Earl Spencer Q&A For Ralph Lauren Magazine
My latest piece for Ralph Lauren Magazine is a Q&A with Earl Spencer, brother of the late Princess Diana. I’d originally been told that the questions, once approved, would be delivered via telephone for livelier responses. In the end they were submitted via email, so consider this an “interview” in quotation marks.
The story is pegged on Spencer’s stately Althorp Castle (click the link to explore the estate), which was used in the fall Purple Label ad campaign.
Head over to RL Mag for the full story.
I clicked the link and read the story—nicely done.
After reading the story, I noticed ads for the clothes. I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw that the model wearing the $5000 “Astaire” velvet dinner jacket was dressed to expose a large triangle of white shirt between his low-rise pants and his skin-tight waistcoat. Appalling.
Fred Astaire would never have exposed any shirt between his waistcoat and his trousers, and while I don’t know his entire wardrobe, I don’t recall ever seeing him in a velvet jacket, smoking or otherwise. I think he was too traditional to have appeared in public in one, even if he owned one (which doesn’t really seem his style).