Haggis
As I passed below the mysterious Chanctonbury Ring, an Iron Age hill fort planted with a copse of beech trees bent north-east by the prevailing wind, I saw a figure stop at the gate I was approaching. He was waiting for me…
Browsing: The Lifestyle
The Dress: Part 2
Ten days or so since I sprinted out of Nooshin’s Savile Row studio, I’m back…
A Cuban Cigar Walk
Three arbitrary, independent, words. Put them together though, and you have an intriguing premise on…
The Mistress of Millinery
If Dita Von Teese and Lily Allen can have bespoke headwear made for them, then so can our very own girl about town, Emma Dickinson. Milliner Katherine Elizabeth works her couture magic…
Short Fiction: Cigar
In the depths of my sleep, a niggle prompts me to turn over, and the resulting disarrangement causes me to frown in annoyance. I am now aware of my retina, and the daylight penetrating the thin membrane of my closed eyelid.
Nooshin: The Lady Tailor
The Arb’s Angela Clutton visits The Arb’s very own lady tailor, Nooshin of Savile Row, to explore the world of bespoke tailoring and dress design, and discovers, too late, that stripping off is entirely optional.
While You Were Asleep
Miss York is back with her sharpened pencil, musing late at night about words in our lexicon suffering the lash of society’s truculent tongue. To sleep, perchance to dream; ay, there’s the rub…
Coquette at Kettner’s
Sophie indulges in David Carter’s Coquette; London’s most popular pampering event for ladies who cocktail. Dance the Charleston, glam up like a diva and learn how to kiss handsome bartenders…
Lovers of the Leaf
In the first of a series of articles on the gloriously eccentric pastime of selecting, storing, collecting and perhaps even smoking cigars, we take a look at how the landscape has changed of late for London’s lovers of the leaf…
Dirty Old Town
Volatile literary genius, feared poet, vitriolic satirist and legendary Delhi journalist, Rahnam Pachry, turns his acerbic wit and his poison-tipped fountain pen to the dirty old town of London.
A Gentleman’s Guide to Grooming
Etiquette expert, Parisienne and former model, Nathalie Findlay, presents The Arbuturian’s definitive guide to gentlemen’s grooming, top to toe. It’s all in the finishing touches…
Montblanc de la Culture
I think it was our intrepid editor-in-chief who coined the phrase ‘The pen is mightier…