Cocktail hats for Ascot… and every other day May 20, 2010 CHANCES are, when you meet Sahar Freemantle you will be slightly stopped in your tracks. Not only is she a striking combination of an Iranian mother and English father (hence the name), she will probably be wearing bright red lipstick and a cocktail hat. And, being a cocktail hat designer, it’ll probably be one of [...]
Understated and ineffably English May 20, 2010 WHETHER it’s for Ascot or a wedding, wearing a morning suit is a chance for a chap to look at his ineffable best – it should never be seen as a chore. There’s a reason why morning dress is perhaps the most fundamental expression of English sartorial style – it’s simply tremendously elegant. The curve [...]
Picnic of champions May 19, 2010 AT bloomin’ last. It may have taken forever, but there’s finally warmth in the air and the weekend is expected to be lovely. The sunshine will have lots of us trotting off to the nearest park clutching blankets and picnic baskets, but we shouldn’t waste the occasion on the kind of basic fodder one can [...]
Borough Market gets a taste of Caribbean cacao May 19, 2010 THINK of premium, top-end chocolate and you probably think of exquisite truffles or smooth, silky bars in luxurious packaging, creations of meticulous artisan craftsmanship with the words “Swiss” or “Belgian” included somewhere. You wouldn’t think of inelegant, lumpy, rough-hewn shards of the stuff sold in no less elegant paper and plastic bags with a sticker [...]
Another triumph from the master of literary darkness May 19, 2010 THE SUNSET LIMITED BY CORMAC MCCARTHY Picador, £9.99 **** THE iconic American author of the Pulitzer winning The Road (2006) and No Country For Old Men (2005) has a fixation with the grim. Men (in general) love to read his work, see the film adaptations, perhaps because it all toys with apocalypse in various ways [...]
VEXED IN THE CITY May 19, 2010 I’m fed up with my office pal taking out his temper on me DEAR VEXED: There’s a guy at work in the same division as me. We’re on the same level as each other and joined the company at the same time. We get on brilliantly most of the time; laughing and joking, he even [...]
Polo’s hottest event returns to Hurlingham May 18, 2010 FOR a game that’s nearly 3,000 years old, polo has certainly kept up with the times. Last year’s MINT Polo in the Park event at Hurlingham attracted a crowd of 24,000 and a TV audience of more than two million viewers, making it the most watched polo match ever. The first recorded game took place [...]
French fancy May 18, 2010 PEUGEOT is targeting Audi TT, VW Scirocco, even Mini Cooper S buyers with its new 2+2 seater sports car. Even if you’re the kind of car buyer that usually allows your head to rule your heart the RCZ may still be the car for you. Not only do you get the fun of a sports [...]
Pale, pasty men: it’s time to get yourselves a ‘man tan’ May 17, 2010 ROSS from Friends. Those are the words that seem to spring to people’s lips when you moot the idea of fake tan for men, in reference to the character’s unfortunate run-in with an automatic spray booth in an episode called “the one with Ross’s tan”. Or one thinks of David Dickinson, the telly antiques man [...]
Gamers: boost your health and your game May 17, 2010 ARE you an ardent gamer whose competetive edge is dampened only by sore thumbs, unbalanced hands, tired eyes and back-ache? If so, read on. In honour of the launch of the much-awaited Street Fighter IV last month, personal trainer and all-round fitness guru Laura Williams has joined forces with videogame publisher Capcom to create a “Wellbeing [...]