Ties – Telling Tales of Men & Modish Life at the Top
Historically the ties men wear can reflect their wearer’s confidence, wealth, joy of life as well as his sporting prowess, smouldering sex appeal and his beauty
The Courtier
Fashion for Men – Sartorial Splendour from Brummel to Bomer
Television’s White Collar dandy the dapper conman-turned-FBI consultant Neal Caffrey is about modern suited sartorial splendour & style, at the essence of cool
A ‘Compleat’ Gentleman, More Than a Man with Ideas
In the twenty first century a compleat gentleman has a set of values to live his life by his honour and integrity tied up in trust personally and professionally
A Well Rounded Man
In 1528 Count Baldassare Castiglione (1478-1529) wrote The Courtier, a manual for serious scholars and men of learning. It formed the basis for the ideologies surrounding the behaviour of gentlemen. He declared that a well-rounded man needed attainment’s in physical (sports and war) intellectual (education, literary and musical accomplishments) and…