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19 Articles

The Stories We Tell

We are Iraqis from an infinitesimally small ethnoreligion, Mandaeism. In the tumult following the 2003 invasion by Coalition forces, about 90 per cent of the Iraqi Mandean population was either killed or forced to flee. (Much of my extended family now live in Sweden.) It is simple to understand what happened. The religion is pacifist; Mandeans are not permitted to carry weapons. There are, at most, 100,000 of us remaining, scattered around the world, with our jutting chins and olive skin. The religion is closed: one cannot convert and become a Mandean; you are born into it from two Mandean parents, or you are not. Seeing my father – who emigrated to Australia decades ago – reunite with my uncles in Sweden a few weeks back moved me deeply. It…

The Stories We Tell

What’s Old is Supremely Fresh Again

FASHION IS GETTING older. And we don’t mean the designers or wearers. The digital age’s voracious appetite for trends has eaten through the teenage Y2K and the blokecore lad era of its 20s, through the affably middle-aged “quiet luxury” thing that Succession made happen, and has arrived at its retirement home. Maybe it’s for the best. After all, it’s been a hard year. We’ve all done the dance of career slogging, social-butterfly-ing, civic duty, damned run clubs. Isn’t it time we all took a little break? So get on your reclining chair, because Strictly is starting. Kettle’s on, too. This pensioner-shaped trend is modelled, unsurprisingly, on your grandfather. That is, your grandfather if he wore Comme des Garçons and Drake’s. Corners of TikTok and Instagram saw iterations of it earlier…

What’s Old is Supremely Fresh Again

The Original! Reversible! Luxury Sport Watch!

IN 1930, SWISS businessman César de Trey was attending a polo match in India, when he discovered that players’ watches were being destroyed during the games. As the story goes, de Trey returned home and challenged the Swiss horologist Jacques-David LeCoultre to produce a sturdier timepiece, one that could stand up to the rigours of polo. This sparked the novel idea to create a watch case that could swivel in order to protect its most delicate parts, and, in 1931, the first Reverso was produced. While it eventually achieved a cultlike status, the Reverso never established the hype and obsessive collector base that a watch with its credentials should. Now, a trio of new Reversos coming out this year brings new attention to this overlooked icon. For many, myself included,…

The Original! Reversible! Luxury Sport Watch!

Come for the Food, Stay for the Masterpieces

YOU’D NEED A keen eye to know that the vivid ceiling of The Audley in London is a custom work by artist Phyllida Barlow (pictured on previous page). But this isn’t your typical pub: few of the afterwork punters sipping Guinness on your average weekday would know that it’s run by the owners of Hauser & Wirth, one of the biggest art galleries in the world. That’s sort of the point. The Audley only whispers its art world credentials, free from the visual clickbait (mirrors made for selfies! Viral desserts!) that plague dining out in 2024. Call it quiet luxury, made palatable. Then again, Manuela and Iwan Wirth, the art-dealing duo behind this venture, are not your typical restaurateurs. For a decade now, the Swiss family have marked themselves out…

Come for the Food, Stay for the Masterpieces

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The Amateur Watch Detective Exposing Frauds and “Frankenwatches”

ON THE AFTERNOON of 5 November 2021, in a large and luxuriously appointed tent on the banks of Lake Geneva, a Phillips horological auction was taking place. Fine and vintage watches – Patek Philippes, Philippe Dufours, FP Journes – were being sold in quick succession by the Swiss auctioneer Aurel Bacs, a man with the grizzled mien of an expensive hitman. The early lots, all priced in Swiss Francs, sold consistently for tens of thousands. As the sale went on the numbers began to tick up. With his gavel, Bacs was soon routinely selling watches for hundreds of thousands, dispatching them in no more than a few minutes each. Then came lot 53. Over the next 20 minutes, bidders did battle over a 1957 Omega Speedmaster, reference 2915-1. At first…

The Amateur Watch Detective Exposing Frauds and “Frankenwatches”

The Winner of the GQ Grooming Awards 2024 Is… You

AFTER WEEKS OF TESTS, this year’s finest products have ascended the podium. Now, there’s only one thing left to do: use them. Let’s be honest for a second here: we want the best grooming products because we want to be the best version of ourselves. Yes, the culture’s constant, often crippling obsession with youth isn’t helpful. But growing old(er) gracefully doesn’t mean you have to elect for a chemically aided jawline (though that’s OK), and it doesn’t mean loathing the appearance of laughter lines either (they’re definitely OK). It’s not all vanity either. Looking better means feeling better. Grooming is an art, ritualistic:a way to practise genuine self-care without wishing to the cosmos or being told to swim in a public pond at 5am. And the greater the product, the…

The Winner of the GQ Grooming Awards 2024 Is… You

How Did Sunbeds Get Hot Again?

