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LIFESYTLE
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The Jaden Smith way to start your
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very day of every month at FORMAN, we start your morning on Instagram with visual advice on What to Wear Today. But we want to go deeper. Give you the nuts and bolts of how to get the look into your wardrobe. Today we’re making the case for a well curated casual outfit made specifically to spotlight your favorite vintage tees. Your collection of vintage concert tees may not be the most GQ part of your wardrobe, but depending on how you style them, they can take your style from good to great — especially if you’re sporting something super hard to find. We’ve talked a lot about how to pull them off à la Justin Theroux with a suit or all black denim but today we’re embracing a much more Jaden Smith kinda mentality (hey, it’s Friday after all). One that’s more Hollywood youth than New York lone wolf. That means you can go a little crazier, and have more freedom to play. We’ve almost reached the official start to summer after all. And your closet deserves a party. 5
Lifestyle So for days spent sipping iced coffee in the sun, whether you’re on the beach, at an outdoor concert, or checking out a new city’s shopping situation, we recommend upping your inner-hippie factor. Do it with the help of army green cargo pants, a bold floral windbreaker, super saturated shades, and some suede Birkenstocks. Extra points for adding a few pieces of beaded and silver flare. Just remember that a black and white vintage (or vintage looking) tee will go with just about anything, whereas one with multiple colors will be harder to match.
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Orslow: $183, available at needsupply.com T-Shirt: Vintage, $17, available at jet.com Sunglasses: Illesteva, $175, available at mrporter.com Bracelet: A.P.C., available at endclothing.com Jacket: Gucci, $1,281,matchesfashion.com Necklace: Sid Mashburn, $25, available at sidmashburn.com Sandals: Birkenstock, $125, available at jcrew.com
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3 Ways to Wear a Band T-Shirt This Summer
Every day of every month at FORMAN, we start your morning on Instagram with visual advice on What to Wear Today. But we want to go deeper. Give you the nuts and bolts of how to get the look into your wardrobe. Today we’re expanding on Mark Anthony Green’s advice on where to score the best vintage T-shirts with three ideas on how to wear yours once you’ve finally found the perfect one.
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The perfect band T-shirt has always been a thing to seek out, but with the metalhead look back in the style spotlight, and guys like Justin Bieber and Kanye West making tour merch cool again, demand has reached a fever pitch. If you’ve suddenly got the itch to trade your basic gray crewneck for something a little bit more rock ‘n’ roll, here’s our advice on pulling the move off with style.
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Fear of God Stone Temple Pilots T-shirt, $1,134, available at grailed.com; Levi’s Made and Crafted jeans, $160, available at mrporter.com; Visvim SS 104 jacket, $1,001, available at unionlosangeles.com; John Varvatos Fleetwood Chelsea boots, $565, available at matchesfashion.com
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Classic Rock You just can’t go wrong with a pair of slim-straight jeans and suede Chelsea boots. Add a rugged jacket if you’re wearing the look at night—or on your motorcycle.
Victor Athletics hooded sweatshirt, $95, available at victorathletics.com; Vintage The Cramps T-shirt, $389, available at etsy.com; Freemans Sporting Club Hawaiian shorts, $200, available at mrporter.com; Diemme leather Garda sneakers, $369, available at needsupply.com
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Skater Vibes If you’re more of a Jeff Spicoli than a Bruce Springsteen, slip-on sneakers and cheeky cotton shorts are the more appropriate choice. A soft, vintage-like hoodie can keep you warm if you end up staying on the beach until dawn.
