Dear Back Row subscribers,

I’m on vacation through the rest of this week and next, so there’s no new issue today and you won’t hear from me next week. Back Row will be back to regularly scheduled programming in September, in time for (whatever’s left of?) New York Fashion Week.

In lieu of a new issue today, I’m republishing one of your (and my!) favorite stories from the archive, about how the Olsens really run The Row. If you’re caught up on this feature already, you may enjoy the recent popular “Retail Confessions “on Hermès in Paris, my take on Anna Wintour’s decision to force the John Galliano exhibition at the Met, and a look at Bernard Arnault’s lonely, friendless life.

I’ll be back in your inbox September 1!

xo
Amy

PS — It has come to my attention that Gwyneth Paltrow is allegedly throwing a dinner for Sam Altman at her Amagansett home. Puck’s Matt Belloni broke the story, and the invite to the “private, off the record” dinner has been a bit of a social media sensation during this fallow late August news period. However, people are questioning if the invite is even real! Tech Crunch reached out to OpenAI and Team Goop for confirmation and have not gotten it.

I tend to think if they’re not denying it, it’s probably real. Charles Porch (OpenAI’s “celebrity whisperer”) may have set it up. Derek Blasberg went to his wedding so these people all seem to run in the same circle. And Gwyneth certainly doesn’t mind cozying up to AI’s least likable executives. Maybe, by the end of this off-the-record, rustic-chic meal, perhaps involving pineapple salsa and huge hunks of meat hanging over open fires all casual-like, they’ll figure out how to replace everyone there with AI.