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Editor’s Letter GENTLEMAN’S QUARTELY

So, what does success mean to you today? Or, perhaps more importantly, what does your success mean to those people who judge you on such things? Because while everyone from C-suite power brokers to yoga instructors are continually being told by coaches and consultants that success right now means waking up and doing what you love all day, let’s face it, people never stop judging you. The difference these days is that the way we are judged has changed, as success right now is determined far more by influence than top-down power, by an ability to recognise diverse thinking, harness cognitive diversity and challenge age-old hierarchies. This month we publish the 2020 Most Influential list and there are surprises galore. Compiled by a team of industry experts – including the never-less-than-influential…

Editor’s Letter GENTLEMAN’S QUARTELY

Chris AYRES Google’s smartphone OS isn’t called “Android” by chance – it was named after Andy Rubin, a developer who, in 2014, abruptly left the company amid rumours of sexual misconduct. “If one man can sum up Google’s incredible success – followed by years of scandals – it is ‘Android Andy’ Rubin,” says writer Chris Ayres. Gary YOUNGE Stormzy is almost as well known as an activist as he is a musician. Gary Younge interviewed our cover star to better understand a young man who will endow a Cambridge scholarship as readily as he will write a No1 album. “Stormzy,” says Younge, “is like a cross between Mother Teresa – religious, giving, open and generous – and Muhammad Ali – confident, clever, engaging and funny. I’ve never met anyone quite like him.” Dave IMMS Photographer…

Up your frame game Remember that digital photo frame you were given for Christmas ten years ago, took one look at and quickly regifted to your least favourite nephew? God, those things were atrocious. And yet, judging by the vast number of companies who made them, there was a consensus that they were the future. In a way, they should have been. It wasn’t that the idea was bad, it was the execution that wasn’t up to it. The screens were shoddy, the kit was hard to set up, the build felt cheap and they looked so ugly you would never want them on display in your house in the first place. In other words, all the things they should have been, they weren’t – until now. The Meural Canvas II…

MIRRORS OF ALL MANLY STATES

Strange to think that, until recently, it was a radical standpoint to say masculinity is a construct. The idea that there was an a priori link between being born a man and acting like a man was assumed to the point of orthodoxy; now we are much more open to the notion that gender is socially coded, a way of performing who you are. London’s Barbican Art Gallery has seized on this moment to present Masculinities: Liberation Through Photography, looking at how different, conflicting themes in masculinity – fatherhood, queer identity, hypermasculinity – have developed and been challenged from the Sixties until now, across 300 works by the likes of Richard Avedon, Karlheinz Weinberger, Peter Hujar and Annette Messager. You’ll find wrestlers, politicos, soldiers and, erm, ultra-close-up shots of men’s…

MIRRORS OF ALL MANLY STATES

Doing nothing? There’s a word (and book) for that

Sure, sometimes it’s weird that English doesn’t have a word for certain things – Schadenfreude, frisson – but mostly it’s because that thing is so banal we can’t be bothered to come up with one. The book world has made a fortune pretending otherwise. Enjoy being warm? May we introduce you to “hygge”! Think moderation is good? Welcome to “lagom”! The new publishing non-topic liable to make you want to punch yourself in the face is “niksen” (see Carolien Janssen’s new book, right), the act of doing absolutely nothing, which is presumably what the commissioning editors behind this stuff like to fill their days with. But, hey, at least they’ll make money – the real joke’s on the readers. Picture them, feet up on their made.com ottoman, “Live, Laugh, Love”…

Doing nothing? There’s a word (and book) for that

Rugby’s FASHION conversion

Rugby shirts (the old-fashioned contrast-collar ones, not those silly skintight things the players insist on wearing now) have long held an important position in the annals of men’s style. David Hockney – arguably the most stylish artist ever to have lived – would regularly wear a rugby shirt, as would a young Mick Jagger. So when we discovered they were back on the pitch for SS20, our wardrobes were all aquiver. Originally cut from ultra-thick cotton in order to prevent them from being ripped in the scrum, this season’s rugby shirts are equally cotton rich and designed to be worn with as much preppy pep as they would have been back in the day. Make like Hockney and team yours with a pair of wide-leg slacks in a contrast colour…

Rugby’s FASHION conversion

27 NEW RULES FOR BEING A GENTLEMAN RIGHT NOW

Imagine what a ludicrous figure you would be if you lived and died by the advice of those hoary old “etiquette manuals”: awkwardly dancing around the pavement to ensure you are always walking kerbside; despairing over the direction your fellow diners are passing the port; slavishly learning all the appropriate forms of address for the royal family (even though they’d never let you anywhere near them). Being a man is changing – it has always been changing – and those manuals haven’t engaged in real life for centuries, if they ever did at all. So what are the useful rules, the practical dos and don’ts of being a man right now? We’re not talking about how to behave in light of Me Too. That’s obvious. Rule one: don’t be a jerk.…