Vintage Pearl Jam T-shirt, $200, available at ebay.com; Todd Snyder cutoff gym shorts, $98, available at toddsnyder.com; Adidas Ultra Boost sneakers, $180, available at adidas.com; Admasu silver beaded bracelet, $179, available at needsupply.com
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Sorry, but We’re About to Ruin Diet Soda for You When we set out to see if diet soda is somehow better for you than regular soda, we quickly realized that the question was sort of like asking which brand of cigarette is best for distance runners, or whether death by impaling is preferable to being crushed by a falling piano. There may be subtle differences, but you go into the decision knowing both options are pretty lousy. “I like to reject the question outright,” says Susie Swithers, a neurobiologist and professor of psychological sciences at Purdue. “No one should drink a soda every day.” Yes, if you down a daily diet soda (don’t feel bad, one in five of us do), that might be better than regular, in much the same way that if you’re going to eat four pizzas, it’s best to stick with the Veggie Lover’s. Mathematically speaking, zero calories is less than the 140 found in regular sodas. “But if you look at the long-term outcomes of people who consume diet versus regular against people who don’t drink soda at all,” Swithers says, “soda drinkers end up with way worse outcomes.” For instance!
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• This study found that people who drank diet soda every day had a 61 percent higher risk of “blood vessel diseases,” such as stroke and heart attack, than those who drank none at all. • And this one showed that older people who drank diet soda over nine years picked up about triple the waist circumference and belly fat as their non-soda counterparts. (That’s the body circumference you least want to increase.) • Overweight or obese people who drink diet sodas eat significantly more calories. • Oh, and people who drink diet sodas are more apt to eat like crap. • Diet soda tastes like aluminum foil.
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In many ways, we’ve come to associate “diet soda” with “health” in the same way we equate Lenny Kravitz with music after a while, we just stopped thinking about it critically and got used to it. And yet, through decades of relentless marketing, we’ve come to believe can-sized servings of sugar can be consumed on the daily. “No adult would say, ‘It’s cool for me to have a bag of Skittles every day,’ ” Swithers reminds us, “but with sodas you go, ‘I should have that with my dinner.’ That’s effectively what soda is candy in a can.” There are three main problem groups here. First: Fake sweeteners like the ones in some diet sodas are up to hundreds of times sweeter than sugar, which gets your system used to synthetically sweet foods. Second: Our bodies are trained to associate “sweet” with “calories.” When you start untying that connection, it throws the system out of whack and might actually increase the craving for real sugar, since you technically haven’t gotten your fix yet.
Third: It now seems possible, just possible, that drinking a stew of chemicals including phosphoric acid (which leeches calcium from the bones), aspartame (which we convert into formaldehyde), sodium benzoate (that’s bad), and two coloring compounds that start with “methyl” is not altogether awesome for you. So while diet soda may, in some twisted sense, be “better” for you than regular sugar-sweetened soda, Swithers reframes the question: “Why do you think soda is a good idea?”
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And while you’re at it, would you like some guacamole? New science shows that all the foods we try to avoid fats and carbs and even brewskis are exactly the workout fuel we need to get the most out of a sweatslinging, pec-blasting gym session
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ollowing the fickle rules of sports nutrition can give a guy whiplash. One day you’re supposed to stop eating steak, and the next you’re supposed to eat nothing but steak. Still, a few things now seem clear: Fat isn’t all bad, protein bars aren’t all good, and eating a carb won’t instantly turn you into John Candy, may God rest his soul. So stop depriving yourself of everything that tastes delicious and start eating like the modern jock you are.
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PRE-WORKOUT Eat the Rich Just as you wouldn’t enter a Formula One race with an empty tank, you shouldn’t enter the gym without fueling your body. And contrary to the low-fat hypochondria of the 1990s, we now know that naturally occurring fats found in protein-rich whole foods (like eggs and avocados) are good for us they stabilize our blood sugar and keep us full. Even saturated fat is okay. Trans fats, the artificial fats the FDA wants to eliminate sadly, the ones in are the real enemy. When it comes to carbs, you want to swap highly processed carbohydrates (think: Wonder Bread) for complex carbohydrates (brown rice, sweet potatoes) that give you slow-release energy instead of the crash-andburn kind. We fully cosign on whole-wheat breakfast burritos and brown-rice stir-fry lunches, but your body needs a few hours to digest all that before you start whaling on your pecs. Let that be a lesson to the afterwork-ercise crowd. What you don’t want: store-bought fruit juice at breakfast. It’s processed all to hell. In fact, Tropicana is currently being sued for falsely advertising its “100% pure and natural” OJ, which, the suit claims, is “pasteurized, deaerated, stripped of its flavor and aroma, stored for long periods of time before it ever reaches consumers,” and on and on. Just eat an orange for the fiber and drink a glass of water.
