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2 weeks ago | airmail.news | Carolina de Armas

For the 31-year-old actress Bessie Carter, playing the English writer Nancy Mitford in BritBox’s new historical drama, Outrageous, was like reconnecting with an old friend. While casting the show, premiering on Wednesday, few on the production team knew that Carter had already been on a long date with Mitford—seven hours and 38 minutes, to be exact—having narrated her most celebrated novel, The Pursuit of Love (1945), for Audible in 2021.

4 weeks ago | airmail.news | Carolina de Armas

“It’s been a manic day,” says the American fashion designer Conner Ives from his studio, in London. His six-person team is still navigating, and reveling in, the aftermath of their recent BFC/Vogue Designer Fashion Fund–award win, which granted them more than $200,000 to support Ives’s eponymous label.

1 month ago | airmail.news | Carolina de Armas

Fans of Otto Preminger’s 1958 film, Bonjour Tristesse, based on Françoise Sagan’s 1954 novel of the same name, should know that Lily McInerny has little in common with Jean Seberg and her blond pixie cut. With her dark-brown hair, sharp jawline, and girl-next-door smile, the soft-spoken gamine is more of an Audrey-Hepburn-meets-the-French-New-Wave type.

2 months ago | airmail.news | Carolina de Armas

DINE Kappo Sono Few places can transport you to the other side of the world quite like New York’s Kappo Sono. Its Michelin-starred chef Chikara Sono offers a two-hour (or three-hour) kaiseki experience—a traditional multi-course Japanese dinner. The meal starts with grilled prawn in sesame tofu tempura, followed by an exquisite assortment of fresh sashimi, and then sautéed king butterfish in a butter soy sauce.

2 months ago | airmail.news | Carolina de Armas

Aspiring young actors flock to Hollywood in search of fame the same way birds migrate south in the winter: instinctively. Emma Myers, however, took the road less traveled: from Orlando, Florida, to Bușteni, Romania. In 2021, Myers swapped the sun-drenched Magic Kingdom for the gothic, gloomy Cantacuzino Castle—the set of Netflix’s Addams Family spinoff-hit coming-of-age show, Wednesday.