Chap Magazine The Chap Spring 111 Back Issue

Issue 111 of The Chap is a celebration of women. Our main interview is with Anna Friel, who discusses rising through the ranks from Brookside to starring alongside Susan Sarandon in US country music saga Monarch. We also meet Katie Thomas, founder of retro-style lingerie brand What Katie Did, to find out about her links with the fetish scene and what she thinks about the future of the vintage movement. Sartorial features include a visit to bespoke tailors Pratt & Prasad, to chronicle their making of a two-piece suit for Mr. Temple, while David Evans of Grey Fox Blog considers the future of Savile Row. We present the photographic results of an evening in the Club Room at Huntsman in the company of Mickael Korausch, maker of bespoke bow ties at La Bowtique. We meet Valerie Leon, who starred in virtually every cult film and television series of the 1960s and 70s, including two James Bond films, The Persuaders!, The Avengers, Revenge of the Pink Panther, several Carry On films and Hammer Horror’s Blood From the Mummy’s Tomb. Further remarkable women include Margaret Fountaine, the 19th century Lepidopterist who scoured the world for every species of butterfly, and managed to break several male hearts from Tuscany to Damascus. Then to Paris, to hear the mysterious tale of a perfectly-preserved belle epoque apartment discovered in 2010, and who its dust-covered accoutrements – including a portrait by Boldini – had belonged to nearly a century earlier. All this plus Maria Teresa de Filippis in Motoring, the hair raising tale of what Henry Morton Stanley did after finding Dr. Livingstone in Africa, Am I Chap?, the collection and acquisition of vintage vinyl and readers’ attempts to Chapify the great album covers of history.