CLOTHES MAKE THE MAN

WORDS BY AMANDA LEWIS

Picture the scene the hustle, bustle, noise and a myriad of smells of a souk in North Africa and you’ll often find exotic fabulous smelling black liquid soaps and strange scrubbing gloves. These are the tools of the traditional Hammam experience – where in steamy rooms you can be smothered and scrubbed to a soft glow truly the cleanest and softest you’ll ever be.
Being able to recreate the evocative smells and soft deeply cleansed skin experienced only thus far in a Moroccan Hammam now thanks to RITUALS.

Here’s how – take some time. Switch off your mobile phone (candles and drink optional, but encouraged )
Firstly, slather with Black Soap – full of eucalyptus and oils that keeps skin supple whilst it’s prepared for a real good cleanse. Using a dampened exfoliating mitt made from Kessa this is the first step in preparing skin.
Follow with a hot scrub that exfoliates with purifying sea salt and warms with ginger and oil of eucalyptus.
Thirdly, a Body mud can be applied that purifies and polishes skin.
Rinse off – and finish with RITUALS Body Oil or Body Cream and relax, with the worries of the world and your all your cares and trepidations washed away down the plug hole.

by Keanu Adorable

British brand Folk have collaborated with the ever so talented Goss Brothers, no not Matt and Luke tut, on a capsule collection and gallery pop-up shop. The menswear collection fuses art, fashion and literature in a collaboration with the artists Nick and Phil Goss. The collection of around 20 pieces is the result of an ongoing exploration of the J.G.Ballard novel, The Drowned World. This dystopian sci-fi book creates a vision of the future where the ice caps have melted and the planet is burning up. London is unfortunately submerged under water, a nightmarish, stinking tropical swamp where alligators and strange prehistoric reptiles are unleashed and pelicans squawk in the angry red sky. It’s a work of fiction, at the moment,  but for the artists, it strikes a very raw nerve.

The collaboration is the result of a chance meeting between Folk’s founder Cathal Mcateer and Nick Goss in the brand’s Soho store. “Nick was wearing my favourite Folk jacket,” recalls Mcateer. They got chatting and realised they shared a mutual admiration for each other’s work. Mcateer had seen Nick’s work in the Josh Lilley Gallery and connected with his paintings.

“A lot of the way I make paintings is really material based,” says Nick Goss who experiments with the fabric quality of the canvas, using fabric dye to create otherworldly landscapes. “I tend to use lots of linens and fabrics and stain them and I’m really drawn to natural indigos, bright yellow – real Folk colours. It’s probably why I was drawn to Folk in the first place.” It is a meeting of minds and aesthetics.For their first fashion collaboration, the brothers took The Drowned World as their inspiration. It taps into the current feeling of unease and instability in the world, politically and environmentally. RCA graduate Phil Goss has a more illustrative quality to his work and his drawings – flamingos, reptiles and zig zags of water – add a surreal quality to Nick’s more painterly radioactive sunsets and watery reflections.“The Drowned World lets you into this crazy other world of hyper intense imagery and atmosphere,” says Phil Goss.

The resulting collection is a bold and graphic taste of the novel itself, transposed eloquently onto limited edition T-shirts, shorts, summer shirts and sweatshirts. This is wearable art. A pop-up shop on London’s Redchurch Street will fuse gallery and retail space to show the clothing against a backdrop of the Goss Brothers’ paintings and drawings. “More now than ever, people want to connect what’s going on in the world with what they are wearing,” says Cathal Mcateer. “Our safe world of London is being disrupted more than we have ever experienced it. I feel confident doing this collaboration with the Goss Brothers. It feels right. It’s about the garment and the art. I’m looking forward to these different elements coming together.”

Folk x Goss Brothers pop up shop will be open from July 6th. 11am- 7pm 

shop the collection online at www.folkclothing.com

WORDS BY AMANDA LEWIS

The Summer is finally here its official ! It might only last for a few days, it could be here for a few weeks, who knows it could be a couple of months that we are basking in this seasonal halo. Now I don’t mean to bring your mood down, but there is a very serious side to this fantastic weather. We men and I do mean to generalise here are pretty damn awful when it comes to safe tanning, laying in the sun and most importantly putting on suncream and when we do, that it’s a high enough SPF (Sun Protection Factor). OK then, now because we at Clothes-Make-the-Man care about our loyal readers and we want you around for as long as possible we have compiled our top 5 tips for sun safety;
1) Make sure you use enough product – you should apply a blob about the size of a two pound coin for each limb and your front and back, as well as a blob about the size of a pound coin for your face,
2) Protect your skin before you first go into the sun – we recommend applying sun cream 15 minutes before going into the sun, then reapplying again as soon as you go out in the sun. After that, you should reapply every 1 to 2 hours, as well as immediately after swimming or towelling.
3) Check for 5 star UVA rating – ensure your chosen sun care product has maximum 5 star UVA protection as well as a high SPF, as this will provide the best protection from skin ageing as well as burning.
4) Use an SPF of at least 15 – you should be using a high SPF (30 or 50) if you’re going abroad or have fair skin. Also don’t forget
your lips, they are prone to drying and cracking and long term exposure can cause uneven colouration as well as more serious skin conditions.
5) Choose a well-known brand that you trust – when buying sun care make sure you look for a brand that are investing in research into the latest suncare technologies as well as in educating people about sun safety.

