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1 / Stavros niarchos III Master of land (he owns a Richard Neutra house in Los Angeles) and sea (he comes from the Greek shipping dynasty), the 29-year-old has a Hall of Fame dating history and dreamy looks straight out of international playboy central casting.
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for his delay in calling; he has only just arrived in Scotland after a missed flight. Is the British violinist there for a concert? “I’m actually going shooting with my sister’s husband,” says the Eton-educated 28-year-old, his accent sleekly posh. “It sounds quite gentlemanly, doesn’t it? Until I get out on the fields with my gun and it becomes a complete mess!” Siem is much more adept with his violin. Known for his graceful stage presence and romantic sound, he recently toured Europe playing selections from Under the Stars, his album of orchestral encores. “With something like the
violin, you’ve got to figure out a unique way of playing that suits you,” he says. “It’s such a physical thing, and you have to really listen. Your greatest asset as a musician is your ear.” Siem happens to have other assets as well. He has modeled for Dunhill and for an upcoming Hugo Boss campaign, and he appeared in Karl Lagerfeld’s book The Little Black Jacket at the Kaiser’s own request—so, yes, he looks quite nice onstage in his trademark fitted suit. As for life offstage, “I guess, for me, I haven’t met the right person yet,” he says. “I always say that if I did, I’d change my life.” Music to our ears. rebecca milzoff
4 / Cary Fukunaga
Why him? | The rare director (True Detective, for which he won an Emmy, and the film Jane Eyre) worthy of drooling over. Credit his Japanese father and Swedish mother. Likes | Recently it’s polo; the 37-year-old keeps ponies (Pampo and Panda) in upstate New York. Natural Habitat | Transient childhood × fluency in Spanish, French, and Japanese = pretty much anywhere. Caveat | The occasional braid.
2 / Alex Timbers T h at f l o p p y h a i r ! T h o s e t o u s l e d curls! It’s all so…Bachelor of the Year 1997! But for my money director Alex Timbers is actually ahead of his time. His forward-thinking sensibilities have sent him around the space-time curve—and his hair has gone with him. At 36, Timbers is one of Broadway’s most innovative directors—twice nominated for a Tony already, once for Michael Friedman’s superbly funny Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. With nerve and charm, he muscles immersive forms into the mainstream. His Rocky plopped the boxing ring into the audience, and his Here Lies Love—David Byrne and Fatboy Slim’s club rock musical— makes audiences literally dance through history. But I treasure his weirder, smaller work, such as 2003’s A Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s Scientology Pageant, in which an adorable tyke played Tom Cruise gravely toasting Xenu. (I raved so much in a review that the Scientologists called me to…chat.) Now Timbers has film projects and an Amazon show, co-writing and helming an adaptation of Mozart in the Jungle with Roman Coppola and Jason Schwartzman. Weirdly, I fear its inevitable success. Timbers may be a bachelor, but I want him to stay married—to the theater. We loved him first and best. He’s ours. Helen Shaw 120 | T ow n A N D C O U N T R Y M AG. c o m
5 / PIERRE SARKOZY
Why him? | The international DJ known as Mosey, 29, fortunately inherited his looks from mother Marie-Dominique Culioli rather than father Nicolas Sarkozy. Likes | Music—from Corsican to classical, but he plays strictly house. Natural Habitat | Clubs in São Paulo, Ibiza, Kiev, or wherever the work takes him. Caveat | Keep the house in the club and it’s all good.
6 / SIMON CASTETS
Why him? | We could say something about 89Plus, his pioneering multiplatform investigation of the generation of artists and digital innovators born since the fall of the Berlin Wall, but we’re too busy looking at those lips. Likes | Artists before you’ve heard of them. The 30-yearold Frenchman runs the Swiss Institute, a nonprofit Soho gallery that specializes in emerging European (especially Swiss) artists. Natural habitat | Gallery openings, art fair VIP lounges, museum launches, nonprofit art performances—it’s a job, it’s a party! Caveat | Those lips will often be talking about artists you’ve never heard of.
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Why him? | The 31-year-old actor-writer-
director son of Philippe Garrel, and the face of Valentino’s Uomo fragrance, plays homme fatal Jacques de Bascher in Saint Laurent. Likes | Older women. His five-year relationship with Carla Bruni’s sister Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi included adopting a Senegalese baby in 2009. Natural habitat | When you’re born in Paris it’s always Paris. Caveat | A rumored relationship with Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani.
