Whilst out on manoeuvres wearing our Ark Air Tundra blue camo smocks (in the hope of a white Christmas) we contacted the brand’s head designer William Jarrett on the walkie-talkie in order to…
If you’ve ever spent any considerable time in Wilmslow or Flannels in town then you probably already know the uber-entrepeneur that is Roger Cashmore at least in spirit if not…
Though our mate Mark is now a main player in the Grants 1856 crew in his previous career he spent a lot of time ‘in a tin can below…
Our mate Dean is an incredibly talented Bradford born screenwriter best known for his collaborations with Irvine Welsh. He’s also an artist and musician and was something of…
Eddy Rhead is a co-founder of the Manchester Modernist Society who we’re having a bit of an intellectual bash with in Manchester next month. He also helps publish The…
Not done one of these for a while have we? Apologies but we’ve been dead busy writing various magazines and books and having babies and making TV shows…
Being the pretty cool magazine that we are we’re lucky enough to know some incredibly talented photographers from all around the world and when it comes to Germany our…
I’ve got to know Adam Creed pretty well recently, even if it has been via the gift of the telephone and electronic mail. Nobody actually meets face to face…
We’d like to introduce you to the latest member of the proper family Mr Adam Gill. An immensley talented young man from the heart of God’s country whose graphic…
Now I’m not saying Leila is a busy lady but we asked her to do us a Favourite Five about four years ago and she’s only just managed…
Several is a pretty good name for a brand isn’t it? It’s not just a clever catchword though, it sums up the ethos of the collective behind it,…
Hold the front page, we’ve somehow managed to convince another woman to do a favourite five for us! Which now brings the female quota up to the staggering…
To anyone with a passing interest in trainers or like us a bloody obsesssion with footwear over the last couple of decades you will know or have heard…
Coddy loves coats. Ideally coats with more pockets than any human man could possibly ever need. As an outlet for his jacket obsession, he set up Gear There…
When we finally make ‘Proper Mag: The Movie’ Mark will probably be the producer, I’ll direct, Sando and Richardson will be script writers, Rapson will do the soundtrack,…
Though a long time fan of Mr O’Toole’s work it was late last year when his incredible art work had a truly stendhal syndrome type effect on me.…
If you’re wondering who the hell John Speed is then you may be more familiar with his nom de plume Rebel-yüth. Though it’s highly unlikely that he uses…
Though California may well know how to party, it also has a really good handle on how to look proper cool when it goes out climbing too. Case…
Not content with chatting to one Mancunian clothing institution last week (here), we’ve only gone and doubled up. This time we’ve gone back in time with a favourite…
I was made aware of Sleaford Mods (neither from Sleaford nor mods) during the heady days of Myspace, a good friend of mine told me to have a listen this thing they’d done…
Anyone who rates Capote’s true crime thriller ‘In Cold Blood’ is proper sound in my erm.. book. Have you read it? Incredible stuff, Music for Chameleons is equally…