{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"August 29, 2026 – Air Mail","description":"Welcome to Air Mail Issue number 372.","favicon":"https://static.airmail.news/assets/icons/apple-touch-icon.png","home_page_url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-29","feed_url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-29.json","items":[{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-29/the-view-from-here","title":"The View from Here","content_text":"Consider the thing that does not know what it is. The United States. Most people in their 20s. The humble croffle. A tennis event might not be high on that list—make the draw, sell the tickets, let the players scythe each other down till there’s a winner; it’s a pretty simple recipe. But on any given day, the U.S. Open is also a lifestyle brand, an alcohol hotbed, an oven disguised as a park, a gathering of the famed, the site of a short-lived dating show that had nothing to do with tennis but was nonetheless promoted on the Open’s YouTube channel, and, a few spots further down the list, one of the biggest tennis tournaments on earth. ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-29/the-view-from-here","summary":"Consider the thing that does not know what it is. The United States. Most people in their 20s. The humble croffle. A tennis event might not be high on that list—make the draw, sell the tickets, let the players scythe...","tags":["The View from Here","But First ..."],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/bybufq0sjp33bey7wvwdw6fljq1s-7dc211d22cdb815fad6d1c8ecaf29226.jpg","author":{"name":"Owen Lewis"},"date_published":"2026-08-29T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 29, 2026","date":"2026-08-29","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-29"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/owen-lewis\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eOwen Lewis\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"What is the U.S. Open? The sport’s chaos magnet","shorts":false,"banner":"But First ...","category":"The View from Here"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-29/barry-blitts-sketchbook","title":"Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook","content_text":null,"url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-29/barry-blitts-sketchbook","summary":null,"tags":["Sketchbook","Barry Blitt's Sketchbook"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/7b5wlj1l2eaxyldv3mct7hau4ika-da9311d01c3b1e1b5b6a517362758861.jpg","author":{"name":"Barry Blitt"},"date_published":"2026-08-29T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 29, 2026","date":"2026-08-29","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-29"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/barry-blitt\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eBarry Blitt\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":null,"shorts":false,"banner":"Barry Blitt's Sketchbook","category":"Sketchbook"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/wellness/2026/8/face-off","title":"Face Off","content_text":"You’re like a daughter to me, the aesthetician told her. You can text me anytime. I can fix you. Trust me. Really, you can trust me.In retrospect, trust was the one thing Victoria Nelson wished she’d withheld, at least a little, during her four-year relationship with Sonya Dakar, a Beverly Hills facialist whose clients at one time included Gwyneth Paltrow, Cameron Diaz, and Drew Barrymore. But easier said than done. Try lying half-naked, eyes closed, in a dark room while someone takes sharp objects and harsh chemicals to your face. It’s virtually impossible without some degree of trust.That didn’t come easily to Nelson, who was 26 when ...","url":"https://airmail.news/wellness/2026/8/face-off","summary":"You’re like a daughter to me, the aesthetician told her. You can text me anytime. I can fix you. Trust me. Really, you can trust me.In retrospect, trust was the one thing Victoria Nelson wished she’d withheld, at least a...","tags":["Wellness","Skin in the Game"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/nl1un1t6rwyq7mtao965ag37ks0t-748479163a8ff5ac0e8770fe818ccdf2.png","author":{"name":"Linda Wells"},"date_published":"2026-08-29T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 29, 2026","date":"2026-08-29","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-29"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/linda-wells\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eLinda Wells\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"Sharp objects, harsh chemicals, and blind trust are a dangerous combination, as one woman discovered when she put herself in the hands of a Beverly Hills facialist","shorts":false,"banner":"Skin in the Game","category":"Wellness"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-29/the-new-gringos","title":"The New Gringos","content_text":"When American immigration officers unshackled Danny Iniestra and ordered him across the border into Mexico last October, it was the first time he had set foot in the country of his birth since being smuggled into the U.S. in 2005, three weeks before his sixth birthday.Iniestra grew up in suburban Virginia, a recipient of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, the Obama-era program that provided temporary work permits and protection for people brought to the U.S. as