Admiral Cod

Auberon Waugh (1939-2001) has been compared to Jonathan Swift. He was an outrageous satirist who slaughtered whole herds of sacred cows and ...

The shocking truth was bound to come out sooner or later. That is, I do not own a navy blazer. In fact I do not own a blazer of any kind. I ...

Grazie al nostro corrispondente a New York

"Quand on voit l’équipement d’exercice moderne, que cela soit celui de skieur, de joueur de hockey, de pêcheur sportif, on dilapide des...

Images courtesy of Anonymous and The Sartorialist

Not long after contemplating the Case of the Missing Belgian Shoes I was summoned into main hall by a flurry of errant notions advancing on ...

"My name is Phantom F. Harlock. At that time I was flying amidst rolling thunder from Port Moresby, traversing New Guinea, heading for ...

Ars longa, spectatores fugaces

"Fate has given each of us the choice to become either a merchant or a soldier, to enjoy life or to forego happiness in favour of the i...

Do you go quilted? I ask only because my oft-mended Barbour Liddesdale jacket is due to retire any day now and I am in the market for a repl...

"Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not alw...

In 1962, Olga was training to be a shoemaker when Andy Warhol first came to the Berluti store. Although he was still unknown to the public a...