Is style guru Tyler Brule the world’s most annoying man? Impossible to get through one of his newspaper columns without being made to feel physically ill at the level of namedropping he manages, Brule builds lists of where to buy sesame-scented candles and macaroons in Paris, or why you must insist on buying hand-painted kid-skin shoes for your servants. Although a walk through the ocean of his soul wouldn’t get your feet wet, perhaps he could be rehabilitated by being sprayed with mud from a passing bus in South London in November, on the way to classes where he has to show angry homeless people how to survive on benefits.
Or am I just irritated by the fact that he always looks so perfect in his Financial Times column, when I’ve just woken up and caught sight of myself looking like I’ve spent the night been repeatedly hit with dustbin lids?
Either way, the world doesn’t need a new flavour of scented candle. Or a new shade of macaroon. But perhaps Mr Style could be usefully employed during the season teaching agoraphobics how to shop, or something.
Perhaps he could be cursed by a Goddess to fall in love with his own reflection.
Oh, wait – it’s been done.
Are he and Simon Trowel cousins or something?
His photos are quite old, in real life he has put on a considerable amount of weight.
He was surely grown in the same lab as the no less demoralising Tom Ford.
I’d like to see him in a slapping contest with Tom Ford.
[...] As for Monocle, it appears to have established a brand value up there with the likes of Vogue, in that the issue sold for more than a Vogue from that time sells on eBay; certainly way above a first issue of Nuts (you’ll be luckly to get 99p); and rivalling the first issue of the much older Loaded (1 bid at £4.99). (While Brûlé is either a style guru or the world’s most annoying man, according to Christopher Fowler.) [...]
Great moody picture of Red Cross Way – one of the most fascinating streets in London. Though the rail bridge has been done up since with dotty light, the Cross Bones Yard is still there – and Tyler has been known to frequent nearby Brindisa!