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> These actors come with one giant caveat: Seduction is in their job description.
7 / Gaspard Ulliel
Why him? | If you’ve seen his Scorsese-directed smolder in those Bleu de Chanel
commercials, you don’t have to ask. Otherwise, just wait for Saint Laurent, the biopic in which Ulliel, 30, superbly, languidly embodies the late, great Yves. Likes | The man bun—a hairstyle he can actually pull off. Natural Habitat | Always Paris; occasionally Twitter. Caveat | A model named Gaëlle Pietri.
9 / Michael B. Jordan Why him? | The 28-year-old Friday Night Lights grad (surely reason
enough) will fire up the Human Torch in this year’s Fantastic Four reboot. But the smile alone will wreck you. Likes | Pretty much any sport; photography; New York deli sandwiches. Natural Habitat | The kitchen; like his chef dad, he loves to cook. Caveat | He socked Zac Efron in That Awkward Moment—but maybe that’s a good thing?
10 / Oscar Isaac
Why him? | The Guatemalan-born, Miami-raised
Isaac, 35, has old-school matinee idol looks and the chops of a Juilliard-trained actor, a combination that proved irresistible in last year’s The Two Faces of January. Likes | Playing guitar. The result: His convincing crazy-talented folk singer in Inside Llewyn Davis. Natural Habitat | Regularly gigs around New York City with a band called NightLab. Caveat | He’s the lead in Star Wars: Episode VII, so beware Comic Con geeks.
11 / Steven R. Mcqueen
Why him? | He’s Steve McQueen’s grandson, so there
are the genes—amply displayed on the CW show The Vampire Diaries and in a 2014 Abercrombie and Fitch campaign. Likes | Poetry. The 26-year-old has a Robert Frost title, “The Road Not Taken,” tattooed on his back. Natural Habitat | That six-pack means serious gym time. Caveat | Vampire Diaries fans. 122 | T ow n A N D C O U N T R Y M AG. c o m
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13 / JACK O’CONNELL
Why him? | What’s good enough for Angelina Jolie is good enough for us. (See: Brad Pitt.) Jolie handpicked the 24-year-old O’Connell to star in last year’s Unbroken. Likes | The formerly infamous party boy (who essentially played himself on the titillating British soap Skins) has mended his ways, with guidance from Jolie, an expert on reform. N atural habitat | London. Caveat | At press time he was sharing love bites with Cara Delevingne.
> Four juniors making the most of what their celebrated parents gave them.
12 / Jake Hurwitz Why him? | The “normal” (and cuter) half of the Webbywinning Jake and Amir, on CollegeHumor.com. Likes |
Romeo Beckham The 12-year-old son of David and Victoria is already modeling.
Cracking up Amir Blumenfeld. Used to like Anna Wintour’s daughter Bee Shaffer; they moved to L.A. together but split up in 2012. Natural Habitat | The writer’s room—Jake and Amir is being developed into a TBS show. Caveat | The 29-year-old hits the gym at 7 a.m.
John Lowe Rob Lowe and Sheryl Berkoff’s second kid, 19, is a Stanford freshman.
14 / Miles Teller
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8 / Louis Garrel
Why him? | If Ansel Elgort is our golden boy, 28-year-old Teller (Elgort’s co-star in the Divergent franchise) is our dark star, bringing gripping, Brando-style realism to every part (see Whiplash, The Spectacular Now). Likes | To apologize to ex-girlfriends for bad behavior. Natural Habitat | The dance floor. “I do the moonwalk every chance I get. If you can do that you don’t have to do anything else.” Caveat | He moonwalks every chance he gets.
15 / JAMES NORTON Why him? | The Cambridge-educated
actor, 29, is equally mesmerizing as a psychopath (in the BBC series Happy Valley) and a courtly gentleman (Death Comes to Pemberley), so you get good boy and bad boy rolled into one! Likes | His mum’s roast beef; poaching eggs; punctuality. Natural Habitat | A lane at the pool, followed by a stool at the pub: “I’m not very good at staying in.” Caveat | A fan of Peter Pan, and we all know what that means.