children. But the ICE agents who detained him following a D.U.I. arrest showed little interest in his DACA history, and repeatedly pressed deportation papers on him. When the agents ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-29/the-new-gringos","summary":"When American immigration officers unshackled Danny Iniestra and ordered him across the border into Mexico last October, it was the first time he had set foot in the country of his birth since being smuggled into the U.S. in 2005,...","tags":["News","homeland insecurity"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/758w1npr838t72krpa2t6cktdle2-6df9b1a63d601d316d9818aa553534ea.jpg","author":{"name":"John Beck"},"date_published":"2026-08-29T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 29, 2026","date":"2026-08-29","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-29"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/john-beck\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJohn Beck\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"Deported by Trump after decades in the U.S., Mexican-born immigrants are being treated as foreigners back home. But in Mexico City’s Little L.A., they’re finding work—and one another","shorts":false,"banner":"homeland insecurity","category":"News"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-29/for-the-love-of-chablis","title":"For the Love of Chablis","content_text":"I recently had lunch with Saskia de Rothschild, the charismatic and companionable 39-year-old former journalist who is now chairman of Domaines Barons de Rothschild, the family’s global wine group. Guests brought along a bottle or two of Lafite Rothschild, and she brought wines going back to the 19th century.Lafite Rothschild, a first-growth Bordeaux, is one of only five Bordeaux estates in that classification and has an illustrious, if somewhat uneven, history dating back hundreds of years, acquiring its current name after its purchase by Baron James Rothschild in 1868. Long before that, Thomas Jefferson was a big fan.The wines at lunch, overall, were stunning. But it’s still too hot to talk about old Bordeaux, and so instead let’s talk about Chablis, a white wine grown in the very northern reaches of ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-29/for-the-love-of-chablis","summary":"I recently had lunch with Saskia de Rothschild, the charismatic and companionable 39-year-old former journalist who is now chairman of Domaines Barons de Rothschild, the family’s global wine group. Guests brought along a bottle or two of Lafite Rothschild, and...","tags":["Food and Drink","The Last Vice"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/mshewzyhgs3c25y5xikvwiiz12y6-00b6d91e1cb8cc59a80b2c4d93bc730f.jpg","author":{"name":"Jay McInerney"},"date_published":"2026-08-29T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 29, 2026","date":"2026-08-29","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-29"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/jay-mcinerney\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJay M\u003cem\u003ec\u003c/em\u003eInerney\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"Crisp, bracing, and perfect with oysters—no wonder the Rothschilds are buying in","shorts":false,"banner":"The Last Vice","category":"Food and Drink"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-29/einsteins-eternal-returns","title":"Einstein’s Eternal Returns","content_text":"There is a series of advertisements on British TV for smart energy meters, featuring an actor made up to look like Albert Einstein. The message is clear: Einstein was smart, so it would be smart to get a smart meter. But as each ad ends, a caption flashes on-screen: “ALBERT EINSTEIN rights licensed by H.U.J. / CMGWorldwide.com.”This raises two questions. Why, 71 years after Einstein’s death, does anyone need permission to use his image, any more than they would Shakespeare’s or Jesus Christ’s? And what on earth is “H.U.J.”?The questions led me to the Beverly Hills penthouse ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-29/einsteins-eternal-returns","summary":"There is a series of advertisements on British TV for smart energy meters, featuring an actor made up to look like Albert Einstein. The message is clear: Einstein was smart, so it would be smart to get a smart meter....","tags":["Modern Times","post-mortem profits"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/rz0ie71maq094035n4jrnwqc2fle-4caf97033b82b3fdeae44c1c79c57e8e.jpg","author":{"name":"Jonathan Margolis"},"date_published":"2026-08-29T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 29, 2026","date":"2026-08-29","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-29"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/jonathan-margolis\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJonathan Margolis\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"Seventy-one years after Albert Einstein’s death, his face earns millions annually—and a Beverly Hills lawyer makes sure no one uses it for free","shorts":false,"banner":"post-mortem profits","category":"Modern Times"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-29/the-eames-houses","title":"The Eames Houses","content_text":"Where would we be without Charles and Ray Eames? Their incredible partnership, both personal and professional, gave us ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-29/the-eames-houses","summary":"Where