Maximの October 2016 の目次

I work in a lax business environment, and the dress code mirrors the mentality: “Whatever!” My colleagues never pass the threshold of a button-down and jeans, the CEO wears a tattered Zeppelin concert tee, and I am pretty sure I saw an intern sporting sweats. I have always fancied the Savile Row–esque aesthetic but haven’t dared to don a jacket and tie to the office. Can I rock the three-piece amid a sea of ripped jeans and slouchy flannels? You probably have to decide whether your place of business has no dress code or it has an unspoken code that is “business sloppy.” If it has no dress code, then knock yourself out with a three-piece windowpane suit from Anderson & Sheppard and John Lobb shoes and you’ll be tolerated…

To understand Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant’s passion for the game of football, and therefore to understand Dez Bryant himself, you don’t need to look further than a recent moment on the field. Bryant stood and defiantly pointed at each and every member of the opposing secondary. “You can’t guard me!” he taunted. “You can’t guard me!” It wasn’t a mid-season battle against one of the Cowboys’ NFC rivals; it wasn’t even a game. It was a preseason practice. And the secondary he was calling out? His own. Bryant, a two-time Pro Bowler and former All-Pro who, last summer, signed a five-year, $70-million contract with $23 million guaranteed (and a $20 million signing bonus), is the last guy you’d expect to waste time and energy calling out teammates on…

#ForeverOnVacation is my motto, the way I see life, and I share a lot of what inspires me on social media through my hashtag. For me, the ultimate luxury is enjoying what I do. I firmly believe you should only do what you love. Work should be fun! They say when you do what you love, you don’t really ever work a day in your life. Here are a few of the things that I think can make everyday life more pleasant. Ultimately, when you do what you love, you’re Forever on Vacation! “Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.” —Steve Jobs I’m grateful to Steve Jobs for my iPhone and laptop,…

This year, the legendary cobblers of Moreschi celebrate 70 years of fine Italian shoemaking, a legacy that began in the northern village of Vigevano in 1946 with Mario Moreschi and continues to this day in the very same town with his son, CEO GianBeppe Moreschi. But it took a chance meeting between Moreschi’s grandson, Mario, and winemaking nobleman Marchese Piero Antinori in an Umbrian castle for the company to alight more recently on what it calls “the diamond of its collection.” The resulting collaboration, a rarefied Francesine lace-up called the Moreschi 1946 Guado al Tasso Limited Edition, is a shoe that represents the union of two pillars of Italian excellence. Crafted from full-grain calfskin that’s been aged for over 36 months, each 1946 is hand-dyed with vinacce, or crushed and…

That smile. It’s the first thing you notice about Romee Strijd. There’s something about it that puts you at ease, makes you forget you’re chatting with a six-foot-tall Victoria’s Secret Angel. A bona fide supermodel. As she sips an iced latte in a blissfully air-conditioned coffee shop in Chelsea on a sweltering New York day, there’s something about the 21-year-old’s enormous, effortless smile that tells you none of this has gone to her head—not the jet-setting to Europe and the Caribbean, not the Michael Bay commercials, not the rubbing shoulders with celebrities. There’s something about it that says, in a lovely Dutch accent, I could take it or leave it. There’s something about it that says that despite being one of the hottest models on the planet— in both senses—she’s…

Scroll through any street-style website, like Scott Schuman’s The Sartorialist, and you’ll invariably find yourself admiring the work of Italian tailoring virtuoso Luca Rubinacci. He’s the man responsible for the handsome tweed sport coats you see on the piazzas of Pitti Uomo, and for the wild, vibrant-hued suits Fiat heir Lapo Elkann wears so effortlessly. For years, Rubinacci’s eponymous tailoring business, which his grandfather founded in 1932, remained a whispered secret among gentlemen of elegant dress. But once Luca himself began appearing on style sites, word spread, and the Naples-based atelier has since amassed a cadre of devotees around the globe. Rubinacci’s made-to-measure suits are comfortably snug, lightweight and tailored to perfection the Neapolitan way, with minimal canvas (the material that drapes a jacket to one’s body) and no padding.…

If you’re going to drink like a billionaire, you have to drink Italian wine. No glass so ably matches the lusty flavors of Italian cuisine, be it the blissful combination of a piercing friulano with creamy burrata or a Barbaresco with a steaming plate of buttered pasta and shaved Alba truffles. We all know the likes of prosecco, pinot grigio and Chianti, any of which can be deeply gratifying when well made, but this is just the tip of the tiramisu that is Italian wine. With more than 300 grapes and a dizzying number of wine regions, it is the wine world’s crazy quilt of complexity. The good news is that this prevents even most experts from becoming experts on Italian wine, which takes the pressure off—and makes it that…

Dallas Cowboys fans always used to say the roof of the Cowboys stadium opened so God could watch his favorite team. Maybe God wanted a peek inside Ferrari’s ultimate road car, too. The 218-mph, 949-horsepower hybrid-electric LaFerrari will soon be available with a removable roof. If there was ever a problem with the original $1.4 million V-12 coupe, unveiled in 2013, it wasn’t the hard top but the fact that Ferrari only made 499 of them. The cars were snapped up by the lucky few—people like singer Sammy Hagar and celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay—before they even officially went on sale, leaving many disappointed customers. To ease their pain, Ferrari announced the release of an open-air spider version of the LaFerrari this fall, which will likely be produced in a limited…

With five centuries of experience crafting guns for everyone from Napoleon and Winston Churchill to Ernest Hemingway and James Bond, the Beretta family knows more than anyone on earth about the fine art of making firearms. From sleek, black handguns to gold-inlaid, six-figure shotguns highly prized by hunters and collectors around the globe, the Beretta name carries instant prestige that speaks of skill, craftsmanship, elegant design and deadly accuracy. Beretta is, in fact, the oldest industrial dynasty in the world, with 15 generations of family ownership dating back to the year 1500—and very likely beyond. For the family to be able to trace its lineage so far back is a testament to its immutable values, and those of the company bearing its name. Beretta’s iconic logo of encircled arrows representing…

Do you know who won the most medals at the Rio Olympics? It wasn’t the United States. It was Nike, whose athletes worldwide won more than 200 total medals and all 32 of the U.S. track and field golds. It wasn’t always this way. If you roll the tape back to, say, the 1964 games in Tokyo, you can watch Bob Hayes win the 100-meter sprint in 10 seconds flat wearing the three bands of Adidas, the dominant, and dominating, athletic shoe company in the world at that time. Same thing again in 1968 in Mexico City, when Bob Beamon destroyed the long jump record in Adidas. One of the avid fans of those Games was a middle-distance runner named Phil Knight—Buck, to his family—who once raced for the vaunted…