sdsdsdsdsdMonth: October 2015

In Praise of the Courtesan

Rakish, high class courtesans

Modern life is complicated, which is why we contemporary homo sapiens simplify it at every opportunity. Rather than cooking, we dine out;

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Big Light | Stanley Tucci

Without wishing to sound pejorative or antediluvian, Stanley Tucci is the thinking woman’s crumpet. He is smart, articulate, funny, handsome and tactile,

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Rake Commends: Unstructured Outerwear

Gentlemen’s outerwear was, quite naturally, born out of a necessity to stay warm and dry, protecting the wearer’s clothes beneath folds of

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Suits of Armour

The Armoury, New York, The Rake

The Armoury, established five years ago in Hong Kong, is not your average haberdashery. They are true to their commitment of sourcing

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Errol Flynn: The Swordsman

A 2006 biography of Bette Davis christened the oft-married, never-satisfied actress Bette Davis ‘The Girl Who Walked Home Alone’. In contrast, Tasmanian-born

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Jet Set Gigolos

It remains one of the last great taboos of sexual politics – but is it any shallower to be attracted to wealth

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WHITE HOT

To get away with the mercurial genius routine, one actually has to be a genius. Take the enfant terrible of modern British

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