27 NEW RULES FOR BEING A GENTLEMAN RIGHT NOW

Why we’re psyched for the new HARLEY QUINN movie

“Harley needs friends.” That’s how Margot Robbie sold her Harley Quinn movie to Warner Bros execs – but if that sounds saccharine, consider that she needs those friends because she has just had a less-than-amicable breakup with Jared Leto’s psychopathic Joker. The consequences play out in this month’s Birds Of Prey (And The Fantabulous Emancipation Of One Harley Quinn), which plucks Quinn from the burning wreckage of Suicide Squad and provides her with what Robbie calls “a girl gang” to wreak gleeful chaos across Gotham. Her outing in Suicide Squad was let down by her teammates. (Remember the man-crocodile? The angry samurai woman whose dead husband lived in her katana? Us neither.) But Harley Quinn herself was exhilarating – she’s the bestselling female character in comics – so it’s not hard…

Why we’re psyched for the new HARLEY QUINN movie

Got a #bigidea? Make it count!

1. Cultivate professional romances Nicola Larder is the brain behind Nordic-noir-by-way-of-British-crime-thriller Marcella and says that the show came about through what she refers to as “professional romances”. In other words, wooing potential collaborators – with different life experiences – with whom you would like to work. For the show, Larder sought out Scandi-drama mastermind Hans Rosenfeldt, famed for his work on The Bridge. “There are good latent ideas within me that I don’t even know are there yet until I begin speaking to the right collaborator,” says Larder. 2. Conjure a platform When we think about creativity, it’s often related to the physical thing produced at the end of a process – a song, say, or a design. But it’s just as important to get creative with the opportunities that will allow you…

Got a #bigidea? Make it count!

Everything I don’t know about… Valentine’s Day

When we were kids (ie, up to the age of about 30) my mother used to post us Valentine’s Day cards so we’d know at least one person loved us. I have the same urge to send cards to my own grown children, even though the pulsing heart emoji is at all our fingertips. Yet I can’t think of the last time I got a card, or sent one, or had a Valentine’s Day “meal” à deux. In fact, I think it’s the most unromantic day of the year. Speaking as a woman of a certain age, let me explain what I want on Valentine’s Day – and it’s not a cheap Tesco card and the expectation of event sex after an expensive dinner in a mediocre restaurant. (I say this…

Everything I don’t know about… Valentine’s Day

The SECRETS of MY SUCCESS

Email is too slow I avoid email as often as I can. In the office, I’m constantly stomping around; the last thing I want to do is to send an email. I use Slack a lot and iMessage. At most, I’ll send a small handful of emails a day. Look to fellow disrupters for guidance Outside of the business, the only person I’d [ask for advice] is Harley [Finkelstein], who is the chief operating officer of Shopify. Harley understands the way that our business works in many ways. Shopify is a publicly traded company that’s valued in the tens of billions of dollars and it’s incredibly fast-growing. It’s a level up from where we are now. I think a lot of the problems that we’ve faced, Shopify has had similar problems in the…

The SECRETS of MY SUCCESS

Spring in your step?

Packing away your winter clothes and dredging up your summer wardrobe tends to be a bit of a bittersweet experience. On the one hand, shorts! On the other, no more coats, sweaters and boots. Fortunately for us, brands have been working hard to remedy the latter issue and for SS20 there are a whole host of smart, easy-wearing ankle boots with a lo-fi, summery appeal. Sitting somewhere between the impracticality of a desert and the chunky wintriness of a chuka, these new boots might not be entirely puddle friendly, but they’ll keep your feet warm on those chilly spring nights. And we’ve got nothing but love for that.…

Spring in your step?

The one with GCHQ and the next step in the Schwimmaissance

If it comes as a surprise to hear David Schwimmer say things such as “Cyberterrorism is the new frontier” with real authority, then pretty soon it won’t. Schwimmer’s new espionage show, Intelligence, is a workplace sitcom set amid GCHQ’s frosted glass and drone feeds and, being grounded in real life, it has made him an expert on the murky world of kompromat, misinformation and the new Cold War between Russia, the US and everyone in between. Intelligence lies somewhere between The Thick Of It and The Office. Given Schwimmer and series creator Nick Mohammed, who costars, met with representatives from GCHQ (“They got in touch”) to help them capture the reality of life within the intelligence community, the implications of the show for national security aren’t massively reassuring. Does anyone really…

The one with GCHQ and the next step in the Schwimmaissance

Meet your NEW PLANET FRIENDLY pullover

It’s a widely held myth that the luxury industry is one of the greatest contributors to the world’s environmental crisis. Fashion, taken as a whole, is problematic, sure, but at the highest echelons of ultra-elevated luxury, sustainability has been an integral part of the vernacular for decades. Take, for instance, the family-founded, part LVMH-owned cashmere brand Loro Piana. Not only is the label’s output incredibly small, due to the rarefied nature of its sweaters, shirt jackets and knitted polos, but the way in which the cashmere fibres are sourced from Mongolia’s capra hircus goats is as carbon neutral as it’s possible to get. Very little machinery is used in the process, the land required is minimal and the number of said goats that even exist… minute. Stands to reason, then,…

