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For Half a Million Dollars, You Can Buy This Jet-Engined Volkswagen Beetle
Got a hole in your garage and another one in your wallet? We’ve found a great way to fill the first one with the money pouring out of the second: Ron Patrick’s street-legal, jet-powered Volkswagen New Beetle is up for sale on Craigslist. If you have $550,000 and a few extra gallons of kerosene, you can be the big hit at your local cruise-in! Patrick built this ultimate rear-engine conversion while he was studying for his PhD in mechanical engineering from Stanford University. His reason for adding a jet to his bug? “In California, new cars have biennial smog inspections so if you modify the engine, it is likely to fail and you won’t be able to drive it on the street. There are some exempt engine modifications, but none that will allow you to add 1,350 horsepower to ...
7 Winter Buys These Stylish Over-40s Swear By
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: our fashion friends over 40 are an unlimited source of style inspiration for us. There’s just something about this group’s seasoned style perspective that always hits the mark. In other words, whether it’s the places they always shop or how they’re styling their basics, just get it. That’s not to say that we don’t also follow a number of fashion people across age groups but there is a certain expertise that comes from years of fine-tuning your wardrobe and we’re simply here to celebrate that. Seeing as winter is on our doorsteps and the cold-weather can often be the trickiest to dress for, we’ve tapped this group yet again for a much-needed dose of in...
If You’re Going to A Restaurant—Here Are Some A+ Outfit Ideas
Plans are few and far between this year, with the usual December activities off the cards. In the lead-up to Christmas last year, I attempted to do my own advent of evening plans, saying yes to any invite that came my way. This year however my challenge is how many meals I can actually endure outside in December—heater or no heater. If you are in Tier 1 and 2 and are choosing to go to restaurants, then this is one opportunity to really dress up and dig out those sequins from the back of your wardrobe. I’ve seen people this week wearing their fanciest party frocks to eat a bowl of noodles in a beer garden—and why not at this stage? If you want a night out of your tracksuit bottoms, and to dress up for dinner, below I’ve listed several outfit ideas that feel fabulous, ...
The 992 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup Is the 2022 GT3’s Evil Track Twin
Money can’t buy you happiness, but enough of it can get you a 992-series Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (likely north of $200,000, if the current GT3 Cup is anything to go by). The upcoming race-ready twin to the 2022 Porsche 911 GT3 is due to debut this March at the Porsche Carrera Cup North America race at Sebring International Raceway in Sebring, Florida. While Porsche’s mum on many of the details of its new rear-engined racer, the German brand is sharing images of the vehicle as it undergoes development. The lack of information comes as no surprise, really, given Porsche’s remaining pretty tight-lipped about the Cup’s street-legal GT3 counterpart, as well. See all 18 photos Predictably, the new GT3 Cup ought to improve upon the performance of its predecessor. Testing of th...
Ares Design’s Wami Lalique Spyder Is a Blast From a Past That Never Happened
Why is Ares Design calling their new limited-run retro-roadster Wami Lalique Spyder? Maybe they thought Panther, the name of their Huracán-based DeTomaso Pantera tribute, was just too easy to pronounce. While the Wami Lalique Spyder’s name doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue—instead it gets caught up there, flops around a bit, then falls to the floor with a resounding thud—these computerized renderings show the car itself to be a work of mid-century-inspired art. For those unfamiliar, Ares Design is an Italian concern started by Dany Bahar, best known as the former chief of Lotus, where he implemented a six-model vaporware program then left under a cloud. Ares opened its doors in 2014 and began modifying high-end cars for the super-rich. Project Panther was their most extensive...
7 Trending Ganni Items That Live Up To the Hype
If you made a list of all the cult fashion items from the last two years or so, I would hazard a guess that Ganni would claim around half of it. Set up in 2000, it wasn’t until 2017 that the brand saw mainstream success amongst the fashion crowd thanks to its universal cool-girl appeal and personality-packed yet wearable pieces. Ganni is one of those brands that sets trends rather than follows them. Just think of its big collared blouses, which were embraced by editors and influencers alike last year. And now, you can’t browse a high-street store without bumping into an OTT collar. Ganni has also inspired countless other Scandi brands to set up shop in the intervening years, marking Copenhagen Fashion Week as a&nb...
