{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"October 24, 2026 – Air Mail","description":"Welcome to Air Mail Issue number 380.","favicon":"https://static.airmail.news/assets/icons/apple-touch-icon.png","home_page_url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24","feed_url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24.json","items":[{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24/announcing-the-winners-of-the-2026-air-mail-tom-wolfe-prizes","title":"Announcing the Winners of the 2026 AIR MAIL Tom Wolfe Prizes","content_text":"When we at AIR MAIL set about putting together our inaugural literary prizes last year, we recalled a particularly striking line in Tom Wolfe’s 1968 counterculture epic, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. “Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own scenario, and everybody is acting his movie out like mad,” Wolfe wrote, “only most people don’t know that is what they’re trapped by, their little script.” In chronicling “the whole business of ‘the way we live now,’” Wolfe was decades ahead of his time, as usual. The prizes were conceived as an antidote, or at least a balm, for our ever more polarized, atomized, and technologically addled moment, and to honor the young literary talent following in Wolfe’s footsteps. ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24/announcing-the-winners-of-the-2026-air-mail-tom-wolfe-prizes","summary":"When we at AIR MAIL set about putting together our inaugural literary prizes last year, we recalled a particularly striking line in Tom Wolfe’s 1968 counterculture epic, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. “Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going,...","tags":["The View from Here","But First ..."],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/lqjq9ief7ku65z91p0fzlt8faxzn-ad238836ea94c1d77fd49cbcea4c06f8.jpg","author":{"name":"Julia Vitale"},"date_published":"2026-10-24T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"October 24, 2026","date":"2026-10-24","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/julia-vitale\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJulia Vitale\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"The recipients are Sarah Anderson, for fiction, and Carlos Barragán, for reportage","shorts":false,"banner":"But First ...","category":"The View from Here"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24/barry-blitts-sketchbook","title":"Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook","content_text":null,"url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24/barry-blitts-sketchbook","summary":null,"tags":["Sketchbook","Barry Blitt's Sketchbook"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/o1yo85kqo6ssmpva6q8zmye13aqb-9dd31b23c9f951311c243bdcfbab77a9.jpg","date_published":"2026-10-24T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"October 24, 2026","date":"2026-10-24","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24"},"_article":{"byline_html":null,"subhead":null,"shorts":false,"banner":"Barry Blitt's Sketchbook","category":"Sketchbook"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24/the-birth-of-tom-wolfe","title":"The Birth of Tom Wolfe","content_text":"Around two a.m. on Saturday, December 8, 1962, the presses stopped. Not with a dramatic yell and a frantic pull of the kill switch to run some late-breaking front-page news, like in the movies, but with a negotiator for the International Typographical Union Local No. 6 telling a labor mediator, “It’s too late.” Big Six was on strike—“the strike to end all newspaper strikes,” an I.T.U. official later told The New York Times, one of seven newspapers suddenly out of circulation.Back in 1953, when the Photo Engravers Local No. 1 went on strike, “most Timesmen felt compelled to respect the picket lines,” Gay Talese wrote in ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24/the-birth-of-tom-wolfe","summary":"Around two a.m. on Saturday, December 8, 1962, the presses stopped. Not with a dramatic yell and a frantic pull of the kill switch to run some late-breaking front-page news, like in the movies, but with a negotiator for the...","tags":["Arts and Letters","Write of Passage"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/rpiwqrsjh5nwkka9ttwiszmid08f-ec610919e91388d000019bac8491cb73.jpg","author":{"name":"Ash Carter"},"date_published":"2026-10-24T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"October 24, 2026","date":"2026-10-24","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/ash-carter\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eAsh Carter\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"How a frustrated young reporter found his voice—and changed journalism forever","shorts":false,"banner":"Write of Passage","category":"Arts and Letters"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24/sympathy-for-elizabeth-holmes","title":"Sympathy for Elizabeth Holmes","content_text":"The past week has felt a lot like 2017 for