(March 2013)
Fashion
Editors' Pick: Lacoste 80th Anniversary Polo Shirt
In 1933, the French tennis star René Lacoste began manufacturing the white piqué polo shirt he wore in matches, emblazoned with a now-familiar reptile in honor of his nickname, Le Crocodile. Eight decades later, it's still in style. To celebrate, Lacoste has introduced a slim-fit update with contrasting collar tips and a commemorative insignia. $110; shop.lacoste.com
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Q&A
Orphan Black's Tatiana Maslany on Playing Multiple Roles, Talking to Tennis Balls, and One Wild Sex Scene
Tomorrow night, sci-fi nerds are going to fall in love with Tatiana Maslany. And then they're going to fall in love all over again. And again. And again. In BBC America's mindbending new thriller Orphan Black, Maslany plays Sarah, a British swindler who sees her well-manicured doppelgänger jump in front of a train and then quickly endeavors to steal her identity and empty her substantial bank account. Oh, and sleep with her boyfriend. The perfect crime—if only it didn't lead Sarah down a rabbit hole that reveals she's one of a group of clones. What follows is one heck
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Style News
In Brief: Gucci Addict Checks Into Rehab, Hermès Sells $91k T-shirt, Underwear Companies Fight Over Don Draper's Package
The week's top stories in fashion news.
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Tech
Details' Jesse Ashlock Discusses Tech Trendsetters on Bloomberg TV
Our magazine's deputy editor speaks with Pimm Fox on Bloomberg Television's Taking Stock about the Details 2013 Digital Mavericks. See the full clip below.
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Food + Drinks
Tørst's Flux Capacitor Is Changing the Bar Scene, One Perfectly Poured Beer at a Time
The beauty behind Tørst, Brooklyn's newest craft-beer bar, is not the exquisite jewel box of an interior and its Scandinavian sense of materials (a contrast of gleaming marble and rich wood tones)—it's the bar itself. More specifically, it's the Flux Capacitor, the device behind the bar, which allows owners Daniel Burns (of Momofuku and Noma) and so-called "gypsy brewer" Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø (of Evil Twin Brewing) to pour a rotating selection of 21 different beers perfectly every time.
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Fashion
Rules of Style: Steven Alan
Downtown curator of all things cool, Steven Alan ran a retail shop and showroom before starting his own line and now a new home shop. He might be known for his eye-catching plaid shirts, but we caught up with the style expert to talk great eyewear, fashion mementos, and that perfect piece of luggage.
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Tech
The Sexiest, Coolest, Skinniest TV You Can Buy
It's true that size matters, but perhaps not the way you thought. Forget hulking 90-inch behemoths; the new status television is only four millimeters thick and drop-dead gorgeous.
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Q&A
Twitter Star Kelly Oxford on Life as a Hollywood Screenwriter, Her New Memoir, and Why Men Don't Like Oprah
Since she joined Twitter in 2009, Kelly Oxford, the 35-year-old hot mom-of-three, has earned over 450,000 followers (among them celebrity admirers including Roger Ebert, Jimmy Kimmel, and Diablo Cody) with her switchblade-sharp observations—"If your kids have pubic hair, you don't get to pre-board the plane." And if all the retweets from her Hollywood followers weren't enough to convince you of Oxford's comedy chops, in the past few years she's developed pilots for CBS and NBC, sold a script on spec to Warner Bros., and on April 2, she releases her memoir, Everything is Perfect When You're a Liar, in the
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Movies + TV
A Paranoid's Guide to The Shining
Rodney Ascher's new IFC documentary, Room 237, the latest in a wave of Kubrickphilia (make sure to see the exhibition "Stanley Kubrick" at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art before it closes June 30!), obsessively explores hard-core fans' theories about the hidden meanings of The Shining. Here are three of the kookiest.
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Street Style
Street Style: What to Wear With Nike Flyknits
Melodie Jeng, the photographer behind the blog The NYC Streets, snaps men's street-style pics for The Daily Details blog. Check back every day to see new looks and vote in our weekly Like the Look? readers' poll.
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