Innholdsfortegnelse for May/June 2022 i Maxim

Jeremy Renner, Dak Prescott, Ashley Greene, Heidi Klum, and Jon Jones were among those who turned out when Maxim hosted the hottest parties of Big Game Weekend at Super Bowl LVI. The Maxim events took place Feb. 11-12 at City Market Pavilion in downtown L.A. and featured high-octane performances from some of the biggest names in music, including the Chainsmokers, Lil Baby, Gunna, 50 Cent, Tiësto, Plastik Funk, DJ Vice, and Loud Luxury. Guests included Dwight Howard, Jon Jones, Porsha Williams, Chuck Liddell, Jerome Bettis, Chord Overstreet, Elle Smith, Scott Evans and scores of pro athletes, models, actors, influencers and sports fans. Maxim surprised partygoers with interactive moments throughout the venue and unveiled the DIRECTV Backstage Lounge, an exclusive space for 300-plus VIP guests, with catering by elite eatery Cipriani.…

She wants to be a fashion model, but what’s a girl from Volgograd to do? If you’re Julia Logan you head west. Two years ago, she left home for sunny L.A. after getting a text from Paul Marciano asking her to become a Guess model. “I knew about Guess and I knew about the type of models they used for their shoots and I thought I’m suited to them perfectly.” Since then it’s been a mix of memorable shoots, like the one on the Isle of Capri in rainy weather, or shoots she’d prefer to forget. “The most terrible feeling is when someone becomes inappropriate,” she says from her Hollywood home. “Now, I’m more straightforward about that. I say no, I don’t like it, I don’t feel comfortable. But…

Colombian knockout Daniela Botero is one ravishing force to be reckoned with—just ask her one million followers (and counting). She’s as ambitious as she is elegant and exquisite: her physique is immaculately toned yet still soft and feminine; her eyes a striking shade of sage green under gorgeous brows. Born and raised in Cali, Colombia, she moved halfway around the globe to Paris at the age of 17 to study journalism and communications. “That’s when everything started to change in my life…. Paris is where it all started,” she tells us. “When I went to Paris for school, I never thought I would become a model. I come from a pretty conservative family, so I always thought I would go into journalism, not modeling. You know, perhaps working at a…

“What’s so alluring about cars and watches is the level of meticulous design, engineering and savoir faire behind the manufacture of each.” As both a car and watch collector, not to mention a racing driver and TAG Heuer brand ambassador, actor Patrick Dempsey knows whereof he speaks. “They’re both investments spurred by passion and emotion, heritage and futurism—vintage models are sought after like cult totems, while modern innovation ensures a steady evolution into the present and beyond. There’s no limit to the connoisseurship inherent to each.” His remarks appear in the afterword to a new deluxe edition of the most comprehensive and beautifully-designed book ever created celebrating the connection between cars and watches: Drive Time, by Aaron Sigmond, author of numerous top-shelf luxury lifestyle books, just published by Rizzoli. In…

It might be hard for younger generations to comprehend a time before Luke Skywalker was a household name and adventures happened in a galaxy far, far away. After all, today’s Star Wars’ fans have access to at least nine primary films in addition to countless television series, animated shows, spin-offs, video games and an endless variety of merchandise. It’s easy to forget that this fictional world, extending across the galaxies, all began with a single film by a young, precocious film school graduate named George Lucas. Of course, Lucas would not only introduce the most iconic film property of all time, but would push the bounds of technology in film-making to places previously thought impossible, and in doing so, would profoundly change the film and television world forever. Whether writing,…

“There comes a point where you feel that you have traveled a lot and you still do not know it all, and you [realize you] have not traveled enough and in fact you never will,” Chef Virgilio Martínez reveals about the unspoken instinct that pulled him home to Lima, Peru after spending a decade honing his craft overseas. “There comes a moment of reflection on who you are, your origin, where you belong—I took it as an internal journey to return home and really understand where I had escaped from.” When Martínez left his country as a young man in the ’90s, Peru had no culinary schools, and violent civil unrest made domestic travel nearly impossible. Yet curiosity compelled exploration, so while he wasn’t particularly drawn to the gastronomic arts…

Ask any true cocktail enthusiast to name the top ten bars in the world, and Death & Co will surely make the grade. Opened on New Year’s Eve 2006/2007 in Manhattan’s East Village, it quickly became the standard-bearer for the newly emerging classic cocktail and mixology renaissance, which was given a massive boost when a quirky new show called Mad Men premiered later that year. Death & Co has since opened equally alluring locations in Denver and Los Angeles, and has spawned a blue-chip hospitality group called Gin & Luck, along with two essential cocktail books—Cocktail Codex, which won a James Beard award, and Death & Co: Modern Classic Cocktails—which has now been joined by a third volume capturing the current cocktail zeitgeist, titled Death & Co: Welcome Home, by…

In the late 1950s, word started to spread amongst American style cognoscenti: “Visitors new to Rome should do two things: first go see the Vatican, and then go to Brioni.” The now-legendary Italian tailoring house, whose motto is "For a man’s wardrobe, elegance consists in discretion,” had gained a cult following since it was first established in the late 1940s, having come to invent “an international style that was less stiff and starchy than its British counterpart, with a colorful Italian flair.” This according to a definitive new book on the luxury brand, Brioni: Tailoring Legends, by Olivier Saillard, recently published by Assouline and fully as beautiful one of the firm’s bespoke creations. “Brioni’s vision for menswear was a correction to an overly casual vision of American menswear, offering a wardrobe…