{"product_id":"issue-7-sex","title":"Issue 7: Sex","description":"\u003cp\u003e*Price does not include shipping.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDon’t want to pay shipping? Why not \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/valetmagazine.co\/products\/valet-subscription-rolling?selling_plan=1136656459\"\u003esubscribe\u003c\/a\u003e?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eGentlemen, rouse yourselves from the slovenly majority, \u003ci\u003eValet\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e7\u003c\/i\u003e has finally emerged from the subterranean chambers of our printing press to make its crepuscular landfall, and its main theme is sex.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eA 280-page tome of dissent against the beige mediocrity of the modern street, it is all that stands between you and inexorable march of modernity and its unseductive ills.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAmong much else fodder for the poet within, we sit down with Nicolas Gabard of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/husbandsparis\/\" title=\"Husbands Paris\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eHusbands Paris\u003c\/a\u003e who reminds us that tailoring and indeed style are a dialogue with history—a way to inhabit a silhouette that is as much an intellectual statement as it is a physical one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eWe perform a necessary exorcism: the ritual cremation of a Birkenstock sandal, committing, finally, this orthopaedic monstrosity to the pyre not out of malice, but out of a sense of civic duty. Ugliness is a cardinal sin that no amount of cork-soled comfort can absolve.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eFollowing this theme of heat, David Miro of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/paris_image_unlimited\/\" title=\"Paris Image Unlimited\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e@paris_image_unlimited\u003c\/a\u003e peels back the layers of his taste and discernment by taking us through an array of his favourite items.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAt great length, as is our wont, we survey and discuss the question on every well dressed chap’s mind: what makes a suit sexy and transforms its wearer into a figure of such statuesque potency that he becomes eminently beddable?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eWe pair this with a lament for the tassel, that percussive ornament whose rhythmic clack remains the true soundtrack of a life lived in character.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eWe reflect on a childhood Christmas ritual, where a deflated football was transmuted into a mirror ball of shimmering, dust-filled light—a first lesson in eroticism. Meanwhile, the legendary musician Tommy Mandel recalls a vanished era of rock-and-roll where fingering was fetishized in the pursuit of the decadent chord.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThere is, as ever, a bloody sight more to get your teeth into. And finally it’s here. Read it before the shadows grow too long and the undertakers are already in the pub.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e—\u003ci\u003eValet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e***\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis issue is brought to you in collaboration with \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/saphir_medailledor\/\" title=\"Saphir Médaille d'Or\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eSaphir Médaille d'Or\u003c\/a\u003e, purveyors of the world’s finest leather-care products.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eSpecial thanks to our brand partners, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/humeldn\/\" title=\"Hume London\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eHume London\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lambda_razors\/\" title=\"Lambda Razors\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eLambda Razors\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/donahughshop\/\" title=\"Donahugh\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eDonahugh\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/molinarisambuca_it\/\" title=\"Molinari\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eMolinari\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e***\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePrint- and subscription-only, available until sold out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(43, 0, 255);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e***PLEASE NOTE: Valet Issue 7 is a brand new release and is currently at the printing house. It will ship on approximately 20 April.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGet a \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/valetmagazine.co.uk\/products\/valet-subscription-rolling?selling_plan=710707511670\" title=\"subscription\"\u003esubscription\u003c\/a\u003e, which ensures you get every issue of Valet on release with free shipping worldwide. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"accel-snackbar\" style=\"left: 50%; transform: translate(-50%, 0px); top: 50px;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"valetmagazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57643963122038,"sku":null,"price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/9545\/5051\/files\/V7-_over_c5f4b89d-bfc0-4e63-96e0-29ecc141dd29.jpg?v=1775743010","url":"https:\/\/valetmagazine.co.uk\/products\/issue-7-sex","provider":"Valet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}