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Drew Starkey
Drew Starkey and Daniel Craig in Queer (Yannis Drakoulidis)
This week’s heart-throb; the dapper young man who gets Daniel Craig more than hot under the collar in Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, out Friday. Essential viewing.
Pass the port
(Cockburn’s)
The Christmas port got cool again, by all accounts. CCing Cockburn’s, a front runner of the renaissance, with their tagline: “Forget formality. There’s fun to be had.” Stock up.
Pocket synthesisers
(Goodhood)
All the rage among the mini Mark Ronsons in town. Basically small, electronic instruments that might make you seem cool at the pub.
Frozen yogurt towers
Frozen Yoghurt at Gaia (Gaia)
The status dessert at Gaia, which is celebrating its one year anniversary, is the candied-walnut pudding. An insta-story must have.
Down…
Mocha Mousse
(Pantone)
Pantone’s colour of the year for 2025, “a variation of a soft and warm shade of brown”. Are they manifesting another shitty year?
Winter Wonderland toys
Winter Wonderland (Chris Gorman Big Ladder)
Missing out on a seat on the Piccadilly line because it has been filled by some gargantuan polyester panda is not in the Christmas spirit.
Trump’s fragrance line
(Fight Fight Fight)
First came Britney Spears’s Fantasy and JLo’s Glow. Now Trump has launched his line of $199 perfumes called Fight Fight Fight, “for women who fight to win, with strength and grace.” Stick to Jo Malone.
Robbie Williams… the CGI chimp
(Paramount Pictures/YouTube)
What in the Planets of Apes is going on with Williams’s Better Man film? Enough with the biopics for a bit; slebs can’t be trusted with them.