Explore your horological obsession at Bucherer Masterworks December 1, 2025 Should haute horology be on your Christmas wish list this year, consider stopping by the breathtaking Masterworks showcase at the Bucherer store at Royal Opera House. Here you will find a watch-lover’s paradise – part clubhouse, part museum – where you’re encouraged to engage with watchmakers and watchmaking alike. “Whether you are a seasoned connoisseur [...]
The ugly shoe that defined 2025: The New Balance snoafer December 1, 2025 What does it say about society today that the shoe that most succinctly and perfectly typifies it also happens to be its ugliest? I am talking, of course, about the New Balance snoafer. Officially called the 1906L, it boasts the silhouette of a penny loafer and the comfort of a sneaker, though it doesn’t fully [...]
Jimmy Choo on his London life, from Mayfair club nights to the best Malaysian food December 1, 2025 This interview with Jimmy Choo is published in City AM The Magazine, Winter edition, distributed at major Tube stations and available to pick up from The Royal Exchange Photos by Gretel Ensignia Jimmy Choo: Last night was a good party… Med Pang: Yeah, we went clubbing! Did we leave Park Chinois about two in the [...]
Checking into the real White Lotus season 3 hotel in Thailand November 13, 2025 It had been an ordinary day of filming on The White Lotus season three at the Four Seasons Koh Samui, Thailand, until staff noticed two intruders with bleeding feet approaching the set, climbing over the dangerous rocks dividing the resort from the swathes of jungle. “I saw them coming by chance, with bleeding toes,” remembers [...]
90 years of Penguin Books: The origin myth that may not be true October 28, 2025 The penguin, the myth, the legend. As the publisher celebrates 90 years, Anna Moloney takes a look at the company that revolutionised reading (sort of).
Liverpool Street Chop House: Should you go over Hawksmoor, Boisdale? October 20, 2025 The closure of Threadneedle Street’s M Restaurant earlier this year, after a decade slinging the capital’s finest steak, was a genuine blow. One of the restaurants that helped the Square Mile shake off its stuffy reputation, it combined a meticulous, scholarly appreciation of meat with a sense of fun, even whimsy. Robot waiters, wine vending [...]
Wuthering Heights, Frankenstein, Nosferatu: Why is Gen Z obsessed with Gothic Victorians? October 13, 2025 Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights, Nosferatu: Victorian Gothic fiction is having a film revival. Anna Moloney asks why.
Horology and horse power: Car firms are getting in bed with watch brands October 7, 2025 Cars and watches are the ultimate partnership – and one that’s only getting stronger in the digital age, says Adam Hay-Nicholls Revolutions per minute. We could be talking about pistons punching inside a V8 engine, causing 30,000 explosions every sixty seconds. Or we could be discussing a hand on a chronograph sweeping the watch face [...]
Partnerships that pop: Why watch brands are turning to the booze October 7, 2025 From City AM The Magazine, Autumn edition, why are watch brands so drawn to drinks companies? Adam Hay-Nicholls quenches his thirst with the latest drinks collabs There’s that old saying ‘you are what you eat’ but I reckon what you drink says a lot more about a person. I can tell by the liquid in [...]
Rubber ducks are everywhere – it’s the UK’s strangest new trend October 2, 2025 Have you been handed a rubber duck by a stranger? Adam Bloodworth explores the latest way people are forging new IRL connections in this piece from City AM The Magazine‘s Autumn edition “We were at a festival when two girls I’d never met tapped me on the shoulder and handed me something,” says Aggie Morris, [...]