After six years in the Nissen Hut, the bicycles, briefcases, hobby horses and bowler hats are coming out to play again. Contestants observe the Chap Olympiad motto: Slower, Drunker, Better-dressed The Chap Olympiad began in 2005 and soon became one of the summer’s social fixtures in London. Growing from 25 people, two bottles of gin,… … Keep Reading
Gustav Temple road tests a waistcoat made by artificial intelligence. Tailor Haddon Pratt of Pratt & Prasad with the finished coat of the two-piece suit “My suit was made by artificial intelligence” sounds like a line uttered by a non-humanoid character from a dystopian science fiction film set in the distant future. But this is… … Keep Reading
The flaneurs on this year’s saunter sans purpose braved unusually clement May weather to stake their claim on the streets of London. Photos by Soulstealer Photography The morning of Sunday 11th May 2025 was a day much like any other on Jermyn Street. A few tourists poked their heads into the windows of menswear stalwarts… … Keep Reading
Jean-Emmanuel Deluxe on the startling discovery of a perfectly preserved belle epoque apartment in Paris. In 2010, auctioneer Maitre Olivier Choppin de Janvry discovered a 1900 Bonbonnière (a bijou apartment) in Paris at the Square La Bruyère. Under a thick layer of dust, he was entering a 140-metre square apartment untouched by human hand for… … Keep Reading
Gustav Temple meets a best selling novelist and an art forger to find out the difference between fake or fortune. When the subject of a blue plaque you have just seen outside a house in Saltdean answers the door, you are already questioning what is real and what is fake. For aren’t blue plaques usually… … Keep Reading
Glamour, Tweed, Interior Design, Fire and Brimstone all clamour for space in the new edition. The new edition, CHAP Spring 25, gathers the glamorous, the bizarre, the occult and the stylish all under one immaculate banner. Captain of the Good Ship Chap is Dame Joan Collins, with a look back at some of the early… … Keep Reading
This year’s saunter sans purpose may start at the same place as before, yet it can never end up at the same place. This year’s Grand Flaneur Walk takes place on Sunday 11th May 2025, commencing beside the statue of Beau Brummell on Jermyn Street, London W1, at midday. This will be the fifth incarnation… … Keep Reading
To mark this year’s Day of the Dad, we are offering a free Chap tie or pocket square plus half price for a year’s subscription. This year, Father’s Day falls on 15th June in the United Kingdom, and we are making a generous offer to those who wish to reward their dear pater for his… … Keep Reading
Holly Rose Swinyard meets Vintage Egyptologist Colleen Darnell to discuss Egyptology, vintage fashion and 1920s women. What was it about Egyptology that originally interested you and how come you decided to take the fashion of the period on as well? Egyptology is my main field of academic research, so I received both my BA and… … Keep Reading
Gustav Temple watched Robert Eggers’ new adaptation of the vampire classic and missed the camp and humour of all previous versions. Robert Eggers long-awaited version of F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu, lavishly funded by Universal Pictures, lacks all the essential ingredients that have made many previous vampire movies into masterpieces. The plot, characters and cast – with… … Keep Reading
Gustav Temple treads in Bogie’s footsteps to be fitted with a Borsalino Fedora. “When your head says one thing and your whole life says another, your head always loses.”Humphrey Bogart’s line from Key Largo (1948) rang in my head as I mounted the steps to Burlington Arcade in London. I may have been a long… … Keep Reading
Billy Zane, in a 2019 interview with Gustav Temple, discussed his forthcoming film Waltzing With Brando in its earliest inception Gustav Temple met the actor in London in 2019 to discuss Curfew, the new series he was starring in for Sky TV. They also discussed his plans to play Marlon Brando in a film that… … Keep Reading