By turns funny, serious, poignant, and always insightful, The 215 Most Important Men in My Life dispenses wisdom unexpectedly gathered at a lifetime of dinner conversations, parties, gallery openings, and poolside chats. Collector, photographer, and man about town Jean Pigozzi has bumped into, dined with, or sat at the knee of some of the most influential men of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries from rock stars to fashion designers, film icons to directors, authors and artists to titans of industry. Here are sixty-five years of acquired advice from men, for all men. What it takes and means to be a successful man, in life from how to swim, to staying ahead of technology, to that most important of subjects: how to treat a woman. It is an encyclopedia of life lessons and inspirations shared to help others become a man in full, all collected and distilled in this most quixotic and serendipitous way.