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DURING Go Coco-nuts Sweat makes you lose electrolytes such as potassium, which helps maintain your body’s sodium/water balance and keep you from cramping. Try coconut water: It has more potassium than a banana at less than half the calories. Tastes good, too. What you don’t want: sports drinks. The worst part about those sweet antifreeze-colored Whatever-ades filled with artificial additives? They don’t even hydrate properly. “From a physiological standpoint, they’re too high in carbs to hydrate,” says Stanford ercise physiologist Stacy Sims. “They actually pull water out of the blood and into the intestines, which is the opposite of what you want.”
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AFTER Drink Like a Little Boy (or a Frat Boy) Eventually, you’re gonna shower up and go have a nice balanced meal with lean protein and vegetables. In the meantime, you need nutrients now. “After your workout, your body is like an empty furnace,” says Virginia dietitian and gym owner Jim White. “It’s depleted and needs fuel from carbs to ignite it.” Happily and sort of unbelievably, nutritionists have come to think of chocolate milk as a perfect post-workout elixir, packed with protein and carbs to rebuild the body you just tore down. After a hard run or heavy lift, the sugar helps replenish your depleted glycogen stores, speed up muscle recovery, and regain your energy levels. No wonder we always felt so refreshed after recess. What you don’t want: protein bars. They’re not all bad, but most mainstream bars have replaced high-quality whey proteins with cheaper, artificially extracted soy-protein isolate. “You’re better off eating real food,” Sims says. Or, hell, have a beer. While light on protein, a dinnertime brew provides antioxidants that aid in workout recovery. Yes, the distance between a six-pack and six-pack abs might be closer than you ever dreamed possible.
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How to Be Okay With Your Gawky Body Veep star Timothy Simons on learning to love the way you look
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he way he tells it, Timothy Simons has always been very odd-looking. “I’ve always been very odd-looking,” says Simons, a.k.a. Veep’s universally loathed underling, Jonah Ryan. “I’m the wrong shape. I have a heavy Cro-Magnon brow. And no matter how many times I’ve been to the gym, I’ve only become more wonky.” As if that’s not enough, his job entails a constant barrage of insults about his well, Jonah’s looks. A brief selection of epithets from the show: scrotum pole, guyscraper, human scaffolding, skyscraper of shit. Oh, and this one: “You’re Frankenstein’s monster if his monster were made entirely of dead dicks.” And yet Simons stays strong. Mostly. “I’m able to have a clinical detachment—like, this isn’t me, it’s the character they’re talking about,” he says. “Except when they said Jonah has the face of a police sketch of a rapist. That’s just my face.” The secret to making this kind of gawkiness work in the bedroom? Presentation, says Simons. “Either no light, or the perfect lighting,” he says. “Like, imagine the headlight of an approaching train in Kansas, so you can just see it from 30 miles away. That’s my best look.” 21
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The Real-Life Diet Of a Pro BMX Rider
(Who Survived Cancer Three Times)
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osh Perry has a lot of reasons to not be here. In 2010, shortly after becoming a pro BMX rider, he received the first of his three brain tumor diagnoses. That one was a meningioma, a large mass on his brain that was benign but only removable via open craniotomy. The next one, two years later, called for an evocatively named procedure called gamma knife radiation, which beamed radiation into his brain. “It sounded pretty scary, just because of the name, but the more I researched it the more comfortable I became,” Perry says today. “It seemed painless, and it was.” He was back on his bike six days later. Perry, now 27, says it took going through surgery to get him thinking about nutrition. These days, when he’s not riding up to six hours a day, he’s touting a holistic post-cancer lifestyle. That means a diet benefitting both his body and his brain, including these two super-simple, instant-fresh meals—which he can assemble in about 10 minutes. 23
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Mornings “I never get tired of this: Sautee organic coconut oil, organic butter, minced garlic, onions, purple cabbage and broccoli. Add pink Himalayan salt, black pepper, turmeric, ginger root and maybe some curry. Sautee until the veggies are soft, and then crack an egg over the top. When that’s about done, add sliced avocado, a little sriracha sauce and organic olive oil.” While that’s happening, he’ll whip up fresh oats, with chopped apple, cinnamon and peanut butter. The secret, he says, is advance prep. Chop veggies in advance (make it a Sunday night project) and store them in glass tupperware. Buy spices in bulk, and store them in glass jars as well. Then it’s just a matter of grabbing what you need and throwing it in a skillet; it’s a mix of good-quality fats, proteins and carbs.
