Guest Edits
Francesco Carrozzini has spent his career translating beauty into images. Raised by legendary Vogue Italia editor Franca Sozzani, he grew up surrounded by the photographers, designers, and artists who shaped modern fashion before carving out a career behind the camera himself. After directing documentaries, commercials, and television, he is now finishing his latest feature film, Un’altra Madre, for Amazon MGM Studios, shot entirely in Rome. Between cinema, fashion, and Italy, few people have a sharper eye for what deserves to be looked at. This week, he shares the objects that have earned a permanent role in his life
Mariella and Attilia Avino grew up inside Palazzo Avino, the pink palace overlooking Ravello that has become one of Italy’s most beloved hotels. Their father transformed it into a destination; today, the sisters have made it unmistakably their own. Mariella oversees the hotel while Attilia shares its story with the world, shaping every detail from the flowers and table settings to the feeling guests take home with them. This week, they share the objects, rituals, and everyday luxuries that have earned a place in their lives.
For more than two decades, Joey Jalleo has understood something most people spend a lifetime trying to learn: a great room is never just a room. It is the lighting, the soundtrack, the person at the door who remembers your name, and the feeling that something might happen before you even know what it is. From Bungalow 8 to the Boom Boom Room at The Standard High Line to Chateau Marmont and Chiltern Firehouse, Jalleo has helped create some of the world’s most magnetic spaces. After years as André Balazs’s right hand across New York, Los Angeles, and London, he now brings those instincts to JalleoWorld, his own hospitality consultancy. For AIR MAIL, he shares the objects, rituals, and details that make a room—and a life—work.
Barbara Gullstein knows the value of not trying too hard—which may explain why her taste is so easy to recognize. After years as a fashion director and consultant at Eurowoman and Elle, she developed an eye for the pieces that survive the noise. Today, as brand director at By Malene Birger, she is helping lead one of Scandinavia’s most quietly influential labels back into the spotlight at Copenhagen Fashion Week. Her approach is decidedly Scandinavian: fewer things, better chosen. For AIR MAIL, she shares the wardrobe staples, beauty rituals, and objects she considers worth keeping
Dominique Ansel has built a career on asking, What if? What if a croissant met a doughnut? What if a cookie doubled as a shot glass? What if a frozen s’more became the dessert of the summer? This season’s question: What if the Cronut met Grey Goose Berry Rouge? The James Beard Award-winning pastry chef has spent decades proving that pastry is as much about imagination as technique, earning a devoted following, and the title of World’s Best Pastry Chef along the way. Between his bakeries in New York and Las Vegas and his newest venture, Papa d’Amour, inspired by Asian bread culture and his French-Taiwanese family, Ansel shows no signs of running out of ideas. For AIR MAIL, he shares the tools, ingredients, and small obsessions that keep the ideas coming
Eva Chow has spent decades moving between Los Angeles, New York, Seoul, and everywhere in between, collecting not just art but an instinct for what deserves to last. As one of the forces behind Mr. Chow, where Warhol, Basquiat, and Hockney were regulars, she occupied a front-row seat to some of the most influential cultural conversations of the last half century. She has since co-founded LACMA’s Art+Film Gala with Leonardo DiCaprio, most recently launched KHEE Soju, a contemporary tribute to Korea’s distilling tradition, and continues to shape the worlds of art, design, and hospitality with uncommon ease. Which is to say: when Eva Chow recommends something, it’s worth paying attention. Here, she shares the travel companions she never leaves home without
AIR MAIL’s music editor, Randall Poster, has spent more than three decades choosing the songs that stay with you long after the credits roll. Working with Wes Anderson, Martin Scorsese, Richard Linklater, and many others, he has an unmatched instinct for the perfect needle drop. This week, he brings that ear to the Hollywood Bowl for Music from the Films of Wes Anderson—a three-night performance created with Anderson himself, featuring Beck, Bill Murray, Karen O, Jackson Browne, and an extraordinary lineup of collaborators whose voices have become part of the Anderson canon. Here, he shares the music, movies, and minor obsessions that make life worth soundtracking
Photo: Brigitte Lacombe (Poster)
As America turns 250 this July 4th, it seems only fitting to turn to Wes Gordon. The Atlanta-raised designer has spent the last seven years as creative director of Carolina Herrera, one of New York’s most beloved fashion houses, building on its founder’s legacy of fearless, joyful dressing while making it entirely his own. This summer, he arrives with a new handbag, the Mimi and an edit that reads like a very good life: antique mirrors, Christofle silver, children in botanical dresses, and a dog with excellent taste in bedding
Alexander Vreeland grew up sitting in his grandmother’s famously red living room, listening. It turns out that when your grandmother is Diana Vreeland—Harper’s Bazaar fashion editor, Vogue editor-in-chief, and the woman who advised Jackie Kennedy on how to dress a nation, you absorb a few things. After a career at Ralph Lauren and Giorgio Armani, Vreeland has spent the better part of the last decade stewarding her legacy: editing her Vogue memos into a Rizzoli volume, launching Diana Vreeland Parfums, and ensuring that the Empress of Fashion’s influence reaches generations who never got to sit in that red room. He does all of this, it turns out, with an extremely well-packed carry-on
Photo: © Bruce Weber (Vreelands)
Benjamin Talley Smith has spent years making other brands’ denim famous. The jeans that launched a thousand ShopMy links—at Khaite, Reformation, and Madewell—trace back, quietly, to him. Last year, The New York Times finally said what the industry already knew, calling Smith the most influential denim designer most people had never heard of. His new project, Subject to Change, is a characteristically understated debut: a small, handmade collection of one-of-one bags built from vintage denim he sources and reconstructs himself—the same obsessive craft, finally under his own name. For AIR MAIL, he shares his edit
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