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Stuff dads want, summer workwear and a perfect backyard party. Entertain Like a Chef 58 How to deliver the goods at your next backyard party.
Olivia Wilde 78 Politics, human rights and aliens—plus a few other things Olivia is into.
Blood, Sweat and Motor Oil 98 High-style workwear for casual summer weekends.
Ryan Reynolds 64 The increasingly un-private life of Canada’s biggest movie star.
Summer Suits 82 Six ways to look your best in a lightweight suit this season.
The Father’s Day Guide 68 If you don’t want this stuff, you, sir, are not a man.
Surfing Liberia 92 Child soldiers, blood diamonds and killer waves: dispatches from wild West Africa.
Cars 108 We push the speed limit in BMW’s luxurious 2012 6 Series and worship at the altar of the new Porsche Cayman R.
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THE GUIDE GET BULLITT’S SHADES 28 An easy way to raise your cool quotient this summer. SHARP BRIEFING 30 Things that are worthy of your time this month.
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SHARP WOMAN 32 Ana de la Reguera doesn’t mind if you make fun of her accent.
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48 HOURS: DUBLIN 34 Cheers to your weekend on the Emerald Isle. DESIGN: MID-CENTURY MODERN 35 A living room to make Roger Sterling proud.
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RACING WATCHES 36 Gentlemen, start your chronographs.
BOOKS 44 How to be a better man. One who can spot psychopaths.
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SHARP MAN OF STYLE 114 Thanks, LeBron, for teaching athletes how to look good in a suit.
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SPORTS 54 The UFC may be big-league now, but it’s got some growing up to do.
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HEALTH AND GROOMING 50 Quick workouts for busy guys, and essential products for your gym bag.
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FILM AND MUSIC 46 Movies to see, movies to skip and the soundtrack to your summer.
CARS 52 The world’s most beautiful automobile, and the allure of Ayrton Senna da Silva.
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STYLE 38 A stylish and practical carry all, plus the anatomy of a perfect summer blazer. TECH 42 Gadgets that can take the plunge.
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It’s been scientifically proven that a pair of classic shades like these will make anyone look at least 40% cooler. And as if that weren’t enough of a reason to invest in a pair of Persols (famously Steve McQueen’s frames of choice), you can rest assured in the knowledge that their high-quality polarized crystal lenses will protect your eyes from the sun’s harmful rays. Handmade in Italy, and
featuring the brand’s trademark “Meflecto” flexible arms, the design of Persol’s new “Roadster GT” sunglasses was inspired by details of classic sports cars—another accessory, incidentally, that’s been known to give a man’s cool factor a bump. Persol Roadster GT, $360
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Sharp Briefing Things you should know about on the Web and in the world
Our favourite thing found on Lyonstate, our favourite new online menswear shop: Billy Reid Duck Boots. Handmade in Italy, $395. www.lyonstate.com
A few things you will find on Jay-Z’s ballin’ new lifestyle blog, Life + Times: • A section profiling cool cantilevered homes. • An interview with bespoke suit designer Duncan Quinn. • Reviews of obscure indie rock bands. • Frequent, earnest use of the term “jet-setting.” • Nothing written by Jay-Z. www.lifeandtimes.com
Summer Jams For their seventh album, Atlanta DIY garage rockers The Black Lips decided to go a different route and hire an actual producer. They managed to nab the perpetually in-demand Mark Ronson, who’s best known for his work with Amy Winehouse. That might sound like a big deal, but when you’re dealing with a four-piece garage band, there’s only so much a producer can do. The flower punks remain intact. 30 sharpformen.com | June–July | 2011
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Or you could just watch Braveheart three times… One Thousand and One Nights has been hyped by the organizers of Luminato, Toronto’s annual haute culture fest, as their “most ambitious commission” to date. Fair enough! The two-part, six-hour (!) stage version of the classic twenty-odd tales, adapted by Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shayk and English director Tim Supple, has been generating buzz since pre-production, when the 38-person creative crew had to relocate from Alexandria in Egypt to Fez, Morocco, due to the Arab spring uprising. Expect sex, violence, and other makings of good theatre.
Yet another good reason to take an interest in women’s fashion
Frampton Comes Alive… Again, Live! The Montreal Jazz Festival is always a good time, and this year is no exception. They’ve invited Peter Frampton to recreate his most famous album, Frampton Comes Alive. Which means you’ll finally get a chance to watch him do that thing where he makes his voice sound like a musical robot in real life, instead of your parents’ basement circa 1976.
