Author: Chris Mads

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    What we learned at LFWM

    Well, London Fashion Week Men – more catchily known as LFWM – is in the can. The glitterati of the fashion world kick off the year’s work while most of us are still shaking off the Christmas stupor and the fashion week train has now rolled into Italy for its second leg. As ever, LFWM…

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    Surviving Veganuary

    I see you there, you steak-loving carnivores, you thought Veganuary would be a good idea didn’t you? Maybe it was a challenge, maybe it’s for charity, maybe you fancied a change. But now, just over a week in, you are frankly sick of the sight of baked beans and pasta with tomato sauce aren’t you?…

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    Non Gender Specific: The skincare solution

    How many of you put taking better care of your skin on your New Year Resolutions list? Show of hands. I’m guessing a fair few. And how many of you are now wondering how to go about it? I feel you. I’ve been there. So let me offer a helping hand with a new brand…

  • The Loving Hut, Menton

    The French Riviera is not a haven for vegan food. Cheese and salami rule the roost here and for much of our sojourn to capture the last of summer in southern France a while back, S’s diet was confined largely to pasta and salad. But then there was The Loving Hut. This wonderfully-named spot is…

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    Things to look forward to in 2020

    2020 is here and we have an exciting 12 months ahead of us. With the Tokyo Olympics, Euro 2020, a US Presidential Election and Brexit, the year is already shaping up to be a rollercoaster. But there are also a fair few things which may have slipped under you radar on the way in 2020.…

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    Millennial Gent Awards 2019

    We have reached the end of 2019 and 2020 has dawned. So it’s time for a very swift look back at the year that was – and what we can learn from those people who took the ride with us. Hardest Worker in the Room – Dwayne Johnson The artist formerly known as The Rock…

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    20 rules for 2020

    Ah, New Year’s Day. It is one of our great traditions. As a new year – and a new decade – dawn, we customarily greet it with a hangover and a list of ‘new year, new me’ resolutions which will have been largely confined to the forgotten waste paper bin of life before Spring’s blossoms…

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    Looking ahead to 2020

    We are almost back in the Twenties. 2019 was an interesting year for me and Millennial Gent. In the early summer I took redundancy from the magazine I was working for and went freelance. That should have made this blog one of my primary purposes on a day-to-day basis. But, as anyone who has struck…

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    Pasta & Basta: Italy’s best pasta joint?

    “The world’s best pasta restaurant” is quite the billing to live up to. But that is what S had confidently promised as we boarded the train. The restaurant in question, not to be confused with the similarly-monikered London pop-up, is in Ventimiglia on the Italian coast close to the French border on the Riviera. It…

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    Basking in the Riviera sun in Menton

    The French Riviera evokes certain images. This is where Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Stein sunned themselves and sought inspiration in wine. After the war it became the playground of the rich and famous, as Prince Aly Khan bought Chateau l’Horizon, Fiat Padrino Gianni Agnelli sailed yachts and stars of stage and screen from Frank Sinatra to…