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Editor’s Note

There is a particular kind of energy that May brings. The fog of winter lifts for the foreseeable future and we are feeling like ourselves again.This energy is everywhere, and as the colors of nature start to burst, so does the creativity: art and fashion collide at our favorite museum, films premiere on the French Riviera where the light shines differently, beloved Andy Sachs is back at Runway, and nature's colors reflect themselves on the season's jewelry.

There is so much to find joy in.May is full of things to look forward to, and we hope the ones we chose to share bring you a little of that joy.

Love,
Ferko

Before the Gala, There Was the Building

The Fifth Avenue facade of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, completed in 1902, was designed by Richard Morris Hunt in the Beaux-Arts style. It’s heavy, symmetrical, and entirely unembarrassed by its own ambition.

The Great Hall inside delivers exactly what the exterior promises. And then there is the Temple of Dendur, an actual Egyptian temple built around 15 BC, dismantled, gifted to the United States, and now housed in its own glass-enclosed wing overlooking a reflecting pool. It is one of those rooms that stops conversations mid-sentence.

The Met may not have been built for spectacle, but the fact that it became the backdrop for fashion's most theatrical evening is, in some ways, the most Met thing imaginable.

How a Fundraiser Became Fashion's Biggest Night

The Met Gala started in 1948, when publicist Eleanor Lambert organized a midnight dinner to raise funds for the newly established Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Tickets cost only $50 and the guests were largely drawn from New York society and the fashion industry. It was, by all accounts, a well-attended and respectable industry dinner. Nothing more.

Then, in 1995, Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour took over as chairwoman. Calling what she did with the event a renovation would be an understatement, as it was a reinvention that made it one of fashion’s most important events.

Wintour introduced the co-chair model, bringing in celebrities, designers, and cultural figures to co-host each year's event and draw their respective worlds with them. She instituted themed dress codes tied to the Costume Institute's annual exhibition, turning the gala from a dinner into a creative brief.

The result, built steadily over thirty years, is the Met Monday.

FASHION

"Fashion Is Art": The 2026 Met Gala

Back at Runway:

What the Women of Devil Wears Prada 2 Would Choose from Ferko's

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Almost twenty years after Andy Sachs walked into Miranda Priestly's office in the wrong shoes, they are all back.

The Devil Wears Prada 2, reunites Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci for a sequel that picks up where the original left off, then keeps moving. We have, of course, been thinking about jewelry.

If these women were to pick Ferko’s pieces, what would each of them choose?

Miranda Priestly

She has never needed to say much. The look, the pause, the slight tilt of the head does it all. Her Ferko's piece, in our unanimous opinion, is a pair of lab-grown emerald and diamond studs. She was always ten steps ahead. Of course she was wearing lab-grown before the rest of us caught up.

Andy Sachs

Andy has come a long way since the cerulean sweater speech. She understands quality now, and wears it with the confidence of someone who earned that understanding the hard way. We see her reaching for a fine diamond necklace. Delicate enough for every day, substantial enough to mean something.

Emily Charlton

She was always the most impeccably dressed person in the room. Now that she runs her own luxury operation, she has gotten even sharper. We bet her Ferko's pick is a thick open cuff stacked with a sliding diamond initials bangle. These are worn to a meeting she intends to win.

Bonus: Nigel

Unexpected, a little theatrical, and better than whatever you were imagining. He picks a sapphire ring. It goes with everything. He knew it would. So did we.

On the Croisette: American Women at Cannes 2026