Value of a 31-carat ring stolen
in a Paris heistContents Issue No. 709
Kristen Stewart wears clothing by CHANEL; earrings by
CHANEL Fine Jewelry. Hair products by Virtue. Makeup and
nail enamel by CHANEL. Hair by Adir Abergel. Makeup by
Jillian Dempsey. Manicure by Ashlie Johnson. Tailor, Tatyana
Sargsyan. Set design by Michael Wanenmacher. Produced
on location by Westy Productions. Styled by Samira Nasr.
Photographed exclusively for V.F. by Alasdair McLellan in Los
Angeles. For details, go to VF.com/credits.On the
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Features
The Beautiful Power
BY JESMYN WARD
PHOTOGRAPHS BY
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ
In his nonfiction, Ta-Nehisi Coates has
tackled the big issues of our time.
His debut novel, The Water Dancer, finds
him rising to a whole new level.The Pioneer
BY KEZIAH WEIR
PHOTOGRAPH BY BAZ LUHRMANN
Miuccia Prada has woven together
a life of political and cultural
engagement with high-end—and
high-minded—design.To Cheat and Lie in L.A.
BY EVGENIA PERETZ
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY
SEAN McCABE
How students at some of California’s
ritziest schools and their do-gooder
parents wound up ensnared
in the college admissions scandal.106
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