An uncertain world is the backdrop to fashion’s latest fantasy ­ — designers respond with futuristic streetwear and a spiritual retreat inwards. When photographs of Bella Hadid, Hailey Baldwin, and Emily Ratajkowski on a yacht flooded our Instagrams in late 2016, most people thought nothing of it. Influencers in exotic…

Patti Smith is perhaps the person whose habits and routines I have imitated most. I welcomed 2016 in the same way that Smith documented her New Year in M Train: As thousands of drunken revelers disbursed in Time’s Square, my little Abyssinian circled the floor with me as I paced…