July 1, 2023 – Air Mail

ON THE ROCKS

From Milan, Elena Clavarino reports on a gruesome murder involving a bartender at the prestigious Bamboo Bar, his pregnant girlfriend, and his wronged mistress …

THE END OF THE RAINBOW

From the culture wars, David Kaufman laments how the hyperfocus on transgender issues in the L.G.B.T. movement has kicked the L’s, G’s, and B’s to the curb …

CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT

From the U.K., Michael Odell speaks to the BBC’s “booker extraordinaire” about her months-long quest to secure that Prince Andrew interview …

HIGH CRIMES

From Swinging London, John Glatt investigates the shocking 1960s slaying of the teenage model Claudie Delbarre by the American playboy Robert Lipman, and his unusual defense: it was the LSD that did it …

ALL IS NOT WELLNESS

From Los Angeles, Gwyneth Paltrow’s former right-hand woman dishes on the Goop world, MDMA therapy, and the worrying way that wellness has spiraled into “busyness” …

RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE

From Hollywood, Richard M. Cohen looks back at the filming of John Ford’s Mogambo, which saw Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly, and Clark Gable flouncing through the Kenyan jungle, while Gardner’s then husband, Frank Sinatra, stewed in the heat …

NORMAL PEOPLE

From campus, James Marriott thinks it’s great that 80 percent of teenagers today believe they’re important. But what happens when that belief crashes into the banal reality of life? …

BUT, WAIT, THERE’S MORE! …

The wild life of Peter Beard … Is Lucid beating Tesla at its own game? … the almost extinct sport played by both English lords and Boston Brahmins … the incredible French home of Max Ernst and Leonora Carrington … Daphné Guinness likes to hide in her Birkin bag … Bruce Bozzi takes a bite out of Jon Hamm …

Issue No. 207

The View from Here Pride flags in June are now as ubiquitous as tinsel in December. Yet, as a gay man, I’ve never felt more invisible within the L.G.B.T. movement

By David Christopher Kaufman

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Match Point, Italian–Style When a Milanese waiter’s mistress confronted his pregnant girlfriend about their affair, he took matters into his own gruesome hands

By Elena Clavarino

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A Very British Scandal-Maker Sam McAlister, the longtime BBC producer who persuaded Prince Andrew to do that car-crash interview, tells all

By Michael Odell

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Postcard from Paris

Ahead of Paris’s display of haute couture, we invite you to revel in our favorite Gallic discoveries, from made-in-France clothing to vintage champagne buckets and more

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Photo: Michel Maurou/WWD/Penske Media/Getty Images (Adjani)

My Favorite Things A bona fide expert in transforming any space into a scene-stealing destination, the Roman and Williams co-founder shares the pieces she can’t live without

By Robin Standefer

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Photo: Sebastian Kim (Standefer)

Sex, Drugs, and Bloody Murder The gruesome killing of an aspiring model by a rich American playboy sent shock waves through Swinging London and its infamous Chelsea Set

By John Glatt

Photo illustration by Chop Choppish Shop

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“Burger with—I’m guessing—American cheese?”

Lunch with Jon Hamm The Maggie Moore(s) actor joins host Bruce Bozzi on this week’s Table for Two to talk about avoiding the Don Draper trap, how obsessive Tom Cruise really is, his marriage, and much more …

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Read The Book of Charlie When Washington Post opinion columnist David Von Drehle first met his new neighbor, Charles Herbert White, in the suburbs of…

Sip Sainte Marguerite en Provence Until now, it would have been almost impossible to find…

Gift Especially Puglia Even Starbucks is all aboard the olive-oil train these days. The concoctions have gotten admittedly a little too creative. (No, I don’t want a drizzle…

Set Chefanie No one has perfected the art of the table-scape like Stephanie Nass, the force behind the oh-so-Instagrammable brand Chefanie…

SIP Vesper Bar When in London, there are several reasons to drop by the Dorchester, just off Hyde Park. For starters, it’s never a bad idea to…

SPARKLE Paco Rabanne It started with the bags, and then the dresses, and now the costume jewelry: our affection for Paco Rabanne (under the creative direction…

Read The Book of Charlie When Washington Post opinion columnist David Von Drehle first met his new neighbor, Charles Herbert White, in the suburbs of…

Sip Sainte Marguerite en Provence Until now, it would have been almost impossible to find…

Gift Especially Puglia Even Starbucks is all aboard the olive-oil train these days. The concoctions have gotten admittedly a little too creative. (No, I don’t want a drizzle…

Set Chefanie No one has perfected the art of the table-scape like Stephanie Nass, the force behind the oh-so-Instagrammable brand Chefanie…

SIP Vesper Bar When in London, there are several reasons to drop by the Dorchester, just off Hyde Park. For starters, it’s never a bad idea to…

SPARKLE Paco Rabanne It started with the bags, and then the dresses, and now the costume jewelry: our affection for Paco Rabanne (under the creative direction…

I Am Important Being exceptional is overrated. Perhaps it’s time to embrace the power of an ordinary life

By James Marriott

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Sinatra in the Jungle On the 70th anniversary of Mogambo, John Ford’s 1950s adultery epic set in Africa, a behind-the-scenes look at its stars—Grace Kelly, Clark Gable, and Ava Gardner, married to Frank Sinatra at the time

By Richard M. Cohen

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Little Myth Perfect Despite ghostwriting 12 books, recording a weekly podcast with half a million listeners, and raising two sons, Elise Loehnen—Gwyneth’s former right-hand woman at Goop—felt inadequate and incomplete

By Megan Agnew

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Anyone for Fives? Anyone? As Wimbledon approaches and the lawn-tennis season enters full swing, another, less vaunted ball sport is clinging to life

By Trevor Jones

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An Intriguing New Model Tesla aficionados who have lost their appetite for Elon Musk are turning to Lucid

By Laura Neilson

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“Actually, we were kinda hoping you could lend us some money.”

