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Icons May 2020

Altitude Sickness: The Happy Valley Set

Originally featured in Issue 40 of The Rake, 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 of Kenyan highlands into a hotbed of colonial debauchery.
Craft August 2017

The Hidden Genius of Norwegian Rain Coats

Hailing from the wettest city on Earth, Norwegian Rain produces beautifully tailored outerwear that hikes the phrase “rain proof” to the cirrostratus.
Craft July 2017

Principe di Eleganza: A Bastion of Neapolitan Tailoring

Neapolitan tailoring is no fait accompli: it’s a perpetual work in progress, thanks to the stylish mastery of companies such as the aptly named Principe di Eleganza.
Icons June 2017

Grey Pride: Sir Ian McKellen

Almost a decade and a half after Ian McKellen hung up Gandalf’s staff, the British actor has no plans to give up the craft that has made him a cultural icon.
Code March 2017

Contrarian: In Defense of Eating Meat

Between buffing up the knives and skewers in his blood-stained kitchen, one of our many pub table slappers extorts the sybaritic virtues of eating meat.
Icons October 2016

The Bootleg Brethren: Prohibition's Heroes

How the lesser-known ne’er-do-wells of The Prohibition wove, with their antics, some of the richest folklore in American history.
Speed June 2016

A Yacht on Wheels: The Bentley Mulsanne Part II

The 2017 iteration of Bentley’s flagship model – a veritable “yacht-on-wheels” – lives up to its bold billing, finds The Rake during a summer Alpine soiree.
Code May 2016

Peak Practise: The Question of Social Climbing

Professional impetus gave our man cause to scramble up the social ladder. So how did he handle the vertigo?
News April 2016

Shared Experiences

The Rake Online explores the inner workings of the swinging scene
Icons April 2016

Ava Gardner

If The Rake could track down any piece of missing movie paraphernalia on the planet, and give it pride of place in our offices, it would surely be the statue…
Code April 2016

SMOOTH MANOEUVERER

The Ricky Gervais movie, The Invention Of Lying, is set in a parallel universe that is utterly devoid of deceit. Banks accept customers’ word on what their balance is. Advertising…
Icons April 2016

Slim Keith: Socialite Siren

A mere chromosome difference between them and their male counterparts did nothing to prevent Slim Keith from, in the words of Maya Angelou, “seizing the world by its lapels” and bending…