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Wednesday, October 14, 2026 Palm Beach · Beverly Hills · Nashville
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Beverly Hills Brides

A Bride Who Was Her Own Atelier, Three Times Over

Micarah Tewers passed through her wedding day in three separate gowns, and not one of them came out of a dressmaker's shop. She cut and stitched every one of them with her own hands. The dress she changed into for the reception was trimmed in plumes, and the whole of it came to roughly seventeen dollars. That is the number that gives the day its shape: a feathered gown, worn to the party, made for less than most brides spend on the ribbon. In this city the dresses tend to arrive in garment bags from houses with their names on the door, and the ceremony and the dinner after it are usually dressed by someone else. Here the bride was the designer, the seamstress, the fitter and the woman at the altar, all at once. The account made room for her shoes as well, though that part of the story stays hers.
What They Sail

Four Cabins, Three Heads, and a Service Log That Starts at Delivery: A Hatteras GT65 Comes to Market

A Hatteras GT65 is now available through brokerage, and the detail that will matter most to a buyer is how it has been kept. The boat's upkeep has been in professional hands from the day it left the builder, which is the kind of record an owner can read before ever stepping aboard. Below decks the 65-footer is laid out with four cabins and three heads, enough to carry a family and guests on a long weekend without anyone drawing the short straw. It is built as a running boat first, in the Hatteras tradition, and the accommodation is arranged to match that purpose. The listing carries no asking figure on the record, and we do not guess at one. For Florida owners weighing a convertible that is ready to fish rather than ready for a refit, this one deserves a look.
What They Sail

Itama's New 70 Pairs Three Cabins With a Near-40-Knot Top End

Itama has introduced a 70-foot model that puts the emphasis where owners who run their own boats tend to want it: on deck, in the sun, and at speed. The builder reports a top end that comes close to 40 knots, which puts a Palm Beach to Bimini crossing comfortably inside a single morning. Below, the layout gives up none of the overnight practicality for that pace, with three staterooms for an owner, family, and guests. The open deck has been given more room than the length alone would suggest, so the cockpit and foredeck work as genuine living space rather than passage between the helm and the swim platform. The profile stays low and athletic, the sort of silhouette that reads well tied up along the Intracoastal or idling out of Government Cut on a Saturday. For a Florida owner who wants one boat for day runs, weekends on the hook, and the occasional dash across the Stream, the brief here is a familiar one, handled with evident care.
What It Sold For

Joan Crawford's Two Addresses, Southern California and Manhattan, Open for a Look

Architectural Digest has assembled ten photographs of Joan Crawford at home, moving between a Southern California house and a New York apartment set high above the street. The Academy Award winner kept the two as places to retreat from the pressures of film work and of her private life. For a reader on either coast, the pairing is the point. One residence belongs to the Los Angeles of the studio era, the other to the New York she chose when she wanted distance from it. The images show the actress inside both, which is a rarer view than the exterior shots that usually stand in for a star's domestic life.
What It Sold For

A Los Angeles House With No Pedigree Borrows the City's

Dean Levin has taken a Los Angeles residence that arrived with no particular architectural identity and given it one drawn from the city itself. The designer's approach was to let the house speak the language of the region's celebrated buildings and makers rather than impose a look from elsewhere. Inside, pieces Levin designed himself sit alongside work by well-known names from France, Denmark, and Italy. The result reads as a conversation between Southern California and the European modernists whose work has long found a home here. No address or sale price has been made public, and we do not estimate what has not been recorded.
Private Jet Owners

Flying Starts Grading Pilot Gifts Before the Holiday Scramble

Flying has set up a judged roundup of presents for people who fly, called The FLYING Gift List. Submissions go to the magazine's editors, who rate them and sort the field into five groupings before declaring a winner in each. For anyone who owns an airplane and dreads another December of fielding well-meant but useless gifts from relatives, a vetted list from a working aviation editorial staff is at least a place to point them. What the categories are and what made the cut, the magazine has not yet said.
Where They Eat

Joining Delta SkyMiles Gets Shorter for Travelers Who Book Through Amex GBT

Delta Air Lines and American Express Global Business Travel are trying out a feature that lets travelers booking through the agency join Delta SkyMiles in a single step. The pilot is aimed at people flying on company business, the kind who land for a meeting and stay for a reservation. Both companies are wagering that stripping the friction out of signing up will bring more of those flyers into the program. For a reader who books the table before the flight, it means one less form between the office and the dining room.
Class of Nashville

Five Years In, William Beckmann's Holiday Run Is Now a Tradition of Its Own

William Beckmann is taking his Las Posadas Tour out for the fifth consecutive year, marking the season the way he has come to prefer. The Mexican-American singer, songwriter, and guitarist named the outing for the Advent custom of neighbors walking door to door in search of shelter, and the title still fits a performer bringing a holiday show from room to room. A yearly engagement that reaches a fifth installment has moved past experiment and into ritual, and that is the kind of consistency this town's industry rewards.
Class of Nashville

The Operator Behind Results Global Takes a Turn in Music Row's Spotlight

Jackie Campbell, who shares the top job at Results Global and runs its day-to-day operations, is the latest Nashville executive to sit for MusicRow's long-running career-profile series. The firm is the one that until recently carried the name 615 Leverage, a nod to the area code every working person on Music Row knows by heart. Green Hills tends to notice when the people managing the business side of the business get this kind of attention, because that is where the industry's deals actually get done. For a company that has just taken on a new name, having its co-leader introduced to the Row's readers is a quiet marker of arrival.
Class of Florida

The Most Palm Beach Thing About BMW's Armored 7 Series Is That You'd Never Know

BMW has built a prototype 7 Series with armor in it, and the whole idea is that no one looking at the car would guess. The sedan keeps its ordinary face while the hardening stays out of sight, a brand of understatement that reads better on Worth Avenue than on Ocean Drive. Miami would want the armor visible, Naples would want it mentioned over dinner, and Palm Beach would prefer the subject never come up at all. For now it remains a concept, which is to say the car is making a quiet case rather than an announcement.
Class of Florida

Jane Fonda Was Only a Tenant, but the Whitley Heights House Still Carries Her Name at $2 Million

A house in Whitley Heights, up in the Hollywood Hills, has come to market asking $2 million, and its most famous occupant never held the deed. Jane Fonda leased the place across two chapters of her life, first as the wife of Roger Vadim, the French director, and later as the wife of Tom Hayden. Renting rather than owning did nothing to dim the association; the listing leads with her, and so does everyone else. For a Florida reader, the price is the part worth lingering on. Two million is a figure Naples would call sensible, Palm Beach would call an opening position, and Miami would call a down payment on a view of the water. In the Hollywood Hills, it buys a hillside address with a genuine screen pedigree, which is its own kind of waterfront.
What They Drive

A Battery-Powered Levante and a Long-Roofed Quattroporte Heir Are on Maserati's Drawing Board

Maserati's chief executive has offered a first look at two models to come: a Levante that runs on electricity alone, and a car to carry the Quattroporte name forward with its roofline carried back over the cargo area in the manner of a shooting brake rather than ending in a conventional sedan trunk. For the owners who already keep a trident-badged SUV or four-door in a Palm Beach or Beverly Hills garage, the news is that both of those familiar nameplates are being reimagined rather than retired. Beyond the two body styles described, the report offered no further specifics.
What They Drive

Volkswagen Commits to a More Affordable ID.Buzz for American Buyers

Volkswagen's chief executive has confirmed that a next-generation ID.Buzz is headed to the United States, and that the price of admission is coming down with it. For American owners who have admired the electric Microbus but balked at the window sticker, that is the news that matters most. Patience will be required, since a fully redesigned van remains some distance off. The revisions Volkswagen has in mind are aimed squarely at the single complaint buyers here have raised most often about the current model, which is what it costs.
Who Wore What When

Céline Dion Puts a 1997 Oscar Night Back Under the Stage Lights

Céline Dion's latest tour wardrobe reaches back to an Academy Awards red carpet nearly three decades old. The gown is Chanel, made specifically for her, and designed to echo the sparkling dress she wore to the 1997 Oscars. The house's workrooms logged 1,380 hours to finish it, the kind of figure usually reserved for couture rather than something built to survive a concert schedule. Seen from the house seats, it reads as a conversation between the singer at the height of her first Hollywood moment and the singer standing on stage now. The original carried her through one of Los Angeles's biggest nights, and the new version carries that memory along with it. For a city that watched the first dress arrive in person, the sequel is worth a second look.
What They Ride

Fasig-Tipton's October Digital Sale Brings $6.7 Million for 287 Horses

Fasig-Tipton wrapped its October Digital Sale on Wednesday afternoon with a gross of $6,729,000. The sale was run as a pair of online sessions, the earlier one concluding Tuesday and the second a day later. Across both, 287 horses changed hands. The top price belonged to Ada Clare, who led the catalog when the final bids were tallied. For the American turf, a digital auction of this size is a reminder that the sales ring now extends well beyond the pavilion, with buyers following the bidding from wherever they happen to be. The numbers speak to steady appetite for bloodstock in the autumn trade, and to a consignor base willing to bring stock to a screen rather than a stall.
What They Ride

Trainer Chad Brown Returns to the Flower Bowl Stakes on Thursday

The Grade 2 Flower Bowl Stakes runs Thursday, carrying a purse of $500,000. The race has been good to Chad Brown before, and the trainer's barn is represented again this year as he looks to add another Flower Bowl trophy to his record. For readers who follow the turf by trainer rather than by ticket, that is the detail worth marking on the calendar: a half-million-dollar Grade 2 on the grass, and the most consistent name in the division back for more.
Brides of Beverly Hills

Decide the Dress Before the Tent, and the Rest Gets Easier

For brides still staring at a blank floor plan, a South Carolina wedding offers a sequencing lesson worth copying. The bride commissioned her gown before anything else was settled, and that single decision became the reference point for every choice that followed. The venue was The Reserve at Lake Keowee, where the couple started with nothing more than a bare sailcloth tent. Sara Divine Wedding & Events took that open canvas and worked outward from the dress, threading one flower, a lily, through the design as the connecting motif. The practical takeaway is that a made-to-order gown fixes your palette, your level of formality, and your silhouette for the room long before the rental order goes in. Choose it early, and the tent, the tables, and the florals have something concrete to answer to rather than a mood board.
Photo by rexhammock on Flickr
Class of Nashville

The Lights Stay On: TVA Readies a 2.5-Gigawatt Expansion

The utility that keeps Nashville's studios humming and its hillside kitchens lit is preparing to grow. The Tennessee Valley Authority intends to bring an additional 2.5 gigawatts of generating capacity onto its system. The price of that work comes to $581 million. Of that sum, $250 million arrives in the form of a federal grant, leaving the authority to carry the remainder. For a region whose growth is measured in new rooftops from Green Hills to the far edge of Williamson County, a build-out of this scale is the sort of quiet infrastructure that makes every louder ambition possible. It is not glamorous work, but it is the kind that well-run places tend to get right.
Beverly Hills Brides

The Bride Who Made Her Own Trousseau, Three Gowns Deep

Micarah Tewers walked through her wedding day in three different dresses, and not one of them came from a shop. She cut and stitched each of them herself. The gown she changed into for the reception was trimmed in feathers, and the materials for it ran to roughly seventeen dollars. That is less than a single corsage costs on most Beverly Hills wedding invoices. The dresses for the ceremony and the hours in between came from the same pair of hands. Her footwear drew notice of its own, though the full account of the shoes has yet to reach us. In a town where couture is ordered a year out, a bride who sewed the whole wardrobe herself is the rarer achievement.
Private Jet Owners

The Voice on Frequency Is Being Told to Flag What It Sees

A new column in Flying, written from the controller's side of the radio, argues that the people working your clearances should treat raising a concern as part of the job rather than an option left to temperament. The piece frames it as a question of safety and of how controllers and pilots talk to each other. For an owner flying their own airplane, or a Part 91K crew working a busy terminal area, the practical reading is that a controller who says something unprompted is doing exactly what the column asks. That is the system functioning, not an interruption to it.
What It Sold For

A Bowery Night Brings Rhizome More Than $438,000 for Its Thirtieth Year

Rhizome, the New York nonprofit devoted to digital art, turned thirty this fall and marked the occasion with a benefit at Capitale in Manhattan. The evening took place on September 23. By the close of the night, the organization had raised more than $438,000. The sum is a record for the group's benefit, and it goes toward the work that has defined Rhizome from the start: keeping digital art alive and accessible long after the software and screens it was made for have moved on. For a city that likes to measure an institution by its buildings, Rhizome is a reminder that some of New York's most durable cultural work has no façade at all. It lives on servers, in code, and in the hands of the people who maintain it. Three decades in, that work now has fresh funding behind it.
What It Sold For

Apparatus Picks Miami for Its Next Showroom

The New York design studio Apparatus has announced that it will open a showroom in Miami. The news arrived just before the studio is set to unveil a new collection in London, which places the Miami address on the calendar ahead of that overseas debut. No street address, architect, or opening date has been made public, and the studio has put no figure on the record for the space. For a city that has spent years building its standing in design, the arrival of a studio of this reputation is the kind of commitment worth noting.
What It Sold For

Balanchine at Both Ends: City Ballet Frames Adrian Danchig-Waring's Last Night on October 18

New York City Ballet has set October 18 as the night Adrian Danchig-Waring dances with the company for the final time, and the program has been built with the proportion of a well-made house. Two Balanchine works stand at either end of the evening, the opening and the close given over to the choreographer whose name the company rests on. Between them sit two very different rooms. One is a duet for two men choreographed by Lar Lubovitch, a work credited with opening new ground. The other is a new piece from Pam Tanowitz, made expressly for this one occasion. For a New York audience, the appeal is the structure itself: the house style holding the frame while something historic and something brand new fill the middle. It is a farewell arranged the way this city arranges its best evenings, with the foundation visible and the center left for the person being honored.
What It Sold For

The House Is the Brief: Swizz Beatz Draws a CB2 Collection From the Home He Keeps With Alicia Keys

Swizz Beatz has turned the rooms he lives in into a line of furnishings. The producer's new collection for CB2 is modeled on the residence he and Alicia Keys share, a house that now serves as the reference point for an entire catalog. The signature piece is a DJ booth, raised above the floor so the person at the decks stands a step over the room rather than tucked into a corner of it. For a title that follows how American houses are built and lived in, the notable move is the direction of travel: a private home informing what arrives in a national retailer's showroom, not the other way around. The booth is the headline object, but the premise is the house itself, and it is the reason the line reads as a portrait of a particular address rather than a general mood.
Class of Florida

Up Front on Delta, the Bourbon Is Now Blanton's

Delta has reworked what it serves in Delta One, the carrier's top cabin, from the plates to the wine list to the bar cart. Among the new arrivals: Blanton's on the bourbon side, and a braised lamb on the menu. For a Naples reader, that is a dinner worth the seat; for a Palm Beach reader, it is roughly what the club pours on a Thursday; for Miami, it is the part of the flight that happens before the party. Either way, the glass arriving at the seat has been upgraded, and so has what comes after it.
Class of Florida

Twenty-Five Years In, Peter Millar Reaches for the Soft Stuff

Peter Millar is marking its first twenty-five years in business the way a Naples golfer marks a cool January morning: with cashmere. The brand is treating the milestone as a chance to go back to where it started, with the hand-finished work that first earned it a place in the better closets from Palm Beach to Port Royal. In a state where a sweater gets perhaps six honest weeks of use a year, that is precisely the sort of thing our readers buy anyway, and buy well.
Class of Florida

The Ferrari That Could Sell for Nearly Six Times Its Sticker

A 2022 Ferrari Daytona SP3 heads to the block on October 31 under the RM Sotheby's banner, and the estimate attached to it runs to $13 million. That is a striking figure for a car that left the factory just four years ago with a starting price of $2.2 million. Ferrari built only 600 of the model, and this particular car is one the company used for its own promotional work rather than one that went straight to a private garage. The arithmetic is what stops a reader cold: a modern Ferrari, barely broken in, valued at a multiple most collectors wait decades to see. Anyone who has watched one of these idle along Worth Avenue, or seen one parked a little too proudly outside a Brickell restaurant, or spotted one easing down Fifth Avenue South in Naples will understand the appeal. Where it ends up after the hammer falls is anyone's guess, but this part of Florida has never lacked for garages with room to spare.
Class of Florida

The Dells Are Letting Boston Go, and the Opening Number Is $6.5 Million

Michael and Susan Dell have put their penthouse atop Boston's Millennium Tower on the auction block. Bidding is set to open at $6.5 million, and the residence goes to whoever is willing to climb highest from there. An auction is a different sort of sale than a quiet listing with a broker: it names a floor, sets a date, and invites the room to decide the rest. For a home at the top of one of Boston's tallest addresses, that is a confident way to let go. Readers from Palm Beach to Naples will recognize the type of property, if not the climate: the city perch that goes with a life split between several zip codes. Whoever wins the paddle inherits a view of a very old city from a very new height.
What They Ride

Five Classic Winners, Ranked by the People Who Watch Them Closest

America's Best Racing has put out a short list naming the five Breeders' Cup Classic winners it considers the finest ever to take the race. The exercise asks a question that gets argued over every autumn in barn aisles and sales pavilions alike, which of the horses who have won the Breeders' Cup's richest prize truly stands above the rest. The outlet has given its answer in order, one through five, and left the debate to the rest of us.
What They Ride

Cigar's Greatness Was Made in the Barn, Not Just Born

A new appreciation of Cigar places the credit for his championship years where the backside has always known it belongs, with the trainer who shaped him. The piece frames his story as the clearest American example of conditioning turning a capable racehorse into an incomparable one. For readers who follow the sales ring and the shedrow as closely as the finish line, it is a reminder that a horseman's patience and judgment are as much a part of a champion as pedigree.
What They Ride

Belmont Park Owns the Week's Fastest Maidens, and a Repole Uncle Mo Filly Is Among Them

Every one of the week's five quickest first-time winners came out of Belmont Park, a sweep for the New York track in the latest tally of maiden Beyer Speed Figures for Oct. 5 through 11. One of the five is Badittude, a two-year-old filly who broke her maiden going a mile in the second race on Oct. 7. She is by Uncle Mo out of the Bernardini mare Donatella and runs for Repole Stable. Her winning effort earned a Beyer Speed Figure of 82, a number that puts a juvenile filly in company with the best debut performances anywhere in the country that week. For a yard watching its young stock come through, a figure like that at a mile on a Belmont afternoon is the kind of line that gets a pedigree page pulled out and read again. That the list belongs entirely to one track says something about the depth of the maiden ranks on Long Island this fall.
Where They Eat

Booking Puts $100 Million Behind an Itinerary That Pays Attention

Booking Holdings intends to put $100 million into Vayo, a newly formed artificial-intelligence company. The idea behind Vayo is that a schedule of flights, rooms and dinner reservations should not sit still once it is written. The software is meant to study a traveler's habits and keep an eye on the journey from the first leg to the last, instead of simply listing where to be and when. For anyone who builds a season around a table in Palm Beach or a week in Aspen, the promise is a plan that notices things on your behalf. Booking's existing products already handle the arranging. Vayo is the bet that arranging is only the start.
Where They Eat

That Rebate on Your Room Is a Wager on Your Return

A tenth of the bill, returned to the guest, has settled in as the standard sweetener in hotel booking. It shows up on the rate page, in the loyalty app, in the card offer, and the figure rarely moves. The arithmetic behind it is plain enough once you stand it on its head. A hotel, or the company booking the hotel, is not pricing the night you just slept; it is pricing the nights it expects to sell you later. The more a guest is likely to spend down the road, the more generous the house can afford to be at the front desk today. For readers who keep a standing reservation in Palm Beach or a favorite room in Aspen, the offer is less a discount than a compliment: someone has run the numbers and decided you are worth courting.
Icons of Palm Beach

A Century On, Pooh Keeps a New York Address

The bear turns one hundred this year, and the place that claims him is not an English wood but the New York Public Library. Town & Country has traced the route by which a creature of such thoroughly British invention came to reside in Manhattan, and the account is worth the read before the next trip north. For those of us who divide the year between the island and the city, it is a reminder that some of the best things in New York are kept quietly, behind library doors, rather than announced from a marquee. A hundred years is a long time for any character to hold a public's affection, and longer still for one who never asked for more than a pot of honey. That he should mark the milestone as a New Yorker, of all things, feels exactly right.
Beverly Hills News

Stephen Chow's 'Kung Fu Soccer' Comes to American Theaters Oct. 23 With an English-Language Version

Moviegoers in Los Angeles will be able to see "Kung Fu Soccer," Stephen Chow's follow-up to "Shaolin Soccer," beginning Oct. 23, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The date applies to theaters across the United States, and the picture arrives in Canada, the United Kingdom and Ireland the same day. The film was the leading title at Chinese theaters over the summer, the outlet reported. For its North American run, a fresh English-language dub has been recorded. Chow himself takes part in that version, and the voice cast also includes Jimmy O. Yang and MC Jin. The release gives local audiences a chance to see the new entry in a theater rather than waiting for a home-viewing option.
Beverly Hills News

Former TV Sales Executives Open Ad-Buying Platform Spanning 13 Publishers

DataFuelX, an analytics firm run by executives who previously sold television advertising, has introduced a service called DFX Marketplace. The platform gives advertisers a single point of purchase for video inventory drawn from 13 publishers. According to Variety, the company's aim is to reassemble viewers whose attention is now spread across many outlets into audiences that advertisers can buy at once.
Beverly Hills News

First Audiences Respond Favorably to DC's 'Clayface'

Early screenings of "Clayface," a DC Comics thriller built around one of its villains, have drawn approving responses from the journalists and fans who have seen it, according to Variety Film. Those initial reactions describe the film as a horror story centered on the body, and several viewers said it delivers what they expect from a picture told from the villain's side. Variety reports that the early word also notes the film does not hold back on its harsher sequences. For readers here, where much of the industry that produces such films is based, the first response offers an early read before the picture reaches wider audiences.
Beverly Hills News

Made By Us Studios Joins Issa Rae's Hoorae as a TikTok Vertical-Series Partner

TikTok has reached an agreement with Made By Us Studios to produce microdramas for the platform. It is the second arrangement of its kind the company has struck with a production outfit. The first was with Hoorae, the company run by Issa Rae, which was set up to turn out series shot in the vertical format that TikTok viewers watch on their phones. That earlier partnership yielded "Screen Time," a drama that found an audience on the platform. The new deal brings a second studio into the same line of work.
What They Drive

Acura Is Pairing a V6 Hybrid With Two New SUVs, One Built for the Trail

Acura has two sport-utilities in development, according to a new report: a model intended for rough-road and trail driving, and a large three-row family vehicle. Both are expected to share a fresh hybrid powertrain built around a V6. The report did not include names, timing, or pricing for either vehicle. For owners who split the year between Florida's flat coast and the mountain roads above Aspen, a trail-minded Acura with six-cylinder hybrid power is the detail worth watching.
Photo by James Orr on Unsplash
What They Drive

A Factory-Used Ferrari Daytona SP3 Goes Under the Hammer October 31

A 2022 Ferrari Daytona SP3 that Maranello put to work promoting the model, rather than delivering it to a customer, is headed to the block. RM Sotheby's will sell the car on October 31. The Daytona SP3 run was capped at 600 cars, and each one left the factory with a sticker that began at $2.2 million. The figure now attached to this lot is $13 million, roughly six times what a first owner paid for a standard build four years ago. That figure is the auction house's and the source's, not ours; what the hammer actually says on the night is the only number that counts. What separates this chassis from the other 599 is its provenance, since a car Ferrari itself used in the model's launch carries a paper trail no private delivery can match. For the collectors in Palm Beach and Beverly Hills who already keep an SP3 in the garage, the result will be the first serious public marker of where the model's upper end sits.
What They Drive

Rivian R2's Trail-Ready Tires Turn Out to Be the Better Choice on Pavement

Rivian's R2 can be fitted with tires meant for dirt and rock, and Car and Driver has found that the knobbier set pays off where most owners will actually spend their miles, on the road. The magazine's testing showed the off-road rubber holding a bend harder and bringing the electric SUV to a stop in less distance than expected from a tire built for trails. That is the reverse of the usual trade-off, in which buyers accept a softer on-road feel in exchange for capability off it. For the Colorado and Aspen owner who wants one set of tires for both the canyon road and the Forest Service track, it is a welcome result, though the numbers belong to Car and Driver's test and not to any drive of ours.
Who Wore What When

Before the Crown Goes On: Those Tiny White Bumps Are Not What You Think

Every pageant contestant and red-carpet regular knows the pre-event mirror check, and the small white dot that refuses to budge. Vogue reports that this stubborn little bump is frequently not a whitehead at all but milia, a harmless condition that nonetheless sends plenty of people hunting for a fix. The dermatologists consulted offer ways to both keep milia from forming and clear the ones already there. The one firm instruction on the list is that squeezing is off the table entirely.
Who Wore What When

Korean Skincare's Road to the American Shelf Now Runs Through Los Angeles

Muskat Beauty Inc. works out of Los Angeles, and from there it plots how Korean beauty labels make their entrance into the United States. Biodance, CosRX and Torriden are among the names whose American arrivals the company has mapped, with others on its roster besides. Its pitch to the stores themselves is that of a trusted companion, the colleague a retailer calls when deciding which labels earn a place on the counter. Choosing well, after all, is its own craft, and a buyer facing a crowded field of serums and masks has reason to want an experienced hand nearby. That the hand belongs to an Angeleno firm will please anyone who likes to see this city set the terms of what the rest of the country reaches for next. The beauty aisle, like the red carpet, is a matter of who gets in and how gracefully they do it.
Who Wore What When

The Field Jacket Reports for Fall Duty, and Zara Has the Rank

The piece earning a spot at the top of the closet this fall is the military jacket, worn open over whatever the warm afternoon still allows. Among the current crop, Elle gives the honors to Zara's khaki version, priced at $90. The appeal is the old quiet one: a shade that argues with nothing, pockets that carry their own weight, and a cut built for a season that cannot decide between coat and shirt. For a wardrobe that has done its share of red carpets, this is the off-duty entry, the thing one reaches for between the gowns.
Who Wore What When

Lisa Rinna Has Found Her Favorite Decade, and It Is This One

Lisa Rinna sits for a new conversation with The Zoe Report, and the subject is the chapter she is living in right now. She talks about earning the regard of a fashion crowd that does not hand out its approval lightly. She also addresses stepping away from the reality franchise, and the real pleasure she takes in being in her sixties. In a town that treats every birthday as a problem to be managed, it is a cheerful way to show up for an interview.
Who Wore What When

The Closet Has Opinions About the Living Room This Fall

The season's turn has reached the sofa. The Zoe Report has gone to a specialist in interiors for advice on bringing the same eye that assembles an autumn wardrobe to bear on the rooms one actually lives in. The premise is simple and rather appealing: the instincts that govern a well-chosen coat ought to translate just as cleanly to what sits on the console and the bed. For readers who keep their closets in archival order, the house is the next thing to dress.
Who Wore What When

Thirteen Answers to the Hemline That Stops Where No One Agrees

The skirt that ends somewhere between knee and ankle has long been a puzzle for anyone standing in front of a mirror. Elle has now assembled a roster of thirteen pairs of shoes meant to settle the matter, each one chosen to work with that awkward mid-length cut. The magazine frames the midi as the most difficult length to style and positions the list as a working manual rather than a wish list. For the reader deciding between a heel and a flat before stepping out, it is a tidy reference to keep at hand.
Who Wore What When

Bruno Frisoni, Sixteen Years the Hand Behind Roger Vivier, Now Draws for Larroudé

Larroudé has a serious new name on its drawing board. Bruno Frisoni, the French designer who spent sixteen years steering Roger Vivier, has created a collection for the label that covers the whole height of a shoe closet, flats at one end and heels at the other. For readers who keep track of who stood on which stage in which pair, that résumé line is the point: a Vivier tenure of that length is the kind of credential that gets a shoe remembered right along with the dress above it. Frisoni's own brief for the project is disarmingly plain. He wants the woman in his shoes to feel, in his words, "sexy and happy." Notice what that leaves out, no manifesto and no lecture on the archive, just the mood a good pair is supposed to put you in. Beyond its span from flat to heel, the range has not yet been described in detail, so the rest waits for the eye once the shoes land.
Who Wore What When

Kickstarter Seats a Fashion Council, and the Small Atelier Gets a Chair at the Table

Kickstarter has assembled a panel of seasoned fashion hands to counsel the designers who raise money for their collections on the platform. The idea is plain enough: someone with a sketchbook and a point of view should be able to bring a line to market without first handing the keys to somebody else. For a desk that keeps track of which label dressed whom, and in what year, that is worth a note, because a label's first chapter can now be a page with a pledge button.
Who Wore What When

ThreeAsFour, the Label Built by Three, Is Sketching Its Next Chapter

The experimental house ThreeAsFour has something new in the works. The three designers who run it treat invention as a matter of constant forward motion, a definition they have written for themselves rather than borrowed. Where the label is headed has not been spelled out, but a name this comfortable at the far edge of fashion rarely moves in a predictable direction. For anyone who follows the dressing that never arrives on a red carpet by accident, this is one to watch.
Who Wore What When

The Designer Who Made New York Laugh in Good Clothes

WWD has opened its files on Isaac Mizrahi, and the portrait that emerges is of a Manhattan talent whose work was as witty as his conversation. His clothes were polished without ever being solemn, the kind a woman could wear to a gala and still look like she was enjoying herself. Just as memorable was the man himself, who said exactly what he thought in a city that rewards that sort of candor. It is a reminder that the best American fashion has often come with a personality attached.
Who Wore What When

Isaac Mizrahi, Revisited: The New Yorker Who Made Getting Dressed a Good Time

WWD has gone back into its files to republish an early encounter with Isaac Mizrahi, the designer whose clothes were polished and witty in equal measure. What comes through is the man as much as the work: a native New York voice that never learned to hold back, and never needed to. That combination of sharp tailoring and sharper talk is what carried him well past the runway and into the wider culture. For anyone who has ever wondered why the city claims him so proudly, the archive makes the case.
Who Wore What When

Julia Fox Sends a Betsey Johnson Campaign to Work for the Readers of Rikers

Julia Fox is the face of Betsey Johnson's Fall 2026 campaign, and the imagery has a second job beyond selling the clothes. The campaign benefits Rosebud's Reading Collective, the literacy nonprofit Fox started for women held at Rikers Island in New York. The organization centers on reading and writing, so the campaign's good deed is bookish rather than flashy. The clothes themselves are built for going out, the kind of dressing that assumes there is somewhere to be after dark. It makes for a neat pairing: a house known for a good time, a star who built something lasting, and a cause that lives a short ferry ride from the city's best parties. For a New York label and a New York cause, the geography could hardly be tighter.
Who Wore What When

The Label You Haven't Heard of Yet Just Got a Brain Trust

Kickstarter has assembled a panel of advisers devoted entirely to fashion, built to put seasoned professionals within reach of designers building a label without a big house behind them. The idea is counsel from people who know the business from the inside, so a designer can raise the money and get a collection out the door while keeping the decisions their own. For a desk that keeps track of which name is stitched into which gown and when, it is the kind of pipeline worth watching, since the next label worth filing begins somewhere like this.
Who Wore What When

The Handbag You Never Gave Away Is Having Its Moment

Fashionphile has put a number on what every well-kept closet in Palm Beach already suspected: the secondhand crowd wants the old stuff. The resale house's latest report shows searches for vintage pieces more than doubling, up 112 percent, and the archival handbag is the clear beneficiary, climbing in value as it climbs in demand. Among the houses shoppers typed in most, Chanel came out on top. The jewelry findings tell a subtler story. Buyers there are no longer hunting for a recognizable name stamped on the piece and are instead judging what they see on its own merits. Taken together, it is a portrait of a luxury customer who would rather have the real thing from a particular year than the newest thing from this one. For anyone who has been quietly keeping a quilted flap bag in its dust cover since the nineties, consider this your vindication.
What They Sail

Two Champions, One Hull: Messi and Alcaraz Pick the Same Sunreef 88 Ultima

Lionel Messi is the owner of a Sunreef 88 Ultima, the builder's 88-foot catamaran. Carlos Alcaraz has placed an order for an identical boat and is now waiting for his to come off the line. For owners here who follow what the Sunreef yard is putting on the water, it is a notable endorsement: two of the most accomplished athletes of their generation, in two different sports, arriving at the same answer. The 88 Ultima is a twin-hull platform, and its appeal to buyers who value deck space and stability over a conventional monohull is evident in who is choosing it.
Private Jet Owners

The Army Takes Delivery of Garmin's 1,000th King Air Glass Panel

Garmin has now put its G1000 into the panel of a thousandth King Air, and the aircraft that carried the count over the line was not a corporate turboprop but a U.S. Army C-12 Huron. The Huron is the Army's name for the King Air it flies, and this one went to Garmin for a cockpit conversion like any owner's airplane would. For anyone running a legacy King Air under Part 91, the number is the story: a thousand airframes is enough that the installation is a known quantity, not a one-off engineering job. Shops have done it before, examiners have seen it before, and the resale market has priced it before. That the thousandth set of displays went into a government cockpit says the same package is being judged acceptable by a fleet operator with its own standards to meet.
Class of Nashville

Clear Your Friday for Zach Bryan: Eight New Songs Arrive Under a Title That Stops You Cold

Zach Bryan has a fresh collection of eight songs on the way, and it lands this Friday. He is calling it Young Manhood and Other Donatable Organs, a title that reads less like a record label's suggestion and more like a line he kept for himself. Eight tracks is a generous count for an EP, enough to settle in with rather than sample. Along the stretch of Green Hills where the industry keeps its offices, a release week like this one tends to clear the calendar, and the weekend's listening is already decided.
Photo by PhillipPessar on Wikimedia
Class of Florida

Coconut Grove Puts Six Bedrooms and a Full-Circle Terrace on the Market for $14 Million

The listing of the week comes from Mr. C Residences Coconut Grove, where a condo with six bedrooms is asking $14 million. The apartment runs to just under 4,800 square feet, which in Palm Beach would be a respectable house and in Naples would be a respectable house with a boat slip. The feature that earns the price is the terrace, which wraps the entire residence rather than hanging off one side of it, so the water stays in sight as you walk the perimeter. In the Grove, where the canopy is thick and the shoreline is close, that kind of outdoor room is the whole argument for living up rather than out. Six bedrooms at this address suggests a buyer who plans to host, not hide. Miami has long sold the view; this one sells the walk around it.
Class of Florida

Messi and Alcaraz Now Share a Shipyard

The world's most famous soccer player has taken delivery of an 88-foot Sunreef catamaran, the builder's Ultima 88. He will not have the model to himself for long. Carlos Alcaraz has ordered the same boat and is waiting on his own hull. Eighty-eight feet on two hulls is a lot of deck, the kind of platform that reads less like a sailboat and more like a floating terrace, which is exactly the sort of thing that looks at home off Fisher Island, draws a polite glance at the Palm Beach docks, and would be the biggest thing in the harbor at Naples. There is something pleasing about two athletes at the top of entirely different sports arriving at the same answer to the same question of how to spend a day off the water.
Class of Florida

On Alki Beach, the House Wears Its Neighbors on the Outside

Out on Alki Beach in West Seattle, a residence has put the native creatures of its own shoreline across its exterior, in a painted mural that wraps the house. The architecture underneath stays spare and orderly. The color does the talking. Palm Beach keeps its exuberance behind a hedge, Naples keeps it on the lanai, and Miami puts it on the facade and dares you to comment. This one leans Miami. Anyone walking the sand would take in the painted wildlife long before registering the house behind it.
Photo by bob in swamp on Flickr
Icons of Palm Beach

The Best Lip Work on the Island Is the Kind Nobody Can Spot

Town & Country has assembled a primer on the mouth, and its governing principle is one the North End has always understood: an overcorrected lip announces itself across a dining room, while a well-judged one simply looks rested. The guide runs the full range, from what can be done at home each morning, through what a syringe offers, to the lip lift for anyone prepared to go a step further. The through line is restraint, which is to say the goal is a face that still looks like its owner when Worth Avenue fills up for the season.
Icons of Palm Beach

Twelve Seasons In, Adam Brody Still Talks About His Wife Like a Newlywed

Adam Brody, forty-six, has given Vanity Fair an account of his marriage to Leighton Meester, the two having wed in 2014. It is the kind of durable Hollywood pairing one hears admired over lunch on Worth Avenue, where a dozen years together is treated as the real accomplishment. Brody is currently on screen in Netflix's Nobody Wants This, playing Noah, a rabbi whose heart belongs to the character Kristen Bell plays, Joanne. That he can speak so warmly of his own marriage while playing a man falling in love for an audience says something about where his attention actually lives.
Photo by L. L. Cook Company, American, 1921 - 1980 on Smithsonian_African_American_History_Museum
Icons of Palm Beach

The Man Behind the Frames Opens His Doors in Los Angeles

Jérôme Mage, the designer whose Jacques Marie Mage sunglasses have earned a devoted and faintly obsessive following, has let Vanity Fair into his home in Los Angeles. Elise Taylor sat down with him there, and the subject was not the eyewear so much as the house itself, and how the same unruly, musician's sensibility that shapes his frames has been brought to bear on the rooms where he actually lives. It is a rare look at the private side of a man whose work is usually seen only on other people's faces. For anyone whose own pair rides along for the drive down South Ocean, it is worth knowing that the taste behind them is lived in, not just sold.
What They Ride

Maranello, the Heider Family's Two-Million-Dollar Not This Time Filly, Unveils at Keeneland Wednesday

The afternoon's fifth race at Keeneland on Wednesday carries a name the sales world already knows. Maranello, a two-year-old daughter of Not This Time, debuts in a $110,000 maiden special weight for fillies over six and a half furlongs, with the field due at the gate at 3:08 p.m. Eastern. She was bred in Kentucky by Hinkle Farms. The Heider Family paid two million dollars to own her, a figure that put her among the most closely watched young horses of her crop before she had set foot on a racetrack. Wednesday is the first time the public gets to see what that price bought, under Keeneland's October sky with the Bluegrass turning toward autumn around the track. For the breeders at Hinkle, it is the moment a homebred leaves the catalog page and becomes a racehorse. For the Heiders, it is the beginning of the answer to the question every buyer in the ring asks themselves.
Photo by Serge Melki on Flickr
What They Ride

The People Behind a Rising Star Named Hullabaloo Ray Ray Get Their Due

Hullabaloo Ray Ray, a horse already carrying the TDN Rising Star designation, is the subject of a new profile of the people who brought the horse to that point. The piece is the fourth in a continuing series that looks past the brilliance of the early performance to spend time with the owner, trainer and others whose work came first. For readers who follow the sales ring and the shedrow as closely as the stretch run, that is the part of a young horse's story most worth having.
What They Collect

Wynwood Walls Opens Its Doors to Miamians at No Charge, With a Video Game Publisher Picking Up the Tab

Anyone who calls Miami home can now walk into Wynwood Walls, the city's museum of murals, without buying a ticket. The cost of that open door is being covered by Rockstar Games, the publisher behind Grand Theft Auto, which is marking the release of the series' sixth installment with the gesture. For a neighborhood whose painted facades have long drawn visitors from well beyond Florida, the change means the people who live alongside those walls can see them as often as they like. It is the kind of arrangement collectors here tend to admire, a commercial name underwriting public access to work rather than keeping it behind a price. Whoever has put off a visit now has one less reason to wait.
Photo by Fæ on Flickr
What They Collect

A Table in New York for Anyone Who Spends the Day Looking at Art

Artnet News has teamed with Caper to publish a dining guide to New York built around the people who make, sell, show and buy art in the city. The list runs to 35 restaurants. Its premise is that the gallery crowd, the auction-house crowd and the collectors who follow both have their own habits about where to sit down once the viewing is done, and that those habits are worth writing down. For a collector planning a few days of previews and openings in the city, that is useful in a plain way: the walk from a show to a meal is part of the rhythm of a New York visit, and a list assembled by a publication that covers the trade is a reasonable place to start. The guide also makes a quiet point that the city's art life does not end at the gallery door.
What They Collect

Cindy Sherman Dresses in Cloth That Was Never Cut

Cindy Sherman has made herself the figure at the center of a new magazine devoted to art and culture, produced with the Chanel Culture Fund. For the project she swathed her own body in lengths of the house's material, some of it never stitched into a garment, some of it drawn from the Chanel archive. The effect is fabric worn as fabric, the bolt standing in for the finished dress, with the artist underneath it. The publication comes ahead of a Sherman exhibition at Hauser & Wirth. For anyone who follows her work, it is a look at what the raw material does when the maker is also the model.
What They Collect

Moore, Picasso and Arp Are Leaving the Tisch Walls for Christie's Block

Christie's will bring a group of works assembled by the Tisch family to sale. Among them are pieces by Henry Moore, Pablo Picasso and Jean Arp, three names that rarely share a single consignor's wall, along with other artists still to be detailed. Moore's bronze forms and Arp's organic shapes sit at the center of twentieth-century sculpture, and a Picasso needs no introduction to anyone who has ever stood in a saleroom. That one family lived with all three says something about the eye behind the collecting, and about the patience it takes to hold works of this caliber rather than trade them. The sale date, the full lot list and any estimates have not yet been made public, and we will report them when the house does. For now, the news is simply that a notable American collection is opening its doors, and the works are coming out to be seen before they find their next homes.
What They Collect

Three Hundred Pieces From a Dealer's Vault Head to Sotheby's

Sotheby's is selling the contents of the A La Vieille Russie vault in a single sale of more than three hundred pieces, with the Russian maker collectors chase hardest set in the leading role. Three of the lots are botanical studies, flowers worked in precious materials that surface so seldom that their appearance alone is the story. Another is a sedan chair in miniature, finished in pink enamel laid over an engine-turned ground, the kind of object made to be turned in the hand rather than set on a shelf. A vault, by definition, holds what a dealer did not put in the window, and a sale on this scale lets a buyer see a whole category at once rather than one box or frame at a time. For the collector who has built a cabinet slowly over years, from Palm Beach to Aspen, that is the rare occasion worth clearing a calendar for. Sotheby's has not published estimates in the material released so far.
What They Collect

In Tribeca, the Amenity Is on the Wall, and It Is a Keith Haring

A Tribeca apartment has come to market with an asking price of $25 million, and the piece that travels with the deed is a mural by Keith Haring. Because a mural lives on the wall itself, the buyer acquires the Haring as part of the home rather than as an object that could be packed and moved. For readers who follow what changes hands in New York, that turns a residential listing into something closer to an acquisition, with the apartment arranged around the work.
What They Collect

At the Met, a Curator Talks Through the Rockefeller Wing's Next Chapter

Alisa LaGamma, a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, sat down for Artnet News's Lunch With Adam interview series to talk about the renewed Rockefeller Wing and the questions of returning objects to their places of origin, the Benin Bronzes among them. Her message was forward-looking: the field, she said, will have to be inventive in the answers it arrives at from here. For New Yorkers who walk those galleries, it is a rare chance to hear the thinking of the person shaping what hangs there and why.
What They Collect

Rockefeller Center Gets a Playful Makeover From Kenny Scharf

Kenny Scharf has reworked Rockefeller Center into something far more lighthearted than its usual self, and the editors at Galerie have placed it among the half-dozen things they are enjoying most this week. For New Yorkers the midtown complex is a place passed through on the way to somewhere else, which makes an artist's intervention there all the harder to walk by unnoticed. Scharf's project leads a list that also reaches well beyond the city, but the Manhattan entry is the one close enough for our readers to go and see for themselves.
Photo by JAXPORT on Flickr
What They Collect

Rosé Joins the Room at LACMA's Art+Film Gala

Rosé of Blackpink has been added to this year's Art+Film Gala at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The evening is the museum's benefit, now in its fifteenth edition, and it pairs the city's two great visual industries under one roof. This year's honorees are Vija Celmins, the Latvian American painter and draftsman whose work the museum community knows well, and Denis Villeneuve. The addition of a performer of Rosé's reach gives the night a draw beyond the usual circle of trustees and collectors, which is precisely what a museum fundraiser hopes for. For Los Angeles, it is another sign that the Wilshire Boulevard campus remains the city's most reliable meeting point between the studios and the galleries.
What It Sold For

Apple Gives the Well-Run House a Screen of Its Own

Apple has introduced HomeView, the company's first display built to manage a home from a single surface. The design is spare, the kind of object that sits on a kitchen counter or an entry console without arguing with the room around it. Its purpose is to gather the scattered business of running a household into one place, so the owner reaches for one panel rather than a dozen. For anyone who has finished a house to a high standard, that tidiness is exactly the point.
What It Sold For

Before the Cold Arrives, a Verdict on the Terrace Pots

A well-kept house is judged as much by its terrace as by its rooms, and the containers lining a loggia or flanking a front door are part of the architecture by the time autumn comes around. Veranda has taken up the question that follows: whether those pots can stay where they are through the winter or need to be brought inside. The magazine's answer is that it depends, with some situations where leaving them out is perfectly acceptable and others where it is not. For anyone whose property is finished as carefully outside as in, it is a useful read before the season turns.
What It Sold For

The Easiest Party in the House Needs Only Candles, Music and Cheese

Angelica Hicks, the illustrator and creator, has laid out her approach to entertaining at home, and it asks remarkably little of the house itself. Her essentials come down to three: candles in place of overhead light, something playing in the background, and a generous board of cheese. The point is ease rather than ceremony, a guest list put at its comfort from the moment the door opens. For anyone opening a house for the season, it is a template that works as well in a Palm Beach loggia as in a Manhattan apartment.
What It Sold For

Fewer Pictures, Better Sold: The Case for an Edited Listing

A house going to market does not need seventy images to make its case, according to Elle Decor's advice for sellers. The counsel is one of restraint: a tight, well-chosen set of frames lets the architecture carry the argument, where an endless gallery only dilutes it. For an oceanfront estate in Palm Beach or a hillside house above Los Angeles, the principle holds the same way it does anywhere, show the rooms that matter and trust the buyer to want to see the rest in person.
Photo by PortoBay Trade on Flickr
Where They Eat

The Dinner Reservation Is Becoming the Whole Evening

Getting friends into the same room now takes planning, and the companies that move people around the country have noticed. Skift reports that trip operators are turning that planning into a line of business, handling the gathering itself rather than only the ticket and the room. For anyone who has tried to fill a table of eight on a Saturday in Miami or Nashville, the appeal is obvious: the hard part was never the menu, it was the calendar. If the trend holds, the restaurant and the hotel become not just the setting for a night out but the reason the night out happens at all.
What They Drive

The Logging Truck Whose Trailer Carried Its Own Caterpillar

Most heavy rigs leave every bit of the work to the tractor. This one did not. A storied logging hauler gave its leading trailer a diesel of its own, a 14.6-liter Caterpillar V8 set into the span dividing that trailer's axles. The motor was not along for the ride. It helped the rig gather speed under load and added its own muscle when the whole train had to slow, which is the moment a driver with that much weight behind the cab cares about most. Counted together with the engine up front, the rig sent nine hundred horsepower to the road. For collectors of working iron, that is the kind of answer only a hard job and a confident builder produce, and it is the reason the truck is still spoken of.
Photo by Mic V. on Flickr
What They Drive

The Electric Miles Are the Real Story in Toyota's $48,000 RAV4 Woodland

Toyota's plug-in hybrid RAV4 Woodland for 2026 can cover 49 miles on battery power alone before its gasoline engine joins in. That figure comes from The Drive, which put the crossover through a full evaluation and found the number holds up. For an owner whose weekday driving stays close to home, that range means most trips need not burn fuel at all. The same evaluation praised the hybrid system itself as strong and refined in the way it delivers power. The sticker lands near $48,000, a sum that places this RAV4 well above the model's usual neighborhood. The Drive's verdict is that the drivetrain and the electric range justify the price, even though the Woodland's outdoorsy trim is more about appearance than any added capability off pavement. We have not driven the car ourselves, so those judgments belong to the reviewer.
What They Drive

Alcaraz Puts His Name Down for the Same Ultima 88 Messi Already Owns

Lionel Messi has taken ownership of a Sunreef catamaran measuring 88 feet, the builder's Ultima 88. He is not the only one of his generation of champions to want one. Carlos Alcaraz has placed an order for an identical Ultima 88 and is now waiting for the yard to finish his. For a readership that tracks what accomplished people choose when the choice is entirely their own, two of them landing independently on one hull says something about the boat. The wire does not say where either vessel will be kept, and we will not guess.
What They Drive

The 2027 Volvo EX60 Is Built as Much From Software as From Steel

Car and Driver has put the 2027 Volvo EX60 through a full instrumented test, and its verdict centers on two things: the sheer quantity of programming running beneath the skin and the gentleness with which the car treats its occupants. The electric crossover wears the spare, uncluttered Swedish design language its owners will recognize at once, with nothing on the outside to hint at the computing power inside. For the collector weighing a modern Volvo against the marque's cleaner-lined past, the magazine's reading is that comfort, not drama, is the point. We have not driven the car ourselves, so we report the finding as theirs.
What They Drive

Ford Is Taking Names for the 2028 Fathom Before Anyone Has Seen It

Ford has begun collecting names of buyers who want a place in line for the 2028 Fathom, its electric car priced below $30,000. The car itself has not been shown yet. Orders will not open until 2027. What is open now is an invitation list, and Ford is signaling that a spot on it may be the way to secure a chance to order when that time comes. For a model that does not exist in public yet, that is an unusually early call to anyone who wants one in their driveway.
What They Drive

Acura Puts a Trail-Capable SUV at the Front of a Three-Vehicle Lineup Due in 2028

Acura has confirmed that three new sport-utility vehicles are on the way, and the one built for rough ground comes first, with arrival set for the opening months of 2028. A bigger model seating passengers across a third row is among those that follow. For owners who split the year between a city garage and a mountain driveway, a luxury badge that is willing to leave the pavement is a welcome addition to the shopping list. Acura has not yet attached names, pricing or specifications to any of the three.
What They Drive

The Eight-Cylinder 7-Series Is Coming Back, and It Will Wear an M Badge

BMW's largest sedan is getting a V-8 again for the 2027 model year. The car is called the M760, and it takes the place of the 760i at the top of the 7-series lineup. It is an M Performance model rather than a full M car, which puts it in the same tier as the brand's other M-badged performance versions of its regular sedans. Output is expected to land in the neighborhood of 570 horsepower. For the owners on Ocean Boulevard and in Beverly Hills who never warmed to the idea of a flagship BMW without eight cylinders, that is the number that matters. Model year, nameplate and engine count are what the announcement gives us, and we will report pricing and driving impressions only when we have them firsthand.
Who Wore What When

Seven Sunscreens That Clear the Pageant Stage Without Clogging the Pores

Vogue has compiled a list of seven sunscreens built on noncomedogenic formulas, the kind designed to sit on acne-prone skin without triggering a flare-up. The premise is a simple one for anyone who lives under a Palm Beach or Beverly Hills sun: daily SPF and a clear complexion are not rivals, and no one has to sacrifice one for the other. For a readership that studies faces under stage lights and flashbulbs, a base layer that protects without betraying the finish is as much a wardrobe decision as the gown.
Who Wore What When

Provenance, Down to the Thread: Your Next Gown Could Prove Where Its Polyester Was Spun

This desk has built a career on establishing who made a dress, in which year, and for which carpet. The thread itself, it turns out, is about to start keeping its own records. Under a program called YarnProof, Unifi and a set of yarn makers across the region are putting FibreTrace markers into their polyester, so a statement about where a fiber came from can be checked against the fiber itself. The occasion is the fine print of two trade pacts, USMCA and CAFTA-DR, under which a sourcing claim has to stand up to inspection. For the archivist, it is a satisfying turn: the scrutiny we have always applied to the label now reaches all the way to the spool.
Who Wore What When

The Pro Leather, by Tyler, the Creator, Now Comes in a Quartet

Tyler, the Creator has returned to the Converse Pro Leather, and this time the shoe arrives in four fresh shades. The design itself stays put; what changes is the palette, which is exactly the sort of detail a reader keeping score on their sneaker shelf will want logged. For anyone who has been tracking the rapper's earlier turns on this same Converse model, the drop reads as a continuation rather than a reinvention. Consider the record updated.
Who Wore What When

The Holiday Face Gets an Early Fitting

October's crop of beauty launches is reading the calendar ahead, with a mood that is warm and celebratory rather than strictly autumnal. The thinking is practical: the look you will want in December is easier to perfect when the products land now, leaving weeks to rehearse before the first invitation arrives. Anyone who has stood under ballroom lights or a pageant spotlight knows that lead time is the whole trick. Consider this month the dress rehearsal, with the finish line set squarely at the holidays.
Who Wore What When

Fall 2026 Has Opinions About Your Boot Shelf

The new season's boots arrive with a clear brief: the pairs that carried last autumn may step aside. This year's crop runs the full width of the closet, from the kind built to survive a Colorado October to the kind that exists purely to be admired across a room, and both ends are being taken seriously. WWD's read is that every style in the lineup holds a legitimate claim on the season. For anyone dressing for a Manhattan sidewalk or an Aspen arrival, the question is less whether to buy than which end of that range to commit to.
Who Wore What When

Travis Kelce's Set Visit Makes Taylor Swift's Own Highlight Reel

Taylor Swift has let a glimpse of Travis Kelce slip into footage from the set of "Patient Zero," tucked in rather than announced. The clip shows him there in her corner while the work gets done, the kind of appearance that is usually kept off camera entirely. For a pair whose every public outing is catalogued down to the coat, a quiet on-set cameo is the rarer sighting by far. Call it the behind-the-scenes credit that no call sheet lists.
Photo by cordeman on Flickr
Who Wore What When

Off the Carpet, the Black Legging Earns a Place in the Archive

An Elle writer has put one pair of black leggings at the center of an on-the-go wardrobe and says the piece has been remade in the process. The leggings in question are On's Train Tights, built with the brand's FormTec. For a title that files gowns by designer, year and occasion, the black legging is the garment that rarely gets a date stamp, which is exactly why a named endorsement is worth recording. Every off-duty look in the ledger rests on a dependable base, and this writer has gone on the record with theirs.
Who Wore What When

Sicilian Tile Underfoot: 50 Cent's Dolce & Gabbana Sneakers for Street Fighter

For the promotional rounds behind Street Fighter, 50 Cent set aside his own G-Unit footwear in favor of a pair from Dolce & Gabbana. The shoes carry the Italian house's Majolica motif, the glazed-ceramic pattern that turns a sneaker into something closer to a painted tile. It is a choice that reads as deliberate rather than casual, a nod to craft on a day otherwise given over to a video-game franchise.
Who Wore What When

Nordstrom's Autumn Markdowns Start at the Shoulders and End at the Ankles

The department store has put its cold-weather stock on sale, and the strongest case for a visit is at either end of the outfit. Outerwear is in the mix, and so is footwear, which covers the two pieces most likely to be photographed on anyone stepping out of a car this season. For a reader building the layers between a Palm Beach October and an Aspen December, that is the practical part of the closet handled in a single stop. The rest of the category is reportedly well stocked, too.
Who Wore What When

Keri Russell's Softly Pinned Chignon Now Comes With Instructions

Keri Russell's chignon, gathered with a deliberate touch of looseness rather than lacquered into submission, has acquired a set of directions. Brian Magallones, the hairstylist responsible for it, has walked through the method stage by stage for anyone inclined to attempt it at home. He attaches a specific recommendation to the look, judging it especially becoming on a woman past fifty, a welcome precision in a trade that tends to speak in generalities. The charm is in the restraint, a knot that reads as gathered by hand rather than engineered.
Beverly Hills News

Gerwig's Narnia Film Shows Its First Footage, With Aslan and the White Witch on Screen

Director Greta Gerwig released a first look at "Narnia: The Magician's Nephew" on Tuesday. The preview offers audiences their earliest glimpse of the lion Aslan and the White Witch, two figures at the center of the C.S. Lewis novel the picture adapts. The footage marks the first time the public has seen how Gerwig's version of the Lewis story will appear on screen. For the industry that calls this part of Los Angeles County home, the release is a first measure of a large-scale literary adaptation from one of the most closely watched directors working today.
Beverly Hills News

Joe Buck Becomes the First Outside Voice on the 'Dancing With the Stars' Panel This Season

Joe Buck sat on the judging panel of "Dancing With the Stars" for the program's Super Bowl-themed episode, the first time this season that someone outside the regular panel has scored the couples. The appearance marks the opening guest slot of the show's thirty-fifth season. The episode was built around the night of the big game, and the couples were scored and one pair was sent home as part of the regular competition.
What They Sail

A 454-Foot Lürssen Fit at Charleston's Megadock, and the Fuel Lines Kept Up

Charleston has now hosted a Lürssen measuring 454 feet overall at its Megadock, the kind of berth that most Southeastern ports simply cannot offer. For an owner, the length is the whole story: a yacht of that size needs more than open water, it needs a pier built to take the weight and the beam without compromise. Charleston has one. The dock is served by fifteen fueling points engineered for fast throughput, which matters when a vessel of that scale is taking on fuel between legs and the crew would rather spend the afternoon on the dock than at the pump. What sets the South Carolina port apart from a purely industrial fuel stop is what lies beyond the gangway. The city's historic district begins almost as soon as a guest steps ashore, so the walk from the pier to a good lunch under old live oaks takes minutes rather than a car ride. For owners working the Atlantic coast between Florida and the Northeast, that pairing of serious infrastructure and a civilized town is rare enough to plan a route around.
Private Jet Owners

Tillamook Air Museum Sets Oct. 29 Reopening After a One-Dollar Change of Hands

The blimp hangar on the Oregon coast that houses the Tillamook Air Museum has passed to new owners, and the price on the deed was a single dollar. The museum will open its doors again on Oct. 29. That date lands close to ten months after a storm did enough damage to the building to shut the place down. For anyone who has flown into the Tillamook area and taxied past that structure, the news is simply that it is still standing and will once again have people inside it. A hangar of that era does not get replaced once it is gone, so a transfer that keeps it in use is the outcome worth noting. The nominal sale price says as much about the cost of keeping such a building up as it does about its value on paper. What the new ownership does with the space beyond reopening it has not been described.
Private Jet Owners

Oshkosh 2026: A Jet-Powered WACO Gets the Frame

AVweb has chosen a jet-powered WACO biplane, captured at Oshkosh 2026, for its daily photograph. The pairing of a radial-era airframe with turbine thrust is the kind of thing that stops foot traffic on the flight line, and the editors evidently thought so too. The caption describes the aircraft's work as dancing, which tells you roughly what the shot shows: a biplane doing things biplanes were never built to do. For owners who flew in rather than drove, it is one more reason the Wisconsin ramp is worth the slot.
Brides of Beverly Hills

Boca Grande's Gasparilla Inn Makes the Case for Taking the Ceremony Outdoors

A couple married in the gardens of the Gasparilla Inn in Boca Grande, on Florida's Gulf coast, with a day that was photographed in the classic order a planner would recognize. The coverage moves from the morning's preparations to portraits of the bride and then to the moment the couple saw each other before the ceremony, which tells a bride weighing her own schedule that this timeline left room for that private exchange ahead of the vows. The setting itself is the decision here: an established inn with grounds that can carry a ceremony without a built set, which is what a garden venue is for. For anyone comparing a beach or garden ceremony against a ballroom, this is a useful example of the outdoor option done in a restrained, traditional key rather than a themed one.
Beverly Hills Brides

In Austin, the Bride Baked Her Own Wedding Cake. Then Seven More.

Jordan and Charlie were married in Austin, and the dessert table was the bride's own work: eight cakes, every one of them made by her hands. The couple had told their planner they wanted guests to leave the day disoriented in the happiest way, as though a polished mid-century first lady had wandered into something psychedelic. What that looked like in practice was a drag brunch, staged in a wash of pastels, with the cakes standing as the day's centerpiece. Eight is not a number most brides take on in the week before their own wedding, and it said something about the kind of celebration this was, one built by the people getting married rather than handed to them. The drag performers gave the brunch its energy, and the palette kept everything soft around them. Guests, by the couple's own measure, were meant to walk out unsure whether any of it had been real.
Photo by Tony Fischer Photography on Flickr
Class of Florida

A Hall of Famer's Former Address Hits the Market at $35 Million

The house Jerry Rice once called home is for sale, and the asking price is $35 million. The estate sits in Atherton, in the Bay Area, and was built to order rather than bought off the rack. Rice, the 49ers great and NFL Hall of Famer, lived there for a dozen years, from 2001 to 2013. Readers on the island, or down in Naples, will recognize the figure as one that buys a very serious piece of oceanfront here. In Atherton, it buys a custom residence with a provenance any football fan would envy at a dinner party. The listing is a reminder that the most storied addresses in America are not always the ones with a water view.
What It Sold For

Seven Beds That Sleep Two and Show One

Architectural Digest has gathered seven trundle beds, the type with a second mattress stowed beneath the first, selected for clean lines and for the floor area they hand back to a bedroom. Interior designers supply the commentary on each piece and on how it anchors the room around it. For the American house where the guest room doubles as a study, or where a child's room must take in a cousin for a long weekend, the logic is simple: one bed by day, two by night, and nothing in the furniture to give the arrangement away. The list is drawn for 2026.
What It Sold For

Five Towels That Earn a Place in a Well-Run House

The linen closet rarely gets the attention of the kitchen or the primary bath, yet it is where a house shows whether it is truly kept. Architectural Digest has put a field of bath towels through its own trials and settled on five it stands behind. Among them are bundles woven from Turkish cotton that let air move through the pile, along with sets finished in lace for owners who want the bath to read as considered as the rest of the rooms. For anyone outfitting a new house or refreshing an old one, the list is a short and useful place to begin.
What They Drive

The Silverado Sheds Its Driver for a Shot at the Army

The pickup parked in half the driveways in this country has been reworked by GM Defense into a prototype that needs no one behind the wheel. The vehicle, built on Chevrolet's Silverado, is being considered by the U.S. Army, one of several candidates under review. That a showroom truck can be the foundation for a self-piloting machine says something about how far the platform has come, and about the engineering GM's defense arm has put into it.
What They Collect

Phillips Brings a $35 Million Modigliani Sculpture to New York This Season

Phillips will offer a sculpture by Amedeo Modigliani in its New York sales, with the house putting the figure at $35 million. Works in three dimensions by the artist are a rarity, and this one is the kind of lot that gives a sale its center of gravity. Phillips is making the offering on the strength of what buyers have lately shown for Modigliani at salesrooms overseas, and the bet is that the same appetite travels to Manhattan. For collectors who follow the New York calendar, a piece like this is the reason to be in the room rather than on the phone. The number is the house's own, and the market will give its answer when the gavel comes down.
What They Collect

Prints by Women Artists Are Drawing Fresh Attention at Auction

Prints by women artists are finding a receptive market right now, according to a new look at sales results. The figures suggest that the gaps collectors assume exist between artists, and between what their work brings, do not follow the tidy patterns many expect. For anyone building a print collection here, that is a reminder that the editioned work by women artists deserves a closer look at the next sale preview. The data points to a market that rewards attention rather than assumption.
What They Collect

A Backgammon Board Pairs a California Winery With a Maker of Fine Games

Silver Oak, the winery out of California, has joined forces with Throwing Doubles, the house known for its high-end games, on a backgammon board produced in a restricted run. The partners describe the collaboration as a tribute to the kind of evenings that bring people around a table in the first place, the open bottle and the open board side by side. For anyone who keeps an eye on what two makers in different trades can produce together, this is one to watch.
What They Collect

Cyndi Lauper's Stage Wardrobe Is Changing Hands

Cyndi Lauper is parting with a selection of garments from her own closet, the singer confirmed in an interview with Artnet News. The pieces come from the loud, layered dressing that defined her public image, and she spoke of choosing color for its sheer force on the eye. She framed the clothes as souvenirs of a freer, more daring era rather than as simple castoffs. For collectors of performance costume, the chance to own the real thing from one of pop's most recognizable dressers does not come around often.
What They Sail

Fort Lauderdale Gets First Look at Pearl's 100-Foot Hybrid Flagship

Pearl's largest yacht to date is finished with its trials on the water and is bound for Fort Lauderdale, where it will be shown publicly for the first time. The boat measures 100 feet, which puts it at the top of the yard's range. Its propulsion is the headline: a pair of MAN diesel engines working alongside electric motors, so the owner can choose between conventional power and a quieter mode depending on the moment. Below, the layout gives over five cabins to guests. The owner, meanwhile, is placed on the main deck rather than down a companionway, with the views and the natural light that position affords. For a South Florida audience that spends long weekends aboard and values a hushed anchorage as much as a fast passage, that combination of hybrid running and a main-deck master is the part worth walking down the dock to see. The yard has not put a price on the record.
Photo by Steve @ the alligator farm on Flickr
Class of Florida

This Season's Most Serious Jewelry Room Isn't on Worth Avenue. It's in Arkansas.

An Arkansas museum has handed its galleries over to the archive of a famous jewelry maker, and the pieces stay up until next March. These are the things the maker kept rather than sold, gemstones and finished work the public almost never gets to stand in front of. Palm Beach will note, with some dignity, that it is a long way from the boutique on Worth Avenue. Miami would have built a party around the opening. Naples would have asked where to park. A run through March gives Florida a whole winter to decide whether a weekend up north is worth it for a glass case, and anyone who has waited an hour for a vault appointment already knows the answer.
Photo by Benson Kua on Flickr
Class of Florida

Palm Beach Would Know This House on Sight: A 1920s Spanish Colonial in Los Angeles Asks $17 Million

Anyone who has driven the lanes between Worth Avenue and the lake will recognize the vocabulary at once: stucco, tile, arches, and the kind of shade a courtyard makes at two in the afternoon. This one happens to sit in Los Angeles, where it was designed in the 1920s by the architect James E. Dolena, and it has just come to market with a $17 million price. The firm June Street Architecture handled the renovation, keeping the bones of the studio-era original while bringing the comforts up to what a buyer expects now. That balance, the old romance and the new plumbing, is the whole point of a house like this, and it is the same balance every serious restoration in Palm Beach tries to strike. Naples would admire the restraint. Miami would wonder where the glass is. Palm Beach would simply ask who is handling the showing.
Class of Florida

A Modigliani You Can Walk Around, at a Price Even Palm Beach Would Notice

Phillips is bringing a Modigliani sculpture to the block with an estimate that reaches $35 million. Sculpture by Modigliani is not a thing one encounters often, which is a good part of why the number is what it is. The house is betting that the appetite for his work shown lately in salesrooms overseas will travel, and that a bidder here will meet it. For the collectors who split the year between a house on South Ocean Boulevard and a condo on Gulf Shore Boulevard, this is the kind of lot that gets a phone line reserved early. Miami will want to know who bought it. Palm Beach will want to know where it is going. Naples will quietly ask whether it is already spoken for.
Class of Florida

The Chef Who Tells Time Three Ways

Eric Ripert has opened the watch box, and Robb Report brought a camera along. In an installment of its newly launched on-camera series, the chef walks through what he wears: a piece dating to 1984, a Rolex with a blue dial, and more than one Vacheron Constantin. That is a range rather than a pile, and the range is the point. One watch is old enough to have outlasted a few kitchens. One is in the shade of blue that every wrist between Jupiter and Marco Island eventually gives in to. And the Vacherons are the quiet kind, the sort a table in Naples clocks from across the room and a table in Miami never notices at all. Palm Beach will admire the restraint and say nothing, which is how Palm Beach admires anything.
Class of Nashville

Luke Bryan Comes Home With Thirty-Five-Plus Dates Behind Him

Luke Bryan has closed out the Word On The Street Tour, a run that passed the 35-date mark before its final night. For a city that measures its artists in miles as much as in records, that is the kind of count the industry quietly notices on the drive down Hillsboro Pike. The outing carried a slate of opening acts along the way, giving a handful of other names a share of the stage on each stop. Now the headliner and his road crew are back in town, and Nashville has one of its biggest draws at home again.
Photo by Matthew Jungling on Unsplash
Class of Nashville

Who Will Love This Song? Nashville Can Now Ask Before the Release Date

Rocketship, an artificial-intelligence tool built to tell a writer or a label which listeners a track is likely to reach before it ever goes out, is now open to anyone who wants to use it. It is described as the first of its kind to work the problem from that end, reading the audience in advance rather than measuring it after the fact. For the publishing offices along Music Row and the industry homes in Green Hills, where a song's commercial life is often decided long before the public hears it, that is a question worth asking early.
Photo by sisterphotography on Flickr
Class of Nashville

Music Row's Publishing Houses Get Their Issue of the Year

MusicRow has put out its 2026 Publisher edition in print, the magazine's annual turn toward the publishing side of the Nashville music business. That is the quieter end of the industry, the offices where songs are owned and shepherded long before anyone hears them on a stage, and this is the number devoted to it. For readers who work along Music Row and up through Green Hills, a physical copy landing on the desk is its own small marker of the season.
Private Jet Owners

FlyJets Puts a Software Agent on Charter Search

FlyJets has added an artificial-intelligence tool it calls JetGPT to its website and phone app, built to track down charter lift on a customer's behalf instead of leaving the customer to comb through options. The company's description is of an agent that runs the search itself. For an owner whose aircraft sits on a 135 certificate between personal trips, that is one more front door through which a retail booking request could arrive.
Private Jet Owners

The Launch Decision Begins at the Weather Briefing

Flying has published guidance for student pilots on reading the hourly surface observations and the terminal forecasts that cover their departure and destination airports, and on filling the gaps between reporting stations by reasoning from the stations that do report. The point is that a pilot flying alone has nobody in the right seat to catch a misread cloud base or an overlooked wind shift, so the decision to launch or stay on the ramp has to come from the pilot's own reading of the raw data. Owners who fly their own airplanes, or who sign off on a crew's decision to depart, will recognize the discipline: the forecast is a document to be interpreted, not a verdict to be accepted.
Private Jet Owners

Indianapolis Keeps Its Heliport

Rotor operators with business in Indianapolis will keep a place to land. The FAA has pulled back the sign-off it had earlier given for shutting down the city's heliport, which means the facility stays in service. The agency pointed to commitments the field carries under federal rules and to what the region's aviation users will require in the years ahead. For owners who base or stage helicopters in the Midwest, the practical result is that an urban landing site that had been headed for closure remains on the chart.
Private Jet Owners

The Owner-Flown Twin With Seven Seats and Single-Lever Engines

A 2017 Diamond DA62 has come onto the market, and Flying has singled it out as a top pick among its current listings. The airplane is a composite-airframe twin, with Austro diesel powerplants managed by full-authority digital engine control, so power is handled by computer rather than by the pilot juggling mixture and prop. The cabin is configured for seven. For an owner who wants a personally flown piston twin with modern engine management and room for the family, this is the kind of airframe worth a closer look, and the listing presents it as fully equipped.
What It Sold For

Rolex Marks the Occasion by Turning Its Own Name Into the Design

The newest Oyster Perpetual arrives as a commemorative piece, timed to a milestone the house considers significant. Rather than reach for a new complication or an unfamiliar case, Rolex looked at the five letters it has put on every dial and treated them as the material to work with. The result is a watch that reads as lively on the wrist without abandoning the restraint that makes it belong in a Palm Beach drawing room as easily as on a Naples dock.
What It Sold For

Fifth Avenue's Spiral Was Never Meant to Be White, Its Architect Insisted

The Guggenheim stands on Fifth Avenue in the one color most New Yorkers can picture with their eyes closed, and the man who drew it did not want it that way. A new book by Wendy S. Walters, excerpted in Architectural Digest, makes the case that Frank Lloyd Wright objected to white paint and did not get his wish at the museum that carries his best-known curve. Her title leaves no doubt where she stands: "A Dead White: An Argument Against White Paint." The excerpt traces Wright's distaste for the shade, which he dismissed with a label of his own that the piece quotes. For anyone who has stood across the avenue from that coil, the idea is hard to shake once planted. Imagine the same ramp in whatever tone Wright preferred, and the building the city thinks it knows becomes a slightly different one. It is a reminder that even Manhattan's most settled landmark began as a set of choices, at least one of them made over the architect's objection.
What It Sold For

Seventy Years On, Janus Films Takes a Room at the New York Film Festival

The Filmmakers Lounge of the New York Film Festival was the setting for a cocktail evening marking the seventieth year of Janus Films. The distributor earned its standing by bringing celebrated pictures to screens in this country, and the night was given over to that record. For a title that keeps track of how New York's best rooms are used, a festival lounge lent for one evening to a company of that caliber is a booking worth noting.
Photo by The New York Public Library on Unsplash
What It Sold For

A Manhattan Street Gets Its Own Retrospective at the New Museum

The Bowery, one of the oldest thoroughfares in Manhattan, is now the subject of a large-scale show at the New Museum, which has just opened an exhibition tracing the street's past. For readers who follow what a block is worth and how it got there, the subject is a rare one: a museum treating a single stretch of New York real estate as worthy of a full retrospective. The Bowery has long been read in its buildings, and an institution turning that record into a show gives the street the kind of attention usually reserved for an architect or an estate.
What It Sold For

A Sixty-Dollar Volume Veranda's Editors Are Wrapping This Year

The price is on the record, and it is modest by the standards of the shelter world: sixty dollars, ordered from Amazon. For that sum, Veranda's editors say they are giving one large-format design book to the people in their lives who care about rooms, houses and the objects that fill them. They have been buying it in multiples ahead of the gift-giving weeks, which is about as strong an endorsement as a magazine's staff can offer a single title. For a reader with a long December list and a short budget, it is a rare case where the best-informed people in the field and the most accessible shop in the country point to the same thing.
What It Sold For

The Console Table Gets a New Occupant: Apple's HomeView

Apple has introduced a device built for the house, and it is called Apple HomeView. The object is finished in a choice of four colorways, its face a display with equal sides rather than the familiar wide rectangle. Set on an entry console or a kitchen counter, it reads less like equipment and more like something chosen to sit among the other objects a well-kept room collects. Whether it earns that place beside the lamp and the stack of books is the question its owners will settle.
What It Sold For

Eight American Towns Where Halloween Is the Whole Season, Not One Night

Architectural Digest has assembled a roster of eight towns across the United States that treat October as a season-long production rather than a single evening of porch lights and candy. The magazine frames them as destinations, places worth a trip in their own right once the leaves turn, and encourages readers to plan the visit without hesitation. For anyone who follows houses, the appeal is obvious: a town that commits to the holiday at this scale is usually a town that takes its streetscapes and its old homes seriously the rest of the year.
What It Sold For

Six Bed Frames for the Primary Bedroom, Put Through Their Paces by Architectural Digest

The editors at Architectural Digest have put a field of bed frames to use in their own homes and narrowed the results to six worth recommending. Among them is a platform frame made of bamboo that can be assembled with no tools whatsoever, a real convenience in a house where the bedrooms are finished last and the installers have already gone home. Another is a frame whose base lifts to open a compartment beneath the mattress, roomy enough to put away a full season of cold-weather clothing. For a reader furnishing a house in Palm Beach or the Hamptons, where closets fill quickly and the bedroom is expected to look as resolved as the rooms downstairs, a frame that conceals an entire winter's worth of coats is as much a planning decision as a furniture one. The complete list, with the editors' notes on each, appears at Architectural Digest.
What It Sold For

The Houses Lucy and Desi Actually Lived In, Seventy-Five Years After the Show

I Love Lucy reaches its 75th anniversary this year, and Elle Decor marks the occasion by stepping past the familiar set and into the residences Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz kept for themselves. The feature is a tour of the rooms the two of them called their own when the cameras were off. For readers who know the pair only through a television screen, it is a chance to see them as homeowners rather than as the Ricardos.
Photo by Just chaos on Flickr
What They Ride

Racing's Week of Oct. 14-18 Has a Viewing Guide

For anyone planning the week around the racetrack rather than the other way around, a rundown is now out of where to watch and where to listen to racing coverage from Oct. 14 through Oct. 18. It is the kind of thing a reader keeps open on the kitchen counter, a five-day map of broadcasts and audio for the days when the big stable names and their trainers are on the card. For those of us who would sooner follow a sire line than a stock ticker, it answers the only question that matters on a fall weekday afternoon, which is simply where to tune in.
What They Ride

Three Names From a Decade Worth a Second Look: Chris Evert, Susan's Girl and Wajima

America's Best Racing has turned its attention back to the 1970s, a decade it argues deserves to stand beside the sport's finest eras. The piece singles out three horses whose reputations never quite caught up with what they accomplished on the track: the filly Chris Evert, the mare Susan's Girl and the colt Wajima. For anyone whose memory of that stretch begins and ends with the famous names, the retrospective makes the case that the era's depth ran well past its headliners. It is the kind of reminder the American turf does well, that the record book holds more than the champions everyone already knows.
What They Ride

Aftercare Takes the Winner's Circle at Laurel on Maryland Million Day

The Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance will be at Laurel Park on October 24, when the track runs the Jim McKay Maryland Million Day for the 41st time. The alliance will have its people on the grounds through the afternoon, and for one race on the program its representatives will do the honors for the winning connections. It is a fitting place for them to stand. Maryland Million Day is the state's showcase for its own breeding, the one card each year built around horses sired in Maryland, and the people who look after those horses once their racing is finished belong in that picture. A reader walking the apron that Saturday will find the alliance alongside the owners, trainers and breeders whose day it is.
What They Ride

Jock Whitney Went to See a Filly Saddled

In the summer of 1949, Jock Whitney took such an interest in the filly regarded as the one to beat in the Spinaway Stakes that he went to watch her being saddled before the race. It is the kind of detail that tells you how the great owners of that era carried themselves: close to the horse, close to the trainer, attentive to the small rituals of the paddock rather than content to view the result from a distance. For those who follow the two-year-old fillies at Saratoga each August, the Spinaway remains the race that first sorts out the serious prospects, and the image of Whitney at the saddling is a reminder of what that race has long meant to the sport's leading families. Thoroughbred Daily News raised the moment in a breeding column that looks back on how horses and horsemen of that generation were made.
Photo by Alexandre Prevot on Flickr
What They Drive

Honda's Civic Type R Has a Forest-Stage Sibling, and It Makes a Case for Rallying

Honda has turned its Civic Type R into a purpose-built rally machine, the HRC Rally XP, and Road & Track reports that on a wooded stage it is a genuine sight. The magazine frames the car less as a product than as an argument: here is a hot hatch that American enthusiasts already recognize, doing exactly what rallying was created for, flat out between the trees. The open question it raises is whether the sport can carry that impression to the people who would most enjoy it, those who know the Civic Type R from the road but have never stood beside a gravel stage. If the car is as compelling as described, it may do more for rallying's audience than any amount of promotion.
Photo by docoverachiever on Flickr
What They Drive

Four Times the Price of the Truck: Roadster Shop Puts a $60,000 Frame Under the GMT400 Chevy

Roadster Shop has introduced a purpose-built frame for the GMT400-generation Chevrolet pickup, and the price tells the story. The chassis is listed at $60,000. The truck it is meant to carry can be had for around $15,000. That inversion, where the foundation costs four times the vehicle sitting on it, is the clearest sign yet that this generation of Chevy pickup has crossed from used truck to collector platform. For an owner who wants a GMT400 finished to the standard of a show car rather than a work truck, the frame is the part that does the heavy lifting, literally and otherwise. Everything visible on the finished build will be Chevrolet. Everything that decides how it sits and drives will be Roadster Shop.
Photo by Pandamera1 on Flickr
What They Drive

The Hellcat Charger Is Said to Be Coming Back, and Both Body Styles Would Get It

A pair of accounts drawing on paperwork from inside the company point to a Charger SRT Hellcat for the 2028 model year. Should the plan hold, the supercharger-fed Hemi would once again sit under a Charger hood. The car would send its power to the back axle. The engine would not be confined to a single shape, either, with the report describing it as available in the two-door Charger and the four-door alike. None of this has been confirmed by Dodge, and the sourcing is leaked documentation rather than an announcement. For owners who have kept their earlier Hellcats in the garage, it is the first concrete sign that the badge has a future beyond the cars already built.
What They Drive

A Silverado HD With No One Behind the Wheel, and No Engine Note Either

GM Defense is building a prototype of the Chevrolet Silverado HD that drives itself, developed with the U.S. Army in mind. The concept is classed as an Unmanned Ground Vehicle, which means the heavy-duty pickup familiar from every American job site would move without a soldier in the cab. The gasoline and diesel powertrains that give the production truck its character are gone from this version, replaced by battery-electric propulsion that runs without the sound of combustion. For owners who know the Silverado HD as a work truck first, it is a striking second life for the platform.
What They Drive

The Raptor's Engine Comes Down the Bronco Range for 2027

Ford's twin-turbocharged 3.0-liter V-6, until now the signature of the Bronco Raptor, will be available in additional versions of the Bronco for the 2027 model year. That puts the flagship's powertrain within reach of buyers who want the engine without stepping all the way up to the Raptor. Ford is also extending several of the lineup's most-requested features to a wider spread of trims. For a Bronco owner weighing an order, the change means the configuration choices broaden considerably, and a 2027 car with the big V-6 outside the Raptor badge is a new combination to note in the model's build history.
What They Drive

A Mopar Badge on the Cup Series Grid Again, Possibly as Soon as Next Season

Dodge appears to be edging toward a comeback in NASCAR's top division, according to reporting from The Athletic. The outlet's account points to the 2027 season as the likely moment the marque would rejoin the Cup Series field. Nothing has been confirmed by Dodge itself, so for now this remains a report rather than an announcement. For the owners and collectors who keep the brand's racing heritage alive in garages across Florida and Colorado, it is the kind of news worth watching closely.
What They Drive

The 1977 Chrysler Cordoba Gets a Fresh Look, Cabin and Coachwork Alike

A new set of photographs puts a 1977 Chrysler Cordoba on display from both sides of the door glass, with the cabin given as much attention as the body. For collectors who follow the Pentastar coupes of that decade, the model year is a familiar reference point, and the pictures give a close read of the trim and proportions that owners talk about. The argument behind the gallery is a simple one: that this Cordoba got the formula for a comfortable two-door right. Anyone weighing one for a garage here will find the images worth a slow scroll before the next auction catalog arrives.
Photo by Loco Steve on Flickr
What They Drive

Car and Driver Pulls Its 1977 Chrysler Cordoba Test Back Off the Shelf

Car and Driver has republished its period road test of the 1977 Chrysler Cordoba, the Highland Park marque's entry in the personal-luxury field. The archive verdict holds that the car delivered exactly what that market asked of it. Two things stood out to the testers of the day: the opera windows set into the rear quarters, and how little of the road made it into the cabin. For Cordoba owners, it is a chance to read the original judgment on the car as it was new, rather than as it is remembered.
What They Drive

Rear-Drive and Supercharged: The Charger Owners Asked For Is Coming Back for 2028

Dodge's Charger is set to get a supercharged V-8 for the 2028 model year, according to documents reviewed by Car and Driver. The engine is described as Hellcat-grade, which marks a return of that output to the gasoline-powered Charger. Just as notable for anyone who keeps one of these cars is how the power will be delivered. The reports say it goes to the rear wheels only, with no all-wheel-drive option attached to the supercharged car. For the Charger faithful, that pairing of a blown V-8 and a rear axle is the layout they have long associated with the nameplate's most sought-after versions. The documents point to a 2028 arrival, so this is a model year still some distance off rather than a car headed to showrooms now. Dodge has not put out an official announcement of its own, and no output figure or price has been published.
What They Drive

For 918 Spyder Owners, a Successor May Finally Be Taking Shape

Porsche has shown a concept called the Mission S, and the word from the wire is that it could preview the marque's first supercar since the 918 Spyder. That gap is the part worth noting for anyone who has kept a 918 in the garage since the car went out of production; nothing from Stuttgart has sat above it in the lineup since. What the Mission S would become in production form, and when, has not been settled, so for now it stays a concept rather than a model year. We will report the specifics as they are confirmed, not before.
Icons of Palm Beach

Manhattan Has a New Girl, and She Takes Her Martini Dirty

For anyone who keeps an apartment in the city between seasons, Vanity Fair has filed the latest word on which downtown type currently holds the room. The archetype has turned over again: after the Dimes Square moment and then the West Village moment, the magazine says Manhattan now belongs to a persona known as Ellie for the Girls. Its guide to the city is organized around her particulars, chief among them a standing end-of-week recap on Sundays and a martini ordered brined rather than dry. The magazine describes her following as having reached the devoted, insider proportions that make a name travel on its own. Consider it the reading to finish before the first flight north.
Icons of Palm Beach

Keri Russell Makes the Case for Deco Diamonds

Keri Russell arrived at the fourth-season premiere of The Diplomat wearing earrings of Art Deco design, set with diamonds, and they were the thing people were still talking about afterward. The geometry of that period, the clean lines and the way the stones are made to read as a single flash rather than a scatter, is a language this island already speaks fluently from the estate cases on Worth Avenue. On a red carpet given over to the dress, it was the ears that held the room. The Netflix series returns this week.
Beverly Hills News

Pacific Palisades' Bay Theatre Will Run Under Paramount

Paramount Pictures is set to take charge of the Bay Theatre in Pacific Palisades, according to Variety Film. The cinema on the Westside had most recently been run by Netflix. Variety Film places the change alongside a broader consolidation under Skydance this month, with Warner Bros. also coming into the fold. For residents of the Palisades, the practical result is a neighborhood screen that stays in the hands of a major studio. Further details on programming or timing were not included in the report.
Beverly Hills News

Laika Stop-Motion Feature 'Wildwood' Built From 2,776 Shots Over More Than Five Years

The stop-motion feature "Wildwood," directed by Travis Knight for the studio Laika, required more than five years of work on stage animation and visual effects, according to Variety. The trade publication reported that the production involved 2,776 shots in total. Each of those shots was assembled from a combination of hand-built puppets and miniature sets, with additional elements layered in to complete the frame. Steve Emerson, the film's visual effects supervisor, described the process to Variety. The account lays out how the studio coordinated physical craft work and effects work across the length of the production. For readers in a city where film and animation work is part of daily life, the figures give a measure of the scale of a single stop-motion picture.
Beverly Hills News

Hulu and ESPN Set February 2027 Premiere for Film on Michael Jackson's 1993 Super Bowl Halftime

A new documentary about Michael Jackson's halftime appearance at the 1993 Super Bowl is scheduled to arrive on Hulu and ESPN in February 2027. The film carries a title that begins with "Spectacle." It will be available on both services at launch. The subject is a single performance from one game, played more than three decades ago, that the filmmakers have chosen to revisit at feature length. Further details on the production were not included in the initial report.
Beverly Hills News

Nick Cannon Brings His Podcast to BET as a Weekly Television Series

BET is adding a late-night program to its lineup, with Nick Cannon as host. The show grows out of "Nick Cannon @ Night," which has until now existed as a podcast with a video component. Under the new arrangement it will air once a week on the network. Its subject matter is romance, intimacy and the way couples get along, handled in a conversational format. The move returns BET to a late-night slot it had stepped away from, and it gives Cannon a television home for a show that began outside of broadcast.
Beverly Hills News

'Surprise & Seek' Will Come Back as 'Surprise & Scream' for a Halloween Season on Amazon Kids+

Amazon Kids+ has ordered two additional seasons of the game show "Surprise & Seek," according to The Hollywood Reporter. The second of those seasons will carry a Halloween theme and will air under a new name, "Surprise & Scream." The order covers a third season as well, though no details on that installment have been reported. The Hollywood Reporter published the news as an exclusive.
Beverly Hills News

Giulia Caruso to Steer Emerging-Filmmaker Slate at Netflix-Partnered Ethos

Giulia Caruso has been appointed to run production and development at Ethos, the production company led by Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar. The two filmmakers made the hire themselves, placing Caruso in charge of the projects the company is building. Ethos is assembling a lineup of pictures from directors at the early stages of their careers, drawing talent from film festivals and industry training programs. The company also holds an existing agreement with Netflix, which gives the slate a path to the streamer's audience. For an industry town where the next generation of filmmakers is always the subject of conversation, the appointment places Caruso at the point where new talent meets a major distributor.
Beverly Hills News

Built, Not Rendered: The Creatures of Nolan's "The Odyssey" Began as Physical Objects

The monsters in Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" were largely constructed as actual things rather than conjured entirely in post-production, according to Variety. Andrew Jackson, who worked on the film's creatures, said his approach whenever possible was to have a tangible object present during filming, including a cyclops operated with strings. Samantha Morton's contribution involved altering faces manually. For a town whose trade is making the imaginary believable, the account is a reminder that the oldest methods still earn a place on a production of this scale.
Beverly Hills News

Three Actors Will Collect Honors as Denver's Film Festival Opens Its 49th Year

The Denver Film Festival will present awards this fall to John Leguizamo, Indya Moore and D'Arcy Carden. The festival, now in its 49th edition, opens on October 22 and closes on November 1. Leguizamo is set to accept the John Cassavetes Award during the run. Moore and Carden will each be recognized as well. The honors place three working screen performers at the center of a Colorado event that has been staged for nearly five decades. For readers here who follow the awards calendar, Denver's festival falls in the stretch of weeks when fall film programs begin announcing their honorees.
Beverly Hills News

Blumhouse Horror Film "Sleepover" Gets October 2027 Theater Date With Parker Posey Attached

Parker Posey has signed on to headline "Sleepover," a horror picture being made by Blumhouse Atomic Monster together with Universal Pictures. Universal has set the film for a theatrical opening on Oct. 8, 2027. The casting was disclosed in a report published this week. That report did not include a director, a writer, a plot description or any additional cast members. The date places the release in the fall of 2027, roughly a year from now.
Beverly Hills News

Paul F. Tompkins and Jeremy Culhane Headline Three-Episode 'MP3' at Dropout

Dropout has given a series order to "MP3," a scripted live-action project with Jeremy Culhane and Paul F. Tompkins in the lead roles, according to Variety. The order runs three episodes, and Variety describes the project as a music video series. It marks the first new original scripted live-action show the company has commissioned since it took the Dropout name, a stretch Variety puts at seven years. Dropout was previously known as CollegeHumor. No premiere date, production schedule or filming location was included in the report. Beverly Hills News will carry further details on the series as they are made public.
Beverly Hills News

Jesse Eisenberg Wrote Seven Songs of His Own for 'The Debut'

Jesse Eisenberg composed seven songs for his new picture, "The Debut," according to an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. He wrote the music himself rather than handing the job to a separate songwriter. Eisenberg told the publication that his affection for the familiar conventions of stage musicals shaped the writing. He also said that the largest musical sequence in the film moved him to tears while he was working on it. For a writer and actor better known for his screenplays, the songbook marks a turn toward composing. Los Angeles audiences will hear the full set when the film reaches theaters.
Beverly Hills News

Hello Sunshine Returns to Founder Reese Witherspoon's Control

Reese Witherspoon is reacquiring Hello Sunshine, the television production company she founded, from its current owner, Candle Media. The actor is completing the purchase alongside Mediawan Partners, which is taking part in the transaction. The move returns ownership of the company to the person who started it, with Mediawan as her partner in the deal. Mediawan has been expanding its holdings through a series of acquisitions, according to the report.
Photo by Jennifer Su on Flickr
Who Wore What When

A Designer's First Turn at the Movies: Christian Cowan Dresses "Debutantes"

Christian Cowan has taken his sketchbook to the screen, handling the wardrobe for Stephen Meier's forthcoming thriller "Debutantes." It marks the designer's debut as a feature-length costume designer, a step from dressing the arrivals to dressing the characters. The title alone promises a certain kind of closet, and a designer known for the red carpet seems a fitting hand to fill it. The results will be judged where every wardrobe is eventually judged, in the dark, when the lights go down.
Who Wore What When

Louis Vuitton's Newest Bag Has Found the Right Arm: Chloë Sevigny, Dressed for Fall

Chloë Sevigny has been spotted carrying a brand-new Louis Vuitton bag, paired with the sort of relaxed autumn dressing that asks nothing of its wearer and gets everything in return. The bag is the point here, and she lets it be, keeping the rest of the outfit unfussy so the newcomer can do the talking. Louis Vuitton has produced plenty of carryalls that became shorthand for a season, and this one arrives with the kind of early endorsement a house would choose if it could. For readers keeping a ledger of who carried what and when, mark the entry: Sevigny, Louis Vuitton, fall 2026.
Who Wore What When

Before the Step-and-Repeat, There Was Daily Ballet: Hailey Bieber Designs for Adanola

Hailey Bieber has put her name to a ballet-inspired capsule with Adanola, the activewear label out of Britain. The collection reaches back to her own early years, when dance class was a daily appointment with no day off in the week. The design idea is the improvised, make-it-yourself way dancers have always assembled what they wear to work, rather than the polish of a finished performance. Any former dance student in New York will recognize that instinct on sight. It is a neat piece of casting, too: a woman now watched for what she wears to the party is going back to the discipline that came before any of it.
Who Wore What When

Penélope Cruz Raids Ralph Lauren's Back Catalog, and the Pattern Wins

Penélope Cruz has pulled a piece from the Ralph Lauren vault for her latest appearance promoting La bola negra, and the print does the talking. It is a lighthearted choice from an American house that knows its own history well enough to lend it out. The look fits the thread she has been following on this round of appearances for the film, borrowing from the men's side of the closet and wearing it with ease. For anyone keeping score of who dresses in what, the pairing of a Spanish actress and a Lauren original is the kind of match this desk exists to note.
Who Wore What When

Bond Builders Reward the Patient, Not the Hurried

The treatments that promise to knit hair back together from within do earn their spot on the vanity, Elle reports. Hair that has taken a beating can genuinely come back with their help. The catch is the calendar: this is a course of care rather than a single sitting, and the results arrive gradually. For anyone counting down to a gala, a pageant stage, or a step-and-repeat, that means starting well before the date on the invitation.
Who Wore What When

Bad Bunny's Style Team Checks Into Hotel Moynat

Moynat has handed the keys to its Hotel Moynat project to Storm Pablo, the stylist who dresses Bad Bunny, and Marvin Douglas, the jewelry designer who works with the same star. The partnership arrives in two installments rather than one. Its references are the paper labels that once covered a well-traveled trunk, each one a souvenir of a grand hotel passed through, and the sparkle of faceted stones. It is the sort of pairing that treats luggage as something to be dressed, not merely packed. For readers who still check a hard case and expect it to look as good coming off the carousel as it did going on, this one is worth watching for.
Who Wore What When

Jonathan Adler Puts the Archive Behind Glass on Lexington Avenue

Jonathan Adler has a new address in Manhattan, and it sits on Lexington Avenue. The shop is built around the present, the kind you wrap and carry to someone else's door, rather than the sofa-and-sideboard sale. Candles get their own counter, where a visitor can work through the fragrances one at a time before committing. The more interesting corner, for anyone who keeps score on design, is a small edit of pieces revived from the brand's own back pages. Call it the archive doing a walk-through in a fresh setting, which is the sort of reissue this desk tends to applaud. The store is also meant to do double duty, anchoring a wider push into gifting and into selling through other retailers.
Who Wore What When

Daisy Edgar-Jones Goes Twice to the Chloé Archive, Stella McCartney Years Only

Daisy Edgar-Jones has turned up in not one but two printed cotton tees from Chloé as it was under Stella McCartney, each carrying the soft, sprayed-on artwork that defined the house's late-nineties chapter. The two make a matched pair, the sort of repeat that reads as conviction rather than coincidence. For anyone who keeps score by label and year, it is a reminder that a humble top with the right provenance can do what a gown often cannot, which is announce a point of view.
Photo by MSVG on Flickr
Private Jet Owners

Flying Issues Its August Shortlist of Gear and Services Worth an Owner's Attention

Flying magazine has published its August roundup of aviation products and services the editors consider deserving of a second look. The wire item does not say what made the cut, only that each entry is one the staff judged to stand apart from the usual flood of avionics upgrades, cabin accessories, and support offerings pitched to operators every month. For an owner running a Part 91 department, the use of a list like this is the filter itself: someone else has already thrown out the noise, and what remains can be checked against the fleet's actual needs rather than a vendor's pitch deck. The full list is on Flying's site for anyone who wants to see whether anything on it belongs in next year's budget.
What They Ride

The Juvenile Ladder Toward Louisville Gets Its Mid-October Update

America's Best Racing published a fresh edition of its rankings of two-year-olds with a case for the 2027 Kentucky Derby on Oct. 12. The list is a measuring stick for the youngest division, the colts still finding their stride a full season before the first Saturday in May at Churchill Downs. The column opens on a plain truth of the sport, that ability alone does not guarantee a horse a place in the big spring race. For readers who follow the sales ring into the barn and then onto the track, it is the first serious look at which of this year's rookies are worth watching through the winter.
Who Wore What When

Quiet Luxury Hangs Up Its Coat and Moves Indoors

Elle has gathered an edit of understated home goods, every one of them sold through Amazon, under the banner the fashion world knows as quiet luxury. The premise is modest by design: the objects of an ordinary day, chosen so that the routine around them reads a touch more polished. For readers who keep track of what was worn, by whom, and on which night, it is the same instinct carried past the closet door, with the label kept discreet and the finish left to speak. The address on the box is the surprise, and that is rather the point.
Who Wore What When

The Script Becomes the Souvenir: Jacob Tierney Puts Heated Rivalry Between Hard Covers

Jacob Tierney, who wrote and directed the adaptation of the romance novel Heated Rivalry, has assembled a behind-the-scenes volume titled I'll Believe in Anything, built around his own annotated scripts. The pages carry his working notes alongside the dialogue, so the reader sees not just what was said on screen but what the man behind the camera was thinking as he shaped it. For a desk like ours, which lives on the record of how a thing was made and when, a director's marginalia is the closest thing to a fitting-room photograph: the decisions, caught before they were final. Tierney discussed the project in an exclusive conversation with the magazine.
Who Wore What When

Fifth Avenue Gets a Fitting Room for the Vivier Buckle

Roger Vivier has set up Atelier Vivier inside Saks Fifth Avenue in New York, and for the first time an American client can commission the house's shoes and bags to her own specifications without crossing an ocean. The program, which lets a customer choose how a pair of pumps or a handbag is finished rather than taking what is on the shelf, had not been offered anywhere in the United States until now. That it lands on Fifth Avenue rather than anywhere else is the sort of detail this desk keeps a file on: a Paris house, a New York department store, and a buckle that is about to be ordered one pair at a time. The pageant and red-carpet set, who think in terms of the exact shade to match a gown, will know precisely what to do with this.
Who Wore What When

Mickey Mouse Has Two American Stops on His Golden Goose Itinerary

Golden Goose and Disney have paired up on a Mickey & Friends capsule, and rather than simply setting it on shelves, the two are taking it on the road. A traveling co-creation series begins Wednesday, and New York and Miami both appear on the schedule. The rest of the route reads like a well-stamped passport, with Milan, Paris, Beijing, Seoul and Tokyo on the list and more cities besides. For our readers, the stops that matter are the two on this side of the Atlantic. A capsule built around Disney's original leading mouse and his circle, billed as co-creation, puts the people who turn up inside the process rather than outside the window. Consider this your notice to watch the calendar.
Who Wore What When

Tommy Hilfiger Dresses the Grandstand in Denim for Austin's Grand Prix

Tommy Hilfiger has turned out a Texas-flavored capsule timed to the Formula 1 weekend in Austin, running Oct. 22 through 25. The designer builds the lineup on denim, which is about as honest a Texas fabric as there is, and finishes it with the stars-and-stripes flourishes the house has always treated as its signature. It is made for the people in the stands rather than the people in the paddock, which is where the real dressing happens at any race anyway. Picture it against Austin in late October, when the heat finally relents and a jean jacket stops being a dare. For a house that has spent its whole life trading in red, white and blue, a motor race on American soil is a fitting runway. We will be watching the crowd as closely as the cars.
Who Wore What When

A Third Name on the Door: Elemis Founder Sean Harrington Signs On at Lempriere Wells

Sean Harrington, one of the people who built Elemis, has taken a partnership at the consultancy Lempriere Wells, and the firm has marked the moment the old-fashioned way, by putting his surname on the letterhead. It now answers to Lempriere Wells Harrington. His brief is to counsel labels in beauty and wellness, both here in the States and well past our shores. For American brands in the market for seasoned counsel, that is a new name worth committing to memory.
Who Wore What When

The Shoe That Fits Only You Now Lives on Fifth Avenue

Roger Vivier has set up Atelier Vivier inside Saks Fifth Avenue in New York, and it is the first time the made-to-order service has been offered anywhere in the United States. The premise is the one every red carpet dresser secretly wants: a shoe or a handbag put together to your own specifications rather than pulled from the shelf. Shoppers can shape both categories, footwear and bags, to their taste. For a house that has long been a fixture of the archive, the interesting part is that the decision now sits with the client standing in the store. The New York location keeps that small act of choosing within reach of anyone passing through Saks.
Who Wore What When

New York Gets Lihi Hod's First American Address, and a Fragrance to Go With It

Lihi Hod has planted her first store on American soil, and she chose New York to do it. The Israeli bridal designer, whose training came under John Galliano, opened the doors Monday and used the occasion to kick off New York Bridal Fashion Week. A fall 2027 collection came out the same day, so the inaugural guests saw the clothes before anyone else in the country. A line of scents arrived alongside the gowns, a first for the house. For a designer whose work had previously reached American brides from a distance, the shop puts the dresses within walking distance of the city's wedding season. It is a confident way to join the New York calendar.
Who Wore What When

Sixteen Years and $400 Million In, Veronica Beard Wants Forever

Veronica Beard has reached its sixteenth year as a $400 million business, and the founders are treating the figure as a starting line rather than a trophy. The label got there by dressing the woman who has somewhere to be on a Tuesday morning, not only the one with somewhere to be on a Sunday night in Beverly Hills. That customer turned out to exist in very large numbers. With the company freshly reworked, the founders now say the goal is an American house with a name that reads the same in any time zone. For an archive like this one, that is the interesting part. Legacy is usually assigned after the fact, by people like us, and here is a label asking for it out loud and bringing the receipts.
Who Wore What When

Saks Puts Its Own Fifth Avenue Address Front and Center This Holiday Season

Saks Fifth Avenue has made its Manhattan flagship the star of this year's holiday campaign. Rather than borrowing a backdrop, the retailer is casting the store itself as the setting, the way a great house might shoot a collection in its own salon. The tone is lighthearted, treating the hunt for presents as something closer to a game than a chore. The idea, as the retailer frames it, is that a visitor should feel they are turning up something unexpected around each corner. For New Yorkers, it is a reminder that the most photographed stretch of Fifth Avenue still belongs to the people who shop it, not just the people who walk past it.
What They Collect

A Hepworth That Sat for Lee Miller's Camera Is Coming to Christie's at Up to $10.5 Million

Christie's will offer Barbara Hepworth's Sculpture with Colour (Eos), and the house has set the top of its estimate at $10.5 million. The work carries more than its own form into the room. It appears in a Vogue portrait taken by Lee Miller, which means a collector here is bidding on an object that was already looked at closely, and recorded, by one of the sharpest eyes of its time. That kind of photographic record is the sort of thing American buyers of modern sculpture pay attention to, because it fixes a piece in a moment and gives it a face beyond the catalogue entry. The figure Christie's has attached to it is public and it is substantial, and it says plainly what the house believes a Hepworth with this history can bring. Where the hammer finally lands is for the sale to decide.
Beverly Hills News

U.S. Distributor Secures Vietnamese Sequel "Sister Sister 3" for North and South American Release

A Vietnamese film series built around women in its central roles is heading to screens on this side of the Pacific. 3388 Films, a specialty distribution company headquartered in the United States, has acquired "Sister Sister 3," the third installment in the franchise, according to Variety Film. The agreement covers rights across the Americas as well as Europe, Australia, Taiwan and Japan. For audiences here, the deal means a title that would otherwise have remained a regional release in Southeast Asia will now have a path to American theaters and viewers. Terms of the arrangement were not detailed in the initial report.
Private Jet Owners

FAA Puts $2.9 Million Behind Heart Aerospace's ES-36 Turbogenerator

The Federal Aviation Administration has awarded Heart Aerospace a $2.9 million grant aimed at the powerplant side of its ES-36 program. The money is earmarked for putting the aircraft's turbogenerator through its paces, first on the test stand and then in the air. A turbogenerator pairs a gas turbine with an electrical generator rather than driving a propeller directly, which is the piece of a hybrid architecture that regulators have the least certification history with. That makes the FAA's decision to fund the test campaign itself, rather than simply wait for the data, the part worth noting. For anyone who operates under Part 91 and watches how the agency approaches novel propulsion, this is federal money going toward building the evidence base the certification process will eventually lean on. The grant does not change the ES-36's timeline on its own, and the wire does not say when the flight portion of the testing is expected to begin. What it does establish is that the agency considers this particular hardware worth a line item.
Photo by Jiaren Lau on Flickr
Private Jet Owners

Flight Training Scholarship Window Opens, and Applicants Have Homework to Do

Owners with a family member headed for a certificate, or a line pilot looking to add a rating, should note that aviation scholarship applications are being accepted now. Flying has put together guidance on two fronts: how to locate the awards that exist, and how to get through the application itself without stumbling. The money is real, but it goes to people who find the programs and complete the paperwork correctly, which is where most of the effort lies. For anyone sponsoring a pilot's training out of the hangar, pointing them to that guidance is a cheap first step.
Private Jet Owners

Texas From a Comanche Window Is AVweb's Picture of the Day

AVweb's Oct. 12 photo feature is a Texas landscape shot through the side glass of a Piper Comanche. The airplane is a piston single, so the frame is the kind of low-and-slow look at the ground that most readers of this title left behind when they moved up to pressurized equipment. There is no cabin window shade or flight-level haze between the camera and the terrain, just the Comanche's window and the state below it. For an owner whose usual view of Texas is from the flight levels on the way to somewhere else, it is a reminder of what the place looks like when the airplane is close enough to see it.
Photo by Zoshua Colah on Unsplash
Private Jet Owners

West Palm Beach Owners Get a Bigger NetJets Building

NetJets intends to build a set of new terminals reserved for its own customers, and the one it already runs in West Palm Beach is on the list for a larger footprint and a refit. The company has not said where the fresh buildings will go or when they will open. For owners who fly in and out of Palm Beach County, the practical point is the local one: the dedicated space they already use is slated to grow rather than hold at its current size. Whatever the new terminals look like elsewhere, West Palm Beach is the one named site, and it is being treated as a place to invest in rather than maintain. Details on square footage, timing, and what the enlarged building will offer have not been released.
What They Drive

Honda Will Have at Least 15 Hybrids in the Lineup by 2030

Honda intends to bring fifteen or more hybrid models to market by the end of the decade. The plan marks a change of course for the marque, which has set aside the battery-electric program it had been developing in favor of gasoline-electric powertrains. For American owners who have kept a Honda in the garage for its reliability, the shift means a far wider choice of hybrid badges on dealer lots over the next four years. Which models will carry the new powertrains, and in which model years, has not yet been announced.
Photo by Madeline Liu on Unsplash
What They Drive

Sixty Percent Off a Garage Battery Worth Knowing About

Owners who keep their own tools charged for weekend work on the car have a reason to look at Amazon this week. DeWalt's new PowerPack battery is listed there at a 60 percent discount, bringing the price to less than $70. The sale has not been formally announced, so there is no word on how long the figure will hold. For anyone with a DeWalt set already on the garage shelf, it is the kind of quiet markdown that rewards checking early.
What They Drive

Where the Hemi Went Next: A Harbor Freight Small Engine Gets the Hot-Rodder's Treatment

The cheapest engine on the shelf has just been given the same medicine Detroit used to sell on the showroom floor. A builder working with a Harbor Freight single-cylinder has coaxed additional output from it by reaching for the oldest tricks in the American speed catalog rather than anything exotic. The recipe reads like a 1950s dry-lakes shopping list: a stubby tube header to let the exhaust breathe, a carburetor with more to give than the stock unit, and combustion chambers reworked toward the domed, hemi-style shape that made a certain Chrysler V8 a legend. None of those ideas is new, which is precisely the point. The lesson for anyone in a Los Angeles garage with a budget engine on the bench is that the fundamentals of making power have not changed, only the scale on which they are applied. We have not run the engine ourselves and will not guess at its final figure.
What They Drive

Factory-Correct Ford Upgrades, Priced Below Factory for Now

Owners who prefer their Fords dressed in parts from Dearborn rather than the aftermarket have a short window to buy them for less. Ford's own accessory line is being offered at reduced prices through promotional codes, and the pieces keep the manufacturer's warranty that a third-party part cannot match. For the collector who cares that every bolt-on belongs to the car's marque, that distinction is the whole appeal. The offer runs only briefly, so anyone with a Ford in the garage and a wish list for it should act while the codes are live.
Photo by Brandon Bailey Design/Photography on Flickr
What They Drive

Alpine Lowers the Lights on Its One-Off A310 Vision Concept

Alpine has unveiled a design study it calls the A310 Vision, built as a single example with an electrified drivetrain. Its signature detail is a pair of headlamps that drop out of sight rather than rising into view, the opposite of the retractable arrangement most enthusiasts picture. Nothing has been promised for the showroom, but the study is being read as a possible preview of a car customers could one day order. For American collectors, it is a nameplate worth keeping an eye on.
Photo by Kelvin Mah on Unsplash
What They Drive

Mini Sends the 2027 Countryman Off the Pavement With a Special Edition

Mini has added a new limited model to the 2027 Countryman line, badged the Untamed Edition. It is the marque's step toward owners who want a crossover that looks ready for a trailhead rather than a valet stand. The changes are modest and mechanical: the ride height sits slightly higher than the standard car, and the wheels wear rubber cut for gravel and dirt instead of ordinary street tread. For the American buyer who keeps a Mini for the badge and the proportions, this is the first factory version that invites a weekend on unpaved roads without leaving the brand. Collectors who track special editions will want to note the model year and the edition name, since Mini's limited runs tend to be what owners ask about later.
What They Drive

