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Photography by Jeremy Liebman What’s News. 41 Performa Honors Renaissance Women 46 Martyn Thompson’s Floral Textiles The Spoon Every Chef Covets Trend Forecasts from the Minds Behind Normcore 48 Brazilian Artist Adriana Varejão’s Graphic Ceramics Castel: Paris’s Club for Nightlife Elite Valextra Debuts NYC Leather-Goods Store A.P.C. and Nike Collaborate on Athletic Shoe 50 The World’s Most Luxurious River Cruises Ulysse Nardin’s New Silicon Watch Ralph Lauren Brings Burgers to Madison Ave. 52 Taschen’s Monumental Rolling Stones Tome Maria Cornejo Debuts Textiles for Knoll Indochine Keeps Pace with the Downtown Set 53 Racing Technology Spins Scottish Windmills Cali Design Firm Commune Celebrates 10 Years 54 Cream and Camel Colors Dominate Fall Garb Philippe Anthonioz Masters Bronze and Plaster 58 Three Classic Accessories Get an Upgrade 64 Painter Françoise Gilot Remembers Matisse ON THE COVER Lil Buck and Joan Smalls photographed by Daniel Jackson. Styling by George Cortina. Choreography by Shay Normann. First page: On her: Chanel Haute Couture dress and sandals. On him: Saint Laurent by Hedi Slimane jacket, pants and shoes and Rick Owens tank top. Second page: On him: Dries Van Noten tank top and slip-on shoes. On her: Azzedine Alaïa dress. For details see Sources, page 134. THIS PAGE Photography by Ben Weller. Styling by 67 Celestine Cooney. Louis Vuitton jacket and pants. For details see Sources, page 134. 118 128 41 Market report. the exchange. innovators issue. 67 STREET STYLE 81 TRACKED: Dominique Ansel 90 LIL BUCK Turn an errand run into an exotic trip by mixing prints, from The pastry chef behind the cultish A pioneer of the Memphis jookin’ sweet florals to graphic plaids. Cronut refuses to rest on his laurels. scene, the dancer Charles Riley has By Christopher Ross fashioned an utterly original style Photography by Ben Weller Photography by Martine Fougeron Styling by Celestine Cooney of movement. By Jason Gay 84 ABSTRACT IDEAS Photography by Daniel Jackson Styling by George Cortina Artist Frank Stella readies new gallery shows and a Whitney retrospective. 100 NICOLAS GHESQUIÈRE By Julie L. Belcove The designer is bringing his talent to Photography by Adrian Gaut one of the crown jewels of the LVMH empire: the house of Louis Vuitton. By Christina Passariello Photography by Jamie Hawkesworth Styling by Marie-Amélie Sauvé Clockwise from top left: Apples from Food Innovator René Redzepi’s Noma, photographed by Ditte Isager; Entrepreneurship Innovators Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine, photographed by Maciek Kobielski; artist Laurie Simmons, one of Performa’s Renaissance women, photographed by Leonora Hamill. LEGENDARY COLLABORATIONS YIELD MONUMENTAL RESULTS. 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Revolution Foods came up with a solution: affordable, nutritious, kid-inspired meals, available in schools and stores. 108 KARA WALKER 118 DR. DRE AND JIMMY 128 RENÉ REDZEPI To make an impact, they needed capital, financial advice and guidance. With Citi’s For two decades, the artist has fear- IOVINE The renowned chef is back on top support, they went from a small kitchen to employing more than 1,000 people, serving lessly confronted attitudes toward with new recipes and an ambitious, The entrepreneurs behind the a million meals a week nationwide. Now Citi is helping the company expand, as they race, women and sexuality. success of Beats have launched an sold-out pop-up in Japan. By Carol Kino academy dedicated to the business By Howie Kahn continue their mission to make nourishing food accessible to all. Photography by Tina Barney of innovation. Photography by Ditte Isager By Josh Eells For over 200 years, Citi’s job has been to believe in people and to help make their ideas a reality. 112 SOU FUJIMOTO Photography by Maciek Kobielski The designer’s “future primitive” structures boldly harmonize nature 124 RESHMA SAUJANI citi.com/progress and built environments. The founder of the nonprofit By Fred A. Bernstein Girls Who Code aims to teach a Photography by Nobuyoshi Araki million young women to program computers by 2020. By Christopher Ross Photography by Pamela Hanson Clockwise from top left: Art Innovator Kara Walker, photographed by Tina Barney; an ashtray and papers at artist Frank Stella’s studio, photographed by Adrian Gaut; pastry chef Dominique Ansel’s in-demand Cronuts, photographed by Martine Fougeron. © 2014 Citibank, N.A. Member FDIC. Equal Opportunity Lender. Citi and Citi with Arc Design are registered service marks of Citigroup Inc. The World’s Citi is a service mark of Citigroup Inc. editor’s letter ALL TOMORROW’S PARTIES ILLUSTRATION BY ALEJANDRO CARDENAS WILD BOUQUET Bast, wearing Louis Vuitton, and Anubis, in Ermenegildo Zegna Couture, toast this year’s WSJ. Innovators as Who looks on, wide-eyed. UR 2014 INNOVATORS AWARDS—and this Entrepreneurship Innovators Dr. Dre and Jimmy dominated the conversation this year with a jaw- fourth annual issue, honoring outstand- Iovine overcame obstacles in their early music dropping oversize installation made from a perfectly ing individuals who are transforming their careers, and now, having launched an academy at USC ordinary material: sugar. respective fields—represent the culmina- dedicated to innovation, they’re equipping the next One of the Columnists featured in this issue, Neil Otion of nearly a year’s worth of planning. Beginning generation to do the same. Both our Architecture deGrasse Tyson, urges us to recall the big dreams that RK in January, we searched high and low for the most Innovator, Sou Fujimoto, and Food Innovator, René once inspired the world to think about the future. The YO groundbreaking talents in several disciplines before Redzepi, have seamlessly blended natural, at times extraordinary talents in this issue are doing just that— narrowing our list to the eight creative minds featured primitive elements with an avant-garde approach to by living out their dreams and pointing us toward a here. Together, they make up one of the most diverse their professions. Reshma Saujani, our Technology brighter tomorrow. groups we’ve ever assembled. Innovator, is closing the tech-world gender gap ENUE NEW If these pioneers have one thing in common, with her nonprofit Girls Who Code, drawing inspira- AV it’s that their paths to success have been anything tion from her own aversion to math and science as a but predictable. Our Performing Arts Innovator youth. As the new artistic director at Louis Vuitton, and cover star, Lil Buck, fused two divergent dance Fashion Innovator Nicolas Ghesquière is applying his Kristina O’Neill idioms—Memphis’s street-style jookin’ and classi- famously cutting-edge style to the historic brand by [email protected] cal ballet—to create a new language of movement.