Meet your NEW PLANET FRIENDLY pullover

Founded in 1983 by Jeremy Hackett – the cigar-toting gentleman clothier who can often be spotted walking his dogs, Harry and Muffin, around the streets of Mayfair – Hackett has built a name as the go-to brand for quintessential British gear, wherever you are in the world. And yet Hackett has never had premises on London’s most storied menswear street, Savile Row. Until now, that is. Spread over two floors at No14 (right, the impressive Georgian townhouse most recently inhabited by tailoring brand Hardy Amies), the store is naturally dedicated in its entirety to bespoke, made-to-measure and off-the-peg tailoring. Although the jazzy chartreuse-hued in-store bar is worth popping into for a whisky or five and the suits on offer at the first-floor atelier are second to few, what is arguably most exciting…

How I learned to LOVE the BALLET for big boys

At my school they taught us how to hate rugby. It was a grammar school where rugby was seen as the socially mobile sport, our muddy road to becoming little toffs, as integral to the school’s aspirational culture as the Latin motto on our blazer badge. It was, of course, football that filled our dreams, playtime and bedroom walls. But our school – and our terrifying Welsh sports master – believed football carried the stench of beery yobs on council estates. So we were made to play rugby and we learned to loathe it for a lifetime, not least because before every lesson we were obliged to get down and roll around in the mud. It did not make us gentlemen, but it did make us detest rugby. Every double games…

How I learned to LOVE the BALLET for big boys

Welcome to the jungle!

It was almost silly how many safari jackets there were on the runways of Milan, Paris and London this season. From the slinky caramel-hued leather styles on show at Fendi to the altogether more function-focused canvas numbers at Louis Vuitton, it was impossible to move for nattily belted waists and multiple bellows pockets. It shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise, however, that safari jackets are back this spring, given the style has been a warm-weather staple since the first examples were worn by Ernest Hemingway and his exploratory ilk in the Thirties. Later reinvigorated by Yves Saint Laurent in the Sixties and Roger Moore’s Bond in the Seventies, a safari jacket is the height of practical sophistication. Photographs Getty Images Models Jack Buchanan and DJ James at Select; Darwin…

Welcome to the jungle!

The mega-luxe ‘SHOW GARAGE’ is now officially a thing

The Autohaus upturns the hierarchy of rooms, putting the garage at the heart It’s the epitome of a First World problem: if you own a beautiful car, and therefore wish to keep it in a garage, you can’t lovingly gaze upon it. The struggle is real! For proof, consider the increasing demand for elaborate (read: expensive) architectural solutions. In response to the boom in car collecting spurred by the ever-increasing prices being achieved by rare autos, designers are showering attention on that most under-loved of rooms: the garage. For time immemorial this has been an undefined space – part of the house, but also kind of not – which is why it has been adapted for so many different things over the decades (rehearsal space, start-up HQ, maker lab). Now, it is…

The mega-luxe ‘SHOW GARAGE’ is now officially a thing

SPRING in your STEP

Whether you’re a committed sneakerhead or part-time footwear aficionado, we bet you’ve seen one of Dolce & Gabbana’s signature styles on the city streets, mostly because they’re pretty hard to miss (in a good way). The NS1 is the statement sneaker your wardrobe needs. Contrasting panels and textured details come together like haute couture pic’n’mix to dispel any dowdy new year dressing. The NS1 will be arriving in a wide array of bold colourways, including jet black and fluoro green, scarlet and teal or petrol blue and rust. Pair with black wide-leg trousers and a hooded sweatshirt. From £525. dolcegabbana.com…

SPRING in your STEP

London Fashion Week Men’s AW20

For the first time, each and every show mounted in the London Fashion Week Men’s space, hosted this season at East London’s Old Truman Brewery, was live streamed by the British Fashion Council on the LFWM Instagram feed. It was an inclusive touch that made the whole affair feel more energetic and wide reaching than ever. And this sense of openness carried through into many of the collections too. From the magpie-esque tailoring of Grace Wales Bonner to the zesty pep of Martine Rose and from the avant-garde brilliance of Charles Jeffrey to the quiet elegance of Per Götesson, this season’s runway highlights were as creatively freewheeling as they were manifold. Other noteworthy moments from across the weekend included Bethany Williams’ fully sustainable collection – shown fresh on the back…

London Fashion Week Men’s AW20

They (all) wear it well

Pink Shirtmaker, the London-based brand founded in 1984, has always been applauded for sewing the traditions of English shirtmaking onto contemporary patterns and stylish designs – and now its ultimate shirt-making experience has landed in Vauxhall: a 7,200 sq ft, state-of-the-art Bespoke workshop designed by MoreySmith. Splitting the space between a timber-decorated workstation floor and customer reception, it’s our latest port of call for a beautifully crafted personal tailoring experience. In celebration of the opening, GQ Editor-in-Chief Dylan Jones and Pink Shirtmaker London’s president and CEO, Christopher Zanardi-Landi, welcomed London’s leading fashion set to experience the new Vauxhall factory. Demonstrating the true métier of the LVMH brand, guests engaged with the new look and feel first-hand, while enjoying a fabulous evening of food, wine and shirt-based conversation. Herewith, all the top…

