Tag: duke-of-kent
Style August 2017
Hallmark of the Sartorial Rebel: The 6x1 Double-Breasted Jacket
Some of the 20th century’s most celebrated tailors mastered the rules, only to break them; the 6×1 double-breasted suit being one of The Rake‘s personal favourite transgressions.
Icons June 2016
Altitude Sickness: The Happy Valley Set
Nick Scott delves into the controversial lives (and deaths) of the Happy Valley set — a group of white, western expatriates who, between the 1920s and forties, turned a slice…
Icons May 2016
The Forgotten Prince
George, Duke of Kent, was every bit as stylish and even wilder than his more celebrated elder brother, Edward VIII. Why is so little attention given to a dapper, mercurial…
