sdsdsdsdsdMonth: October 2017

Marco Dal Maso: Fit for Battle

Marco Dal Maso, The Rake, Bracelet

Says second generation Italian jeweller Marco Dal Maso, “I wanted to create something totemic, simultaneously ancient yet modern, simultaneously elegant yet brutal, and something that evoked a very primal masculine

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How To Wear Black

The Rake, How To Wear Black

“Whatever is difficult, heavy or expensive,” Michael Chow told The Rake some years back, “is usually good.” Black clothing once fell firmly

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An Ode to British Heroes

The Rake, Sean Connery & Ian Fleming, British Heroes

As he tied his thin, double-ended, black satin tie, he paused for a moment and examined himself levelly in the mirror. His

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Hadleigh’s: In The Navy

The Rake, Hadleighs

Texas, the Lone Star state, where the stars at night are big and bright. It might not be renowned as a fashion

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Fast Forward: 40 Years of the BMW 7 Series

the rake, bmw ad

The Godfather of Evolution’s philosophically seismic treaties focussed on the biological entities that first crawled from the primordial soup some three-and-a-half billion

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