would we be without Charles and Ray Eames? Their incredible partnership, both personal and professional, gave us ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/4cvemgbsj7fjj72w62geqn6czik4-27a72faf9d8c6e5278840d8b20b6c615.png","author":{"name":"Jeanne Malle"},"date_published":"2026-08-29T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 29, 2026","date":"2026-08-29","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-29"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/jeanne-malle\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJeanne Malle\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"look","shorts":true,"banner":"Best","category":"Recommended"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-29/moncler-x-hotel-jerome","title":"Moncler x Hotel Jerome","content_text":"There’s a calming sweet spot between the time when beach clubs close and the year-end ski craze ramps up: ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-29/moncler-x-hotel-jerome","summary":"There’s a calming sweet spot between the time when beach clubs close and the year-end ski craze ramps up: ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/9mubacev7lm5usrxi6kti09c9grb-615fa0e6a956c765f6f31ee9cdc88dac.png","author":{"name":"Maggie Turner"},"date_published":"2026-08-29T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 29, 2026","date":"2026-08-29","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-29"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/maggie-turner\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eMaggie Turner\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"hike","shorts":true,"banner":"Best","category":"Recommended"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-29/the-exciting-wilson-pickett","title":"The Exciting Wilson Pickett","content_text":"The third album from R\u0026B and soul singer Wilson Pickett, The Exciting Wilson Pickett, from 1966, captures ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-29/the-exciting-wilson-pickett","summary":"The third album from R\u0026B and soul singer Wilson Pickett, The Exciting Wilson Pickett, from 1966, captures ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/juvt4xk3fpj4od5q9ft27xr70xdk-18246cc55800750d0e3e7f7bfa6551dc.png","author":{"name":"Cassidy Sollazzo"},"date_published":"2026-08-29T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 29, 2026","date":"2026-08-29","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-29"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/cassidy-sollazzo\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eCassidy Sollazzo\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"listen","shorts":true,"banner":"Best","category":"Recommended"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-29/body-heat","title":"Body Heat","content_text":"This month, Body Heat celebrates its 45th anniversary with a sultry end to another hot summer. Lawrence Kasdan’s directorial debut ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-29/body-heat","summary":"This month, Body Heat celebrates its 45th anniversary with a sultry end to another hot summer. Lawrence Kasdan’s directorial debut ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/8n69jx7m7r25hgjf0tlcene3znrb-b2bd717a77da570a5c596af6934cadc7.png","author":{"name":"Eve Eismann"},"date_published":"2026-08-29T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 29, 2026","date":"2026-08-29","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-29"},"_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/2026-8-29/stitched","title":"Stitched","content_text":"It would not be inaccurate to call Eli McCann the Mormon version of David Sedaris, since he writes hilariously about his Salt Lake City ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-29/stitched","summary":"It would not be inaccurate to call Eli McCann the Mormon version of David Sedaris, since he writes hilariously about his Salt Lake City ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/umf0ebbeiuvhw8br9nxml888a2e1-4eecaf0abf09f6eddce1304c34a9e16b.png","author":{"name":"Jim Kelly"},"date_published":"2026-08-29T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 29, 2026","date":"2026-08-29","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-29"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/jim-kelly\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJim Kelly\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"read","shorts":true,"banner":"Best","category":"Recommended"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-29/glamour-in-new-york-photographs","title":"Glamour in New York: Photographs","content_text":"Rose Hartman used her trusty Olympus 35-mm. camera with black-and-white film one May night ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-29/glamour-in-new-york-photographs","summary":"Rose Hartman used her trusty Olympus 35-mm. camera with black-and-white film one May night ...","tags":["Recommended","Best"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/grr6irpndmap2xkqnad4qg7ck4z5-e29b29d2ab92709252e5e093a9f1d098.png","author":{"name":"Carolina de Armas"},"date_published":"2026-08-29T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 29, 2026","date":"2026-08-29","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-29"},"_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/2026-8-29/from-megxit-to-megret","title":"From Megxit to Megret","content_text":"The world was shocked when Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announced that they are moving back to the United Kingdom after six years living in the U.S. Is it concern over King Charles III’s health? A strategic career move? Homesickness for the weather? No one knows for sure why the Sussexes are heading back across the pond, but there’s no shortage of theories and explanations. The couple feel they’ve outgrown their seven-acre, nine-bedroom, 16-bathroom dump in Montecito. They miss the warmth and raucous humor of Charles and Camilla.