Valet Magazine

Unpublished shots from our Issue 7 ‘Mistakes’ feature.

We fill each issue of Valet to the brim, literally skirting the limit for weight that the international postal services subject us to.

And so it was a combination of Valet 7 being otherwise chock-a-block with content and the vanity of our editor, pictured here looking less than chic for one very obvious reason, that this series didn’t make it into print.

Unlike the rest of the demigods and demigoddesses here pictured, our efitor sucks a v**e. A cardinal sin in Valet’s worldview and in any worldview of one with a sense of beauty and truth.

In short, a mistake.

Do not make the same one. Do the real thing. If not quite better your lungs (and, let’s be frank, no one knows), it will be of enormous benefit to your soul and the gazes of your onlookers.

P.s. anyone using v**es or wearing sandals will be denied entry to our launch events in London and Paris this and next week.

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Mes amis! Join us in Paris to celebrate the launch of Valet 7.

We’ll be celebrating with friends of the magazine , whose founder we interviewed for the issue.

Drinks and chat at:

Husbands
57 Rue de Richelieu
75002, Paris

19:30–22:00

Valet 7’s theme is S*X, so, naturally, salacious outfits are encouraged.

See you there!

Thanks to our main brand partner for the issue, Paris-based , purveyor of the best shoe-care products known to man.

We at Valet know that even despite our best efforts to highlight all that is true, beautiful, and right in the world, we are limited in our capacity to rid it completely of ugliness.

Nevertheless, this does not stop us from wishing to do so, and nor does it stop us, for therapeutic and symbolic reasons, from expunging an emblem of hideousness in a ritualistic conflagration.

Witness, then, our destruction of that ugliest of all items of dress—uglier still for the fact that otherwise beautiful people insist on wearing it: the sandal.

An effigy for the ages, found in full in the latest issue of Valet, available now and recommended reading for all aristocrats of the soul.

When not ruminating on the beauty of menswear, consuming alcohol, or nurturing our discernment, we at Valet also make films.

This one, for instance, is about friendship put to the test by distance.

And though it was shot only two years ago, already it stands as a testament to a lost past. How the flower of civilisation withers and fades away!

The pink marble restroom is closed to the public; the proprietor of the underwear shop retired; all that remains is that cornerstone of Portuguese civilisation, the soup of the day.

Watch ‘When We Drink in Porto’ on our YouTube channel.