A guide to gloves: Quality, value, brands
Last week we talked about assembling a small, versatile collection of gloves - in terms of colours, materials and details like linings. That piece can be found here , and should be read very much in combination with this one. Today, we’re goin...
A guide to gloves: Quality, value, brands
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I am in Chicago where the winters get cold. I bought some gloves from Fort Belvedere. I have the touchscreen gloves and a pair of fur lined peccary gloves. They are superb, and come in many different colors....
A guide to gloves: Materials, colours, linings
A reader recently asked about advice on gloves - probably because it’s actually, finally cold enough in places like London to need them. Oddly, we haven’t really done an overview piece about gloves in the past either. As I started writi...
A guide to gloves: Materials, colours, linings
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I found them a little bulky and stiff when I tried them to be honest Roger. I prefer the regular McCoy's horsehide, or the Y2 deerskin...
Paris: A menswear shopping guide – 2024 update
Quite a lot has changed in the five years since we last updated this Paris shopping guide (and yes, I know just as much as changed elsewhere – we will also update the others!). Kenjiro Suzuki has left, the Viaduc des Arts has drifted, and ...
Paris: A menswear shopping guide – 2024 update
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Out of curiousity, why do you omit the MTM offerings at D ormeuil and Scabal, both of which have Paris shops?...
Collaboration: Made-to-order Lavabre Cadet gloves
**Please note, this was a one-off collaboration and is no longer available** French storied manufacturer Lavabre Cadet makes the finest gloves I’ve ever worn - but they don’t have many outlets, particularly not in their full range of ski...
Collaboration: Made-to-order Lavabre Cadet gloves
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Not with Lavabre Cadet I'm afraid as they're no longer in business. Happy to loop at other ones though if you think there's a hole in the market?...
Brussels craft event
At the beginning of December, there will be an event in Brussels bringing together some of the craftsmen that featured in the Permanent Style trunk show last month - Lavabre Cadet and Michel Heurtault - as well as several others. Those others are: ...
Brussels craft event
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Dear Simon, I am moving to Brussels and wanted to know if there is local bespoke tailors or if foreign ones are doing trunk shows in Brussels or other cities in Belgium. Thanks for your help KS...
The Permanent Style trunk show
Thank you. Thank you so much on my behalf, and more importantly on behalf of the four artisans - who trusted me, and by extension you, to come over to London and do something they'd never done before, in a location they'd never seen before. Because...
The Permanent Style trunk show
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The trunk show was great...
Permanent Style trunk show: Heurtault, Amoruso, C...
I am very proud to say that we have a Permanent Style trunk show organised for October 5th, co-hosted with Gaziano & Girling at their Savile Row store. This has been a good while in the making, particularly as I was keen to bring together: ...
Permanent Style trunk show: Heurtault, Amoruso, C...
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Yes, there will be a few things...
Lavabre Cadet glove maker, Paris-Millau
It is rare these days that I cover someone for the first time who is genuinely a step above their peers. Yet such is the case with Lavabre Cadet. I had known of the French glove maker for several years, but never met and talked to them in person....
Lavabre Cadet glove maker, Paris-Millau
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Thank you Jean...