Mercedes-Benz Puts Its Pen to a Nine-Foot Electric Two-Seater for Smart

Smart has a new car, and it is called the #2. It seats two, runs on battery power alone, and measures about nine feet from nose to tail. The styling comes from Mercedes-Benz, which gives the smallest footprint in the Smart range a surface language borrowed from a far larger house. Beneath that skin sits current electric drivetrain hardware rather than anything carried over from an earlier generation. For readers in Palm Beach, Naples and Beverly Hills, where a short wheelbase is worth more than horsepower on a crowded street, the proportions alone make it worth a look. Nine feet is shorter than many of the pickups parked along Worth Avenue and roughly the length of a single garage bay's spare space. Whether it will ever be registered on a Florida title is not something the announcement addresses, so we will say no more on that until it does.
Photo by Tibor Pinter on Unsplash
What They Drive

Alfa Romeo Puts a Hybrid Heart in Its Six-Cylinder, and Giulia Owners Should Pay Attention

Alfa Romeo has shown a concept it calls Cuorerosso, and the news for anyone who keeps a Giulia in the garage is what sits under its hood. The car carries an electrified take on the marque's turbocharged six-cylinder, the engine American enthusiasts know from the Quadrifoglio. Its shape sits between two traditions, the long-legged touring coupe and the exotic, and the company has let it be understood that this is a look at where the next Giulia may be headed. For the collectors from Palm Beach to Beverly Hills who have made the current sedan a quiet fixture on concours lawns, that is the first real signal of what comes next.
What They Drive

Sirena Puts the Owner's Private Terrace Where the Anchor Usually Goes

The forward end of a yacht is usually the least glamorous real estate aboard, given over to ground tackle and crew. Sirena has gone the other way on its new 138-foot model, the Sirena 42, and tucked an owner's terrace across two decks into the bow. The structure beneath it is steel rather than composite, and the interior that comes with it is reported as polished rather than plain. For the collector who already has the garage sorted, it is a reminder that the most interesting cabin on the water is not always amidships.
Brides of Beverly Hills

A Warm Three-Color Palette Worth Copying for a Courtyard Ceremony

A Dallas couple built their outdoor wedding around flowers in pink, peach and yellow, and the combination is a practical one for any courtyard here. The three shades sit close enough on the spectrum that arrangements read as one warm wash rather than a mix, which keeps a small enclosed space from feeling busy. In a courtyard, where stone and stucco do most of the work, florals in that range need little else around them to carry the room. A bride pricing her own flowers can take the lesson without the Texas address: pick one warm family, stay inside it, and let the walls do the rest.
Beverly Hills Brides

Groom's Lapel Carried a Stalk of Asparagus at a Pacific Northwest Garden Wedding

Tess and Connor married at a small garden gathering in the Pacific Northwest, and the detail guests kept returning to sat on the groom's jacket. Florist Kylie Hale built his boutonniere from white flowers and tucked a spear of asparagus in with them. It was a quiet joke that doubled as a statement of intent, because the couple had planned the evening around food, with a dinner meant to please people who take eating seriously. The afternoon also held a Korean Paebaek ceremony, the traditional rite in which the couple honors their families. Seen together, the vegetable on the lapel, the garden setting and the long table of serious cooking read as one idea carried through the whole day.
Brides of Beverly Hills

Teal and Peach Make a Case for the Striped Table

A styled shoot photographed at Hutton House pairs teal with peach and runs bold stripes through the design. The combination is worth a bride's attention because it does real work on a table: the two colors carry the florals and paper, and the stripes give linens and ribbon a pattern that reads from across a room. For anyone planning a daytime celebration here who wants color without a heavy palette, this is a usable blueprint rather than a mood board.
Beverly Hills Brides

A Camelot Hostess, Reimagined in Pastel: Jordan and Charlie Married at a Drag Brunch in Austin

Jordan and Charlie were married in Austin, and the celebration took the form of a drag brunch rather than a seated dinner. The palette ran to pastels from end to end. The couple had told their planner, in so many words, that they wanted guests to leave convinced the day had been a hallucination of the loveliest kind, a Jackie Kennedy sort of polish bent toward the surreal. What the room got was exactly that: a daytime party with performers in it, the colors soft and the mood anything but. The dessert table was the bride's own work. Jordan baked eight cakes for the occasion, every one of them by hand, which is a detail that would stop a guest cold in any city, Beverly Hills included. It is the kind of thing a reader here would notice before the flowers: not the scale of the spread, but that the person in the dress had made it.
What They Sail

A Steeler 72 Built to One Owner's Brief Is Now Looking for Its Next

Two Bubbles, a Steeler 72 Ocean Explorer, has been listed for sale. She was commissioned the way the best of these boats are, with the original owner shaping the specification rather than ticking boxes on a yard's standard sheet. The result is an engineering fit-out considerably deeper than what a stock cruiser of her size would carry, which is the detail a serious buyer will want to walk through first. No asking price has been made public, and we do not guess at one.
Private Jet Owners

NetJets to Grow Its Owners-Only Lounge at West Palm Beach

NetJets intends to build a set of new terminals reserved for the people who fly with it, and West Palm Beach is on the list for a second look rather than a first one. The fractional operator already keeps a dedicated building there, and the plan is to enlarge and refurbish it rather than start from scratch. For shareowners who stage out of Palm Beach County every season, that means the ramp-side space they currently walk through is slated to get bigger and newer. It also signals where the company expects demand to sit, since you do not pour money into a Florida footprint you consider saturated. The broader terminal program, with new locations elsewhere, was announced alongside the West Palm Beach expansion, though the specific sites and timeline were not spelled out. Owners accustomed to a general-aviation FBO shared with charter traffic will recognize the appeal of a door that opens only for them.
What They Sail

Fort Lauderdale Gets First American Look at Sunseeker's New 56-Footer

Sunseeker is bringing its newest Manhattan to American waters for the first time, and Florida is where the introduction happens. The Manhattan 56 is the lead boat in a seven-strong lineup the British yard has assembled on the docks at the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show. For an owner walking the show, that puts the entire family side by side, with the 56 at the front. At 56 feet, it sits in the range that American buyers tend to step up to from a first serious cruiser, which is exactly why a debut here, rather than in Europe, matters to this coast. The yard has not put a price on the record, and no naval architect is named in the wire report.
What They Sail

Sirena Puts the Owner's Terrace Where Nobody Looks: in the Bow

Sirena's newest flagship, the Sirena 42, measures 138 feet and carries its owner's private outdoor space forward, tucked into the bow across two decks. On most yachts of this size the choice real estate sits aft, where the guests gather and the tender comes alongside. Here the owner gets the quieter end of the boat, with the water ahead and the rest of the party behind. The yard has built the 42 on a steel hull, which gives the structure the weight and stiffness a boat this long wants in open water. Inside, the finish is polished rather than plain, a point the first reports make sure to note. No naval architect or asking price has been placed on the record yet, and we will carry both when they are.
Photo by Vytenis Malisauskas on Unsplash
What They Drive

Alfa Romeo Signals Its Next Giulia Will Keep a Six-Cylinder Heart

Alfa Romeo has shown a concept it calls the Cuorerosso, and the news for anyone who has lived with a Quadrifoglio is under the hood: the marque's twin-turbocharged six-cylinder survives, now paired with electric assistance. The car's proportions borrow from two traditions at once, the long-legged ease of a grand touring coupe and the low, purposeful stance of a mid-engine exotic. The reading from those who have seen it is that this design study hints at the direction of the Giulia's successor, which would make it the most consequential Alfa shape in years for the sedan's American faithful.
What They Drive

A Forward View Reserved for the Owner: Sirena's New 138-Foot Steel Yacht

Sirena has given the owner of its new 138-foot yacht, the Sirena 42, a private open-air retreat at the forward end of the vessel, arranged across two levels rather than one. The placement matters: the forward section of a yacht this size is usually given over to crew and ground tackle, and here it belongs to the person whose name is on the papers. Below and behind that retreat, the boat is built on a steel hull, the material collectors associate with long-range, heavy-displacement cruising rather than lightweight weekend craft. Inside, the yard has paired that construction with interiors finished to a considered, designed standard. For American owners weighing a 42-meter build, the combination of a steel hull and an owner's space set apart at the bow is the detail worth noting.
Brides of Beverly Hills

Pink, Peach and Yellow: A Warm Three-Color Palette Worth Copying for a Courtyard Ceremony

A wedding held in a Dallas courtyard went with flowers in pink, peach and yellow, and the combination is a useful one to study for anyone planning an outdoor ceremony here. Three warm shades in the same family read as a single decision rather than a mix, which keeps the arrangements from competing with the stone and greenery a courtyard already provides. It is also a palette that works in strong daylight, the condition most Beverly Hills courtyards and garden terraces have to be planned around.
Brides of Beverly Hills

Teal and Peach, Tested Together at a Hutton House Styled Shoot

A styled shoot photographed at Hutton House pairs two colors brides are often told to keep apart: a deep blue-green and a soft orange-pink, with striped accents in a bright yellow running through the tabletop and details. Because it was a planned shoot rather than a live wedding, every element was chosen to show how the combination holds up on linens, paper goods and florals under one roof, which is the kind of reference a bride can actually hold against her own venue. The usefulness here is proportion: the teal does the heavy lifting, the peach softens it, and the stripes are an accent rather than a theme.
What They Sail

Forward of the Bridge, a Private Two-Level Retreat on Sirena's 138-Footer

Sirena has given the owner of its new 42 something most builders reserve for the aft end of a boat: a private outdoor space, stacked across two levels, set at the forward end of the hull where guests rarely wander. The boat measures 138 feet overall and carries that layout on a hull built of steel rather than composite. Inside, the yard has paired the heavy construction with a finish that reads as considered and current rather than merely durable. For an owner used to sharing the stern with the tender and the swim platform, a quiet perch over the anchor is a different way to live aboard. Naval architect and asking price are not yet on the record.
What They Collect

A Sunset Boulevard Coffee Shop Gave Googie Its Name

The movement that put swooping roofs and cantilevered signs on American boulevards takes its name from a single Los Angeles address. In 1949, Googie's Coffee Shop opened at 8100 Sunset Boulevard, sharing the block with Schwab's Pharmacy. It was a modest restaurant, not a landmark anyone set out to build, and it drew a loyal crowd of young regulars. Yet the word on its sign became the label for an entire style of postwar design, one that collectors of midcentury architecture and ephemera still pursue. For anyone who treasures the drawings, signage and photography of that era, the origin point is a counter-service coffee shop on the Strip.
What They Collect

Concept Cars and Homemade Chairs Share a Floor at Detroit's Design Month

Detroit Month of Design marked its fifteenth year by putting General Motors concept cars in the same conversation as furniture built by hand in home workshops. For a collector, that pairing is the whole point. The concept car is design at its most corporate and its most speculative, a maker's idea of the road ahead rendered in full scale. The DIY piece sits at the other end, one person solving one problem with whatever was at hand, which is where many of the objects we now chase at auction began. The festival framed both as products of the same city, the one that taught the country how to build things in volume, and asked what that city makes next. Readers who track design from Los Angeles to the Hamptons should note when a manufacturing town stages its own future this plainly, because that is usually the moment the objects start to travel.
What They Collect

Tenth Loewe and On Release Puts Three Artists in Front of the Camera

Loewe and On have reached their tenth joint release, and this one arrives as a full Fall Winter 2026 offering of footwear and ready-to-wear. The pieces are presented as made for people who make things, a collection pitched at studio life rather than the running track. The campaign was photographed by Rosie Marks. Its subjects are Joan Jonas, Martine Syms, and Tarek Atoui, names a reader who spends time in New York and Los Angeles galleries will recognize before any logo does. That choice says as much about the partnership as the clothes do: the two houses are addressing the studio and the gallery crowd directly, not just the sneaker line. For the collectors who follow what artists wear as closely as what they show, this is a season worth keeping an eye on when the pieces land stateside.
Photo by jurgen borgers expo 2012 on Flickr
What They Collect

A San Francisco Gallery Makes a Medium of Retired Machines

At tiat gallery in San Francisco, a new exhibition titled "Post Generation" takes as its material the artificial intelligence systems that turn written prompts into moving pictures. These tools are replaced so quickly that a version celebrated one season is set aside the next. The artists in the show have gone back to those discarded versions and made work with them. It is a reversal of the usual order, in which the newest release is the only one anyone wants. Here the superseded software becomes the point rather than the problem. For a collector, the show poses a question that the market has only begun to ask: what the record of a tool looks like once that tool has stopped being used. A visitor standing in the gallery is looking at a snapshot of a technology at a particular moment, preserved the way a print preserves a plate.
What It Sold For

The Finishing Touch for a Well-Run House: AD Puts Percale Through Its Paces

Architectural Digest has gone through the trial of sleeping on percale and come back with a ranked list of ten it stands behind. The brief was the guest-room standard every good house here aspires to, the crisp bed that makes a weekend visitor feel the place is run properly. What set the winners apart, by the magazine's account, was the hand of the fabric: a flat, matte weave that stays pleasantly cool against the skin rather than warming through the night. For anyone finishing a principal suite in Palm Beach or Aspen, it is the kind of detail that gets noticed long after the architecture has been admired.
What It Sold For

Movers Themselves Weigh In on Making the Next Move Cheaper and Faster

Every closing in Palm Beach or the Hamptons ends the same way: with a truck at the curb and a household to get from one address to the next. Architectural Digest has gone to the people who do that work for a living, asking professional movers for their own best advice on cutting both the time and the cost of a relocation. The counsel comes from the trade rather than from the sidelines, which is what makes it worth a buyer's attention in a season when so many well-made houses are changing hands.
What They Collect

New York Gets the First Half of a Two-City Carrington and Vicuña Pairing

Lehmann Maupin and Gallery Wendi Norris are joining forces on a single exhibition split across two cities. It brings together the work of Leonora Carrington and Cecilia Vicuña, two artists shown side by side under one project. The opening chapter arrives in New York in November. The second chapter then travels west to San Francisco, where it is scheduled to open in January. Two galleries, two artists, two coasts and two months make up the whole of the plan as it stands. For a New York audience, the appeal is simple: the conversation between these two bodies of work begins here before anyone else sees it.
Icons of Palm Beach

Out of Range, and Glad of It

The newest thing worth wanting is a spot where the phone simply gives up, no bars, no network, nothing to refresh. Vanity Fair reports a growing appetite for exactly that kind of place, sought out on purpose for the quiet it affords. On an island where everyone is reachable from the Breakers to the Inlet, the idea of being honestly unreachable for an afternoon reads less like deprivation than like the last private club. The reward, as the magazine frames it, is nothing more elaborate than a calmer mind.
Class of Florida

Two Rooms, One Pollock, $2 Million: The Manhattan Listing Florida Will Read Twice

A pair of rooms in Manhattan's West Village has come on the market asking $2 million, and the selling point is not square footage. Jackson Pollock lived there. Before he was the Abstract Expressionist whose name now carries a room on its own, he made his home in this small condo in the first years of the 1930s, sharing it with his elder brother. Readers who split the year between Palm Beach and a Manhattan pied-à-terre will do the arithmetic quickly: two rooms, seven figures, and a provenance that no renovation can add. Down here, that kind of money usually comes with a dock, a lanai, or at minimum a parking space. In the West Village, it comes with the knowledge that one of the century's defining painters once called the place home. Miami would have put his name on the building. Palm Beach would have kept it quiet and mentioned it at dinner. New York simply put it in the listing.
Class of Nashville

Jingle Ball Is Coming Back to Nashville This Season

The River's annual holiday concert has a 2026 edition on the books, with Capital One attached as presenting sponsor. For the city's pop crowd, the show sits at the far end of the year the way a tree-lighting does, less a concert than a date everyone circles without being asked. Beyond the name on the bill and the sponsor behind it, the station has not yet said more, so the lineup and the particulars will have to wait for the next announcement.
What They Collect

Fifteen Years In, Detroit's Design Festival Puts Concept Cars Beside Homemade Chairs

Detroit Month of Design marked its fifteenth edition this year with a program that ran from General Motors concept vehicles to furniture built by hand in home workshops. The pairing is the point. A city that spent a century engineering the automobile is now putting that lineage in the same room as makers working at the scale of a single chair. For a collector, that is the kind of juxtaposition worth standing in front of: the factory-born object next to the one-off, each explaining something about the other. The organizers framed the edition as both a tribute to the city's manufacturing past and a look ahead at the designers now coming up there. That forward glance is what should interest anyone who follows American design from the coasts, since the objects shown in Detroit this year are the ones that tend to surface later in galleries and at auction.
What They Collect

Three Artists Front the Tenth Loewe and On Collaboration

Loewe and On have reached their tenth joint release, a Fall Winter 2026 offering of footwear and ready-to-wear built around the idea of artistic exploration. The faces of the campaign will be familiar to anyone who follows the galleries: Joan Jonas, Martine Syms and Tarek Atoui appear in the images, photographed by Rosie Marks. For a readership that tracks who is shown and where, the choice of working artists rather than models is the detail worth noting. It places the clothes in the company of practice and studio rather than runway alone. The pieces themselves span shoes and apparel for the coming cold-weather season.
Who Wore What When

Better Cotton Rewrites Its Rulebook, Starting at the Soil

The Better Cotton Initiative has remade itself as a standards system organized around regenerative farming. The group frames the change as a benefit to three parties at once: the land, the growers who tend it, and the apparel trade that buys from them. The stated aim is to move regeneration from a stated intention to something that can be checked and measured on the farm itself. For the reader who studies the label before admiring the hem, that is fine print worth knowing.
What They Ride

A Dornoch Colt Leads the Way at Fasig-Tipton's Saratoga Fall Mixed Sale

A colt by Dornoch brought the top price Monday at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Fall Mixed Sale, the fourteenth running of the autumn auction in upstate New York. The sale arrived with a tall bar in front of it, since last October's edition had set the high-water marks for the event. The topper is a New York-bred, and his place at the head of the results said plainly what the day's buyers were after: a well-made horse carrying the state's breeding program behind him. That appetite for a sound New York-bred was the thread running through the session, from the first hip through the sale-topping colt. For the breeders and consignors who bring stock to Saratoga Springs each fall, a Dornoch colt at the top of the sheet is the kind of result the mixed sale exists to produce.
What They Ride

A Half-Million Flower Bowl Runs Thursday, With Chad Brown's Name Already on the Trophy

The Flower Bowl Stakes goes to the post on Thursday, a Grade 2 turf prize carrying a purse of $500,000. The race has become familiar ground for trainer Chad Brown, who has already saddled the winner here before and sends a runner out looking to add to that record. For readers who follow the barns rather than the tote board, it is the kind of afternoon that rewards attention to pedigree, conditioning and the quiet confidence of a stable that has done this before.
What It Sold For

The Thanksgiving Table, Sourced From the Hardware Store

Elle Decor has turned its eye to The Home Depot for the dining room this season, assembling a selection of pieces meant to dress the room where the November meal is served. The edit runs the full length of the table, from the larger furniture that anchors the space down to the forks and knives set at each place. Every item in the roundup is currently marked down, which puts a properly furnished dining room within reach ahead of the holiday. For a host in Palm Beach or Aspen who would rather have the room settled before the guests arrive, it is a practical place to start.
What It Sold For

David Netto Follows a Hamptons Win With Lamps for Soane Britain

The decorator David Netto has a new line of lamps, made in partnership with the British firm Soane Britain. The release arrives on the heels of a well-received project of his in the Hamptons, where the houses he works in tend to reward exactly the kind of period-literate eye he brings to a room. Lighting is the piece of a decorating scheme most readers out here notice last and live with longest, which makes a designer's lamp a telling object. Netto sat down with Elle Decor to talk through the collection.
What It Sold For

A Berkeley Hillside Midcentury Gets a Second Act Written for One Owner

In Berkeley, California, a midcentury residence that reads like a perch among the branches has been brought forward without being flattened, the work of the interiors studio Aquilo and the architecture practice Butler Armsden. The brief was a careful one: keep the bones and the period character of a house with real history, and at the same time let it answer to the person who lives there, a founder from the technology world. That answer shows up in the details. A sunken seating well upholstered in velvet gives the main room a place to gather low and close, the kind of gesture the era did best and few renovations are brave enough to keep. Elsewhere the owner's working life is written straight onto the house, with a whiteboard surface built in rather than hidden away. The result is a home that still belongs to its decade and its hillside, but now also belongs unmistakably to its occupant. No sale price is on the record, and we do not estimate one.
What It Sold For

The Mantel Gets Its Due: Veranda Picks 27 Lavish Gifts Sized for a Stocking

The stocking hung from the mantel is the smallest room in the house, and Veranda has furnished it with 27 extravagant selections for the season. The premise is simple: the big box under the tree is not the only place to put real care, and a well-chosen sock can carry as much thought as anything wrapped beneath it. For anyone who takes pride in the hearth and the house around it, the list treats the holiday morning as one more occasion to get the details right.
What It Sold For

The Last Thing a Finished House Needs Is the Right Sheet

Architectural Digest has put percale through its own trials and come back with a list of ten it would put on a bed. The verdict on the weave itself is simple: it lies flat, crisp, and faintly chilled against the skin, which is why a well-run guest room so often reaches for it. For anyone closing on a house this fall, from Palm Beach to Aspen, it is a reminder that the rooms photographed last are the ones the owner actually lives in.
What It Sold For

The Last Step of Any Sale Is the Van in the Driveway

Every closing this title records ends the same way, with a household packed into boxes and carried out the door. Architectural Digest has gone to the people who do that carrying for a living and asked how they would do it themselves, with the goal of spending fewer hours and fewer dollars on the move. The advice comes from working movers rather than from designers or agents, which is what sets this guide apart. For anyone who has just signed on a house in Palm Beach or Beverly Hills and is now staring at the contents of the old one, it is worth a read before the first box is taped shut.
Who Wore What When

Five Knits Have the Runway's Blessing This Fall, and Elle Has Counted Them

Elle has sorted the autumn's knitwear down to five sweater trends worth knowing, each with a runway pedigree behind it. The piece is pitched as a season guide rather than a shopping list, which suits a cardigan weather that arrives late and leaves early in most of our zip codes. For readers who keep track of what was worn and when, it is a useful shorthand for what fall 2026 will look like from the collar up.
Who Wore What When

Mark Oct. 16 for the Armani-Kith Asics Gel-Mai 0.1

The sneaker to circle on the calendar this week is the Asics Gel-Mai 0.1, made under the joint names of Giorgio Armani and Kith, and it arrives on Oct. 16. It belongs to the third outing the two houses have put together, which also brings boots produced with Diemme. That is a tailor, a streetwear label and two footwear specialists on a single lineup, which is the sort of guest list a well-run dinner aspires to. For the New Yorker who dresses from the ground up, the shoe with the Italian name and the running-shop pedigree is the one to watch for on the morning it lands.
Who Wore What When

Amal Clooney's Glam Team Hands Over the Recipe for Her Albies Gala Eye

Amal Clooney arrived at the 2026 Albies Gala with a deep, deliberately shadowed eye, and the person who built it is now explaining how. According to the artist who handled her hair and makeup for the evening, the whole effect rests on a trio of products and nothing more. That is a remarkably short list for a look this dramatic, which is exactly why it earns a place in the archive alongside the gown. Harper's Bazaar carries the full step-by-step.
Who Wore What When

New York's Fall Film Season Already Has a Shortlist of Seven

The 2026 New York Film Festival has produced a crop worth tracking, and Elle narrowed it to seven titles. Among the directors on that list are Nathan Fielder and Ava DuVernay, two names that earn a second look from anyone who follows what arrives on this city's screens each autumn. For a title that watches who steps out, and where, in New York, a festival's standout slate reads as the advance program for the season ahead. Those seven are the ones to remember.
Who Wore What When

The Trade Press Has Picked Its Autumn Beauty Winners

WWD's Beauty Inc editors have gone through this season's new beauty arrivals and named the ones each of them would actually reach for. The selections are personal calls from the people who see every debut cross their desks, which is a different kind of endorsement than a sales chart. For anyone building a dressing table ahead of gala season, from Palm Beach to Beverly Hills, it is a shortlist worth a look before the next fitting.
Who Wore What When

The Pageant Smile Gets a Glow: Editors Are Pointing Red Light at Their Lips

Anyone who has ever studied a crowning photo knows the mouth carries the picture, and the newest tool for it is a wand that lights up red. Elle's editors say they use these at-home light devices on their own lips, aiming for a fuller, softer finish, and that the experts they consult are equally sold. No needle, no appointment, just a few minutes under a small glowing panel before the dress goes on. For a town that has always understood the difference between a pretty mouth and a photographed one, it is the kind of quiet backstage habit worth noting.
Who Wore What When

Anne Hathaway Raises the Vamp and Keeps the Rest Strictly Black

Anne Hathaway has put her foot behind the season's taller pump, stepping out in a slingback pair from the Danish label Anonymous Copenhagen with the front cut high across the instep. The shoe does the talking: a closed toe that climbs farther up the foot than the low-cut court heel most closets are used to, held at the back by a single strap. She matched it to a knit dress in black, so the entire outfit reads as one color from hem to heel and the only thing that changes is texture. It is a quiet way to try a trend, and the kind of pairing that will travel easily from Manhattan sidewalks to a Palm Beach dinner.
Who Wore What When

The Angels Had Wings. The Musical Guests Had the Room.

Harper's Bazaar has gone back through the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show archive and picked the twelve musical turns it considers the finest ever staged on that runway. Rihanna's own walk down the catwalk makes the cut, as does Justin Timberlake performing "SexyBack" while the models worked around him. For a show built on lingerie and feathered wings, the ranking is a reminder that the soundtrack was often doing as much of the lifting as the corsetry.
Who Wore What When

Front Row at New York Fashion Week Now Comes With a Seating Chart

The best seat in the house has always been the one closest to the runway, and Vogue has just gone through the trouble of finding out who got it this season. Its photographers worked 35 shows over fashion month, starting in New York and carrying on through London, Milan, and Paris, with their lenses turned toward the benches rather than the clothes. The result is a catalog of who was invited to sit at the edge of the runway, from actors and musicians to the newer class of influencers, and a note on exactly where each was placed. For New York, where the month opens, it amounts to a record of which guests a house considers worth a first-row cushion.
Who Wore What When

The Season's Best-Dressed Accessory Is Invisible: Incense Perfume for Fall

Every red carpet has its unseen finishing touch, and this autumn Vogue makes the case that it should smell of smoke. The magazine has assembled a shopping edit of incense fragrances, with Arquiste and Matière Première among the houses on the list. The appeal, as Vogue frames it, is range: the same resinous note can read as grand and commanding in one bottle and as hushed and soft in another, depending on how it is built. Think of it the way a pageant contestant thinks of an evening gown, as a question of cut rather than color. The category earns its place in a fall wardrobe precisely because it leaves a trace in the room after the wearer has moved on.
Who Wore What When

Two Tees, One Pair of White Heels: Daisy Edgar-Jones Dresses Down and Up at Once in Manhattan

Daisy Edgar-Jones spent her Monday on the sidewalks of New York in not one but two printed tops, swapped over the course of the day. The constant between the two outfits was the shoe: a sharp, high white pump that would not look out of place at a gala. That is the whole trick, and it is a good one. A tee with something to say is the most casual thing in a closet, and a slim white heel is among the least, so putting them together turns a street outfit into a point of view. For a city that treats its crosswalks as a runway, the combination reads as both relaxed and deliberate. We admire a woman who can change her shirt and keep her footing.
Who Wore What When

Demi Lovato Brings a Hardware-Heavy Heel to West Hollywood

The Abbey hosted its National PrEP Day celebration, and Demi Lovato arrived dressed for a room that appreciates a sharp line. The singer chose a short dress built with a corset's structure, which did the quiet work of letting the footwear take the spotlight. The shoes were black pumps with a narrow toe, their surfaces opened up with cutouts and finished in small metal studs. It is a pairing that reads as deliberate rather than loud: one piece of tailoring, one piece of attitude, and nothing competing with either. For a venue that has long been a Los Angeles fixture on nights like this one, it was exactly the right amount of edge.
Who Wore What When

Pierre Cardin Moves Downtown, Half Boutique and Half Back Office

Pierre Cardin, the house that answers to Paris, has picked SoHo for its new Manhattan address. The space will do two jobs at once. Shoppers will be able to walk in off the street and buy, and the company will work the same rooms to grow the licensing side of its American business. For a label whose home sits on the other side of the Atlantic, that is a bet placed squarely on downtown New York. Anyone who keeps a mental map of the cast-iron blocks below Houston Street will want to add a pin.
Icons of Palm Beach

Brown Denim Makes Its Case for the Season

Town & Country's editors have settled on a single pair of jeans this autumn, and the color is brown rather than the blue everyone assumes. The label behind them is small enough that the magazine concedes most readers will not know the name, which is rather the point. A pair in that shade sits easily beside the linen and loafers of a season spent between the North End and lunch in town. Worn often enough, the magazine suggests, it becomes the thing you reach for without thinking.
Icons of Palm Beach

Before the Screen, a Bartender Worth Crossing Town For

Long before Moonlighting put him in living rooms and Die Hard put him everywhere else, Bruce Willis was the draw at Cafe Central on the Upper West Side. The regulars knew it before the casting directors did. There is a particular kind of New Yorker who can tell you the name of the man pouring at their favorite room, and for a stretch of years that name was his. Anyone who has sat at a good bar on this island knows the gift is not the drink but the man making it, and that the best ones hold a room the way a leading man holds a scene.
Photo by Tom Patmore on Unsplash
Icons of Palm Beach

Where the Bars Finally Drop to None

Vanity Fair has gone looking for the rarest luxury left: a spot the signal simply cannot reach, with no network, no connection, and no chance of a notification. The idea is that a stretch of true silence from the phone might leave a person steadier than any spa on South County Road. For an island that spends the season answering to everyone, it is a tempting proposition, and one that asks nothing more than putting the thing down and going where it will not work.
What They Ride

A Breeders' Cup Seat for Everyone Who Isn't on Track

Some 45,000 racegoers will be on the grounds for the Breeders' Cup this year, and the rest of us will be watching from somewhere else. America's Best Racing has published a guide to making that somewhere else worth the trouble, laying out how to host a proper party built around the championship card. The premise is simple: a day of racing at this level deserves more than a television left on in the corner. For readers in hunt country or on the polo grounds who have no plane to catch, it is a reminder that the biggest afternoon on the American calendar can be done well at home.
Photo by donaldmctim on Flickr
What They Ride

Off the Track and Into the Ribbons: The 2026 Thoroughbred Makeover Crowns Its Champions

The past week belonged to horses whose racing days are behind them, as the 2026 Thoroughbred Makeover named its winners. Each of these Thoroughbreds once left a starting gate for a living and has since been brought along, patiently, into a new discipline. The honors recognize that retraining, and the riders and owners who saw a second calling in a horse the track was finished with. For anyone in hunt country or a polo string who has ever admired a good former racehorse at work, it is the week of the year that proves the point.
What They Ride

Quality Road Keeps the Top Line at Lane's End While Flightline's Number Waits

Lane's End has set out its stallion prices for the 2027 breeding season, and the name at the head of the list, for now, is Quality Road. His fee is unchanged at $100,000, the same figure breeders paid to send mares to him before. The qualifier is the point of the story. Flightline, the farm's champion, has yet to have a 2027 figure attached to his name, and until that announcement comes the Kentucky roster reads with Quality Road on top. Liam's Map is also among the horses on the farm's list. For breeders mapping out matings over the winter, the message from Lane's End is one of steadiness rather than surprise.
What They Ride

The Gunthers Open Glennwood's Broodmare Band to the Ring

John Gunther and his daughter Tanya will consign mares that have already produced Grade I winners to the Fasig-Tipton November sale, a decision that sends some of the most proven stock from their small Glennwood Farm operation into public hands. Breeders of their scale rarely let go of a dam whose record is already written, which is what will draw buyers to the Glennwood draft. The consignment comes at the close of a season that has gone unusually well for the farm, one that counts Napoleon Solo, a son of Liam's Map, among its names. For the father-and-daughter team, the sale is a chance to show how far a deliberately limited book of mares can carry a program. Anyone walking the barns in November will find the Glennwood hip numbers worth a second look.
What They Ride

Falling Creek Puts Silver Reunion's Line Back in the Winner's Circle for the Jones Silks

Falling Creek, a two-year-old filly by Upstart, has won in the silks of Brereton Jones, and the result reads as handsomely on the page as it did on the track. Her dam is Silver Reunion, a graded stakes winner who earned $254,403 in her own racing days and is herself a daughter of Harlan's Holiday. That is the kind of female line a buyer studies twice in the catalog before raising a hand, and here it has produced a juvenile who can run. Upstart, standing as the sire, keeps adding winning fillies to his ledger, and Falling Creek is the newest name on it. The Jones program has a long history of sending out horses of this sort, and a two-year-old filly scoring in its colors fits that history neatly. It is the kind of result that gets a pedigree page passed around the barn the next morning.
What They Ride

Saratoga's Fall Mixed Sale Crowns a Dornoch Colt

A colt by Dornoch brought the highest bid of the day Monday at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Fall Mixed Sale, the auction's fourteenth edition at the company's grounds in upstate New York. The sale came into the week with a hard act to follow, since last October's session had produced returns that set new marks for the event. For the buyers and breeders who make the drive north each fall, the sale-topper's appeal was plain: he is a New York-bred, and the state program's horses have a following of their own in this ring. That a colt from the Empire State's own breeding ranks led the day will sit well with the farms and owners who have invested in the program. The Dornoch colt's final bid stood as the headline of the afternoon by the time the last hip walked through.
Class of Florida

Kim Jones Is Putting His Own Name Back on the Label, and Refusing to Pick a Rack

Kim Jones is reviving the house that carries his own name, and the second act arrives with a looser brief. Rather than sorting clothes into the familiar boxes the trade has always used, the returning label means to dress its customer across those old dividing lines at once. On a stretch of coast where a Miami Saturday, a Palm Beach lunch and a Naples dinner each seem to require their own uniform, a wardrobe that declines to choose a lane reads almost like a local service. The rest is still to come, but the name itself is coming back.
Class of Florida

The McEnroes Are Keeping One Paradise Cove House. The Other Can Be Yours for $35 Million.

John McEnroe and Patty Smyth have put one of their two Malibu beachfront homes on the market, asking $35 million. The house sits in Paradise Cove, the gated stretch of sand where the couple owns a pair of properties, and they are parting with just one of them. That is the detail worth sitting with: a tennis champion and a rock singer looked at two houses on the same beach and decided one was plenty. Readers from Palm Beach to Naples will recognize the arithmetic without needing it explained. Ocean on one side, a number with eight digits on the other, and a seller who is in no particular hurry because they are not actually leaving. Miami would have announced the price in a press release. Palm Beach would have let the neighbors find out at dinner. Naples would have quietly asked whether the second house came with a boat slip. Malibu, it turns out, does it the Paradise Cove way, which is to say with a listing and a very calm asking price.
Class of Florida

Sirena Put the Owner's Private Terrace Where Nobody Thinks to Look: Up Front

Sirena's new 138-foot Sirena 42 keeps its best outdoor space at the forward end of the boat, a private terrace for the owner that climbs across two levels. The front of a yacht is usually where the guests stop walking. On this one, it is where the owner goes to get away from them. The hull beneath is steel, with the solid, planted feel that steel gives a boat in open water, and the rooms inside are finished with real polish. Down here, the question of where a boat like this would spend its winter answers itself three ways. Miami would park it where it can be seen, Palm Beach would park it where it cannot, and Naples would ask about the draft.
Class of Nashville

Christian Music's Biggest Night Belongs to Wickham, Lake and Queen

The Gospel Music Association handed out its 57th annual Dove Awards, and three names came away carrying the evening: Phil Wickham, Brandon Lake and Josiah Queen. For the part of this city's industry that works in worship and Christian music, this is the ceremony that matters most, the one where the year's craft is finally counted. A reader who follows that world will recognize all three, and will not be surprised to see them finish the night together at the front of the room.
Class of Nashville

Miranda Lambert Takes Her Music to Amazon's Screen

Amazon Music has premiered Songline Live, a filmed program built around Miranda Lambert and something she did only recently. For a Green Hills reader, the significance is not the streaming giant's name on the marquee but the fact that one of this town's working artists now has a produced showcase of her own sitting on a platform that reaches well beyond Music Row. What the camera caught is Lambert's to carry, and the program lets her do it without anyone else in the frame. It is the sort of quiet arrival this city has always noticed before the rest of the country does.
Class of Nashville

Kameron Marlowe Takes His New Show on the Road This February

Kameron Marlowe has a national run booked for February, a headlining outing he is calling the Take You Down With Me Tour. The itinerary keeps him inside the United States, which means the rooms he plays will be the ones his audience already knows how to find. For the people on Music Row who track which artists are ready to carry a bill on their own name, a tour announced this far ahead of its first date is the kind of marker worth noting. Dates and cities will follow as the booking fills in.
Class of Nashville

Two Columns, One Name: John Morgan Puts "Kid Myself" at the Top

In this town the writers and the singers are usually two different sets of people, and the rooms where they work are a few blocks apart. John Morgan belongs to both. His single "Kid Myself" has reached No. 1, and it does so under his own name, as the Broken Bow Records artist's second chart-topping record. Counted the other way, by the credits, the song is the seventh he has written to get there. That is the kind of ledger Nashville reads closely, because it shows a craftsman who could keep a comfortable living on the writing side alone and has chosen to stand in front of the microphone as well.
Class of Nashville

Matt Jenkins Cracks the Twenty Names Nashville's Publishers Watch Most

The writer Matt Jenkins now sits among the twenty highest-ranked names on MusicRow's songwriter rankings, the industry tally that Green Hills offices check the way other towns check the stock pages. A Kenny Chesney cut figures in the climb, which is the kind of credit that gets a writer noticed on Music Row and remembered at the next round of publishing lunches. The rankings measure who is writing what the format is actually playing, so a move into that tier reflects songs at work on the air rather than on a shelf. For a town that prizes the pen as much as the voice, it is the quiet sort of arrival worth noting.
Class of Nashville

Music Row Lends Its Voices to a Record Built Around The Chosen

A new album drawing its inspiration from The Chosen is on the way, and the lineup leans on Nashville talent. Lady A and Tyler Hubbard are among the artists set to appear on the project, which carries the title Songs Inspired by The Chosen. Further names are attached beyond those two, though the full roster has not been spelled out. For a town that measures its seasons in releases, a collection anchored by a story this widely followed is the kind of record Green Hills will be listening for.
Photo by Free Public Domain Illustrations by rawpixel on Flickr
Class of Nashville

The River Is Bringing Jingle Ball Back to Nashville This Season

Nashville's pop station, 107.5 The River, has confirmed a 2026 edition of its annual holiday concert, Jingle Ball, with Capital One attached as the sponsor on the bill. For a city whose calendar runs on live music, the December show is the one night Green Hills and Belle Meade alike turn out for radio-made pop rather than the songwriting rooms. Fuller particulars of the evening are still to come from the station.
What It Sold For

Built in 1870, a Brooklyn Heights One-Bedroom Asks $945,000

A one-bedroom in a Brooklyn Heights building that dates to 1870 is on the market with an asking price of $945,000. It has two features you don't often find together in a one-bedroom: light comes in through the ceiling, and there is a working hearth for the colder months. A building from 1870 is old even for one of New York's oldest neighborhoods, and the age is a large part of the appeal. The figure is an asking price, not a sale. This publication reports what a home sold for only once that number is on the record. Across the river in Manhattan, a second one-bedroom is also listed, on the Upper West Side, in a co-op designed by Emery Roth that faces Central Park. Roth's name is reason enough to look at any building that carries it. Two one-bedrooms, one in each borough, show that a smaller home can still come with real architecture.
What It Sold For

A Singer-Songwriter's New York Town House, Worn In on Purpose

Zach Bryan and his wife, Samantha, have made a Manhattan town house into a home that carries the feel of Oklahoma. Architectural Digest's look inside shows a house where every surface looks lived with, nothing kept showroom-new, and the wear reads as character. For a city known for crisp, freshly finished interiors, it is a quieter idea of what a New York town house can be: a place that looks its best because it is used. No architect, address or sale price has been made public, so the story here is the room itself and the people who made it theirs.
Beverly Hills Brides

In Austin, the Bride Baked All Eight Wedding Cakes Herself

Jordan and Charlie married in Austin, Texas, at a midday party run like a drag-show brunch, with everything in soft, chalky colors. They didn't give their planner a mood board. They described a feeling instead. Guests were meant to leave sure they'd been through something dreamlike and a little unhinged, starting from Jackie Kennedy Onassis's polish and taking a psychedelic turn from there. The cakes stood out most. There were eight of them, and the bride baked every one. Eight cakes aren't one centerpiece. They're a row, all made by the same person, and that person was getting married that day. At a wedding meant to feel like a strange, lovely dream, the cakes were the most hands-on part.
Brides of Beverly Hills

Moss, Espresso, Cream and Gold: A Four-Color Palette for a Weekend Wedding on Polo Grounds

The palette came first: green, brown, cream and gold, with the green leaning toward moss and the brown toward espresso. The setting was a farm built around polo, and the couple took their design cue from Ralph Lauren. A reference that clear tells the florist, the rental house and the stationer the same thing at the same time. In a scheme like this, the two dark, earthy colors set the tone, cream keeps the room from feeling heavy, and gold is the accent that catches the light on the table. The celebration lasted a full weekend rather than one evening, and the couple said their guiding idea was to be generous and welcoming to their guests. For a bride considering a multi-day wedding, this shows two useful things: a specific palette gives every vendor a fixed brief, and making guests the stated priority tells the planner how to spend the days.
Class of Florida

A Pink Diamond That Stayed Out of Sight for Seventy Years Is Expected to Command $18 Million

A pink diamond weighing 24 carats, set in a ring, is expected to sell for about $18 million. For more than seven decades it has been held privately, by owners who apparently felt no need to show it to anyone. The wire item does not say where the ring will change hands or who will be bidding. In Florida we can guess how each coast would take the news. Miami would want to know the date of the sale, Palm Beach would assume it was already invited, and Naples would quietly look at the figure and decide it seemed reasonable. Whoever ends up owning the ring will be holding a stone that has gone seventy years without needing an audience, and that kind of patience is uncommon at this level.
Photo by Jiaren Lau on Flickr
Private Jet Owners

The Airplane That Still Sets the Standard Is a Trainer

Flying has opened its Hangar Files on the Cessna 172 Skyhawk and asks why the most familiar trainer in aviation keeps winning over pilots. That question matters to an owner of any aircraft, at any price. The Skyhawk is the airplane most pilots know before they know any other, so it remains a fair yardstick for an airframe that does its job without asking to be noticed. Any owner who has watched one taxi past a ramp in Naples, Aspen, or Palm Beach knows that steadiness has value.
Private Jet Owners

A 1990 Trinidad, With Its Avionics Brought Forward

A 1990 SOCATA TB-20 Trinidad is on the market, and its panel has been converted to glass displays, so the instruments are much newer than the airframe. AircraftForSale has named it one of its featured listings. The airplane seats four and is powered by a 250-horsepower Lycoming, and its lines look more European than the American singles on most ramps. For an owner looking at a 36-year-old airframe, the avionics work is the first thing to look at.
What They Collect

Before It Was Armor, It Was Ore: Edith Hall Reads the Iliad From the Ground Up

Anyone who has stood before a case of ancient bronzes in an American museum has looked at the end of a story that starts in the earth. In her book *Epic of the Earth*, Professor Edith Hall brings that view to Homer's Iliad, a poem usually remembered for its combat, its arms and its ships built of timber. Her reading asks what all that war took from the land and the forests that supplied it. For readers who live with objects, it is a useful reminder that every blade and every hull was once part of a landscape.
Photo by Fæ on Flickr
What They Collect

New Museum Gives Arthur Jafa a Full Retrospective in New York

Arthur Jafa is the subject of a retrospective at the New Museum in New York. A retrospective is the format a museum keeps for an artist whose work it believes merits a full, considered look, and this one brings his practice together in a single New York venue. Artnet News's critic treats the show as a way to understand a broader change in the culture, so the exhibition carries weight beyond the work on the walls. For readers who follow where serious attention in American art is going, a New Museum survey of a living artist is worth seeing in person.
Who Wore What When

Before the Close-Up: Is Botox Your Next Beauty Appointment?

Whether Botox suits a particular face is a question for experts, and Elle went and asked them. Their guidance is aimed at one decision: whether the injectable that softens lines belongs in your own routine. Here in Palm Beach, a gown and a pair of heels get chosen with care, and the skin above the neckline deserves the same thought. A good beauty choice starts with knowing what suits you, and these experts help you work that out.
Who Wore What When

Kate Moss in Gold, Bound Between Covers: Idea Books Publishes "Kate by Marc"

Marc Quinn's "Siren," the work that cast Kate Moss as a golden figure, is getting its own book. "Kate by Marc," from Idea Books, collects the artist's long look at the model, and Raven Smith writes the introduction. In it, Smith describes "Siren" as shared faith set into solid gold, which is a neat reading of a face so many people already knew by heart. It's a good fit for a coffee table in New York or Palm Beach, sitting beside the runway monographs and auction catalogs, where a reader can see a famous face turned into a precious metal.
Who Wore What When

Made at Home: Reshoring Textiles Makes Its First Purchase, Sans Technical Fibers

Reshoring Textiles has bought Sans Technical Fibers, along with other textile operations and neighboring businesses in the United States. It is the first deal of its kind for the company, whose name already tells you where it wants the work done. Our archive usually starts with the dress and the night it was worn, but every look starts earlier, with the cloth. American fabric has a new buyer, and we're glad to note it.
Who Wore What When

The Loafer Moves Into the Sheepskin: JW Anderson Gives Ugg's Classic Boot and Tasman a Dress-Shoe Education

JW Anderson has teamed up with Ugg on a new collection that takes two of the brand's best-known silhouettes, the Classic Boot and the Tasman, and works the language of the loafer into them. It's a crossover of two shoe types that rarely share a closet: the loafer, with its tailored polish, and the sheepskin boot, made for comfort. For readers who wear the Classic Boot from a New York sidewalk to an Aspen lodge, the appeal is that a familiar shape now borrows the manners of a smarter shoe. The archive will note the pairing by name: Ugg, JW Anderson, and two house staples that now speak loafer.
Who Wore What When

The Sheepskin Boot Gets a Loafer's Manners: JW Anderson Takes On Ugg

Ugg has teamed up with JW Anderson, and the pairing borrows from the loafer for two of the label's best-known shoes, the Classic Boot and the Tasman. That gives the archive something new to file: a shearling icon dressed up with a bit of loafer polish. The idea makes sense well beyond any one coast, from a cold morning in Aspen to the softer weather of a Naples weekend, because both shoes have always been made to be worn and not just looked at. We'll be watching for where the pairs turn up first.
Who Wore What When

The Bob Is Back for Fall, and So Is the Fringe

Celebrity hairstylists have named eighteen looks for the season, with a heavy fringe at one end and the clean, timeless bob at the other. From Palm Beach to Beverly Hills, that gives the September salon appointment a clear choice: grow the bangs in, or cut the length off at the jaw. Both are a matter of precision, and the people who style famous heads for a living have just signed off on them. Bring a picture to the chair, and expect to see the result at the next benefit.
Who Wore What When

Bloodstone Takes the Lead in WGSN's Fall 2028 Palette, a Color Meant to Outlast Its Season

The trend forecaster WGSN has named Bloodstone the headline hue of its Fall 2028 color outlook, a lineup of five colors built for staying power rather than one season's splash. The brief favors hardworking shades: colors that adapt to many uses, reward attention to surface and finish, and move easily from one time of year to the next. For a wardrobe that travels between a New York autumn and a Florida winter, that is a practical idea as much as an aesthetic one. Consider it a forecast for the pieces you keep.
Photo by Sara Cottle on Unsplash
The Capital Set

A Late Bloom in the Heavens: Astronomers Find a World Born from a Star's Final Chapter

Astronomers have found a planet that formed late in a star's life, as the star was nearing its end. Nearly every planet catalogued so far began alongside its star, taking shape in the same early period when the star itself first lit. This one arrived only at the close, which sets it apart from almost everything on the books. For readers who look up on a clear night in Aspen or over the Atlantic in the Hamptons, it is a reminder that a star can still produce something new as it fades.
What They Drive

Valhalla and Temerario Open to Guest Drivers at Robb Report's Car of the Year

Robb Report's Car of the Year comes to the Concours Club in the coming month, and guests will drive the cars rather than view them from behind a rope. Two cars already on the list are the Aston Martin Valhalla and the Lamborghini Temerario. The publication is inviting guests to take the wheel of both. The full lineup is still being set, so these two are the first names announced, not the whole field. For collectors who usually see a new car on a spec sheet or a stand, this is a chance to judge it themselves from the driver's seat.
What They Drive

For Cherokee Overland Shoppers, the 2026 Model Year Now Has a Full Walk-Around in Pictures

Car and Driver has published a gallery of exterior photographs of the 2026 Jeep Cherokee in Overland trim, shot from all sides. For a reader in Naples or Nashville thinking about the Overland, the gallery works like a slow walk around the car on a dealer's lot: nose, flanks and tail, with no salesperson at your elbow. We have not driven it, and these pictures show only the outside, so how it behaves on the road is a question for another day. They do give owners the unhurried first look they usually want before anything else.
Photo by Kirk Thornton on Unsplash
What They Drive

The 2026 Jeep Cherokee Overland's Cabin, Before It Reaches the Showroom

For readers weighing the next family SUV, a complete photo set of the Overland's cabin is now out, covering it from the driver's seat to the last row. The gallery shows the 2026 model year in Overland trim, so readers can study the cabin closely before they ever sit in one. For an owner who will spend years behind that wheel, a careful look at where the time is actually spent is worth having. We have not driven the car, and we will leave the verdict on the road to those who have.
What They Drive

2026 Mustang RTR: Anti-Lag and a Drift Brake Come to the EcoBoost Mustang

The 2026 Ford Mustang RTR uses the four-cylinder EcoBoost engine and adds chassis hardware taken from the Dark Horse. It also gets an anti-lag system and a hand-operated drift brake, both features meant for drivers who enjoy driving hard. Road & Track drove the car and found that the package turns the smaller-engine Mustang into a serious performance machine and a very enjoyable one. For owners who have thought of the EcoBoost as the gentler Mustang, Road & Track's verdict is a reason to look at it again.
Beverly Hills News

Forbidden Forest Walk-Through Back on the New York Calendar for October

"Harry Potter: A Forbidden Forest Experience" is coming back to New York for the Halloween season, according to Variety. The attraction is staged outdoors and lets guests move through a setting based on the wizarding world of the Harry Potter stories. Tickets are on sale now, and Variety has published details on how to buy them. For readers planning the weeks before Halloween, it gives New York another seasonal outing to put on the calendar.
Beverly Hills News

Ugg Boot Takes the Shape of a Loafer in New JW Anderson Collaboration

Designer Jonathan Anderson's label, JW Anderson, has partnered with Ugg on a collection of boots and slippers modeled on the loafer. Dev Hynes is the face of the campaign for the line. The pairing brings together two familiar forms. One is the Ugg boot. The other is the loafer, a shoe usually linked with tailoring rather than comfort. The collaboration puts both forms into a boot and a slipper. Anderson has previously reworked everyday objects in his designs. His past pieces include a handbag shaped like a pigeon and a clutch modeled on a tomato. With this collection, he applies the same approach to the Ugg boot.
Beverly Hills News

CoComelon Changes Streaming Homes, With a Full-Length Movie in Development

CoComelon, the children's entertainment property that first built its audience on YouTube, is leaving Netflix for Disney+, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The executives running the brand are looking to a full-length movie to turn it into a lasting franchise. The move takes a title made for the youngest viewers deeper into the streaming and studio business that is central to the Los Angeles entertainment industry.
Icons of Palm Beach

The Real Ben Affleck, Too Genuine for His Own Account

Ben Affleck, the Oscar winner, says Instagram has banned him twice, and in both cases the charge was impersonating Ben Affleck. He told it on himself, without any apparent complaint. The platform's systems looked at the actual man and decided he couldn't possibly be who he said he was. On the island we've long preferred to know people in person rather than through a feed, so a man whose real self proved too convincing for a screen sounds to us like someone worth meeting.
Icons of Palm Beach

Zizou Bergs Stops Hoping and Starts Believing

On the courts of the North End, every serious player knows the moment when a match against a better opponent stops being an honor and becomes a contest. Zizou Bergs has reached that moment, beating Carlos Alcaraz for the finest result of his career so far. Afterward, Bergs said the victory felt mostly like a weight coming off, and that he now trusts he can actually beat the game's leading men, not just stay on the court with them. Anyone who has watched a promising player grow into a real contender knows how much that change of mind is worth.
Photo by Gene Gallin on Unsplash
Class of Florida

A Lake Worth Alternative, With Fewer Neighbors: Two Dozen Cottages on Lake Keowee

Old Edwards Reserve has unveiled Laurel Village, a set of 24 cottages on the shores of Lake Keowee in South Carolina. Twenty-four is a number a Palm Beach hostess would call an intimate guest list and a Miami developer would call a rounding error, and Naples, as usual, would simply nod. The cottages are meant for an easy, refined kind of life by the water, a different shoreline from the Atlantic or the Gulf, with fresh water in place of salt.
What They Collect

The Economist Who Counts What Collectors Buy

Clare McAndrew, the economist who produces the art market report published by Art Basel and UBS, has looked back over ten years of tracking the trade in a conversation with Artnet News. She discusses what the youngest generation of buyers is spending, and why today's collectors are choosing caution over risk. For readers who follow the salerooms of New York and the season in Palm Beach, hers is the report that puts figures to the room.
What They Collect

Klimt Has Joined the Short List at the Top of the Public Auction Record

Gustav Klimt's paintings now sit alongside the highest prices ever reached in open bidding, a level very few artists have ever reached. For readers in New York who follow the evening sales, what matters is that these results are public: the bids were made in the room and recorded, not agreed privately. ARTnews has ranked the Klimt works that reached the highest totals when they sold at auction. When his name appears in a sale catalogue now, the room knows the company it keeps.
Who Wore What When

Your Home's Best-Dressed Secret Ships From Amazon

The Zoe Report has put together a list of 60 home pieces sold on Amazon that pass for expensive in how they look, how they feel and how well they work, at prices nobody would guess. Here at the archive we usually log who wore what and when, but polish in a room works the same way: it comes from good choices, not from the receipt. Whether the address is a Palm Beach guest suite or a New York walk-up, a room that looks well done is a pleasure to be invited into. And how little it cost stays between the host and their order history.
Who Wore What When

Denim's Fine Print: The Hardware, Pattern and Shade to Watch This Fall

SJ Denim's Fall 2026 edition turns its attention to the small choices that make a pair of jeans look like this season instead of last: the finishing details, the surface patterns and the colors just starting to show up. For an archive built on knowing exactly when a look was worn, that is the layer that dates a garment, often before anyone reads the label. The issue doesn't give us a red carpet or a crown. It gives us the terms worth knowing before denim fills the sidewalks this autumn, from Nashville to New York.
Who Wore What When

Fall 2026, Filed Under J.Crew: The Barn Coat Leads, Purple Follows

For the archive: J.Crew's latest Fall 2026 drop is led by the barn coat, a dash of purple, and a strong run of sweaters. Vogue's editors flagged all three as standouts this week. The barn coat is the American field jacket in its canvas-and-corduroy-collar form, so it reads as easily on a Hamptons farm stand weekend as on a cold New York sidewalk. Add purple and a sweater worth keeping, and it's a fall wardrobe that will look good when the photos come back out years from now.
Who Wore What When

The Autumn Suitcase, Edited Down to What Earns Its Place

Vogue has put together its list of the pieces worth packing for a trip this autumn, and it starts at ground level: shoes you can actually walk in all day. Above them, the list calls for thin pieces that stack and come off as the day warms or cools. The idea is a small, well-chosen set where each piece works with the others, so the suitcase stays light. Whether your flight leaves from Palm Beach or lands in Aspen, it is sound advice for the season.
Who Wore What When

The Office Classic Has Left the Office: Slim Skirts and Sharp-Toed Heels Win the Season

This collections season, the outfit seen most often outside the shows came from the back of a working wardrobe: a narrow, knee-grazing skirt worn with a heel that ends in a point. It's a disciplined pairing. One clean line runs from waist to hem, and the pointed toe carries it on. Vogue has rounded up seven ways to wear it, and every one would look just as good on Worth Avenue or Madison Avenue.
Beverly Hills News

'30 Rock' Cast Reunites Sunday Night, With Lin-Manuel Miranda Joining In

The cast of "30 Rock" came back together Sunday night for a reunion, The Hollywood Reporter said. Liz, Jack, Tracy and the rest of the ensemble were back in their roles. Lin-Manuel Miranda took part and sang "Werewolf Bar Mitzvah" with Tracy, a song from the show's original run that many fans will know. For viewers here who followed the series, the evening put its familiar characters and one of its best-remembered musical moments back in front of an audience.
Beverly Hills News

Miki Tanaka Makes Feature Directing Debut With "Silver Express"

Miki Tanaka has directed a first full-length film, "Silver Express," and Variety's critic praised it as careful, attentive work. The film is about the everyday experience of people who are asexual and aromantic, and how they live among others. The review notes that films and series with asexual characters already exist, but few spend time on what that life actually feels like, and that is where Tanaka's film keeps its focus. For Beverly Hills readers who follow new filmmakers, it marks the arrival of a director whose first feature takes on a subject few others have.
Beverly Hills News

First Feature From Director Miki Tanaka Centers on Asexual and Aromantic Experience

"Silver Express," the first feature-length film from director Miki Tanaka, has received a review in Variety, which called the work sensitive. The film follows what it is like to live as someone who is asexual and aromantic and to move through a society built around romance and attraction. The review noted that asexual characters do appear in film and television. It added that few productions take up the everyday experience of that identity the way Tanaka's film does.
What They Drive

A 2010 Honda Pilot's Rear Camera Gets a Night Out at a Live Show

A rear-view camera from a 2010 Honda Pilot has been used to record a concert, which proves the factory unit can capture more than a driveway. The footage keeps the camera's parking grid laid over the stage, so the reversing lines that once framed a garage wall now frame a performance. Nobody will mistake the picture for the work of a modern sensor, and that is a large part of its charm. Anyone who has owned a Pilot from that model year will know those guide lines at once, and it is a pleasure to see a plain piece of family-SUV equipment do a job its engineers never planned for.
Who Wore What When

Red Bottoms, Literally: Adéla Takes Los Angeles in Custom Louboutin

Some tour names are a metaphor. Adéla's turned out to be a dress code. On the Los Angeles stop of her "Red Bottoms Tour," the singer performed in a pair of Christian Louboutin boots made just for her: the Pavlova Botta bootie, finished in pink glitter that caught the stage lights from the first note. A tour named for red soles, with the singer in the house best known for them, makes the styling hard to miss. Custom means the pair was made for this wearer and this stage, not taken off a shelf. A bootie also has to do real work in a live set, so it has to look good under spotlights and still hold up through a full performance. In pink and sparkling, these did the job and made a show of it. Los Angeles has seen plenty of stage footwear, and a made-to-order Louboutin with a tour named after it is a good entry in the archive.
Who Wore What When

Jennifer Lawrence Lets One Graduated Red Handbag Carry the Evening

Jennifer Lawrence went out for an evening à deux, and the detail worth filing is the bag on her arm. It's red that deepens from shade to shade across the piece, with strands of beads hanging from it that sway and click when she moves. A bag like that doesn't need the rest of the outfit to compete with it, and that seems to be the idea. It's a good reminder for anyone dressing for a night out from Palm Beach to Beverly Hills that one well-chosen piece can set the tone for everything else.
Who Wore What When

Latex Up Top, Socks to the Thigh: Chappell Roan's Abbey Formula

Chappell Roan turned up at the Abbey in latex, a high-shine finish that catches every light in the room. Below the hem came socks pulled up to the thigh, finished with a pair of pumps. That sock-and-heel pairing is one of the moment's favorite tricks, and here it does the real work: a plain pump made new by what sits above it. For an archive that logs who wore what, and when, this entry reads simply: latex, high socks, heels, the Abbey.
Who Wore What When

Thirty, With Wings: Bella Hadid Picks Butterfly-Stitched Denim for a Milestone Birthday

For her 30th birthday, Bella Hadid wore jeans embroidered with butterflies, a detail that looks straight out of the early 2000s. Thirty is a birthday people plan around, so the outfit counts as a deliberate choice, and she chose denim over a gown. The butterflies are what make it a birthday look rather than an everyday pair of jeans. For anyone keeping a record of who wore what and when, this one goes in the archive under birthday dressing.
Who Wore What When

Before the Red Carpet, the Mirror: Every Great Look Starts Under the Skin

Picking a foundation that actually disappears into your skin comes down to one quiet question: what undertone sits beneath the surface? Vogue asked the professionals how to read that hidden layer of color, and how to put the answer to work at the makeup counter. In a sunlit Palm Beach powder room or under the bright lights of a New York gala, it is what decides whether a complexion looks like skin or like product. Our archive is a record of dresses, but every dress in it was worn by a face that someone had to match first.
What They Ride

Saratoga Gets Its Turn as the Market Moves to Breeding Prospects

Fasig-Tipton is holding its Saratoga Fall Mixed Sale, and it comes to Saratoga Springs while the sales calendar is still riding a very strong run of yearling auctions. With the yearlings sold, the market now turns to the breeding side of the business. Lexington hosts the largest of those sales, but before the action moves to Kentucky, the ring in upstate New York gets its own session. The sale is a reminder that the auction year has another chapter after the yearlings, and that Saratoga still has a place in it.
What They Ride

Not This Time's Daughter Takes the Franklin at Keeneland Again

Time to Dazzle won the Grade II Franklin Stakes at Keeneland on Sunday, and it is now her race two years running. She made her winning run through the middle of the turf course, away from the rail and in full view of everyone watching. Keeneland's grass course in Lexington is one of the best-known in American racing, and it rewards a horse that can quicken when the race is decided. She did it a second time in the same race, on the same turf, at the same track, and that kind of consistency is what horsemen respect most. She is by Not This Time, and a stallion's name gains a little more weight in the sales ring every time one of his runners comes back to win the same graded stakes. Sunday's result put her name on the Franklin's honor roll for a second straight year.
Photo by roger4336 on Flickr
The Capital Set

Katie Zacharia Readies Her Debut Before the White House Press Corps

Katie Zacharia, the newly named press secretary at the White House, will take questions from reporters for the first time in the week ahead. President Trump shared the news on Sunday and said he was glad to make it known. In the capital, a press secretary's first session with the press corps is one of the quieter moments that marks an arrival, when a new appointee first speaks for the administration in front of the cameras. For Zacharia, that moment is now days away.
Beverly Hills News

The Tattoo Artist Behind the Ink Hollywood Puts on Camera

Benny Shields creates the tattoos that actors wear on screen, according to The Hollywood Reporter. He has designed onscreen tattoos for Ryan Gosling and Jeremy Allen White, and productions such as "The Bear" have turned to him for the ink they need. That record has made him the artist the entertainment business calls first for this work. In a city whose main industry is film and television, his is a credit worth knowing.
Beverly Hills News

Samantha Sloyan Builds the Mother in Prime Video's 'Carrie' Around Love and Fear

Samantha Sloyan, who appeared in "Midnight Mass," spoke with The Hollywood Reporter about her role in Mike Flanagan's new series "Carrie" on Prime Video. The series is adapted from Stephen King's novel, and Sloyan plays the story's devout mother, a character long known as one of the most frightening parents in horror. Sloyan said the series presents the mother as a woman acting out of intense love that is bound up with fear. That reading puts love, rather than cruelty alone, at the center of the character. Readers who know the story only from earlier versions will find that approach is the main point of difference in this one.
Beverly Hills News

Alcohol-Free Pairings Take a Larger Place on the Menu at Los Angeles' Leading Dining Rooms

Los Angeles' leading restaurants are putting more work into the drinks they pour alongside a meal for guests who are not drinking alcohol, The Hollywood Reporter reports. As fewer diners in the city order wine and spirits, these restaurants are treating the alcohol-free pairing as a menu offering in its own right, with prices to match. The publication reports that the pairings now help restaurants hold their margins. For diners in Beverly Hills and across the city, that means a glass built for each course, whether or not it contains alcohol.
Beverly Hills Brides

A Spear of Asparagus on the Groom's Lapel: Tess and Connor Wed in the Pacific Northwest

A single stalk of asparagus was tucked among the white flowers on the groom's lapel. Florist Kylie Hale placed it there, and it was easy to miss among the petals. Tess and Connor were married in the Pacific Northwest, at a small, close gathering held outdoors in a garden. The day included a paebaek, the Korean wedding ceremony. Dinner was planned for guests who care seriously about food. Looking back, the vegetable on Connor's jacket was an early hint of how much of the day would be about the table.
Photo by Christopher Hall on Geographorguk
What They Sail

Two New 45s From Cruisers Yachts Promise More Room Aboard

Cruisers Yachts is adding two boats to its VTR range, the 45 VTR and the 45 VTR EC, and the builder has now shown them ahead of their arrival. Both measure 45 feet. The selling points are a generous beam, a hull that combines stepped and conventional running surfaces, and more space for living aboard. For an owner, a wide beam at this length means more room to move around on deck and below, which is what decides whether a boat gets used for a whole weekend or only an afternoon. Pairing that volume with a stepped hull shows the builder is thinking about how the boat runs as well as how it lives. The builder has not published price, naval architect or full specifications, and we will report them when it does. For now, the VTR line has two new 45-footers to watch.
What They Sail

The Last Fifty Feet, Handled: Simrad Puts Self-Docking Within Reach of the Everyday Owner

Ask any owner which part of a day on the water tightens their grip, and most won't name the inlet or the weather. They'll name the slip: the final approach, with a crosswind and the dock lines waiting. Simrad's answer is AutoCaptain, a system meant to bring a boat alongside without the skipper doing the maneuvering. It sees in depth through paired cameras and makes its decisions with software trained to read what those cameras see. It then steers through Mercury's joystick controls, the same helm interface many owners already use for close-quarters work. It's meant for the kind of boats that come off a builder's line, not for one-off custom builds. From Palm Beach to Naples, owners bring their boats back into a slip at the end of almost every outing, so a system aimed at that last stretch is aimed squarely at them.
Private Jet Owners

Hangar Candidate: A Replica of the First Wright Airplane Built in Quantity

A replica of the 1911 Wright Model B is for sale, and Flying has named it a standout among current AircraftForSale listings. The original was the first airplane the Wright brothers built in series rather than one at a time. That makes it a direct ancestor of every production airframe now sitting in an owner's hangar. Flying says the replica was built with great care; anyone thinking about buying it will still want to see the price, condition and registration before deciding whether it gets flown or kept on display.
What It Sold For

In Southampton, Patrick McGrath Mixes Freely in a Collector's House

Southampton has a new house to talk about, and the designer whose work is on show there is Patrick McGrath. The house belongs to an art collector. McGrath's approach is a deliberate mix: he brings disparate pieces together and lets them hold the room on their own terms. It is a busy moment for him. His gallery is getting bigger, he has put out a furniture collection under his own name for the first time, and his list of interior commissions keeps lengthening. On the South Fork, where many houses follow a familiar formula, a collector's home that sets aside the usual conventions stands out. No sale or price is part of the record here. What is worth noting is a designer whose career is gaining momentum and a client who gave him room to work.
Class of Florida

Fifty Years of Defining Luxury, and Florida Still Can't Agree on It

Robb Report has turned fifty, and it is marking the occasion with an anniversary issue that looks back at what luxury has meant since the magazine began. Half a century is a long time to keep track of the well-made, and few readers will have more opinions about the results than the ones between Palm Beach and Naples. Miami will say luxury is whatever is newest, Palm Beach will say it is whatever has lasted, and Naples will quietly say both are a little loud. A golden jubilee is a fair moment to admit the magazine has been taking that question seriously for longer than most of us have been arguing about it.
What They Drive

Twenty-Nine Thousandths: Chase Briscoe Edges Christopher Bell in a Joe Gibbs Racing One-Two

Chase Briscoe crossed the stripe 0.029 seconds ahead of Christopher Bell, and no finish on the NASCAR calendar this year has been decided by less. Both men drive for Joe Gibbs Racing, so the same organization prepared the car that took the line first and the car right behind it. Twenty-nine thousandths of a second is quicker than a blink, and the stopwatch can only settle it in the third decimal place. Anyone who has stood at a club track with a timing light knows how little separates first from second, and this result made that gap smaller than it has been all season. It is also a good day for everyone in the Gibbs building: two of its drivers ran the order to the end, and one of them came out ahead by the smallest of measures. Until another finish comes in closer, this is the one the rest of the year will be measured against.
Who Wore What When

Chappell Roan Goes Short Up Top, and the Micro-Fringe Has Its Season

Chappell Roan has let the curls go in favor of a tiny fringe cut well above the brow, and her endorsement gives the cropped bang real standing as autumn's hair statement. A fringe that short leaves the eyebrows and the whole face uncovered, which makes it a look built for close-ups and camera flashes rather than one to hide behind. For anyone booking a fall appointment, from Nashville to New York, it's the cut to bring in as a reference photo, and a reminder that the boldest change is sometimes the smallest inch.
What It Sold For

Ben Marshall, Measured Against the City

Curbed has put Ben Marshall, a cast member of *Saturday Night Live*, through its New York Quotient, its gauge of how deeply a person belongs to the city. The scale runs from an ordinary Manhattan avenue at one end to the show's own studio inside 30 Rockefeller Plaza at the other, so it measures him by both the city's streets and its most famous stage. For a performer whose work is made in Midtown every week, it is a fitting question, and one this desk is glad to see asked.
What It Sold For

In Southampton, a Collector's House Becomes the Showcase for Patrick McGrath's Eye

A Southampton house belonging to an art collector is the latest setting for the work of designer Patrick McGrath, a talent clearly on the rise. The house doesn't follow a single style or period. Its appeal is in how freely the pieces are combined. That is McGrath's strength: putting together things that weren't made to sit side by side, and making the result look intended rather than accidental. He is busy on several fronts at once. His gallery is getting bigger, he is releasing the first furniture collection under his own name, and his list of interiors commissions keeps growing. The architect and the property's price aren't on the record, so neither appears here. What is on the record is a house on the East End that shows where one of the region's rising designers is headed.
What They Drive

A Callaway-Boosted 1985 GTI Comes Up on Bring a Trailer

A 1985 Volkswagen GTI is now listed on Bring a Trailer, and the reason to look closely is under the hood: Callaway Cars added a turbocharger to it while the car was still new to the road. With that period conversion, this GTI has a good deal more pace than a standard example from the same year. For collectors of the early GTI, work done by a known tuner in the car's own era is provenance in its own right, and this listing is worth reading closely.
Class of Florida

Automakers Are Running Out of Words Before Florida Runs Out of Driveways

According to Robb Report, carmakers are finding it harder and harder to come up with a good name for a new model. Most of the strong words seem to be on someone's tailgate already. Anyone who has walked a valet line from Palm Beach to Naples knows how much those few letters of chrome have to do: in Miami a name has to sound fast, in Palm Beach it has to sound like it was always there, and in Naples it mostly has to look good parked outside the club. Whoever names the next car has the hardest copywriting job in the business, and we'll be watching to see what they come up with.
Photo by VinothChandar on Flickr
The Capital Set

A Place on the Mall for the Rosies

One of the women known as the Rosies has made the case, in a piece for The Hill, that their generation's work deserves a permanent place of honor on the National Mall. She writes for the Rosies who are still here, and their wish is a personal one: they want to be there themselves on the day that tribute is made. Their names would join the monuments that line the capital's great lawn, the ground where the country records whom it means to remember. For a city that marks its calendar by dedications and its seasons by the memorials visitors walk among, the Rosies are asking for recognition in the most public setting Washington has.
Beverly Hills News

Variety Review Ranks Laika's "Wildwood" as the Studio's Largest Feature Undertaking

Variety has reviewed "Wildwood," a feature from Laika, and calls it the most ambitious film the company has made so far. The review describes the film as a fairy tale on an epic scale, dense with visual texture, and says it can carry an audience into its world. It also notes a line of text early in the film that asks viewers to appreciate art made by hand while it still exists. The line is on screen only briefly, among many other images that move quickly in the opening scenes, and the review suggests attentive viewers will notice it.
Beverly Hills News

Laika's 'Wildwood' Asks Audiences to Value Art Made by Hand

Variety has reviewed "Wildwood," the new feature from the animation studio Laika, and calls it the biggest project the studio has taken on so far. The review describes the film as a fairy tale on a large scale, with dense visual texture, and says it carries the viewer into its world. Early in the film, a short line of text crosses the screen telling the audience to appreciate handmade art while it still exists. According to the review, the line goes by quickly among many other images, and viewers who are watching closely are the ones likely to catch it.
Beverly Hills News

Laika's 'Wildwood' Wins Strong Praise for Its Handcrafted Animation

The Hollywood Reporter has published a favorable review of "Wildwood," a new animated feature from the studio Laika, directed by Travis Knight. The review praises the film both for how it was made and for how it lands with an audience, and calls the project ambitious in scope. Laika makes its films with stop-motion animation, in which physical figures are posed and photographed one frame at a time. The story follows a teenage girl who travels into a strange realm to find her younger brother after he is taken. The voice cast includes Carey Mulligan and Mahershala Ali, among other well-known performers. For Beverly Hills readers who follow the film business, the review is a notable endorsement of a production made largely by hand.
Beverly Hills News

More Ways to Watch: Disney Plans Additional Super Bowl LXI Broadcasts Led by Pat McAfee

Viewers tuning in to Super Bowl LXI in 2027 will have a wider choice of broadcasts, as Disney expands its plans for the game. Pat McAfee, whose role at ESPN has been growing, will front several alternate presentations that run alongside the main coverage. Disney's plans also include a version built on Next-Gen Stats, the league's player-tracking data. For households that like to follow the game their own way, the main broadcast will no longer be the only choice.
Beverly Hills News

Malkovich Heads Into Awards Season With "Wild Horse Nine" Drawing Oscar Attention

John Malkovich is being named as a likely Academy Award nominee for his role in "Wild Horse Nine," Martin McDonagh's dark comedy set inside the CIA. Variety reports that the part gives the actor his strongest chance yet at an Oscar. Speaking with the trade publication, Malkovich said awards campaigning has changed a great deal since he last took part. For readers here, the race he is entering leads toward the Academy Awards in Los Angeles.
Beverly Hills News

Jessica Chastain's 'Other Mommy' Opens at No. 1 With $27.5 Million

"Other Mommy," a horror film starring Jessica Chastain, took in $27.5 million in ticket sales in its first release, according to Variety Film. That total put the film ahead of every other title at the box office. Chastain plays a double-jointed doppelgänger in the film. The opening places a horror title, built around a single lead performance, at the top of the box office chart. For readers in Beverly Hills, where much of the film industry lives and works, the opening-week box office chart is the number the industry watches most closely.
Beverly Hills News

Jessica Chastain Horror Film "Other Mommy" Opens at No. 1 With $27.5 Million

"Other Mommy," a horror film starring Jessica Chastain, earned $27.5 million in ticket sales in its first release, the most of any film in theaters. In the film, Chastain plays a double-jointed doppelgänger. The opening total put the movie ahead of every other title on the box office chart. For Los Angeles, where the film industry is a hometown business, a horror release opening in first place is the main box office news this time.
Beverly Hills News

Tubi Adds a Fourth R.L. Stine Title, "The Babysitter," to Its 2027 Slate

Tubi will release a film version of R.L. Stine's "The Babysitter" in 2027, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The project is the fourth Stine work that the no-cost streaming service has brought to the screen through its arrangement with the writer. The first two films in that collaboration were "Pumpkinhead" features, and a third title was announced shortly before this one. The new film adds another horror release to the service's schedule for the coming year.
Beverly Hills News

Bardem Recalls Shaping His "Skyfall" Antagonist With Director Sam Mendes

Javier Bardem has talked about the choices behind Raoul Silva, the character he played opposite James Bond in "Skyfall." The actor described bringing a homoerotic undercurrent to the 007 story. He also recalled telling director Sam Mendes what kind of figure the villain should be. Many in the Bond audience rank Silva among the strongest adversaries the series has put on screen. In a city where much of the work is making films, the account shows an actor and a director deciding together who a character is.
Beverly Hills News

Javier Bardem Discusses His Approach to Playing Raoul Silva in "Skyfall"

Javier Bardem has spoken with Variety about how he built Raoul Silva, the villain he played in the James Bond film "Skyfall." He said he brought a homoerotic element into the character's dealings with 007. He also described what he told director Sam Mendes about who Silva should be. Silva, a cyber-terrorist written as both cruel and flirtatious, is often ranked among the strongest antagonists in the Bond series.
Who Wore What When

Portland's Queen Anne Farmhouse Makes the Case for Packing Knits This Fall

Vogue has turned its attention to the Pacific Northwest and the coast as an autumn escape, and its picks run from a cabin set deep among tall Douglas-firs to a historic Portland farmhouse in the Queen Anne style. That's two very different looks for the same season: one is all timber and quiet, the other is gables and period detail. Either way, the dress code is layers and a good coat, so plan your suitcase around the weather.
Who Wore What When

Vogue's Archive Puts Lee Krasner Back on the Page

In June of 1972, Vogue gave its pages to Lee Krasner in a profile written by Barbara Rose, and the magazine called her an American great right in the title. The archive has brought the piece back out, and that summer issue is worth a second look. The wire didn't say what Krasner wore, so we won't guess. What we can note is the year, the writer, the subject and the size of the compliment, and a fashion magazine putting the word "great" in a headline is about as dressed-up as a compliment gets.
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Who Wore What When

The Slip Dress Steps Out: Emma Stone and Teyana Taylor Lead 2026's Boudoir-to-Carpet Moment

This year, pieces once kept for the dressing room became evening wear, and the biggest names in Hollywood wore them with confidence. Emma Stone and Teyana Taylor are two of the many stars who took up the look, so it was no passing experiment. For readers from Beverly Hills to Palm Beach who keep track of how a season dressed, 2026 goes in the archive as the year the inside layer moved to the outside. It is worth noting, and worth admiring how well it was worn.
Photo by Michael Carruth on Unsplash
Who Wore What When

Two Chicago Marathon Winners, One Label Underfoot

On Sunday in Chicago, both marathon titles went to runners in Adidas. Amos Kipruto won the men's field and Hawi Feysa won the women's, and each crossed the finish line in the brand's high-performance racing shoes. For an archive that logs who wore what and when, this one is easy to file: one city, one day, two champions and the same name on both pairs. On a course that runs for miles, the look the two winners shared was on their feet.
Who Wore What When

Who Wore What at the Chicago Marathon Finish: Adidas, on Both Winners

Both Chicago Marathon titles went to runners in Adidas this weekend: Amos Kipruto won the men's field and Hawi Feysa won the women's. On a course where the winning time is what gets written down, the brand on the winners' feet goes into the record too. Each was wearing the label's high-performance racing shoe, the carbon-era kind built for speed. For an archive that tracks what someone wore and where, it is unusual for one brand to sit under both winners on the same day.
Icons of Palm Beach

A Breakfast Tray That Gives Back: As Ever Joins the Malala Fund

The duchess's As Ever has found a cause worth stocking up for. To mark the day set aside each year for girls, the sales from its preserves and its tea will go to the Malala Fund, the organization that carries Malala Yousafzai's name. This is the kind of generosity a household can take part in without any fuss. A jar on the breakfast table and a tin in the pantry now send something onward with every spoonful and every cup.
Icons of Palm Beach

J.Crew and '47 Bring Some Campus Loyalty to the Island This Season

J.Crew has joined forces with '47 on a new collaboration, and it is built around the pride of alma mater. The pieces are cut for autumn and wear their allegiances openly, the way a varsity letter or a reunion weekend does. On an island where many still keep their college colors close, it makes an easy companion to a crisp morning on the Lake Trail as the season begins. It is collegiate devotion, pressed and ready to wear.
Who Wore What When

Ensemble 1774's Sneaker-Mule Hybrid Comes Back With a Fresh Palette

Birkenstock has brought back the hybrid it introduced in 2025 under its Ensemble 1774 program, a slip-on that's half sneaker and half mule, and this time it comes in more shades. The designer behind it makes men's shoes for Louis Vuitton, which explains why this cork-and-buckle label suddenly looks so polished. The appeal is in the crossover: you get a sneaker's build with the easy, open back of a mule. For readers who live in slip-ons from Palm Beach to Aspen, the update adds more color choices while keeping the shoe they already know.
Photo by Doug Nealy on Unsplash
Who Wore What When

Princess Diana and Kate Moss Lead Terry Newman's New Book on Mothers With Style

Fashion writer Terry Newman has a new book about famous mothers who kept their own look after their children arrived, and Princess Diana and Kate Moss are among the women she writes about. Her subjects are some of the best-known faces in fashion, and she looks at how each held on to her own taste and drive while raising a family. Readers who have studied these women in old photographs will be glad to see the mother and the style icon treated as the same person.
What It Sold For

The Mid-Century Room, Bought New: Architectural Digest Picks Its Dozen From Article

Architectural Digest has tried furniture from Article, a retailer based in Canada, and narrowed it to twelve pieces it recommends. The selection follows mid-century modern lines and rests on two staples of a living room: the sofa and the bookcase. Neither piece needs to make a statement. Both are made to suit the clean, low rooms of the period. For a reader furnishing a postwar house in Los Angeles, or a Naples ranch that still has its original lines, the list is a useful place to start.
Photo by Myron Mott on Unsplash
What They Drive

Wide Tires, Open Ground: Off-Road Wheelchairs Are Headed for the Parks of the American West

Wheelchairs built for rough terrain, rolling on fat, cushioned tires, are on their way to America's federal parklands in the West. The point is simple: a chair that keeps going where the pavement stops puts the region's great vistas within reach of visitors a standard chair would leave at the edge of the asphalt. For readers who judge any machine by how it meets the ground, the tire does the work here, with a broad, soft footprint built for dirt and gravel rather than smooth floors. Here in Colorado, where a good weekend is often measured by the view at the end of the drive, that is welcome engineering.
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What They Drive

A Steering Wheel That Seems to Breathe, Built to Make Owners Comfortable Letting the Car Help

A steering wheel designed to look and feel as if it were breathing has been put forward as one answer to an old question for anyone who loves driving: how do you come to trust a car that can do some of the driving itself? The idea is a partnership. The car shares the work with the person behind the wheel instead of taking over, and the rim's slow, living rhythm is how the machine signals what it is doing. Not everyone will warm to it at first; even the writer who first described it admitted to finding it unsettling. For collectors and owners who care most about the feel of a wheel in their hands, it is an unusual idea about what that wheel might communicate next.
Photo by John Armitstead on Geographorguk
What They Ride

One Start Behind Him, Olympiad's Son Outclasses a Seasoned Keeneland Field

Merlin Monroan, a son of Olympiad, came into a Keeneland allowance with less racing behind him than anyone else in the gate, and he left it unbeaten. He had run only once before, a maiden victory he took by a length. Allowance company is a step up from that, and the horses around him had more races on their records. The extra mileage didn't help them. Two starts in, Merlin Monroan has won both, and he has shown he can handle older hands as well as fellow first-timers. At Keeneland, where a young horse's second outing is watched as closely as its first, keeping a perfect record is the kind of result that horsemen remember.
What They Ride

A Champion's Brisk Morning on the Saratoga Strip

Sovereignty, the reigning Horse of the Year, was back at work in Saratoga Springs, New York, and put in a strong gallop on a brisk morning over the Spa's main track. The son of Into Mischief is pointing toward the Breeders' Cup Classic, and this gallop is one more step in that preparation. In autumn, Saratoga's grandstand stands quiet and the summer meet is over. A morning gallop there is mostly watched by the people who work the shedrows, with the champion moving through cool air on a track that hosts some of the country's best racing every summer. A strong gallop is not a race and isn't meant to be one. It is a horseman's measure, read in the way a horse carries himself and how freely he covers the ground. That is why the gallop deserves notice. When the reigning Horse of the Year prepares for the Classic at one of America's great racetracks, his ordinary training mornings matter to everyone who follows the sport.
What They Ride

Keeneland Debut Puts Klaravich's Flameaway Filly Global Unrest on the Watch List

Global Unrest, a 2-year-old filly by Flameaway, made her first career start Saturday afternoon at Keeneland and came away with a "TDN Rising Star" designation from Thoroughbred Daily News. The race was a maiden contest on the grass at one mile. She races for Klaravich Stables. Her dam is Beautiful Memories, a daughter of Hard Spun, so the pedigree runs Flameaway on top and Hard Spun as broodmare sire. The detail that stood out was how much ground she gave away. She swung wide around the far turn and covered far more of the Lexington course than the fillies saving ground on the rail. To do that in a first start, on turf, at a one-turn-longer trip than many juveniles see early, is why this one is worth noting.
What They Ride

Arcadia's Morning Sends a Contingent East to the Championships

At Santa Anita on Saturday morning, a group of horses being aimed at the Breeders' Cup went to the track for their timed drills, with the World Championships at Keeneland now close. It was a working morning, done under the San Gabriels before the grandstand fills, and it's where a Los Angeles barn makes its case before the horses are shipped. For readers here, it matters that part of the road to Lexington runs through Arcadia.
What They Ride

From an Ocala Breeze to the Keeneland Turf: Lael Stables' $550,000 Corniche Filly Makes Her Debut

Earlier this year in Ocala, the filly Tannhauser, by Corniche, breezed in :9.4. It was the kind of work that gets a filly noticed during Florida's two-year-old sale season. Lael Stables paid $550,000 for her. On Saturday the operation gave her a first start on the grass at Keeneland. She is Virginia-bred, so this filly from the Old Dominion was prepared in Central Florida and started her career in the Bluegrass. That makes three regions of the American Thoroughbred world in a single season. For readers who follow the breeze shows, the line is easy to trace: a quick, clean work under the Ocala sun, a strong price in the ring, and a debut at one of the country's best-loved autumn meets. A good buy only becomes a good racehorse once she gets to the races, and Saturday was her first step. Lael Stables chose the turf for that step, and Keeneland's grass course in October is a fine place to start.
What They Ride

A Medaglia d'Oro Daughter Leads All the Way in Keeneland's Queen Elizabeth II

Tam Tam took the lead early in the Grade I Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup at Keeneland and kept it to the wire. She broke and went straight to the lead, and from there the race was hers to lose. When her rivals made their run in the closing stages, she still had enough left, and none of them got past. It is her second Grade I win, and Grade I is the top level of American racing. A horse who wins once at that level has done something many good horses never manage. Winning there twice puts her in a small group. For her sire, Medaglia d'Oro, it adds another top-level win by one of his offspring, and that kind of result matters to breeders and buyers well after the race is over. Leading from start to finish is the hardest way to win. Everyone else in the race knows where the leader is and gets to plan around her. Tam Tam ran in front with the whole field behind her, and she was still in front at the finish.
What They Ride

Third Coast Gives Uncle Mo a Graded Stakes Win in the Hill Prince

Third Coast, a son of Uncle Mo, has won the Grade III Hill Prince Stakes. For much of the race he sat just outside another runner and waited. Nobody asked him for anything early, and the restraint gave him something to use at the end. When he did make his move, the timing was right. He took the lead before a rival rallying hard from behind could get to him, and that head start was enough to hold the other horse off. It was a race that came down to judging the moment, and Third Coast got it right. For readers who follow a stallion through his offspring, a graded win at this level is a result to note next to Uncle Mo's name.
Who Wore What When

Aritzia's Second Quarter of 2027 Arrives With a 44 Percent Jump in Revenue

Aritzia has posted a second quarter of 2027 that ends with revenue up 44 percent. That figure is the whole story here, and it's a good one. A 44 percent rise is the kind of growth a house can count on its fingers twice. On a New York sidewalk or a Beverly Hills shopping afternoon, it reads plainly as a lot of people choosing the same label and coming back for more. We usually log who wore what and where, and a number like this belongs in the archive too.
Who Wore What When

Vivian Wilson Takes Medusa's Side in Los Angeles

At a celebration in Los Angeles, the model Vivian Wilson talked fashion, mythology and ambition. Her own wardrobe, she said, keeps getting bolder. She also argued that Medusa, the Greek myth's most famous snake-haired woman, deserves better than her reputation. As for what comes next, she has her eye on a screen role on the dark side: she'd like to be cast as the antagonist. For now, the clothes come first. That order suits an archive like ours, since a growing taste for risk in dress is exactly what we're here to keep track of. It also makes a cast of villains, Medusa included, seem like fitting company.
Who Wore What When

Olivia Rodrigo Brings the Brooch to the Sidelines

Olivia Rodrigo took a seat along the court with a brooch pinned to her outfit, the same piece of jewelry that has become this season's go-to accent. A brooch is usually saved for a lapel at a gala, so seeing one a few feet from the hardwood was a small surprise that worked. From Beverly Hills to the Hamptons, readers who have been eyeing the pin can take this as permission to wear it to more casual outings, not just formal ones.
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Miu Miu Platforms Give Mckenna Grace a Few Extra Inches on a New York Thursday

Mckenna Grace spent Thursday in New York City wearing Miu Miu sandals on a raised platform sole. Her outfit split the difference between polished and relaxed: put together enough to notice, easy enough for a weekday in town. A platform does more on a city sidewalk than it does on a carpet. It changes how someone walks, and it gives an otherwise low-key outfit a clear point of interest. The Italian house's name on the footwear is the part an archive like ours writes down. We're logging it here: Mckenna Grace, Miu Miu, New York, a Thursday.
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Amal Clooney Brings Scissors to Screen-Siren Glamour at the Albies

The big news at the 2026 Albies was a haircut: Amal Clooney arrived with newly cut layers framing a look borrowed from the golden age of the movies. Her makeup was gold and caught the light the way a studio-era close-up was designed to. The reference was the classic film star, but the result belonged to this decade. For the archive, the fifth edition of the Albies goes down as the night that glamour got a new cut.
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Tate McRae Dresses Her First Scent in Saint Laurent, With a Necklace That Stays on Message

Tate McRae marked the release of her first perfume in a slip dress from Saint Laurent. A slip is about as pared-back as eveningwear gets, so the accessories have to do the talking, and her necklace was chosen to match the occasion. For an archive that tracks who wore what and when, it's worth filing: a singer's first fragrance, dressed by a French house, with jewelry picked to suit the night. The perfume is available to buy now.
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The French Enamel Every Hostess Covets, Now 40 Percent Off at Macy's

Le Creuset is marked down 40 percent at Macy's, a rare discount on cookware that usually holds its price, and it arrives just as the hosting months begin. Every piece is still made and finished by hand at the same French foundry where the house began. That is the detail worth noticing when you pick up a lid and feel its weight: it was finished by a person, not stamped off a line. Some pieces are bought for a single season, and some stay on the stovetop long enough to become part of the family archive.
Beverly Hills News

LeSean Thomas Writes First Episode of Animated Series 'Sentinel 6'

LeSean Thomas, whose credits include "Bass x Machina" and "The Boondocks," wrote the first episode of "Sentinel 6," a new anime-style series, according to The Hollywood Reporter. He also advises the production. Two professional athletes, Michael Carter-Williams of the NBA and Jamaal Williams of the NFL, are executive producers. King Vader, a social media creator, is one of the actors voicing the characters. The publication describes the series as science fiction drawn from Afro-futurism. The report gives no network, platform or release date.
Beverly Hills News

New Chris Rock Film Puts Los Angeles Under the Microscope, Opens Its American Run in New York

"Misty Green," a feature directed by Chris Rock with Los Angeles as its subject, has screened for American audiences for the first time at the New York Film Festival, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Rock has now directed four features, and this is the latest. Rosalind Eleazar, known for her work on the series "Slow Horses," plays the lead. The Hollywood Reporter's review calls her work in the role exceptional and says the film establishes her as a star. The publication describes Rock's treatment of the city as precise and exacting. For readers in Beverly Hills, that makes "Misty Green" a close study of their own region by a director who gives it his full attention. The New York screening begins the film's life in the United States.
Beverly Hills News

Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer Lead 'Blade Runner 2099' Panel at New York Comic Con

The team behind "Blade Runner 2099" brought a fresh preview of the series to New York Comic Con on Saturday. Cast members, the showrunner and the executive producers appeared together on a panel to talk about the show's story. The series is structured as an investigation, and it takes place in a future where Replicants have become the dominant force. Michelle Yeoh plays a Replicant whose life is nearing its end. Hunter Schafer plays a human who is concealing who she is. The panel focused on how the paths of these two characters become bound together. The appearance came alongside the release of the production's latest trailer. The show is planned as a limited run.
Beverly Hills News

Lego Puts Fans in Charge of Its First Set Joining Marvel and Star Wars

Lego plans to release a building set that brings together characters and imagery from Marvel and "Star Wars" for the first time, and fans will design it. Both franchises have long had their own Lego lines, but the company has not put them in a single box before. Lego has not yet said what will be in the set or how fans will submit designs. For collectors in Beverly Hills, the one detail now confirmed is that the design will come from fans rather than from the company.
Beverly Hills Brides

A Spear of Asparagus on the Lapel: Tess and Connor's Pacific Northwest Wedding

Tess and Connor's wedding had a single green spear of asparagus in the groom's boutonniere. Florist Kylie Hale set it among white flowers, where a guest might have taken it for just another stem until it was close enough to recognize. That small vegetable said a lot about the couple. They held a small wedding outdoors in the Pacific Northwest, among the plants and greenery of a garden. The day included a paebaek ceremony, the Korean wedding tradition, as part of the celebration. Dinner was planned for guests who care about food, so the asparagus on Connor's jacket was a hint of what was coming to the table. Hale's choice was quiet and a little playful, and it showed how this day was put together: a small gathering where even the flowers pointed toward the meal.
What They Sail

More Room at Forty-Five Feet: Cruisers Yachts Adds a Pair to Its VTR Family

Cruisers Yachts has offered an early look at two new boats, the 45 VTR and the 45 VTR EC, which join its VTR range at the 45-foot mark. The builder's focus at this size is generous beam, a stepped hull in a hybrid form, and more room aboard for living than a buyer might expect at this length. For an owner choosing a boat in the mid-40s, that is the comparison that counts: how much of the boat you can actually use once the lines are off. Bringing out two versions together gives buyers a choice within the same length and the same hull. Yard and length are confirmed, and further specifications should follow as the boats move from preview to the water.
What They Sail

The Last Twenty Feet Get Easier: Simrad Teaches the Boat to Find Its Own Slip

Simrad's new AutoCaptain is a system that lets a boat bring itself alongside the dock with no hand on the controls. It sees the approach through a pair of cameras that judge depth the way two eyes do, and software trained on what a berth looks like decides how the boat should move. Those decisions go through Mercury's joystick steering, the same control many owners already use to nudge a hull sideways into tight quarters. The point is that the system is meant for boats built in series, not for one-off custom projects. In a crowded marina in Miami or Palm Beach, with a crosswind and a full cockpit watching, the slip is the hardest part of a day on the water, and this system is aimed squarely at it.
Private Jet Owners

Hangar Note: A Wright Model B Replica Makes the AircraftForSale Shortlist

AircraftForSale has picked a replica of the 1911 Wright Model B as one of its top listings. The Model B was the first Wright design built in series, the point where the brothers' airplane became something produced in numbers rather than a single machine. The replica is described as carefully built and true to the historical original. Owners who usually read a listing for range, avionics and hours will find none of that here. What this one offers is a copy of the airplane that marks when manufacturing came to flight.
What It Sold For

The Bridal Salon Is Now Designed Like a Private Residence

A newer group of wedding-dress shops is taking its cues from the living room, not the department store. Their interiors are the work of leading designers, and the aim is a space that feels like an elegant friend's home rather than a place of business. The usual equipment of the bridal trade, such as cramped changing booths and racks of gowns on casters, has been left out entirely. For readers who notice how a room is put together, this is the real story: a retail appointment is being reimagined as a visit to a home.
Class of Florida

Corduroy Gets a Seat at the Table, From Worth Avenue to Fifth Avenue South

A suit cut in corduroy now earns a place in a serious wardrobe, according to one writer who calls it their preferred way to look sharp without seeming to try. The case is simple: it has the structure and finish of a properly made suit, plus a looser, slightly roguish streak that a worsted never quite manages. In Palm Beach that combination reads as old-guard ease, in Naples as good sense, and in Miami as something to wear once the thermostat agrees. Wherever it goes, it rewards the man who wants to arrive well dressed and leave everyone wondering how he made it look so offhand.
Who Wore What When

A Beaded Wiederhoeft Gown for Florence Pugh and Finn Cole's First Red Carpet as a Couple

Florence Pugh made her first red-carpet appearance alongside Finn Cole in a Wiederhoeft gown covered in beadwork that caught the light. The two actors have been reported as a couple since 2024, and this was their first time posing together. Beading like that is meant to be seen up close and in motion, so it suited an evening when the cameras were on both of them. Our archive now notes the year the pair first appeared together, and the gown she wore.
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The Orange Box Comes in at Sixty Dollars This Season

Macy's has a holiday present with a very recognizable wrapper: a set of Hermès fragrance miniatures in the house's orange box, priced at $60. Inside are four small bottles, each a little luxury you can hold in one hand. At that price it fits the hostess, the teacher, the colleague and the friend who already seems to have everything. Even before anyone lifts the lid, that shade of orange tells them where the present came from. It's a modest buy that still feels like a big gift, which is how a good holiday present should feel.
Photo by Dave Catchpole on Flickr
What They Ride

Tam Tam Leads Every Step in the Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup

Tam Tam won the Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup, Keeneland's fall prize, by going to the lead and never giving it up. Leading from the start is a hard way to win a race like this. The horse in front sets the pace, sees all the trouble first and has to hold off every challenger who comes along. Tam Tam did all of it and still had plenty left when the race was decided. Few horses ever make a front-running win look as easy as Tam Tam made it look.
Private Jet Owners

When the Lesson Isn't on the Syllabus

A flight instructor recently had to deal with something no checkride standard covers: a student who was afraid and hadn't realized it, and who was still at the controls. The account is about the instructor's job more than the student's, which is to notice what the person in the left seat isn't saying and to teach through it. Owners who fly with a CFI for recurrency, transition training or an insurance-required checkout will know that part of that hour is spent watching the pilot, not just the airplane. It's a reminder that good instruction depends on reading people as much as on maneuvers and minimums.
What It Sold For

A $25 Million Ask for Thierry Henry's SoHo Penthouse

Thierry Henry has put his New York penthouse on the market with an asking price of $25 million. The condominium is in SoHo, the downtown Manhattan neighborhood of cast-iron facades and cobbled side streets, where a top-floor residence stands out because few buildings rise high enough to have one. The $25 million figure is the asking price, the number the seller has put on the record. The final sale price will be reported if and when it becomes public. The former soccer star's apartment is the top listing in a weekly roundup of six homes for sale, which also includes properties connected to Diane Keaton, Dolly Parton and Taylor Swift. Henry's is the only one of those homes reported in New York. For readers who follow the downtown market, it is a SoHo penthouse with a known owner and a public asking price.
What They Ride

Breeders' Cup Contenders Get Their Counterparts From Other Sports

America's Best Racing has published a feature that pairs this year's Breeders' Cup contenders with matching figures from other sports. The idea treats the Thoroughbreds headed for the championships as athletes in the full sense, each one compared with a counterpart that fans of other sports would recognize. For readers who follow both the racecourse and the stadium, it gives an easy way into a field of horses that may still be new to them. With the 2026 Breeders' Cup coming up, the piece is a good-humored way to meet the horses before they go to post.
Class of Florida

Last Call on the McLaren 750S, From Palm Beach to Naples

McLaren has opened the closing window on its 750S supercar, and anyone who wants one built to their own specification now has a limited time to say so. If you've been weighing that order through another season of coastal drives, this is the point to decide. In Miami, the news will be taken as an invitation; in Palm Beach, as a matter to discuss quietly with the dealer; in Naples, as a decision already made weeks ago. Wherever you are on the coast, the order book is closing.
Icons of Palm Beach

C.Z. Guest Gets the Museum Treatment This October

C.Z. Guest is the subject of a new museum exhibition, and the clothes are its centerpiece. *C.Z. Guest: Portrait of an American Style Icon* opens at SCAD FASH on October 15, with upward of forty complete looks on view. That's forty dressed figures, each one standing in for a single decision about how to appear in the world. A show built on that many ensembles asks for a slow walk rather than a quick glance, and the people who'll get the most out of it are the ones who notice a hemline, a collar or the way a jacket is cut. The title places her firmly in the American tradition of taste. That's a fitting thing to read about in the middle of October, when the island is starting to think about the season again and the closets are being opened. Anyone who dresses with intention will want to mark the date.
Icons of Palm Beach

Pope Leo Keeps One Loyalty for the White Sox

Pope Leo blesses every dugout equally, but Robert Prevost, the man who wears the title, still saves a particular warmth for the Chicago White Sox. His love of the game has become one of the most appealing things the public knows about him. Anyone hoping to see the Holy Father on the mound, ball in hand, making the ceremonial throw before an opening inning will have to wait, because that appearance isn't expected soon. Anyone on the island who has kept the same seats for years will understand why that kind of loyalty doesn't change with a title.
What They Drive

A Geo Metro With a V8 Where the Cargo Used to Go

Someone took a small Geo Metro and put a V8 behind its seats, and the car is now listed for sale on Facebook Marketplace. The engine sits at the back, under the hatchback's rear window, so anyone walking up to the tail of the car can look through the glass and see it. The Metro was built as a simple economy hatchback, and few cars seem a less likely home for an eight-cylinder engine, which makes the swap stand out. For collectors who like a well-executed swap, it's worth a look.
What They Drive

For the 1992 Mazda MX-3 GS Owner, a Complete Picture Reference

A new photo gallery covers the 1992 Mazda MX-3 GS completely, showing the cabin as well as the bodywork and leaving no side of the car unphotographed. For anyone who owns this model year and trim, or is thinking about buying one, a set of images this complete is a useful reference to keep next to the paperwork. It lets an owner check a car in the garage against a full visual record of the GS, from the outside panels to the seats. This is a look at the car and nothing more; it is not a road test, and it says nothing about what any particular example is worth.
Who Wore What When

Eyelid Surgery, Chosen After Long Thought

An editor at Harper's Bazaar has written about her own eyelid surgery, a procedure known in beauty circles as a "bleph." The puffiness beneath her eyes had bothered her for as long as she could remember. After a difficult stretch of years and a lot of careful thought, she went ahead with it, hoping to ease a weight that was as much emotional as it was visible in the mirror. In a beauty culture that tends to hide this kind of choice, the decision here was made slowly and with open eyes, and her essay shares it.
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Miu Miu Lets the Polish Wander Past the Edge

Miu Miu has sent out a manicure that looks deliberately unfinished, with lacquer running past the line where any New York nail technician would have stopped. On its face it is a beauty note, but the more interesting idea sits under it: a fashion house putting forward a flawed finish and asking us to look twice. For readers who book their standing appointments from Palm Beach to Beverly Hills, it raises a question about craft itself, which is whether the clean edge we pay for is the point, or only one way of showing taste. Whether it reaches the salon chair or stays on the page, it makes a good case that intention counts as a kind of polish.
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Jennifer Lawrence Puts Banana Republic Chinos on the Fall Record

For the archive: the label is Banana Republic, the garment is a pair of chinos, and the wearer is Jennifer Lawrence. As the weather cools, the choice argues for a sharp alternative to jeans. Chinos give the clean lines of tailoring with the ease of a weekend, a useful trick for an October afternoon in Manhattan or a cool evening in Aspen. It's good to see an Oscar winner pick a label you can find at the nearest shopping center and wear it with complete confidence.
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The Air Jordans That Never Left the Vault, and the Case for Letting Nine Out

Every sneaker has a debut date. Some pairs never get one: they are made, photographed, and then held back. With the conversation now leaning toward a smaller Jordan release calendar, Footwear News has picked nine pairs still waiting their turn and argued that each one has earned it. For an archive that tracks exactly who wore what and when, a shoe the public has never been allowed to wear is a blank line in the record, and a well-chosen shortlist is a polite request to fill it in.
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The Packing List Just Got Longer: Hotel Polish Takes to the Water

The grand hotel, with its attentive staff and its well-kept comforts, is heading out to sea. Hospitality brands best known for their lobbies are now carrying that same service onto ships, and they are aiming squarely at travelers who have never booked a cruise. For a reader in Palm Beach or Miami who has always preferred a reliable suite to a deck chair, it is a fresh invitation to think about what a voyage could feel like. It also leaves the most pleasant question still open: what to wear to dinner when the view keeps changing.
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Nine Jordans Still Waiting in the Wings, and the Case for Letting Them Out

WWD has picked nine Jordan designs that Nike has never sold and argued that these are the ones worth bringing out. The timing gives the list its point: lately the talk has been about Nike putting out fewer Jordans, and when fewer pairs come out, each one that does matters more. For anyone who tracks the sneaker shelf the way we track a gown on a red carpet, a short list of shoes that were designed but never released makes good reading. From a Manhattan sidewalk to a Miami stoop, the question now is which of the nine reach the shelf first.
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Fall's Return Engagement: The Checked Skirt Takes a Bow

The plaid skirt is back for another fall, turning up on the catwalk and in the online stores where readers actually do their shopping. Crossed lines and a classic check make it a pattern that says autumn before the calendar does. For an October afternoon in New York or a cool evening in Aspen, it's a trend that needs little more than a good sweater and a decision about hem length. Consider this your cue to move the tartan to the front of the closet.
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Missed the Reformation x Alexa Chung Drop? Nordstrom Still Has a Rack Waiting

The Reformation x Alexa Chung collaboration has nearly cleared out, and the pieces that are gone from the label's own shelves can still be bought through Nordstrom's website. For anyone in New York, Palm Beach or Beverly Hills who hesitated too long, it's a second chance at a capsule that arrived with plenty of anticipation and left in a hurry. Pairing Reformation with Chung, the British style figure whose name has long meant effortless cool, was always going to move quickly. Nordstrom's online racks are where to look for whatever is still on your list.
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Big Bear and Joshua Tree: Where Remi Wolf Made "Mud"

Remi Wolf made her new album, "Mud," in two California settings that could hardly be more different: the pines of Big Bear and the open desert of Joshua Tree. The singer-songwriter went to both places to write and shape the record after a long, demanding stretch on the road. Vogue calls the result the most grown-up and freeing work she has released so far. This desk usually follows an artist's chapters through what she wore and where she wore it, and here the places are the story: a mountain town and a high-desert park, each within driving distance of Los Angeles, became the workshop for a whole album. The title suits that kind of setting, earthy and unpolished, a name that sounds like the ground underfoot.
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The Season's Shade Gets a Manhattan Outing

Taylor Swift took this fall's most-wanted color for a walk through New York, with Travis Kelce beside her. The report doesn't say which shade it was or what she wore it in, so we won't guess. What matters is the timing: a color that has only just been named the season's favorite turned up on a New York sidewalk, which is about as early as you can catch one. For a city that judges an autumn wardrobe on the street, that was a good first look.
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Rocki's First Close-Up: Savage X Fenty Casts the Whole Family

For an archive that tracks first appearances, this one is easy to log: Rocki, Rihanna's daughter, has appeared in a Savage X Fenty campaign for the first time. She isn't in the frame alone. Her siblings are pictured with her, so her first time in front of the brand's camera is also a family portrait. From Palm Beach to Beverly Hills, readers who mark the day a famous name first stands for the camera now have another first to note.
Class of Nashville

Brent Cobb Takes the Amplifiers Off Again for "Live A Song, Write A Memory, Vol. 2"

Brent Cobb has put out "Live A Song, Write A Memory, Vol. 2," the next installment in his stripped-down series built around the writer and the work. With the arrangements kept spare, nothing stands between the listener and the song as it was written. Nashville judges songs by what's left once the production is gone, so a second volume like this deserves a careful listen. The title explains the approach: live it first, then write it down.
Beverly Hills News

Brad Bird's "Ray Gunn" Brings Retro-Futurist Noir to Animation

Brad Bird has a new animated feature, "Ray Gunn," which Variety has reviewed. The trade paper calls the film a retro-futurist noir, a genre that pairs the look of an imagined future with the conventions of the detective story. The review's main praise is for the film's energy, which it weighs against how much charm the picture carries. It also notes a line of dialogue, an invitation into the future, that comes back several times over the course of the film.
Beverly Hills News

Beverly Hills Players Can Now Add "Squadron 42" to Their Steam Lists Ahead of a Spring 2027 Launch

Cloud Imperium Games has opened a Steam store page for "Squadron 42" where players can add the game to their wishlists, according to Variety. The studio is aiming to release the title in the second quarter of 2027. It is a science-fiction story for one player, and it takes place in 2945. Anyone in Beverly Hills with a Steam account can add the game to their list now, well before release.
Beverly Hills News

Portia Doubleday Discusses Her Conspiracy Theorist Role in Aaron Sorkin's "The Social Reckoning"

Portia Doubleday has spoken about how she built the role of a conspiracy theorist in "The Social Reckoning," the new film from writer-director Aaron Sorkin. The film is now showing in theaters. It opens with a short vignette, and Doubleday's character is part of the story the film tells. In the interview, Doubleday said she drew on people she had known in real life to understand the character.
Beverly Hills News

