Gustav Temple spends an afternoon sipping fizz with bon vivant, cabaret performer, dapper chanteur and host of the Candlelight Club. Photos by Soulstealer Photography. When your parents named you Champagne Charlie, was this because they were fans of the music hall performer George Leybourne?I wouldn’t have thought they had any idea who George Leybourne was.…
Liam Jefferies meets the doyenne of Stanley Biggs, a menswear company with one foot set firmly in history. For some, there is no beating vintage. A vintage duffel coat found in the back of a surplus store will invoke a greater sense of worth than a similar model churned out by the thousands in some…
Images of southern Spain, usually composed of matadors, barrels of sherry, women in flamenco dresses and orange trees wilting in the heat, do not commonly include tweed jackets. It’s rarely cold enough in Andalucia to don even a waistcoat, never mind a full tweed ensemble. Yet during the 1930s there emerged, from the royal and…
