//At The Wallace Collection last month//

Lovely to see the gorgeous Eve Ferret out and about this spring with a series of live dates to celebrate the long-overdue release of her first album.

I fell under Eve’s spell in the summer of 1978, witnessing performances at Covent Garden’s pre-New Romantic Blitz club with her-then partner James “Biddie” Biddlecombe. More recently we connected via the late Tommy Roberts, at whose memorial she sang a version of Rawhide which rocked ’em in the aisles and nearly blew the roof off St Giles in the Fields.

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Tags: Absolute Beginners, Biddie & Eeve, Blitz, Brasserie Zédel, David Bowie, Django Reinhardt, Eve Ferret, Fran Landesman, Hot Club de France, James Biddlecombe, Jazzin' For Blue Jean, Julien Temple, Pierre "Baro" Ferret, Pimlico, Roddy Matthews, Scars, Simon Wallace, The Wallace Collection

NAME: Christophe Loiron

RESIDES: Los Angeles

OCCUPATION: Mister Freedom

Christophe Loiron is the perfect person to kick off the Men Of The World section, the new counterpoint to Blokes Of Britain and a chance for outernationalists of every stripe to talk about their style.

Schooled in Zaire, the Frenchman has long been a resident of Los Angeles, where he opened his label and store Mister Freedom in the early 00s.

Loiron, ID photograph, 1984.

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Tags: Beverly Blvd, Casque d’Or, Christophe Loiron, coutil, Django Reinhardt, Eddie Cochran, Hud, Kinshasa, LA, Marien Nationale, Mister Freedom, Nudie The Rodeo Tailor, paletot, Paul newman, Pépé le Moko, Phantom 309, Salaire de la Peur, Treasure Of Sierra Madre, Zaire