me, except now I have better hair and a hard-earned ankle monitor. Since the release of Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s documentary, You Can See Everything, it feels like I’ve been tagged in more posts about Elizabeth Holmes than Elizabeth Holmes, who in fairness is indisposed and without an Instagram account.There was the BuzzFeed quiz “Are You More Anna Delvey or Elizabeth Holmes?” (That wasn’t the first article that linked us. Back in 2018, the Outline published a piece arguing that we shared a “tell”: split ends.)Then there were all the D.M.’s, a variation on: ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24/sympathy-for-elizabeth-holmes","summary":"The past week has felt a lot like 2017 for me, except now I have better hair and a hard-earned ankle monitor. Since the release of Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s documentary, You Can See Everything, it feels like I’ve...","tags":["Film and Television","Fraud vs. Fraud"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/3wf8xfguq702axdnuxza6v9vuh19-05519b740a569de76d942659d178ddb2.jpg","author":{"name":"Anna Delvey"},"date_published":"2026-10-24T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"October 24, 2026","date":"2026-10-24","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/anna-delvey\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eAnna Delvey\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"Anna Delvey considers Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s portrait of a fraudulent founder","shorts":false,"banner":"Fraud vs. Fraud","category":"Film and Television"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24/resting-princess-face","title":"Resting Princess Face","content_text":"For most royal wives, gliding in and out of a series of high-profile engagements dressed in an equally glamorous suit or gown might seem unremarkable. For Princess Charlene of Monaco, though, a recent string of appearances has demonstrated an extraordinary transformation. In recent years she had shocked the conservative Monégasques with unflattering hairstyles (including shaving half her head) and edgy outfits, all of which was taken as a sign of the 48-year-old former Olympic swimmer’s discomfort with royal life.Yet, last month, order appeared to have been restored when the Princess met the Pope dressed in a sleek ivory-colored ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24/resting-princess-face","summary":"For most royal wives, gliding in and out of a series of high-profile engagements dressed in an equally glamorous suit or gown might seem unremarkable. For Princess Charlene of Monaco, though, a recent string of appearances has demonstrated an extraordinary...","tags":["The Royal Family","grimaldi and bear it"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/gxydsu9i8w832miiwab84bu119d2-6820e64ea97637c9ce5cf156d7e70a5f.jpg","author":{"name":"Melissa Twigg"},"date_published":"2026-10-24T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"October 24, 2026","date":"2026-10-24","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/melissa-twigg\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eMelissa Twigg\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"After years of looking as though she’d married into a hostage situation, Princess Charlene is playing the devoted wife. For Monaco’s scandal-battered palace, the timing couldn’t be better","shorts":false,"banner":"grimaldi and bear it","category":"The Royal Family"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24/on-not-being-clothes-minded","title":"On Not Being Clothes-Minded","content_text":"One of the pleasures of having clothes is giving them away. Not necessarily to charity, but to friends. Things I have loved, worn to death, or simply stopped knowing what to do with. The gratifying part is seeing them rehabilitated. A dress that made me look vaguely ill looks terrific on someone else. A sweater I had all but sentenced to retirement turns out to have a second act. It’s a humbling reminder that clothes, like people, can suffer from being in the wrong company.But sometimes clothes can find better company without leaving your closet. You just have ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24/on-not-being-clothes-minded","summary":"One of the pleasures of having clothes is giving them away. Not necessarily to charity, but to friends. Things I have loved, worn to death, or simply stopped knowing what to do with. The gratifying part is seeing them rehabilitated....","tags":["Style","Notes on an Aesthetic"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/hn48lr241tyod3ehbntuqvgx8sqt-bc0d18fde57c7758eea477dd3ba62ec0.jpg","author":{"name":"Jennifer Noyes"},"date_published":"2026-10-24T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"October 24, 2026","date":"2026-10-24","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/jennifer-noyes\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJennifer Noyes\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"The secret to a better wardrobe? Rethinking the clothes—and jewels—you already have","shorts":false,"banner":"Notes on an Aesthetic","category":"Style"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24/silence-so-deep-it-rings","title":"Silence So Deep It Rings","content_text":"Laura McPhee is one of our finest landscape photographers, her work collected by the best museums. ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24/silence-so-deep-it-rings","summary":"Laura McPhee is one of our finest landscape photographers, her work collected by the best museums. ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/21uuy63mgoafl3edqvakcmgfy0t3-206a03595f4413fadc87aaaa1d333ced.png","author":{"name":"Jim Kelly"},"date_published":"2026-10-24T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"October 24, 2026","date":"2026-10-24","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/jim-kelly\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJim Kelly\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"look","shorts":true,"banner":"Best","category":"Recommended"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24/the-wicker-man","title":"The Wicker Man","content_text":"Robin Hardy’s 1973 film is a cult classic that pioneered and defined folk horror and inspired later movies in the subgenre, ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24/the-wicker-man","summary":"Robin Hardy’s 1973 film is a cult classic that pioneered and defined folk horror and inspired later movies in the subgenre, ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/1f9kd87y9r2z23xstx3a25r3wl8j-387795c86765346eca0c041bac00348b.png","author":{"name":"Eve Eismann"},"date_published":"2026-10-24T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"October 24, 2026","date":"2026-10-24","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/eve-eismann\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eEve Eismann\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"watch","shorts":true,"banner":"Best","category":"Recommended"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24/hejira","title":"Hejira","content_text":"This November will mark the 50th anniversary of Hejira, Joni Mitchell’s eighth studio album, a classic that effortlessly fused jazz ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24/hejira","summary":"This November will mark the 50th anniversary of Hejira, Joni Mitchell’s eighth studio album, a classic that effortlessly fused jazz ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/zktypy7v1y0esvid4ccois0acj2u-18246cc55800750d0e3e7f7bfa6551dc.png","author":{"name":"Gabriella Maestri"},"date_published":"2026-10-24T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"October 24, 2026","date":"2026-10-24","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/gabriella-maestri\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eGabriella Maestri\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"listen","shorts":true,"banner":"Best","category":"Recommended"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24/le-monde-beryl","title":"Le Monde Béryl","content_text":"The London-based, Italian-made shoe brand founded by Lily Atherton Hanbury and Katya Shyfrin is in New York City and here ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24/le-monde-beryl","summary":"The London-based, Italian-made shoe brand founded by Lily Atherton Hanbury and Katya Shyfrin is in New York City and here ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/asfvk1uenulzu9v9dh65tnbgu3m0-8277e0910d750195b448797616e091ad.png","author":{"name":"Carolina de Armas"},"date_published":"2026-10-24T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"October 24, 2026","date":"2026-10-24","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/carolina-de-armas\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eCarolina \u003cem\u003ede\u003c/em\u003e Armas\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"visit","shorts":true,"banner":"Best","category":"Recommended"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24/brother-of-the-more-famous-jack","title":"Brother of the More Famous Jack","content_text":"In his introduction to the new New York Review of Books edition, Mick Herron (Slow Horses) argues ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24/brother-of-the-more-famous-jack","summary":"In his introduction to the new New York Review of Books edition, Mick Herron (Slow Horses) argues ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/h3k6j5z5lpgrb01sw2s0363mqhuv-4eecaf0abf09f6eddce1304c34a9e16b.png","author":{"name":"Paulina Prosnitz"},"date_published":"2026-10-24T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"October 24, 2026","date":"2026-10-24","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/paulina-prosnitz\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003ePaulina Prosnitz\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"read","shorts":true,"banner":"Best","category":"Recommended"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24/h-valley","title":"H