Grooming,Style & Grooming

The manliest manicure set ever

The manliest manicure set ever

There’s nothing overly masculine about pruning your fingernails. At least, there wasn’t, until Czech & Speake introduced their ultra slick gentleman’s manicure set. Looking like something James Bond might keep in the false bottom of his briefcase, it’s an exquisite leather-bound kit housing an array of scissoring, tweezing, filing and tweaking implements made by Czech & Speake’s craftsmen in Solingen, Germany. [Read more...]

Style

The Million Pound Pea Coat

The Million Pound Pea Coat

If you’re still searching for tips on how to wear a pea coat, why not start with Gregory Peck? We’re used to him looking so dapper we wouldn’t bother attempting to copy him but his penniless American look in ‘The Million Pound Note’ is slightly more attainable. [Read more...]

Style

Jeans: a buyer’s guide

Jeans: a buyer’s guide

It’s jeans-buying season, and it’s a minefield of straight legs, synch-backs and drop-crotches out there, but Esquire’s guide to denim is here to help. After all, a pair of properly cut jeans can make even the most style-backwards man look cool. By contrast, a bad pair (crotch fading, custom phone pocket) has the ability to do the opposite – remember the normally impeccable Barack Obama and his off-duty “mom jeans”? Exactly. [Read more...]

Design & Technology,Style

Want list – Original Anglepoise lamp

Want list – Original Anglepoise lamp

The great thing about an Anglepoise is that whatever the state of your desk it will at least make the clutter look curated. Celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, the Original 1227’s spring loaded, balanced aluminum arms are as inexplicably entertaining as ever; like Meccano. You can also drop this bit of trivia: in 1948 the BBC’s Head Of Variety successfully got the Anglepsoise banned from beeb offices, believing its low-lighting would lead to ‘degenrate programme making’ (he was soon overturned, the big silly). (£149; www.anglepoise.com)

Competitions,DVD

Win a Playstation 3 and Miramax Blu-ray bundle

Win a Playstation 3 and Miramax Blu-ray bundle

Here’s a chance to get your hands on a Sony Playstation 3 and a set of 6 Miramax movies available for the first time on Blu-ray.  [Read more...]

Style

Label watch – Rake

Label watch – Rake

Something’s stirring in Mayfair menswear. A new breed of big-thinking young tailors has arrived, from the slick, modern aesthetic of A Sauvage to the more traditional take of Patrick Grant at E Tautz. Leading the charge is new label , which was established in 2009 by Clive Darby (Richard James’s former right-hand man and one-time sales director of Savile Row mainstay, Kilgour) and Will Adams (who also worked at Kilgour). [Read more...]

Culture,Film

Ryan Gosling – the Fonze of Film?

Ryan Gosling – the Fonze of Film?

In Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn’s new film, Drive, Ryan Gosling plays Driver. No, not James Driver, not Danny Driver, not Jean-Claude Van Driver, just Driver. Because, you know, that’s what he does. In the daytime he does it as a Hollywood stuntman; after hours, he hires out his sweet clutch control to the highest bidding bank robber. And how does he drive? He drives cool. [Read more...]

Music

It’s the Kasabianosaurus!

It’s the Kasabianosaurus!

Leicester’s finest “futuristic rock’n’roll band” have gone all prehistoric with their fourth record, Velociraptor!, as guitarist Serge Pizzorno explains. [Read more...]