Multitasking is in the air. At least two people take on a new role in the story of GABRIEL MOSES in the new issue of Fantastic Man. ■ First, artist/photographer GABRIEL MOSES himself, who appears here as a model in no fewer than seven voluminous looks for this increasingly cold season. Then, OLIVER HADLEE PEARCH, who not only photographed GABRIEL but also conducted the super entertaining and enlightening interview. ■ “Do you feel you’ve found your style from figuring things out for yourself and just thinking about what you think looks good rather than what you’ve been told looks good?” asks OLIVER at some point. GABRIEL answers, “Kind of, but I also hate not being good at things. I’m the kind of person who, if we go bowling and you smoke me at bowling, you won’t see me again until I’ve been five times on my own, and then we’ll have a proper game. I’m a proper sore loser and I love to win.” ■ MAX PEARMAIN doesn’t take on any new roles here; he just does his signature fantastic styling job. (Pages 158–167 of Fantastic Man no. 43.)

The wait is over: this intriguing leather neck/hand/shoulder accessory from IM MEN made its debut on 22 January of this year at the Paris show of the ISSEY MIYAKE branch of innovative utilitarian menswear, and is finally available from this Sunday, 1 November. But what is it? ■ Inspired by the all-too-familiar takeaway coffee cup – but rendered in leather –  it provides that fun puzzlement of seeing something that isn’t what it appears to be. It reveals the beauty of something familiar and mundane through its execution in a different, precious material. ■ It’s big enough for keys, chewing gum, a card holder and a handful of coins.

I swung by the new flagship store of HUSBANDS in Paris – the super singular French menswear brand since 2014. I can’t compare the new premises to HUSBANDS’s previous location, because I’d never been, but in images the old store looked a bit more traditional and wood-panelled. This new place, with its already shaggy wall-to-wall carpeting and raw stucco walls, looks like Berghain’s backstage VIP area (if there is such a thing). It’s in the Marais, near the Picasso Museum, right next door to gallery PERROTIN and around the corner from WOOYOUNGMI. ■ At HUSBANDS I tried on a pair of their peculiar flared, high-waisted jeans with a crease solidly ironed in, and this great, sturdy beige houndstooth tweed blazer. Have a look and you’ll see HUSBANDS’s quintessential take on menswear in a flash. It really is a precise signature you won’t easily find anywhere else. ■ “The idea of HUSBANDS is that classic menswear is the perfect blueprint for self-expression,” said founder NICOLAS GABARD when I had a coffee with him earlier this summer. And that he’s obsessed with making perfect garments. “Everything is important: the perfect tweed, the perfect silk, the perfect twill. The shoulders, the position of the first button, the length of a vent, everything makes sense.” ■ NICOLAS had a lot of insight to share. “The market is stupid, you know? They don’t want to help their customers, they just want to sell a maximum amount of garments, so they chase trends. And I don’t care about trends.” ■ Like France’s geographic position, HUSBANDS’s tailoring sits somewhere between Savile Row’s stiffness and Italian sophistication. “The French hate themselves, did you know?” said NICOLAS. “It’s a national sport to try and not be French.” But then, ironically, French style is such a thing in itself. (Next up, HUSBANDS plans to open in NYC.)

Recently, my colleague ELIOT was lamenting the fact that he can no longer wear his favourite camel hair MARGARET HOWELL jumper because the elbows are totally worn out after years of enthusiastic use. ■ Luckily, it turns out the brand offers a great repairs service that they run with the garment mending specialists SOJO. They very kindly offered to repair said jumper. ■ It was picked up from home in London, and a few days later, returned with brilliantly well-mended elbows, collar and hem. “I’m wearing it as I type to you,” says ELIOT. “It’s as good as new!” 

Of course you’ve already bought and read the latest issue of Fantastic Man, and this week there’s an all-new issue of BUTT out. WOLFGANG TILLMANS shot the cover, and it’s packed with great features such as the mesmerising opening interview with pop star KIM PETRAS. Buy here.