Tag: 100-greatest-rakes
Style February 2020
Greatest Rakes: George Hamilton
With his slick Miami style, bright smile and inimitable perma-tan, George Hamilton has been one of the most popular figures in Hollywood circles for decades and duly deserves his place on the greatest Rakes list.
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KIRK AND MICHAEL DOUGLAS: CAST NO SHADOW
Kirk Douglas is the last living actor from the golden age of Hollywood; Michael Douglas has forged his own identity in the movies despite the pressure of following such a cinematic giant.…
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MARLENE DIETRICH
Her calling-card was an enigmatic sexual ambiguity, and she seemed to hint that, behind a poker face of frosty hauteur, cards of every suit and stripe were waiting to be…
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Steve Rubell
Sure, everyone associates the name Steve Rubell with the world’s most legendary discotheque, but let’s not forget that this louche New Yorker revolutionised not one, but two industries in his…
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DAVID BOWIE: A LIFE IN STYLE
The Rake remembers iconoclastic musical genius and style shapeshifter David Bowie.
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Luca di Montezemolo
If manners maketh the man then these Rakes have ascended to a more transcendent level of codified behaviour, constantly enchanting, bewitching and seducing us with the humorous, intelligence and unabashed style.
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Justin De Villeneuve
Endowed with no small modicum of the genetic code of the Greek God Adonis these men defined their Rakishness by never once descending into narcissistic self obsession but by living…
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Gary Cooper
Endowed with no small modicum of the genetic code of the Greek God Adonis these men defined their Rakishness by never once descending into narcissistic self obsession but by living…
