The Mayfair maestros behind Becks’s Olympic suit October 4, 2012 DANIEL Craig looked dashing enough in his tux while tripping over the Queen’s corgis, but cutting by far the suaver dash at the Olympic Opening Ceremony was David Beckham, powering up the Thames in a speedboat, torch in hand. In a dark blue suit and white shirt, he was a paragon of paired back English [...]
Gallic style that’s perfect for an English gent October 4, 2012 ITS name may sound as English as fish’n’chips, but JM Weston is one of France’s great luxury marques, producing hand-crafted shoes since 1891. It has just opened a fabulously chi-chi boutique – think super-sleek gents’ club – on Jermyn Street. City A.M. asked the company’s artistic director, Michel Perry, if there was room for Gallic va va [...]
Autumn tones October 4, 2012 iPad case in mulberry leather Leather-bound in the UK by Aukward. £149.99 from Aukward. www.aukward.com Pilot watch on leather strap The El Primero Pilot Big Date Special by Zenith. £4,700 from the Watch Gallery. www.watchgallery.com Camel-brown gloves Leather gloves lined with cashmere by Want Les Essentiels de la Vie. £205 from Mr Porter. www.mrporter.com Document [...]
Fleet Street’s historic temple of bespoke October 4, 2012 Thresher & Glenny isn’t the kind of place you are likely to just stumble across, tucked away as it is on Middle Temple Lane, just off Fleet Street. But this inauspicious little store could just be the oldest remaining tailor in the world: one that has survived through word of mouth, as it has since [...]
Few perks in this soppy teen melodrama October 4, 2012 FILM THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER Cert 12A ** THE PERKS of Being a Wallflower promises to be that rare thing: a high school movie with weight; a coming of age story about characters you recognise. It follows the archetypal bunch of High School Misfits (TM); a group so socially hideous that they can [...]
Our Boys is a brave look at post-war trauma October 4, 2012 THEATRE OUR BOYS The Duchess Theatre **** It’s press night at Our Boys, and I’m sandwiched between London’s new theatrical glitterati – Billie Piper, Jemima Rooper and several generations of Dr Who. They were there to support their boys: a group of 20 somethings including Laurence Fox (of THAT acting dynasty) portraying the shattered lives [...]
The Knot fails but Liberal Arts is a mixed bag October 4, 2012 THE KNOT (cert 15) With The Knot, British screenwriter/actor Noel Clarke (Kidulthood, Adulthood) is attempting to cash in on wedding-based money-spinners Bridesmaids and The Hangover. The problem is, those two films were funny and The Knot is not. Instead we get a jovial procession of tired clichés, unsympathetic characters and unfunny jokes – douchebag men [...]
Red Devils set for more frustration on Tyneside October 4, 2012 NEWCASTLE vs MANCHESTER UNTIED SUNDAY 4pm NEWCASTLE beat Manchester United 3-0 last season to end a 10-year winning drought against Sir Alex Ferguson’s side. The Red Devils relinquished an even longer-standing record last Saturday when Tottenham tore them apart in the opening 45 minutes in a deserved 3-2 victory that put paid to a 23-year [...]
An upset could be on the cards at Upton Park October 4, 2012 WEST HAM vs ARSENAL TOMORROW 5.30pm ARSENAL’S strong road record will be firmly put to the test when the Gunners head to Upton Park this weekend. On their travels they are unbeaten in the top flight this term and have lost just once – at Loftus Road – since mid-January. But Arsene Wenger has repeatedly [...]
Shareta to bring up win number five in the Arc for leading owner Aga Khan October 4, 2012 THE defection of three of this year’s leading contenders in Snow Fairy, Nathaniel and 2011 winner Danedream has taken away some of the lustre from the prestigious Prix De L’Arc De Triomphe on Sunday (3.25pm). The trio, ruled out through injury or, in Danedream’s case, after a virus outbreak in her native Germany, should have [...]