They (all) wear it well

The 2020 Car GQ Awards

IN ASSOCIATION WITH The GQ Car Awards, produced in association with Michelin, is always a very special event. Every year we have the privilege of choosing the absolute best of the automotive world and assembling them under one roof for an exclusive photographic celebration. And this year is no different… From a centenary-defining concept, a near-priceless Ferrari and the most beautiful car ever made, through to a rough-riding icon reimagined, the world’s fastest company car and a drone-loving farmer, we believe the following 14 speedsters, greensters and head-turners – plus two very special champions of motoring – constitute the greatest show on the road… What do you think? Best Concept Car Bentley EXP 100 GT The ‘Oh, Wow!’ Award A centenary present to itself, Bentley’s pure-electric concept car is also a template for automotive luxury…

The 2020 Car GQ Awards

Designer Of The Year Gerry McGovern

For the past 25 years, forgetting a five-year period steering Lincoln-Mercury in the US, the force of nature disguised as Gerry McGovern has shaped the look and feel of the Land Rover/Range Rover world. A devoted modernist, he has taken a stick to anything he considers extraneous, rounded the edges of any unnecessary protuberance and feverishly espoused the principles of dynamic, consumer-focused design. As far as McGovern is concerned, it’s his way or the highway. Last year he delivered yet another four-wheeled salvo – perhaps his most important to date – in the form of the relaunched, rejuvenated, redesigned and completely recalibrated Defender (above), the jewel of the Land Rover universe. Launched against a barrage of industry disquiet and media suspicion – what was McGovern going to do? Was he going to…

Designer Of The Year Gerry McGovern

Lifetime Achievement Award Jeremy Clarkson

The winner of our Lifetime Achievement Award is a farmer. He lives on a vast 1,000-acre estate in Oxfordshire. He drives a tractor. He worries about the sex lives of his rams. And instead of a sheepdog he corrals his livestock with a drone that barks. No, we aren’t joking. And for once, neither is he Oh, this is actually real,” says Jeremy Clarkson. “The drone has a speaker on it and for a week it worked brilliantly. But now the sheep have realised it’s not a threat, they just stand and stare at it. It’s got five different barks and none of them make the slightest bit of difference. So now I have to run around herding them. Honestly,” he adds genuinely, “I didn’t realise that filming this farming malarkey…

Lifetime Achievement Award Jeremy Clarkson

Blast from the PAST

It know is ungodly o’clock outside Billingsgate Fish Market when the dawn chorus of forklift trucks, hustle, bustle and east London banter is shattered by a growling, guttural turbo-charged V6 engine announcing its arrival. As heads turn, MICHELIN-starred chef Paul Ainsworth emerges from the entrance hall with a huge cheesy grin on his face and gives the waiting driver, GQ’s Associate Editor Paul Henderson, a friendly wave. “Morning mate,” Ainsworth says, far more cheerily than the hour might suggest. “It’s only five or six hours ‘til lunch time. What shall we do until then?” And with a screech of MICHELIN tyres, they’re off. Only a chef would want to check out the catch of the day at the UK’s largest indoor fish market (back in the 19th century it was the largest…

Blast from the PAST

ALPHA AND OMEGA The watchmaker marks 25 years as quartermaster to Her Majesty’s top dog with a new 007 Seamaster Behind every memorable movie character is a great costume designer. It stands to reason, then, that the most memorable of them all, James Bond – soon to embark on his 25th screen outing – has, over the years, benefited from the best (starting with Dr No director Terence Young’s insistence that Sean Connery look the part). In 1995, looking to reboot the role for a new, less aquiline, more Action Man actor in Pierce Brosnan, GoldenEye costume designer Lindy Hemming went back to the essentials of Ian Fleming’s hero, choosing a watch worthy of a naval commander. Since then, 007 has worn an Omega. Helpfully for Brosnan and the Bienne-based brand alike,…

Hublot is making movements

It can be hard keeping up with Hublot. In one week in December it launched two new models in its Eden Rock St Barths collection and a second edition of its Hublot Loves Art collaboration. This year, as well as serving as official timekeeper at Euro 2020, it’s announced a brand-new Big Bang, 15 years after the model was introduced. With its redesigned case featuring an integrated bracelet, the 42mm timepiece represents a nod towards “grail” sports-luxe watches – a move also reflected by switching its usual composite insert for use of the same material throughout the case – titanium, king gold or ceramic, the choice is yours. Just don’t expect it to hang around for long… HUBLOT BIG BANG INTEGRAL, FROM £17,300. HUBLOT.COM…

Hublot is making movements

says… change your PANTS EVERY DAY!

Giorgio Armani might have founded his eponymous tailoring company in 1975, but it was arguably in 1980, when he designed the costumes for Richard Gere in American Gigolo, that his name was made – and it’s a name that has since become synonymous with a very particular brand of Italian elegance. It was Armani, after all, who effectively invented deconstructed tailoring and with it the silhouette that dominated the boardrooms of the Eighties and the runways of the Nineties. More recently, he’s dressed major names ranging from Leonardo DiCaprio to Shawn Mendes and now, in a GQ exclusive, he’s here to dress you… or, at least, help you get started. 1. Find your uniform “My daily uniform consists of a good pair of dark trousers that are comfortable and relatively smart, a…

says… change your PANTS EVERY DAY!

