The Holiday issue of T celebrates the season with a look back at some of the year’s most illustrious people. Our man on the cover, Jude Law, talks with Sarah Lyall about turning 40 in Hollywood; Paul Rudd discusses his turn on Broadway in “Grace”; and the photographer Graeme Mitchell presents a portfolio of a dozen newsmakers, from the director Ang Lee to the Olympian Gabrielle Douglas. Elsewhere, we tag along with the artist Leo Villareal as he installs a mammoth public artwork on San Francisco’s Bay Bridge, and drop in on Vacheron Constantin’s recently opened watchmaking institute in Texas. We also take stock of the year — literally — with a roundup of calendar watches, emerald rings and beauty remedies, along with a heaving array of gift-worthy goods for everyone (including yourself).