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7 PM, June 30 @ Salle Wilfred-Pelletier
What We’re Watching (in July) Sure, it’s not Mad Men, but both The Walking Dead and Breaking Bad are back this summer on AMC—the former with a whole new crew of writers and the latter another installment in the slowmotion car crash that is Walter White’s career in the meth trade. Compiled by Alex Hughes
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NAME: Ana de la Reguera AGE: 34 HOMETOWN: Veracruz, Mexico OCCUPATION: Actress
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McBride’s object of affection in Eastbound and Down, and any number of telenovelas you’ve watched accidentally, thinking they might be steamy low-budget foreign films. WHERE YOU WILL SEE HER: As Maria, Sam Rockwell’s wife and reason to kick some extraterrestial ass in Cowboys and Aliens. ON THE STRUGGLES OF SUCCESS: Success came so quickly for this bombshell that she and most of her colleagues at Instituto Veracruzano de Cultura, which we think is Spanish for, “Like the school in Fame, only Mexican,” opted out of performing their final play. “It was a good generation, they graduated us three months early because everyone was working.” After about a decade of award-winning dramatic work in Mexico, in both films and television, de la Reguera decided it was time to make the leap across the border. “I wanted to give it a shot. I was going to come, but my accountant stole all my money. I didn’t tell anyone because it wasn’t news.” Luckily, after being swindled, she quietly got a role in Jack Black’s luchador comedy, Nacho Libre. THE REASON WE SHOULD STOP DERIDING NACHO LIBRE: See above. ON WHY IT’S EASIER TO BE FUNNY IF ENGLISH IS YOUR SECOND LANGUAGE:
While the actress mostly played dramatic roles in her homeland, since crossing over she’s had more roles in comedies, “People think it would be harder to do comedy,” she says of making people laugh in a second language, “but it’s easier, because I don’t know how I sound in English. You don’t judge yourself that much.” BY GREG HUDSON
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The Most Beautiful Car in the World Fifty years of the Jaguar E-Type. By Bradley Horn
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t is said that when Malcolm Sayer designed the E-Type for Jaguar circa 1960, he locked himself in a room, alone. We can only imagine, then, that the former aerodynamicist for the Bristol Aeroplane Company sat hunched over a massive desk in Coventry, drew a No.2 pencil, a slide ruler and a french curve, and set to work. A man with an affinity for the minutia of mathematics, history says he used secret formulas and ellipses to craft a perfect aerodynamic shape. Ironic it is then that this mathematician would create what many— including one Enzo Ferrari—consider the most beautiful car to ever touch pavement. Fifty year ago, the E-Type was born into a Britain finally emerging from the bleak aftermath of the Second World War. The stiff upper lip was beginning to temper; “Keep calm and carry on,” was no longer the directive. The Swinging Sixties were taking shape and the “perfectly proportioned” English sports car would become as synonymous with the era as the Beatles’ music, the miniskirt on Twiggy and Bond, James Bond in cinema. The E-Type found instant affinity with both sexes at a time when gender equality was a boiling concern. Some said it was the car’s phallic profile, but even Jag’s current head of design,
Ian Callum, argues that the shape is “much too voluptuous,” for that interpretation. Either way, in 1996 an opalescent blue example became only the third car put on permanent display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. We can actually pinpoint the exact moment in Jaguar lore when the E-Type set the sports car world on its ears: March 15, 1961 at 4:30 p.m.— Swiss time. That’s when Jaguar founder Sir William Lyons unveiled his company’s latest creation to a small scrum of journalists at the Hotel du Parc des Eaux Vives on the eve of the Geneva Motor Show. Subsequent public excitement over the coupé and the clamour for demonstration runs up a nearby hillclimb was such that police were called to keep the peace and Lyons ordered Coventry to send another car double-quick. In the middle of development laps, Jaguar’s chief test driver Norman Dewis was ushered off the circuit, plied with fish and chips and told to drive his prototype E-Type overnight some 1,200 kilometres from the British Midlands to Geneva. He beat the 10:00 a.m. deadline by eight minutes—and still managed some of the best times over the hillclimb. Indeed, the E-Type’s “inherent rightness of proportion” aside, this was a world-class sports
car for roughly half the price of the Aston Martins and Ferraris of the day. Developed from the Le Mans-winning C-and D-Type competition cars, this Jaguar was built from a monocoque structure, rode on an advanced fully-independent suspension and was powered by a triple-carbureted, 265-horsepower, straight-six engine. Simply put, the E-Type was then the world’s fastest production car, capable of 240 km/h. The car won its first motor race one month after its debut, with future Formula One World Champion Graham Hill at the wheel. From the outset the E-Type was offered as a soft-top or a coupé, with 2+2 and V12-powered versions following later. The E-Type remained in production over 14 years and three generations, making it Europe’s first mass-produced sports car. Peculiar it is, then, that it was the United States, and not the UK, where the car found its largest audience. When the E-Type—or XK-E as it was called in the US—bowed at the 1961 New York Auto Show, some 500 orders were taken on the spot. Apparently, upon seeing the Jaguar in the flesh for the first time, Frank Sinatra himself declared, “I want that car, and I want it now.” Fifty years on, we share Ol’ Blue Eyes’ sentiments exactly.
