Noix Issue 1

What do football hooligans, expensive socks, and jazz have in common? Welcome to NOIX Issue #1 – a modern lads mag for men who care about what they wear, what they eat, and how they spend their Sundays.

This isn't your dad's magazine (though he might secretly want to borrow it).

Inside this issue:

• Badge of Honour – How an Italian obsession with puffer jackets became the unofficial uniform of English football culture. The wild story of Massimo Osti, Stone Island, and the Paninari youth movement that changed menswear forever
• The Linen Manifesto – An interview with Original Fibres about heavyweight linen that works year-round, sustainability without the greenwashing, and why your clothes should get better with age
• 30 Days Wearing a Tie – One writer's quest to make neckwear feel natural again. Practical lessons on collars, colours, and how not to look like you're off to a funeral
• The False Economy of Posh Socks – Why £25 wool socks might actually cost you more than Arket basics, and when "buy less, buy better" becomes a lie we tell ourselves
• A Lifetime of Trying to Like Jazz – From Benk & Bo to Moodymann at Jazz Cafe, via Detroit house and Theo Parrish's theory that "all music is jazz"
• French is Back – London's return to butter-soaked comfort food. Why Bouchon Racine, Maison François, and simple Parisian brasseries feel like exactly what we need right now

Plus: Wild ties from the 1940s (meet the "belly warmers"), vintage cocktails for wooing dates (according to Esquire 1957), art history scandals, Instagram accounts to doom-scroll with purpose, and a hymn to the full English breakfast that'll make you weep.

Smart, irreverent, and refreshingly honest about menswear, food, and culture.

Launched: August 2025