'Other Mommy' Opens to $12.6 Million as Horror's 2026 Run Continues

"Other Mommy" took in $12.6 million in ticket sales on its first day in theaters, according to figures reported by Variety Film. The opening adds to a strong year for horror films, which in 2026 has included major releases such as "Obsession," "Backrooms" and "Resident Evil." "The Social Reckoning" also opened Friday and earned $2.15 million. The results come in the weeks before Halloween. In Los Angeles, home to the film industry, Friday figures like these give the first look at how a weekend in theaters will go.
Beverly Hills News

Horror's 2026 Run Adds Another Strong Start as "Other Mommy" Takes $12.6 Million in Its First Day

"Other Mommy" earned $12.6 million in ticket sales on the day it reached theaters, according to Variety. Its arrival adds another title to a year in which horror has been one of the strongest performers in cinemas. Before it came "Obsession," "Backrooms" and "Resident Evil," each of which Variety counted among the year's major debuts. With Halloween a few weeks away, the timing puts the genre in front of audiences during the season most closely tied to it. "The Social Reckoning" also opened in theaters and took in $2.15 million on Friday, its first day, according to the same report.
Where They Eat

Seven Reasons to Order the Home-State Syrah Tonight

Robb Report Dining has singled out seven California Syrahs it considers worth opening without delay. For a Los Angeles table, that is a short, useful list: the grape grown a few hours up the coast, poured at its best, with no need to look toward the Rhône. The selection makes the case that the state's Syrah has earned a place on a serious wine list alongside its better-known Cabernet and Pinot Noir. Ask the sommelier what is open from California before you ask for anything else.
Who Wore What When

Elizabeth Taylor's 1969 Scorpio Ball Returns, 63 Carats at a Time

Kim Kardashian has gone to the archive for the second season of "All's Fair," and she went straight to one of its best-thumbed pages. The look is a tribute to Elizabeth Taylor as she appeared at the Scorpio Ball in 1969, the kind of reference that rewards anyone who never threw out their old magazines. Pulling it off took close to 63 carats of diamonds, with a value put at $2.7 million. That is a quantity of stone that announces itself before the wearer does, which is rather the point of a Taylor homage. Credit the Skims founder for choosing a year and an occasion with precision instead of gesturing vaguely at old Hollywood. The date matters: 1969 Taylor is a very particular Taylor, and this homage clearly knew which one it wanted. On a television screen, the diamonds do the work the still camera once did for Taylor herself.
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The Tee Gets Its Autumn Close-Up, Courtesy of THE GREAT

The plain cotton top is what The Zoe Report's editorial staff say they are wearing most as the season turns, and the label earning the credit is THE GREAT. The cuts run from a shortened long-sleeve to a roomier short-sleeve, which is to say the silhouette is doing the work rather than any print or flourish. For a reader who dresses by occasion, it is a tidy reminder that a well-cut basic belongs in the closet beside the tailored and the evening-ready.
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Collaborations Lead the Week's New Arrivals: Alexa Chung for Reformation, Emi Jay for Dedcool

The week's roundup of fresh fashion and beauty releases is built on pairings of familiar names. Reformation has brought in Alexa Chung for a collaboration, and Dedcool has joined forces with Emi Jay, with additional launches filling out the list. For anyone who keeps a running ledger of who made what and when, these are the credits to note before the pieces start turning up around town.
Who Wore What When

Bobbi Brown Packs the Whole Face Into a Single Pouch

Bobbi Brown has a new kit out under her Jones Road label, and the premise is editing rather than abundance: everything needed to finish a face, carried together. Brown told Page Six Style the set is built to serve from a morning appointment straight through to an evening engagement, with no second bag required. For anyone who moves between a daytime luncheon and a black-tie dinner on the same calendar page, that is the real appeal. Page Six Style expects it to disappear from shelves quickly.
Who Wore What When

Los Angeles Gets a Sunscreen With a Perfume Pedigree

Zouck is new in town, and it arrives with a résumé. The luxury sunscreen house set up shop in Los Angeles this past June, and the name on the door is Polly Silverman, who earlier helped bring Vilhelm Parfumerie into the world. That is a move from the dressing table to the beach bag, and in this city the two sit closer together than anywhere else in America. A bottle of SPF is as much a daily accessory here as a pair of sunglasses, which makes Los Angeles the natural address for a label that wants the sunscreen step to be something you look forward to rather than something you get through. Consider the hat tipped, and the brim wide.
Who Wore What When

Khloé Kardashian Makes the Case for a Quieter Manicure

Khloé Kardashian has given her nails a name, and the name is Bambi-core. The look keeps to soft, natural shades rather than anything loud, and the whole effect reads as gentle and small-scale, the kind of detail you notice only when a hand comes to rest on a clutch or a car door. It arrives as beauty and fashion both lean toward the tender and the sentimental, and a manicure this hushed fits that mood exactly. For a city that reads a red carpet from the hem up, it is a reminder that the fingertips count too.
Who Wore What When

Pamela Anderson's Sonsie Reworks the Lip Gloss From the Ground Up

Pamela Anderson has never been a fan of the traditional lip gloss, and rather than keep reaching past it, she had her Sonsie line build its own answer. The brand's newest release is a gloss in spirit only, giving the lip a soft gleam while leaving behind the tacky finish that has long been the category's price of admission. The result reads as polish rather than shine for its own sake, the kind of detail that photographs well without announcing itself.
Who Wore What When

Amal Clooney's Albies Gucci: Sequins Above, Fringe in Motion Below

For the 2026 Albies, Amal Clooney chose Gucci, and the house answered in gold. The gown sat off the shoulder with a sculpted, close-fitting bodice, every inch of it worked over in metallic paillettes. Below the hip the architecture gave way to movement, as the dress dissolved into tier upon tier of beaded strands. It is a design built in two acts: a fixed, glinting frame on top, and a swinging hem that would catch the light on each step. For the archive, note the pairing of designer and occasion. Gucci at the Albies, 2026, in head-to-toe gold.
Who Wore What When

Olivia Culpo Is Not Repacking: The Delivery-Room Bag Returns for Round Two

Olivia Culpo, expecting her second child, has settled on a maternity strategy most of us only wish we had the nerve for: do exactly what worked last time. The bag she carried into the hospital for her first delivery, the one that made the rounds online, is coming out again, contents unchanged. Her reasoning is refreshingly plain. She found that she genuinely liked every item she brought the first time, and she describes herself as someone who puts ease ahead of everything else. For the Beverly Hills reader with a nursery in progress, the lesson is one of editing rather than shopping: the well-chosen bag earns a second outing, no update required.
Who Wore What When

The Week in Beauty: One Hard Edge, Everything Else Left Soft

Vogue's weekly tally of the strongest beauty looks landed on a formula any pageant coach or red carpet regular would recognize. The eye got the precision, drawn in a single clean line with no wobble permitted. Everything around it was allowed to relax, with hair in loose, old-Hollywood waves and complexions finished to a gentle blur rather than a high shine. The result sat exactly where the best faces of the season tend to sit, polished enough for the stage and bold enough to be remembered after it.
Who Wore What When

The Room Gets a Fall Wardrobe Too, and the Decorators Have Picked Its Pieces

The season's first cool evenings have arrived, and the people who dress rooms for a living have weighed in on what deserves a place in the house this fall. Vogue gathered a panel of interior designers and asked them to name seven autumn directions they consider genuine investments rather than passing fancies. The list is built for the shopper who treats a sofa the way the archive treats a gown, as a piece meant to be worn more than one season and remembered well. Consider it the closet edit, carried from the dressing room into the living room.
Class of Nashville

The Writers Take Their Turn, One Song at a Time

ASCAP put its songwriters front and center on Wednesday night, October 7, with an in-the-round evening that served as the latest installment of the performing-rights organization's recurring monthly series. In this town, the people who write the songs are the quiet engine behind every name on a marquee, and a night built around them playing their own work in sequence is the industry's way of paying its respects. It is the format Nashville does better than anywhere else, and ASCAP keeps it on the calendar month after month.
Class of Florida

Somewhere Between Worth Avenue and Port Royal, a Wall Is About to Make Room for a Rothko

A single collection valued at about $100 million is going on the block at Sotheby's, and the roll call is the sort that makes a Palm Beach dinner table go quiet: Rothko, Lichtenstein, and Ed Ruscha among them. The headline lot is a Rothko, not a canvas but a work on paper, carrying an estimate of $15 million. A Ruscha in the same sale is expected to fetch exactly as much. That a field of hovering color and a piece by the artist who turned words into pictures now sit at the same number says something about the eye that assembled this group. Miami will admire the Lichtensteins, Palm Beach will admire the Rothko, and Naples will admire the estimate. For readers from the island to the Gulf, this is a sale worth following, if only to learn which neighbor's living room turns reverent next season.
What They Drive

One-Off Mustang With a Cargo Bed Lives Inside Ford's Experimental Shop

Ford has kept a Mustang fitted with an open rear bed, a factory-built experiment that trades the pony car's trunk for pickup-style hauling. The car remains in the company's Experimental Vehicle Building rather than on any dealer lot, and nothing from the automaker suggests it is headed for production. For collectors who track Ford's in-house prototypes, it is a rare case of a Mustang body reworked into a form the model line has never offered publicly.
What They Drive

A Fuller Set of Pictures for the 2027 Mercedes-Benz GLE 450

Mercedes-Benz's midsize SUV has sat for a new round of photography, and the 2027 GLE 450 can now be studied in more images than the earlier glimpses allowed. For owners from Palm Beach to Aspen weighing whether the next model year belongs in the garage, the expanded gallery is the closest look yet at the car short of standing beside one. We have not driven the 2027 GLE 450 and will not characterize how it goes down the road until we have.
What They Drive

Kia's Flagship Telluride Gets a Fresh Challenger From Volkswagen

Car and Driver has lined up the 2027 Kia Telluride, in its top X-Pro SX Prestige all-wheel-drive trim, against Volkswagen's redesigned Atlas in SEL Premium R-Line 4Motion form for a head-to-head evaluation. The question the magazine set out to answer is whether the new-generation Atlas now belongs among the best midsize sport-utility vehicles on the market. For American families cross-shopping both at dealerships this fall, the matchup pairs two of the segment's most fully equipped trims.
What It Sold For

A Beauty Founder Turns Her Eye to Rooms

Gucci Westman, the makeup artist whose name sits on her own beauty company, has given Elle Decor a conversation about how she thinks a room should look. The interview covers her preferences in design and what she has planned for the brand she built. For readers who follow houses rather than faces, the appeal is simple. A professional who has spent a career deciding what belongs on a surface and what does not is applying that judgment to interiors, and her taste is now on the record.
What It Sold For

Nine Coupes Worth a Place in the House Bar

Elle Decor has gathered nine champagne coupes it considers worth setting out on a home bar, a roundup for anyone finishing a room down to the glassware. The selection runs from fine clear crystal at one end to tinted, lighthearted glass at the other, so there is a choice for a formal dining room as much as a loggia in Palm Beach or a den in Aspen. A coupe is the detail a guest notices first when the cart is wheeled out, and the magazine's premise is that it deserves the same attention as the furniture around it.
What They Ride

The Queen Elizabeth II Reaches Its 43rd Edition With Faithful Departed in the Field

The Queen Elizabeth II Stakes is being run for the 43rd time, and the name drawing attention on the entry sheet is Faithful Departed. The filly arrives at this edition as a horse whose connections believe she is ready for sterner company than she has met so far. A race with four decades of history behind it tends to sort out which of each crop's promising fillies belong in the top rank, and that is the question this one will put to her. Whatever the result, her presence gives the anniversary running a storyline worth following from the paddock to the wire.
What They Ride

Two of the DeVaux Barn's Best Breeze Over Keeneland's Lexington Oval

Keeneland's morning watchers were given something worth the early rise this week, as two of the finest horses in trainer DeVaux's care went to the track for timed work over the Lexington course. One was Golden Tempo, the Curlin colt who carried the colors of Phipps Stable and St. Elias Stables to victory in both the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont Stakes. The other was Englishman, a son of Maxfield owned by C R K Stable, who has already taken two races at the top level of the American calendar. That a single conditioner sends out a Derby and Belmont winner and a two-time top-flight scorer on the same morning, over the same ground, is the sort of thing Kentucky horsemen notice and remember. For those lucky enough to be railside with a coffee, it was a glimpse of racing's best at their most unhurried, going about the quiet daily business that long precedes the roar of an afternoon crowd.
What They Ride

Backyard Heaven, the Ramseys' Oaks-Day Winner, Has a Summer Chapter at Saratoga

The Ramsey red and white has a story to tell at Saratoga Springs this summer, and it belongs to Backyard Heaven. The horse reached the winner's circle three times in the colors Ken Ramsey and his wife Sarah made known across the sport. The best of those afternoons came in the Grade II Alysheba Stakes, run on the same card as the Kentucky Oaks. A graded stakes on the busiest Friday of the Kentucky spring is the kind of result a paddock crowd at the Spa likes to recount. Three wins and an Alysheba is a line that holds up on its own.
What They Ride

Sixty-Six Stakes for Gulfstream's Winter, With Two Pegasus Grade Is and the Florida Derby Leading

Gulfstream Park has set out the shape of its Championship Meet, and the count comes to sixty-six added-money races. Three Grade I events stand above the rest of the program. Two of them carry the Pegasus name: the World Cup Invitational on the main track and its companion, the Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational, both presented by EquiTrack. The third is the Florida Derby, also carrying the EquiTrack banner this season. For South Florida, this is the stretch of the calendar when the sport's attention turns to Hallandale Beach, and the Pegasus pair and the Derby are the days that fill the clubhouse and the paddock rail. Everything else on the list of sixty-six is built around them.
What They Ride

A Flightline Colt Overcomes His Own Keenness to Break His Maiden at Keeneland

Cavalli, a two-year-old son of Flightline, made his first start at Keeneland and came away a winner, though he made it harder on himself than the result suggests. He raced close to the lead in the early going, but as the field swept past the stands the youngster pulled hard against his rider and would not settle. Traffic then forced him to be steadied, the kind of interruption that ends many a debut before the turn for home. Rather than fold, he gathered himself and found his best running in the final stages, reaching the front only near the finish. For a horse making his first appearance under silks, that combination of early unruliness and late composure says something about his constitution. Keeneland's fall meet in Lexington has long been the stage where the newest crop of juveniles first announces itself, and a Flightline runner winning there in such a fashion will not go unnoticed by the bloodstock set.
Icons of Palm Beach

Chanel Hands an Artist Its Past, and Gets a Magazine Back

A much-admired contemporary artist, stalled and short of ideas, got a call from Chanel with an unusual offer: the run of everything the house has kept. What came out of that long look backward is a new exhibition, and alongside it a magazine of the artist's own making. The printed thing is the part to watch, since the house has turned a show into something that can sit on a table in the North End long after the walls come down.
Brides of Beverly Hills

Five Colors, One Garden: The Palette Behind a Black-Tie Wedding at Greensboro Country Club

Merri and Christian married at Greensboro Country Club, and the choice worth studying is the color scheme. They worked with five: lavender, chartreuse, blush, ivory, and gold. Three of those are soft, two are not, and that is the point. Chartreuse gives a garden setting something the greenery cannot supply on its own, and gold does the same work once the light drops and the formal dress code takes over. Ivory and blush hold the middle so the pastels read as a palette rather than a scatter. For anyone planning a formal wedding outdoors here, this is the useful lesson: a garden already supplies green, so the colors you add should either sharpen it or carry the evening.
Brides of Beverly Hills

Book the Mountains, Style for the Coast: A North Georgia Wedding Built Around a Miami Mood

The setting was the North Georgia mountains in midsummer, and the brief was a Miami evening with Italian notes rather than the Southern wedding the address would suggest. Hamilton Events handled the planning and carried that direction through the day. The useful lesson for a bride weighing venues is that the location and the atmosphere do not have to match. A mountain property gives you the view, the privacy and the summer light. The design, the table and the pacing of the evening are where a planner shifts the mood somewhere else entirely. It is a reminder to book the ground you want and hire the team that can build the room you want on top of it.
Who Wore What When

Florida's Own Bargain Hunter Introduces Itself to the Rest of the Country

Bealls, the off-price chain headquartered in Florida, has rolled out its first advertising campaign built for a national audience. The timing follows the retailer's steady growth well beyond its home state. The footprint now stands at upward of 650 locations spread across 23 states, which makes a coast-to-coast pitch less an ambition than a description. For a brand that many Floridians know from the strip-mall corner near the grocery store, the new campaign is a graduation of sorts, the moment a hometown fixture decides the rest of the map ought to learn its name. Readers here will recognize the markdown-rack appeal that has kept it a weekend habit for years. The difference now is simply that the audience has widened.
Who Wore What When

The Albies Got a Gold Standard, and Amal Clooney Was Wearing It

Amal Clooney chose gold for the Albies, and she chose it in sequins, which is the version of gold that refuses to sit quietly under gala lighting. The effect of that many small mirrored discs moving at once is that the gown does the room's work for it: every chandelier and camera flash ends up reflected back from the hostess. In a crowd dressed for a serious evening, it was the look that pulled the eye without raising its voice. Precise, polished and unmissable, it is the kind of entrance our readers would recognize from any ballroom in Palm Beach.
Who Wore What When

Litchfield County Gets Its Close-Up: Vogue Books Connecticut for the Fall Weekend

Vogue has turned its lens on Litchfield County, Connecticut, and declared it the place to spend a fall weekend away from the city. The magazine's guide covers the three essentials of any short trip: the room you sleep in, the shops you browse, and the table you book for dinner. The pitch is sophistication at a short remove from urban life, with turning leaves as the backdrop. Consider the weekend bag packed.
Who Wore What When

Gramercy Park Has an October Date Circled for Thom Browne and Andrew Bolton

The National Arts Club is giving its Medal of Honor in Fashion to Thom Browne and Andrew Bolton this month. The two will collect the award together on Oct. 16 in New York. The setting is the Tilden Mansion, the club's own house on Gramercy Park, which is about as old-Manhattan a room as the city can offer for an evening like this. A recipient of this medal walks into a building that has been the club's address for generations, with the gated park just across the street. It is the kind of occasion where the invitation itself tells you how the night will be dressed. For New Yorkers who keep track of where the city's taste gets its ribbons pinned, this one belongs on the calendar.
Who Wore What When

Zebra Reports for Duty in 2026, Coat First

Vogue has handed down its 2026 orders on zebra, and the stripe is cleared to run the full length of a look, from a big coat down to the smallest thing a hand can carry. Seven ways, by the magazine's count, which is a generous ration for a pattern that reads from across any ballroom. Our filing cabinet is ready. Anyone who takes the advice onto an American carpet this year should expect the designer, the date and the direction of the stripes to be duly noted.
Who Wore What When

The Village Center Gets a Second Fitting

Samantha David, president of WS Development, has been talking through how older retail properties can be reworked into a fresh take on the walkable, main-street shopping district. Her thinking extends past the bricks and awnings to the harder question of which shops belong side by side, and why. That is the part a closet-minded reader cares about, since a well-edited tenant mix is what decides whether an afternoon stroll ends with a shopping bag. Consider it the real-estate version of a careful wardrobe edit: keep the good bones, rethink what hangs inside.
Who Wore What When

The Pageant-Shine Brunette Gets Its Fall 2026 Coronation

A deep espresso brown, worn with a mirror-bright finish, is the brunette shade fall 2026 is crowning. The color is defined less by its darkness than by its gloss, the kind of polish that catches light the way a well-set tiara does under a ballroom chandelier. It is a shade built for the months when cashmere comes out of the closet, reading as rich and deliberate rather than merely dark. For a Palm Beach or Beverly Hills reader, this is the brunette to request before the season's luncheons and black-tie calendars fill up.
Who Wore What When

Bella Hadid Turns Thirty in Knitwear, Boarding Pass in Hand

Bella Hadid marked her thirtieth birthday the way a frequent flier does, by heading for a departure gate. For the occasion she chose knitwear, worn in layers, the kind of outfit built for a long cabin and a cold jet bridge rather than a photographer's step-and-repeat. It is a sensible way to spend a milestone, and a reminder that the airport remains one of the last places where a sweater can still count as an entrance. The year is 2026, the occasion is a birthday, and the designer, for now, goes unrecorded.
Who Wore What When

Amal Clooney Proves Fringe Can Keep Black-Tie Company at the 2026 Albies

Amal Clooney turned up to the 2026 Albie Awards in a skirt finished in fringe, worn with all the formality the evening's dress code asks for. Fringe usually belongs to daytime and dance floors, and the point of this one was that it looked perfectly at home in a black-tie room. Every step would have set the hem in motion, which is the entire argument for the material. For the archive: occasion, the Albie Awards, 2026. Designer, not yet on the record.
Who Wore What When

The Clooneys Give Up the Best Seat in the House at Their Fifth Albies

Amal and George Clooney marked the fifth year of their foundation's gala, The Albies, by arranging the room so the honorees, not the hosts, held the spotlight. A couple who could fill any ballroom by simply walking into it chose instead to position their own table where it would not draw the eye. The evening's honorees were the people whose work the awards exist to recognize, and the seating was built around them. For a title that tracks who stood where and why, it is a reminder that the most telling choice at a gala is sometimes not a gown but a floor plan.
Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash
Who Wore What When

Carnegie Hall Rings In New York's Fall Season With Its Opening Night Gala

Carnegie Hall opened its autumn season on Thursday evening with its Opening Night Gala, and for New Yorkers that curtain-up is as reliable a sign of the season turning as the first color in the trees. The night put the music itself at the center, a reminder that the room's reputation rests on what happens on the stage before anything that happens in the lobby. For the city's gala calendar, this is the evening that signals the dark suits and long hemlines are back in rotation.
Beverly Hills News

Coachella Solo Set and 'White Lotus' Turn Anchor New Lisa Documentary

A documentary titled "Always Lalisa" follows the K-pop performer Lisa through a year in which she stepped away from the structure that had defined her career, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film is directed by Sue Kim, who spoke alongside Lisa about the project. Among the moments the documentary covers are a visit to a fortune teller, a solo performance slot at Coachella and her acting turn in "The White Lotus." The Hollywood Reporter describes the period as the least guarded stretch of Lisa's public life so far. Lisa, speaking about the film, said she was proud of what the year produced. The Hollywood Reporter did not report a release date or distributor for the documentary.
Beverly Hills News

Paramount Dates 'Molepeople' for August 2027 With Stanfield, Mendelsohn in Lead Roles

LaKeith Stanfield and Ben Mendelsohn will headline "Molepeople," a horror film in the thriller mold that Rob Savage directs. Atomic Monster and Paramount's Primal label are behind the production. Paramount has scheduled the picture to open in August 2027. The casting and the release date were disclosed together, giving the project both its two principal actors and a spot on the studio calendar nearly two years out.
Beverly Hills News

Iliza Shlesinger, Mira Sorvino Named Honorees for Oct. 13 Tribute in La Jolla

The San Diego International Film Festival will honor Iliza Shlesinger and Mira Sorvino at its Night of the Stars tribute on Oct. 13, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The evening takes place at the Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center in La Jolla. Shlesinger and Sorvino are the two recipients named for the festival's Virtuoso and Trailblazer awards, the report said. The tribute is the festival's occasion for presenting those honors in front of an audience. The Conrad is a short drive down the coast from Los Angeles, putting the ceremony within reach of readers in Beverly Hills. No further details on the program for the evening were included in the report.
Beverly Hills News

Kristen Bell Cast in Blumhouse's Next 'Violent Night' as Studio Previews Its Slate in New York

Kristen Bell has been added to the cast of "Violent Night 2," according to an announcement from Blumhouse at New York Comic Con on Friday night. Studio founder Jason Blum and filmmaker James Wan used the evening's panel to walk the audience through what the horror label has coming next. The session came as the company's current release, "Other Mommy," is drawing large audiences in theaters. Blum also spoke about how that film arrived at its title.
Beverly Hills News

Kristen Bell Cast in 'Violent Night 2' as Blumhouse Previews Slate at New York Comic Con

Kristen Bell has joined the cast of "Violent Night 2," Variety reported, with the announcement coming out of a Blumhouse presentation Friday night at New York Comic Con. Jason Blum appeared alongside filmmaker James Wan, and the two horror producers used the session to walk through the company's upcoming projects. The studio's current release, "Other Mommy," is doing very large business at the box office, according to Variety. Blum also told the audience how that film came by its title. For readers here who follow the industry, the evening served as a status report on the Blumhouse pipeline, delivered from a convention stage in Manhattan.
Beverly Hills News

Magic: The Gathering Card to Be Handed Out Only at ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Screenings

Moviegoers who see “Avengers: Doomsday” in a theater will be able to pick up a Magic: The Gathering card that is not being distributed any other way. The card is part of a tie-in between the trading card game and the film’s run in cinemas. The promotion was announced together with the game’s next set built on Marvel characters, which carries the name “Darkhold Destiny.” The set follows earlier Marvel releases from the game. For readers who plan to see the film on a big screen rather than wait for it at home, the card is the added reason to go. Pricing, dates and the terms of the in-theater offer were not part of the initial report.
Beverly Hills News

Moviegoers Will Get a Magic Card They Can Only Pick Up at the Cinema

Magic: The Gathering has lifted the curtain on its next Marvel crossover, a set called "Darkhold Destiny," according to Variety. Alongside the set, the game's makers are partnering with the forthcoming big-screen release of "Avengers: Doomsday" on a promotional card that will be handed out exclusively to audiences who see the film in a theater. For Beverly Hills and Los Angeles residents, that puts the giveaway within reach of the neighborhood's own screens rather than any hobby shop or online storefront. The tie-in pairs a tabletop game with a studio tentpole in a way that rewards showing up in person.
Beverly Hills News

DuVernay's Follow-Up to "13th" Earns Favorable Notice From Variety

Ava DuVernay's new documentary "14th," a successor to her earlier film "13th," has received a favorable review from Variety. The trade publication's critic wrote that the new film carries the same weight of history and present-day relevance as its predecessor. The review also noted that DuVernay reaches a broad audience while keeping a voice of her own. The film takes the 14th Amendment to the Constitution as its subject.
Beverly Hills News

Craig Zobel Named Director for Blumhouse's 'Something is Killing the Children' Film

Blumhouse Atomic Monster announced at its BlumFest presentation during New York Comic Con 2026 that Craig Zobel will direct its screen version of "Something is Killing the Children." The comic series was created by writer James Tynion IV and artist Werther Dell'Edera. The director announcement was among the items the company brought to the convention. Curry Barker, Mike Flanagan and James Wan also figured in the Blumhouse Atomic Monster program at the event.
Beverly Hills Brides

The Groom Wore Asparagus: Tess and Connor's Pacific Northwest Garden Wedding

The stem pinned to Connor's lapel was not a flower. Florist Kylie Hale tucked a spear of asparagus in beside the white blossoms of his boutonniere, a small green signal of what the day was about. Tess and Connor married outdoors in the Pacific Northwest, in a garden setting kept deliberately small, with the people who mattered gathered close enough to notice details like that one. The couple held a Korean paebaek ceremony as part of the celebration, and the dinner that followed was planned for guests who care about what is on the plate. A reader in Beverly Hills would recognize the instinct: let one well-chosen object announce the whole afternoon, and build the rest to match it.
What They Sail

Two Ways to Take a Cruisers 45: The VTR Line Grows at Forty-Five Feet

Cruisers Yachts has shown a pair of new boats at forty-five feet, the 45 VTR and the 45 VTR EC. Both are additions to the builder's VTR series rather than replacements for anything already in it. The design brief is generous width across the hull, which is where the extra room aboard comes from. Underneath, the boats run on a hull that blends a stepped bottom with a more conventional form. For an owner weighing the two, the choice is between the open layout of the 45 VTR and the enclosed-cabin arrangement the EC designation signals. Pricing and the naval architect were not part of the preview.
What They Sail

Hands Off the Helm: Simrad Puts Self-Docking on Factory-Built Boats

The last fifty feet of any trip, the slow crawl into a slip with a crosswind pushing the bow, is the part owners quietly dread. Simrad's new AutoCaptain system is built to take that moment off the owner's plate entirely. It reads the surroundings through a pair of stereo cameras, runs what it sees through machine learning, and then works the boat into the dock on its own by way of Mercury's joystick controls. What matters for the American marina crowd is that this is not a one-off demonstration rig. It is designed for production boats, the kind that come off the line and into the slips of Florida and the Northeast every season.
Private Jet Owners

A Wright Model B Replica Is on the Market, for the Owner Whose Hangar Has Room for One More

A reproduction of the 1911 Wright Model B has been listed for sale, and Flying has singled it out as a top pick among the aircraft it tracks. The Model B was the first Wright design to be built in series rather than one at a time, which is what makes it worth a second look from anyone who already keeps something newer and faster on the ramp. This example is a replica, built to a standard that the listing's reviewers found exacting enough to flag, not a surviving original. It is the kind of airframe that gets bought for the floor of a hangar rather than for the flight department's schedule, and it will say more about its owner's taste than any fractional share could.
Class of Nashville

Two Films, One Evening: Spare & Scare Lines Up a Halloween Night in Nashville

An evening billed as Spare & Scare is on the Nashville calendar for the Halloween season, pairing two movies back to back for a single sitting. The format is the simple pleasure of it: settle in once, stay for both, and let the second picture carry you deeper into the night than the first. Details beyond the name and the premise have yet to be shared, so for now it is an evening to pencil in and watch for.
Photo by Marcus Lenk on Unsplash
Icons of Palm Beach

Twenty-Four Small Doors Before Christmas Morning

Town & Country has gathered a selection of advent calendars built on the luxury model, where each numbered door hides a gift of its own rather than a chocolate. The appeal is the pacing: a single small unwrapping every morning, stretched across the whole run-up to the holiday instead of spent in one sitting. For a household that arrives on the island as the weather turns and settles in for the season, it is a quiet daily ritual that fits neatly on a dressing table or a kitchen counter.
What It Sold For

The Study Gets a Desk That Rises to Meet the Day

Architectural Digest has put out its 2026 list of nine sit-or-stand desks it considers worth the room, framed as an invitation to loosen up the way a work-from-home space is arranged. For the houses our readers walk through in Palm Beach, Aspen and the Hamptons, the study has quietly become the room a buyer asks about first, and a desk that lifts and lowers on command is the kind of fixture that makes it feel finished rather than furnished. The magazine's point is a simple one: the surface you work at should be able to change with you over the course of a long day.
Where They Eat

The Bourbon on Your Back Bar Now Says How Old It Is

Jefferson's Reserve, the bottle most American bartenders reach for when a guest asks for the house pour of that name, has been reworked. It is bottled at a stronger strength than before, and its label now states how many years the whiskey spent in wood, a detail the brand had previously kept to itself. For a bar director building a list, or a diner reading one, that is the difference between taking a brand's word for it and knowing exactly what is in the glass. The change reaches the heart of the lineup rather than a limited release, which means it will show up on ordinary nights in ordinary rooms.
Class of Florida

Flea Is Offering His La Crescenta Compound Again, Now at $5.8 Million

Flea, the bassist of Red Hot Chili Peppers, has returned his hillside home outside Los Angeles to the market with a new figure attached. The compound sits in La Crescenta, up where the neighborhoods start giving way to the slopes, and it is now priced at $5.8 million. When it first went up for sale in 2022, the ask was $9.8 million. The house is the sort of design-forward property that reads less like a listing and more like a statement, and that is precisely what has drawn attention to it twice. From this side of the country, it is tempting to run the figure through our own filters. Naples would ask about the water. Miami would ask about the parking. Palm Beach would ask who did the landscaping, and then quietly book a flight.
Class of Florida

Jefferson's Reserve Now Pours Stronger, and Tells You Its Age

The Jefferson's Reserve bottle that anchors so many back bars from Worth Avenue to Fifth Avenue South has been quietly reworked. The bourbon now comes in at a greater strength than it did before, and the label now states how long the whiskey spent in the barrel, a detail it previously kept to itself. Miami will notice the extra kick first; Naples will appreciate being told the number. Either way, the next pour of the house bourbon is a little more candid, and a little more serious, than the last one.
Who Wore What When

Vivian Jenna Wilson Toasts Her Jewelry Campaign in Los Angeles, Serpent Anecdote Included

The model marked the arrival of her new jewelry campaign with an evening gathering in Los Angeles. Between greetings, she talked through the women whose dressing she admires and the pieces she still has her eye on. She also let guests in on what unfolded on set while the campaign was being shot. The evening's best confession concerned the furthest she has gone in the name of a look: holding a living snake. For a city where a party is never just a party, it was a fitting way to christen a campaign.
Who Wore What When

Before the Gown, the Field: American Cotton Earns Its Place in Fashion's Supply Line

Every white shirt and every cotton column dress begins somewhere far from a step-and-repeat, and for a great deal of it that somewhere is American farmland. The United States ranks with the world's largest cotton growers, and the people tending those acres are being credited as the global standard for farming that treats the soil as something to be kept rather than spent. For a title that catalogs who wore what and when, it is a pleasant reminder that provenance runs deeper than the label stitched inside a neckline.
Beverly Hills News

Roseanne Barr's Independently Made Series Is Shopping for a Home

Roseanne Barr has a new television series, titled "Meemaw," that she produced herself, and the people representing it are now sitting down with a small number of outlets about carrying it. That account comes from Allan Stephan, who worked on the original "Roseanne" and wrote the new show together with Barr. He did not identify which outlets are at the table or when a decision might come. For a town where much of the business of placing a finished show is conducted, the arrival of a completed series on the market is the news itself.
What They Ride

State Regulators Clear the Way for Richer Claiming Purses at New York Tracks

New York's horsemen who make their living in the claiming ranks got good news from the state capital on Friday. The State Gaming Commission, without a dissenting voice, agreed to let the New York Racing Association's tracks and Finger Lakes raise the ceiling that governs how much purse money may be attached to a horse offered at a given claiming price. In plain terms, a claiming race at those tracks may now carry a larger pot relative to the tag on the horses entered than the old limit permitted. For the owners and trainers who fill the bulk of the state's daily cards with claiming stock, that is the kind of quiet administrative decision that shows up in the condition book long before it shows up in the headlines.
What They Collect

Lichtenstein Gets a Quiet, Confident Showing at the Whitney

The Whitney Museum in New York has mounted a survey of Roy Lichtenstein, and the critical verdict is a warm one. Artnet News describes the exhibition as restrained in its staging, the kind of show that trusts the work rather than the wall text. The familiar images are there, but the reviewer finds them harder to pin down than their reputation suggests, by turns mysterious and unsparing. For New York collectors and anyone passing through the Meatpacking District this season, it reads as a show to see in person rather than take on faith.
What They Collect

Jeff Koons Turns Consignor as Nine Works from His Own Walls Head to Christie's

The artist whose balloon animals set records at the rostrum is now sending pictures the other way. Christie's has added nine pieces owned personally by Jeff Koons to an upcoming sale, offering a rare look at what one of the most collected living artists chose to live with himself. Among the group is a Picasso with a public track record: it last changed hands at Sotheby's in 2008, when it brought $17.4 million. That figure is a matter of record, and it is the only number anyone can honestly attach to the picture until the hammer falls again. For collectors who follow the salerooms, the interest here is less the estimate than the provenance, since a work that hung in Koons's own collection carries his eye along with it.
What They Collect

Julianne Moore Keeps a Bourgeois and a Goldin at Home in the West Village

The actor's residence in the West Village holds pieces by three artists whose names carry weight in any serious contemporary collection: Louise Bourgeois, Nan Goldin and David Armstrong. Two of the holdings have been identified by title. One is a Bourgeois on paper from 2007, called My Secret Life. The other is a Goldin from 1994, New York skyline from bridge, an image of the city taken from one of its own crossings, so that a view of New York now hangs inside a New York home. Armstrong is the third artist represented, though no specific piece of his has been named. Nothing about what Moore paid, or when, has been made public, and this publication does not guess at private figures. For readers who follow what hangs in the city's downtown houses, it is the pairing that stands out: a late Bourgeois and a mid-nineties Goldin sharing the same walls, a few blocks from the galleries where both artists' work has long been shown.
What They Collect

The Baum Collection Has Chosen Its Auction House

Sotheby's has secured the sale of the collection built by Ted and Ruth Baum, a consignment reported to carry a figure of $100 million. A consignment at that level is the sort of prize auction houses pursue hardest, and the kind that can anchor a selling season on its own. What the Baums collected, where the works will be offered and when they will reach the block have not yet been announced. For now the fact that matters is the pairing itself: a collection of that size has found its auctioneer, and the details will follow.
Class of Florida

Custom Line's New 128-Footer Settles the Oldest Argument on the Florida Coast: Inside or Out

Custom Line has produced the first of its Saetta 128, a 128-foot planing yacht whose upper salon can be thrown open to the air in its entirety. For the builder, the boat marks a stretch beyond what its planing range had attempted before. On this coast, the appeal is immediate. Palm Beach keeps the glass shut and the thermostat low, Naples wants the Gulf breeze across the table, and Miami would prefer both, depending on the hour. An upper deck that shifts from sealed room to open terrace on command ends that discussion before it starts. Whoever first steps aboard will head straight for that deck, and then not come back down.
Class of Florida

A Half-Century of the Good Life, Counted Up in 74 Entries

Robb Report, the magazine that has spent five decades cataloging what the well-heeled drive, wear, sail and collect, is marking its fiftieth birthday by taking inventory. The editors have assembled a roster of 74 people, places and things they credit with shaping the past fifty years of luxury, and with pointing toward where it goes next. From Palm Beach to Naples, where the subject matter tends to be parked in the driveway rather than read about, the list arrives as a kind of report card on the era, and Miami will no doubt check it for its own name first.
Photo by Boston Public Library on Flickr
Class of Florida

Seven Nights Is the Buy-In: A 212-Foot Schooner Is Taking Guests on a Five-Year Run

The classic schooner Atlantic, all 212 feet of her, is leaving the dock for a voyage planned to last five years, and she is taking paying guests along. The shortest stay a guest can book is a week. That is the entire proposition, and it needs no dressing up. Along our stretch of coast, a boat of that length usually sits as a monument to someone's patience with a shipyard, and the sails, if there are any, are decorative. Here is one built to the old pattern that intends to do the thing schooners were built for, and over a span long enough to outlast most Naples club memberships. Miami will ask whether there is a DJ. Palm Beach will ask who else is aboard. Naples will quietly check the calendar for a clear seven nights.
Class of Florida

A Honda Worth the Valet Spot in Palm Beach

The long-promised second life of the Honda NSX has arrived, courtesy of JAS Motorsport and Pininfarina. The car wears all-new coachwork done in carbon fiber, with a reworked six-cylinder beneath it. That is the whole of what is known so far, and it is enough to picture where it lands here. In Miami it will be photographed before it is driven. In Naples it will be driven to lunch and parked where everyone on Fifth Avenue South can see it. In Palm Beach it will pull up and nobody will say a word, which is the highest compliment the island gives.
Class of Florida

Nine Million Dollars on the Hudson, for Floridians Who Keep a Foot in Manhattan

Plenty of Palm Beach and Naples households keep a Manhattan address for the months when Florida gets quiet, and the newest one to watch sits on Leroy Street. The condominium at 111 Leroy, in the West Village, has come to market with an asking price of nine million dollars. Its windows take in the Hudson River, which is roughly the view a Floridian trades for when the Intracoastal starts to feel familiar. The seller is Alex Malamatinas, an investor in Olipop, who took ownership of the home in 2021. Miami would call the figure reasonable, Palm Beach would call the place a pied-à-terre, and Naples would want to know where the car goes. Whichever camp you belong to, a river-facing residence in the Village is the sort of thing that carries well at a Florida dinner table.
Private Jet Owners

Powrachute Asks the FAA for a Bridge While MOSAIC's Standards Catch Up

The powered-parachute builder Powrachute has filed a petition asking for short-term relief on certification until a revised ASTM consensus standard clears acceptance under MOSAIC, the FAA's Modernization of Special Airworthiness Certification rule. The sequence will be familiar to anyone who has watched a type certificate wait on paperwork: the fix to the standard exists, but the aircraft cannot be signed off against it until the agency formally takes it up. Powrachute's request is simply for a way to keep certifying in the interim. For owners in the jet world the aircraft is a long way from the ramp, but the mechanics of the ask are the same ones that govern every airworthiness decision in this country.
Private Jet Owners

The Panel Is Doing More of the Work for the Newest Pilots

Flying reports that the current generation of cockpit design, with glass instrumentation and controls meant to be understood at a glance, is lowering the barrier for people learning to fly. For an owner the relevant point is not the student in a trainer but the front office of the airplane already in the hangar, which increasingly runs on the same logic. A display that presents the aircraft's state plainly is as much a feature of the flight department as of the flight school.
Private Jet Owners

Teens With a Story to Tell Can Earn $500 and a Mentor in STEM Next's 2027 Flight Crew

STEM Next has opened the application window for its 2027 Flight Crew, the youth ambassador program that takes applicants between the ages of 13 and 18. The pitch to a teenager is straightforward: tell the program about your own education, and in return you get a mentor, a seat in a leadership program, and a $500 stipend. For an owner with a kid of that age already riding right seat on the family's Part 91 trips, this is the kind of structured program worth passing along across the dinner table. The stipend is modest, but the mentorship and the line on a résumé are the real currency here.
What They Ride

Bricks and Mortar's Breeders' Cup Finish Still Reads Like a Crowning

America's Best Racing has looked back on one of the closest Breeders' Cup finishes in memory, the afternoon that lifted Bricks and Mortar into the Horse of the Year picture. The retrospective treats the race as the moment a champion was crowned, with the outcome in doubt until the final strides. For readers here who follow a season by its champions rather than its calendar, that is the kind of finish that ends arguments in the paddock and at the sales. It is remembered, by the publication's own account, as anything but comfortable.
What They Ride

Meridian International Elevates Emeric Guetin to Partner

The bloodstock agency Meridian International has made Emeric Guetin a partner, four years after he first joined the firm. The promotion rewards a steady climb through one of the trade's best-regarded buying operations, where the work is judging yearlings and broodmares and standing behind the bid when the hammer falls. Guetin came to the business by way of the National Stud Diploma Course, the formal grounding that has launched many careers in the sales ring.
What They Ride

Luster Comes Back to Keeneland Where Her Year Began

The filly Luster opened her 2026 campaign with a win on the Keeneland turf, and on Saturday she returns to that same Lexington course for the Grade I Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup Stakes. It is a tidy symmetry for a daughter of Knicks Go: the season's first victory and now its most demanding test, both over the grass at the same track. For anyone who stood on the Keeneland apron in the spring and watched her first start of the year, the sight of her name in Saturday's Grade I field will carry a certain satisfaction. The Queen Elizabeth II is a race that rewards a well-prepared horse, and her connections clearly believe she arrives as one. The fall meet at Keeneland sets its own standard for turf racing in this country, and a Grade I there is a worthy place to bring a season to its point.
What They Ride

A $1.5 Million Son of Into Mischief Opens Belmont's Saturday Card

The first race at Belmont on Saturday carries the most expensive pedigree of the afternoon. Art Museum, a two-year-old colt by Into Mischief, goes to the post in a $100,000 maiden special weight at six and a half furlongs, with the gate set for 12:05 p.m. He brought $1.5 million as a yearling at the Keeneland September sale, a figure that puts him among the costliest juveniles to appear at the track this season. This is his second start. He made his first at Saratoga on August 22, where he finished seventh, seven and three-quarter lengths behind the winner. Saturday's race is the chance to put that afternoon behind him on a different oval and a different day. For anyone in the Belmont grandstand before lunch, the colt is worth a look in the paddock on breeding and price alone.
What They Ride

On a Belmont Morning, Napoleon Solo Covers Six Furlongs in 1:11

Napoleon Solo, the Liam's Map runner who carries the Espoir USA silks, was timed in 1:11 for six furlongs on the main course at Belmont Park on Friday morning. The clocking is the kind usually seen in an afternoon rather than during morning training, and it followed another quick move the horse had put in before this one. Together the two drills make a plain statement about the condition the horse is in heading into the fall. His connections are said to be weighing the Classic as the target, and a pair of works at this tempo would be the sort of evidence that steers such a decision. For anyone who spends early hours at the Elmont rail, this is the stretch of the calendar when the clockers' sheets begin to tell the autumn story, and Friday's figure will have been noted. New York's training grounds have long served as the proving ground for the division's ambitions, and this morning offered one more reason to keep watching the track at first light.
Icons of Palm Beach

The Summer Internship Still Earns Its Keep

Town & Country has taken up the question of whether a college internship is worth a student's summer, and its answer is yes. Many of these positions carry no paycheck, much of the work is routine, and an introduction from the right family friend still opens more doors than a cold application. Even so, the students who take them come away counting the experience among the most useful early moves toward a career. For any North End household with a son or daughter weighing a summer in an office against one spent on the sand at the end of the street, the piece makes the case for the office.
What It Sold For

In New York, Laila Gohar Pours a Highland Park and Sees a Whole Scene

Hand Laila Gohar, who works out of New York, a glass of Highland Park and she will not reach for the usual tasting checklist. Where most drinkers name the notes one at a time, she lets the whisky suggest an entire picture, complete and composed, before she says a word about flavor. It is the way a good buyer walks a house: not room by room, but all at once, taking the measure of the whole before the inventory. For a city that prizes that kind of eye, it is a pleasure to see it turned on something as small as a single pour.
What It Sold For

Uptown to the Promenade: The Week's Apartments Worth a Walk-Through

Curbed's latest roundup of New York City apartment listings it deems worth a buyer's attention lands in three corners of the city: Morningside Heights, Brooklyn Heights, and a third it files under the name Holland Tunnel Heights. The selection runs from the Columbia-adjacent blocks of upper Manhattan to the brownstone streets above the Brooklyn waterfront. No asking prices, addresses, or architects were given in the item, so none appear here. For readers keeping an eye on where good value is turning up this fall, those three neighborhoods are where the magazine is pointing.
What It Sold For

Fernando Mastrangelo Turns Material Into a Map of Belonging at Cristina Grajales

Fernando Mastrangelo, the artist and designer who works out of New York, has opened a solo show called "Territories" at Cristina Grajales Gallery. The pieces carry forward the materials that have become his trademark, and put them to work on a bigger subject: geopolitics, and the question of where a person belongs. The order of experience matters here. A visitor is meant to be taken first by the surface and the substance, and only afterward by the unease underneath them. For a publication that follows houses and the objects that fill them, that is exactly the kind of work worth standing in front of: made by hand, built from real material, and carrying an idea heavier than its finish suggests. No prices are on the record for the show, and none will be guessed at here.
What It Sold For

An 1850s Captain's Cottage on Telegraph Hill Gets a Second Life With Zac Posen and Harrison Ball

Zac Posen and Harrison Ball have brought an 1850s sea captain's cottage on San Francisco's Telegraph Hill back from a long slide into disrepair. The house, which the couple rent rather than own, dates to the city's earliest decades, and it had plainly been let go before they took it in hand. They worked with Ken Fulk on the project, and the result is a home assembled in strata rather than finished in a single stroke. Nothing about it reads as polished to a showroom gloss; the point was to let the age of the building show through and to live comfortably with its quirks. For a hill known for narrow stairs and small wooden houses that predate the cable cars, a cottage of this vintage treated with this much care is a rare thing to see done properly. That a tenant, not an owner, chose to invest this kind of attention in the place says a good deal about how they regard it.
What It Sold For

Decades of Patient Work Return a Soho Townhouse to Its Era

One Soho townhouse has been carried back to the condition of its own century by an owner who gave the job the better part of a lifetime. When the work began, the house was a rooming house that had taken hard use, the kind of building that is more often gutted than saved. Instead, the restoration proceeded room by room over many years, until the interiors read as they would have when the house was new. No sale is attached to the house and no price has been placed on it, so what the project represents is not a figure but a rare completeness on a block where most such buildings were long ago cut up or stripped.
What It Sold For

A NoHo Penthouse Closes Out AD PRO's Season With the City Going Gold Behind It

The last session of AD PRO Design Dialogues was held high above NoHo, in the Andrée Putman Studio's top-floor exhibition space, with the sun going down over Manhattan beyond the room. The program's members filled the space for a send-off built around one idea, design that holds its value across decades rather than seasons. For anyone who tracks where the best rooms downtown are, the venue made the argument on its own: a penthouse address with the whole island as its backdrop at the hour the light is best.
What It Sold For

What Finishes a Pergola Is Not the Carpentry but What Climbs It

Veranda has gathered twenty-eight climbing plants that flower, each of them suited to a fence line, a run of lattice or the overhead frame of a terrace. The appeal is the one every exterior photograph proves: a bare post reads as construction, and the same post with bloom running up it reads as a garden. For the properties this desk follows, from Palm Beach to Beverly Hills, the built edges of a lot are what a visitor meets first, and a vine is the softest way to settle a new structure into its grounds. It also puts color where a house otherwise offers only stucco, paint and stone. The list is a reference for anyone deciding what should be growing on the pergola before the first guests arrive.
What It Sold For

The Houses Worth Revisiting Once the Garlands Go Up

Veranda has assembled its standing roster of residences dressed for the holidays, the ones its editors return to each year when the season calls for a reference point. The appeal is in the restraint: greenery and ornament applied to good rooms without overwhelming the architecture underneath. For readers who follow houses the way others follow the market, it is a reminder that a well-proportioned interior reads best when it is dressed for company. No addresses, architects, or sale figures accompany the selection, and we will not supply what the record does not.
Photo by roger4336 on Flickr
The Capital Set

The Briefing Room Podium May Soon Have a New Occupant

Katie Zacharia has been asked by President Trump to serve as the next White House press secretary. She is a commentator and currently advises the president's media company on communications. The offer has been extended; whether she has accepted was not part of the report. If she takes the post, she would become the voice of the administration to the reporters who gather daily in the West Wing's briefing room, one of the most visible positions in the capital.
Where They Eat

Why the Finest Hospitality May Soon Ask a Little More of Its Guests

DuVine Cycling is wagering that the traveler at the top of the market no longer wants everything made easy. The company's argument, as reported by Skift, is that a stunning destination can leave a visitor unmoved when it arrives without any effort on their part, and that the work of getting there is what gives the arrival its weight. It is a reading of taste that the best hosts in Palm Beach, Aspen and the Hamptons will recognize, since the table that follows a hard day is the one a guest remembers. The comfort is still the reward; the difference is that someone has to earn it first.
Class of Nashville

Carly Pearce Takes a Nashville Set to the Grammy Museum

Carly Pearce has made a trip west to play the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles. The appearance was a performance, not a panel or a photo opportunity, with the singer on the museum's stage in front of a room that exists to honor exactly the kind of work she does. For a Nashville reader it is a quiet marker of standing. The Grammy Museum is not a venue an artist books; it is one that invites, and the invitation says as much as the songs. Pearce carried a Music City catalog into a building that keeps the industry's history, and that pairing is the part worth noting.
Class of Nashville

Shania Twain Isn't Done With 'Little Miss Twain' Yet

Shania Twain is giving her album Little Miss Twain a second chapter. The record returns in an expanded form under the title Little Miss Twain – The Places I'll Go, and it carries half a dozen songs that were not part of the original. For an artist of her standing, a longer version of a record is less an afterthought than an invitation to sit with the music a while longer. In the label suites and publishing offices of Green Hills, where this town's business actually gets done, that is the sort of news that travels down the hall before the coffee is cold.
Class of Nashville

Concord Records Makes Room for Marc Scibilia

Marc Scibilia has a new label. The singer-songwriter has put his name to a deal with Concord Records, bringing a catalog that has already been played better than two hundred million times across streaming platforms to a house with the reach to build on it. That figure is the part worth sitting with. A count north of two hundred million is not a single hit doing the work. It is the sum of listeners who kept coming back, song after song, long before a label of Concord's standing decided to put its weight behind him. Around here, signings like this are the quiet news that moves fastest. By the time the announcement lands, the rooms along Hillsboro Pike and the offices tucked into Green Hills have usually already heard, and the questions turn to what the first project under the new banner will sound like. For now, the fact itself is enough: a working artist with a proven audience has found a home equipped to grow it.
Class of Nashville

Chris Tomlin Has a Fourth Christmas Record Coming, and It Lands in November

Chris Tomlin is adding to his seasonal catalog. The worship singer's next holiday project carries the title Good News Of Great Joy, and it is set to arrive in November. It will be his fourth full-length devoted to Christmas, which puts him in rare company among artists who return to the season more than once. For the rooms around Green Hills where this corner of the music business does its work, a release timed to the front of the holidays is the kind of calendar entry worth marking.
Class of Nashville

The Opry Turns a Year Older, and Nashville Is the Only Place It Could Have Done It

The Grand Ole Opry marked its birthday with a weekend of observance last weekend, a milestone for the program that remains the best-known stage in country music. For a city that measures its calendar in showcases, award nights, and writers' rounds, this one is different: it belongs to no label and no single star, only to the town itself. The industry that works out of Green Hills and the families who have been in Belle Meade for generations tend to agree on very little, but the Opry is a point on which both sides nod.
Class of Nashville

Julia Cole Isn't Finished With "Love You To Death"

Julia Cole has gone back to her album "Love You To Death" and widened it, issuing an expanded version that carries five songs the original did not. For the Green Hills crowd that keeps quiet count of what the industry adds to its shelves, that is the whole of the news, and it is good news. An expanded pressing is an artist's vote of confidence in a record already out in the world, a decision that the thing still had more to say. The five additions are available now, under the same title.
What They Drive

Garage Season Pricing: Lowe's Puts DeWalt at Half Off After Prime Days

Anyone who let Amazon's October Prime Days pass without restocking the garage now has a second window. Lowe's has marked down DeWalt gear by as much as half, and the sale reaches across the brand's batteries, hand and power tools, job site equipment, and storage accessories. For the owner who does their own fluid changes, detailing, or weekend wrenching on a collector car, that covers the cordless kit and the rolling storage that keep a home bay organized. The timing matters as much as the discount, since the promotion arrived in the days immediately after Amazon's event ended.
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What They Drive

Volkswagen Renames Its Electric Crossover the ID.Tiguan and Hands Owners Their Buttons

Volkswagen has thoroughly reworked the ID.4, and the result carries a new badge: ID.Tiguan. The headline change is a cabin that leans on proper buttons rather than asking the driver to hunt for controls, the single request owners have voiced most consistently since the car arrived. The rest of the revision follows the same logic, folding in the practical, everyday touches that buyers of this crossover have been asking the company to deliver. For an electric family car, that kind of attentiveness to the people who actually live with it is the detail worth noting.
What They Drive

Manthey-Tuned GT3 and GT3 RS Measured Against Standard Porsches on a Circuit

Road & Track has put Manthey Racing's versions of the Porsche 911 GT3 and 911 GT3 RS through a circuit session alongside the unmodified cars they are based on. The comparison pairs each Manthey-developed car directly with its factory counterpart, so the differences the German specialist's work makes can be judged side by side rather than from the spec sheet. For owners here who already have a GT3 in the garage and have wondered whether the Manthey package justifies the outlay, this is the first direct answer from a publication that ran both back to back. We have not driven the cars ourselves and will leave the verdict to those who did.
What They Drive

The 2025 Sorento Hybrid in SX Prestige Trim, Seen From Every Side

Car and Driver has published a full set of exterior photographs of the 2025 Kia Sorento Hybrid, shot in the SX Prestige trim that sits at the top of the range. The gallery works its way around the three-row crossover so that the front, sides, and tail can each be studied without the compression of a single showroom glance. For an owner comparing the 2025 model year against the one already in the driveway, that kind of unhurried walkaround is worth more than a paragraph of description. We have not driven this car, and we make no claim about it beyond what the pictures show.
What They Drive

Honda's Coming Hybrids Add All-Wheel Drive and Sharper Cornering to the Economy Case

Honda is preparing a new hybrid architecture that it says will corner better and feel livelier behind the wheel than what it replaces. The company frames the gain in driver engagement as coming alongside, not instead of, improved fuel economy. The platform will also carry a new electrically driven all-wheel-drive system making its first appearance on the new underpinnings. For owners who have long chosen Honda hybrids on practical grounds, the pitch this time is aimed as much at the hands on the wheel as at the trip computer.
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What They Drive

Honda Puts a Number on Its Hybrid Future: Fifteen Models Before 2030

Honda has given its coming hybrid system a name and, more usefully for the owner planning a purchase, a schedule. The marque intends to have fifteen hybrid models on sale before the decade is out. Each will ride on a fresh architecture drawn up specifically around the hybrid drivetrain, and Honda says the payoff is a car that carries less mass and makes better use of every gallon than what came before it. Which nameplates, and in which model years, the company has not yet laid out. What it has committed to is the count, the deadline and the engineering beneath them. We will report the first production car on this architecture when it has a badge and a window sticker.
What They Drive

A Collection Can Start Without an Auction Paddle

Road & Track has assembled a guide for the enthusiast who wants a car with real character and a real history but is not ready to bid against the deep-pocketed crowd. The list sets out models that carry the appeal of a true classic at a cost that sits well below what the established collector market commands. Its premise is that some of the most rewarding older cars are the ones that have been overlooked, waiting in ordinary driveways and small-town listings rather than under the lights of a sale tent. For a first-time owner choosing a weekend car, it is a reminder that the hobby has a wide front door.
Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash
What They Drive

The Next Good Classic May Already Be Parked on Your Street

Road & Track has published a guide to classic cars that a collector can buy without paying the premium the hobby usually attaches to the word "collector." The premise is that certain older models remain genuinely distinctive yet have been overlooked by the market, so they change hands for far less than their character would suggest. For an owner in Palm Beach or Naples who wants something with real presence at a cars-and-coffee morning rather than another blue-chip trophy, that is a useful argument. The magazine's point is not that these cars are cheap, but that they are undervalued, and that the gap between the two is where a patient buyer should be looking.
What They Drive

Audi's Flagship Sedan May Ride on Panamera Bones, Bentley-Style

The coming generations of the Porsche Panamera and the Audi A8 are reported to be headed for common underpinnings, with both cars built in the same plant. That would put Audi's top sedan on the same path Bentley has already taken, since the Continental GT and the Flying Spur are built on a Porsche-derived foundation. For American owners of either badge, the report points to a tighter kinship between the two flagships than ever before, though the details remain unconfirmed.
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What They Drive

Ford's Bronco Sport Carries On Into 2027, and the Figures Are Now Public

Ford has a 2027 model year of the Bronco Sport, and the car has now been put under a full appraisal by Car and Driver, with the cost of entry and the hard numbers laid out alongside the verdict. For anyone weighing one for the driveway, that is the moment the model stops being a rumor and becomes a decision. We have not had the wheel ourselves, so we will not tell you how it drives, only that the record of what it costs and what it carries is now on paper.
What They Drive

A Porsche That Spins to 8,000 Is Days From Its Debut

Porsche has a new concept on the way, and it will be shown within the week. The car carries the Mission S name and is being talked about as a possible successor at the top of the marque's lineup. The detail that matters to anyone who has stood beside a running flat-six is the redline: the engine in this study climbs to 8,000 rpm. That is a number from the era of air-cooled race motors, not from a modern electrified grand tourer, and it says a good deal about where Stuttgart wants this car's character to sit. For the collectors and 911 owners who fill the lots at the Naples and Palm Beach concours each winter, the real question is simple: whether a production car follows, and how soon one might turn up on an American driveway.
Who Wore What When

Twenty-Seven Reasons to Keep Your Sneaker Boxes Pristine This October

October arrives with a calendar that collectors will want to study closely. By Footwear News' count, the month holds 27 potential marquee sneaker releases, each with the sort of anticipation that can send a pair straight from the register to the secondary market at a premium. For the archivist who treats a sealed box the way a curator treats a gown with its original tags, that is a dense stretch of dates to mark. The expectation is that this crowded slate will give the collectible resale trade a livelier month than it has recently seen. Which pairs land hardest, and at what price, is a question the month will answer on its own schedule.
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Who Wore What When

Michael Kors Sets the Table for the CFDA's Class of 2026

Before anyone collects a trophy, there is dinner. Michael Kors did the honors on Thursday night at Café Zaffri, where the Council of Fashion Designers of America's board gathered to raise a glass to the designers in the running for the 2026 Fashion Awards. The contenders themselves were in the room, in the company of the people who run the business they hope to be crowned by. It is a yearly fixture on the board's calendar, and a gentler occasion than the ceremony still to come: no envelope, no stage, just a good table and the pleasure of having been asked. For a nominee, the invitation is the first prize of the season.
Who Wore What When

Five Crowns and Counting: A'ja Wilson Is the WNBA's Most Valuable Again

On Thursday the WNBA named A'ja Wilson its most valuable player, the fifth such honor of her career, a tally that puts her in a category of her own. For a desk that keeps track of who wore what and when, the timing is convenient. Footwear News marked the occasion by looking back over her 2026 wardrobe, from the pre-game tunnel walk, the league's own red carpet, to the steps of the Met Gala in New York. A trophy case that full deserves a closet to match, and by the source's accounting, it has one.
Who Wore What When

Kinnik's First Collection Does Not Exist Yet, and a New York Designer Could Be the One to Draw It

Here is a rare thing in this business: a label whose archive is still blank. Kinnik, a young brand built around everyday pieces meant for being out and about rather than staying in, is looking for a freelance designer to sketch its very first clothes. The job is posted as remote, in New York, or some mix of the two, which puts the city squarely in the frame. Whoever takes it will sit across from the founder and carry the opening collections from the earliest idea to the finished drawing. For anyone who has ever wondered what a house looked like before it had a look, this is the chance to be there for the first page.
Who Wore What When

Vogue Counts Six Serums for Crown-Ready Skin

Vogue has named the six vitamin C serums it rates highest right now. The appeal is doing two jobs with one bottle: the antioxidant works to fade uneven dark patches while encouraging the skin to make more collagen. For anyone who has ever stood under a ballroom chandelier or a stage spotlight, that combination of clearer tone and firmer surface is the whole point of the pre-event routine. The magazine has put its picks up for purchase.
Who Wore What When

The Hair Is the Headpiece: Catherine Zeta-Jones at 57

Some accessories never leave the archive, and in Catherine Zeta-Jones's case the one that matters most is grown rather than borrowed. At 57, the actress is still carrying a full, glossy head of hair, the sort that reads from the back row of any red carpet. Harper's Bazaar has gathered a few of the practices behind keeping it that thick and that well-kept past fifty. For anyone dressing for a gala season, it is a reminder that the finish above the neckline deserves as much thought as the gown below it.
Who Wore What When

Skin That Photographs Well Starts Before the Hemline Is Chosen

Vogue has turned its lens from the closet to the kitchen with a list of fifteen foods high in retinol, the vitamin A relative better known from the skincare aisle, and asked a physician to explain what eating them can actually do. The case is twofold: the nutrient supports the body's own collagen, the scaffolding behind a complexion that holds up under a flashbulb, and it lends the immune system a hand as well. For anyone whose calendar runs from gala to pageant stage to next season's fittings, that is useful arithmetic. The much-discussed way of eating now carries a doctor's framing rather than only a trend's momentum.
Who Wore What When

A Decade of Argent, Toasted Uptown With a Secretary of State at the Table

Ten years is a respectable run for any label, and Argent marked its own on Wednesday evening at Marcel, uptown. Founder Sali Christeson did the inviting, and the guest list read like the best kind of office party. Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton was there, as were Huma Abedin and Katie Couric. The theme of the night was work friends, which suits a house that has built its name on clothes for the workday. It is a fitting way to count a birthday: not by the collections, but by the company one keeps.
Who Wore What When

Three Generations, One Tape Measure: Rothmans Turns 100 in New York

A Manhattan menswear institution has reached its centennial. Rothmans, the men's clothier that Harry Rothman opened in 1926, is marking a full hundred years of dressing New Yorkers. The store remains in the family, now run by Ken and Jim Giddon, whose grandfather was the founder. That makes three generations behind the same shop, which in a city that turns over its storefronts as readily as its hemlines is a rarer feat than any single well-cut suit. A century of fittings means a century of fathers bringing sons, and sons eventually bringing their own. Here at the desk we track who wore what and when, and a store that has outfitted men through every silhouette of the last hundred years deserves a place on that list. Congratulations to the Giddon brothers on the milestone.
Who Wore What When

New York Plays It Cool for Spring 2027

When the spring 2027 collections took up fashion's oldest subject, each capital answered in its own accent, and New York's was the most relaxed of the lot. Its designers rendered allure as an easy, downtown nonchalance, the kind that suggests rather than declares. Paris, at the other end of the calendar, went straight at the matter with no pretense of subtlety. The pleasure for a reader who follows the season from here is in that contrast, and in how plainly a city's temperament shows through on its runways. For a Manhattan spring, the local answer is the one that will look at home on a sidewalk below Fourteenth Street.
Who Wore What When

Same Thursday, Opposite Coasts: Jessica Chastain and Tate McRae Land on One Look

Jessica Chastain spent Thursday in Los Angeles and Tate McRae spent it in New York, and the two arrived at nearly the same outfit without sharing a zip code. Each wore a short dress cut in satin, the fabric catching the light so the brief hemline never had to shout. Each finished it with a slim gold sandal, the sort that reads as punctuation rather than a headline. There is a generation between the two wearers, which is rather the point: the formula held on both of them, and on both coasts.
Photo by Sima Koocheki on Unsplash
Who Wore What When

The Striped Shirt Takes the White Tee's Chair This Fall

Harper's Bazaar is making a case for the striped shirt as the season's everyday workhorse. The argument is simple: the piece can do the same quiet, go-with-anything job the white tee has long held, and do it with a bit more to look at. For a Palm Beach or Beverly Hills wardrobe heading into autumn, that means the stripe earns the slot usually reserved for plain cotton, worn as the foundation rather than the finishing touch. The magazine's point is that there is no single correct way to style it, which is rather the appeal.
Who Wore What When

A Changing Waistline Is Sending the Whole Closet to the Resale Rack

The wardrobe that fit last season does not necessarily fit this one, and a wave of Americans on GLP-1 medications is discovering that the fastest way to dress a new silhouette is not a single shopping trip but a steady churn. Secondhand marketplaces and rental services are the beneficiaries, picking up customers who want a well-cut jacket now and another size of it a few months on. Fresh pieces are moving too, bought alongside the pre-owned ones at a clip that has caught the trade's attention. For anyone who treats a closet as an archive, it is a reminder that a size tag is the one credit that never stays fixed.
Who Wore What When

Meghan Takes the Wide Leg to Lunch With Malala Yousafzai

The Duchess of Sussex chose palazzo pants for a midday meeting with Malala Yousafzai, and the trousers were only the foundation. Harper's Bazaar reports the real craft was in how she built the look upward, piece on piece, the sort of layering that makes a lunch table feel like a front row. A wide leg is a confident choice for sitting down to eat, and she wore it as though that were the entire point. Two women who draw a crowd anywhere, and the pants still got a mention.
Who Wore What When

A Straight Line Across the Brow: Fall's Sunglass Silhouette

The season's sunglasses draw their top edge level, a squared-off brow of thick acetate over lenses tinted deep enough to keep secrets. The shape turned up again and again across the fall/winter 2026 collections, which makes it less a passing flourish than a house style for the season. It also happens to be useful, the rare runway idea that shades the eyes as well as it photographs. Expect to see it on the step-and-repeat before the leaves finish turning.
Who Wore What When

At Madison Square Garden, One Crowd Dressed for Two Loyalties

New York's most famous arena hosted an unusual overlap this week: Harry Styles devotees and Knicks faithful sharing the same seats, and the same wardrobe. The outfits on view were not off the rack. Attendees arrived in pieces made to order, built to announce allegiance to the performer and the home team in a single look. It is the kind of dressing only this building produces, where the concert crowd and the courtside crowd are often the very same people. Anyone standing in the concourse would have clocked the effort immediately, from the handwork to the sheer commitment of wearing both loyalties at once. Consider it the Garden's own house style, tailored by the fans themselves.
Beverly Hills News

Skydance Puts DC Comics, Studio Merchandise and Publishing Under One Executive

Skydance, the company created when Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery combined, has brought its book publishing and licensed-goods operations together in a single unit. The group is called Skydance Products & Publishing and is led by Josh Silverman. DC Comics is now part of that unit, as are the consumer-products businesses of Warner Bros. and Paramount. For a Beverly Hills readership whose neighbors work across both studios, the change means comic books, merchandise and publishing that once reported through separate companies now report through the same division. Skydance has not named a location for the group in the account carried by the wire.
Beverly Hills News

Laika Puts Decemberists Track From "Wildwood" Into the Oscar Song Race

The animation studio Laika is entering "The Better Part of Bravery," a song written for its animated film "Wildwood," for consideration in the Academy Awards' original song category. The Decemberists perform the track. The submission places the song among the contenders the Academy's music branch will weigh as the awards season gets under way, a calendar that local readers follow closely. Laika has not announced anything beyond the submission itself.
Beverly Hills News

Brother and Sister Could Share a Grammy Ballot for Best New Artist

Audrey Hobert and Malcolm Todd, who are siblings, are both in contention for the best new artist category at the upcoming Grammy Awards. Should both land in the field, they would be the first brother and sister to be considered for that honor in a single year. The category recognizes performers at the start of their recording careers, which makes two members of one family reaching that stage at once a notable moment for the awards.
Beverly Hills News

Screen Gems Looks to the Creator Economy Under New Leadership

Sony has chosen Fede Goldenberg, an executive from YouTube, to lead Screen Gems, its division devoted to genre films. The appointment signals a turn by the label toward the world of online creators. Ashley Brucks, who has been running Screen Gems, will step away from the post and move into an arrangement to produce projects for the studio. The change places a figure from online video at the top of an established Hollywood film banner.
Beverly Hills News

Matthew Rhys Collects Two Emmys, and Keri Russell Had Already Waved Off Any Thank-You

Matthew Rhys walked away from this year's Emmys with a pair of trophies. One recognized his performance as the lead of the comedy "Widow's Bay." The other honored his lead work in the limited series "Beast in Me." Winning in two separate categories on a single night put him at the podium more than once. Viewers following along online noticed that none of those trips to the stage included a word of gratitude toward Keri Russell, and many asked why. The answer, as it turns out, came from Russell herself. Before the ceremony, she told Rhys that if his name was called, he was under no obligation to thank her. He took her at her word.
Beverly Hills News

Jessica Chastain Debut and 'The Social Reckoning' Headline a Busy Week in Hollywood

Hollywood's calendar is full this week, according to a roundup from The Hollywood Reporter. The schedule includes the arrival of "The Social Reckoning" and a premiere for "Other Mommy" with Jessica Chastain. The publication's list also takes in a run of launch celebrations and new openings across town. For Beverly Hills residents, it is a week when much of the industry's public activity is happening a short drive away.
Beverly Hills News

Remi Wolf Says Her Album Title 'Mud' Came From Getting Into the Real Thing

Singer Remi Wolf has released a new album called "Mud," and she told Variety the name is tied to an experience in which she covered herself in it. Wolf said she has long hoped to compete on "Survivor" and has not yet been cast, so she set up a mud session of her own as a test of endurance. In the same interview, she discussed a cameo appearance in "Off Campus" and her friendship with Paramore's Hayley Williams.
Beverly Hills Brides

Showgirl-Era Presents for the Swiftie at the Table

Green Wedding Shoes has refreshed its roundup of presents for Taylor Swift devotees, bringing the count to 35 picks for 2026. The publication credits The Life of a Showgirl with pushing its readers toward rhinestones and plumage, and says the Encore has kept that look alive long enough to warrant a new edition. For a Beverly Hills bride with a fan in the wedding party, it reads as a list of what that friend might open this season.
Photo by Bill Griepenstroh on Unsplash
Class of Nashville

Downtown Will Teach You the Steps, and It Won't Charge

The Hard Rock Cafe in downtown Nashville is opening its floor for line dancing instruction, and nobody will be asked to pay for it. Anyone who has stood at the edge of a Lower Broadway dance floor pretending to know the count now has a way to learn it properly, a few steps from the honky-tonks where the dancing actually happens. It is the kind of thing this city does well: take the music that built the town and hand it back to the people who live here, no cover required. Timing details are with the venue.
Who Wore What When

Thirty Years On, the Space Jam Air Jordan 11 Gets a Faithful Reissue and Two New Siblings

Jordan Brand is marking the thirtieth anniversary of "Space Jam" with a collection that puts the Air Jordan 11 at its center, three times over. The anchor of the lineup is a reissue of the Air Jordan 11 in its original "Space Jam" dress, cut to match the one collectors already know. Alongside it, the brand has added two further Air Jordan 11s in colorways that have never been seen before. For an archive-minded reader, that is the pairing worth noting: one shoe built to honor the record, two built to extend it. The patent-leather silhouette has long been a red carpet regular in its own right, so a careful return of the most famous version is the sort of thing this desk keeps a file on.
Who Wore What When

Troye Sivan Gives His Fourth Album a Look to Match the Sound

Troye Sivan's fourth record, "She's the Best," arrives this week, and he sat down with Vogue the day before to talk it through. He calls it the boldest, least cautious thing he has made so far. The conversation ranged over openness, the imagery he drew on, and his wish for a record that breathes rather than sits still. The talk also turned to the video for "FF," which leans heavy on heat and mood. For a desk like ours, the interest is in what the clip and the album's picture-making put in front of the camera, and Sivan seems happy to say that the visuals were on his mind from the start.
Who Wore What When

The Bad Guys Get the Best Closet: Colm Dillane Dresses Catwoman, the Joker and the Penguin

Colm Dillane, the designer behind KidSuper, has turned his attention to the most watchable wrongdoers in the Warner Bros. stable, building a line of clothing and collectible pieces around Catwoman, the Joker, the Penguin and a few more familiar faces from the rogues' gallery. Hooded sweatshirts anchor the range, which reaches past the wardrobe and onto the shelf with objects meant to be displayed rather than worn. For once the heroes have lost the wardrobe round, and anyone who has watched a red carpet knows the villain usually gets the better coat anyway.
Who Wore What When

Eighty Years On, the House of Lauder Counts Six Brands Past the Billion Mark

The Estée Lauder Companies is marking its eightieth year in business, and the ledger it brings to the party is the real headline. Six of its brands now each clear a billion in annual sales, a roster most beauty groups would be content to dream about. The company says others are close behind, which suggests the shelf is not finished filling. For a title that catalogs who wore what and when, a cosmetics house with eight decades of continuity is its own kind of archive, one measured in compacts and lipstick bullets rather than gowns. The stated strategy is patience, building for the long haul rather than chasing the season. Eighty years in, that approach appears to be aging rather well.
Who Wore What When

The Billion-Dollar Name on the Lapel, the Lens and the Lipstick

Tom Ford, the brand rather than the man, has passed a billion dollars in business under the Estée Lauder Cos. umbrella. The figure is built on three legs at once: beauty, fashion and eyewear, each carrying the same two words in the same spare lettering. Few names manage to sell a fragrance, a suit and a pair of sunglasses with equal conviction, and WWD describes this one as a rare creature inside its parent company for exactly that reason. For anyone who has stood at a Palm Beach or Beverly Hills counter and noticed that the box, the frames and the jacket all speak in one voice, the number will not come as a shock so much as a confirmation. The next chapter, according to the report, is already being mapped.
Who Wore What When

Eighty Years On, Estée Lauder Is Still Minting Future Classics

The Estée Lauder Companies has reached its eightieth anniversary, and the milestone finds the beauty group in a building mood rather than a nostalgic one. Over those decades it has produced a run of products that became household fixtures, the sort of jars and bottles a reader could pick out of a vanity lineup on sight. The company says more of those signature launches are on the way, which for a house of this age is the most flattering kind of birthday announcement. An archive is only as good as what it keeps adding to, and this one intends to keep adding.
Who Wore What When

Thirteen Years In, a Marciano Son Talks Guess's Newest Face

Nicolai Marciano, who runs new business development at Guess, sat down with Vogue this week to walk through the denim house's latest campaign and the ambassador it has just signed. He has been on the payroll for thirteen years, though as the son of co-founder Paul Marciano his acquaintance with the label runs considerably longer than his tenure. The conversation stays on the two things readers of this desk track most closely: who fronts a campaign, and what they wear in it.
What They Collect

The Oldest Partnership in Any Household Took Its Time

The dog at the foot of the chair did not arrive there overnight. According to a new account, the bond between Ice Age wolves and the people who hunted beside them developed gradually, over a span that ran alongside the development of humanity itself. The piece frames the change as a long, mutual arrangement rather than a sudden turn from wild animal to household fixture. For anyone who has ever set a well-made leash beside a well-made coat, it is a reminder that the most familiar thing in the room has the longest provenance of all.
What They Collect

The Bowery Gets Its Own Exhibition at the New Museum

The New Museum has mounted "The Bowery: Devil's Mile," an exhibition devoted to the street the institution itself calls home. Its subject is the Bowery's early life as the place where ordinary New Yorkers first went out for a night of amusement, long before Manhattan's better-known theater and nightlife districts took shape. ARTnews characterizes the presentation as a daring one that blends more than one kind of show into a single installation. For anyone who collects New York, or simply walks the Lower East Side, it is a chance to see a familiar address treated as a subject worth a museum's attention.
What It Sold For

A New York Designer Builds a Collection Around a Single Scotch

Todd Snyder, the menswear designer who works out of New York, has drawn a new line from one bottle and one island: Lagavulin's sixteen-year-old malt and Islay, the Scottish island where it is distilled. The series, titled Time & Craft, carries the distillery's spirit past the wardrobe into pieces for everyday living. The imagery was made by the photographer Boo George and released through Lagavulin. For a city that prizes the well-made object, it is a local name lending his hand to a far older one.
What It Sold For

Katonah Becomes the Address for One of the Country's Largest Collections of Contemporary Indigenous Art

Northern Westchester has a new public destination. A collection of contemporary Indigenous art, described as among the largest of its kind, is being given a permanent public home in Katonah, New York. For a village known to our readers chiefly for its stone walls, its train line and its quiet acreage, that is a considerable addition to the cultural map. The work released with the announcement is Stick Seed, a 2022 piece by the artist Emmi Whitehorse, which gives some sense of the register of what is arriving. Elsewhere on the same wire, Neue Galerie in New York will reopen its galleries with an exhibition marking its twenty-fifth anniversary. And the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago has announced an endowment of five million dollars dedicated to women artists. No sale price attaches to any of it, and none should: these are gifts to the public, not to the market.
Beverly Hills News

Paramount+ Adds New Avatar Chapter From the Franchise's Original Creators

Paramount+ is carrying a new installment in the Avatar franchise, titled "Avatar: Seven Havens." Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, the pair who created the earlier shows, are co-creators of this one as well. Its story picks up in the period following both "The Last Airbender" and "The Legend of Korra," placing it later on the franchise timeline than either of those series. The Hollywood Reporter reviewed the show and described it as a promising addition to the franchise. For readers in a city whose principal industry is film and television, the arrival of a continuation under its founding creators, on a streaming service, is the item of record here.
Beverly Hills News

Bowie Portrait Bearing the Artist's Own Hands Heads to Sotheby's

A likeness that David Bowie painted of himself in 1996 is being offered for sale through Sotheby's. The musician pressed his palms into the work, so the canvas carries his prints alongside the painted image. It belongs to a group of eight such portraits Bowie made of himself during that period. Collectors in Beverly Hills following the sale will find an object that records the artist's hand in the most literal sense.
Beverly Hills News

A Documentary Shows Sofia Coppola on Set as Her Mother Saw Her

Sofia Coppola is preparing to direct a scripted feature again. Before that, the Los Angeles-born filmmaker is accompanying a documentary made by her mother, who has since died, about the production of "Marie Antoinette." The documentary, titled "Making Marie Antoinette," follows Coppola during the shoot of the film, which starred Kirsten Dunst. Coppola said that watching it let her observe her own work the way her mother had observed it. She did not give a title or a timeline for the next narrative project.
What They Sail

Princess Picks Fort Lauderdale to Unveil the Outboard-Powered C48

Princess Yachts has chosen the 2026 Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show as the place to show the C48, a model built around outboard power rather than the inboard arrangements the British yard is known for. The boat marks a new line for Princess, and the decision to launch it on the Florida docks says something about where the builder sees the buyers for it. For owners walking the show, it is the kind of debut worth a detour to the Princess display to see how the yard has handled an outboard hull at this size. Length, naval architect, and price were not on the record at the time of the announcement.
Class of Nashville

Twenty-Four Years at the Davidson County Sheriff's Office, Then a Second Act

Daron Hall is stepping down as sheriff of Davidson County, with Oct. 19 set as his final day. He has held the office for 24 years, a run that covers a Nashville transformed several times over in the span of one career. Rather than simply closing the book, Hall is moving on to a role in the business world, a new chapter he has chosen on his own timing. Tenures of that length are uncommon in public service anywhere, and rarer still in a county that has grown as quickly as this one. For a city that measures its leaders by how long they stay and how they leave, this is the graceful version of both. The next decade of the office will begin with someone new in the chair, but the one vacating it departs with the kind of record that is hard to follow.
Class of Nashville

Halloween Lands on a Saturday, and Nashville Is Taking Both Nights

Halloween falls on a Saturday this year, and the city is not waiting for it. Beats, Booze, and BOOS runs across two evenings, the Friday the thirtieth and the Saturday the thirty-first, which gives anyone with a Friday-night habit and a Saturday-night calendar no excuse to choose. The name says what it needs to: music, a bar, and a holiday that this town has always been happy to dress for. For a city that fills its rooms every night of the year regardless, a Halloween weekend with a soundtrack is simply the natural order of things.
Class of Nashville

A Loretta Lynn Record Finds Its Way Back Onto Nashville Shelves

Loretta Lynn's Van Lear Rose is coming around again. Third Man Records will put the album back out on Nov. 13, giving one of her most admired recordings a fresh run in the stores where this city still buys its music on purpose. For a town that treats a well-made record as a civic asset, a reissue of this one lands less like a product announcement and more like a welcome return. The date is the thing to circle. Anyone who has been waiting for a proper copy now knows when to go looking.
Class of Nashville

Randy Rogers Band Invites Company Into Its Own Catalog

The Randy Rogers Band has gone back through its best-known material and recorded it again, this time with guests joining in. The result is a project titled "Songbook," which gathers fifteen of the songs that topped charts and became audience favorites over the band's career. Rather than a straight reissue, the collection treats each familiar number as something to be reworked and heard fresh. For Nashville, where the publishing houses and session rooms of Green Hills live and die on the durability of a well-written song, a band willing to revisit its own catalog this carefully is worth noticing. It is a reminder that a strong song survives its first recording.
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Class of Nashville

The Hall of Fame Is Losing One of Its Steadiest Hands

Michael McCall, who has spent years at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum shaping its exhibits and the words that accompany them, is stepping away from the institution. His work there has covered three crafts at once, as a writer, an editor and a curator, the kind of combination that rarely draws a spotlight but shows in every gallery a visitor walks through. Downtown, in a building that tells the city's story to the rest of the country, that is a quiet departure Nashville will feel. The Hall has not been a place that announces its own staff often, which makes the occasion worth marking.
Private Jet Owners

Autonomy Just Flew Itself: Northrop's Talon Blue Takes Off With No One Aboard

Northrop Grumman has put its Talon Blue in the air for the first time under its own control, with no pilot in the loop. The Air Force carries the airframe on its books as the YFQ-48A. It is one of the airframes under consideration for the service's CCA effort, which pairs uncrewed jets with crewed fighters. For anyone who has sat through an avionics briefing on where single-pilot and eventually unpiloted operations are headed, this is the kind of sortie that moves the conversation from slide decks to flight logs.
Private Jet Owners

Piper M-Series Owners Have a Rudder Cable Bulletin to Clear

Piper has issued a bulletin asking that the rudder cables be examined on certain airframes across its M-Class singles: the M350, the M500, the M600 and the M700 Fury. It is not fleet-wide; the notice applies to specific aircraft, so the first job is confirming whether your airplane is among those named before you book shop time. For an owner operating under Part 91, that means a call to your maintenance provider and a logbook entry once the cables have been checked.
Private Jet Owners

The FAA Builds Redundancy Into Marine One Departure Notices

The FAA has put a second, redundant method in place for flagging when Marine One is about to depart, so that a single missed call no longer leaves the helicopter's movements unannounced to traffic around it. The change traces to an incident in August in which the aircraft that carries the president and an airline flight in the vicinity of Reagan National did not get the coordination they should have. For anyone who operates in and out of the Washington area under Part 91 or 91K, the practical takeaway is a layer of notice that did not exist before. The underlying airspace rules have not changed. The fix is procedural: when the primary line of communication fails, something else now speaks up.
What They Drive

The Sale Is Over, but the Garage Discounts Are Still Hanging On

Amazon's October Prime Big Deal Days have wrapped up, yet a number of sellers are still cutting prices on tools and automotive accessories in order to clear out stock. The Drive has gathered the remaining markdowns it judges worthwhile for people who work on their own cars and for weekend DIYers. For the owner with a project sitting on jack stands this fall, that means the window for stocking the workbench did not close with the sale itself. As always, the useful question is not what is cheap but what is well made and will still be in the drawer ten years on.
What They Drive

GM's New 8.3-Liter Duramax Sets the Diesel Class Benchmark at 555 Horsepower and 1,230 lb-ft

General Motors' newest Duramax diesel, an 8.3-liter engine, arrives rated at 555 horsepower and 1,230 lb-ft of torque. On those two figures, it stands ahead of every other diesel in its class. The number a buyer at the order desk may weigh more heavily is a third one. Stepping from the standard gasoline engine up to this diesel costs less than the equivalent step costs at Ford or at Ram. That is a rare combination for an American truck owner to find on a single build sheet: the largest output in the field, paired with the smallest premium to get it. The displacement alone, 8.3 liters, is the sort of figure owners will quote to one another on a show field.
What They Drive

Rivian's Electric R1S Suits Up as the Ecto-1, Down to a Secret Compass on the Roof

Rivian has built a Ghostbusters tribute out of one of its own R1S sport utilities, and the detail work is what sets it apart. Period emergency lamps were brought back to working order rather than replaced with modern lookalikes, and they ride on the roof alongside a rotating dish and a full siren setup. The familiar crossed-out ghost emblem marks the flanks. The best touch is one most people will never see from the curb: a compass worked into the top of the truck, legible only from directly overhead. It is the sort of easter egg that rewards the owner who knows where to look, which is exactly how the best tribute builds have always been done. For a company that has spent its short life making quiet electric trucks, a wailing, flashing, ghost-hunting wagon is a cheerful change of pace.
What They Drive

Cadillac Puts the V Mark on Another Electric Crossover for 2026

Cadillac's performance letter has a new home for the 2026 model year: the Optiq-V, a battery-powered crossover that becomes the latest electric Cadillac to carry that designation. Car and Driver has published a set of exterior photographs showing the car from the outside. For collectors who track the V lineage closely, the images give a first look at how the marque has dressed its newest performance-badged EV. We have not driven it, and so we will reserve any judgment of the car itself until we do.
What They Drive

Car and Driver Finds the 2026 Cadillac Optiq-V Rewards the Driver More Than the Onlooker

Car and Driver has put the 2026 Cadillac Optiq-V through its testing and come away impressed with a battery-powered performance crossover that does not advertise itself. The magazine's verdict is that the V's modest exterior gives little hint of what the car can do, and that behind the wheel it proves both capable and genuinely satisfying. For Cadillac's growing stable of electric models, that reads as a quiet compliment to the division's effort on the sporting end of the range.
Photo by HighTechDad on Flickr
What They Drive

The Cabin of Cadillac's 2026 Optiq V-Series, Fully Revealed

Car and Driver has published a complete set of cabin photographs of the 2026 Cadillac Optiq V-Series, documenting the passenger compartment in detail. For American owners weighing the new V-Series badge, the pictures offer a close look at the space they would actually live in behind the wheel. We have not driven the car, so our verdict on the seats and switchgear waits until we do. For now, the photographs speak for themselves.
What They Drive

Before the Afternoon Storms Return, Someone Has Done the Wiper Homework

Road & Track has put a field of 2026 windshield wiper blades through a comparative test, running them against rainfall, sleet and the punishment of sustained highway miles to sort out which ones keep the glass clean and keep doing so. For an owner who drives rather than merely stores a good car, the blade is the one piece of rubber that stands between a well-kept windshield and an afternoon squall on the interstate, and it is the part most often forgotten until the first wet week of the season. The magazine's findings are its own, and we have not run the blades ourselves, but the exercise is a useful one for anyone readying a car for a season of real weather.
What They Drive

Fujiwara's Name Doubles the Price of a Brabus Electric Motorcycle

Brabus has put a $50,000 figure on an electric motorcycle designed with Hiroshi Fujiwara, the Japanese figure whose influence on streetwear is treated as foundational. That number is twice what the maker asks for the standard version of the same machine. The premium, then, is for the design and the name attached to it rather than for a different motorcycle underneath. Collectors who follow limited editions will recognize the arithmetic: the ordinary bike exists, and this one sits above it at exactly double. For an American buyer weighing it against a well-optioned sports car at the same price, the appeal is the signature and the exclusivity, not the drivetrain.
What They Drive

Killman and Ferrer Take Mini's Revised Countryman Into the Rebelle Rally

Mini has entered the Countryman Untamed, the newly revised version of its crossover, in the Rebelle Rally. Felicia Killman will drive, with Erika Ferrer beside her as navigator. For the Countryman owners among our readers, an entry like this says more about the car than any brochure, because a rally asks a crossover to do what its buyers mostly only imagine. We will note the finishing result once it is posted.
What They Drive

The NSX Gets Italian Coachwork and Keeps Its Clutch Pedal

The Tensei, the reworked Honda NSX that JAS and Pininfarina have been promising for some time, is now a finished car. Beneath its bodywork sits a V6 that breathes on its own, with no turbocharger or supercharger, and is rated at 425 horsepower. That output goes to the road through a gearbox with six forward ratios and a third pedal, the detail the collectors who gather in Palm Beach and Beverly Hills will likely care about most. Pininfarina drew the exterior, and the shape reads as unmistakably Italian in its proportions and surfacing. For the owner who has kept an original NSX in the garage all these years, this is the same idea carried out by an Italian design house, with the engine and the manual shift left in the driver's hands.
What They Drive

A 2027 Model Year Arrives for the Chevrolet Trax

Chevrolet has a 2027 Trax, and the first full accounting of it is now on record. Car and Driver has published its evaluation of the new model year, along with what buyers can expect to pay and the technical particulars. For owners of the current car and anyone weighing a Chevrolet showroom visit this fall, that is the document to read before the dealer conversation starts. We have not driven the 2027 car ourselves and will not pretend otherwise.
What They Drive

Rivian Owners Get a Ghostbusters Treat for Halloween

Rivian has given its vehicles a Halloween Mode built around the world of the Ghostbusters films. Switch it on and the car takes on themed lighting and themed sound, with a handful of hidden references from that universe tucked in for owners who care to hunt for them. It is a setting in the car rather than a bolt-on accessory, so the car itself becomes the costume. Expect to see it put to use in a few Palm Beach and Naples driveways once the porch lights come on this month.
What They Drive

Rivian Owners Get to Play Ecto-1 This Halloween

Owners of a Rivian have a costume option this October that does not involve a single bolt-on part. The electric trucks and SUVs can take on the look of the Ecto-1, the car from "Ghostbusters," for the holiday. The transformation comes with its own light and sound display, so the effect reaches the driveway and the neighbors rather than staying inside the cabin. For a marque that has built its following on owners who treat their vehicles as something more than transportation, a seasonal party trick of this kind fits the character of the crowd.
What They Drive

The Electrified Version Wins Most Showroom Face-Offs, Not Every One

For the buyer standing between two trim sheets of the same car, one with a battery and one without, Car and Driver has worked through the decision on seven widely sold models spanning four-door cars, pickups, performance cars and utility vehicles. The magazine's verdict leans toward the electrified variant in the majority of those pairings, where the gain at the pump carries the day. It stops short of a blanket endorsement, naming cases where the conventional powertrain's lower sticker remains the sounder choice. Owners weighing the premium on a new order will find the reasoning laid out pair by pair rather than as a single rule.
Class of Florida

Roughly One in Five Serious Collectors Now Asks the Algorithm Before the Advisor

The Art Basel and UBS Survey of Global Collecting finds that 22 percent of wealthy collectors have brought software into the hunt, leaning on apps and artificial intelligence to help build their holdings. That is a meaningful slice of a crowd that has traditionally trusted a good eye, a trusted dealer and a long lunch. Anyone who has watched a Palm Beach drawing room fill with canvases, or a Naples lanai acquire its first serious sculpture, will recognize the appeal of a second opinion that never sleeps and never takes a commission. Miami, which has never met a new tool it would not try, will likely treat this as old news. The rest of the coast can take it as confirmation that the collecting conversation, from Worth Avenue to Fifth Avenue South, now has a new voice at the table.
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Class of Florida

Out West, $32 Million Buys the One Thing No Florida Waterfront Can Offer: Height

A four-bedroom house on Belvedere Island, in Marin County north of San Francisco, is for sale at $32 million, and what it is really selling is altitude. The house is set on a cliff over the water, a line no agent from Jupiter Island to Port Royal has ever been able to put in a brochure. The Golden Gate Bridge is in the window of nearly every room. Palm Beach has the Atlantic, Naples has the Gulf sunset, and Miami has the skyline, but all three serve their views at sea level, give or take a seawall. This one serves its view from above, which is the single trick our coast cannot perform no matter how high the ceilings go. For a reader who has spent a season here, the appeal translates easily: it is a house where the water is the whole point of the address, with the added advantage of looking down on it.
Where They Eat

Philadelphia's Visitor Chief Began by Answering the Phones

Angela Val, president and chief executive of Visit Philadelphia, has told the story of her rise on Skift's Suite Success podcast, in conversation with host Katie Cline. Her working life opened at a front desk, picking up calls, and it has carried her to the top of the organization that carries the city's name. For anyone who has stood a hotel lobby or a restaurant host stand, it is the kind of story that makes the first job in hospitality look like a beginning rather than a ceiling.
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Where They Eat

Rye Gets a Short List, and the American Bar Cart Gets a Reason to Restock

Robb Report Dining has named ten rye whiskeys it considers the finest available right now. The selection spans the category's range, from bottles given a second turn in another barrel to those made under the strict federal bonded standard. Rye is a spirit with deep roots on this side of the Atlantic, and a ranking of its best is a useful guide for anyone building a bar at home or ordering with confidence at the end of a good dinner. For readers who take their whiskey as seriously as their table, the list is worth a look before the next pour.
What They Collect

A New Gallery and Mastrangelo's Cast Pieces Anchor October's Design Calendar

Galerie has drawn up a list of nine collectible design exhibitions worth seeing this month. Two of them stand out for anyone who buys furniture the way others buy paintings. Fernando Mastrangelo is showing cast furnishings whose forms are taken from maps of disputed borders, pieces that hold the eye longer the closer one stands. The other is a group show at Sarah Sherman Samuel's newly opened gallery, which gathers work by makers from the Midwest. For a collector, the pairing is instructive: one show rests on a single artist's command of material, the other on a region's workshops and the hands in them. The remaining seven round out a month when the trade's attention turns to what is new on the gallery floor and what will soon change hands.
What They Collect

Cooper Union's Chrysler Building Ground Lease Is Now a Scholarship Fund

The most famous spire in Manhattan has a new job: paying for engineering, architecture and art students to attend school on the house. Cooper Union has signed a fresh ground lease on the Chrysler Building, the East 42nd Street landmark on land the college owns, and the school says the proceeds are meant to bring back scholarships that cover the whole of tuition. At present every student has half of the bill covered. The college's stated aim is to close that remaining half, with 2028 as the year it hopes to get there. For a city that measures its institutions by what they give away as much as by what they hold, it is a satisfying arrangement: one of the great skyline pieces working, quietly, for a classroom downtown. The terms of the new lease have not been made public, and we will not guess at them.
What They Collect

A Founder Makes the Buyer's Case for Broader Gallery Programs

Hall W Rockefeller is behind a new AI tool built to help galleries bring more women and non-binary artists into the stable of names they represent. The pitch is as much about commerce as it is about fairness. In Rockefeller's view, a program with a wider range of artists draws a wider range of people willing to write a check. For dealers on this side of the Atlantic, that is a plain proposition worth hearing: who hangs on the walls shapes who walks through the door at the opening.
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What They Collect

In New York's Opening Fall Sales, Bidders Saved Their Paddles for the Pieces That Mattered

The fall auction season's first major sales are in the books, and New York's salesrooms told a story of discipline rather than abandon. Bidders held back until a lot they truly wanted came up, then went after it with real intent. Selectivity, not spending for its own sake, set the tone, and the strongest contests gathered around a narrow band of works. By ARTnews' account, the liveliest bidding of the opening round took place well east of Manhattan, which leaves New York's own buyers looking deliberate and sure of what they came for.
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What They Collect

Prints, a Century of One Medium and a Color Field Life: Where Artnet's Specialists Are Looking

Artnet Auctions has asked its own specialists what is holding their attention this month, and the answers lean toward the considered end of the trade. One is the way Print Week has changed over its run. Another follows a single medium across a stretch of well over a hundred years, the kind of long view that suits a collector willing to look past the current season. The third is the life story of an artist who helped shape Color Field painting. For a reader who buys with the eye rather than the headline, it is a useful map of where the house's own people are spending their time.
What It Sold For

At Bell Labs, the Patent Attorneys Turned to Study the Inventors Themselves

A new essay from Surface returns to a moment at Bell Laboratories, somewhere around the midpoint of the twentieth century, when the attorneys charged with filing the company's patents started asking a different question: not what had been invented, but who was doing the inventing, and why so much of it came from there. The Labs at that point was turning out discoveries at a pace few institutions in the country could match, and the people closest to the paperwork had a front-row view of it. Their curiosity about the researchers down the hall is the thread the piece follows. For readers who care about how great American rooms get built and what comes out of them, it is a reminder that the most valuable thing a building ever held was sometimes the habit of asking the right question.
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What It Sold For

Wicker Has Left the Porch, and the Best Rooms Prove It

Veranda has gathered ten interiors in which designers carried wicker inside the house and gave it a principal room rather than the loggia. The woven material long tied to summer houses and the space just outside the front door now reads as a deliberate finish for living rooms and bedrooms, the kind of choice a buyer registers on a first walk-through. The magazine's case is that among working designers the material has become something close to a shared obsession. For anyone furnishing an American house right now, the lesson is that the porch no longer holds the monopoly.
What It Sold For

Wicker Moves Indoors, and the Well-Furnished American House Takes Notice

The material once reserved for the sleeping porch and the lanai is earning a place in the formal rooms of serious houses. Veranda has gathered ten interiors in which designers used wicker not as a seasonal afterthought but as the piece that gives a room its character. For an owner in Palm Beach or Naples, where the line between indoor and outdoor living has always been thin, the shift reads less as a trend than as a long-overdue correction. The lesson of the collection is simple: a woven chair can hold its own beside fine upholstery and good millwork, if the room around it is confident enough.
What It Sold For

In the Bird Streets, a Rebuilt House With a Dolly Parton Chapter Asks $8 Million

A property in the Bird Streets of Los Angeles, the hillside enclave above the Sunset Strip, has been listed with an asking price of $8 million. Its claim on attention is its past: Dolly Parton lived here during the 1980s. The house she knew is not the house that stands today. The site has since been rebuilt, so what a buyer acquires is the address and the setting rather than the rooms she occupied. The listing has not placed an architect or a construction year on the record, and the street number has not been published. What is on the record is the figure, and $8 million buys a Bird Streets lot that carries one of the better-known names ever to have lived in the neighborhood. For readers who follow this stretch of the hills, the sale will be worth watching for the number it finally closes at.
Icons of Palm Beach

A Marianne Dashwood Who Came to the Part Without the 1995 Version in Her Head

Esme Creed-Miles takes on Marianne Dashwood in the new Sense and Sensibility, and she arrived at the role having deliberately left the 1995 film unwatched. For a reader who keeps an Austen on the nightstand through the season, that is the interesting choice: the most impulsive, feeling-first of Austen's leading women, played by an actress who describes herself as quiet by nature. Creed-Miles is the daughter of Samantha Morton, which makes the restraint of coming to such a well-loved character on her own terms all the more notable.
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Icons of Palm Beach

Thousands of Families, One Pier: The Lincoln Comes Home to San Diego

The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln has tied up again in San Diego, closing out a deployment of 321 days. That is nearly eleven months away, and it ranks among the longest stretches the Navy has asked of a ship and her crew in decades. For the thousands of families who gathered at the base to meet her, the length of the absence is the whole story. Anyone who has stood on a seawall waiting for a particular sail to clear the inlet knows a little of what that waterfront looked like. A ship this size does not slip in quietly, and a crowd this size does not wait quietly either. The arithmetic of a homecoming is simple: one hull, one pier, and every person who has been counting the days since last autumn. The season on the island opens with its own arrivals, but none of them took 321 days to make.
Who Wore What When

The Artist Picks Up the Hosting Duties, and the Check Goes to Charm City

Derrick Adams has added a new line to a résumé that already runs across painting, sculpture and collage: benefit host. The artist gathered a small circle at Hav & Mar for the inaugural fundraising evening of Charm City Cultural Cultivation, the nonprofit he founded. The scale was deliberately modest, a dinner-party room rather than a ballroom, which for a first outing is often the smarter crown to wear. We will be watching to see whether the next one needs a bigger table.
Who Wore What When

440 Shows, One Shortlist: Vogue's Spring 2027 Verdict Begins in New York

Vogue's editors and the writers who work alongside them took in 440 runway presentations for spring 2027, a circuit that ran from New York to Paris, and have now published the collections they judged the best of the lot. For a New York reader, the number is the story: it means the front rows here were just one leg of a very long season, with this city's designers measured against everything shown elsewhere. The list is framed as the editors' own favorites, the kind of personal verdict that tends to age better than a tally. Which houses made the cut is Vogue's to tell.
Who Wore What When

The Fall 2026 Campaigns Have Landed, and the Archive Is Taking Notes

The imagery for fall and winter 2026 is out, and Elle has sorted the season's campaign work into a running list of the ones worth remembering. For a reader who files looks by designer, year and occasion, this is the moment the season gets its paper trail: the pictures that will be pulled up later when someone asks what a house was saying in the autumn of 2026. The list is explicitly a "so far," which means more are expected and the tally is still open.
Who Wore What When

Crocs, HeyDude and QVC Take the Podium on TikTok's Shoe Rack

For the year that closed in September 2026, the three biggest footwear storefronts on TikTok in America belonged to Crocs, HeyDude and QVC. That puts a foam clog, a canvas slip-on and a home shopping channel on the same podium, which is a lineup worth filing away. Nothing in this trio has ever walked a red carpet, and that is rather the point: the shoes Americans are actually buying on their phones are the ones built for a Tuesday. The archive will note the date, the three names and the fact that comfort, not couture, took the crown.
Who Wore What When

Daisy Edgar-Jones Skips the New Collections and Shops Stella McCartney's 1999 Chloé Instead

Daisy Edgar-Jones has stepped out in a corset and its matching companion piece from Chloé's spring collection of 1999, the season when Stella McCartney was the name on the house's sketches. The choice is a vote for the original over the reissue, a single look pulled from the archive and worn as it was first cut rather than reinterpreted for the present. For the Beverly Hills closet that still keeps its own late-nineties Chloé in tissue paper, consider this permission to take it out.
Who Wore What When

Three Houses, One Box: The Perfume Sets Worth a Palm Beach Vanity

Harper's Bazaar has put together a list of fifteen perfume sets, picked for anyone hoping to find a new signature scent. The lineup includes selections from Maison Francis Kurkdjian, Dior, and Byredo. A set is an unusually considerate way to shop for fragrance. It lets you wear a few scents over several days before committing to the full bottle that will sit on the vanity all season. For readers whose calendars run from gala to luncheon, that kind of trial run is a small luxury worth having.
Who Wore What When

Three Shoemakers, One Stylist: Andrew Mukamal Walks Mikey Madison Through "The Social Reckoning"

Mikey Madison is making the rounds for "The Social Reckoning," and the footwear is doing quiet, well-mannered work. Across the appearances, her heels have come from Ferragamo, Aquazzura and Christian Louboutin, three houses that agree on polish and disagree on little else. Credit for the edit goes to Andrew Mukamal, the stylist assembling each look. It is the sort of restraint a Beverly Hills reader clocks from the ankle down, and approves of.
Who Wore What When

Pamela Anderson Picks a Lip Balm Flavor Straight From Her Own Backyard

Pamela Anderson has added a fresh flavor to her Sonsie line, and the inspiration did not come from a lab or a trend report. The Basic Balm now arrives in Wild Groundcherry, a note she traces back to something growing in her own garden. For a woman whose red-carpet years were catalogued down to the last sequin, the pivot toward a scent you could pluck off a vine feels of a piece with her current, pared-down chapter. Anderson, who also writes and campaigns when she is not acting, spoke with The Zoe Report about how the homegrown fruit made its way into the tube. It is a small product, but the story behind it is the kind our readers like: something made well, with a reason behind it.
Who Wore What When

Sali Christeson's Decade in Workwear Draws a Room Worth Dressing For

Ten years after Sali Christeson founded Argent, the label built for women who dress for the office, its anniversary party pulled a crowd that most launches could only sketch on a mood board. Hillary Clinton was among the guests raising a glass, as was Chloe Fineman, and the roster ran longer than those two names. It is a fitting turnout for a brand whose whole premise is clothes that go to work, worn by women whose work is very much on the record. A tenth birthday is the milestone where a label stops being a newcomer and starts being a reference, and this one marked it with the founder at the center and the guest list doing the talking.
Who Wore What When

The Archive Moves Indoors: Pacsun Gives Pre-Owned More Floor Space for Fall

Pacsun is making room for the already-worn. Its PS Vintage concept, the corner of the shop devoted to pieces with a previous owner, is growing inside the retailer's stores as the fall season opens. The move answers a shopper who increasingly wants a garment with a past and is willing to look for it next to the new arrivals rather than at a flea market. For the archivist in all of us, it means the hunt for a find with real provenance now happens under store lighting, with a fitting room nearby. Pacsun's wager is that the next great piece in your closet has been worn once before.
Who Wore What When

Jordyn Woods Picks a Lace Mule for the Aisle, and New York Gets the Preview

The shoes Jordyn Woods will wear as a bride made their debut on a Manhattan set this week, well ahead of any wedding march. The pair is a mule, open at the back and worked in lace, which is to say the one bridal shoe that reads as both ceremony and after-party. Woods gave the camera a proper look at them while the shoot ran, and anyone passing the location would have noticed that the heel was the whole point of the frame.
What They Ride

Elliott Walden Takes the Microphone

The man who ran WinStar Farm as chief executive and racing manager has found a new outlet for his voice. Elliott Walden fronts "The Good Life Podcast," a fresh program that gathers names from the worlds of athletics and broadcasting around him at the table. Tom Leach shares hosting duties alongside him. For anyone who has followed Walden's years at one of Kentucky's marquee operations, it is a welcome chance to hear him at length rather than in a winner's circle soundbite.
What They Ride

A Champion of Europe Takes His Tack to Arcadia

Jamie Spencer, who rode his way to champion jockey titles in both Britain and Ireland, is coming to California. His first rides on this side of the Atlantic come Saturday at Santa Anita, the track set against the San Gabriel Mountains in Arcadia. A rider of his standing does not relocate his saddle lightly, and his choice of Santa Anita says something about the quality of the racing and the horsemen he expects to find there. The Southern California circuit has a long tradition of welcoming riders from abroad, and the paddock regulars will be watching to see how a European stylist settles into American dirt and turf. For now the fact is simple and worth noting on its own: one of Europe's most decorated jockeys will walk out for the first time at Santa Anita this weekend.
What They Ride

Two Fillies Out of the Gallant Bloom Head This Week's Speed Table

The week's ranking of the fastest fillies belongs, at the top, to the Grade II Gallant Bloom Stakes. The race had been pushed back a week, and when it was finally run, it produced the two fillies who sit first and second on the list for the week of September 28 through October 4. A delayed race is often a forgotten one, and this one instead delivered the best pair of the week. At the other end of the table, sixth place went to Egyptian Mau, a South African-bred filly who ran at Belmont on October 1. She finished fifth in the Grade III Belmont Turf Sprint Stakes, a six-furlong dash on the grass. A fifth-place finish rarely earns a mention in a speed ranking, and that she earned one says something about the pace she held over the turf course at Elmont.
What They Ride

Wesley Ward's Outfielder Runs Down a Keeneland Field From Well Back

The son of Speightstown who races for AMO Racing and Two Eight Racing had plenty of ground to make up with two furlongs left Thursday at Keeneland. He made it up. Outfielder closed through the final quarter to win a condition race restricted by age and stocked with horses good enough for a stakes. Thoroughbred Daily News singled him out with its "Rising Star" tag for the performance, and the manner of it is why: a colt that looks beaten at the top of the lane and finds another gear is the kind trainers and buyers remember at the sales ring. Ward, whose barn is a fixture at the Lexington meet, now has a Speightstown colt with a late-running pedigree to point toward bigger company.
What They Ride

Repole Moves From the Owners' Box to the Shareholder Roll

Mike Repole has added a new kind of holding to his stable. The owner disclosed on Thursday afternoon, in his own post on X, that he now holds a million shares of Churchill Downs, the Louisville company whose track stages the Kentucky Derby. That stake amounts to just under one and a half percent of the company. It was announced in plain view, by the man himself, rather than surfacing through a filing or a spokesman. Repole also signaled that his buying may not be finished. For a man the sport knows as an owner of horses, it is a different way of standing with the game: not at the rail, but inside the company that keeps the lights on beneath the twin spires.
Brides of Beverly Hills

