sdsdsdsdsdMonth: October 2016

What To Buy This Week: Vol 21

Thom Sweeney Curzon copy

This week, The Rake’s What To Buy edit focuses on some of the softest contemporary tailoring out there this season, and those pieces best suited to complement it.

American Psycho Analysis

The Rake, American Psycho, Christian Bale, Patrick Bateman, Bret Easton Ellis, Novel, Film, Horror, Cinema, 25 Years

Though the tale was intended as a snapshot of the conformist, consumerist, superficial late-1980s cultural landscape, American Psycho’s vision of modern urbane

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Costa Bravo: Manolo Costa New York

The Rake, Manolo Costa, Pocket Guide

Manolo Costa is arguably one of New York’s most stylish inhabitants. The owner of the bespoke tailors’ that bears his name, Costa

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The Silva Standard: Brian Silva

The Rake, Brian Silva, Balthazar

Master bartender Brian Silva came up the old fashioned way. “I did basically every restaurant job you could do,” says Silva of

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Ranch Dressing: W.H. Ranch Dungarees

The Rake, WH Ranch, Workwear,

There were three brands that spearheaded the evolution of denim in the mid 20th-century; Levi’s, Wrangler and Lee. Levi’s already boasted a

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Absolute Power: Gene Hackman

The Rake, Gene Hackman

In the seventies, a cubist decade when the likes of Al Pacino and Jack Nicholson reinterpreted the face of the Hollywood lead,

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