The Edits
Real questions, answered the way we would answer a friend: a verdict, a short list of specific things, and the discipline to say what to leave behind.
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Style & Identity
What should I wear to a summer wedding in Lake Como?
A fluid, ankle-length silk or fine-cotton dress in a saturated colour — not pastel, not black — with a flat or block-heeled sandal you can walk a cobbled lakefront in.
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Style & Identity
What does 'festive cocktail' actually mean at a museum benefit?
It means a cocktail dress or an evening suit with one deliberate flourish — texture, colour, or shine — and nothing that could be mistaken for a costume.
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Gifts & The Art of Giving
What is the best host gift under $150?
Something consumable and excellent that the host would not buy for themselves — delivered ahead of the party, not handed over at the door.
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Travel & Escape
How should I spend 48 hours in Kyoto without the clichés?
Give one morning to the north-west hills before eight, one afternoon to a single museum or craft workshop, and both evenings to the small streets east of the river — and see no more than three named sights in total.
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Gifts & The Art of Giving
What do you give a couple who already have everything?
Give an experience with a date attached, or one object that is unmistakably from you — not a more expensive version of something they already own.
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Travel & Escape
How do I pack one bag for a week in Paris?
Two colours, three shoes at most, one coat, and everything in the bag must work with everything else in the bag. If a piece has one partner, it stays home.
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Living Well at Home
What wine should I bring to a dinner party under $60?
Buy from an unfashionable region at a fashionable producer — a grower Champagne, a Loire red, or a white Burgundy's neighbour — and hand it over saying it doesn't need to be opened tonight.
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Style & Identity
What should my first serious watch be?
One steel, time-only or time-and-date watch on a strap you can change, from a maison with a service network — bought to wear daily, not to trade.
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Culture & The Arts
What should I read next if I loved Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow?
You did not fall for the video games. You fell for a decades-long friendship that is more consequential than any romance in the book — so read for that, not for the subject matter.
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Living Well at Home
How do I make a small apartment feel considered rather than cramped?
Fewer, larger objects and three sources of low light. Small rooms are ruined by many small things, not by their square footage.