THE ALMANAC
Two hundred and fifty engagements, set down properly.
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You know the Season better than most.The Court is choosing its founding members.
JANUARY
24 Engagements · 3 Hosted
FEBRUARY
17 Engagements · 4 HostedMARCH
20 Engagements · 4 HostedAPRIL
19 Engagements · 4 HostedMAY
25 Engagements · 4 HostedJUNE
23 Engagements · 5 HostedJULY
25 Engagements · 6 HostedAUGUST
16 Engagements · 3 HostedSEPTEMBER
27 Engagements · 5 HostedOCTOBER
19 Engagements · 4 HostedNOVEMBER
18 Engagements · 4 HostedDECEMBER
17 Engagements · 4 Hosted
Here the year closes, and opens again in January.
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Essays
Why the Season Matters
A season is a calendar kept in common, and what it is worth comes from the fact that it returns.
Why Certain Places Endure
The places that last are not the ones that are preserved but the ones that are kept for a use, by people who answer to it.
The Return of the Ball
The ball keeps disappearing and keeps coming back, and what comes back each time is not a fashion but a form.
The Decline of the Formal Occasion
The formal occasion did decline, though less than its obituaries claim, and what it lost was compulsion rather than life.
The Architecture of a Sporting Weekend
The race is the smallest part of a race weekend, and the days built around it exist to bring a person nearer the sport, not to keep them at a polite distance from it.
On Dress
A dress code is a description of an occasion before it is an instruction to a guest, and to dress to it is a way of paying attention.
What Makes a Good Table
A good table is one at which almost everything has been decided beforehand, so that the only thing left open is the conversation.
Figures of the Season
Aidan O’Brien
Trainer, Ballydoyle
Jamie Melham
Jockey, Melbourne
Adolfo Cambiaso
Polo player, La Dolfina
Riccardo Muti
Conductor, La Scala and Salzburg
Daniel Boulud
Chef and restaurateur, New York
The Duke of Richmond
Founder of the Festival of Speed and the Revival, Goodwood
Eleanor Lambert
Publicist, New York Fashion
Leonard A. Lauder
Collector, New York
Olin Stephens
Yacht Designer, Sparkman & Stephens
Sam Keller
Director, Fondation Beyeler; formerly Director, Art Basel
Aubert de Villaine
Co-director, Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, 1974 to 2021; Burgundy
Max Reinhardt
Director, The Salzburg Festival
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Guides
The 2027 Social Season: a calendar
The main engagements of the 2027 social season, month by month, from the Australian Open to the United States Grand Prix, with the dates and the dress for each.
White tie, black tie and the rest: a guide to dress codes
White tie, black tie, morning dress, lounge suit, country attire and the rest, defined in the Court’s own words, with the engagements that call for each.
The debutante balls of New York, London, Paris and Vienna
The Piarist Ball, the International Debutante Ball, le Bal des Débutantes, Queen Charlotte’s Ball and the opening of the Vienna Opera Ball: dates, customs and dress.
The great race meetings
The race meetings of the Season, from the Pegasus World Cup to Royal Ascot, the Arc and the Melbourne Cup, with dates, the dress the Court wears and each organiser’s own code.
The art fairs and auction weeks
The art fairs and auction weeks of the Season, from Paris Photo and Art Basel Miami Beach to TEFAF, Frieze and Art Basel, with dates and dress.