The Winter Lookbook

The Last Seat

I love eating and drinking alone. Sure, a guest, a date, a ‘companion’ as reviewers primly call them, is a lovely thing to have, so the entire event is a collaborative celebration, coloured by conversation and interaction. But go solo and all that is stripped away. You have no choice but to concentrate on what you’re consuming, on your thoughts and on your surroundings. A review written alone has an entirely different timbre to one where someone else was present. Meditative, forensic, inward- looking, maybe too focussed.  An accompanied review is emotional, a solo one analytical.  And once you get adjusted the solitary vice, there’s only one place you want to sit. And that, without wishing to sound like some gin-ruined barroom existentialist, is ‘The Last Seat’.  

A Conversation with Mayumi Yamase

When she was a student at Chelsea College of Arts in London, cramming into basement shows and pubs in the less salubrious side of town and putting on DIY exhibitions, Mayumi Yamase found it hard to imagine a world where painting and making art would pay the bills.

Tokyo Style

During a Drake’s visit to Tokyo, Creative Director Michael Hill took a few laps around the streets of Omotesando—a polished stretch of retail stores, konbinis and office blocks— wearing some highlights from the autumn collection. Arriving in a typical palette of colourful checks, Madras cotton (ideal for a humid day in the city) is sourced from Chennai, where it’s home-spun by hand, before being pieced together in our Somerset workshop.

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Revue: Mark Cho

Radio

The legendary musician compiles a playlist inspired by the lead-up to a live show

Drake’s Radio Ep. 25: Nick Lowe

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