http://www.esquire.co.uk For Men Who Mean Business Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:34:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This video from US Show Jimmy Kimmel Live! is worth a watch - in fact, it reminded us a little of a typical meeting with the Esquire fashion department. http://www.esquire.co.uk/2010/03/the-handsome-mens-club/ Although we should now be settling into spring, we don’t need too many reminders that we live in a country where the weather cannot be relied upon. Global warming has, let’s be honest, been a huge disappointment thus far. Luckily, help - and rather stylish help - is at hand... While ... http://www.esquire.co.uk/2010/03/happy-birthday-penfield/ While Thom Sweeney is undoubtedly a modern tailoring house be reassured that its bespoke suits (they also offer a made-to-measure service) are put together the old fashioned way. What makes it modern is that Luke Sweeney and Thom Whiddett, the eponymous founders, understand the way men live in 2010, have ... http://www.esquire.co.uk/2010/03/meet-the-tailor-thom-sweeney/ When kids are left to their own devices the results can be chaotic.  They don't, however, normally include death and wide-spread destruction as they do in Kick-Ass, the eagerly anticipated superhero film, directed by Matthew Vaughn and starring Aaron Johnson. Now, the graphic novel on which it is based has ... http://www.esquire.co.uk/2010/03/kick-starting-the-kick-ass-craze/ Grizzly Bear, purveyors of ethereal, experimental and thoroughly excellent indie-pop and stars of our music portfolio in February are currently playing a selection of UK dates. Most of them have been sold out forever, but our spies tell us there are a few seats available at Warwick Arts Centre on ... http://www.esquire.co.uk/2010/03/qa-with-grizzly-bear/ In our April issue, we featured a selection of carefully selected shots from Rankin's Cheeky exhibition but ran out of room - so here are the extras we promised. The exhibition, which as you might have guessed celebrates the naked female form, runs from 11 March to 12 April at ... http://www.esquire.co.uk/2010/03/rankins-nudes/ And no, this question isn't rhetorical. With trousers creeping higher by the second, it's only a matter of time before we reach the 3/4 length stage. It hasn't happened yet, but it's starting to pop up amongst the most influential crowd in Japan (aka the birthplace for trends like this). Even folks ... http://www.esquire.co.uk/2010/03/can-34-length-trousers-ever-be-acceptable/ We will not lie to you: when Chris Morris got up to address the small audience before last week’s screening of Four Lions, his brilliant new comedy about a cell of hapless British jihadis planning a terrorist outrage, we experienced a tangible buzz of excitement. After so long away, the ... http://www.esquire.co.uk/2010/03/the-triumphant-return-of-chris-morris/