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Welcome to Add to Cart, in which Esquire editors tell you about the clothes, shoes, watches, gear, gadgets, booze, and anything else we're coveting right now. - The Editors at Esquire |
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The Samba is everywhere. That doesn't make it any less wearable, but we also understand you might want something that doesn't feel so overdone. The first piece of advice is to not worry about trends. If you just bought your first Sambas, that's fine. Keep wearing them, and when they come back around a second, third, fourth, and fifth time, you'll be on trend. Or, if you really don't want to look like everyone else, we have 15 Samba alternatives that are just as comfortable and easy to style. |
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Presenting our favorite game of the year—plus a few more—and the gear we couldn't live without. |
| It's just as good as the old stuff, without all the forever chemicals. |
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Score deals from someone other than Bezos & Co. |
| The one Black Friday deal you shouldn't miss. |
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Shopping shouldn't be the main focus of your holidays. The main focus should be spending time with whatever loved ones, blood or chosen, you have—wife, husband, or whoever it may be—or going to a bar and making new ones. But after that's done, we give you permission to do your Black Friday thing. Thankfully, this November no one is really waiting for actual Black Friday. There's a ton of pre–Black Friday discounts out in the world. |
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 He has lived a big life. Tough streets, close calls, a wife of forty-one years, four kids, fifty movies, two Oscars, three Equalizers. For the first time—on the occasion of Gladiator II, and his approaching seventieth birthday—the man himself breaks it all down, in his own words, to the moments that mattered and the experiences that made him. He has lived a big life, but Denzel Washington ain't done yet. |
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Eden Chen, founder and creative director of the lifestyle brand Clot, reflects on a year of collaboration with the Three Stripes. |
| Skip the stop at the hotel and get straight to business. |
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Whenever I want to feel a connection to ancient philosophy, I take a leaf out of Cicero's book and come to visit the grounds of the ancient Athenian Academy. I often recollect his remarks about the great thinkers who once walked here—Zeno, the founder of Stoicism; Diogenes the Cynic; Aristotle; even Socrates himself. Despite Socrates's reputation as one of history's greatest sages, his teachings and the remarkable stories of his life, with which they were entwined, remain unfamiliar to the majority of people. The Socratic dialogues are seldom read today, except by a handful of classical scholars. And Plato's Academy, the cradle of Western philosophy, has lain in ruins for well over a thousand years—but it does still exist. Here's how you can apply his methods to ask better questions, set better goals, and find clarity of purpose. |
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They have 50,000 5-star reviews and counting. |
| Stop making me support this godawful nomination, guys. |
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Last week, Louis Vuitton unveiled a massive new store in New York, marking the occasion with an appropriately massive party attended by everyone from fashion editors and influencers to boldfaced names like Bradley Cooper and Ana de Armas. They gathered to gawk at the giant displays of stacked trunks stretching from the lobby all the way to the ceiling of the five-floor luxury destination. They shuffled from the men's and women's clothing sections to the first outpost of Le Chocolat Maxime Frédéric at Louis Vuitton in the United States. And they made their way through the library-themed restaurant, Le Café Louis Vuitton, also the very first in the States. But pretty much everyone in attendance—barring Cooper and de Armas, perhaps—will have a damn difficult time returning for dinner. According to the folks at the famed Parisian fashion label, Le Café is booked out for the next two months, making it one of the hottest reservations in the city. |
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