Men's style, fashion weeks, shopping and the good life, from New York to Monte Carlo
A men's style magazine spends ten years photographing well-dressed men, and eventually it notices where they go after the shows. The answer, more often than it expected, was a casino. The Good Life is the section where that observation became a column: the dress code at Monte Carlo, the silhouette of a serious poker player, what to pack for a night at the tables, and how a gentleman behaves when the private room is an app on his phone.
It is written in the same voice as the rest of the magazine and with the same priorities. Style first, then discipline, and the firm belief that a night at the tables, like a dinner jacket, only works in moderation.
The private rooms have moved online, and with them the question of how a gentleman behaves when nobody can see his jacket. Notes on online casinos, poker rooms and the discipline that replaces the dress code.
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Two years after The New Formal, I went back to the same question with a different room in mind: what does a man wear to a casino in 2026, from the Salle Blanche in Monte Carlo to a card room in Macau?
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How the poker table became the new members' club, why the best-dressed men at Pitti Uomo would lose their shirts at it, and what a card room teaches you about style that a runway never will.
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Five pieces, one evening: from the aperitivo at the Hôtel de Paris to the last hand in the private room. What to buy for a casino night, and what to leave in the suitcase.
Read moreThree casino cities, three ideas of glamour. A style editor's notebook on where to stay, what the rooms look like, who is dressed properly and where the good tables actually are.
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