Why One Couple Built a Garden Wedding on Two Yellows and Nothing Else

The planning decision worth noting from Natalie and Brennan's garden wedding is restraint. The palette ran on a single color family: a soft butter tone carried the day, with a brighter sunshine shade used sparingly for contrast. The accents were kept clear rather than adding a third color, which is how a scheme this narrow reads as deliberate instead of flat. For a bride working a Beverly Hills garden against hard afternoon light, it is a practical template: pick one pale base, one saturated punch, and let glass do the rest.
Brides of Beverly Hills

A Four-Color Palette, Chosen for Meaning

A couple who spent a decade getting to their wedding day settled on a garden setting and a tight palette of four shades: pink, ivory, a soft nude, and sage green. Each hue was picked for what it stood for rather than for what was in season, with pink standing in for love. For a bride planning here, the lesson is the restraint. Four coordinated tones give a florist, a stationer, and a tabletop rental house one brief to work from, which is cheaper and cleaner than a palette that keeps growing.
Beverly Hills News

Paramount Puts David Corenswet at Center of Awards-Season NFL Drama

Paramount has a new entry for this year's awards race in "Mr. Irrelevant," a football drama starring David Corenswet. The film tells the story of John Tuggle, whom the New York Giants selected 335th in the 1983 NFL draft. Variety's review describes Corenswet's performance as evidence of range well beyond his turn as Superman. The trade also likens the picture's awards prospects to those of "The Blind Side." For the studio, the release arrives as fall campaigns begin taking shape.
Beverly Hills News

Disney+ Shows First 'VisionQuest' Episode to New York Comic Con Audience

Marvel closed its New York Comic Con panel on Thursday by screening the opening episode of "VisionQuest," a series headed to Disney+, according to Variety. The screening had not been announced ahead of the panel, Variety reported. Attendees who saw the episode posted initial assessments that Variety characterized as favorable. Several of those assessments measured the new series against "WandaVision," the earlier Disney+ series, and found it held up, according to the report. The show has a premiere on Disney+ scheduled, Variety reported.
Beverly Hills News

Ben Affleck's New Netflix Thriller Is Set Inside a Los Angeles Mayoral Race

Ben Affleck directed and stars in "Animals," a Netflix original thriller that places its story within a campaign for mayor of Los Angeles, according to a review published by The Hollywood Reporter. Kerry Washington appears opposite Affleck in the film. Steven Yeun and Gillian Anderson are also in the cast. The story follows a kidnapping that unfolds while a wealthy independent candidate runs for the city's top office. The film arrives as a Netflix production rather than a theatrical release, per the trade publication.
Beverly Hills News

Affleck's Sixth Film as Director, "Animals," Heads Straight to Netflix

Ben Affleck has directed a new feature, "Animals," and it is going directly to Netflix rather than to theaters, according to a review published by Variety. The film is the actor's sixth as a director. Variety describes it as a kidnapping thriller with a large cast of well-known names, and its critic calls the picture fast-moving and hard to stop watching. The reviewer also writes that the direct-to-streaming release suits the film. The wire item did not include a premiere date or a cast list.
Beverly Hills News

Ice-T, a Longtime Los Angeles Voice, Marks a Quarter Century on "Law & Order: SVU"

Ice-T, the rapper and actor whose career took shape in Los Angeles, has spoken with Variety about his long run on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit." The series has been on the air since 1999, and Ice-T joined it near the start. What began as a four-episode role in the show's second season became a permanent place in the cast that has lasted through most of the program's history. In the interview, he described his situation as being on a good treadmill, one he said he intends to stay on. The remarks, which touched on the show's staying power and its place in American culture, were published by Variety.
Brides of Beverly Hills

Budget the Band Before You Fall for the Setting

A roundup of six engagement-ring settings makes the case that the second ring on the finger decides how the first one reads, and it matches each setting with the band that sits best beside it. For a bride planning on Rodeo Drive, the practical takeaway is to try the two together before committing to either, since a band that fights the setting will show at every table and in every photograph. Treat the pairing as one purchase with one line in the budget, not two separate decisions months apart.
What They Sail

A Smaller Aquila Sport, Built to Run in the Mid-Forties

Aquila has added a 35 Sport to its lineup, a compact sibling to the 45 Sport that borrows the larger boat's lines and proportions. The builder has drawn the new model so that the family resemblance is plain from the dock, with the same character the 45 brought to the range now carried on a shorter hull. Below the styling, the deck is arranged for company rather than for a crew of one, with seating and open space laid out so guests gather together instead of spreading out. Aquila says the boat will top out close to 45 knots, which puts a day run across Biscayne Bay or up the Intracoastal well within an afternoon. For a Florida owner who liked the 45 Sport but wanted something easier to handle and slip, this is the boat that question was waiting on.
Private Jet Owners

A Catalina Amphibian on the Ramp at Oshkosh

AVweb's photo of the day for October 8 shows a Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina at Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The -5A suffix identifies the amphibious version of the type, which pairs the boat hull with retractable wheels so it can operate from pavement as readily as from water. Parked, the airplane is unmistakable from across any ramp: the wing sits high on a central pylon, the two radial engines are mounted close together on top of it, and the glazed blisters aft of the wing define the fuselage profile. For an owner used to seeing a row of light jets on the Oshkosh line, a flying boat with its gear down is a reminder of how wide the range of airframes that turn up there actually is. The image carried no further information about the aircraft or who operates it.
Class of Nashville

A South Florida Teenager Who Bet on Nashville, and Won Her Seat in the Writing Room

Carrie Karpinen was seventeen when she left South Florida for this city, young enough that the decision reads less like a career plan than an act of faith. Nashville rewarded it. In a new conversation with MusicRow, she talks about the work she has made for herself on the quieter side of a record, the side that does not take the stage but shapes everything the stage delivers. It is the part of the industry this town understands best: the rooms off Music Row and out in Green Hills where songs are built long before anyone sings them.
Photo by Lisa Zins on Flickr
Class of Nashville

Music Row's Review Column Hands Kameron Marlowe Its Highest Praise

The trade paper that Green Hills reads over breakfast has spoken, and this week its verdict belongs to Kameron Marlowe. MusicRow's DISClaimer column, the running scorecard of new singles that the industry treats as a bellwether, set his latest release apart on the strength of his voice alone, describing a performance that pulls as much from soul as from country. The columnist opened the roundup on an upbeat note, suggesting the current moment is breaking the genre's way on both the pop charts and its own. For a town where a reviewer's nod can move a song from a demo reel to a radio add, that is the kind of notice worth having.
What They Collect

Krasner Gets Equal Billing With Pollock in a New Artnet Conversation

Art historian Mary Gabriel has sat down with Ben Davis for an Artnet News conversation devoted to Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock, two of the central figures of Abstract Expressionism. The pairing in the title is the point: Krasner's name comes first, and the discussion treats the two painters as a shared subject rather than one as a footnote to the other. For collectors and gallery-goers who have watched both artists' work move through American museums and salesrooms, a long-form look at the pair from a working historian is the kind of listening worth setting aside an hour for.
What It Sold For

The Witches' Address Returns: Miss Robichaux's Academy Is Back on Screen for Season 13

Miss Robichaux's Academy, the New Orleans house that sheltered the Coven chapter of American Horror Story, has been rebuilt for the thirteenth season of Ryan Murphy's series. Architectural Digest, which counts the set among its favorites from the show, has walked through the work of putting it back together. For anyone who watched the earlier season, the return means another long look at the rooms those witches once occupied. It is a reminder that a house can hold a story so firmly that the story comes back to it.
Photo by Cody Manning on Unsplash
What It Sold For

The Desk Is Now the Most Photographed Room in the House

Architectural Digest has drawn up a list of nine retailers it trusts for office furniture that looks as good as the rest of a well-kept home. The premise is simple: the chair, the desk and whatever sits behind you on a video call are now on view to colleagues as surely as the front hall is to guests. For a Palm Beach or Beverly Hills household where the study was once the one room nobody saw, that changes what belongs there. The magazine's pick treats the home workspace as a matter of taste rather than function alone.
Photo by Paulo Mateus Oliveira Guerra on Unsplash
What They Drive

World Rally Championship Puts an American Round on Its 2027 Calendar

The FIA has published its World Rally Championship schedule for 2027, and the series will compete on American soil for the first time in that season, with the event slotted for the end of August. That places the championship's top cars and crews in this country a little less than a year from now. For the owner who follows the sport through the homologation cars in a collection, it means the competition machinery those road cars descend from will be running in anger here rather than on a feed from overseas. The confirmation comes by way of the calendar itself, which is the only document that settles where a championship season actually goes. Further particulars of the American round, including its host region and route, were not part of what the calendar announcement carried.
What They Drive

Porsche Puts a Date on the Mission S, and American Collectors Can Start Clearing the Calendar

Porsche has told the world when it will show its next supercar. The marque will pull the cover off a concept called the Mission S on October 15. That is the whole of what the company has committed to so far: a name and a day. For the owners and collectors in Palm Beach, Beverly Hills and Aspen who follow Stuttgart's top-tier cars with more attention than most, the confirmation itself is the news. What the Mission S looks like, and what it means for the road car that may follow, waits for the fifteenth.
Class of Florida

A Legorreta in Brentwood Asks $30 Million, and Nobody Has Ever Bought It Before

The late attorney and philanthropist Arthur Greenberg had Ricardo Legorreta design him a house in Brentwood back in the 1990s, and he called it the House of Two Towers. It has never changed hands. Now it can, for $30 million, which is the sort of figure that makes a Palm Beach reader nod and a Naples reader reach for a calculator. What you are paying for is the name on the drawings as much as the land under them. Commissioning Legorreta was not the quick route to a house; it was a decision to live inside an architect's idea for the rest of your life, and Greenberg did exactly that. A first sale of a house like this is a rare thing in any zip code, Los Angeles included. Someone is about to become its second owner ever.
Photo by Tom Wolf | Photography on Flickr
Class of Florida

Porsche's Next Supercar Shows Its Face Oct. 15, Just Ahead of Season

Porsche has confirmed a new supercar is coming, and it has put a date on the first look. The car, a concept the company calls the Mission S, makes its debut on Oct. 15. Beyond the name and the day, the rest waits for the unveiling itself. The timing suits this coast, since the first glimpse arrives a few weeks before the houses from Palm Beach to Port Royal fill back up for the season. Expect the earliest table talk to split along familiar lines: Miami will want it loud, Palm Beach will want it discreet, and Naples will want to know where it parks. For now, the only thing to do is circle the date.
Who Wore What When

Palm Beach, Your Manicure Is About to Get a Little Haunted

Harper's Bazaar has declared the witchy nail the manicure of the season, rounding up 13 ideas and polishes for fall built on the moody, spellbinding end of the color wheel. Picture the darker shades a reader would notice across a dinner table on Worth Avenue in October, the kind that read as deliberate rather than dramatic. There is no particular event or wearer attached to the trend, only the look itself, which makes it a fair one for any local hand to try.
Who Wore What When

Before the Dress, the Day: Sophia Bush Wakes Up on Her Own Clock

The actress has told The Zoe Report that her first act of the day is to let the morning begin unscheduled, with no buzzer deciding when she opens her eyes. The phone, she says, waits too, kept out of reach until the quiet part of the day has had its turn. It is a routine that any reader who has dressed for an early call time will recognize as a small luxury worth more than most closets hold. The same conversation covers the one beauty product that earned its reputation online and has since earned a place in her own kit.
Beverly Hills News

Zachary Levi Takes On a John Wayne Role in Angel's New 'Angel and the Badman'

Angel, the faith-oriented studio and streaming service that dropped the "Studios" from its name last year, has produced a new version of "Angel and the Badman," the 1947 Western that starred John Wayne. Zachary Levi plays the lead in the remake. The film has drawn a notice from Variety, which finds the picture engaging in parts. For a town built on the business of making and remaking movies, the pairing of a classic Wayne title with a company best known for its streaming audience is the kind of release worth watching. Further details on the production, including when and where local audiences can see it, were not part of the initial report.
Beverly Hills News

Aaron Sorkin to Accept Maverick Award at Newport Beach Film Festival on Oct. 17

Aaron Sorkin, the screenwriter and director behind "The Social Reckoning," is scheduled to receive the Maverick Award at the Newport Beach Film Festival on Oct. 17, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The honor recognizes a career that began on the page and has since extended to directing, a path the festival is choosing to single out this year. The festival's program for the evening also includes a live recording of The Hollywood Reporter's "Awards Chatter" podcast, built around the honoree. The event takes place about an hour south of Beverly Hills, in Orange County, which puts one of the industry's most recognizable writers within easy reach of local audiences that evening.
What They Ride

A New Name on the Saratoga Shed Row Brings More Than a Tenth of the Book

Campion & Campion have come to Saratoga for the first time as consignors, and they have not come quietly. Their first draft accounts for more than one horse in every ten in the catalogue, a share that would be notable for an established operation and is remarkable for a newcomer. A reader walking the barns would find the family name doubled on the sign, and the family itself is the point: the Campions put kin ahead of everything else in how the operation is run. That shows in a barn where the people presenting the horses are the people whose name is on the stall cards. Saratoga rewards consignors who can show a horse well and stand behind it, and a first-year outfit holding that much of the book has committed fully to doing both. Buyers working the aisles this season will meet the name early and often.
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What They Ride

Brown Returns to the Flower Bowl With a Half-Million on the Line

The Flower Bowl Stakes runs Thursday, carrying Grade 2 status and a purse of half a million dollars. Trainer Chad Brown has a runner in the field, and he has sent out the winner of this race before. That history is the reason the turf crowd will be watching the saddling paddock closely when his entry walks over. For a stable that has made the big grass races on the East Coast its particular business, the Flower Bowl is familiar ground.
What It Sold For

Sophie Elgort Credits Anna Wintour With Reshaping How She Works, and Says So On Camera

Sophie Elgort, whose work spans photography, directing, producing and hosting, is the face of the second season of "Portrait Mode." In it she recounts a path that began in competitive skiing and ended behind a lens, and she describes a piece of guidance from Anna Wintour that altered the way she approaches her work. For a photographer accustomed to deciding how others are seen, the new season puts her own account on the record.
What It Sold For

An Upper West Side Residence Hosts the Neighborhood's Best Dance Floor

The most spirited room on the Upper West Side this week was not a listing. It was the New Jewish Home, where residents took the floor for an evening dressed up in the style of the 1980s. The dance of choice was the Electric Slide, done in lines, the way it was meant to be. New York Cares, the volunteer organization, put the night together. A building earns its place on a block by what happens inside it, and on this night the address had the whole neighborhood beat.
What It Sold For

Gap Takes the Whitney's Lichtenstein Show Off the Wall and Onto the Rack

A Manhattan museum and a national clothing retailer have found common ground in Roy Lichtenstein. The Whitney Museum of American Art is pairing with Gap on apparel drawn from the artist's work, timed to the institution's forthcoming exhibition "Roy Lichtenstein: Like New." Meg Onli, who holds the Nancy and Fred Poses curatorship, and Jack Sachs, who oversees the museum's retail and licensing business, have spoken about how the paintings were translated into garments. For readers who follow what the city's cultural institutions build, buy and license, it is a reminder that a museum's holdings can travel well beyond its galleries.
What It Sold For

Boston's Affordable Art Fair Returns With More Than 400 Artists

The Affordable Art Fair is back in Boston for a second year, and the roster has real scale to it: upward of four hundred artists, drawn from forty-five countries. For a fair built on the premise that a first purchase should be within reach, that is a wide field to walk, and a reader who covers houses for a living will recognize the appeal at once. Walls need something on them, and a new owner furnishing a Beacon Hill townhouse or a Back Bay apartment is exactly the buyer a fair like this is designed to meet. The format rewards looking rather than knowing: work is priced to be bought on the spot, and the pleasure is in finding the piece that will hang over the mantel for the next twenty years. That the fair has come back for a second edition says the city answered the first one. For a market title, the arithmetic is the story: four hundred-plus makers, forty-five flags, one American city, and a weekend in which a good deal of art will find a home.
What It Sold For

The Sale Winds Down, and Thirty-Six Finds Remain for the House

Amazon's Prime Day has entered its closing stretch, and the editors of Architectural Digest have gone through what is still marked down and settled on thirty-six items for the home. The list is a late one by design, drawn from the offers that outlasted the opening rush rather than from the first-morning frenzy. For anyone furnishing a new address in Palm Beach or Aspen this fall, it is a shortlist assembled by people who spend their working lives looking at rooms.
What It Sold For

Michael S. Smith Furnishes the Obamas' Working Rooms at the Chicago Presidential Center

The newest address on Chicago's South Side now has its interiors on the record. Michael S. Smith, among the most sought-after decorators in the country, has completed the private offices of Barack and Michelle Obama inside the presidential center rising there. Elle Decor was given the first walk-through of the rooms. These are not public galleries but the working quarters of the former president and first lady, the spaces where the two will actually sit, read and receive. Smith's brief, as Elle Decor describes it, was to make rooms that feel at once settled and forward-looking, suited to a couple with a long second act ahead of them. For readers who follow how the best American houses are finished, the pairing of this designer with this client on this site is the news.
What They Drive

Headlights That See Farther and Dazzle Less Are Coming to American Roads

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration intends to bring its lighting regulations up to date, with two aims in mind: lamps that throw less light into the eyes of oncoming drivers, and lamps that simply do their job better. The agency plans to get there by lining American requirements up with the international ones. For anyone who covers real miles after dark, whether a late run up the coast road or the drive home from a Saturday morning cars-and-coffee, that is plain good news for the view through the windshield and for the drivers on the other side of it.
What They Drive

The Tesla in the Garage Can Now Run the House

Owners of the Model 3 and Model Y, the two cars that make up the bulk of Tesla's output, are gaining the ability to send power from the battery back into their homes. The capability arrives through an updated inverter that Tesla is phasing into production of the two models rather than introducing all at once. For an American driveway, it means the sedan or crossover parked outside doubles as a reserve of electricity for the house behind it.
What They Drive

Car and Driver Puts a 1976 Saab 99EMS Back on the Clock, and It Holds Up

Car and Driver has run a 1976 Saab 99EMS through a fresh instrumented test, fifty years on from the model year. The verdict is a kind one: the magazine finds that the sober, engineering-first thinking Saab was known for still rewards the driver today. For American owners and collectors who have kept a 99EMS in the garage, that is a welcome endorsement from a title that measured these cars when they were new. We have not driven this example ourselves, and we take the magazine's numbers as theirs.
Private Jet Owners

Behind Every Load of Freight, a Trained Hand

Flying has put out a guide to the air cargo specialist, the trade that keeps freight moving through the system. The role exists on both sides of the fence, in the armed services and at the commercial carriers. Its holders are the people whose training is what stands between a manifest and a load that departs on time and arrives intact. For anyone weighing a way into aviation that does not run through the flight deck, the guide lays out how the job is reached.
Private Jet Owners

A Skywagon With the Big-Ticket Mods Already Paid For

Flying has singled out a 1974 Cessna A185F Skywagon in its AircraftForSale listings, and what earns the nod is the equipment rather than the airframe's vintage. The airplane sits on Alaskan Bushwheels and swings a Hartzell propeller installed under an STC, two modifications that otherwise land on the next owner's invoice after closing. With both already in place, the buyer is not budgeting a tire-and-prop project before the first trip to a gravel bar or a ridge-top strip. That matters to an owner whose main airplane lives on a paved ramp and needs five thousand feet of it; the Skywagon is the one that gets to places the jet only flies over. It is a conventional-gear airplane, so the listing is aimed at a pilot who intends to work it rather than admire it.
Private Jet Owners

Sixth Year Running, San Martin Puts Its Ramp on Display

San Martin Airport is hosting its annual community gathering again, now in its sixth year, and the format stays close to what owners based there will recognize: aircraft parked for the public to walk around, meals served from vehicles rather than a terminal, musicians playing on the field, and hands-on programming meant to draw families as well as pilots. For a general aviation field, a day like this is as much about the neighbors as the airplanes. An open ramp, a crowd that stays for lunch, and a lineup of parked aircraft do more for an airport's standing in its town than any amount of quiet operation does. Owners who keep a hangar at San Martin get the benefit either way, whether they bring their own aircraft out to the line or simply watch the field fill up. A sixth consecutive year suggests the airport has found something that works and has chosen to keep doing it.
Icons of Palm Beach

Southampton's Kitchen Secrets Travel South for the Season

Olivia Tiedemann cooks in Southampton homes where the people who own the kitchen rarely stand in it, and she has decided to talk about what she has seen there. Town & Country has her describing the habits of that household from the only vantage that counts, behind the range with the family on the other side of the door. Anyone who has staffed a house on the North End will recognize the arrangement, and anyone who has run one will want to know how a Hamptons kitchen compares to their own. The migration of cooks, housekeepers and hosts between Long Island's summer and our winter means her observations will land on familiar tables here well before Thanksgiving.
Class of Nashville

Marquee Sets a Table for the Kind of Night Nashville Used to Dress For

Marquee is a room that treats dinner and a drink as one unbroken evening rather than two stops, done in the style of an earlier era when a night out had a certain polish to it. Nashville Guru has gone through its doors and come back with a tour of the place, which is reason enough for anyone who prefers a proper table and a well-made cocktail over a crowded bar to take notice. For a city whose reputation rests on what happens after the sun goes down, a spot built around lingering well and looking the part is exactly the sort of arrival worth marking.
Beverly Hills News

DOC NYC Sets November Dates in Manhattan, Adds Online Run Through Nov. 29

The documentary festival DOC NYC will hold its 2026 edition in Manhattan from Nov. 11 to Nov. 19, according to Variety Film. Screenings will then remain available to stream through Nov. 29. The 2026 festival marks the event's 17th edition. Titles announced for the program include "Union Town" and "The Hummingbird Paints Fragrant Songs," the latter directed by Èlia Gasull Balada and Matteo Norzi. Additional selections were named as part of the lineup announcement.
Beverly Hills News

Norwegian Actress Pia Tjelta Cast in Second Season of Peacock Spy Drama 'The Day of the Jackal'

Pia Tjelta, an actress from Norway, has been cast in the second season of "The Day of the Jackal," the spy drama that streams in the United States on Peacock and airs in Britain on Sky. Her earlier screen credits include "Jo Nesbø's Detective Hole" and "Don't Call Me Mama." The series is coming back for a new season after a successful first run, and Tjelta's addition brings another performer from outside the United States into its cast.
Beverly Hills News

John Turturro Set to Receive Festival Honor in Miami This November

John Turturro, the Emmy-winning actor who also writes and directs, is the next recipient of the Creative Vanguard Award presented by Variety. The trade publication will hand him the prize during the GEMS program of the Miami Film Festival, which is run by Miami Dade College. The presentation is scheduled for a Monday in November. The award recognizes Turturro's body of work across acting, writing and directing, and it puts a familiar name from the Los Angeles screen community on a Florida stage for the occasion.
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Beverly Hills News

A New Country Joins the Oscar Field: Rwanda Sends Its First Film to the Academy

Rwanda has put forward a film for the Academy Awards for the first time in its history. The country's choice is "Ben'Imana," directed by Marie-Clementine Dusabejambo. It will compete for a place in the international feature category at the 99th Academy Awards. The submission makes Rwanda a newcomer among the nations that send one film a year to the Academy in that category. Dusabejambo's film now carries her country's name into a contest that ends on a stage in Los Angeles.
Beverly Hills News

Six-Part Horror Series Set in the World of "Talk to Me" Is Headed to Meta

A new horror series titled "I Let You In" is coming to Meta, Variety Film reports. The series extends the story world of the film "Talk to Me." It is built in an immersive format and runs six episodes. Meta is the only place the series will be offered, and the production was made with Meta's platform in mind from the start. Meta has also released a first look at the series. For Beverly Hills readers who follow the entertainment business, the project marks a new kind of release for a horror property moving from film into a headset-based format.
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Beverly Hills News

New Production Partnership Opens With Remake of 1981 Lucio Fulci Film

Hangtime International Pictures and Severin Films have joined forces, and the first project under their new arrangement will be a fresh version of "The Beyond," the 1981 horror picture directed by Lucio Fulci. The two companies framed the agreement as an ongoing collaboration meant to produce additional genre titles beyond this one. For readers in a town whose business is the making of movies, the announcement marks one more piece of film history being readied for a new audience.
Beverly Hills News

Fulci's 1981 Horror Film 'The Beyond' to Be Remade Under New Studio Alliance

Hangtime International Pictures and Severin Films have joined forces, and their first project together will be a new version of "The Beyond," the 1981 horror picture directed by Lucio Fulci. The two companies described the arrangement as an ongoing collaboration rather than a single-film deal, with additional genre titles planned to follow. The original is an Italian production that has long held a place among horror enthusiasts, and the remake marks the opening entry in the pair's shared slate. No cast, director, or release date for the new film has been announced.
Beverly Hills News

Daytime Emmys to Honor Byron Allen, Meredith Vieira and Patrika Darbo for Career Longevity

The Daytime Emmys will induct Byron Allen, Meredith Vieira and Patrika Darbo into the Gold and Silver Circles this year, according to Variety. Allen founded Allen Media Group and leads the company as its chairman and chief executive. Vieira is a television host who has also worked as an executive producer. Darbo is an actress. The three are part of a larger group of inductees, and the Gold and Silver Circles are the Daytime Emmys' recognition for sustained careers in the medium. Variety did not list the remaining honorees in its summary.
Beverly Hills News

Vaynerchuk Picks VeeFriends as the Venture He Expects to Outgrow the Rest

Gary Vaynerchuk is concentrating his efforts on VeeFriends, the collectibles brand he founded, and told Variety it has the potential to become the largest company of his career. The VaynerX chairman has previously backed ventures including the restaurant reservation platform Resy and the label Empathy Wines, both of which Variety cites as examples of businesses he helped turn profitable. He also maintains a sizable following on YouTube, where he is known to viewers as GaryVee. According to the report, the commitment to VeeFriends marks a change in emphasis for an entrepreneur whose earlier work spanned several unrelated industries. Variety spoke with Vaynerchuk about his reasoning for the decision.
Beverly Hills News

VaynerX Chairman Names VeeFriends as the Venture He Is Betting On

Gary Vaynerchuk, the chairman of VaynerX, has told Variety he is devoting his full attention to VeeFriends, his collectibles company. Vaynerchuk, who also goes by GaryVee, said the brand has the potential to become the largest enterprise of his career. His track record includes a role in building Resy and Empathy Wines, and he has a large following on YouTube alongside his business work. Variety reported the remarks in an interview about his decision to concentrate on the collectibles label.
Beverly Hills News

CBS Adds a Vampire Comedy to Its Lineup With "Eternally Yours"

CBS has a new sitcom, "Eternally Yours," built around vampires sharing a home. The network has not labeled it a companion to "Ghosts," its established hit, but a Variety review finds the two shows working from the same premise: housemates who happen to be undead, played for laughs rather than frights. For the Los Angeles audience that follows broadcast comedy closely, the arrival of a second show in this mold on the same network is the news. Variety's critic describes the result as good-natured, a cousin to "Ghosts" rather than a copy.
Beverly Hills News

Netflix Lines Up a Best Actress Campaign for Jeon Do-yeon This Awards Season

Netflix intends to campaign for Lee Chang-dong's Korean-language film "Possible Love" at the Academy Awards, with Jeon Do-yeon put forward in the lead actress category. The streaming company is backing both the picture and its star as awards season gets under way. The effort arrives seven cycles after "Parasite" cleared the way for films not in English to compete at the highest level of the Academy's honors. For readers here, where the awards calendar shapes the winter, it places a Korean drama and its lead performer among the titles to watch in the months ahead. Netflix has not been reported to have detailed the scope of the campaign beyond the film and the actress it is supporting.
Who Wore What When

Feed Me's Emily Sundberg Sits Down With Derek Blasberg

The founder of Feed Me, the newsletter that insiders read before anyone else does, is the subject of a new Harper's Bazaar conversation with Derek C. Blasberg. Sundberg talks through what it means to hold sway over an audience today, and how she grew a dispatch into a media company of her own. She also looks back on the era of the celebrated female founder, and what it taught the ones who came after. It is a founder's portrait, told in her own words, of a publication that earned its following one send at a time.
Who Wore What When

Three Directors Get the Close-Up Usually Reserved for Their Stars

Ava DuVernay, Gina Prince-Bythewood and Beth de Araújo are the subjects of a new Elle conversation about the films that have had audiences talking all season. For once the attention lands on the women who called the shots rather than on the gowns that walked their premieres. It is a reminder that the most interesting credit on a poster is sometimes the one printed smallest, and that a director's name is worth learning before the carpet unrolls.
Who Wore What When

Height Before the Tiara: Elle Names the Cuts That Bring Fullness Back After 50

Anyone who has watched a crowning knows the hair does half the work, and Elle has now put together its picks for women past fifty who want that same rise without the stage lights. The guide moves from carefully placed layering to shorter shapes built for lift, each chosen for how much body it coaxes from the hair that is actually there. Nothing on the list asks for extensions or a stylist on call, only a cut with a point of view. For a readership that has spent decades studying how a look holds up under a spotlight, the thinking is familiar: the right shape does the heavy lifting.
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Who Wore What When

Cotton Gets a Second Life, and Fashion for Good Wants Houses to Wear It

The cotton in next season's closet may have already been in someone else's. Fashion for Good has set up a project to move mechanically recycled cotton from the pilot stage into labels' actual production runs. The fiber itself, by the organization's account, is capable of being produced in volume now. What has lagged is the willingness of the houses to commit, and that is the hesitation this effort is meant to put to rest.
Who Wore What When

Gap's Vintage Year Is 1996, and the Look Was a Website

For a desk that dates everything by designer and season, here is a fresh entry for the archive: Gap counts 1996 as a landmark year, the moment the American retailer took up the newest tools of its day and opened its first online shop. The company is now revisiting that chapter as it brings artificial intelligence into its business, treating the old milestone as a point of comparison rather than a keepsake. Call it a double-exposure portrait, one frame from the dial-up era and one from the present, with the same brand in both.
Who Wore What When

Selena Gomez and Shay Mitchell Do a Sequel, and This One Packs More

Selena Gomez and Shay Mitchell are back at it together. Rare Beauty, the makeup house Gomez founded, and Béis, Mitchell's luggage label, have teamed up for a second time, and this round is bigger than the first. Eight items make up the new drop, covering both what goes in the carry-on and what goes on the face before landing. It is a pairing with its own logic, a cosmetics founder and a luggage founder meeting somewhere between the vanity and the departure gate. For a desk that keeps track of who wore what and when, the encore is the telling part: the first outing earned a second, and the second arrived with more to its name.
Who Wore What When

Spring 2027 Was Decided From the Ankle Down

The runways of the Spring/Summer 2027 season, New York's among them, handed the spotlight to the shoes, and the shoes did not give it back. Where a clothes-first season asks you to read a look from the shoulders downward, this one invited the eye to start at the floor and work up. For a reader who dresses for a Palm Beach evening or a Beverly Hills lunch, the takeaway is pleasantly simple: next spring, the pair you choose will carry the sentence rather than finish it.
Who Wore What When

A New York Swim Label Gives Old Cloth a Second Season in the Sun

Veronika Vilim makes swimwear in New York from material that has already lived one life, turning reclaimed textiles into suits cut with a sculptor's eye. The house has built its name on shape, on lines that hold their form rather than simply follow the body. Standing poolside, a reader would notice the structure first; that the cloth came from somewhere else before is the quieter half of the story. It is a fitting thing to make in a city that treats the swimsuit as a piece of design rather than an afterthought.
Who Wore What When

Mark the Date: Rosalind Eleazar Arrives With Misty Green on October 9

Rosalind Eleazar, an actress from across the pond, is the name to learn before the weekend. Chris Rock's new film Misty Green reaches screens on October 9, and the performance drawing the attention is hers. She sat down with Bazaar to discuss the role that has made her the discovery of the picture, and the magazine's headline suggests she is not one for tidy resolutions. For a title that keeps the records on who arrived where and when, this is the arrival to write down.
Who Wore What When

The Fit Check Now Happens Before the Dress Ever Leaves the Sewing Room

Anyone who has stood on a pedestal while a tailor pins a hem knows that fit is where a garment is won or lost, and the apparel trade pays for its misses in the millions. Kyle Valade, the founder of Rust Coast, is going after that cost at the source. His company puts cameras and machine vision right beside the people sewing the clothes, so each piece is checked the moment it is made. For readers who judge a gown by its photograph, where a quarter-inch at the waist is the whole story, that is the unglamorous kind of craft worth a round of applause.
Who Wore What When

Pinstripes, Meet Métiers d'Art: Dua Lipa Takes Chanel Crocodile Out to the Ball Game

A Yankees game is not usually where one goes looking for the season's best outerwear, but Dua Lipa made it one. For her night with the Yankees she chose a coat in burgundy crocodile from Chanel's Métiers d'Art collection, the house's showcase for its ateliers and their handwork. Against a sea of navy caps and stadium jackets, a wine-dark croc coat is the sort of thing a bystander notices before the scoreboard. It is a reminder that there is no such thing as dressing too well for a night out, even one that comes with a seventh-inning stretch.
Who Wore What When

A Manhattan Skin Doctor Weighs In on Scented Serums, and Her Favorite Tip Costs Nothing

A New York City dermatologist is settling the question of whether perfume belongs anywhere near your face cream, in a new installment of Fashionista's on-camera skin-care series. The sit-down covers what scented formulas actually do once they are on skin, with the kind of plain answer only a doctor who sees Manhattan complexions all day can give. She also names the products from her own office shelves that she applies without rationing, which is as close to a backstage pass as skin care gets. And for readers who would rather not add another bottle to the vanity, she offers one piece of advice that requires no purchase at all. Consider it the beauty equivalent of a well-fitted dress: the good counsel here is in the details, and this doctor is giving them away.
Who Wore What When

New York Gets a New Producer's Chair, No Commute Required

Kalpana, the small management outfit whose roster runs to names at the top of beauty and fashion, has an opening on the production side of the house. The post is pinned to New York, which puts it squarely in the city where the lookbooks, campaigns and front rows it serves are made. The twist is that the work can be done entirely from wherever the hire keeps their desk, Manhattan address or not. For anyone who has ever wrangled a call sheet and wanted their name attached to the people who set the season's look, this is the listing to read twice.
Who Wore What When

Emma Stone Brought Louis Vuitton's Spring 2027 to New York Overnight

Emma Stone arrived at the New York Film Festival premiere of "The Debut" in a Louis Vuitton dress that had been walking a Paris runway a day earlier. The piece belongs to the house's spring 2027 collection, which means it reached Manhattan before it reached a single showroom. Stone's version was not lifted straight off the catwalk but reworked for her, a fitting rather than a borrowing. That is a tight turnaround by any standard: a collection shown in Paris, a dress adjusted for the actress, and a red carpet in New York, all within a day. For the film festival, it is a quiet coup, the newest look of the season making its first evening out on a Lincoln-side-of-the-Atlantic carpet rather than a European one. For New York, it is a reminder that when the house and the actress are both willing, the city still gets things first.
Who Wore What When

Edgar-Jones and Creed-Miles Put Thirty Years of Chloé and Simone Rocha on One Los Angeles Carpet

Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles turned up for "Sense and Sensibility" in Los Angeles on Wednesday evening dressed, between them, by two houses a generation apart. One of the labels was Chloé, as it was in the 1990s. The other was Simone Rocha, as she is now, in the 2020s. For an Austen title, that is a neat bit of casting in cloth: the older piece carries the archive, the newer one carries the present, and the pair of them stand side by side on the same step. Anyone watching the arrivals would have clocked the contrast before reading a single label. It is the kind of pairing this desk exists to note, a vintage find and a current-season look sharing one Los Angeles night.
What They Collect

The Artist Behind LOVE Gets a Fresh Reading in a New Phaidon Book

Robert Indiana, the painter and sculptor whose stacked letters spelling LOVE became one of the most recognizable images in American art, is the subject of a new volume from Phaidon. The book includes an essay by art historian Prudence Peiffer, who takes up the question of what shaped him and how the country he worked in figures into his work. Her reading runs in both directions, treating the artist as a product of American life and American life as something his pictures helped to define. For collectors who have lived with his work on walls and in sculpture gardens, the essay offers a considered account of where that familiar image came from.
What They Collect

Before Anyone Wrote a Word, Someone Was Already Making Instruments

The first makers worked in bone, hollowed and pierced so it would sing, and in hide, pulled tight so it would answer a hand. Those objects came before any town and before any script, which means the things themselves outran the records of them by thousands of years. For a reader who cares about craft, that order matters: the maker arrived first, and the archive followed. Any American who has stood in a gallery admiring a well-shaped instrument is looking at the far end of that same line.
What They Collect

Jenny Holzer, Rose Wylie and Xu Zhen Are Heading for the Slopes

Three sculptures are joining the open-air collection kept by the Powder Art Foundation in time for the 2026-27 winter. The additions come from Jenny Holzer, Rose Wylie and Xu Zhen, three artists whose names carry weight far beyond any mountain. With them in place, the foundation's count of outdoor pieces reaches 16, set across the terrain of the resort it calls home. That is the part a collector will notice: this is not a lobby hung with loans but a growing holding, built one commission at a time and left out in the weather for anyone with a lift ticket to find. A skier pausing at the top of a run meets the work the way a walker meets a bronze in a public square, without a wall label or a velvet rope. For readers who follow where serious contemporary art is settling in this country, a pass to the mountain now doubles as admission to one of its more unusual sculpture parks.
Photo by Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA on Wikimedia
What They Collect

Hammer Museum Names a New Chair to Lead Its Board

The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles has a new chair at the head of its board of trustees. The change was noted in ARTnews's roundup of industry appointments dated October 8, 2026. For a museum that sits on the Westwood edge of the UCLA campus and is a fixture of the city's collecting and exhibition calendar, leadership of the board is a seat that matters well beyond its own walls. The museum has not been quoted on the appointment in the report, and the new chair's name was not included in the summary that reached this desk.
What They Collect

What Ted and Ruth Baum Collected: Rothko, Ruscha, Mitchell, Klein and a $100 Million Sale at Sotheby's

Sotheby's will bring the collection of Ted and Ruth Baum to auction, a group of works the house has placed at $100 million. At the front of the sale are two paintings, one by Mark Rothko and one by Ed Ruscha, the pair of $15 million pictures around which the rest of the consignment is arranged. The names that follow describe a taste that moved comfortably between the two sides of the Atlantic. From this country there is Joan Mitchell, alongside Ruscha, and from Europe there are Lucio Fontana and Yves Klein. That is a particular kind of eye, one that could hold a Rothko and a Klein in the same rooms and see the conversation between them. For readers who follow what changes hands, this is the sort of single-owner sale that sets the reference points for a season.
What They Collect

A New Name on the Hudson: Gochman Collection Opens Branchline This November

The Gochman Family Collection has settled on what to call its Hudson Valley home. The space will go by Branchline, and it opens to visitors in November. A first show, titled "Line Break," will set the tone for what the building is for. Among the artists on its walls will be Teresa Baker, Raven Chacon and Emmi Whitehorse, with others joining them in the hang. For a New York reader, that is a short drive north to see a private collection choose its first public word. The title of the show and the name of the place share a thread, and that is the kind of deliberate choice a new institution makes when it wants to be read closely from day one. The rest of the roster, and the hours, will follow as the opening nears.
Photo by Shardayyy Photography on Unsplash
Beverly Hills Brides

A Guide Put the Coffee Bar Where the Room Has Room, and Beverly Hills Kitchens Took Note

Green Wedding Shoes released a roundup of thirty-nine coffee station setups for 2026, and it arranged them by the spot in the house each one occupies rather than by style or palette. The organizing idea was that the place comes first. A narrow strip of countertop, a single unused cabinet, and an empty stretch of wall were among the starting points named, and the guide grouped its stations into five such locations. For a reader in a Beverly Hills kitchen where every inch of marble is already spoken for, the premise is the useful part: the station is built to fit the gap that exists, not the one a mood board imagines.
What It Sold For

A Fifth Off a Saatva Bed for the House You Just Closed On

The mattress that goes into a newly bought home has its own price tag this month. Saatva is cutting 20 percent from its top-tier models, with the discount reserved for readers of Elle Decor. On the most expensive beds in the line, that reduction reaches as much as $1,000. For anyone furnishing a primary suite after a closing, that figure sits on the record alongside everything else the house cost. The offer covers the brand's luxury tier rather than its full range, and it runs through the magazine rather than the retailer's own front door.
What It Sold For

The Hardy Houseplant That Suits a House With Owners Away Half the Year

A guide from Elle Decor turns to specialists on the snake plant, the upright, blade-leaved stalwart that shows up in so many Florida foyers and Hamptons sunrooms. The verdict is that the plant earns its reputation for resilience and asks very little of whoever is looking after it. For a seasonal household, where a residence may sit quiet between visits, that durability is precisely the quality worth having in a plant. It is, in short, a species built to be forgiving.
What It Sold For

Nineteen Window Treatments the Interiors Press Would Hang in Its Own Home

Architectural Digest has put its name to a list of nineteen curtains, every one of them available through Amazon. The selection comes from the magazine's own editorial staff, the people who spend their working days looking at finished rooms, rather than from an outside panel. The appeal is plain enough for anyone furnishing a house from Palm Beach to Aspen: a dressed window is the fastest way to make a room look considered, and the shopping here requires no showroom appointment. The 2026 list is the full extent of what the magazine has published so far.
What It Sold For

Furnishing a House for Prime Day, One Room at a Time

Architectural Digest has assembled twenty-nine furniture deals from this year's Prime Day and arranged them according to where in the house each piece would go. The organizing idea suits anyone outfitting a new address rather than hunting for a single bargain: start at the front door and work through the floor plan. For a reader in Palm Beach or Aspen taking possession of a house this season, that is a sensible way to think about a sale, by the space to be filled rather than by the discount. The guide is meant to be read as a reference, not a wish list.
What It Sold For

Architectural Digest Editors Narrow Amazon's Prime Day to 38 Items for the House

Architectural Digest has gone through Amazon's Prime Day offers and come back with 38 selections for the home, each chosen by one of the magazine's own editors. The roundup is framed two ways: as an early move on the season's presents, and as a reason to furnish one's own rooms a little better. For readers here, the value is the editing itself, with a sale that sprawling reduced to a short roster by people who look at houses for a living.
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Class of Nashville

The Industry Lines Up at The Pinnacle for IEBA's Night of Honors

The International Entertainment Buyers Association gathered its own on Tuesday night, Oct. 6, for its 2026 Honors & Awards, and the room it chose was The Pinnacle. The evening recognized the year's industry award winners and welcomed a new class into the association's Hall of Fame. For a city where the business of live music is run from offices a short drive from Green Hills, a night like this is less a ceremony than a roll call of the people who book the rooms and route the tours. The honors went to the side of the industry that rarely stands onstage, which is exactly why a dedicated evening for them matters here.
Class of Nashville

Two of Texas's Rowdiest Headliners Pick December for a Holiday Run

Koe Wetzel and Parker McCollum are getting back together on the road, and they have chosen the holidays to do it. The pair will headline the Naughty Or Nice Tour this December, a seasonal outing that pairs their music with the kind of good-natured trouble the title promises. For the Green Hills crowd that follows the industry's touring calendar as closely as its charts, a year-end billing built around two established draws is the sort of news that gets passed around before the first cold snap.
Class of Nashville

Reliant Talent Agency Puts a Former Owner in the Corporate Chair

Michelle Romeo has taken a seat at Reliant Talent Agency, where she will work as Corporate Agent. She arrives having previously been a co-owner of a business that carried her own surname, which makes this a move from running the shop to representing the talent inside it. In this town the corporate side of booking is where artists meet the companies that pay to have them in the room, and it is the kind of quiet, well-connected work Green Hills tends to notice before anyone else does.
Class of Nashville

Matthew West Isn't Done Yet: Eighteen More Dates Carry the Jesus Is King Tour Through Spring

The Jesus Is King Tour was supposed to have a finish line. Matthew West has moved it. A fresh run of eighteen shows now stretches the tour across the spring calendar, well past where the original routing ended. For an artist, that is the quiet kind of win: the rooms kept filling, so the booking kept going. It is also the kind of news this town treats as its own, since the business side of a tour like this tends to get worked out in offices not far from Green Hills. Expect the spring leg to look like the fall one, with a bigger map underneath it.
Class of Nashville

Old Dominion Closes Out a Second Year on the Florida Sand

Old Dominion spent last weekend in Florida's Miramar, hosting the Moon Crush gathering the band calls its Odies Beach Vacation, and the event is now in the books for a second year running. The name tells you the whole premise. A band and the people who follow it leave the arena circuit behind and share a few days on the beach, with the Gulf-coast light doing the work a lighting rig usually does. Coming back for a second edition is its own kind of review: the first one earned the repeat. From where we sit, that is the pleasure of covering an act whose business runs through this town while its best weekends happen somewhere with sand underfoot, and the Odies get the rare chance to see the band with its shoes off. The weekend has ended, the guests have gone home, and the name on the event now has a second year attached to it.
What They Drive

Road & Track Finds the 2027 GLE450 Sharper in Nearly Every Detail

Road & Track has put the 2027 Mercedes-Benz GLE450 through its testing and come away calling it the strongest mid-size SUV the marque has yet built. The magazine's verdict rests on how much has changed: by its account, the underlying architecture is close to the only element carried over, and almost every revision lands on the right side of the ledger. For owners who have kept a GLE in the garage through earlier model years, that is the useful note, since a familiar platform now carries a thoroughly reworked car above it. We have not driven the 2027 GLE450 ourselves and report the result as the magazine published it.
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What They Drive

The 2027 Mercedes-Benz GLE, GLE Coupe and GLS Show Their Sheetmetal

Mercedes-Benz's three big SUVs for the 2027 model year, the GLE, the GLE Coupe and the GLS, now appear in a full set of exterior photographs. The pictures cover the bodywork all the way around, front, side and rear, so an owner weighing which of the three belongs in the garage can study the lines before standing next to one. Nothing of the cabin is shown here, only what the car presents to the street. For readers in Palm Beach and Naples, where these three are as common on a weekday morning as any car on the road, it is a chance to compare the 2027 model year against the one parked outside right now.
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What They Drive

A First Look Inside the Cabins of Mercedes-Benz's 2027 GLE and GLS

Mercedes-Benz's next generation of big SUVs has shown its cabin, and Car and Driver has published a full photo gallery of the 2027 GLE, GLE Coupe and GLS interiors. The set covers the three models comprehensively, with the seats, dash and surrounding surfaces photographed from each vantage point rather than in a single studio shot. For the owners on our side of the bridge who rotate through a GLE or GLS as the family car and keep the collection for Sunday, this is the first proper chance to study where they will actually spend their time. We have not sat in one, so we will reserve judgment on the materials and fit until we do.
What They Drive

For GLE and GLS Owners, the 2027 Update Starts Under the Hood

Mercedes-Benz has revised its two largest SUVs for the 2027 model year, and Car and Driver has already had both behind the wheel. Its drive found the engine and transmission combinations smoother than before, with that improvement standing out among the other revisions to the pair. The verdict was that the changes revive two models that have been on the road a while, rather than merely tidy them up. We have not driven the 2027 cars ourselves, so owners weighing a trade from an earlier GLE or GLS should read this as their account, not ours.
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The Capital Set

A Medal of Freedom for the Mound: Roger Clemens Joins the Honors List

President Trump has announced that Roger Clemens, who pitched in the major leagues for more than two decades, will be presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The medal is the country's highest civilian honor, and its recipients are chosen at the President's discretion, which places a ballplayer alongside the statesmen, artists and philanthropists who typically fill the roll. In the capital, each new name on the list is read as a signal of what the White House wishes to celebrate, and this one celebrates the pitcher's mound. No date for the presentation has been made public.
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What They Collect

Where a Collection Begins, and Who Gets to See It

The newest Art Basel and UBS survey of high-net-worth collectors finds artificial intelligence taking a growing role in how the most affluent buyers go about assembling what they own. The same study put two questions to its respondents that it had never posed before: what first drew them into buying, and how they decide whether the world should know what hangs on their walls. For a title that follows what changes hands from Palm Beach to Los Angeles, those answers are the ones worth reading closely.
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What They Collect

Gallery Records From New York's Storied Dealers Can Now Be Read From Anywhere

The archives of several of New York's most celebrated galleries have been made available online, opening a trove of dealer records to anyone with a screen. For collectors, that kind of access turns a trip to the reading room into an evening at home with provenance, exhibition histories and the paper trail behind the pictures that changed hands here. It is the sort of quiet, well-run scholarship that serves the market long after the opening-night crowd has gone.
Beverly Hills News

Genealogy Links Sydney Sweeney to Marilyn Monroe Through a 1600s Massachusetts Settler

Sydney Sweeney and Marilyn Monroe descend from the same man, according to The Hollywood Reporter. That ancestor is Ezra Perry, who was born around 1625 and died in 1689. Perry came from England and lived in Sandwich, Massachusetts, during the town's first decades. Counting down the generations from him, the two actresses are ninth cousins, with one generation separating them. Both women built their careers in Los Angeles, which is why the finding has drawn attention here. The Hollywood Reporter did not say who traced the family line or how.
Beverly Hills News

Julianne Moore's "The Debut" Premieres in New York as Jesse Eisenberg Calls Her Work Perfect

"The Debut" held its New York premiere on Wednesday evening at Alice Tully Hall, the Lincoln Center venue on Manhattan's Upper West Side, according to Variety Film. The screening was part of the New York Film Festival. Jesse Eisenberg praised Julianne Moore at the event, describing her performance in the film as perfect, Variety Film reported. The outlet also characterized Moore as a leading contender in this year's Oscar race on the strength of that performance. Variety Film noted that the hall, with its place at the center of the festival, suited the film's New York debut. No further details of the evening's program were included in the report.
Beverly Hills News

Julianne Moore's Work in "The Debut" Draws Praise From Jesse Eisenberg at New York Premiere

"The Debut" screened for a New York audience on Wednesday evening at Alice Tully Hall, the Lincoln Center venue on Manhattan's Upper West Side. The showing was part of the New York Film Festival's program. Jesse Eisenberg used the occasion to commend Julianne Moore, describing her performance in the film as perfect. The screening marked the picture's first presentation in the city. For readers here, the evening is of note because two performers with long ties to Los Angeles filmmaking brought a new title to one of the fall's major festival stages. Variety also characterized Moore as a leading contender in this year's awards conversation, a description that is the trade paper's own.
Who Wore What When

Sarah Jessica Parker's Beauty Shelf Goes on Sale, From Ten Dollars Up

The eye cream Sarah Jessica Parker treats as indispensable is among a run of her preferred skincare and cosmetics discounted for Amazon's October Prime Day event, with prices opening at ten dollars. For a woman whose on-screen wardrobe has been studied frame by frame for decades, the off-screen routine turns out to be refreshingly within reach of anyone with a shopping cart. Consider it the rare archive piece that does not require an auction paddle.
Who Wore What When

Veronica Roth Sits for the Reading Questionnaire

Veronica Roth, who wrote The Sixth Faction, has answered the book questionnaire that Elle puts to writers under its Shelf Life banner. The format is a standing feature of the magazine, and this installment belongs to her. For readers who track an author's wardrobe as closely as her bibliography, it is the literary equivalent of a well-chosen look on a step-and-repeat: a novelist, on the record, about the books she keeps close. Consider it an open invitation to pull up a chair and read along.
Who Wore What When

Two Hundred Mary McFaddens Fill Woodmere, and the Museum Starts a Lending Library

The Woodmere Art Museum has hung more than 200 pieces by Mary McFadden, which is not a sampling but a wardrobe's worth of a single designer under one roof. A count that high means a visitor can walk the galleries and watch one maker's hand repeat and vary from rack to rack, rather than catching a lone dress in a vitrine. It is the kind of depth a fashion archive dreams about and a museum rarely has the wall space to give. Alongside the show, Woodmere is launching a program for its members called the Lending Library, which lets them borrow rather than simply look. The museum has not said what the shelves will hold, so the sensible move is to join and find out. Either way, a membership now comes with a card that works in two directions: in to see the McFaddens, and out with something tucked under your arm.
Who Wore What When

Sanuk Laces Up: The Sandal Name Plans More Sneakers and a Few Doors of Its Own by 2027

Sanuk, the surf-and-trail label most of us know from the pair left by the pool, is turning its attention to shoes with laces. Having already introduced covered-toe styles, the brand now intends to grow its sneaker lineup and open a small number of stores, with 2027 as the horizon. For a house built on what you wear from the car to the sand, that is a meaningful change of silhouette. It means the same name could soon sit on a shelf beside the everyday trainers rather than only in the summer aisle. Fashion readers who track a brand by the year it changed shape will want to mark this one.
Who Wore What When

Ten Years In, Axel Arigato's Clean 90 Has Its Eye on America

Axel Arigato's Clean 90 sneaker has turned ten, and the company's chief executive, Frédéric Serrant, marked the occasion with his first extended conversation since taking the post. The shoe's first decade was the starting point, but the talk moved quickly to where the label means to grow next, and the United States sits at the top of that list. Also on the table: a planned relocation of the company's headquarters to Sweden. A sneaker still worth a sit-down interview at age ten is a rarer thing than it sounds.
Who Wore What When

Brooklyn Gets the Runway, Paris Gets the Screen

Telfar Clemens is back on the runway, and he chose Brooklyn for it. The designer staged his spring 2027 collection at a big-scale show in the borough. Paris was not left out, though it was asked to watch rather than attend. A livestream of the Brooklyn presentation, announced to the public ahead of time, was shown in the French capital as the show unfolded. The arrangement puts the clothes, the audience and the moment itself in New York, with the Paris crowd gathered around a screen. For a season that so often parcels out its attention across fashion capitals, the order of things here is clear. The collection walked in Brooklyn first, and everywhere else got to look on.
Who Wore What When

Peter Marino Lets the San Diego Sun Into Chanel's Newest Address

Chanel has opened its doors in San Diego, and the rooms are the work of Peter Marino. His design makes a point of blurring the line between the inside and the outdoors, which in Southern California is less a flourish than good manners. Under one roof sit the house's ready-to-wear, its watches and jewelry, and its fragrance and beauty counters, so a visitor need not go elsewhere to finish the thought. The setting is meant to read as Chanel first, with its long legacy intact, and as a Californian neighbor second, shaped by the light and climate just past the glass. For our readers, the pleasure is in the pairing: a Paris house, a New York architect, and a coastal city that knows how to wear an open door.
Who Wore What When

Wolford Takes to Wool: A Merino Debut Arrives Thursday

Wolford and Woolmark have put their names together on a short run of merino pieces made to sit closest to the skin, the first time the two have shared a label. The collection makes its debut Thursday. Merino lives at the fine, soft end of the wool spectrum, the sort that does not prickle, which matters when there is nothing between it and you. For a reader moving between an Aspen morning and a Palm Beach evening this week, that is a material worth knowing about.
Who Wore What When

Aspen and Miami Make Kujten's Short List of American Addresses

Kujten, the cashmere house out of Paris, has decided where its knits will hang next in this country, and two of the three answers sit squarely on our map. New doors are planned for SoHo, for Aspen and for Miami. Once they open, the label will count four stores in the United States. The trio says something about the fabric: Aspen is the obvious home for cashmere once the lifts start turning, while Miami is the more intriguing wager for a material most people file under winter. SoHo rounds things out for the shopper who wants to try a sweater on between a gallery and lunch. For a house that has kept a single American outpost until now, moving to four at once is a confident way of saying hello.
Who Wore What When

Chanel Throws Open the Doors in San Diego, Sunshine Included

The house of Chanel has a new address in San Diego, and the architect on the job is Peter Marino. His design keeps the line between inside and out deliberately soft, a sensible instinct in a city where the weather seldom gives anyone a reason to close a window. Under one roof the boutique gathers the ready-to-wear with timepieces, fine jewelry, scent and makeup, so a visit covers the full range of what the house makes. Marino's rooms are meant to read two ways at once: unmistakably Chanel in their bones, and unmistakably coastal California in their light. For a stretch of the Pacific more often pictured in surf than in tweed, it is a considered arrival, and a handsome one.
Who Wore What When

The Closest Look in Fashion Is No Longer by Appointment Only

The re-see, that quiet hour after a runway show when a collection comes off the models and onto the rack for close inspection, is shedding its velvet rope. What was long a working session for the press and the people writing the orders is turning into something brands film, photograph and post. The upshot for anyone who studies a seam the way we study a sash: the view once reserved for a handful of insiders is becoming the view for everyone. For an archive like ours, that is a very welcome development.
Who Wore What When

The Sellable Dress Finally Gets Its Due

For a long stretch, calling a collection commercial was the politest way a front row had of saying it was forgettable. That reading is shifting: houses are now treating salability as a brief rather than a compromise, building runway shows that hold up on the rack as well as under the lights. The result, by Vogue's account, is work that gets the trade itself genuinely talking. For anyone keeping track of what is actually worn, from the red carpet to the pageant stage, that is welcome news, because the clothes that sell are the clothes that turn up on people.
Who Wore What When

Noguchi and Asawa Hold the Barnes Until the Second Week of January

The Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia has given its galleries over to "Noguchi to Asawa: Designing Postwar America," and the run lasts until January 10, 2027. The billing puts Isamu Noguchi and Ruth Asawa at the top of the card, with a wider company of Japanese American artists credited alongside them for the shape of design in the United States after the war. For a desk that files every gown by house, year and occasion, that is a show organized the way we think: by maker, by era, by what the room was for. The occasion here is the American interior itself, and the designers in question are the ones who decided how it would sit, glow and hang. January 10 sounds generous now, but it is the kind of date that arrives while one is still deciding on the coat. Consider this your calendar note.
What They Sail

At 180 Feet, RMK Puts Two Ideas of Open-Air Living on the Drawing Board

RMK Yachts has released two new designs, Arcane Era and Arcane Nova, each drawn at 55 meters, or about 180 feet. Both are concepts on paper, and the yard offers them as two different answers to the same question: how much of life aboard should happen under a roof, and how much should open to the air and water around it. Both also point to where RMK thinks large-yacht design is going next. For an owner looking out from a Palm Beach dock or a Miami marina, the question is a practical one at this length, where the line between salon and deck shapes how every day on board is spent. The announcement names no naval architect and gives no price.
Private Jet Owners

Your Next Maintenance Hire May Be in a Kansas Classroom

Textron Aviation is starting apprenticeships for Kansas teenagers who are still in school, and the company will pay them while they learn. The work covers three parts of the trade that owners depend on: airframe-and-powerplant maintenance, avionics, and assembling engines. These are the people who sign off your annual, fix the panel when it goes dark, and build the engine on the nose of the aircraft. For anyone who has waited weeks for a shop slot, an employer recruiting technicians before they finish school is worth noting.
Private Jet Owners

Phoenix Will Trial Honeywell's SURF-A Alerting in Airport Service Vehicles

Phoenix's city aviation department and Honeywell Aerospace plan to study Honeywell's Surface Alert system, known as SURF-A, at three airports the city runs. The trial covers the vehicles that work the airfield, not the aircraft. Owners already understand the risk: on a busy morning, a jet taxiing out shares the field with fuel trucks, tugs and operations pickups. This study puts that shared space under examination. For anyone who bases an airplane in the Valley or flies in for the winter season, it is worth watching how the work goes on the ground they already taxi across.
Private Jet Owners

Three Engines, One Taxiway: A TAT Tri-Motor Heads for the Runway

AVweb's picture of the day is a TAT Tri-Motor rolling out under its own power. The photo shows a ground movement on the way to a takeoff, the routine part of any flight. An owner looks at that taxi run and sees what kept the airplane able to do it: an inspection signed off, three engines that started and came up to temperature, and a crew working through its checklist before calling for the runway. Anyone who has ever paid for an annual knows that work doesn't show in the picture.
Private Jet Owners

Tecnam Pitches the P2008JC NG as a Part 23 Replacement for U.S. Training Fleets

Tecnam has a Part 23 trainer, the P2008JC NG, and it is selling the airplane to schools in the United States. The pitch is about economics as much as hardware: a newer airframe that costs less to run than the older trainers most American training operators still fly. The certification basis matters to anyone who has run an airplane on a flight line. A Part 23 type sits in the same regulatory framework as the aircraft its students will move up to, and that is the framework most of our readers' own airplanes were built under. Every pilot who ends up in the left seat of a turboprop or a light jet starts in something like this, so the quality of the training airplane is an owner's concern, even if it is a few steps removed.
Where They Eat

Tequila Meets Champagne in Clase Azul's Día de Muertos Bottle

Clase Azul has released a new top-tier tequila for its Día de Muertos line, and part of its time in wood was spent in casks tied to Champagne. The release opens a new stage for a series the house reserves for its most rarefied pours. For the American table, it's an unusual meeting: agave from one great drinks tradition finished with the influence of another, timed for the holiday it's named for. We haven't tasted it, so we won't say how it drinks. That pairing alone is enough to make a collector look twice.
Icons of Palm Beach

Where the Dog Sleeps Is a Matter of Taste, Too

Town & Country has put together a list of twenty well-made beds for dogs, which on this island means for the household members who are rarely left at home. The list treats a dog's bed as a real piece of furniture, chosen with the same care as anything else in the room. Here, it might sit in a loggia, beside a cool stone floor or near the open doors, where it's in plain view of guests. It's a short list, and it starts from the idea that a dog's comfort and a house's good looks can be the same choice.
Icons of Palm Beach

Forty Ideas for the Friend Whose Dog Outranks Everyone Else in the House

Town & Country has put together forty present ideas for the person whose devotion to their dog runs deeper than most. On the island, nearly everyone knows at least one such household, and with the season approaching, the question of what to bring them comes up sooner than expected. Forty is a generous number of answers, and a welcome one for anyone who has stood at a shop window on Worth Avenue wondering what would please the friend whose dog comes first.
Icons of Palm Beach

Sixty Last-Minute Presents, On the Doorstep Before the Host Notices

Town & Country has put together a list of sixty gifts that can all be ordered from Amazon and delivered fast. The idea is simple. When an invitation arrives on short notice, the right present shouldn't depend on a trip down Worth Avenue or on luck. The list covers the house gift, the thank-you and the thoughtful gesture, and every one can be on its way in the time it takes to RSVP. Good manners have always been about timing, and this list keeps the timing easy.
Icons of Palm Beach

The Windsors Built a Crown Collection of Their Own

Having given up one throne's worth of jewels, the Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson went on to assemble a collection that may have measured up to the royal holdings he gave away. It was something the two of them pursued together, a devotion to beautiful stones that they both shared. On the island, a serious collection is understood as a matter of eye and patience, so that is the part worth noticing: not what the Duke gave up, but what the couple chose in its place.
What It Sold For

A Members' Club Near the Top of the Chrysler Building

Tishman Speyer, the Chrysler Building's owner, has drawn up plans for the Midtown Manhattan tower. Three pieces are named: renovation work on the building, a fresh purpose for its concourse level, and a members-only club high up in the tower. The plans reach from the floors below the street to the upper stories. For a New York reader, that means the work covers the levels people pass through every day and adds a room that, by the nature of a private club, will be open to only a few. Few addresses in the city are as recognizable as this skyline landmark, and plans of this scope for it deserve attention on that basis alone.
What It Sold For

Pendleton and Marimekko for the American House, Picked From Amazon's Shelves

Architectural Digest's editors have put together their 2026 list of the home pieces on Amazon they would actually bring into a house. Pendleton, the American mill name, is on the list, and so is Marimekko with its bold printed patterns. That a wool blanket from one and a graphic textile from the other can both arrive in the same delivery is the point of the list. This one comes without an address or a closing price, so think of it as furnishing the house rather than buying it.
What It Sold For

The Gracie Paper Marshall Watson Saved For Is Now the Heart of His New York Home

Interior designer Marshall Watson has shown off his New York apartment, and it is built around shades of blue and one splurge he made for himself. The splurge is a vintage Gracie wallpaper. He paid for it the way many people buy something they really want, by giving up several weeks of his earnings. That is the only price on the record, and it is all this desk will say about it: the paper cost him real time at work. Read that way, the blue rooms around the paper look like the choice of a designer who knew which piece mattered most and gave it the best wall.
What It Sold For

The Small Kitchen, Taken Seriously: Fifty Ways to Make a Modest Room Earn Its Place

A compact kitchen in a prewar New York apartment or a Palm Beach cottage doesn't have to feel like a compromise. Veranda has put together fifty ideas for these rooms. They rely on smart storage that keeps clutter out of sight and on bold, carefully chosen decoration that treats a small room as a place to show off. For owners who measure their kitchens in feet rather than wings, the point is that a modest footprint can still be a room you're glad to stand in.
What It Sold For

For the Furnished House, a Price Worth Noting: Lulu and Georgia Marks Its Anniversary With Reduced Prices

Lulu and Georgia is marking its anniversary this year by lowering prices on part of its furniture collection. The reductions cover pieces chosen by editors and pieces made with designers. The most interesting part is that well-designed furniture is coming down in price, not just the basic stock. For anyone furnishing an American house, whether it's a Palm Beach living room or a New York apartment, the sale is a chance to buy that kind of furniture for less.
What They Ride

A Good Magic Filly Wins First Time Out on Belmont's Main Track

Mioruilt, a 2-year-old filly by Good Magic, won the first start of her career on the Belmont dirt that horsemen call Big Sandy. She didn't need any time to learn the game. From the break she settled in just behind Badittude, the Uncle Mo filly who went to the front, and she stayed there through the run down the far side. All the way along the backstretch she sat right at the leader's flank, close enough to keep her in reach and never letting her get away. That is a hard thing to ask of a filly running for the first time. The dirt kicks back, the field closes in around her, and she has to hold position without anything to go on. Mioruilt held it, and she left the track a winner. For a young filly, winning on debut means the next step is already in front of her. For the Good Magic stock, it adds another name worth watching on New York's biggest dirt oval.
What They Ride

Eight for Flightline: A Godolphin Filly Adds to the First-Crop Tally at Keeneland

Flightline now has eight winners from his first crop to race. The latest is Jump Seat, a filly who races for Godolphin and broke her maiden at Keeneland on Wednesday afternoon. She won by two and a quarter lengths, a clear margin that came with no late scramble at the wire. Each first-crop winner gets counted closely, by the breeders who sent mares to the horse and by the buyers who will bid on his foals in the ring. On the dam's side, Jump Seat is a half-sister to the champion Essential Quality, so she now has a winning line on her own record. A Godolphin-bred filly by a first-crop sire, out of a champion's dam, winning on a Lexington weekday afternoon is the kind of result Kentucky racing is built to produce.
What They Ride

Thirty-Four Graded Races in One Weekend Have Reshuffled the Two-Year-Old Colts

Racing packed thirty-four graded stakes into a single weekend, and the young colts felt it most. Equibase keeps the standings that measure a season, and its table for two-year-old colts and geldings came out of those few days in a different order than it went in. Graded status is the sport's mark of quality, so thirty-four of those races in one weekend is an unusual weight of top-level racing. In a division this young, each graded result counts for a lot, and that is why the leaderboard moved as much as it did. For readers who follow these horses from the barn to the sales ring, the new standings are the first draft of the colts' records.
What They Ride

Saffie Joseph Jr. Goes to $140,000 for a Pappacap Colt in Ocala

A son of Pappacap brought the top price on Wednesday, the closing session of the October yearling sale at Ocala Breeders' Sales. Trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. went to $140,000 for the colt, cataloged as hip 339, and no yearling sold that day made more. That is the number at the top of the closing page: one trainer, one colt, one sire. In a Florida sale it marks the yearling who drew the strongest bid of the session, with the final lots already through the ring. For anyone following the sales calendar, the results to note are the hip number, the sire line and the trainer's name. On the sale's last day, the Pappacap colt was the one Joseph wanted most.
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What They Drive

The Engineers Who Still Get Inside the Modern Car

Arin Ahnell, chief executive of AutoTuner USA, has given The Drive an account of how tuners get into engine computers that manufacturers have sealed against outside access. The work covers a wide range of machines, from electric vehicles to farm tractors. Ahnell also said which BMW engine the AutoTuner USA team is now working on, and enthusiasts of the Munich marque will be watching for it. For owners who still treat the car as something to be understood and refined, it is good to know that skill at the keyboard is keeping pace with what comes off the line.
What They Drive

A Mower Built From Nothing Reaches 152.8 MPH and Still Does Its Day Job

This is a lawnmower built from the ground up, not a production model modified for speed. Starting from a dead stop and running over a single mile, it was recorded at 152.8 miles per hour. It can still mow a lawn. Most cars in American driveways would struggle to post that figure over the same distance. Collectors who care about purpose-built machinery know that real speed rarely comes with real usefulness, and this mower has both.
What They Drive

The Next CR-V Is Headed for Honda's Indiana Plant, Three Months Behind Schedule

According to a report, Honda has pushed back the start of production for its next-generation CR-V Hybrid by three months. The more lasting news is where the new crossover will be built. The CR-V is set to take over the line at Honda's Indiana plant that currently builds the Civic. That puts one of the brand's most familiar nameplates on an American assembly line in the middle of the country. For owners following the next generation, the three months only change when it starts, not where it will be made. When it arrives, it will come out of Indiana.
What They Drive

BMW's Neue Klasse Electric Family Gets a Sloping-Roof Sibling: The 2027 iX4

BMW has added the iX4 to its new Neue Klasse range of electric vehicles. It's a 2027 model, and it pairs a crossover's height with the fastback roofline of a coupe. That gives buyers here another crossover from a maker that keeps adding them, this one for drivers who want the higher seating position without the upright, boxy shape. For American owners who follow the marque closely, the iX4 is the fastback option within BMW's newest generation of electric cars.
What They Drive

On Paper, the New BMW iX3 M60 Clears the 600-Horsepower Mark

BMW has put an M60 version of its iX3 on the Neue Klasse SUV, and the headline figure is a rating north of 600 horsepower. The car sits in M's middle rung, a step below the division's fiercest machines, which makes that number all the more striking for a sport utility. For now this is a specification-sheet story: the figures read as formidable, and the verdict from behind the wheel will have to wait for the cars themselves.
What They Drive

The 2027 BMW iX4 Arrives in Two Forms: 50 xDrive and M60 xDrive

BMW's 2027 iX4 has been shown in full exterior photographs, in two versions, the iX4 50 xDrive and the iX4 M60 xDrive. For owners and collectors who follow the marque, the photographs show both versions' design from the outside before the cars reach a showroom near you. Having the two trims side by side makes it easy to compare them panel by panel and pick the shape you would want in your own driveway, whether that's in Naples or in Aspen.
Photo by James St. John on Flickr
Class of Florida

The Record Now Has a North Palm Beach Address

Larry Ellison, who co-founded Oracle, is asking a record $165 million for his estate on the water in North Palm Beach. He bought it in 2021 for $80 million, so the new price is a little more than double what he paid. An earlier attempt to sell it had a $145 million price, and the house now comes back to market $20 million higher. Miami usually assumes that record numbers belong to Miami. Naples usually assumes that nobody needs to say them out loud. This one comes from the town with "North" in front of its name, and that town now has a figure of its own to talk about. On the shore here, the number is likely to be the main topic at dinner for a while.
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Class of Florida

Dolly Parton Once Called It Home. Now the Hollywood Hills House Has Its Own Path to Calm.

A Hollywood Hills house that once belonged to Dolly Parton is for sale at $8 million. The house dates to the 1970s, but it has since been rebuilt from top to bottom. Out back, the pool sits within a deck designed to feel like a resort. Somewhere on the property is a private walking trail laid out in the Zen manner, and that's the detail we keep coming back to. In Palm Beach a quiet walk means the Lake Trail, shared with half the island. In Naples it means the beach at sunset, shared with the other half. A path of your own on your own hillside is a Los Angeles kind of luxury, and a lovely one. Eight million dollars buys the pool, the trail and the address Dolly Parton once called home.
Class of Florida

Palm Beach Pours Bubbles, Naples Pours Agave. Clase Azul Found a Bottle for Both.

Clase Azul has added a new bottle to its Día de Muertos line, and part of its time in wood was spent in barrels that once held Champagne. Those are the two drinks most likely to share a Florida bar cart, whether it's at a Worth Avenue dinner, a Fifth Avenue South patio or whatever Miami is still doing at 2 a.m. The house presents this release as a turning point for its Day of the Dead collection, and it has priced the bottle at the very top of the shelf. Florida has never quite chosen between sparkling wine and tequila, and this bottle doesn't make anyone choose.
Who Wore What When

The Faux Fur from "Only Murders in the Building" Just Got a Fifth Cheaper

Fashion editors have a favorite faux fur label, and for now Amazon is taking 20 percent off its coats. If the shape of one looks familiar, you may have seen it on "Only Murders in the Building." A coat that has impressed both a TV costume team and the people who judge coats for a living doesn't come along often. With October here and New York starting to plan what to wear until February, a big, plush coat at a lower price is an easy kind of treat to recommend.
Who Wore What When

The Ballet Sneaker That Bella Hadid, Katie Holmes and Oprah All Agree On Is Now Marked Down

Bella Hadid doesn't own just one pair of this ballet-style sneaker. She owns four, and the label behind them has cut its prices for Amazon's Prime Day. Katie Holmes and Oprah are fans of the brand too, which gives one shoe a remarkably varied following. A sneaker cut like a ballet slipper is an easy shoe to love on a New York sidewalk, and when three such different names land on the same label, the archive takes note.
Who Wore What When

Filed Under Blue: Emma Stone Takes the Skirt Suit to Louis Vuitton

Emma Stone wore a blue skirt suit by Louis Vuitton. A skirt suit is one of the strictest outfits in the archive: the jacket and skirt have to work as one idea, and in a single color nothing else on the look can carry them. With blue head to toe, the shade becomes the statement, doing the work a print or embellishment would usually do. We're logging it the way we log every entry, by designer, color and silhouette.
Who Wore What When

Costume Drama, Closet Plan: Netflix's "East of Eden" Is Getting Raided for Autumn

The new "East of Eden" miniseries on Netflix has a style writer at The Zoe Report pulling ideas straight from the screen for the cooler months. They watched the series and came away with a shopping list as well as a story. That's what a strong costume department can do: send a viewer to their own closet before the credits finish. Whether you're dressing for a crisp evening in Aspen or the first cool morning in the Hamptons, it's a good season to let a screen adaptation set the mood.
Who Wore What When

Grown-Up Glow, Marked Down: Korean Serums and Body-Building Hair Tools in Amazon's Prime Sale

Amazon's 2026 Big Deal Days for Prime members have reached the beauty aisle, and the grown-up end of it is where the markdowns deserve a look. Korean skin care formulas made to tighten and lift are among the discounted picks, next to heated styling tools built to give hair more body. The deepest cuts take as much as 47 percent off the regular price. For a reader in Naples or Beverly Hills, that means a serum on the vanity and a styling tool in the drawer, priced for once in the shopper's favor. We care about the finish, not the frenzy, and a well-made product is just as well made when it's on sale.
Photo by QUINCES PERFECTOS on Unsplash
Who Wore What When

The Crown Sits Best on Healthy Hair: Elle Matches Each Fix to Its Problem

Elle has put together a guide that pairs each kind of harm a head of hair can suffer with the treatment best suited to repairing it. The promised result is the return of lift, gloss and resilience, the three qualities a camera notices first, whether it's pointed at a Beverly Hills red carpet or a pageant stage in Miami. An archive like ours records the gown and the designer, but the hair is the part of the picture that has to be earned well before the evening starts. Organizing the remedies by what went wrong, not by what's on the shelf, is the sensible way to read it: name the problem first, then reach for the cure.
Who Wore What When

Autumn Dressing, Parisian Rules, Stacked for a New York October

The Parisian approach to fall dressing comes down to a few reliable formulas, and the one at the center is piece over piece, built up as the temperature drops. That suits a New York October, when a morning on Madison can begin cool and finish warm. It suits Aspen too, where the light changes by the hour and a coat may come off and go back on before lunch. The appeal is that it's a method rather than a single outfit: you add one layer at a time, and every layer is meant to be seen.
Who Wore What When

Riot Grrrl, Curated: Astria Suparak Builds a Show for Olivia Rodrigo's Daisy Chain Fields

Astria Suparak, who works as both an artist and a curator, has put together an exhibition called Grrrl Germs for Olivia Rodrigo's Daisy Chain Fields. The show charts riot grrrl as a whole world: its people, its pages and the culture around it. For an archive that tracks who wore what and when, a show that takes riot grrrl seriously as something made, put together with care and laid out for a new crowd to walk through, is squarely our business. Suparak talked about how the exhibition came together in an interview with Harper's Bazaar.
Who Wore What When

A Quarter Off Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop Exfoliator, Just in Time for Fall's Fresh Start

This October's Prime Day comes with a price break that skincare devotees will notice: Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop exfoliator, which promises to change the look of your skin, is marked down by 25 percent. It isn't the only Goop product on sale, either, since several of the brand's best-loved pieces are discounted for the event. Fall is when skin is ready to shed summer, and a good exfoliating step suits that change, whether you're reading this in Palm Beach, Aspen or a New York apartment with the radiators just switched on. The red carpet starts with prep, and this is a less expensive way to start yours.
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Who Wore What When

Meghan Goes Head-to-Toe Black to Open the Festive Stretch for As Ever

The Duchess of Sussex dressed entirely in black for As Ever, a choice that works as well on a Palm Beach evening as on a Manhattan sidewalk. A single dark shade from collar to hem is hard to get wrong and very hard to date, which is why it shows up in every serious archive. Here it marks the start of the gift-giving months with restraint rather than sparkle. Our readers will note it as an early-season move worth copying.
Who Wore What When

Anne Hathaway's Long-Running Under-Eye Ritual Just Got a Fifth Cheaper

The star of "Verity" keeps a beauty routine that doesn't change with the season, and the under-eye patches at its center are now marked down by twenty percent. Hathaway has reached for these patches over a span of years rather than months. In a beauty market that reinvents itself every quarter, that kind of loyalty means something. For readers here, from a Palm Beach vanity to a Manhattan medicine cabinet, the sale is a rare chance to pick up one small, proven part of a leading lady's routine for less.
Who Wore What When

Telfar Gives New York's Front Row to the People Who Actually Wear It

The invitations promised the industry a Paris runway, and in the end the presentation happened in New York. Telfar built it as a tribute to his customers, the people carrying the label down the street, rather than the people who usually decide what counts in a season. For a desk that keeps track of who wore what and where, the guest of honor here is the person who bought the piece. That moves the most important seat in the room from the trade to the wearer.
Who Wore What When

Sandy Linter's Disco Makeup Manual Returns to the Vanity, Nearly Half a Century On

A beauty book from the disco era is back in print almost five decades after its debut: Sandy Linter's guide to the makeup of the dance-floor years. In fashion archive terms, it's a primary source, written while the look was being worn rather than looked back on. For readers from Miami to Manhattan who like their glamour with some shimmer, it's a chance to learn the period's makeup from the original instructions instead of from someone's later imitation.
Who Wore What When

The Machine Checks In Too: Pilates Gets Its Own Room at the Resort

Hotels and resorts are now adding studios built around the Pilates reformer, the sliding carriage with springs that has become a fixture of the well-kept weekly routine. They are building for guests who would rather not take a week off from the machine just because they have left home. For a reader packing for Palm Beach, Aspen or anywhere in between, that means one more place where the routine is the amenity.
Who Wore What When

Vogue's Editors Pick 35 Clothes Worth Buying Before Prime Day Ends

Vogue's editors have gone through the last of the 2026 Prime Day markdowns and kept exactly thirty-five pieces of clothing. The number is the point. A sale this size can feel endless, and a short list that someone else has already sorted is a kind of courtesy. Whether you're shopping from a Palm Beach veranda or a New York walk-up, the job is the same: skip the scrolling, look at the edit, and decide what earns a place in the closet.
Who Wore What When

Manhattan's Most Gilded Address Book, Read on Foot

Keith Taillon led a Vogue writer through Manhattan to look at the late nineteenth century as it still stands, building by building and block by block. Every stop was a piece of architecture or a stretch of street that still carries that era's history. For a desk that keeps careful track of who wore what and when, it's a good reminder that New York keeps its own archive in limestone and street grids, and anyone willing to walk can read it.
Who Wore What When

Before the Red Carpet, the Vanity: Vogue's Editors Pick the Prime Day Beauty Worth Keeping

The vanity is where every good look starts. That's where Vogue's editors have been testing the beauty products now marked down for Prime Day, some by nearly half. Their picks run from high-tech devices to the dependable skin-care basics that sit within reach every morning, whether that's on a dressing table in Palm Beach or a bathroom shelf in Manhattan. The discounts end with the sale's final day, so anyone hoping to refresh the routine should do it now.
What They Collect

Sigmar Polke Never Painted for Permanence, and Kenny Schachter Takes Him at His Word

Kenny Schachter's latest column looks at Sigmar Polke and the poisonous materials Polke brought into his work. At its center is something Polke once said: his paintings may sit in museum collections, but he did not mind if they came apart within two decades. Collectors and the institutions that care for pictures like these rarely hear an artist say that so plainly. It is a reminder that the materials were part of the work itself, and so was the chance that they would not last. Schachter ties that idea to a broader reflection on what it means to be normal.
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What They Collect

For Collectors, a Rare Chance to Bid on Stanley Kubrick's Curiosities

Stanley Kubrick's archive is going up for auction. The first report describes it as full of unusual objects, so it is more than a box of paper. That matters to collectors, because a sale of odd, personal things brings in different bidders than a lot of letters and scripts does. The auction house, the sale date and any estimates were not part of that report, so we will not guess at them. Collectors will be watching for the catalog.
What They Collect

Thirty Dollars, Then $1.35 Million: Gertrude Abercrombie Reaches a New High in New York

At Freeman's in New York on October 1, Gertrude Abercrombie's 1951 canvas "Alderman Merriam's Shells" brought $1.35 million. No work by the artist has ever done better at auction. The number collectors will remember is the one that came before it. At one point the same picture went for $30, sold off with the contents of an estate. Those two prices sit at opposite ends of the market. One belongs to the folding table, and the other to the salesroom. Here they belong to a single painting, with the same title and the same 1951 date. For anyone who walks the previews in this city, it shows that a good eye can turn up good work far from the catalog page, and that New York is still where such a discovery gets its full due.
What They Collect

At the Whitney, Lichtenstein Is Shown as the Artist Who Borrowed First

The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York has given Roy Lichtenstein a full career survey, and it is an elegant one. Its argument is that the American painter was the first great borrower of images, an artist who took pictures that already existed and made them his own long before that became ordinary practice. The show also suggests he saw today's appetite for images coming and chose to work with it on purpose rather than against it. For anyone who follows how an artist's reputation is built, and how it holds up over time, this is a New York institution putting its weight behind one of the country's best-known painters.
What They Collect

At the Met, Krasner and Pollock Arrive With an Insured Value That May Pass $3 Billion

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has brought works by Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock together for one exhibition, with loans from collections around the world. The insurance figure on the assembled pictures may come in above $3 billion. That number is not a price, and nothing in these galleries has changed hands. It is the value placed on the works while they hang in New York, and it shows how much the lenders entrusted to the museum. By the account of those who organized it, assembling the show took an enormous amount of work.
What They Collect

In Miami, a Subway Line Underground and Lady Aiko at Her Biggest Scale

Goldman Global Arts in Miami is giving two solo exhibitions to two artists who came up through graffiti. Lady Aiko is showing the biggest paintings she has made in roughly thirty years of work. That alone is reason to go: an artist's largest pictures, hung together for the first time. GIZ has taken the other approach and built a full environment that brings the New York underground into a Miami gallery. It follows how graffiti grew, and walking through it is part of the point. Under one roof, visitors can see a single painter's work at the largest scale she has attempted, then step into a room that maps where her whole field began. For Miami collectors, the attraction is two strong cases for graffiti made indoors, at the same address.
Class of Nashville

Costumes Required at Game Terminal, Nashville's Biggest Arcade, for Halloween

Game Terminal is throwing a Halloween party, and the invitation asks guests to arrive in costume. The venue is the city's large-format arcade, so the evening takes place among rows of cabinets and machines, not in a ballroom. Picture a room full of disguised guests lit by screens and blinking marquees, each lined up for a turn at the controls. Nashville dresses up well for an occasion, and this one makes the costume part of the game.
Beverly Hills News

Miku Martineau, 22, Names the Athletic Role She Wants Next

Miku Martineau, 22, the actor who stars in "Crew Girl," said she hopes to carry her athletic upbringing into a future part. Most of that background is in hockey and gymnastics. She pointed to "Heated Rivalry" as an example and said she would happily take on a version of it with a woman at the center. The actor is not waiting for a role to be offered and has named the kind of work she wants next, with her own training years as the starting point.
Photo by Venti Views on Unsplash
Beverly Hills News

Before the Lights Go Down, a Round of Wordle: New York Times Games Head to Cinema Screens This Fall

According to Variety, puzzles from New York Times Games, including Wordle and Spelling Bee, will appear on movie theater screens this fall. They will be interactive and run before the feature, in the time audiences usually spend waiting in their seats. The arrangement comes from a new partnership between NYT Games and the theater side. For moviegoers in Beverly Hills and across Los Angeles who already start their mornings with a daily puzzle, that habit may soon have a place in the auditorium.
Beverly Hills News

Charlamagne tha God Makes the Case for Time Spent in Person

Radio and television host Charlamagne tha God spoke with Variety about mental health, social media and the value of relationships kept offline, and said that a person has to keep clearing out what does not serve them. He co-hosts "The Breakfast Club," a radio program carried on stations across the country, and he has also worked as a television host. Alongside his broadcast work, he speaks publicly in support of mental health. Choosing in-person connection over the screen is a choice readers in Beverly Hills face every day.
Photo by gordontarpley on Flickr
Beverly Hills News

'Star Wars: Galactic Racer' Is Playable on Amazon Luna From Its First Day

"Star Wars: Galactic Racer" came out on Luna, Amazon's game platform, at the same time it went on sale everywhere else, according to Variety. Players in Beverly Hills could start it on Luna on launch day rather than waiting for a later release on the platform. The title also came out on PlayStation 5 and on Xbox Series S and X, among other systems. Variety included the launch in its gaming news roundup.
Beverly Hills News

Questlove, Three Decades In, Says He Has to Live the Change He Wants

Questlove says he remains willing to change, more than 30 years after his career began, according to an interview with Variety. In it, he talks about the value of vulnerability and about being a trailblazer. He also says he has to act out the change he hopes to see. Questlove leads The Roots, and his work spans several fields. For more than ten years he has played in the house band on Jimmy Fallon's show. Variety's account also lists producing among his credits. His comments describe a musician who still sees openness as part of the work after decades of it.
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Beverly Hills Brides

The Ring That Cannot Be Ordered Twice

The draw of a vintage engagement ring comes down to one thing: a genuine antique can't be made again. Its diamonds were shaped by a cutter who worked by sight, without machines to measure them. Its setting was finished by a craftsman's own hand, and whoever made it has been gone for generations. Green Wedding Shoes looked at pieces from two eras, from real Art Deco to the lace-like metalwork of Edwardian design, and published a buyer's guide alongside them. For a Beverly Hills bride, what a ring like that offers is simple: no other woman's hand will ever wear its twin.
What They Sail

Studio Segno Draws a 154-Foot Concept Called Maai, Balancing Japanese Quiet With Italian Warmth

Studio Segno has released a design concept for a 154-foot yacht named Maai. At this stage it exists only as a design, and no builder, naval architect, or price has been announced. The brief brings together two traditions that rarely share a deck: the calm and economy of Japanese design, and the Italian instinct to gather people around a table. That makes Maai a study in contrast. One side favors spare surfaces and fewer gestures, and the other wants rooms that fill easily with guests. For owners along the Florida coast, from Palm Beach to Miami, 154 feet is a familiar size, large enough for real entertaining but still personal in scale. Until a yard takes up the drawings, Maai is best read as a statement of taste, and it is a confident one.
What They Sail

Studio Segno's "Maai" Is a 154-Foot Concept Waiting for Its Yard

Studio Segno has released a design for a 154-foot yacht called Maai, and for now it is a concept. No shipyard, naval architect, or price is attached yet. For owners, that is the number to watch: a design at this length goes from drawings to a real boat only when a yard and a buyer commit to it. The idea behind Maai is to bring Italian and Japanese design together in one yacht. Studio Segno describes the boat as an attempt to find the meeting point between those two traditions and make it part of everyday life on board. Anyone considering a build in this size range will want to see how the studio handles that idea in the actual layout when more drawings come out.
Private Jet Owners

SLC's Smaller Hangars Get a New Rent Number. Fifty-Eight Owners Should Budget for It

Salt Lake City International is raising rents on its general aviation hangars. The change reaches 58 tenants, all of them in the airport's T-hangars and shade hangars. That is the open-sided covered rows and the nested single-aircraft units, not the large box hangars. For an owner, hangar rent is a fixed cost that comes due whether the airplane flies that month or not. A change to it belongs on the annual budget sheet next to insurance and the inspection. Tenants in those 58 spaces will want to read the new terms carefully.
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Where They Eat

At Disney, the Front Gate Stays Within Reach

Disney is keeping its least expensive park ticket at the same price, while the optional extras sold on top of a day's admission now cost more. The reasoning is simple: an affordable way in brings families back year after year, and the upgrades are there for guests who choose to spend more. For Florida readers who treat a park day as a nearby outing rather than a once-in-a-lifetime trip, the price that matters most is the basic ticket, and it hasn't moved.
Brides of Beverly Hills

A Sailcloth Tent and a Muted Garden Palette on the Chesapeake

This Chesapeake wedding was held under a sailcloth tent rather than in a fixed venue, and the couple used a soft, misty set of garden neutrals in place of strong color. Those are the two decisions that matter for anyone planning a tented reception. The tent is the venue, so its fabric sets the tone of the room. A restrained palette works with that fabric instead of competing with it. The coverage runs in order through getting ready, bridal portraits and the first look. That sequence is a reminder to budget daylight for all three before guests arrive. Brides considering a tent at home can take this one as an example of keeping the structure and the colors in the same quiet register.
Brides of Beverly Hills

The Hotel Chelsea Shoot Shows How to Plan Around a Room That Already Has Art in It

Britt Jones Co has produced a styled wedding editorial at the Hotel Chelsea in New York, and the idea behind it is useful to anyone booking a venue with a strong character of its own. This was an editorial rather than a real wedding, so read it as a reference, not a record of a working day. The design brief was to add art on top of the art the building already holds, which is the opposite of the usual approach of covering a room up. The shoot is also built around the hotel's history and treats each period of the building as material to work with. For a bride weighing a historic property against a blank ballroom, the takeaway is simple: in a building like this, the design can follow the walls instead of hiding them. Before signing with a venue that has this much on its walls, ask the planner whether the plan works with the room or against it, because the answer changes both the look and the decor budget.
What It Sold For

The Grown-Up House Makes Room for the Playroom

Architectural Digest has identified a new mood in interiors: a playful, schoolyard-bright look that even the most discerning adult homeowners are welcoming. The magazine traces it to the cartoons and animal-faced paper plates of a generation's early years, which still hold a pull on people whose taste is otherwise fully grown. For the American house, that means the formal living room may now have a little recess in it. It is a sign of confidence: a homeowner who feels free to let delight share the room with refinement.
Icons of Palm Beach

Catherine Zeta-Jones Set the Terms, and a Marriage of More Than Twenty-Five Years Followed

Michael Douglas has a new interview out, and in it he recalls the moment, early in their courtship, when Catherine Zeta-Jones told him plainly what she expected if they were going to keep going. The two also worked together on screen, but the story he chose to tell is about her clarity. They married in 2000, so her terms seem to have been met. On the island, where long marriages are admired and a woman who knows her own mind is admired more, that will strike readers as good sense rather than drama.
Beverly Hills News

Disney's Believe Will Sail Its First Voyage From Fort Lauderdale in December 2027

Disney has introduced Believe, the newest ship in its cruise fleet, and its first sailing will leave from South Florida. The ship is scheduled to depart on its inaugural voyage on Dec. 18, 2027. Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale will serve as its home port. Disney says the ship will carry a stage musical based on "Encanto," which will premiere on board. Passengers will also be able to attend a family dining experience themed to "Frozen." The company says these will be among several new offerings on the ship. For travelers in Broward County and nearby areas, the date means a new Disney ship will be leaving from a port close to home.
Beverly Hills News

Disney's New Ship, Believe, Will Sail First From Fort Lauderdale in December 2027

Disney has introduced a new cruise ship called Believe, according to Variety. Its first sailing is set for Dec. 18, 2027. The ship will be based at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., which makes South Florida its starting point. Variety reports that the ship will stage a musical based on Disney's "Encanto" and will offer a dining experience themed to "Frozen." The report says other onboard offerings are also planned. The first departure is a little more than a year away.
Class of Nashville

Ella Langley Gives SiriusXM a Tuesday Set at The Grizzly

Ella Langley played for SiriusXM on Tuesday evening, at a room called The Grizzly. It was a one-off set, built for the satellite broadcaster rather than for a tour stop. A weeknight booking, a named room and a national radio partner add up to a performance worth noting. For readers here who follow country music's rising voices as closely as its established ones, a Langley set for SiriusXM is the kind of date that gets written down.
What They Ride

Curlin Back at the Head of Hill 'n' Dale at Xalapa's Stallion Barn for 2027

Curlin will cover mares again in 2027. Hill 'n' Dale at Xalapa has put him first on its stallion list for that year, after he stood only part of the 2026 season. For breeders, the news is about planning. Mare owners who were drawing up next spring's matings now know that one of the most sought-after names in the stud book is back in the book. Topping a farm's roster is a statement in its own right: the stallion listed first is the one the farm builds its year around. With the 2027 lineup now released, the planning around that horse can start well before the first covers of the new year.
Icons of Palm Beach

A British Chef Opens in SoHo, and Plans to Keep His Own Table for Decades

Thomas Straker, the London chef, now has a restaurant in SoHo, and it has quickly become one of the hardest tables to get in New York. For anyone flying up from the island this season, it belongs on the list. Straker loves his new room so much that he says he means to eat there every second day for the next four decades, or for the rest of his life. When a chef wants to eat at his own place that often, it tells you a good deal about the kitchen.
Photo by SeeMidTN.com (aka Brent) on Flickr
Class of Nashville

A Washington Post Reporter Gives Taylor Swift's Country Chapter a Full Book

Emily Yahr, a reporter for The Washington Post, has a new book out: TAYLOR SWIFT: THE DEBUT YEARS. It looks closely at the part of Swift's career she spent in country music. Nashville has always felt a little protective of that genre, and this city knows its business better than anyone. A reporter writing a whole, careful book about one artist's country years is exactly the kind of attention the genre's hometown appreciates. It belongs on the shelf right next to the records.
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Class of Nashville

Two More Managers Join Activist Artists, and Good Talent Will Be Better Looked After

Mak Symmonds and Chelsea Fodero are the newest managers at Activist Artists Management, where both will now work directly with the firm's artists. In this town, the people onstage get the applause, but much of what gets them there is decided by the person who answers the phone at seven in the morning, reads the contract twice and knows which offer to turn down. A firm that brings on two managers at once is putting more of its people into that work. Here's to Symmonds and Fodero in their new roles.
Private Jet Owners

Rehearse the Bad Day Before It Comes: A Teacher's Case for Owner-Pilots

The piece centers on a highly credentialed flight instructor and the lesson they leave with students: a pilot should work through contingencies before a flight, and when the plan goes wrong, rely on the skills they have already practiced. For owners who fly their own airplanes, that is a familiar idea. Nobody else in the left seat will run those scenarios for you. Whether the airplane lives at a Florida field or a Colorado mountain airport, the useful thinking happens on the ground, before the engine starts. It costs little and is worth a great deal.
Private Jet Owners

The Classroom Before the Cockpit: Methods That Keep Young Students Attentive

Flying has put together a set of tested methods for holding the attention of younger aviation students during classroom instruction and helping the material sink in further than rote memorization. For owners, this is not abstract. Every captain who will one day sign for your airplane on a Part 91 or 91K trip starts at a classroom desk, learning the regulations and systems theory long before touching a yoke. How well that first instruction is taught shapes the professionals the rest of us will eventually hire. Any owner who sponsors a scholarship or lends a hangar for a local flight school's evening class can reasonably ask how it is being taught.
Private Jet Owners

A 2003 Falcon 2000 With the Pro Line 21 Retrofit Already Done

A 2003 Dassault Falcon 2000 is on the market through AircraftForSale, where the listing service has picked it out as one of its featured jets for ocean-crossing work. The main selling point is in the cockpit: the aircraft recently had a Collins Pro Line 21 avionics retrofit, so the next owner gets a panel upgrade that has already been paid for and installed. The airframe also has relatively few total hours for its age, which the listing puts near the top of its case. For an owner comparing large-cabin Dassault airplanes, that means a jet past its twentieth year with updated avionics up front and modest time on the airframe. AircraftForSale presents it as a widebody aircraft for long overwater trips, and the panel and the airframe are the two numbers buyers will check first.
Private Jet Owners

September Fuel Line: Jet A and Avgas Both at Their Highest in Six Months

Turbine fuel and 100LL both reached their highest prices of the past six months in September. The rise hit both sides of the ramp, so owners of a jet and a piston single saw the same trend on their September fuel receipts. Owners who keep a per-hour operating budget will want to check the fuel line against what they assumed for the season. The report gives only the direction and the timeframe, not specific per-gallon figures, so the clearest comparison is your own September statements against earlier months.
Private Jet Owners

Honda's HA-480 Goes to FL470, and the FAA Is Writing Rules for It

The FAA has put forward a proposal for special conditions covering the HA-480 from Honda Aircraft, a design meant to cruise as high as Flight Level 470. In owner terms, that puts the airplane at 47,000 feet, well above most of the traffic it would share a ramp with. Special conditions are the FAA's way of adding requirements when the standard certification rules don't fully cover what a new design is meant to do, and here the issue is altitude. For now this is only a proposal and not a final rule. Owners watching the HA-480 should treat it as one more piece of the airplane's path through certification.
What It Sold For

Julianne Moore Stays in the Village, Moving From a Town House to the Top Two Floors of a 1920s Building

Julianne Moore, the Academy Award winner, has left her Manhattan town house for an apartment on two levels at the top of a building that went up in the 1920s. She didn't go far. The new home is in Greenwich Village, the same part of the city she already lived in. It's a familiar New York move: a whole house becomes the upper floors of a prewar building, and the address barely changes. The rooms are described as calm and full of daylight, and the top of a building is where that kind of light is easiest to get. Moore did the interiors herself, and the result reads as the work of a natural designer. No price for either property is on the public record.
What It Sold For

Why the Pointed Arch Came Back After Five Centuries

Gothic Revival is a style's second life. Roughly five hundred years after Gothic building first took shape, architects brought it back into favor, and Architectural Digest has named nine buildings it counts as the finest examples of that return. By the magazine's account, three things drove the revival: a longing for an earlier age, the pull of the Romantic movement and pride of country. Anyone who stops on the sidewalk to look up at a pointed arch can see that well-made design can come back into use long after it first appeared.
Photo by Boston Public Library on Flickr
Where They Eat

The Shop Off the Lobby Is Becoming a Reason to Travel

Travel analysts are now treating shopping as one of the main things travelers spend on, and as an experience in itself rather than an errand between reservations. They see a good store working like a good dining room: it teaches a visitor something about where they are and puts them in touch with the people and culture of the place. For hoteliers from Palm Beach to Aspen, that suggests the boutique in the lobby deserves as much care as the restaurant across from it. A traveler can carry a well-chosen object home and keep it long after the bill is paid.
Photo by Mikhail Benitez on Unsplash
Where They Eat

New York Gets a New Room for the People Who Run the Business of Travel

On November 11, Skift will hold its first Skift Commerce Summit in New York, a new gathering for the leaders who oversee how travel is bought and sold. The premise is that the separate ways travel gets sold are coming together into a single structure, and whoever runs that structure will decide how much the business earns for years to come. Skift is putting the people who make those decisions in one room to work through it. For a city that hosts so many travelers at its tables and in its hotels, it fits that this conversation will happen here.
Class of Florida

A Connecticut Pond Built to Olympic Scale, and Up for Sale After Thirty Years

Floridians know water. We have the Atlantic off Palm Beach, the Gulf off Naples, Biscayne Bay off Miami, and a backyard pool on nearly every lot in between. So it takes something unusual up north to catch our attention, and a residence in Fairfield County, Connecticut, has managed it with a pond the size of an Olympic pool, poured in concrete. The asking price is $6.2 million. It is also the first time in thirty years that the house has been offered to buyers. Thirty years with one set of owners suggests the place suited the people who had it. In Miami, a pond this size would get a DJ booth. In Palm Beach, it would need approval from a committee. In Naples, someone would already be wading in at sunset to look for herons. In Connecticut, it is simply part of the property, and now someone new gets to decide what it becomes.
Class of Florida

Where You Sleep Becomes Where You Have Dinner on the Wonder FX

The Wonder FX has a bed that folds up into the wall, and once it's put away, the same space works as a sitting room or a place to eat. You get one footprint used two ways, which is a kind of household planning anyone who has lived in a Miami condo already understands. Picture it at a Naples beach access at dusk or pulled in on a road trip up the Gulf Coast: the bed tucks away, the table comes out, and whatever the evening looks like goes in that space. It's a simple, well-made answer to a small-space problem.
What They Drive

A Good Week to Fill Out the Garage Tool Chest

Amazon's October Prime Big Deal Days event is underway, and hand tools are among the categories carrying reduced prices. The Drive has gone through the sale and put together a list of the discounted hand tools it rates most highly. For owners who keep their own cars running, from a Palm Beach collector's garage to a weekend driver's bench in Colorado, it's a timely chance to replace a worn wrench or add the tool the shelf has been missing. These prices last only as long as the event, so anyone with a project in mind will want to look soon.
What They Drive

October Prime Day Brings Bosch and DeWalt Within Reach of the Home Garage

For owners who do their own wrenching, Amazon's October Prime Day event has cut prices on brand-name power tools from makers including Bosch and DeWalt, with some reductions reaching half the usual price. The Drive went through the retailer's sale listings to pick out the recognized names from the many lesser offerings on the page. In a collector's garage, where a good drill or driver has to earn its place on the bench, a discount on proven brands is the part worth a look. The sale is open to Prime members during the event.
Photo by Alexandre Prevot on Flickr
What They Drive

The 2027 Purosangue HS: A New Ferrari Name for the Collector's File

Ferrari has a new name for collectors to learn: the Purosangue HS, a 2027 model. Car and Driver has published a full photo gallery of the car, showing the cabin as well as the bodywork, and for now the pictures are the whole story. We have not driven it, and the photos alone don't say what the HS letters mean, so we won't guess. Owners from Palm Beach to Aspen who track every Ferrari model year can add this one to the list.
What They Drive

Ferrari Sharpens Its Four-Door Purosangue With a Handling Speciale Version

Ferrari has added a Handling Speciale version to the Purosangue, the four-door car that Maranello still won't call an SUV. Car and Driver has driven it, and its editors say Ferrari improved the car by making it simpler rather than by adding more to it. For owners on the Purosangue order list from Palm Beach to Aspen, the Handling Speciale name will mark this car as the more focused of the two. These impressions are Car and Driver's from its own drive, not ours.
Photo by Alexandre Prevot on Flickr
What They Drive

For 2027, the Ferrari Purosangue Handling Speciale Gets Its Edge from Code, Not Horsepower

Ferrari's 2027 Purosangue Handling Speciale keeps the same twelve-cylinder output as the standard car. Road & Track drove it and found the difference is in revised programming, which gives the driver a more precise, more engaged feel behind the wheel. For anyone choosing this version, that is the point: the change is in how the car responds, not in how much power it makes. It's an update you notice through the steering wheel rather than on the spec sheet.
What They Drive

The Sterling 825/827: Remembered for Character, Not Looks, Speed or Price

Car and Driver has turned its attention to the Sterling 825 and 827 from the 1987 through 1991 model years. The case it makes for them doesn't rest on looks, pace or price tag. The writer's affection goes instead to cars that came out with a stubborn personality of their own and never gave it up. For owners and collectors who keep a soft spot for the unusual over the obvious, the Sterling earns its place on that list. The cars people remember longest are often the ones that refused to blend in.
What They Drive

A New Top Rung for Porsche? Mission S Is the Name Collectors Should Note

Porsche has shown an early teaser of a concept called Mission S, with its engine placed behind the driver. The car is thought to preview a production model that would sit above the 911 in the Porsche lineup. It may be powered by an eight-cylinder engine with its cylinders lying flat in two opposed banks. For now, Porsche has confirmed only the name and the teaser, so owners and collectors from Naples to Aspen should note the name and watch for more.
Photo by Prayitno / Thank you for (12 millions +) view on Flickr
What They Drive

For Collectors, Porsche Points the Way Toward Rarer 911s and a Possible New Flagship

Porsche has laid out its plans, and for owners who follow the marque closely, the headline is scarcity: more limited versions of the 911 are on the way, and the company is weighing a new supercar to sit at the top of its range. The plan also adds new combustion-engined sport utility vehicles to the lineup. The same outline makes clear that future 718 models will not be offered with a gasoline engine. For collectors deciding which Porsche to watch, the 911 is the car to follow, along with whatever shape that top-of-the-range model finally takes.
Photo by Peter Kostov on Unsplash
What They Ride

The Classic Field Starts to Take Shape for October

The richest race on the American calendar is starting to come into focus. With the 2026 Breeders' Cup World Championships set for October, attention has turned to the horses that could line up for the Classic, the race that closes the championship program. It is still early, and the field is not yet set; for now there are only the horses likely to be pointed toward it. For readers who follow the American turf, this is when the season starts building toward one race in the fall.
What They Ride

Twenty-Eight Stakes and Nearly $5.7 Million: New York Racing Will Run All Winter at Belmont

The New York Racing Association has published its stakes calendar for the 2026-27 cold-weather season at Belmont Park, and it is a full one: 28 stakes with purses that add up to close to $5.7 million. That works out to roughly two hundred thousand dollars per race on average. For New York horsemen, it means steady stakes money through the winter months, when many people assume the turf has gone quiet. Each of those 28 dates is a chance for an owner to see their colors in a stakes field and for a trainer to show what their barn can do. Belmont Park will host the whole program, so New York's top-level racing stays at home through the winter instead of leaving the state. For anyone who follows the sport here, the season ahead now has a schedule and a price on it.
What They Ride

Finger Lakes' Longtime Leading Rider, Now Dotsy's Trainer, Takes Up the Pen

John Grabowski, who trains the Grade I winner Dotsy, is the latest horseman invited into the Thoroughbred Daily News Writers' Room. Upstate New York racing knows him from the saddle first. For thirty years he was the rider to beat in the Finger Lakes jockey standings. In 2011 he gave up riding and took out a trainer's license. He has done well in that second career on the Upstate circuit, and a Grade I win with Dotsy is the kind of result a trainer from a regional track works years to see. Now he gets to tell the story himself, as one of the few people in the game who has done both jobs: three decades on horseback, followed by a barn of his own. Readers in Saratoga, Belmont and every training center in the state can hear from a man who learned the sport from the irons first and the shed row second.
What They Collect

At Princeton, Basquiat's Paintings Are Shown Beside the Copier and the Screen

The Princeton University Art Museum is showing Jean-Michel Basquiat through the processes of the print shop. The galleries hang his photocopies and screenprints alongside pieces by the artists who shaped him, and the paintings are placed in that company too. The show argues that the habits of the press, such as repeating an image, layering it and carrying it from one surface to another, guided how he worked on canvas. For a collecting reader, that is a useful way to look. Work on paper and work made in multiples is often treated as a side room to the main event. Here it sits at the center of the argument. Visitors can trace a motif from a copied sheet or a pulled screen to a painted surface and judge for themselves how closely the two are related. Hanging the influences in the same rooms gives the exhibition a real lineage, so you see what he looked at as well as what he made. The museum is a short trip from New York. It is worth making for anyone who has ever wondered whether a painter's prints were a lesser category, because the show makes a careful, visible case that they were the foundation.
What They Collect

Eighteen Lichtenstein Pieces Join the Gap Rack as the Whitney Prepares "Like New"

The Whitney Museum of American Art and Gap released a joint line of clothing this week, 18 pieces in all, each drawn from paintings by Roy Lichtenstein. The partnership comes ahead of "Roy Lichtenstein: Like New," the museum's coming exhibition devoted to the Pop master. For collectors, that sequence matters: the merchandise arrives first, and the paintings follow on the walls in New York. A collection of 18 is a full assortment, large enough for a shopper to choose among several images instead of settling for one souvenir. Lichtenstein built his pictures from bold outlines, flat color and the dot patterns of commercial printing, so his work translates to fabric as easily as anything in the American canon. A shirt or jacket carrying one of those images is a clear sign of the show to come, and it lets people take part in the exhibition before its doors open. The pairing puts a New York museum alongside an American retailer to celebrate an American painter, and that is reason enough for these pages to take note.
Beverly Hills News

GEMS Returns to Miami Oct. 29 Through Nov. 5, Starting With "The Debut" and Ending With "Club Kid"

The Miami Film Festival has released the program for this year's GEMS, according to Variety Film. This is the 13th edition of GEMS, which the festival holds in the fall, between its main annual editions. The Miami Film Festival is run by Miami Dade College. GEMS will run for eight days, from Oct. 29 to Nov. 5. "The Debut" will be the first film shown, and "Club Kid" will be the last. For anyone planning to attend, those dates mark the first and last nights of the program in Miami.
Beverly Hills News

