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BESPOKE: ROLLS-ROYCE & HERMÈS
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ROLLS-ROYCE AND HERMÈS ARE SYNONYMOUS WITH
LUXURY — By Ryan Gillum
The two iconic manufacturing giants have long been known for combining innovation and elegance in their respective fields. Now, in 2021, we have the privilege of seeing them join forces. The Phantom Oribe, commissioned by Japanese entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa, was designed and handcrafted by Bespoke specialists at the Home of Rolls-Royce at Goodwood, West Sussex, and Hermès in Paris.
“This magnificent expression of our pinnacle product represents a landmark for Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, bringing together two houses with more than three centuries’ combined experience and heritage. It is the result of a deep, genuine collaboration between the Houses of Rolls-Royce and Hermès, in which designers, materials specialists and skilled craftspeople worked side by side to create a truly one-of-a-kind Phantom. It has been an extraordinary privilege to unite on such a creatively challenging, technically demanding commission and bring our client’s remarkable vision so beautifully to life.” — Torsten Müller-Ötvös, Chief Executive Officer, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars
Envisioned as a ‘land jet’ to complement one of Maezawa’s recently commissioned private planes, the Phantom Oribe will certainly have its exclusive clientele flying high.
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Jenna Elfman Jenna Elfman TALKS MARRIAGE & FEAR THE WALKING DEAD TALKS MARRIAGE & FEAR THE WALKING DEAD
– By Allison Kugek
In AMC’s hit series, Fear the Walking Dead, the post-apocalyptic spin-off series of The Walking Dead, now in the second half of its sixth season, actress Jenna Elfman brings a tour de force performance as a former ICU nurse and apocalypse survivor, June Dorie. Her character carries significant trauma, and Elfman plays each note to perfection amid a flawless ensemble cast.
What makes Jenna Elfman so interesting to watch on screen are her exotic blue eyes that dance wildly in comedic roles, and simmer with intent during heavier, more dramatic onscreen moments.
Having come into our homes in the late 1990s and early 2000s as spirited Dharma Finkelstein on the Chuck Lorre created sitcom, Dharma & Greg, and later in romantic comedy films like Keeping the Faith and EDtv, audiences got to know the funny platinum blonde livewire that embodied a younger Jenna Elfman. As Jenna puts it during our conversation, “young ingenue” roles were her lane for many years; whether playing opposite Matthew McConaughey or Ben Stiller, her characters were somebody’s wife or somebody’s girlfriend. Jenna Elfman yearned to tackle the kind of selfcontained, multi-dimensional character work she now enjoys with her role in Fear the Walking Dead.
What parallels do you draw between the year 2020 and
your apocalyptic show, Fear of The Walking Dead? Good question. We really got to see what people do when their survival is threatened (laugh). You see the ones that tend to help, and you see the ones that tend to hoard, and everything in between. I think with the extreme example of what we do on Fear, which portrays a true apocalypse setting, it is an extreme version of the homeopathic dose we saw manifest amongst ourselves last year.
And your take on our current society and culture? Changing, and hopefully evolving…
What do you think the upside would be if we needed to
rebuild our society from the ground up, like in Fear? There is always a greater opportunity for harmony and tolerance, and a broader and enlightened sense of each other, and respect. I would always hope that as a culture changes, it would improve in those ways so that we could [collectively] expand our culture in a way that is safer and more fun to live within.
What has been your greatest triumph, to date? Bringing children into this world. I think that is a huge triumph, and the most rewarding endeavor I have ever tackled.
Do you pray? And if so, who or what do you pray to? I don’t pray per the literal definition, but I do like to observe life, dream, daydream about goals for myself and for the world, and then intend them. I like to grow myself mentally and spiritually as needed to help accomplish those dreams and make them come true for myself, for my family, and for others. I guess that is a form of praying, but it is not the commonly defined form of praying. I do like to dream and intend good things, and I am always intending good things for others. It makes me feel good to look at someone and hope and intend the best version of themselves into them. I find that to be a very therapeutic endeavor.
You and your husband just celebrated your 26th wedding anniversary. How do you get to twenty-six years? What
do you attribute it to? I think there are three things. One, we started off as best friends and we are still best friends. That means we don’t keep secrets. We’re friends and we support each other. We don’t compete against each other, except for who’s more tired (laughs). That’s always a fun game.
That is really the only area of competition. It’s about friendship and humor. Humor has always been a big part of our relationship. We love to laugh and be silly, and we love to make each other laugh.
What do you think you came into this life to learn, and what
do you think you came here to teach? I think there are so many facets to life. I feel like I am always learning and you kind of don’t know what you don’t know until you start to learn about it. Then you realize how much you don’t know. I think the benefit of our information age is how much you can learn, and how quickly you can learn it and increase your rate of knowledge. We can now access history and stories of mankind so easily. That has been one of the cool things about homeschooling my kids, is curating the stuff they are learning.
Lastly, what is in store for your character June as this new
season progresses? There are some big June stories coming. We are going to see this new strong, but challenged, side to her and she has more story to go through. I think viewers are really going to enjoy it.
