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The Summer Edit: 10 Pieces That Make Getting Dressed Ridiculously Easy

The smartest summer wardrobes aren't the biggest ones. They're the ones where every piece works with every other piece.

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The Golf Round That Built a Bourbon Empire
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The Luxury Lover’s Guide to Puerto Vallarta
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Your One-Bag Weekend Getaway Packing Guide

Cover all the bases with versatile selections for your EDC, your outdoor kit, and some R&R afterwards.

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Bring the Soundtrack With You This Summer

The best outdoor portable speakers for beach trips, lake weekends, backyard hangs, and every adventure that calls for a little music.

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The Anti-Algorithm Guide to Discovering New Music
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The Color Combos I’m Wearing a Lot Right Now
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Your One-Bag Weekend Getaway Packing Guide

Cover all the bases with versatile selections for your EDC, your outdoor kit, and some R&R afterwards.

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What We're Buying
Bring the Soundtrack With You This Summer

The best outdoor portable speakers for beach trips, lake weekends, backyard hangs, and every adventure that calls for a little music.

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Lifestyle
The Anti-Algorithm Guide to Discovering New Music

Streaming made music infinite. Which made discovery harder. Here’s how we’re finding our way back.

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The Color Combos I’m Wearing a Lot Right Now

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America’s Most Historic Golf Trip

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Summer’s Best Watches Under $1,500

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The Luxury Lover’s Guide to Puerto Vallarta

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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

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How This Cryptic Vinegar Estate in Germany Sparked My Cocktail Shrub Era

Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide
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The American Watchmaker Rebuilding a Lost Craft

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A Pilgrimage to Italy’s Iconic Superbikes and Supercars in Emilia-Romagna

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The Italian Art of Dressing Well in the Heat

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‘Born to Challenge’ Takes You to Sydney with Artist Luke Choice

Luke Choice, who works under the moniker Velvet Spectrum, is known for his bold, bright, and whimsical art. When he draws a burger, for example, its colors make it pop off the page. Infiniti teamed up with Choice to take it all a step further—to actually make that burger off the page. That…

By Mike Newman
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Fashion
Converse x John Varvatos Chuck Taylor All Star II Leather

Converse has produced some pretty awesome Chuck Taylor collaborations over the years, but the John Varvatos ones have always seemed special. It should come as no surprise that the house of Varvatos was going to get their hands on the all new Chuck Taylor All Star II with its Lunarlon cushioning, non-slip…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Olympic Stadiums After the Games

From the Ski Jump Tower in Cortina D'ampezzo, Italy, during the 1956 Winter Olympics and the Bobsled Track in Sarajevo during the 1984 Winter Olympics, to the swimming pool in Berlin during the 1936 Summer Olympics and the Olympic Canoe and Kayak Slalom Center in Athens during the 2004 Summer…

By Cooper Fleishman
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7 Lessons I Learnt From Photography

Jimmy Nelson, the renowned photographer responsible for some of the coolest indigenous people photographs that have ever been taken, recently sat down with the Cooperative of Photography (COOPH) for 7 Lessons I Learnt From Photography. The eye-opening video includes some of Nelson’s most intimate and fascinating stories, along with plenty…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Fashion
Dollar Shave Club Wants You to Shave With Butter

Dollar Shave Club and Cosmo Kramer from Seinfeld are two fairly large trendsetters. One changed the way people bought razors and the other shaved with butter. Then Dollar Shave Club started selling shaving butter. Sure, it's probably not the kind of butter you make cookies with, but if it offers the kind…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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