The Best High-Street Buys We’ve Seen on Instagram This December
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...
Katie Holmes’s “Plain” Outfit Is Giving Me an Excuse to Wear Jeans Again
Full disclosure: I’m writing this while wearing sweatpants, a sherpa pullover, and compression socks, but Katie Holmes is inspiring me to go change my outfit, even at 6:00 p.m. on a cold and gloomy day. I love jeans and wear them often, but not as often as in years past, since I stay home so much more this year, for obvious reasons. That said, I’m always open to denim outfit inspiration, which Katie Holmes just provided me with. There is nothing groundbreaking about this outfit that Holmes wore while out walking in New York last week. It’s easy and comfortable and we all own our own version of it—a sweater, jeans, and loafers. It’s an outfit I’ve worn many, many times, and this particular version of it is making me want to go out and b...
I Asked 6 Cool Women What They Are (and Aren’t) Buying for 2021
Even during the most sociable non-COVID times, it’s very easy for a fashion editor to exist in a bubble of one’s own industry companions. It’s the kind of safe space where we egg each other on to definitely buy those super-expensive Bottega boots (so classic!) or start wearing our jackets perched on our shoulders instead of firmly on our arms (so chic, though!). However, I’ll always say the same thing to any young budding style journo: Fashion is not an island. We do not exist alone and we certainly cannot function without the contribution and influence of other parts of our culture, society and economy, or without the input of other creatives. It’s important to look outside of one’s inner circle to understand the mood ...
2020 Mazda CX-30 Track Test: Looking for Joy Beyond the Numbers
Mazda CX-30 Full Overview The pandemic makes it hard to get to know a new car. I’m sure in some parallel universe our new long-term Mazda CX-30 Premium AWD was handed over by a smiling car porter, smelling of new car, and driven each and every day to work and on errands. Instead, reality is that our CX-30 was delivered by a masked man, smelled of rubbing alcohol, and, since the Mazda CX-30 is too large for most of our bedroom-to-the-kitchen morning commutes, it’s spent most workdays sitting idle in the driveway. To right that wrong, our CX-30 test vehicle hit the road a few weeks back bound for the test track, so we could become better acquainted. You wouldn’t expect a small subcompact SUV to be a barnstormer, and, well, our 2020 CX-30 isn’t. Powered by a 2.5-liter ...
The Ford Mustang Mach-E’s Volume Knob Has a Clever Little Secret
If you’ve spent any time in the brand-new 2021 Mustang Mach-E electric SUV or at least perused images of its interior, you may have noticed a cool design detail on its touchscreen infotainment system: the volume knob that pokes through the panel. Well, truthfully, that knob isn’t poking through anything at all—it’s an illusion, Michael. That’s because rather than Ford going through the costly process of developing a touchscreen with a hole punched through it—and all the attendant fit and finish and function issues that could bring—the Blue Oval and its supplier opted for a less difficult but no less cool solution. You see, that big, glorious vertical touchscreen is a full, unbroken panel and the knob doesn’t work mechanically like a traditional volume control;...
Rose Perfumes Can Have A Bad Rep—but I Think These Are Beautiful
Rose might just be the marmite of fragrance and who would have thought that such a beautiful flower could be so divisive. While, a delivery of 28 stems of red roses will hardly ever be refused, bottles of perfume touting rose as the main note are often subject to some deliberation. I’m very into rose and I’m here to convince you to do the same. I’m often sipping on rose teas, clogging up my sink with rose petals from my bath or adding rosewater to my hot chocolate. Yet, my favourite way to use rose has to be in perfume. Sure, for many people rose perfumes conjure up nostalgic scenes of great aunt’s wearing floral dressing gowns, but trust me, they’ve come a long way. I picked out my favourite rose perfumes to tempt you with, so keep...
