The Rake, Issue 97

Founded in 2008, The Rake is the world’s preeminent publication dedicated to the education and arbitration of men’s style. Recapturing the codes of classic men’s elegance, The Rake is inspired by icons such as Cary Grant, Gianni Agnelli, Sean Connery and their contemporary counterparts. It provides incisive, in-depth commentary on menswear and the many other elements of gentlemanly living, from manners and ethics to art and design, travel, the intellectual and the philosophical, entertainment, food and drink.

In this issue:

He’s played a host of Hollywood characters — from Zorro and El Mariachi to Puss in Boots — as well as smouldering leading men in arthouse gems. Antonio Banderas’s spiritual home, though, is a theatre in his native city of Málaga. On a visit there, Scott Harper finds Banderas — seven years after an epiphanic health scare — answering his life’s calling.