Issue
No. 254
May 25, 2024
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UPPER CLASS IN SESSION
Ferrari is now offering a driving crash course aimed at the wave of twentysomething arrivistes who are buying up classic cars worth millions …
VISIT
Michael Kors
To fashion designer Michael Kors, opening a storefront on Rodeo Drive feels like a homecoming. “My family moved to…
READ
15 Lies Women Are Told at Work
At the height of her 40-year-long career as a network and studio executive, Bonnie Hammer was called the “Queen of…
SHOP
Balenciaga X BFRND
Balenciaga’s relationship with BFRND goes way back. The French composer and musician, who embraces classical music and…
STRUT
Aera
Most of the time, fashion requires compromise—style for comfort, quality for price, and one’s dedication to the environment…
LISTEN
Afghan Star
We don’t usually think of reality shows as a civilizing force. But when Afghan Star, a television singing competition…
READ
A Walk in the Park
Ever had the itch to hike the trail spanning the length of the Grand Canyon? No? Good, because for starters there is no…
VISIT
Michael Kors
To fashion designer Michael Kors, opening a storefront on Rodeo Drive feels like a homecoming. “My family moved to…
READ
15 Lies Women Are Told at Work
At the height of her 40-year-long career as a network and studio executive, Bonnie Hammer was called the “Queen of…
SHOP
Balenciaga X BFRND
Balenciaga’s relationship with BFRND goes way back. The French composer and musician, who embraces classical music and…
STRUT
Aera
Most of the time, fashion requires compromise—style for comfort, quality for price, and one’s dedication to the environment…
LISTEN
Afghan Star
We don’t usually think of reality shows as a civilizing force. But when Afghan Star, a television singing competition…
READ
A Walk in the Park
Ever had the itch to hike the trail spanning the length of the Grand Canyon? No? Good, because for starters there is no…
The Way Things Were Morris Engel’s 1980s telephone-booth photos—published for the first time in AIR MAIL—harken back to a bygone New York City
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The Bloomsbury Group’s Dark Horse
When the modernist writer Virginia Woolf saw A Conversation, a painting by her elder sister Vanessa Bell, she wrote a fan letter. For this nuanced vision of three women talking, Woolf called Bell “a short story writer of great wit,” and admitted to sibling envy for the unusual, even radical, picture. A Conversation is now the centerpiece of “Vanessa Bell: A Pioneer of Modern Art,” opening today at the Courtauld Gallery, in London. READ ON
A Conversation, Vanessa Bell’s most celebrated painting, circa 1913–16.
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The Nanny Diaries
In 2007, an amateur historian and flea-market enthusiast named John Maloof purchased the contents of a storage locker—sight unseen—at auction. It contained approximately 150,000 prints, negatives, transparencies, and rolls of undeveloped film. This stash was the work of a professional nanny who was obsessed with photography but who chose to show her pictures to no one. READ ON
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