The Rake Lifetime Achievement Award Alan Flusser

special thanks to The Polo Bar, New York

When it comes to men’s dress codes, “the times” — as a Minnesotan folk singer of no little repute once rasped — “they are a-changin’”. In fact, we stand at “the precipice of a new era”, according to the sartorial polymath Alan Flusser. For those late in the room, Flusser is a designer, stylist and tailor and the proprietor of New York City’s finest custom clothing outlet. He’s also the author of (and four other erudite, accessible and edifying’s international best-dressed list for the past two decades. In short, the winner of our Lifetime Achievement Award is a man whose view on the subject of dress codes we would no sooner doubt than we’d place snow upon the masthead lettering of this, our winter issue.