Letter from the Founder
The magazine you hold in your hands is 10 years old today. And the fact it exists at all is something of a minor miracle. The Rake is, on the surface, a magazine about clothes. But actually it is about far more. If you’ll bear with me and join me on a circuitous tour of my relationship with clothes, I’ll explain why. I’ve always loved clothes. Growing up in New York in the 1980s, I was required to wear a jacket and necktie to school. But rather than viewing this as an obligation, I looked at it as a pleasure. I would scour vintage shops on Astor Place and in the Village for Norfolk jackets, tweed jackets, jacquard dinner jackets. I would wait for the final seasonal reduction at department stores…