Lifestyle and history come together harmoniously during Car Week.

Sloan Campi here, encouraging you to look at more than cars this week. While the cars are hard to miss with thousands of enthusiasts descending upon Monterey County for Car Week, there are other noteworthy pieces of art draped around humans sans motors.

I’m talking about the fashion that comes along with events. The most obvious fashion-forward gathering is the culmination of what many call a week of madness in the streets: Concours d’Elegance, which is celebrating its 75th occurrence this year. Many dress in their finest century-driven attire with frequent occurrences of cartwheel hats, elegant dresses and linen pants upon the 18th fairway of Pebble Beach Golf Links. This diamond jubilee promises to feature some of the very first cars that drew in the crowds for the races in the 1950s. 

History, simply put, is the documentation of innovation—which we attempt to capture in our annual home and lifestyle magazine Haven, inserted into this week’s edition of the Weekly. 

While not all of us may be able to afford a home that is outfitted with a custom library or health and wellness amenities overlooking the Pacific Ocean, as you’ll read about in those stories, what matters is our appreciation of these finer things—just as one would do at a catered high tea, as my colleague Celia Jiménez reports. In the spirit of Car Week, a story by Associate Editor Erik Chalhoub documents the thrill of navigating rough terrain in a 2026 Land Rover Defender, which blends 21st-century technology with a heritage of exploration within a brand that’s been in existence since 1948.

That kind of appreciation of heritage is exactly what I find most compelling about fashion, and it’s a sentiment that vintage fashion purveyors share in Monterey County. Andrew Chugg, the owner of Wally’s Men’s Vintage in Carmel, says, “What separates a good vintage store and a great vintage store is that a great one will accurately reflect the history.” You can read about it in my story in Haven. 

Vintage fashion is one that remains in vogue regardless of what year it is, and in the case of Concours d’Elegance or any of the other swanky parties and events happening for Car Week, pieces like these are timeless. And perhaps one of the most beautiful things about them is their accessibility. For example, you can choose to wear one of the thousands of outfits from 1940s to 1990s Hollywood like what you’ll find in Moxie Vintage Co. owner Tiffany Allegro’s collection, or find a fashionable set of Sesto Meucci shoes with a 1940s-era Universal Genève watch to add stylistic flair to an already-elegant outfit. 

Pieces like these are living proof that heritage continues to be timeless here in Monterey County, and that’s on full display during Car Week. For more on where to find these, I encourage you to pick up a copy of Haven during your outings this week.