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16 / RICHARD MADDEN
Why him? | If Robb Stark, his character on Game of Thrones, was too dirty for you, the 28-year-old scrubs up nicely as Prince Charming in Kenneth Branagh’s Cinderella, out in March. Likes | To shop and “dress smart”—enough to be Most Stylish Male at the 2014 Scottish Style Awards. N atural Habitat | Grew up in Elderslei, Renfrewshire, which is not, in fact, a Hobbit town but a suburb of Glasgow. Caveat | Guilty of bad train etiquette: A British Tumblr shamed him for sitting with his legs too far apart on the Tube.
Jude’s 17-year-old walked the runway for DKNY menswear last summer.
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> Fashion is their life, which means they might spend more time getting dressed than you do. But just think of the discounts.
18 / Louis-Marie de Castelbajac Why him? | Fashion designer, actor, artist, Armagnac producer. Likes | Play-
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Right Place, Right time The Italians, such as Milanese watch god Max Bernardini, were the first to notice that vintage watches in warmer climates developed an especially rich patina. They were called “tropical,” and the collectors’ hunt began. They all age differently, expert Andrew Shear tells us, those with a uniform chocolate-brown fade being the holy grail. 1976 Rolex GMT Master watch ($8,500), sheartime.com
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ing the Renaissance man. In between all of the above, the 31-year-old has appeared in a Nespresso commercial with George Clooney and created a Bûche de Noël with Pierre Hermé. Now he’s starring in a Ferragamo short film. N atural Habitat | The family château he shares with his father, designer Jean-Charles de Castelbajac. Caveat | You’d better like Armagnac.
19 / Adam Pritzker
Why him? | The 30-year-old heir to the Hyatt hotel fortune has built his own fashion and retail empire through a $ 200 million holding company called Assembled Brands. Likes | New acquisitions. Natural Habitat | Barneys, checking the sales of his clothing line, Protagonist; or at his latest investment, the Line, a Soho concept store where everything is for sale. Caveat | A man this busy buying companies might not be available to buy you dinner.
20 / MIKE faherty Why him? | Mike (left ) and twin brother Alex founded a surf-inspired swimwear and clothing line, making the beach safe for fashion. Likes | Coconut water and incense. Natural Habitat | The Alphabet City apartment he shares with Alex and Alex’s wife. Caveat | Try getting this 31-year-old to wear a suit.
17 / Luca Rubinacci
Why him? | The most photographed man at Pitti Uomo took his family’s Neapolitan tailoring know-how into the 21st century. Likes | A well-cut jacket and expertly mixed prints. Natural Habitat | The bespoke room of the Rubinacci store on Mount Street in London, or posing for street style photographers in Italy. Caveat | We challenge any woman to look better in Italian cashmere than the 33-year-old Rubinacci does.
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24 / OTIS FERRY Why him? | The impeccably dressed 32-year-old son of music legend Bryan was called a cad in Tatler, which is one way of saying he has inherited his father’s infamous way with the ladies (as have his three brothers, known in the British tabs as the “feral Ferrys”). Likes | To promote foxhunting—sometimes a little too enthusiastically: He has been arrested five times for his activism and did a fourmonth stint in prison. Natural Habitat | A cottage in Shropshire, home to his hunting hounds and prized horse, Woody. Caveat | The cad thing.
21 / samir kasliwal Why him? | His family’s Gem Palace jewelry empire has made bijoux for kings, queens, and multiple maharajas. Likes | Italian food—the 30-year-old’s mother is from Bologna, and he’s opening a restaurant in Jaipur later this year. N atural Habitat | Knee-deep in emeralds at his father Sanjay’s new Madison Avenue outpost. Caveat | Who designs the ring will not be up for discussion.
Why them? | The Guinean brothers have bigger plans than modeling. Armando, 32 (right), has his own shoe line; Fernando, 26, has supported charities in Africa. Likes | Soccer. Luckily, Armando’s designs include brogue-inspired sneakers. N atural Habitat | R unways in Milan; shoe factories in Le Marche. Caveat | Armando once cited Beetlejuice as his personal style icon.
23 / Guglielmo Miani
Why him? | After graduating from Babson College he went home to Italy and took over his family’s textile company. Shortly thereafter their clothes were in Bergdorf’s. Likes | Almost everything Made in Italy. Natural Habitat | Via Montenapoleone, Milan’s fashion boulevard, of which the 38-year-old has been named president. Caveat | Forget 2015: He’ll be busy—as Milan is hosting the World Expo.
