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These Loafers Are the Most Sought-After Item Right Now
The iconic Prada triangle logo is an image known the world over. From saffiano leather totes to mini nylon cross-body bags, brand’s emblem is an instantly-recognisable symbol of designer luxury. In recent years, the triangle logo moved beyond simply handbags and is now appearing across clothing, hair accessories and hats. This season, it also features prominently across the label’s footwear collection, with Prada’s new logo branded loafers gaining an almost cult status among the fashion set. Created in both black patent leather as well as more pared-back tones, Prada’s loafers have captured the attention of Pernille Teisbeak, Gosia Boy and more, even appearing on the feet of a few Paris Fashion Week attendees in October. Although loafers are quite a timeless classi...
2022 BMW iX First Look: Bavaria’s EV SUV Challenger Enters the Arena
We drove the electric Jaguar I-Pace from London to Berlin in mid-2018, before scooting through the deserts of Abu Dhabi Audi’s electric powered e-tron just before Christmas that same year. We flew to Norway to sample the electric-powered Mercedes-Benz EQC in May 2019. With luck, we’ll get to drive a production version of BMW’s electric-powered rival to all three, the iX, in late in 2021. Which begs the question: What took BMW so long to enter its challenger to a wave of European luxury EV SUVs? You don’t have to wander far into the iX’s 23-page press kit to find a clue: The new SUV, it says, is BMW Group’s new technology flagship. The I-Pace, e-tron, and EQC are much more tentative vehicles, both in terms of their hardware and the way they’re positioned within the Jaguar, Audi and Mercedes...
2020 Mil-Spec Automotive Ford F-150 First Test: A Better-Than-Factory Raptor?
Some folks just don’t want one like everybody else has. If your friends all drive a mass-produced Ford F-150 Raptor or 2021 Ram 1500 TRX, a boutique-built Baja-ready Mil-Spec Automotive Ford F-150 might be just the ticket. Mil-Spec Automotive (MSA) is a plucky Michigan startup founded by a trio of twentysomethings to restore and resto-mod Hummer H1s, but as the supply of these military monsters dwindles, the firm is looking to broaden its reach with more attainable offerings. How Much Power & Torque Does Mil-Spec’s F-150 Make? MSA’s founders are designers, not engineers, so they haven’t set out to reinvent the Baja-bashing wheel, and its customers feel more comfortable with a factory warranty, so the Mil-Spec Automotive Ford F-150 is based on the 5.0-liter Coyote V-8, which also helps ...
These 10 Beauty Gadgets Actually Make Your Skin Glow
At some point in the past few years, skincare got very technical. Arguably, it started with Clarisonic’s innovative cleaning brush just over a decade ago in 2009, but even then, it was only diehard beauty fans who invested. Today, while we might all be up on our vitamin C and hyaluronic acids, when it comes to gadgets, we’re not all there. At the beginning of 2020, however, the Business of Fashion reported that plenty of huge beauty brands were getting in on the tech scene. Then, the pandemic hit, and while in recessions lipstick sales notoriously go up, this time it was skincare that had the boost, not makeup, which provided a perfect storm for people to invest in skincare gadgets. According to CurrentBody, an online beauty retailer for skincare products, gadgets are one of th...
& Other Stories Just Launched Christmas Gifts—We’d Like to Keep These 20
Believe it or not, “the most wonderful time of the year” is just around the corner, and let’s be honest. With the year we’ve had, it’s not a particularly high bar. But whatever Christmas has in store for us in 2020, there will always be the small pleasure of exchanging gifts with loved ones, and boy, do we need a pick-me-up right now. Our first point of call for feel-good gifting? & Other Stories, of course. The high-street fave has just dropped its holiday shop, and it’s packed full of those little luxuries which are keeping us going right now. Think, pampering face masks, cocooning knits, stylish loungewear, and warming accessories—aka everything you need to lift your spirits during the cold, dark evenings of winter. If you’re one of thos...
