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What a carry on! Menswear Spring/Summer 2008
2007-07-10 21:07:00 It has become customary, it seems, to make some kind of connection between what is being shown on the catwalks and what is being shown on CNN. Thus you get endless nonsense, every time a pair of combat trousers appears on the runways, to the effect that this is a reference to “our military times” ... More About: Summer , Spring , Style , Menswear , Mens
The worlds most expensive Whisky, is it worth it?
2007-07-07 16:51:00 The chatter stops and a reverential hush falls over the crowded bar, interrupted only by the finest sound known to man: the gentle plop of a cork being withdrawn from a bottle. And this is no ordinary bottle. Johnnie Walker 1805 (birth year of the Ayrshire grocer who founded the brand) is a unique blend ... More About: Drink , Worlds , Whisky , Most Expensive , Worth
Beyond the Myth, Art Endures
2007-07-07 15:54:00 Frida Kahlo spun her own life into a myth. She was so good at it that her art almost got lost along the way. Her persona, fashioned over almost three decades of self-portraits, fused physical suffering and emotional isolation. Her frank depiction of a woman?s psychic pain made her a feminist icon. She became a ... More About: Culture , Myth
10 Point Escape Plan to San Sebastian
2007-07-06 21:05:00 1. Book a round-trip flight to San Sebastian; British Airways flys direct from London, from the USA fly to Madrid on Iberia (from about $800); there?s a one-hour hop to San Sebastián. 2. Check into the grand nineteenth-century Hotel de Londres y de Inglaterra (from $178; 34-943-44-07-70), an imposing white reminder of the days when Spanish royalty ... More About: Travel , Point , Plan , Escape , Scape
Biennale or Bust
2007-06-22 18:57:00 Picture it: London?s Stansted airport, departure lounges filled with art-going professionals and their hangers-on, many travelling in their carefully selected sunset cocktail frocks in order to avoid ?economy class? creases that no steam iron could remove (this is Ryanair to Treviso, after all). No doubt this is a scene repeated across airports, as the ever-burgeoning ... More About: Lifestyle , Culture , Bust
Venice takes flight.. the Biennale!
2007-06-15 20:00:00 War is bad, we’re all going to die, and men with bird heads are a very bad sign … in a special report from the world’s biggest arts jamboree, Adrian Searle reveals what the Venice Biennale has to teach us. Standing in a huge, daylit room lined with vast new paintings by Sigmar Polke, I ... More About: Culture , Nice , Flight , Ice T
5 Best? Movies set in Paris by Pablo Cabrelli
2007-06-13 12:42:00 5. Frantic 4. Rififi 3. An American in Paris 2. Les Quatre Cents Coups 1. Le Samourai 5. Frantic (1988) Polanski?s thriller begins with a gripping sense of confusion and desperation, flowing unevenly into a scarcely believable but hugely enjoyable clandestine world of missed connections and secret alliances. Whilst Walker takes a shower, his wife, Sondra, simply disappears and he is ... More About: Movies , Film , Pablo
Fash-ism Comes to London
2007-05-17 00:01:00 You have to give Abercrombie and Fitch credit for sheer audacity. Launching a London flagship store of what is essentially an American mall shop between Bond Street and Saville Row takes steely nerve. With neighbours representing the history of bespoke British tailoring on one side (Kilgour, Henry Poole, Gieves and Hawkes), and international designer power-brands ... More About: Style , Come , Fash
Brooks Brothers: The Golden Fleece Turns Black
2007-05-09 01:12:00 It wasn?t long ago that you wouldn?t touch clothing from Brooks Brothers , let alone buy it. Unless, of course, you happened to find wonderfully soft, worn old Oxford cloth button-downs and baggy Bermuda shorts at your local thrift store. But since a re-launch in 2002, the brand is back on form and has gone some ... More About: Style , Black , Hers
Tom Ford takes Manhattan
2007-05-08 00:01:00 Few launches have been as hotly anticipated as Tom Ford ?s new flagship men?s emporium, which opened on Madison Avenue last month. The most important story in global fashion in the 1990s, Ford?s tenure at Gucci is already the stuff of fashion legend. He recast a brand whose best years were well behind it (the 1970s) ... More About: Style , Manhattan , Tom Ford , Atta
The Perfect Mint Julep
2007-05-07 22:00:00 The first Saturday in May heralds the beginning of good times. Not only do we have the venerable Kentucky Derby ? America?s most famous horse race, the first in the Triple Crown ? but also the beginning of Mint Julep season, which extends throughout the steamy summer of the American south. Let?s hope that when ... More About: Sport , Drink , Perfect
LIVING THE MODERNIST DREAM
