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The Good Side of Bad Taste
What To Wear Now • THE 70+ FLYEST SUITS, BAGS, SHOES, WATCHES, AND CHAIRS OF THE SEASON
3 LABELS ON FIRE • In this era of anything-goes wild style, suddenly three unimpeachable symbols of timeless luxury are more appealing than ever.
Fresh Ink • A tattoo is the mother of all style moves, and if you get one, you’d better mean it. (Just ask Post Malone.) These three artists and shops represent three distinct directions we endorse: the steeped-in-the-classics Brooklyn tattoo parlor, the modern Japanese tebori master, and the illustrator bringing new energy to stick-and-poke.
Smith Street Tattoo Parlour
Horimitsu
House of Ruin
GOD LOVES UGLY FURNITURE • THE LATEST WAVE IN COLLECTIBLE VINTAGE FURNITURE IS BULBOUS, CURVY, AND OVERSTUFFED. IT WAS MADE IN ITALY IN THE ’60s AND ’70s—AND IT’S AS COMFORTABLE AS IT IS COVETABLE.
POST APOCALYPTIC • POST MALONE HAS A CHEERFUL, CHAOTIC, BEER-DRUNK IMAGE. BUT SOMEHOW HE KEEPS CHURNING OUT PERFECTLY CRAFTED POP ANTHEMS. TO SORT OUT THE CONTRADICTIONS, KELEFA SANNEH HUNKERS DOWN WITH THE MOST RELIABLE HITMAKER IN AMERICA.
10 GRAILS FROM THE GOLDEN AGE OF MEN’S FASHION THAT YOU CAN STILL WEAR RIGHT NOW • SUDDENLY A NEW INTEREST IN ARCHIVAL FASHION IS BOOMING, AND A FEW VERY SPECIFIC PIECES ARE NOW FETCHING ASTOUNDING PRICES. SO WE TRACKED DOWN A COLLECTION OF RARE GEMS FROM SOME OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT MENSWEAR COLLECTIONS OF ALL TIME. CONSIDER THIS A HISTORY LESSON—AND THE ULTIMATE ARCHIVAL-FASHION BUYER’S GUIDE.
TALL TALES WITH DWIGHT YOAKAM • AN INTIMATE NIGHT OF CONVERSATION AND TUNES WITH THE HARD-CHARGING, MILE-A-MINUTE PIONEER OF HONKY-TONK HIMSELF.
Peter Saul Paints the Carnage • NO ARTIST HAS CAPTURED THE HORROR AND HILARITY OF AMERICAN LIFE QUITE LIKE PETER SAUL. THERE’S MONA LISA PUKING ON HER CHIN, O.J. SIMPSON IN THE ELECTRIC CHAIR, DONALD TRUMP GETTING PUNCHED IN THE FACE BY A CHEESEBURGER. NOW, AFTER 60 YEARS MAKING PAINTINGS, HE’S SUDDENLY AN ART-MARKET DARLING—AND HAS JUST MOUNTED HIS BIGGEST RETROSPECTIVE YET.
GLOBAL GIANT • WITH THE RELEASE OF HIS ENORMOUS BREAKOUT ALBUM, ‘AFRICAN GIANT,’ NIGERIAN-BRED BURNA BOY IS STAKING A CLAIM AS ONE OF THE BIGGEST STARS ON THE GLOBAL MUSIC SCENE—A CROSSOVER SENSATION WHO REFUSES TO COMPROMISE. INSTEAD HE’S LETTING THE WORLD CROSS OVER TO HIM.
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