We've really strayed on the denim front. People, even us at Esquire, try to prescribe boundaries and trends to jeans. Skinny jeans are over; don't wear them. Flares have died, revived, died again, and wait actually now they're back. It's all too much. This isn't what jeans are about. Jeans, more than any other garment, should be a personal style building block. They should be timeless. You should buy them new, wear them until they fit like a glove, and then never take them off. The specifics matter way less than making them yours. That's what's so cool about denim. For example, my denim hero is Serge Gainsbourg. He's kind of strange looking, but when you see him in old pictures with double denim underneath a suit jacket, he looks so fucking cool. That's what well-worn denim can do for you. |
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It all began with a love for safari. Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the founder of the London-based multinational chemical giant INEOS, has long enjoyed spending his holidays in Africa. And his favored vehicle for traversing rough terrain in the bush was the Land Rover Defender. When Land Rover said in 2016 that it was going to discontinue his favorite 4x4, Ratcliffe asked to buy the rights so that he could continue manufacturing the Defender himself. The automaker said no. But the INEOS chairman is not a man easily deterred. Bemoaning the loss of the legendary rough-and-tumble SUV, Ratcliffe declared to friends in late 2016 over a pint at the Grenadier that he would build his own off-roader—one that looked like the Defender but performed better. Any number of automotive start-ups that have gone bust over the past several years can attest that creating a successful car company from the ground up these days is nearly impossible. But much like the original Land Rover Defender itself, Ratcliffe is no stranger to challenges. |
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What exactly is going on in the minds of young men? It's a question that society keeps coming back to these days because, truth is, we're worried. Everything we're told about the rising generation of men in America—everything they're told about themselves, in the media, the academic research, the employment data, the mental-health studies—is about how royally screwed they are. And that has consequences for all of us. Rather than add our voice to the chorus of speculation about what guys are thinking and feeling about the world, we had a radical idea: Let's just ask them. Not all of them, of course. There are nearly 16 million men in the U. S. between the ages of eighteen and twenty-four. We weren't looking to conduct yet another survey. Instead, we wanted to have long conversations with a relatively small group about what it's like to be a young man in America right now. As you'll see, they reflect much of the frustration and alienation we expected—but not always in the ways we anticipated. They were thoughtful and candid. They surprised us. |
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Welcome to another edition of The Bullshit Gazette! I have to say—even before Innie Mark delivered his not-so-savage burn to Mr. Milchick, I spent an embarrassing amount of this episode thinking about how the Innies learned to insult and swear. "I don't give three dry fucks about his Outie"? Gold. Catch me responding to every note from my editor with "What in the abominable fuck?!" In all seriousness, we've made it halfway through the season. Fittingly, season 2, episode 5 of Severance takes time to decompress after MDR's disastrous (and fatal) jaunt to Woe's Hollow. This episode, titled "Trojan's Horse," is relatively uneventful by Severance's standards, but that doesn't mean the Apple TV+ series didn't give us a few more questions to chew on. (Miss Huang's behavior is increasingly strange, no?) And considering that Mark's mysterious and important work on Cold Harbor is nearly finished—the file is 85 percent complete by the end of the episode, to be exact—it sounds like Severance is actually prepared to give us answers by the end of the season. |
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I'd circumnavigate the world for this lip balm. Lanolin is a gift, like the spermaceti that whalers chased in the 19th century, the animal-derived wax that Ishmael uses to jerk off his fellow sailors in Moby-Dick. (Did I read that chapter right?) For years, I could never find a good lip balm. It was my white whale, a gaping hole in my grooming routine, a hole I could never fill and an obsession I'd take to my grave. Every winter, I cycled through every vitamin-rich, antioxidant, and ultra-moisturizing lip balm out there. Then I found lanolin, the product I'd been looking for. It's a naturally occurring lipid that coats and protects sheep's wool, and it separates as a by-product of wool processing. Australian beauty brand Lanolips sells it in its highest-grade form as its 101 Ointment for moisturizing chapped lips, dry skin, and cracking cuticles. Lanolips delivers on that promise better than anything I've ever used. I buy it religiously now. My search is over. |
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Jetta Juriansz lives for sketch comedy. The thirty-year-old comedian from Los Angeles has auditioned for Saturday Night Live six times and previously starred in the sketch-comedy series Studio C alongside Will Forte, but she knows there are other ways to make it in comedy. There are network and streaming comedies. There are new comedy-only digital platforms like Dropout. Improv theaters are staging a comeback. God knows there are podcasts. For a sketch purist like Juriansz, none of them quite compare to SNL. "I've worked on shows where I get to play a funny character for an episode," she explains. "But that's not the same as doing twelve sketches in a row where I get to change wigs and be a crazy different person every time." Not many places outside of SNL offer comedians the kind of experience Juriansz is chasing—especially not in exchange for money. "More than ever as a comedian, you are responsible for creating as many opportunities as possible for yourself," Juriansz says. "And that can be a really good thing for people who like to do that, and it can feel like a huge burden to people who don't really want to put characters on the Internet." |
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