\n There are only so many unannounced drop-ins by Oprah that a couple can take. ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-29/from-megxit-to-megret","summary":"The world was shocked when Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announced that they are moving back to the United Kingdom after six years living in the U.S. Is it concern over King Charles III’s health? A strategic career move? Homesickness...","tags":["Humor","Small Talk"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/vuh8vvr75yc7r7cv7um751z7xim9-b276527b5e679d072abcf97f38e15bac.jpg","author":{"name":"John Ficarra"},"date_published":"2026-08-29T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 29, 2026","date":"2026-08-29","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-29"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/john-ficarra\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJohn Ficarra\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"Harry and Meghan’s surprise return to the U.K. has left even veteran royal-watchers baffled. We have a few theories …","shorts":false,"banner":"Small Talk","category":"Humor"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-29/the-wild-life-of-peter-beard","title":"The Wild Life of Peter Beard","content_text":"Peter Beard was a Renaissance man in a safari jacket: an artist, a sometime actor, and an heir to tobacco and railroad fortunes. He was a fixture on Long Island’s East End, summering in the 70s at the East Hampton home of his then girlfriend Lee Radziwill, and holding court for decades at his own compound in Montauk. He was an unstoppable party animal for whom day and night were interchangeable, and an incorrigible ladies’ man who once climbed Mount Kilimanjaro on acid with a mistress while his wife waited at home. He would marry three times.But Beard was best known as an explorer and photographer. He first ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-29/the-wild-life-of-peter-beard","summary":"Peter Beard was a Renaissance man in a safari jacket: an artist, a sometime actor, and an heir to tobacco and railroad fortunes. He was a fixture on Long Island’s East End, summering in the 70s at the East Hampton...","tags":["Books","Open Book"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/2qwvl3brfqt1l4y7dm43dfw3s4yq-d67e319a3f94ee65aec80808c184fc4a.jpg","author":{"name":"Jeanne Malle"},"date_published":"2026-08-29T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 29, 2026","date":"2026-08-29","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-29"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/jeanne-malle\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJeanne Malle\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"His 1965 book, \u003cem\u003eThe End of the Game,\u003c/em\u003e sounded an early warning about Kenya’s wildlife crisis. Six decades on, its haunting photographs look more prophetic than ever","shorts":false,"banner":"Open Book","category":"Books"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-29/marriage-material","title":"Marriage Material","content_text":"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 ending, school is starting, and football season is looming. My husband’s fantasy-football league has been around since he graduated from college, so, in the hierarchy of his affections, it was technically his first wife. The Philadelphia Eagles pre-date his birth, which makes them less a team than a birthright. By the time football season arrives, I am not so much a wife as a mistress.Seventeen years of marriage, and it turns out there’s no traditional 17th-anniversary gift. Fifteen is crystal. Twenty is china. Seventeen gets nothing. ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-29/marriage-material","summary":"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 ending, school is starting, and football season is looming. My husband’s fantasy-football league...","tags":["Style","Notes on an Aesthetic"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/0uegabcx900swhyt2nm8g5dbvlr9-5f5c9d67b26b6d7361458ad9fa1f273b.jpg","author":{"name":"Jennifer Noyes"},"date_published":"2026-08-29T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 29, 2026","date":"2026-08-29","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-29"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/jennifer-noyes\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eJennifer Noyes\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":"A thoroughly unsentimental guide to the anniversary gifts you’ll actually want","shorts":false,"banner":"Notes on an Aesthetic","category":"Style"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-29/pucci-undercover","title":"Pucci Undercover","content_text":"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 met everywhere with social obligations. Yet from Honolulu to Tokyo, Sydney to Bangkok, and back home to Florence, write Idanna Pucci and Terence Ward in their assiduous biography Emilio Pucci: The Astonishing Odyssey of a Fashion Icon, the 21 day dresses, cocktail frocks, and a long ball gown Cristina brought with her were made of a silk jersey so fine they fit into a single suitcase, along with her husband’s dinner jacket, in a similar fabric also of his invention. ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-29/pucci-undercover","summary":"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 met everywhere with social obligations. Yet from Honolulu to Tokyo, Sydney...","tags":["Books"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/npa2xr9adoc5337214eil8h0hfcq-b4aedeb11671381a83beb1aa65f9c6d6.jpg","author":{"name":"Celia McGee"},"date_published":"2026-08-29T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 29, 2026","date":"2026-08-29","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-29"},"_article":{"byline_html":"\u003cem\u003eBy\u003c/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"/celia-mcgee\" data-purpose=\"author\" class=\"text-inherit\"\u003eCelia M\u003cem\u003ec\u003c/em\u003eGee\u003c/a\u003e","subhead":null,"shorts":false,"banner":"Books","category":"Books"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/dress-code/style/2026/8/cleo-camp","title":"Cleo Camp","content_text":"In the midst of the 2023 Hollywood writers’ strike, Cleo Camp, a young costume designer in Los Angeles, found herself with far too much time on her hands. She brought out an industrial Juki she’d received for her birthday and began sewing for the first time in years. The materials, a pile of silver leather scraps, came from a shoemaker’s studio in Hollywood. “I started patterning and sewing silver leather bags for friends, and, eventually, friends of friends,” she says. “Strangers started D.M.-ing me asking, Is that a Cleo Bag? Where do I get one?”She priced the bags at $148 to cover new materials and an ...","url":"https://airmail.news/dress-code/style/2026/8/cleo-camp","summary":"In the midst of the 2023 Hollywood writers’ strike, Cleo Camp, a young costume designer in Los Angeles, found herself with far too much time on her hands. She brought out an industrial Juki she’d received for her birthday and...","tags":["Style","Close-up"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/jhrlr2vnnpsoau8kaeqydyh2fzk3-415d2e691fdde0437d7cc008a60b0d97.jpg","author":{"name":"Carolina de Armas"},"date_published":"2026-08-29T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 29, 2026","date":"2026-08-29","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-29"},"_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":"Four years after sewing her first silver bag from scrap leather, the 28-year-old designer counts Lena Dunham, Zoë Kravitz, and Gracie Abrams among her fans","shorts":false,"banner":"Close-up","category":"Style"}},{"id":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-29/wish-you-were-here-love-stephen","title":"Wish You Were Here! Love, Stephen","content_text":"“We are who we’ve met,” Sir Stephen Hough writes in his epilogue to Enough: Scenes from Childhood (2023). Knighted in 2022, the mischievous Cheshire lad who steps out of its pages comes from a family on guard against anything that might smack of “posh” (which they pronounced powsh). Only the boy’s early obsession with the keyboard—initially discouraged by his parents—pointed to his destiny as a globe-trotting concert pianist, a composer in the major classical genres, and a fluent essayist and autobiographer to boot.In its own way, his album Piano Postcards—26 solo tracks totaling 75 minutes of music—reflects the same curiosity and ecumenical spirit that cast their glow on his memoir. “Long written letters have sort of gone now,” says Hough. (That’s ...","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-29/wish-you-were-here-love-stephen","summary":"“We are who we’ve met,” Sir Stephen Hough writes in his epilogue to Enough: Scenes from Childhood (2023). 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He extends the same exacting standard to his personal style: the Anderson \u0026 Sheppard tailoring, the round glasses, and, last but not least, his hair. Who better to face our questions on fashion sense and other sensibilities? At long last, and just in time for our third men’s issue, Carter sits in DRESS CODE’s Haute Seat. ...","url":"https://airmail.news/dress-code/style/2026/8/graydon-carter","summary":"Graydon Carter has applied his philosophy, and favorite refrain—“We’re in the excellence business!”—to just about everything over the course of his career, from the pages of Spy and Vanity Fair to yours truly, Air Mail, and now his production company,...","tags":["Style","In the Haute Seat"],"image":"https://photos.airmail.news/xq06x161ghrl1pzvq89hekt1roop-077ed822aa3c46f9b9f3ae233ec1599d.jpg","date_published":"2026-08-29T06:00:00.000-04:00","_issue":{"name":"August 29, 2026","date":"2026-08-29","url":"https://airmail.news/issues/2026-8-29"},"_article":{"byline_html":null,"subhead":"The AIR MAIL co-founder and editor emeritus of \u003cem\u003eVanity Fair \u003c/em\u003eanswers 43 questions on fashion sense and other sensibilities, including his penchant for Macy’s shorts and a Lacoste tennis shirt","shorts":false,"banner":"In the Haute Seat","category":"Style"}}]}