Ahead of tomorrow, I'm here to wish a wonderful and merry Christmas to all PS readers, and thank you for a wonderful 2025.
It's been a big one - launching the magazine, opening the showroom, expanding the team - but fingers crossed it all seems to have gone well. We even had time for some great trips - to Tokyo, New York, Scotland, Hong Kong - and two great parties in the Mayfair Arcades.
We couldn't have done it without you, all your time with us, your informative and interesting comments, and your wonderfully supportive messages. Here's to more of the same in 2026!
Normal service will resume next Monday, December 29th. Image above: Lagavulin
Thanks, by the way, for still calling it Christmas. As we become further buried under a blanket of fear of offending, PS’ influence beyond clothing – the honesty and integrity with which your messages are delivered – is valuable.
Happy Christmas.
Happy solstice and a very merry Saturnalia to everyone.
Who’s offended by people calling Christmas Christmas? Nobody.
Who’s offended by people not calling Christmas Christmas? The irony deficient, the “true meaning of Christmas” brigade, and people who’d like to manufacture outrage to distract everyone from problems that it might be more useful to solve. Admittedly there’s some overlap here.
Thanks Luke, though let’s not get into an argument about that
Simon I can’t help but feel if you wanted to avoid this conversation you should not have permitted the original comment that was nothing other than promoting a rambling and stale conspiracy theory, only held by angry loons.
If you posted an article on Snakeskin accessories, and someone posted a comment saying the Royal Family were all lizard people in disguise, you wouldn’t approve it. Likewise there is no space for a “reasonable debate” here.
I agree Matt, you’re right I shouldn’t have published that original one
Here here!!! Well said Ant. Merry Christmas to all from Virginia US!
Who doesn’t call it Christmas? Why do you have to insert political gesturing at imagined hypocrisy into an honest and kind message?
I thought the same. Cheers to you both. Merry Christmas.
Oh please, don’t even start. No one has ever said it shouldn’t be called Christmas.
Hope everyone has a merry Christmas indeed!
Happy Holidays.
Wow. Even Alex Jones reads PS!
bot what does my”comment is awaiting moderation mean?”
Comments are published by one of the team after they have been submitted.
Merry Christmas, all! Cheers to a great year gone by, and an even better one to come.
Merry Christmas Simon and to all PS readers.
Thanks for so much entertainment and education during the year. I enjoyed the magazine too.
Have a great Christmas. Looking forward to seeing how the site and rest of the business continues to develop in 2026
Your strongest year yet. Merry Christmas!
Ah, Lagavulin. The king of smoke. Happy holidays all!
Merry Christmas Simon and PS team!
HAPPY C H R I S T M A S
Merry Christmas from Germany.
I hope to see you here some time for an event.
Frohe Weihnachten!
Wishing all at PS a very Merry Christmas and looking forward to a 2026 full of interesting articles and interviews
At the risk of “starting something” on Christmas, I am slightly amused that your recent events have featured scotch as I find it contrasts – or at least brings up comparisons – with your touchstone “I am not a gentleman” article. Of course, there’s nothing wrong with enjoying wonderful things, particularly with friends and family.
Happy Christmas
No problem at all Mike, interesting point. There was wine too, indeed mulled wine
I’m referring more to the photos… Images of “confident, laughing men in tuxedos” and “of brooding men, sipping whisky, puffing cigars, surrounded in a cheap and frankly misogynistic way by submissive women.”
Thankfully your events seem to lack the latter, which is the most important.
(And remember, this observation is mostly based in amusement but with that kernel of ‘however’…)
Thanks Mike, and yes taken in that spirit!
Yes the second half of that is certainly lacking and that’s significant. Even with the first half though, I’d suggest that perhaps these people are taking themselves rather less seriously than the ones I was railing against. This is much more about fun that about pretending to be some ideal of gruff maleness
Hello Mike,
I wonder if scotch (meaning whisky from Scotland) wouldn’t be seen more as something refined, luxurious, « gentlemanly » in the US, where it has to be imported from across the world, than in Simon’s England, where it’s just from the neighboring island ?
Merry Christmas to all the people at Permanent Style!
Merry Christmas Simon
Given your exquisite tastes, and appreciation of the finer things in life, it would be lovely to read about your Christmas table choices, and in particular the vintages you have chosen to enjoy alongside.
I’m guessing classic white Burgundy and maybe a fine left bank Claret. Can’t wait to hear!
Thank you.
And a Happy Christmas to you and yours.
Mr Crompton, a number of years ago I stumbled onto your site. I periodically visited it and read some of your articles. But not being a joiner I never thought to subscribe to PS. Then one year I read your Christmas message before you closed for Christmas. Your love of being with your family, a true appreciation of the season’s place on our life and society plus the very rational place clothes have in this life struck me as a position I needed to support. So I joined your site. I’m so very pleased all your hard work has been successful. I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful and very successful New Year. American Merry Christmas equals British Happy Christmas and is every bit as sincere.
Anthony Delaney
Thank you very much Anthony
Have a very merry Christmas Simon!
Many thanks to you and the team, Simon! Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas from Barcelona!
Best wishes to Simon and the PS fraternity at this time of year. Whether like me the occasion is Christmas. Or for others Hanukkah, or Gita Jayant, or Winter Solstice, or Yalda. No matter. Let’s celebrate life and love and taste and style — the threads that draw us together. And here’s to 2026 and another year of sartorial expression, musing and debate.
“Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.” — Gore Vidal
Lovely John
Many thanks for your greetings, and specially for calling Christmas to our traditional Christmas. Mt own warm greetings to PS and all readers. Happy new year!
Simon and all PS readers,
From Athens, Greece, and hoping you all had a wonderful Christmas and wishing you all a very Happy New Year. There is so much we have to be grateful for. For me, I continue to thank what you do and your help, joy, and inspiration joy in dressing better. Dimos
That’s lovely to hear Dimos