The measure of the men

To be masculine, according to Ford’s design vision, is to fuse the debonair cut of a Savile Row suit with the swagger of a star from 1970s pornography. “I’m gay, I’m masculine and I’m not at all ashamed or embarrassed at this point to say I feel confident in traditional masculine clothes,” he said. By the time a man has reached his 40s, as Ford and Browne both have, it is probably useful to accept that one is less close to the playhouse than to the grave. “You grow up,” Ford said. Or else you do not.