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Avoiding Bling on the Riviera, or, What to Wear at the Beach
2008-06-08 13:51:00 We made the decision only to use London?s City Airport this summer, which means no long haul flights, but also no charter flights, no lost baggage, no broken down terminals, and so no suffering.. We?ve opted for the hot, flashy Cote d?Azur in July and, as we start to assemble our summer wardrobe we?re doing ... More About: Beach , Style , Wear , Bling , Riviera
Father?s Day, revisited
2008-06-08 13:32:00 It’s not easy being a father. You’re not as soft, friendly or as consistent a source of nourishment as your partner. It’s never you in the Pampers ads. It’s never you in the nursery rhymes. Yet there you are, goggle-eyed, staring down at the flesh-teddy you somehow created. You’re overjoyed and exhausted. Exhilarated and knackered. ... More About: Style , Father
Time of The Season
2008-06-07 11:18:00 A great deal of the gentry who make up that spiffing elite called Society reside in castles and manors on vast estates in the country and need to visit London on occasion to take care of various business matters, snort through the foul air and — historically — attend Parliament, which sits from February through ... More About: Time , Style , Season
Scents from heaven
2008-06-07 11:14:00 At this time of year, fragrance is oh-so-important. The flowers, the cut grass and smoky barbeques fill the air with a welcoming whiff. While your senses are heightened during the summer months, so are those of your contemporaries. It’s one of the curiosities of the season that just a little more effort is made. People ... More About: Heaven , Style , Grooming
The Return of the Penny Loafer
2008-06-01 14:22:00 The truth is, penny loafers never really go away, they just vacation on the coast of Maine when the sartorial going gets tough. From time to time, however, penny loafers reign supreme ? in the 1930s when they were invented, in the 1950s as worn by Montgomery Clift, in the 1960s, when sockless American campuses ... More About: Lifestyle , Style , Return , The Return , Return of the
How and when to wear a cane
2008-05-30 01:47:00 Whereas a gentleman carries an umbrella or a walking stick he ?wears? a cane. The umbrella and the walking stick are functional accoutrements; but a gentleman?s cane is a finishing touch to his wardrobe. He should give equal attention to the selection of his cane as to his choice of wardrobe, the nature ... More About: Lifestyle , Culture , Style , Wear , Cane
Brands we like: Our Legacy
2008-05-27 23:37:00 Always on the lookout for a modern take on the classic man?s wardrobe, I was lust-struck at first sight with Stockholm-based men?s clothier, Our Legacy . Part Tender is the Night, part aristocratic younger son, part sharp-eyed commonsensible Scandinavian designer ? Our Legacy aims to provide neatly tailored shirts, comfy khakis and smart jackets that are ... More About: Style , Brands
No Cannes do
2008-05-25 17:24:00 The Cannes Film Festival was designed as a reaction against the ’suspicious’ dominance of the Italians and Germans at the the Venice Film Festival. Thus, it has always bestowed a deep critical affection upon daring storytellers not afraid to strut beyond the comfort zone of the industry. Such a desire to facilitate ‘the new’ and ...
Gentry sounds: Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip, Angles
2008-05-22 00:43:00 Proving that Essex boys really can do it better, these beareded maestros have produced one of the records of the year. Seemingly a flippant summer rant - all squelched beats and snarky chats - given a little time and consideration, ‘Angles’ has a lot to say and some way of saying it. Doubtless the record will ... More About: Culture , Sounds
Ciao bello: Saying farewell to Paolo Maldini
2008-05-18 13:26:00 One of the most remarkable sporting careers of the modern era is soon to draw to a close. Since his debut in 1985 for A.C. Milan, Paolo Maldini has been a consumate footballer, performing impossibly well with a peerless guile and panache for over twenty years. Maldini may well extend his remarkable era one more ... More About: Sport , Style , Farewell , Bello
Gentry Essentials: ONETrueSaxon Jeans
2008-05-14 01:05:00 Buffed by the anxious sleeve of hype, summer has, at last, arrived. All of a sudden a wave of warm air has hit the streets, slowing us down, hitting us with a lazy kind of motivation. So, the one thing every man needs in the heat is a good old pair of jeans: stylish, reliable ... More About: Jeans , Style , Essentials
Star suckers: Celebrities in ads
2008-05-11 14:02:00 Celebrities have a long standing relationship with advertising. That is to say, they have a long standing relationship with money. From John Wayne’s wheezy endorsement of Camels, to Orson Welles’ slurred campaign for Paul Masson to Scarlett Johansson’s winsome Eternity ad, star power has always attracted the marketing men for that instant, orgasmic hit of ... More About: Celebrities , Style , Star , Suckers
Dynamite, Frank Sinatra at the movies
2008-05-08 02:00:00 A retrospective at London’s NFT celebrates the film career of Frank Sinatra . While he may have been Mr. Smooth on record, he was one of the fiercest and most intense of screen actors. Below, Gentry look back at the greatest movies of a true performer. 5. From Here to Eternity (Fred Zinnemann, 1953) A small but ... More About: Movies , Film , At The Movies , Dynamite
Gentry Style in LA: Last Days
2008-05-03 20:52:00 Half the fun of leaving one?s flat in LA is ?celebrity? spotting. Admittedly, that?s usually like shooting fish in a tank, although on this trip, the celebrity pickin?s have been thinner that usual. Maybe it?s because everyone is back to work now that the writers? strike is over, putting in a dishonest day?s labour? Maybe ... More About: Style , Last Days , Days
The Perfect Mint Julep
2008-05-02 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
Bone dry: Celibate Celebrities
2008-05-01 01:43:00 I was heartbroken to find out Lenny Kravitz has been celibate for three years. Time was, I could go to sleep at night comforted by the fact that Lenny would be working over any one of Natalaie Imbruglia, Lisa Bone t, Natalie Portman, Penelope Cruz or Kylie Minogue. If you can’t trust Lenny Kravitz, who can ... More About: Lifestyle , Celebrities