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Afternoons and Evenings Perry takes the ready-made approach for lunch and dinner as well: “Sautee spinach or kale, chopped-up chicken, avocado, BBQ sauce, olive oil, pumpkin seeds and chickpeas. I can put that Tupperware and take it to the park or the gym. If I’m late, I’ll whip up a smoothie with banana, peanut butter, avocado, cinnamon, salt and ice. It’s too easy.” He’s also big on sweet potatoes, which he toasts in their skins at 400 degrees for an hour. “Take them out, slice them open and they fall right out of the skin,” he says. “And they work for any meal.” Finally, Perry has joined the growing group of athletes and chefs focusing on GI health. “I never thought I’d eat sauerkraut, but there are so many different variations. I’m into ginger beet sauerkraut, which is great for your gut.” He’s also known to knock back kombucha, which has its own probiotic benefits. “Everything we put in our body goes to our gut, and fermented foods are amazing for that. At the end of the day, everything I do is for my brain—which is for my body.”
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How to Be Okay With Your Gawky Body
“Veep star Timothy Simons on learning to love the way you look”
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The way he tells it, Timothy Simons has always been very odd-looking. “I’ve always been very odd-looking,” says Simons, a.k.a. Veep’s universally loathed underling, Jonah Ryan. “I’m the wrong shape. I have a heavy CroMagnon brow. And no matter how many times I’ve been to the gym, I’ve only become more wonky.” As if that’s not enough, his job entails a constant barrage of insults about his—well, Jonah’s—looks. A brief selection of epithets from the show: scrotum pole, guyscraper, human scaffolding, skyscraper of shit. Oh, and this one: “You’re Frankenstein’s monster if his monster were made entirely of dead dicks.” And yet Simons stays strong. Mostly. “I’m able to have a clinical detachment—like, this isn’t me, it’s the character they’re talking about,” he says. “Except when they said Jonah has the face of a police sketch of a rapist. That’s just my face.” The secret to making this kind of gawkiness work in the bedroom? Presentation, says Simons. “Either no light, or the perfect lighting,” he says. “Like, imagine the headlight of an approaching train in Kansas, so you can just see it from 30 miles away. That’s my best look.”
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Weekend eyecandy! Mexico based photographer Carlos Medel captured good looking hunk Jonathan Mas. Carlos work has been published in Marie Claire, Vanidades Novias, Womanshealth, Revista TĂş, Sport life.
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EMOJI BY ILKA & FRANZ
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Top: N12H, Earrings: Freedom at Topshop
Earrings: Chalk Jewellery, Blue printed bodysuit: Ashley Isham
Bikini: South Beach
Shoes: Alpha Omega, Socks: Pringle, Dress: Ashley Isham
Bikini: South Beach, Necklace: Butterfly London
Top: N12H, Earrings: Freedom at Topshop
Earrings: Bershka, Choker: Bershka, Bodysuit: Ashley Isham
Socks: Sock Shop, Shoes: Lucy Choi
Bomber jacket: Pull & Bear, Body: We are Handsome
Exclusive womenswear editorial. Photography by Ilka & Franz. A German/ Austrian photographer duo based in London (UK). They produce clean, quirky, minimalist and humorous photography involving people, objects and sometimes animals. Model is Fede Ofelia. Styled by Zoe Kozlik using fashion by Alpha Omega, Chalk Jewellery, Ashley Isham, Topshop, Bershka, Lucy Choi amongst others. Props and Set Design by Adam Purnell. Makeup and Nails done by Christiana Amankrah. Hair by Masayoshi N Fujita.