My Modern Darcy

Exquisite art of Italian handmade shoe - Meccariello Shoes

Who doesn’t like to dress up for the festive season? Think about the stylish and fancy dinner plus the drink parties (well, maybe not thi...

Enigmatic beauty – ‘The Lives of Others: Sublime Interiors of Extraordinary People’ by Simon Watson

Dear readers, recently I had encountered some mixed feeling, ‘guilty’ and ‘festive’, for the ‘guilty’ part, that derives from being away ...

From champagne to perfection – ‘Fleur de Miraval’ Rosé Champagne

Dear readers, how many of you here are a fan of Rosé champagne? Frankly, I have heard about this question whenever I attended a wine + c...

Stylish classic vehicle event of the year - Concours of Elegance 2020 UK

Sometimes when there were too many things going on, distractions happen and it makes one forget things easily, it did happen to me during...

Color power - Berluti FW2020 menswear collection

Remember the power-dressing back in the late 80s? The padded shoulder blazer with the carrot-cut trousers with a sleek pointy shoes whic...

L’Art de la table Française - ‘Les grandes tables de Paris’ by Gilles Pudlowski

It feels like ages since my last time having a delightful meal properly in a fine restaurant, especially after all the rough patches in t...

Olfactory chic for Parisian summer - Pont des Arts Paris

When it comes to July, it always reminds me of one thing apart from Wimbledon (which was cancelled this year sadly), that is, the French ...

Urban sartoria – Christine L men’s tailoring, Hong Kong

Nowadays when we talked about tailoring for men, more or less it also takes us to think about the tailor or the artisan himself, his pers...

Oriental modernity – ‘André Fu: Crossing cultures with design’ by Catherine Shaw

Dear readers, being away from writing this blog for quite some time, it makes me feel a bit guilty and questioning about my passion on co...

British sartorial classic & eccentricity - Dobrik and Lawton, London

Waking up in the morning recently, the weather is still a bit chilly for some reason, consider it’s almost time that we are entering the ...

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