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Louis Wise

Deputy Editor, HTSI

Louis Wise works across features at HTSI, specialising in arts and fashion. He has previously written for the Guardian, the Sunday Times, Telegraph, the New Statesman, ES Magazine and Vogue, among others, and worked as an editor at the Sunday Times Culture.
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  • Tuesday, 17 September, 2024
    HTSI
    Trainer spotting: the best sneakers for snappy dressers

    There’s a shoe for every mood

    Berluti leather and nylon Skyrunning trainers, £1,310
  • Friday, 21 June, 2024
    FT SeriesThe HTSI summer packing guide
    How to pack for a French Atlantic escape

    From a beach racket set to a chic bottle opener, HTSI’s assistant editor shares his handy holiday favourites

    Le Port des Pêcheurs in Biarritz, France
  • Saturday, 8 June, 2024
    HTSI
    A first look at Emily Nixon’s new jewellery for men

    It’s a tale of crags to riches 

    From left: Emily Nixon silver Granite Tor ring, £190, silver Carve ring, £160, and gold Madron signet ring, £1,350
  • Friday, 7 June, 2024
    HTSI
    Totally Toteme: the Swedish house redefining Scandi style

    Elin Kling and Karl Lindman on celebrating 10 years of marriage – and a $100mn brand 

    Elin Kling and Karl Lindman in Toteme’s Stockholm headquarters. Kling wears Toteme wool collarless cinched jacket, £740, and wool straight tailored trousers, £390
  • Sunday, 2 June, 2024
    HTSI
    How to spend it in June

    Things to buy, tables to book and shows to see  

    Secret Sea Cove in Pescadero, where Outstanding in the Field will host a dinner on 6 June
  • Friday, 31 May, 2024
    HTSI
    Inside Hôtel du Couvent, a 400-year-old nunnery turned five-star sanctuary in Nice 

    How a hotel conversion became an act of faith

    A view through to the bathroom of Le Chapître suite at Hôtel du Couvent
  • Wednesday, 15 May, 2024
    HTSI
    Andrés Anza takes the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize

    Totems, politics and a necklace made from cow’s intestines – the prize, now in its seventh edition, sets few limits

    From left: ceramic tapestry, by Ozioma Onuzulike. Comme un lego, by Emmanuel Boos. I only know what I have seen, by Andrés Anza, winner of the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize
  • Tuesday, 30 April, 2024
    HTSI
    May’s don’t miss list, from Hunza G’s summer pop-up to Zendaya’s T-shirt

    Tables to book, exhibitions to see and films to watch this month

    Zendaya wears Loewe’s “I Told Ya” shirt in New York this month
  • Friday, 12 April, 2024
    The Aesthete
    Michael Bargo talks taste

    The interior designer loves ironed sheets, Yohji Yamamoto and Temo, his Mexican chihuahua

    Michael Bargo at home in New York with (on left) his lamp by David Lynch
  • Friday, 15 March, 2024
    How To Spend It In...
    An insider’s guide to Mallorca

    The designer Achilles Ion Gabriel loves the island for its flea markets, tennis courts and no-nonsense locals

    Achilles Ion Gabriel at the Can Bordoy Grand House & Garden, Palma
  • Friday, 8 March, 2024
    FT SeriesHTSI spring menswear special 2024
    The psychedelic reinvention of Patrick Cox

    What happened when the shoe designer swapped his wild London days for a hill in Ibiza? He found ‘the god within’

    Patrick Cox in the garden of his Ibiza casita, wearing his new line, Doors of Perception
  • Thursday, 7 March, 2024
    HTSI
    12 things to see, buy and eat in March

    How to lift the spirits this month

    Loewe Giant Castle Bag from its Howl’s Moving Castle collection at the Crafted World exhibition
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    HTSIThe Art of Sound: starring Burna Boy, Peter Blake, Michael Stipe, Samara Joy, Lankum and more
    Why everyone wants to dance with Léo Walk

