Style Guide | Ties by Alexander Olch
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Tie-maker Alexander Olch knows how to keep our attention. The former filmmaker (he first started making ties to give out as gifts on set) put his skills to use in this latest video, which stars French model Aurelie Claudel. Narrated by the man himself, it’s a great way to learn the four-in-hand knot. It’s also worth watching for seeing how attractive Claudel looks, even with a moustache and slightly freaky dubbing.
January 25th, 2012
How to | Upgrade your body language
New Year always brings with it plenty of self-improvement advice and if you’re single, most of those resolutions are going to involve upping your dating success. Here’s a quick and easy guide to using body language to your advantage. [Read more...]
January 4th, 2012
Life skills | How to make a hot toddy
A well-made, high-strength hot toddy is a thing of majesty. Not only will this winter warmer ward off colds and nourish the soul, it will also make those few days spent in the office between Christmas and New Year whizz by.
December 20th, 2011
AA Gill is Esquire’s Uncle Dysfunctional
Dear Uncle,
I’m 17 and beginning to show signs of male-pattern baldness. My mates call me Wills. I laugh it off and pretend I don’t care, but I do. It’s so unfair. It saps my confidence. I laugh at men with comb-overs, but I’m beginning to brush my hair forward and wear little hats. Please, please tell me something useful, and don’t mention Yul Brynner. My stepmum and all her friends always say, “Look at Yul Brynner!” I’ve no idea who he is. Francis, by email [Read more...]
December 8th, 2011
AA Gill is Esquire’s Uncle Dysfunctional
Mr Gill,
I’ve got this boyfriend, and on the face of it he ticks every box, some of them more than once. He’s good-looking, solvent with an indoor, sitting-down job. He’s got a car that’s insured, which is as rare as morris dancers round here. My family love him, and so do I. It’s all lush, until he opens his bleeding mouth. [Read more...]
December 4th, 2011
AA Gill is Esquire’s Uncle Dysfunctional
Dear Adrian,
I’m just starting at a Southern uni. No one from my family, school or estate in the Northeast has ever been to university. I can handle the work. I get on with the other students. I’m not teased or bullied. I’m popular and everyone likes my accent. It’s all cool except I really can’t handle the dressing up. Why are middle-class, privately educated Southern kids so childishly obsessed with fancy dress? Every Friday night the town and campus looks like a cross between a hen night and MGM’s backlot. The streets are littered with vomiting bunnies and discarded togas. Every event comes with some embarrassing instruction to dress up as your favourite sin or an animal with the first letter of your name. Or there are instructions on what to arrive as, and then find your blind date who’ll be dressed as Wilma to your Fred, or Courtney at your Kurt. I’ve just had another one from my tutor that says, “Dress: smart-casual”. What the fuck is “smart-casual”? Come as an oxymoron? Clive, by email
October 25th, 2011
AA Gill is Esquire’s Uncle Dysfunctional
Uncle D,
What’s your position on pornography?
Ava, by email
Complaining about pornography is like moaning about the weather, though more fun, with better graphics. We are just surrounded by it. It’s bottomless, topless and endless. [Read more...]
October 6th, 2011
The Style Column – The corduroy conundrum
Esquire’s former-editor-turned-columnist Jeremy Langmead delivers some advice on how to wear corduroy. [Read more...]
October 5th, 2011
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