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FROM THE SMALL TO THE SILVER SCREEN, THESE FUTURE LEADING MEN HAVE ONLY BEGUN THEIR JOURNEY TO THE GOLDEN HEIGHTS OF FAME, BUT THEY DEFINITELY LOOK THE PART IN THE SEASON’S FINEST EVENINGWEAR

PHOTOGRAPHY Sebastian Faena
FASHION Carine Roitfeld

Age: 25 Birthday: September 9, 1986 Hometown: Herndon, Virginia Known for: Pretty Little Liars

What inspires you besides acting?
Stories. I read a lot. Good music, in all forms. Nature—I could walk through the woods for hours. And food; love me some food!
What’s your weakness in this industry? What’s your most disconcerting weakness?
I can’t say. Not because I don’t want to, but because my weaknesses and strengths are so fluid. One day I’ll be able to cry and break down in an audition, then the next I’ll literally be stumbling over a single line. There are so many factors that go into it that I have no control over, so I try to go balls to the wall every time and hope the best comes out.
How do you see the state of male actors compared to female actors today?
Female actors definitely have it worse. I know for a fact that there are fewer meaty female roles than there are male parts. The pressure to be thin is very real and extremely vicious. But I do think it’s getting better, especially as more and more women rise to places of authority behind the camera.
What’s the most challenging aspect of your job?
Many things: waiting; limited artistic control; lack of job security; or perhaps the glut of douche bags inhabiting Los Angeles. At the same time, it’s the best job in the world, and if someone told me I couldn’t do it anymore, I would probably put a gun in my mouth.

Tuxedo, shirt, bow tie Burberry Prorsum
Bracelet Shamballa
Shoes Bottega Veneta
Vintage telephone okthestore.com

VMAN 25 The Spring Fashion Issue is on sale now.

KEYWORDS: Carine Roitfeld, Ian Harding, Sebastian Faena, vman 25

Before the internet turned every teenager into self-entitled autodidacts, soundtracks were the gateway drugs of music. If you were a young kid living in suburban Texas(/anywhere), OSTs were a miracle of music discovery. And below are classic tracks from nine (gotta save some for the personal files) important soundtracks of my adolescence. Elliott David, VMAN Editor

Click here to see the full playlist (or simply watch above). Find Elliott’s descriptions of the videos below!

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JOSÉ MARÍA MANZANARES MAY BE THE WORLD’S MOST CELEBRATED BULLFIGHTER, AND THAT’S BECAUSE HE TREATS HIS COMBATANT WITH MERCY AND RESPECT. LIKE AT WORLD-RENOWN REAL MAESTRANZA DE CABALLERÍA DE SEVILLE, THE OLDEST BULLRING IN SPAIN, WHEN HE LET THE BULL ARROJADO GO FREE AFTER A FEROCIOUS FIGHT—A FIRST IN THE RING’S 250+ YEAR HISTORY. VIVA EL TORO. VIVA EL TORERO

Photography Jean-Baptiste Mondino
Fashion Carine Roitfeld
Text Alex Carrasco

This is a story about blood and the bullring, fashion and beauty. When Givenchy creative director Riccardo Tisci settled his gaze on José María Manzanares, it was a sort of love at first sight, not only because of Manzanares’s beauty, but also because of something stronger, some- thing related to living on the brink of death. “Everybody will look at a bullfighter, even if he doesn’t speak,” declares Manzanares, who is pioneering a bullfighting revolution. “We give off a special energy.” The fashion industry needs a constant influx of characters and excitement, which is why if there was love in Tisci’s eyes when he saw Manzanares—a man who has a brand of strength no model can emulate—it was perhaps a love for fashion itself. Oscar Wilde once wrote that “each man kills the thing he loves.” But this story has more to do with love than death.

Read the full interview and see the full story HERE. VMAN 25 The Spring Fashion Issue is on sale now.

KEYWORDS: Carine Roitfeld, Givenchy, Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Jose Maria Manzanares

Parker Voss, florist

For VMAN 25 The Spring Fashion Issue, one of Carine Roitfeld’s strongest convictions as guest editor was that she wanted to show what is masculine and chic about real men with real-world professions. Photographer Karim Sadli and fashion editor Tom Van Dorpe made this wish a reality in the REAL LIFE REAL GUYS story, which can be viewed in full HERE.

To accompany the story, filmmaker Gianluca Fellini was on hand and has created the intimate and exclusive video you can see below.

KEYWORDS: Gianluca Fellini, Karim Sadli, Tom Van Dorpe, VMAN 25 The Spring Fashion Issue

The weather in NYC has taken a turn for the unseasonably warm, and there’s no better time to break out your shades for Spring. These driving glasses may vary from retro to space-age but they’re the perfect protection for against any glaring obstacles when you hit the road. From top: sleek tortoise shell from Salvatore Ferragamo (marchon.com, $250) and Balenciaga (Bloomingdales, $345), wooden frames from Jil Sander (marchon.com, $270), or mod plastic from CK Jeans (price available upon request, 800.544.1336) will put you in the right frame of mind for any decade or destination. Christopher Barnard

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