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Summer Long considers the quiet disorientation of summer: that liminal stretch when time loosens, routines fall away, and being alone can feel both liberating and slightly unmoored. Moving between the private stillness of an apartment and the saturated heat of the city outside, the story follows a woman in moments of pause rather than arrival—getting dressed, drifting through rooms, stepping into the world without quite knowing where the day will take her.

As the Mifel Tennis Open by Telcel Oppo celebrates its 10th edition, Los Cabos once again takes center court as one of Latin America’s premier luxury sports destinations. Since its debut, the ATP 250 tournament has welcomed some of the world’s biggest tennis stars — including Daniil Medvedev, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Cameron Norrie, Casper Ruud, and Denis Shapovalov, who returns this year as defending champion to mark the milestone celebration.

“I was always a pretty shy kid,” Nicholas Galitzine has said, which is hard to square with the summer he is having. Masters of the Universe arrived in June, and the noise reminded him of Hayes Campbell, the boy-band heartthrob he played opposite Anne Hathaway in 2024’s The Idea of You. Hayes gets mobbed in hotel lobbies. Galitzine — six million devoted followers on Instagram — says he understands the part better now than he did filming it. The press tour did what press tours do.

This calendar leans European in the best way, moving from opera under the stars in Verona to museum stops in Paris, Florence, Hamburg, and Rome. The lineup balances spectacle with substance: Matisse and Hilma af Klint at the Grand Palais, Calder at Fondation Louis Vuitton, Rothko in Florence, Maria Lassnig and Edvard Munch in Hamburg, and Metamorphoses: Ovid and the Arts at the Galleria Borghese.

This month’s Page 100 is a tidy mix of fashion, travel, design, food, and the kind of cultural notes that make good conversation later. John Galliano is heading back into fashion with Zara, the 2026 Met Gala has serious co-chair star power, and Belmond is leaning further into fantasy with both a reimagined floating villa in Burgundy and a new train carriage designed by Baz Luhrmann.

The Great When Elle Fanning fainted off her chair at Cannes in 2019, mid-toast at the Chopard Trophée dinner in a vintage 1950s Prada gown so tight she could not breathe, it was Colin Firth who got to her first. She was 21, among the youngest jurors the festival had ever seated. The gown was breathtaking in more than one sense of the word. Seven years on, Fanning is 28 and nominated for an Academy Award.

Summer 2026 is shaping up to be a very good excuse to leave town. This lineup moves easily between global spectacle and smart cultural planning, with the FIFA World Cup spanning Canada, Mexico, and the U.S., Wimbledon and the British Grand Prix holding court in the UK, the Tour de France crossing Spain and France, and the Hampton Classic bringing late-summer polish to Bridgehampton.

There has always been something faintly impossible about Mikhail Baryshnikov, 78, a man whose body once negotiated privately with gravity and who still moves through New York as though from another century. “Dancers are made, not born.” Theme and Variations Santa Fe Saga He arrived from the Soviet Union in the mid-1970s, and the city fell at his feet. George Balanchine, who had seen everything, found new things in him. Jerome Robbins, hardly an easy collaborator, was won over and made him roles.

It’s time to break out your favorite designer bikini and show off that bronze glow. Whether you’re lounging poolside, catching waves at the beach, or dancing through balmy summer nights…the season’s heat, combined with salt water, chlorine, and sweat, can take a toll on your skin if you’re not taking steps to protect, soothe, and replenish it.