With these top tips in mind, very much the last point, we have thoroughly researched the market to determine what are the best sun care products on the market.

Since the 1970s, Bioderma has acquired a unique expertise in skincare and is recommended by Dermatologists worldwide. Bioderma’s sun care range is for everyone. With very high protection (SPF 50+, which blocks 98% of UVB rays), the Photoderm Max collection contains several options for face and body, as well as a Spray and Mousse for children that is adapted to their delicate skin.

A sore Red nose isn’t the only feature that can be affected by the sun on your face. From dehydration lines to dull-looking skin, your face needs the upmost care to boast that healthy sun kissed, holiday glow. Hawaiian Tropic with their Silk Hydration Air Soft Face SPF30 have adapted their Air Soft formula into a handy 50ml bottle, designed specifically for facial use.

Marks & Spencer are a trusted brand name and particularly when it comes to Safe Tanning and Suncare protection. Not only are these products Made in Great Britain, Extra water resistant, they offer both Ultra UVA and Max UVB – according to EU maximum label recommendations. Plus they are Not tested on animals BUAV approved and are made in Eco-Factory.

P20’s easy, no fuss iconic once a day formula provides up to 10 hours protection from the sun’s harmful rays. Now that doesn’t mean you are immutable to the sun’s harmful rays or burning, it’s long lasting formula provides broad spectrum photostable protection. It combines UVA filters (to safe-guard against premature signs of ageing) and UVB filters (to protect the skin from harmful burning rays) that do not break down when exposed to sunlight and heat. This means P20’s level of protection, which is active 15 minutes after application, remains effective for up to 10 hours. P20 is also clinically proven to be very water resistant, the highest classification. But remember it’s better to be safe than sorry.

Clinique‘s New SPF 30 Anti-Wrinkle Face Cream includes Clinique’s Solar Smart+ technology, a blend of antioxidant + barrier repair ingredients and sunscreens that help to strengthen and repair skin’s moisture barrier, while providing high-level, broad-spectrum protection against UVA/UVB. By forming a protective shield on skin, this formula helps to prevent against premature ageing caused by sun exposure. Formulated to be non- acnegenic, non-photoallergenic, and non-phototoxic, NEW Clinique SPF 30 Anti-Wrinkle Face Cream is dermatologist-tested and suitable for all skin types.

Anthelios Anti-Shine Invisible Mist by La Roche-Posay is a very much in demand product right now and after you use it, not only will you understand but will follow suit. It’s Anti Shine formula is a Patented molecule Airlicium which leaves oily-prone skin shine free. Previously used by NASA in space science, this anti- sweat, anti-shine and super light molecule – composed of 99% air and 1% Silica – has the unique ability to absorb up to 100x its weight in sebum and proactively controls sources of shine for an all-day clean skin sensation and matte finish. Plus, it surpasses European anti-UVA guidelines, for maximum protection.

Next up a new product from the World’s No1 Sun Care Brand combining highly effective UVA and UVB protection and offers extra water resistance. Nivea Sun Protection Roll-On with its easy to handle roll on application it is simple and quick to apply, particularly on children’s skin. It is a fast absorbing non-sticky formula that makes applying suncream easy instead of wasting time preparing for fun in the Sun it starts immediately with the application of sunscreen.

Last but certainly by no means least, we have saved the best til last, this is always in CMTM sun defences. It’s small, simple, throw it in your bag, pocket, whatever. It’s great for protecting your more delicate bits, that can be more prone to sun burn, like around the eyes, nose and forehead. It never stings – and it stays put, however hot and bothered you get- Clarins sun stick – 30+. Essentially a product we can’t say enough good things about !!!!

It honestly isn’t often you are asked to dinner with a genuine sporting legend, I mean a winner .
of 94 tennis tournaments, eight Grand Slam titles and four times ITF world champion, he dominated ATP rankings in the second half of the 80s. At the end of his career he was the player who had been ranked number one the longest, 270 weeks. He was voted second in In the all time top list of players, only bettered by Jimmy Conners and then guided our own Andy Murray to two Wimbledon wins ! Yes Mr Ivan Lendl, of course I’ll come to dinner with you.

The occasion was the launch of his new tennis shoe collaboration with Italian footwear brand Superga to celebrate the reissuing of the shoe he wore to win countless matches during his career.

The Sport Lendl shoe along with their renowned perforated “swallow’s tail” logo was designed in 1970 for the brand’s sports line, the new Superga Sport Lendl which features all the original characteristics: eco-leather upper, printed rubber sole, Superga Sport logo on the tongue, and the champion’s signature on the back. The shoes comes in four separate colours and launches just in time for the start of Wimbledon.