This Week, Gentry Style: Portishead (Third)
2008-04-27 21:54:00 Back in the mid-90s, before Russell Brand was born, before reality television had increased the volume of the nation’s drool, Portishead were laying down a kind cruelly suggestive sound that almost single handedly coalesced a ’scene’. Their shimmering music - trapped somewhere between malignant rock and a bashfully meditative drum n bass - was expansive, ... More About: Style , Week
Gentry in LA: At the Beach
2008-04-26 09:41:00 Not too many years ago in London, I went in search of beach towels to take with me to France. Or maybe Italy. It was a long search and one that didn?t bear much terry-veloured fruit. I finally found a couple at SCP, but, nice though they are, it doesn?t seem quite right to buy ... More About: Lifestyle , Beach , Style
Top 5: Gambling Movies
2008-04-21 23:21:00 One of the cinema’s most beguiling and enthralling genres, the gambling movie is always a wild ride, sometimes taking the audience to the the thrilling heights of the winner’s circle and, more often than not, to the lonely lows of the loser’s personal hell. There is something vicariously sumptuous in gambling movies, it’s all ... More About: Movies , Film , Gambling
Gentry Essentials: Summer sun with CoLab
2008-04-19 13:15:00 A pair of shades is a pair of shades. that’s the way it tends to be nowadays with the woolly mass market coin-devils squeezing out the more innovative, idiosyncratic designers. However, fighting back the constrictive market forces like courageous members of the style justice league, intriguing new outfit CoLab have handed global vibe doyens Eboy, ... More About: Summer , Style , Essentials
Gentry in LA: At the Schindler House, West Hollywood
2008-04-15 21:14:00 One of the great pleasures of LA life is driving around looking at the fabulous houses which were part of the Case Study House programme, after World War II. A far cry from the hideous McMansions that are a plague upon canyons from east to west, many of these sleek, elegant, modest homes are modernist ... More About: Hollywood , Travel , Culture , Architecture
The Masters: Golf Style
2008-04-13 13:33:00 Golfers enjoy the position of being the most elegantly dressed of sportsmen, just edging ahead in recent years over tennis pros, largely because of the gaudy Spanish outfits of Rafael Nadal. They retain an old-fashioned charm, a pressed and prim professionalism - always unruffled. Gentry has written before about the cool cut of the green ... More About: Golf , Style , Masters , The Masters
European Wonderland: Deserted Architectural Marvels
2008-04-10 22:30:00 The age of exploration may be long gone, with every inch of the world scrubbed clean by sat-nav, but we now find ourselves in the age of re-discovery. There are an amazing array of discarded architectural marvels going to waste - ready to be uncovered by the curious eye - left behind by the world, ... More About: Architecture , European , Deserted , Architectural
The Tote: Can you carry it off?
2008-04-08 23:14:00 There are a fine range of bags available to the gent. There are plenty of fashions to choose from and identify with; the swept back Italian leather satchel, the hip-to-be-square soho record bag, the modest backpack, the continental, vintage strapless clutch, even the tried and tested pomp of the leather legal brief. But now, fellows, ... More About: Lifestyle , Style , Tote , Carry
Thinking on their Feet: Footballers with Attitude
2008-04-06 20:34:00 Most footballers might be justifiably written off as knuckle-dragging, groupie-banging perma-adolescents, but there are a few, albeit a very few, who think on their feet, engage with the world around them and, for better or worse, use their unique position to express a range of political views. One such player is the provocative Oleguer Presas, ... More About: Lifestyle , Sport , Feet , Attitude , Thinking
So long, Salon
2008-04-03 23:43:00 A recent Guardian article by Giles Foden laments the disappearance of the literary salon, a place where like-minded, bookish erudites gather to discuss the great works, future projects and generally froth the literary waters. In this great grey city vibrant public houses and cafe’s are few and far between and Foden is right that such ... More About: Style , Long , Salon
A Gentry Spring
2008-04-01 00:25:00 For those us in London, there is so such thing as spring. In this city, it?s hard to live seasonally. The daffodils which promised so much only a few weeks ago have been cruelly levelled by gale force artic winds and rain. Still, we are made of strong stuff and hope, um, springs eternal? So, ... More About: Lifestyle , Culture , Spring , Style
This Week - Gentry Style
2008-03-30 20:21:00 The Exhibition: Vanity Fair Portraits (National Portrait Gallery) This excellent collection has been around for a while so there’s no excuse to miss it. The NPG has been given access to the Vanity Fair archives and pulled 150 of the most iconic, revealing pictures. The exhibition features vintage prints from the magazine’s first period (1913-1936) ? ... More About: Style , Week
Top 5: Films du Look
2008-03-25 18:35:00 Cinéma du look was a French film movement of the 1980s that had a slick, self-concious visual style. It focussed on young, alienated and almost invariably handsome characters. It was a thrilling blend of high and low (pop) culture and music, dealing with themes of urban loneliness and cosmetic attraction - very much taking its ... More About: Culture , Film , Films , Style
Gentry Essentials: Go Digital!
More articles from this author:2008-03-24 13:05:00 The inherent nerdiness of the digital watch has been excorcised by the latest flush of stylish models available. There is a trend emerging amongst some of the most elegant watch designers to out-do one another on the digital front, pushing the form to new heights. The sharp lines and naturally austere contours of the digital ... More About: Style , Digital , Essentials 1, 2, 3 |
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