Fancy a… DECAF WOKE-ESPRESSO TINI?

TRY DRY It’s hard not to want to punch in the face those who vocally abstain from booze. Their smugness claws at your patience like a raven trapped in the upstairs bathroom. Even the old human walnut that is Ronnie Wood – the most lovable of the Stones, let’s be honest – comes across all irksome when seen swinging from a chilled Heineken 0.0 backstage. The harsh truth of it, however, is that you probably drink way too much, especially during the working week, when you come home all crotchety and rained-on. You stomp in like Michael Douglas in Falling Down, shout at the children for not finishing their maths homework and then pour yourself a bottle of vino collapso. Even if you don’t think you’ve got a drinking problem, your partner does.…

Fancy a… DECAF WOKE-ESPRESSO TINI?

1,001 MANSSENTIALS

Early November sees the world’s watch collectors, dealers, buyers, sellers, brand bosses and pretty much anyone with an interest in timepieces descend on Geneva for the beginning of the autumn auction season. And in 2019 the big news was the £24 million sale of a unique Patek Philippe Grandmaster Chime (right), created for Christie’s biennial charity auction Only Watch. At the time of writing it is the most expensive watch ever sold. But I also had a moment of personal enlightenment, a footwear epiphany, at La Réserve, the lakeside spa hotel where Aurel Bacs and his wife, Livia Russo, hold their auctions in association with Phillips. Bacs is the ultimate auction showman, capable of selling six-, seven- and eight-figure watches in a similar number of European languages and along the way…

1,001 MANSSENTIALS

Fly guy! MILE-HIGH STYLE

What do you travel in? For me it can go one of two ways. If I’m jetting off to somewhere absurdly hot and shamefully indulgent with the family in tow – girlfriend, two children, no pets – no doubt I’ll do what I usually do when time is lacking and there’s no fear of running into too many judgemental business associates: pull on a pair of unwashed grey jeans, fresh white T-shirt from CDLP and spare hoodie, the latter usually a freebie from whichever tech giant-sponsored conference I last dozed off at. If it’s strictly business, however, I’ll do what most men do: premium denim strides, sky-blue shirt, possibly a cashmere crewneck to combat any chilly onboard air-con and a smart, structured tailored jacket to ensure peak professionalism when disembarking and…

Fly guy! MILE-HIGH STYLE

UP Wagyumafia Cut out all red meat other than the £130 chateaubriand kobe beef cutlet sandwich from Tokyo’s Hisato Hamada and Takumi Horie. Dopamine fasting (AKA ‘pretend death’) No TV. No social media. No sport. No books. Just water. And nature. And you. Go! Hype Houses LA’s new wave of rentals, occupied by groups of TikTok content super creators. Jahleel Weaver The stylist behind Rihanna’s booming Fenty powerhouse. Super-luxe Airpods cases Or very expensive mini man-bags for your headphones: the very definition of 2020 decadence. DOWN Ultralight down jackets When archaeologists from 3100AD dig down to our strata all they will find are thin-boned skeletons wearing these things, clutching metal water bottles. Lunchtime starters Who orders first courses any more? It’s main, then coffee. Scratch the burrata. Be@rbricks If you’re a thirtysomething music streaming exec living in Calabasas and don’t have one of these “toys” in your corner office,…

HELL is an 11am CHECKOUT

Picture the scene: it’s the last morning of a particularly jammed business trip to Seattle. (You’re in software. Or you’re a marketing exec looking to branch into AI…) Anyway, you’re totally whacked. It’s a Saturday and you’ve been out here since Wednesday afternoon. You got through eight client pitches (superbly, might I say), three working lunches (during the first of which you were forced by jet lag to periodically go to the bathroom to splash water all over your slowly melting face) and two “catch-up coffees” with colleagues who, quite frankly, you’d usually cross the road to avoid. Still, now it’s the weekend, it’s 9am and you have three blissful hours before checking out of your hotel at noon. What’s it to be? A pancake? French toast? A swim? Hell,…

HELL is an 11am CHECKOUT

A ROCK STAR ate my rollneck!

Remember when guitar bands were good? No, us neither. This isn’t a fogeyish complaint – OK, it is – but more like a wistful observation on a lost vibe. Back when Arctic Monkeys lived in Sheffield and needed birth certificates to get served shandies down their local, indie style seemed authentic and vital, giving thousands of style-conscious young men some much-needed aesthetic direction. The skinny black jeans, dirty flannel shirt and scuffed Chelsea boot game worked, mainly because we were too busy pogoing against tequila-soaked walls to care much about refinement. Come 2020, however, and all that authentic cool has been weaponised by money-grabbing high street plagiarists. Ugh! We’ve also grown up (a little), thus the rebellious lodestar within has come to appreciate style with a bit more class. (Rips…

A ROCK STAR ate my rollneck!

