Style

Sir Paul cycles into style with Rapha

Click to playSir Paul cycles into style with Rapha

Now that the weather is set to go apocalypto on our asses, urban cyclists all over the UK are weighing up the evils of clambering into overcrowded tubes and buses versus the shame of clambering into baggy yellow rain gear that has the effect of making the wearer resemble Anne Widdecombe trapped inside a giant custard tart. Neither are good looks. [Read more...]

Film,Review

Film review — The American

Film review — The American

The American, Anton Corbijn’s stylish follow-up to Control, his celebrated biopic of Joy Division’s Ian Curtis, is as slick and beautiful as you might expect. Yes, “the mysterious hit man trying to lie low who gets sucked into one last job” plot couldn’t be more familiar, but when you’ve got Clooney up front and the sublime Abruzzo hills in the background, a lot can be forgiven. [Read more...]

Style

Targeting Dungarees

Targeting Dungarees

As far as style inspiration goes, you’d be hard pressed to find any in a film featuring Jean Claude Van Damme. If pushed however, Hard Target – John Woo’s 1993 cat and mouse thriller – would probably be your best choice (Van Damme’s mammalian mullet aside). [Read more...]

Competitions,Drink

Great Finnish – Win a trip to Lapland

Great Finnish – Win a trip to Lapland

We’re a pretty well-travelled bunch. Not exactly blasé about jetting off on the next mini-break… but close. So when the prospect of a trip gives you goosebumps, there has to be something pretty special involved. Lapland, deep in the Arctic Circle, did the trick. [Read more...]

Style,Where to buy

Making merry in the Men’s Lab

Click to playMaking merry in the Men’s Lab

It would be fair to say that, up until the past few years at least, West London department store Harrods was better known for its traditional take on style than it was for contemporary, high street-inspired clothing. [Read more...]

Art,Exhibitions

Who says you can’t take it with you?

Who says you can’t take it with you?

Eco-coffins made of newspaper or wicker may be all very trendy, but that’s not going to make you the envy of the cemetery. Ghanaian coffin-maker Paa Joe has a much better idea — a carved wooden coffin that represents your profession, or takes the shape of your most treasured or desired possession — and an exhibition of four of his more outlandish works opens today at Jack Bell Gallery in central London. [Read more...]

Culture,Film

Secret Cinema at the asylum

Secret Cinema at the asylum

In 1973, the psychologist Rosenhan sent a group of completely sane participants to commit themselves to an asylum to study the notion of sanity. Once there, the participants were struck by the difficulty of convincing the medical staff of the stability of their minds. [Read more...]

The bespokesman

The Bespokesman -Think Pink

The Bespokesman -Think Pink

It’s amazing that in the 21st century pink clothes are still widely considered to be dubiously effeminate or posh. Given the freedom with which men dress these days it’s incredible that a common colour can remain controversial. [Read more...]