Sommaire pour Autumn 2024 de Esquire UK

Richard Ayoade is a writer and film director, and a Bafta-winning actor. His new book, The Unfinished Harauld Hughes, will be published in October. Stuart McGurk is a freelance writer for The New Statesman, The Guardian, and the Financial Times. Tim Lewis, an Esquire editor-at-large, is a features writer for The Observer and the author of the book Land of Second Chances: The Impossible Rise of Rwanda’s Cycling Team.  Aaron Tilley is a photographer and art director specialising in still-life. His clients include Bose, Ford, Google and the V&A, and his work has appeared in Kinfolk magazine, Creative Review, The New York Times and British Vogue. Ellen E Jones is a writer and broad-caster. Her debut book, Screen Deep: How Film and TV Can Solve Racism and Save the World,…

Stefano Canali has a lot of time for swans. “It’s an animal with the values of respect, responsibility and elegance,” he says. “And that’s a very happy summary of what Canali stands for — as a brand, as a company and as a family.” The understated Italian fashion house is now in its third generation as an independent family-run business, one that retains the values of traditional tailoring even as it integrates technical fabrics and modern manufacturing processes into its practice. Stefano is the youngest of five children (“the business was the sixth, but perhaps the first in importance,” he has said), the grandson of Giovanni Canali, who founded the company with his tailor brother Giacomo, in 1934. He has been president and CEO since 2018. This year marks Canali’s…

Sometimes, it’s not coming up with an idea that has entrepreneurs stumbling, but what to call their business. “It was maybe the first idea [we had] but the very last thing that we agreed to do,” says Matthew Malin, referring to the use of their respective surnames for his and Andrew Goetz’s skincare brand. “I loved the idea of it,” adds Goetz. “Malin + Goetz doesn’t sound particularly American in any way, and I just love the way it looked graphically,” he continues. “It worked for Johnson & Johnson.” Malin + Goetz (pronounced “Mal-in and Getts”) — is known for its white bottles and brightly coloured sans-serif typeface. The brand turns 20 this year. It has 23 stores around the world and 40 retailer partners. And it remains an independent…

Lace-up boots are in — so say the influencers, including rapper Skepta, basketball star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Lewis Hamilton. For those who can’t envision themselves embracing the pre-millennial hip-hop look in a pair of workwear stompers, we’re advocating for these sleek, sophisticated, soft-to-the-touch utilitarian alternatives from Tod’s. Yes, as in the august Italian brand behind your favourite driving shoes. They’re called the WG boots, and they come in two statures: low and lanky. We prefer ours tall, dark and handsome, but others might get more wear out of one of the shorter styles, such as the new-for-2024 model that’s essentially a winterised moccasin. Either way, we propose styling them — regardless of which colourway you decide on, as each is as infallible as the next — with military-wardrobe staples.…

CENTRAL LONDON, ON A MISERABLE TUESDAY afternoon. The rain is unceasing. The sky is so low you could tread on it in your puddle-sodden shoes. To hurry across Piccadilly Circus, under a dripping hood or a windblown umbrella, is to splash through the set of a post-apocalyptic thriller or, worse, to flashback to the pandemic: the capital’s gaudiest junction is unpeopled but for a few unfortunates huddled in doorways or beneath awnings. Everyone who can be is at home or at work, sheltering in place. Or they’re inside The Devonshire. All of them. Every single person in town today appears to have pressed themselves into the same building. It’s like one of those challenges to see how many people can fit inside a phone box. As a result, this huge…

WINONA RYDER IS A BRILLIANT AND BEAUTIFUL American woman of 52, small, warm, slightly dotty, and completely irresistible. To say that she is good company is to observe that the skyscrapers in New York, where we meet, have many floors. She is charming beyond, with a singular, freestyle approach to conversation, to life, that is by turns head-spinning, intense, and LOL funny — to herself, as much as to me or anyone else. She has been famous since she was in her teens. She has lived a life of precarious highs and plunging lows. She is a star of a sort one seldom encounters, even in my strange job: a person engaged with the world, full of questions and thoughts about it, but also slightly distant from the everyday, a…

