May/June 2020

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SARDAR BIGLARI Editor-in-Chief special creative adviser GILLES BENSIMON special lifestyle editor ALESSANDRA AMBROSIO art & design director GUILLAUME BRUNEAU executive editor JARED PAUL STERN deputy art & design director PAUL O’DEA european fashion di
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Time To Kill
James Bond’s original watch of choice, starting with 1962’s Dr. No starring Sean Connery, was the Rolex Submariner—a suitably iconic timepiece for the soon-to-be world’s most famous secret agent. Rolexes, many of them fitted with special gadgets cour
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The Secret Agent’s SUV
In Daniel Craig’s latest outing as James Bond in the this fall’s No Time to Die, no fewer than four Aston Martins including the iconic DB5 and Valhalla supercar share the screen with him. None of them are SUVs—and until recently, the very idea of an
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Rocket Man
Through the smoke, we’re playing a very competitive game of crazy eights. We are an Indian American, two African Americans, and an Englishman in New York, at a French Algerian hookah bar, in the Algarve. Laying down the heaviest of card hands, while
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The PURSUIT OF EXELLENCE
Self-made billionaire Herb Chambers, known for the high-end car dealerships throughout New England that have made his name a household word, is one of the great American success stories. He’s also one of the world’s most renowned commissioners of lux
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CULT CASKS & RARE FINISHES
A relatively recent phenomenon in the world of single malts, dating to the early 1990s, experimental cask finishes are now a critical component of many high-end whiskey brands’ offerings—and other spirits are starting to take note. From fine French s
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Offset, On Time
This past January, in Paris’s 8th arrondissement, Kiari Kend-rell Cephus was getting ready for one of the biggest nights of his career. Better known as the rapper Offset, he wore head-to-toe black denim, sunglasses, and a little bit of bling. The ven
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Temptation Island
In 2017 the storied island of Saint Barthélemy—or as it’s casually tossed around amongst the G650 set, St. Barths—was besieged by Hurricane Irma, nearly razing one of the Caribbean’s most opulent jewels. But less than three years after one of the wor
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Dynamic Duo
Considering the impact they have had on the world of fashion photography, it’s surprising to learn that Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott only met in the mid-1990s, at a party on a pier in Hastings on the south coast of England. Inside of three years Alas
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The STALLONE LEGACY
You might call it a cotillion on steroids, but Sophia Stallone’s coming out party was the time she and sisters Sistine and Scarlet were named Miss Golden Globe for the 2017 awards ceremony. The trio made the cover of The Hollywood Reporter and were f
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Fast Forward
It’s rush hour again for Tyrese Gibson, who is behind the wheel when we catch up with him, just where you would expect to find the guy who plays Roman Pearce in next year’s Fast & Furious installment, titled F9. Actor, singer and former model Gibson
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Sly Fox
It’s become a rite of passage for every young Hollywood actor—the role of superhero. Yvette Monreal did it by waltzing into the DC Universe as Wildcat (Yolanda Montez) in the CW’s Stargirl. Yes, she was thrilled to don Wildcat’s singular high-tech su
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Mojo Rising
For WWE Superstar Mojo Rawley (born Dean Muhtadi), the ascent to the pinnacle of the sports-entertainment world has been an unlikely journey. After working his way up from the lowest levels of college foot-ball all the way to the NFL, Rawley began a
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Pininfarina’s Third Wave
As legendary Italian design house Pininfarina S.p.A. enters the third stage of its nearly century-long lifespan, a new brand, Automobili Pininfarina, has joined the family, aiming to produce the most elevated sustainable luxury cars the world has eve
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Pininfarina And Ferrari
Over more than a half-century of collaboration, Pininfarina designed some of Ferrari’s most iconic and collectible cars. The two companies first joined forces in 1951, and while Ferrari worked with other coachbuilders in addition to Pininfarina in th
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Design Genius
“Beauty, Innovation, Purity and Authenticity”—the design principles of the legendary house of Pininfarina, founded in Turin, Italy, by Battista Pinin Farina in 1930, apply equally to the projects the company has pursued beyond the realm of gorgeous F
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BODY &SOUL
Five-foot-eleven German supermodels are seldom described as “relatable.” Still, the word enters my head when thumbing through Lorena Rae’s Instagram. Her pictures seem to be mostly candids, not the work of illustrious photographers. The fresh-faced b
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Ultimate Luxury
What is it like to inherit this legendary name, responsible for some of the most iconic cars in the world, and shepherd it into a new era? I think it’s a once-in-a-lifetime unique opportunity that you take a brand which is so strong, which has 90 yea
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Lightning Strikes
Elon Musk cares about you. In fact, the 48-year-old entrepreneur, visionary and mogul at press time worth about $40 billion according to Forbes—cares about all of us. This makes him unique because most moguls, entrepreneurs and visionaries are simply
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Secret Sands
It’s not the most famous, most frequently Instagrammed, or most blogged about Caribbean island—which is part of the reason you should be setting course for Grenada, which more than holds its own against better-publicized neighbors. For centuries, tra
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RACY GIRL Lacey Asher
Race car driver, model, businesswoman, adrenaline junky—meet Lacey Asher, first runner up in the Maxim Cover Girl competition. This low-maintenance, high-octane beauty loves nothing more than to put the pedal to the metal in all of life’s adventures,
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A Place In The Sun
Twelve years in the making, Grenada’s new luxury escape, Solamente Villa, is set to welcome its first guests in time for the forthcoming seasonal festivities. The exclusive retreat on the island’s stunning southern coast was originally built as a pri
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Desert Warrior
“Dust,” warned Darrin Graham in his signature dramatic style, “is the enemy.” I remember his caution now, seconds too late. The wiry Wide Open Baja guide was prepping us for three days of tearing through some of the most remote areas of Baja Californ

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