A New Door Opens for Up-and-Coming Independent Filmmakers

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon's company, Artists Equity, has started a division devoted to independent film, Variety reported. The new label is called Artists Equity Independent Pictures, and it is meant to give filmmakers who are just starting out a place to present their work. Variety reported the launch as an exclusive. For readers in Beverly Hills who follow the film business, the label gives rising filmmakers in independent cinema a new place to work.
Beverly Hills News

Showalter, Hoover and Williams Explain How the 'Verity' House Was Built

The house at the center of "Verity," the coming screen version of Colleen Hoover's novel, is the subject of a new conversation with the people who made it. Director Michael Showalter, Hoover and Amy Williams, who designed the film's sets, described how they built a home meant to close in on the characters inside it. Anne Hathaway leads the cast. The account focuses on set design, the work that decides what an audience sees around the actors in every scene.
Beverly Hills News

Andrew Garfield Says Playing Sam Altman Changed How He Uses AI

Andrew Garfield says his role as Sam Altman in Luca Guadagnino's film "Artificial" changed the way he uses ChatGPT. The film tells the story of how OpenAI, the company Altman leads, got its start. Before he took the part, Garfield was one of the chatbot's roughly 1.2 billion users and used it mostly as an upgraded search engine. He said that after playing the company's chief executive, he stopped using it that way because the experience left him somewhat frightened.
Beverly Hills News

Playing Sam Altman in Guadagnino's "Artificial" Changed How Andrew Garfield Uses ChatGPT

According to Variety, Andrew Garfield was one of ChatGPT's 1.2 billion users before he played OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman in "Artificial," Luca Guadagnino's film about how the company began. Since taking the role, the actor has stopped using the chatbot as a souped-up search engine. He told the publication the experience left him somewhat frightened. For a town that knows the film business well, it is a small detail about the work itself: a part that stayed with the actor and changed one of his everyday habits.
Beverly Hills News

Book Soup Changes Hands, and the Report Says Readers Can Rest Easy

Book Soup, the independent bookseller, has a new owner: a former Oracle executive who once worked for Larry Ellison, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The trade outlet's report says the sale is better news than its first description might suggest. For readers in Beverly Hills and across Los Angeles who know their way around a bookstore's shelves, the change in ownership is a turn of the page rather than the end of the book. The report does not describe any plans for the shop beyond the purchase.
Beverly Hills News

Six Soundstages Planned for New Film Campus Outside St. Louis

Construction has started on a film production campus in Illinois, close to St. Louis. Plans call for six soundstages with a combined 144,000 square feet of space, or about 24,000 square feet per stage. Illinois officials used the start of construction to promote the state's tax incentive for film production. For readers in Beverly Hills, much of whose work is in film and television, the project adds to the stage space available to productions in the United States. The project's scale is defined by its six stages and their combined footprint.
Beverly Hills News

Crunchyroll Storyworks Will Bring Japanese Creators Into Its Anime and Live-Action Adaptation Work

Crunchyroll, the anime service owned by Sony, has created a new unit named Crunchyroll Storyworks, according to Variety. The division will make adaptations in two forms: anime and live action. Variety reports that the work will be done together with Japan's creative community. For Beverly Hills readers who follow the business of screen storytelling, the new unit's name says what it does: adapting stories for the screen, with Japanese creators involved in the work.
Photo by roger4336 on Flickr
The Capital Set

A Cabinet Welcome on the San Diego Waterfront for the Crew of the Lincoln

The USS Abraham Lincoln came home to San Diego on Wednesday afternoon, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was there to meet it. He addressed the crew as the carrier returned from a deployment that ran longer than planned. A homecoming at this scale is one of the country's great public occasions. An aircraft carrier coming back to its home port is a rare sight, and the Pentagon's top civilian chose to be there in person rather than send a message. It is the kind of event this desk exists to note: a cabinet officer standing on an American pier to thank the people who served. The Lincoln is one of the largest ships the nation sends to sea, and a carrier's arrival is a city event as much as a naval one. For the sailors, Wednesday marked the end of a long time away and the start of the return to ordinary life on shore.
Who Wore What When

Florence Pugh Puts the Sparkle Back at Her Fingertips

Florence Pugh, star of "East of Eden," has been seen wearing a diamond manicure, and it's a good argument that decorated nails never went out of style. The jewels sit on the nail itself rather than on a ring or a cuff, so the shine shows up in every gesture. From a Palm Beach lunch table to a Beverly Hills booth, it's a look any reader could bring to their next appointment. Bare, plain nails had a good run, and her sparkling set is a reminder that a manicure can be dressed up too.
Who Wore What When

Emma D'Arcy Gives an Insider's Label Its First Turn on an American Carpet

Last month, Emma D'Arcy wore a label that insiders love and few others have heard of, and in doing so gave it its first walk down a red carpet in the United States. They chose sharp, spirited tailoring, a choice that rewards anyone who knows what to look for. For an archive that tracks who wore what and where, a house's first appearance on an American carpet is a date worth recording. Those in the know will recognize it, and everyone else now has a name to look up.
Who Wore What When

Valentino's Vendetta Pair, Donna and Uomo, Gets Worn Side by Side

A fashion editor at Elle has put Valentino's two new Vendetta fragrances to a direct test, wearing the Donna and the Uomo one against the other. Neither label decided the verdict. Her writer's own taste did: a feminine fragrance suits her best when it's warmed with spice and grounded in wood. For readers from Palm Beach to Beverly Hills who choose a scent the way they'd choose a gown, by how it wears and not by which counter it's sold at, that's a useful bit of permission from a house that knows how to dress a room.
Who Wore What When

Jennifer Lawrence Takes the Office Dress Code Somewhere Softer With Pauline Dujancourt

The garment here is a skirt from Pauline Dujancourt, in a dusky lavender that sits somewhere between lilac and gray. Jennifer Lawrence wore it as her own version of workday dressing, a category that usually leans on navy and pinstripe. It's a well-chosen color: muted enough to pass in a meeting, tender enough to show it wasn't an accident. Readers from Manhattan offices to Beverly Hills lunch tables can take the lesson that a hazy pastel can count as professional.
Who Wore What When

No Blow-Dryer, No Frizz: Getting Hair Dry and Polished Without the Heat

An Elle writer has rounded up the creams, sprays and styling products they credit with turning frizz-prone hair that dries on its own into something smooth and finished. The goal is hair that looks styled on purpose, even though no one spent an hour with a round brush. On a humid Florida morning, that's a useful skill: getting out the door looking put-together without a blowout appointment. Red carpet and pageant hair get the spotlight, but a smooth everyday look that takes almost no effort is a skill worth admiring too.
Who Wore What When

Graphic Tee, Serious Bag: River Klein's Off-Duty Formula

When the shoot ends, the model, who has worked for both Calvin Klein and Coach, dresses in a loose, slightly undone style with clear roots in the 1990s. It rests on two things: Hysteric Glamour T-shirts, the Japanese label's graphic cotton worn casually, and handbags from serious design houses carried with real precision. The appeal is the contrast between a tee that looks lived-in and a bag that's flawless. It's a formula that would look just as right on a downtown New York block as on a Los Angeles coffee run, and anyone who loves a good archive will spot the decade right away.
Brides of Beverly Hills

The Private-Yard Venue, Done in Tangerine, Pink and Yellow

Caroline and Preston held their wedding in a backyard in Columbia, South Carolina, and treated it as a fully dressed outdoor reception rather than a casual one. The couple met at fifteen and got engaged a decade later, so the setting matters: they chose a family-scale lawn over a ballroom or a booked estate. For a bride weighing her own options, a private yard means the couple, not a venue coordinator, decides what the space becomes. The palette is the useful detail here: tangerine, pink and yellow, three warm colors that hold up in daylight and against green lawn in a way that pale pastels often don't. A three-color scheme like this gives a florist and a linen rental house clear direction without locking every table into one shade. The takeaway for planning is that a yard at home can carry real polish if the color decisions are made early and stuck to.
What They Drive

The Glovebox Restock: Leatherman, Garmin and Fenix Among October's Prime Day Markdowns

Amazon's October Prime event has cut prices on the small kit that tends to ride along in a door pocket or console bin: folding knives, multitools, flashlights and chargers. Leatherman, Garmin and Fenix are among the brands included, along with others. For owners who keep a car stocked with a good blade, a dependable light and a way to top up a phone, this is a well-timed chance to replace worn tools with well-made ones. The discounts run through Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days this month.
What They Drive

DeWalt Tools Go on Sale for Prime Big Deal Days, and the Home Garage Benefits

DeWalt tools are discounted during Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days event. The brand sits at a useful middle ground: built well enough for serious work, and priced so an owner can fill out a bench without overspending. At a discount, that balance tips further in the buyer's favor. For anyone who keeps a car in the garage, from a Florida weekend driver to a Colorado project still on jack stands, a sale like this is a good time to add a tool or two.
What They Collect

For Collectors Tired of the Fair Circuit, One Dealer Sees a Turn Toward Proven Names

Dotahn Pissarro-Stern of Stern Pissarro Gallery has offered a view of the market that will be familiar to anyone who has spent a season going from one fair to the next. In the dealer's reading, the sheer demands of that schedule may be leading buyers back to artists whose work they already know and believe in. For collectors from Palm Beach to New York, it reframes a crowded calendar as a reason to choose with more care, and to favor the established over the merely new.
What They Collect

Read the Carving: The Household Things Inside Egyptian Hieroglyphs

Many of the pictures that make up Egyptian hieroglyphs started out as objects people handled every day. The Collector ends its three-part series by tracing those ordinary things into the signs that carried them onto inscriptions and painted surfaces. For anyone who has stood in front of an Egyptian piece in a New York gallery and taken the carving for decoration, the series makes a useful point. Much of what looks ornamental is a picture of a household object doing the work of a word, and it shows how ancient Egyptians lived at home.
What It Sold For

A Hudson Yards Storefront That Reads Like a Residence

Costa Brazil has opened a new flagship at Hudson Yards, and Francisco Costa designed it to feel less like a store and more like a room someone lives in. He filled the space with things he keeps for himself: shelves of books, objects he has chosen, and references to Brazil. A visitor gets the sense of being let into the designer's own rooms rather than walked through a retail floor. That matters on the far West Side of Manhattan, where newly built space usually arrives finished and anonymous. Here the shop is meant to be read slowly, the way you would look around a friend's living room, one shelf and one object at a time. For a desk that covers the American house, it is worth noting when a commercial address in New York is arranged on the logic of a home and is plainly the work of one person's taste.
What It Sold For

In Wynwood, a Stone House Opens Its Doors to Design Talk

Arca, the marble and natural-stone company, hosted interior designer Alfredo Paredes and Surface's editor-in-chief at its Miami showroom in Wynwood. The showroom is built to be looked at, a room where the architecture makes as strong a case as the slabs it holds. For a neighborhood that has become a working address for Miami design, it makes sense to bring a designer and an editor into a space where the stone is the subject. Anyone weighing marble for a kitchen, bath or entry hall would find the room worth walking through.
Who Wore What When

Staud and Jacquemus, Marked Down for Two Days: The Season's Handbag Hunt Moves Online

For the next two days, Prime Day's October edition has discounts on handbags from Staud, Jacquemus and several other labels shoppers are watching right now. It's an unlikely place to look for the bag you'll carry from Palm Beach lunches to the first cool evenings in Aspen. The window is short, so anyone who has been waiting for the right autumn bag at the right price should act before the sale ends. On sale or not, a good bag is about the shape, the finish and how it suits the person carrying it, and these names are known for all three.
Who Wore What When

Leopard Underfoot, Dries Van Noten Above: Jennifer Lawrence Dresses for a Friend's Celebration in New York

Jennifer Lawrence went to dinner in New York to mark Dakota Johnson's birthday, and she dressed for the season rather than the spotlight. The main piece was a Dries Van Noten skirt in mustard and earthy brown, the warm, toasted colors of autumn. On her feet she wore leopard slides, so a second pattern sat right next to the first instead of being kept apart from it. Putting two prints together is a calculated risk, and here their shared warm colors keep them from clashing. The slides also show what mattered most that evening: dinner with friends calls for ease, and nothing in the look makes its wearer suffer for it. For the archive, file it under New York, a birthday table and Dries Van Noten, an evening outfit any reader could borrow.
Who Wore What When

Meredith Marks Brings Her Two-Day Facelift Story to the VRT Awards Carpet

On the 2026 VRT Awards carpet, Meredith Marks of "The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City" talked openly about the facelift she had in February. By her account, it took her about 48 hours to recover. She gave the timeline plainly, the way a guest might name the tailor behind a well-cut jacket. At an evening built around arrivals, she offered a clear answer to a question many people only whisper, and the room was better for it.
Who Wore What When

Ginori 1735's Fortunae Puts a Lost Renaissance Pastime Back in Play

Ginori 1735 has a new collection, Fortunae, built around a Renaissance game that time had all but cleared from the table. Annalisa Tani, who directs the house's collections, sat down with WWD to explain the thinking behind it. Her argument is that a rising generation is looking backward for its pleasures, and Fortunae is designed to meet them there. It is an old game brought back for new players, and the rules of taste, it seems, still apply.
Who Wore What When

The Penny in the Slot Now Carries Karl Lagerfeld's Mark

The Karl Lagerfeld label has teamed with G.H. Bass on a footwear collection of seven designs, made for both men and women. At its center is the penny loafer, now with a coin struck especially for the house to sit in that famous slot across the vamp. It's a small change in scale, but the penny is the one detail everyone looks at on this shoe, and this time it carries a signature. From a Palm Beach lunch to a Hamptons weekend, it's a nice reminder that a well-made shoe can still keep its owner's change.
Who Wore What When

Florence Pugh Opens Fall With a Fringe Cut Short and Hair Worn High

Florence Pugh of "East of Eden" has started the fall season with a new red carpet look: very short bangs cut well above the brow, with the rest of her hair pulled up and set in sharp points. The two choices work together, the cropped fringe opening up the face and the piled-up hair drawing the eye upward. Vogue describes it as the latest step in a run of her red carpet looks that break from the expected, and this one has a deliberately punk edge. It's a hair moment more than a gown moment, and it's a strong start to the season, whether the next carpet is in Manhattan or Los Angeles.
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The Short List Behind Every Long Season: Vogue Names the Pieces Worth Keeping for 2026

Vogue has drawn up a roster of more than thirty garments it considers worth owning in 2026, chosen by the magazine's own editors. Call them staples, call them foundations; the point is that these are the pieces built to outlast a single season's fancy. For a reader packing for a winter in Palm Beach or a summer in the Hamptons, a list like this is less a shopping trip than an edit, the quiet work of deciding what earns its hanger. We'll leave the full inventory to the editors who assembled it and simply admire the discipline.
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Before the Red Carpet, the Right Retinoid

Every great look starts with the skin under it, and the retinoid family has four members worth knowing by name: tretinoin, adapalene, retinol and retinal. They aren't interchangeable. Each one is suited to a different concern, with acne and sensitivity among the ones that decide the choice, so matching the formula to your own skin matters more than reaching for whichever bottle is closest. For anyone with a gala on the calendar, from New York to Beverly Hills, this is the step to get right well before the gown arrives.
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Five Creators, One Day's Head Start: DeMellier's Best-Known Handbags, Redrawn

DeMellier has given its most familiar handbag shapes to five content creators, and each one has reworked a design to suit their own taste. The result is a collection called "Icons," and for its first 24 hours it is open only to Vogue Shopping readers before anyone else can buy. For a reader in New York or Palm Beach who already knows these silhouettes from a hotel lobby or a lunch table, the appeal is easy to see: the bag you'd recognize, now carrying the eye of someone who isn't the house. Get there early.
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Before the Gown, the Field: Better Cotton's Growers Report Real Gains

Every great outfit starts long before the fitting, and a new report from the Better Cotton Initiative goes back to that beginning. Farmers who work under the initiative's standard are showing progress that can be counted, both in how responsibly they grow cotton and in what they earn from it. Credits on our pages usually name the designer, the year and the occasion, but the fiber has a maker too, and here that maker is doing well. Admirers of good tailoring, from New York to Beverly Hills, have reason to cheer a cotton field that is run well.
Beverly Hills News

Gustaf Skarsgård Steps Behind the Camera for His First Feature as Director

Cameras are rolling on "The Cannibal," the first full-length film directed by Gustaf Skarsgård, according to Variety. The Swedish actor, who became familiar to American television audiences through his role on "Vikings," is directing a horror story built on psychological tension. In a town where many careers are made on both sides of the lens, an actor moving into the director's chair is a step that Los Angeles readers in the industry will recognize. The project was reported as an exclusive, and the outlet credited the screenplay to a separate writer.
What They Ride

Forty-One Starts Later, a Tapit Son Starts Over With Kathleen Nathan

Portos, a son of Tapit, comes to the Thoroughbred Makeover with one of the longer résumés in the field. He ran 41 times over seven seasons, for six trainers, at 11 different racetracks. He finished first, second or third in 19 of those races, nearly half of everything he ran. Very few horses hold up that long, and his record shows how sound and willing he was. Kathleen Nathan is the rider who brings him to the Makeover, and it is her second trip to the event. The Makeover is where a racehorse is judged on what he can learn next, and few horses arrive there with more racing behind them. Portos earned his place on the track a few furlongs at a time, and now he has a chance to show what else he can do.
What They Drive

Jaguar's Type 01 Arrives in Production Form, and It Is a Sedan

Jaguar has shown the Type 01 in the form it will be built, and it is a sedan. Few new cars in recent memory have been as widely discussed online, so seeing the finished version is a real moment for anyone who follows the marque. For owners and collectors, the step from concept to production is when a car starts to become something you can actually own. The production Type 01 now gives them a real Jaguar to judge on its own terms.
What They Drive

Audi Files a Patent Aimed at Giving the Electric Car a Sense of Theater

A newly reported Audi patent describes electric cars that would give off visible flashes and carry a scent, sensations the battery car has largely left behind. For owners whose garages in Naples or Aspen hold both a carbureted classic and a silent new EV, the idea goes straight to what drivers say they miss: a car you can feel with more than your hands on the wheel. The filing only sets out concepts, and nothing in it promises a production model. Still, it shows a major German maker taking seriously the idea that an electric car should engage the senses as well as cover the miles.
What They Drive

Jaguar Starts Over at Roughly $130,000, With 1,015 Horsepower and No Gasoline

The Type 01 is the car Jaguar has chosen for its relaunch, and it is fully electric. Its rated output is 1,015 horsepower. It weighs 5,950 pounds, a big figure that fits a car with a big presence. Pricing begins at about $130,000. The design may be the most striking part: the Type 01 doesn't resemble anything else driving today. For owners and collectors following the marque, those are the numbers to note at the start of this new chapter.
Photo by HighTechDad on Flickr
What They Drive

Inside the 2028 Jaguar Type 01: The Cabin Comes Into Full View

The cabin of the 2028 Jaguar Type 01 has now been shown in full, photographed from every side instead of glimpsed through a window. For owners and collectors, the interior is the part of a car they live with every day, long after the outside has been admired at the curb. Car and Driver's editors found this one unusual enough to call out, and the photographs let readers from Naples to Aspen judge it for themselves. We have not sat in it yet, so we won't describe what we have only seen in pictures.
Photo by hoyasmeg on Flickr
What They Drive

Jaguar's 2028 Type 01 Shows Itself in Full

Owners and collectors who follow the leaping cat now have a full photo gallery of the 2028 Jaguar Type 01's bodywork to study. The pictures cover the car's outside from front to back and side to side, so readers can judge its lines and proportions for themselves. For readers in Palm Beach, Beverly Hills and the other places where a Jaguar is still a familiar sight, these photos are the first good look at what the marque will put on the road for the 2028 model year. We have not driven the car and won't guess at what it costs. For now, the Type 01 is something to look at, and it's worth a long look.
What They Collect

Windy Chien Turns Cord Into a Line You Can Stand Beside

Windy Chien is a California artist whose medium is cord, worked into knots packed so closely that each piece reads as a single deliberate mark. Some of the works hang flat and act like paintings, with color and texture doing what a brush would. Others leave the wall as bold, graphic objects with a sculptor's sense of edge and silhouette. Either way, the line is physical: it sits in the room with the viewer instead of on a surface, and it is best judged up close, where the hand behind each knot shows.
Who Wore What When

Rowan Henchy Takes the One-Shoulder Route in Black at the 2026 VRT Awards

Rowan Henchy, of "Next Gen NYC," arrived at Page Six's VRT Awards in a black gown with an asymmetrical cut. Page Six Style likened the look to Brooke Shields. That's high praise from the archive's point of view, and the comparison works because the dress skips extra ornament and lets one uneven neckline carry the look. On a carpet where most gowns compete for attention, an off-balance black silhouette is a deliberate choice of restraint over noise.
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Before the Red Carpet, the Balm: Victoria Beckham and Kate Hudson's Collagen Routine Gets a Prime Day Markdown

Every great red carpet look starts long before the gown, with the skin underneath it. Victoria Beckham and Kate Hudson both rely on the same British beauty label for theirs, and for October Prime Day its collagen line is as much as 40 percent below the usual price. The sale includes the label's much-loved cleansing balm and the top sellers from its Pro-Collagen range. Whether the next occasion is a Palm Beach gala or a Tuesday in Los Angeles, the starting point is the same one two famously polished women already use.
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Colleen Hoover's Six-Book Shelf, Opened as "Verity" Reaches Theaters

The movie version of "Verity," Colleen Hoover's 2018 novel, is now showing in theaters. To mark the release, the author was asked which books she loves most, and she named six that changed her life. Each new adaptation of her work tends to send readers back to her own books, so this list lets them see the other way: what Hoover reads herself. Think of it as her personal shelf, offered to anyone with a ticket stub and an evening free after the credits roll.
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Hilaria Baldwin's VRT Awards Corset Comes in More Than One Shade

Hilaria Baldwin wore a fitted corset top on the arrivals line at the 2026 VRT Awards, and the best detail came from her: she has the same piece in several colorways. She told Page Six this herself. When a garment shaped this precisely to the torso earns a spot in the closet more than once, it has moved from occasion piece to wardrobe staple. The mother of seven chose the version she wore for this night, and the others are waiting for the next one.
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The Last Step in Nigella Lawson's Glow Is Now a Quarter Off

Nigella Lawson has given a setting spray her personal endorsement, and the price has dropped by a quarter. She calls the mist a happy surprise and credits it with bringing her complexion back to life, while cheerfully calling her skin old. Here in Florida, where humidity tests every finish by noon, a final spritz that holds the face in place and leaves it glowing has earned a spot on the vanity. The markdown makes this a good week to try what Lawson already reaches for.
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Bethenny Frankel's French Facial Spritz Comes Down a Third for Prime Day

Bethenny Frankel keeps a facial mist from one of France's most cherished skin care houses in her routine, and for Prime Day it sells for thirty percent less than usual. A spritz is the smallest step in any routine: a few seconds and a cool veil over the face before the day begins. That brevity is why the name on the bottle matters. Whether it sits on a Palm Beach vanity or a Beverly Hills dressing table, a mist like this earns its place by being the thing you reach for without thinking.
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The Softer Turn Has a 1997 Valentino Reference

Fashion is leaning romantic again, and WWD's archive desk points to a precise source: Valentino, spring 1997. It's a well-chosen reference, a house collection pinned to one season and one year, so the comparison has an exact address instead of a vague nod to "the nineties." For readers in New York, Palm Beach or Beverly Hills who hold onto the good pieces, it's a reminder that the current mood has a pedigree. The present has turned gentle and graceful, and it found its precedent nearly three decades back on a Valentino runway.
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Me+Em Now Edits Your Bookshelf, and the Booker Prize Foundation Is Holding the Pen

Me+Em and the Booker Prize Foundation are working together on book selections chosen for the label's customers. Clare Hornby, who founded the brand and serves as its chief executive, says the idea grows out of how the house already works: the careful editing that shapes a wardrobe can also go to work on what sits on the nightstand. It's a neat idea for anyone who has finished getting dressed and wondered what, exactly, the outfit ought to be reading. From Palm Beach to the Hamptons, a well-cut jacket now comes with a reading list to match.
Beverly Hills News

Omega Previews Its 007 Exhibition at The Americana Boutique

Omega's boutique at The Americana hosted an early look at the watchmaker's 007 exhibition on Oct. 5, according to Variety. The date is observed as James Bond Day. The company used it to introduce a new line of watches named for James Bond and Spectre. Variety reported that the exhibition brings together objects tied to the 007 character, including a toothbrush, a passport and miniature car bombs. The Oct. 5 event was a preview of the exhibition, held inside the company's own boutique.
Beverly Hills News

Omega Opens a Preview of Its 007 Exhibition at The Americana Boutique

Omega used James Bond Day, Oct. 5, to open a preview of its 007 exhibition at the watchmaker's boutique at The Americana, according to Variety. The company also introduced a new James Bond and Spectre collection of watches the same day. The exhibition displays personal items belonging to the fictional agent, including a toothbrush and a passport. Small car bombs are also on display. The preview put the new watches and the Bond pieces together in one shop.
Beverly Hills News

Formula 1 Viewers at Home Will Hear the U.S. Grand Prix in Dolby Atmos

Apple and Dolby will carry Formula 1 races on Apple TV in Dolby Atmos sound. The change starts with the U.S. Grand Prix. Under the arrangement, Dolby will supply the audio format for Apple's live race coverage. The sound of the cars on track and the activity in the pit lane will both come through in the format. For Beverly Hills residents who follow the sport on Apple TV, the first race with the new sound will be one held in the United States.
Beverly Hills News

Skydance Names the Executives Who Will Run Its Business Beyond the Screen

Andy Gordon, president of Skydance, has named the executives who will lead the company's divisions outside film and television, Variety reported. The appointments cover gaming, experiential projects, consumer goods and human resources. The company is settling its structure after a recent merger, and these roles cover the parts of the business that sit apart from its studio work. For a town that follows the entertainment business closely, the announcement shows how a studio organizes the work that happens away from the camera.
Beverly Hills News

Beyond the Screen: Skydance President Andy Gordon Names Leaders for Games, Products and Human Resources

Andy Gordon, president of Skydance, has named the people who will lead several parts of the company outside its television and film operations, Variety reported. The appointments cover games and experiences, consumer products, and human resources. The company was formed through a merger, and these posts sit apart from its film and series production. The appointments set out who will run the parts of the business that take the company's work beyond the screen.
Beverly Hills News

FX's "The Drop" Puts West Coast Hip-Hop's 1990s Rise at the Center of a New Drama

Malcolm Spellman, showrunner of "The Drop," a new FX drama spun off from "Snowfall," discussed how he approached the series. Gail Bean and Isaiah John lead the cast, and the show follows West Coast hip-hop as it grew during the 1990s. Spellman described his method for keeping the series true to the period as an "eyewitness" approach. He also addressed how the new show relates to "Snowfall," and said he does not plan to build the series around appearances from the earlier show's cast. For readers in Beverly Hills, the series covers a West Coast music era that is part of this region's cultural story.
Beverly Hills News

Paramount and Warner Bros. Studios Get Their First Plan Under Skydance

Dana Goldberg and Josh Greenstein, the co-chairs Skydance Corp. named to lead its film group, have set out how they plan to run the Paramount and Warner Bros. studios. They presented the plan the day after the merger of the two companies formally closed. The co-chairs committed to building up both studios. In Beverly Hills, many readers work in the film business or live near people who do, and this plan is the first statement from the executives now in charge of both studios' film slates.
Beverly Hills Brides

Elena and Alexandr Painted Their Own Wedding Wall

The wall behind Elena and Alexandr's wedding was covered in figures, and every one of them was their own work. Each began as a painting in one of their sketchbooks before it went up as part of the day. A leopard stood there in pink. A moon looked out over the room with a face of its own. Women dressed in deep indigo and violet stood among them. The flowers had the same color and surprise: lilies trimmed with jewels. The guests had guns that fired bubbles, not confetti. Nothing on that wall came from a catalog or a hired hand. It came from the two people being married. In a town where you can buy almost any backdrop, a wall the couple drew themselves stands out.
What They Sail

GX42: A 138-Footer That Chooses How It Runs by the Passage Ahead

The GX42 is a new 138-foot superyacht built around a hybrid plant. Its defining feature is that it decides what to draw power from according to the trip in front of it. For an owner, that decision is the heart of the design: this is a yacht meant to cover water economically, with efficiency as the point rather than an afterthought. Matching the power to the passage, instead of running one way for every outing, suits a boat that is meant to be used, whether that's a short hop or a longer run. For readers who measure a season in miles along the Florida coast, it's engineering worth a closer look. The report did not name the yard or the naval architect, and it gave no price.
Photo by Moshi Anahory on Wikimedia
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The Interior Designer's Eye Now Reaches the Caviar Service

For Patrick Knowles, three and a half decades of tailoring yacht interiors have led to the caviar served aboard. He now applies the same made-to-measure approach to what comes out of the tin, with the caviar matched to each individual yacht rather than poured from a standard list. For owners who have already set the joinery, the fabrics and the layout to their own taste, it adds one more thing to customize, this time at the table. From a Fort Lauderdale fit-out to a winter berth in Palm Beach, more of the boat can now be built to order.
Private Jet Owners

A Place to Send Your Weather-Station Squawk

The FAA wants to hear from pilots when an automated weather station at their field is down or reporting numbers that don't match what's out the windshield. Under the plan, pilots could send those reports through an online form open to anyone, covering both AWOS and ASOS sites. For owners flying under Part 91, that turns a hangar complaint into a filed report. A bad altimeter setting or a wind report that doesn't match the windsock can now go somewhere the FAA will see it.
Private Jet Owners

Northrop's YFQ-48A Flew a Complete Sortie on Its Own, Starting From the Taxiway

Northrop's Talon Blue, carrying the designation YFQ-48A, has made its first flight at Mojave, California, and it flew the entire sortie itself. It moved itself along the ground to the runway, got airborne, flew its planned maneuvers and brought itself back down to land. Owners should notice where that sequence starts. Taxi is the low-speed, close-quarters part of any day that a crew never hands to the avionics, and on this flight the aircraft did it as well. Takeoff, the airborne work and the landing all belonged to the airplane too. The Mojave desert, a familiar American flight-test setting, was where it happened. For a readership that keeps an eye on what an airframe can be trusted to do by itself, this was a whole flight from ramp to rollout.
Class of Nashville

Nettles, Pearce and Faith Lend Their Voices to Netflix's 'Heartland'

Netflix has set Nov. 13 as the release date for the music from Heartland, its upcoming original film, and the album will come out on the streamer's own label. Jennifer Nettles, Carter Faith and Carly Pearce are among the artists on the record, alongside several others. Three voices like these on one album, all brought together for a single film, are worth marking on the calendar. In Green Hills, mid-November now has something to listen for.
Brides of Beverly Hills

Three Floors, One Palette: Ava and Kyle Push a Garden Look Toward Formal at The Gadsden House

Ava and Kyle set out to take a relaxed, garden-style wedding and dress it up, and they picked The Gadsden House in Charleston to do it. The venue has three floors of historic architecture, and that did most of the work: when the building is already formal, the couple doesn't have to buy the formality in. The flowers were calla lilies and hydrangeas, two different shapes. Calla lilies are a single sculptural line, and hydrangeas are a full, soft cluster. Sage green held the scheme together. Sage is a quiet color that tends to pick up the foliage around it rather than compete with it. For a bride weighing the same idea, the lesson is in the order of decisions: choose the room first, then let a short flower list and one restrained color carry the garden feeling inside it.
Brides of Beverly Hills

When You Can't Choose One Color, Paint the Bar

One couple couldn't settle on a single wedding color, and their designers told them not to. They used several pastels, and the bar became the one solid statement: painted by hand in periwinkle, with soft florals massed around the room. For a couple stuck on swatches, it's a way out. Pick one strong piece to carry the boldest shade, and let the flowers do the blending. A painted bar also gives guests a color they will see all night, since everyone ends up there at some point.
Icons of Palm Beach

For the Dog Who Has the Run of the House, a Collar That Keeps Up

The Fi Series 3+ is a GPS collar that records where your dog is, how much ground they cover in a day and how they sleep at night. All of it shows up for the owner to check. Town & Country's editors tested it for their Tried & True column and came away convinced it earns its place. That will mean something on an island where the dog has its own standing at the house and its own route along the North End. It is a gadget for owners who already know their dog's habits by heart and would like the numbers to prove it.
Who Wore What When

Prime Big Deal Days Brings Markdowns on Light-Therapy Masks and Label Handbags

Amazon's October sale is on, and among the many discounts, a short list has been picked out as actually worth buying. The best of it covers both beauty and the wardrobe: high-end light-therapy face masks on one side, handbags from established fashion labels on the other, plus a few more finds in the same spirit. For readers from Palm Beach to Beverly Hills, think of it as a seasonal edit rather than a hunt through the whole sale.
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Before the Crown, the Blowout: Dyson and Oribe Join Amazon's Big Deal Days

Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days sale has discounts on haircare and heat styling, and Dyson and Oribe are among the brands with markdowns. Every polished red carpet or pageant look starts with the hair, and the tools behind it are some of the most practical things in any dressing room. A brush-and-dryer kit or a better shampoo won't make the archive, but it will be there on the morning of every look that does. For readers getting ready for their own big night this season, this is a good week to restock the vanity.
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Class of Florida

Coral Gables Makes Its Case at $148 Million, With a Chapel and the Bay at the Door

At $148 million, a waterfront compound in Coral Gables is aiming for a number the neighborhood has never seen. Locally, the city's top-dollar addresses tend to get described in terms of Palm Beach and Naples. This one sets its own mark. The property runs 245 feet along the water, about the length of a city block, and that is the measure Coral Gables people care about first. Biscayne Bay is right at its edge, so the boat goes out from home and you skip the marina. There is also a guesthouse, so visiting family can stay close by and still have their own place. And there is a chapel on the grounds. That is rare even here, and it suggests a house built around ceremony and quiet. If the price holds, Coral Gables will have a new top number for its waterfront.
Class of Florida

A Grand Tourer Built From a Blank Page, and Florida Has Plenty of Road for It

Jaguar's Type 01, a battery-electric GT, has made its debut, and the people who engineered and designed it have talked about what it took to build a car with nothing carried over from an earlier model. They describe starting from nothing as hard work, and the car is the result. A grand tourer is meant for long, unhurried distances, and in Florida that means the drive from Worth Avenue down to Fifth Avenue South, with Miami in between, a city that will want to know whether the car comes in a louder color. Palm Beach will admire the car quietly, Naples will admire it at exactly the speed limit, and Miami will admire it at a valet stand.
Photo by Pandamera1 on Flickr
What They Drive

The Jaguar Type 01, Walked Around in Full

Jaguar's Type 01 has been unveiled, and a full photographic walk-around now shows the car from nose to tail and side to side. Collectors who size up a new model the way they would on a concours lawn, circling it slowly before deciding what they think, can do that with a complete set of images. We have not driven the Type 01, and we will not say how it drives. For now the photographs are the story, and the car's lines can be judged on their own merits. Readers in Palm Beach, Beverly Hills and Aspen who follow the marque will want to take that slow lap for themselves.
Beverly Hills News

Ellison Says Skydance Will Keep Backing Original Films in the Vein of 'Sinners'

David Ellison, co-chief executive of Skydance, said the company plans to keep making original films of the kind represented by "Sinners." He said the company's debt of $80 billion will not stop it from backing projects that are not guaranteed to succeed. His comments point to new, original work as part of the studio's slate for the film industry that is based here. Ellison did not tie the plans to any specific titles beyond the film he named.
Beverly Hills News

David Ellison Repeats Plan to Bring HBO Max and Paramount+ Under One Service

David Ellison has said again that he intends to merge the HBO Max and Paramount+ streaming services, according to The Hollywood Reporter. He has described this plan in public before. The report says building the shared technology platform behind a combined service will take time, and no timeline was given. For Los Angeles readers who work in the entertainment business, it shows which way two major streaming services are heading.
Photo by nikoretro on Flickr
What They Ride

CJ Thoroughbreds Sets the Mark Early in Ocala With a $190,000 Girvin Filly

The day's high price came almost as soon as bidding started at the OBS October Yearling Sale on Tuesday. The filly, cataloged as Hip 12 and sired by Girvin, sold for $190,000 to CJ Thoroughbreds. Because she went through the ring so early, every yearling after her that day was measured against her price, and none went higher. On the first day of a fall auction in Florida, that kind of early price shows buyers are ready to spend from the start. CJ Thoroughbreds now has a Girvin filly bought at the top of the day's market. The rest of the catalog will go through the ring in the sessions to come.
Brides of Beverly Hills

Calla Lilies, Hydrangeas, One Shade of Sage: How a Charleston Couple Kept the Palette Short

Ava and Kyle wanted their wedding to start with the ease of an afternoon among flowers and finish fully dressed up. They chose The Gadsden House in Charleston to hold both moods, a historic building that rises three floors in the city's traditional style. They limited the flowers to two: calla lilies and hydrangeas. They used one color, sage green. For anyone planning now, that short list is the most useful thing here. A calla lily is sleek and upright, and a hydrangea is full and soft, so the two together cover both the relaxed tone and the formal one without a third bloom. Sage is a quiet green that can stand next to flowers and old architecture without competing with either. A building on several levels also gives a planner more than one floor to work with, which matters when the day is supposed to change character partway through.
What They Sail

Raymarine's CAM400 Puts the Hidden Corners of the Boat on the Helm Screen

Raymarine has a new small marine camera, the CAM400. It's a networked unit that sends sharp video to the helm, so the person at the wheel can see parts of the boat they can't see from the seat: the stern platform where swimmers climb back aboard, the open deck, and the angles that disappear behind a superstructure. Owners who run their own boats from Palm Beach down to Naples know how often those moments come up, whether it's backing into a slip or bringing guests in from the water. The announcement is about a better view from the helm, and it doesn't mention price.
What They Sail

Patrick Knowles Brings His Interiors Discipline to the Caviar Course

After 35 years of tailoring yacht interiors to the people who live aboard them, Patrick Knowles is applying the same thinking to what comes to the table. The idea is simple: the caviar on a yacht should be chosen for that particular boat, the way its cabinetry, fabrics and finishes were. It is not a new product line or a decorative extra, but the same eye for fit and detail, now carried from the salon to the service plate. For owners in Palm Beach, Miami and Naples who have commissioned every surface aboard, it is a natural place to take that care next.
What They Drive

The Machines Behind the BMW Assembly Line Get a Send-Off Worthy of the Silver Screen

Before they were retired, these industrial robots spent their working lives helping to build BMWs. When a robotics startup had to take the old units out of service and make sure nothing of them survived, it skipped the quiet scrapyard and staged an ending usually seen only at the cinema: the robots were sent into a bath of liquid steel. Anyone who owns a BMW has driven something that machines like these helped assemble, which is reason enough to note how they were retired.
What They Drive

Detailing Supplies Marked Down in Amazon's October Sale

Amazon's October Prime Big Deal Days has cut prices on detailing products and equipment from established makers. The discounts cover what an owner needs to clean a car thoroughly, from the paint and glass to the cabin. That includes the owner who keeps a weekend car under a cover in a Palm Beach garage, and the one whose daily driver collects Aspen road grime all winter. Restocking the supplies you need to keep a car presentable now costs less for the length of the sale.
What They Drive

Eight Cylinders, Still Cooled by Air, Are Being Built for the Classic 911

A complete eight-cylinder boxer engine, cooled by air and sold ready to install, is in development for early Porsche 911s, and The Drive reports that the work is progressing well. For owners who drive their cars from the garage in Naples to the canyon roads above Los Angeles, it would mean two more cylinders behind the rear axle while keeping the air-cooled character that defines the car. The report also invites readers to picture that engine running all the way to its redline. It gives no specifications, price or release date, so owners following the project will have to wait to hear it for themselves.
What They Drive

The Electric M3 Is Becoming a Production Car

Fresh photos show the battery-powered BMW M3 under disguise wrap, and they reveal how far the car has moved from the show-stand concept toward the version that will reach customers. For owners who follow the M badge closely, this is the first real look at what the electric car will actually be, not just what it was imagined to be. The photographs don't say when it will arrive, what it will cost, or how it performs. That is all for a later day, and we will report it when BMW does.
What They Drive

Mini's 2027 Countryman Untamed Swaps Shine for Trail Rubber

Mini has given the 2027 Countryman an Untamed version, built for owners whose weekends carry on past the end of the pavement. The changes start underneath: the suspension has been reworked, the wheels are a smaller size, and the tires carry a tread meant for gravel and dirt as well as asphalt. A smaller wheel leaves more tire between the rim and the ground, the kind of cushion a driver heading up a Colorado forest road will be glad of. It is a sensible, carefully judged package that points the Countryman toward the trailhead.
What They Drive

Before the Trail, the Cabin: A First Look Inside Mini's 2027 Countryman Untamed Edition

Mini has added an Untamed Edition to the Countryman for the 2027 model year, styled around the idea of heading off the pavement. A full photo gallery of its cabin has now been published, with the interior shot from all sides. Readers in Aspen and along Colorado's Front Range will want to look closely at a trim built on that kind of theme, starting from the driver's seat and working outward. We have not driven the car, so for now the photographs are the whole story, and they're worth a slow look.
Photo by Ralph Florent on Unsplash
What They Drive

Mini Gives the 2027 Countryman a Trail-Minded Untamed Edition

The 2027 Mini Countryman now has an Untamed Edition, a version styled around off-road driving, and the first full gallery of its bodywork is out. For owners who note model years and trim names as carefully as collectors do, this is the variant's formal debut: a full look at the shape before anyone has spent time behind the wheel. Here in Colorado, where a Countryman is as likely to be parked at a trailhead as at a curb, a Mini dressed for rougher ground is worth a first look. For now the photographs have to speak for it.
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What They Drive

Mini Names a 2027 Untamed Edition for the Electric Countryman

Mini has put a new name on its 2027 calendar: the Untamed Edition of the Countryman Electric, the battery-powered version of the brand's largest model. The first look is a gallery of the car photographed from the outside, front, flanks, and rear, before anyone has said much about what lies beneath. For owners who follow the marque by model year and trim, a named edition is worth noting from the start, since special designations are what collectors sort by years later. For now the photographs are the whole story, and this desk will report more only once there is more to report.
What They Drive

Bidders Put Chevrolet's Corvette ZR1X Near Twice Its Sticker

A Chevrolet Corvette ZR1X offered for sale by auction is drawing a price close to twice what Chevrolet charges for the model at its base figure. For a Corvette, that is a notable place for the bidding to land, and it shows what collectors think of the car. By the measure of its rivals, the ZR1X is a hypercar, yet it costs only a small share of what buyers pay for comparable machines from the European makers. Owners from Naples to Aspen who follow the Corvette will see the result as a vote of confidence in an American car competing at the top of the field.
What They Drive

A Third Off a Three-Camera Dash Cam, for Owners Who Want the Drive on Record

Vantrue's N4S dash cam is 32 percent off during Amazon's fall Prime Day, which takes more than $100 off the price. It carries three cameras in one unit, so it records more around the car than a single forward lens can. For an owner who logs every drive, from a Naples causeway to a run up into the Colorado high country, that extra footage is part of the car's record. The sale runs before the year-end shopping season gets busy, which gives anyone who has been considering one a good reason to buy now.
What They Drive

Saleen Opens the Order Book on the S1: A Refundable $1,000 Holds a Place

Saleen is now taking reservations for the S1, its newest sports car. Holding a spot costs a $1,000 deposit, and the company will return that money to anyone who changes their mind. Pricing for the road-registered version of the car begins at $160,000, which puts a gap of more than a hundred times between the deposit and the price of the car itself. For collectors who follow American marques, a low, refundable deposit makes it easy to get in line early while the car is still new.
What They Drive

GX42 Brings Efficient Cruising to a 138-Foot Hull

The GX42 is a new yacht that measures 138 feet, and it runs on a hybrid system. It chooses how to power itself according to the trip ahead, so the voyage determines which source it draws on. Its makers present it as a vessel built first for efficiency. That is a serious claim at a length where most owners expect to trade economy for size. Owners who keep a slip in Palm Beach or Miami will see it as a sign that a larger yacht no longer has to be the less efficient choice.
What They Drive

Washington Reviews the Lamps That Light America's Night Roads

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says it is reviewing the federal rules that govern how American cars light the road after dark. Three questions are on its list: the dazzle that oncoming lamps throw into another driver's eyes, how high those lamps sit on the vehicle, and how closely the American rulebook should match the standards used in other markets. Headlamps are one of the few parts of a car that matter as much to the driver coming the other way as to the owner, whether that's on a coastal two-lane outside Naples or a mountain pass above Aspen, so a federal review of them deserves an owner's attention. The agency has said what it is looking at, and the result of that review is still to come.
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Where They Eat

New York's Dressed-Up Dinner, and the Room That Set the Tone

Chateau Royale opened in New York last year and quickly came to stand for a particular mood in the city's dining: polished, glamorous and made for an evening out. It arrived after years in which the steakhouse had spread across Manhattan dining. What followed was a turn toward shine and ceremony, with the room itself treated as part of the meal, and Chateau Royale was held up as one of its clearest examples. For readers who like dinner in New York to feel like an occasion, it is a name worth knowing.
Where They Eat

For the Rye Drinker at the Bar, Russell's Reserve Has Poured a Bourbon

Russell's Reserve has a new bourbon out, and Eddie Russell, the man in charge of its distilling, says this bottling is unusually spicy when you taste it. That makes it a bourbon built for the guest who normally asks for rye, the drinker who wants some bite in the glass more than sweetness. Next time it's on the back bar, it's worth the short conversation with the bartender to try it neat first and see what that spice does.
Class of Florida

A Sculptor's Own Eye Goes to the Block, $100 Million Strong

According to the New York Times, a collection of paintings by masters old and modern, valued at about $100 million, is coming up for sale, and the seller is Jeff Koons. The house running the sale has not named the consignor. The Times credits two people in the trade, neither named, for identifying him. Those few facts are all anyone has so far, and they are enough to hold attention. When an artist turns out to be a collector of other artists, people want to know what he chose to live with. Palm Beach will treat it as a question of connoisseurship, Miami will want to know who gets the catalog first, and Naples will quietly start measuring a wall. Whoever takes these pictures home gets the works themselves and the judgment of the person who chose them.
Class of Florida

"Jodi" the Nanotyrannus Is the Rarest Guest Any Florida Collection Could Hope to Host

A Nanotyrannus skeleton named Jodi is going to auction, and the price expected for it is about $9 million. The bigger news for anyone who collects seriously is how few there are: only two other skeletons like it are on record anywhere. Palm Beach knows the old masters, Naples knows the value of understatement, and Miami knows whatever came in last week. A specimen with only two peers is a level of scarcity all three would respect. Jodi is a reminder that the most remarkable thing in a room is sometimes not a painting at all.
Class of Florida

The Corvette ZR1X Is Bidding Its Way Toward Twice Sticker, and Still Undercuts the Imports

A Chevrolet Corvette ZR1X has gone to auction, and the bidding is approaching double what the car costs new from the dealer. Even at that figure, the ZR1X still comes in well below the European hypercars it gets compared to. It is a rare kind of top-tier machine, one that ends up on the same list as the continent's best without asking the same money. In Miami that reads as a smart buy, in Palm Beach as quiet patriotism, and in Naples as a sound long-term holding.
Class of Florida

A Cy Young Winner's House on the Puget Sound Is for Sale at $9.8 Million

Floridians tend to picture a ballplayer's house with palm trees out front and a spring training complex down the road. Félix Hernández, the retired Seattle Mariners pitcher and Cy Young Award winner, built his on the far side of the country instead, in the Puget Sound area outside Seattle. That house is now for sale, with an asking price of $9.8 million. It was built to his specifications while he was still pitching for the Mariners, during his 15 seasons with the club. Robb Report calls the place glitzy. In Miami that is a compliment, in Palm Beach it is something people say in a lowered voice, and Naples might want it explained. A house like this was designed around one man's life during the years he was playing, and a buyer gets that along with the rooms. Whoever takes it will be living in a house a Mariners great made for himself, in the city where he pitched.
Class of Florida

A 138-Foot Yacht That Lets the Itinerary Choose the Power, Which Is a Very Naples Way to Travel

The GX42 is a new yacht that runs 138 feet and carries a hybrid plant. Its notable trait is a considered one: it decides where its power comes from based on the voyage ahead. Its builders designed it first and foremost to cruise efficiently, and on a boat this size that is the real accomplishment. Florida has no shortage of yachts in the triple-digit lengths, so what gets noticed on our docks is a large boat that has been thought through. Picture the range of trips a Florida owner might take. There's the short hop down the Intracoastal, the run from Palm Beach to Miami for a dinner that Miami will insist runs late, and the longer, quieter passage around to the Gulf side. A vessel that treats each of those differently is matching the way people here actually use the water. Miami will admire the length, Palm Beach will admire the engineering, and Naples will quietly approve of the efficiency and say nothing more about it.
Class of Florida

A Bourbon With a Rye Drinker's Heart, From Palm Beach Bar Carts to Naples Lanais

Russell's Reserve has a new bourbon out, and Eddie Russell, who leads the distilling there, is pointing drinkers straight to the spice. By his account, it shows up in force once the bourbon hits the tongue. That puts it in the territory of people who usually reach past bourbon for rye: from Miami's late rooftops to a quiet Palm Beach library bar to a Naples porch at sunset, there's now a bourbon built on the kind of bite they already like. It's a well-made pour for a sharp-edged palate, and that's something every corner of this state can agree on.
Private Jet Owners

Hangar B Gets a Work Party and a $50,000 Match Before Tillamook Reopens

The Tillamook Air Museum is asking for two things before it reopens: people to work, and money that a donor will match. A volunteer work party is set for October 9. A $50,000 matching challenge is running at the same time, with the money going toward restoring Hangar B, the museum's historic hangar. Matched dollars go further than most gifts to a building like this, and a $50,000 ceiling means every eligible contribution up to that figure counts twice. Owners who pay hangar rent, or who have paid to keep a hangar door working, already know that keeping a large aviation building usable is a matter of steady maintenance. The reopening gives the work a deadline. For readers who want to put in labor rather than write a check, October 9 is the date to keep open.
Private Jet Owners

Jeppesen ForeFlight's Airflow Starts With the Airlines; Business Aviation Is Further Down the List

Jeppesen ForeFlight has launched Airflow, a set of AI software agents aimed first at airline operations. At launch they will build crew rosters and help an operation recover when the day's plan falls apart. The company says it will extend Airflow to business aviation and military flying later, so owners whose flight departments already run on ForeFlight should note the plan without counting on a date. For now, the airlines are testing it first.
Private Jet Owners

Your AWOS Readout Now Has a Complaint Desk

The FAA wants pilots to tell it when an automated weather station goes silent or starts reporting numbers that don't match the sky. Under the idea, problems with AWOS and ASOS could be sent in through an online form that anyone can use. For owners flying into fields where the automated station is the main weather source for the approach, this gives them a direct way to report it to the agency. Whether the form helps depends on the people who fly past these stations taking the time to use it.
Private Jet Owners

Mojave: Northrop's YFQ-48A Handles Every Phase of Its Maiden Sortie Without a Pilot

Northrop's YFQ-48A, which the company calls Talon Blue, has flown for the first time, and the aircraft controlled itself from start to finish. The flight took place at Mojave, in California's high desert. The airframe moved itself along the ground, got airborne, ran through a set of maneuvers and brought itself back down to the runway with no human hands on the controls. Owners know from their own logbooks how much of a pilot's attention goes to the ground segments and to each end of a flight, so it matters that the whole sequence was autonomous, not just the time at altitude. Talon Blue is a defense airframe, not something bound for a Part 91 hangar, and nothing in the report suggests otherwise. Still, an American manufacturer flew a clean first sortie over American desert, and that deserves a note on its own terms.
What It Sold For

Three Firms Return an Eichler to Its Original Clarity

Two AD100 practices, Geremia Design and Terremotto, joined Marsden Architecture to restore a house by Joseph Eichler, the builder whose postwar houses are still the clearest American example of modernism built for ordinary family life. The clients are a couple whose children have recently left home. The design starts at the floor: the terrazzo sets the colors for the rest of the house, and its tones lean soft, natural and feminine. In an Eichler, where walls of glass let the light and the yard into every room, the floor carries more of the design than it would in most houses, and the team treated it that way. No price or address is on the record, and none is given here.
What It Sold For

The Seventies Return to the American House, One Wall at a Time

This fall's color guidance sends the American house back to the seventies: five palettes, each one borrowing its mood from that decade. For an owner weighing a repaint before the holidays, the story is the decade itself, which looks to have earned a second turn on the walls. On a midcentury ranch, a postwar colonial or a newer build in the hills, a single room is enough to show whether the era suits the house. A coat of paint commits the owner to very little, and that makes it a sensible place to start.
What It Sold For

Architectural Digest's Editors Find 33 Pieces Worth a Second Look on Amazon

Architectural Digest's 2026 list picks 33 pieces of furniture from Amazon that its editors consider well designed. Among them are sofas with mid-century lines, beds framed in turned spindles, and side tables shaped more like sculpture than utility. The surprise is where they come from: a retailer better known for selling almost everything than for having an eye. For anyone furnishing a room with care, the list is a reminder that good taste can turn up anywhere.
What It Sold For

Eleven Films Worth Watching for the Houses Alone

Architectural Digest has put together a list of eleven films that interior designers return to again and again whenever their own ideas run dry. For a desk that covers the American house, the list is a reminder that a well-made room teaches you something even on a screen. It also shows how seriously designers take what they watch, going back to the same films for the craft on show. Before the next open house, the list is worth a night on the couch.
What It Sold For

The Flat-Pack Pieces That Hold Their Own in Professionally Designed Rooms

Veranda has gathered a dozen IKEA pieces that working interior designers bring into the rooms they create for clients, and it counts them in a single figure: twelve. In a market where a designed American house is usually described by its architect, its year and its finishes, a list like this one points out that the people who make those houses find value in plain, widely available furniture. The magazine's point is that a room's quality comes from the eye choosing what goes in it, not from the size of the furniture budget. For readers furnishing a house of their own, from a beach cottage in Florida to an apartment in New York, it is a professional's approval of a store that nearly anyone can walk into.
What It Sold For

For the Shaded Side of the House, Toad Lilies Earn Their Place

Most properties have a corner that gets little direct sun, where the light comes through the tree canopy in patches. According to Veranda, toad lilies belong in that spot. The magazine says they do well in filtered light and are easier to keep than a gardener might expect. They are perennials, so a single planting comes back each season, which is welcome on any well-kept property. With autumn planting underway, they are worth considering for the part of the grounds the sun mostly misses.
What They Ride

The Second-Quarter Numbers on Horse Welfare Are Now Public

Anyone who cares about how racing protects its horses can now read the record for themselves. The Horseracing Integrity & Welfare Unit has published its statistics for April through June of 2026 on its own website, under the title "HIWU ADMC Program Statistics: Q2 2026." The figures were not handed out to a few people in private. They were posted where an owner, a trainer, a breeder or a fan in the grandstand can find them. A well-run sport keeps its books open, and this quarter's books are open.
What They Ride

Miss Monica Sets Early Voting's 2027 Fee at $50,000

Early Voting's 2027 fee at Taylor Made Stallions has been set at $50,000, and the horse who did the most to earn it is his daughter Miss Monica. She is a Grade I winner and the leading runner from her sire's first crop of racing age. For a young stallion, that first group of foals is the first real test, and he now has a top-level winner from it. Early Voting is by Gun Runner out of the Tiznow mare Amour d'Ete. On the page that reads as an American pedigree from top to bottom. The farm has now put a number on what the stallion has shown so far, and breeders planning their 2027 matings have it in front of them. The fee is the news, but Miss Monica is the reason for it.
What They Ride

A Name Worth Remembering at Keeneland: Kilwin Heads for the Breeders' Cup

Kilwin is pointed toward the Breeders' Cup, and Keeneland is where the horse's story is being told. The connections are BBN Racing, an outfit that has done well with the progeny of Twirling Candy, the stallion who stands at Lane's End. What drew attention was the way BBN names those Twirling Candy foals: a lighthearted pairing with the sire's name that turned out to mean more than anyone involved could have expected. For a reader who follows a horse from the sales ring to the championship stage, it's a reminder that a name chosen with a smile can end up on a Breeders' Cup program.
What They Ride

Upward of 400 Thoroughbreds Head for Their Second Careers at the 2026 Makeover

The 2026 Thoroughbred Makeover will put upward of 400 horses in front of the public, each one presented for what it can do now that its racing days are over. That number alone tells the story. Each of those 400-plus entries is a Thoroughbred bred and raised to run, now being judged on the work it can do after leaving the track. For readers who follow these horses from the sales ring to the starting gate, this Makeover covers the part of the story that comes after, and it is a large field of horses ready for it.
What They Ride

Shedaresthedevil's First Foal, a Gun Runner Filly, Makes Her Debut at Belmont on Wednesday

The first of Shedaresthedevil's foals runs for the first time on Wednesday. Tinker Taylor, a 2-year-old filly by Gun Runner, is entered in the second race at Belmont, a $100,000 maiden special weight for juvenile fillies with a 1:43 p.m. Eastern post. Her dam won the Grade I Kentucky Oaks and is a daughter of Daredevil. That makes this filly the first test of what Shedaresthedevil passes on as a broodmare. The race is a mile with only one turn. That is a real ask for a first-time starter, with a long run to the bend and no second turn to gather herself. For a New York crowd that follows pedigrees from the sales ring to the track, there is one thing to watch Wednesday: an Oaks winner's first daughter by Gun Runner, making her first start.
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Class of Nashville

Hold November 10: City Winery Hosts Save The Music's Seventh Hometown to Hometown

Here is a date for the fall calendar. Save The Music is bringing Hometown to Hometown back to Nashville on November 10, and this time it will be held at City Winery. This is the seventh year of the event, and an occasion doesn't reach a seventh year by accident. It has been kept going on purpose, year after year. In this city, a night built around music is not a novelty. It is part of how the town lives, and the people who fill a room like City Winery understand the craft on the stage as well as the cause behind it. Hometown to Hometown is a fitting name for a Nashville evening. It speaks to a place, and this place has always known what a song can carry. Any reader who has ever said yes to an invitation like this will know why the date belongs on the calendar now.
Class of Nashville

Greylan James Takes Top Billing This November, Opening in West Virginia

Greylan James will be the name at the top of the bill this November, when "Wedding Season: The Tour" opens in West Virginia. For a run under his own name, the first night matters most: it is where the songs, the stage and the crowd first meet. It also says something that a run named for wedding season begins in November, when the calendar is usually doing other things. We'll be keeping an eye on it from Green Hills.
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Class of Nashville

The Week Before Halloween, Nashville's Best Seat Is at a Drag Brunch

Mark Saturday, October 24, 2026, on the calendar: that's the date for Witch, Please Drag Brunch. The name says what kind of morning it is, with witches in the title and the stage handed to drag performers, a week before Halloween. In a city that knows talent when it sees it, a brunch built around performers is about the most Nashville way there is to start the season's festivities. Reserve the date now and plan the outfit around it.
Class of Nashville

73,538: Zach Bryan Sets a New High-Water Mark at Gillette Stadium

On the night of October 3, Zach Bryan drew more people into Gillette Stadium than the venue had ever held, with a crowd of 73,538. Stadiums keep their records carefully, and this one now carries his name. At that size, the audience is the population of a small city, filling every seat and every square foot the building could offer for a single night of songs. For anyone who has watched a stage from the back rows of a venue that size, it is easy to picture: a long view down to one performer, and tens of thousands of people who decided this was where they wanted to be that evening. A record like this is earned one ticket at a time, and here the count stopped at 73,538. Here in Nashville we notice when one of the genre's own fills a stadium to its limit. That is the kind of arrival this desk is here to mark.
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Class of Nashville

'Boston' Goes to the Top, and Nashville Raises a Glass for Stella Lefty

"Boston" has reached the top of the chart. It is the first time Stella Lefty has had a song in that spot, and Nashville marked it the way this town marks things that matter, with a party. Her friends were there, and so were people from the industry. That mix is worth noticing. The people who knew her before the song arrived stood in the same room as the people whose job is knowing which songs will arrive. A first chart-topper happens only once in a career, and this city has learned to stop and honor it while it is happening. In Nashville, the top of the chart is a business result. On this night it was also a milestone that her peers wanted to see in person.
Class of Nashville

Nettles, Pearce and Carter Faith Lend Their Voices to Netflix's "Heartland," Out Nov. 13

Netflix has set November 13 as the release date for the soundtrack album to "Heartland," a film it made itself, and the streamer is putting the record out on its own label. The track list brings together Jennifer Nettles, Carter Faith and Carly Pearce, along with other artists who have not yet been named. For a town that keeps an eye on who gets the call when the big studios need songs, three names like these on one Netflix record are worth marking on the calendar.
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The Capital Set

The Emmys Find a New Home on Prime Video

The Emmy Awards will be shown on Amazon Prime Video under a six-year agreement between the streamer and the Television Academy, which presents the honors each year. It is a significant change for a ceremony that broadcast networks have carried for upward of three-quarters of a century. Six years is a long commitment. It covers a whole run of seasons, which suggests both sides intend this as a lasting home and not a single experiment. The evening that honors television's finest work will keep its place on the calendar, and only the way into the room will change. Viewers who have long watched the gowns, the speeches and the statuettes on network channels will now find them on a streaming service.
Icons of Palm Beach

Josh Hartnett, Grown Into the Part

The actor whose face once hung on bedroom walls has become the kind of leading man the best directors call. Josh Hartnett shares the screen with Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson in *Verity*, and his next projects put him with two directors of real stature, Christopher Nolan and Oliver Stone. In a conversation with Vanity Fair, he talked about the film, about getting older in an industry that doesn't always make room for it, and about the adolescent idol status he has long since moved past. His co-stars and directors speak for themselves. This is a career taking its second, more considered act, built on the work and not just the looks. On the island we admire someone who stays with their craft long enough for the craft to catch up, and that seems to be the chapter Hartnett is in now.
Icons of Palm Beach

The Season's Best Memoirs Are the Ones You Hear in the Author's Own Voice

A memoir read aloud by the person who lived it has become a serious business, and the credit belongs to the people on the other side of the studio glass. Vanity Fair has profiled the producers and directors who guided Lena Dunham, Al Pacino, Laura Dern and others as they recorded their own books. The work is quieter than it sounds. It takes a director's ear, a producer's patience, and an author willing to turn sentences they wrote into something spoken. On the page, the reader supplies the voice. In a recording, the voice goes back to the person who wrote the book. For anyone who keeps a stack of new memoirs on the side table through the season, that is the case for the audio edition: every pause before a line and every stressed word comes from the author. The people in the booth make the listening as good as the reading.
Beverly Hills News

DePaul Film School Backs Graduates With Money, Equipment and Mentors

DePaul University's School of Cinematic Arts runs a program called the Alumni Vision Fund, which supports filmmakers who have already finished their degrees. The fund gives former students money for their projects, access to filmmaking gear and facilities at a working-industry level, and guidance from people in the business. Most film schools end their formal support at commencement, so this kind of support matters to graduates who are trying to finish a first feature or move into paid work. For readers in a city whose economy turns on the screen trades, the program is one school's answer to a common question: what a new filmmaker needs after the diploma.
Beverly Hills News

Independent Filmmakers Gain Two New Distribution Labels Under One Roof

Blood Sweat Honey, a company that finds, advises and represents filmmakers working outside the studio system, has opened two distribution divisions, Cinema Machine and Graven Image, according to Variety. Cinema Machine will release films in theaters and through digital platforms, the report said. With these divisions, a company that already scouts and represents filmmakers can also bring their work to audiences. For independent filmmakers in Los Angeles and elsewhere, that adds two more routes to the screen.
Beverly Hills News

Westbrook Studios Opens Malar Group Partnership With Series on DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince

Westbrook Studios, the company owned by Will Smith, is developing a series about DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince. The project is the opening title under a new arrangement between Westbrook and The Malar Group, an investment company. The report did not name a network, cast or release date. For readers who follow the business of film and television, the news is that a studio has a new partner and that partner's first project is now in development.
Beverly Hills News

Elemis Cleansing Balm Priced Below Last Year's Prime Day Offer

The Elemis cleansing balm is selling at its largest markdown on record during Amazon's October Prime Day event, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The publication said this year's reduction is bigger than the one offered on the same product a year ago. The report did not give a percentage or a sale price. Beverly Hills readers who already keep the balm in their routine can buy it at the lower price while the event runs.
Beverly Hills News

Hollywood & Mind's First Summit Opens With a New Group for Young Entertainers

A new organization called the Next Generation Collective, or NGC, was introduced at the first summit held by Hollywood & Mind, according to Variety. The group focuses on the mental health of younger performers and others starting out in the entertainment industry. Variety reported that the collective was introduced on the day of the summit, where it was presented as one of the gathering's first pieces of business. For readers in Beverly Hills, where many people work in or alongside the film and television business, the collective is a new resource built for the industry's newest members.
Beverly Hills News

Bobby Kotick and Laurene Powell Jobs Take Seats on David Ellison's Skydance Board

Skydance, the entertainment company led by David Ellison, has named Bobby Kotick and Laurene Powell Jobs to its board, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Kotick joins from the gaming industry, and Powell Jobs comes to the company from charitable giving. The two will now share in setting direction for the company Ellison runs. In a city where the film and television business is a neighbor as much as an industry, a new board seat at an entertainment company is worth noting.
Beverly Hills News

Combined Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery Company Expands Its Leadership Ranks

Skydance Corp., the company created when Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery combined, has named Laurene Powell Jobs and Bobby Kotick as directors, according to Variety. The company announced the appointments on Tuesday. It also said former British Prime Minister Tony Blair will serve as an adviser. For readers who follow the studios that make the films and television series watched across Los Angeles and the rest of the country, the announcement shows who will sit at the table as the merged company sets its direction.
Beverly Hills News

Merged Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery Company Names Two Directors and an Adviser

Skydance Corp., the company created when Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery combined, announced Tuesday that Laurene Powell Jobs and Bobby Kotick will join its board. In the same announcement, the company said Tony Blair will serve as an adviser. The move adds two directors to the board that oversees one of the largest groups of studios and media brands in American entertainment, a business with deep roots in Los Angeles.
Who Wore What When

Laifen Marks Down Its Blow-Dryers and Powered Toothbrushes for Two Days of Prime Day

For anyone who's ever done a blowout before a big night, Laifen has cut prices on its beauty and grooming tools by as much as 30 percent for Prime Day. The markdowns cover the brand's fast-drying blow-dryers and its powered toothbrushes, the two tools that do the work before anyone gets photographed. The prices hold for only two days, so whether you're getting ready in Palm Beach or Beverly Hills, it's worth deciding soon.
Who Wore What When

The Men on Your List, Edited: Elle Picks 30-Plus Amazon Gifts

Elle has put together a list of more than thirty Amazon gifts for the men in your life, chosen by an editor who doesn't approve things easily. The list is split two ways. One side has the enduring pieces a man reaches for year after year, and the other has lesser-known finds that most people wouldn't come across on their own. It covers fathers, brothers and partners, so whether you're shopping in Palm Beach or Aspen, you have one place to start. Here at Who Wore What When we track every name and every date, and we like a list where someone has done the hard work of choosing first.
Who Wore What When

Prime Day Comes to the Vanity: Dyson and Anastasia Beverly Hills, Marked Down for October

Harper's Bazaar went through the October Prime Day markdowns and came back with 54 beauty buys worth a closer look. The biggest discount on the list is 53 percent off. Dyson and Anastasia Beverly Hills lead the list, and in our corner of the country that second name sounds a lot like a home address. The prices won't stay this low for long, so anyone who has been waiting on one of these should decide soon.
Who Wore What When

The Coach Chelsea Makes the Case for Carrying One Black Bag All Autumn

Coach's Chelsea is a black handbag built to go with everything you wear this season, whether that's loud color or a single shade from head to toe. Put it next to a saturated pairing and it steadies the outfit. Put it next to a quiet tonal outfit and it simply fits in. From the Hamptons to Aspen, a reader can make one sensible decision about a bag and spend the rest of autumn dressing however the mood strikes.
Who Wore What When

Before the Gown, the Groundwork: Medicube Goes Up to Half Off for Prime Day

Korean skin care label Medicube has cut prices by as much as 50 percent on its most talked-about products for Amazon's October Prime Day. The headliner is the PDRN Gua Sha, the sculpting tool that social media creators have championed. The brand's sheet masks, which WWD's own editors have vouched for, are on sale too. For anyone from Palm Beach to Beverly Hills with a season of black-tie invitations ahead, this is the quiet prep work: the cameras will catch the dress, but the skin under it gets its start at home.
Who Wore What When

Chicago Takes Its Future Cues From the Archive

The Driehaus Alumni Fashion Show turned the rear-view mirror into a design tool, treating the city's style history as the starting point for where its runway heads next. For an archive-minded desk like ours, that's an approach worth a nod: the clothes Chicago has already worn are being used as a reference, not shelved as nostalgia. It's a reminder that a strong fashion future is often built from a well-kept past. The Midwest's biggest city is putting its own wardrobe history to work.
Who Wore What When

Chicago's Next Chapter Comes Stitched From Its Archive

Graduates came back to the runway at the Driehaus Alumni Fashion Show, and the hemline pointed two ways at once: toward what Chicago design is becoming, and toward the work that brought it here. It's a familiar move to anyone who keeps an archive. You can't say where a city's style is going until you've looked at where it has been. An alumni show is a good place to make that point, because each name on the program is part of both the city's history and its future. Here at Who Wore What When, we keep the record of who wore what, and when, so a show that consults the record before writing the next entry is very much our kind of evening.
Who Wore What When

Twenty Years In, the Women's Initiative Marks the Milestone at the Morgan

A twentieth anniversary deserves a proper room, and the Women's Initiative held its celebration at the Morgan Library and Museum in Manhattan. The guests didn't come from one industry. People from the arts shared the evening with people from public health, philanthropy and fashion. That mix is the point. Keeping a program going for two decades is an achievement, and bringing that many different fields under one roof to recognize it is another. The Morgan is known for rare books and manuscripts, which made it a fitting place to mark twenty years of work. For our archive, the entry reads: year twenty, a New York landmark, and a room full of guests there to honor an initiative built around women.
Who Wore What When

The Bandage Silhouette Asks for One More Night Out

Elle's editors say they have fallen under the spell of the bandage silhouette once more. It is the dress that never pretended to be easy: strips of fabric wrapped close from neckline to hem, built to follow every line of the body, with opinions split on it from the start. Elle frames the comeback as an open question, not a settled verdict. From a Palm Beach supper to a Nashville night out, it is a look worth watching for this season, and one that rewards a woman who wears it with conviction.
Who Wore What When

As Ever, Made by Hand: The Duchess of Sussex Puts Her Brand in a Mother-and-Daughter Jam Session

The Duchess of Sussex has posted a new clip of herself making jam with her daughter, Princess Lilibet, who is five. The video marks a moment for As Ever, the Duchess's own label, and it lets viewers hear Lilibet speak, which they seldom get to do. No gown and no red carpet here, just fruit, a kitchen and a mother teaching her daughter something by doing it with her. We at Who Wore What When cover the well-made wherever we find it, and a jar filled by two generations counts.
What They Collect

The Collector's Library: Eight Books by Artists Worth Owning

The Collector has put together a reading list of eight books by well-known figures in art, running from Gombrich to Pollock. Each one has drawn real attention and given people in museums, galleries and studios something to talk about. That makes the list useful for anyone building a library alongside a collection, in New York or Palm Beach or anywhere a serious shelf sits near serious walls. The best case for any of these volumes is the plainest one: they let you hear how artists themselves think about the work.
What They Collect

Lichtenstein at the Whitney Gets Its Own Window Tribute, and a Quilted Coat Inspires Collectible Chairs

Roy Lichtenstein's major exhibition at the Whitney is being honored outside the museum as well, with boldly designed boutique windows that pay tribute to the artist. In design, a set of chairs made for collectors takes its cue from Marfa Stance's quilted outerwear, carrying the stitched surface of a coat over into furniture. Both appeared this week on Galerie's list of the things its editors love, a list that covers more than the two pieces mentioned here. For New York readers, the Whitney show is the anchor: an American artist at an American museum, now celebrated in store windows too.
What They Collect

Two New Seamasters for the 007 Shelf, and One Is for the Villain

Omega has added two new editions of its Seamaster Diver 300M to its line of James Bond watches, released this week. One is made for the agent himself; the other is made for the man he is up against. For collectors from Palm Beach to Beverly Hills who already keep a Bond reference in the watch box, that makes two new pieces to consider rather than one. Pairing a watch for Bond with a watch for his opponent in the same release is an unusual move, and it may be the point of the whole thing.
What They Collect

Collector Beth Rudin DeWoody's Upper East Side Co-Op Returns at $12 Million

The Upper East Side apartment of art collector Beth Rudin DeWoody is for sale again, with an asking price of $12 million. The Manhattan home is a co-op. DeWoody first offered the apartment in 2018 and withdrew it in 2020, so this is the second time she has put it up for sale since then. The $12 million is what she is asking, not what the apartment has sold for. We follow when a collector's own New York address comes up for sale, and this is one to watch.
What They Collect

Thirty-Four Countries, One New York Roster: The New Museum Names Its Triennial Artists

The New Museum has released the list of artists for its next Triennial: 36 artists and collectives, drawn from 34 countries. The museum says no earlier edition of the show has reached so far across the map. Virginia Chihota and Mandy El-Sayegh are among the names on the list. Collectives are included next to individual artists, so some of the work will come from groups rather than from one studio. For collectors in New York, the list is worth reading closely now. It is the museum's choice of whom to put in front of the city, made public before any of the work goes up. Thirty-six entries from 34 countries works out to almost one participant per nation, so the show will be broad rather than deep. A visitor walking through the galleries will likely move from one part of the world to another between rooms. That reach is the museum's own measure for this edition, and it is the thing to watch when the show opens here.
What They Collect

A $5 Million Gift Lets Phoenix Collect Sri Lankan Art

Phoenix Art Museum has received $5 million from the philanthropist Sukumar Nagendran, and much of it points toward Sri Lanka. The money will make more room in the galleries the museum gives to art from Sri Lanka and the wider South Asian region, so a visitor will be able to see more of that work on the walls and in the cases. For readers who follow what changes hands, the more lasting part of the gift is that it also pays for acquisitions. That means new works can enter a public collection in Arizona, where anyone can see them. The gift also funds research by specialists in the field, the slow work of understanding objects that comes before a label or a catalog. Some of it goes to programs that open Sri Lankan art to museum visitors. Larger galleries, new acquisitions, study and public programs all serve the same purpose: one island's art gets a fuller and more permanent place in an American museum. Gifts like this are how a museum collection grows, one object and one gallery at a time.
What They Drive

Rivian's Sales Number Comes In Ahead of the Street

Rivian, the American maker of battery-electric trucks and SUVs, has posted sales that came in above what Wall Street analysts had forecast. For owners already driving one, and for anyone weighing one for the garage, it is a welcome sign that buyers are signing for these vehicles at a pace the analysts did not expect. The company's next goal, by the report's account, will be harder to reach than this one, and the brand's following will be watching for it.
What They Drive

Keep the Car You Chose, and Bring Your Phone Along

A CarPlay display is now 20 percent off, a modest price for owners who would rather keep the car they have than trade it for a newer one. The screen pairs with a phone without a cable and puts its familiar layout on a display inside a car built before that was standard. Fitting it is meant to be simple. For a Naples or Nashville driver who still loves an older car, that is the appeal: the car stays as it is, and the phone finally has a proper place in the cabin.
What They Drive

The 2026 Mustang Dark Horse SC Gets Its First Independent Verdict, and It Is More Than Brute Force

Car and Driver has run Ford's 2026 Mustang Dark Horse SC through its own test. The magazine says the car brings fierce performance, and it also found an unexpected gentleness in how the car behaves. Owners and collectors of the Dark Horse line now have an outside judgment to read beside Ford's own claims. The test was Car and Driver's, not ours, and its full findings are theirs to report.
What They Drive

A Two-Day Window to Add a Dash Camera Before the Season's Long Drives

Amazon's autumn sales event runs October 6 and 7, and dash cameras are among the categories marked down for those two days. For owners who think of a small camera behind the mirror as cheap insurance on a car they care about, a short, fixed window like this is a reason to make the decision now. Whether the car lives in a Naples garage or makes the run up to Aspen, the sale closes at the end of Tuesday. Anyone planning to give one as a gift to the driver in the family can also cross that off well before the late-November rush.
What They Drive

A Two-Day Window for Racing Simulator Equipment, October 6 and 7

Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days runs October 6 and 7, and racing-simulator equipment is among the categories with steep markdowns. Road & Track has put together a list of the simulator equipment its editors like best, now at reduced prices. For an owner who keeps a car under cover through the colder months, or a collector who would rather practice a line at home than on a borrowed track day, that's two days to set up a driving station for less. We haven't tested any of this equipment ourselves, so we'll leave which products are worth it to the editors who picked them.
What They Drive

The 2027 Volkswagen Atlas Cabin, Photographed Seat by Seat

Car and Driver has published a full photo set of the cabin of the 2027 Volkswagen Atlas, so owners can look closely at the inside before the model year reaches the showroom. The gallery covers the interior completely, from the driver's seat to the back. For readers who judge a car by where they will sit, from a school run in Naples to a weekend drive into the Colorado high country, the pictures let them look before they decide. We have not driven it, and the photographs are the whole of what has been published.
What They Drive

The 2027 Volkswagen Atlas, Walked Around in Full

Owners who like to judge a new model year by its sheetmetal before anything else now have the chance. A complete gallery of the 2027 Volkswagen Atlas has been published, with the body shown from the nose, the tail, both flanks and the corners in between. It's a slow walk around the car, done in pictures, so readers can make up their own minds about the shape before they see one in person. For drivers here who keep an Atlas in the garage, it's a first good look at how the new model year presents itself.
What They Drive

Inside the 2027 Kia EV3 GT-Line, From the Driver's Seat Back

Kia's 2027 EV3 in GT-Line trim now has a full photo gallery of its cabin, shot from each vantage point inside the car. For an owner, the cabin is where the car is actually lived with day to day: the seat you settle into, the view forward over the dash, the room behind you. A complete set of images lets a reader study all of it at leisure, much as they would by leaning in through an open door on a showroom floor. Anyone following Kia's electric lineup should take a look.
What They Drive

For Atlas Owners, the 2027 Redesign Earns an Early Vote of Confidence

The Volkswagen Atlas starts its second generation with the 2027 model year, and the first verdict on the new model is a good one. Car and Driver has tested the redesigned Atlas and found the new generation a real step up, one that made the long lead-up pay off. Anyone who has kept a first-generation Atlas in the driveway, from Naples to Aspen, now has a favorable outside view of what replaces it. The full assessment belongs to the magazine that drove it, and for now the headline is simple: the new Atlas has arrived looking better than before.
What They Drive

The Kia EV3 Passes Its First Test at $44,985. Now Comes the $31,000 Car

Car and Driver has tested the 2027 Kia EV3 in GT-Line trim, priced at $44,985, and came back pleased. The testers found the compact electric crossover cleverly laid out and full of personality, which is welcome in a part of the market that rarely gets much affection. Their verdict covers only the GT-Line. The base EV3, priced at about $31,000, has not been through the same test yet. For anyone choosing a first electric car, that roughly $14,000 gap between the two versions is the number to watch, and the next test will show what the lower price gets you.
Class of Florida

In Charleston, Even the Swimming Pool Has a Pedigree

Floridians tend to treat a backyard pool the way they treat sunscreen: so standard that nobody brings it up. In Naples it's assumed, in Palm Beach it's framed by a hedge, and in Miami it's where the party happens. Up the coast in Charleston, a house now listed at $12.5 million puts its pool forward as a credential, because it ranks among the earliest private pools anywhere in the city's historic downtown. The house itself was built before the Revolution, which means it was already standing when the country was founded. It has seven bedrooms, plenty of room for a long weekend with the whole family. For readers who measure a house by its age as much as its square footage, this one makes an unusual case: a place where both the walls and the water carry real history.
What They Collect

Beyond the Launchpad: NASA's Engineering Lives On in Everyday Design

Some of the most useful work to come out of America's space agency never left the ground. The Collector has counted eight inventions from NASA's laboratories that went on to shape ordinary life, well past the launch vehicles and capsules most people picture when they think of the agency. For readers who follow design and how things are made, this is a reminder that some of the country's most influential industrial work came from engineers who were never designing for a showroom. It was made in the United States, and its reach turned out to be far wider than the missions it was built for.
What They Collect

ARTnews Names Its Collectors Again, and Turns to the Care of What They Own

ARTnews has published its Top 200 Collectors issue, the thirty-seventh year the magazine has assembled its ranking. Next to the names, the issue gives practical advice on preserving artworks once they belong to a collector. That work starts after a piece is bought and keeps going for as long as it hangs on a wall or sits in storage. The issue also looks at Daniel Weiss and the Philadelphia Museum of Art under his direction. A ranking that has run for thirty-seven years is a fixed date for anyone who follows who is buying. Putting it beside guidance on care says that owning a collection is as much about looking after it as acquiring it.
What They Collect

Some Pictures Stay Put: When the Biggest Buyers Name the Museum Piece They Admire Most

ARTnews asked the 200 collectors on its ranking of the field's most active buyers which museum piece they would take home if they could. The answer is a list of paintings and objects that will stay where they are, whatever anyone is willing to pay. For readers who follow the salesrooms from Palm Beach to Los Angeles, that is the appeal of the question. It shows the taste of people who buy at the very top, measured against works that will never come to auction, and it leaves the masterpieces themselves on public walls for everyone to see.
What They Collect

ARTnews's 2026 Collectors List Lets the Collectors Speak

ARTnews has published the 2026 edition of its Top 200 Collectors list, and the new edition opens with an introduction that hands the floor to the people on it. Instead of letting the biggest sales tell the story of the market, the collectors on the list give their own view of what is going on below the most expensive end of the trade. For readers who follow the salerooms and galleries from New York to Palm Beach, the yearly ranking is a reference worth keeping close. This year's opening essay suggests that the clearest view of the market may come from the people doing the buying.
What They Collect

The Nasher Recovers a Lost Chapter of Dallas's Own Sculpture Story

A new exhibition at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas focuses on a single work by Bruce Nauman and on what happened when the city first saw it. The show's research brings back a part of the sculpture's past that had dropped out of the record: the strong reaction it drew from Dallas audiences when it was new. It is the kind of work a museum does at its best, looking back through its own city to find where the art has already been. For collectors and visitors who know Nauman as a central American artist, the exhibition shows that one of his most daring installations has a story rooted in Dallas.
What They Collect

Vivian Crockett and Isabella Rjeille Named to Lead the New Museum's Returning Triennial

The New Museum Triennial is coming back after five years away, and Vivian Crockett and Isabella Rjeille will curate it together. The wider international reach of this edition is the main early signal about the show. For people in New York who follow which artists move from museum walls into galleries and salesrooms, a triennial is one of the shows worth watching. Who is choosing the work matters as much as the work itself, and with two curators in charge, this edition will have two points of view.
Where They Eat

Airbnb Turns Back Toward the Finest Homes on Its Platform

Airbnb is rebuilding Luxe, its program for the most distinguished private homes it lists, according to Skift. Luxe is one of several efforts the company put aside during the pandemic and is now bringing back, alongside the growth of its hotel and experiences businesses. For a traveler choosing between a house in Aspen or the Hamptons and a suite at a grand hotel nearby, the move means Airbnb wants a place in that decision again. The report gives no dates, markets or homes yet, and we will look closely when it does.
Private Jet Owners

Before the Left Seat, a Desk: Flying Walks Through the FAA Written

Flying has published a practical guide to the FAA's written exam for the private certificate. It covers how to study for it, how to find a place to take it, and how to get through it on test day. The exam is taken on a computer, and it comes before any certificate does, whatever is waiting in the hangar. If you've spent years in the back of your own airplane and are now looking at the left seat, this is the first step, and you take it at a desk rather than in the pattern.
Private Jet Owners

A 1967 Cherokee With a Power Flow Exhaust and Two uAvionix AV-30-Cs

A 1967 Piper PA-28 Cherokee is now on AircraftForSale's list of featured picks. The listing describes the airplane as STOL-capable. Two upgrades stand out: an aftermarket exhaust from Power Flow and a pair of uAvionix AV-30-C displays in the panel. Owners who run a fleet of turbine aircraft will recognize the pattern. The airframe is close to sixty years old, and the money has gone into the engine and the instruments. A PA-28 needs no introduction to anyone who earned a certificate in this country, and this one still has the familiar Cherokee shape with more current equipment behind the cowling and the yoke. For an owner thinking about a second airplane for short hops, or a simple single to keep for the pleasure of flying it, the listing is worth a look.
Private Jet Owners

Mobile Passport Control Now Open to Arrivals at General Aviation Airports

People coming home through general aviation airports can now use the Mobile Passport Control app, which costs nothing. It doesn't do everything Global Entry does, so it supplements that program rather than replacing it. For anyone on board without Global Entry, it is now an option at the kind of field where most owners actually clear back into the country. A free app is an easy suggestion to make to infrequent travelers before the next trip home.
Private Jet Owners

Tecnam Brings P2008JC NG to American Flight Lines, Pending FAA Validation

Tecnam has introduced its P2008JC NG to the U.S. market, a side-by-side training aircraft that already holds type certification from European authorities. The company is now seeking FAA validation of that approval under Part 23, the step that must come before the airplane can fly on an American standard airworthiness certificate. For owners whose flight departments or family members train before moving into larger equipment, this is an airframe to keep an eye on. The aircraft is offered here now, and the validation will decide how soon it can actually operate in the U.S.
What They Ride

Rhetorical Takes the Coolmore Turf Mile for a Second Time

Rhetorical has won the Coolmore Turf Mile again, so the race has the same winner two runnings in a row. The win also belongs to Will Walden and the people around the horse. Winning a race once puts a horse's name on the record, but coming back and winning it again shows how well the horse has been brought along between the two runnings. Anyone who follows American grass racing will be glad to see Rhetorical's name on that line twice.
What They Ride

Baeza Joins the Spendthrift Roster, Ready for His First Book of Mares in 2027

Baeza has made his final start, and his next job is at Spendthrift Farm. He won the Grade I Pennsylvania Derby in 2025, and he will begin covering mares there in the 2027 season. Breeders can read his page quickly. He is by McKinzie, and his dam is Puca, a daughter of Big Brown. His own record carries a victory at the highest grade, which is the line a stallion prospect is judged by first. Anyone planning matings for 2027 can now find his name on the Spendthrift list.
What They Ride

Same Name on the Sprint: Cygames Back on the Breeders' Cup Card for 2026

This year's Grade I Sprint at the Breeders' Cup World Championships will again carry the Cygames name. The Japanese company, which makes and publishes video games, has renewed its place among the championships' corporate backers for 2026 and keeps its name on the race. For owners, trainers and racegoers reading the program, the Sprint's full title stays the same. Keeping a name on a Grade I championship race is a lasting commitment to the American sport at its top level, and the company has made it again.
What It Sold For

Furnishing the American House, One Room at a Time, on Prime Day Prices

Architectural Digest has put together a guide to a dozen furniture markdowns tied to Prime Day 2026, arranged by the rooms of a home. For a reader dressing a house, whether that's a new purchase in Naples or a long-held apartment in New York, organizing it that way follows the order the work is actually done. The guide gives no prices or pieces to repeat here, so this desk won't guess at them. A whole house can be planned around a limited-time sale, and this list is built for that.
What It Sold For

At the Met, Lee Krasner Stands Level With Jackson Pollock

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is presenting Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock as equals, two painters of the same stature rather than a famous name and a companion. The choice comes from one of the city's great institutions, and it gives both artists the same standing in the same rooms on Fifth Avenue. For readers who value craft wherever it turns up, giving equal credit to the two makes a quiet but considered statement. A visitor to the Met can now look at the two artists as the museum frames them, side by side.
What It Sold For

The Wall as a Star Chart: A Sailor's Old Instrument Becomes Wallpaper

McLaurin & Piercy has released a new wallpaper collection called Kamal. The name comes from a navigation instrument that sailors used to read the night sky, already in use at sea by the closing decades of the 800s. It was a plain device, built to help a person find their way by the stars. For the owner of an American house choosing what goes on the walls, the collection starts from more than a thousand years of steering by starlight, in a tool modest enough to fit in a hand.
Class of Nashville

Oracle Writes a $10 Million Check, and the Nashville Symphony's 2026-27 Season Is Secured

Oracle has given $10 million to the Nashville Symphony, and the gift guarantees that the orchestra's 2026-27 season will go on. Both the Symphony and the union representing its players have now responded publicly to the donation. A gift this size puts a corporation squarely behind the city's orchestra, in a town that knows the value of the people who make the music. When the 2026-27 season opens, Oracle's gift is part of why the orchestra is on stage.
Class of Nashville

Reba's Own Things Go to the Block, and the Proceeds Go to a Good Cause

Julien's Auctions has put together a sale called "The Reba Collection," with Reba McEntire's name on the catalog and her generosity behind it, since the money raised goes to charity. Bidders will be able to attend the sale in person and compete for pieces from the collection. For a town that knows exactly what a voice like hers is worth, a chance to own something from her collection while giving money to charity is the kind of invitation Nashville rarely turns down.
Icons of Palm Beach

Town & Country's Editors Share Their Amazon Prime Sale Picks

The editors at Town & Country have published the list of what they are actually buying during Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days. It reads as a selection made with an editor's eye, the opposite of a list of every discount on the site. For a reader in the middle of opening the house for the season, that kind of editing is worth having. It also means the work of sorting through the sale has already been done by people whose taste is their profession.
Icons of Palm Beach

The Bottle on Every Table This Season Has a Biographer

Florence Fabricant, the food critic whose verdicts have long carried weight at the table, has written a memoir called *Salty Not Sweet*, and one of its chapters follows balsamic vinegar from obscurity to every lunch table. The book also gathers other stories from her career. Anyone who has watched a dark ribbon of it land on a salad between Worth Avenue and the North End will want to read how that habit began, as told by someone who saw it happen. *Salty Not Sweet* belongs on the nightstand this season, next to the reservation book.
Icons of Palm Beach

Saint Laurent Leather, Cut Generously, for a Birthday Supper in Manhattan

Taylor Swift marked Travis Kelce's birthday with a night out in New York City, and she chose a Saint Laurent leather jacket worn deliberately large. It's a confident choice for a celebration, letting one good piece and its generous proportions carry the whole look. The evening was about her husband's birthday, but the jacket made the case that a perfectly judged leather piece belongs at dinner as much as anywhere. It's a useful thought for anyone packing for the season.
Beverly Hills News

AI-Generated Animated Feature Sets December U.S. Opening to Qualify for the Academy Awards

The AI studio Fable has moved the U.S. theatrical release of "Gods Don't Give Gifts" to December, a later date that lets the film compete for Best Animated Feature at the Academy Awards. The studio has also released the film's first trailer. The picture is billed as the first film made with artificial intelligence to play in movie theaters. Its December run puts the film on American screens in the last weeks of the calendar year.
Beverly Hills News

Lucy Hale Takes the Lead as a Romantic Detective in Roku's "Scarlett Holmes"

Lucy Hale has been cast in the lead role of "Scarlett Holmes," a new series for Roku, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Hale will play Scarlett Holmes, the character the series is named for. The cases she takes on involve romance and relationships, which gives the familiar detective form a romantic-comedy setup. The trade publication described the show as a Sherlock Holmes premise set in the world of courtship.
Beverly Hills News

Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery Now Operate as Skydance Corp. Under David Ellison

Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery have finished combining and now operate as one entity under the name Skydance Corp., according to Variety. David Ellison holds the titles of chairman and chief executive of the combined company. Variety puts the value of the transaction at $111 billion. In remarks reported by the publication, Ellison called the day historic for Skydance and for others beyond it. With the deal closed, two names that have long appeared on film and television credits now report to the same chief executive. In Beverly Hills, many residents work in the film and television business, so a change in who runs these studios is news close to home.
Photo by blmcalifornia on Flickr
Beverly Hills News

A 1987 Hollywood Film Takes the Stage at Broadway's Lena Horne Theatre This Winter

A stage musical based on "Dirty Dancing" is set to open on Broadway, with performances at the Lena Horne Theatre beginning this winter. The production adapts the motion picture released in 1987. The Lena Horne Theatre is in New York's Broadway theater district, where the show will run. For Los Angeles and Beverly Hills readers, the move means a title that began as a film now goes to the New York stage. Opening dates, casting and ticket details had not been announced in the initial report.
Photo by Bob Bekian on Flickr
Beverly Hills News

Two Hollywood Studios Now Share One Owner as David Ellison Completes Warner Bros. Discovery Deal

Paramount, the studio led by David Ellison, has completed its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, according to Variety. The deal places both studios under Ellison's control. Both have long been part of the Los Angeles film industry, and the deal is a change in ownership for an industry that is a major presence in and around Beverly Hills. Variety's coverage sets out a timeline of how Paramount reached the deal.
Photo by Bob Bekian on Flickr
Beverly Hills News

Two Hollywood Studios Now Under One Owner as David Ellison Completes Warner Bros. Discovery Deal

David Ellison has completed Paramount's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, according to Variety. The deal puts two of Hollywood's best-known studios under his control. Both companies are part of the industry that has long anchored the Los Angeles economy, and the combination is a major change in who owns that industry's best-known names. Variety's account describes the completed deal as the end of a long process for Ellison and Paramount.
Beverly Hills News

Bose QuietComfort Headphones Fall Below Half Price in Amazon's Fall Prime Sale

Amazon has cut the price of Bose QuietComfort headphones by over 50 percent for its autumn Prime Big Deals Day, according to Variety. The outlet named the QuietComfort among the top sellers in the Bose lineup. The headphones block outside sound, which can help on a drive down Wilshire Boulevard or a flight out of LAX. Variety reported the discount as part of Amazon's Prime member event this season.
Beverly Hills News

Hisense IMAX Enhanced Televisions Marked Down by as Much as Half During Amazon's Two-Day October Sale

Hisense televisions with IMAX Enhanced certification are discounted by as much as half during Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days, which run Oct. 6 and 7. The large-format sets are among the reductions Amazon is offering across a wide range of products on its site during the two-day event. For Beverly Hills residents furnishing a screening room or a den, the sale offers a lower price on equipment carrying the IMAX Enhanced designation through Tuesday.
Who Wore What When

Victoria Beckham Took a Note From Valentino Garavani

Victoria Beckham says she has followed advice from Valentino Garavani, and few people in fashion are better placed to give it. She shared this with Elle in an interview that also covered six new reds for the lips. The piece doesn't say what the advice was. What it does show is a designer with her own name over the door who still listens to a master of the craft. In Palm Beach or Beverly Hills, readers who keep an archive of who wore what will see why that matters.
Who Wore What When

Jennifer Aniston's Daily Collagen Scoop Drops to $15 for Prime Big Deal Days

The archive usually logs what goes on the body. This entry goes into the glass. Jennifer Aniston has said she uses this collagen peptides powder daily, and during Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days it costs $15. The label says it helps complexion, hair, nails and joints. Those claims are the maker's, not ours. The lower price applies to several flavors, so you can choose how your morning tastes. There's no designer or occasion this time, just a small, steady habit off the red carpet.
Who Wore What When

The Fall Denim Question, Answered at Half the Price

Levi's has marked its most-purchased jeans down by as much as half for Amazon's October Prime Day. The pairs on offer are the ones famous names have been seen wearing, which makes them a sensible first purchase for the cooler months. From a Nashville porch to a Hamptons farm stand in October, a good pair of jeans is the piece the rest of the season's wardrobe is built around. Consider this the rare archive entry where the date that matters is the checkout date.
Who Wore What When

Dakota Johnson Celebrates Her Birthday in Stella McCartney Velvet

Dakota Johnson celebrated her birthday in Stella McCartney: a velvet slip with lace openings shaped like flowers, worn under a jacket of faux fur. She had dinner that evening with Jennifer Lawrence. The look works through contrast, with a soft, plush outer layer over a sleek slip that shows skin only through the lace blossoms, all in velvet, a fabric made for evening. It's a birthday outfit you could wear to supper in Palm Beach or to a table in New York without changing a thing.
Who Wore What When

Ouma Atelier Brings Brushstroke and Verse to the Bridal Gown, and Leaves Nothing on the Cutting-Room Floor

Ouma Atelier makes wedding dresses that take their cue from the ink-wash brushwork of classical Chinese painting and from the lines of Chinese verse, which is an unusual starting point for a gown. The label also works by a rule of no leftover fabric, so the cloth that goes into a dress is meant to stay in the finished piece rather than end up as scrap. For a bride planning anything from a New York ceremony to a Palm Beach lawn reception, that is a gown with two stories to tell: one about the art behind it and one about how carefully it was cut.
Who Wore What When

Microcurrent, LED and IPL Arrive at the Vanity: Wavytalk's Case for Prep Without an Appointment

Wavytalk has a lineup of beauty devices made for use at home, and three technologies anchor it: microcurrent, LED and IPL. The idea is that a bit of self-care should fit around your day instead of taking it over. You can use them on the vanity in a Palm Beach guest suite or on the bathroom counter before a New York evening out, with no booking and no waiting room. Anyone who has watched a pageant contestant or a red carpet regular get ready knows prep is half the look, and Wavytalk is betting more of that prep can happen at home.
Who Wore What When

Kim Kardashian Takes the Producer's Chair, and Kylie Jenner Takes the Script

For the first time, Kylie Jenner is leading a series built on written lines rather than real life. Behind the camera is Kim Kardashian, so the project stays in the family even as Kylie moves into new territory. For an archive that tracks every gown and every crown, this new role is worth noting: the wardrobe on screen will be a costume, chosen for a character instead of an occasion. From Beverly Hills to the Hamptons, readers will want to see who the costume department pulls when the first scene is shot.
Beverly Hills News

Critics Get First Look at Aaron Sorkin's Next Chapter After 'The Social Network'

According to Variety, Aaron Sorkin's "The Social Reckoning," his sequel to "The Social Network," has now been shown to critics who cover the film business. Their early responses, as reported by Variety, describe it as a dependable continuation of the earlier film. For many readers here, the film business is a neighbor and an employer, and a press screening is the point where a finished film first reaches people outside the team that made it. These early reactions are the first public word on how the new film compares with the one before it.
Beverly Hills News

Guadagnino's OpenAI Film "Artificial," Starring Andrew Garfield as Sam Altman, Earns High Praise from Variety

Variety has reviewed "Artificial," a film from director Luca Guadagnino that dramatizes real events, and called it an exceptional piece of work with a light, inventive touch. According to the review, the film stays close to the documented record and follows the people who started OpenAI, with particular attention to the company's chief executive, Sam Altman. Andrew Garfield plays Altman. Variety's critic describes the film as the true follow-up to "The Social Network," which places it alongside earlier screen portraits of the technology industry's founders.
Beverly Hills News

Andrew Garfield Plays Sam Altman in Luca Guadagnino's "Artificial," Which Variety Praises

Variety's critic has given a strong review to "Artificial," a new film directed by Luca Guadagnino. Andrew Garfield plays Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI. The film tells the true story of the people who started the company and focuses on them, and the review praises both its accuracy and its lighter moments. The critic compares it to "The Social Network," calling it a successor to that film's portrayal of real people in technology. In Beverly Hills, where new releases are followed from studio offices to screening rooms, the review puts "Artificial" among the films to watch.
Beverly Hills News

Amazon Opens Its Last Members-Only Sale of 2026

Amazon is holding Prime Big Deal Days 2026, a two-day sale open only to Prime members. It is the company's second members-only sale this year, and the last one Amazon will hold in 2026. For Beverly Hills households with a Prime membership, the event is the final chance this year to shop prices reserved for subscribers. The Hollywood Reporter has published a guide to the sale that lists which purchases it recommends and which it suggests passing over.
Beverly Hills News

Pearce Quigley's Lead Role in Apple TV's 'Small Prophets' Wins Strong Praise From The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Reporter has reviewed "Small Prophets," a comedy series from Mackenzie Crook for Apple TV, and ranked Pearce Quigley's lead performance among the best of 2026. Quigley plays a sorrowful man trying to find out what happened to his girlfriend, who has vanished. To do it, he teams up with someone he has only recently met, played by Lauren Patel, and turns to otherworldly help. The publication called the series' humor dry and understated.
Who Wore What When

The Air Force 1 With a Full Coat Gets a Turn in Rich Red

Nike is bringing back its shaggiest take on the Air Force 1, this time in a dark, saturated red. The new shade joins a run of colorways that keeps getting longer, all built on that old line about a horse that turns out to be another color entirely. From a Nashville sidewalk to a sneaker shelf in Los Angeles, this is a shoe that gets noticed before anyone looks at the logo. Red on a long, tousled pile may be the boldest way the idea has been put so far.
Who Wore What When

Beauty's Fastest Climbers Online: Brands With the Founder Still in Charge, and Brands Priced for Every Day

New Similarweb figures compare how many more people are visiting beauty brands' own websites than a year ago, and the leaders fall into two clear groups. One group is labels still run by the people who started them. The other is labels priced so that adding a lipstick or serum to the cart takes no deliberation. Whether your favorite counter is on Worth Avenue or Rodeo Drive, the shopper's own screen is where both kinds of brand are gaining ground.
Who Wore What When

Lafayette 148 Gives Dallas a Door of Its Own at NorthPark Center

Dallas shoppers no longer have to wait until a trip out of town to see Lafayette 148 in person. The label has opened its first boutique in the city, and it chose NorthPark Center. Texas is no small side project for the brand. Dallas sits among the five places where it does the most business, so the new store makes the move official in a city that was already buying. Inside, the visit comes with a stylist's attention, meaning someone helps put a look together rather than leaving each client to work through the racks alone. The store will also carry pieces made only for its own shelves, a good reason to come by and see the clothes in person. For readers who keep track of who wore what and where they found it, NorthPark now has one more answer.
Who Wore What When

The Shoe Is the Statement Piece Now, and Luxury Houses Have Noticed

Luxury labels are putting their boldest ideas into footwear, and shoppers are treating a striking pair as something worth paying for. Both the houses and their customers see shoes as a sound place to spend, and the money is following. On Worth Avenue or Rodeo Drive, that changes where the eye goes first: down to the heel, the toe, the strange and beautiful shape that announces the wearer before anything else does. For a title that keeps track of who wore what and when, this is welcome news, because the most memorable detail of a look may now be the one closest to the ground.
Who Wore What When

Last Call on Prime Day Beauty: Vogue's Editors Have Tested the Picks, With Discounts Reaching 46 Percent

Every red carpet look starts long before the carpet, at a bathroom counter with a serum and a gadget that hums. Vogue's editors have tried the beauty items in this Prime Day selection themselves, from high-tech devices to the skin-care basics that get used every day. The deepest markdowns go as high as 46 percent. Today is the final day of the sale, so anyone who wants to stock up has until tonight.
Who Wore What When

Light-Therapy Helmets to Peptide Formulas: Vogue Shops Amazon's Beauty Counter

Vogue's editors went through Amazon's beauty listings and picked the products they think are worth buying. Their list covers skincare, haircare, makeup and wellness. At one end are LED light-therapy helmets, the kind of device that used to belong in a treatment room. At the other are peptide serums, which come in a bottle and fit on any bathroom shelf from Palm Beach to Beverly Hills. The edit makes a good case that some of the best things on a vanity now arrive at the front door in a cardboard box.
Where They Eat

In Chicago, Zubair Mohajir and Jacob Dela Cruz Cook Three Regions Over One Fire

Chicago has a new restaurant built around live fire. Muhājir, from chefs Zubair Mohajir and Jacob Dela Cruz, opened over the summer with a menu that ranges across Europe, the Middle East and Southeast Asia, all of it cooked over open flame. The thread joining those regions is the old spice trade, the long-distance commerce that once carried flavor from one coast to the next. Here it becomes the organizing idea for a single dining room on the shore of Lake Michigan. It is an ambitious brief for a new opening: two chefs, three broad culinary regions and one heat source holding it together. We have not yet sat down at Muhājir, so we will leave the verdict for another day. For now, Chicago has a fresh address worth putting on the list.
Photo by HighTechDad on Flickr
What They Drive

A Toyota Corolla Gets a New Kind of Driver

Researchers gave four leading AI language models full command of a Toyota Corolla, handing each one the accelerator, the brake pedal and the wheel, along with written instructions on how to work them. ChatGPT showed it could do the job, and some of the other models found the task harder. The car is worth noticing too: the researchers used the familiar Corolla, a sedan many American households already have in the driveway. For readers who care who sits behind the wheel, the newest candidate turns out to be software that learned to drive from written prompts.
What They Drive

October Prime Day Sale on Amazon Includes Garmin, Wolfbox and Rove Dash Cameras

Amazon's October Prime Day sale has marked down a long list of dash cameras, and The Drive has sorted it into a short list. Its picks come from three names: Garmin, Wolfbox and Rove. Those picks are The Drive's, chosen on brand and on price, and we have not tested any of the units ourselves. Owners in Palm Beach and Aspen who have been thinking about a small camera behind the mirror now have a sale and a shortlist.
What They Drive

A Full Look Inside the 2026 Subaru WRX, Before the Showroom Visit

Car and Driver has published a complete photo gallery of the cabin of the 2026 Subaru WRX, with the car's interior shot from all sides. For an owner thinking about the new model year, that means a chance to look closely at the seats, the dashboard and the space around the driver before ever opening a door. It is the kind of patient, close look a careful buyer would take on a dealer's floor, and here it comes ahead of time. For readers from Naples to Aspen who judge a car partly by where they will spend every mile, the 2026 cabin can now be studied before any decision is made.
What They Drive

The 2026 Subaru WRX Gets a Full Walkaround

Car and Driver has published a full photo gallery of the 2026 Subaru WRX, showing the new model year's bodywork from the nose all the way around to the tail. It gives WRX owners and anyone thinking about joining them a complete visual introduction before they see the car in person, whether that happens on a dealer lot in Colorado or in a driveway in Florida. For a reader who already keeps an earlier WRX in the garage, a complete set of pictures is the honest first step in deciding whether the 2026 belongs beside it. We have not driven the car, so for now the photographs are the whole story.
Photo by Adhitya Sibikumar on Unsplash
What They Drive

Three Pedals, Base Trim: Car and Driver Tests the Entry-Level 2026 Subaru WRX

Car and Driver has published its test of the 2026 Subaru WRX in base trim with the six-speed manual transmission, and the result is good news for drivers who want to shift their own gears without paying for a higher trim. The magazine's testers found that the entry-level price buys real enjoyment from the driver's seat. By their account, that enjoyment holds whether the car spends its days on public roads or its weekends on a racing circuit. For enthusiasts from Florida to Colorado, the takeaway is simple: the testers found that the least expensive way into this WRX is also a rewarding one.
Icons of Palm Beach

James and Kathryn Murdoch Set Out a Grand Cultural Design, With New York Magazine in the Frame

James Murdoch and his wife, Kathryn, have sat down to talk about New York magazine, and about something larger behind it. The couple are building one enterprise devoted to culture, with reach across the visual arts, cinema and the press. They mean it to be broad, and they are building it together. For readers who divide their year between the island and Manhattan, it is one to watch as it takes shape.
What It Sold For

A Collector's 5,000 Square Feet on Gracie Square Comes to Market

Beth DeWoody, the collector, has put her Manhattan home up for sale. The apartment is on Gracie Square, on the far eastern edge of the Upper East Side, and it covers 5,000 square feet. In New York that is a great deal of room for a single apartment. It is the kind of floor area that gives large walls and long sightlines to anyone who lives with art. No asking price has been made public, so we will not guess at one. The address alone is enough to make the listing one to watch on the East Side.
What It Sold For

Nineteen Faux Firs, Judged in the Rooms Where They'll Actually Stand

Architectural Digest has ranked 19 faux trees for the 2026 holiday season, and it judged each one inside a lived-in house rather than a studio. That matters to anyone who has watched a tree that looked convincing in a showroom fall flat beside real crown molding, a real hearth and real winter light. The selection covers the full range, from trees lifelike enough to pass for a cut fir to designs that set tradition aside for something less expected. For a house in Palm Beach or Aspen, the choice now ranges from the classic look to something with more personality, and each option was judged in rooms like the ones it will go into.
Beverly Hills News

October Horror Picks: 'Other Mommy,' 'Carrie' and a Josh Hartnett Sea-Monster Hunt

Variety has published its October 2026 list of horror releases, a monthly guide to new films, series, books and other titles in the genre. The month's selections include "Other Mommy," which the guide describes as aiming for an emotional effect. "Carrie" is also on the list, making a return. Another pick features Josh Hartnett in a story about tracking sea monsters. William Earl, an editor at the trade publication, puts the list together.
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Beverly Hills News

Los Angeles Evening Brings In $7.65 Million for Children in Conflict

Carey Mulligan and Marcus Mumford brought in $7.65 million for the nonprofit Children in Conflict at an event in Los Angeles on Sunday evening, according to Variety. The organization works to protect and educate children and to provide for them. The full amount went to that work. Variety did not report any further details about the evening, and this report adds none. The total was collected in a single night in Los Angeles.
Beverly Hills News

Mike Faist Discusses Craft and Three-Person Stories in "East of Eden" Interview

Actor Mike Faist, who stars in "East of Eden," spoke with The Hollywood Reporter about his work on the production. He discussed the bond between Cathy, played by Florence Pugh, and the Trask brothers. Faist also explained why stories built around three people appeal to him, a structure he has worked with in "Challengers" and returns to in this project. He spoke about masculine ego and said he continues to learn from Steven Spielberg.
Beverly Hills News