Just got back A friend of mine has a name for those smug globe-trotters who are always keen to let you know that they are only ever in town briefly, having lately returned from somewhere much more glamorous. He calls them the Justgotbacks. Rufus Justgotback was in LA last week. He just got back. His wife Jemima Justgotback has been at a yoga retreat on Hydra. She just got back. They barely have time to repack before heading off to a wedding in Seville. By the time you read this, they’ll have just got back, before a quick turnaround and off to Heathrow again for a weekend’s hiking in the Dolomites. They are, to borrow a phrase from Nora Ephron, your basic nightmare. I’m afraid I’ve been a bit of…

At the starting block of the Bermondsey Beer Mile — or the finish line, depending on your ability to send a coherent text message — you’ll find the UK’s first brewery dedicated to, at least round these parts, the most misunderstood drink of all: sake. Kanpai, meaning “cheers” in Japanese, began life seven years ago in a poky lockup in Peckham, south-east London, first conceived as a husband-and-wife home-brewing operation. Within months, a successful online crowd-funding campaign allowed Tom and Lucy Wilson to release their first batches of craft sake, which were snapped up by the department store Selfridges. In 2018, they graduated to a nearby taproom, and late last year, buoyed by success, they rolled their barrels over to the booziest street in the country. All this to say:…

IT SEEMS APT THAT ON THE DAY IN JULY on which I go to Sir Michael Craig-Martin’s studio near Old Street, in north-ish, centralish London, the big talk of the day is about an umbrella. OK, it’s not strictly speaking the umbrella — probably even bigger news is Labour’s landslide victory at the General Election the night before — but Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has yet to take to the podium outside Downing Street to formally resign, which is where the umbrella comes in. The weather is looking iffy, and there’s concern (no, too strong; there’s amusement) about whether or not he will again choose to take what the heavens dump on him, as he did when he called the election in May, so that he resembled a first year…

Just south of Mexico City, on Federal Highway 95D, a white Mercedes minibus is careening down a mountain and towards an infamous bend. “It’s called La Pera because it’s shaped like a pear,” explains Santiago Lastra, award-winning chef and, for the past few days, de facto tour guide, as he grips the headrest in front of him. To the right, the bus passes an off-ramp that comes to an abrupt halt in mid-air. “You go up there if your brakes fail,” Lastra says, cheerfully. The road straightens, and a green valley appears below; within it is Lastra’s hometown, Cuernavaca, a popular getaway from the city, “where”, geo-grapher and naturalist Alexander von Humboldt wrote in 1810, “it is the reign of perpetual spring”. Today, the valley is swathed in a rising…

In lockdown, while the rest of us got to grips with 1,000-piece puzzles or sourdough starters, Jamie xx discovered an equally thrilling hobby: a regular routine. The DJ and producer, whose real name is Jamie Smith, woke up, did yoga with his friend who lived upstairs, sat in the garden, then made music until late. Sometimes he’d go for a walk around east London in the evenings. “I’ve been on tour for so much of my life,” the 35-year-old says, “and that chance to stop and reflect on it all really lent itself well to being able to make this record.” That album, In Waves, is due out next month. It’s the second solo effort from Smith, following 2015’s Grammy-nominated In Colour, an eclectic dance record that dipped into electronica…

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RUNNER NUMBER 46136 OF THE 2024 London Marathon moved steadily, if ever so slightly gingerly, his feet staying in close communication with the ground. This was perhaps understandable, considering the runner — the billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe — was 71 years old, and that, due to a hamstring injury, he had only trained for six weeks. But also, perhaps, something else. Not so long ago, he found his bones had started breaking. Before he turned 60, nothing: not a single snap, which was impressive given how many eminently snappable situations he had placed them in. In 1995, aged 43, he climbed Mont Blanc. He got lost and almost died, but no snap. In 2009, aged 57, he trekked 10 days across the North Pole in-40 degrees C; a couple of…

IN 2010, OLIVIER BERNHARD told his friends he was quitting his C-Suite job at the trendy Swiss furniture company Vitra to pursue something new. “He messaged me on LinkedIn, ‘I’m going to start a running-shoe brand’,” Alex Griffin recalls. “My reaction was ‘Good luck!’ Who needs that?” Bernhard, a retired duathlon champion and winner of multiple Ironman competitions, had already approached Nike with an idea for a shoe. Something to maximise the enjoyment of running, with a design that would cushion impact and propel the runner forward. He said it would give the sensation of “running on clouds”. Nike passed. So, he set about constructing his own prototype, slicing up a rubber garden hose and gluing sections to the soles of an old pair of Nikes. “Please tell me you…