Lukas Gage—beach lover, newlywed, The White Lotus alum—knows paradise when he sees it. “The water is a turquoise food-colored blue that I’ve never seen in my entire life. The sun hits it in this way that you can see these golden flakes go through the water,” the actor says on […]
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Austin Butler on Motorcycles, Marlon Brando, and the Scent of Nuanced Masculinity
Call it a bit of French humor, that one of the most striking portraits of Yves Saint Laurent should show the fashion designer stripped of his clothes. The year was 1971. Photographer Jeanloup Sieff and his sandy-haired subject decided on a spare set-up: three black leather cushions stacked on the […]
Elliot Page Has a New Kind of Superpower in Mind
Elliot Page is dressed in a black hoodie and thick-rimmed glasses, his person scaled down to the three-inch window of a video-conference call. Such levels of mediation (sartorial, technological, PR) usually make for a somewhat inscrutable conversation, where the tangible human qualities are rendered as flat as the screen. (This […]
The Best Cologne for Men, According to 10 Cool Dads This Father’s Day 2022
Even in an era ruled by algorithm, it’s something of a gamble to go searching for the “best cologne for men.” The matter of fragrance—that which accompanies a person on the road and into bed and everywhere in between—is entwined with personality or subject to whim. Is the goal to […]