Andreas Tzortzis

There are 32 components in the making of a woman’s bra. This was something Felix del Toro did not know when he started at Calvin Klein. He’d spent more than 20 years at Gap and Banana Republic, but not once did someone tell him how an article of women’s...

When Magnus Walker looks back on his remarkable life, he’s able to pinpoint the pivotal moments and color them with the detail and context that led him to where he is today. He speaks succinctly and with deliberation, and there’s a sense that not only does he have it...

For 26 years, Shannon Scott worked at the shoe brand ASICS. That number is astonishing in any modern working era, but in the age of rapid digital transformation and the gigging economy, it can well be considered a lifetime. Indeed, she married again and raised two children during that time....

There are certain professions that seem almost immune to aging. You want an experienced doctor in the same way you want a pilot who's taken to the air a few times. The creative industry seems to be a bit different: music and acting continue to prize youth over age...

A typical week for the excellently named Julie Diamond involves teaching four full-body workout classes and then one-on-ones with private clients — some of whom want to look awards-show fresh, or prepare their body for the rigors of an action film. When she has time, and she always makes...

Onto the back of his apartment door in Italy, there whenever he left for the day, Marco Beghin affixed a card which read, “Allow Your Daydreams to Become Your Plans.” Beghin’s daydream as long as he could remember, was to live in New York. He was working in sales at...

Model, ex-popstar-wife, stage actor, personal chef, failed startup entrepreneur and, recently, successful crypto currency trader, Julie Anne Rhodes is many things. What she isn’t, is a planner. “I think that’s one of my talents in life,” she told me. “I’m ready to recognize opportunities and I’m willing to explore them...

Three Decades of Inspiration For more than 35 years, Stephanie Waxman and Jo Sadalla — best friends whose lives led them to different cities — exchanged articles on women who inspired them. Clipped out of newspapers or magazines, they were profiles of 78-year-olds skydiving, marathon runners in their 90s, a...

Clearly there is something going on out in the world. It’s beyond the scope of AGEIST to explain or really comment on the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements. There are bigger brains doing a better job at that than we can. There are, however, some AGEIST-related facts that you may...

Two years into his stint as the exclusive importer of Jean-Paul Gaultier’s jewelry line, Jerome Jacques returned home to Los Angeles from a Visa-mandated trip to Paris with little more than $500 in his bank account. The selling wasn’t going too well. He opened his mailbox to two letters: the...