Pierre Cardin: A Futurist, Rather Than Fashionist
“Fashion is not enough,” Pierre Cardin once told Eugenia Sheppard, the American newspaper columnist and fashion critic. “I don’t want to be just a designer.” True to those words, in…
Tony Francis: The Malaysian Champ in the Ring of Heavyweight Journalism
Among Tony Francis’ prized possessions was a pair of boxing gloves from Muhammad Ali, which when he put on, made him a very unlikely looking champ. It was a perfect…
John Le Carré: The Ex-English Agent Who Tinkered, Tailored And Soldiered His Way Into Spy Fiction
A good spy, in the mind of John le Carré, is essentially a rotten person. A British agent himself once, with writing acumen honed from field research, le Carré created…
Paolo Rossi: Football’s “Assassin” and Italy’s Undying Hero
Summer 1982, Madrid: The world’s eyes were on the magical feet of a Brazilian called Zico. Much of that year's pre-World Cup hype was also on a $10 million transfer…