January/February 2024

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SARDAR BIGLARI Editor-in-Chief special creative adviser GILLES BENSIMON creative director NICKI MINAJ art & design director GUILLAUME BRUNEAU executive editor JARED PAUL STERN deputy editor NICOLAS STECHER deputy art & design director PAUL O’DEA euro
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TIME to WIN
The most decorated driver on the Formula One grid is also the most fashionable. We are of course talking about Lewis Hamilton, whose unprecedented success at the pinnacle of motorsport is easily quantified in two stats: He and fellow F1 legend Michae
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The FLYING DUTCHMAN
For a young Luuc Muis growing up in The Netherlands, the art of motorcycle design seemed predestined from birth, arguably programmed into his very DNA. The son of a professional graphic designer, his dad trained Luuc in the aesthetic arts on two fron
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Wicked GAMES
Maxim—along with MADE Special and VIP Nightlife—hosted a slew of exclusive Halloween parties across the country, and we’ve got exclusive pics of the fun-filled festivities. The Halloween soirées took place at Nightingale Plaza in Los Angeles—a Lobos
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Five-star Style
When client expectations go beyond mere specs, aspiring to “aesthetic immortality” akin to iconic landmark hotels like Le Bristol or La Mamounia, there are only a handful of elite firms in contention. With the recent debut of The Maybourne Riviera, p
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DRINKING La DOLCE VITA
The Oxford English Dictionary long maintained that the Martini cocktail derived its name from Martini & Rossi vermouth; however the first mentions of the drink in print date back to well before the famed firm was founded in Turin, Italy in 1863. No m
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Viva las Vegas
The air is festive on the outdoor terrace of LPM, the swanky Mediterranean-vibed restaurant continents away from the ripe gold lemons and plump olives of the Côte d’Azur. At The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas’ newest foodie destination, the Strip’s glowin
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SUDDENLY This SUMMER
In the glittering cosmos of interwebs, blonde beauty Summer Soderstrom isn’t your conventional model; she’s a symphony of elegance, beauty, and a sizzling magnetism that’s impossible to resist. Once discovered by a modeling agency in Los Angeles, her
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WEAPONS of WICK
An apparently insatiable appetite for the “John Wick” brand of stylized, high-body-count action has led the franchise to an especially notable financial achievement: It’s one of few with an R rating to break the billion-dollar threshold at the box of
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Francis Ford Coppola In Belize
As he tells it, famed director Francis Ford Coppola first fell in love with the jungle when shooting 1979’s Apocalypse Now with Marlon Brando and Martin Sheen in the Philippines. That film netted two Academy Awards and is widely considered one of the
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THIS SIDE of PARADISE
“Director, photographer, author, storyteller, stylist, model, provocateur”—Ellen von Unwerth has done it all in her impressive 50-year career. So it’s no surprise that SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film, the country’s premier venue for the convergenc
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The Legend Of Enzo
The bust of one Enzo Ferrari rests on the Mount Rushmore of the automotive industry, eyes forever hidden behind thick blocky sunglasses. Referred to as “il Commendatore” by those who trembled at his approach, or “il Drake” for the many who envied him
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Enzo On The Silver Screen
In the year 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, desegregation began at a Little Rock, Arkansas high school, and some 4,300 miles away a 15-year-old musician named Paul McCartney met John Lennon and his band The Quarrymen—soon to be renamed The B
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Some Like it HOT
Historians recognize the nebulous “Sea People” as the theorized destroyers of the Bronze Age, a borderless congregation of oceangoing folk who banded sails to wreak havoc across the Eastern Mediterranean, from the Levant to Egypt and deep into the fe
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Credits
COVER: Photograph by EDWARD QUINN, edwardquinn.com, of Alain Delon and Jane Fonda arriving on the set of “Les Félins,” Antibes, France, 1964 in his Ferrari 250 GT California. In 2015 Delon’s car was auctioned in Paris for a record-breaking $18.5 mill
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Austin City No Limits
Ghost Energy presented the Maxim Party in America’s Backyard, our annual A-list event taking place center stage during the United States Grand Prix in Austin, on Oct. 21. Crowds gathered in the vibrant Texas city and were immersed in the epic atmosph
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