T’s fall men’s fashion issue celebrates guys who pursue their passions. On the cover is the young English actor Jack O’Connell, whose electric performances and rough-and-tumble ways have him perched on the cusp of stardom — if he can only keep it together long enough to reach the potential that many, like his “Unbroken” director Angelina Jolie, see in him. René Redzepi, owner of one of the world's top-ranked restaurant, Noma, is a closet taco fanatic, so Jeff Gordinier follows the Scandinavian chef to Mexico in search of bold new flavors and, possibly, the next big thing in food. We travel to the rural Connecticut estate of the Picasso biographer John Richardson, which deftly mixes high and low, refined and roguish, the tasteful and the gaudy. Elsewhere, T pays a visit to the NBA’s finishing school for rookies, where draftees receive advice on fashion, sex and table manners, and are taught to repeat the mantra “I don’t want to go broke”; Marin Hopper remembers the way her father, the actor Dennis Hopper, found spiritual reckoning — and plenty of good parties — in Taos, N. M.; Alex Fury sounds off on a men’s wear moment that is, at long last, challenging notions about sexuality, power and gender politics; and Jody Rosen travels to a sprawling forensics lab in hippie Oregon to investigate the $19 billion trade in illegal wildlife, which has ties to the Russian mob and Islamic extremists. See all stories from the issue >>
David Kordansky might not be the biggest player in the L.A. gallery scene, but his manic enthusiasm and seemingly genuine determination to draw attention to underappreciated artists make him the most interesting by far.
The trade in illegal wildlife is a $19 billion annual business, and there’s one place the world turns to investigate the crime: a federal forensics lab (and curiosity cabinet) in a hippie town in Oregon.
Like the art historian himself, his Connecticut estate is grand, refined and a bit naughty.
A killer three-pointer no longer cuts it in the world of pro basketball. To succeed as a multimillion-dollar brand, an athlete needs business savvy, fashion know-how and good table manners. Welcome to the N.B.A.’s other training camp.
Creating fragrances through collaboration and strict attention to detail, the perfumer is building a brand as layered and intriguing as his own personal influences.
A look at the facts and figures behind the elder statesman of music producers.
The straight-cut three-button suit is back, but with simple underpinnings, no tie and high-cuffed pants, it’s shed its checkered past.
The actor is raw, uncensored and trying to keep it together long enough to live up to Hollywood’s expectations.
In the late 1960s at the height of his career, Dennis Hopper left Hollywood for artistic bohemia in New Mexico. His daughter looks back on a man in search of free expression and a more contemplative way of life.
The questions of power, sexuality and gender being raised by men’s fashion right now are far more interesting than whether guys will actually wear skirts or off-the-shoulder shirts.
The model Lara Stone whiles away the afternoon in the new oversize men’s coats.
There’s a relaxed athleticism coursing through men’s fashion, taking inspiration from the street and mixing it with the office.
With the passage of time and a sleeker cut, the leather jacket — that perennial symbol of small-town misspent youth — has grown up.
René Redzepi ignited an international culinary revolution with Noma, his restaurant focused on wildly innovative Nordic cuisine. Now, believing that Mexican food is the next big thing, the Scandinavian wunderkind eats his way across the country to deconstruct its secrets.