Innehållsförteckning för September 2016 från Maxim

Dear Maximus, Surfer bro seeks fancy (nonwet) suit. Please advise. I have a feeling the surfer bro may also be an art director or designer. I’m guessing he has a fairly lean and muscular frame. A few years back, when my man Joey Votto asked which way to turn for a tux to wear for his MLB MVP, I steered him to Tom Ford, whose designs are both fancy (in a manly way) and cut for a more athletic frame than most high-end designers’. I am virtually certain that 007 has actually surfed in a Tom Ford suit, as well as skied, hang glided, sprinted and long jumped. What place do you think vintage has in the wardrobe of the modern man? Compared to women’s styles, men’s are almost permanent.…

Alessandra Ambrosio—there’s no Victoria’s Secret Angel who spends more time on the beach…and we should know! Born in Brazil, she grew up by the sea; her motto and favorite hashtag is #foreveronvacation. But that’s only one of many reasons why we love her. Ironically, the effortlessly elegant Alessandra is usually working when she’s at the world’s most iconic resorts. But when she’s not shooting magazine covers, walking the runway in jewel-encrusted wings, designing her collection ále by Alessandra, or filming, she’s a real-life sea siren. This is the first in a series of articles by Alessandra, whom we’ve named our Special Lifestyle Editor. Here she shows us how to make a splash on the beach no matter where you are. From the moment I arrived in Monte Carlo to shoot…

When Christian von Koenigsegg founded his eponymous Swedish supercar company in 1994 at the age of 22, he fully expected to fail. But the upstart from Stockholm decided to chase his dream anyway. “If I don’t do it now, I will probably never do it,” he thought at the time. Two decades—and 125 cars— later, he’s done more than just exceed expectations. With the amazing gas-electric Regera rolling off the newly expanded assembly line later this year, Koenigsegg is pioneering new technologies that even traditional powerhouses like Ferrari can’t top. Car nuts may argue the relative merits of manual transmissions and paddle-shifted automatics, but the Regera blows up that debate by eliminating the gearbox entirely. The $2 million rolling sculpture routes 1,100 horsepower from its twin-turbocharged 5.0-liter V8 combustion engine…

If you happen to regard yourself as a whisky fundamentalist, you may want to plug your ears. Many of the rarest and most acclaimed single malts and blends don’t actually come from Scotland or Kentucky anymore. Over the last decade, Japan has slowly and methodically come to dominate the category, sweeping awards and earning record prices at auction. As the third largest producer of whisky on the planet, it now even outranks Ireland. Japan’s single-malt tradition dates back to 1923, when Shinjiro Torii established Yamazaki, the country’s first malt-whisky distillery, but it owes an even greater debt to Masataka Taketsuru, who moved to Scotland in 1918 to learn the art of distilling and returned to found the Nikka brand in 1934, which has influenced the country’s craft ever since. But…

THE PROFESSIONAL Every accent matters, down to the Cartier watch and Cross pen, which lend any pinstripe suit a competitive advantage THE GLOBETROTTER From flask to fragrance, the gentleman wayfarer always comes equipped with worldly essentials like a Mark Cross passport cover and John Hardy cuff links THE URBAN WARRIOR Add a Ferragamo bomber jacket, Zenith watch and Gerber pocketknife to your sartorial arsenal…

Here’s a trivia question: When Ralph Lauren—he of world-conquering taste and discernment—wants a custom bike, where does he go? The answer is Ascari Bicycles (you’d be forgiven for not knowing the name), the brainchild of Helio Ascari, a 40-year-old Brazilian native who’s been making bespoke bicycles since 2011. A former model for Ferragamo and Gianfranco Ferré, Ascari has the bearing of someone who inhabits his physicality effortlessly, the result of an early life spent working with his hands in a steel factory, and later with wood. He decided to put his mechanical expertise in auto body repair to use building custom bikes, and a few years ago, an introduction to Lauren transformed his enterprise. “A guy like Ralph Lauren has seen pretty much everything there is to see in the…

Anne Vyalitsyna, known to all as Anne V, is a 5'10" Russian supermodel who once posed naked for the cover of Vogue. She’s a woman with a face so coveted—by the likes of Chanel and Calvin Klein—that she fronted a reality series called The Face. And yet, when we meet for coffee in Manhattan’s West Village, what she really wants to talk about is decidedly less titillating. It’s America’s citizenship test. Or more specifically, her issues with it. She tucks her impressively long legs underneath the table and gets right to the point. “I take this shit very seriously,” she says. V was a straight-A student in Russia and wants me to know that she approached the exam with a similar resolve; she didn’t want to pass the test so…

It all started in 1947, when, to make some extra money, Patrice de Colmont’s father, Bernard, set out on the Mediterranean to film a documentary on board a Mallorcan sailboat used for transporting oranges. As fate would have it, a storm forced him to take shelter in the then uninhabited Bay of Pampelonne, and de Colmont was instantly seduced by the beauty of the place. He turned to his friends from the Explorers Club, with whom he had traveled the world, and announced that they’d found the ideal spot. “There are no spiders or poisonous snakes, no sharks or lions, no cholera or tsunamis,” he remarked. “And yet we are in France, in a democratic country.” Soon after, Bernard decided to return with his family. After spending several summers in…

Unlike many of his fellow visionaries in the world of high fashion, Michael Kors has no desire to make clothes that people don’t actually want to wear. “When I put on a show or I design a collection, it doesn’t come to life until I see it on the street,” Kors explains on a sweltering summer day in Manhattan. “I think people gravitate toward what surprises them and feels indulgent, but also to what adds to their sense of style and confidence, something that feels like an old friend you can grab on a regular basis.” And that wearable approach to modern design—all-American glamour meets sportswear—is no accident. At 57, the Long Island–born icon prides himself on the fact that his art is a business. “I don’t want to sound…

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2016 BMW R nineT Price: Starting at $15,095 Weight: 489 lbs Maximum speed: 130 mph Gearbox: Constant-mesh 6-speed with helical cut gears Frame: Tubular steel bridge frame, engine self-supporting Front Suspension: Upside-down telescopic fork Engine: 2-cylinder 4-stroke flat twin, double overhead camshaft Rear Suspension: Cast aluminum singlesided swing arm with BMW Paralever…

The twisting, 100-mile drive between Marseille and Saint-Tropez—past small villages, lush fields and unbroken stretches of iconic coastline—is the kind of trip that seems, at least initially, tailor-made for cruising in a classic Italian sports car. But a vintage Alfa Romeo can’t immerse you in the sights, smells and sensations of southern France the way a motorcycle will. It’s a revelation that occurs to me while coasting along the Riviera on the back of the new Harley-Davidson Roadster, a machine that takes inspiration from ’50sera racing motorcycles, a spin-off of the legendary Sportster with a more athletic stance, simpler styling and better suspension and brakes. The Roadster’s hearty V-twin engine makes guttural noises and the metal ends of its pegs kiss the pavement as I whip it side-to-side on a…