Dove and Moonbug Put Meekah in a Music Video About How Young Viewers See Their Bodies

Meekah, a character from the Blippi children's entertainment and education programs, stars in a new music video made with Dove, according to Variety. The video's message is that young viewers should feel good about their own bodies. The wire report names Moonbug Entertainment and Dove as the companies behind the project. In the Blippi programs, Meekah is presented as Blippi's best friend. The report did not give a release platform, a running time or the names of any performers. Families in Beverly Hills who watch the series will now see that message delivered through a song by one of its characters.
Beverly Hills News

Neon Places Andrew Garfield in Supporting Category, Yura Borisov in Lead for "Artificial" Awards Push

The distributor Neon has decided how it will present "Artificial" to Academy voters. Andrew Garfield will compete for a supporting performance, and Yura Borisov will go for the top acting prize. Variety says the category decisions were confirmed in an exclusive report. The supporting slot puts Garfield back in a race he last entered sixteen years ago, when he played a Facebook co-founder in "The Social Network."
Beverly Hills News

Neon Places Andrew Garfield in Supporting Actor, Yura Borisov in Lead for "Artificial" Oscar Push

Neon will campaign for Andrew Garfield in the supporting actor category and Yura Borisov in the lead actor category for its film "Artificial," as part of its Academy Awards effort for the film. The category split puts Borisov at the top of the ticket and Garfield in the supporting race, where he also competed for "The Social Network" sixteen years ago, in which he played a co-founder of Facebook. Category placement is one of the first decisions a studio makes each awards season, and it shapes the race that follows through the winter. Neon's choice for "Artificial" is now set.
Beverly Hills News

"Spider-Man: Brand New Day," North America's Top-Earning Film, Moves From Theaters to Home Screens

Sony's "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" can now be watched at home on streaming. The 2026 superhero film became the top-earning release in the history of the North American box office 47 days after it opened in theaters, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Home release means viewers can now watch the film outside a movie theater. The trade publication has published details on how to stream it.
Beverly Hills News

John Leguizamo, Longtime Voice for Latino Representation, in Line for a First Oscar Nomination

John Leguizamo could receive the first Academy Award nomination of his career, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The actor has spoken publicly for years in favor of more Latino representation in the film industry. In an interview with the publication, he talked about his work on "The Odyssey" and about casting actors in roles that tradition has not given them. A nomination would be the first Oscar recognition of his career.
Who Wore What When

The Wash of Color That Fits in Every Palm Beach Clutch

Harper's Bazaar has named its 13 all-time favorite balms with a touch of color, each one chosen for a glossy finish and for keeping lips soft. These sit between bare lips and full lipstick: a sheen and a hint of pigment instead of a bold color. It's the kind of finish that suits a Palm Beach lunch as easily as a Miami evening, and it fits in a clutch with room to spare. With thirteen picks, nearly every reader who wants polish without much effort should find a shade and texture that works.
Who Wore What When

Cashmere, Tall Boots and Nothing Extra: Harper's Bazaar Builds an Autumn Wardrobe on Amazon

The editors at Harper's Bazaar have picked 25 pieces for the colder months, and every one of them is plain and easy to buy online. Soft cashmere knits sit on the list next to boots that reach the knee, and nothing on it is loud. It's the kind of wardrobe that works as well on a crisp morning in Aspen as on the first cool evening in Manhattan, simply because it never tries too hard. The fashion world tends to love excess, so a list of 25 pieces with no showing off makes a quietly confident choice.
Who Wore What When

Two Trail Classics, Retuned by FP Movement

Salomon is working with FP Movement, the activewear label under Free People, on new versions of two of its best-known silhouettes: the XT-Whisper and the XT-6. Our archive cares about who made a thing and when, so file this one under a sneaker house and a women's movement label sharing the credit. From Aspen trailheads to the West Village, the XT-6 is already a familiar shoe, which makes any new take on it worth a close look. The pairing also follows closely on Jisoo's much-noticed Salomon debut, a busy season for the brand's women's story.
Who Wore What When

A Student Designer Gets Vera Wang's Hand on Their Award in New York

On October 23, Vera Wang will hand the Solstiss-Academy Award to a fashion student chosen as the best of their class, and she'll do it in New York. This is the first time the award will be given, so whoever wins will also set the standard for every winner after them. The ceremony will take place at Villa Albertine, the name used by the French Embassy's cultural services office in the city, which makes the evening a French-American event held on Manhattan ground. For the student, that means getting a first honor from one of the best-known names in American fashion, in a room built for exactly this kind of exchange. We keep a record of who wore what and when, and we also note the night a designer's career officially begins. The winner hasn't been named yet. When they are, this date goes in the archive under their name.
Who Wore What When

Nike Shows It Still Has New Shoes to Show, and a Quicker Way to Show Them

Nike has made the case that its design studio can still produce real invention. The company is pairing that with Pace, a new internal system for running the business that may shorten the time between an idea and a shoe you can buy. For readers who watch the feet as closely as the gown, from a Miami sidewalk to a Beverly Hills step-and-repeat, that matters: new designs could arrive sooner. Footwear News weighed the claim against Adidas's own record on new designs, and on this point the advantage goes to Nike.
Who Wore What When

Nike's Next Pair Could Reach the Shelf Sooner

Nike has shown again that it can still come up with something new, and a new way of working inside the company, called Pace, is meant to get those new shoes from the drawing board to the shoe wall faster than before. For readers who keep track of what was on whose feet and when, that matters: a shorter wait between first sketch and first sighting means less time between seeing a shoe and owning it. The news is about how the shoes get made and shipped, not one shoe in particular, so a closet-by-closet record could soon have new entries to log. We'll be keeping an eye on the sidewalks.
Who Wore What When

Length Has No Expiration Date: Sarah Jessica Parker and Naomi Campbell Make the Case

Vogue has put together a guide to long hair after fifty, and it uses celebrities to show how it looks: Sarah Jessica Parker at one end of the lineup, Naomi Campbell at the other, and more famous names in between. The point is simple and welcome. Hair past the shoulders still belongs to women who have passed that birthday. Whether you're in a New York salon chair or booking a blowout in Palm Beach, the photos are good material for the next appointment.
Who Wore What When

Amazon's October Sale, Edited Down to the Pieces Worth Keeping

WWD has sorted through Amazon's October sales event and kept only the fashion and beauty discounts it judged worth a second look. At the top end of the beauty list are high-end light-therapy face masks, the kind usually kept on a vanity rather than in a cart. Handbags from designer labels sit beside them, along with a few other finds the editors pulled from the site's long scroll. For readers from Palm Beach to Beverly Hills, it's a curated list, not a clearance bin.
Who Wore What When

Geese Fill Forest Hills Twice Over, and the Pictures Came Home With Them

Geese played two nights in a row at Forest Hills Stadium, and both nights every ticket was gone. The band has now released its own photographs from those shows, which makes this a rare thing for us: a look at a New York stage chosen by the people who stood on it. For a band coming back to its own city, filling the same Queens venue twice is a real local achievement. For readers of an archive that cares about who wore what and when, the pictures are the record, and the band picked them itself.
Who Wore What When

Christy Cham Fills the Body Shop With Jasmine Tookes, Kaytranada, Alix Earle and Omar Apollo

Christy Cham hosted a night at the Body Shop on Sunset Boulevard's famous Strip in Los Angeles, and the guest list ran across the runway, the DJ booth, the phone screen and the stage. Jasmine Tookes came from modeling, Kaytranada from the decks, Alix Earle from the feeds and Omar Apollo from the music charts. Those four don't usually share a room, and Cham managed to get them all under one roof for the evening. On a stretch of Los Angeles that has never been short of parties, a guest list that covers that much ground is an accomplishment in its own right. We'd like to see the outfits as much as anyone, but the report doesn't describe them, so we won't make anything up. For now the credit goes to the host who sent the invitations and got everyone to show up.
Who Wore What When

Ten Years In, ComplexCon Brings Travis Barker, Alicia Keys and North West to Los Angeles

ComplexCon turned ten this year, and it marked the occasion in Los Angeles with guests worth noting for the archive: Travis Barker, Alicia Keys and North West. A tenth year is a real milestone for any gathering, and this one drew a crowd that came dressed for it. Our interest here is the clothes on attendees as they arrived and moved around, which tell you more than a stage look does. That is what makes a convention like this worth covering: the record is made by what guests chose to wear in daylight, among the crowd. A musician, a singer-songwriter and the youngest of the three at the same Los Angeles event make a good entry for the 2026 file. For a publication that tracks who wore what and when, an anniversary edition in our own city is exactly the date to mark.
Beverly Hills Brides

Elena and Alexandr's Wedding Was Decorated With Their Own Paintings

Nothing on the wall came from a rental catalog. Each figure there had first been a painting by Elena and Alexandr, drawn from pages they had filled themselves. There was a leopard in pink. A moon had a face drawn on it. Women were rendered in deep blue and purple. Together they formed a backdrop that belonged to no one else. The flowers matched that spirit: lilies set with jewels, as much ornament as bloom. Guests had guns that fired bubbles rather than anything louder. It was a wedding built from the couple's own art and decorated in their own hand.
What They Sail

Frigate, a Viking 80 With a Patrick Knowles Interior, Is on the Market

Frigate, a Viking 80 with an enclosed bridge, is for sale. Her engine room has been refitted with MTU Series 2000 V16 M96L power rated at 2,635 hp. Patrick Knowles designed her interior specifically for this boat, so the rooms are his own work for her and not a standard yard finish. For an owner looking at a boat this size, that gives two clear answers up front: the name behind the interior and the exact engines, to be checked against the paperwork. The listing as reported gives no asking price, and we won't guess one.
Photo by Gunnar Ridderström on Unsplash
What They Sail

Bellini's First Big Boat Is a 118-Foot Explorer Built to Leave the Coast Behind

Bellini has stepped up to yacht sizes it has never built before, and its first boat at that scale is the Eternal 36, a 118-foot explorer. The hull is steel and the superstructure is aluminum, the pairing owners expect on a boat meant to spend long stretches at sea far from any marina. The Eternal 36 is also the first of a new family of yachts in the same construction, so it tells you where the builder plans to go next. For a reader who keeps a boat in Palm Beach or Miami and keeps thinking about the open water past the inlet, this is a builder announcing a boat made for exactly that. The naval architect and the price aren't on the record yet, and we won't guess at either.
What They Drive

Angelilli's Proposed Tipo 829 Lets the Owner Choose the Car's Job

Angelilli Automobili has proposed a supercar called the Tipo 829, and the Lancia Stratos is the car it is measuring itself against. The plan is one car in three different setups: one for public roads, one for the circuit and one for rally stages. The buyer decides which of the three the car becomes, not the factory. For an owner in Aspen or Naples thinking about what the next car in the garage should be for, that choice is the main appeal. For now the Tipo 829 is still a proposal and not a car on the road.
Brides of Beverly Hills

A Ranch Venue With a Formal Dress Code: Gabby and Isaac's Aspen Wedding at Chaparral Ranch

Gabby and Isaac married in Aspen, a town they already considered theirs, so the location was never in question. They booked Chaparral Ranch and still asked guests to come in formal evening wear. That's the planning lesson here: a ranch doesn't require a casual dress code. Design and production went to Gold Leaf Event Design & Production, who based the look on a natural, earthy color scheme. For a couple weighing a Colorado ranch against a ballroom, this wedding shows you can have the open-country setting and the formal dress code at the same event. It also helps to have one firm handle both design and production, so the décor and the event logistics are planned together.
Photo by Melissa on Unsplash
Class of Florida

Floridians Know a Good Beach. This One in Tiburon Belongs to a Single House

In Florida, a house is judged first by how it meets the water, and only then by everything else. Miami wants the show, Palm Beach wants the hedge, and Naples wants the sunset and a reservation at six. A house in Tiburon, California, speaks the language all three understand: it has a stretch of sand of its own on the bay off San Francisco. The property is valued at $17.5 million. Its architect is Andrea Ponsi, who comes from Italy. On any coastline, a beach that belongs to one household is the rarest feature a house can have, and that holds on the West Coast just as it does on ours.
Class of Florida

Laphroaig 15 Returns, and This Time It Stays

Laphroaig's 15-year Scotch is available again after ten years out of the lineup, and the house has made it a standing bottling rather than a one-time release. That second part is the real news. Nobody has to track it down, stockpile it or save the last pour for the right guest. In Palm Beach it suits a nightcap, in Naples the evening after a round, and in Miami a nightcap that starts sometime after midnight; it now stays on the shelf for all three.
Private Jet Owners

Close Company Over California: Formation Flying at the State's International Airshow

AVweb's photo of the day for October 5 shows aircraft flying in formation at the California International Airshow. Anyone who has flown a single-pilot jet on a busy arrival knows how much work it takes to hold one airplane exactly where it belongs. Formation work asks every pilot in the group to do that at once, a few feet from a wingman, with no room for drift. It's skill that owners can appreciate more than most, and it was on display over California.
Class of Nashville

A Writer's Name Climbs Into Music Row's Upper Ten

Parker Welling now sits among the ten highest-ranked names on MusicRow's songwriter chart. In this town, that's the list the room actually reads. The artists get the marquee, but the people who write the songs are the ones the industry keeps track of, from the publishing offices to the Green Hills kitchens where the next single tends to start. Getting into that top group is the kind of arrival Nashville notices without saying much about it.
Where They Eat

Sports Illustrated Resorts Finds a Hotel Partner in Wyndham

Travel + Leisure has chosen Wyndham to carry the Sports Illustrated Resorts name from resorts into hotel stays. The appeal is Wyndham's size: a company that big can help a young label get buildings off the drawing board and open for guests. The report gives no cities and no opening dates, so for now this is a deal on paper, not a lobby you can walk into. When the first one opens its doors, we will go and see it for ourselves.
What It Sold For

Hancock Park's Osbourne Estate Now Asks $16 Million

The Los Angeles house that Sharon Osbourne once shared with Ozzy is now listed at $16 million, a million dollars less than before. The house has been back on the market for a few months, and this is the first new number since then. The asking price was $17 million and is now $16 million. That is what the seller is asking. Nothing has sold, and nothing here should be read as a sale price. The property is a large one, in Hancock Park, one of the city's established residential neighborhoods. Our readers follow L.A. houses at this level for their addresses and for who has lived in them. This one has both. An Osbourne connection draws attention, and Hancock Park is a known name. The new figure puts the estate in front of buyers again. When it closes, we'll report what it sold for.
What It Sold For

Before the First Course, the Dining Room Keeps Its Own Rules

Etiquette authorities have laid out the conventions behind a properly set American table, and in a well-run house those conventions start working before anyone sits down. Their guidance runs from the memory aid known as "BMW" to the right spot for the small fork brought out with oysters. These are details a guest may never name but will notice when they are right, at a long table under a chandelier or a round one by the window. A dining room shows its care through what sits at each chair as much as through its architecture.
Beverly Hills News

Metallica Plays Two Nights at Sphere Without Repeating a Song

Metallica played the second night of its "No Repeat Weekend" at Sphere with a set list that shared no songs with the first night, The Hollywood Reporter reported. The second show followed the same structure as the opening night, so the two performances matched in shape but not in content. According to the publication, the band chose songs from well beyond its most familiar material. Metallica closed the night with "Enter Sandman," which The Hollywood Reporter called the standout of the evening. A fan who attended both nights would have heard two complete concerts of different songs, built the same way, from the same stage.
What They Ride

Bottle of Rouge and Clicquot Lead Hill 'n' Dale's Night of Stars Consignment at Fasig-Tipton

Hill 'n' Dale is bringing two standouts to the Night of Stars session at the Fasig-Tipton November Sale. One is Bottle of Rouge, owned by Bob and Jill Baffert; the other is Clicquot, a Grade I winner. The Bafferts have stood in this sales ring before. Three years ago they came to the November auction with Fun to Dream, a Grade I winner they bred themselves and a daughter of Arrogate. By the account of that visit, the mare lived up to everything the couple had hoped for when they brought her. Now they are back with Bottle of Rouge, and this time she sits beside Clicquot at the head of the Hill 'n' Dale lineup. Night of Stars is the evening session of the November sale. Leading a consignment there with a Grade I winner and a Baffert-owned mare says a great deal about how the consignor's offering is being received. For anyone who follows the breeding side of the American turf, the evening offers two names worth catching and a return trip to the sale for a family that has had success there.
What They Collect

For Collectors of Western Art, Eve Is One Subject With Two Thousand Years of Readings

The Collector has published a survey of how Western art has portrayed Eve over roughly two millennia, and how artists kept changing what she meant. In the biblical account she is the first woman, the one blamed for the loss of paradise. Artists have never settled on a single version of her. For anyone who collects, or simply looks closely in a gallery, it is a useful reminder that one figure can carry twenty centuries of changing interpretation.
Photo by Dimitry Anikin on Unsplash
What They Collect

Rodin's "The Thinker" Started as a Poem From the 1300s

Few sculptures are recognized as quickly as Rodin's "The Thinker," and its beginning lies in literature, not in the studio. Artnet News reports that the work would never have existed without a poem written in the 1300s, about five centuries before the sculptor took it up. For readers who collect with an eye on where an object comes from, it shows that a masterwork can start as something read long before it becomes something made. Seen this way, the figure in deep thought carries a poem from six centuries ago inside it.
What They Collect

Hirst and Fairey Lead the First Rétromobile Program at CART Department in New York

Rétromobile is coming to New York, and its first local stop is CART Department, ahead of the fair's run at the Javits Center. Galerie reports that the French fair and CART Department have formed a partnership covering both exhibitions and programming. The first artists named under the partnership are Damien Hirst and Shepard Fairey. Collectors here will meet Rétromobile through two of the best-known names in contemporary art before they reach the fair's floor on the West Side. The pairing puts a British artist known in auction rooms worldwide next to an American whose images are familiar from both the street and the gallery. For New York, it means a European fair is arriving through an art space rather than only a convention hall. The works to be shown, the dates and any prices have not been announced, and this column will report them once they are public.
What They Collect

An Artist's Eye at Auction? Jeff Koons Named as the Consignor Behind Christie's $100 Million Masters Offering

Christie's is bringing about $100 million in old master and modern works to auction, and two industry sources speaking to the New York Times say the consignor is Jeff Koons. The house has not confirmed who the seller is and has described the owner only by an honorific. The attribution so far rests on the Times' two unnamed sources. If it holds, collectors will be bidding on a group of pictures chosen by one of the best-known names in American art, with the old and modern traditions offered together.
What They Collect

A Pollock Address Comes Up for Sale Just as the Met Opens Its Pollock and Krasner Show

Jackson Pollock once lived in an apartment in Manhattan's West Village, and that apartment is now listed at $1.99 million. The asking price is the public figure, and it is the one we print. Uptown, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is opening an exhibition that brings Pollock together with Lee Krasner, the painter he was married to. So in the same city and the same season, someone can walk through rooms Pollock knew downtown and then see the canvases at Fifth Avenue. It doesn't happen often that a painter's address goes on the market while a major museum is putting his work up on its walls. Collectors usually buy the picture, and this time the address where a painter lived is the thing for sale. The listing is a residence, not a work of art, and that is why it belongs on these pages: what changes hands in this city sometimes includes the places where its art was made.
What They Collect

A Chicago Trustee Family's $5 Million Tribute Puts Madeleine's Name on a Fund for Women in Art

The Bluhm family has pledged $5 million to the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. The money creates a fund for gender parity, and it will carry the name of the director, Madeleine, who is leaving the museum. Trustee Leslie Bluhm spoke about her in warm terms, calling her a teacher and mentor to the whole board and the finest leader they have worked with. The gift is about money, but it is also a thank-you. Naming a permanent fund after someone keeps her name inside the museum, on the work it pays for, long after she has gone.
Class of Nashville

Oracle's $10 Million Keeps the Nashville Symphony Playing Through 2026-27

The Nashville Symphony's 2026-27 season is going ahead, and the credit goes to Oracle. The company put $10 million behind the orchestra, and that gift is what kept the season on the calendar when it could have been called off. In a city that knows good players when it hears them, that is the kind of support that counts: a full season of the musicians on stage, with the audience in their seats. Ten million dollars is a sum with weight, and here it went somewhere you can hear. The orchestra gets to do what it does best, for another year, in front of the town that loves it.
Class of Nashville

Oracle Puts $10 Million Behind the Orchestra, and the Season Is Back On

The Nashville Symphony's 2026-27 season is going ahead again. The schedule returned after Oracle committed $10 million to the orchestra. The number tells you a lot. Ten million dollars isn't a gesture or a single gala table. It's a serious commitment to the orchestra, and it means the music will be played this season, in this city, for the people who keep its calendar. In a town where the industry lives a few streets from the old families, a symphony season belongs to both. Nashville is known for loud talent, but it also has a quieter side that puts on black tie and sits through a full program. This season was briefly off the calendar, and now it's back. Here it's simply good news: the season is restored, the money is real, and the seats will be filled.
Class of Nashville

Six Songs to Start: Blake Proehl Makes His First Bow on MCA with "Hearts Don't Break"

Blake Proehl now has his first collection of recorded work out, an EP of six songs titled "Hearts Don't Break," issued on the MCA label. A debut sets the terms for everything after it, and Proehl chose to say it in six songs, not a single and not a full album. In a city that judges new talent on the songs, this is the first real record of what he has to offer. Our readers will want to give it a proper listen, start to finish.
Class of Nashville

Practical Magic, by the Water: Drift Nashville Turns Its Pool Into a Picture House

On a Friday this fall, Drift Nashville is screening Practical Magic beside its pool, a plan that already sounds like a good evening. A film watched by the water feels more relaxed than a night in a theater, and the people who choose it usually know it. For a city that measures its evenings by the company and the setting, this is a gracious way to spend a Friday. Check with Drift Nashville directly for timing and the details of the evening.
Class of Nashville

Jeb Hurt's Floating Leaf Moves Under the Red Light Banner

Floating Leaf Entertainment, the Austin firm Jeb Hurt built to guide artists' careers, now operates as part of Red Light Management. The company keeps its own name and its Texas address and takes its place inside a larger house. For readers here who follow who represents whom, a change at the management level is worth noting: it is the work done offstage that shapes a career onstage. We congratulate Mr. Hurt and his team.
Photo by SeeMidTN.com (aka Brent) on Flickr
Class of Nashville

Come Spring, Dylan Gossett Has the Top of the Bill

Dylan Gossett has a name for his spring on the road: The Ramblin' Tour, with his own name at the top of the marquee. The first word on the tour didn't come with dates or cities, so for now the news is the tour itself, a run of shows built around him. In a town that measures careers by whose name sits highest on the poster, that is the part worth reading twice. Those who follow these things closely in Green Hills will want the routing once it is posted.
What They Sail

Frigate, a Viking 80 With Bigger MTU Power and a Patrick Knowles Interior, Is on the Market

The Viking 80 named Frigate is for sale, and two things set her apart from a standard example of the model. The first is her engines. She now runs MTU Series 2000 V16 M96L diesels rated at 2,635 horsepower, which replaced her original powerplants. For a sportfishing owner, a repower like this is usually the first thing to check on the spec sheet, because it shapes how the boat runs, how she reaches the grounds, and how she will be judged at resale. The second is the interior, which was designed for her by Patrick Knowles. That means the accommodations were done for this boat in particular, so a buyer is looking at something more personal than a production layout. She is the enclosed-bridge version of the Viking 80, with the helm inside. The listing does not give an asking price, so we won't guess at one. Whoever buys her gets a well-known model with the two upgrades that tend to count most: what runs her and what it feels like to live aboard.
What They Sail

Bellini's Eternal 36 Opens an Explorer Line Built for Owners Who Go the Distance

Bellini has stepped up into superyacht territory, and its first boat at that size is a 118-foot explorer called the Eternal 36. She is the first hull in a new family of yachts, and the builder has made every boat in it from steel and aluminum. The Eternal 36 is meant for crossing oceans and covering long distances between ports. For owners who measure a season in sea miles rather than marina nights, that design brief deserves attention. Steel and aluminum are a builder's statement of intent, chosen for a boat that is expected to go far and keep going. At 118 feet, the Eternal 36 is a serious yacht, and as the first of a new range she sets the standard for the models that follow her. For owners on the Florida coast, where the Atlantic starts right past the inlet, an explorer like this is built for the voyage they are already thinking about.
Class of Florida

Goldman Sachs Gives the Watch Box a Wall Street Reading

Goldman Sachs has published its first guide to collecting fine timepieces and jewelry, with the firm's own recommendations for putting a collection together. It matters that a bank of that standing has written down its thinking on pieces most of us keep in a safe or wear on the wrist. In Florida, collecting means something different depending on the exit you take off I-95 or I-75: in Miami the piece should be noticed across the room, in Palm Beach it should be recognized only by people who already know, and in Naples it should look right at the club at lunch. Whichever stretch of coast you call home, the conversation now has a Wall Street reference to go with it.
Class of Florida

The Gas Charger Is the Buyers' Clear Pick

Dodge's gasoline Charger is selling about fifteen cars for every one of its electric twin, and in the most recent three-month stretch its sales grew by 1,348 percent. That is a striking number for any model line, and a strong vote from buyers for the version with a fuel tank. Floridians tend to treat a muscle car as part of the scenery, whether it's on Alligator Alley at dusk, outside a valet stand on Worth Avenue, or idling a little too loudly on Ocean Drive. Naples would call that sound spirited, Palm Beach would call it a lot, and Miami would just turn it up. Either way, the gas Charger is the clear choice right now, and buyers are picking it by a wide margin.
Class of Florida

The Other Half of the Season: A $14 Million Park Avenue Apartment Built to Feel Like a Whole House

A $14 million apartment has come up for sale on Park Avenue, seven floors above one of New York's most famous streets. The building dates from before the Second World War, from an era when Manhattan apartments were meant to hold a household rather than a few rooms. The listing describes it as having the size and presence you would expect from a townhouse or a house in the country, and that is a high standard. Floridians will know the idea. In Palm Beach a house has to look like an estate, in Naples it needs to feel like one, and in Miami it only has to be on the water. This apartment aims for the Palm Beach standard without needing any land. For anyone who spends part of the year in New York and the rest of it here, it is a reminder that the northern home can be built to the same standard as the southern one.
Photo by Steve @ the alligator farm on Flickr
Class of Florida

A Diver's Watch With a Villain in the Room, Fit for Waters From Palm Beach to Naples

Omega has a new group of Seamaster Diver 300M watches, and this time the story behind it is James Bond and Spectre, the agent and the shadowy organization he spends a film trying to bring down. The theme is hero against villain, set on the wrist of a watch built for the sea. In Florida, where a dive watch gets worn on the boat in Naples, at lunch in Palm Beach and somewhere after midnight in Miami, a collection that picks a side between good and evil has plenty of places to go.
Icons of Palm Beach

Thirty Dollars, and the Right Eye: A Modest Purchase Brings $1.35 Million

It cost thirty dollars when someone carried it out of a sale of a household's contents. At auction, it brought $1.35 million. Anyone who has spent a season walking the tables of an island house sale, past the rattan and the monogrammed linens, knows how rare it is for the eye to be right and the price to stay that low. This time both happened, and the bidding confirmed what one patient buyer saw first.
Icons of Palm Beach

Scorsese Gives New York an Autumn Evening With *Gone to Earth

The New York Film Festival brought Martin Scorsese to the screen this fall with *Gone to Earth*, a British picture that came close to vanishing. It was shown in a fresh restoration, and its Technicolor once again had a full house to play to. A watch house partnered with him on the evening. A film nearly lost is now one an audience can sit down to again, and the people who made that happen deserve the credit. For anyone still in Manhattan before heading south for the season, it was the kind of night that makes a festival worth going to.
Icons of Palm Beach

The Gown Carl Dean Kept: Dolly Parton's 1966 Wedding Dress Comes Out of the Trunk

Every house on the island has a cedar closet or a garment bag that nobody has unzipped in years. In 2024 Dolly Parton's turned out to be a trunk belonging to her husband, Carl Dean, and inside it was the dress she married him in back in 1966. For close to six decades nobody had known where that dress was. The one that came out of the trunk does not look like the dress people had pictured. For anyone who has ever opened a box of family heirlooms in the off-season, the lesson is simple: the most precious things in a marriage are sometimes the ones a husband quietly keeps.
Icons of Palm Beach

Before Season, the Vanity Gets Its Fall Edit

Town & Country has published its first look at this autumn's new skincare, and the picks fall into two camps: rich creams that put moisture back into the skin, and devices that bring technology to the bathroom counter. Every pick was chosen with the change of weather in mind. Here, autumn arrives gently, but it is still when the shelves get a second look before the house fills for season. The list is only partway through the year, so expect more to join it.
What They Ride

The Class of 2027 Gets a Fresh Look on the Road to Louisville

America's Best Racing has published its October 5 list of the 2-year-olds it considers most promising for the 2027 Kentucky Derby. The editors had said the list would change, and this edition delivers that revision. It's still early autumn, and for these young horses the first Saturday in May is a long way off. That makes it a good time for anyone who follows the sales ring and the morning gallops to keep an eye on which juveniles are starting to stand out.
What They Ride

Freestyle Keeps Its Name Partner as Retired Racehorses Prepare for New Careers

The Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance is coming back as the sole sponsor whose name goes on the Freestyle class at the Thoroughbred Makeover and National Symposium. The Makeover is run by the Retired Racehorse Project, and its whole purpose is the Thoroughbred's life after racing. Of all its classes, Freestyle is the one whose name promises the most room to show what a horse has learned. Having an aftercare organization's name on that class puts the work of retraining in front of the people who come to watch it. For readers who follow these horses from the starting gate to the sales ring and beyond, this is good news.
What They Ride

464 Yearlings Come to the Ring in Ocala

The Ocala Breeders' Sales Company opens its October Yearling Sale on Tuesday, and over two sessions 464 young horses will come before the auctioneer in the heart of Florida's horse country. The count covers the full 2026 book, with the late additions included. That is a big catalogue, and a full one, with every hip number a yearling that a breeder raised, prepared and brought to the ring this fall. For buyers, it means two days of walking the barns, studying pedigrees and watching each yearling step out on the walk before the bidding starts. For the farms that consigned them, it is the moment a year of careful work in the paddock and the barn goes in front of the market. In Ocala, sale week is one of the busiest weeks on the calendar. We will be watching from the rail as the sale opens Tuesday.
What They Ride

Mystik Bayou Breaks His Maiden at Belmont With an 88 Beyer

Mystik Bayou, a 2-year-old colt by a sire whose name was cut off in the report ("Wells…"), won his maiden race at Belmont on October 3. The race was run at a mile and a sixteenth. His Beyer Speed Figure for the win was 88. That is a strong number for a juvenile stretching out past a mile, and it earned him a place on the week's list of the quickest first-time winners covering September 28 through October 4. Horses from Godolphin and trainer Mike Stidham claimed the top two places on that list, which made for a strong week of maiden racing. For New York racing fans, the result belongs to the season's 2-year-olds at Belmont, where the colt has now gotten his first win.
What They Ride

A Standing Invitation to Put Your Questions to Racing's Integrity Bodies

Thoroughbred Daily News is inviting horsemen and readers to send in questions for the two bodies whose names carry the words integrity, safety and welfare: the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act Authority, known as HISA, and the Horseracing Integrity and Welfare Unit, known as HIWU. It is a practical offer. If a trainer at the barn, an owner at the sales or a reader who simply loves the game has been wondering about something, they can write it down and send it in. The offer is open to anyone with a question worth asking.
Beverly Hills News

Stallone's 'Tulsa King' Shifts Production to New York for Season 5

Paramount+ has ordered a fifth season of "Tulsa King," the series starring Sylvester Stallone, according to Variety. Filming will move from Georgia to New York for the new season, and the story will take place in New York as well. Four actors are joining the cast for the new episodes, the outlet reported. Variety's announcement did not include a premiere date or a start date for filming. For readers who follow where Los Angeles-based productions choose to shoot, this adds a returning streaming series to New York's production schedule.
Beverly Hills News

David Berson of CBS Sports Named to Run Merged Paramount-Warner Bros. Sports Unit

David Berson, who heads CBS Sports, will take charge of the sports operation created by bringing Paramount and Warner Bros. together, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The appointment comes as the deal between the two companies is completed. Luis Silberwasser is leaving TNT Sports as the leadership changes. Under the new structure, one executive will oversee the sports businesses of both companies.
Beverly Hills News

Sebastian Stan Offers Early Remarks on His Part in Matt Reeves' Next Batman Film

Sebastian Stan, an actor known for his work in Marvel films, has spoken about the role he will play in "The Batman: Part II," the next film in the series from director Matt Reeves, according to The Hollywood Reporter. In the interview, Stan gave a few hints about the part without fully describing it. He said he hopes his performance is received the way he intends. The film marks his move to DC, which is widely anticipated.
Beverly Hills News

Dasha Smith Leaves the NFL's Senior Ranks to Become CAA's Chief Operating Officer

Creative Artists Agency has appointed Dasha Smith as its chief operating officer, The Hollywood Reporter reports. Smith joins from the National Football League. Her last post there was executive vice president and chief administrative officer, and she was one of the senior leaders who worked closest to Roger Goodell. With this move, an executive from the league's top leadership will now run operations at CAA.
Beverly Hills News

Urbanworld Names Gina Prince-Bythewood and Reggie Rock Bythewood Ambassadors for Its 30th Festival

Filmmakers Gina Prince-Bythewood and Reggie Rock Bythewood are coming back to the Urbanworld Film Festival as ambassadors for its 30th anniversary edition. This year's program will include a spotlight on "Children of Blood and Bone," the film Prince-Bythewood is directing, which has not yet been released. The anniversary festival gives that program a central place, and audiences will get an early look at work that is still on its way to theaters.
Beverly Hills News

Warner Bros. Discovery Chief Thanks Employees as Skydance Merger Nears Completion

David Zaslav has recorded a video message to the staff of Warner Bros. Discovery as the company's merger with Skydance gets close to its final step. In the video, Zaslav tells employees that leading the company has been an honor. The farewell comes four and a half years after he completed the transaction that created Warner Bros. Discovery. With the merger about to close, the company moves into its next chapter under the combined enterprise, and Zaslav used the moment to address the people who work there.
Beverly Hills News

Zaslav Thanks Warner Bros. Staff as Skydance Merger Nears Completion

David Zaslav has recorded a video message for Warner Bros. Discovery employees ahead of the company's merger with Skydance, according to Variety. In the video, he thanks the staff and calls his time leading the company "a great honor." He has led Warner Bros. Discovery for four and a half years, since he completed the transaction that created it. The merger with Skydance is set to close next, and the message comes as his leadership of the company ends.
Private Jet Owners

A 2020 Vision Jet G2+ Listing Where the Avionics Do the Selling

A 2020 Cirrus SF50 Vision Jet in G2+ configuration has been listed for sale, and the panel is the main reason to look at it. It has Garmin's Perspective Touch+ suite and a weather radar that runs automatically rather than needing the pilot to manage it, which helps when one person is flying the airplane alone. For a Naples or Palm Beach owner who flies their own single-engine jet, that equipment is where the airplane's value lies. Anyone thinking of moving up should start with the panel.
Photo by Horizon flights on Unsplash
Private Jet Owners

A Virtual Skyhawk Cockpit Takes a Spot on the NBAA-BACE Floor

TRU Simulation will show its Veris at NBAA-BACE. The Veris is a virtual-reality trainer built around a Cessna Skyhawk cockpit, and this convention is its first public showing. On a floor that is mostly turbine hardware, avionics stacks and maintenance vendors, a Skyhawk-configured box is a modest exhibit. The questions an owner would bring to it are the practical ones: what it simulates, how it gets used and where it might fit in a training plan. The announcement doesn't answer those questions. The booth should.
Private Jet Owners

The $12 Million Question Every Owner Has Asked: Will the Drone See Me?

The Federal Aviation Administration has put $12 million into research on drones that fly beyond their operator's line of sight. Owners will mostly care about where that money is going. Part of it goes to the problem pilots have been raising at the FBO counter for years: making sure an uncrewed aircraft can spot a crewed one and get out of its way. The rest pays for satellite links to keep these machines connected out of range of the ground, and for software that manages the traffic they will add to the sky. For anyone who departs Naples, Aspen or the East End on a VFR morning, these are practical questions about shared airspace, and the money is aimed at them.
Private Jet Owners

Danbury Municipal Gets a Part 141 Tenant, Doors Open October 17

Epic Flight Academy is bringing a Part 141 training operation to Danbury Municipal Airport in Connecticut and will open it on October 17. Owners will know what that designation means: an FAA-approved curriculum, a structured syllabus and stage checks, unlike the looser Part 61 arrangement. A certificated school on a field adds a steady, scheduled kind of presence alongside the based aircraft already there. For anyone who keeps an airplane at DXR or flies in regularly from elsewhere in the Northeast, the date to note is the 17th. Training under 141 is organized and rule-bound, and that is a good fit for a well-run municipal field.
Private Jet Owners

Close Company in California Skies

AVweb's photo of the day comes from the California International Airshow and shows aircraft flying in formation. Owners will see the skill in it right away: several airplanes holding position on each other with only a few feet between them, at a show where precision is the main thing on display. Holding tight station on another aircraft is hard to do well, and anyone who has held a heading and altitude in rough air will know what that picture took.
What They Drive

Good Things, Smaller Packages: The Mazda3 Has a Banner Month

Mazda's compact, offered as both a four-door sedan and a hatchback, has just come off an exceptionally strong month on the sales charts. It isn't alone: buyers have been warming to smaller cars all through 2026, and the Mazda3 is the newest name to ride that wave. For owners who have always valued a car sized to the road and finished with care, it is a welcome sign that good design in a modest footprint is getting its due.
What They Drive

The 1975 Volvo 240 That Clears an Eighth of a Mile in 5.3 Seconds

From the outside, this is a 1975 Volvo 240: the upright, squared-off shape that owners of the model know well. Underneath, the car carries a Lamborghini V10 set amidships, fed by a pair of turbochargers. Power still goes to all four wheels. The numbers are what make it worth a second look: an eighth of a mile in 5.3 seconds, crossing the line at 137 mph. Those figures come from a car whose bodywork reads as a family sedan. For collectors who enjoy a well-executed sleeper, this is an unusual pairing of Swedish sheet metal and Italian engineering, and it makes the most of both.
Photo by Pandamera1 on Flickr
What They Drive

The 2027 Corvette Grand Sport X, Seen From the Driver's Seat

Chevrolet's 2027 Corvette Grand Sport X now has a full photographic record of its cabin, with every vantage point inside the car covered. Owners and collectors who follow Corvettes by model year and trim will want this view first: the space they actually occupy once the door closes. These are photographs only. They are not a drive, and we offer no opinion on how the car performs on the road. Whether your garage is in Naples or Aspen, this is the first complete look at where a Grand Sport X driver will sit.
Photo by Sunira Moses on Unsplash
What They Drive

On Jekyll Island, Georgia, the Ford Bronco Goes to Work in Uniform

Georgia State Patrol has added two Ford Broncos to its fleet on Jekyll Island, where it is the island's sole police presence. That job takes troopers past the end of the blacktop and onto the sand, so the agency picked a vehicle built for ground a standard cruiser can't cover. For owners who know the Bronco from trails and weekend drives, it's a straightforward vote of confidence: a state agency chose the nameplate for work on a Georgia beach.
What They Drive

A 1967 Corvette Arrives Unannounced at Audrain, and Its Owner Is Joe Biden

Joe Biden came to the Audrain Concours with his own 1967 Chevrolet Corvette, and by all indications almost nobody knew he was coming. A concours is a show of model years, provenance and the care owners put into their cars. A 1967 Corvette brings a familiar American shape to that setting, and a car most of the people looking at it would know right away. It's worth noting when a name this well known turns up as one more owner with one more car. We note the car, the year and the man who brought it, and leave it there.
What They Drive

A Lotus Pulled by Its Front Wheels: The 1992 Elan Faces the Test

The 1992 Lotus Elan sends its power through the front wheels, a layout that breaks with what the badge has traditionally stood for, and Car and Driver has put it to the test. For owners and collectors who follow a marque model year by model year, a car that so plainly breaks with convention is worth noting. The front-driven Elan is a deliberate change of direction, and it has now been driven and judged on its own terms. Anyone with an eye for unusual sports cars, whether their garage is in Naples or Aspen, will want to know where this one stands.
What They Drive

For the Collector's File: A Full Visual Record of the 1992 Lotus Elan

Car and Driver has published a complete photo set of the 1992 Lotus Elan, covering the cabin as thoroughly as the bodywork. For owners and collectors of this model year, a full visual reference like this is useful. It shows what the car looked like inside and out, which can help when judging an original example. The gallery is worth bookmarking for anyone who keeps one of these Lotus roadsters in the garage, or hopes to someday.
What They Drive

The Combustion Charger Finds Its Buyers: Dodge Sells Fifteen for Every Electric

Dodge's internal-combustion Charger has had a strong quarter. Its sales rose 1,348 percent over the most recent three-month period, and the company is now selling fifteen of them for every battery-electric Charger. That is a large figure, and it is easiest to understand as a showroom choice: two versions of the same nameplate, and fifteen of every sixteen buyers wanting the one that burns fuel. From Florida to Colorado, owners who care about what sits in their garage have clearly given their answer.
What They Drive

A Tesla Owner's New Way Out: The Car Can Now Pull Free of Its Charger When It Matters

Tesla has added a safety provision that lets its electric cars be put into gear and released from the charging cable when an emergency calls for it. The cable no longer holds the car in place at the stall. For an owner topping up at a Supercharger, on a Florida highway or anywhere else in the country, the plug is no longer the deciding factor in whether the car can move. It is a quiet piece of engineering, and owners will be glad to have it the one time it counts.
Who Wore What When

Cyndi Lauper Opens Her Closet to the Auction Paddle

Cyndi Lauper is putting some of her best-loved clothes up for auction, letting pieces from her own wardrobe go to new owners. As the sale comes together, the singer sat down to talk about style: how she thinks about getting dressed and what her clothes mean to her. An archive like ours usually reconstructs a look from photographs, so it's a pleasure to see clothes like these come out where everyone can see them. For readers from Palm Beach to Beverly Hills who follow fashion history, this is one to keep an eye on.
Who Wore What When

The Autumn Office Edit, Counted Out to Twenty-Five

Harper's Bazaar has put together a list of 25 pieces it says belong in any fall closet built for the office. The idea is to make the five-day workweek easier: pull from a set lineup and arrive put-together without starting from scratch each morning. From a desk that usually tracks the red carpet and the crown, it's a nice reminder that the hardest-working outfits are often the ones worn to work. Somewhere in New York this week, someone is already checking off item number one.
Who Wore What When

NYDJ Puts the Waistband to Work in Shape Sense Denim

NYDJ's new Shape Sense Denim builds its shaping into the waist itself, so the jeans hold and define the waistline without anything extra underneath. The brand also announced a partnership with CBS alongside the launch; the details of that tie-up are still to come. For anyone who dresses for a long day of errands, lunch and dinner, the waistband is where denim either earns its keep or doesn't, and this line puts its engineering exactly there. We'll be watching for it from Palm Beach to Beverly Hills.
Who Wore What When

Dakota Johnson Brings the Constellations to Saturday Night Live's Late Hours

Dakota Johnson went to the party after Saturday Night Live in a look that read like the sky after midnight: dark, scattered with points of light. It suited the hour, since a show that ends that late hands off to a party that runs later still. The finishing piece was a handbag with enough presence to compete with the stars, and it held its own. The report doesn't name the designer, so the archive gets the occasion, the theme and the bag, and the label line stays blank for now.
Who Wore What When

Spellbound at Via Carota: Dakota Johnson's Birthday Table Goes Full Coven

Dakota Johnson marked her birthday at Via Carota, the West Village restaurant, and Jennifer Lawrence was at the table with her. Both dressed with a distinctly bewitched sensibility, which is why Vogue asked whether the night had a "Practical Magic" theme. It's a fair question. When two guests at the same dinner both look like they just came from casting a spell, it seems less like coincidence and more like a costume brief. There is no designer credit and no confirmed dress code yet, so for now the theme is a theory. Still, a coordinated mood at a birthday dinner downtown is good dressing.
Who Wore What When

The Soft-Focus Mouth, Minus the Fuss: One Balm Tries Its Hand

The just-finished-a-cherry-ice look, a lip stained at the center that fades softly at the edges, came out of K-beauty, and the editors at Elle have tested whether a single balm can do it. The early word is that it gets you there fast, without the careful dabbing and fingertip blending the look usually takes. It's a modest little balm, but a well-made shortcut is a kind of craft, and that's what we're interested in. From a Palm Beach lunch to a Hamptons porch, it's the sort of thing that rides along in a clutch and does its job in a moment.
Who Wore What When

Chitose Abe Makes Change the Subject at Sacai

Chitose Abe, who founded Sacai, says her newest collection is about transformation: a moment of transition, and the way a person grows through one. It's a fitting theme for a label whose name has always been tied to its founder's point of view. From a closet in Palm Beach or a fitting room on Madison Avenue, that framing gives a reader a way into the clothes before seeing a single look. When a designer describes a collection as a self in motion, she isn't asking you to watch a trend. She's asking you to notice how a garment can carry the person wearing it into a new chapter.
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Zimmermann Takes Wing for Spring 2027

For Spring 2027, Zimmermann looked to the wing for its brief, borrowing both the outline and the pigment of the lepidoptera and working them into the clothes. It's a precise idea: one creature studied for its silhouette and its palette across a whole season. From Palm Beach to Beverly Hills, warm-weather dressing comes down to shape and shade, so this is a season to watch when it reaches American racks and carpets. Our archive has the year filed.
Who Wore What When

Chic Without the Boutique Address: A Gift Edit Sourced From Amazon

Harper's Bazaar has put together a gift edit drawn entirely from Amazon, and its premise is that good taste doesn't need a boutique address. The selection covers a wide range of styles and price points, so someone with a modest limit and someone with no limit at all can both find something worth wrapping. For readers here, from Palm Beach to Beverly Hills, it's a reminder that a good gift depends on choosing well, not on where the box ships from.
Where They Eat

Fred Dixon Heads Back to New York's Tourism Office, and Caroline Beteta Steps In at Brand USA

Fred Dixon, who has led Brand USA as its president and chief executive, is going back to NYC Tourism + Conventions, the organization that brings visitors to New York. To cover the change, Caroline Beteta is returning to Brand USA to lead it on an interim basis. We cover this because the people who bring travelers to this country, and to New York in particular, help decide who fills the city's dining rooms and hotel lobbies on any given night. It is a well-run handoff between two organizations that sell America to the world.
What It Sold For

Clinton Hill Has a New High Mark: $9.4 Million for a Single Townhouse

One Clinton Hill townhouse has sold for $9.4 million, the highest price ever paid for a home in this Brooklyn neighborhood. Every earlier sale in Clinton Hill now sits below this figure, and buyers and sellers on these blocks will measure against it. The sale also points to a market for large single-family houses that is warming, both here and in neighboring Fort Greene, where the same kind of grand Brooklyn house lines the streets. Townhouse buyers tend to watch prices like this one closely, because a single sale can move what a neighborhood thinks it is worth. For now, the top price in Clinton Hill belongs to this one house.
What It Sold For

A Montecito House Becomes the Model for a December Countdown

Meghan Markle's As Ever has made an Advent calendar with the chocolatier Compartés, and the design takes its cue from her Montecito home. The edition is limited, so it is a seasonal piece with a fixed number of copies. Few houses on the California coast end up as the inspiration for a product meant to sit on other people's tables through the holidays. Here, the home sets the look of the box that counts down the days to Christmas.
Photo by Ivy Dao on Unsplash
What It Sold For

Ken Fulk Puts the Jungle on the Wall for Perennials & Sutherland

Designer Ken Fulk has created a new wallcovering for Perennials & Sutherland, and its subject is the jungle, drawn with a bold, untamed hand. Wallcovering is one of the few changes that can give a room a whole new personality without moving a single wall, and here that personality is the dense green of the tropics. For owners of the American house who want a dining room, a powder room or a library to feel like somewhere else entirely, it is a new option from a well-regarded designer.
What They Ride

Keeneland Hosts the Breeders' Cup Again on Oct. 30-31

The Breeders' Cup is coming back to Keeneland, with two days of championship racing on Oct. 30 and 31. For anyone who follows the American turf, the date and the venue alone make this a weekend to keep clear on the calendar. The Breeders' Cup is the peak of the racing season. Each running sends a new group of horses, and the trainers and connections behind them, onto the track with a chance at a place in the record books. Keeneland has been chosen to host it again. For two afternoons at the end of October, the paddock, the rail and the finish line will be where the season is decided. Which names come out of those two days is something only the races can settle.
Icons of Palm Beach

Ryan Murphy, From John Waters and Barbra Streisand to the Top of Television

Ryan Murphy grew up taking comfort in the films of John Waters and the voice of Barbra Streisand, and the producer now oversees a slate of television that the rest of the industry would gladly claim, *Love Story* among it. Vanity Fair counts him among its New Establishment. Those two early heroes are a telling place for a career to begin, and it is a pleasure to see where that boyhood education led. Here, where a story told with style is always in season, his is one worth following.
Icons of Palm Beach

Vanity Fair Names Its 2026 New Establishment, and the Machine Age Takes the Head of the Table

Vanity Fair has released the 2026 edition of its New Establishment, its ranking of the people who hold the most sway over money, influence and taste. This year the magazine has organized the whole list around artificial intelligence and presents its honorees as the figures who are setting the course of that new era. The list groups them by temperament as well as by rank, so the dealmakers and the admired appear alongside the dissenters and those who simply ignore the rules. It reads best slowly, the way one reads a seating chart before a long dinner.
What They Sail

TYKUN Builds a 42-Footer for Owners Who Want the Tender to Feel Like Time Aboard

TYKUN has put a new 42-foot tender at the top of its range, and it's meant to carry the polish of a proper yacht while keeping the toughness of a rigid-hulled inflatable. For an owner tied up in Palm Beach or Miami, every tender forces the same choice: a boat hardy enough for beach landings and the fuel dock, or one fine enough for guests stepping off the swim platform. With this boat, TYKUN aims to give owners both. The first report didn't include the naval architect or a price, and we'll add them when they're on the record.
Photo by Dan Hadar on Unsplash
What They Sail

TYKUN's Tykun XII Is a 42-Foot Flagship That Mixes Yacht Finish With the Practical Build of a RIB

TYKUN has named a new flagship: the Tykun XII, which runs 42 feet. The builder pitches it as two boats in one, with the refined finish owners expect from a yacht and the hard-working practicality of a rigid inflatable. Most boats lean toward one of those or the other, so a design that sets out to do both is worth a look for anyone choosing a dayboat for Florida waters. The builder hasn't published a naval architect or a price yet.
What They Drive

TYKUN's New 42-Foot Tender Is Built to Look Good at the Dock and Still Take a Beating

TYKUN has put a 42-foot tender at the top of its range, and it is meant to do two jobs at once. It has the polish and finish of a proper motor yacht, but underneath it is still a rigid inflatable, the tough working hull that ferries people and gear between a big boat and the shore. For owners from Palm Beach to Naples who judge a tender as carefully as the yacht it serves, the appeal is simple: they no longer have to choose between a boat that looks right and a boat that works hard.
Photo by hoyasmeg on Flickr
What They Drive

Sixteen Built: The Monte Carlo Automotive Centenaire Comes to Auction With a Countach 5000 QV Engine

Monte Carlo Automotive made just sixteen cars under the Centenaire name, so few that many longtime collectors may never have seen one in person. Its engine is the one Lamborghini fitted to the Countach 5000 QV, which links this small-run car to one of the best-known Italian supercars of its era. The car is now headed to auction, where the estimate puts it as high as $1.35 million. For an owner who follows the market from Palm Beach, Naples or Aspen, the appeal is easy to see: the Countach powerplant is familiar, but it sits in a car very few people have ever owned. With only sixteen in existence, any single example crossing the block is a rare event. Whether the hammer falls near that figure will depend on the room on the day, and we will report the result once there is one.
What It Sold For

The Locked Garden Comes With the Lease: Gramercy Park Access at $825,000

New York's most private square has a price on it. A Gramercy Park key, with an apartment attached, is on offer at $825,000. Here the residence comes almost second, because the key is what opens the iron gate onto the gated garden at the center of the square, which most people only ever see through the railings. On the same list, uptown, sits a one-bedroom with a balcony nineteen feet long, a few steps from Central Park. That is a generous stretch of outdoor space for a single-bedroom home in Manhattan, with the city's great lawn only a short walk away. Both listings make the same case from different ends of the island: in New York, the outdoor space can be worth as much as the rooms.
What It Sold For

Harlem Gallery Brings Three Puerto Rican Artists to Atlanta for Its First Showing at the Fair

Claire Oliver Gallery, based in Harlem, appeared at the Atlanta Art Fair for the first time this season, during the fair's run from October 1 through October 4. It built its presentation around the work of three artists from Puerto Rico. For a New York dealer, a first fair in a new city is a decision about which artists to send. Claire Oliver sent three who share an island. One of the works shown was Erica Morales's "Who's That Girl?", dated 2026. Morales made it with aerosol paint and ornamental cut-paper collage on a paper ground. Spray paint and decorative collage come from different traditions, and Morales uses both in one piece. A collector standing in front of it would want to know how the layers were put down. No sale price for the piece has been made public, and this desk does not guess at one. What is on the record is the gallery, the artists' common origin, the fair, the dates and the work.
What It Sold For

Snøhetta Breaks Ground on Sweetbird North in the Miami Design District as Sugimoto's Hirshhorn Garden Reopens

Construction has started on Sweetbird North, a Snøhetta project in the Miami Design District. For readers who follow how that neighborhood is being built, an architecture firm of that standing beginning work there is the news worth noting. No completion date, budget or price has been made public, so this account gives none. The same week brought two other notes. The Hirshhorn Museum's sculpture garden has reopened after a redesign by Hiroshi Sugimoto, so visitors can walk the grounds again in their new form under his authorship. In Beverly Hills, Dior's boutique is preparing to show work by the French artist Louis Cane, which puts painting inside a Rodeo-district fashion house. For now, each of these is a start date, a reopening or an exhibition announcement, and the record does not support more than that.
What It Sold For

From Watermill to Pace: Asher Liftin's Season Runs From the South Fork to New York

Asher Liftin's year has followed a path our readers will know well. It began with a residency over the summer months at The Watermill Center on the East End, and it continues this autumn in Manhattan, where "Recent Work" has opened at 125 Newbury, the Pace Gallery space. That is two of the most closely watched addresses in American art, taken one after the other in a single year. For a title that keeps track of what the market notices, the order is worth recording: a season spent making work in the Hamptons, then a showing in New York with one of the best-known names in the gallery business behind it. The same stretch also brings an appearance in Pedro Almodóvar's 2026 film. Neither the gallery nor the residency is a private sale, and no price has been made public, so none is given here. What we can report is the line of the year: a summer in Water Mill followed by an autumn opening in the city. A collector who has walked both rooms will know how far that road goes.
What It Sold For

The 1903 Dallas Victorian That Now Holds a Second House

Dallas has a Victorian of red masonry, built in 1903, that came close to being lost. The house had deteriorated so far that saving it was in real doubt. Architect Russell Buchanan took the job and chose an unusual answer: rather than only patching the old structure, he designed a second house to sit inside the first. The original brick shell stays on the street, and the new residence lives within it. A Victorian of that age in a Texas city is rare enough, and this one now carries an unusual architectural idea inside its walls. For readers who follow the American house, it is a clear example of an architect putting his design work into keeping an old building standing rather than starting over.
Beverly Hills Brides

The Couple Who Painted Their Own Wedding

Elena and Alexandr did not hire an artist for their wedding. They painted it themselves. Every figure on the backdrop that framed their day started as one of their own paintings: a leopard in pink, a moon with a face, women dressed in indigo and violet. Nothing on that wall came from a stock print or a rented set. The drawings were theirs before they were enlarged into a scene for guests to stand in front of. The lilies were set with jewels, and there were bubble guns on hand, so the room moved and shimmered around the painted figures. In Beverly Hills, where so many celebrations are built by teams of specialists, it stands out when a couple's own hand made the wedding.
Brides of Beverly Hills

Marrying at the Club He Grew Up At: A Brookline Summer Wedding, Planned by Fondly Frieda Events

Alyssa and Max held their summer wedding at a country club in Brookline, Massachusetts, the club where Max spent his childhood. Fondly Frieda Events planned and designed the day. The look kept the traditional East Coast club setting and added garden elements to make it feel current. For couples weighing a family club against a venue with no history for them, this is a clear example of the first choice, with a planner handling the design.
Brides of Beverly Hills

Four Colors From One Evening Sky: A Palette Lesson at The River Course

Ellie and Greg took the colors for their wedding at The River Course on Kiawah Island from the island's evening sky, and their planner, Bailey Claire Events, planned the whole day around that one source. There were four shades: green, coral, a soft pink and peach. If you're picking colors now, this set is worth a close look. Three of the four belong to the same warm family, the range a low sun casts across water. Green is the one that breaks the pattern, and that cooler shade keeps the warm ones from blurring into each other. Working from a single picture instead of a pile of swatches gives you one standard to hold every choice up to, from linens to flowers to paper. You can borrow the method without borrowing the colors: start from a view you love, like a canyon at dusk or a garden at noon.
Photo by Dinesh Valke on Flickr
Class of Florida

The 42-Foot Tender That Would Rather Be the Yacht

TYKUN has introduced a 42-foot tender as the new top of its range, and it is built to be two boats at once: it has the polish of a proper motor yacht and the toughness of a rigid inflatable. In Florida that combination fits naturally. In Miami it would be the boat that gets noticed at the sandbar, in Palm Beach the one that quietly makes the run to the dock, and in Naples the one that does both without drawing much attention. A tender is usually the support act, the boat that carries guests from the larger yacht to shore. At 42 feet, and finished this carefully, TYKUN's new model looks ready to be the main attraction.
Class of Florida

The Countach Engine Inside a Car Even Collectors Have to Look Up

Monte Carlo Automotive made just 16 Centenaires, and one is now headed to auction with a possible price of $1.35 million. Under the bodywork is the engine from the Lamborghini Countach 5000 QV, so the mechanical half of the car is already familiar. Most people who spot one will walk past it, but the few who know the 5000 QV will stop. That suits Florida. In Miami, a car gets noticed for how it looks. In Palm Beach, it gets noticed for being right. In Naples, nobody comments, and they write it down. With only 16 built, plenty of serious collectors in any of those towns have never seen a Centenaire in person. The $1.35 million figure is a top estimate, not a sale. Even so, a nameplate this scarce carrying an engine this well known gives anyone who cares about well-built cars a reason to look the name up and follow the bidding.
Beverly Hills News

John Oliver Once Again Holds a Costume Piece From "Cinderella Man"

John Oliver, host of "Last Week Tonight," again has the jockstrap Russell Crowe wore in the 2005 film "Cinderella Man," The Hollywood Reporter reports. According to the outlet, this is the third time the garment has been in Oliver's hands. The piece is a costume item from the film, in which Crowe starred. For readers who follow film costumes as collectibles, the report puts one piece from a 2005 production back with the television host who has held it twice before.
Beverly Hills News

Neon Takes On Luca Guadagnino's 'Artificial,' With Andrew Garfield in the Lead

Neon is now behind "Artificial," Luca Guadagnino's feature about Sam Altman and OpenAI, after Amazon chose not to move forward with the project. In a conversation with The Hollywood Reporter, Guadagnino and Andrew Garfield, the film's star, discussed how the picture was made and how it came to Neon. For an industry centered in Los Angeles, the film is a notable example of a major studio production taking a recent technology company as its subject. The filmmakers' account gives readers a first look at the work behind it.
Beverly Hills News

Sam Altman Says He Waved at Andrew Garfield When "Artificial" Filmed Outside His Home

Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, has never been formally introduced to Andrew Garfield, the actor playing him in Luca Guadagnino's upcoming film "Artificial." Altman says the production shot a scene outside his house, and he greeted Garfield from a distance with a wave. Speaking in a new Vanity Fair cover story, Altman said Garfield's walk looked like his own. He described the experience of watching an actor play him on his own street as strange.
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Vows on the Sand: Vogue Edits the Gown for a Ceremony at the Water's Edge

Vogue has put together 28 gowns for brides who plan to marry on the shore, along with practical guidance on choosing one. Any bride planning a ceremony on the sand, whether in Naples, Palm Beach or the Hamptons, has to find a dress that suits both the sea breeze and the vows. The edit doesn't stop at the dresses themselves. It also explains how to judge whether a design is right for an aisle that ends at the tide line.
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Forget the Mirror Test: A Surgeon's Case for Faces That Hold Together

After examining 100,000 faces over a career, one plastic surgeon has settled on a distinction that's simple to state and harder to measure. A symmetrical face is one whose two halves match. A coherent face is one whose features make sense as a whole, and that's what the surgeon now values more. For readers who watch a red carpet from Beverly Hills to New York with an archivist's eye, it's a useful idea to borrow: the matching is the arithmetic, and the agreement among the features is the effect.
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Fall's Most Polished Bob Takes Its Name From the Sweet Life

The bob of the season brings back old-school glamour: the hair is set in soft, deliberate waves, parted well off center, and given real lift at the crown. Picture it at a Palm Beach lunch table or under a Beverly Hills awning as the light turns gold. It's a short cut that still looks like an occasion, the kind of hair that holds up next to a sharp collar or a bare shoulder. If you have a seat on the aisle this fall, this is the cut to bring.
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Dakota Johnson Takes Dark-Roast Brunette to the Verity Premiere in New York

Dakota Johnson walked the New York premiere of Verity with hair the color of a dark roast, polished to a mirror shine. Her outfit for the night looked back to the 1990s, a decade this archive is always happy to see on a carpet again. The hair did as much work as the clothes, which is why beauty editors are already explaining how to get the same color and gloss. At a Manhattan premiere, a deep brunette with that kind of shine looks confident without trying too hard.
What They Collect

Lee Krasner, Side by Side: A Two-Artist Show Puts Her Canvases on Equal Footing

A new exhibition hangs Lee Krasner's work alongside Jackson Pollock's and argues that hers deserves the same weight as his. For a long stretch, Krasner's name mostly appeared as an addendum to Pollock's: first as the woman married to him, then as the one who outlived him. This show lets the paintings make the argument, with the two artists side by side so that neither stands in the other's shadow. For anyone who follows American painting, it's a welcome adjustment, and Krasner's moment has come.
What They Collect

Jodi Gets Her Own Name: The Specimen Once Called a Young T. Rex Is Now a $9 Million Nanotyrannus

The fossil known as Jodi has a new identity. She was long described as an adolescent Tyrannosaurus rex and carried a $20 million valuation on that basis. She is now identified as a Nanotyrannus, and her figure has been set at $9 million. For collectors who follow natural history at the top of the market, that makes her a different specimen to consider, with her own name and her own number.
What They Collect

Jeff Koons Brings a $100 Million Consignment to Christie's

Jeff Koons is selling art through Christie's, and the total is put at $100 million. This time one of the best-known American artists of his generation is the seller, not the artist whose work is on offer. A nine-figure total from a single consignor is the kind of sale the auction calendar gets built around, and collectors here will want to know which lots it includes. As the works come to the block, this desk will report what sells and for how much once those results are public.
Icons of Palm Beach

Plaid for the Palm Beach Season, by Way of the Princess of Wales

Diana went back to plaid many times over, and anyone planning the months ahead on the island can take the hint. Her example shows a plaid can carry its weight in a wardrobe, more like a dependable friend than a one-time trend. Choose one with crisp lines and confident color, and it will hold its own on Worth Avenue as easily as it did for her. Town & Country has a full guide to dressing in her spirit as autumn comes in.
What They Ride

Fully Subscribed Takes the $598,000 Spinster With Room to Spare at Keeneland

Fully Subscribed won the Spinster at Keeneland on Sunday, and won it easily. The race carried a purse of $598,000 and lost two runners to scratches before the start, so a smaller field went to the post. Fully Subscribed was clearly best, and the winning margin left little doubt. The Spinster was the top event on the card, but it wasn't the only strong showing in Lexington that afternoon: Adonius and Agate also ran well enough to be named among the day's standouts. A Sunday at Keeneland gave the people who follow the sport a winner who looked comfortable, along with two more names to keep in mind as the season goes on.
What They Ride

A Breeder's Own Colt Finds Daylight in the Keeneland Stretch

Dede McGehee bred Agate and owns him, and on Sunday at Keeneland the son of the Japanese-bred Karakontie gave his breeder a graded win. He took the Grade II Castle & Key Bourbon Stakes, a race the sport counts among its upper tier. Agate did it the hard way. In the middle of the stretch he was hemmed in with horses packed around him and no clear path. Then a gap opened, he went through it, and he drew away to the wire with plenty left. Few wins satisfy a breeder more than one where the horse they raised sorts out the trouble himself and keeps going. For a breeder who also owns the horse, a Grade II trophy at Keeneland on a Sunday afternoon is about as good as the game gets.
Beverly Hills News

Harvey Keitel Leads "The Method," a First Film From Gaurav Bhardwaj

Harvey Keitel has the lead role in "The Method," where he plays a teacher of actors whose reputation is well established. It is the first feature Gaurav Bhardwaj has directed, and he also co-wrote the screenplay. Travelin Bone Entertainment, the company behind "CTRL," is producing. In Beverly Hills, where many residents work in film, this is a story about how actors learn their work, and an actor is at the center of it.
Who Wore What When

Moncler Points Uphill With Re/Icons, and Mountain Towns Should Take Note

Moncler has given us a first glimpse of Re/Icons, and it heads uphill: Remo Ruffini is steering the label back to the mountains. This is only a first look, so the full picture is still to come, but the direction alone is worth noting. Readers who count a winter by Aspen's snowfall and the bright, cold mornings of the Colorado high country will like hearing that a big outerwear name has picked the slopes as its subject. We'll be watching for the rest.
Who Wore What When

The Guest List Goes Digital: A New App Puts Tastemakers at the Table

A new invitation-only app has arrived for the people who set the tone, offering complimentary dinners and reduced rates on hotel rooms to a hand-selected roster of trendsetters. Behind it are people from the hospitality business, the ones who decide every night who gets the corner booth, and here they've turned that instinct into a members' list. From Palm Beach to Beverly Hills, any good host knows a room is defined by who walks into it, and this is that idea made official, with a free meal attached. Consider it the modern version of a well-placed name at the door.
Who Wore What When

Moncler Sends the Karakorum and Himalaya Back Up the Mountain, This Time Head to Toe

Moncler's Re/Icons project has grown into its first complete wardrobe of clothes, going beyond the outerwear the house is known for. The new line goes back to the label's mountain roots and gives a fresh reading to two jackets from its archive, the Karakorum and the Himalaya. Archive names like these carry a lot of weight with anyone who reads a puffer the way others read a couture label. From Aspen's lift lines to a February sidewalk in New York, the news is that the Karakorum and Himalaya now have a full outfit built around them.
Who Wore What When

Naeem Khan Puts His Design Eye on a Night for Mental Health

Naeem Khan is the creative name attached to Project Healthy Minds' gala for World Mental Health Day, which convenes Thursday at Spring Studios. That puts a designer known for the red carpet behind a benefit with a serious purpose, which is the right instinct for an evening like this. The rest of what he has planned will stay under wraps until the doors open, and the photographs will tell us more than any preview could. We will be watching to see how his hand shapes the night.
Who Wore What When

Tower 28 and Sephora Open a Temporary Shop Built Around Finding Your Shade and Refilling Your Favorites

Tower 28, the beauty label from Los Angeles, has teamed up with Sephora on its first temporary storefront. The space is built around three things: bringing customers together, helping each shopper find the foundation shade that actually matches their skin, and letting them refill the products they already own instead of buying new ones. That puts the pop-up somewhere between a beauty counter and a neighborhood gathering spot, which is more than most retail spaces ask of themselves. For a brand from our own city, it's a pleasure to report a debut this well thought out.
Who Wore What When

Moncler Opens the Archive, and the Karakorum and Himalaya Jackets Come Back With a Full Wardrobe

Moncler has turned to its own past for something new. Under the Re/Icons banner, the house is presenting a complete line of clothing, not a single piece or a capsule, and it is built around the mountains that shaped the brand. Two names from the Moncler archive lead it: the Karakorum and the Himalaya jackets, both reworked for today. Each is named for a range of serious altitude, and fittingly they carry the collection. The point of a project like this is that an old jacket can still be the reason for a new wardrobe. That is a craft story, and it is the kind we like best. Here in Aspen and across the Colorado high country, where a well-made jacket earns its keep, the timing is good as the slopes start to call.
Photo by Danny Greenberg on Unsplash
Who Wore What When

Fort Greene Gets a Menswear Flagship Where You Can Stay a While

Million Goods, the Brooklyn specialty shop for men, has opened its flagship in Fort Greene. The new space treats clothes shopping as one part of a longer visit. There's a room set aside for listening to music, a bar serving wine and an open-air garden, all under the same roof as the racks. The clothes themselves cover a deliberately wide range of tastes. In a New York neighborhood that likes to linger, it's a shop that lets you browse slowly, with a glass in hand and something good playing in the next room.
Who Wore What When

Dior Takes Its Cruise Campaign to the Galleries of LACMA, With Monet on the Wall

Dior has set its new cruise campaign inside the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Jennifer Lawrence, Greta Lee, Taylor Russell and Drew Starkey are the faces, and the campaign shows them in the galleries with the paintings. Claude Monet's "Water Lilies" is one of the canvases they stop to take in. Most campaigns put the clothes in front of a backdrop. This one puts them in front of a masterpiece and lets the cast act like museumgoers instead of models. For an archive that tracks who wore what and where, the location is the story: a Paris house chose a Los Angeles institution as the setting for its cruise season. The four stars came to look at the art, and in these images they become part of what there is to look at.
Who Wore What When

Dior Hangs Its Cruise Pictures in a Los Angeles Museum, With Monet Watching

Dior has made a museum in Los Angeles the setting for its newest cruise campaign: the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The cast includes Jennifer Lawrence and Greta Lee, along with Taylor Russell and Drew Starkey. In the pictures, the four stop in front of the paintings. One of them is a Claude Monet "Water Lilies" canvas. That makes the house's resort imagery part painting and part portrait. Putting clothes for warm-weather travel in front of a painter who spent years on the surface of a pond is a neat pairing, and the gallery gives the photographs a quiet that a soundstage can't match. For an archive that tracks who wore what and where, the location matters as much as the cast. Here the backdrop is an American museum, and the whole thing was made in Los Angeles.
Who Wore What When

From Balmain to G-III: Emily George Takes Charge of Selling Straight to Shoppers on This Side of the Atlantic

G-III has hired Emily George to lead its business of selling directly to customers across the continent. She comes from Balmain, where she oversaw the label across the Americas and ran its wholesale accounts around the world. She has spent her career on the wholesale side, getting a fashion house into stores, and now she'll run the part of G-III that sells to the customer with no store in between. For readers who follow fashion from the boutique counter all the way to the checkout page, she's a name to remember.
Photo by Blessfield John on Unsplash
What They Collect

Thirty-Six Paintings, No Sketches: Why Every Vermeer on a Museum Wall Is Worth the Trip

Johannes Vermeer is still one of the hardest painters in the Western canon to know, because almost nothing about his life made it onto paper. What survives is close to thirty-six canvases, and those paintings are nearly all the evidence there is. No preparatory sketches are known. There is no journal, and only a thin scattering of personal records. For collectors and museumgoers, that scarcity explains the pull. A painter's entire known output could hang in a few galleries, and there will never be a sheet of studies to tell you how any of it was made, so each picture has to answer for itself. Standing in front of one is the closest anyone gets to the man, and that is reason enough to know which museums hold them.
What They Ride

Amerman Racing's Repo Man Outduels His Own Stablemate to Take the Zuma Beach

Repo Man, a 2-year-old colt racing for Amerman Racing, won the Zuma Beach after a close fight with another runner from the same barn. With the win, his sire, Golden Pal, has his first stakes winner at the graded level. Golden Pal is a son of Uncle Mo, and Repo Man comes from his first crop. On the dam's side, the colt is out of Gran Nighthawk, a daughter of Awesome Again. The main contender was a stablemate, so the barn had a horse in front either way, and a young stallion's book now has its first graded black-type winner.
What They Ride

A Tiz the Law Filly Takes the Spinster, and Her Second Way Into the Distaff

After scratches, only three horses went to the post for the Grade I Juddmonte Spinster Stakes, and every one of them had already won at the Grade I level. Fully Subscribed, a daughter of Tiz the Law, beat the other two decisively. The win gives her a second qualifying berth in the Grade I Distaff. A three-horse field doesn't happen often in a race of this rank, and here each of the three had earned her place, so the result came down to quality more than numbers.
Photo by danny zelck on Unsplash
What They Ride

Two Juveniles, Two Coasts, One Saturday to Remember

On the same Saturday, on opposite sides of the country, two 2-year-old colts won by wide margins. Hughes, by Into Mischief, ran his way to the front of his age group and is now the juvenile everyone is talking about. U.S.S. Valor, a son of War of Will, showed real power in his own win, the kind of drive that makes horsemen look twice. The two have not met yet, and the turf may have to wait a while before they do. Many will think that day is worth the wait.
Beverly Hills News

Fox One Opens No-Cost Trial Period as NFL Season Plays On

Football viewers who plan to follow the 2026-27 NFL season from their living rooms can try Fox One, Fox's official streaming service, without paying at first, according to Variety. The service is also offering a lower price to subscribers who take it as part of a bundle, the outlet reported. Variety did not give the length of the trial or the amount of the discount in its summary. Households in Beverly Hills that are deciding how to watch this season's games now have one more option to compare.
Beverly Hills News

Variety Takes Up "Super Deluxe" Edition of the Beatles' "Rubber Soul"

Variety has looked at a "Super Deluxe" edition of the Beatles' "Rubber Soul" and used it as a reason to ask which of the band's albums ranks highest. The publication's answer is that the best Beatles record is whichever one a listener happens to be playing. By that measure, Variety says, the title could just as easily go to "Meet the Beatles" or "Let It Be." It also notes that the album's song lineup has changed over the years, which makes it harder to rank. For listeners in Beverly Hills, the edition is a new reason to play the record and decide for themselves.
Beverly Hills News

Zoe Kazan Explains Her Choices in Adapting "East of Eden" for Netflix

Zoe Kazan created Netflix's series adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel "East of Eden," and she has explained the choices behind it. She built the series around love and the bond between brothers. She also took a fresh look at Cathy Ames, one of the novel's characters. Kazan described how she changed the book for television while staying faithful to Steinbeck's work. Her account focuses on the decisions behind the series: what to keep at its center, how to read a familiar character anew, and how to turn a novel into episodes for a streaming audience.
Beverly Hills News

For Sarah Jessica Parker, Carrie Bradshaw's Clothes Stay With the Character

Sarah Jessica Parker still has the clothes Carrie Bradshaw wore on "Sex and the City," but she told Variety she has not worn any of them herself. Parker said she keeps a clear line between herself and the woman she played, and the wardrobe stays on Carrie's side of that line. She keeps the pieces as an archive of the role, not as part of her own closet. Here, where costume work is part of everyday professional life, readers will know the difference between clothes made for a character and clothes a person chooses to wear.
Who Wore What When

Talia Cassel Dresses Lena Dunham, Collects Chanel, and Has Thoughts on The Nanny

Talia Cassel is the stylist behind Lena Dunham's wardrobe, and Dunham isn't her only client. In a new interview, Cassel explains how she landed a styling job that the fashion world watches closely. She also talks about her own Chanel collection and about The Nanny. Whether you're reading in Palm Beach or Beverly Hills, it's a chance to hear from someone whose work you've seen many times without knowing her name.
Who Wore What When

The Headband Is Back, and Gigi Hadid Is the Latest to Wear It

Gigi Hadid has picked up the headband, the hair accessory that defined a certain kind of 1990s cool, and wore it with an easy day look. She follows Hailey Bieber and Kendall Jenner, who wore it before her, so the accessory now has three famous fans. It's a small piece doing a lot of work: hair off the face, a little polish without much effort, and a nod to the decade it came from. For anyone walking Worth Avenue or Main Street in Aspen this season, it's an easy way to borrow the look.
What They Drive

A Collector's Reminder: Cars Worth $10 Million Still Belong on the Road

In a single month, Car and Driver's Elana Scherr took the wheel of cars with a combined value of about $10 million. She has written that the worry of what one slip could do to her insurance bill almost kept her out of the driver's seat, and that she drove them anyway. For owners whose cars rarely leave a climate-controlled garage, her month is a fair argument that these cars were built to be driven, not just insured. The publication has not listed the individual models in this summary, and we won't guess at them.
What They Drive

In Las Vegas, Chase Briscoe Keeps Kyle Larson Behind Him and Wins Halfway Through NASCAR's Chase

Chase Briscoe won at Las Vegas. He did it with Kyle Larson pressing him, and he kept Larson behind him to the finish. The timing makes it count for more. The race marked the midpoint of NASCAR's Chase, where every result carries extra weight. Briscoe came away with a points haul large enough to change where he stands for the second half. The week before, he had come close and lost, and that kind of finish can stay with a driver. In Las Vegas he got the reverse: this time the close fight ended with him in front. The day's result is simple. Briscoe scored a big day of points, the win and a finish against one of the best in the field, and he heads into the second half of the Chase with all three.
What They Sail

Riva's Janus Navem Is Listed for Sale in Fort Lauderdale

Janus Navem, a Riva 130 Bellissima, is on the market, and she is listed in Fort Lauderdale rather than across the Atlantic. Buyers in Florida can see her in person. Her engine room holds a matched pair of MTU 16V2000 M96L diesels, the detail an owner checks first when deciding how a yacht this size will run and how she will be kept. Bellissima is the name Riva gave this model, and the 130 in it marks her as one of the larger boats the Italian yard builds. The listing does not give an asking price, so we will not suggest one. For owners on the Florida coast who have admired the Riva name from a distance, this one is close by.
What They Sail

A Le Mans Driver Asked for a Boat That Fits Like a Race Seat. Bellini Built the Astor 38.

The Astor 38 is a 38-foot sport yacht from Bellini, and it began as a commission from a driver who has raced at Le Mans. The yard built the hull around how a competition driver sits, braces and reaches, so the boat's form follows the body at the controls. Inside, the upholstery takes its cues from car interiors, and carbon details run through the boat. For an owner reading at the dock in Palm Beach or Miami, what stands out is the starting point. The Astor 38 was designed from the helm seat outward, around one person's way of driving. The yard has not published a price or named a naval architect, so we report neither.
Private Jet Owners

Record Year for FAA Controller Hiring, With the Headcount Goal Still Ahead

The FAA has hired more air traffic controllers this year than in any earlier year on record. The agency was still several hundred controllers short of its own staffing goal as of August. For anyone who files IFR from Palm Beach, Teterboro or Aspen, controller numbers decide how smoothly a flight runs, so both figures matter. The record is real progress, and the gap is the part owners will keep watching.
Private Jet Owners

Reserves Are Part of Owning the Airplane

FLYING's finance desk has turned to a cost every owner carries whether or not it has come due: the money set aside for maintenance and the shop visits that follow. The piece works through the numbers behind planning for that spending. It treats the reserve as an ordinary part of ownership, not a surprise. Whether the airplane sits at Palm Beach International or Centennial, a well-run reserve is the plainest mark of a well-run airplane.
What It Sold For

A Connecticut Colonial Gains a Barn Wing That Matches Its Age

Rose Bonura's Colonial in Connecticut is about three centuries old, and its newest addition was designed to look just as old. The restaurateur asked designer Ryan Lawson, who is also her friend, to work on an aging garage on the property. He turned it into a barn-style wing filled with references to earlier times. The project shows how hard it is to add to a house this old: anything new has to fit with three hundred years of building and use, or it looks out of place. Lawson's wing was meant to fit. A visitor coming up to the house should see the barn and the Colonial as parts of one place, as if they had always stood together. The garage was not torn down. It was kept and given a new purpose. When a historic house gets new space and still reads as a single, finished place, credit goes to the designer and to the owner who chose the work.
What It Sold For

Charlton Heston's Beverly Hills Hilltop, With the Canyon Left as Nature Made It

Architectural Digest has put together ten photographs of Charlton Heston at home across the decades. The set runs from a small apartment in New York City to a sprawling property in California. The star of *Ben-Hur* placed the California house in Beverly Hills. He described it as ringed by roughly two hundred acres of canyon that had been left largely in its natural state. In his own telling, the wild land around the house mattered as much as the house itself. That says something to anyone who knows Beverly Hills. The name usually brings to mind manicured hedges, gated drives and lots measured in feet. A home with untouched canyon on every side is a different kind of Beverly Hills address, and Heston described it as close to undisturbed. The photographs track one actor's idea of home as it grew, from a compact New York start to open California hillside. The California chapter is the one his own words speak to most clearly. It is a house set among acres of land that nobody tried to improve.
Class of Nashville

A Nashville Newsroom Turns to Audio, With Kashif Andrew Graham at the Microphone

The Nashville Banner and its production arm, Banner & Company Productions, have released the first trailer for Staking Our Claim, a podcast planned to run for a fixed set of episodes. Kashif Andrew Graham, who writes, reviews and has hosted podcasts before, is the voice leading listeners through it. In a city that does its best work in recording studios, a local paper building a show of its own fits right in. Press play on the trailer for a first listen.
Class of Florida

A Kentucky Pour Worth Bringing South of the Line

Brown-Forman has released a new bourbon called Kentucky Boy, and it's a blend. Into one bottle go three whiskeys from the company's own top tier: Woodford Reserve, Birthday Bourbon and King of Kentucky. Robb Report tasted it and concluded the marriage holds up, and that's the news here. Blending three bottles that already stand fine alone is a bet that the whole can beat its parts, and by that early verdict the bet paid off. That should interest anyone who keeps a serious bar, whether it sits behind a hedge on the island, under a ceiling fan on Fifth Avenue South, or somewhere in Miami that's still pouring when Naples has gone to bed. Bourbon is Kentucky's craft, made with care a long way from our coast, and the respectful way to meet a new one is to pour it neat and see what the three voices sound like together. In a state that does its drinking in the shade, a bottle like this goes on the shelf as something to talk about when the guests arrive.
Photo by Andy Feliciotti on Unsplash
The Capital Set

The Capital's Calendar Gains an Engagement: FBI Director Kash Patel to Marry Alexis Wilkins

Kash Patel, who serves as Director of the FBI, and Alexis Wilkins are to be married. The pair shared their news on Sunday. Wilkins announced it on X with a playful line about having brought in law enforcement, a fitting joke from someone marrying the head of the FBI, and added a ring and hearts. Official Washington is used to formal announcements, and this one came from the couple themselves, in their own words. The Capital Set offers its warm congratulations.
What They Ride

Ocala's $825,000 Filly Wins Her First Start at Santa Anita

Mo Chuisle needed only one start to show what an $825,000 price looks like on the racetrack. Sabby Racing's 2-year-old filly won her debut at Santa Anita, and Vino Vino Vino, a son of Vino Rosso, couldn't catch her before the line. That makes her a winner the first time she ran. Her sire is Omaha Beach and her dam is Charmeer, a daughter of Candy Ride (Arg), so the pedigree has quality on both sides. Buyers at the OBS April sale in Ocala pay for what a young horse shows them before she has ever raced. A winning debut in California is the best early answer a seller and a buyer can get. For one filly, the Florida sale ring and the Santa Anita winner's circle now tell the same story.
What They Ride

Chad Brown's Name Hangs Over Thursday's $500,000 Flower Bowl

The Flower Bowl Stakes goes to post Thursday as a Grade 2 with a $500,000 purse. That is a serious purse and a graded race, the kind of afternoon that brings out the good fillies and mares and the barns that know how to place them. Chad Brown has already trained winners of this race. His name comes up before the field does. Whatever leaves the gate Thursday, the race will be measured against the trainer who has made it look familiar.
Photo by djzippy on Flickr
Class of Nashville

A Nashville Voice Takes the Microphone: Kashif Andrew Graham Fronts a New Series From the Banner

The Nashville Banner has released the trailer for Staking Our Claim, a podcast with a planned, finite run, produced with its studio arm, Banner & Company Productions. Kashif Andrew Graham, who writes, reviews and already works in the podcast format, is the show's host. A short series is a deliberate choice: it has a beginning and an end, and it rewards the listener who starts at the first episode. For a city that knows good work when it hears it, a local newsroom building its own audio and handing it to a working critic is worth a listen.
Class of Florida

Worth Booking the Flight North: Tom Blyth Takes the Stage in Sorkin's "A Few Good Men" on Broadway

British screen actor Tom Blyth will make his first appearance on a Broadway stage this fall, starring in a new production of Aaron Sorkin's "A Few Good Men." It's a revival with a set end date, so New York audiences only get it for a limited stretch, and it's already among the most sought-after seats of the season. For the Florida crowd who winter in Palm Beach and summer in Manhattan, and for Naples residents who plan their autumn New York trip a year out, that means booking early. Miami will probably decide on the night, which is how Miami does everything.
What They Ride

U.S.S. Valor Ends His Season on the Champagne Win at Belmont Park

U.S.S. Valor, a son of War of Will, won Saturday's Grade I Champagne Stakes at Belmont Park, and that will be his last start this season. On Sunday his owner, Barry Irwin, said the colt will not go on to the Breeders' Cup Juvenile and won't race again this year. It was not his first impressive run; the Champagne was the latest in a row of them. The Champagne is one of New York's biggest fall tests for two-year-olds, and winning a Grade I there is a solid result to rest on. U.S.S. Valor will stay in the barn while the year's other juveniles go on to the Breeders' Cup.
What They Ride

A Namesake Draws Its Own Cheering Section at Keeneland

The horse called Coach Pope had a familiar face in the crowd at Keeneland: Mark Pope of the University of Kentucky, the man the horse is named for, came out to support it. It's a good Kentucky picture: a name the state knows well on the program, and the man himself at the Lexington track rooting for it. Expectations for the horse are already high. Plenty of horses are named for well-known people, but few of those people turn up trackside to cheer them on, and that's why this one is worth noting. For now the story is a horse carrying high hopes into one of the country's great racetracks, with its namesake there to watch.
Beverly Hills News

Ben Affleck and Kerry Washington Bring a Los Angeles Story to the Screen With "Animals"

Ben Affleck and Kerry Washington opened October by premiering "Animals," their new film, according to Variety. The film is a thriller set in Los Angeles, and Affleck plays a candidate running for mayor of the city. That puts the city itself at the center of a major new release, which is why it matters to readers here. The fictional race is the backdrop for the story the two stars are now taking to audiences. The same report from the opening days of the month also covered Pedro Pascal at the New York premiere of "Behemoth!" and noted Sarah Jessica Parker and Stevie Nicks appearing together on the red carpet.
Beverly Hills News

Fall Sports Viewers Get a $49 First Month on DIRECTV's MySports Package

DIRECTV has cut the price of its MySports genre pack to $49 for a subscriber's first month. The package includes ESPN Unlimited Plan and NFL RedZone. The offer comes before the Major League Baseball playoffs and the NHL and NBA seasons. For viewers in Beverly Hills and across Los Angeles, the $49 price covers the first month only, at a point in the calendar when football, baseball, hockey and basketball overlap.
Beverly Hills News

Tony Gilroy's "Behemoth!" Has Its World Premiere in New York, With Pedro Pascal in the Lead

"Behemoth!" had its world premiere Friday night at Alice Tully Hall in New York, according to Variety. Tony Gilroy directed it, and it is his first feature as a director since "The Bourne Legacy" in 2012. Pedro Pascal stars, and a cello is central to his performance. Variety's review says the role puts Pascal in the running for an Academy Award. The publication also calls it a role that Latino audiences have been hoping he would get. The Friday screening was the first time the film was shown to an audience anywhere. For readers in Beverly Hills and across Los Angeles, the New York premiere marks the start of the film's public life and the first critical response to Pascal's performance.
Beverly Hills News

Pedro Pascal's 'Behemoth!' Has Its First Screening at Alice Tully Hall in New York

Tony Gilroy's "Behemoth!" was shown to an audience for the first time on Friday night at Alice Tully Hall in New York, Variety reported. The hall is part of Lincoln Center on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Pedro Pascal stars in the film, and a cello is part of his performance, according to the publication. "Behemoth!" is the first feature Gilroy has directed since "The Bourne Legacy," which came out in 2012. Variety wrote that Pascal's work in the film merits Academy Award consideration. The publication also called it a role that Pascal, and Latino audiences, have been waiting for.
Beverly Hills News

Zoe Kazan Talks Through the Choices Behind Her Netflix "East of Eden"

Zoe Kazan, who runs the new "East of Eden" series on Netflix, sat down for an interview about how she shaped the show's final chapter. She described Cathy, the character played by Florence Pugh, as both a killer and someone who survived. In Kazan's telling, those two labels apply to Cathy together and do not cancel each other out. Kazan also spoke about how much of her life she has spent thinking about what families pass down, in her work and in her own life. The series is available to watch in Beverly Hills now, and viewers who haven't reached the end yet should know the interview discusses how the series concludes.
Who Wore What When

The Obamas Mark Thirty-Four Years, and the Archive Makes a Note

Barack and Michelle Obama have reached thirty-four years of marriage, and both marked the date with tributes posted for the public to see. The former president put it simply: after all this time, he still considers himself the most fortunate man alive. At a desk that tracks who wore what and when, we know that some partnerships deserve the same careful record as any gown or crown. Thirty-four years is a long run, and we're glad to file it.
Who Wore What When

Dakota Johnson's Saturday Night Guest: Taylor Swift Joins Her Onstage in New York

During *Saturday Night Live*, Dakota Johnson brought Taylor Swift onto the stage with her and introduced her with the warmest title a friend can get: the person she leans on to talk things through. Two famous names under one spotlight, with no rivalry and no awkwardness, just one friend making room for the other. The report doesn't say who designed what either woman wore, so we won't guess. What it does record is a New York stage, a live audience and a friendship shown openly on one of television's best-known sets.
Who Wore What When

Brooks Brings the Adrenaline GTS 10 Back for October in Fresh Colors

The Adrenaline GTS 10 from Brooks, a running shoe with an early-2000s look, now comes in a new set of colors for October. It keeps its turn-of-the-millennium shape and adds modern running technology underneath. For the archive, that mix is the appeal: a design that recalls an earlier decade, made to be worn hard now. Both pursuits run all fall, the Palm Beach morning run and the Aspen trail, and this shoe was built for both.
What They Ride

Santa Anita Sends Hughes, Thought Process and Domain Expansion Toward the Breeders' Cup

Three names stood out on the Santa Anita card this weekend. Hughes, Thought Process and Domain Expansion each won their Breeders' Cup prep at the Arcadia track, and none of the three wins was close. Some of the weekend's runners are still unbeaten, which gave the prep day in the San Gabriel foothills extra weight. For Los Angeles horsemen, it was a strong showing on home ground ahead of the championships.
What They Drive

Ford Clears the Decks for an Affordable Electric Lineup

Ford chose to give up more than 150,000 vehicle sales so it could build its coming entry-level electric lineup. That number shows how seriously Dearborn is taking a budget EV, because a carmaker doesn't walk away from that much business for a side project. For owners who have waited for an electric Ford priced for everyday buyers rather than early adopters, the lineup is badly needed. The company has made its choice, and now the cars have to arrive.
Photo by Devin Pickell on Unsplash
What They Drive

At Road Atlanta, Porsche Penske Breaks Through in GTP

Porsche Penske has a first to its name at Petit Le Mans. The team won the GTP category at Road Atlanta, the first time it has done so there, and it had BMW close behind to the end. For people who care about which marque wins, and at which American circuit, this one belongs on the record. GTP is the premier class in IMSA, so this was not a win in a supporting class. It came at the highest level the series offers. The weekend's larger honors went to Cadillac, so two marques had good reasons to celebrate. Porsche's moment was the one that had never happened at this event before.
Beverly Hills News

Six Familiar Names, One Room, 1980: Tom McCarthy's "A Statement" Is Built Around Its Cast

The Hollywood Reporter has reviewed "A Statement," a film directed by Tom McCarthy. Its cast includes Paul Rudd, Amy Ryan, John Turturro, Paul Giamatti, Evan Peters and Tatiana Maslany. The film follows a gathering of specialists in 1980 who were asked to plan ahead for a warming planet. The review credits the actors with giving unexpected energy to material it describes as dry. That puts the cast at the center of the review. The six actors share a story set mostly around one meeting, and the review says their work is what keeps that meeting lively.
Class of Nashville

At 96, Green Hills' Most Persuasive Civic Voice Is Still Making the Case for the Ballot

Frances Edwards is 96, and she lives at Blakeford Senior Life in Green Hills. She is still asking her neighbors to register and turn out before the November 3 election. She has championed the vote her whole life, and that work hasn't slowed down. Her point is simple: the right to cast a ballot was paid for by other people's sacrifices, and nobody should take it lightly or forget that. She is known to give a firm, grandmotherly scolding to anyone who does. Green Hills knows a lot about talent and ambition. One of its best examples of steady conviction lives in a senior community off its own streets, reminding everyone that showing up is a duty owed to the people who made it possible.
What They Ride

At Santa Anita, Domain Expansion Turns Her Second Start Into a Seven-Length Graded Win

Domain Expansion won the Grade II Oak Leaf Stakes at Santa Anita on Saturday by seven lengths. The horse is by Speaker's Corner and had raced only once before, finishing second in a turf race. That made Saturday's start just the second of the career, and it ended in a graded stakes win. Graded races are where a horse's credentials start to be written down, and Domain Expansion now has the Oak Leaf on that record. Seven lengths is a long way back for the second-place finisher at this level, and people at the rail could see the gap clearly without waiting for the official chart. On a Saturday at Santa Anita, a margin like that is something the Southern California racing crowd notices. Speaker's Corner's name is now attached to a Grade II winner by a decisive margin.
Photo by Gene Gallin on Unsplash
What They Ride

Constitution's American History Stays Perfect in the Claiborne Breeders' Futurity

American History remains unbeaten after winning the Claiborne Breeders' Futurity with a late run. The Constitution runner settled into a good position and waited while two leaders fought it out up front. One of them was Coach Pope, a son of Tapit. American History closed steadily through the final stages and caught them both. What made it worth watching was the patience: the horse sat back early and finished best when it counted. Coach Pope, like the winner, carries the TDN Rising Stars designation, presented by Hagyard, so this was a meeting between young horses already marked as ones to follow. The perfect record keeps the attention on American History and on Constitution as the sire behind the win.
What They Ride

Let Em Know Wins the Pilgrim at Belmont, Jackie's Warrior's First Graded Stakes Winner

Let Em Know came into Saturday's Grade II Pilgrim Stakes at Belmont as an outsider and won it. He is by Jackie's Warrior, who has his first crop racing this year, and the win makes Let Em Know the first graded stakes winner for his sire. Jackie's Warrior is by Maclean's Music, so the result also reaches back one generation in the pedigree. The Pilgrim gives its winner an automatic place in the starting gate of a bigger race, so the colt's success also earned him a guaranteed spot. It is one race, but a stallion only gets one first graded stakes winner, and Jackie's Warrior got his in New York.
What They Ride

Rhetorical Wins the Coolmore Turf Mile for a Second Time

Rhetorical has won the Grade I Coolmore Turf Mile again, so his name now appears twice on the race's honor roll. The bay is a five-year-old gelding by Not This Time out of the mare Sheet Humor, and he races for a partnership of Gary Barber, Cheyenne Stable and Wachtel Stable. Winning a Grade I race once is the best result a turf horse can earn. Coming back the next year and winning the same race again is rarer, because the horse has to hold that form for a full year. Only a short list of horses has won the Turf Mile more than once, and Rhetorical's name now sits among them. The owners came into this running hoping to join that list, and they did it. For readers who follow the grass division, this is the result to note: a proven miler, still at the top level at five, who has now defended his title.
What They Ride

Keeneland's Fall Stars Saturday Gives the Spotlight to Rhetorical and American History

Two names came away from Keeneland's Fall Stars Saturday as the ones the card will be remembered for: Rhetorical and American History. Both stood out on the Lexington track's showcase afternoon of the autumn meet, a day built to put the best horses on the grounds in front of the Kentucky crowd. In at least one of those performances, the winning trip began with the horse settled easily on the front end in the opening stages. On a day designed to bring the best horses of the season to the surface, these two were the names that rose.
What They Ride

Thought Process Stays Perfect at Santa Anita in the Rodeo Drive

Thought Process came into the Rodeo Drive Stakes at Santa Anita with four starts over the track and four wins, and she leaves it still unbeaten there. The 4-year-old filly by Collected, out of the Creative Cause mare Creative Thinking, drew the rail and used it at once, breaking sharply and taking control early. From there the rest of the field was chasing her, and the gap only grew as the race went on. By the end she was well clear, with nothing close enough to make a race of it. Five starts and five wins at the same track is a rare record for any horse, and it is worth noting in Arcadia, where she has now done all five. Her pedigree is what Southern California breeders will look at next: Collected on top, and Creative Cause, himself a Santa Anita name, as broodmare sire. The race also carries the name of the most famous shopping street in Beverly Hills, a few freeway exits west, and on this afternoon Thought Process was its best-dressed runner by some distance.
Photo by Phillip Pessar on Flickr
Icons of Palm Beach

Damien Hirst Turns to Cashmere, and the Season's Knitwear Gets an Artist's Hand

Damien Hirst has designed a cashmere line with Barrie, the knitwear house. For the island, cashmere is the sweater over the shoulders on a cool January evening on the North End, the layer that comes off at dinner and goes back on for the drive home. Hirst himself treats the work as art: in his view, anything made with real care counts. Vanity Fair spoke with him in an exclusive interview about the collection.
Beverly Hills News

Online Creator Charlie White Joins Studio Effort to Bring 'RuneScape' to Animated Television

Lyrical Animation has begun work on an animated series adapted from the video game "RuneScape." The studio is working on the project with Charlie White, the online creator known as MoistCr1TiKaL, and with Jagex, the company behind the game. The news comes from Jon Bellamy, chief executive of Lyrical Animation. The announcement does not give a title, a release date, a distributor or a cast.
Beverly Hills News

Paul Rudd Now Leaves His Phone Behind When He Goes to Work on a Film Set

Paul Rudd has stopped bringing his phone with him when he reports to a film set, he told Variety. He said he made the change because he is as hooked on the device as most people are. Rudd's newest role is in "A Statement," directed by Academy Award winner Tom McCarthy, where he plays the moderator of a fictional first meeting convened to address the climate crisis in the United States. His rule is simple: the phone stays behind and the attention stays on the work.
Beverly Hills News

Paul Rudd Leaves His Phone Behind When He Goes to Work on a Film

Paul Rudd no longer brings his phone with him to film sets, the actor told Variety. He said he is as hooked on the device as most people are, and that this is why he now leaves it behind when he works. Rudd appears in "A Statement," a new film from director Tom McCarthy, who has won an Academy Award. In the film, Rudd's character leads what the story presents as the first gathering ever held to address the climate crisis in the United States.
Beverly Hills News

For Jeremy Strong, the Work Comes First

Jeremy Strong, a nominee for the Academy Award, said his method approach to acting comes from giving himself fully to the script in front of him, according to The Hollywood Reporter. He described his job on a set as total commitment to the work. He said he sees no reason to say sorry for that approach. In a town where much of the year's screen acting is made and judged, his remarks address a question many in the craft ask: how much of themselves to give to a role.
What They Sail

A Riva 130 Bellissima Is on the Market in Fort Lauderdale

The Riva 130 Bellissima named Janus Navem is for sale in Fort Lauderdale. Riva is the builder, and Bellissima is the yard's name for the 130 model. Two MTU 16V2000 M96L diesels power her, so serious owners have a known engine package to look at in this kind of listing. The asking price is not on the record, and we won't guess at it. Being in Fort Lauderdale makes her easy to see for Florida buyers on the East Coast, and for anyone in Palm Beach or Miami, the drive is short. For owners who want a big Italian-built yacht that is already in American waters, Janus Navem is worth a call to arrange a viewing.
What They Sail

A Racing Driver's Commission Shapes Bellini's New 38-Footer

The Bellini Astor 38 began as a commission from a driver who has raced at Le Mans, and the boat shows it. The 38-foot sport yacht has a hull laid out around the way a racing driver sits and moves at speed. The interior trim borrows from the upholstery of fine cars, and carbon fiber details run through the boat. For owners who want a dayboat in the 38-foot range, which suits a run along the Florida coast, this is a sport yacht where the person at the helm was the starting point. The yard has not released the naval architect or a price.
Beverly Hills Brides

After the Aisle, Two Days: The Bouquet Question Moves Onto the Planning Calendar

Green Wedding Shoes has put a number on how long a bridal bouquet lasts once the ceremony ends: about two days. After that, it can no longer be kept. The publication set the two ways of keeping it side by side, either preserving the flowers at home or handing them to a professional, and argued that the choice belongs before the wedding. Leaving it until afterward means deciding after checkout or while waiting to board for the honeymoon. For a bride in Beverly Hills, that puts the bouquet's future on the planning calendar, next to the decisions made months ahead.
Photo by Boston Public Library on Flickr
Brides of Beverly Hills

A Family Property as the Venue: One Tennessee Couple Let Existing Trees and Gardens Set the Plan

In Cookeville, Tennessee, a couple held their wedding at a family home and planned the design around what the grounds already had: established trees and planted gardens. A sailcloth tent gave the guests shelter. Inside, hydrangeas hung overhead, so the main floral piece sat above the tables. The palette stuck to green and white, with some blush mixed in. Planners can use this approach when a property already looks finished: let the landscape decide the plan and keep the flowers in the same colors as the garden. A hanging installation also keeps the tabletops open and puts the flowers at eye level for everyone in the tent.
Brides of Beverly Hills

Live Magnolias Under the Canvas: How One Planner Made a Tent Feel Like a Dinner Party

Caroline and Anthony asked for a small dinner with their guests, not a big reception, and the setup at The Argyle Club San Antonio was built to match. Ash Event Co. put up a tent and kept the palette to two colors, white and green. Inside, there were living magnolia trees, and the fabric panels were made to order with a magnolia design. If you're planning a tent, this is a good example of how the decor can do the job of interior walls. Fabric and greenery around the tables make a tent read as a room. Here one flower, the magnolia, shows up both in the textiles and as actual trees, which keeps the look consistent from the drapery to the branches. For a guest count this small, that kind of focus works better than spreading the budget across many ideas.
Private Jet Owners

The FAA Sets a Controller Hiring High, and Full Staffing Is the Next Mark

The Federal Aviation Administration has hired more air traffic controllers than in any earlier year on record. As of August, the controller workforce was still several hundred people below the staffing level the agency set as its goal. For owners who file IFR and depend on a staffed facility at each end of the flight, both figures matter: the record shows hiring is gaining speed, and the shortfall shows how much further it has to go.
Private Jet Owners

Every Flight Hour Already Has a Maintenance Price

Flying's finance desk has looked at how owners should plan for repair costs on their airplanes. The basic point is one most owners know: wear builds up with every hour and every cycle, and the money for the shop visit should be set aside long before the airplane is due there. An owner who treats that reserve as a running cost, priced into each leg, is better off than one who meets the full bill all at once. Whether the airplane is based in Naples or Aspen, the numbers come out the same, and the owners who run their aircraft well do them early.
What It Sold For

On the Bowery, a Renovated Home Built Around the Largest Piece a Couple Owns

On the Bowery in Manhattan, a couple has finished renovating their home, and they had already decided where the largest work they own would go. They did not have to try it on one wall, then another. Choosing a home for a collector's biggest canvas is usually the hardest call in a renovation, and here it seems to have been one of the easiest. It shows the kind of clarity about art and rooms that a well-run renovation depends on.
What It Sold For

A Connecticut Colonial Three Centuries Old Gets a New Wing That Looks Like It Was Always Part of the House

In Connecticut, restaurateur Rose Bonura's 300-year-old Colonial has a new wing, and the designer behind it, Ryan Lawson, set out to make it look as old as the main house. The wing started as a worn garage on the property, and the two, who are friends, rebuilt it in the manner of a barn, with its character drawn from earlier eras rather than from the present. Adding onto a house that has stood for three centuries is a test of restraint: any new room sits next to work that has had 300 years to settle into its site. Here the measure of success is that a visitor shouldn't be able to tell where the original Colonial ends and the addition begins. Turning a utility building into living space, and making it match a house this old, is the kind of quiet craft that rarely announces itself. No sale is involved and no figures have been made public, so this story is about the work itself.
Class of Nashville

Three Nights of Costumes and Country at Friends In Low Places

Friends In Low Places is giving Halloween a full weekend. Its Halloweekend runs three nights, starting Thursday, at the lower end of Broadway, where the music already spills out of every open door. The theme mixes ghost-story trappings with honky-tonk, the town's most dependable tradition, and that combination suits this stretch of Broadway. Three nights means guests don't have to cram the holiday into a single night. They can choose the evening that fits and arrive in costume. For anyone who has walked that part of downtown on an ordinary weekend, it's not hard to picture the neon with a few more masks under it. The Halloween costume and the dance floor have always been a good match.
Photo by 5010 on Unsplash
Where They Eat

Three New Omakase Counters Are Coming to Midtown This Autumn

Midtown is about to get three new places where diners take a seat at the counter and let the chef decide the meal. All three are high-end omakase restaurants, and all are expected to open in Manhattan over the coming weeks of the season. In omakase, the chef sets the menu and each course is served across the counter, so the cooking happens in front of the guest. Three openings of this kind in one New York neighborhood in a single season is news for anyone who cares about that style of dining. We will share the names, the chefs and the opening dates as they are confirmed, and we will review a counter only after we have eaten at it.
Class of Florida

A Rye Negroni for the Host Willing to Go Past the Easy Pour

The Mane of Needles starts from the Negroni, swaps in rye whiskey and finishes with a sharper, spikier bite than the classic. It isn't the even-measures pour most of us could make half-asleep, so it takes more patience at the bar cart than the usual stir. Robb Report's verdict is that the extra steps pay off. Whether it ends up on a Palm Beach sideboard, a Miami rooftop or a Naples lanai at sundown, it suits the host who likes being asked what's in the glass.
Class of Florida

Three New Omakase Counters for Your Next Trip North

Anyone who goes up to New York once the Florida heat breaks will have three new omakase rooms to choose from, all opening in Midtown before the season is out. That is three counters where the chef decides the meal one piece at a time, and they are opening in the same part of the city in the same season. The open question is whether Midtown has enough seats, and enough diners, to keep all three full. Whether you plan your trips around a Palm Beach dinner reservation, a Miami late night, or an early Naples supper, a trust-the-chef evening is one taste every Florida town shares. This fall, New York is offering three of them.
What They Drive

The Ferrari F40 Question Every Serious Collector Will Recognize

In a column for Car and Driver, Ezra Dyer asks something that will sound familiar to anyone who keeps something extraordinary in the garage: what do you do with a car that outranks everything else you own but fits the rhythm of ordinary days least of all? The car in question is a Ferrari F40, and as his headline makes clear, it belongs to a friend. For owners and collectors from Naples to Aspen, the tension he describes is a kind of respect for a machine too singular to slip quietly into daily life. The impressions are Dyer's, not ours. His question is still worth thinking about for anyone who has ever stood in front of their best car and wondered when they'll next have a real reason to drive it.
What They Ride

Into Mischief Colt Hughes Goes Four for Four, Earns Breeders' Cup Berth in the American Pharoah

Hughes, a son of Into Mischief, is still unbeaten. On Saturday he won the Grade I American Pharoah Stakes by a wide margin. His three earlier races were all wins, and together he won them by 18 1/4 lengths. Saturday added a question none of those had answered: could he handle a longer trip with a second bend? He answered it plainly, keeping his rhythm into the first turn and drawing clear through the stretch. The American Pharoah is a "Win and You're In" race, so the victory also gives him an automatic place in the Breeders' Cup. A clean record is a fine thing to carry into the fall. Going longer without losing a step is the part that will have horsemen watching where Hughes runs next.
What They Ride

Chad Brown's Barn Heads Into Thursday's $500,000 Flower Bowl

The Grade 2 Flower Bowl Stakes is run Thursday for a $500,000 purse, and trainer Chad Brown comes into it with runners ready to go. Brown has already saddled winners of this race, and his name sits at the top of the conversation again this year. A Grade 2 at half a million dollars is one of the more important races on the fall calendar, the kind that makes a horse's season, and a barn as well run as Brown's treats it that way. Readers who follow the turf will want to keep an eye on his horses when the field comes onto the course Thursday.
Private Jet Owners

Maintenance Reserves Are a Line Item, Not a Surprise

A FLYING column takes owners through the arithmetic of setting money aside for the maintenance an airplane will eventually need. That premise will be familiar to anyone who runs an aircraft well: shop visits arrive on schedule, so the cost can be carried on the books long before the work order is written. Planning for it is part of owning an aircraft properly, whether the airplane lives at Palm Beach International or in a hangar in Aspen.
What They Collect

For Collectors of the Baroque, a Philosopher Argues the Style Is a Way of Thinking

Most people know the Baroque as a style of excess: gilt, swirling ornament, rooms that seem built to overwhelm. A new essay looks at the period through the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, who treated it as something closer to a mode of thought than a look. His reading leans on the metaphysics of Gottfried Leibniz, the German thinker whose ideas Deleuze used to explain what the Baroque was doing beneath its surface. For anyone who lives with a Baroque frame, a carved console or a painted ceiling, the argument offers another reason to look twice at what they already own.
What It Sold For

