A couple of things you might not know about Michael Jordan: The GOAT co-owns a NASCAR team and absolutely loves his watches. (And we mean really loves ‘em—we’re talking about a man who got on the Datograph train well over 20 years ago.) Those two disparate worlds collided this week when MJ was spotted celebrating his 23XI team’s latest victory at the GEICO 500 with a rare, ludicrously expensive timepiece on his wrist: the Purnell Escape II Absolute Sapphire Blue Moon. Purnell, a Genevan producer...
Stretch those muscles and not your credit card debt. Yogis, runners, powerlifters, and cozy couch potatoes alike have been waiting for this all year, and we're happy to report that the Alo Yoga sale has officially begun. For the third year in a row, the Aloversary Sale—as the brand likes to call it—has kicked off, offering shoppers the chance to save 30% sitewide. The brand's a hit for its comfy workout gear, but it's since branched out, offering a hearty assortment of going-out clothes you...
New York has been the epicenter of American fashion for generations—and, every once in a while, that includes the city’s baseball teams. The Mets made some fashion news recently by dropping their City Connect jerseys, which they’ll wear for the first time on Saturday against the Cardinals. These uniforms pay tribute to NYC with several homages to the city’s subway system, a hat featuring the Queensboro Bridge, and a shade of gray inspired by the concrete jungle. All enough to qualify for a plum...
Securing a spot on a Beyoncé album is impressive in of itself for an up-and-coming artist. Shaboozey did it twice. On the Cowboy Carter highlights “SPAGHETTII” and “SWEET ★ HONEY ★ BUCKIIN’,” the Virginia-born country singer and rapper paints pictures of a Black cowboyhood spent traversing claustrophobic concrete and endless fields of wild grass. “I’ve always been on a real mission to bridge the gap between cultures, whether that's hip hop and country or just urban and rural,” Shaboozey tells...
It’s tempting to call the new movie Challengers a romantic comedy, because it is romantic, as well as sexy, and it’s frequently funny, as well as soapily did-he-just-really dramatic. But early in the film, Tashi Duncan (Zendaya), the movie’s gifted and calculated heroine, says something more succinct, bound to become a reference point in countless reviews, sports-movie clip montages, and fancams: “Tennis is a relationship.” It’s just shy of saying “tennis is a metaphor,” but it’s also a handy...
What’s in a facial, anyway? You might think it always involves cucumbers, and gossip, and a re-watch of The Notebook. Surely it’s never something a tough guy like you would consider, let alone need. But not so fast there: Don’t a lot of guys say the same thing about massages and pedicures? And then as soon as they try it, they're hooked for life. The truth is, a facial can be many things, and you’re likely to find one that suits you exactly. A facial can intervene in the skin-aging process, as...
Caleb Williams, Jayden Daniels, Marvin Harrison Jr., and a few of their fellow first rounders turned the draft into a veritable runway. For so many crazed football fans, the first round of the NFL Draft is akin to Christmas morning (at night). Finding out which player will slot into your team's starting lineup can be a wildly exciting experience, and so can seeing what they wear on the red carpet. You can, after all, learn a lot about a person by what they wear for a big day—and this year's...
When viewers first meet Arthur, a forlorn Englishman played by Challengers star Josh O’Connor in filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher’s latest feature La Chimera, he’s dozed off in a train car wearing a rumpled cream linen suit. He elicits giggles and whispers of “Where he from?” from three local girls who—as archaeologists might—scan Arthur’s ensemble for clues of his past, hoping to recompose a story of this disheveled but alluring traveler. It’s perhaps the most effortlessly cool character introduction...
On Monday night, at a glitzy ceremony in Madrid, Novak Djokovic won the Laureas World Sportsman of the Year award. It was the 36-year-old Serb’s record-equalling fifth time receiving the honor, a nice achievement to list on his CV alongside his 24 Grand Slam titles and current world number-one ranking in men’s singles tennis. Djokovic is unquestionably one of the world’s greatest athletes—and also, as it happens, one of the world’s great watch brand ambassadors. At the event in Madrid, Djokovic...
I catch Justin Kuritzkes, the screenwriter behind the new Luca Guadagnino film Challengers, in the middle of a busy press day, doing interviews from an elegantly-appointed hotel room that would be right out of a Guadagnino production (I Am Love, obviously) except for the room’s conked-out TV, which keeps inexplicably coming to life and playing The View. “They just want to be heard,” Kuritzkes cracks. “They want to give their views on everything.” Kuritzkes lives in New York with his wife, Past...
This is an edition of the newsletter Box + Papers, Cam Wolf’s weekly deep dive into the world of watches. Sign up here. At my heart, I am a man of science. The son of a developmental and cell biology major who carried a periodic table in his wallet (true story). And while intuition and taste help inform what I cover in this newsletter, at the end of the day there’s nothing sturdier to me than data. And, like Al Pacino announcing an Oscars winner, my eyes saw that the recent rash of new releases...
When it came time to decide what he’d wear to the NFL Draft, newly-minted Chicago Bear Caleb Williams had two goals. He wanted to “be unique, be one of a kind,” he told me a few days before being drafted first overall. This was no surprise: since he was a kid, Williams has prepared diligently—perhaps obsessively—to become a quarterback the likes of which football has never before seen. And in his two seasons at USC, he was particularly unafraid to show off the qualities (from his game-breaking...