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Taylor Swift married Travis Kelce at MSG. A "garden inside the Garden" for 1,000 black-tie guests, both in Dior, with Adam Sandler officiating and Stevie Nicks performing. The favors were handkerchiefs reading "So it's gonna be forever…" — proof that even a $20,000-a-plate wedding can't resist a Blank Space lyric.

Margiela auctions off his personal archive. One of fashion’s most influential and most invisible designers is selling ~200 pieces in Paris, from ‘80s sketches to his Hermès work, many annotated in his own words. He picked every item himself, from graffiti’d Tabi boots to Barbies he re-sewed during lockdown.

California asked Claude to predict its own future 250 years out. The forecast, sealed in an America 250 time capsule to be opened in 2276, imagines a “Pacific Federation” secession, a half-drowned LA gone vertical, freeways turned to parks, and a Central Valley rewilded by statute. San Francisco survives — still, naturally, the most expensive place to exist in the known world.

Norway reached the World Cup quarterfinals. Is it because their striker eats cow hearts? Erling Haaland knocked out favored Brazil with both goals in a 2-1 win, fueled by a 6,000-calorie “ancestral” diet of heart, liver, fatty steaks and raw milk. Turns out the cheapest cuts at the butcher might be the secret sauce.

Sotheby’s had Europe’s biggest auction night ever. A single London evening cleared $520 million across two sales, led by billionaire Joe Lewis’s $392M collection — inside which a Modigliani nude alone fetched $63.5M, a European auction record. Maybe the art market hasn’t cooled after all, just gotten absurdly expensive.

The Manhattan DA seized dozens of antiquities from the Met. All believed looted or illegally trafficked, June’s haul — a 3,700-year-old Greek jug, a Turkish bronze Hermès — pushes the total pulled from the museum since 2017 past 120 objects and $95 million in value. For the world’s greatest museum, that’s a lot of receipts it couldn’t produce.