To write a tea instructional is to wade into darkly tannic waters long ago claimed by giants like Orwell and Douglas Adams. That hasn't stopped Christopher Hitchens, who writes an open letter on the subject. Nor shall it stop me.
Burberry designer Christopher Bailey — a working-class Yorkshire lad — is profiled at length by the New Yorker's Lauren Collins. Bailey is notable not only for overseeing a house that was until recently considered moribund, but for being unusually nice.
Vogue's Anna Wintour has been on a charm offensive — her contract is up, her movie is out, and she's been making the Letterman rounds. So why'd Carine Roitfeld choose today to plant/participate in a news-less fluff piece about herself?
With the BBC's Jeremy Paxman's recent outcry about the waning support of his favorite Marks & Spencer undershorts, men's underwear — and the way men feel about their underwear — has never been a more pressing issue. (Says Paxman, "Nothing I have ever done - interviewing Michael Howard, asking Tony Blair whether he…
