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Fifty Years of R107: Mercedes’ Third-Gen SL Celebrates Its Golden Anniversary
Few vehicles evoke a lineage of refined luxury like the Mercedes-Benz SL-Class. The SL can trace its roots back to the groundbreaking 300SL that Mercedes sent racing—with success—in the 1950s. Fast and beautiful, the original SL was a technical triumph, with direct fuel injection and a space frame that necessitated those iconic “gullwing” top-hinged doors. A less overtly sporting SL (despite the SL name flowing from “Sportlich-Leicht,” which translates to “Sport Lightweight”), followed, though it continued to deliver unmatched class and, later, a distinctive “pagoda” hardtop. And then came the R107-generation SL-Class in 1971, which would cement the SL’s silver-spoon status through an incredible 18-year production run. See all 21 p...
From LA to London, This is What Our Editors Are Wearing This Spring
In the digital age, outfit inspiration can come from all avenues: from street style and Instagram to archival Getty searches. But, sometimes you can’t beat the real deal, and by that we mean drawing ideas from those around us and the people we pass on the street. Luckily, working at an online fashion publication means there is no shortage of stylish individuals who inspire me (digitally anyway) on a daily basis. Not only that, but with teams based everywhere from LA to London, Who What Wear is able to harness that unique eclecticism that comes from a global fashion perspective. While I can’t see my fellow editors IRL right now (sob), I’ll just have to appreciate their fabulous sense of s...
The Chicest Spring Outfits Have This Classic Item in Common
Gone are the days when the only time you’d dust off and don a blazer was for a stuffy job interview. Today, they’re an integral part of our wardrobes, bestowing everything we choose to wear them with—be it a floral dress, mini skirt, or a pair of jeans—with a polished finish. With the power to make you feel powerful, stylish, and put-together as soon as you slip one on, it’s little wonder that blazers trend year-round, though, in our opinion, their appeal peaks in spring. As we shed our winter years, blazers become the perfect transeasonal cover-up. Many of the best blazers out there have oversized silhouettes (or can be bought a size up without sacrificing the overall aesthetic), meaning they can be layered over jumpers until temperatures rise. When they eventually do, t...
The Best High-Street Buys We’ve Seen on Instagram This Month
The team at Who What Wear UK prides itself on uncovering cult items before they’ve even made it off the production line. We’re keen, to say the least, and a great portion of our time is spent documenting and analysing the Instagram posts of the thousands of cool women we follow on Instagram for high-street sightings. In fact, we have WhatsApp groups and Slack channels dedicated to these affordably priced power pieces, and we want to update you on them as soon as possible (aka after we’ve bought our faves). Our skills are so attuned that more often than not, we’ll have an inkling about a certain piece before it has hit the big time. Sometimes, you’ll find a flurry of brand-specific action due to a paid activation or natural desire to wear a parti...
I Don’t Usually Like Floral Perfumes But These 15 Have Changed My Mind
If, this time last year, you’d have asked me to sum up my taste in perfume in three words, I probably would have said something along the lines of: Woody, musky and unisex. I have always liked my scents to enter a room before I do. I lean towards those heavy notes that linger on clothes until the next morning. And while these preferences might not be to everyone’s tastes, I quite like it when my perfumes divide a room. As long as some people found my fragrance distasteful, at least I knew I wasn’t smelling the same as everyone else in the room, who were no doubt doused in the latest, totally inoffensive, crowd-pleasing floral. But then the pandemic hit, and I had no longer had anyone to fluff up my fragrance feathers in front of. Instead, I was confined to the same four walls with not...
Bentley Mulliner Bacalar First Drive: The Ultimate Bentley Indulgence
Bentley Continental GT Full Overview The limited-edition 2021 Bentley Mulliner Bacalar was intended to be one of the stars of the 2020 Geneva Motor Show. But COVID-19 had other ideas, and with Geneva’s sudden cancellation, Bentley was forced to forgo the pomp and circumstance of launching the Bacalar at an event that has in the past hosted the debuts of style icons such as the Jaguar E-Type and Lamborghini Countach. Instead, Bentley’s first two-seat car in 90 years was revealed via a direct data dump into media inboxes around the globe. In the end, it didn’t matter. All 12 Bacalars were quickly snapped up without a single customer having seen an actual car, and not one canceled their order even as the pandemic threw the global economy into chaos. Anxious Bentley boss Adri...
