• SHOP THE RAKE VALUES

TheRake logo-img
    Menu
  • WHAT'S NEW
    • NEW ARRIVALS
    • CLOTHING
    • FOOTWEAR
    • ACCESSORIES
    • WATCHFINDER & CO.
      • Huntsman: Sheer Elegance

        April 2021

        Huntsman: Sheer Elegance

      • Barbanera: Back Where it started

        March 2021

        Barbanera: Back Where it started

      • LORENZO CIFONELLI FOR THE RAKE LIMITED EDITION COLLECTION

        March 2021

        LORENZO CIFONELLI FOR THE RAKE LIMITED EDITION COLLECTION

  • BRANDS
    • VIEW ALL BRANDS
      • ALEXANDER KRAFT MONTE CARLO
      • ALFREDO RIFUGIO
      • ANDERSON & SHEPPARD
      • ASPREY
      • B CORNER
      • BARBANERA
      • CARMINA
      • CIFONELLI
    • CORDONE 1956
      • DE PETRILLO
      • EDWARD SEXTON
      • ETTINGER
      • G. INGLESE
      • GAIOLA
      • GEORGE CLEVERLEY
      • HUNTSMAN
      • JOHN LOBB
    • KIT BLAKE
      • LARDINI
      • LORENZO CIFONELLI FOR THE RAKE
      • PANTALONI TORINO
      • PRIVATE WHITE V.C.
      • PURDEY
      • SCAROSSO
      • RALPH LAUREN
      • RUBINACCI
    • SERÀ FINE SILK
      • THE RAKE MAGAZINE
      • THE RAKE TAILORED GARMENTS
      • TURNBULL & ASSER
      • UDESHI
      • VALSTAR
      • VITALE BARBERIS CANONICO
      • WATCHFINDER & CO.
      • WOLF
  • CLOTHING
    • VIEW ALL CLOTHING
      • BUSINESS SHIRTS
      • CARDIGANS
      • CASUAL SHIRTS
      • COATS
      • JACKETS
      • JEANS
      • KNITWEAR
      • LEATHER JACKETS
      • LOUNGEWEAR
      • OUTERWEAR
    • POLO SHIRTS
      • RAINCOATS
      • SHIRTS
      • SUITS
      • T-SHIRTS
      • TAILORED JACKETS
      • TROUSERS
      • UNDERWEAR
    • EDITORIAL
      • Drake's Shirt Factory: Sew Consistently Good
      • The Devil Wears Kent, Haste and Lachter
      • How to Buy Tailored Garments That Last
      • Canvassing Opinions
      • John Pawson on Minimalism & the White Shirt
      • Pocket Guide: Matt Hranek
      • How to Care For Your Denim
      • Pocket Guide: Aleks Cvetkovic
      • Sartorial Secrets to Looking Taller
      • A Different Stripes
  • FOOTWEAR
    • VIEW ALL FOOTWEAR
      • BELGIAN LOAFERS
      • BOOTS
      • BROGUES
      • DERBYS
      • LOAFERS
      • MONK STRAPS
      • OXFORDS
      • SNEAKERS
    • Edward Green: British Shoemaking Brilliance
      • Cheaney: Creating a Lasting Impression
      • Oxfords: A Sure Footing
      • Norman Vilalta's Boot-Making Prowess
      • Scarosso: New School Shoemaking
      • Marche on with Franceschetti
      • 9 Shoe Styles and How to Wear Them
      • Crockett & Jones Exclusive for The Rake
      • Elastic Fantastic: History of the Chelsea Boot
  • ACCESSORIES
    • VIEW ALL ACCESSORIES
      • BAGS
      • BELTS
      • BRACES
      • BRACELETS
      • BRIEFCASES
      • BOW TIES
      • CUFFLINKS
      • EYEWEAR
      • FACE MASKS
      • GLOVES
    • HATS
      • JEWELLERY
      • POCKET SQUARES
      • SCARVES
      • SOCKS
      • TECH ACCESSORIES
      • TIES
      • UMBRELLAS
      • WALLETS
      • WATCHES
    • LIFESTYLE
      • BOOKS
      • GIFTING
      • DRINKS
      • GROOMING
      • HOMEWARE
      • LEISURE & GAMES
      • MOTORING
      • SMOKING
      • STATIONERY
      • TECH
      • TRAVEL
  • WATCHES
    • VIEW ALL WATCHES
    • WATCHES
    • WATCH-WINDERS
    • WATCH-ROLLS
    • WATCH-STRAPS
    • WATCH-BOXES
    • WATCH-TRAYS
    • WATCHFINDER & CO.
      • A Cartier Selection with Watchfinder & Co.

        April 2021

        A Cartier Selection with Watchfinder & Co.

      • The Evolution of the Rolex Submariner Date

        March 2021

        The Evolution of the Rolex Submariner Date

      • Tudor’s Crown Prince – The Small Block Chronograph

        March 2021

        Tudor’s Crown Prince – The Small Block Chronograph

  • EDITORIAL
    • VIEW ALL STORIES
    • CRAFT
    • ICONS
    • PLEASURE
    • SPEED
    • STYLE
    • THE BUNKER
    • WATCHES
      • BREW GOD

        April 2021

        BREW GOD

      • UNFORGETTABLE?

        April 2021

        UNFORGETTABLE?

