Design,Style

Introducing ‘the Dad bag’

Introducing ‘the Dad bag’

New fathers know that one of the most humiliating parts of the job is having to lug all the baby paraphernalia around in a monstrous floral plastic bag. Well, it seems that finally someone has come up with a ‘baby bag’ that a man can be seen in public with. [Read more...]

Culture,Drink,Food & Drink

Have a Bafta for breakfast

Have a Bafta for breakfast

If you want to toast Colin Firth’s majestic Bafta acceptance speech over breakfast this morning, here is a recipe for another star of the evening, the nattily titled “L’Orange Bafta” cocktail. [Read more...]

The style bloggers: Hynam Kendall

Battle of the high-end sneakers

Battle of the high-end sneakers

Both are famed for the towering sky-high heels that teeter the red carpet and adorn the feet of the world’s most beautiful and celebrated women. And both have seguewayed into the world of casual streetstyle menswear sneakers. In the left corner: Christian Laboutin with animal print Vans-lite ankle-height shoes, unveiled at their A/W ’09 press day. In the right corner: Jimmy Choo’s just-unveiled £395 hightops. Let battle commence.

Music,Video clips

A possible explanation for Rafa Nadal’s recent loss of form

A possible explanation for Rafa Nadal’s recent loss of form

We always treat a new Shakira video with mild interest (particularly after her bizarre caged pelvic thrusts for “She-Wolf”), but we were more surprised than usual by the news that the skimpily clad Colombian had recruited none other than Spanish former number-one tennis player Rafael Nadal to romp alongside her in the promo for “Gypsy”, see clip below. [Read more...]

Style,The fashion cupboard,Trendwatch

Short Shrift

Short Shrift

We’re frequently told by purveyors of very short, and therefore unpractically proportioned, overcoats (ie any formal coat that finishes above the knee) that the abbreviated length is informed by the advent of central heating and the fact that men don’t spend much time out in the elements anymore. [Read more...]

Culture,Music,Travel,What we're listening to

The backpack Ibiza

The backpack Ibiza

A crystal clear sea, a slowly shimmering sunset with palm trees gently slowly swaying in the 30 degree heat. To top that a DJ legend on the decks easing you into a Saturday night. A common enough occurrence nowadays the holiday island Koh Samui. [Read more...]

Competitions,Food & Drink,Restaurants,Top Fives

Top five* fish and chip bars

Top five* fish and chip bars

Once again, the Twittersphere has spoken. Last week on Twitter  (@esquireuk), we were extolling the virtues of our local chippy, The Golden Union on Poland Street, when all hell broke loose. The merits of crispy batter and expertly fried chips quickly snowballed into a heated (though not overcooked) debate on the best fish and chip bar in the UK. And Hungry of Tunbridge Wells certainly had his say… [Read more...]

Culture,Film

The long and short of Spike Jonze

Click to playThe long and short of Spike Jonze

It took five years for Spike Jonze to purge his childhood obsession and finally realise Where The Wild Things Are. Five years in which a genuine maverick of film was to learn what Hollywood – big suits, studio bosses, hundreds of millions of dollars of someone else’s money Hollywood – was like. [Read more...]