3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (190+ words) Air Mail Visitors to most downtown-Manhattan designer boutiques nowadays are immediately met by some figure at the doorway: a security guard, a greeter, a doorperson to size up the incoming crowd and keep capacity to a V.I.P.-feeling minimum. At Monse,…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (137+ words) Air Mail The most consequential thing that has ever happened to American fashion was a scheduling decision. Twenty-eight years later, the schedule is the least interesting thing about it. In the fall of 1998, Helmut Lang moved his spring show to…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (143+ words) Air Mail Christine Safa paints from memory. “Maybe it’s to preserve something that I am afraid is going to go away,” says the 32-year-old artist. She grew up in the western suburbs of Paris, but often returned to Lebanon, her…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (206+ words) Air Mail “What’s even in there, eh? Flat shoes for the subway?” Tom Wambsgans’s “ludicrously capacious bag” barb from Season 4 of Succession was almost a perfect burn but for a subtle anachronism. The idea that a young woman would change…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (246+ words) Air Mail Everyone is talking about how weird shoes are back. There’s the outrageously long-toed Brigitte pumps, courtesy of Saint Laurent, the clear PVC ankle booties at Loewe, and let’s not forget the absence of arches altogether at Chanel Cruise…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (91+ words) Air Mail From Dior’s prim polka-dot pumps to Gucci’s bedazzled stilettos, this season’s standout heels are cutting a decidedly pointed silhouette. If 2026 is proving anything, it’s that high heels are back—and we’re not complaining. After all, nothing elongates the…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (200+ words) How Emilio Pucci Went From Fascist Student to Allied Spy Air Mail When Emilio Pucci took his wife, the young Marchesa Cristina Pucci di Barsento—20 years old to his 45—on their first trip around the world together in 1960, they were…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (421+ words) Air Mail Moncler x Hotel Jerome There’s a calming sweet spot between the time when beach clubs close and the year-end ski craze ramps up: hiking season. Whether it’s the Dolomites or the Rockies, the weather’s temperate, the hills are…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (154+ words) Air Mail YSL Beauty: Libre Santal Couture I couldn’t stop blabbing about the Neko body scan after I had it in London in April. The first question I heard from everyone who listened to my monologue was: When’s it coming…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (142+ words) Air Mail That ivory, cropped silk-cloqué Alaïa jacket and matching slit skirt the Los Angeles Sparks forward Cameron Brink wore in May ahead of the season opener against the Las Vegas Aces wasn’t pulled from the six-foot-four player’s closet—it…...