THERE’S A LOW, droning hum that radiates from a sunbed. There’s the option of music in front of you – generic house beats on tap – but if you abstain, all you can hear is the whirr of the fans and a mechanical buzz. I’ve booked eight minutes, the shortest possible time offered by the store, in the middle of a working day. Near naked, with my hands curled around the bars, my first impression as I watch the minutes climb up is how heady and immediate the feeling is. Within three minutes, my skin begins to sweat, prickling, the way it does in direct sun, sprawled out on holiday. At six minutes, I lean my face closer to the air vents, drinking in deep breaths of tepid air. When…

How Did Sunbeds Get Hot Again?

Himesh Patel Has a Quiet Glow

AS HE CONSIDERS THE toastie in front of him, the expression on Himesh Patel’s face switches from anticipation to something bordering on concern. “I wish bread was good for you,” he says. The two of us are sitting outside a very Instagram café surrounded by smiling couples, young women nudging prams and people pretending to work on laptops. When I point out that toast isn’t all that bad, Patel responds, “In Hollywood, I think bread is a vice.” Self-care can seem like a bit of an embarrassing proposition if you’re someone like Patel, when you love your job and have a young family to take care of. But, recently, the 34 year old has been on a quest for balance, around a calendar stuffed with production, promotion and everything else.…

Himesh Patel Has a Quiet Glow

Why Does Everyone Have Big, Fake White Teeth Now?

EARLY ONE AFTERNOON in August, at his office on the ninth floor of the Camden Medical Arts building in Beverly Hills, Dr Kevin Sands slipped on a black surgical mask and latex gloves before peering into the mouth of a sleeping princess. Instead of standard medical scrubs, he wore black Amiri slacks, a matching James Perse T-shirt, and Nike trainers designed by Travis Scott. On his left wrist was a Patek Philippe Aquanaut with a khaki-green dial and matching strap. The watch cost just over £40,000, which is about a third of what her royal highness was paying to have 28 perfect-looking cosmetically enhanced teeth restored with a new set of handmade porcelain crowns and veneers. “I’ve been seeing the royal families, the Al-Thani family, and the Al-Saud family, for…

Why Does Everyone Have Big, Fake White Teeth Now?

PAUL MESCAL ENTERS THE ARENA

ON a midsummer’s evening in London’s Victoria Park, the sun is expending its final burst of energy. The emerald lawn stretches as far as the eye can see, an oasis of green in the city, a vision of – ah, shit, it’s starting to rain. Paul Mescal is unfazed. He guides us under a sturdy tree, where a canopy of leaves protects us from the worsening showers, the air thick with petrichor. Mescal, reigning king of earthy and emotional heartthrobs, lounges out on the grass like some kind of Impressionist painting. Very rarely in life does it crystallize in the actual moment that a not-insignificant number of people would kill – I mean, commit actual human murder – to be in your shoes. To get to the park, we’ve power…

PAUL MESCAL ENTERS THE ARENA

Can THESE GUYS MAKE ROCK Bands COOL AGAIN???

WHEN FONTAINES D.C. were living in Dublin and making their first album, Dogrel, the five band members would pile into drummer Tom Coll’s car and blast their freshly recorded songs through the speakers. This took some work: the car was so old that they had to connect their phones to an FM converter to create their own radio station, to which the sound system could then tune into. The band’s debut opens with a furious, hypnotic chant (“Dublin in the rain is mine / A pregnant city with a Catholic mind”), before doubling down on that sense of entitlement (“My childhood was small / But I’m gonna be BIG”). They would drive along one bank of the Liffey, the river that runs through Dublin, and back down the opposite side,…

Can THESE GUYS MAKE ROCK Bands COOL AGAIN???

