Best-dressed man

Britain’s best-dressed man – The ones that got away

Britain’s best-dressed man – The ones that got away

The shortlist for this year’s best-dressed real man of Britain project has been drawn up, and the winner will be announced in next month’s issue, available early September. Though this year’s competition is nearly at an end, we wanted to pay tribute to some of the entrants who threw their two cents in a little too late. Gentlemen, we salute you.

Name Alex Loring

Age 21

Location Berkshire

Occupation Music producer

How he describes his style “Smart and skinny”

Best-dressed man,Style

Esquire’s best-dressed man – The winner

Esquire’s best-dressed man – The winner

You voted in your droves, the ballot boxes filled to the brim and we  spent the entire weekend sifting through the results. Now, after much deliberation and debate, Esquire’s best-dressed staffer has been chosen. And we can officially reveal that the winner of this year’s competition (by a country mile, we might add) is one Darren Singh, Esquire’s long-serving advertising director. [Read more...]

Grooming,Style & Grooming

The making of Bleu de Chanel

Click to playThe making of Bleu de Chanel

French fashion house Chanel is known for producing some of the olfactory world’s most elegant fragrances. The latest offering from the century-old house “Bleu de Chanel” is an understated, masculine scent with notes of labdanum, nutmeg and ginger, created over a period of four years by Chanel’s “Master Nose” Jacques Polge, alongside British nose Christopher Sheldrake. [Read more...]

How Tos

The Manual – The science behind gender stereotypes

The Manual – The science behind gender stereotypes

This week in the manual we reveal the science behind gender stereotypes so that nobody will ever call you sexist again. [Read more...]

Competitions,Music

Win a pair of tickets to an exclusive Foals recording

Win a pair of tickets to an exclusive Foals recording

We’ve hooked up with swish Spanish car manufacturer SEAT to offer an amazing prize to one lucky pair of music fans. [Read more...]

Best-dressed man

Britain’s best-dressed man – The ones that got away

Britain’s best-dressed man – The ones that got away

The shortlist for this year’s best-dressed real man of Britain project has been drawn up, and the winner will be announced in next month’s issue, available early September. Though this year’s competition is nearly at an end, we wanted to pay tribute to some of the entrants who threw their two cents in a little too late. Gentlemen, we salute you. [Read more...]

Top Fives

Top five books to read on the loo

Top five books to read on the loo

Photograph courtesy Luke Barclay

Whether your taste veers towards newspapers or naughty magazines (thought we hope Esquire would trump both), everyone loves a good read on the loo, it’s an act as ingrained in British culture as reading the back of the cereal box at the breakfast table. In honour of the age-old pastime we thought we’d compile a list of our favourite toilet reads ever. We hope you agree. [Read more...]

Culture

Alex Horne at the Fringe – Part three

Alex Horne at the Fringe – Part three

It’s an increasingly well-known fact that comedians don’t make any money at Edinburgh. If you do manage to sell most of the seats in your venue, that money is then split with the company that owns the venue and you’re lucky if what you have left comes close to covering room-hire, advertising, PR, management fees, accommodation and pies. Of course, if your venue happens to seat 400 or more punters the numbers swing dramatically in your favour but according to last week’s Review Show on BBC2 the average Fringe audience is still just 7, and even though I’ve never believed that statistic it certainly supports my argument. [Read more...]