Three ways to wear… A hype-bag

1. The hang’n’tuck Our man Ansel Elgort is so handsome he could wear a pair of Post Malone-designed Crocs and still look fly. Here he’s showing how a heavy man-bag can look effortless if hung off a strong forearm. Kid’s a natural. 2. The UF-oh! Jaden Smith has been popping hype accessories for years now. Of course, this means that he’s always playing a game of one-upmanship with himself. For total pro style status, pick a hypebag that is full-on acid dipped. 3. A$AP Granny High-fashion merch is to A$AP Rocky what diamonds are to Cardi B – it’s drippin’ all over him. Look, we’re not saying everyone can style this nan-bag out, but if you’re not trying then you’re dead inside.…

Three ways to wear… A hype-bag

Q: Is your name JACK NICHOLSON?

Some years ago I was visited by a very tall man. He arrived in my office late one afternoon and he sat on my sofa and spent a good hour telling me how brilliant his business was. There was nothing especially unusual about this. I spend all week listening to people telling me how brilliant they are and I’m a pretty good listener. The thing was, this chap didn’t take off his sunglasses. Not for a bit. Not even when he walked into the room and offered me his hand. Also, this wasn’t in the height of summer, when the light used to pour into my office as though it was parked smack bang in the middle of Miami’s Ocean Drive, but a wet Wednesday in the middle of March. And,…

Q: Is your name JACK NICHOLSON?

The old adage goes “new year, new you”, but I’m more interested in “new season, new me”. As far as I understand it, all the current clobber is hitting the shops right about now and I want to know exactly what I should be buying. Say, five key pieces. Money is an object, although not an immovable one… Luke, Rochester Hi, Luke. My kind of question. Though, that being said, you haven’t given me an awful lot to go on (age, waist size, attractiveness–always useful when answering this kind of query) so I’ll try to be as general as I can. The first thing you should buy this season is a pair of cargo pants. Hear me out. I’m not talking Nicole Appleton going out for a pint of Boddingtons with…

DENIM FOR THE WIN

Holy trinity Mastering triple denim can be tricky, so take inspiration from Wrangler to get it right every time. Easy to put together and proof that simple can be stylish, triple denim has its perks. The most important thing to consider is the wash and the easiest way to get this right is to choose a colourway and stick to it. Wrangler offers the perfect mid-wash across denim jeans, shirts and jackets, a shade that is universally flattering. You can toughen up the look even further by teaming it with a tan leather belt and boots. Triple the denim, triple the attitude. Roll up It’s the finishing touch that pulls a look together, so don’t underestimate the power of the fold. Wrangler knows what’s up. Congratulations, you’ve sought out your perfect jeans with the help…

DENIM FOR THE WIN

This month: Step into the Fifties at Cahoots Ticket Hall and Control Room p.135 Edinburgh, three ways: the top five-star stays in Scotland’s capital p.136 The Chef Santiago Lastra at Kol London A young chef opens his first solo restaurant in London, offering tacos, tortillas and tequila with a British inflection. Enjoy! Santiago Lastra has an endearing earnestness about him. His desire to cook shines out of him as brightly as his smile and, while he is set to be the next big thing on the culinary block, there is also the sense that he still can’t quite believe his luck. The 29-year-old Mexican chef is so driven he has gone as far as to sleep on the floors of derelict houses in order to save his salary so that he could work in…

The RISE of the CHAMPAGNE cocktail

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FOOD & DRINK AWARDS 2020

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Have you heard?

I have terrible tinnitus, a condition I’ve heard for nearly three years. This manifests itself by a constant ringing in the ears, which, if you allow it to, can send you nuts. When I first developed it (caused by flying to New York on company business with a heavy cold), I spent nearly a year trying to undevelop it, wasting time with various doctors and specialists and then spending some valuable time with a very good acupuncturist. The best piece of advice came from one of the few doctors I saw who actually spoke sense. When I told him I had tinnitus, he said, “How can you tell?” Which, in an oblique way, helped me come to terms with my condition. As many people who suffer from the same affliction would…

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The Mediterranean island redefining the CITY BREAK

The Maltese archipelago really does have it all: a storied history, world-class hotels, a vibrant restaurant scene, some of the planet’s best diving and 300 days of sunshine every year. In a single trip you can easily visit three fascinating historic areas: its current capital, Valletta; its medieval capital, Mdina; and the charming portside conurbation of Birgu, Senglea and Cospicua (collectively known as The Three Cities). “A city of palaces built by gentlemen for gentlemen,” was Benjamin Disraeli’s verdict on Valletta back in 1830 and he’d likely be even more impressed were he to visit Malta’s capital today, after a series of inspired architectural interventions have brought the place so thrillingly up to date. Here the city’s past is beautifully maintained – an incredible 320 historic monuments can be found in…

The Mediterranean island redefining the CITY BREAK

When impossibly turquoise water, panoramic views and golden sands are just standard procedure in the Maldives, how do resorts stand out in the white noise of Insta-bait holiday destinations? Well, check into OZEN by Atmosphere and you just might find out. We’ll be right behind you. Opened in 2016 as the flagship of the Atmosphere Hotels & Resorts portfolio, OZEN is a five-star property on the island of Maadhoo. Made up of 90 standalone villas (on land and sea), OZEN offers an unrivalled holiday cocktail of stunning residences, otherworldly vistas and an extensive menu of luxury spa treatments and diving excursions. Oh, and there’s an underwater restaurant. We Brits have evidently taken quite a liking as we accounted for 27 per cent of OZEN’s visitors in 2018. Being only 35km from the…

