Chatting with the Governor (and future VP’s) team about vintage trucks, American manufacturing, and and the resurgence of unionization
Royal Rovers
To celebrate the royals’ longstanding association with the luxury SUV brand, a collection of 10 Land Rovers used by Queen Elizabeth during her 70-year reign will be on display at Pebble Beach this year.
My story on the BMW Art Car created by stellar Ethiopian-American artist Julie Mehretu is out in this month’s issue of Vanity Fair. But, good news for all of you Chintzy Blt¢hes: it is now available online!
The piece also covers the 50-year history of the Art Car program, which includes works by Jenny Holzer, Jeff Koons, Robert Rauschenberg, Esther Mahlangu, Andy Warhol, Alexander Calder, Frank Stella, Cao Fei, and many others…
Subway Graffiti Pioneer Lee Quinones Celebrates 50 Years of Making Art
The Cars of “Ferrari”
How did Michael Mann select, shoot, and (especially) wreck the nearly 400 vintage vehicles—some of them 8-figure collectibles—in his new movie “Ferrari”? I go behind the scenes to bring you all the secrets and movie magic.
Stars & Cars: Madelaine Petsch
I talk to “Riverdale” star Madelaine Petsch about her lifelong love affair with Mercedes vehicles, overcoming her primal fear of parallel parking, the horrors of being trapped in the 1950s, and how she almost plowed into a cameraman in a ’61 Malibu.
Vintage Cars Go Electric
My latest story for Vanity Fair is out in this month’s issue and covers the exciting trend of converting vintage vehicles—VW Beetles, Porsche 911s, Ford Broncos, and even classic Range Rovers—to run on battery power.
Click the thumbnail above, and then click again, to view a crappy scan. Or run out now and grab a copy on the newsstand (Giselle is on the cover), or just subscribe to the magazine already, you chintzy blt¢h.
Alternative: You can also view the online version by clicking here.
Lenny Kravitz Builds a $300,000 Electric Cadillac
“My grandfather, he always had Cadillacs. He changed them out every few years,” the musician, composer, photographer, actor, and AD100 designer told me. “He was a hard-working man, had five jobs, grew up in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. But Cadillac was his thing.”
Stars & Cars: Nicholas Hoult
Warning: This story contains graphic descriptions of SPICE GIRLS DRAG.
Stars & Cars: Sydney Sweeney
When she went to test drive a Range Rover, the Land Rover salesman told “Euphoria” and “The White Lotus” star Sydney Sweeney that the six-cylinder engine was enough power for her. “Why, because I’m a girl?” Sweeney slapped back?
She got the V-8.