Innholdsfortegnelse for August 2016 i Maxim

Dubai is a destination defined by superlatives— the biggest, the best, the priciest— where cheetahs are considered status pets and police drive Ferraris in lieu of standard squad cars. It’s where you’ll find the largest shopping mall on the planet, the world’s biggest indoor ski resort and the tallest building on earth, known as the Burj Khalifa, an architectural marvel that soars half a mile into the sky and is more than twice the size of the Empire State Building. Up until 50 years ago, the now-glittering metropolis was a modest fishing village. It was only after oil was discovered off the coast in 1966 that the region was catapulted into a period of explosive growth, with revenue from black gold fueling the rise of a modern city seemingly overnight.…

For his son’s 18th birthday, billionaire John Paul DeJoria flew to Tanzania to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, finally answering that age-old question, What do you get the kid who already has a Tesla? (Or unfettered access to his dad’s Tesla, anyway.) JP, as the 72-year-old titan is known, didn’t train very hard for the 20,000-foot climb, which is pretty bold considering 1,000 people need to be evacuated from the mountain every year. “I got on my wife’s treadmill,” DeJoria explains with a shrug, “put it at 15 degrees—that’s as high as it will go—and did that for half an hour. No big deal.” He and his son summited on the teen’s birthday. If you’re surprised, you should have seen his guides. “We get to the bottom,” DeJoria says with a laugh,…

The farm-to-table movement in high-end restaurants may be old hat by now, but its corollary in craft spirits is just getting started. “Barn-tobottle” whiskeys well worth sipping are springing up across the country, from New England to the High West. The crucial difference between these down-home liquors and the bigger brands is a focus on local ingredients and production, which tend to yield bottles with a bit more soul. Vermont’s WhistlePig is one of the very few outfits to do the entire process in one place, from harvesting the rye to distilling, aging and bottling the final product. They even make their own whiskey barrels from oak trees felled right on the farm. This lends the elixir and others of its ilk something akin to terroir, that taste of the…

There are times when you’re watching Serena Williams play so ridiculously well that you just want to turn away. Not from her, but from the spectacle of Serena dismantling another hopelessly overmatched professional in the early rounds of a tournament. There’s nothing malevolent about her performance; she’s always graceful in victory, but there’s no off switch to her athleticism. When Serena plays, Serena really wants to win. “Everyone who knows me knows that I love to win, especially on the big stages,” she said after her 44-minute, first-round squashing of Magdalena Rybarikova at this year’s French Open. How badly does Serena Williams want to win? Badder than you do, even if you’re ranked 77th and desperate, and also badder than the other top-ranked women she finished off to win 21…

You’d be forgiven for thinking, at first glance, that Marc Crosas is the frontman for a so-cool-you’ve-never-heardof-it band, or perhaps an artisanal butcher. But he actually makes his living with his feet. As a teenager in Barcelona, Crosas attended the soccer academy La Masía, right outside Barca’s home stadium. “Every day,” he says, “I daydreamed of getting to step on that field and become a professional football player.” He got his wish in 2006, subbing for the legendary Andrés Iniesta off the bench. Since then, the 28-year-old has risen through the ranks of European soccer, playing for Lyon and Celtic (with considerably less hair) before landing, somewhat unconventionally, in Mexico. He is one of the country’s most recognizable foreign stars, known for his ability to combine a potent range of…

Beyond the storied opulence and jet-set glamour, the French Caribbean island of St. Barts has an alter ego: dense forests, uninhabited beaches and untouched natural beauty. This is the playground of Paris-trained photographer Jean-Philippe Piter, a surfer, artist and environmentalist from Senegal who settled here in 1997 and soon found his passion in portraiture. “I fell in love with the island immediately,” says Piter, whose art magazine, Pure St. Barth, captures the rarefied local milieu. “The place is incredibly sexy. There was a feeling of freedom, people were naked on the beach, there were a ton of pretty girls with fancy clothes.” It is not surprising that this Garden of Eden became an exclusive escape for the rich and famous, but Piter still embraces the raw magic of the land—and…

There’s a scene in Tom Ford’s stunningly visual 2009 directorial debut, A Single Man, that stands out from the rest and lingers long after the credits. It’s a coquettish cameo—an icy blonde playing a literature student. She whispers something enigmatic into a male classmate’s ear between long pulls on a cigarette. Her jade eyes almost pierce the screen; her cheekbones could cut the smoke. As the camera pans down to her face, those sharp angles draw us to her lips, so plump and arched, they seem perpetually primed for a kiss. That striking beauty is Aline Weber, the same 5'10" Brazilian model who kisses 11 men in Tom Ford’s latest lipstick ad campaign. She’s appeared on the covers of glossy magazines from Mexico to Japan; catwalked for Calvin Klein and…

Pronounced “the most beautiful car ever made” by rival Enzo Ferrari, the Jaguar E-Type, also known as the XKE, has thrilled onlookers since its debut at the 1961 Geneva Motor Show. The car’s slinky lines border on the obscene, a fact that led Mike Myers to select it for Austin Powers’ ride. Jaguar mechanics may have been equally thrilled, because their income for the foreseeable future was ensured: Beneath its lovely sheet metal, the E-Type suffered from indifferent-at-best build quality during its production run, which lasted from 1961 to 1974. This was complicated by the use of less-than-stellar components, such as electrical parts provided by notorious Lucas Industries, whose founder was known as the Prince of Darkness. In 1984, 10 years after the E-Type ceased production, a small shop called…