paris’s Hottest Hood ON THE COVER Carey Mulligan, photographed by Angelo Pennetta and styled by Elissa Santisi. Valentino silk blouse, wool jacket and leather shoes, and A.P.C. jeans. 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Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @WSJMag. editor’s letter VISION QUEST ILLUSTRATION BY ALEJANDRO CARDENAS CANAL STREET In town for the Venice Biennale, Bast (in Atelier Versace), Anubis (in classic gondolier garb) and Who hop aboard a gondola for some sightseeing. CHIEVING SUCCESS requires a number of fac- her big break. Now, she says, her family has “proverbi- 1970s furniture has experienced a major renais- tors—skill, luck and patience among them. ally eaten their hats.” sance, is no stranger to obstacles: Early in her career, But perhaps the most important quality, one Ian Schrager’s name is synonymous with the many she was isolated as a woman in a male-dominated exemplified by several of the individuals iconic clubs and hotels he’s designed and opened, field. But our profile of the doyenne reveals that she’s Aprofiled in our May issue, is drive: the ability to single- from Studio 54 and Morgans to Gramercy Park Hotel. hoping to pull off her biggest feat yet, as she returns mindedly pursue a goal even when it seems the whole He’s also legendary—at times maddeningly so—for to her art at age 93 after a 20-year hiatus, showing world is against you. his obsessive attention to detail, whether it’s the pre- new versions of pieces at Milan Design Week. Like Carey Mulligan, the star of this month’s cover as cise hue of the Austrian white oak floorboards in his Mulligan and Schrager, Crespi offers proof that drive well as the new film adaptation of Thomas Hardy’sFar apartment at 40 Bond or the placement of a fireplace is fundamentally about passion—once you’ve found From the Madding Crowd, is one of Hollywood’s most at his newest hotel, the New York Edition, opening it, there’s no turning back. famous young actresses. And yet, when she was just this month. Yet Schrager insists it is precisely such starting out, she was discouraged by her parents and subtleties that make or break a spot, and he’s got a got rejected from every drama school she applied to. legacy of fashionable venues—and a new Rizzoli Kristina O’Neill Despite the odds, she forged ahead, writing letters to monograph celebrating them all—to prove it. [email protected] Kenneth Branagh and Julian Fellowes until she got Italian designer Gabriella Crespi, whose sculptural Instagram: kristina_oneill 30 wsj.