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Well, this is exciting. Finally, a double December/January fashion-palooza issue! Dear reader, how I have longed for this. At the end of the year, as we careen toward a more hopeful and healthy global future, all we wanted to do here at InStyle was make beautiful, joyful images—lots and lots of them—with women we admire.

If I’ve achieved anything as editor in chief thus far, I hope I have created a community. When I started at InStyle in 2016, I coined the term “Everybody’s In.” Reading the magazine should make you feel better, not worse. It’s not “aspirational” (I’ve never cared for that word); hopefully, it’s inspiring. Not “empowering” (I fi nd that a little patronizing) but powerful.

Few encapsulate this more than our cover star, Reese Witherspoon. Yes, she has been a Movie Star for 30 years, but it’s her role as founder of Hollywood production company Hello Sunshine that has allowed her to bring many other women along for the ride. Much was made when it sold for nearly $900 million in the summer, and Witherspoon is rightly beyond proud. “Female audiences are big business,” she tells CBS Mornings’ Gayle King. “Female fi lmmakers are big business. You can’t ignore half of the population of the world and say that they don’t economically matter; they do.” And how she has proved that.

The rest of our December/January ensemble proves it too. The legendary Rita Moreno is not only an icon but should be a life coach. The transcendent Tessa Thompson, magnetic in everything from Westworld to the new drama Passing. The girls wearing Dior—among them Zoey Deutch, Jurnee Smollett, and Natalia Vodianova—showcase the feminist spirit of the brand’s creative director, Maria Grazia Chiuri. One of the most super of supermodels, Joan Smalls, brings her wham-bam glam to Paris. All the creative forces who drive culture forward (hello, Michaela Coel) can be found in our “Voices of Style” package. Then there’s the insane imagination of makeup artist Raoúl Alejandre, whom I met on November’s Zendaya cover shoot and immediately commissioned for a glamorous portfolio.

And fi nally, an interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook. He is as calm and kind as the Internet is not, and he has made it his life’s work to give us the tools to enhance ours. How we use them, of course, is up to us. Enjoy the issue, and to my dear team, have a lie-down.

Clockwise from top: Reese Witherspoon in a Dolce & Gabbana bodysuit and shorts, a Bulgari necklace (top), an Almasika necklace and bracelet, and her own ring. Elaine Palacio Mosquera in a Gucci dress and headgear. Natalia Vodianova in a Dior dress. Joan Smalls in a Louis Vuitton coat and Bettina Vermillon boots. Tessa Thompson in a Christopher John Rogers gown, Jennifer Fisher hoops, and her own ring.