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DEBORAH FRANK Editor-in-Chief ome of the best ideas take shape over dinner. Earlier this year, I sat down at Bal Harbour Shops with Kinga Lampert, chairwoman emerita of the Board of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, to talk about how we could build upon the success of last year's breast cancer awareness section in the Fall issue. I wanted this year's edition to be just as meaningful—and, if possible, even stronger. Somewhere over the course of that dinner, The Pink Edit began to take shape: a special section guest edited by Kinga that explores the extraordinary progress being made in breast cancer research, and the women carrying Evelyn Lauder's remarkable legacy forward. Perhaps nowhere is that progress more compelling than in Heidi Mitchell's fascinating story on the researchers using artificial intelligence to transform our understanding of breast cancer risk. At a time when increasingly precise screening is detecting abnormalities at their earliest stages, scientists are looking even further ahead. For all the attention surrounding AI, this isn't really a story about technology. It is about a fundamental shift in medicine: moving from detecting cancer earlier toward predicting who may be at risk before cancer even exists. It is difficult to imagine a more hopeful expression of what research can achieve. That spirit of looking forward runs throughout the issue. Here at Bal Harbour Shops, transformation is quite literally taking shape with the much-anticipated new wing, called West Shops. In his essay, CEO Matthew Whitman Lazenby reflects on what the expansion means for a place that has continually evolved over its six decades while remaining steadfastly true to the vision on which it was founded. Fashion, of course, is built on reinvention. Our Fall/Winter collections portfolio takes cover model Martha Hunt to the streets of New York City and inside The Mark; elsewhere, we look back at Anthony Vaccarello's defining decade at Saint Laurent and the way he has made one of fashion's most storied houses unmistakably his own. We also introduce Culture Bites, a new section devoted to the exhibitions, openings, people, and ideas shaping the cultural conversation. Even our Villas to Book column considers how our idea of luxury is changing. Having experienced Eterniti's Chalet Chouqui in Verbier and Villa Verrière in Saint-Tropez myself, I was struck by how each captures what luxury travel means now: access, time, human connection, and a genuine sense of belonging. Perhaps that is what connects so much of this issue. Progress does not always mean abandoning what came before. Sometimes it means building upon it thoughtfully while imagining what might come next. And this fall, there is an extraordinary amount to look forward to. S Kinga Lampert—the guest editor of this issue's "The Pink Edit," a special section in support of breast cancer awareness. F A L L 2 0 2 6 F A L L O U T O F L I N E Break the Rules and Own the Season MARTHA HUNT notations JA S O N M C D O N A L D (C OV E R) ; P H OTO BY D I M I T R I O S K A M B O U R I S / G E T T Y I M AG E S FO R B C R F ( K I N G A L A M P E R T ) Model Martha Hunt, photographed by Jason McDonald on location in New York City, wears an Etro dress and Ralph Lauren coat, headscarf, and belt, David Yurman earrings, and a David Webb necklace, available at Yafa. Styling by Raúl Guerrero. 54 54 BALHAR B O U RSH O P S .CO M

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