may 2014 may 2014 WHEN APP DEVELOPERS STRIKE IT RICH HORSE POLO IN MEXICOCITY JOHNSLATTERY STEPS BEHIND THE CAMERA — united’s premium magazine — PATRICK STEWART JUST GETTING STARTED RHAP0514_001_COVERvFINAL.indd 1 11/04/2014 12:05 FEATURES 64 “Even more than his bald head, what’s most noticeable about Patrick Stewart in person is a delightful jauntiness to his step. He seems genuinely to be having a blast, and has even become something of a folk hero, à la Bill Murray, but with the added stature of knighthood.” —JOSHUA DAVID STEIN 72 Model Lydia Hearst, star of TV’s “The Face,” goes Technicolor in Emilio Pucci, Christian Siriano, Chanel and more 84 “If dressage is like golf— a fairly tame, slow-moving, skill-oriented sport— horse polo is like football. Galloping around on a polo field sans helmet, even during warm-up, is madness.” —ANTON DISCLAFANI 92 “To many outside of Silicon Valley, the luxury of striking it rich by selling your app wouldn’t be having time to decide which job is next, but rather never having to work again. Most tech entrepreneurs don’t seem wired that way.” —ADAM K. RAYMOND NIGELPARRY RHAP0514_011-012_TOC.indd 11 09/04/2014 12:03 RUNWAY 49 Michael Bastian on making clothing he wants to wear 52 Pat Riley’s sharp suits; Burberry Travel Tailoring 54 Mood Board: Susie Crippen’s salt-of-the-earth chic 56 Luxe moto jackets; jewelry made from AK-47s Y 59 Black Tie: Hillary Clinton, 72 Pharrell Williams, Anna Kendrick and more IN BRIEF 60 Connections: Getting to know your fellow flyer 18 John Slattery of “Mad Men” 62 Tasting Notes: wasabi on his film-directorial debut 23 The new Waldorf Astoria Beijing’s soon-to-be-timeless PLANE SPOKEN bronze facade 98 “Almost five years after I 24 Hollywood’s unlikeliest was drafted, I finally got ladies’ man, John Turturro, called up to Chicago. I spent finally gets the girls the night hurriedly packing 26 Andy Murray tries his hand and phoning everyone I at being a hotelier; how pro knew to share the good tennis stars travel news. My first flight as an official big leaguer was just 28 Anna Chlumsky’s evolution as plush as I’d always from child actor to “Veep” imagined: an aisle seat in the very first row.” 41 32 Douglas Rushkoff on why —DOUG GLANVILLE traditional brand storytelling is over 18 may 2014 WHEN APP AUCTION BLOCK DEVELOPERS STRIKE IT RICH HORSE POLO IN MEXICOCITY JOHNSLATTERY STEPS BEHIND 35 Developer Aby Rosen on THE CAMERA what he looks for in art PATRICK 38 Hotel rooms that come STEWART JUST GETTING with a set of wheels STARTED 41 Luxury mechanical watches for women 44 Touring the Andes on a new ON THE COVER Exclusive photograph of Patrick Stewart shot by Project Rushmore Harley Nigel Parry at The High Line Hotel in 46 May auction-house gems New York City from around the world TONYDURANHEARSTLARUICCISABRINAEARRINGCIRCASIXTYTHREEBLUESATURNBEADEDNECKLACEGEORDIEWOODSLATTER RHAP0514_011-012_TOC.indd 12 09/04/2014 12:04 FROM THE EDITORS EDITORIAL EDITORINCHIEFJordan Heller EXECUTIVEEDITORSean Manning SENIOREDITORHunter R. 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CORRECTIONINTHEFEBRUARYISSUERHAPSODYINADVERTENTLYOMITTED tocontacttheeditorsofrhapsody﹐youcanemail CREDITSFORTHELINDSEYVONNCOVERSTORYGEORGIAALEXIABENJOUWASTHE themdirectlyatrhapsody@ink-global﹒com﹐oryou FASHIONSTYLISTANDRACHELSANDOVALWASTHEMAKEUPARTISTWEOFFEROUR canfindthemontwitterat@rhapsodymag SINCERESTAPOLOGIESTOBOTH JESSIEADLER RHAP0514_016_EDS_LETTER.indd 16 08/04/2014 11:43 KNIGHT INSHINING HUMOR Newly married, fresh off a successful Broadway run, ruling Twitter and starring in the new f ilm X-Men: Days of Future Past, Sir Patrick Stewart is having the time of his life By JOSHUA DAVID STEIN Photography by NIGEL PARRY Styling by JOHN MOORE CREDITTKTKTKTKTKTKTKTKTK — may 2014 RHAP0514_064_FT_CoverStory.indd 64 08/04/2014 12:38 CREDITTKTKTKTKTKTKTKTKTK may 2014 — RHAP0514_064_FT_CoverStory.indd 65 08/04/2014 12:39 — may 2014 RHAP0514_064_FT_CoverStory.indd 66 08/04/2014 12:39 previous page DOLCE&GABBANA Hat, $375 JOHN VARVATOS Black linen jacket, $1,298; shirt, $248 BURBERRY LONDON Trousers, $350 REISS Belt, $85 opposite page ZZEGNA Charcoal suit, $1,495; shirt, $345 JOHN VARVATOS Oxford lace-up shoes, $598 T WAS an epic powder day early last year, with sky so blue Pinter and “Waiting for Godot” by Samuel Beckett, both and snow so white that Alpine Meadows, Calif., looked playwrights masters of pathos and patter. Stewart settles like a full-size watercolor map of itself. Sir Patrick into his seat at a cozy lunch cafe in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Stewart, at best an intermediate skier, stood at the top Wearing a black leather jacket, black fedora and a zip- of a black diamond run, terrified and feeling unequal up sweater, he looks much more quinquagenarian than to the task. His eyes narrowed behind his ski goggles. septuagenarian. He’s a regular here—he and Ozell live Peering down at the steep descent, his trademark bald around the corner—so no one is freaking out that one of pate shook slowly in its helmet. the best actors of the 20th century and an Officer of the His then fiancée and now wife, Sunny Ozell—a Order of the British Empire is about to dine in their midst. Brooklyn-based musician and singer who was 35 at the Stewart himself is pleasantly informal, just another English I time—stood beside him. She had been a competitive down- sir hanging out in Brooklyn. hill racer since childhood but Stewart, then 72, had begun “Can you hang this up for me?” he asks the tattooed to ski only a few years earlier. He had instead spent his waiter, handing him his hat. “I have nowhere to put it.” It youth and adulthood playing space captains, flawed kings, is the most ordinary of phrases, but such is the power of paraplegic sages and tortured Shakespearean souls. None Stewart’s voice that it seems to portend an existential crisis. of them had skied and so neither had he. “Sure,” says the waiter, taking the hat and, just perhaps, “Here’s the plan,” explained Ozell to comfort him. “We’re providing a mote of metaphysical solace. going to stop halfway down the run. OK?” Hat hung, prerequisite English apologies made (for But when she