Valley","content_text":"You didn’t hear it from me, but: the West Village is unbearable. Those willing to wait hours in line for frozen yogurt or Swedish candy ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24/h-valley","summary":"You didn’t hear it from me, but: the West Village is unbearable. Those willing to wait hours in line for frozen yogurt or Swedish candy ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/0vfc2vw8ueo2wjjq981xiwj4k1em-0cc175b9c0f1b6a831c399e269772661.jpg","author":{"name":"Jeanne Malle"},"date_published":"2026-10-24T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"October 24, 2026","date":"2026-10-24","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/jeanne-malle\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJeanne Malle\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"dine","shorts":true,"banner":"Best","category":"Recommended"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24/all-the-presidents-women","title":"All the President’s Women","content_text":"I have written three New York Times best-selling books about the Kennedys over my career. I thought I was through with the subject, but in recent years, as I read various new biographies of President John F. Kennedy, I realized a defining aspect of his life was missing. The president was a sickly man—one who used an endless stream of romantic partners to assert a healthy persona that did not exist. His poor health was a frightening business covered up by those closest to him.As a teenager, Kennedy was misdiagnosed with leukemia. He was so sickly that he spent ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24/all-the-presidents-women","summary":"I have written three New York Times best-selling books about the Kennedys over my career. I thought I was through with the subject, but in recent years, as I read various new biographies of President John F. Kennedy, I realized...","tags":["Books","Inside Story"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/9yvdkt83w81q7o97r7vf39vp36fl-3dcdfbb9b536fa94aafb4b8f60068a35.jpg","author":{"name":"Laurence Leamer"},"date_published":"2026-10-24T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"October 24, 2026","date":"2026-10-24","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/laurence-leamer\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eLaurence Leamer\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"Did John F. Kennedy use his womanizing ways and countless extramarital affairs to mask his grave health issues?","shorts":false,"banner":"Inside Story","category":"Books"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24/alain-delons-dead-ringer","title":"Alain Delon’s Dead Ringer","content_text":"When a corpse with its head stoved in was found on October 1, 1968, in a southwestern suburb of Paris, police investigators initially believed it was just another settling of scores between vagrants. But two things seemed at odds with this theory: the victim’s fingernails were neatly manicured, while his clothes were expensive and English-made. The next day, a fingerprint match identified the deceased as one Stevan Marković, a 31-year-old “political refugee” from Yugoslavia with a lengthy criminal record, whose last registered home address, in Paris’s Eighth Arrondissement, was that of the French film star Alain Delon, whom he became close with after working as his stand-in on the 1966 film ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24/alain-delons-dead-ringer","summary":"When a corpse with its head stoved in was found on October 1, 1968, in a southwestern suburb of Paris, police investigators initially believed it was just another settling of scores between vagrants. But two things seemed at odds with...","tags":["Books"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/gtz4bzacgx188528bypozqcr436l-5521f70d0f3df8a8f812c13e5ff14582.jpg","author":{"name":"Tobias Grey"},"date_published":"2026-10-24T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"October 24, 2026","date":"2026-10-24","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/tobias-grey\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eTobias Grey\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":null,"shorts":false,"banner":"Books","category":"Books"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24/a-maigret-by-any-other-name","title":"A Maigret by Any Other Name","content_text":"My wife and I invented a game while watching the first season of the new Maigret, which returned last week on PBS. Whenever anyone on-screen addressed the young, tousle-haired chief inspector by name, one of us would shout “Munier!” By the end of the second episode, we had persuaded ourselves that this was the lead character’s name, and it allowed us to stop comparing the show to every previous series centered on Georges Simenon’s high-toned and self-possessed Parisian chief inspector.The game is not as childish as it sounds. It is a coping mechanism for a distressing trend you ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24/a-maigret-by-any-other-name","summary":"My wife and I invented a game while watching the first season of the new Maigret, which returned last week on PBS. Whenever anyone on-screen addressed the young, tousle-haired chief inspector by name, one of us would shout “Munier!” By...","tags":["Film and Television","Murder, They Re-wrote"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/nsda5v5scbequjuxie628obcefgl-0125883572dafedbe2a7f71cb0ae01dd.jpg","author":{"name":"Bobby Ghosh"},"date_published":"2026-10-24T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"October 24, 2026","date":"2026-10-24","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/bobby-ghosh\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eBobby Ghosh\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"The trick to enjoying the latest incarnations of great British TV detectives? Pretend they’re entirely new characters","shorts":false,"banner":"Murder, They Re-wrote","category":"Film and Television"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24/the-most-secret-restaurant-in-tokyo","title":"The Most Secret Restaurant in Tokyo","content_text":"I’m not sure, at first, whether I’m even in the right place. I clamber out of a taxi, somewhat jet-lagged, to find myself standing in front of a nondescript but elegant old Japanese building in Tokyo’s Chiyoda district. Then a smiling woman in a navy jacket appears out of nowhere to usher me inside, and I relax.The building used to house a soba restaurant with an unusual pedigree: it was run by the family of director Akira Kurosawa and, thanks to its location next to the Japanese prime minister’s official residence, regularly played host to power-player powwows. That ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24/the-most-secret-restaurant-in-tokyo","summary":"I’m not sure, at first, whether I’m even in the right place. I clamber out of a taxi, somewhat jet-lagged, to find myself standing in front of a nondescript but elegant old Japanese building in Tokyo’s Chiyoda district. Then a...","tags":["Food and Drink","not for everyone"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/a18qctgpc850kuczwwgwe8876prw-d195e32da6bf8dfe2f7fe99bf6bc73a7.jpg","author":{"name":"Mark Ellwood"},"date_published":"2026-10-24T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"October 24, 2026","date":"2026-10-24","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/mark-ellwood\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eMark Ellwood\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"You don’t have to be a tycoon or film star to eat at Nagatacho Ohka—whose 15 chefs will cook anything you desire—but it helps","shorts":false,"banner":"not for everyone","category":"Food and Drink"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24/clara-hofer-maire","title":"Clara Hofer-Maire","content_text":"There’s a growing movement in fashion that exists behind closed doors. Anyone can access it, they just need to know where to look. Tucked away in apartments from Paris to Los Angeles are by-appointment-only boutiques where shopping feels like entering someone’s home.At the center of this if-you-know-you-know universe is Clara Hofer-Maire, the co-founder of Turn Paris, which began as a vintage shop in 2022 and expanded into ready-to-wear last spring. Since starting the company with her friend Alix Darcy, 27, the duo has found fans in fashion’s insiders, like downtown New York designer Maryam Nassir Zadeh, model and actress Jessie Andrews, and ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24/clara-hofer-maire","summary":"There’s a growing movement in fashion that exists behind closed doors. Anyone can access it, they just need to know where to look. Tucked away in apartments from Paris to Los Angeles are by-appointment-only boutiques where shopping feels like entering...","tags":["Style","Close-up"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/9mxrdvjqy3zc1tncz5rmyl5xt7iu-22af645d1859cb5ca6da0c484f1f37ea.jpg","author":{"name":"Jeanne Malle"},"date_published":"2026-10-24T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"October 24, 2026","date":"2026-10-24","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/jeanne-malle\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJeanne Malle\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"Behind an unassuming door in Paris’s Second Arrondissement, the 28-year-old designer is quietly building a fashion label with a cult following","shorts":false,"banner":"Close-up","category":"Style"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24/crowd-pleaser","title":"Crowd-Pleaser","content_text":"It is appropriate that a new exhibition of works by L. S. Lowry (1887–1976), opening today at the MK Gallery, should be staged in Milton Keynes. Established after the Second World War, it is the largest of the “new towns” that were built to accommodate the huge numbers of British working people displaced by enemy bombing, slum clearance, and industrial decline. Lowry’s most notable paintings are both a celebration of and a tribute to the working-class culture of the interwar period—and they passed into mainstream ubiquity in the 1940s and 1950s just as that culture was collapsing. Fifty-four miles north of London, and 160 miles south of Lowry’s base of operations in Manchester, Milton Keynes is arguably the most consequential monument to England’s postwar upheaval. ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24/crowd-pleaser","summary":"It is appropriate that a new exhibition of works by L. S. Lowry (1887–1976), opening today at the MK Gallery, should be staged in Milton Keynes. Established after the Second World War, it is the largest of the “new towns”...","tags":["Culture","Highlight"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/d1jli96igutg497ucm1vp6ijfhlh-2c04fb66704c4fa841e6505da3a36498.jpg","author":{"name":"Andrew Pulver"},"date_published":"2026-10-24T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"October 24, 2026","date":"2026-10-24","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/andrew-pulver\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eAndrew Pulver\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"An exhibition north of London revisits L. S. Lowry’s factories, streets, and soccer matches, paying tribute to the great chronicler of England’s interwar working-class culture","shorts":false,"banner":"Highlight","category":"Culture"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24/a-tuscan-affair","title":"A Tuscan Affair","content_text":"Remy Renzullo never set out to run a hotel in a quiet corner of Tuscany. The 34-year-old Connecticut-born decorator was busy overseeing renovations at Castle Howard in North Yorkshire, and dashing between clients in the U.K. and New York. But then, at a party in London, he met Niccolò Calabrese de Feo, a 27-year-old architect living in Portugal, whose mother had inherited the Pratolino estate near Montevarchi, an hour from Florence. Among its properties was an 11-bedroom hotel.Renzullo and Calabrese de Feo fell in love and were soon engaged. It seemed only right that he should lend his future in-laws a hand with the renovations. ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24/a-tuscan-affair","summary":"Remy Renzullo never set out to run a hotel in a quiet corner of Tuscany. The 34-year-old Connecticut-born decorator was busy overseeing renovations at Castle Howard in North Yorkshire, and dashing between clients in the U.K. and New York. But...","tags":["Travel","View With a Room"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/t43krcv64br1m12cefec1yli7u5t-1a2ae7b79e10e6721c02e6fb67f208b3.jpg","author":{"name":"Matthew Bell"},"date_published":"2026-10-24T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"October 24, 2026","date":"2026-10-24","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/matthew-bell\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eMatthew Bell\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"Hidden in the hills of Montevarchi, a centuries-old estate gets a hand-painted second act, courtesy of decorator Remy Renzullo and his partner","shorts":false,"banner":"View With a Room","category":"Travel"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/dress-code/style/2026/10/rosie-huntington-whiteley","title":"Rosie Huntington-Whiteley","content_text":"Before becoming a formidable businesswoman, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley earned her wings as a Victoria’s Secret Angel. Discovered at 16, the Devon-born beauty went on to become one of the world’s most recognizable models, walking the runway for Burberry and gracing the covers of countless fashion magazines. Along the way, she launched the beauty platform Rose Inc., cultivated a devoted following, and, most recently, introduced Mémoire, a luxury keepsake brand devoted to the art of preserving memories. Now, on the heels of walking the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, the model, actress, entrepreneur, and mother of two takes a turn in Dress Code’ ...","url":"https://airmail.news/dress-code/style/2026/10/rosie-huntington-whiteley","summary":"Before becoming a formidable businesswoman, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley earned her wings as a Victoria’s Secret Angel. Discovered at 16, the Devon-born beauty went on to become one of the world’s most recognizable models, walking the runway for Burberry and gracing the...","tags":["Style","In the Haute Seat"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/450f0eji8rw5hu1dojq59qakxo17-54f413da708e5a4156dfc6d6e2775aff.jpg","date_published":"2026-10-24T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"October 24, 2026","date":"2026-10-24","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-10-24"},"_article":{"byline_html":null,"subhead":"The English model answers 43 questions on fashion sense and other sensibilities","shorts":false,"banner":"In the Haute Seat","category":"Style"}}]}