February 2024 - Issue 92

The Rake

The Modern Voice of Classic Elegance.

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Letter From The Founder
On November 8 in the year of our Lord 2023, on a stunning, clear-blue day, on the roof of the legendary Gritti Palace in Venice — and at what was meant to be 11 o’clock in the morning — I got down on one knee and proposed to my now fiancée, Beatrice
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Contributors
Stephen — The Rake’s Chief Subeditor and a news editor at The Guardian — has worked as a journalist and writer for nearly 30 years in London, New York and Sydney, and seldom in that time (or sweep of longitude) has he come across a bona fide ‘star’ w
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ART DIRECTOR Rob French rob@therakemagazine.com ART EDITOR Kim Lang kim@therakemagazine.com MOTORING EDITOR Simon de Burton PROPERTY CORRESPONDENT Ari Reid FOUNDER Wei Koh EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Tom Chamberlin tom@therakemagazine.com CHIEF SUBEDITOR Stephe
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Ava 4 Eva
Towards the end of her life, Ava Gardner attempted to sum it up, in characteristically pithy, from-the-hip fashion: “She made movies, she made out, and she made a fucking mess of her life, but she never made jam.” Let’s consider the evidence. The mov
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A Brand New Day
MAKE-UP AND HAIR: HANNAH SORCHA CREATIVE DIRECTOR: BRANDON HINTON ■
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The Land Of The Vree
“Paint every door in a completely white house the colour of a different flower.” “Have an elk-hide trunk for the back of your car: Hermès of Paris will make this.” “Rinse your blond child’s hair in dead champagne, to keep its gold, as they do in Fran
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Rake Commends
Bennett Winch typically take a while before they put a product on the market, and for good reason. Each design is engineered to offer exceptional looks and outstanding functionality. The suede Weekender is a case in point, with its expandable capacit
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Intelligent Design
“She is by far the most popular thing about me,” Nick Foulkes, The Rake’s Contributing Editor, said of his wife, Alexandra, during his 50th birthday speech. It was a pithy dedication that had everyone chuckling but no one disagreeing, and for someone
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Dual Control
‘Designer dogs.’ It’s one of those phrases — like ‘neurodiversity’ and ‘climate crisis’ — that reactionary bar-room bores like to disparage by accompanying each utterance with air-quotes, formed using their Stella-stained fingers. I would argue, thou
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Invest
What links the rapper Travis Scott with the jeweller Carolina Bucci, the Givenchy Creative Director Matthew Williams and Marvel Entertainment? All (and many, many more) have collaborated with Audemars Piguet on additions to the Royal Oak canon over t
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Life Through A Lens
It is November, 1976. The final Sunday of the month. Carter has just beaten Ford, the Founding Fathers have just turned 200, and Jodie Foster, who is nine days past her 14th birthday, walks into Hotel Pierre on New York’s Upper East Side. It is cloud
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A Woman Scorned?
When the cultural fixation with Harry and Meghan reached its nadir — I think one can arguably assign this moment to either their untimely departure to the grand-old colony of Canada, or to that tiresome display of interviews, book releases and Netfli
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Return Of The King
Not long ago, Jeremy King received a letter. The writer wanted to tell him about his experience at The Wolseley, the Piccadilly grand café run by King and his business partner, Chris Corbin, that had become a byword for polished, buzzy all-day dining
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The Rakes Down In Africa
STYLIST’S ASSISTANT: TYLA PINKUS GROOMING: RAINE TAUBER MODELS: DANIKA PIENAAR – BOSS/DAVID ROSENBERG – ICE PRODUCTION: AND. ■
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‘Jewellery Has Always Represented Power’
Jewel-studded brooches that double as denim patches; necklaces created using algorithms; pendants made of the lightest material on Earth; gold and lacquer hoodie drawstrings; A.I. technology recreating the biological splendour of botanicals in sparkl
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Under Our Own Steam
There were more than a few raised eyebrows and quizzical looks from naysaying friends and acquaintances at a dinner party when it was suggested to them that my wife and I would be embarking on a meticulously planned and plotted road trip through the
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In Search Of No Civilisation
Self-catering isn’t a sexy word. Perhaps it’s the ‘catering’ part that brings to mind school dinners and slops of mashed potato. But what self-catering means, if you read between the lines, is privacy. In this world of fast-paced consumerism, you can
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Let’s Get Real
For this Women’s Issue of The Rake, I wanted to focus on something that hits close to home. I talk a lot about property prices, as well as statistics, in my videos on social media. But at the crux is this question: who owns all of this real estate? U
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A Rebellious Bird
Pablo Picasso’s masterpiece, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, was panned by critics because the art intelligentsia of the day weren’t ready for a cubism work informed by Greek, African, Iberian and Egyptian influences. Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, now co

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