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26 / Anthony and Sean Souza
Why THEM? | Because the sons of Valentino ambassador Carlos Souza only DJ international fashion events and Madonna movie premieres in their spare time. Anthony, 28 (right), is a photographer in London. Sean, 31, is a yoga instructor developing an ecoresort in Brazil. Likes | “Deep house, tech house, and electronica fused with tribal elements.” Natural Habitat | Valentino shows and afterparties. Caveat | Their father (carlossouza1311) loves an Instagram hashtag—and you can’t choose yours.
27 / Andrea and Pietro Clemente
Why THEM? | The 25-year-old twins Andrea (left) and Pietro inherited the looks of their father, artist Francesco Clemente, and the charm of their mother, muse Alba. Likes | Sharing everything—except, reportedly, neckties. Natural Habitat | Their family’s Village townhouse, which should have a plaque: bob dylan lived here. Caveat | Good luck decorating: Family portraits are by Basquiat, Mapplethorpe, and Schnabel.
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> They are heirs to ancestral villas and cosmopolitan codes of manners. Still, how many air kisses can one man dispense in a lifetime?
25 / ALEJANDRO SANTO DOMINGO Why him? | The 38-year-old Harvard history grad and heir to a billion-dollar Colombian beer fortune sits on the boards of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, WNET in New York, and AID for AIDS. Likes | Collecting art. Natural Habitat | His office at Quadrant Capital Advisors in NYC; charity galas—as both guest and honoree. Caveat | Between the job, philanthropy commitments, and society functions (he has made more than 6,000 appearances on society photographer Billy Farrell’s website), arm candy might be all he can handle.
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29 / Marcantonio and Guido Brandolini
Why him? | When Burberry needed
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someone to stand next to Cara Delevingne and Suki Waterhouse in a campaign shot by Mario Testino, they scouted this 18-year-old. likes | His parents. He’s the son of London art world powerhouse Jonathan Green and stylishly connected U.S. transplant Alison Ross. natural habitat | The Burberry runway; his father’s Old Masters–filled booths at art fairs. caveat | His extended family includes veteran fashion consultant Katherine Ross and stylist Amanda Ross. No pressure getting dressed to meet the relatives.
23 (left ), and Guido, 24, and baby brother Gioacchino were raised in the Palazzo Brandolini, the family’s ornate Gothic redoubt on the Grand Canal in Venice. In the 1700s the Brandolini d’Addas were condottieri, military leaders who protected the city. Today the brothers’ cosmopolitan father, Count Brandino Brandolini d’Adda, runs the family’s 500-acre estate, Vistorta, in Friuli, which produces the acclaimed Vistorta merlot, one of Italy’s finest reds. Guido is interning at a London investment firm; Marcantonio splits his time between Venice and London, working on a startup venture that he politely declines to discuss until it’s up and running. Meanwhile, Marcantonio continues to run Laguna B, the popular decorative glassware company founded by the brothers’ much-beloved late mother, Marie, a French-born aristocrat known as the Glassmaking Contessa. Friends describe Guido as the quieter brother, with piercing blue eyes and a wry sense of humor. Currently single, he admits to being “a free agent.” Of his own romantic pursuits Marcantonio says, “It’s complicated. I’m young and I live quite fast.” After a weekend of revelry in London he adds, “But being single can be tiring. I want a nice girl next to me. I would love it.” CHRISTOPHER MASON F E B RUA R Y 2 0 1 5 | 127
30 / Jack Schlossberg
31 / Gregorio franchetti Why him? | The 26-year-old Italian filmmaker is an ideal transatlantic blend: His grandmother is American textile heiress Anne Milliken; his grandfather is Italian baron Mario Franchetti. Likes | Collaborating: He was Isabella Rossellini’s “right hand” on her insect sex documentary, and he has appeared in his photographer mother’s work. Natural Habitat | Indie film sets and the family estate in Sardinia. Caveat | It’s pure guilt by association, but he has been seen with Vito Schnabel (see Hall of Fame, page 134).