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‘In my DICTION, In my STANCE, In my ATTITUDE… ‘Glastonbury couldn’t be the Stormzy show. It was a display of everything. “Hey, England. This is our art”’ Stormzy is 25 minutes into his headlining Glastonbury set when he feels something go “boom” in his in-ear. The pack that pumps studio-quality sound to the singer while he’s on stage had gone haywire. “It was just going, ‘Eeeeeeee!’ I’m talking deafening. Then it blew and I couldn’t hear shit.” He’d just finished “Sweet Like Chocolate”. The stage lights had gone down. Stormzy stands there, eyes intense, back straight, standing tall, very tall, black, lean, buff, clad top to toe in lily white. Sweat cascades from his face. He lifts his fingers to his earpiece and stares ahead. Back-up soul singers gather around to cover Kanye West’s…

The 50 most influential people in Britain

It’s four short years since we last calibrated the impact real influence has on all our lives. Since then, deference towards office and status (or what little was left of it) has eroded, replaced – in our age of anger and anxiety – with a new sort of convening power that doesn’t seek merely to control but also to confer: whether through hashtags or the hallowed halls of Westminster, everyone these days, in some way, is an agitator. Which is why a new category of “Activism” joins this year’s list. Influence in 2020 is multi-hyphenate. An impressive title is no longer enough – it’s as valid to be anti-establishment as it is to aspire to become a part of it. After all, what is true influence if not the ability to…

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1 Emily Maitlis Presenter, Newsnight (49) Anchorwoman The BBC’s arch-interrogator claimed her first royal scalp last year (Prince Andrew, below), but she’s long been the scourge of negligent public servants dragged before the Newsnight cameras to face judgment. Profligate expense accounts? Sexist comments caught on mic? Uncosted party manifesto? Maitlis, on behalf of the country, will deliver the sentence. Don’t confuse her with: Andrew Neil. He grills; she incinerates. 2 Kamal Ahmed Editorial director, BBC News (52) Making the headlines Don’t be fooled by the claim that fake news has ruined everything. Despite attacks from both the left and the right, BBC News is still one of the world’s most trusted sources. At its head is Ahmed, sitting on the corporation’s News Group Board and overseeing everything from Question Time to BBC.co.uk’s Reality Check and long reads. Thought…

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17 Sir Jim Ratcliffe Chairman and CEO, Ineos (67) In it to win it What first attracted us to the petrochemical billionaire and former richest man in Britain? Possibly his new-found propensity for spending big money on sporting projects that take his fancy, including a partnership with Sir Ben Ainslie in a bid to win the 2021 America’s Cup, buying the Team Sky cycling franchise to reclaim the Tour De France and snapping up French football team OGC Nice. What’s next? He is open to offers… Would he buy Manchester United? He fracking well just might. 18 Holli Rogers CEO, Browns and CBO, Farfetch (51) Fashion’s fast-tracker Recently appointed chief brand officer at Farfetch, Rogers has a lot on her (Richard Ginori-designed, no doubt) plate. In the space of five short years, she has turned round the fortunes of…

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27 Maria Raga CEO, Depop (41) Get ready to jumble Move over, Billie Eilish, the Gen Z’s true avatar is 41-year-old Raga, who heads up second-hand clothes app Depop. As fast fashion becomes anathema to teenagers, Depop’s model – a sort of Instagram meets Ebay – has exploded, with 140,000 items listed for sale daily. If the internet was once the future of retail, Depop is the future of internet retail. Your daughter probably uses her app: Ninety per cent of Depop’s active users are under 26. 28 Sir Nigel Shadbolt Chairman and cofounder, Open Data Institute (63) Wanted: good gigabytes Think of the Open Data Institute, which Shadbolt cofounded with Sir Tim Berners-Lee (who invented the world wide web), as the “not evil” WikiLeaks. A longtime advisor to the government on data and transparency, it’s thanks to…

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36 Greta Thunberg Environmental activist (17) Listen up! Just as if you have to call someone “famous” they’re probably not, the same is true of insisting someone isn’t influential: they likely are. Case in point: Swedish teen climate change activist Greta Thunberg, of whom a rotisserie of gammon men (hi, Arron Banks!) have sought in vain to diminish, despite the fact she a) has led a global protest movement involving millions, b) was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, c) has met Obama and d) has addressed the UN, Davos and the British parliament. For further reading: Check out the collection of Thunberg’s speeches, No One Is Too Small To Make A Difference. 37 Catherine Mayer Cofounder, Women’s Equality Party (59) Pied Piper of the post-patriarchy A chance remark in 2015 led the journalist and author to cofound…