      • Dante NYC: A Spritz-filled spring menu

        April 2021

        Dante NYC: A Spritz-filled spring menu

  • VALUES
    • VIEW ALL VALUES
      • VALUES CLOTHING
      • VALUES FOOTWEAR
      • VALUES ACCESSORIES
    • BARBANERA
      • CIFONELLI
      • CORDONE 1956
      • DE PETRILLO
      • G. INGLESE
      • GAIOLA
      • GRENFELL
      • KIT BLAKE
      • PANTALONI TORINO
      • RUBINACCI

More from: Nick Foulkes

  • FÜRSTEN FOREMOST

    Style February 2021

    FÜRSTEN FOREMOST

    She was betrothed at 14, twice-divorced at 25, and now, aged 80, stands as a trailblazer for female celebrities turned cross-cultural influencers. As one critic observed, Princess Ira von Fürstenberg always had the ‘total courage of her modernity’. By NICK FOULKES.

  • PORTRAIT OF A LADY

    Style February 2021

    PORTRAIT OF A LADY

    Without Countess Consuelo Crespi, the Italian fashion industry might not be the commercial and cultural force it is today. The irony, writes NICK FOULKES, is that Crespi was not even remotely Italian. She was a Henry James or Edith Wharton heroine updated for the jet age.

  • Goss Bros

    Style February 2021

    Goss Bros

    Igor Cassini — Ghighi to his friends — was a Russian aristocrat with a bloodline to the Tsars who became America’s most influential gossip columnist with a hotline to the White House. Originally published in Issue 39 of The Rake, Nick Foulkes writes that together with his brother Oleg, the dashing immigrants (and playboys) were the forerunners of today’s celeb-centred high society — until, they fell foul of the Kennedys.

  • THE ART OF MAKING IT

    Style January 2021

    THE ART OF MAKING IT

    Originally published in Issue 57 of The Rake, Nick Foulkes writes that, if the Old World’s aristocracy was raised on the feudal system, the New World coined its nobility through banking and industry. From the Rockefellers and Astors to the Vanderbilts and Carnegies, these ‘ungartered’ peers helped forge the myth of America with their astonishing fortunes and lavish spending.

  • BIG-TIME CHARLIE: The Beistegui Ball

    Icons December 2020

    BIG-TIME CHARLIE: The Beistegui Ball

    One critic likened it to a ‘moral indecency’; those who were there were so consumed by the opulence and theatricality that they had no reason to care. The night in question — September 3, 1951, in Venice — has gone down in history as the party of the century. Originally published in Issue 42 of The Rake, Nick Foulkes delves into the life of Don Carlos de Beistegui, an aesthete of some repute who used his riches to keep the reality of war and sacrifice at bay.

  • St Moritz: Top of The World

    Style December 2020

    St Moritz: Top of The World

    In its heyday in the 1960s and ’70s, St. Moritz was the hedonistic winter escape of the international jet set, and the Badrutt’s Palace Hotel, also fondly known as ‘The Palace’, was where they held court. Originally featured in Issue 37 of The Rake, Nick Foulkes unearths many brilliant anecdotes from the era.

  • HOW A PEASANT VILLAGE ROSE UP: Gstaad

    Style November 2020

    HOW A PEASANT VILLAGE ROSE UP: Gstaad

    In little more than a hundred years, the Swiss town of Gstaad turned its cowsheds and timber yards into deluxe hotels and boutique apartments — and in the process became a winter toy town for the jet set. Orginally published in Issue 67 of The Rake, Nick Foulkes writes, don’t let that mislead you, for time still moves mysteriously through this charming alpine hideout.

  • ROLLING BACK THE YEARS

    Pleasure September 2020

    ROLLING BACK THE YEARS

    Edward Sahakian emigrated from Iran in 1979 with a dinner jacket and a few kilos of caviar in his luggage. A year later he established a cigar shop in Mayfair — Davidoff of London — and a legend was born. To help Davidoff celebrate their 40th birthday, THE RAKE gathered a few close friends to create a fitting memento…

  • COUP DE GRACE: Monaco

    Style August 2020

    COUP DE GRACE: Monaco

    Strange to think these days, but Monte Carlo was not always the bright, glamorous refuge of the chichi jet set. In the early postwar years, it took a dynamic young royal and his Irish-American bride to remake the principality in their image. Originally published in Issue 41 of The Rake, NICK FOULKES tells the charming story of Prince Rainier, Grace Kelly, and the birth of modern Monaco.

  • Sex, drugs & Moroccan roll

    Style July 2020

    Sex, drugs & Moroccan roll

    First there was Sodom and Gomorrah, then Babylon – the great cities of vice. But human history is replete with hedonistic hangouts, and in the 1960s, writes Nick Foulkes in Issue 38 of The Rake, Morocco opened its arms to the jet set and famous.

  • WHEN EDEN ROCKED

    Style July 2020

    WHEN EDEN ROCKED

    The sun rises on another perfect day in paradise, a day of doing nothing in particular — but doing it terribly elegantly… The golden age of the jet set might have been eclipsed by commercial flight, but if you’re romantic enough you can still see the ghosts of Aly Khan, Agnelli and Cole Porter leaving their glamorous mark on the Côte D’Azur. NICK FOULKES lies back and thinks of summer….

  • OUT OF THE FIRE: Niki Lauda

    Speed July 2020

    OUT OF THE FIRE: Niki Lauda

    Niki Lauda, the battle-scarred racing driver and entrepreneur who died in May 2019, epitomised the ideal of a methodical, ruthless champion. But his legend was forged in flames, writes NICK FOULKES in Issue 65 of The Rake.

Newsletter

By signing up for the newsletter you agree with our Terms and conditions

About The Rake

Follow us

app

Magazine

latest issue

© 2021 The Rake

USD