Introducing the Autumn 2025 Issue of Gentleman's Journal

Welcome to Gentleman’s Journal’s Autumn issue 2025 — a 164-page riot of whiskeys, cheeseburgers, infinity pools, dress watches, red wines, superyachts, ancient tailors, spicy rigatonis, and straightforward, straightforward shooting weekends.

There’s an excellent lesson in cellar-building from the good people at Cult Wines. An in-depth guide to the individual tailors of Savile Row and their storied clients. A deep-dive into Britain’s best independent menswear brands. And a slalom through the best Alpine chalets on the market right now. And that’s just in our nifty Portfolio section at the front of book.

Later, in our excellent House Notes, we explore the rise (and rise and rise and rise) of Larry Ellison; survey the subtly changing tastes (and brand affinities) of Prince William; ask Topjaw’s Jesse Burgess to list the finest burgers in the capital (including Canal’s most excellent ‘table burger’ concept) ; and produce the definitive (and perhaps, admittedly, only) guide to the greatest hotel infinity pools on the planet.

In the Features well, meanwhile, we meet the founders behind Carbone, the hearty, Goodfellasian Italo-American joint that has just triumphantly opened its doors in Mayfair — with the biggest menu (in every dimension) in the city. We contemplate the enduring wisdom of advertising guru David Ogilvy (the inspiration, they say, for Don Draper — though Jon Hamm could never quite master the hair): a man who hated paperclips, loved France, and had never worked in advertising at the ripe old age of 38.

We unveil our very own Yacht Trumps (patent pending) — a jolly cruise through the biggest and boldest craft making waves (sorry) this year. We crown the winners in our annual Drinks Awards competition. And we talk Wolf Hall and George Clooney with actor Charlie Rowe.

Best of all, perhaps, is our very special cover story for this issue . It’s a curation we’re calling ‘the Architects of Influence’, and it sits down with six notable (and irritatingly youthful) London-based entrepreneurs who have all made their success by navigating the maelstroms of the late digital age — whether that be surfing the TikTok algorithm, reigning the podcast airwaves, or lovingly skewering the mores of the 0.1%. These figures are notable, perhaps, in the fact that they all took highly untraditional (and often zig-zagging) paths to their current success. Gstaad Guy had never been to Gstaad at the time he made his first video. Caspar Lee’s first content was about the relative merits of baths and showers, on an account that was promptly deleted by YouTube over suspicious ad clicks. Harry Stebbings knew not a single person in the VC world when he started his podcast about the VC world. The Topjaw boys were making videos for seven years garnering a few thousand views apiece before the wider world took notice. And Samuel Ross was plunged headfirst into the world of high fashion when he was made Virgil Abloh’s first ever intern at the age of 20.

Each of their stories is fascinating (and instructive) in its own way. And while we hope in this issue to celebrate all the things our cover subjects have achieved so far, the more exciting stories, surely, are the ones they are yet to tell.

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