2007-04-30 13:48:00 The name of a legendary architect?Oscar Niemeyer?compelled Michael and Gabrielle Boyd to fly to L.A. from New York to inspect an airy white stucco house on the edge of Santa Monica Canyon. Was the house they were inspecting that day in 2002 really a Niemeyer?the only one in North America? … Michael Webb in the ... More About: Living , Architecture , Dream , Modern , Ving
Cool Hunter
2007-04-25 18:36:00 Here’s an article from TimesOnline by James Collard that we liked and thought we’d share. Discreet, laid back bars are where it’s at… ‘There comes a point in nearly every life when being comfy becomes more important than trying to be cool. Of course, some people instinctively have their priorities right from the get-go; they?re born in ... More About: Lifestyle , Hunter , Drink , Cool , Hunt
Tennis Thighs Are Back
2007-04-23 13:45:00 You may not have noticed ? though if you haven?t, then you soon will ? tennis shorts are a style must this season. See ya, big-butted baggy cargo shorts. Farewell, the absurdity of the ¾ length trouser-short. If your inseam is longer than 4.5 inches this summer, you?d better be a skateboarding teenager or find ... More About: Sport , Tennis , Style , Back , High
5 Best: Sport movies by Paolo Cabrelli
2007-04-06 13:46:00 5. Friday Night lights 4. The Cincinnati Kid 3. The Natural 2. The Hustler 1. Rocky More About: Movies , Movie , Sport , Port , Best
Maserati v Aston Martin
2007-04-05 20:28:00 This is a game we like to play every now and then. It?s purely hypothetical and likely we?ll never need to make the difficult choice, but given that you can?t walk down Cheapside in London these days without spotting either a Mase rati GranSport or an Aston Mart in Vanquish S, it?s not a completely irrelevant question ... More About: Martin
The Moderns: Le Corbusier in Stuttgart?Aalto in London?Gaudi in New York
2007-04-03 10:51:00 It?s never been easier to get in touch with your inner Modernist. Exhibitions in New York and London , plus a new museum in Stuttgart, make Modernism a must for spring 2007. Let?s start in Stuttgart, with the new ?Weissenhof Museum?, devoted to the architecture of the father of the International Style, Le Corbusier. The Weissenhof Museum ... More About: Audi , Gaudi
The Green Jacket
2007-04-03 01:09:00 Although we once saw a man wearing a green blazer with some aplomb ? sported with a blue Oxford cloth shirt and Argyle striped tie, gray flannels and penny loafers ? it was on the body of a very old headmaster of a very old boys? boarding school in rural Virginia. With a green blazer, ... More About: Jacket , Green , Jack , The G
Wilkommen, Bienvenu
2007-04-03 01:09:00 Cabaret is back, and we don?t mean the musical (though there?s a fun, raunchy production of that show currently on in London, but we digress already.) No, we mean the return of high-kicking, can-can dancing, burlesque meets grotesque, fag cum drag, absinthe-fuelled cabaret NIGHTLIFE. Not since Weimar Berlin has cabaret managed to be so pervasive, ... More About: Men
Monocle: for the ?most interested and interesting people in the world?
2007-03-30 14:58:00 Monocle the new global, European based brand launched in February. Founded by Tyler Brule (founder of Wallpaper) the core of Monocle’s output is a monthly magazine delivering the most original coverage in global affairs, business, culture and design. Alongside the magazine there’s a web-base broadcast component covering the same areas through a variety of bulletins, mini-documentaries ... More About: Interesting , People , World , Inter , Mono
Skiing in London
2007-03-29 16:52:00 As the ski season winds down…some people make the best of it. More About: London , Ondo , Skiing
The shave
2007-03-29 16:03:00 A 1967 short film by Martin Scorsese about shaving? We watched this for the first time recently and were blown away. An apparently simple film which shows a man shaving, ‘The Big Shave ’ is most frequently interpreted by critics as a comment on America’s reckless, doomed involvement in the Vietnam War, particularly its self-destructiveness. (It’s still relevant today, ... More About: Have
LA: America?s new cultural capital?
2007-03-28 15:34:00 Over the last few decades Los Angeles has established itself as one of the world’s leading cultural capitals. For a long time the city struggled with its identity, Hollywood dominated and thrived whilst the urban landscape around the city declined. For years LA born artists would up-sticks and head for New York, while few artists would seek to settle in ... More About: America , Cult , Cultura , Capital , Cultural
The awkwardness of the British Gent.
More articles from this author:2007-03-28 15:34:00 British men are as sophisticated and cosmopolitan as they next, but we still don’t know how to say hello and goodbye to our male friends without feeling a little foolish. This week Nick Angel in The Times investigates the ritual of the male-to-male greeting that men are most at sea. The fact is this: there is no ... More About: British , War , Ness , Ward , The A 1, 2, 3 |
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