3+ day, 4+ 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, 3+ 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, 3+ 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…...

2+ week, 1+ 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, 1+ day ago   (116+ words) A thoroughly unsentimental guide to the anniversary gifts you’ll actually want Air Mail My husband and I are coming up on our 17th wedding anniversary. It has stiff competition in our house. Our anniversary falls in late August, when summer is…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (169+ words) Air Mail What sort of person shopped at Chipp? For G. Bruce Boyer, the former Town & Country editor, the answer was a character like Phineas from John Knowles’s A Separate Peace: “The one who used his school necktie as an impromptu…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (82+ words) Air Mail Dancing bears! Steal Your Face skulls! How the Grateful Dead’s iconography went from counterculture to country clubs—and became American fashion’s longest and strangest trip This summer I bumped into a family friend in his 80s wearing a needlepoint…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (260+ words) in His “Rock of Eye” Column Air Mail Q: You’ve griped about how people dress on airplanes. So … how can a guy be comfortable on a long-haul flight but still have solid style? A: Look, here’s my simple rule: Your…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (202+ words) “”My favorite red lipstick. It lasts the whole day and I buy them in series of ten! Unbeatable” - M.A. “I still love to keep a paper diary. It is always a red Moleskine. I have them since many many…...