    Breakdancing and chanson come together at his company La Marche Bleue

  • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
    HTSI
    Six chic ways to wear a belt

    Updating your look is a cinch this season

    Max Mara camel-hair and silk Teddy coat, £3,370, handsewn double-faced broadcloth dress, £1,150, leather belt, £810, and wool yarn turtleneck, £350
  • Wednesday, 22 November, 2023
    HTSI
    The masterful Manolo Blahnik

    The legendary designer reflects on swinging London, new beginnings and the tenets of timeless style

    Manolo Blahnik at his company’s new headquarters at 31 Old Burlington Street, surrounded by shoes and sketches. He wears a suit by Anderson & Sheppard
  • Friday, 10 November, 2023
    FT SeriesHTSI’s holiday gift guide 2023
    16 buys for stylish guys this Christmas

    Give him loafers, limoncello and a big bucket of crisps

    Studio Nicholson leather Donovan shoes in oxblood, £395
  • Sunday, 5 November, 2023
    Photography
    10 life lessons from a pop-art nun

    Corita Kent created waves in 1960s Los Angeles with the vibrant screen prints she made while still a Catholic nun. What does her photography reveal about her approach to life?

    A self-portrait of Sister Mary Corita (aka the artist Corita Kent) in her nun’s habit and headpiece. Her face is obscured by the camera she is holding to take the shot
  • Monday, 16 October, 2023
    HTSI
    Five green tees with unlikely ingredients

    From crab shells to algae, today’s eco tops have the strangest of provenances

    Sheep Inc 8-Bit Sheep T-shirt, £110
  • Friday, 6 October, 2023
    The Aesthete
    Art collector and app creator Hélène Nguyen-Ban’s favourite things

    The Docent founder on Alaïa jeans, Plaq chocolate and ‘the Elon Musk of Africa’

    Hélène Nguyen-Ban in her London home
  • Saturday, 30 September, 2023
    HTSI
    Everyone’s going big for Indian miniatures

    With a slew of exhibitions and auctions, these tiny jewel-like paintings are now banking huge sums

    A hunting party, 18th century, £200,000-£300,000, Christie’s
  • Friday, 22 September, 2023
    FT SeriesIcons only – the HTSI autumn arts special 2023
    Artist Anthea Hamilton: ‘Camp architecture really hits all my buttons’

    The Turner Prize nominee on Kendrick Lamar, her Loewe scarf and beloved collection of bricks

    Turner Prize nominee Anthea Hamilton at home in London
  • Friday, 22 September, 2023
    FT SeriesIcons only – the HTSI autumn arts special 2023
    How I spend it... three artists share their obsessions

    The Strokes’ Albert Hammond Jr, musician Sudan Archives and actress Bernadette Peters tell the stories behind their very different passions 

    Sudan Archives at Bridgewood & Neitzert, London
  • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
    FT SeriesIcons only – the HTSI autumn arts special 2023
    The sensational Sarah Lucas

    Irreverent, smutty, feminist, frank. Ahead of a major Tate show, the artist remains an unrepentant punk provocateur

    Sarah Lucas with sculptures from her Bunnies series in her studio in Framlingham, Suffolk
  • Friday, 15 September, 2023
    FT SeriesMen’s fashion special AW23
    Why menswear needs Martine Rose 

    Long an industry favourite, the designer is now hitting the mainstream. She talks clubs, Clarks and being courted by the luxury giants

    Designer Martine Rose in her studio in London
  • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
    FT SeriesWomen’s fashion special AW23
    Everybody loves Julie de Libran

    The Paris-based designer, formerly of Prada and Louis Vuitton, introduces the friends and family who inspire her

    Photographer and filmmaker Sonia Sieff, pharmacist and Julie de Libran collector Zina Thaifa, writer Amanda Sthers, atelier CEO Fanélie Phillips, and Julie de Libran in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. All shoes throughout by Manolo Blahnik
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