Category: Style

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    The King’s Man: First look at the Kingsman prequel

    “Since 1849, Kingsman Tailors have clothed the world’s most powerful individuals. In 1919, a great number of them had lost their heirs to World War I. That meant a lot of money going un-inherited. And a lot of powerful men with the desire to preserve peace and protect life. Our founders realised that they could…

  • Short Man Style: The challenges of dressing as a short guy

    I have a very exciting event coming up this summer. My baby sister (not an actual baby, obviously) is getting married. She’s getting hitched on a Greek island and has asked me to be MC for the event. Beyond the excitement of the wedding itself, though, lay a slight issue. An occasion like this means…

  • Sales season is coming – and it’s big

    Get your credit cards ready folks, big sales are coming – and, weirdly, we’ve got Brexit to thank. I was at breakfast with a few folks from the retail industry the other day and we got talking about Brexit (as you do); surprisingly, it turns out the current political climate is set to be good…

  • What we learned at LFWM

    The world’s most stylish and style-conscious people breezed through London this week. For three days over the weekend, the Old Truman Brewery in Brick Lane was the centre of the fashion world as London Fashion Week Men’s (aka #LFWM) moved into town. The parade has already moved on, with Paris, Milan and New York on…

  • Take care of your face with B. Men

    I am not a beauty blogger. Not even slightly. But this one is worth sharing for the few of you who might read it. I’ve been wearing moisturiser for years, not because I’m particularly ahead of the curve, I had eczema as a kid and have been using a variety of effective (but decidedly un-sexy)…

  • Introducing The Rake Values

    Fashion is expensive. It is a well-known, thought little-discussed truth of the stylish classes that looking good, on the whole, takes money. There are stories of those who have pulled off a brilliant find hand have managed to come out looking like they have just rolled out of the front row at LFWM for the…

  • Vans x Harry Potter are the shoes you need this summer

    Accio trainers! I’m not going to deny, or apologise for, being a Harry Potter fan. The boy wizard, his friends and their adventures were the seminal fiction of my youth. I loved the books, I enjoyed the films and I do spend a fair amount of time trawling EMP’s Harry Potter collection. If you haven’t…

  • Dressing Camp: Met Gala 2019

    The Met Gala 2019 took place last night. The “Oscars of the fashion industry” took its theme from the current Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition Camp: Notes on Fashion. Historically, the theme for the evening has caused problems for guests – in 2014, event chair and Vogue editor Anna Wintour declared Benedict Cumberbatch as the…

  • Ambrose Spellman: Netflix’s most stylish warlock

    The new series of The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina has landed on Netflix and that means the return of the world’s best-dressed warlock. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the master of boho chic: Ambrose Spellman. The once house-bound warlock, played simply brilliantly by British actor Chance Perdomo, spent most of the first series draped…

  • A uniform: What do my clothes say about me?

    “You look very dapper. Do you always look so smart?” I had just stood up from the table to say goodbye to the contacts and clients I was having a drink with when this casual observation was directed my way. The scene was Yumn bar in Croydon’s Boxpark and my attire was a three-piece, navy…