Issue 37

Welcome back. Nice summer? Hope so. Seems like ages ago, doesn’t it? That’s because you, like us, have no doubt been wading waist-deep in the cultural mix since the gatekeepers of high art, and not so high art, opened the floodgates on all the new books and exhibitions and plays and podcasts and shows and series in the first week of September. After a summer in which, let’s be honest, there was little worth reading or streaming or watching or booking or downloading or reserving or listening to, it’s good to be able to feed the brain with something a little more nourishing. Nothing happens in summer. Not even summer happened in summer.

It’s the best time of year for the art-starved and culture-hungry. But you don’t need me to tell you that. Cosmopolitan bright-young-thing that you are, you will have booked your tickets to the V&A’s new Naomi Campbell exhibition, which we preview on page 44, donks ago; your room, sorry, suite, at the new The Emory hotel, page 18, will have been reserved long before this magazine was even flatplanned; and The Day of the Jackal, the soon-to-be-released series starring Eddie Redmayne and Lashana Lynch, page 54, will have been bleeping on your radar since Southgate’s men stumbled at the final hurdle (another summer disappointment).

Already in your diary will be reservations at Jeremy King’s new Arlington restaurant (the old Le Caprice), page 22, as well as at London’s other zeitgeist-y new places to eat, page 60. You’ll have on your agenda the National Gallery’s first major retrospective of the work of Vincent van Gogh, page 50; be looking forward to dropping in and out of the EFG London Jazz Festival, page 46; and be positively champing at the bit at the prospect of the Royal Academy of Arts’ blockbuster Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael exhibition, page 49. And who can blame you?

All of which might make you wonder how this magazine could possibly enrich your already culturally-fulfilled months ahead? Through interviews with footballerturned-furniture-maker Bobby Dekeyser, page 34; textile-designing national treasure Zandra Rhodes, page 82; former-F1-champ-come-spirit-man Jenson Button, page 72; and iconoclastic Boisdale restaurateur Ranald Macdonald, page 66. That’s how.

What else is new in this issue? Books (p.32), bars (p.60), clothes (p.78), watches (p.90), whisky (p.72). And the Maldives (p.110). There’s nothing new about the Maldives, of course. The Maldives are the Maldives. But they never get old, either.

Enjoy the issue. Enjoy the most happening time of the year.

Richard Brown Editorial Director

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