For this issue, stylist, designer, consultant, and curator David Miro, the man behind the cult archival channel @paris_image_unlimited and world famous for his discerning sense for the fitness of things, shares with us a few of his must-have items and the delightful anecdotes behind them.

We sit down with the founder and Creative Director of Husbands, the sexiest and, well, Frenchest tailoring brand on earth, who reminds us that tailoring and indeed style are a dialogue with history—a way to inhabit a silhouette that is as much an intellectual statement as it is a physical one.

We perform a necessary exorcism: the ritual cremation of a Birkenstock sandal, committing, finally, this orthopaedic monstrosity to the pyre not out of malice, but out of a sense of civic duty. Ugliness is a cardinal sin that no amount of cork-soled comfort can absolve.