Indholdsfortegnelse for March/April 2025 i Maxim

Sometimes it seems as if Sir Richard Branson snaps up private islands the way other men buy sports cars or Swiss watches; but the British serial entrepreneur, space explorer and dedicated philanthropist with an estimated $2.5 billion fortune has never been one to do things by halves. In fact, Branson reportedly owns three private islands, one in Australia and two in the Caribbean. His most recently developed acquisition—Moskito Island off the coast of Virgin Gorda, BVI, where he invited a handful of fellow adventurous billionaires to build vacation estates—has recently been transformed into the ultimate escape for those in the nosebleed tax brackets. Following the recent completion of the island’s newest mansion, called Cape Stout, you can now rent four of the available estates on the breathtakingly beautiful 125-acre island…

As Newt Scamander in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Eddie Redmayne specializes in exotic and sometimes deadly creatures. In The Day of the Jackal, his new series for Peacock, he is an exotic and sometimes deadly creature. Based on the 1971 novel by Frederick Forsyth, the show chronicles the cat-and-mouse pursuit by MI6 agent Bianca Pullman (Bond girl Lashana Lynch) of an elite, shape-shifting assassin known as “the Jackal.” Like the 1973 classic film starring Edward Fox based on the same book, “Jackal,” which was recently renewed for a second season after huge critical acclaim, provides all the taut action of a good thriller as well as eye candy for the sartorial set—and it recently scored two Golden Globe nominations to prove it. It’s high time we saw…

It’s one of the most iconic moments in Super Bowl advertising history. Supermodel Cindy Crawford pulls up to the Halfway House Cafe in a red Lamborghini Diablo, wearing a white tank top and jean shorts. We’re somewhere in the California desert. She’s sweaty and hot. Two young boys watch in awe as she buys a Pepsi from a vending machine and gulps it down. The 1992 Super Bowl commercial became an instant classic, launching Crawford into the fantasies of men around the world. Nearly three decades later, legendary photographer David Yarrow decided to recreate the famous ad—but with a wild twist. “For some time, I had yearned to do my own interpretation of the advert with a still photograph,” the Scottish-born Yarrow explains. “I secured Cindy’s involvement, who in turn…

“ Think of Biarritz, on the Bay of Biscay in southwest France, and the memory retrieves images of handsome European bluebloods and Hollywood royalty sipping cocktails and cavorting by a pool.” The quote, from the London Daily Mail, sounds like it is describing a scene from the ’60s; yet the article is of recent vintage, which neatly captures the essence of the destination: Though the name might itself might be familiar, and even quite evocative, relatively few people outside of Western Europe itself could accurately place it on a map—most likely picturing it somewhere on the Côte d’Azur. This is, however, Basque country, which those same people will probably insist is part of (neighboring) Spain. Therein perhaps lies part of its charm; you won’t see “Biarritz” emblazoned on sweatshirts and…

Should you find yourself bronzing happily on the white sands of Saint Tropez or the Amalfi Coast this summer, you just might see a wondrous golden craft anchored in the bay. Or perhaps slicing gracefully across turquoise waters, the Mediterranean sun glinting dazzlingly off its sleek, champagnecolored hull. That would be Anjelif, a recently built 163-foot supery acht which debuted at the Monaco Yacht Show to much acclaim and is now available for charter via Fraser Yachts for €300,000 (about $350,000) per week. There are many things that make Anjelif unique, the most powerful being the sheer quantity of uber-luxe features owner Maria Francesca Angelini, a stylish Italian businesswoman with an enthusiasm for wellness, commissioned for her builders at Naples’ Columbus Yachts—an arduous engineering challenge to somehow Tetris into her…

In 1967, at the height of his reign as the “King of Cool”—the year he filmed both Bullitt and The Thomas Crown Affair, arguably his two most iconic movies—Steve McQueen bought not one but two Ferrari 275s: an NART Spyder and a GTB/4. In Thomas Crown, McQueen’s love interest Faye Dunaway drives a drop-dead gorgeous, dark red 275 GTS/4 NART (for North American Racing team) Spider, one of the first ever built. While he didn’t drive it in the film, McQueen became so enamored of the car that he ordered one himself, from Chic Vandagriff, at Hollywood Sport Cars. Priced at around $14,500 (about $135,000 in today’s dollars) it was one of only 10 NART Spiders built, and thus extremely rare; these later became a true holy grail for collectors,…

Artem Oleynik will never forget his first Ferrari. He was a young boy in Ukraine when he watched a red 412 T1 race across his TV screen during the 1994 German Grand Prix. That moment sparked an obsession that would carry him from the military to his current status as a master of automotive art. “I love the sleek, aerodynamic lines designed purely for speed,” he says. Now living in Germany after fleeing the Russian invasion of his homeland, Oleynik lives by Enzo Ferrari’s famous words: “If you can dream it, you can do it.” His photorealistic paintings combine gran turismo with glamour, proving that even in wartime, some dreams refuse to die. Here, he talks about his journey from a Ferrari fan to a fine artist. Ferrari is a…

The Pirelli Calendar, as if it were possible, appears to have gotten even more seductive and sought-after, following the unveiling of the VIP-only 2025 edition at London’s Natural History Museum. This year’s jaw-dropping calendar features icons from every walk of life, including writer and model Padma Lakshmi, actress and model Hunter Schafer, Italian singer Elodie, South Korean model and actress Hoyeon and even daring turns from the likes of Star Wars hero John Boyega and French actor Vincent Cassel. Suffice to say, there’s no shortage of eye candy in this year’s “Refresh and Reveal” edition, shot by noted photographer Ethan James Green. Green looked to update and revamp “the classic beach-shoot origins of the iconic Cal,” the Italian manufacturer said, and an eyepopping first glance shows he was, well, quite…