The Wolf of Wall Street, Jordan Belfort, has the same problem as me: everyone thinks our job is easy and glamorous. For myself, I play along, upping up the wild, enriching aspects because, well, if they’re thinking that already, admitting the ‘truth’ – my opinion – isn’t going to help. They’ll feel betrayed and dirty,…
Have our bovine friends ever been sacrificed for such a noble cause? Other than a Hawksmoor steak, the answer is ‘no’. Time was, when all a gentlemen needed for transporting his paraphernalia was a wallet and a deep pocket. Maybe a weapons bag, if you go back to ancient Budo times, or a sporran, which…
So there’s Bob Drum, and ‘The King’, it’s the early hours of the morning in the early years of the 1960’s, about the same time that sexual intercourse began for the poet Philip Larkin (“Between the end of the Chatterley ban / And the Beatles’ first LP”) and drink has been taken. A lot of…
In the last issue of LUSSO, we introduced four actors we believe will be dominating the stage and your screens in the next decade, however small, large or 3-dimensional those screens may be. Here’s four more alpha males from the survival-of-the-fittest savannah that is British acting talent, each giving an articulate insight into their personal…
Did someone say “dark and throbbing?” There’s a small and elite club of brands that have the ability to cross seamlessly over into the luxury goods’ world. So much so, they’ll release an aftershave that can actually transform the quintessence of an already legendary brand into an elegant and confidently manly, fragrance. Defined by it’s…
It all started with an Atom. It always does. The miracle that spawned a monster. Draw a line through each modern sports car’s lineage and you’ll end up here; under the sweeping bonnet of the Aston Martin Atom, where the automotive equivalent of the Big Bang took place in 1939. The Aston Martin Atom –…
Aside from serving as one of our most evocative euphemisms, the Crown Jewels are a potent symbol of Britain’s noble heritage. The same could be said of a great bottle of Scotch. Royal Salute is probably the only brand who could bring these two pillars of high society together, and do them both proud. The end…
Hi, my name is Tom and I am an addict. I’m not addicted to pills or booze or porn, mind you – no, my addiction goes much deeper and has cost me far more money than any of those workaday vices. You see, I’m addicted to vinyl. Not the garment-based type. I’m not a perv. Just…
More like a gentleman’s club on wheels than a car, the cockpit of a Bentley is a marvellous place to be. Tactile, luxurious and elegant, the interior design has few rivals in the motor industry. But why stop there? Out to conquer the super-high-end furniture market, the illustrious brand has launched a range of pieces…
We all know that supercars should sound as good as they look. Bowers & Wilkins thinks this should apply to headphones too. Following on from the rock-solid release of the Bowers & Wilkins in-car audio systems (featured in the Maserati Ghibli and Quattroporte ranges) and their 805 Maserati loudspeaker, the British manufacturer of swanky audio equipment is…