David Stewart

updating your makeup with a pro Styles change, skin changes and makeup lines change. We all have our favorite go-tos, but maybe it’s time to see if one can improve? Perhaps explore and see if there is something that may suit you better this year.  Now at Violet Grey on Melrose...

The Key to Longevity We have done a vast amount of speaking with people our age, and the single commonality our group has is a deep sense of purpose. This is the key, and it is what underlies everything. If there is a purpose, then there is a reason to...

Monocle Quality of Life I am incredibly honored to have been invited to speak at the Monocle Quality of Life Conference in Zurich June 28-30. If you are not familiar, this is the must-attend venue for the crowd of diplomats, CEOs, architects and designers wanting to know what is coming...

FANTASTIC MAN: For Young and Old, Issue 27 In spite of all the digital channels vying for our time, there is still a place for a well-designed, well-printed, thoughtful magazine. True that a lot of what is shown is not particularly practical, but that’s not the point — fashion magazines,...

martyn thompson rug collection launches We profiled Martyn, 56 — his storied photography career and developing parallel career as fabric designer — a couple of years ago here. Pushing forward, he just launched a rather amazing collection of Tibetan knotted rugs in partnership with luxury textile brand Perennials. We happen...

Last Friday, I put this on our Instagram and Facebook pages. It received more interaction than anything we have ever posted. The vast majority were people identifying with the sense of power that ownership of one’s age gives one, which was the intention. Some people interpreted the meaning as: sixty today is...

why is the wave of change happening now? The last couple of weeks, I have been out speaking and have been regularly asked the same question of “Why now? Why is this new way of living midlife emerging now?” There are many reasons, but here at AGEIST we have identified...

cape kiwanda, oregon As we are all increasingly urbanized, it’s important to regularly reconnect with what real power is: nature in the wild. This week, we feature the Oregon coast, and a particularly untamed part of the world: Cape Kiwanda. With its churning Pacific, giant rock formations and 100 ft sand...

This week we asked product expert Bonnie Mackay: How does one go about designing an amazing product? Bonnie Mackay is a retail design director and merchandising executive who made Christmas ornaments for the Museum of Modern Art in New York and Bloomingdale's, and has brought an understanding of brand identity...

Everyone should do a TED-type talk. It focuses the mind in a way not dissimilar to mountain climbing or big-wave surfing: high risk, high reward, and thank God we are still alive at the end of it.  I prepared for these talks for 3 months, with the last month...