The Sunset Strip in the ’60s had a curious mascot twirling above the Sahara Hotel sign: a larger-than-life cowgirl visible from Gore Vidal’s room at the Chateau Marmont. “For me she is Hollywood, and mesmerizing,” says the title character in Myra Breckinridge, Vidal’s 1968 novel. Daniel Patrick Giles might agree, […]
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Charlize Theron on Immortality and the Skin-Sticking Scent of Guzzoline
Charlize Theron has spent the summer in modified Roman Holiday fashion. Like Audrey Hepburn in the 1953 classic, Theron has been hard at work at the city’s Cinecittà studios, in this case filming the sequel to Netflix’s The Old Guard, a taut action movie about a band of immortal mercenaries. […]
Kaia Gerber on ‘The Office’ Memes, Summertime Scents, and the Genius of Carol Burnett
Kaia Gerber is in a flourishing, long-term relationship, you might say: with sun-warmed fields, gauzy white dresses, and Marc Jacobs Daisy. When the model signed on as the fragrance face in 2017 (ten years into the perfume’s blockbuster run), it was an inspired choice. Who better to personify the feeling […]
FKA twigs on Perfume as Spiritual Communion and the “Journey of Moving Forward”
FKA twigs, if not exactly clairvoyant, has a crystal-clear lens on the present. “I have fallen back in love with music, danger, trying new things, sex, love, raves,” she wrote in a recent Instagram post. No more careful cocooning. It’s time to live—holy rites by earthly means. “I’m definitely […]
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 […]