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I used to hate the first half of the Olympics. I always felt the swimming and gymnastics were holding up the excitement of track and field. This is almost certainly the fault of the British private school system. The day in the annual calendar that a

August 1, 1936 was an unseasonably drizzly and overcast day in Berlin, but nothing could dampen the ardour of the 110,000 people crammed into the city’s newly built, dauntingly brutalist Olympiastadion — with Hitler’s favoured architect, Albert Speer

Orchestra-pit-shaking vibratos, deity-kissed vocal cords, hearts touched via the vagus nerve: the tributes upon his death for a colossus of a man who’d flung open the doors to the arcane realm of classical music weren’t exactly devoid of poetic floun

Dear reader, I write to you from Paris, where I am deeply immersed in the upper echelon of sartorial kung fu. My fiancée and I have just attended our fittings for our matching Cifonelli white-silk suits, which are to be worn for the welcome cocktails

The Athlete is a team player. His attitude is competitive, sometimes to his detriment, but nevertheless he is insatiable in his desire to take a W in his daily affairs. Often these occur in his professional life, which he approaches with an analytica

It’s been a big few years for Aston Martin. Their Formula One team is hitting its stride, and has recently re-signed two-time champion Fernando Alonso. As a road-car company, the marque has launched a series of important models. Its first SUV, the DB

Welcome to Cocktail Time! Yes, thanks to Tom Chamberlin and the good folks at The Rake, I, Paul Feig, your favourite Drunk Funcle, have ill-advisedly been given my own regular column to discuss all things cocktails and the art of drinking. We all hav

It was Depression-ravaged California — that same false utopia into which the Joad family in The Grapes of Wrath rode a jalopy burdened with crates, mattresses and doomed hopes of success — into which I was born. An unwanted mongrel (of “doubtful pare

Revolution Magazine presents multi-faceted views of the work of genius that is the mechanical watch. Enjoy interesting, insightful long and short format stories curated for today’s sophisticated watch collector. Hear from industry insiders on the sta

You know you have speed to burn when even your name can’t keep up. She was born Florence Delorez Griffith four days before Christmas in 1959, but the world would come to know her — all too fleetingly, as it would turn out — as ‘Flo-Jo’. And she would

On cold days, the average man feels a sense of relief, for seasonal clothing favours autumn and winter, with its layers of garments and fabrics allowing you to dress as a professional, or at least with appropriate bearing. It’s much harder in summer.

Viewed from the sky — notwithstanding the Marche region’s verdant, undulating patchwork terrain surrounding it — Santoni’s production facility, close to the rustic town of Corridonia, could easily be the H.Q. of a Silicon Valley megadisrupter. The co

Whisper it around TikTok’s facial attractiveness algorithms (they can probably hear us these days), but asymmetry can be confoundingly beautiful. This is especially the case in horology, a realm in which Rolex’s King Midas, a plethora of Cartier mode

Can the American mind comprehend Matthew Macfadyen? It’s doubtful. Consider some of the comments left beneath YouTube clips of Macfadyen describing what it was like to become Tom Wambsgans, television’s favourite midwesterner on the make. omg hes not

The French neo-impressionist painter Paul Signac, born in 1863, might not be the obvious choice as a muse for Vilebrequin, makers of fine contemporary swimwear. But look a little closer and he’s the perfect brand ambassador. He was a regal man, often

David Lauren has taken watch on the bridge of his father’s eponymous brand since he joined in 2000. His ‘merchantainment’ idea for the website, in which storytelling and commerce were seamlessly blended, outpaced everyone else on the market, and even

I have two passions in life (don’t tell my wife): design and health and fitness. For many years I’ve spent my time writing about the former, so when the Editor-in-Chief of this magazine gave me the opportunity to indulge myself in the latter, I took

Must an epiphany, by its very nature, be spontaneous? What if a cognitive awakening comes by degrees, over a period of several years? And what if the episode that clefts a single life into two distinct chapters is heralded not by light breaking throu

The Good, the Bad & the Rugby was not always guaranteed to be a success. It was launched at an inauspicious time — 2018 — when a show about rugby was not really an itch that needed scratching, even though the sport was the third biggest in the world.

PRODUCTION: SAM SHANE @JJ MEDIA GROOMER: TYLER JOHNSTON @ONE REPRESENTS DIGI TECH: LUKE JOHNSON PHOTOGRAPHER’S ASSISTANTS: WILL BRUCE /HARRY FORTE GROOMER’S ASSISTANT: ELINA BALINT STYLIST’SASSISTANTS: ELENAGARCIA /BENWIGMORE; MODELS: RUBEN MARTIAL @

The setting for my interview with Giulio Bergamaschi was palatable, to say the least. The terrace of Harry’s Bar is a haven of Mayfair peacefulness after a bright, convivial luncheon with a host of curious journalists and design leaders, who, on this

Every collection needs a time-only dress watch. And if we take the watch geekery a step further, every collection needs a baton-marker time-only dress watch, preferably thin and hand-wound. It is the equivalent of a wardrobe needing to contain certai

When the Olympic flame reaches Paris and the cauldron in the Olympic stadium is lit on July 26, the host of this year’s Games will join London as the only two cities in the world to have staged the summer event three times. That distinction, however,

I recently read a wonderful book called The Silence of the Girls, by Pat Barker. It is a reimagining of Homer’s Iliad, told from the perspective of the Trojan women captured by the Greeks. It is the era of Achilles, paranoia for the gods is at its hi

We set the scene in July 2023. There was naturally an optimistic feel about the property market in Paris. The Olympic Games have, in the past, brought economic and infrastructure benefits to host cities, most notably via investment in transportation

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Contentment. I’m 24 and I’ve never known it. I’m forever in pursuit and I don’t even know what it is I’m chasing. Aubrey, old chap, I’m scared.” A masseuse’s table — that belonging to the esteemed athletics coach Sam Mussabini, as he gives his charge