Long Nguyen
Sportswear brands have long employed avant-garde designers. Thom Browne has collaborated with the skiwear brand Moncler, Jun Takahashi has done collections for Nike, and Adidas has employed Yohji Yamamoto to create Y-3. These are not haphazard collaborations. For the international high fashion menswear designers, combining sports and couture allows them to link their...
Joshua Neuman
When “Mean Joe” Greene famously tossed his jersey to a kid in a Coke commercial in 1979, it felt revelatory—until that time, it wasn’t patently obvious that throwing a dirty shirt at someone was a loving gesture. A generation later, when Dennis Rodman was hurling his game-worn jerseys into stands and sending spectators into frenzies, the meaning of the gesture had...
Hiroshi Tanabe for jedroot.com, Guglielmo Castelli at guglielmocastelli.tumblr.com, Mesdemoiselles for artlistparis.com, and Keren Richter for giantartists.com.
Molly Gottschalk
Greg Lotus
“THESE PLACES ALWAYS SMELL THE SAME,” LIAM HEMSWORTH SAYS OF the putt-putt golf complex as we enter. It is an unprovoked observation that might suggest that the Australian 22-year-old actor enjoyed the pleasures of mini-golf like the rest of us while growing up. But a familiar smell is a strange place to begin since so much of Hemsworth’s life right now feels like...
Julius Friedman
Pamela Littky
Time-aged portraits of prizefighters hang on the walls, staring down at the man perched at the edge of the ring.
Yes, Zachary Wohlman looks like a vintage fighter. His old-style charm is accentuated by the scar tissue above his brow and the cartilage missing from his nose. He is a throwback, an anachronism. He even has a “Kid” nickname: “Kid Yamaka” [sic]. “I get...
Abbye Churchill
Kristiina Wilson
Every family has them: stories shared triumphantly, inappropriately at holiday dinners. Stories of heroic feats accomplished against unimaginable odds. These stories get passed down through generations until they become badges of honor, facts of the family, irrefutable truths. But at what point does family folklore become textbook truth?
The Gracie family has one...
Emma-Louise Tovey
Tony Duran
It’s somewhat apt that Taylor Kitsch is so hard for me to get a hold of as the Kelowna, British Columbia-born actor is likely enjoying his last few moments of relative privacy. Kitsch is in Japan doing press for John Carter, which releases on March 9th, and I’ve been on hold waiting to talk to him for what feels like an eternity. He has a modest-sized fan following from...
Mui-hai chu
Tetsuharu Kubota
It’s a bad time for Siki Im to chat. he has a few days to finish his Fall 2012 collection before heading to Paris for sales presentations. The apple he’s crunching is probably the first thing he’s eaten all day. Five people bustle behind him, sewing, cutting, fitting. Im looks depleted, because it’s an incredibly good time for business.
Momentum has been building...
Yasha Wallin
Michael Muller
Over tomato soup on an icy night in New York’s lower east side, actor Norman Reedus is talking about road kill. He spares few details recounting the several dead animals he found along the highway while shooting the zombie thriller TV show The Walking Dead in Georgia. We’re huddled in the back of the narrow restaurant, Bread, which Reedus insists has the best soup in the...
Maxwell Williams
Zoey Grossman
El puma once told Génesis Rodríguez to chill. “just do me a favor: take the pressure off,” said the legendary Venezuelan singer and actor, presumably in the husky growl that earned him his feline nickname. “Nobody is telling you to get a job. Just have fun with it. Just take it easy. You’re doing what you like to do, aren’t you?” Rodríguez never forgot these words,...
Arielle Castillo
Colby Katz
“There was a little car in the middle of the road, and i was at about 100 miles per hour, and I thought, ‘This is it. I’m gonna die,’” says Derek Bell. It was 1973, and the champion racecar driver was hurtling down a public road through Belgium’s Ardennes forest. It was the famed 24 Total Hours of Spa race, a feat of endurance that demanded a driving team spend a solid...
Karyn Campbell
Cameron Krone
When Brady Corbet was a kid, he got paid in books. That is, from seven to 12, he worked in a Colorado bookstore, snowboarded like most mountain kids, and watched French films recommended by his Francophile mother. Perhaps what was gleaned from a childhood spent with his nose in books and in front of cinematic classics informed Corbet’s unconventional film career, full of...
Maxwell Williams
Conrad Ruiz is still on the last Olympics, even though there’s a new one around the corner. In fact, someone ought to suggest to him to get a head start on the 2016 games in order to be timely. It’s not because he’s lazy, it’s because he’s intricate. Thusly, Ruiz’ garage/studio in Glendale, California only has six works in it, including a study for this issue’s cover. The...
Joshua Neuman
Kate Martin
Analeigh Tipton is kicking off a pair of black Chuck Taylors inside the Pasadena Ice Skating Center when she tells me that her 21st birthday party had a LARPing (live action role-playing) theme. “Basically, people came dressed up as knights, elves, gnomes, trolls, or gods or superheroes of any sort, and you have a point system and you embody that role entirely and put on...
