Editor’s Letter
In April, I Ubered myself down to SoHo to the first photo shoot our team had been on together since March 2020. As I rounded the corner from Lafayette Street to a laneway where we were photographing the spectacular dancers of American Ballet Theatre (ABT), I turned on my phone’s video camera and hollered. The video is a hot mess: people yelling and jumping and hugging each other—and, in the dancers’ case, high-kicking (the InStyle team was doing that metaphorically, being less bendy). We were reaching the end of the gauntlet. In terms of the ABT performers, they could wrap up their year-plus of isolation and prepare to hit the stage again. And for my team, finally a life was visible beyond a Zoom box—where producing a magazine was incomprehensibly challenging,…