sdsdsdsdsdMonth: September 2017

Farewell, Hugh Hefner

The Rake, Hugh Hefner

According to the Washington Post’s obituary of the 91-year-old publisher, who died last week, Hugh Hefner “turned the world on to sex.

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Falke: A Tight Knit Affair

Falke, The Rake, Knitwear, Socks

Founded in the late 19th century, German hosiery specialist Falke started out producing just a couple of dozen pairs of socks each

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Style 101: Corduroy

The Rake, Steve McQueen, Steve McQueen

The curse bestowed on corduroy since the early 19th century is that it conjures up dusty libraries and dustier professors, with fraying

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Celluloid Style: Goodfellas

The Rake, Goodfellas, Ray Liotta, Celluloid Style

Having sworn off gangster films after Mean Streets, the opening scene of Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas was always going to pack a signet-ring-embellished

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How Giorgio Armani Redefined Menswear

The Rake, Armani, 80s

The moment American Gigolo director Paul Schrader trained his crew’s cameras onto Richard Gere’s Los Angeles male escort laying out his suits

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