Why him? | The 22-year-old Yalie inherited the Kennedy way with public speaking—as evidenced by his introduction of President Obama at the 2013 Presidential Medal of Freedom dinner. And the Bouvier hair. Likes | Old-fashioned print: He’s an active member of both Yale newspapers. Natural Habitat | EMT classes in New Haven; touring Japan’s damaged Fukushima nuclear plant with his mother, Madame Ambassador. Caveat | A brief Twitter scandal: One tweet appeared to have him coming out; the next dismissed it as the work of an impostor. Could it have been a joke? There has been word of occasional comedy club appearances…
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32 / Francesco Carrozzini
Vogue editor Franca Sozzani—with a résumé that defies expectations. Subjects such as Naomi Campbell and Heidi Klum are listed alongside artist Richard Prince and Nigerian president Jonathan Goodluck. Likes | Chateau Marmont; American Spirit cigarettes; sometimes frequenting West Village cafés with women who are not his girlfriend (see: the Daily Mail ). Natural Habitat | A set, be it photo, music video, or short film. Caveat | Recent evidence of a summertime of happiness with singer Lana Del Rey. 128 | T ow n A N D C O U N T R Y M AG. c o m
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> They ask not what their country can do for them but what they can do for their country. We just ask why they’re still single.
Okay, it’s not a ring, but Fendi’s one-of-a-kind croc bags are in such high preorder demand that they may not even make it into a store. Which means you may never see this again, except on the arm of another woman. $39,000, Fendi Madison Avenue, NYC, 212-897-2244
33 / Bryn Mooser
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wish we could, if only we had the cojones. It takes a special kind of gypsy to respond to the Haitian earthquake by moving there for a few years. When Bryn and I became friends, he was living in a tent behind a hospital in Port-au-Prince, where he was overseeing daily operations for a locally run organization, Artists for Peace and Justice. I was a board member, a donor with an itch for more experience on the ground, and he was the definition of “getting your boots dirty.” He gave me a cot, a mosquito net, and a bottle of red wine—all a girl really needs. Those trips, which became frequent, were riveting, not only because of the beautiful resilience of the Haitian people but because Bryn was reminding me why there was hope for philanthropy in the world. He truly believes in the individual’s power to make a profoundly positive difference, and this optimism inspires him to go above and beyond as an agent for social change. Maybe it was those years in the Peace Corps in Gambia, or perhaps the credit goes to his mother (shouldn’t it always?), but Bryn has a taste for fearless, open-hearted adventure. Luckily, his curiosity is contagious, and he wants to share it with as many people as possible. When he pitched me the idea for RYOT.org, an interactive news site that would allow the reader to take action right away rather than wallowing in apathy, I was immediately onboard. At last, we would all have the chance to live our lives as authentically and proactively as Bryn…if only from the comfort of our keyboards. Olivia Wilde
34 / ROBERT KENNEDY III
Why him? | The 32-year-old photographer is a fashion prince—his mother is Italian
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Why him? | The Greeks had marble statues; America has young Kennedys, who have amazing posture and hair, and, in a Catholic version of Rumspringa, seem to really enjoy their brief pre–public service period. Likes | Hollywood. Like family patriarch Joseph P., the 30-year-old has a taste for the silver screen: He wrote and starred in EuroTrapped with Alec Baldwin. Natural Habitat | The riverside. He and his dad are deeply involved with Riverkeepers, the clean water advocates. Caveat | You may confuse his monogram (RFK III) with New York’s Triborough Bridge.
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35 / RORY McILROY
Why him? | The Irish golf phenom, 25, was the first European to win three different majors, nabbing a reported $ 100 million deal with Nike in the process. Likes | Controversy. He has traded insults with the Ryder Cup and Tiger Woods. Natural Habitat | Gym. Golf. Repeat. Caveat | He credits his 2014 wins to breaking up with fiancée Caroline Wozniacki after the invites had gone out.
> What a difference a millennium (and an app) makes. The men we used to call geeks are the new global romeos.
36 / James Middleton
Why him? | The 27-year-old uncle of the future king plays the family wildcard: He launched a line of personalized marshmallows in 2013. Likes | Pets. He gave the royal couple their dog Lupo. Natural Habitat | The London flat he shares with sister Pippa. Caveat | He said this: “When you see yourself on a marshmallow, or your loved one or your pet, you have a little moment with that little marshmallow.”
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Chariots await “Cycling,” the New York Times wrote, “is to Silicon Valley what the country club is to Connecticut.” So when these limited edition Legend bikes were not making it from Italy to San Francisco fast enough, tech execs started flying over to pick them up themselves. From $17,000, tartanian.com
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37 / Francois Hollande Why him? | Whether Gérard Depardieu will face it or not, the 60-year-old Hollande is the president of France. Likes | The company of women. Natural Habitat | A scooter on the streets of Paris. Caveat | The French actress Julie Gayet, who caused his latest breakup and his girlfriend’s nervous breakdown, has once again been spotted exiting and entering the Elysée Palace.
