More from: Nick Scott
Style May 2022
Ray Liotta: 'Why Does Everyone Remember the Psychos?'
15 Minute Read His IMDb biography says he ‘specialises in psychopathic characters who hide behind a cultivated charm’. Well, what would they know? It’s true, his performance in Goodfellas was a seminal moment, but Ray Liotta’s career boasts an eclecticism that has gone unnoticed.
Pleasure May 2022
How Monaco Became A Glamour Powerhouse
8 Minute Read The Riviera microstate’s motto translates as “With God’s Help”. But it was a triumvirate of mortals who turned post-war Monaco into a playboy’s playground.
Icons May 2022
Let's Spend Some Life Together: Mick & Bianca Jagger
5 Minute Read A whirlwind romance-turned shotgun wedding with a Rolling Stone was never going to have “longevity” written all over it…
Style May 2022
‘IT’S ABOUT EMPOWERING WOMEN — RESHUFFLING THE PACK’
When she wore a tailored suit for the first time, Daisy Knatchbull felt like she could rule the world. With her sartorial venture The Deck, Knatchbull hopes many other women will be able to experience a similar emotion.
News March 2022
ThE ORIGIN OF FLEECES
The latest wool fabric addition to Vitale Barberis Canonico’s H.O.P.E. capsule collection is a declaration of the brand’s devotion to sustainability, provenance and local heritage.
Style March 2022
GREAT DRUNKS OF OUR TIMES
Pythagoras called sobriety ‘the strength of the soul’. He was also a vegetarian who believed the mysteries of the universe could be unravelled using maths, so we suggest you spurn his prudish mewing and raise a glass to the 20th century’s greatest grog-addled hellraisers.
Style March 2022
PHOTO SYNTHESIS
It has been a long wait, but the L1 and L2 timepieces from Leica are finally here, and they are a tonic for those of us who savour the utilitarian design values of the peerless German camera company.
Style March 2022
BELLEZZA, TRAGEDIA, FORZA
If existential pain is supposed to compromise a person’s effervescence, Dalila Di Lazzaro, the Italian model, actress and author, did not get the memo.
Style March 2022
The history of the Trench Coat
Long before the conflict which gave them their name – and even longer before the likes of Bogart and Caine made them cool – trench coats were being invented in increments by the fabric pioneers of centuries gone by.
Style February 2022
Unbuttoning the History of the Shirt
How a modest undergarment became the most elegant, versatile and fundamental of men’s wardrobe staples – and an ensemble’s focal point in its own right.
Style February 2022
THE WAY TO A MAN'S HEAD
Mick Jagger, Lapo Elkann and Michael Caine have nailed it with heroic nous; the stylistically incognisant tend to get it woefully wrong; and a man in a decades-old British TV advert somehow managed to do both. So what is the secret to carrying off this capricious garment, the roll-neck?
Style February 2022
The Art of Happiness
One of the most harmonious love affairs in art history — that between Balthus and Setsuko Klossowska — unfurled despite a cultural gulf, a three-decade age gap, and one of the protagonists’ penchant for erotic content that many find abhorrent.
