Nick Scott

Beckham’s deep-water experience was a nod to the watch brand’s #BornToDare ethos

“A gentleman uses his butter knife,” as one old adage goes, “even when he’s dining alone”, and this rallying call to inconspicuously elegant living certainly applies to all things sartorial: truly stylish men show as much discernment when it comes to their lesser-seen garments as they do their shirts, jackets and trousers. That includes not […]

Hublot ambassadors including contemporary artist Richard Orlinski and tattoo artist Maxime Plescia-Buchi joined the house’s CEO, Ricardo Guadalupe and other VIP guests, at the official inauguration of an exhibition presented in the Harrods Brompton Road windows and the Fine Watch Room Atrium. The focal point of the occasion was Orlinski’s vast Green Wild Kong with […]

It’s hard to imagine, strolling beneath The Murray’s modernist three-storey archways and into its stately lobby, then taking in its black marble floor and unabashed gold flourishes, that the space you’re occupying was once a military detention centre; that later on, from when this edifice was built in the late 60s, it was toiling civil […]

A fragrance installation by The Unseen – a London based company, founded by experimental fashion maven Lauren Bowker, whose stated aim is to “fuse scientific study and creativity” – was the focal point, as Ermenegildo Zegna and The Estée Lauder Companies presented their new perfume collaboration, Essenze Eau de Parfum, during Salone del Mobile at […]

Oliver Brown’s Jonathan Loe gives the low-down on a thorny menswear issue

After 18 months of painstaking effort, it’s the largest square emerald cut diamond in the world

If walls could speak, as the saying goes, Jermyn Street’s lichen-pocked edifices could dictate a wonderfully rich tome about the city in whose dead centre it resides: for this is one of those thoroughfares where stuff, for whatever reason, just happens. Home, over the years, to tailors, cheesemongers, parfumiers, milliners and shirtmakers (including James Bond’s […]

Let’s be honest: London’s Thai food scene took a nosedive when pub-goers started regularly ordering pad Thai, instead of pie, with their pints. What started off as a well-executed ruse at The Churchill Arms near Kensington Palace soon degenerated into an insult to a distant nation’s fine culinary tradition, once any hipster who’d spent a […]

The two pieces promise to be amongst the most eye-catching garments on display at this year’s Henley Royal Regatta One is a repository of elegant men’s accessories and nightwear, which started out in 1865 outfitting the (literally) well-heeled students at Eton; the other is the main highlight of the British summer sporting calendar and social […]