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What your friends fantasize about sexually might make you blush—then again, it might not. With easier access to porn online and erotica novels gaining momentum, women are becoming big-time consumers of sex content. The thing is, says Toronto-based sexologist and author Jessica O’Reilly, we’re still not talking about it enough. Opening up the floodgates on […]

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Dr. Robb Akridge, co-founder of Clarisonic, is sitting at his desk at the company’s headquarters in Seattle, holding a small rotary brush to a section of nude pantyhose that’s been smoothed out across a rectangular piece of plastic. He’s demonstrating the action of a competing device, and the sight of the nylon being aggressively twisted and […]

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Click to see our favourite masculine fragrances » Boyfriend jeans, brogues,button-downs—there’s no shortage of sartorial inspiration for borrowing from the boys. But women have also worn men’s colognes for years. Oftentimes those musky, herbal tonics carry more appeal than the traditional fruity florals, which could explain why everyone from makeup artist Gucci Westman to fashion designer […]

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See why we’re obsessed with muted lips » It’s safe to say that, come New York Fashion Week, all eyes are fixed on Marc Jacobs—his creative vision acts as a sartorial harbinger for the season ahead. And when, this past September, he dispatched an army of models down his Spring 2015 runway outfitted in his offbeat […]

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Gwyneth Paltrow is weary. It’s New York Fashion Week Fall 2014, and she’s curled up on a sofa at the Trump SoHo, a fluffy blanket pulled comfortingly over her pencil-skirt-sheathed legs. “I feel like I am so busy right now that I am not even processing what I’m [interested in],” she says when asked what’s […]

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See our favourite self-tanners »

Growing up in my family, tanning was pastime, pleasure and competitive sport. Pale was pejorative. My parents, both great tanners in their youth, lived in East Africa in the early ’70s, before I was born. That time in their lives seemed to me fabulously glamorous—never mind the fact that my sister, a baby then, contracted malaria and nearly died—because for two years, they were tanned. Deeply tanned. Not the amateur-hour suntan you might obtain after a week in Fort Lauderdale, the kind of profound, layered tan that makes you look like another person—an exceptionally well-leisured one.

I remember the four of us in the ’80s, lying on a quartet of loungers and passing the Hawaiian Tropic SPF 4 down the line like a familial baton. If my friends enjoyed splashing around in swimming pools and lakes, I liked lying down next to them, and nowhere in the vicinity of a sun-blocking parasol. Parasols were meant for other people, the ones who took long luncheons in the shade during prime UV time. (I preferred to feast on rays.)

When my sister and I had a productive tanning day, we’d high-five each other as the sun sank into the horizon and our freckles settled into our still-warm cheeks. A tan, like the travel that furnished it, was an escape from our regular selves, a gilded (if short-lived) costume.

See the California inspiration on the runway »

At the end of part 1 of On the Road, Jack Kerouac’s 1957 novel about freedom, self-discovery and the American experience, Sal Paradise—a desperately bored and mildly depressed writer who sets off from New York City in search of adventure and inspiration out West—arrives in Hollywood by bus on a dusty autumn morning. Having abandoned the East of his youth along with a sorry half-written manuscript, he arrives, after weeks of dreamy anticipation, in the West of his future: the glittering California coast. “I looked greedily out the window: stucco houses and palms and drive-ins, the whole mad thing, the ragged promised land, the fantastic end of America.” For Paradise, Calif., is the ultimate American mecca—endlessly inspiring, always changing, forever new.

It’s a sentiment that still rings true 50-plus years later. In fashion, Hedi Slimane is the industry’s Pied Piper of California dreaming. The French designer has made Los Angeles his home, his muse and the subject of much of his work, from his 2011 photography exhibition, California Song, which explores Americana via L.A., to his recent collections for Saint Laurent, which have channelled everything from California grunge to 1980s Sunset Strip. “I secretly love that the common perception of L.A. is shallowness,” Slimane told Style.com in 2010. “From the counterculture’s heritage of the ’60s and ’70s to the rise of Silicon Valley in the ’80s, from the Hollywood dream machine to the music industry majors, from Californian art to architecture, healthy lifestyle and food, California does rule the village.”

Photography by Peter Stigter

Photography by Peter Stigter

Photography by Getty Images

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True Romance

Patricia Arquette in True Romance

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Saint Laurent Spring 2014

Saint Laurent Spring 2014

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Axl Rose

Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose

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Tommy Hilfiger Spring 2014

Tommy Hilfiger Spring 2014

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Point Break

Lori Petty and Keanu Reeves in Point Break

Canadian wonder boy Tommy Ton describes a favourite shot from his collection of street style photographs. “This was one of my very last moments of New York Fashion Week—I had been freezing my butt off for eight days in the cold, and it was one of those instances where you see someone and it just […]

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