After a long and arduous winter, it’s time to bask in the sunshine. We want you to have a fulfilling summer season, and for that reason we’ve packed this issue with the best of what’s to come: faraway festivals (for the avid music fan) and the most enticing reads, exhibitions, movies, and so forth. Get to know the faces from Sundance about to blow up the silver screen with their engaging, much-ballyhooed performances (Shailene, Schwartzman, Boyd, Brit, and more…if you don’t know their names yet, you certainly will soon). Aside from providing these inside scoops, we’re also serving up a visual feast of glamorous couture (photographed by Nick Knight and expertly styled by Amanda Harlech), plus Pre-Fall’s greatest hits, in a stellar shoot by Collier Schorr and Mel Ottenberg, starring the always-alluring Rosie Huntington-Whiteley. The Pre-Fall collections, which are in stores now, are among the most wearable of any season, so pick up your preferred looks now. Not sure what to buy? Let the trends on page 66 be your guide. Looking for an interesting beach read? Turn to Brooke Candy, on page 96, who initially shot to fame as a dancing cyborg goth in the video for Grimes’s hit single “Genesis” and is now experiencing her own ascent as a rapping pop star, with Sia producing her tracks. The stunning shoot was conducted by none other than Steven Klein and styled by Nicola Formichetti. And, of course, who better to cap of this season of everlasting glow than the eternally youthful Material Girl, accompanied by pop’s reigning princess of the charts? In a worldwide exclusive, V Magazine and Steven Klein come together again to capture Madonna and Katy Perry in their element, under the sartorial eye of Arianne Phillips. Did you know that these two, the most famous acts on the planet, are also fast friends? Here, they delve into the importance of being creatively liberated, in a celebration of music, fashion, and artistic freedom. After all, isn’t that what summer is all about? Ms. V
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