Candice Swanepoel: The Next Supermodel
It’s a credit to Victoria’s Secret — the catalog, the TV special, the cultural force — that as one of the lingerie company’s important new faces, Candice Swanepoel is one of the world’s important new faces
Blake Lively in Five-Inch Heels
Blake Lively — the anachronistically beautiful star of Gossip Girl and of director Ben Affleck’s next Boston drama, The Town — falls into a vinyl booth, pushing a squall of sweet air across the table.
Why Italy in Latin means: Sexy Women
There’s a certain kind of Italian celebrity for which there is no real equivalent in American life: velina, a term that encompasses the beauty queens, aspiring actresses, and showgirl-slash-models who dominate the country’s television shows wearing miniskirts
The Favorite New (Alcoholic) Halloween Treat
Holidays call for celebration, pagan holidays all the more so — none of those damn moral underpinnings to put a damper on things. So I asked Esquire drinks correspondent David Wondrich for a Halloween
The Cadbury: Greatest Chocolate Bar in the World?
I am told that today is National Chocolate Day. I could not care less. I don’t particularly like chocolate, and I could not be less interested in anything than I am in the angels-on-the-head-of-a-pin arguments that foodies keep having over what constitutes great chocolate and who makes the best. (What I am interested in is the question of who declares National _______ Days. The answer often is: Congress. Check out [...]
Blake Lively: All Woman, No Gossip Girl
I clicked over from Mad Men — post-mower, pre-Oprah — half-expecting another somewhat funny, mostly awkward Emmy introduction from Doogie, or at least another one of those inside jokes from a nominated TV director that is precisely the reason no one watches the Emmys on TV. Predictably, I got both on this commercial break, but men around the world were also transfixed by a triple-take: Versace, the presenter on the [...]