Sex, Vogue & DC10
The sun sets in Ibiza at around 9.57pm, and as the moon comes up so do I, surrounded by a rush and heaving mass of vibrating bass, boom, boom, boom and in my head there, I go, you, me, I, he, all at once.
Browsing: The Lifestyle
Rare Smokes at Boisdale
Monty Cristo ventures to Canary Wharf for a full-body massage at the Four Seasons Hotel, followed by a night of debauchery at Boisdale for an international cigar auction of mammoth proportions…
The Dress: Part 3
This is it. Gulp. Well, almost it. So nearly it that it feels like it.…
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…
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…