Editor’s Note: Love, in All the Ways That Last

Welcome to 2026. I hope your year has begun with momentum, with clarity, with the quiet thrill of watching intentions turn into action. I hope you are already surprising yourself with your discipline, your softness, your courage. This is our first issue of the year, and it felt only right that it be devoted to Love. Not only the cinematic kind. Not only the candlelit dinners and carefully chosen notes. But the enduring, shaping, life altering kind. In this Love Issue, we explore affection as a practice rather than a performance. We look at what we nurture, what we protect, … Continue reading Editor’s Note: Love, in All the Ways That Last

Editor’s Note: The One About the Renaissance Woman’s Season of Rebirth

Rebirth doesn’t always come with fanfare. Sometimes it arrives softly, like light through morning curtains, slow, deliberate, inevitable. This May at Chaud, we honour the quiet power of transformation in all its forms: personal, political, romantic, and cultural. Our theme, … Continue reading Editor’s Note: The One About the Renaissance Woman’s Season of Rebirth

Fake Stars, Real Crises: The Illusion of Progress in an Age of Collapse

In a year already heavy with geopolitical shocks, economic tremors, and moral reckonings, the veneer of optimism, shiny rockets, luxury fakes, and trending TikToks seems more like smoke and mirrors than actual progress. As billionaires play spacemen, misinformation spreads faster … Continue reading Fake Stars, Real Crises: The Illusion of Progress in an Age of Collapse