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> The five here come with warning labels. Side effects include heartbreak, tabloid scandals, and lawsuits.
38 / Nicolas Berggruen
Why him? | The “homeless billionaire,” 53, presides over an inter national think tank and his family’s art collection from four-star hotel rooms around the world. Likes | Room service. N atural Habitat | The global billionaire conference circuit. Caveat | He says he’s settling down and has bought two homes. Movers have not yet been scheduled.
39 / Ken griffin
Why him? | A contentious divorce means this 46-yearold hedge fund billionaire is back in the dating pool. Likes | Big weddings. His most recent was at Versailles. Natural Habitat | Lawyers’ offices. Spouse number two is suing for sole custody and contesting their prenup. Caveat | A real sweetheart: He filed for divorce via e-mail while his wife was on vacation with their kids.
40 / Jeremy Stoppelman
Why him? | The Yelp co-founder, 37, only looks like a Bollywood heartthrob. In reality he’s a nice Jewish CEO who cashed out in the PayPal IPO, took some me time to go to Harvard Business School, and then invented the world’s biggest crowd-sourced review site. Likes | Reviewing. Natural Habitat | San Francisco. Based on his 1,224 reviews (so far), he’s an outdoorsy sort with a weakness for macchiatos. Caveat | He’s picky about his charger cords, as the owners of the St. Regis Resort in Aspen could tell you.
41 / Henrique de castro Why him? | For anyone with a soft spot for unemployed men, Henrique is an excellent choice: When Yahoo chief Marissa Mayer ousted her handpicked COO last January, only 15 months after she poached him from Google, de Castro, 49, got a severance package worth more than $60 million. Likes | Conversation. Natural Habitat | Anywhere he wants. Caveat | Linguistic overreach. A parody Twitter account of his purported boardroom quotes (@ HDCyou knowme) is full of malapropisms like “You’re putting the donkey before the horse.”
42 / Pete Cashmore Why him? | The jaw, the eyes, the
crisp white shirts and lowrider jeans, the 65,000 Twitter followers, the 30 million uniques a month on Mashable, the newsy site dedicated to what the 29-year-old calls the connected generation. And he started it all 10 years ago, in his bedroom in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Likes | Instagramming his dessert choices. Natural Habitat | Online. Mashable is aimed at “people online all the time.” Caveat | That Luke Wilson–esque jawline can make him resemble a bobblehead doll. F E B RUA R Y 2 0 1 5 | 131
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43 / Marin Cilic
Why him? | The rangy Croat, 26, won the 2014 U.S. Open thanks to looselimbed court coverage and a wicked serve. Likes | Psychology, which helped him overcome pesky Grand Slam–denying mental blocks. Natural Habitat | Monaco—not much of a tennis scene, but a tax rate favorable to millionaires. Caveat | “Singles player” is right: After dating Kristina
47 / Nic Roldan
Why him? | The deeply dimpled 25-year-
Why him? | The third-generation
old Carolina Panthers quarterback celebrates touchdowns by ripping apart an imaginary shirt, Clark Kent–style. Likes | Running the show. Newton either passes the ball or runs it himself on about 70 percent of his team’s plays. N atural Habitat | Awards season. He won the Heisman Trophy in 2010, then followed that with the NFL’s 2011 Rookie of the Year. Caveat | When he’s losing he drapes a towel over his head and mopes.
polo player hits the sport’s sweet spot: He’s better looking than the other great players, and he’s a better player than the other great-looking ones. Likes | Travel—which is lucky, since he spends the year shuttling among Santa Barbara, the Hamptons, England, Argentina, and Palm Beach County. Natural Habitat | The saddle. The 31-yearold picked up the sport at age five. Caveat | This social animal can be hard to separate from the herd.
46 / KEI NISHIKORI
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Milkovic for five years, he says he’s still not ready for marriage.
