Issue
No. 346
February 28, 2026
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London
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Discothèque
What did a late night at New York City’s Nell’s in 1992 smell like? Beer, cigarettes, and sweat, in all likelihood. Discothèque’s Lola at Coat Check…
stay
Malibu Beach Inn
For the city-bound Angeleno, a swift retreat to the Malibu Beach Inn is less a day trip than a nervous-system reset. Perched over the shoreline…
wear
Cartier
Princess Diana’s go-to wristwatch, the dainty Cartier Tank Française, turns 30 this year. But Louis Cartier’s Tank design remains timeless…
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Miu Miu x Women’s Tales
Since 2011, Miu Miu has partnered with today’s most distinctive female filmmakers around the globe…
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Sisley
It’s hard to know when to step out of girlhood and into womanhood. When should you stop using your mom’s high-end skin care…
read
John McPhee: Encounters in Wild America
Creative-nonfiction pioneer John McPhee ranges so widely in his reporting—canoes, swamps, gold miners…
spritz
Discothèque
What did a late night at New York City’s Nell’s in 1992 smell like? Beer, cigarettes, and sweat, in all likelihood. Discothèque’s Lola at Coat Check…
stay
Malibu Beach Inn
For the city-bound Angeleno, a swift retreat to the Malibu Beach Inn is less a day trip than a nervous-system reset. Perched over the shoreline…
wear
Cartier
Princess Diana’s go-to wristwatch, the dainty Cartier Tank Française, turns 30 this year. But Louis Cartier’s Tank design remains timeless…
watch
Miu Miu x Women’s Tales
Since 2011, Miu Miu has partnered with today’s most distinctive female filmmakers around the globe…
apply
Sisley
It’s hard to know when to step out of girlhood and into womanhood. When should you stop using your mom’s high-end skin care…
read
John McPhee: Encounters in Wild America
Creative-nonfiction pioneer John McPhee ranges so widely in his reporting—canoes, swamps, gold miners…
On Spotify
A Gen Z favorite, Mitski releases her eighth album, drawing on despondent ballads like Eric Carmen’s 1975 hit “All by Myself”…
In Los Angeles
Now in its seventh year, Frieze L.A. returns with more than 100 galleries to remind the art world of the city’s cultural prowess…
In Kingston Upon Thames
Martin Sheen stars as the stage manager in a new production of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town just outside London…
On Amazon Prime
Set on the Underground Railroad, a new series produced by Kevin Costner and Morgan Freeman follows female spies during the Civil War…
In New York
DJ Stretch Armstrong’s jazz residency is back with monthly shows at the Nine Orchard hotel, on the Lower East Side…
In London
A major retrospective looks back at four decades of work by the controversial British multi-media artist Tracey Emin…
Queen for a Day
Once upon a time, before tourists waited in line for hours for hot chocolate at Angelina, before Chanel occupied Rue Cambon and the Ritz, before Van Cleef & Arpels sparkled at Place Vendôme, Saint-Honoré became the quarter of choice for Paris’s 18th-century aristocrats and luxury artisans. This neighborhood is as storied as its eponymous street is expansive. At over one mile wide, it is so densely punctuated by the monuments, houses, and collections that give Paris its alluring gravity that simply to queue up for chocolat chaud is to be immersed in its legacy. READ ON
Gordon Parks’s Church Diaries In honor of Black History Month, a new coffee-table book collects never-before-seen images taken by the American photojournalist and civil-rights advocate during a 1953 assignment in Chicago for Life magazine
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