3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (169+ words) Air Mail Though we might consider Practical Magic quintessentially 90s today, the costume designer Judianna Makovsky was aiming for a timeless look when she worked on the film ahead of its 1998 release. “I tried to do something that wouldn’t age, so…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (190+ words) Air Mail Visitors to most downtown-Manhattan designer boutiques nowadays are immediately met by some figure at the doorway: a security guard, a greeter, a doorperson to size up the incoming crowd and keep capacity to a V.I.P.-feeling minimum. At Monse,…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (137+ words) airmail.news There will never be another Tom Wolfe—that much is indisputable. But, as we here at AIR MAIL discovered over the course of our ongoing search for the winners of the second annual Tom Wolfe Prizes, there are…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (194+ words) Air Mail It’s hard to grasp the scope of 172,000 acres. It’s larger than the city of Chicago, which makes it sound big, or half the size of Rhode Island, which somehow makes it sound less big. In any case, that’s…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (133+ words) Air Mail Jon Bois makes documentaries about athletes named Bob, baseball brawls, and the worst team in N.B.A. history. Why are they so moving? The most original filmmaker working in the United States today isn’t a Safdie, an Eggers, or an…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (79+ words) Air Mail It’s the 1980s, and Hollywood’s best—and most beautiful—writer wants you to write a screenplay with her. Can you keep up? In 1970s Los Angeles, all the boys wanted to sleep with Eve. I was one of the lucky…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (143+ words) Air Mail Christine Safa paints from memory. “Maybe it’s to preserve something that I am afraid is going to go away,” says the 32-year-old artist. She grew up in the western suburbs of Paris, but often returned to Lebanon, her…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (246+ words) Air Mail Everyone is talking about how weird shoes are back. There’s the outrageously long-toed Brigitte pumps, courtesy of Saint Laurent, the clear PVC ankle booties at Loewe, and let’s not forget the absence of arches altogether at Chanel Cruise…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (200+ words) How Emilio Pucci Went From Fascist Student to Allied Spy Air Mail 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…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (186+ words) Sir Stephen Hough on "Piano Postcards," His New Solo Album Inspired by His Travels Air Mail “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…...