Tesla Kicking Inattentive Drivers Off “Full Self Driving” Beta Testing
On March 6, Elon Musk tweeted about adding a “Download Beta” on-screen button to Tesla cars’ touchscreens “in 10 days.” While the button is stuck in limbo on the flow of EMT (Elon’s Master Time), the Tesla CEO also disclosed that the next big software release for the automaker’s vehicles will be in April, so we can at least expect the expanded availability of FSD beta software beyond today’s select group of owner-testers and some employees. The forthcoming “Download beta” option for all is huge news. Customers who paid thousands of dollars for the FSD sensor hardware necessary to support fully automated driving (and the promise of later fully autonomous travel activated by software update), they can now try out a skeletal outline ...
This Two-Part Outfit Takes All the Effort Out of Getting Dressed
Skirt and top sets aren’t exactly new, but we couldn’t help but notice that the co-ord is dominating not only our favourite new-in sections but also our Instagram feeds right now. What we love most about skirt and top sets is the fact they require almost zero effort on your part to look good—pop them on, add your favourite shoes, your go-to jewellery, et voila—you look like you’ve put a great deal of thought into your attire, even though that wasn’t exactly the case. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, sharing photos, blogging and help give users back t...
2021 Dodge Durango SRT Hellcat First Test: This SUV Goes Like a Scalded Viper
Dodge Durango Full Overview Is it wrong that every time we fired up the 2021 Dodge Durango SRT Hellcat, we got a vivid mental image of our entire family screaming while we attacked a decreasing radius off-ramp, a gleeful cackle on our lips as the Dodge’s rear end hung out wide? It takes serious restraint—restraint that we’re not sure we have—not to antagonize passengers with this 710-hp, SUV-shaped mass driver. Or perhaps it would thrill them—your passengers might be more amenable to physics experiments than some of ours. Either way, do everybody a favor and ask first. Whoever’s in the Durango Hellcat and whatever their interest level in testing the limits, there’s no denying it’s a formidable machine. Maybe absurd is more accurate. It’s not like th...
2021 Honda Odyssey EX-L: Our Yearlong Odyssey With One Has Begun
Honda Odyssey Full Overview Dear Honda Manufacturing of Alabama employees, Just a quick note to let you know that your 2021 Honda Odyssey EX-L (VIN ending in 7577) has arrived safe and sound, thanks to your colleagues at America Honda Motor Company and the folks at Scott Robinson Honda in Torrance, California. Thanks for painting it in such a lovely shade of Obsidian Blue Pearl; the dark blue really helps the new chrome strip above the redesigned headlights pop and looks stunning against the gray “-L for leather” interior. You might be curious why we picked the Odyssey in the EX-L trim level, versus the fancier Touring or Elite models you build. Well, when testing vehicles, especially over longer time periods, we try to ensure they best represent what a large percentage of the ...
Chanel’s New Loafers Have Become an Obsession of Mine
Loafers haven’t been around for a while. Sure, they kind of bubble up as one of those wardrobe basics we will always feel passionate about, but they haven’t really been in the fashion spotlight for a while. Back in 2015, it was Gucci’s Horsebit backless loafers that became the ubiquitous shoes of the season thanks to Alessandro Michele‘s new reign at the fashion house. Then after that initial buzz, which did admittedly last a couple of years (and the style still stands up today as a modern classic), everything went a little quiet on the loafer front. Now, in 2021, they’re everywhere again, and this time nearly every designer you can think of is taking part. Well, dear readers, I think I’ve found the ultimate designer loafers to b...
5 Interiors Trends We Can’t Stop Clicking on This Season
While our wardrobes have experienced a cooling-off period over the course of 2020 and into 2021, our homes, and everything in them, have been working overtime—quite literally. Even those of us who wouldn’t previously call ourselves interior fanatics, lockdown has inspired us to become experts in all aspects of homeware, thanks to the increase in time we’ve spent within our four walls. Invariably this has caused a wave of new interior trends to flood social media, and of course, we’ve become adept at spotting these winning looks. The mood of the moment seems to point to a craving for colour and personality: from the sinuosity of Gustaf Westman’s wavy edge mirrors and the quirky appeal of rainbow gingham, to Mathilda Goad’...
