There is a fleeting moment, just before the sun slips into the horizon, where the world feels suspended. The golden hour. It’s the light that softens our edges, that bathes the everyday in magic, that reminds us to pause and reflect before the day moves on. August is that golden hour in our year a season of quiet glow and subtle transition, a bridge between the brightness of summer and the demands of what comes next.

In this issue, we lean into that glow. Our fashion editor takes us into the art of golden hour dressing: soft metallics, bronzed jewelry, fluid fabrics, and transitional pieces that allow us to step gracefully from one chapter to another. It is fashion not just for looking beautiful, but for letting go, for acknowledging that release is as much a ritual as arrival.

We talk about the reset not as a fleeting social media trend, but as an intentional act of value. Resting deliberately, reclaiming the power of the pause, saying no with grace. Our wellness and fitness editor reminds us that August offers more than warmth; it gives us sunlight rich with Vitamin D, movement that stirs endorphins, and golden air that heals body and mind alike.

For our fragrance lovers, our in-depth feature, The Brief, The Artist, and The Scent, explores Louis Vuitton’s Attrape-Rêves, a perfume that captures the fleeting, dreamlike nature of this season.

We also face the hard truths of our time. Our first op-ed examines the closure of Ami Colé, and what it reveals about Black entrepreneurship, venture capital access, and the fragility of DEI promises. Our second confronts the famine in Gaza, Palestine’s ongoing dispossession, and the painful reality that our generation is witnessing history with eyes wide open, too often powerless or unwilling to intervene.

And yet, even in the shadow of these truths, the golden hour teaches us hope. It tells us that transition is not an ending but an invitation. It reminds us to keep glowing, keep moving, keep believing that even in the dimming light, tomorrow can break brighter.

This August, may you find your own golden hour and may it remind you that rest, reflection, and courage are never wasted.

With light,

Reenie