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Card Carrying: The Chicago Finance Guy Who Dropped $1300 on Bottle Service in Brazil

The Last American Flannel

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Packaging

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Sustainable Packaging

Skincare Products

To Create

Sometimes, the Packaging is the Product

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Stainless Steel Cookware

Sometimes There’s a Pan

In a sea of buzzy DTC kitchenware companies, the Tom Colicchio-backed brand Made In might just be a cut above.

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Dressing Up in a Scorsese Movie

Through the language of cinema, Adam Appugliesi's menswear brand Libero, is cultivating a world where the people who wear their clothes are world-class drivers, sophisticated and dangerous career criminals, or even simple men who love their spouses.

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Shaun White’s Crowded Boardroom

Shaun White, the only snowboarder you might recognize, is propped up in the back room of High West Distillery’s Saloon Bar in Park City, Utah. He’s in the high powder of a press day and in over three hours has landed a seemingly endless series of acrobatic sentences that each start with something personal and end in a high-proof endorsement. He’s really good at this. Shaun White-level good.⁠

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Graphic Design Is My Passion

The Legal Minefield of Non-Shitty Band Merch

Most band merch is awful. Go to A$AP Rocky’s booth post-Governor’s Ball. There will be a table with $60 tees that have a strong "graphic design is my passion" vibe. Fans, being fans, buy them anyway, but only a handful of performers (Travis Scott, Kaytranada) sell really great stuff.⁠

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He Helps the Smart Degenerates Win

A gambler walks into a bar. He’s wearing a nautical button-down jacket, which he thrifted, and a pink headband that sweeps his dreadlocks off his forehead. He grabs a seat, flashes a grin, and orders a mezcal old-fashioned. Nothing Vegas about the guy. Except, of course, the gambling.

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Can a Porsche Heir Hook Gen Z on Motorsport?

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Nintendo Doesn’t Have an Off Switch

The Nintendo Switch is ubiquitous and somehow still overlooked. The handheld console is so wildly popular and the company that created it – and the IP that drives sales – is so entrenched in the culture, that entertainment consumers often forget about the Bowser-level degree of domination afoot. And, lately, Nintendo has been stomping its monster-y (but somehow adorable) feet.

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The $700 Million Steal of the Century

The Dodgers spent a billion dollars on two Japanese players this offseason. What did they get for all that money (roughly 150,325,000,000 Yen)? A Rickey Henderson in his prime-level steal.

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