A Guide to Smarter Shopping
Fashion will forever be fleeting, but style should always be sustainable As the global gaze shifts towards a more all-encompassing approach to sustainability, the ethically-dubious and wholly unsustainable fast fashion industry finds itself with a lot to answer for. That said,
A Cut Above
This month, Ian Harrold considers comfort zones, fade fatigue and the razor-sharp ramblings of one very pissed off barber It might have gone largely unnoticed by those outside the industry, but there’s a sniper out there in the war-torn rubble of
Make Do & Mend
If an ‘investment’ piece of clothing is really worth investing in, it’s also worth mending. We take a look at three companies that offer repair services to make their products last for longer Barbour Waxed Jacket Repair You can’t beat a Barbour
What Does Sustainability Mean to You?
Good question.We asked three of our favourite menswear designers among other pressing questions, what sustainability means to them… Oliver Spencer Founder of Oliver Spencer What does sustainability mean to you? To us as a menswear brand sustainability means managing our business in a way
Crockett & Jones; The Family Shoemaking Business
To appreciate the quality of a Crockett & Jones shoe, you need to know where one comes from. Crockett & Jones’s Grade-II listed Northampton factory is where for nearly 140 years the finest materials have met the finest craftspeople, resulting
Materials are Getting Smarter
From shoes made of pineapples to football kits made of sea plastic, we’ve gathered together a selection of smarter materials that might just catch on… Shoes made out of pineapples… Okay, so not the full pineapple. Pinatex® is a natural textile made
One Thing Done Well: Crockett & Jones
Our series of brands doing one item especially well continues this month with the Crockett & Jones Cavendish Loafer If you were only allowed four pairs of shoes for the rest of your life, a tassel loafer should be one of them.
Issue 36 – David Attenborough
“People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.” – Sir David Attenborough This issue is about sustainability, but we could have quite easily called it the ‘how can
A Handsome Hotel: The Zetter Townhouses
An anecdote to minimalism and soulless futuristic spaces, The Zetter Townhouses are a lesson in curated clutter, rich colour and shameless Victoriana Walk into either one of the two Zetter Townhouses in London (Marylebone and Clerkenwell) and what greets you upon
Gents, we need to talk about: Influencers
To mark the metaphorical death of ‘influencers’ (according to an infinite supply of online articles each month for the last two years) our editor recounts the time that for approximately three days, he influenced for money at the E Prix
The Iain Hoskins Column
The award-winning play, Six Degrees of Separation is based on the existential premise that everyone in the world is connected by no more than six people. The play by John Guare and later 1993 film are favourites of mine, so
Books of the Month
Featuring wanderlust on two wheels, thirty years of gay Britain and dispatches from the corner of the Oval Office New Female Tribes by Rachel Pashley Although four categories is a reductionist final takeaway for categorizing all women on the planet, Rachel Pashley’s
Hotels and the Movies
Films have long relied on hotels as a setting for various reasons. Whether it’s an international man of mystery stopping by for sultry misdemeanours, or a crazed writer with cabin fever plotting the murder of his entire family: hotels are undeniably
Review: Hotel Artemis
Amidst a future Los Angeles plagued by a water shortage stands a monolithic hotel that caters for the high-paying and frequently injured criminal underbelly of the city. Jodie Foster’s concierge-cum-nurse is at the centre of it all as her surface
Matching Bark with Bite: Mutt Motorcycles
We sat down with Mutt founder, Benny Thomas, to talk custom bikes, the joy of riding, and the return of old fashioned values Essential Journal: First off, tell us a little about yourself.Benny Thomas: I ran a custom bike shop for
A Big Day Out At: The Confused.com London Motor Show
If you like wheels, boy are you in for a treat. We sent two very comme ci comme car people to the capital’s biggest indoor car event to see if cars really are good Imagine for one second the smell of
High (Speed) Art
Hand-built around classic engines, Falcon Motorcycles blur the line between custom bike and cultural artefact Light, lean and aggressive, the café-racers of the forties and fifties were stripped-down, tuned-up bikes purpose-built for hell-for-leather endeavours. Barebones by necessity, these custom bikes were
Architectural Thoughts On: Nomadic Architecture
From cities on wheels to self-sufficient shelters, populations have always yearned for buildings on the move This year will see the release of the movie version of one of my favourite childhood books. If you haven’t read it or seen it;
Postcards: Manchester, UK
For a wheels edition of our regular travel feature, we quizzed patrons of surf and motorcycle brand Deus Ex Machina and cycling lifestyle titans Rapha for tips on their respective neighbourhoods What is Manchester's best kept secret
Postcards: Bali, Indonesia
For a wheels edition of our regular travel feature, we quizzed patrons of surf and motorcycle brand Deus Ex Machina and cycling lifestyle titans Rapha for tips on their respective neighbourhoods Anthony McInerheney Bali Special Projects Manager, Deus Ex Machina What is Bali's best