There are "influencers," and then there are people with true influence. The people unafraid to break a few rules and shake shit up. The folks shaping not just the way we dress but how we think about style in general. These are the photographers and stylists, the consultants and confidants, the makers and movers who are setting the conversation and then driving it forward. Yes, you will find them in your feed and on your For You page—in fact, you probably follow many if not all of these people. And yes, they do have large followings. But they are also authentic. The content they dole out is personal, a cut above the rest. For this summer edition of the Big Black Book—Esquire's long-running manual for style and luxury—we gathered 11 of them in New York. |
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I spent two weeks downloading Targaryen knowledge into my brain—and I was still shocked. |
| If melatonin and meditation don't work, this technology might. |
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"The people who need information the most, who need access to books the most, are often the ones who would have the most difficulty accessing books," said Alexandra Schoenborn, the program coordinator for Books Beyond Bars, a nonprofit organization sending books to inmates in New York state prisons. "It's not everything. It's not enough. But it's something we can do for now to combat some of these dehumanizing effects of incarceration." |
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Play some tunes without tuning out the world around you. |
| It's the day after the first presidential debate. We're going to have some things to discuss. |
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I'm telling you, we have to keep an eye on Senator Tom Cotton, the bobble-throated slapdick from Arkansas. He's a very thirsty fellow. One of the very first things he did after being elected was to send an unsolicited letter to the Iranian imams warning them against participating in the Obama Administration's potentially fruitful negotiations with that regime. Alas, for him, his ascent through the Republican ranks was sidetracked by the rise of El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago. (He was high on the list of young Republicans who could make a serious grab for the big prize after one or two terms of President Hillary Clinton. Oops.) But he is nothing if not adaptable. He is now clearly thirsting after the vice-presidential nomination, and he is campaigning for it on the basis of his willingness to bring actual violence in service of the former president*'s darkest hallucinations. |
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