I’m a Vintage Expert—This Is Instagram’s Coolest Secondhand Brand
Who What Wear Curates is a new franchise that sees Who What Wear’s shopping editor, Joy Montgomery, join forces with some of the industry’s coolest vintage brands to show you that secondhand does not have to mean second best. This series will give you exclusive previews of sell-out pre-loved drops before they are open to the public, and Joy will be hand-selecting her favourite pieces and showing you how to wear them for the season ahead. Prepare to get clicking because they won’t stick around for long. As a lifelong secondhand shopper, I am all too aware of the elitism and inaccessibility that the vintage industry can sometimes fall prey to. While it’s great that vintage is gaining momentum and getting the recognition it deserves, there’s a risk that it become...
19 Logo Belts to Buy Now and Wear for Many Seasons to Come
It’s not an exaggeration to say that, thanks to the Gucci GG Belt, the logo belt has become one of the most ubiquitous accessories on social media, so much so that Lyst announced this iconic piece had topped its list of the world’s hottest fashion products during the last quarter of 2019. Unsurprisingly, over the last few years, more and more brands have been bringing out their own logoed iterations, and we’re pretty sure you’ll love them just as much as the iconic double Gs. Until recently, I was quite ambivalent about the logo belt (they have historically had slight “look at me—I’m designer!” vibes), but I’ve noticed more and more stylish individuals embracing the look in a more low-key way. For example, some choose to bring out the retro undert...
Bulletproof 1,300-HP Rezvani Hercules 6×6 Out-Tanks the Tank
If you look closely at the ultra-pricey custom truck industry, you’ll notice a few trends. For one, money doesn’t always buy taste, and two, bespoke truck builders just can’t stop making six-wheeled monster pickups with obscene amounts of power. Southern California-based Rezvani has jumped on the dual rear-axle bandwagon with the apocalypse-ready Hercules 6×6. Picking up where the almost-as-bonkers Rezvani Tank SUV left off, the Hercules 6×6 adds a truck bed, a 1,300-hp supercharged 7.0-liter V-8 based on the Dodge Challenger SRT Demon crate engine, and, most importantly, another pair of wheels and on-demand six-wheel drive. Since the Rezvani Tank is a custom-bodied, highly modified Jeep Wrangler, it’s probably a safe guess that the Hercules starts life as a Jeep Gladiator pickup...
2021 Lexus LS First Look: The Flagship Sedan Gets Touchier
As a flagship luxury sedan, the Lexus LS should impress us more than any other passenger car in the brand’s lineup. But in some ways, it’s the more mainstream midsize ES and sometimes the even smaller IS sedan that commands more of our attention. With a mid-cycle update for the LS, Lexus aims to shove its full-size four-door to the front of your mind and remedy the key issues we have with the large luxury sedan, including its ride quality and interior usability. These changes were previewed earlier this year for Japan, but Lexus has finally released U.S.-specific information and confirmed that the 2021 Lexus LS hits dealerships in late November, with hybrid models arriving early next year. 2021 Lexus LS: Suspension Updates We’ve long complained that the LS sedan’s ride is rougher than it s...
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Mazda Details Ambitious New Inline-Six Engine, Hybrid SUV Plans
A few months ago, we heard that Mazda was readying an inline-six engine for use in upcoming larger vehicles, including large sedans and crossover SUVs that could incorporate hybrid technology. We even found some patent filings that showed the inline-six’s notably compact design. Mounted longitudinally—so, pointed north and south in the car, front to back—this increased the potential for dynamically interesting, rear-drive (or rear-drive-based all-wheel drive) models in the BMW mold. A Mazda investor presentation provides some more details about what those vehicles will look like, and how this new large vehicle platform could spawn a hybrid SUV for America. The report was first spotted by the Japanese publication Car Watch and can be found here in PDF form. The good stuff is in the part of ...
Porsche’s 904 Living Legend Reimagined the Most Radical VW Ever
Imagine a 1.2-liter Ducati L-twin, screaming its desmodromic song just inches behind your head—spinning 11,000 rpm, pushing something like 200 horsepower, and propelling your beautiful little carbon-fiber Porsche, which weighs a hair under a ton, through space. It’s a minimalist’s fantasy, the notion of a sports car reliant on a lack of weight rather than an abundance of horsepower to achieve remarkable performance. That’s a large part of the spirit of Porsche, and it was distilled into the 2013 904 Living Legend Concept. The car was light, lithe, and striking. For the first decade and a half of Porsche’s existence as a sports-car manufacturer, though, all of the company’s products fully embraced this philosophy. We think of Lotus as epitomizing the emphasis on weight reduction, but ...
