It’s May in the year 1904 and Henry Collins Walsh—journalist, historian, explorer of Central American and Greenland—rounds up 50 prominent explorers for dinner at the Aldine Association in New York. They are there to make a simple but elegant promise: to promote exploration by all possible means. They are there to form The Explorers Club...
Read MoreWomen We ❤️ is a chance for us to sit down with the women in our lives whose style we love, work we admire, and heart we adore. We give them the celebrated Proust Questionnaire—which dates back to 19th-century Parisian salons—and throw in a few of our own. Grab a coffee, something to take notes with, and get to know the women we love as they ponder love, death, and the meaning of life...
Read MoreSpend an afternoon on the Upper East Side and you'll likely spot more pairs of Belgian Shoes than tennis ball walker glides (but just barely). We have long adored Belgians, the peculiar loafers made outside of Bruges in Belgium and designed by Mr. Henri Bendel (yes, the same Mr. Henri Bendel who first brought Chanel stateside). Predictably, a younger set has been adopting the casual loafer over the last decade. Despite recent repeated spikes in the press, this staple of UES New York fashion still flies largely under the radar—as if the prep set are uppishly snapping, “Stop trying to make Belgians happen”...
Read MoreWhat shirt do you pull on when, caught between a rock and a hard place (the ‘rock’ being a bright young American thing by the name of Wallis Simpson and the ‘hard place’ being 200 years of Hanoverian expectation), the time comes for you to abdicate the British throne? Well, there’s a good case to be made for the cloth of Thomas Mason. And before you start accusing me of rummaging around in royal bed chambers again, know this: that the Yorkshire fabric house, mere months before those events unfolded, was named official supplier to Turnbull and Asser, then—as now—shirtmakers to the Royal Family. From there, it’s not too big a leap to suppose that it was into these very fibers that Edward VIII perspired as he delivered his abdication speech.
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