The Summer Tailoring Lookbook
The Restaurateur
A lot of people open restaurants, but not many can claim to have invented, or at least heavily influenced, an entire scene.
During the boom period of Brooklyn, a long stretch during the 2000s and 2010s, when that corner of New York seemed to be at the epicentre of all things cool, Andrew Tarlow’s restaurants, namely Diner and Marlow & Sons (which recently closed after more than 20 years), pioneered the farm to table, casual service, good music and exposed brick aesthetic that has spread around the world. Walk into a restaurant in Jakarta, Tbilisi or Toronto and you’re going to see a through-line of what Tarlow, his former business partner Mark Firth, and a handful of other contemporaries started. Diner opened in 1998—a lifetime ago in restaurant terms.
Japanese Supermarkets
The welcoming calls of the staff stacking shelves trill out, mixing with cheery robotic jingles and automated voices announcing seasonal specials over the speakers. The soft, warm scent of fried chicken permeates the air, complemented by the hum of brightly lit refrigerators, the sliding glass doors and the occasional beep of a barcode scanner. To enter a Japanese convenience store (known colloquially as a konbini) is to experience an irresistible microcosm of stimulation that tingles the senses.
Product in Focus
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Radio
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