TOM RHYS HARRIES
THE AUTUMN ISSUE
ALL STORIES
Haunted country houses, sinister ballet schools and picnics that go terribly wrong. Seven beautifully unsettling films to watch this Halloween - for those who like their scares with a little style.
From The Return alongside Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche to the title role in Clayface, Tom Rhys Harries takes on a new chapter. Meet CUTLER’s autumn cover star in a preview of our exclusive interview.
Still in love, but arguing about the dishwasher? This Sunday, Felix explores the little things that make us feel loved, why your partner might be missing the point, and how to ask for what you actually need.
Original fireplaces, beautiful cornicing and windows worth keeping. How to make a period house feel like a home—with a little restraint and no ambition whatsoever to turn it into a regional lettings office.
Even our spare time comes with a list of things we should be doing. Drawing on Michael Norton’s research into everyday rituals, we explore the small pleasures worth making time for, without needing to justify them.
From Alan Rickman’s delicious delivery to Daniel Day-Lewis’s ferocious presence, the actors we remember make bold choices. So why does so much screen acting now feel so restrained and are we mistaking doing less for doing it better?
You’re keeping everything moving, but what are you looking forward to? Somewhere between the appointments and the washing, pleasure can become something we’ll get round to. On rediscovering what we enjoy, feeling at home in our bodies and making room for a life we’re excited to live.
Asteroids, earthquakes, tidal waves, killer storms and the occasional end of civilisation. From 2012 to The Day After Tomorrow, these are 20 disaster films that prove watching everything go spectacularly wrong can be extremely entertaining.
No lawn, no greenhouse, no ancestral estate required. A little soil, a few pots and some unreasonable optimism are quite enough to make a garden.
We know what the hotel room looks like, what everyone ordered and whether the film is any good before we’ve even left the house. The internet gave us infinite information, but it took away the pleasure of not knowing.
Love, arguments, dishwashers and the occasional emotional police pursuit. Cutler’s resident relationship guru Felix explains why being right is overrated, keeping score is dangerous and the dishwasher is rarely about the dishwasher.
September has always carried the promise of a fresh start. But wanting a different life and deciding to change it are two very different things. What happens when we stop waiting for circumstances to make the choice for us?
Good clothes, old things, peculiar habits and the persuasive case for becoming a little more eccentric. The gentlemen reminds us that the coolest people rarely look as if they’re trying.
We made a reading list for men, so naturally the women required one too. From murderous charm and crumbling castles to great love affairs, difficult women and lives lived spectacularly off-script, these are the books we think every woman should encounter at least once.
Forget productivity manuals and the books promising to turn you into a millionaire before breakfast. This is a reading list about courage, obsession, faith, failure, love, horses, hell and the occasional catastrophic decision. Ten books worth reading, plus one we couldn't leave out.
A few things worth buying, planting, lighting, eating and generally fussing over this month.
You’re not imagining it. You travel three thousand miles, order a coffee and realise you could quite easily be in Margate.
A hotel should make you behave slightly differently from the moment you walk through the door.
Forget the perfect interior. The most beautiful homes are inherited, collected, travelled and allowed to grow old.
You got the job, the house, the money, perhaps even the reassuringly expensive coat. So why aren't you happy? We spend our lives chasing success without questioning who planted the idea in the first place. Perhaps the way back to ourselves is surprisingly simple: stop performing and start playing.
Once, individuality was cultivated rather than curated. From Diana Vreeland and Cecil Beaton to Isabella Blow and André Leon Talley, we celebrate those rare figures who understood that being yourself occasionally requires becoming something entirely of your own invention.
Cutler remembers Dolly Parton: songwriter, storyteller, actress, philanthropist and one of the great American originals.
New York's legendary jazz club crosses the Atlantic. This September, London gets a Blue Note of its own.
Eight books for anyone who suspects there is more to life than what can be found at the end of a scroll.
As cinema prepares to return to the Lido, Cutler looks ahead to the films, faces and old world glamour of the 83rd Venice International Film Festival.
Somewhere along the way, getting dressed became another problem to solve. Perhaps it is time we started enjoying it again.
Cinema - Pedro Almodóvar turns the camera towards himself in a film about grief, inspiration and the uncomfortable question of who really owns a story.
Cinema has always been rather good at making us want clothes. Not necessarily because the clothes themselves are extraordinary, but because of the lives happening inside them. Alain Delon made a pale shirt look dangerous, Diane Keaton turned waistcoats and men's trousers into a uniform, and Richard Gere made soft tailoring feel positively indecent. Before we could identify every jacket, loafer and pair of sunglasses online, we had to do something far more interesting: steal the idea.
Cars are grey. Houses are greige. Clothes are oatmeal. Somewhere along the way, the world lost its nerve for colour. Was it good taste, modern anxiety, the algorithm, or something altogether more sinister?