Have you ever seen cotton fields in France? Or in many European countries for that matter? Now think of all the fashion brands that label themselves as100% French. Weird no?  

You need to be a warrior to wrestle the beast that is IRONMAN. Still up for the challenge? Here are our favorite IRONMANs in the world, in order of difficulty. Pick yours.

The New York Times deplored in an article last week the state of tourism in Brazil, denouncing, among other things, Amazon’s riverside dwellers forcefully training animals for selfies, tour guides encouraging visitors to feed wildlife frozen fish, and tourists punching dolphins (no joke). We still have a long way to go when it comes to ecotourism. Here is our guide to being a responsible visitor. 

The depth of Alaïa’s achievements and the uncompromising position he took to attain them make his loss one of great human and artistic importance. The way the man known as the last couturier led his life confronts and questions our current world functioning. Alaïa’s attitude can be resumed into one sentence: value needs time.

The death of Hugh Hefner in 2017, got us pondering over the implications of his departure. Is it the end of an era? The end of the archetype of the great seducer? We’ve compiled a list of our favorite seducers of all time as a tribute to these characters defined by style and incredible social skills. Let us know if you’re seduced or appalled by these primal archetypes that are, we hope, undying.