YOUR NEXT WATCH GOES EXTREMELY HARD

ROLEX 1908 PLATINUM Is it white gold or steel? At first sight, it’s hard to tell, but once you know what platinum looks like, you don’t forget. It has a richer, deeper hue than steel and exudes a noble shine no gold can muster. In this Rolex 1908, the platinum instantly elevates that textured ice-blue dial. £26,600 CARTIER SANTOS DUMONT REWIND PLATINUM Cartier has flipped this dial – for the quirk, and perhaps so you can admire it in the mirror and tell the time both at once. The brand also chose to use the notoriously hard-to-work-with platinum, because the finer things in life aren’t meant to be easy. £36,800 PATEK PHILIPPE GRAND COMPLICATIONS IN-LINE PERPETUAL CALENDAR REF 5236P-010 The very definition of stealth wealth: take a simple-looking watch, but make…

YOUR NEXT WATCH GOES EXTREMELY HARD

ON HOT, cloudy nights, the artist and writer Brent Holmes will sometimes stand in the backyard of his house, near Las Vegas’s Chinatown, and look to the east. Behind a screen of clouds, he’ll see flashes of light and the desert-dweller in him will feel instinctive relief: a thunderstorm is on its way, something to cool off the intense, lingering heat of the day. Holmes will take a deep inhale but then frown. No smell of an impending storm. And then it will hit him: “Oh. No. It’s the fucking Sphere.” We were standing in the parking lot of a strip mall in Chinatown, contemplating a third dinner of dim sum, after having already eaten at a Japanese izakaya and a nearby fusion restaurant. It was 10pm and 39°C. The…

From Budapest to Guadalajara With F1’s UNDERRATED MEGASTAR

FORMULA 1 drivers like to say that there is very little race car driving involved in driving race cars these days. Spend a pre-race day with one of the 20 world-class athletes at the top of motorsport and you will understand just how true this can be. On a Thursday in late July, a few days before the Hungarian Grand Prix, Red Bull driver Sergio Pérez, best known simply as Checo, one of the most famous athletes in Mexico and all of Latin America, arrives in Budapest via private jet from Madrid and is greeted by a stacked calendar of promotional duties. After he checks in at the Four Seasons, where throngs of Hungarian F1 superfans gather all weekend, he is ferried to a photo shoot for one of his…

From Budapest to Guadalajara With F1’s UNDERRATED MEGASTAR

WHEN I ARRIVE at Chase Hall’s property in New York’s Hudson Valley, I ask if he has any coffee. This is sort of a silly question, considering he paints with the stuff. The mocha hues of coffee grounds are a signature element of his figurative canvases – Hall can pull up to 100 espresso shots for one painting, brewing dozens of distinct tones based on the type of bean and the ratio between the grind and water volume. The Americano he pours me is excellent. Cups in hand, we walk from his white clapboard house towards his studio across a field bathed in late-August light. Hall comes out here in the mornings before he picks up his brushes. Only 31 years old, he decided to divide his time between the…

How Far Would You Go To Live LONGER?

If wellness is the new religion, then the quest for eternal life no longer involves prayer, but pricey cryotherapy treatments, genetic testing, and in some cases, a willingness to believe in the impossible. Silicon Valley tycoons such as Bryan Johnson are spending millions on attempts to lower their biological age (in Johnson’s case, he claims to have pulled off the lung capacity of an 18 year old). But you don’t need such lofty goals or oligarch-priced equipment to dip your toe in the waters of everlasting life. With the market for wellness tourism expected to reach a staggering £750 billion this year, today’s health-conscious resorts have caught on and are offering tourists some of the most advanced treatments and tools on the market. Think celebrity-endorsed treatments like Cristiano Ronaldo’s hyperbaric…

How Far Would You Go To Live LONGER?

NORTHERN LIGHTS

With its breathtaking landscapes, rich history, romantic castles and vibrant culture, Scotland has always been a place that captures the imagination. It’s a country of dramatic scenery, from the windswept islands off the north coast to the vast expanses of heather-covered moorland, where you can walk for miles without seeing another soul. It’s a region of extremes – here you can find the United Kingdom’s highest mountain, Ben Nevis, while Loch Lomond, at 36.4 kilometres long, is the largest lake. The late Queen’s fondness for Balmoral, her Scottish estate in Aberdeenshire, is well documented – it’s long been a favourite spot for the Royal Family, who return there each year, usually in August to coincide with the start of the grouse-shooting season. Scotland is also home to some of the…

NORTHERN LIGHTS

INSIDE TRACK Buying or selling a property can be one of the biggest transactions you’ll ever make, so getting good advice can be worth a fortune. With 22 years’ experience in the industry, including stints at Savills and Knight Frank, Tom Lamb is well placed to help. His expertise covers both residential and commercial properties and he helps clients across all aspects of sales, acquisitions, leasing and management. With his excellent network of contacts, from agents through to solicitors and surveyors, you can be sure of making the right move. For more information, call 07870 999225 or visit tomlambadvisers.com LA VIE EN ROSE Buying a property in Paris can be a daunting prospect for an outsider, from identifying the best arrondissement to navigating the sales process. Fortunately, there’s help at…

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