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T h e e d i t o r s o f SH A R P m a g a z i n e p r e s e n t
THE FATHER'S DAY
GIFT GUIDE If You Don't Want This Stuff,
You, Sir, Are Not a Man While it’s true that every man is distinct, with his own thoughts, tastes and ambitions, at our core, we’re also pretty similar. Whether we read Proust or Popular Mechanics, there are certain things that will always cry out to us: heavy things, shiny things, things that master fire and cook meat. We saw our fathers covet them and protect them from our grubby hands: the camera, the stereo, the rare Scotch. We understood it then as we do now: this is the stuff of which masculinity is formed. These are things that every man desires.
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A CLASSIC CAMERA
Dress: BCBG Max Azria.
FUJI X-100
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Like the camera your father took on his trip across Europe, back when he was in his twenties; the trip he doesn’t talk much about, the faded photos of which allude to exotic women, forgotten buddies, and mysterious booze. The shots from this camera will look better—plus it shoots video in 720p. The Fuji X-100 has a 12.3 megapixel APS-C CMOS sensor, a 23 mm fixed focal-length F/2 lens, and a newly developed Hybrid Viewfinder. All that to say it mixes classic cool with cuttingedge tech. $1,200
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AN AUDIOPHILE QUALITY STEREO The world might be content with the tinny tunes emanating from their laptops and earbuds, but that doesn’t mean it’s okay. Real men eschew mediocrity. (Did The Great Santini teach us nothing?) We don’t settle for what’s accepted if it’s less than the best. Not in ourselves, and certainly not in our sound system.
BEYERDYNAMIC T50P HEADPHONES
One of the world’s finest sets of portable headphones. Based on the T1 home model, but easily powered by any stereo or iPod—a concert hall on-thego. $1,295
AUDIOLAB 8200CD CD PLAYER
The bridge between old and new, it’s a world class CD player with USB connection. More than simply connecting to your MP3 library, this takes those digital audio files and improves their quality. No more settling for tinny tunes. $1,000
AUDIOLAB 8200A AMPLIFIER
Muscular sound in a clean, slim package with inputs for all your sources, including, for the true audiophile, your turntable. $1,000 All available at Planet of Sound. Shag Rug by Elte, $865.
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THE LATEST TECHNOLOGY ( AND SOMETHING TO KEEP IT SAFE ) Whether you camped out in front of the Apple store or not, the only thing more important than possessing the latest and best in tablet technology is keeping it in something equally stylish.
MAKR CARRY GOODS
For the rugged man. Handmade in the USA from top-quality leather. $200
BURBERRY
Tassel top: Agent Provocateur; shoes: Christian Louboutin at Davids.
Classic, understated and practical—just like their famous trenchcoats. $400
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LOUIS VUITTON
Timeless luxury for a device that’s very of-themoment. Makes sense. $375
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KEEPING IT LIGHT FASHION DIRECTOR: LUKE LANGSDALE PHOTOGRAPHER: JAMES WEIR
The lightweight fabrics and pale colours of our favourite summer suits look great, sure, but they’re also practical: light cottons, wools and linens are exceptionally breathable, helping you keep cool, while pale colours reflect the sun’s rays. If that’s not enough to convince you to add a summer suit to your wardrobe, did we mention how great they look?
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Calvin Klein fitted suit, $1,295; Strellson shirt, $165; Nautica silk woven tie, $40; Johnston & Murphy Italian suede bucks, $134.
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Left page: Strellson twobutton linen suit, $895; Black Fleece by Brooks Brothers three-quarterbutton harlequin shirt, $80; Johnston & Murphy leather strip belt, $70. Right page: Dior Homme mix-matched cotton suit, $2,700; Calvin Klein doublecollar shirt, $325; Brunello Cucinelli reversible pocket square, $115.
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