Welcome to Club Med Long lunch breaks, no late-night work e-mails, and a seasonal superfood diet—it’s just another day in the South of France

By Debora Robertson

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Rachel Tabb The owner of RLT, a vintage boutique in West Hollywood, upholds Los Angeles’s reputation for used clothing, but adds sharp curation to the mix

By Chris Black

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Inside the Murder That Shocked Swinging London On this week’s podcast, John Glatt reveals why a drugged-out American playboy killed a young woman

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In Search of Lost Whimsy In a new coffee-table book, the eccentric Italian artist and designer Gaetano Pesce looks back on his life and career, and reflects on his longtime enemy: coherence

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A 1970 promotional photo for the Moloch lamp, designed by Gaetano Pesce.

The Rubber House, designed by Pesce in Bahia in 1998.

Pesce’s 1987 drawing for his Pluralist Tower.

An installation view of Pesce’s *Working Gallery,* from 2019.

A Pesce-designed bookcase from the apartment of Alberto Carenza, from 1969.

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Into the Wild The adventurous side of the legendary photographer Peter Beard was part instinct, part carefully manicured image

By Christopher Wallace

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The Midas Touch Everything the American soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen touches turns to gold

By Matthew Gurewitsch

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Jim Kelly On

Thoroughly Modern: The Pioneering Life of Barbara Ker-Seymer, Photographer, and Her Brilliant Bohemian Friends

by Sarah Knights

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Home and Away Inside the magical French farmhouse teeming with undiscovered artwork by Max Ernst and Leonora Carrington, two of the biggest names in Surrealism

By Joanna Moorhead

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Daphné Guinness

The musician and composer answers 49 of life’s most pressing questions

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The View from Here Pride flags in June are now as ubiquitous as tinsel in December. Yet, as a gay man, I’ve never felt more invisible within the L.G.B.T. movement

Match Point, Italian–Style When a Milanese waiter’s mistress confronted his pregnant girlfriend about their affair, he took matters into his own gruesome hands

A Very British Scandal-Maker Sam McAlister, the longtime BBC producer who persuaded Prince Andrew to do that car-crash interview, tells all

Ahead of Paris’s display of haute couture, we invite you to revel in our favorite Gallic discoveries, from made-in-France clothing to vintage champagne buckets and more

My Favorite Things A bona fide expert in transforming any space into a scene-stealing destination, the Roman and Williams co-founder shares the pieces she can’t live without

Sex, Drugs, and Bloody Murder The gruesome killing of an aspiring model by a rich American playboy sent shock waves through Swinging London and its infamous Chelsea Set

Lunch with Jon Hamm The Maggie Moore(s) actor joins host Bruce Bozzi on this week’s Table for Two to talk about avoiding the Don Draper trap, how obsessive Tom Cruise really is, his marriage, and much more …

I Am Important Being exceptional is overrated. Perhaps it’s time to embrace the power of an ordinary life

Sinatra in the Jungle On the 70th anniversary of Mogambo, John Ford’s 1950s adultery epic set in Africa, a behind-the-scenes look at its stars—Grace Kelly, Clark Gable, and Ava Gardner, married to Frank Sinatra at the time

Little Myth Perfect Despite ghostwriting 12 books, recording a weekly podcast with half a million listeners, and raising two sons, Elise Loehnen—Gwyneth’s former right-hand woman at Goop—felt inadequate and incomplete

Anyone for Fives? Anyone? As Wimbledon approaches and the lawn-tennis season enters full swing, another, less vaunted ball sport is clinging to life

An Intriguing New Model Tesla aficionados who have lost their appetite for Elon Musk are turning to Lucid

Welcome to Club Med Long lunch breaks, no late-night work e-mails, and a seasonal superfood diet—it’s just another day in the South of France

Rachel Tabb The owner of RLT, a vintage boutique in West Hollywood, upholds Los Angeles’s reputation for used clothing, but adds sharp curation to the mix

Inside the Murder That Shocked Swinging London On this week’s podcast, John Glatt reveals why a drugged-out American playboy killed a young woman

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In Search of Lost Whimsy In a new coffee-table book, the eccentric Italian artist and designer Gaetano Pesce looks back on his life and career, and reflects on his longtime enemy: coherence

Into the Wild The adventurous side of the legendary photographer Peter Beard was part instinct, part carefully manicured image

The Midas Touch Everything the American soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen touches turns to gold

Home and Away Inside the magical French farmhouse teeming with undiscovered artwork by Max Ernst and Leonora Carrington, two of the biggest names in Surrealism

The musician and composer answers 49 of life’s most pressing questions

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Creative Director

Deputy Editors

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Associate Editors

Art Director

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Communications Director

Columnists

Writers at Large

Contributing Artists

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Head of Audience Development

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Cartoon Editor

Music Supervisor

Photo Editor

Designer

Technology

Interns

OUR CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER AND CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER ARE

Air Supply General Manager and Brand Partnerships

Advertising Director

European Sales Director

Financial & Business Operations

Account Manager

Chief Strategy Adviser

Chief Merchant

Shop Editor

E-Commerce Manager

E-Commerce Associates

In Memoriam