A Three-Century-Old Connecticut Colonial Gets a New Wing That Looks Like It Was Always There

Restaurateur Rose Bonura's Connecticut house is a Colonial about three hundred years old, and it now has a new wing. The addition began as an old garage on the property. Designer Ryan Lawson reworked it into a barn-style building that takes its cues from the past. Bonura and Lawson are friends, and they did the project together. The new wing doesn't announce itself as new. It sits beside the old house as if it had been part of the place from the start. That's hard to pull off next to a house that has stood for three centuries. No sale or price is involved, so there is no figure to report. What stands out is the restraint: a garage made into a barnhouse that sits comfortably beside one of the state's oldest kinds of American house.
Class of Nashville

Friends In Low Places Sets a Costumed Stage for Halloween on Broadway

Friends In Low Places is turning Halloween into a three-night run it's calling Halloweekend, beginning Thursday. Visitors to downtown Nashville already know the routine on that stretch of Broadway: neon, open doors and a live band every few steps. For these nights, the venue adds a spooky streak to the usual twang. It's a good fit, since Nashville has never needed much of an excuse to dress up for a night of music. Thursday is the first night of the long weekend.
What They Drive

Before the Next Car Arrives: A Guide to Handing Over the Last One

Car and Driver has published a practical guide for owners trading their current car in toward a new one. It answers a question many drivers face when they're ready for the next car but still have the last one in the driveway. For owners in Palm Beach, Nashville, Aspen and every garage in between, the trade-in is often the first step toward what comes next. The guide is meant to make that step clear and comfortable.
Photo by wbaiv on Flickr
What They Drive

The Ferrari F355 Gets a Place in the Gran Turismo 7 Garage on October 15

Owners who have kept an F355 in their garage, and those who have only wanted one, can drive the Ferrari in Gran Turismo 7 starting October 15, when it appears in the series for the first time. It is the main addition in a large update arriving this month. The same update adds a celebrated Honda Civic race car, the Sugo circuit as a new venue, and several features players have asked for over time. For a mid-engined Ferrari with a devoted following, arriving in the game puts it alongside the other cars of its era that players already drive there.
What They Drive

Car Owners, Note 2028: Fast and Furious Is Reportedly Getting Its Own Series

A Fast and Furious television series is said to be on its way to Peacock, with 2028 given as the year it arrives. The report is not yet official, and it is one of four shows said to be headed to the same streaming service. No cast, no cars and no premiere date have been announced, so we will hold our attention until there is something on screen worth looking at closely. For readers who keep a garage as carefully as a calendar, 2028 is the year to watch.
What They Drive

Strip Weathers Goes Back to the Beginning, Rebuilt in 3D by a Single Animator

An animator is at work on a film set before the events of "Cars," following Strip Weathers through his first years on the track. In the 2006 Pixar film, Weathers was voiced by Richard Petty himself. The draw for anyone who knows stock cars by their lines is the modeling: the animator is building NASCAR's best-known figures in three dimensions, and building them with real accuracy. To an owner or collector, that accuracy is what separates a tribute from a cartoon.
What They Drive

The No. 31 Whelen Cadillac Carries Jack Aitken to the 2026 GTP Title

For readers who follow the American marque in competition, the top-class honor in IMSA's WeatherTech series this year goes to a Cadillac. Jack Aitken has won the 2026 GTP championship in the No. 31 Whelen Cadillac, and simply taking the start at Petit Le Mans was enough to settle it. It is his first title in the GTP class. Aitken finished on the podium again and again this season, and by the time the field rolled away at Petit Le Mans the championship was already his. Collectors and owners will want to note the details: the car is the No. 31, the program is Whelen's, and the result is the 2026 GTP championship.
Where They Eat

A Negroni Built on Rye, and Made for the Home Bar Willing to Take Its Time

The Mane of Needles takes the Negroni, a drink usually made by pouring the same measure of each ingredient, and builds it on rye whiskey with a sharper, spikier finish. It also takes more work than the classic three-way pour, and the extra steps are what make the drink. That suits anyone who treats the cocktail hour as a craft, whether the bar is in a Manhattan apartment or a kitchen in Naples. Read the name as a promise of the bite to come.
Class of Florida

Fall Turns Red, Even Where the Leaves Don't

This season's menswear has settled on red, from brick-toned rust to deep wine, and the menswear designers have arrived at a point the people who decorate rooms reached long ago: one red element makes everything around it look sharper. In Florida, where autumn is mostly a date on the calendar, a man can still mark the season with a single piece in one of those shades. In Miami that might mean wearing a lot of it, in Palm Beach just enough, and in Naples a choice so quiet nobody notices it until dinner. Pair it with navy, khaki or white linen and it does the job without drawing attention to itself.
Class of Florida

A 5.9-Carat Emerald, and 284 Stones to Keep It Company

A new high-jewelry set has arrived: a necklace and matching earrings named Victoria Falls, built around a single emerald of 5.9 carats. That green stone sits at the center of the necklace. Across both pieces there are 285 stones in all, which comes to about 100 carats. The emerald is just one of them, so 284 others surround it and lead the eye back to it. That proportion is the part to look at. A hundred carats could easily turn into a blur, but here it is arranged so that a single stone of under six carats still holds the center. The name points to water falling, and a set like this is about movement: the necklace on the collarbone, the earrings framing the face, the whole thing catching light as the wearer turns. On our coast, a reader can already guess where each town would take it. In Palm Beach it goes to the gala, in Naples to dinner at eight, and in Miami it shows up sometime after midnight. All three would be right, because a set this carefully made suits whatever room it walks into.
Class of Florida

A Rye Negroni Called Mane of Needles Asks a Little More of Florida's Home Bartenders

The Mane of Needles takes the Negroni, a drink most people can mix half-asleep, and builds it on rye whiskey, which gives it a sharper, spikier finish than the classic. It also gives up the easy equal-measures formula, so whoever's mixing will need to pay closer attention than usual. That extra fuss pays off in the glass, whether you're pouring at a Palm Beach bar cart, a Naples lanai or a Miami kitchen counter that won't see guests until nearly midnight. When a drink makes you slow down and earn it, that's usually a good sign.
Class of Florida

Three New Omakase Counters in Midtown Before the Season Turns South

Midtown is getting three new high-end omakase restaurants this autumn, all opening within the same few months. That raises a fair question: can one stretch of Manhattan fill that many seats at the chef's counter at once? For readers who keep a calendar in New York and another in Palm Beach or Naples, it means three more reasons to stay up north a little longer before heading home for the season. If the neighborhood turns out to have the appetite, the chefs will have made their case one course at a time.
Beverly Hills News

New Jersey's Cranford Theater Plans a Screening Night for Its 100th Year

The Cranford Theater, an independent movie house in New Jersey, is preparing a celebratory screening to honor its first hundred years. The person who runs the theater brought it through the pandemic years and back from an incident in which its ceiling gave way, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The event is planned as a formal evening built around a film, held in the same auditorium the theater has operated for a century. For readers in Beverly Hills, where the business of film is local, the plans are a reminder that the picture house down the street is also part of the industry.
Beverly Hills News

Carrie Coon, John Cho, Liz Sargent and Fred Hechinger Named Among Denver Film Festival Honorees

Denver Film has released the program for its upcoming festival in Colorado, and Carrie Coon, John Cho, Liz Sargent and Fred Hechinger are among those it plans to recognize. The organization's announcement lists more names, and the four named here are the first on that list. The first screening will be "I Play Rocky," directed by Peter Farrelly. The final screening will be "Paper Tiger," directed by James Gray. The honors will be given during the festival, between the opening and closing films. The program announcement does not include dates or venues.
Beverly Hills News

Nine Composers, One Score: Tony Gilroy's "Behemoth!" Premieres at the New York Film Festival

Tony Gilroy's new film, "Behemoth!", had its premiere Friday at the New York Film Festival. The screening took place in Tully Hall at Lincoln Center. The film's music was written by nine composers, which is an unusual number for one score. According to Variety, the film's credits include a breakdown of which composer wrote which part of the music. "Behemoth!" opens in theaters on Dec. 4.
Beverly Hills News

Tony Gilroy's "Behemoth!" Premieres at Lincoln Center, With a Score Written by Nine Composers

"Behemoth!", the latest film from writer-director Tony Gilroy, had its premiere Friday at the New York Film Festival. The screening took place at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center. The music for the film was written by nine composers, not one. Variety looked at why Gilroy brought that many composers onto a single picture and at which parts of the film each one scored. "Behemoth!" opens in theaters on December 4.
Beverly Hills News

Hoover's "Verity" Reaches Theaters, With Its Cast Recommending Books to Readers

The film version of Colleen Hoover's novel "Verity" is now showing in theaters, Variety reported. Variety said projections show the film could open at No. 1 in ticket sales, which would make it the latest movie based on a Hoover book to do so. In an exclusive with the publication, members of the film's cast named the books they recommend to others. For readers in Beverly Hills and Los Angeles who know the novel, the film's release links a book many have already read to a cast that is now pointing audiences toward other books.
Icons of Palm Beach

On the Island, a Senior Year Conversation Worth Having: Eight Admissions Assumptions, Set Straight

Town & Country held its first gathering on the college question, and the panel it brought together set out to correct eight widely held beliefs about how applications work. Stellene Volandes, who leads the magazine, was joined by Audrey Wisch, founder of both Curious Cardinals and FlightPlan, along with Thomas Caleel of Admittedly and a representative of Avenues School. Families here with a student deciding where to apply will find a useful starting point in that idea alone: some of what gets repeated about admissions deserves a closer look.
Icons of Palm Beach

Sheila Johnson, in Command of the Third Chapter

Town & Country has turned its attention to Sheila Johnson and finds her well into a third act, and running it with real mastery. The phrase deserves a reader's attention. A third act is the part of a life that comes after the first success and after the reinvention, and few people get to play it with this much assurance. On the North End, where people tend to measure a life by how well its later chapters are lived, that is the kind of achievement worth raising a glass to in the middle of the season.
Photo by bob in swamp on Flickr
Icons of Palm Beach

For the Beach Bag: The Scientist Heroines of Ali Hazelwood, Taken in Sequence

There's now a guide to reading Ali Hazelwood's romance novels from the first one onward. The case for starting at the beginning is the heroine Hazelwood is known for: a woman whose working life is in science, technology, engineering or mathematics, and who no other romance writer draws quite as well. For a reader settling in at the club pool or on a chaise on the North End, it's a clear place to start, and the books stack neatly on the side table. Love stories with a laboratory or a lecture hall in the background make a smart choice for the season.
Icons of Palm Beach

For the Pampered Companion, a Stroller Worth Its Place on Worth Avenue

Town & Country's editors have tested the field and named one dog stroller the best in its class, the benchmark the others get measured against. The verdict is for the dog who would sooner ride than walk, and for the owner who wants that ride done properly. On an island where a well-kept companion often joins the afternoon stroll, a carriage chosen by T&C's standards looks right at home. The well-made, it turns out, goes all the way down to the smallest passenger.
Who Wore What When

Second Acts, Worn Well: The Women Who Walked Away and Won

Anyone who studies red carpets learns that the look people remember is rarely the first one. The Zoe Report has gathered a group of driven women who left the jobs they once wanted most and went on to lead in entirely different fields. The piece treats walking away as a first step rather than a loss. Readers in Palm Beach and Beverly Hills will know this story well: sometimes the change of course is the part worth remembering.
Who Wore What When

Paul McCartney Has Thoughts on the Music for Taylor Swift's Wedding

Paul McCartney has said publicly that he has an idea for the music at Taylor Swift's wedding, and he said it on the couch at Jimmy Kimmel Live. He didn't say it at a press event or in a long profile. He said it as a late-night guest, which is the friendliest kind of place to say it. Our readers will want the details, and we don't have them yet: the wire item doesn't spell out his plan, and we won't guess at it. For a fashion archive, though, a wedding where one of music's great names wants a hand in the evening is one we're already watching.
Who Wore What When

Stevie Nicks and Sarah Jessica Parker Take the Night at the New York City Ballet's Fall Fashion Gala

Sarah Jessica Parker founded the New York City Ballet's Fall Fashion Gala, and this season the evening's founder was also one of its two headliners. She shared the room's attention with Stevie Nicks, and by Vogue's account the pair carried the night. Over its 14 seasons the benefit has brought in more than $40 million for the company, which is serious money for an evening that is supposed to be about the dancing. The gala has always paired the ballet with fashion, and it draws major figures from across the arts. That is why an archive like ours keeps a close eye on it. A fall gala at the ballet is one of the few nights when what the guests wear gets nearly as much attention as what happens on stage, and this year two women got most of it. New York sets a high bar for a benefit, and this one cleared it again.
Who Wore What When

Jennifer Lawrence Keeps Her Toes Out as the Leaves Turn

Jennifer Lawrence has paired thong sandals with roomy utility trousers and a knit cardigan sheer enough to let the light through, and she's wearing it all in autumn. The combination ignores the usual rule that sandals go away when the calendar turns. A light, see-through knit over hard-working pockets, with bare feet underneath, is a smart answer for readers from Naples to Beverly Hills, where October often feels more like a long summer than the start of sweater season. It's a relaxed outfit that still looks deliberate, and it can be worn just as easily on Worth Avenue as on Rodeo Drive.
Who Wore What When

A Martini Toast for Gustavo Dudamel as He Takes Up the Baton in New York

New York lifted a glass to Gustavo Dudamel this season, with guests toasting the maestro as he arrives at the New York Philharmonic. The welcome fits the moment. The Philharmonic is the oldest of the country's five great orchestras, and when it changes leaders, the whole city takes notice. A martini is a fitting drink for the occasion: classic, exact, and very much a New York choice for greeting a conductor at the start of his tenure. For readers who follow who stands at the center of the city's grandest rooms, few new arrivals matter more than the person now leading its most storied orchestra.
Photo by Mulyadi on Unsplash
What They Ride

Two Seven-Figure-Class Youngsters Make Their First Starts, at Belmont and Santa Anita

Two juveniles that cost serious money at auction start their careers on Sunday, one on each coast. In New York, the fourth race at Belmont is a maiden special weight for 2-year-old fillies, worth $100,000, at a mile and a sixteenth on the turf, with post time at 2:11 p.m. Eastern. Tasha's Pride (GB), a daughter of Frankel, is in the field. She was bought as a yearling at the Tattersalls October sale for 600,000 guineas, about $845,742, with agent David Ingordo signing the ticket. Out west, Mo Chuisle runs for the first time at Santa Anita. Mo Chuisle sold for $825,000 at the OBS April sale of 2-year-olds in training. Sunday is the first time either of these sale-ring prices gets measured on the racetrack.
What They Ride

Wells Bayou Gets His First Winner on the Board, and It's Mystik Dan's Brother

Mystik Bayou has given his sire, Wells Bayou, the first win of his stud career. That matters to a young stallion and to anyone breeding to him, because the opening win shows his foals can get it done on the track. The colt also has a famous family name: he shares a dam with Mystik Dan, the Derby winner, so he comes to the winner's circle with a known pedigree behind him. Before this win he ran in a maiden at Saratoga, a race that later stood out because the winner was U.S.S. Valor, a son of War of Will who went on to be named a 'TDN Rising Star.' Mystik Bayou finished third there, close behind the horses ahead of him. That race was a strong one to come out of, and he has now built on it by winning. For a stallion still early in his career, the first win from a well-connected colt is a good start.
What They Ride

Smuggle's Daughter Hands Klaravich Stables the Miss Grillo

Klaravich Stables won Saturday's Miss Grillo with Domestic Agenda, a 2-year-old filly by American Pharoah, and she was plainly the best in the race. Her pedigree reads well on paper. American Pharoah is her sire, and her dam, Smuggle, is a daughter of Gun Runner, which gives this juvenile two well-known American names on either side of her family. For an owner, a race like the Miss Grillo is an early test of a young filly, and this one passed it with room to spare. Readers who follow the sales catalogs and the stallion barns will want to remember her name and her pedigree.
What They Ride

A War of Will Colt Bred at Home Wins the Champagne for Team Valor International

U. S. S. Valor, a son of War of Will, won the Champagne for Team Valor International, the outfit that bred him and still races him. A colt that carries his breeder's silks into a major juvenile race says something about the program behind him: the mating, the foaling and the early lessons all happened under the same people who were cheering on raceday. The win puts his name at the front of the discussion about the Grade I Breeders' Cup Juvenile at Keeneland. Whether he goes to Lexington is still up to his connections. If they send him, a homegrown colt from War of Will will bring a Champagne win with him into one of the most important races of the juvenile season.
What They Ride

Munnings Filly Evanescence Keeps Her Keeneland Record Spotless in the Grade II TCA

Evanescence is a 4-year-old daughter of Munnings, out of the Pioneerof the Nile mare Lovely Carina. She won the Grade II Thoroughbred Club of America Stakes at Keeneland, and she won it late, finding her best run in the final furlongs of the homestretch. The victory keeps her unbeaten at the Lexington track, where she has never lost a race. For a sire like Munnings, a graded win at Keeneland is the kind of result that gets noticed by breeders as well as racegoers. It also carries the Pioneerof the Nile name on the bottom side of a filly who keeps showing her best at this one track.
What They Ride

Chad Brown's Name Returns to the Flower Bowl Conversation

The Flower Bowl Stakes is run Thursday as a Grade 2 with a $500,000 purse, and that is reason enough for the turf set to plan around it. The race already carries Chad Brown's mark, since the trainer's stable has sent out a Flower Bowl winner before, and his name is attached to this year's renewal too. For readers who follow the barn rather than the board, his return to the race is the story, and it shows how steadily one American operation keeps turning up in good company on the grass. We'll leave the predicting to others and simply watch the field go to the post.
Photo by SeeMidTN.com (aka Brent) on Flickr
Class of Nashville

Music Row's Week Was Busy in the Front Offices

The industry's weekly ledger is out, and the news this time is in the corner offices as much as on the charts. Executives changed desks across town, and labels and publishers added artists to their rosters, the sort of movement that tends to happen quietly in Green Hills and Berry Hill before anyone hears a note of it. The chart tallies ride along as usual. For readers who track who is placing bets on whom in Nashville, this is the week's scorecard.
What It Sold For

The Bedroom Is Where a Well-Run House Shows Its Hand

A house can be photographed from the street, priced by the square foot and dated by its architect, but the bed is the one room its owner judges every single night. Architectural Digest's editors have now done that judging on the reader's behalf, working through linens sold on Amazon and settling on ten they were willing to put their names beside. The list is not a catalog of the costly or the rare. It is a short roll of sheets that ordinary delivery can bring to a Palm Beach guest room or a Nashville primary suite as easily as to anywhere else in the country. For anyone finishing a house this season, that is a rare kind of help: a recommendation that costs nothing to act on and that the people who look at interiors for a living were content to sleep on themselves.
Photo by jimg944 on Flickr
Where They Eat

For Hotels Trying AI, the Demonstration Is the Easy Part

A trial run of artificial intelligence can prove that a system completes a given job inside a hotel or travel company. Moving it from a trial into the daily operation of the business is a different matter, and it hinges on a person being accountable for what the system produces. That same person must deal with the cases the technology does not anticipate, and must be able to show the expense pays off. For the well-run properties in Palm Beach, Aspen or New York weighing such tools, that is the standard the industry is now describing.
Beverly Hills News

Paramount Skydance's Warner Bros. Deal Nears Completion as Industry Figures Abroad Voice Confidence in Ellison

Paramount Skydance's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery is on the verge of being finalized, bringing two of the entertainment business's best-known names under one roof. The agreement follows close to a year of negotiations. Entertainment executives across Europe, where Paramount chief David Ellison has spent time building relationships, have largely expressed a favorable view of the combination, with one citing belief in his commitment to the business. For the Los Angeles area, which is home to both companies, the deal's closing marks a notable moment for the studio sector.
Who Wore What When

Timberland Dresses Its Work Boot for Día de Muertos, With a Shift in Color and Charms to Match

Timberland has put out a limited Día de Muertos edition of its boots, in men's and women's sizes, and you can buy it today. Two details set it apart from the usual pair: parts of the boot change color, and it comes with small charms you can hang on it. That makes this less a practical boot and more something you wear on purpose, with the collection's name written on its sleeve. From Miami to Los Angeles, it's a seasonal boot worth a look while it's on the shelf.
Who Wore What When

Bethenny Frankel Has Settled on Her Sheets, After Trying Practically Every Set There Is

Bethenny Frankel has tested what sounds like an endless run of bedding, and one set keeps coming out on top for her: sheets she describes as soft as butter. That is a high bar for a fabric that never gets near a red carpet, and a useful one for anyone making up a bed in Palm Beach or the Hamptons this season. Other shoppers seem to agree with her. Reviewers have called the set exceptional, and some say it changed how they think about sheets altogether.
Photo by Evelyn Simak on Geographorguk
What They Ride

A Short Field, Three Grade I Winners, and a Berth on the Line at Keeneland

The field for Sunday's Grade I Juddmonte Spinster Stakes at Keeneland is small, but three of the fillies and mares in it have already won at the highest level of the sport. Fully Subscribed heads that group. A short field like this has no filler in it. Any horse a reader picks out in the paddock is one that has already won a Grade I race. The Spinster is also part of the "Win and You're In" program, so on Sunday afternoon in Lexington the winner earns more than the trophy and the Grade I title: she also gets an automatic place in a bigger race still to come. Racegoers along the Keeneland rail will be watching proven Grade I winners run against each other, with nothing in the field there just to fill out the gate.
What It Sold For

October's Stars Send Homeowners Back Through Their Own Rooms

Elle Decor's monthly design horoscope casts October as a time for reassessing what you live with, and it credits the shift to Venus, which is now moving backward in the sky. Read in an American house, that means a walk through the rooms you already own to look again at what earns its place and what no longer does. It doesn't call for a renovation or a purchase, only a clearer look at choices you've already made. For readers who measure a house by its architecture and its upkeep, a month of looking closely is a fitting season.
What It Sold For

The Castle Behind "Blank Space" Is Going to the Gavel

The castle that served as the backdrop for Taylor Swift's "Blank Space" is going up for auction. It's a rare case of a house that millions of people already know by sight, though few could name it, being offered to bidders. No starting bid or final price is on the record yet, and this desk doesn't guess at either. It's worth following because an auction will put a public number on a residence that most viewers know only as a set. The same week brought several other notable properties to market, including homes tied to Julia Child, Jackson Pollock, Diane Keaton, Meghan Markle and King George III.
Brides of Beverly Hills

Live Magnolia Trees and Custom Drapery: How One Planner Built a Dinner Party Under a Tent

Caroline and Anthony started with a format, not a theme: they wanted a small wedding run as a dinner party, not a large reception. The venue was The Argyle Club in San Antonio, and the planning firm was Ash Event Co. The firm built the evening inside a tent and kept the palette to two colors, green and white. The magnolia appears twice. Custom drapery printed with the motif lines the tent, and actual magnolia trees stand inside it. Pairing a printed fabric with the living plant is the detail worth studying if you're weighing a tent. It shows how much of a tent's interior can be designed from scratch, from the fabric walls to the greenery placed on the floor. For a couple who want a seated dinner rather than a crowded room, this wedding shows a tent being used to make a space feel enclosed and personal.
Photo by Ron Cogswell on Flickr
The Capital Set

The Few, Found: Marine Corps Recruiters Finish 2026 Past Their Mark

The United States Marine Corps says it has brought in more new recruits in 2026 than it set out to. In a capital that measures a good year in announcements, this one is quietly satisfying: a goal was set, and the Corps went past it. Behind it is the work of recruiters doing the plain, careful job of finding new Marines, and the young Americans who chose to sign. We note it here as we would any institution finishing its year ahead of plan.
Photo by Beverly & Pack on Flickr
The Capital Set

The President's Calendar Turns to Tuscaloosa for Georgia at Alabama

The President will be in the stands in Tuscaloosa next week when the University of Alabama hosts the University of Georgia, the White House calendar's newest entry for the Southern autumn. President Trump shared the plan on Friday, and it marks another trip back to Alabama for him. A presidential visit changes how a stadium Saturday feels: the President is a guest among a crowd that came to see the two teams on the field. For the two universities, their supporters and the town, the date now carries the added weight of a head of state's attendance.
Beverly Hills News

Tinashe, 33, Says She Is Entering the "Popstar" Era Sure of Herself

Tinashe is 33 and describes her current outlook as assured and confident. Her latest work is titled "Popstar." In a conversation with The Hollywood Reporter, the singer said she wants to question what the term "pop star" means, and she used her own title to do it. She described herself as secure in her footing at this stage of her career. The work carries a two-word name, and the artist has made that label the subject of the work itself.
Beverly Hills News

On the Paramount Lot, David Ellison Speaks to Staff as Skydance Readies Its Close

David Ellison spoke to employees on the Paramount lot in Los Angeles about a new name, according to Variety Film. The temperature in the city reached 102 degrees that day, the outlet reported. Variety Film described the studio as busy with work tied to Skydance's upcoming closing. Ellison also said goodbye to two people the outlet named as Mike and Pam. He discussed the groundwork for "Barbie 2," according to the report. The Paramount lot is in Los Angeles, and the studio is one of the city's working film properties. The report did not give the new name or a date for the closing.
Beverly Hills News

Paramount's George Cheeks Reported Under Consideration for a Wider Role in the Combined Company

George Cheeks, who chairs Paramount's TV media operations, is under consideration for a larger leadership role at Skydance now that Paramount and Warner Bros. have combined, according to Variety. His current responsibilities cover the whole of CBS along with the Paramount cable networks. The report says his oversight could grow inside the merged company. No company has announced any new title or responsibilities, and the account has not been confirmed.
Beverly Hills News

Report: CBS's George Cheeks in Line for a Wider Portfolio as Warner Bros. Discovery Assets Join Skydance

George Cheeks, who heads the CBS networks, is expected to take on more responsibility under David Ellison, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The publication reports that his oversight is set to grow as Warner Bros. Discovery assets come under Skydance. No new title or formal announcement has been reported. For readers in Beverly Hills and across Los Angeles, where much of the television business is run, the report points to a larger role for the executive already in charge of CBS's networks.
Beverly Hills News

Muslim Film Festival Opens Its First Edition at Manhattan's SVA Theatre on Oct. 11

A new film festival devoted to Muslim stories begins Oct. 11 at the SVA Theatre in Manhattan. It is the festival's first year in New York. Organizers describe the program as a reply to the narrow, one-dimensional image of Muslims that Western media has often presented. They have announced the films selected for the opening edition and the jury that will review them. For audiences in New York, the festival brings a new cultural event to the fall film calendar and adds Muslim filmmakers' work to a Manhattan screen.
Beverly Hills News

SVA Theatre in Manhattan to host first edition of New York Muslim film festival on Oct. 11

A new film festival focused on Muslim filmmaking will open its first edition on Oct. 11 at the SVA Theatre in Manhattan, according to Variety. Organizers have announced the films in the program and the members of the jury that will judge them. The festival describes its purpose as offering audiences a picture of Muslim life beyond the narrow, stereotyped portrayals that Variety says are common in Western media. Organizers have also said they do not want the festival to only respond to those portrayals, and want the films to stand on their own terms. The program and jury were first announced in an exclusive report. The SVA Theatre is in Manhattan, and New York audiences will be the first to see the festival's opening program.
Who Wore What When

Hun Kim Takes Karl Lagerfeld to Casa Malaparte for Spring 2027, and Keeps the Edges Soft

For Spring 2027, Hun Kim, who leads design at Karl Lagerfeld, took a house as his reference: Casa Malaparte, and its severe, pared-back architecture. The result is a set of clothes with strong lines that still have some polish to them. They're precise, but they never turn cold. Kim's real skill here is restraint: the geometry is there, but it doesn't cut. From Palm Beach to Beverly Hills, this is a wardrobe for anyone who likes a clean line but has no use for a hard one.
Who Wore What When

From Detroit to the Black Footwear Forum Stage: Maurice Malone Revisits His Story

Maurice Malone, founder of Williamsburg Garment Co., came to the Black Footwear Forum ready to look back. In an interview with WWD at the forum, he returned to Detroit, recalling a store built around hip-hop, and Eminem along with it. He traced the road his work in clothing has taken, and spoke about what Black designers have had to push for along the way. Later he shared the stage with April Walker for a conversation in front of the forum's audience. That gave the room two designers in one session, at a forum centered on Black footwear. For an archive that cares about who, where and when, it is an entry worth filing carefully: a designer, a Detroit memory and a stage shared with a peer.
Who Wore What When

Maurice Malone Brings Detroit, and a Designer's Long Road, to the Black Footwear Forum Stage

Maurice Malone, founder of Williamsburg Garment Co., came to the Black Footwear Forum with stories to tell. Speaking with WWD during the forum, he looked back on the store he ran in Detroit, a shop built around the city's hip-hop culture. Eminem came up when he talked about those days. Malone also described the path that took him from that storefront to the label he runs now. Later he joined April Walker on stage, so the forum's audience heard two designers in conversation. One subject he raised was the fight Black designers have had to take on in the fashion business. For an archive that keeps track of who made what, and when, a designer telling his own story in his own words is worth writing down.
Who Wore What When

Daisy Edgar-Jones Turns the Sense and Sensibility Circuit Into a Wardrobe Worth Archiving

Daisy Edgar-Jones has been making the promotional rounds for Sense and Sensibility, and the outfits have gotten as much attention as the project. The real test of a publicity run is staying consistent across every appearance, and by this account she has passed it. Around here we keep records of who wore what and when, and a full run of looks from one campaign is the kind of set worth saving and studying from first stop to last.
Who Wore What When

EE72 Turns One, and Erivo, Saldana and Rossum Came to Mark It

EE72 celebrated its first year, and the guests who stepped in front of the cameras gave the night real star power. Cynthia Erivo, Zoe Saldana and Emmy Rossum were among the famous names who came out for the milestone. A first birthday is a small number that carries a lot of weight, and a guest list like this one is the welcome anything new would hope for. The archive has the date, though the designer credits will have to wait for another night.
Who Wore What When

Tatcha, Dior and Nine More: The Beauty Countdown Arrives Before the Holidays Do

Harper's Bazaar has counted eleven beauty advent calendars that are already available to buy, with Tatcha and Dior among the names on the list. An advent calendar is one gift that unwraps itself a little each day, which makes it the rare present you only have to buy once. Here at the desk we usually track who wore what and when; these boxes are about what goes on before anyone gets dressed at all. Whether the holiday list starts in Palm Beach or Beverly Hills, it can already include them.
What They Ride

A Nyquist Daughter Beats a Strong Seven-Horse Field in the Grade I Alcibiades

A filly by Nyquist has won the Grade I Darley Alcibiades, and she did it against one of the toughest small fields of the juvenile season. Seven two-year-old fillies went to the post. They included the winner of the Grade I Spinaway, three youngsters that Thoroughbred Daily News had already singled out as promising, and a filly who shares both sire and dam with this year's Grade I Kentucky Oaks winner. Beating that group gives the Nyquist filly a top-level win and marks her as a young horse to watch.
Photo by Ilies AMMI on Unsplash
What They Ride

A Name Shared With the Basketball World, Entered in the Breeders' Futurity

A horse named Coach Pope has been entered in the Breeders' Futurity, which puts a basketball name in the entry box of one of the fall's important tests. The race runs on dirt, not hardwood, but the name will make readers who follow both sports look twice. Before the field goes into the gate, the program may make it look as though there is more than one Coach Pope in the race. Once it starts, only the one with four legs counts.
Photo by Praswin Prakashan on Unsplash
What They Ride

Stidham's Delaware Park Work Pays Off as Godolphin's Zimmer Wins His Debut

Zimmer, a son of Maclean's Music bred and owned by Godolphin, won the first race of his career. He prepared for it at Michael Stidham's base at Delaware Park. On Sept. 25 he covered five furlongs there in 1:01 3/5, the fastest of eight horses timed at that distance that morning. A timed morning work tells a trainer more than a race-day crowd ever sees: how the colt handled the distance, how he came back, and whether he was ready to be entered. Stidham's barn read those signs correctly, and the colt won when it counted. For Godolphin, a debut winner from its own breeding program by Maclean's Music is the kind of result a breeding program is built for. For anyone who follows the Delaware Park backstretch, it's a reminder that the work done on the training track in the early morning shows up later in the race results.
Photo by Chris Gunns on Geographorguk
What They Sail

Built for a Le Mans Driver, the Bellini Astor 38 Takes Its Cues From the Track

The Bellini Astor 38 started as a private commission, and the person who commissioned it races at Le Mans. That shows in the brief. The 38-foot sport yacht has a hull shaped around the way a driver sits, braces and reaches in a race car, and the boat is planned around those positions. The seating borrows the trim language of a fine automobile, and carbon fiber details show up throughout. Many of our readers keep a well-kept garage as well as a slip. For them the appeal is obvious: a boat in which the habits of a driver's seat were part of the design from the first sketch, not added at the end. At 38 feet it stays a manageable size, and every choice on board answers to someone who knows what a good cockpit should feel like.
Icons of Palm Beach

Sylvester Stallone Writes Down the Lean Years in His New Memoir, The Steps

Sylvester Stallone has written a memoir called The Steps, and it covers the years before anyone knew his name. He writes about the many times he was turned down, and about the odd jobs he took to get by, including cleaning lion cages. Money was tight for much of that time, and he doesn't hide it. The book follows how those years led to a career that made him one of the most familiar faces in American film. Plenty of people in the best rooms of the season started somewhere far less polished, and it's good to see one of them write that part down.
Brides of Beverly Hills

Two Colors and a Black Tie Code: Amanda and Rami's Ritz-Carlton Naples Wedding

Amanda and Rami held their wedding at the Ritz-Carlton Naples with a black tie dress code and a palette of just two colors, white and olive green. YCWeddings & Events planned the day and ran it. The look the couple wanted was the romance of an older, more formal era, and much of the room's light came from candles. For a bride thinking about the same approach, the useful part is how little they used. A two-color scheme, with olive green as the only color against white, keeps every table, arrangement and printed piece consistent without asking the eye to track much. A formal dress code and candlelight both push the evening in the same direction, so it reads as one decision instead of a dozen separate ones. Handing that consistency to one planning firm is the practical way to keep it holding from the first detail to the last.
Photo by 1950sUnlimited on Flickr
Brides of Beverly Hills

At a Family Home, the Garden Sets the Plan and the Flowers Follow

A couple in Cookeville, Tennessee, didn't book a venue and decorate it. They held the wedding at a family home and let the grounds make the main decisions. Its long-established trees and planted gardens did the job a ballroom's architecture usually does: they gave the day its frame. The flowers were chosen to match what was already there. They were mostly green and white, with a small amount of blush for warmth. Guests sat under a sailcloth tent, and hydrangeas hung above them in a suspended installation, so the flowers were overhead as well as on the tables. If you're thinking about a wedding on private property, the lesson here is the order of decisions: walk the grounds first, then build the palette around them.
Where They Eat

Oregon Is Pouring More Than Pinot: Its Whites and Sparkling Wines Earn a Place on the American Table

Robb Report Dining has picked seven white wines from Oregon it recommends opening now, a state better known for its red wines. The list also points to the Willamette Valley's sparkling wines as worth a reader's attention. For anyone setting a table this season, whether in New York, Nashville or Naples, that gives one American wine region two reasons to be in the glass: a still white with dinner and something with bubbles before it. The wines are from this country, and the case for them is quality.
What They Collect

A Dirigible Takes the Room on West 22nd...

Wait — I can't name the street; the wire only says Chelsea. Lee Bul's First Show With Hauser & Wirth Brings a Vast Airship Into Chelsea Lee Bul has opened her first exhibition with Hauser & Wirth, in Chelsea, and its centerpiece is an enormous airship suspended inside the gallery. The work looks at modern progress from both sides: what it promised and where it fell short. The show handles that subject as poetry, not argument, and lets the image of a great floating craft carry the idea. For collectors who follow the gallery's program in New York, it marks the moment an important artist joins one of the city's major houses.
What They Drive

The Gasoline Macan Is Due Back in 2028

Porsche intends to bring back a combustion-engine Macan, with the gas model projected to rejoin the range in 2028. For American owners and collectors who drive Porsche's compact SUV, that means the gasoline Macan will once again be available alongside the rest of the range. From Palm Beach driveways to the switchbacks above Aspen, it puts a familiar choice back in front of the buyer: the Macan with a gasoline engine under the hood. For now 2028 is the year to mark, and the details are Porsche's to announce.
Class of Florida

From DeMille to Jolie to Madonna: One Los Feliz Address, Three Marquee Names

Madonna has bought Angelina Jolie's Los Angeles estate in Los Feliz for a little under $25 million. The property covers two acres, and its earlier owners include Cecil B. DeMille, one of the founding names of American film. That puts a director from Hollywood's first chapter, one of the defining actresses of a later one and a singer who has been at the top of pop for decades on the same deed history. Down here we tend to measure a house by how close it is to the water or the club. In Los Angeles the comparable question seems to be whose name was on the deed before yours, and this address does well on that count. Two acres is a lot of ground anywhere, whether that's Palm Beach, Naples or Miami, and it's even more notable when it sits inside a major city. People in Florida know that a good house picks up its stories one owner at a time, and this one has just added another.
Beverly Hills News

Tony Gilroy's "Behemoth!" Casts Pedro Pascal as a Cellist at a Turning Point

Variety Film has reviewed "Behemoth!", a film from Tony Gilroy in which Pedro Pascal plays a classical cellist in the middle of a personal reckoning in his middle years. The review describes the film as several things at once: a story about a working musician, a portrait of a man taking stock of his life, and a mystery with a love story at its center. According to the review, the film also has Gilroy experimenting with the craft of filmmaking itself.
Beverly Hills News

Tony Gilroy Directs Pedro Pascal as a Cellist in "Behemoth!"

Variety has published a review of "Behemoth!", a film from Tony Gilroy in which Pedro Pascal plays a cellist. The review describes the film as several kinds of picture at once: a story about a working musician, the story of a man at midlife, and a romance built as a mystery. It also describes the film as Gilroy experimenting with how a movie can be made. Variety calls the result polished and elevated. For readers in Beverly Hills, it is a review to note: a director and a lead actor taking on a story centered on the craft of music.
What They Ride

Emphatic Earns Her Place Among the Juvenile Fillies; Nakatomi Wins the Phoenix a Second Time

Emphatic won the Alcibiades, and the victory earns her a starting place in the Juvenile Fillies, where the best two-year-old fillies in the country will meet. For a filly that young, a win that also guarantees a spot in a championship race is about as much as one afternoon can give. On the same card, Nakatomi took the Phoenix for the second time, winning a race he had won before. Both horses go into the rest of the autumn as winners, and for the American turf that is reason enough to take note.
Brides of Beverly Hills

When the Ballroom Is Already Ornate, Spend on Candles and Pastels

A spring wedding at The Brown Hotel took its outdoor feel from a short list: candlelight and a pastel palette, set inside the hotel's Crystal Ballroom. The room is historic and already heavily decorated, so it didn't need to be built up. The couple didn't fight the gilt and detail. They used soft color and flame so the room read as a spring garden without moving the party outside. For a bride comparing venues, that's the useful part. A room with this much built-in finish can carry the look on its own, and the décor list can stay short. Candles warm up a formal room, and pastels lighten it without hiding the architecture. The ceremony was held separately at St. James, and the guests then moved to the hotel for the reception. Any couple planning a ceremony-then-reception day should account for that move in the timeline. If you want a garden mood without depending on spring weather, look at a ballroom that's already finished and keep the additions simple.
Brides of Beverly Hills

At the Ritz-Carlton in Naples, a Formal Wedding Built on Two Colors and Candlelight

Amanda and Rami married at the Ritz-Carlton in Naples with a strict two-color scheme of white and olive, a formal dress code and candlelight. The palette is the part a bride planning her own day can use. Holding a room to two colors cuts a long list of choices down to a short one, from linens and florals to paper. White and olive suit a formal evening better than a brighter accent would, and both look good under candles. YCWeddings & Events planned the day. When the dress code is formal and the look is this disciplined, a planner keeps the details consistent from one end of the evening to the other. The couple went for an older, romantic style: formal dress, a narrow color scheme and soft light. This wedding shows how far those three choices can carry a room.
What They Sail

Janus Navem, a Riva 130 Bellissima, Is on the Market in Fort Lauderdale

Janus Navem is up for sale, and she's in Fort Lauderdale, where an American buyer can go and see her in person. She's a Bellissima, the 130 model from the Italian yard Riva. In the engine room she carries a matched pair of MTU 16V2000 M96L diesels. Those are the details an owner checks first, and they're the ones on the record. Riva hasn't been credited with a naval architect in this report, and no asking price has been published, so we'll leave both alone until they're stated. For now, buyers have a named Riva with a stated engine package, and she's waiting in Florida's yachting capital.
What They Sail

A Racing Driver's Commission Becomes a 38-Foot Bellini Built Around the Helm

The Bellini Astor 38 started with a commission from a driver who races at Le Mans, and it shows in how the boat is laid out. The hull was shaped around the way a racing cockpit holds its driver, so the seating and helm follow track logic rather than the usual dayboat pattern. The upholstery takes its cues from fine car interiors, and carbon details run through the trim. For owners who split their weekends between the paddock and the dock, this 38-footer is built to feel familiar in both places.
Icons of Palm Beach

Joseph Zada Wins the Part of Haymitch Abernathy

Out of thousands of young actors who tried for it, Joseph Zada is the one who will play Haymitch Abernathy in *The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping*. It's a well-loved part, and he earned it the old-fashioned way: a long casting call and a single name at the end. Vanity Fair also suggests that the actor and the character have a little more in common than the script. It's the kind of name people around the dinner table will start mentioning well before the film opens.
Photo by Zoshua Colah on Unsplash
Icons of Palm Beach

Tom Cruise, Digger, and the Art of Wanting It Gracefully

Here on the island, it is understood that the hardest thing to do well is to want something without letting it show. Tom Cruise, the star of Digger, now faces that same task as the film goes after Oscar recognition. Hollywood has lately been reminded that awards voters cool quickly on anyone who seems too hungry for the prize. Cruise's job between now and the envelope is the one every good host here knows by heart: be present, be gracious, and let the work speak first.
Icons of Palm Beach

Before the Fame, the Lion Cages: Stallone Looks Back on the Climb in "The Steps"

Sylvester Stallone has written a memoir, and he has called it *The Steps*. It's about the stretch of his life before the fame: many years when the answer was no, the money was thin, and he took whatever work kept him going. One of those jobs, by his own account, was cleaning out lion cages. The pages follow him from there to his place among the most recognizable faces American film has ever produced. It's an arrival story, and he tells it from the far side of the arrival, looking back at the long climb. A book like that suits the season, when an afternoon by the water leaves time to read about how a career like his was actually built.
Photo by Mary P Madigan on Flickr
Class of Florida

Casino Royale Dressing, Ready for a Palm Beach December

Turnbull & Asser has released a new menswear collection inspired by James Bond, and by Casino Royale in particular. It's being offered as an answer to what to wear over the holidays. In this state, people ask that question differently on Worth Avenue than in Brickell, and differently again on Fifth Avenue South. A film named for a casino suggests long, elegant evenings, which is roughly how a Palm Beach December is meant to go. Miami may dress louder and Naples may dress earlier, but all three understand a Bond reference.
Class of Florida

The Twelve-Cylinder Aston Has a Long Runway Ahead

Aston Martin plans to keep building cars with eight- and twelve-cylinder engines all the way to 2035, and it has moved its first battery-electric model further down the calendar. For Florida drivers, that means nearly another decade of the big-engine Aston, a car known as much for how it sounds as for how it looks. It will sound one way pulling out of a Brickell garage, another arriving on Royal Palm Way, and in Naples most people will simply notice that it parked very well. Whichever coast you drive, the engine you know is staying.
Class of Florida

Julia Child's Cambridge House Is for Sale at $6.5 Million, but the Kitchen Stays at the Smithsonian

A note to readers who spend the season between Worth Avenue and Fifth Avenue South: a house in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is now for sale for $6.5 million. It's the house where "The French Chef" began, the program that brought Julia Child's cooking into American living rooms. The one room everyone would want to see isn't part of the sale. Her kitchen is at the Smithsonian, so whoever buys the house gets the address and the history, and anyone who wants to see the stove will have to go to the museum like everybody else. In Miami that might count as a flaw. In Palm Beach and Naples, where people would rather have a good story than a new appliance, it probably doesn't. A house can be historic without its most famous room, and this one is, because a well-loved piece of American television got its start there. We'd guess more than one Gulf Coast dinner host is already looking at New England listings this morning.
Class of Florida

Reposado, by Way of the Orchard: Cazcanes Puts Its Tequila in Fruit-Seasoned Barrels

Cazcanes has released a set of reposado tequilas, and each one rested in a barrel that had earlier held a liqueur made from stone fruit, with a different fruit's liqueur behind every barrel. It brings the one-barrel-at-a-time idea that whiskey drinkers know well to agave. In Miami that sounds like the start of a cocktail menu, in Palm Beach like a new bottle for the bar cart, and in Naples like something to sip slowly on the lanai while everyone argues over which barrel was best. All three are right.
Class of Florida

Tyler Perry's Beverly Hills Estate, Once Home to the Sussexes, Comes to Market at $57 Million

Our readers know the West Coast story already: everyone in Beverly Hills lives close to someone famous, and in Palm Beach nobody admits to noticing. Tyler Perry's Beverly Hills estate is now for sale, asking $57 million. The house runs to 25,000 square feet. That would be roomy even on the ocean blocks of Palm Beach, and in Naples it would get a second look from neighbors who are rarely impressed. The detail people will remember is the guest list: the Duke and Duchess of Sussex once stayed there. A Miami listing would put that fact in the first line, and Palm Beach would mention it only to the right buyer. For a buyer who moves between coasts, this is a California house whose past guests, in Florida terms, set it apart.
What They Drive

Ionna's Chief Makes the Case for the Unhurried Charging Stop

Seth Cutler, chief executive of Ionna, does not think an electric car needs to recharge as quickly as a gasoline car takes on fuel. In conversation with The Drive, he said drivers rarely treat a fill-up as a quick dash in and out. He pointed to Buc-ee's and Wawa, two American roadside names where a stop usually involves more than the pump. In his view, people driving on electricity behave the same way. That is worth hearing for any owner who has timed a road trip around where to stop, and it says something about how this company sees the break between one stretch of highway and the next.
Photo by JLaw45 on Flickr
What They Drive

A 1977 Big Bud Goes Back to Work in Montana, Now With 700 Cummins Horsepower

On a Montana wheat operation, a 1977 Big Bud is pulling its weight again. Welker Farms put the tractor back into service for the wheat harvest after fitting it with a Cummins engine rated at 700 horsepower. The Big Bud ranks among the largest tractors ever built anywhere, and an example from 1977 is a machine collectors know on sight. This one is not sitting in a shed or on a show field. Welker Farms chose to give it a new heart and send it to the wheat. That 700-horsepower figure is the number owners of heavy iron will notice first. Collectors usually admire a machine of this size and vintage as a survivor. At Welker Farms it is also a working tractor again, with a current Cummins powerplant and a harvest to bring in.
What They Drive

Doors Off by Hand: The 2026 Wrangler Lets Owners Open It Up Without Reaching for a Wrench

For the 2026 model year, Jeep has redesigned how the Wrangler's doors come off, so owners can now detach them by hand with no tools at all. That has always been the heart of owning a Wrangler, whether that means a beach road in Florida or a mountain pass in Colorado, and now it takes much less work. The Drive tested the change and found it a real step forward that makes the truck more fun to own. Wrangler owners who have spent a Saturday morning in the driveway with a socket set will see right away why this matters.
Photo by Ray Harrington on Unsplash
What They Drive

Aston Martin Gives Its Eight- and Twelve-Cylinder Cars a Horizon of 2035

Aston Martin plans to keep building cars around eight- and twelve-cylinder engines until 2035, which is good news for owners who choose a car by how many cylinders it has. The plan comes as the marque delays its first fully electric model, and this is not the first delay. For collectors from Palm Beach to Aspen, it means the big engine that defines an Aston Martin will keep appearing in new cars for years yet.
Class of Nashville

Wynonna Calls Her New Record Both Her Toughest Work and Her Finest

After more than forty years of recording, Wynonna has made a new album, and she says it is the most demanding project of her career and also the best. On this record she tells her own story more openly than she ever has before. In an interview with the Nashville trade press, she spoke of the difficulty and the pride together. Coming from an artist this far into her career, that is a claim about the work worth taking seriously.
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Class of Nashville

Music and Money Shake Hands Again: BMI and Studio Bank Sign On for More

The songwriters' organization BMI and Studio Bank are carrying their arrangement forward, continuing a relationship that first took shape in 2023. In Nashville, where the people who write the songs and the people who look after money often end up in the same rooms, it's good to see a pairing like this kept going. A renewal says more than a first signing does. It means both sides looked at the last few years and decided to stay.
Class of Nashville

Ten Years On, Triple Tigers Is Still an Independent Label With Platinum on the Wall

Triple Tigers Records has reached its tenth year as an independent label, with chart successes and records certified Platinum several times over to show for it. Lasting that long without a major company behind it is no small thing in this business, and Music Row tends to notice when it happens. In a town where the real music work gets done in Green Hills living rooms and in studios off 16th Avenue, the anniversary of an independent label that has done well is worth raising a glass to.
Private Jet Owners

A Six-Year-Old Diamond Single Comes Up for Sale, and a Training Airframe Makes Its Case to Private Owners

A 2020 Diamond DA40 NG is on the market, and AircraftForSale has singled out the listing for buyers. Flight schools have relied on the DA40 for years, and that history is the usual way people know the airplane. The listing argues that its composite airframe also performs well enough and does enough jobs to suit someone flying for themselves. An owner in Naples or Aspen who already understands the difference between a trainer's reputation and a privately kept airplane's logbook may want to look closely at this one.
Private Jet Owners

FAA Has Its Best Year Yet for Controller Hiring, Still Short of Its Own Staffing Goal

The FAA has hired more air traffic controllers than in any year before, a milestone worth noting for anyone who regularly files IFR. As of August, the agency still had several hundred fewer controllers than the number it set for itself. For owners, controller staffing comes down to the people on the other end of the frequency. The record year moves things the right way, and the remaining gap is the number to watch.
Where They Eat

Twenty-Four Small Doors, and This Year the Early Shopper Gets the First Bite

The food advent calendars for 2026 are already on sale, with the first of December still two months off. Eater has put together a guide to this year's best, and it comes from a simple idea: in a month spent buying for everyone else, one gift can be kept for the person who opens the little door each morning. From a kitchen counter in Naples to a pantry shelf in Aspen, the routine is the same. Open one small window before coffee and eat one small thing, every morning until the 24th.
Where They Eat

For the After-Dinner Pour: Cazcanes Reposados That Each Borrowed a Fruit Liqueur's Barrel

Cazcanes has released a set of reposado tequilas in which every bottling rested in its own barrel. Before the agave spirit went in, each of those barrels had held a liqueur made from a pitted orchard fruit, and no two held the same one. That makes it a lineup of siblings with one difference between them: what the wood held before. For anyone who keeps a serious bar cart or orders down the agave list after dinner, it's a chance to taste how much a barrel's earlier contents can shape a tequila, one cask at a time.
Where They Eat

Hilton Is Ready for the Guest Who Sends an Assistant to Book the Room

Hilton's chief executive has said the company wants reservations made by AI agents to be easy. That means the software assistants a traveler might ask to find and reserve a room. The technology is still catching up to that welcome. Meta's assistant, Muse, often has trouble getting a rate from the websites of the big hotel companies. For now, an agent may have better luck going through an online travel agency than through the hotel's own site.
What It Sold For

Out Back on Himrod Street, a Paved Yard Earns Its Place

One of this week's New York rentals worth a closer look sits on Himrod Street, and part of what makes it stand out is a backyard finished in concrete. A hard-surfaced yard is a city kind of luxury: it asks little upkeep and can hold a table, a few chairs and a summer evening. In a market where private outdoor space behind an apartment is rare, a yard done well is worth noticing. No price or other details were given, so we report only the address and the yard.
What It Sold For

Penny Hardy's New Book Treats the Curbside Dining Room as Architecture

Penny Hardy has published a book about the streetery, the dining room that moved off the sidewalk and into the street, and she covers its earliest, roughest years. Her subject is building by people who were never trained as architects, put up during a difficult period. The book gives those makeshift rooms the attention usually given to houses with an architect's name on them. Readers who follow how American places are built will see a book that takes design seriously wherever it turns up, including at the curb.
What It Sold For

In the Hudson Valley, a Ceramist Finally Builds the House She Always Pictured

Sunshine Thacker, the ceramist and artist, has built a home of her own in New York's Hudson Valley, set in a clearing under the cover of trees. The house is the one she spent her life imagining, and it is now standing. It is rich in color, and she made it to hold the things she remembers and the things she feels as much as to house her. No architect, price or address is on the record, so this desk reports the house and leaves the figures alone.
Photo by Nikoloz Gachechiladze on Unsplash
What It Sold For

In Laguna Beach, the Last House Diane Keaton Remade Asks $10.3 Million

The house Diane Keaton took on as her last design project is now for sale in Laguna Beach, California, at an asking price of $10.3 million. The actor led the renovation herself. That matters here, because she treated interiors as a serious second pursuit and not a passing hobby. Laguna Beach sits on the Orange County coast, between Los Angeles and San Diego, and is one of the most watched stretches of coastline in the California market. For buyers who follow houses as closely as they follow sales figures, the draw goes beyond the address. This is a place where the owner's taste is part of the property, because she made the choices herself. The published asking price is what the market is being asked to pay for that. Whatever it finally sells for will tell us how much the market values a house shaped by a famous eye.
What It Sold For

'Verity' Builds Its Suspense Into a House in the Woods

The new film of Colleen Hoover's "Verity" centers on a single house, a large residence set apart among the trees. Its design is meant to do two things at once: draw a viewer in with its allure and keep them uneasy at the same time. That double effect comes from deliberate design choices, which is why a house built for the screen deserves a careful look. The report names no architect, no address and no price, so for now the house can only be judged as audiences will see it, on screen.
What It Sold For

The Fall Bedroom, Considered: AD Editors Name Seven Quilts and Coverlets for 2026

Architectural Digest's editors have slept on a range of quilts and coverlets and narrowed the field to seven for 2026. The timing is seasonal: with fall here, the bedroom is the room most people turn to first. A quilt or coverlet is the layer that sits on top of the bed and sets the tone of the whole room, so the choice deserves the care any house deserves. From a Palm Beach guest room to an Aspen primary suite, this is the season to choose that layer with an editor's eye.
What They Collect

Van Gogh Didn't Commit to Painting Until 27, and Dutch Realism Was His Starting Point

Vincent van Gogh was 27 when he chose to make art his profession in 1880, which is a late start for the painter. When he began, he already knew the realist painting of the Netherlands, and certain artists in that tradition were among his favorites. For collectors who think about a painter's work in terms of early and late periods, this is the start: a grown man taking up the brush seriously, with Dutch realism as what he knew best.
What They Collect

New York Puts $10,000 Into the Hands of Its Working Artists

New York City is doubling the grant it gives to artists who apply on their own, bringing each award to $10,000. Diya Vij, the commissioner who leads the city's Department of Cultural Affairs, talked through the change in a recent conversation, along with her wider plans for the agency and the money it sends both to nonprofit organizations and to artists working independently. The headline number is simple: a grant that used to be half as large now reaches five figures. For a painter, a sculptor or a designer working alone in this city, that's a real sum. It can pay for a stretch of studio rent, materials or the hours a piece needs. Collectors notice this kind of support because the work that later reaches galleries and auction rooms often begins in studios like these. Vij framed the increase as part of how she sees her department's role, which is to back cultural organizations and individual makers together.
What They Collect

October's Gallery Calendar Runs From Paper to Gas-Lit Light

October brings eight single-artist gallery exhibitions that Galerie has picked as essential viewing. At one end of the list is Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, whose drawings are dreamlike and full of symbols, and whose paper work is folded up into three-dimensional installations. At the other end is Keith Sonnier, shown through his first trials with neon and argon, the glowing gases behind his light-based sculpture. Between those two artists, the month covers both the quiet work of the hand on paper and the bright glow of the tube.
What They Collect

A Damien Hirst Edition of Dom Pérignon Arrives for the Close of 2026

Dom Pérignon has brought in Damien Hirst to design its limited edition for 2026, a release collectors of artist-made objects will want to note. The champagne house's familiar shield now appears in rose and blue, worked into a kaleidoscopic pattern. The edition is timed for the end of the year, when the season's toasts begin. For anyone who follows what happens when an artist takes on a well-known emblem, this is the shield to look at.
What They Collect

A Gensler-Designed Showroom Opens for Tai Ping and Edward Fields in Manhattan

Tai Ping and Edward Fields now have a new showroom in Manhattan, and the architecture firm Gensler designed it. The opening brought out two artists who have worked with the brands, Fernando Mastrangelo and Yolande Milan Batteau, along with designers and others from New York's design world who came to raise a glass to the room. Galerie was there too. For readers who follow how design reaches the people who buy it, a showroom is where that happens. Clients and the designers who advise them see the work in person there, before anything is ordered. Having the brands' collaborating artists in the room on opening night showed what the new space is for.
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Beverly Hills News

Sony Pictures Negotiating for Christopher McQuarrie's Film Version of EA's "Battlefield"

Sony Pictures is negotiating to take on a film based on "Battlefield," the military-themed video game owned by Electronic Arts. Christopher McQuarrie is set as the project's writer and director, and he would also serve as a producer. Michael B. Jordan is a producer on the film and may also appear in it. No casting has been confirmed. The studio has not yet closed a deal, and the talks are still underway. The project brings together a game publisher, a filmmaker who would handle the script, the direction and production himself, and a performer who has signed on behind the camera and could also act in it.
Beverly Hills News

Tilda Swinton's First Memoir Tells Her Story Through Objects, Not Dates

Tilda Swinton has written a memoir, her first, titled "Material Evidence," according to The Hollywood Reporter. The book does not move through her life year by year. Instead, the actress builds her account around things, with each object serving as a way into part of her story. For Beverly Hills readers who know her work on screen, the book offers a look at her life through the possessions she has chosen to write about.
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Beverly Hills News

Two Studio Names Will Answer to One Next Week: Skydance

Paramount and Warner Bros. are set to become a single studio next week, operating under the Skydance name, according to Variety. The transaction is scheduled to close on Tuesday. Variety reports that Skydance's 20-year record has centered on action films, including work with Tom Cruise and Mark Wahlberg. For readers who follow the film business here at home, that record now becomes the starting point for the combined company.
Beverly Hills News

Metallica Opens Its Life Burns Faster Residency at the Sphere in Las Vegas

Metallica has started its residency at the Sphere in Las Vegas, The Hollywood Reporter reported. The run is called Life Burns Faster, and the band's opening show has now been played. According to the trade publication, the band's set drew on music from across its 50-year career. The Hollywood Reporter's review of the opening show singled out several of the evening's standout moments. The Sphere is the venue for the full residency.
Beverly Hills News

Test Audiences Shaped the Final Ending of "Verity," Starring Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson

According to Variety, the ending moviegoers now see in "Verity" is not the one first planned for the film. The original version ended with a sharper turn, and the filmmakers changed it after test audiences watched the movie. Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson star in the film, a suspense drama with romantic and sexual themes that is now showing in cinemas. Variety's report gives away plot details, and this account does not.
Beverly Hills News

Test Audiences Shaped the Final Cut of "Verity," Starring Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson

"Verity," the new thriller starring Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson, is in theaters with an ending that differs from the one first written for it, according to Variety. The original conclusion went further than the version audiences see today, the publication reported, and it was revised after the film was shown to test audiences. Screenings like these let filmmakers see how a story lands with viewers before it opens. Moviegoers in Beverly Hills are seeing the version that came out of that process.
Beverly Hills News

Skydance Joins the Fortune 500 as Its CEO Tells Staff the Company Will Stay in Hollywood

Skydance has been added to the Fortune 500, and it is now the most recent Los Angeles company to make the list, Variety reported. Chief executive David Ellison wrote to staff last week that he intends to keep the company in Hollywood, according to the publication. With the ranking, Los Angeles has one more Fortune 500 company based in the city. Ellison's note to staff tied the company's future to Hollywood itself, which is a short drive from Beverly Hills.
Beverly Hills News

Skydance Joins Fortune 500 With CEO Pledging to Keep It in Hollywood

Skydance now ranks among the Fortune 500, which makes it the most recent Los Angeles company to make that list. Chief executive David Ellison wrote to the company's staff in recent days to say he intends to keep Skydance based in Hollywood. A Fortune 500 ranking puts a company among the largest businesses in the United States, and Los Angeles now has one more of them. For readers in Beverly Hills, the company in question is next door, in the part of the city most closely tied to the film business. Ellison sent the message to his own employees, the people whose work happens in Hollywood every day. His note tells them the company plans to stay where it is.
Beverly Hills News

Paul Thomas Anderson Films Cameron Winter's Carnegie Hall Performance for New York Film Festival Premiere

Paul Thomas Anderson's new documentary, "Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall," has premiered at the New York Film Festival, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film records a solo performance by Cameron Winter, lead singer of the band Geese, on the Carnegie Hall stage. It is Anderson's next project after "One Battle After Another." Anderson is an Academy Award winner. The Hollywood Reporter's review praises the film's spare approach and says it gives viewers the feeling of sitting in the hall during the performance. The film's subject, its setting and its premiere are all in New York.
Beverly Hills News

October Brings 17 New Films to Home Screens, With "Evil Dead Burn" Among Its Horror Titles

Variety has listed 17 new movies coming to streaming services this month, including "The Invite," "Disclosure Day" and "Evil Dead Burn." The outlet says two of this year's most closely watched horror films are among the October releases, which arrive in time for Halloween. "Evil Dead Burn" is one of those two, and Variety describes it as especially gory. For Beverly Hills residents planning a few evenings at home before Halloween, the list shows in one place what is newly available to watch.
Who Wore What When

Zac Posen Dresses Robbins's 1958 "Opus Jazz" in Denim and Sneakers for Miami City Ballet

Miami City Ballet is restaging Jerome Robbins's "Opus Jazz," and Zac Posen of GapStudio is designing new costumes for it. The choreography dates to 1958. Posen's version puts the dancers in denim and sneakers, clothes most of the audience could have worn to the theater. The ballet is part of Gonzalo Garcia's first season at the company, the first one he has programmed from start to finish. That makes it one of the clearest early signs of what his Miami City Ballet will look like. For an archive like ours, it's a pleasing entry: a 1958 work, a named designer and wardrobe items as everyday as jeans and sneakers. Robbins wrote the dances, and Posen chose what the company will wear while dancing them.
Who Wore What When

The Airbrush Steps Off the Boardwalk and Onto the Spring 2027 Collections

The spray gun once known for souvenir tees at seaside stands has become one of the defining crafts of the spring 2027 collections. Designers have put airbrushing at the center of the season, giving a beach-town art form a seat in serious fashion. For readers who know a Florida summer, from the Miami shoreline to the Gulf Coast sand at Naples, the reference is easy to place. What used to be a vacation keepsake is now the technique fashion is watching.
Who Wore What When

The $100 Line: Vogue's Gift Edit Covers Fashion, Beauty and the Home

Vogue has put together a holiday gift list with a strict rule: nothing on it costs more than one hundred dollars. The picks cover three areas: things to wear, upscale beauty, and pieces for the house. The low price limit is what makes it worth a look, since the list treats a reasonable budget as a test of good taste rather than a compromise. Whether the gifts end up in Palm Beach, Nashville or Aspen, the list is built for people who want a present to feel considered without the price being the point.
Who Wore What When

Léa Seydoux Chooses the Unanswered Question

Léa Seydoux sat down with Vogue to talk about "The Unknown," the new film from director Arthur Harari, and about how she approaches the work of a performance. She also explained why she keeps choosing stories built on who a person really is, on puzzles that stay unsolved, and on the things nobody can fully know. The headline also promised her thoughts on beauty and fame, two subjects this archive watches closely, if only from the front row. For readers from Beverly Hills to New York, the takeaway is simple: here is an actress who prefers the question to the answer, and who said so plainly.
Who Wore What When

The Sneaker Earns Its Place After the Show

Once the runway work is over, the shoe that matters is a sneaker. Through fashion month, the models walking those shows have been wearing sneakers as their everyday shoe, and that's a lead worth following. It works just as well at a Saturday lunch in Palm Beach or on a gallery walk in Aspen as it does between appointments in Manhattan. When the people who wear the most considered shoes for a living choose sneakers for themselves, the rest of us can follow their example.
Who Wore What When

Nike Finds Its Footing Again, One Sport at a Time

At Nike, the performance categories are where the momentum is: running shoes, basketball, training gear and soccer are all drawing more interest at the company, and a few other categories are moving with them. For an archive that tracks what people wear and when, this is the useful part: the shoes built for actual sport are the ones doing the work. That covers the track, the court, the gym floor and the pitch, and those are also the pairs most likely to show up on a morning walk in Palm Beach or a sidewalk in New York.
Who Wore What When

Nike Finds Its Stride on the Track, the Court and the Pitch

Nike's sport categories are carrying the momentum right now. Its running, basketball and training lines are picking up speed, and soccer is moving with them, along with other categories. For a desk that usually tracks the gown and the crown, it's a reminder that some of the most-worn clothes in America are the ones made to move in. From a Palm Beach morning run to a pickup game in Los Angeles, the sneaker is getting its moment.
Who Wore What When

Hair Takes a Front-Row Seat: L'Oréal Professionnel Sets Its Sights on Fashion

Claire Le Bleis, who leads L'Oréal Professionnel worldwide, has made fashion one of the salon-hair label's main goals, alongside several other plans to change how the company works. For an archive that tracks the gown, the designer and the year, the move is good news: the haircut and the blowout count as part of the look, not something added at the end. The details are still to come. From Palm Beach salons to Beverly Hills chairs, readers who know that a great dress needs great hair will want to see where she takes it.
Who Wore What When

Spring 2027 Makeup Has One New Rule: Don't Forget the Ears

The Spring 2027 shows treated the face as somewhere to play, and Harper's Bazaar has counted 35 bright, inventive beauty looks from the season. The standouts include mouths in soft lavender, color brushed onto the ears, and a dreamlike, surreal mood across much of the makeup. These looks ask for nerve and a steady hand, and they reward both. From a Palm Beach luncheon to a Beverly Hills dinner, the woman who tries one first won't just be keeping up with the season; she'll be setting it.
What They Ride

Saratoga's Whitney Day Opener Sends Gaudreau and U.S.S. Valor to the Champagne

The Champagne will bring Gaudreau and U.S.S. Valor back onto the same track, and the pairing heads the "Super Saturday" card. Both are graduates of the maiden race that opened Whitney Day at Saratoga on Aug. 8, and that race now looks like one of the most productive of the summer. One of the colts in this rematch has not run since that first start, which he won by a half-length. Few maiden races in a season send runners on to a stakes like this one. When an Aug. 8 opener at the Spa produces a matchup good enough to lead the program, the people who bred, bought and trained these colts deserve some credit. They will meet in the Champagne with the summer behind them.
What They Ride

Extravaganzoo Turns a Saratoga Third Into a Stakes Win

Extravaganzoo has won the Gimma. In its previous start, on Aug. 26 at Saratoga, it ran third in the Bolton Landing Stakes, which was open to all comers. Coming back from that race, it ran the Gimma cleanly from start to finish. That result makes Extravaganzoo the second stakes winner sired by Golden Pal. The Bolton Landing was the stronger test, against an unrestricted field. The Gimma is where Extravaganzoo turned that experience into a win. For anyone following a young stallion's first crops, the count of stakes winners matters most, and Golden Pal's now stands at two.
What They Ride

New York Breeders Gain a Grade I Pegasus Winner for the 2027 Season

Skippylongstocking, who won the Grade I Pegasus World Cup Invitational, is going to stud in New York. Owner Daniel Alonso has sent the horse to Amsterdam Two Farm in Middleburgh, where he will begin covering mares in 2027. That puts a Grade I winner on a New York farm, and the state's breeders can book him without shipping their mares far. He is by Exaggerator out of the mare Twinkling, and his broodmare sire is War Chant. A breeder looking at that page will see a Grade I win on the racetrack and a pedigree to plan matings around. The 2027 date also gives Middleburgh some time before the first mares arrive at their new stallion. A horse who won one of the country's top dirt races is now beginning his second career on a New York farm.
What They Ride

The Firing Line Gelding Does It Again: Nakatomi Wins the Phoenix for a Second Straight Year

Nakatomi won the Phoenix again on Friday, which makes him the defending champion two years running. The gelding is seven, an age when plenty of sprinters have long since left the track, and he did it the hard way. He sat at the very back of the field early and then passed every horse in the race, timing his run so that he hit the front when it counted. He is by Firing Line, out of the Flatter mare Applelicious, and on Friday he raced like a horse well suited to the job. Saratoga fans already know him from the summer of 2024, when he won the Grade I Alfred G. Vanderbilt Handicap there. Coming from last takes patience from the horse and nerve from the rider, and when it works it is one of the best things to watch in American racing. A seven-year-old who can still do it, and do it in a race he won the year before, has earned a second look.
What They Ride

The Girvin Filly Who Ran Down Seneca Park in the Jessamine

Serenas Ghost, a daughter of Girvin, took the 'WAYI' Jessamine in an upset, collaring Seneca Park after that filly had set the pace from the front. The deciding work came in the final furlongs. Serenas Ghost did not take a straight line home; she shifted and weaved through the stretch before getting past the leader. Track announcer Kurt Becker's call made clear the run home was anything but routine. Seneca Park had gone to the post as the second choice and had control of the race until the late run reached her. For Girvin, it is a stakes win by one of his daughters, and it came from a filly who had to do it the hard way.
What They Ride

Upstart Colt Kingside Shakes Off Early Trouble to Win as Keeneland Opens

Kingside, a two-year-old colt by Upstart, won on the first afternoon of racing at Keeneland. He is out of the mare Mitigate, a daughter of Exaggerator. That gives the young horse a pedigree that reads well on both sides of the page. His race did not start cleanly. Moments after the gates opened he was pinched back between horses, which is a hard thing for a juvenile still learning his trade. He recovered his footing, settled into fourth, and stayed close behind the three horses ahead of him. From that spot the afternoon became his. In a race this young, keeping his composure after early trouble counted for as much as his speed, and Kingside handled both on the day Lexington's racing season began.
What They Collect

The Greek Words Behind Every Auction Catalog

Anyone who has paged through a sale catalog in New York or Palm Beach has been reading ancient Greek without noticing it. According to The Collector, words like "theory," "analysis," "hypothesis" and "category" are more than borrowed vocabulary: they carry a way of reasoning that first took shape in ancient Greece. For collectors, whose work runs on sorting objects into categories and testing a hypothesis about where a piece came from, that habit of mind is part of the daily routine. The same discipline that makes a good catalog note makes a good collection.
What They Collect

Erin Johnson's Films on Animals Get a Survey at the University of Georgia

A survey of Erin Johnson's films is now open at the Athenaeum, the University of Georgia's exhibition space. The films are built around animal narratives, and one of them follows feral dogs that became an unlikely line of resistance to nuclear arms. A survey asks viewers to take a body of work as a whole, so visitors can follow the artist's attention to animals from one film to the next. For readers who track where serious moving-image work is shown in this country, the show is worth noting on the Southern university calendar.
Class of Florida

Voutilainen and Journe Lead Phillips New York's Biggest Online Watch Sale Yet

Phillips New York has put together its fall watch auction, and two names lead the catalog: Kari Voutilainen and F.P.Journe. By value, it is the largest online watch sale the New York house has ever staged. The bidding happens on a screen, so a collector in Palm Beach, Naples or Miami doesn't need to be in Manhattan to take part. For a reader here, that may be the most useful detail. Watch people know these two names on a dial mean careful, patient watchmaking, and the sale is built around that craft. New York is hosting it, but a phone in hand gives anyone the same seat.
Photo by Mick Haupt on Unsplash
Class of Florida

For Orlando Bloom, the Driver's Seat Is Where His Head Clears

Orlando Bloom turned up when Porsche Design unveiled its Concours project, and he used the moment to talk about what the marque means to him and what luxury means to him. He also described the calm, focused headspace he finds when he's driving. Anyone who has taken the Tamiami Trail south toward Naples with the radio off, or driven A1A past Palm Beach before the town wakes up, knows the feeling: the road gives your mind something steady to work on, and the noise falls away. Bloom treats that quiet as part of what a fine car is for, along with how it looks parked at a concours.
Class of Florida

A Room at the Frick, Scaled Down for Palm Beach

Eittem has partnered with New York's Frick Collection on a new set of accessories, and some of the inspiration came from one room inside the museum's mansion, the Walnut Room. Anyone who has stayed in a gallery longer than the plan allowed will understand why a designer would start with a single room rather than the whole house. Palm Beach will get the idea right away, since this is a town that talks about a well-proportioned room the way other places talk about a good tailor. Naples will like that the brief stayed focused on one room, and Miami will mostly want to know where the pieces should go. The appeal is simple: something that began as a museum interior on Fifth Avenue becomes something you can take home.
Class of Nashville

Josh Ross Marks His Second No. 1 With the People Who Got Him There

On Sept. 30, Josh Ross toasted a song that reached the top of the chart, his second to get there, at a party in Nashville. The guest list was a careful mix: the family who knew him first, the friends who stayed close, and colleagues from the business side of the music industry. A first No. 1 introduces an artist. A second one confirms the first was earned, and Nashville takes that seriously enough to throw a party for it. In this town it's a good sign when the people who share your private life and the people who build your career are happy to celebrate in the same room.
What It Sold For

An Accra Museum of Art and Architecture Makes Its First New York Appearance, at Moss

Limbo Museum, an art and architecture institution based in Accra, Ghana, came to New York for the first time this season with an evening benefit at Moss. The museum timed the evening to The Armory Show, the week when the city's collectors, dealers and design people are already out looking. For readers who follow architecture as closely as the market, an institution devoted to both choosing New York for its first appearance is worth noting. No figures from the benefit have been made public, and we won't guess at them.
What It Sold For

A Hirst for the Bar Cart: Kaleidoscope Arrives on Dom Pérignon's 2026 Bottles

Damien Hirst has carried his Kaleidoscope series off the wall and onto the Champagne bottle. It appears on Dom Pérignon's 2026 special releases, and the artist spoke about the collaboration in an interview with Surface. This is the painter of the dot canvases and the shark suspended in preservative, now working at the scale of something you hold in one hand. For a collector, that changes where his work lives in a house. It moves from the gallery wall to the bar cart, the sideboard and the dining table where the cork is pulled. No price for the bottles is on the record, so we won't put a figure on them.
Icons of Palm Beach

Before the Season Turns: Town & Country's Autumn Edit for the Outdoors

Town & Country's editors have put together their favorite things for autumn days outdoors, for anyone spending the weeks before the season in orchards or under turning leaves. The list covers a fall walk through a park, an afternoon of apple picking and the plain need to stay dry when the weather turns. For anyone heading north before coming back to the island, it's a useful edit to check before packing. Even here, a well-chosen layer against the rain earns its place.
Icons of Palm Beach

Mr. and Mrs. Carbone Take the Seagram Building, With Benson Boone at the Microphone

Mario Carbone and Cait Bailey Carbone are now married, and the two of them celebrated it in New York at the Seagram Building. Their party was big, and the room fit it. Benson Boone sang for the guests. Hiring a singer of his stature for a wedding tells you how much effort the couple put into the evening. He is a chef whose name already means something to anyone who books a table well in advance, and she is a strategist people trust with their brands. Bringing that much talent into one room under one name is something they plainly know how to do. Many of our readers spend part of the year in Manhattan, and they will understand why the address matters. Few Manhattan buildings carry as much architectural weight, and choosing it for a wedding says the hosts know a setting has to earn its guests. We send our warmest congratulations to the newlyweds.
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Icons of Palm Beach

Shuffle Along Is Back on Stage, With a Party to Match

Shuffle Along, one of the great names in Broadway history, has come back in concert form, and seats were hard to get. Its return was marked with a party where well-known faces filled the guest list. A concert staging puts the score and the voices first, and that is why people wanted a seat. For readers who spend part of the year in Manhattan between seasons, it is the kind of evening that comes up over lunch on Worth Avenue.
Private Jet Owners

The Next Few Minutes Are the Ones That Count in the Clouds

For an owner flying their own airplane in instrument conditions, the advice comes down to time: keep your attention on what the airplane will be doing in the next stretch of the flight, not on what it just did. That matters most when the autopilot and flight director are doing the flying and the pilot is watching. The skill being described is anticipation, meaning you already know the next turn, level-off or mode change before the panel shows it. The well-run IFR cockpit, whether it is departing out of Naples or descending into Aspen, belongs to the pilot who is a few steps ahead of the airplane.
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Private Jet Owners

The Pilot Billing by the Day: A Gulfstream Flier on What the Temporary Seat Earns

The fourth episode of Flying's "Aviation Start" series looks at pilots who are paid by the day instead of being kept on a payroll. Jay Kadir, who flies Gulfstreams, explains how that work is priced and how a month of it can reach $50,000. Owners usually see that number as an invoice for filling a seat. Kadir explains it from the cockpit side. He also covers how much of the work comes from relationships and referrals rather than applications. His main message is for pilots rather than principals: a flying career does not have to run through an airline. Owners who run their own flight departments, whether they are based in Palm Beach or Aspen, will know the arrangement he describes, because they are the ones signing for it.
Private Jet Owners

2,235 Hires Into the Pipeline That Will One Day Read Back Your Clearances

The FAA took on 2,235 controller trainees in its 2026 fiscal year, the most it has ever brought on in a single year. The agency is using the hiring to close staffing gaps at facilities around the country. The number is big, but owners will care more about what it feeds: the people who will someday issue your IFR release, sequence you into a crowded approach and hand you to the next sector. It's the right direction for anyone who files to Teterboro, Palm Beach or Aspen.
Beverly Hills News

Ten New York Stage Talents Named to Variety's 2026 Broadway List

Variety has published this year's edition of a list it runs every year, naming 10 people working on Broadway whose careers the magazine expects to follow in 2026. The group is broader than performers alone: it includes actors along with composers, librettists and playwrights. Whitney Leavitt and Mason Alexander Park are among those selected, as is the cast of the revival of "Spring Awakening." The honorees' current and upcoming work includes "Purple Rain," which the magazine cited among the productions on their slates.
Beverly Hills News

Ice Age, Percy Jackson and Felicity Headed to Netflix Under Disney Licensing Agreement

Disney has agreed to license a group of its films and series to Netflix, according to Variety. The titles include all five films in the "Ice Age" series, "Percy Jackson and the Olympians" and "Felicity," among others. Disney and Netflix run rival streaming services and seek the same subscribers. Variety reported that Disney sees Netflix's audience of more than 325 million as a way to earn revenue from its own titles and bring them to more viewers. Under the agreement, viewers in Beverly Hills will be able to find these Disney titles on Netflix as well as through Disney's own service.
Beverly Hills News

Music Box Films Brings ‘Steal This Story, Please!’ to Home Screens Oct. 20

Music Box Films has bought the North American rights to “Steal This Story, Please!”, a documentary connected to Amy Goodman. The distributor plans to release the film on the leading digital storefronts on Oct. 20. That means viewers in Beverly Hills and across the rest of the continent can watch it at home rather than seek out a theater. For a documentary, a distribution deal of this kind is how the film reaches a wide audience. The release falls less than three weeks from today, so it is close enough to plan around.
Beverly Hills News

An Amy Goodman Documentary Comes to Home Screens October 20

Starting Oct. 20, viewers in Beverly Hills and across North America can watch "Steal This Story, Please!", a documentary tied to Amy Goodman, at home, according to Variety. Music Box Films has bought the film's distribution rights for the continent. The company plans to make the documentary available that day on the leading digital services. For local audiences, that means the film can be streamed at home rather than seen only in a theater.
Beverly Hills News

Eminem Brings a Video Game of His Own to New York Comic Con

Eminem and NERDS Clothing will debut a joint release at New York Comic Con next week, Variety reports. NERDS Clothing is a label that blends street apparel with pop culture. The collaboration will offer clothing and merchandise in a limited run, available while the convention is underway. It will also introduce a video game made new for the project. Both the game and the collection will make their first appearance together on the floor of the New York event.
Beverly Hills News

Hathaway and Johnson's 'Verity' Opens With $4.5 Million in Early Screenings

"Verity," the film version of Colleen Hoover's novel, took in $4.5 million from preview showings ahead of its opening weekend. Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson star in the thriller, which Amazon MGM is releasing. The preview total is the first box office figure for the film, and it arrives before the full weekend count. "Digger," another new release, reported $1.2 million from its own previews over the same period. Preview figures show how many moviegoers chose to buy tickets before the regular run began. For Los Angeles and Beverly Hills readers, the Hathaway and Johnson film is now playing in theaters for the weekend.
Beverly Hills News

Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson's 'Verity' Opens to $4.5 Million in Early Screenings

"Verity," the Amazon MGM thriller starring Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson, earned $4.5 million from preview screenings ahead of its first full weekend in theaters, according to Variety. The film is based on a novel by Colleen Hoover, and it is the latest of the author's books to be made into a movie. The preview figure is the first box office number for the film. Variety also reported that "Digger" took in $1.2 million from its own previews. The two films are opening in theaters over the same weekend. In Los Angeles, many of the people who make films like these will be watching the opening-weekend totals as they come in. Weekend box office results are expected in the coming days.
What They Drive

A Ferrari Michael Jordan Drove to Work in Chicago Brings a Record $2.7 Million

Michael Jordan's Ferrari 550 Maranello has sold for $2.7 million, a record figure. Jordan drove the car rather than storing it, putting upwards of six thousand miles on the odometer while it was his. Many of those miles came on the trips between home and his games in Chicago. That is the part collectors will notice. The car was used for the commute of one of the most celebrated athletes the country has produced, and the buyer valued that history at a record price.
What They Drive

Know the Trade Before You Make It

Before an owner hands over the keys to the outgoing car at the dealership, it helps to understand how a trade actually works. Car and Driver has laid out how the exchange works so that an owner can set a sensible figure for the car they are parting with. The same understanding also answers a more basic question: whether trading in is the right move for that owner at all. For readers from Naples to Aspen thinking about their next car, this is homework to do before sitting down at the sales desk.
Who Wore What When

Two Fashion Provocateurs Make the Case for Mischief

Jean Paul Gaultier and Duran Lantink, two designers who have made a craft of misbehaving, sat down together for a conversation. They talked about the pleasures of rattling fashion's establishment, the narrow rule of good taste, and the real value of breaking the rules now and then. For readers whose closets run from Palm Beach linen to Aspen shearling, it's a useful reminder that some of the most memorable looks were never meant to be safe.
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Easy Spirit Puts Its Comfort Shoes Behind a $25,000 Pledge in Pink

Easy Spirit has promised at least $25,000 to research into breast cancer, working with the charity Shoes for a Cure. The gift is the center of Move For Pink, a campaign the brand runs every year, and the $25,000 is a floor rather than a ceiling. The partner is a shoe charity, which suits a brand known for footwear. Pink suits the cause too, in a closet from New York to Naples. This archive usually tracks who wore what and when, and here the point is what a pair of shoes can pay for.
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Phe Phe Opens Its Doors, Briefly, and Makes a Move Into Beauty

Brigette McHale and Danielle Pheloung, the founders behind Phe Phe, sat down with WWD for an exclusive conversation about the label's debut temporary shop, the moment a young brand first meets its customers face to face rather than through a screen. The two also talked through how their collections are landing and where they intend to take the business next. The headline for anyone who keeps a well-stocked vanity is that Phe Phe is stepping into beauty, carrying a fashion name over to the dressing table. For an archive that tracks who wore what and when, it is a date worth noting: the day a label decided its signature should go on more than clothes.
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Sarah Jessica Parker Lets the Silver Show at the New York City Ballet's Fall Fashion Gala

At the New York City Ballet's Fall Fashion Gala, the look Sarah Jessica Parker wore most clearly for the occasion was her hair. She wore it in a single long herringbone plait, and natural strands of gray ran through it from top to end. A plait like that works almost like a ribbon. The woven pattern catches the light along its whole length, and the silver threads made the effect stronger, picking out every crossover in the weave. For a gala in honor of a ballet company, the choice suited the room: it was neat, pulled back and quietly romantic, the kind of style you might picture on a dancer waiting in the wings. It is also a lesson for any New Yorker planning a fall evening out: a carefully done braid can carry as much of the look as anything else you wear, and gray worked into it adds to the effect.
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McKenna Grace Splurges on the Lips, Saves on the Lashes

McKenna Grace has split her beauty budget cleanly: a high-end oil for the lips and a pharmacy-aisle mascara for the lashes. Talking with Fashionista about what she reaches for as the weather turns, the actor, who also sings and produces, said comfort comes first when she gets dressed. Plenty of handbags from Beverly Hills to Palm Beach hold the same pairing of one indulgence and one dependable bargain, side by side in the same zip pocket.
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Coach's Fall Handbags: The Bag That Works From Morning Meeting to Dinner

Elle's editors have looked through Coach's fall collection and picked their favorite handbags. They chose bags that last the whole day: one that's right for a desk at nine and still right at a dinner table after dark. In Palm Beach or Manhattan, a reader's real question this time of year isn't which bag looks best on a shelf. It's which one can stay on her arm from the first meeting to the last toast without making her change.
Photo by Yudi Rahono on Unsplash
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The Plastic Sleeve Around the New Piece Gets a Second Life

Before a new acquisition reaches the closet, it usually comes wrapped in a clear plastic sleeve, and that sleeve usually goes straight into the trash. The startup Weavabel says it has built a way to collect those bags once they've been used and process them back into usable material, so the wrapping goes around again instead of ending there. It's the part of a delivery nobody photographs, and the kind of behind-the-scenes care that a closet worth keeping a record of tends to deserve.
Who Wore What When

Oct. 15, Manhattan: Fashion Shares a Table With Food at the Tasteful Summit

Save the date: Oct. 15, in Manhattan. That is when the Tasteful Summit puts fashion executives and food executives on the same agenda for one full day. The speakers are founders and top leaders from a number of brands, the people who set the course at their companies rather than report on it. At most industry gatherings these two worlds keep separate tables. Here they share a room on purpose, and the pairing is what makes the date worth noting. For an archive that records who wore what and where, a Manhattan date with this many decision-makers in one room deserves a mark on the calendar. We'll be watching the room on Oct. 15.
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Dressed to Take the Meeting: Matt Damon and Luciana Barroso at the 'Animals' Premiere

Some couples come to a premiere to pose. Matt Damon and Luciana Barroso came dressed to run the meeting. On Thursday evening they brought sharp, authoritative tailoring to the opening of "Animals." It's the kind of dressing that projects confidence before anyone has said a word. They had good company, too: Netflix's Ted Sarandos and Bela Bajaria came out for the night, and so did Ben Affleck. For the archive, it's a premiere night and a couple who knew exactly how they wanted to show up.
Photo by Clotee Pridgen Allochuku on Flickr
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Kerry Washington Lets a Crystal Zebra and a Checkmate Ring Do the Talking at the 'Animals' Premiere

Kerry Washington wore white Carolina Herrera to the premiere of "Animals" and let two small accessories carry the wit. In one hand she held a crystal zebra clutch by Judith Leiber. On her finger was a Checkmate ring in black enamel and diamonds. Against all that white, both pieces stand out right away: the wild markings of the clutch and the sharp, graphic lines of the ring. It's a lesson in proportion, because the Herrera stays calm and the two smallest things in the picture set the mood. The pairing also suits the film: a zebra fits a premiere called "Animals," and the ring takes its name from the last move in a game of chess.
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Sarah Jessica Parker Makes the Case for the Very Long Braid

Sarah Jessica Parker is wearing a braid long enough to earn a fairy-tale nickname. Harper's Bazaar points to both the color and the styling as reasons it works, and singles it out as a model for women in their fifties and beyond. It's a quiet rebuttal to the old rule that hair should get shorter as the birthdays add up, and readers from Palm Beach to Beverly Hills who've been told to "go sensible" may want to bring it to their next salon appointment.
What They Ride

At Hernandez Farm, the Barn and the Ball Diamond Belong to the Same Family

America's Best Racing has looked past the racing colors to profile Hernandez Farm, where the horses share the spotlight with baseball and a family that clearly enjoys both. The profile opens with a Louisiana childhood, and it shows a racing operation that is also a home. This page covers the people behind the horses as well as the horses, and an outfit where the barn and the ball field both matter is a fair picture of how American racing runs at its best.
Private Jet Owners

Duffy's Certification Push Reaches the Hangar

Transportation Secretary Duffy wants new aircraft to get through government approval faster. The secretary gave two reasons: approval takes too long, and other countries are competing for the same business. For owners, the time to certify a type is the gap between a manufacturer announcing an airplane and an airplane they can take delivery of and fly. For now the secretary has only asked for faster approval. No rule has changed, and nothing changes the paperwork on any airframe flying today.
What They Drive

Ford Brings Its Works Effort Back to the World Rally Championship for 2028

Ford will come back to the World Rally Championship in 2028, and this time it will run the effort itself as a manufacturer-backed works entry. The company already races in Formula 1, NASCAR, the World Endurance Championship, and the Dakar. Rally will be its fifth series, so the same badge will appear on open-wheel grids, stock car ovals, endurance prototypes, desert raid machines, and gravel stages. For American owners and collectors who follow the Blue Oval, the news means one of the country's own marques is adding another major international championship to its program.
Photo by Pandamera1 on Flickr
What They Drive

Two 2027 British Grand Tourers in S Trim: Aston Martin DB12 S and Bentley Continental GT S

Two of the 2027 model year's most closely watched grand tourers, the Aston Martin DB12 S and the Bentley Continental GT S, now have a larger set of images available. That gives owners and collectors a better look at both cars in S form, one from Gaydon and one from Crewe. For readers from Palm Beach to Aspen who follow these marques by model year and specification, the photos are the clearest view yet of how each house has finished its S car for 2027.
Class of Nashville

Pink Gets an Early Start at the Conrad on Sunday

The Conrad Nashville will open its doors on a Sunday morning for Power in Pink, a wellness gathering held for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. It is an early start, set for the hours before the weekend gets loud, and spent on looking after yourself. October in this city tends to fill up with galas and late dinners, so a morning given to wellness and a good cause is a welcome change of pace. Anyone in Nashville who keeps an eye on what happens before brunch should put this one on the calendar.
Class of Nashville

Four Courses, One Table: Christmas Eve Belongs at Blue Aster

Blue Aster is serving a four-course dinner on Christmas Eve, which falls on a Thursday this year. In a season of crowded parties and rushed handshakes, a dinner paced across four courses is a chance for a family or a few close friends to slow down for an evening. For Nashville readers who would rather spend that night at a set table than at their own stove, this is one to plan around now. The courses will come out one after another, and nobody at the table has to cook or clean up.
Beverly Hills News

Paul Thomas Anderson's Concert Film Puts Cameron Winter on the Carnegie Hall Stage

Director Paul Thomas Anderson has made a concert film of a performance by Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall in New York, according to a review published by Variety. The film is titled "Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall." Winter performs alone, and the film is structured around the songs. The review describes piano notes carrying through the hall and a full sound weighted toward the lower register. Winter sings in a deep baritone, according to the review. Variety's critic gave the film a favorable review.
What They Collect

Buffalo Gets the First Look at Alex Da Corte's Opera in Animation

Alex Da Corte has made an opera told through animation, and its first audience will be in Buffalo, New York. The work is described as being on a grand scale, and it will debut in that city before it goes anywhere else. When a new piece by a named American artist opens in a particular city, that city becomes part of the work's story, and here that city is Buffalo. Collectors and institutions who follow Da Corte will want to note where it starts.
Who Wore What When

Ilona Maher's Best Accessory Doesn't Come in a Box: It's Confidence

The medal-winning Olympian has named the habit she relies on most, and it isn't a serum, a supplement or a schedule. It's confidence. Speaking as an ambassador for Burn Boot Camp, Maher walked through how she builds strength, starting in the mind and only then moving to the body. At a title that keeps track of who wore what, we take the point: even the best-cut look starts with how the person wearing it carries herself. From a Manhattan sidewalk to a Beverly Hills carpet, confidence is the one piece nobody can borrow.
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Twenty-Five Years On, Artists Space Gives Theresa Hak Kyung Cha the Whole Room

It has been a quarter century since anyone mounted a full survey of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's career, and Artists Space has now ended that wait with "Multiple Offerings." Cha's work never settled into a single category, and the exhibition treats that as its subject. Rather than force her into one discipline, it lays out the threads that run through her practice: words and speech, displacement from home, what memory holds on to, and the history of Korea. The show doesn't stop at hanging the pieces. It reads them closely and helps the visitor do the same. At a title that files every look by designer, year and occasion, we know the pleasure of a careful annotation, and this one is on the walls. Note the name of the exhibition and the institution, because this is the occasion.
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Jennifer Lopez Names Fall's Brown, and Puts a Headpiece Few Attempt Back in Play

Jennifer Lopez has picked the color for the season: chocolate mousse, a deep, creamy brown that is as soft as its name. It looks warm on an Aspen afternoon and works just as well on a cool evening in Manhattan. She also spoke up for an unusual kind of headwear, the sort most people admire for years before they try it themselves. The palette is settled, and the finishing touch just got more interesting.
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Sarah Jessica Parker and Stevie Nicks Take Their Bows Before the Curtain at City Ballet's Fall Fashion Gala

New York City Ballet opened its 2026 season with its Fall Fashion Gala, and the red carpet arrived ahead of the dancers. Sarah Jessica Parker and Stevie Nicks led the guest list, along with a crowd of other well-dressed names who treated the evening as a performance of their own. The gala's whole premise is a meeting of two disciplines, ballet and fashion, both built on line, movement and fit, so the arrivals deserve a close look. For an archive that tracks who wore what, and when, this is one of the New York dates worth circling: a night where the clothes are part of the program, not a sideshow. The first word on the looks came from the carpet itself, and we'll be adding each name, label and silhouette to the record as the details are confirmed.
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The Shelf Is the Debut. The Stockroom Decides the Run.

