“Forever in flux, New York City continues to surprise.”

is the structure’s transformative architecture: Among other features, a movable outer shell creates a 17,000-square-foot covered pavilion on the adjoining plaza for large scale performances, installations or events. In past seasons, the Shed has brought talents such as Björk to the stage, o ering visitors an acoustically superior concert experience. The much-anticipated opening this year of the Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center will bring another venue for on-the-pulse programming in opera, film, theater, dance and music. Visual art havens abound in New York but if growing a collection of your own is the goal, set a course for downtown galleries like Perrotin, Fortnight Institute, Karma, Sargent’s Daughters and Gordon Robichaux (where Tabboo! is on the talent roster).

Shop Nouveau

Online shopping be damned, New York’s post-pandemic renaissance has come with a number of exciting store openings, the most iconic of which is Hermès. The French heritage brand already had a flagship in the city but decided to significantly up the ante: The new flagship, which opened its doors in October on Madison Avenue, dwarfs its former store at a whopping 45,000 square feet and features special items, Kelly bags among them, made exclusively for this store. After gathering your orange boxes, head to SoHo where you’ll find new boutiques from Courrèges, Byredo, Mulberry, Jennifer Fisher, Givenchy, cult favorite vintage designer purveyor Desert Vintage, and Swedish label Toteme, where the interiors—including Josef Frank sofas and a Marc Newson table—were conjured by the founders (Elin Kling and Karl Lindman) with architecture studio Halleroed, and are as covetable as the minimalist styles on the racks.

About Face

When it comes to luxury facials, New York spares no e ort. At his first New York outpost, Italian-born skincare specialist Pietro Simone takes a personalized approach to facials, tailoring a treatment that may include LED, meso-microneedling, V-IPL, or cotton thread exfoliation. Uptown at the Carlyle, beloved Swiss skincare brand Valmont has both a flagship boutique and a branded spa where the most indulgent treatment on the facial menu, Only at the Carlyle, has two therapists performing a massage and OxyLight facial with gua sha. And Dr. Barbara Sturm’s frequently namechecked skincare products figure prominently in the SturmGlow and Non-Surgical Facelift facials at her newly opened SoHo spa. The promise they deliver on: to restore an innate glow that had, perhaps, faded. Right now, New York delivers on that same promise. 