Editor’s Letter
On April 24, I jumped on the Acela from New York to Washington, D.C., for the first InStyle photo shoot I had attended since January 2020. I hugged my friend and colleague, executive editor Sarah Cristobal (last sighting, February 2020), and we headed off to shoot the newly appointed U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Deb Haaland. The Department of the Interior, not far from the National Mall, is a heavyset, late-deco structure built in 1936 by the Roosevelt Administration. It is very…gray. You walk toward Haaland’s office through a hallway flanked by portraits of Interior secretaries past: mainly middle-aged white men, often astride some sort of steed. Haaland’s (severely overdue) hiring stands in direct and welcome contrast to all of this. When she was sworn into office on March 18, Haaland not…