Prince Khalid bin Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud Saudi ambassador to the UK (42) The kingdom’s new schooler Whatever your views of Saudi Arabia’s human rights record, the country is currently on a huge PR drive. It will inevitably become an increasingly prominent player in international life, particularly through hosting sports events, affording its Old Etonian ambassador to the UK much greater clout. Recently in Saudi: Anthony Joshua vs Andy Ruiz Jr, the Dakar Rally, the Spanish Super Cup… 45 Carrie Symonds Publicist (31) Duchess of Downing Street As the first girlfriend of a sitting PM, Symonds has a far more influential role than you might suspect: at least someone has Johnson’s ear who might have some semblance of decency, honesty, morality and maybe even a conscience. I mean, there can’t be two people on the…

Michael WOLFF on Boris JOHNSON

I don’t believe Boris Johnson and Donald Trump have anything much in common, not intellectually, temperamentally, emotionally or politically. I’ve known both men for nearly 20 years: Boris from when he edited an article of mine at the Spectator (with many conversations and interviews since) and Trump from when I was a columnist at New York Magazine and he took often to calling me to complain about not getting mentioned enough (and with two books about him since). My small role in the linking of the two men happened in early June 2016 when I asked Trump what he thought about Brexit, with the vote just a few weeks away. He responded, “Huh?” I explained Brexit to him and told him about Boris, whom I described as the most compelling politician…

Michael WOLFF on Boris JOHNSON

‘I love my job. I get to do the two things I’m most passionate about: create and converse with people’ Behind a nondescript, bulletproof door on the ninth floor of the Bank Of America building in Beverly Hills prowls one of the most successful jewellers in America. At 42 years old, Jason Arasheben has shops in Las Vegas, Miami and Tokyo, in addition to his Rodeo Drive HQ, but it’s here in his semisecret office where you’ll find his most outlandish creations. This is where the A-listers come to commission their rings and bracelets, their shoes and brooches, where Lil Jon came when he wanted a record-breaking five-pound pendant reading “Crunk Ain’t Dead”, where Justin Bieber came when he fancied a gemencrusted figure of Stewie from Family Guy and where Drake…

Are these men THE SAVIOURS OF JOURNALISM or are they about to DESTROY it?

‘ We’ll let every local paper bleed until we’re the last ones standing’ The football season hadn’t yet finished when the transfer rumours started. There was a new American owner, massive spending plans, a strategy to assemble a team of superstars… All over Britain, as if by reflex, sports journalists started messaging their sources: “Have you heard?” For once, the story wasn’t about Paul Pogba at Manchester United or Gareth Bale at Real Madrid. Instead, it concerned the Athletic, a subscription-only sports news website that in just three years had rolled through the US and Canada city by city, siphoning off sports writers from local newspapers. “We will wait every local paper out and let them continuously bleed until we are the last ones standing,” Alex Mather, the Athletic’s CEO and cofounder,…

Are these men THE SAVIOURS OF JOURNALISM or are they about to DESTROY it?

‘Big, arrogant f***’ STEVE JOBS ‘Google paid to ensure Rubin’s silence. If they fired him, all the tawdry details would get out…’ For as long as anyone can remember, Andy Rubin – nicknamed “Android” by his colleagues at Apple in the late Eighties – has been trying to make his fellow humans obsolete. The shaven-headed 56-year-old engineer, who dresses in black leather jackets and metal-framed glasses, might be best known for the mobile operating system he created – that would be Android, of course – but in Silicon Valley, it is his love of bringing machines to life that has set him apart. Allegations of sexual misconduct at Google focused on Andy Rubin after it was reported that his departure in 2013 followed allegations made by a junior staffer Described memorably as a “big,…

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One of my favourite books is Elizabeth von Arnim’s 1922 classic The Enchanted April, in which a group of British women escape the dreariness of a cold and wet London to spend a month in a rented Italian castle, lured by the promise of ‘wisteria and sunshine’. The glorious contrast in both the weather and their surroundings not only lifts their spirits, but ultimately turns all of them into much nicer people. Holiday homes always bring with them that sense of anticipation and hope – that the power of a place will help to smooth away the million worries of our daily lives and allow us simply to be ourselves. They’re somewhere to retreat and relax, to get together with family and friends. And where better to buy a second…

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AN EVENING WITH SAVILLS

‘The energy has returned to a fantastic destination,’ said James Burdess, Head of Caribbean Sales – and dreams of living amid white sand and sparkling seas became reality as Savills and Condé Nast Property hosted a party at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Knightsbridge to celebrate a successful event showcasing remarkable new opportunities in the islands.…

AN EVENING WITH SAVILLS

From the moment I sit down with Ronan Farrow – the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist whose unflinching, dogged work has been in part responsible for bringing about the downfall of Harvey Weinstein – one senses an acute self-awareness. Farrow’s sentience seems to make the glassware vibrate. As soon as the little red button on my Dictaphone indicates the conversation is being recorded, Farrow’s journalistic antenna crackles. It shouldn’t be such a surprise, as being “on record” is the currency with which Farrow himself (together with his sources) has had to wrestle for much of his journalistic life. “Now, I have to pick something that makes for good colour…” he explains rather helpfully, sitting in a sky-blue shirt and tie, his blond hair that of a slightly dishevelled matinée idol, painting a picture of…

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