Landing a spot at Sephora or Ulta is the beauty world's version of a first red carpet: everyone sees the arrival, and it can lift a young label further than almost anything else. The work that keeps a brand on that shelf happens where shoppers never look. Getting a product onto the shelf and keeping it there come down to how well the business runs. Readers who have ever stood in a Sephora aisle trying to choose between two lipsticks have seen only half of that picture.
Photo by artistmac on Flickr
What They Drive

For Owners, Four Mercedes Nameplates Now Mark the End of Their Line

Mercedes-Benz will not carry four nameplates into its 2027 model year. They are the EQE sedan, sold under both the Mercedes-Benz and Mercedes-AMG badges, the Mercedes-AMG S63 sedan and the Mercedes-Maybach EQS SUV. Anyone who already has one of these in the garage now owns one of the closing examples of its line. The four come from three of the marque's houses, Mercedes-Benz, AMG and Maybach, so the change touches nearly every part of the brand. Owners and collectors keep track of moments like this one.
Brides of Beverly Hills

Letting the Farm Set the Palette: A Summer Wedding at Blue Hill at Stone Barns

Rachel and Nick chose to have their summer wedding at Blue Hill at Stone Barns and to let the green of the property decide the look of the day. For anyone planning a summer date, that is a choice worth considering: start from what the venue already has in season, then build the design around it. Rebecca Grace Events planned the wedding and kept the styling spare. The interest came from texture, not from piling on more decoration. Heart & Soil Flowers did the florals. Most of the color was already there, so the arrangements could work with the natural setting instead of trying to outdo it. It is a useful model if you want a day that feels composed rather than busy, with the setting doing much of the visual work.
What It Sold For

Julie Andrews, at Home in Los Angeles

Architectural Digest has put together a photo portfolio of Julie Andrews in the homes she has kept over a long career, and one of them is in Los Angeles. The pictures run from a chalet in the Swiss mountains to her house in Southern California. Here, the Los Angeles house matters most: it shows an Academy Award winner who chose to make one of her homes in this city. The piece shows how she has lived across the years, room by room and place by place.
Beverly Hills News

NBCUniversal's Donna Langley Explains How She Brought Taylor Sheridan and Christopher Nolan to the Studio

Donna Langley, chairman of NBCUniversal Entertainment, spoke with The Hollywood Reporter about bringing two of the film and television industry's most sought-after creators, Taylor Sheridan and Christopher Nolan, to her company. Langley said that when the industry is unsettled and changing, it makes sense to study the field and look for openings where a studio can get ahead of its rivals. She described this as a time to take that kind of look. Her comments place both signings inside a deliberate strategy, not chance. For readers who follow the business behind the films and series made in Los Angeles, the interview shows how one of the city's top studio executives approaches recruiting talent.
Beverly Hills News

Ben Affleck Sets Limits on AI Tools for His New Film "Animals"

Ben Affleck has explained the rules he follows when using artificial intelligence on his new film, "Animals," according to The Hollywood Reporter. He said he would not use any AI system that was trained on copyrighted material. He also said he would not use one built from the work of his peers or of artists he admires. In his account, using AI on the film does not mean creating artificial performers or taking the place of people who work on it. For readers in Beverly Hills and across Los Angeles, where much of the film industry lives and works, this is one filmmaker's public account of where he draws the line on a new tool.
Beverly Hills News

Kelly Clarkson Makes the Case for Human Artistry on the Music Charts

Kelly Clarkson says she is enthusiastic about artificial intelligence, but she believes songs made by AI performers should not be ranked alongside work by human musicians. The singer said she considers the human part of music essential and worth protecting. She also said listeners may want both kinds of music, as long as each has its own place. For readers in Los Angeles, a city where much of the country's recorded music is written, performed and produced, her comments come down on the side of the people who make it.
What They Collect

Idaho's 1948 Answer to Its Beaver Problem Came Down by Parachute

In 1948, Idaho's Department of Fish and Game took beavers out of the state's growing settled areas and dropped them by parachute into the backcountry. In the years after the war, new building had pushed people and beavers into the same places, and the agency had to deal with animals living close to town. Its answer was to move them to wild country where they could live on their own, and to get them there from the air. It is a piece of American history worth keeping: a state agency that found a careful and inventive way to give a native animal room to live.
Photo by ell brown on Flickr
What They Collect

The Front Hall Is Where a Collection First Introduces Itself

Galerie argues that a home makes its case in the entry, before a guest reaches any other room. The idea is that the few square feet inside the front door should already show something of the people who live there and what they love. For anyone who lives with art and design, from a Palm Beach foyer to a New York gallery hall, that makes the entry less a passage and more a first exhibit. Everything that follows in the house is read through what was seen at the threshold.
Photo by Neon Wang on Unsplash
What They Collect

A Furniture Maker's Raw Materials, Reworked as Art for the Wall

Chellis Baird has made a series of wall-hung sculptures using materials supplied by the furniture maker American Leather. The pieces bring together textile, timber, animal hide and metal, the same stock the company uses to build its furniture. For collectors who follow design, this is a familiar crossing: materials meant for the showroom become one-of-a-kind objects meant to be looked at. The pieces were made to hang on a wall rather than sit on the floor, so the hide and cloth are shaped for the eye instead of upholstered for a seat.
What They Collect

Alvise Orsini Takes On a Southampton Landmark Built Like a Castle

One of Southampton's best-known buildings has a new hand behind it. Galerie has published a look at the property, which is known locally for an exterior that borrows the look of a castle, after designer Alvise Orsini gave it new life. Orsini's approach is bold and layered, and his style favors more rather than less. The result sets a fortress-like outline against an interior built for abundance. On the South Fork, where shingle and clapboard set the tone, this building has long stood out from its neighbors. For readers who follow how significant American houses are cared for and passed on, this is the kind of project worth noticing: a designer with a strong point of view taking on a building the Hamptons already know by sight, and giving it new energy without trying to make it disappear.
What They Collect

A Los Angeles Dealer's Own Collection Comes Home to Laurel Canyon

Thomas Lavin is a Los Angeles design dealer, and his home in Laurel Canyon was reworked around the pieces he collects. Lavin and his partner, Destin Bass, started with an ordinary ranch house. They brought in designer Gary Hutton, and the house was fitted out, room by room, to give the collection a proper setting. For our readers, that order of priorities is the story: the objects came first and the architecture was shaped to serve them. The house reached its new form through custom work, not by adding a few pieces to rooms built for something else. In a dealer's own home, the collection usually gets to be seen the way its owner sees it. That is often the most telling view a collector can get of a dealer's eye. This one sits in the hills above the city where Lavin does business.
Photo by Subroto Mukherjee on Unsplash
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In Palm Beach, a Wyeth House Is Ready for Jennifer Gilbert's Collection

Jennifer Gilbert, a philanthropist and collector, now has a Palm Beach house worth hanging her collection in. The estate was designed by Marion Sims Wyeth, and it has spent four years being restored and given a new addition. Wyeth's name still matters on this island, and a house of his is a landmark here, so the owner of one takes on its care as much as its rooms. The work here took four years, and nobody hurried it. Gilbert's collection mixes fine art with design, and it keeps growing, which means the house has to hold what she owns now and leave room for what comes next. That is the real test of an addition: the new wing has to suit the original house and also suit the works going into it. A collector who shows painting and design side by side is asking a reader to look at an object and a canvas with the same seriousness. When a house built by one of Palm Beach's defining architects becomes the setting for that collection, the island gains a carefully restored landmark and a home where serious work will live.
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Duchess Meghan Stacks Her Diamonds High and Keeps the Rest of Her Fall Look Low-Key

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, has started the fall season in a relaxed outfit, and the diamonds are what you notice. She wears them stacked, one piece over another, instead of relying on a single showpiece. The effect is understated and confident, and every stone has its place in the stack. It's a formula readers from Palm Beach to Aspen will know well: keep the clothes simple and let the jewelry do the work.
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The Air Max Ecstasy Plus Steps Out From Behind Supreme

After a turn alongside Supreme, Nike's Air Max Ecstasy Plus is headed for the regular shelves in colorways of its own. Until recently, few people outside the most devoted sneaker archives knew the silhouette, so a general release is a real promotion for this shoe. It's a familiar route: a model gets noticed through a partnership with a cult label, then comes back to wear its own name. For anyone in New York who tracks a shoe's history the way others track a gown's, this is one worth filing now.
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Purple, Green and a Little Gotham: Nike's Air Max 95 Big Bubble Arrives in a Villain's Palette

Nike has released a premium version of the Air Max 95 Big Bubble, and its colorway has people thinking of the Joker. The resemblance comes from small touches of violet and green, which hint at the comic-book villain without turning the shoe into a costume. It's a lesson in restraint: the color shows up as an accent, never the whole look. From a Palm Beach morning to a Manhattan sidewalk, it's a sneaker for the person who likes a costume reference only they and a few sharp observers will catch.
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Designer Brands Leaves Its Desks Empty Again to Spend Friday Volunteering

On Friday, about 1,200 people who work in Designer Brands Inc.'s offices around the world will skip their usual workday and give their time to charities and local groups. The company is doing this for the second straight year. We usually write about the shoes people wear to big events, but this week the shoes worth noticing are the ones 1,200 volunteers put on for a day of real work. It shows that a company can be well run and generous at the same time.
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Panniers Over Denim: Cecilie Bahnsen's Spring 2027 Takes the Court Silhouette Casual

For Spring 2027, Danish designer Cecilie Bahnsen set the wide hip frame of an old court gown on top of a pair of jeans. Panniers once held a skirt out to the sides. Here that structure sits over everyday denim, so the look gains width at the hip and still reads breezy rather than weighty. From the Hamptons to downtown New York, it is a smart idea for anyone who wants drama at the waist without giving up their favorite jeans.
Who Wore What When

Two Weeks, One Frenchman: Louis Cane Takes Up Residence at Dior Beverly Hills

For two weeks, Dior's Beverly Hills boutique will hand its rooms to the French artist Louis Cane, with a sale at Christie's waiting at the end of the run. The show covers his sculpted pieces, furniture made to be lived with, and the smaller decorative objects in between. That range matters here: you can walk around one piece, sit near another, and lean in close to a third. A fashion house showing art is nothing new, but a fortnight is short, and the work moves on to the auction room when it ends. For anyone in Beverly Hills who thinks a chair can be as considered as a gown, the boutique is worth a detour before the doors close on it.
Who Wore What When

Before the Gavel, a Fortnight With Louis Cane at Dior Beverly Hills

For two weeks, the Dior boutique in Beverly Hills is lending its floor to French artist Louis Cane. The show puts his sculptural pieces in one room with his furniture and decorative objects, so visitors see him working across several forms at once instead of one piece shown on its own. The timing matters: the exhibition comes just before Christie's sale, so collectors get to walk around these objects in person before they see them in an auction catalog. It's also a nice pairing, since a house known for dressmaking is making room for chairs and sculpture, and those are things you judge best up close. For Beverly Hills, the chance won't last long, and the gavel comes after it.
Who Wore What When

Tom Ford Lands in Bal Harbour, With Two California Doors to Match

Florida shoppers can mark the map. Tom Ford Fashion is adding Bal Harbour to its American addresses, part of a trio of new stores that also brings the label to San Diego and Costa Mesa, Calif. Lelio Gavazza, the brand's chief executive, has spoken about the thinking behind where the house chooses to set up shop. The choices say something on their own: two Southern California cities and one stretch of the Florida coast, all chosen by a house that could have gone anywhere. For readers who follow a Tom Ford look from the red carpet to the rack, these are three more places to see the clothes up close, on hangers instead of on a step-and-repeat. Each new store is also somewhere a reader can walk in and try on the tailoring. Bal Harbour, in particular, is close to home for our Miami and Palm Beach readers.
Who Wore What When

Galliano at Zara: The Debut Drop Shoppers Moved Fast On

On Thursday, John Galliano's debut line for Zara arrived on the high street, both online and in physical stores, and buyers moved fast. Vogue went out to talk to the people waiting and buying, so the first reviews came from shoppers rather than critics. For an archive like ours, that's the date worth writing down: the first time this designer's name has appeared on Zara's racks. Whether you shopped from a laptop in Los Angeles or a store in New York, the first day's question was simply whether your size was still there.
Who Wore What When

From Feed to Footlights: Cyrus Veyssi Bottles a Scent and Takes a Broadway Bow

Cyrus Veyssi now has a fragrance of their own, and a few days ago they were also named to play May in a Broadway production, which puts them on a New York stage as well as on a bottle. Over the years, as their online audience grew, Veyssi made more and more room for the things they genuinely liked using, and a signature scent is where that shelf of favorites seems to have led. The Broadway casting, announced only last week, takes the same personality off the phone screen and under real stage lights in the theater district. We cover what people wear, and a scent counts too: it's the one thing you put on that nobody sees, and it's the most personal choice on any vanity. Both items land in the same season, and both are well worth a look.
What They Sail

Princess Puts a Tri-Deck Odyssey 108 on the Calendar for 2029

Princess has released its first images of the Odyssey 108, a three-deck yacht with generous volume that moves its Odyssey line well beyond where it stood. The opening hull is due in the water in 2029, which gives owners on the Florida coast and across the country a firm date to plan around. Neither the naval architect nor a price has been made public yet. For anyone weighing a tri-deck from an established yard, the Odyssey 108 is now a name to watch.
Private Jet Owners

Citation Owners Who Fly Solo Ask the FAA for Three Months and a Seat at the Table

The National Business Aviation Association and Citation Jet Pilots have formally asked the FAA to wait three months before withdrawing the exemptions that let these Citations be flown by one pilot. They have also asked the agency to set up a working group that includes them. For owners who fly their own airplanes, that is the request that counts: a rule worked out with the people who fly under it, not one simply handed down. The request is now with the FAA.
Photo by David Syphers on Unsplash
Private Jet Owners

Boeing Now Holds Both of America's Next-Generation Fighter Contracts

Boeing has won the F/A-XX contract, so it now runs development on two next-generation fighter programs at once. The first was the Air Force's F-47, which Boeing was chosen to develop in 2025. With this new award, both of these fighter efforts sit with a single American manufacturer. Owners know how much depends on the company that builds the airframe, and this is a large vote of confidence in one company's engineering.
Private Jet Owners

FAA Goes Shopping for a Better Way to Find Stray Signals

The FAA is looking for technology that can detect unwanted radio-frequency energy in U.S. airspace and pinpoint where it comes from. For owners, the interest is practical. The navigation and communication equipment in a well-kept panel only works as well as the signals it receives. A tool that helps the agency find the source of a problem is the kind of quiet infrastructure work that keeps a Part 91 flight from Palm Beach to Aspen uneventful.
Private Jet Owners

DoorDash Now Holds the Same FAA Certificate as Your Charter Operator

DoorDash has shown a new unmanned aircraft built to carry customer orders, and it intends to fly it in the northern part of California. It can do that because of a Part 135 certificate the FAA issued to the company in July. Owners who fly their airplanes under Part 91, or place them with a management company that flies charter trips under its own 135 certificate, will know the paperwork even if the cargo is new to them. A Part 135 certificate is the FAA's approval to fly for compensation or hire. A delivery company now holds the same kind of certificate as the charter operators that fly midsize jets. The report gave no start date or service area more specific than the region.
Private Jet Owners

DoorDash Joins the Part 135 Club, With a Smaller Airframe Than Yours

DoorDash has shown a new unmanned aircraft built to carry orders. It holds a Part 135 air carrier certificate from the FAA, issued in July, which puts its operation under the same certificate type that governs on-demand charter, though the payload here is far smaller. The first service is planned for the northern half of California. For owners flying in that region, a newly certificated operator in the low-altitude airspace is worth a note in the logbook.
Photo by Edoardo Bortoli on Unsplash
Private Jet Owners

Stratolaunch Puts a Boeing 777 to Work Raising Its Hypersonic Test Tempo

Stratolaunch has added a Boeing 777 to its hypersonic testing operation, where the widebody will carry test vehicles aloft. The company is adding the jet to fly more often, and projects it will raise the number of flights it can fly by 35 percent. Anyone who has managed an airframe against a calendar will recognize the reasoning. A test program can only fly as often as its aircraft are available, and adding one is the most direct way to fly more. The 777 is a familiar type and a long-haul workhorse, and here it is doing very unfamiliar work.
Private Jet Owners

A Widebody Joins Stratolaunch's Hypersonic Program, With 35 Percent More Sorties Expected

Stratolaunch has brought a Boeing 777 into the group of aircraft it uses for hypersonic testing. The company says the 777 will serve as a carrier platform and expects it to raise how much it can fly by 35 percent. Owners know the 777 from the ramp at the big airports, but here it is a working airframe, chosen for a test schedule rather than a cabin. The point of the addition is simple: more flights.
Class of Nashville

December's Must-See Bill: Stapleton, King and Dunn Turn Out for Ronnie Bowman

Chris Stapleton, Marcus King and Ronnie Dunn are among the artists who will perform this December at a special evening honoring Ronnie Bowman. More performers are on the bill than those three, so the full lineup is still to be announced. It is the kind of bill that puts a December date on the calendar early, with artists of this standing coming together to honor one man. We will add the details as the lineup is filled in.
Beverly Hills Brides

Two Days to Keep the Bouquet

A wedding bouquet has about 48 hours before its flowers start to go, so whether it will be kept is decided within that time. The choice is between preserving the blooms at home and handing them to a professional. It belongs in the months of planning, not the morning after the reception or the airport before the honeymoon. For a Beverly Hills bride, the flowers she carries down the aisle will only outlast the day if someone has arranged where they go before the vows are spoken.
Class of Nashville

Sleight of Hand, Served at the Table: Virgin Hotels Nashville Books Three October Evenings

For three nights this October, Virgin Hotels Nashville is putting a magician within arm's reach of your dinner plate. The series is called Magic & Mixers, and the idea is close-up magic as part of the evening rather than a show on a distant stage, set inside a dinner instead of after it. Close-up work is the hardest kind to fake. It happens a few feet from the audience, under the dining room lights, with nowhere for a mistake to hide. Nashville is used to talent you can stand close to, and this is the same pleasure in another form: watching someone who has done the work make a difficult thing look easy. Three nights is a short run, so anyone who wants a seat should plan their October around it.
Photo by Rosa Menkman on Flickr
What They Collect

Art Made for the Browser, Taken Seriously

Michael Connor, who shares the directorship of Rhizome, sat down with Ben Davis for a long conversation about art built for the web: how it started, and where it may be going. For collectors used to a canvas on the wall or a lot number in a catalog, it is a different kind of object, one that lives in a browser window. Hearing it discussed at this length, with its past laid out and its future treated as an open question, is a reminder that this is a field with its own lineage. It deserves the same careful attention we give to any other medium that changes hands.
Class of Nashville

Sasha Alex Sloan, Songwriter Who Won't Pick Just One Road

In a new conversation with MusicRow, the trade paper this town reads for the business of the song, Sasha Alex Sloan talks about how she writes, and what comes through is a writer who has never wanted to be fenced into a single style. That's worth noticing in a city that respects a well-built song more than a big announcement. The interview is about the work itself: how a writer thinks, and what she reaches for when she sits down to write. For readers who know the real business here happens in writing rooms, not on red carpets, it's a welcome look at the craft.
What They Collect

The Prado Comes to Brooklyn, Five Pictures at a Time

New York has a new way into the Spanish national collection, and the route goes through Brooklyn. "Masterpieces," a virtual reality program built on paintings from the Prado, has an opening date of October 1 at Powerhouse Arts. The selection is tight: five canvases, each among the best-known works the museum owns. With only five, the program is less a survey of the collection than a close look at a few pictures. For a city that measures its art life in auction previews and gallery openings, this is a different kind of viewing, with famous works seen through a headset instead of across a gallery floor. It is the Prado's own collection, shown in a Brooklyn arts building.
Class of Nashville

The Songwriter of the Year Steps Into the Circle

Blake Pendergrass, who was recently named Songwriter of the Year by the Nashville Songwriters Association International, has now played the Grand Ole Opry for the first time. In this city, the people who write the songs are usually known first by their peers and only later by the audience, so a writer taking the Opry stage has a particular weight. Within a short span, Pendergrass has received the songwriting community's top honor and stood on country music's most storied stage, and Nashville noticed both. We offer our congratulations on a debut worth marking.
Class of Nashville

A Three-Way Tie at the Top of Today's Singles Stack

MusicRow's DISClaimer column, its regular round of reviews of new singles, couldn't settle on a single Disc of the Day this time and gave the honor to three records. When a stack of new music produces three records worth championing, the songs that rise to the top have earned their place, and the column made room for all three rather than picking one. For a town that listens closely, a day with three standouts is a good one.
Brides of Beverly Hills

The Rosemary Beach Lawn That Hosted the Proposal, Then the Ceremony

Kayla and Andrew picked their ceremony site before they had a date. They got engaged on the Eastern Green in Rosemary Beach, Florida, and twelve months later they married on the same lawn. Two firms handled the planning, 30A to Wed and Destin to Wed. The colors were pale blue and white with warm neutrals, a short list that suits a coastal setting without leaning on nautical props. Couples weighing a site should note what the choice settled: the place came first, and the remaining decisions could be built around it. With a palette that narrow, the planners had few elements to coordinate, and each one still had to be right.
Beverly Hills Brides

The Two Days After the Last Dance

The bouquet a Beverly Hills bride carries down the aisle has about two days left once the reception ends. In that time it goes one of two ways: to a professional preserver, or into the couple's own hands to be kept at home. The flowers will not wait out a honeymoon departure, so the choice belongs to the weeks before the wedding, not the morning after. Next to everything else the day holds, it is a small question of timing, and it decides whether the flowers outlast the day.
Class of Nashville

Two Years In, Cafe Babu Throws Itself a Party

Cafe Babu is turning two, and it's marking the occasion with a celebration that runs the whole of Sunday, start to finish. In a city where new openings come and go in a single season, a second anniversary means the place has found its regulars and kept them. The party isn't limited to an evening slot, so guests can come by for the first coffee or stay until the end, whichever suits their day. Stopping in to wish the place well is a fine way to spend a Sunday in Nashville.
Photo by RMTip21 on Flickr
Class of Florida

Michael Jordan's Ferrari Beat Its Top Estimate by More Than Double

The forecast for Michael Jordan's Ferrari 550 Maranello topped out at $1.3 million. The final price was $2.7 million, a new record. That is more than twice the most anyone had predicted, and the gap is as worth noticing as the total. Florida has collectors from the Worth Avenue curb to the Fifth Avenue South valet stand, and Miami will want to know the price before anyone else does, so most readers here know how rarely a car clears its high estimate by that much. It happens when a car has the right name and the right buyers are paying attention. Here both were true, and the price says the people bidding thought this Ferrari was worth the extra money.
Photo by Experience Kissimmee, Florida on Flickr
Class of Florida

A Hollywood Hills House From 1927, Kept the Way It Was Built, Now Asks $8 Million

Ross Cassidy, an interior designer, has put their 1927 house in the Hollywood Hills on the market at $8 million. The house is in the Spanish Revival style, the same Mediterranean idea that Palm Beach adopted as its own a century ago and Naples still likes to revisit. It has been brought back to good condition, and the work kept most of what made it distinctive when it was built rather than replacing it. It means something when a designer has done that to their own house, because they know better than anyone how easy it is to start over. For readers on our coast, a Hollywood Hills listing of this age is a reminder that Los Angeles and South Florida share an old taste for the courtyard house in a warm climate. In Miami this would be called vintage, in Palm Beach it would just be called the house, and in Naples someone would ask whether the original part could be kept. Here, it was.
Photo by Gidzy on Flickr
What They Collect

RM of BTS Brings His Own Collection to the Walls of SFMOMA

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is planning an exhibition drawn from the works RM has acquired himself. The BTS member is opening his personal holdings to the public at one of the country's major modern art museums. For anyone who follows what collectors buy and keep, the interest here is in seeing a single person's choices hung together in a museum. RM has spoken of the project in personal terms: he said that few things reveal someone as truthfully as the objects they have gathered patiently over many years. That makes the show something close to a self-portrait, built one acquisition at a time, and San Francisco will be the first to see it.
Beverly Hills News

Taylor Sheridan's Next Chapter Is at NBCUniversal, and It Starts With Film

Taylor Sheridan, the creator of "Yellowstone," is joining NBCUniversal after ten years at Paramount, according to Variety. Donna Langley, who chairs NBCUniversal Entertainment, said a stronger offer on the movie side is what brought him over. She told Variety she recognized an opening and acted on it. Here, where the film business is a hometown industry, Sheridan's choice of where to make his work is local news.
Beverly Hills News

Film Deal Brought Taylor Sheridan to NBCUniversal, Donna Langley Says

Taylor Sheridan, who created "Yellowstone," has joined NBCUniversal after ten years at Paramount, and the person who recruited him says a film agreement made the difference. Donna Langley, chair of NBCUniversal Entertainment, told Variety the company won him by offering stronger terms for feature films than he had before. Langley said she recognized an opening and acted on it. Readers in Beverly Hills, who live alongside the entertainment business, will recognize what this kind of agreement means: a writer best known for television now has a studio partner offering him a larger role in film.
What They Collect

A Young Pollock's Carmine Street Address Comes to Market

The rooms at 46 Carmine Street, where Jackson Pollock lived at 20 while still working toward becoming a painter, are now for sale. The building stands in Manhattan's West Village, and the listing ties a known New York address to a time before the name meant anything to anyone. For collectors, this is a different kind of Pollock to own: not a canvas from a sale room but the place where he lived while he was still learning. The report gives no asking price, and we won't guess at one. For New York buyers who follow the artist, the street number alone is the point: a Pollock home that is now on the market.
Who Wore What When

Sarah Jessica Parker Brings Simone Rocha and a Ribbon-Tied Crown to New York City Ballet

For an evening at New York City Ballet, Sarah Jessica Parker wore Simone Rocha in a translucent gown with a ribbon to match, threaded through her hair. Her hair runs almost to her knees when it's down, and she wore every inch of it pinned up, with the gray streaks showing in the swept-up shape. The ribbon picked up the dress, so the outfit read as one idea from the hem to the top of her head. The setting fit the look. A sheer layer and a ribbon tied through the hair are things you'd expect to see on dancers, and here they turned up in the audience at the ballet. Simone Rocha's sheer fabric shows what's underneath it, and Parker's hair did the same, leaving its silver on display. For an archive that tracks who wore what and where, this one gets filed under New York, at the ballet, with the ribbon tying the look together.
Photo by Christian Lau on Flickr
What They Collect

Los Angeles Design Week/End Puts the City's Own Makers Up Front for Its Third Year

Los Angeles Design Week/End is back for a third year, and the city's own designers make up much of this year's lineup. It runs through Saturday, October 4, so collectors who want to see the work in person have a few days left. The program is built around Los Angeles studios and labels, which makes it a chance to see what is being made here, by the people making it. For anyone in Los Angeles who follows design and what ends up in collections, it is worth going before it closes.
What They Collect

Eighteen Names on American Museum Walls This September, as Tallied by Artnet

Artnet News has published its September 2026 ranking of the artists with the strongest presence in museums across the United States, and it counts eighteen. For a collector, that kind of roundup works like a reading list: it shows which names curators across the country gave wall space to last month. Whether you go to museums in New York, Los Angeles, Miami or somewhere in between, it's a good way to see which artists the institutions are behind right now. The full list of eighteen is on Artnet's site.
What They Collect

The Browser as Gallery: Rhizome's Michael Connor Takes the Long View

Michael Connor, who co-leads the digital art organization Rhizome, sat down with critic Ben Davis to trace how art made for the web began and where it may go from here. Art like this lives on a screen rather than a wall, and it gets passed around by link, not carried through a door. For collectors who follow how new kinds of work find their audience and their keepers, that is reason enough to hear him out. The talk looks back and also ahead, with one of the field's leading custodians giving his view of what comes next.
What They Collect

Five Prado Paintings Take Up Residence in Brooklyn, Seen Through a Headset

Since October 1, New Yorkers have been able to see five Prado paintings without leaving the five boroughs. "Masterpieces," a virtual reality experience at Powerhouse Arts in Brooklyn, takes five of the museum's best-known canvases and recasts them in a new form. The visitor doesn't stand in front of a wall label. They put on a headset and walk into the picture. That is an unusual offer for a collecting audience. A great painting is normally something you encounter at a set distance, behind a rope, with a guard nearby. Here the five canvases become places to step inside rather than objects to step back from. The originals stay where they hang. What has come to Brooklyn is an interpretation of them. The setting fits. Powerhouse Arts is a working space for artists and fabrication, so a project that treats old pictures as something to be built and entered belongs there. For readers who follow how great works travel, whether by loan, sale or reproduction, this is another way for them to arrive: as an experience rather than a shipment.
Brides of Beverly Hills

Same Spot, One Year Later: A Rosemary Beach Couple Holds Their Ceremony Where They Got Engaged

Kayla and Andrew chose their ceremony site the simplest way possible: they went back to the Eastern Green in Rosemary Beach, where they had gotten engaged, and exchanged vows there twelve months later. Choosing the place where you got engaged takes care of one of the hardest planning decisions, and it gives the ceremony a meaning no other site could. The celebration was put together by 30A to Wed and Destin to Wed, both teams on Florida's Gulf Coast. For color, the couple used pale blue and white, set against a base of warm neutrals. That keeps the palette quiet enough for a seaside setting without making it look washed out. For a bride weighing a Gulf Coast wedding, this one shows how it works when the venue, the coast and a short color list all point the same way.
What It Sold For

Candy, Screens and Wedding Chapels Inside the Tower Beneath the New Year's Ball

One Times Square, the slim tower at the head of New York's most famous crossroads and the building the ball descends every New Year's Eve, now puts its interior to work. Its upper levels hold rooms of sweets, walls of video and chapels set aside for weddings. Advertising sheathes the outside almost completely, so most people know the building only by its face. Now there is a reason to step through the door and see the rooms behind it.
What It Sold For

A Montecito House, Drawn as a Countdown to Christmas

Meghan Markle has a new chocolate advent calendar, and its box is illustrated with scenes from her house in Montecito. The artwork shows the grounds the way someone who lives there might picture them: tall palms against the sky, chickens in the yard, and the place dressed for the season. It's the rare case of a California property showing up on gift packaging instead of in a real-estate listing. For readers who follow the American house, the box is a small, friendly look at a Montecito home, offered on the owner's own terms.
What It Sold For

At The Armory Show 2026, a Pair of Oversized Prints Hold the Wall

Among the works singled out at this year's Armory Show in New York were two photographs printed at full architectural scale with Epson's UltraChrome K3 pigment inks. One is titled "be courteous to all; bow down to none" and dates to 2026. Its companion was recorded only by the opening words of its title, "abandoned by the rule," and we will not complete a name we were not given. No price was reported for either piece, so we will not put a figure on them.
What It Sold For

Over the Table, a Henningsen Idea Returns in a New Pendant

Yabu Pushelberg, the design studio that works across several disciplines, has a new hanging light called Reframe, made with the lighting house Louis Poulsen. The piece looks back to Poul Henningsen, the Danish architect and designer whose early, inventive work still shapes how a ceiling fixture is judged. For an American house, a pendant does more than light a room. It hangs over the dining table or the kitchen island and sets the tone of the space under it. A new fixture that names Henningsen as its starting point belongs in that conversation.
What It Sold For

Tyler Perry Lists His Beverly Hills Estate at $57 Million

Tyler Perry has put his Beverly Hills estate up for sale, with an asking price of $57 million. The property covers 22.5 acres. That is a rare amount of land in a city where most estates are measured in square feet, and it puts the listing among the larger holdings to come up for sale there. The $57 million is an asking price, not a sale price. What the estate actually sells for will be on the record only when the deal closes, and this desk will report that number when it is public. Until then, the facts are the filmmaker's name, the size of the land and the price he has set. Even before a buyer appears, that makes this one of the notable Beverly Hills listings of the season.
What It Sold For

The Nursery Meant to Stay: Nate Berkus and AD Pro Designers Plan a Baby's Room for the Long Run

In a new Architectural Digest guide, Nate Berkus and designers from the magazine's AD Pro network explain how to furnish a nursery so it still works once the crib is gone. Their advice covers the finish of the wood and the choice of paper for the walls, among other decisions. The idea is a room that keeps its place in an American house well past the first few years. That makes it a room planned for the family's whole time in the home, not a temporary setup to be redone later.
What It Sold For

A Bedford Farmhouse From the 1700s, Hand-Painted Room by Room by the Artist Who Lives There

In Bedford, New York, an eighteenth-century farmhouse sits among trees that have been allowed to grow undisturbed for a very long time. The artist Happy Menocal has done the interiors of her family's house herself. Painted scenes run up the walls from baseboard to ceiling, and the fabrics are her own designs. The light fixtures are the detail a visitor tends to look up at twice: the chandeliers are built from the thin foil pans usually bought for a single casserole and thrown away. In a house that predates the republic, an artist has turned a supermarket throwaway into something meant to hang overhead for years, and that pairing is the point. It is the kind of Westchester County house that matters for its hand, not its square footage. Every surface shows the work of one person, and that person also lives there.
Icons of Palm Beach

Vanity Fair Opens a Screening Room Ahead of the Awards Season

Vanity Fair has introduced the Screening Room, a new series built around the pictures expected to compete for the 2026 awards. The guest list reads like a well-planned table. Julianne Moore, Matt Damon and Penélope Cruz lead the announcement, and Pedro Pascal, Andrew Scott and Ava DuVernay are among the actors and filmmakers joining them. Each evening shows the film first and then turns to the people who made it, so the audience hears from the cast and filmmakers in the same room. The magazine calls this the first annual edition, which means it plans to bring the series back. On the island, the year's films come up at dinner all winter, from the North End to Worth Avenue. This series puts the people behind those films in front of an audience before anyone has to decide which one they favor.
Icons of Palm Beach

The Sheer Flat Finds Its Ambassador in the Duchess of Sussex

The Duchess of Sussex appears in new campaign photographs for her label's holiday countdown calendar, and she's wearing a ballet flat in satin, cut in the see-through style now showing up across footwear. The shoe is quiet: a low, light slipper with the shine of satin and enough sheerness to show the foot underneath. The choice says more by holding back, which suits a campaign meant to open the holidays. Anyone planning season wardrobes along Worth Avenue will notice: a flat like this goes from a morning appointment to a long lunch without anyone thinking twice.
Icons of Palm Beach

A River Voyage Planned Around Painting, Music, the Past and the Cellar

AmaWaterways is rethinking how a voyage by river should be spent. It is building the time on board around four interests: painting, music, history and good wine. This turns a slow passage by water into something closer to a course of study taken at an unhurried pace. For readers on the island who already plan their months away from the season around a gallery, a performance or a good bottle, the idea will feel familiar.
What They Drive

Riders, Not Just Rides: "Motorcycle Life" Puts Jason Momoa and Keanu Reeves Among Its Subjects

"Motorcycle Life," a new large-format book, portrays the people who ride motorcycles, and Jason Momoa and Keanu Reeves are two of the riders in its pages. Its author has described what led them to start the project, how they went about it and what they hoped it would capture about this community. For owners who keep a bike in the garage next to the cars, this is a book that cares as much about the riders as the motorcycles. It belongs on a living-room table, where a guest who rides will pick it up first.
What They Drive

The Plug Has to Pay: Ionna's Chief Makes the Case for Charging as a Real Business

Seth Cutler, chief executive of Ionna, has described the electric car's prospects in plain commercial terms. In an interview with The Drive, he said his company is in business to earn money, and that electric cars depend on charging becoming an enterprise that pays its own way. For anyone with a cord in the garage and a long drive ahead, that kind of frankness is reassuring: a charger built to make money is a charger built to stay open and working. It is the same logic the filling station has always followed, applied to the plug.
What They Drive

Aston Martin's DBX GT Gives Up None of the DBX S's Performance

Aston Martin has added the DBX GT to its range of SUVs, and it is described as the most polished DBX the company has offered so far. It matches the DBX S, the sportier model in the lineup, on performance, so the extra comfort costs owners nothing in speed. That pairing is the one owners here care about, whether the drive is the long run out to the Hamptons or a winter climb toward Aspen. Collectors who follow the marque now have a choice inside the DBX family between the sharper DBX S and the more cosseting GT.
What They Drive

Hyundai Gives the Family Crossover a Face From the Future for 2027

Hyundai has introduced the 2027 Tucson, a new generation of its familiar compact crossover, and its design is unusually bold for the segment. The Tucson is a commuter and a school-run car, the kind seen in driveways from Naples to Nashville, and Hyundai has given it styling that looks closer to science fiction than to the parking lot. It is a confident choice for a vehicle built for ordinary days, and the change will be easy to spot the first time one is parked among its neighbors.
What They Drive

Two Titles and Forty-Six Years In, Fernando Alonso Still Wants a Seat on the Grid

Fernando Alonso has confirmed he will race in Formula 1 again next season, and he will do it at 46. He holds two world championships and has nothing left to prove, yet he says his appetite for the work is as strong as ever. For readers who love the machines and the people who master them, there is something worth admiring in a champion who keeps choosing the hardest seat in motorsport. Next year, one of the most experienced drivers in the sport will line up once more.
What They Drive

The Owner Who Sells Their Own Car Usually Keeps More of the Money

Selling a car yourself, instead of handing it over at the dealership as part of your next purchase, will usually bring in more money, Car and Driver says. The difference comes from the owner's own patience and work, and the magazine says it isn't hard to get. For readers from Palm Beach to Aspen who know their cars down to the model year and the service records, that is welcome news. The person who knows the car best is often the right one to find its next owner.
What They Drive

Toyota Gives Its Three-Row Grand Highlander a Woodland Edition, a Trim Colorado Families Will Notice

Toyota has added a Woodland Edition to the Grand Highlander, giving its largest three-row SUV a slightly tougher, trail-minded character. The name is already familiar to Toyota buyers: the bZ and the Sienna each got a Woodland version first, and the Grand Highlander now joins them. For families in Aspen and along the Front Range, the appeal is plain: the same roomy hauler they would take on the school run, set up a little more for the gravel road to the trailhead. Toyota has kept the change modest, so this is the Grand Highlander owners already know, now with more confidence once the pavement ends.
What They Drive

Honda Leaves the Civic Type R's 315 Horsepower Alone for 2027 and Puts the Work Into the Chassis

Honda has kept the turbocharged four-cylinder in the Civic Type R unchanged for the 2027 model year, still rated at 315 horsepower. The changes are in the rest of the car. Revised aerodynamics press the hatchback harder into the pavement, upgrades to the chassis go further than a cosmetic refresh, and the cooling has been improved. There is also a comfort addition this car has not had before: warming elements in the seats. For owners, the main point is that the engine's output stays the same, and the model-year change goes into grip, cooling and the cabin.
What They Drive

A Fresh Face for the 2027 Hyundai Tucson

Hyundai has redesigned the Tucson for the 2027 model year, and its small crossover now looks entirely different. More images of the new design have now been released, so buyers can study the changes before the car reaches showrooms. In the Tucson's segment, people cross-shop on looks as much as on anything else, and a full redesign gives buyers good reason to take another look at a familiar nameplate. We have not driven the car and are reporting only on its new appearance.
What They Drive

Hyundai Redraws the Tucson for 2027, With a Reworked Hybrid Underneath

Hyundai has redesigned the Tucson from the ground up for the 2027 model year, and the change shows from the curb: the new body has heavier shoulders and a more muscular shape. Under that sheetmetal, the gasoline-electric powertrain has also been revised. Some owners want one vehicle that suits a Colorado trailhead as well as a Naples school run, and a tougher-looking body paired with a refreshed hybrid speaks to them. We have not driven it.
What They Drive

Hyundai Squares Up the Tucson for 2027

The 2027 model year brings a reworked Hyundai Tucson, and the most obvious change is its shape: the small sport-utility now has squarer, more upright lines. A full photo gallery shows the new body from the front, the rear, and both flanks, which is the best way to judge a design before seeing one at a dealer. For owners already living with a Tucson, these images are the first good look at how far the new one moves from the car in their driveway. Interior details, specifications and pricing will have to wait for another report.
What They Drive

Hyundai's 2027 Tucson Makes Its Case Inside the Cabin and at the Pump

Hyundai has released the full specifications for the 2027 Tucson, and the redesigned compact sport-utility has a look that breaks sharply from the one it replaces. The styling is what most people will notice first, whether the Tucson is parked in a Palm Beach driveway or a Denver garage. The bigger news is underneath it: more room for the people inside, a longer list of standard and available equipment, and fuel economy from the hybrid version that gives buyers a practical reason to look closely. For readers choosing a sensible everyday car to sit beside something more special, this model year makes its argument with space, equipment and efficiency. What They Drive has not driven the new Tucson and gives no verdict on how it performs on the road.
What They Drive

Hyundai's 2027 Tucson Shows Its Cabin, Hybrid Included

Hyundai's 2027 Tucson can now be seen from the inside, with a new set of cabin images covering both the standard model and the Tucson Hybrid. In a compact crossover the cabin is where the owner spends the most time, whether that means a morning school run in Naples or a long weekend drive up to Aspen, so it is the first view of the car worth having. We have not driven the 2027 Tucson, and these photographs are all we have to go on. How the materials feel and how the controls work in the hand will have to wait until we can sit in one.
What They Drive

The Tucson Hybrid Returns for 2027

Owners who picked the Tucson for its gas-electric drivetrain will be glad to hear the hybrid is back for 2027. Hyundai's small sport-utility arrives in new form for the model year, and Car and Driver has published a gallery of the hybrid's exterior. For a reader choosing a daily car for the drive between Naples and Palm Beach or the climb up to Aspen, the main news is that the electrified version is still on the order sheet. We have not driven it, so the photographs will have to speak for the sheet metal until we have.
What They Drive

The Garage Simulator Gets Its Price Cut Early, Ahead of Amazon's October Sale

Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days event is set for October 6 and 7, and some sim-racing equipment has gone on sale before it starts. For the collector who spends weekdays far from the track, or the owner who keeps a cockpit rig in the corner of the garage beside the real car, that means some of the better gear can be bought now. Road & Track says the discounts cover gear its editors rate among their favorites, so this is not just leftover stock. Anyone who has been planning to add a wheel, pedals or a seat to a home setup now has a few days' head start on the sale.
Photo by Tom Wolf | Photography on Flickr
Class of Florida

The DBX GT: Aston Martin's Answer for the Driver Who Wants Every Horse and None of the Noise

Aston Martin has added a GT to its DBX line, and it matches the DBX S for performance while aiming for more polish. In Miami you'd want the speed, in Palm Beach the composure, and in Naples you'd ask for both and expect someone to take the bags in. This variant seems built for anyone who has ever had to pick between them. The pace is unchanged and the manners are better, which suits a stretch of coast where getting there quickly matters less than how you look pulling up.
Class of Florida

Linda Evangelista Lets Go of Her West Chelsea Perch After Twenty-Plus Years

Linda Evangelista has closed the sale of her top-floor Manhattan home in West Chelsea, and the price was $6.75 million. She had owned it for over twenty years. In Manhattan, that kind of tenure is almost unheard of. Most residences change hands so often the doormen stop learning names. Down here we know the type of owner who stays put. Palm Beach families keep the same house for generations, and Naples counts patience as a virtue. Miami tends to treat a five-year stay as a long one. Twenty-plus years in one Chelsea home is the kind of loyalty Florida readers recognize and respect. A sale like this gives someone else the keys to a home that one of the most recognizable faces in fashion kept for a very long time.
Photo by roger4336 on Flickr
Class of Florida

Eight Front Doors in Boynton Beach, and Every One of Them Is for the Staff

Larry Ellison, the billionaire who cofounded Oracle, has bought eight homes in a single Boynton Beach neighborhood that sits behind a gate. They are for the people who work in his household. Together the eight cost just under $10 million, which averages to about a million and a quarter per house. That means eight driveways, eight sets of keys and eight kitchens. None of it is a showpiece. These are places for a working team to come home to at the end of the day. Boynton Beach sits in the southern part of Palm Beach County. People usually describe it by what's nearby, but this time a buyer of considerable means chose the town for its own sake. Most Florida real estate news is about one buyer going bigger on one property. What stands out here is the number eight.
Class of Florida

A Bourbon Worth a Splash of Water: King of Kentucky Arrives for Fall

The King of Kentucky release that whiskey people have been waiting on all season is now out. Each bottle comes from one barrel, and it goes in the bottle at the strength it came out of the wood, which here is very strong. Whether you pour it on a Palm Beach terrace or a Naples lanai, the move is the same: a small glass, a few drops of water and some patience. Miami can have its cocktail menus; a whiskey like this is better taken slowly, the way the Gulf Coast takes most things.
Photo by RMTip21 on Flickr
Class of Florida

Michael Jordan's Ferrari 550 Maranello Goes for $2.7 Million, More Than Double Its Top Estimate

A Ferrari 550 Maranello that once belonged to Michael Jordan has found a new owner at $2.7 million, the highest price on record. The forecast had put its ceiling at $1.3 million. The final figure beat that by $1.4 million, which is more than the top estimate itself. Down here we read a number like that three ways. Miami sees a car and a name, which is reason enough. Palm Beach sees provenance and nods as if it expected nothing less. Naples asks about the paperwork and then quietly agrees that $2.7 million is a fair figure. Every part of the coast agrees that this result was earned. A Ferrari carrying Michael Jordan's name went to market, and it went for far more than anyone had predicted.
Beverly Hills News

At Atlanta's SCAD AnimationFest, Rising Animators Make the Case for the Artist in an Age of AI

The 10th SCAD AnimationFest in Atlanta closed with a panel on the craft of animation and where it is headed. Ten animators shared the stage with a director whose work has earned an Academy Award nomination. Their discussion covered artificial intelligence and what it means for the people who draw, design and move characters on screen. The panelists argued that the individual artist still has a central role in the work. In their view, what a single animator brings is a way of seeing that no one else can supply. The festival has now held ten editions, and this panel was the last item on the final day of the anniversary program.
Beverly Hills News

Tony Gilroy to Attend Newport Beach Film Festival Closing Night for "Behemoth!" on Oct. 22

The Newport Beach Film Festival has picked "Behemoth!" as the last film of its 27th annual program, according to Variety. The screening is scheduled for Oct. 22. Tony Gilroy wrote and directed the film and is expected to be there in person. Pedro Pascal plays the lead role of Alex Serian, a cellist of considerable talent. As the closing selection, "Behemoth!" is the final film festivalgoers will see before the program ends. The festival takes place down the coast from Beverly Hills, in Orange County, and this year's edition is its 27th.
Beverly Hills News

Chase Infiniti, Nominated for a Golden Globe and an Emmy, Signs On to Lead a Horror Feature

Chase Infiniti has been cast in the lead role of "Portrait of God," a horror film from director Dylan Clark, according to Variety Film. Infiniti has been nominated for both a Golden Globe and an Emmy, and the actor's credits include "One Battle After Another" and "The Testaments." The project is set up at Lionsgate. Sam Raimi and Jordan Peele are producing. The project brings together a lead with recognition from both the film and television academies, a director working in horror, and two producers whose names appear above the title in the trade report. Variety Film's report did not include a production start date, a filming location or a release date.
Photo by Prayitno / Thank you for (12 millions +) view on Flickr
Beverly Hills News

Parke's New Pink Mockneck Sends Its Proceeds to Pink Aid

Parke has released a pink mockneck sweatshirt in a limited run, and the money from its sales goes to Pink Aid, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The proceeds support people being treated for breast cancer and the families around them. The sweatshirt is the newest piece from the label's continuing work with the organization. The report did not give a price, the number of pieces made or a date when sales end. For a shopper in Beverly Hills, the purchase is both a sweatshirt and a contribution to Pink Aid.
Beverly Hills News

Former Mattel Chief Ynon Kreiz Steps Into Co-CEO Role at Merged Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery

Ynon Kreiz, 61, is co-chief executive of the combined Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery, where he works alongside David Ellison, according to Variety. His compensation in the new post is valued at more than $46.5 million. Variety reports that the figure is higher than what he received as chief executive of Mattel, the toy company he led before this role. Kreiz has signed an initial agreement with the merged company. The report did not give the remaining terms. Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery have long been part of the entertainment business that many Beverly Hills residents work in and follow. That gives a leadership appointment at the newly combined company local interest here.
Beverly Hills News

Ynon Kreiz Joins David Ellison at the Top of the Combined Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery

Ynon Kreiz, 61, will serve as co-chief executive of the merged Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery, Variety reported. In that role, he will lead the company alongside David Ellison. Variety described Kreiz as Ellison's closest deputy at the combined company. His compensation in the new post is valued at more than $46.5 million. According to the report, that is more than he received as chief executive of Mattel. Variety reported that Kreiz has signed an initial agreement with the company. The appointment puts the former Mattel chief at the head of a company formed by the merger of two major entertainment businesses.
Beverly Hills News

Prime Video's 'Neagley' Opens at No. 1, Ahead of Its Parent Series 'Reacher'

"Neagley," the new Prime Video series spun off from "Reacher," ranked first in the streaming charts in its opening week. It finished ahead of "Monster" and ahead of "Reacher" itself. The new series' first-week audience was about the same size as the one "Reacher" drew when it debuted in 2022. For an industry town that follows these weekly rankings closely, a spinoff opening on a par with the show it came from is a result worth noting.
Beverly Hills News

Three Films Top Variety's First Read on the Academy's International Feature Race

Variety has named "La Bola Negra," "Fjord" and "Woman Unknown" as the leading early contenders for the Academy Award for International Feature Film. The ranking comes from the predictions that Variety's awards team publishes and updates throughout the season. The three films sit at the top of the outlet's list this early in the race. The Academy presents its awards in Los Angeles, and readers here can follow the category as the publication revises its standings ahead of the ceremony.
Beverly Hills News

Peacock Commits to a Full 'Fast & Furious' Series, With a 2028 Debut in View

Peacock said Thursday that it has given a series order to a television version of "Fast & Furious," Variety reported. NBCUniversal first made the project public as a show in development at its upfronts earlier this year. Thursday's announcement moves it past that stage and into the streamer's lineup of ordered series. Peacock is aiming to premiere the show in 2028, according to Variety. The announcement, as summarized by Variety, did not name a cast, a creative team or a premiere date more specific than the year.
Who Wore What When

Before the Red Carpet, the Blowout: Dyson, Shark, Gisou and Oribe Go on Early Prime Day Markdowns

Elle has picked out the early Prime Day discounts on hair care and styling tools, and the names on the list are the ones you'd find on a well-stocked vanity: Dyson and Shark for the heavy machinery, Gisou and Oribe for the bottles that come out once the dryer is off. Whether you're dealing with Palm Beach humidity or dry Aspen air, a good blowout starts at home long before anyone reaches a step-and-repeat. Shopping early means the good tools are already on the counter before the season's invitations show up.
Who Wore What When

The Fitting Room Now Lives in Your Chat Window

ChatGPT now lets shoppers see clothing on themselves before they buy, and it gives them a place to keep the outfits they like best. We spend our days cataloging who wore what and when, so a personal archive of saved ensembles feels familiar to us, even in this new setting. Whether you're on a Palm Beach terrace or in a Beverly Hills dressing room, you can now ask a chatbot first how something will look on you. The three-way mirror isn't going anywhere, but it has company.
Who Wore What When

Skechers Laces Up for Race Day With the Aero Elite

Skechers now has a race-day shoe in its lineup. The Aero Elite is the newest model in the brand's Aero Series, and it is the label's first entry in the top tier of competition footwear, the class built only to go fast on race day. For a desk that keeps careful records of who wore what and when, a debut shoe from a familiar name is worth noting: its first attempt at a category it has never made before, in a line built for speed.
Who Wore What When

Venus Turns Retrograde on October 3, and the Season Already Has Its Closing Date

Starting October 3 and lasting until November 13, Venus moves into retrograde, appearing to travel backward across the sky as astrologers read it. Vogue's astrologer describes these six weeks as a time when desire and attraction come to the fore, and has written a reading for each of the twelve signs. From Palm Beach to Beverly Hills, it is a stretch of the calendar our readers will be dressing through either way. Few autumn engagements arrive with their end date already printed on the invitation.
Who Wore What When

Jessica Lange Goes Back to Mary Tyrone, and to Horror

Jessica Lange sat down with Vogue to talk about two of the parts most closely tied to her name: Mary Tyrone in Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey Into Night," and her work on "American Horror Story." She's going back to both, and it's notable that one of these is a stage classic and the other a television anthology. The interview doesn't say what she wore or where the conversation happened, so we won't guess. For an archive that tracks who wore what and when, the part worth noting is simpler: a performer choosing to put old roles back on, the way a well-made coat gets worn again.
Who Wore What When

Eight Ways Back Into the Black Boot, From Aspen to the Upper East Side

Elle has put together eight approaches to wearing black boots as the weather turns, a styling guide built around the pair most closets already hold. The premise compliments the reader: the boots are already there, and the real work is deciding what goes with them. Here, that pair might step out onto a Manhattan sidewalk, a Nashville porch or an Aspen street once the air cools, and black leather suits all three without fuss. Take it as permission to wear the dependable pair with fresh intent.
Who Wore What When

Simone Rocha at the New York City Ballet, With a Ribbon Tied In to Match

Sarah Jessica Parker came to an evening at the New York City Ballet in Simone Rocha, a gown sheer enough to let the light through. The detail that tied the look together was in her hair: a ribbon matching the dress, worked into an updo streaked with gray. Let down, that hair falls nearly to her knees, which makes a gathered style a real piece of construction rather than a quick twist. Putting the same ribbon in the gown and the hair turns two separate choices into one. For an archive that tracks designer, year and occasion, this one is easy to file: Simone Rocha, Sarah Jessica Parker, a ballet night in New York.
What They Ride

U.S.S. Valor Takes the Champagne Stakes, a Race First Run in 1867

U.S.S. Valor has won the Champagne Stakes, beating Gaudreau at the finish. The race was first run in 1867, which puts U.S.S. Valor in a long line of horses whose names are attached to the Champagne. A race that has gone on for more than a century and a half means a lot in American racing, and a close finish against a good rival is a fine way to join that list. Our readers follow the turf from Saratoga to Palm Beach, and they will want to note the name U.S.S. Valor.
What They Ride

A Connect Colt Settles the Vosburgh by the Barest Margin, and Earns His Way to the Breeders' Cup

The Grade III Vosburgh Stakes at Belmont Park on Thursday was too close to call from the grandstand, so the result waited on the photo. When the stewards posted it, T Kraft, a son of Connect, had held on by a nose. Crazy Mason, by Coal Front, finished second after closing hard in the final strides. The two crossed the wire so nearly together that only the camera could separate them. The Vosburgh is a "Win and You're In" race, so the victory also gives T Kraft a starting spot at the Breeders' Cup. For anyone who follows the New York circuit, it was a fine autumn afternoon of racing: two well-bred horses giving everything to the line, and a winner who now has a place at the championships.
What They Ride

OXO Equine's Own Minaret Station Breaks Through in the Joe Hirsch Turf Classic

Minaret Station has won the Joe Hirsch Turf Classic for OXO Equine LLC, the outfit that bred him and still races him. The 4-year-old colt had been close to the top of the turf division all year without getting his picture taken. Now he has a win to go with all that attention, and it came in a race named for one of the sport's great chroniclers. His pedigree shows how he was made. He is by Instilled Regard, out of the Irish-bred mare Beau Recall, a daughter of the Irish-bred Sir Prancealot. That's an American sire crossed onto an Irish female family, and it has produced a colt who shows up on the grass every time and has finally been rewarded for it. The ownership is what makes this one special. A homebred win is a different thing from a win bought in the sales ring. The decision on which stallion to use was OXO Equine's, and so was everything in the years between that mating and this result.
Photo by Ilies AMMI on Unsplash
What They Ride

Kathynmarissa Adds Flower Bowl to Her Diana and Earns a Breeders' Cup Berth

Kathynmarissa has now won both of her starts since mid-July, and the second win sends her to the Breeders' Cup. The 5-year-old mare by American Pharoah, owned by Michael Dubb and Michael J. Caruso, took the Flower Bowl, a "Win and You're In" race that guarantees its winner a place in the championship. Her previous start was a victory in the Grade I Dunkin' Diana Stakes at Saratoga on July 18. The Flower Bowl was her next race, so she did not run between the two wins. Plenty of horses win a Grade I at the Spa, but far fewer follow it with a win that carries a ticket to the Breeders' Cup. That pairing is what puts her name on the list for the fall. American Pharoah's daughter now goes from a summer stakes winner to a horse whose next start has already been decided.
Beverly Hills Brides

Four Colors That Didn't Match, Hung From a Ring of Brass

The room at The Eyrie at Glen Eagle was round and white, and a brass hoop hung at its center as the only light fixture. Into it the designers put four colors that don't usually share a table: deep olive, soft lavender, a hot chili red, and a peach warm enough to pass for gold. They chose not to blend them, and the clash was the point of the design. The pale walls kept the four colors separate, so each one stood out on its own and the whole room had the loose, layered look of a painting.
Brides of Beverly Hills

Stonepine Estate Makes the Case for an Italian Look Without the Flight

Stonepine Estate in Carmel Valley is the venue in a newly published wedding with a Tuscan point of view. The couple did not use the estate to imitate California. They used it as the setting for an Italian-country scheme, and the property took that styling without strain. The palette was bright pastels, which is a different choice from the usual muted, sun-faded tones of Tuscan-themed weddings. The florals also departed from the expected, and the arrangements were treated as a design decision rather than a default. For a bride who wants Italy as the mood but a California estate as the actual address, this wedding shows the two can be combined. Paulina Perrucci, a member of Style Me Pretty's Little Black Book vendor network, photographed the day, and her images are the record to study before booking a walkthrough.
What It Sold For

A French Jeweler's Archive Comes to New York for Ten Days This October

A French jeweler is putting on an exhibition in New York from October 9 through October 18. The show treats the house's archive as the place its new ideas come from, not as a record to keep behind glass. For a house with a long history, that is a confident position to take: the drawings and pieces of earlier generations are presented as the beginning of new work. The window is short, ten days in mid-October, so anyone in the city who cares how fine jewelry gets made, and how a design moves from an old reference to a new piece, should mark the dates now.
What It Sold For

IKEA's Newest Soft Goods Aim to Give the Primary Suite a Small Hotel's Polish

IKEA has introduced a new range of fabrics for the bedroom. Its goal is to make that room feel like a well-run small hotel. Buyers often judge a house by its kitchen and its views, but the private rooms upstairs are where a home tends to feel either settled or merely occupied, and the fabrics in them have a lot to do with which. The idea behind the line is simple: the calm of a getaway can be arranged at home, one layer of cloth at a time.
What They Drive

A Four-Cylinder Mustang That Makes Its Case Sideways: the 2026 RTR's Hand Brake

The 2026 Ford Mustang RTR uses a four-cylinder engine rated at 315 horsepower, and the editors at The Drive took it drifting to see what it can do. Their conclusion is that the car is far more entertaining than its spec sheet suggests. They singled out its traditional pull-up hand brake as its best feature, a piece of hardware many owners assumed modern cars had left behind. For readers who don't need the largest engine to enjoy a Mustang, this is the 2026 version worth a closer look.
What They Drive

Hemi Rumble Bee Production Spoken For Through March 2027, All Claimed in a Single Day

Ram's 5.7-liter Hemi Rumble Bee found buyers for every build slot through March 2027, and it took one day to do it. For owners who keep an eight-cylinder pickup in the garage, that is a clear signal that demand for a V8 truck built for performance is alive here at home. Anyone hoping to add one now will be waiting until spring 2027 at the earliest. Few new trucks have been claimed that quickly.
What They Drive

The RTR Mustang Comes to the EcoBoost Car, at a Price Owners Can Reach

For 2026, Ford has put the RTR name on the Mustang that opens the lineup, building this special edition on the EcoBoost car. Car and Driver's staff drove it, and they report that the entry-level Mustang has a good deal more spirit in RTR form. What matters to owners is the price: this is a distinct, named Mustang that buyers can afford, not one built for a few. For anyone who follows the marque's special editions, it is one to note on the 2026 list.
What They Drive

For the Home Garage: DeWalt Batteries Marked Down $100 Before Amazon's October Sale Opens

Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days don't begin until October 6, but some discounts for people who keep cars are already available. The biggest is $100 off DeWalt batteries, the cordless power behind much of the work done in a home garage. Other markdowns cover tools, garage equipment and gear for long drives. For owners from Naples to Aspen who look after their own cars, it's an early chance to stock the workbench before the main event starts.
What They Drive

Ford Adds a $12,545 Factory Two-Color Finish to the 2027 F-150

Ford will offer a two-color paint option on the 2027 F-150, and the option is priced at $12,545. That works out to about a fifth of what the truck itself costs, and close to half the price of a new Ford Maverick. With this option, an owner chooses the second color when ordering the truck, and Ford applies it before the truck leaves the factory. Ford is charging for it like a major option, not a small extra. For an owner who expects to keep the truck for many years, the finish it leaves the factory with is worth deciding carefully.
Photo by Ashley Piszek on Unsplash
What They Drive

A Columnist Makes the Case for the Lever Between the Seats

A columnist at The Drive has picked a cause that sits just a few inches from the shifter: the mechanical parking-brake lever. Most enthusiast campaigning goes to keeping the clutch pedal and the stick shift alive, but this writer argues that the pull-up handle deserves the same loyalty, and believes its future isn't settled yet. Any owner who knows the click of that ratchet under their palm, in a garage in Naples or a driveway in Aspen, will be glad to see a familiar control get an advocate of its own.
Photo by Jakub Pabis on Unsplash
What They Drive

The 2027 Civic Type R Gets Heated Seats From the Acura Integra Type S

Honda has updated the Civic Type R for the 2027 model year. One change sits in the cabin: the Type R now gets heated seats, the same feature found in the Acura Integra Type S. The outside has been reshaped to look sharper and more assertive. Under that new skin, Honda has also improved how the car manages airflow and how it keeps itself cool. The aero and cooling work is mostly for drivers who push the car hard. The heated seats are the change an owner will feel every cold Colorado morning before the engine has warmed up.
Photo by wbaiv on Flickr
What They Drive

For Owners Weighing the Next Type R, the 2027 Car Can Now Be Judged by Eye

Car and Driver has published a full photo gallery of Honda's 2027 Civic Type R in its revised form, showing the car from all sides. It is the walk-around an owner would give a car in a showroom, done in pictures. Readers who already keep a Type R in the garage, or are thinking about buying one, can now study the newest model at their own pace. These are photographs, not a drive, and we offer no verdict on how the car performs on the road.
What They Drive

Forty-Eight Years On, an American Formula 1 Win Is Back Within Reach

No driver from the United States has won a Formula 1 Grand Prix in 48 years. That is nearly half a century of American enthusiasts following the sport's top tier while cheering for drivers from other countries. Road & Track now argues that the long wait is close to ending and that a homegrown winner is no longer a distant hope. For readers who care about American names on great machines, from the garage to the auction block, the next American win would be worth seeing.
What They Drive

Twenty-Five Horsepower, Five Hundred Miles: The Case for the Slow Way

Road & Track columnist Farah has written a guide for first-timers on covering 500 miles aboard a Vespa, a scooter with 25 horsepower. Farah's verdict is that a long ride on so modest a machine turns out to be an excellent way to see the country around you. That is a useful thing for a collector to hear, whether the garage holds something from Palm Beach or something from the Colorado foothills: the car or bike with the least power can still give you the best day out. We did not ride it ourselves, so the miles and the conclusions are Farah's, and the full guide is the place to go before setting out.
Class of Florida

The Box Score in a Kobe Bryant Lakers Jersey: 472 Points, and Now a Price in the Millions

A single Los Angeles Lakers jersey from the 2003-04 season is going to auction, and its value comes with a record of exactly what happened while Kobe Bryant had it on. Wearing it, he scored 472 points and added 85 rebounds, 94 assists, 33 steals and 11 blocks. Those numbers fill out every column of a stat sheet, which is a fair way to describe the player who wore it. Bryant won five NBA championships, and this jersey is one piece of that record that a person can actually own. The estimate runs into the millions, so it will be priced like fine art. To a serious collector, that's what it is. Down here, Miami will talk about it the loudest, Palm Beach will ask about its condition, and Naples will quietly check the provenance and register to bid. All three know a jersey like this is valued for the work that was done in it.
Class of Florida

One Jersey From the 1998 Finals Now Sets the Price for Basketball History

Michael Jordan's jersey from the 1998 NBA Finals, the championship run fans know as "The Last Dance," has gone to a bidder for $12.26 million. No basketball jersey worn in an actual NBA game has ever brought more when offered for sale. That figure is for a single shirt, the kind a player pulls on before tip-off and takes off at the final buzzer. Its value comes entirely from the man who wore it and the series he wore it in. Down here, people argue about what serious collecting looks like. Palm Beach tends to say paintings, Naples says the car in the garage, and Miami says whatever got the most attention last weekend. A result like this one ends that argument politely: sports memorabilia, chosen carefully, belongs in the same conversation. Whatever room this jersey ends up in, it now holds the record for its category.
Class of Florida

Forty Years on Fifth: David Murdock's New York Foothold Comes to Market at $15 Million

For more than four decades, David Murdock's home in New York was a maisonette on Fifth Avenue, and it is now for sale at $15 million. Floridians understand this kind of arrangement. Palm Beach keeps its winters, Naples keeps its sunsets, Miami keeps its own hours, and a good many of the people who move among them also keep a door somewhere north. Keeping the same one for forty years is less common. That is not a weekend address or a place to sleep between meetings. It is a lasting part of a life, chosen once and kept for good. A maisonette is also its own kind of New York residence, closer in feel to a house than to an apartment in the sky, and it sits on the avenue that most of the country pictures when it pictures Manhattan. For readers who spend part of the year on the Atlantic and part on the Gulf, the price will register. So will the patience behind those forty years in one place.
Class of Florida

The Quietest Range Rover Sport Is Also the Strongest

The Range Rover Sport now comes as a battery-electric model, and it puts down more twisting force than any version of the Sport before it. Underneath, it uses the same pair of electric motors as its bigger sibling, the Range Rover Electric. That means the smaller, sportier body gets the larger car's drive system. It's a combination drivers might appreciate anywhere in Florida, whether the trip is a short hop down Worth Avenue, a long run on Alligator Alley toward Naples, or Brickell traffic, where the torque matters more than any top speed you'd never reach anyway.
Icons of Palm Beach

Florence Pugh Takes On Cathy Ames, and Zoe Kazan Asks Us to Look Again

Of all the women in fiction, Cathy Ames may be the one most readers have long since judged, and Zoe Kazan's new Netflix miniseries of *East of Eden* asks them to look at her again. Kazan directs, and she has given the part to Florence Pugh, the two of them working toward a portrait more complicated than the one many readers remember. The series turns on old questions of virtue and wickedness, the kind that can carry a dinner table on the North End well past dessert. It is a good one to watch before the season fills every evening, and a good one to argue over once it does.
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Icons of Palm Beach

For the North End's Four-Legged Set, a Possible Arrival From the Duchess

The Duchess of Sussex seems to be hinting that her As Ever label may soon offer something for the dog. It's only a hint for now, with no product named and nothing to buy yet. It does follow naturally from her series on Netflix, where she baked treats for dogs from scratch in her own kitchen. On an island where the dog comes to lunch and goes out on the morning walk along the Lake Trail, a toy from her label would find plenty of interested owners.
Beverly Hills News

Joseph Zada, 21, Takes Two Leading Roles This Fall, One of Them First Played by James Dean

Joseph Zada, a 21-year-old actor from Australia, has two major roles arriving this fall, according to The Hollywood Reporter. One of them is a part James Dean once played. Zada left high school before graduating and has worked steadily as an actor since then, the publication reports. Two significant performances in one season is a notable start for a performer still in his early twenties, and readers in Beverly Hills who follow the screen industry may want to watch for both.
Beverly Hills News

Disney's Worlds Collide Tour Plays Crypto.com Arena in Downtown Los Angeles

Disney's Worlds Collide Tour performed at Crypto.com Arena in downtown Los Angeles on Monday evening, The Hollywood Reporter reported. The concert brought together performers from three Disney franchises: "Descendants," "Zombies" and "Camp Rock." Malachi Barton and Dara Renée were among the Disney performers who appeared, according to the report. The publication described a show that moved quickly from one number to the next and kept the energy up from start to finish. For Los Angeles audiences, the night brought a touring Disney production to one of the city's main concert venues. The arena gave all three franchises one stage, one roster and one evening.
Beverly Hills News

A Studio With 50-Plus Film and TV Credits Opens a Door for Digital Creators

AGC Studios, the company headed by Stuart Ford, has formed AGC Digital, a new arm built to work with people who make content for online audiences. The studio's credits already number above 50 across film and television. According to the announcement, the new division will collaborate with these creators to develop their concepts into larger projects, with the original ideas starting from the creators themselves.
Beverly Hills News

Stuart Ford's AGC Studios Opens a Door for Digital Creators

AGC Studios, the production company led by Stuart Ford, has started a new division called AGC Digital. The unit is set up to work alongside people who build their audiences online and to help develop the ideas those creators bring to it. AGC Studios counts upward of 50 films and television series among its credits, and the new division adds digital creators to that slate. For readers in Beverly Hills and across Los Angeles, the launch is a case of a production company that already has a long list of finished film and television work making room for people who got their start online.
Beverly Hills News

Variety Names Matt Damon and the Knicks to Its List of New York's Most Influential

Variety has published a power list naming the people and institutions it considers most influential in New York, and the actor Matt Damon and the New York Knicks are among them. The magazine calls the list its New York Legends Power List. The list starts from the city's size: about 8.5 million residents in roughly 300 square miles, the largest population of any U.S. city. Variety connects that influence to the city's best-known institutions, including Broadway, Wall Street, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall. Damon comes from film and the Knicks from professional basketball, and the list places both in the same group as the theater, finance and music institutions it names.
Beverly Hills News

Writers of 'The Holdovers' and 'Bridgerton' Join Faculty of Bennington's New Screenwriting Degree

Bennington College has started a Master of Fine Arts program in screenwriting. Its named teaching staff includes David Hemingson, who wrote "The Holdovers," and Janet Lin, a writer on "Bridgerton." For Los Angeles readers, the faculty list means writers from current film and television work will be teaching the program. Bret Easton Ellis and Donna Tartt both attended the college, which is best known for its novelists.
Beverly Hills News

Liz Claman Takes On a Friday Evening Hour as Fox Business Remakes Its Weekdays

Fox Business Network has set a new schedule for its weekday programming, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The morning hour formerly anchored by Maria Bartiromo will now carry a program called "Big Money in the Morning." The network's midday show will be led by a new pair of anchors. Liz Claman will also add a program at the end of the week, airing on Friday evenings. For viewers here who follow the markets through the business day, that means a new show to start the morning, new faces at midday and a familiar anchor closing out the week.
Beverly Hills News

Clix Brings Nine Ventures, Partnerships and Giving Under Full Box Inc.

Cody Conrod, the professional "Fortnite" player who competes as Clix, has formed Full Box Inc. to serve as the parent company for his nine business interests. According to Variety, the new company will also oversee his brand collaborations and his charitable work. Conrod, a creator, is running the company himself. Readers in Beverly Hills and across Los Angeles who follow gaming as a business will see a competitive player organizing his commercial and philanthropic work inside one company.
What They Collect

At 80, Marina Abramović Adds a Book to a Busy Season

Marina Abramović is approaching her eightieth birthday with a full calendar: several new exhibitions, a performance that is on tour, and a new book titled "Long Life, Short Stories." She has no plans to slow down, and she says the work is what gives her days their purpose. Her career is known for performances that happen once and are gone, so the book offers something a reader can buy and keep on the shelf. The title also explains its form: a long life, told in short pieces.
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Class of Nashville

October in Nashville, Already Mapped Out

The town's October is now on paper: a month-by-month guide lays out new songs, upcoming records, trade gatherings and live shows around Nashville. Here, a calendar like this is how people plan their weeks, whether they work on Music Row or just keep a close ear on it. It sorts the month four ways: individual tracks, full-length albums and shorter EPs, events for people who work in the business, and nights out in the city's rooms. Pin it next to the season's invitations and the month gets easier to plan.
Class of Nashville

Kaitlin Butts Takes Hello, Honky Tonk on the Road This Month

Kaitlin Butts has a new album on the way, *Hello, Honky Tonk*, and she is taking the record out to audiences before the month is over. The run is called the Hello, Honky Tonk Live And In Person Tour, a name that signals the point plainly: these songs are meant to be heard in a room, with a crowd. Here in Nashville, a city that still judges a country record by how it plays under a low ceiling, putting the music on stage alongside the release is a vote of confidence in the work.
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Class of Nashville

The Business Behind the Song Gathers Its Members

The Mechanical Licensing Collective, the organization that handles mechanical royalties for songwriters and music publishers, called its members together for their yearly meeting. It isn't a premiere or an awards night. It's the kind of standing date a well-run institution keeps with the people it works for. In a city where a career can rest on a single line in a royalty statement, a body like this checking in with its membership counts as good housekeeping, the business side of the craft quietly doing its job. Out front are the voices everyone knows. Behind them are the writers and publishers whose work starts it all, and this meeting was about them.
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The Capital Set

Calder's "Mountains and Clouds" Gets Its Mobile Restored at the Hart Senate Office Building

Some of Washington's most interesting art doesn't hang in a museum. It sits inside an office building on Capitol Hill. Alexander Calder's "Mountains and Clouds," the very large installation inside the Hart Senate Office Building, is getting a restored mobile. The work is described as advanced and up to date in its craft, and it brings back the element of the piece that is meant to move. A mobile only makes sense in motion. It is a sculpture you watch change with the air and the hour, so restoring one is really about giving it back its movement. For a city that keeps a careful eye on its landmarks, this is good news. It is a piece of modern art in the middle of official Washington, and its moving part is being given careful attention.
Photo by Marvin Mutz on Flickr
Private Jet Owners

The Pilot Flying Your Airplane on Charter Needed More Than a Commercial Certificate

Holding a commercial certificate is not, by itself, enough to fly passengers for hire on charter. Much of the path to the charter cockpit is the same as the one to a commercial certificate, but a pilot heading into charter work has more to weigh along the way. That matters to an owner whose aircraft earns revenue on a management company's certificate when the owner isn't aboard. The crew in the front seats on those legs got there by a somewhat longer road, and an owner can reasonably ask about it.
Private Jet Owners

A 2004 Sovereign Comes to Market With Its Engines Already Under ESP Silver Lite

A 2004 Cessna 680 Citation Sovereign is now listed for sale. The listing presents the jet as a super-midsize. Its flight deck runs Honeywell's Primus Epic suite, and both engines are covered by ESP Silver Lite. For an owner comparing used airframes, the engine coverage is usually the first line to check, ahead of the paint and the interior, because it decides how much of the powerplant cost has already been accounted for. Primus Epic is the other point a buyer will look at closely, since it is the avionics platform the next owner and their pilots will be flying with. The listing doesn't give any other details, and we haven't added any.
Private Jet Owners

Delaware's Wings & Wheels Puts Vintage Airplanes and Aviation Hiring on the Same Ramp

Delaware's Wings & Wheels festival this fall will show classic aircraft and host a career fair for people looking for work in aviation. For owners, the career fair is the useful part. Every flight department, management company and independent owner-operator draws on the same small pool of pilots and technicians, and that pool is filled at events like this one. The vintage airplanes are the draw, and having the career fair beside them is a sensible way to put a working trade in front of people who came to look at the old metal. There will also be a lighter item: rubber chickens dropped from the air, a deliberately silly stand-in for the live-bird stunts that have given other fall gatherings a bad name. No actual poultry is involved. It is a small detail, and a good sign of how the organizers are running things. The event is meant for families and newcomers, and it wants to look approachable to the next generation.
Who Wore What When

Blue Ox: Kizik's New Label Takes Step-In Footwear to the Job Site

A boot doesn't need a red carpet to earn a place in the archive. The company behind Kizik has started a new brand, Blue Ox, aimed at people who work in the trades, and it launches with a pair of boot designs. The idea is the one Kizik made its name on: shoes you can step into without bending down to fuss with them. This time they're built for long days on a job site. For a desk that records who wore what and when, a new label with just two boots to its name is a good debut to note.
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The Mary Jane, Built for a Getaway: Zendaya Is Back With On for Round Two

Zendaya has a second collection with On, the athletic label from Switzerland, and she's discussing how she shaped it as its co-designer. The piece getting the attention is a Mary Jane, the strapped schoolgirl classic, rebuilt with enough nerve to survive a stunt sequence. Picture it on a Manhattan crosswalk or a Beverly Hills sidewalk: a shoe that keeps the polish of the original and still looks ready to sprint. For an archive that tracks who wore what and when, it's a welcome sign that sneaker culture can still take a sweet silhouette seriously.
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Zendaya Gets the Action-Hero Edit, in Clothes She Helped Design

In On's newest campaign, Zendaya is both the star and one of the people behind the clothes: the line she wears was developed jointly by her and the brand. The campaign comes as a short film that borrows its pacing from action movies, which suits technical clothing designed to look good while moving. For an archive that keeps track of who designed what, the credit line is the story here. She isn't only modeling the pieces, she shares the design credit.
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Chamberlain Coffee Packs a Bag, With a Blend and Merch Made for the Trip

Emma Chamberlain's coffee label is working with Pinterest again, and this time the theme is getting away. The two have put out a new coffee blend inspired by travel, along with a new run of branded goods. Coffee merch is a brand's version of a wardrobe, so the goods are the part this desk will be watching. Whether the next trip is a drive up to Aspen or a flight down to Palm Beach, the theme suits the season.
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Fifth Avenue, Pocket-Sized: Bobbi Brown Brings The Met to the Makeup Bag

New York's great museum has found its way into the vanity drawer. For the holidays, Bobbi Brown has paired some of the brand's best-loved products with works from The Met's holdings, in a range that runs from the lids to the lips to the complexion. Two kinds of craft share the same counter this season: the formula and the masterpiece. Anyone who has walked those galleries on Fifth Avenue will see the appeal right away.
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Florence Pugh Saves Vivienne Westwood for Her Last New York Stop

Florence Pugh closed out her publicity run for "East of Eden" in Manhattan, and the last word went to Vivienne Westwood. She wore the British house on Wednesday evening at the series' New York premiere, and the look was all color. The Academy Award nominee has been promoting the multi-part adaptation for weeks, and she ended it on an American red carpet. For an archive like ours, the details are easy to file: Westwood was the designer, New York was the city, and the occasion was the premiere of a prestige series. A last appearance tends to be the one people remember, and Pugh made hers a bright one.
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Hailey Bieber Revives Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy's Open-Back Cerruti

Hailey Bieber has brought back one of the most closely studied dresses in American bridal-week history: the open-back Cerruti that Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy chose for her wedding rehearsal dinner. Ask anyone who keeps an archive of these looks and they'll tell you the bare back is the whole point. A plain front opens into a low, clean line behind, and there's barely anything else going on, which is exactly why people still bring it up. Our readers keep their own mental lookbook of the Bessette-Kennedy years, so it's a pleasure to see the dress worn again rather than just pinned to a mood board, and there are worse audition tapes for whoever is casting the next Love Story.
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Fashion Apparel Moves First on Artificial Intelligence, Aptean Study Finds

The software company Aptean has released new research on how businesses are putting artificial intelligence to work and how they feel about what it gives them back. By its findings, fashion apparel is out in front, taking up the technology earlier than other sectors. For an archive that tracks who dressed whom, and in what year, it's worth noting when the industry behind the gowns moves before everyone else. The research looks at the business behind the clothes rather than any one look, and on that question apparel came out ahead.
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Daisy Edgar-Jones Wears Austen, With Barely a Bonnet in Sight

Daisy Edgar-Jones has brought the drawing room to the sheer gown: a look that borrows from the early 1800s and then leaves out nearly all the cover. The idea is Austen-era fashion made modern and glamorous, so the period cues stay and the modesty doesn't. It's dressing in character the way it should be done: a nod to the era, worn with modern confidence instead of as a costume. Readers who keep score of the classics will appreciate a heroine who studied the period and then edited it down.
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Roberto Cavalli Sets Its Fall 2026 Campaign in Los Angeles, Starring Hayes Warner

Roberto Cavalli has made Los Angeles the setting for its Fall 2026 campaign, and Hayes Warner, from "The Shards," is the face of it. Indiana Piorek took the photographs and also directed the creative side, so one person shaped the whole shoot. For our archive, that pins down the three details we always want on record: the house is Roberto Cavalli, the season is Fall 2026, and the city is Los Angeles. Usually a house announces a fall campaign and the location gets lost in the press release. Here it's part of the headline news, and Los Angeles is a city we cover closely. When the images appear, Beverly Hills readers will be looking at a campaign made in their own city.
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Roberto Cavalli Sets Its Fall 2026 Campaign in Los Angeles, With Hayes Warner Out Front

Roberto Cavalli shot its fall pictures in Los Angeles. The house has named Hayes Warner, of "The Shards," as the face of its Fall 2026 campaign, and the images were made here in the city. Indiana Piorek ran the shoot, taking the photographs and also setting its creative direction. For the archive: Roberto Cavalli, Fall 2026, starring Hayes Warner, shot in Los Angeles, photographed and directed by Indiana Piorek. A desk that tracks who wore what and when likes a campaign with a Los Angeles address, and this one goes in the file.
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Prime Day Puts Apple's Finishing Touches Within Easier Reach

Prime Day has brought Apple pieces down in price, from iPads and MacBooks to headphones. Apple discounts don't come along often, so it's worth paying attention when they do. A pair of headphones is an accessory like any other, and anyone who has watched a red carpet arrival knows the details carry the look. Whether you're sitting at a Palm Beach breakfast table or packing for Aspen, it's a good week to finish off the kit.
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Starter's 1986 Giants Capsule Goes Back to the Super Bowl Season

Starter has put a Super Bowl title into a capsule collection: its new pieces celebrate the New York Giants' 1986 championship. The brand is run by Carl Banks, who played for the Giants himself, so the man who wore the jersey now oversees the label honoring it. The anniversary also moves from the rack to the stands. Starter will welcome supporters at the Giants' game this Sunday, putting the clothes in front of the crowd that cares about that season most.
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Starter Dresses Giants Fans in the 1986 Championship Season

Carl Banks once played for the Giants and now runs Starter, and the brand has put together a capsule honoring the team's Super Bowl win of 1986. The year is printed on the collection itself, which makes it easy to file: it's a tribute to one championship season, made by a company led by someone who wore the uniform. The release has an in-person side too, with Starter welcoming fans at Sunday's Giants game, so the pieces will make their debut in the stands among the crowd they were designed for. For New York, it's a good week to wear a championship year.
What They Ride

Keeneland Sets Mare Age Rules for Its January 2027 Sale

Consignors bringing mares to Lexington's first sale of 2027 will work under new rules on how old a broodmare can be when she enters the ring. Keeneland's January auction, where horses of every age are offered, will be the first to use the revised terms. The changes also raise the upset price, the minimum below which a horse will not be sold, though the new figure has not been published. These are the rules buyers and sellers will be bidding under when the Kentucky sales season starts next winter.
What They Sail

Three V-12s on the Transom: Michael Peters Draws the Running Surface for the Eclipse 505 Shadow

The Eclipse 505 Shadow is a 50-foot express cruiser that hangs its power off the stern. Three Mercury V-12 outboards, each rated at 600 horsepower, sit across the transom. Below the waterline is a stepped bottom drawn by naval architect Michael Peters. The boat is built by hand in Cape Town. The first thing an owner would notice walking down the dock is the stern, where three big outboards stand side by side. That is the main idea of this boat. Express cruisers this size usually hide their engines under the deck. The Shadow puts all 1,800 horsepower out in the open, where the owner can see it from the cockpit. The hull is the other half of the design. Having Peters draw a stepped bottom shows that the shape under the boat got as much attention as the engines on the back. A Florida owner who has spent time on outboard boats will recognize the setup. On the Shadow it comes in a 50-foot hull built as a cruiser, made one boat at a time by hand. No price has been published.
Class of Florida

A Sauna in Its Own Mirrored Pavilion, for $14 Million in the Hollywood Hills

The house that was once Michael B. Jordan's in the Hollywood Hills is now for sale at $14 million. The selling point here is the sauna. Ome Dezin, a design studio based in Los Angeles, remodeled the residence and gave the sauna a pavilion of its own, finished in mirror. That makes it a separate small building, put up for nothing but heat and quiet. In Florida we can get the heat by walking to the car, so a dedicated room for it reads as a California idea. Miami would line the walls with something louder, Palm Beach would ask whether it comes in a shade of green, and Naples would want to know if it is next to the pool. Still, we know good work, and a firm that gives the sauna its own structure and lets mirrors do the decorating has thought about it carefully. The price buys the whole house, but the sauna pavilion is what buyers will remember.
Class of Florida

A Publisher Puts His Restored 1950s House in Beverly Hills on the Market at $25 Million

Benedikt Taschen, the publisher, has listed his Beverly Hills house for $25 million. The house is known as the Adelman Residence, and it was built in the 1950s. Two architects share the design credit: Thornton Abell and O'Neil Ford. It has now been brought back in full, so it stands today as the work of that decade. Florida knows the 1950s well, in its own regional dialects. Miami shows the era off in neon, Palm Beach keeps its version politely behind a hedge, and Naples would simply like you to admire the lanai. That's why a Beverly Hills house from those years, restored completely and still credited to the architects who drew it, is worth a look from the Gulf Coast too. It's a reminder that a house from that era can be taken care of rather than replaced.
Class of Florida

Johnnie Walker Turns to the Indian Kitchen for Its Latest Blue Label

Johnnie Walker has bottled a new Blue Label whose inspiration comes from the cooking of India. It is the second release in the house's run of bottlings built around India's celebration season. A whisky that starts from a cuisine invites a different kind of pour, the sort you might set beside the meal instead of saving it for afterward. Whether the evening is a Worth Avenue dinner party, a Naples terrace at sunset or something louder in Miami, the idea of a Scotch that takes its cue from the dinner table should find an appreciative audience here.
Where They Eat

United Gives Its Shorter Flights Three Levels of Top Fare

United Airlines has added three distinct tiers to its higher-end tickets on flights within the country and on short trips abroad. The airline already divides these fares this way on its longest routes, and it is now bringing the same structure to the shorter trips. United is betting that people who fly for work will pay more to keep their plans adjustable, even when the flight is brief. For anyone whose week moves between cities and dinner reservations, that choice now comes on the short leg too.
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Where They Eat

Event Travel Fills More Than the Arena, and the Travel Business Is Starting to Plan for It

Skift has made travel built around live events the subject of its 2026 tourism summit. Its argument will make sense to anyone who books tables or rooms in a town that hosts big events: the pull of a major event reaches far past the venue itself. For the readers of this page, that wider reach means the hotel lobby, the dining room and the reservation book. The question Skift is now putting to the industry is how to arrange itself around that reach on purpose instead of by chance.
Who Wore What When

Elinor and Marianne Get a Fitting: Sarah Flint Designs Around Austen's Sisters

Sarah Flint's new collaboration takes its cue from Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, the two sisters at the heart of "Sense and Sensibility." It's tied to a new screen version of the Austen novel that hasn't come out yet, with Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles in the lead roles. Fashion has always loved a costume drama, but here the design starts with two specific characters: one ruled by her head, the other by her heart. For readers from Palm Beach to the Hamptons, Austen remains the best guide to dressing for the occasion, and Elinor and Marianne get plenty of occasions.
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Anne Hathaway Saves a Seat on Drew's Couch for the Guest Who Hasn't Arrived Yet

Anne Hathaway went to her interview on "The Drew Barrymore Show" in a pregnancy outfit cut with an opening at the middle, so her growing belly was on full view. It's not the first time she has chosen this: once again she skipped draping and concealment and gave the bump its own frame. On a daytime talk show set, the cutout looks like a decision, not an accident. The star of "Verity" made the impending arrival part of the outfit, and we admire the confidence.
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Tory Burch and Vince, Marked Down Before the Bell on Amazon Prime

Amazon's Prime discounts have shown up ahead of schedule, and Harper's Bazaar's picks run from Tory Burch handbags to Vince sneakers. That's a sensible pair to find on one list: a structured bag for the lunch table and a clean sneaker for everything after it. Readers who track a wardrobe the way we track a red carpet, by label first, will spot the two names right away. Early pricing mostly rewards people who already know what they want, so whoever arrives with a list gets first pick.
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Galliano Goes Through Zara's Back Catalog and Takes It Apart

John Galliano and Zara have a joint collection out, and the entire run of looks can now be seen. The idea behind it was to take the retailer's own back catalog and pull those pieces apart, then rebuild them, with Galliano doing the unpicking. For a desk that keeps track of who wore what and when, a designer cutting into a house's past is something we want to watch closely. Readers from Palm Beach to Beverly Hills will want to study the lineup piece by piece, to see which seams moved and how familiar clothes came out new.
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A Year Out, the New York Wedding That Skipped White for Matching Black

One year has passed since Sophia Bush and Ashlyn Harris married in New York, and the wedding still stands out in our archive because both brides wore black. The actor and the onetime pro soccer star coordinated their looks, and both outfits were spare and clean-lined instead of the usual white. Two people in the same dark color reads as a single decision made together, with neither one trying to outshine the other. It was a summer ceremony kept small, with no crowd and no spectacle. A year later, the anniversary is a good reason to look again at a wedding where two women chose to dress as a pair.
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Dom Pérignon Dresses Two Vintages in Damien Hirst Kaleidoscopes for the Holidays

Dom Pérignon has brought in Damien Hirst for a holiday collaboration, and the result is two vintage bottles wrapped in the kaleidoscope pattern most associated with the British artist. It's a limited edition timed for year-end, so the bottles may be shown off as much as they're poured. Whether one ends up on a sideboard in Palm Beach or a mantel in Aspen, it will be the bottle guests notice before anything else on the table. The two names collaborating on one bottle are reason enough for us to cover it.
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One Chair Per Shop: Marfa Stance Brings in Stephen Kenn Studio

Marfa Stance, the British label known for practical outerwear, is working with Stephen Kenn Studio on furniture. In the first release, every Marfa Stance shop gets a chair of its own, and no two shops get the same one. It's a nice detail: the seat a customer sinks into while deciding on a coat is meant to be part of the shop, not a placeholder. Anyone who has lingered in a well-made shop in New York or Beverly Hills knows the furniture often stays in your memory as long as the clothes do.
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Colman Domingo Lends His Name, and His Face, to a Valentino Fragrance in Short Supply

Valentino has picked Colman Domingo as the face of its new fragrance, a limited-edition bottling that won't stay on the counter forever. The actor wants to smell delicious every day, and the Roman house seems happy to help. A limited-edition scent rewards the shopper who moves quickly, from Worth Avenue to Rodeo Drive. In this archive we usually log what a man wore and where he wore it, and this time the record is a fragrance.
What They Collect

Arthur Jafa Gets a Full Museum Survey, and It Brings His Darkest Figures Into View

Arthur Jafa now has a museum survey, the kind of exhibition an institution gives an artist whose body of work has earned a long, considered look. ARTnews' critic called it essential viewing. In that review, the show takes the darker figures that usually stay at the edges of Jafa's work and puts them at the center, in full view. Anyone who follows where serious contemporary art is shown and argued over should put this survey on their list.
What They Collect

A Jens Quistgaard House Gets a Leading Role in "Verity"

Some of the most interesting design work this season is happening on a film set, not at an auction. For the screen version of Colleen Hoover's novel "Verity," Amy Williams led the team that took a midcentury residence designed by Jens Quistgaard and turned it into the story's central setting. Quistgaard's name is usually found on the underside of a piece, so it is unusual to see it attached to a house that audiences will spend a whole movie inside. The job was to make an architect's house feel like the home of the people living in it on screen, and a collector watching will look at the rooms as closely as at the plot.
Beverly Hills News

Two Sets of Laces, One Shoe: The Styling Detail Shaping This Fall's Footwear

A shoe tied with two pairs of laces, an idea Miu Miu introduced on its New Balance collaboration, is now one of the defining footwear details of the fall 2026 season, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The look gained wide attention online in 2024, when the Miu Miu sneakers first circulated. The publication reports that ten brands have since adopted the same approach in their own designs. For readers shopping the season along Rodeo Drive and across Los Angeles, the detail is simple to spot: two laces, often in contrasting colors, running through a single shoe.
Beverly Hills News

Variety Review Praises Netflix's "East of Eden," a Series Built on California's Salinas Valley

Netflix has adapted John Steinbeck's novel "East of Eden" as a series, and a Variety review gives it a favorable assessment. The review credits Florence Pugh and Hoon Lee as the center of the production. Steinbeck's book starts with the Salinas Valley, where the author was born, at the point when the region was changing from frontier land into one of the country's major farming areas. The review places that California setting at the start of its discussion of the adaptation.
Beverly Hills News

Zoe Kazan Takes 'East of Eden' to Netflix, Seven Decades After Her Grandfather Filmed It

Zoe Kazan has adapted John Steinbeck's novel "East of Eden" as a series for Netflix, according to a review published by The Hollywood Reporter. The series runs seven episodes. Florence Pugh leads the cast, and Mike Faist and Christopher Abbott also star. The Hollywood Reporter's critic singled out Pugh's performance as the most commanding in the production and called it frightening. The critic also praised Kazan's work as the adapter. The review notes that the book reached the screen once before, in a 1955 film directed by Elia Kazan, Zoe Kazan's grandfather. In the critic's assessment, the new series follows Steinbeck's novel more closely than that film did. For viewers in Beverly Hills, the Netflix version gives one family's second take on the same American novel, and the review judges it the more faithful of the two.
What They Ride

Beldame Leads the Week's Fastest Fillies, With Gallant Greta Sixth on the Turf

Thoroughbred Daily News has published its weekly list of the fastest fillies and mares by Beyer Speed Figure for September 21 through 27, and the Beldame Stakes accounts for the top two places. The list does not name the Beldame finishers or give their numbers. The race's standing is clear all the same: in a week of racing across the country, the two quickest performances by fillies and mares came from that one race. That's what you'd expect from a race built to draw the best of the division. Sixth on the list is Gallant Greta, who earned her place in the seventh race at Remington Park on September 27. That race was the Ricks Memorial Stakes, run at a mile and a sixteenth on the turf. She is the only grass runner the wire item names in a top six led by the Beldame. A Beyer measures how fast a horse actually ran, so her place on a national list rests on her own time in the Ricks Memorial.
What They Ride

Pomona Sets New Marks for the California-Bred Yearling

The Fasig-Tipton California Fall Yearlings Sale set new records on Wednesday at Fairplex in Pomona. By the time the last hip left the ring, 137 yearlings had sold to new owners. The new highs continue a run of strong results at recent sales. Those involved described the session as an encouraging one. For buyers and breeders from the Los Angeles basin and across the state, the results came from their own sale on their home ground. These yearlings, now bought, head toward their first lessons under saddle, and the people behind them have good reason to feel confident about the program.
Private Jet Owners

Boeing Wins the Navy's F/A-XX, a Program Valued Above $20 Billion

The U.S. Navy has picked Boeing to develop the F/A-XX, the fighter it plans to fly from its aircraft carriers. The award is valued at more than $20 billion. Most owners will never fly an airframe built to catch a wire at sea, but they will notice when an American manufacturer wins the right to design one. This is a development award, so it pays for the engineering and testing that come before any production run.
Private Jet Owners

E1000 AX Owners Get Autoland, and the People in the Back Can Start It

The FAA has certified Garmin Autoland for the Epic E1000 AX. For owners, the most useful detail is where it can be started. Activation isn't limited to the left seat: a passenger can trigger it from more than one spot behind the cockpit. When the pilot is the only person up front, that matters more than anything on the spec sheet, and before the next departure it's worth showing everyone aboard where those spots are.
Class of Nashville

A Seacrest Charity Hands Its Partnerships and Marketing to Clark Sweat

The Ryan Seacrest Foundation has a new senior vice president, and Clark Sweat now leads its partnerships and its marketing. Those two jobs decide how a foundation gets in front of people and who stands next to it once it does. The news ran first in MusicRow, the trade paper this town reads before it reads anything else. A title like this one rarely gets a headline, and it's worth knowing the name of the person who holds it.
Photo by NashvilleCorps on Flickr
Class of Nashville

Live Nation's Truth Opens Its Doors This Thursday, With Room for 4,400

The Truth, the new music venue from Live Nation, opens to the public this Thursday in October. It holds 4,400 people, which puts it between an intimate club and an arena. For a city that measures itself by the talent on its stages, a room this size gives touring acts another reason to stop here. A concert calendar is already posted for the opening weeks, along with practical advice for first-time visitors. Anyone planning to go should look at both before Thursday night.
Class of Nashville

Cadott, Wisconsin Posts the Bill for Hoofbeat's Fortieth Year

The Hoofbeat Festival has named every act on the bill for its fortieth edition. The country festival takes place in Cadott, Wisconsin, a long way from Music Row. Forty editions is a real number for any festival, and getting there takes steady work from the people who run it. With the complete roster now public, the artists and the teams who book them in Green Hills offices know exactly who is headed north this time.
Icons of Palm Beach

The Emmys Writer Stephen Colbert Thanked From the Stage

Ariel Dumas, formerly head writer of The Late Show, wrote this year's Emmys broadcast, and Stephen Colbert stopped to credit her from the stage. Few people who write a ceremony get named during it, and this was the biggest night in television. In a conversation with Vanity Fair, Dumas talked about meeting Taylor Swift, explained why she is pushing back against artificial intelligence, and confirmed she has a new job writing for another host. Everyone will be comparing notes on the Emmys at the first dinners of the season, so her name is worth knowing before then.
Icons of Palm Beach

A Montecito Christmas, in Chocolate

Meghan Markle's As Ever has joined the chocolatier Compartés on a holiday calendar that will only be made in a short run, and its design takes its cue from the house she keeps in Montecito. It is a gift for counting down the days to Christmas, one small door each morning, and it comes with a sense of place from the other coast. For anyone already planning hostess gifts for the season, it may be the one to order early, before the run is gone.
What They Drive

Rezvani Offers a Shifter for Owners Who Miss Changing Gears Themselves

Rezvani has introduced a kit that lets owners of twin-clutch automatic cars change gears by hand, with the revs matched on every shift. The company says the kit can be fitted to any twin-clutch gearbox. The first account of it adds a fair caveat: this is not quite a full manual conversion. For the collector who loves a modern car but misses working through the gears, it is a piece of engineering built around that feeling.
Photo by Rennett Stowe on Flickr
What They Drive

A 1988 and a 1994 Accord Coupe Look Factory-Fresh

Car and Driver has brought out two Honda Accord coupes, a 1988 and a 1994, and both are in the condition they left the dealer in. They are two-door Accords six model years apart, kept so carefully that they could still be on the sales floor. For the magazine, the pair is evidence of why the Accord keeps landing on its annual list of the best cars on sale. For collectors from Naples to Nashville who prize the everyday car preserved as well as the exotic one, these two coupes show how good an ordinary Accord can still look when it is looked after.
Photo by Rennett Stowe on Flickr
What They Drive

The 1988 Accord Coupe LX-i, Documented From Cabin to Tail

A full photo record of the 1988 Honda Accord Coupe in LX-i trim has been published, and it gives the cabin as much attention as the bodywork. For owners of the two-door, and for collectors thinking about buying one, a complete visual reference for a single model year and trim is worth saving. It lets a reader compare the car in their own garage with the published images, panel by panel and seat by seat. The gallery is pictures only, so we add nothing to it here except a recommendation to take a look.
What They Drive

For the '94 Accord Coupe EX Owner, a Full Visual Record of the Car

Car and Driver has put together a complete photo gallery of the 1994 Honda Accord Coupe in EX trim, giving the cabin as much attention as the bodywork. For anyone who keeps one of these coupes in a Florida garage or a Colorado driveway, a gallery like this is worth bookmarking as a clear reference for how the car should look, outside and in. We note it because it covers a single model year in a single trim, and that is the kind of precision our readers bring to their own cars.
What They Drive

Before the Showroom: The 2026 Audi Q3 S Line Quattro, Walked Around in Pictures

If a compact Audi is on your list for next year, Car and Driver has published a full gallery of the 2026 Q3's exterior, photographed in S Line Quattro specification. The photos take the car all the way around, from nose to flanks to tail, much as a careful buyer would on a dealer lot in Naples or in a driveway in Aspen. This is a look at the car, not a drive, and we offer no opinion on how the new model year handles on the road. For owners who like to know a car's lines before seeing it in person, the gallery is a useful first look.
What They Drive

Where You'll Sit in the 2026 Audi Q3 S Line Quattro

Anyone considering Audi's next compact crossover can now study the cabin of the 2026 Q3, in S Line Quattro trim, in a full photographic walk-through. The gallery covers the interior from each vantage point, much as a careful buyer would by opening every door on a showroom floor. It is a look, not a drive, and we pass it along on those terms. The photographs show the space; how it holds up through a Colorado winter or a Florida summer is for the people who will own one to say.
Photo by the little audio company on Flickr
What They Drive

Aston Martin's DBX GT Keeps All 717 Horsepower and Softens the Ride

Aston Martin has added a GT variant to its DBX SUV line, and what matters most to anyone weighing one is what it doesn't give up. The GT uses the V-8 from the DBX S, rated at 717 horsepower, with no change in output. The difference lies in how it treats the people on board: the suspension has been set up for a gentler ride, and the interior has been made more luxurious. Aston Martin has kept the power at the top of the range and moved the chassis and cabin toward comfort. For a buyer in Palm Beach or Aspen choosing between the two, the deciding factor is now the kind of ride they want, because both cars have the same engine. We haven't driven the GT. The engine, the suspension and the cabin are the only details reported so far, and this story covers nothing beyond them.
What They Drive

Inside the 2027 Aston Martin DBX GT: A Look at Where the Owner Sits

Anyone weighing a new SUV for the garage can now see where they would actually spend their time. Photographs of the 2027 Aston Martin DBX GT's cabin have been published, giving readers a view of this model year's interior. People choose an SUV like this for the hours they spend inside it as much as for how it looks in a driveway in Palm Beach or Aspen, so the cabin matters most. We have not driven it and offer no verdict on it, but the pictures are the news and they are worth a careful look.
What They Drive

Aston Martin's 2027 DBX GT Can Now Be Seen From Every Side

Aston Martin's 2027 DBX GT can now be studied in full from the outside, in a photo set that covers the car from each angle. For owners and collectors, that is a useful first look: the whole shape, set out plainly, with nothing to go on but the car itself. The images show the exterior only, and we have not driven the car, so that is all we report here. For readers from Palm Beach to Aspen who follow the marque's model years closely, the 2027 DBX GT now has a face to go with its name.
Brides of Beverly Hills

Swapping the Ceremony Arch for a Built Platform: A Santa Barbara Ceremony Worth Studying

At the Ritz-Carlton Bacara in Santa Barbara, a couple's ceremony on the bluff skipped the usual arch of flowers. Planners Cassandra & Company Weddings built an elevated platform, set at a slant, at the front of the ceremony space. Pink-toned grasses ran along both sides of the aisle leading up to it. For anyone planning a ceremony, this means two decisions that are usually treated as one: what frames the couple, and what lines the walk to them. Here the frame is a piece of construction rather than an arrangement, and the color comes from the grasses at guests' feet. On an open bluff, a raised platform gives the ceremony a clear focal point without depending on a tall floral structure. Expect it to go through the planner and a builder rather than the florist, so it belongs on a different line of the budget. Ask about it at the walkthrough if your ceremony site is exposed and on the coast.
Brides of Beverly Hills

Santa Barbara by Candlelight: Reagan and Jon Kept Their Coastal Wedding Going After Dark

Reagan and Jon married in Santa Barbara, close to the water, with wildflowers setting the look during the day and candles taking over once the sun went down. A bride planning near the ocean should notice that combination: the flowers handle the daylight hours, and the candles carry the evening. In this case the candles mattered, because the party ran late into the night, and those late hours are when a waterfront wedding's lighting plan gets tested.
Brides of Beverly Hills

The Sailcloth Tent Question, Answered at a Virginia Vineyard

A wedding at Chatham Vineyards on Virginia's Eastern Shore made its case for putting the reception under canvas instead of indoors. The venue gave the couple two things to work with: a house with real age on it and a view out over the water. Social Graces Events, which produced the day, raised a large white sailcloth tent on the property, and that tent became the main room of the celebration. The palette held to two colors, green and white, an easy pairing beside a working vineyard and a waterline. For a bride comparing tented receptions with ballroom ones, this is the useful point: a large tent lets a property with an old house and open water serve as the venue itself, with no wall between the guests and the view. Anyone planning a tented wedding at a site with views worth seeing should look at how this one was handled.
Brides of Beverly Hills

Glass Walls Make the View the Main Decoration

This wedding was planned around a room with glass from floor to ceiling, so the trees and sky outside did most of the decorating. When you tour a venue like this, count the windows as part of the décor budget, because the view is doing work you would otherwise pay florals to do. The trade-off is time: daylight through that much glass changes the room by the hour, so set the ceremony and portraits for the light you want. The gallery covers the getting-ready hours, bridal portraits and flat lays, which shows the planning carried through to the small details.
What It Sold For

After Two Decades, a Dance Company Renames Itself for the Long Run

The dance company known for twenty years as A.I.M by Kyle Abraham now has a new name: Kyle Abraham Dance Vanguard. A new name for an established institution is a little like a new name over the door of a well-kept house. The rooms are the same, but the owners are saying how they mean to live there from now on. In a conversation about the change, the choreographer talked about how the company has grown, how it backs the dancers and artists who work with it, and where it goes next.
What It Sold For

On East 13th Street, a Former Factory Became the Last Address of a Shared-Living Idea

A converted industrial building on East 13th Street in the East Village is the subject of this story. The conversion came from two people working together, an architectural historian and an artist. The building also served as the closing chapter of an experiment in living together that had started in London and later crossed the Atlantic to Manhattan. The architectural interest is in the reuse: a building made for manufacturing was turned into a home for people sharing a life under one roof. In a neighborhood known for its walk-ups and tenements, a former factory adapted for this purpose is unusual. Neither the price nor the architects' names are on the record here, so this desk does not estimate them. What is on the record is the address, the type of building, and the place it held as the last home of an idea that began overseas.
What It Sold For

Fernando Mastrangelo Puts His Own Hands Back on the Work

Fernando Mastrangelo has made his studio smaller on purpose. He used to run a team of twenty, and he has slimmed that down so he can be the one shaping the pieces again. For a reader who cares how a house is furnished, that matters. An object made by its designer, start to finish, carries his hand in a way that work passed through a larger shop does not. It is a vote for craft over scale, and the rooms that eventually hold his work will be the better for it.
What It Sold For

From a Cherry Brooch at The Met, a Designer's Second Collection for Lulu and Georgia

Eny Lee Parker's new collection for Lulu and Georgia began with a small object in a New York museum: a brooch shaped like a cherry, in the collection of The Met. This is her second collaboration with the retailer. She told Architectural Digest that she was after a balance between the polished and the slightly peculiar. A brooch is a fitting place to find that balance, because it is jewelry made to be looked at closely, small enough to hold in one hand and still carefully made. A cherry is an odd and cheerful thing to render that carefully, and that pull between seriousness and whimsy is the point of the new line. The idea started in a gallery case in New York and has become a collection for the home.
What It Sold For

Before the First Course, the Dining Room Asks Who Sits Where

People who plan gatherings for a living have set out the conventions for placing guests at a dressed-up dinner table. This part of entertaining is finished before anyone rings the bell: the place cards, the order around the table, and the choice of who will spend the evening talking with whom. In a house built for hosting, such as a long table in a Palm Beach dining room or a candlelit room off a Hamptons terrace, that arrangement matters as much to the night as the menu. Their guidance treats the plan as something worth working out chair by chair.
What It Sold For

The Contractor on Brandon Blackwood's Brooklyn Town House Was His Mother

Brandon Blackwood, who designs clothing and accessories, has renovated a town house in Brooklyn. His mother ran the job as its contractor. She was the person responsible for the work being done properly, from the first trade on site to the last finish. She also added a skylight that her son didn't know about until it was in, and it now lets daylight in from overhead. A town house is usually a long, narrow building, and light from above can make a real difference in one. Many houses in New York are renovated, but few are built by a parent for a child, and in this one he will see that gift whenever the sun comes through. The house has not been put on the market, and no price is attached to this story. It is about a house and the people who made it.
What It Sold For

Under $2 Million for the Village Rooms Jackson Pollock Once Called Home

A Manhattan apartment once lived in by Jackson Pollock is now for sale, with an asking price just short of $2 million. The home is in the West Village. Pollock lived there in the thirties, sharing it with his brother and his brother's wife. That was years before his name became shorthand for Abstract Expressionism, the American movement he helped shape. The sale is still ahead and no closing figure exists yet, so the only number on the record is the asking price. For anyone who follows the city's market, it is a rare listing that can say a painter of Pollock's importance once lived inside its walls.
What It Sold For

A $60 Million Asking Price for the Beverly Hills House Where the Sussexes First Landed

Tyler Perry has put his Mediterranean-style villa in Beverly Hills on the market at $60 million. The price is on the record and public, and that is the kind of number this desk exists to note. The house is also known for something besides its asking figure. In 2020, after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex moved from Britain to California, they stayed in this house during their first stretch in the state. Meghan has since said the stay gave the couple room to settle and catch their breath. As a result, the listing comes with a history few Beverly Hills offerings can claim: it gave a newly arrived family a place to begin. The style suits the setting, since the Mediterranean villa has long been one of the city's signature looks, and Perry's house is a large example of it. Buyers looking at this listing will be weighing the house and also its first chapter in the Sussexes' California story.
What It Sold For

Brooklyn Pottery and a Budget CB2 Set Make Architectural Digest's Stoneware List

Architectural Digest has picked eight stoneware dinnerware brands for 2026, and the choices run from handmade to mass-market. One is a pottery workshop in Brooklyn, so New York earns its place on the list for work made by hand. At the other end is a CB2 set priced below what two people would spend on a restaurant meal, which means a well-dressed table doesn't have to cost much. Between the two, the list treats the plates and bowls that go out every night with the same care as a house's architecture.
Photo by DiscoverDuPage on Flickr
Where They Eat

Choice Hotels Brings Half a Million Road Travelers Into Its Fold

Choice Hotels has agreed to acquire Harvest Hosts, a club for people who travel by RV, for $130 million. The deal gives the American hotel group a membership of roughly 500,000 RV travelers. For our readers, it's a reminder that a hotel company's guests don't always arrive by plane or taxi. Some arrive behind the wheel, with the kitchen and the bed already on board. Dom Dragisich, Choice's chief executive, now has to show that those RV travelers will also book hotel nights. That is the measure of this acquisition: whether people who already love the open road will choose a Choice hotel room for some of their nights.
What They Collect

Ken Griffin's $3 Billion Gift to Carnegie Mellon Puts the Arts and Design at the Center of a New Miami Venture

Ken Griffin, a collector whose name readers of this page will know, has pledged $3 billion to Carnegie Mellon University. No college or university has ever received a larger single gift. The money is going to something the university is building in Miami. For this desk, the most important part is the university's own promise: humanities, arts and design will not be side subjects but a central part of the plan. That is unusual for a commitment of this size, and our readers will want to watch how it develops. A gift on this scale changes the cultural map of a city, and this one is pointed at Miami, a city whose galleries, design districts and auction calendar we already follow closely. When a collector's money goes into teaching and studying how things are made, the future makers, curators and buyers that Miami's market depends on come from that work. The details of what Carnegie Mellon will build are still to come, and we will report them as they are made public.
What They Collect

Billy Joel Brings More Than 70 Motorcycles to the Block in New York This November

More than seventy vintage motorcycles from Billy Joel's collection are going to auction this November with Gooding Christie's. The house is the official auctioneer of Rétromobile New York, so the sale belongs to the city's collector-car calendar. It is a large single-owner group, and the number alone says the collection was built with commitment over a long run rather than a few chance buys. Single-owner sales get a particular kind of attention. A collector reads the lineup as a record of one person's eye, and the provenance travels with every machine that crosses the block. For bidders the appeal is that the whole group is offered at once, so the collection can be seen together before it is dispersed to new owners. Gooding Christie's has not published the individual motorcycles or any estimates, and we will report the lots and results as they become public.
What They Collect

Twelve Lots, $450 Million: Sotheby's New York Builds a Sale Around Van Gogh, Cézanne and Pissarro

Sotheby's in New York is putting together one of the most concentrated sales of the autumn auction calendar. It has just twelve works, and the total attached to it is $450 million. Paintings by Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne and Camille Pissarro head the group. With a list that short, each of the three names carries real weight. A twelve-lot sale leaves no room for filler. Every picture on the wall at preview has to hold attention alone, and a visitor can take in the whole offering in one unhurried walk. For collectors in New York, it is one of the season's set pieces, held in the city where it will change hands. The figure is large and the list is small, and that pairing is the story here.
Beverly Hills News

Eight Years Leading Mattel, Ynon Kreiz Moves to Share the Top Job at the Combined Paramount and Warner Bros.

Ynon Kreiz will become co-chief executive of the company formed by Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery, Variety reported. David Ellison, who leads Paramount, made the appointment. Kreiz is leaving his post as chief executive of Mattel, where he served for eight years. The deal joining Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery is set to be completed on Oct. 6, according to the report. Kreiz will lead the combined studio alongside Ellison as co-chief executive. With the appointment, the head of a major toy company moves into the leadership of one of the largest media companies in the country.
Beverly Hills News

Neon Film Project Built Around SCP Foundation Will Feature New Directors

Neon is developing a feature film drawn from The SCP Foundation, an online horror forum whose stories are written by its community of contributors. The film will be made up of several separate stories rather than one single narrative. The project is designed to give filmmakers early in their careers a place on screen. For readers in Beverly Hills and across Los Angeles, the news points to a feature project that will give new directors a chance to work.
Beverly Hills News

Sony Places Two Titles on Its Late-2027 Calendar, Including a Ridley Scott Adventure Led by Hugh Jackman

Sony has dated two films for the year-end season of 2027. One is "24 Jump Street," the next comedy in the "Jump Street" series. The other is Ridley Scott's new version of "Treasure Island," with Hugh Jackman in the lead. Both titles now fall in the holiday window that Los Angeles moviegoers will plan around a year from now. The wire item gave no specific day for either release.
Beverly Hills News

Anne Hathaway Positioned for a Third Weekend Atop the Box Office This Year With "Verity"

"Verity" opens in theaters this weekend with industry projections pointing to an opening of about $35 million. The film is based on the best-selling novel by Colleen Hoover and stars Anne Hathaway. If the projection holds, it would be the third film this year to place Hathaway first in the weekend rankings. The $35 million figure is a forecast, and the final opening total will be known after the weekend's ticket sales are counted. For Beverly Hills readers, the weekend gross is the usual measure of how a new release has been received, and this one turns on whether a single performer can lead the weekly chart three times in one calendar year.
Beverly Hills News

Awards Forecast Places 'Obsession,' 'Michael' and 'Wildwood' in the Golden Globes Conversation

Variety Film has published its Golden Globes predictions, with a focus on how contenders will be sorted into the genre categories. The forecast names "Obsession," "Michael" and "Wildwood" among the titles under consideration, along with others the publication did not list in its headline. The predictions are part of the outlet's ongoing awards coverage, which tracks the Oscars, the Emmys and other honors through the year. For Beverly Hills readers following awards season, the list shows which films are being discussed as Globes contenders.
Beverly Hills News

Variety Names 'Obsession,' 'Michael' and 'Wildwood' in Its Golden Globes Forecast

Variety has published predictions for the Golden Globes, with a focus on how films are being sorted into the awards' genre categories. The forecast names "Obsession," "Michael" and "Wildwood" among the titles under consideration, along with others it did not list in the headline. The predictions appear in the publication's Awards Circuit section, which follows the Oscars, the Emmys and other honors throughout the year.
Beverly Hills News

Whitford Says a Short-Run Return to 'The West Wing' Could Be Worth Doing

Bradley Whitford, a member of the original cast of "The West Wing," said in an interview with Variety that the political drama could come back as a series with a set number of episodes. He described the idea in general terms and did not give a timeline, a network or a cast list. The item also mentions the show's creator, Aaron Sorkin; the available excerpt does not say what part, if any, he would have. In Beverly Hills, where much of the television business lives and works, an idea like this from one of a show's own actors usually draws attention well before anything is announced.
Beverly Hills News

'Obsession' Enters the Golden Globes Comedy and Musical Field, With 'Get Out' Cited as a Model

The film "Obsession" has been entered in the Golden Globes' musical and comedy categories, according to The Hollywood Reporter. People familiar with the decision point to earlier films that mixed genres and were still accepted in those categories at the Globes and went on to earn nominations there. "Get Out" is one of the titles they name. With this entry, "Obsession" will compete with the season's comedies and musicals rather than with its dramas.
Beverly Hills News

Galliano's First Zara Collection Opens at $29.90

John Galliano's first collection for Zara goes on sale today, Oct. 1, with prices beginning at $29.90, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Galliano made the collection from Zara's own archive, reworking garments the retailer released in earlier seasons. The Hollywood Reporter describes his method as applying a couture approach to that existing material. The collection is the first release under an agreement between Galliano and Zara that runs for two years. For readers in Beverly Hills, the opening price is the main detail: $29.90 for clothing designed by Galliano and made with couture methods.
Beverly Hills News

Scrubs Showrunner Aseem Batra Explains the Four J.D.s in the Season 2 Opener

The second season of "Scrubs" opens with its characters reaching middle age, and showrunner Aseem Batra has described the direction the series will take this season. The season begins with two episodes back to back. Those episodes put four versions of J.D. on screen together, and Batra has explained how that idea was developed. For viewers in Beverly Hills and across Los Angeles, where much of the television industry works, the season opener shows the decisions a writers' room makes when it brings a series back.
Who Wore What When

Galliano Takes Zara's Back Catalog and Makes It His

John Galliano's Zara collection has been shown for the first time, and the early look is a reward for anyone who keeps a list of who designed what, and when. He went back through the brand's past designs and remade them into pieces that read as his own work, not Zara's. In fashion, archive projects usually go one of two ways: the newcomer either defers to the house or takes it over. This one comes down clearly on the side of the designer's own hand. From a New York sidewalk to a Palm Beach lunch, this is the collection our readers will want to identify by name.
Who Wore What When

Two Numbers, One Shade: The Jordan 16 and 14 Low Arrive as a Pair

Sneaker archivists, take note: a "Black Pack" of Michael Jordan sneakers is nearly here, and the first images are out before the shoes hit shelves. The Air Jordan 16 Retro SP is coming out as a set with the Air Jordan 14 Retro Low SP, and supply will be limited. It's a sharp bit of styling, putting two separate chapters of the Jordan line side by side under one dark name. Whether you'll be chasing a pair on Fifth Avenue or Rodeo Drive, these two are meant to be talked about together.
Who Wore What When

Nobull Has a New President, and Tom Brady Is Among Its Investors

Frank Bracken is now president of Nobull, and in a new interview he explained how he plans to run the sneaker label. He covered the current state of retail, his overall strategy for the brand, and the investors behind it, Tom Brady among them. He also discussed the training concept at the center of the label's identity. For readers who think of a sneaker as part of an outfit and not only as gear, it's a chance to hear from the person now shaping one.
Who Wore What When

Gillian Anderson Is Working More Than Ever, and Harper's Bazaar Has Her on the Record

Gillian Anderson is in the fullest stretch of her career so far, and Harper's Bazaar has the conversation to show for it. Derek C. Blasberg sat down with the actress for a profile that covers a lot of ground, from the candid to the playful: desire, the ventures she runs alongside acting, and Dana Scully. The magazine treats this chapter as a revival, and it even made up a name for it from her surname. A profile like this marks the moment in print when a career turns a page. From Palm Beach to Beverly Hills, we'll be watching to see what she wears to every red carpet that comes next.
Who Wore What When

Wanted in New York: An Extra Pair of Hands Behind the Rack

New York stylist Alicia Lombardini is hiring a junior assistant, part-time, and wants someone to start right away. The job is done in person, working right next to the stylist, and it covers three kinds of dressing: famous clients, magazine shoots and private wardrobes. If you've ever studied a red-carpet look and wondered who got it there before the cameras showed up, this is the part of the business that sits just out of frame. In a city where the clothes rail is never far from the spotlight, an opening like this is a door worth knowing about.
Who Wore What When

Cherry Noir: Anne Hathaway Makes the Case for Burgundy at Her Fingertips

Anne Hathaway is wearing the season's deepest red on her nails, a manicure that goes by the name "Cherry Noir." Picture burgundy pushed toward dark, a shade that belongs to fall evenings rather than summer afternoons. The best part is how little it asks, since this is a look you can copy at home or in your usual salon chair. Whether the evening ends in New York or Aspen, it's the kind of color that makes a wine glass look intentional.
Who Wore What When

Fall 2026's Handbags: Big on the Shoulder, Small in the Hand

Vogue has picked out seven handbag directions for autumn/winter 2026, and the two it names pull in opposite directions: shoulder bags made oversized and a fresh take on the clutch. One rides high and roomy under the arm, while the other sits small in the palm. That gives a New York sidewalk in October and a Palm Beach dinner in season the same shopping list, just used two ways. The archive will note which one turns up on the first red carpet of the fall.
Who Wore What When

Sleeveless Season Starts Below the Hemline: Six Acid-Powered Creams for the Florida Bare Arm

Vogue has picked six body creams made with glycolic and lactic acid, the alpha-hydroxy pair that clears away the dull top layer so newer, softer skin comes through. They're meant for the bumpy upper arms of keratosis pilaris and for patches that feel coarse to the touch. Down here, a strapless neckline or a backless gown shows more skin than any jewelry, so that skin matters. Consider this the quiet groundwork, done at home well before anyone reaches the step-and-repeat.
Who Wore What When

The Fitting Seat Still Wins: America Keeps Buying Its Shoes in Person

New polling from YouGov finds that a majority of Americans still pick up their shoes in a store rather than ordering them online. For a title that keeps track of heels, hems and the moment a look comes together, that makes sense. A shoe is the one part of an outfit you have to walk in before you can judge it, whether the walk is down a Palm Beach boutique aisle or across a Beverly Hills showroom carpet. The pair still gets chosen at the fitting seat, and the order confirmation comes second.
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The Shoe Salon Holds Its Ground: Americans Still Want to Try Before They Buy

New YouGov polling finds that most American shoppers still pick a physical store over other options when they buy footwear. The survey doesn't give their reasons, so we won't supply any. What it shows is a clear preference for walking in the door. From the salons of New York to the boutiques of Palm Beach and Beverly Hills, that's good news for the people who keep a shoe floor well stocked and well run. An archive that tracks who wore what to which occasion has always known that a heel on the red carpet was first a heel in someone's hand.
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Levi's Gets a New Keeper of the Denim Ledger: John Vandemore Moves Over From Skechers

Levi's has chosen John Vandemore, the chief financial officer of Skechers, to run its finances. He will take over from Harmit Singh, who said in April that he would be retiring. We usually track who wore the jeans and when, so it's fair to also note who now looks after the books behind them. It's a handoff from sneakers to five-pocket denim, two staples of the American wardrobe, and the move is a sign of confidence in a steady hand.
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Six Treatments, One Vanity: Dr. Diamond's Metacine Line, Taken Shelf by Shelf

Metacine, the high-end skin care collection from Dr. Diamond, comes down to six treatments, and each one is built around its active ingredients. That short list is good news for anyone who prefers a vanity edited the way a good closet is, with fewer pieces that each do real work. From Palm Beach to Beverly Hills, the readers who know the year and house of every gown on the carpet will want the same precision about what goes on before the gown does. Six well-chosen formulas fit on one shelf, and that may be the most elegant thing about the line.
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Miley Cyrus Gets Three Distinct Looks From One Lens: Mert Alas on "Bass Persuades"

Photographer Mert Alas and Miley Cyrus have made not one but three separate videos for "Bass Persuades," and each takes a different direction. In an exclusive conversation, Alas said the goal across the photographs and the films was confidence: unpolished, a little risky and still beautiful. For readers here who track how a single collaboration can produce several looks, the work is a lesson in range from one shared creative partnership.
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Lauren Halsey and Erykah Badu Give the Hollywood Bowl a Single Night of Funk

The Hollywood Bowl hosted a one-night collaboration between Lauren Halsey and Erykah Badu, and Vogue described the result as a full funk spectacle. The Bowl is about as Los Angeles as a stage can be: a shell set into the hills under an open sky, where many famous evenings have played out. Putting two names together there, for a single date, made this one worth a closer look. Halsey explained to Vogue why this project felt different. She said an art commission usually moves in a straight line: the job comes in, the piece gets made, it goes to the gallery, and it's done. Her answer is cut off in the excerpt we have. Still, she set up that familiar routine so she could say this time was something else. That contrast is the reason we're covering it. An artist used to finishing a piece and shipping it to a gallery made something for a stage that exists for one evening and then is gone. Anyone who wasn't at the Bowl that night missed it in person, because it was never going to be shown again.
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