• NIKE FREE 3.0

    NIKE FREE 3.0

    No other style of athletic shoe requires versatility like a training shoe. Athletes need a shoe that enables them to do it all: run, cut, jump and lift. The uppers support rapid lateral changes of direction, while the outsole is flexible and cushioned for comfort. Training shoes must also provide a low, stable platform to…

  • Ferrari Fragrance: Vetiver Essence

    Ferrari Fragrance: Vetiver Essence

    Say what you will about the Ferrari’s history in the automotive industry, it’s fair to say that their forays into the fragrance industry have gone relatively unnoticed by the mainstream That said their latest fragrance collection has started to turn heads – and for the right reasons. Following on from Cedar Essence by Ferrari, Vetiver…

  • HEAD MONTE CARLO: An 80’s Revival

    HEAD MONTE CARLO: An 80’s Revival

    There are few objects of your childhood that when mentioned, receive mutual acknowledgement across a generation; the HEAD holdall was one of them. Most seen at the time were hand-me-downs, passed on from elder siblings or – for the privileged few – bought for specifically for purpose. But their position as a status symbol was…

  • Nike Running: HO14 Winter Collection

    Nike Running: HO14 Winter Collection

    Running isn’t a fair-weather sport. It’s an all-weather sport. Running is lacing up morning, noon or night, rain or shine. It’s sleet and slush and icy, slick surfaces. It’s conquering the cold. Slogging through fog. Being headstrong in a headwind. Running is getting out there, being one with the world no matter what the weather,…

  • Tiger of Sweden Autumn Winter ’14

    Tiger of Sweden Autumn Winter ’14

    Recent brand exports from Sweden would have you believe that Scandinavian style centers around minimal, simplistic design in basic colour palettes. Yet while this is true – in parts – there also is something to be said for those that break the rules in a nation where style can come across as muted. Tiger of…

  • Ruffians, Covent Garden

    Ruffians, Covent Garden

    Opening its doors to trade at the end of 2013, the second outlet from new grooming label Ruffians strikes the perfect balance between rough industrialism and modern sophistication, with an interior that acts equally as both meeting point and grooming destination for the growing following of loyal customers it’s attracted in the interim since opening.…

  • Penhaligon’s Bayolea: Grooming Regime

    Penhaligon’s Bayolea: Grooming Regime

    Undisputed masters of the olfactory for over 150 years now, the Penhaligon’s name is one oft-conjured when prompted to recall those at the pinnacle of perfurmery. Much like the wisened owl or the omnipresent tortoise, Penhaligon’s seems to operate within its different timescales to other major players in the market. Resolute in its reluctance to…

  • Concrete Flower

    Concrete Flower

    Once again, the house of AtelierPMP brings us a fragrance that is both modern and excitingly different. Following up on the success of their debut Dreckig Bleiben – elected by Gala as their 2013 “Perfume of the Year“ – proprietors Stefanie Mayr and Daniel Plettenberg have once more carved out a new perfume concept which…

  • Valentino Uomo

    Valentino Uomo

    VALENTINO UOMO There comes a time when a fashion house knows it’s time to embrace a new direction, a direction not obtuse for the industry, but one that is nonetheless either damning or augmenting; Fragrance. On the back of their surging men’s collections Valentino have released their first scent for men, a subtly opulent scent…

  • Ex Idolo – Thirty Three

    Ex Idolo – Thirty Three

    Thirty-three is a fragrance built around a vintage oud – distilled in 1980 and aged until its release in 2014. It is also the only modern perfume to use a significant amount of wild harvested Chinese oud oil and natural Chinese rose oil to build scent profile. A surprisingly soft and velvety fragrance.   Ex…

  • E. Coudray – Nohiba

    E. Coudray – Nohiba

    This is a classic. Originally titled Black Tulip this scent was created in 1924 and worn by the legendary dancer Josephine Baker in her glory days as the darling of the Paris demi-monde of the 1920’s. Nohiba is a spicy blend of galbanum, Incense, Geranium, Incense, Labdanum, Rose, musk and amber.   E. Coudray Nohiba…

  • Linari – Acqua Santa

    Linari – Acqua Santa

    Fruity notes of Sicilian bergamot and cassis with irresistibly warm and spicy accords of coriander, Javanese patchouli and green leaves that are captively surrounded by a floral bouquet of finest rose petals, wild jasmine, precious ylang ylang, cyclamen and lily of the valley. Aspects of sweet caramel intertwine with musk, tonka bean and delicate cedarwood…

  • Aedes de Venustus – Iris Nazarena

    Aedes de Venustus – Iris Nazarena

    The fiestc perfumery in Manhattan, in fact in the USA, Aedes de Venustus (Temple Of Beauty) is the go to store for luxury fragrance (think Sarah Jessica Parker, Jennifer Anniston so on and so forth). Launching their own eponymous perfume collection has been a dream come true for the owners and they have already produced…

  • Byredo – 1996 Inez and Vinoodh

    Byredo – 1996 Inez and Vinoodh

    A collaboration between Byredo’s Ben Gorham and renowned Fashion and Art Photographers Inez and Vinoodh, ‘1996’ was originally conceived as a private edition, a Christmas gift for their closest friends and colleagues. However, what began as a very personal creative project, took on a life of its own as social media began buzzing with hymns…