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More from: Stuart Husband

  • ART OF EXCESS: The Shah of Iran

    Style January 2021

    ART OF EXCESS: The Shah of Iran

    In 1971, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi showcased what he called the ‘Great Civilisation’ of Iran with a three-day party amid the ancient ruins of Persepolis that cost $2.5 billion. It’s to be hoped the Shah enjoyed himself, for it was the high point of the oil-rich Pahlavi dynasty. Originally published in Issue 51 of The Rake, Stuart Husband writes that eight years later, with his country seized by Islamic revolution, the King of Kings was looking for alternative employment.

  • THE KEEPER OF GREATNESS: Bao Dai

    Style January 2021

    THE KEEPER OF GREATNESS: Bao Dai

    Bao Dai was the 13th and final emperor of Vietnam. He didn’t inspire devotion or much confidence: the American satirist S.J. Perelman, for example, described him as a ‘slippery-looking customer, rather on the pudgy side, and freshly dipped in Crisco’. But, Stuart Husband writes in Issue 58 of The Rake, a legacy can take time to be realised…

  • BADMAN FOREVER

    Style December 2020

    BADMAN FOREVER

    Randolph Scott was once synonymous with the classic ideal of American manhood: steely, forbearing, straight-shootin’. But off screen, his lifestyle as a sharp-dressin’ gentleman-financier set a template for Hollywood to follow.

  • Ettore Bugatti's Motoring Legacy

    Icons November 2020

    Ettore Bugatti's Motoring Legacy

    Ettore Bugatti liked to say that, ‘Nothing is too beautiful, nothing is too expensive’. Which probably explains why his famous creations — the racing cars that established his legend in the 20th century — were pure hedonism on wheels.

  • NATURAL MYSTIC: Bob Marley

    Style September 2020

    NATURAL MYSTIC: Bob Marley

    ‘How many rivers do we have to cross,’ asked Robert Nesta Marley, ‘before we can talk to the boss?’ The king of reggae channelled a sense of righteous anger at colonial exploitation, and became an omnipotent symbol of peace and unity. And all before he was cut down in his prime…

  • A GIFT FROM A GENEROUS GOD: Sammy Davis Jr.

    Style August 2020

    A GIFT FROM A GENEROUS GOD: Sammy Davis Jr.

    Some people wanted Sammy Davis Jr. to fight; some wanted him to make peace. Such was the invidious position ‘Mr. Show Business’ found himself in as mid-century America wrestled with its race issues. ‘I didn’t ask to be a trailblazer,’ Davis Jr. said. ‘My passion was to entertain.’

  • THE LOVELIEST JOKE: David Niven

    Style April 2020

    THE LOVELIEST JOKE: David Niven

    In a legendary career that spanned 50 years and nearly 100 movies, David Niven had ample opportunity to become who he was: the Englishman abroad. Still, you got the impression that he couldn’t believe his luck.

  • Michelangelo and the yearning for tragedy

    Icons March 2020

    Michelangelo and the yearning for tragedy

    ‘We lived in silence… He has only one way of expressing himself: his work.” So said Michelangelo Antonioni’s first wife, Letizia Balboni. It’s true, the Italian director was notorious for taking existential inquiry — and his own artistic purity — to another level. But what a legacy of film he left behind…

  • CROSS-STITCH

    Icons February 2020

    CROSS-STITCH

    To celebrate International Women’s Day we’ve burrowed into the archives, specifically Rake 39 where Stuart Husband takes up the challenge of trying to pin down the ‘real’ Marlene Dietrich. At one time she was the world’s highest-paid entertainer despite being described as a cipher and an allegory. Goddess or strumpet, gay or ‘unstraight’, she is one of the most influential women of all time.

  • THE SUNLIT UPLAND

    Back Issues February 2020

    THE SUNLIT UPLAND

    Monaco was once regarded as a seedy bolthole — “a sunny place full of shady people”, according to the writer Somerset Maugham. Enter Prince Rainier III, the stocky, pencil-moustached monarch who, from his palace on the Rock, had a plan to transform the world’s second smallest country… (Spoiler: he kept the climate.)

  • Anda and Tom's Call to Garms

    News December 2019

    Anda and Tom's Call to Garms

    For the second successive Christmas, the stylist Tom Stubbs and Anderson & Sheppard’s Anda Rowland are aiming to raise money for the homeless charity Crisis by creating the world’s most luxurious pop-up store on Savile Row.

  • John Cassavetes: Out of the Shadows

    Icons August 2019

    John Cassavetes: Out of the Shadows

    John Cassavetes was the godfather of American independent cinema. He was obsessed with intimacy and authenticity, and his style and sense of integrity were ahead of their time. In fact, today’s iPhone auteurs owe him a debt of gratitude…

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