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We all fell in love with Daisy Edgar-Jones in Normal People, and the actress has carved out quite the career since then, with roles onscreen in summer blockbusters (Twisters) and literary adaptations (Where the Crawdads Sing), and most recently, onstage as Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Photographed by Dan Martensen and styled by Clare Richardson in spring’s best bohemian-inflected looks, our cover star speaks with Douglas Greenwood about working with “basically all the internet’s boyfriends,” her role in the ’50s drama On Swift Horses, and taking on parts that challenge her. “It’s also an interesting thing, being a woman in your 20s, wanting to find characters who are not always ingenues,” Edgar-Jones says. “You want to find characters with agency.…I feel lucky that a lot of the…

WAXING POETIC Rashid Johnson takes over the Guggenheim with his solo exhibition Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers. Via almost 90 works culled from throughout his career, Johnson examines race and masculinity. He also embraces a multidisciplinary approach to art, offering a series of performances and public engagements. April 18, 2025–January 18, 2026, guggenheim.org. WISH FULFILLMENT Jewelry designer Nikos Koulis loved wishing on dandelion puffs as a child, so for his new collection, Wish, he drew inspiration from the plant’s unique structure. The line took two years to complete and debuted at Paris Fashion Week this March. Each piece is a limited edition, and many are one of a kind. Wish bracelet, Nikos Koulis. CROWN JEWELS At least two monarchs have worn some of the pieces featured at the new V&A exhibition, Cartier: Queen…

On Nina Christen’s first foray to New York, she was outfitting lions and hyenas. She had left her home country of Switzerland with a dream of heading to the greatest city in the world, where she landed a job tailoring costumes for The Lion King. Twenty years later, she is returning to the city with something a little less Pride Rock: her namesake shoe line, Christen, launching exclusively at Bergdorf Goodman next month. (Meanwhile, the show remains a Broadway staple, and she thinks some of the costumes she worked on might still be treading the boards.) The Chilean-Swiss designer’s résumé is a rarefied list of brands that have been defining accessories over the past decade: The Row, Loewe, Saint Laurent, Bottega Veneta, and Celine among them. Working at Phoebe Philo–era Celine,…

One of Narciso Rodriguez’s prized possessions is a pair of Victorian gloves, made painstakingly by hand. It’s a reminder that, as he says, “Good things last, and they’re meaningful.” Creating those lasting, meaningful things is Rodriguez’s North Star right now. When he founded his namesake brand in 1997, he quickly became a boldface fashion name. At the outset of COVID, he shuttered his label, though he continued to design for private clients and run his thriving fragrance business with Shiseido. In the interim, he underwent what he calls “my personal reinvention,” redrawing the lines of his career. That meant carving out a smaller, more focused existence that allows him to stop work every day at 2:45 to pick up his seven-year-old twins from their school—conveniently located just around the corner from…

Clare Richardson recently experienced the closest thing a non-musician can get to being on tour. “We were in a different state every day,” she says of crisscrossing the country to celebrate the collaboration between Reluxe Fashion, her luxury resale platform, and Madewell. In cities from Austin to Washington, DC, Richardson brought her discerning eye—she has styled editorial shoots with Jennifer Aniston and Margot Robbie, along with this month’s ELLE cover story with Daisy Edgar-Jones—to the public, counseling women on how to pair her vintage finds with the brand’s denim styles. “It’s my happy place,” she says of the store’s dressing room. “I’m not very good at sitting still. I like to be styling.” Richardson has been a vintage devotee since her university days at Central Saint Martins, when she trawled Portobello…

DOLCE & GABBANA BAG: NATHANIEL GOLDBERG; LAUREN RUBINSKI EARRINGS: MARCELO RUDUIT; JACQUIE AICHE CHARM: TONY MINAS; JADE TRAU CHARM: RUSSELL STARR; REMAINING IMAGES: COURTESY OF THE DESIGNERS.…