Why him? | The U.S. Open finalist ended the year ranked number five in the world—but number one among fans of rumpled hair and headbands. Likes |
45 / Ben Saunders L a s t F e b r u a r y t h e b l u ff, b a r r el-
chested polar explorer completed the 1,795mile route through Antarctica that killed Captain Scott and his team in 1912. Throughout Saunders’s thoroughly 21st-century expedition—sponsored by Intel and Land Rover—he blogged all the way and uploaded “holiday snaps” as well as the occasional video update. You could hardly imagine a more thoroughly British figure. It’s not just the red beard and blue eyes and crisp Sandhurst accent (the Royal Military Academy also trained princes William and Harry); there’s the throwback job title (polar explorer) and the self-deprecating humor. “I essentially drag sledges for a living,” the 37-year-old likes to say. It seems a shame to waste such charm on the polar ice caps, but embracing solitude is one of his gifts. Before his trek to the South Pole (which he undertook 132 | T ow n A N D C O U N T R Y M AG. c o m
with ultra-marathoner Tarka L’Herpiniere), he soloed the North Pole, at the age of 26, and took several stabs at beating the polar speed record—without sled dogs and entirely alone. Although he maintains a certain lifestyle while on treks (during his North Pole expedition he admitted that it was possible to change his underwear only once a month), he cleans up nicely and seems to be adjusting well to continents with permanent populations greater than zero. His motivational speeches (“ ‘Impossible’ is just someone’s opinion”) go for $35,000 a pop, and his TED talk has attracted well over a million views. “There is nothing extraordinary about me,” he says, somewhat unconvincingly. Certainly, by now he has enough of a record to disprove the grade school teacher who wrote, “Ben lacks sufficient impetus to achieve anything worthwhile.” Kevin Conley
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> Achievement in sports can sometimes be a relationship deterrent, but consider the benefit: stamina!
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Any surface: The 25-year-old wins more than 70 percent of his matches, no matter where he plays. Natural Habitat | The baseline. The rapid-fire squeaks of Nishikori’s sneakers in mid-rally should be set to music. Caveat | He and fellow Olympian girlfriend Honami Tsuboi have been spotted diamond shopping.
48 / THEO NIARCHOS Why him? | Water is in the Niarchos family’s genes:
Grandfather Stavros was a Greek shipping tycoon and invented the supertanker; Theo, 23, is a pro surfer sponsored by skate/surf clothing line RVCA. Likes | Art. Theo’s latest move—leaving Hawaii to attend art school in Orange County—was not completely unexpected. His father Philip owns the self-portrait Vincent van Gogh painted after cutting off his ear. Natural Habitat | The 60-foot waves at Pe’ahi, also known as Jaws. Caveat | Even at three minutes his experimental videos feel long.
50 / KEVIN LOVE Why him? | The six-foot-10 swingman has a new
team (the Cleveland Cavaliers, with LeBron James) to go with his new lean, low-carb silhouette. Likes | The spotlight. The nephew of Beach Boy Mike Love co-starred with future teammate Kyrie Irving in a six-minute video—with 12 million hits—about two old men (Love and Irving, in geezerwear) who discover the fountain of youth in a pickup game. Natural Habitat | Twitter, where the 26-year-old leverages his 1.3 million followers to raise money for breast cancer research. Caveat | In the house of Love, grilled chicken cubes are considered a snack.
49 / Ben Ainslie
Why him? | At 38, the British seafarer (officially Sir Charles Benedict Ainslie) has medaled in five straight Olympics, winning gold in the last four—the first sailor ever to do so. Likes | Competition. In Sydney in 2000, Ain-
slie employed a blocking move that won him his first gold; the maneuver was once considered unsportsmanlike but is now fair play. Natural Habitat | Anywhere with a coast. Caveat | His temper has disqualified him.
FAME
TH E INTER NATIO NAL BACH ELO R S PLAY B O O K
Love Means. . . ANDREW LAUREN Ralph’s eldest child appears to have pledged his troth to producing indie films.
PRINCE HARRy Royalty’s Peter Pan has at least grown up, even if big bro’s wedded bliss has yet to rub off.
LEOnardo DICAPRIO Hollywood is still the main attraction, with cameos by international models.
DAVID DE ROTHSCHILD His avid environ mentalism apparently extends to the recycling of women.
VITO SCHNABEL Being the “toyboy lover” of Heidi Klum is an achievement… somewhere.
WINSTON LAPHAM The son of former arper’s editor Lewis H Lapham prefers the heir ess to the literary type.
JAMES FRANCO Comes with warning: Must also love Seth Rogen.
PIERRE CASIRAGHI The younger son of Princess Caroline of Monaco and his girlfriend—of six years!— Beatrice Borromeo. 134 | T ow n A N D C O U N T R Y M AG. c o m
VLADIMIR ROITFELD If only dating were an art, he could hang it in his gallery.
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