TYLER BRULÉ, the founder of Wallpaper*, has recently, I see, raised the £5 million it costs these days to launch a new magazine (most of it needed to pay off people who might grumble about stupid superfluous asterisks), not this time for the gay urban soft furnishings nut, but for the rich. Just, the rich.
Monocle, as this publication will be titled (or possibly Monocle+ or Monocle%), will have offices in London, Tokyo, New York and Zurich (a rare example of the simple bracketing together of four cities being enough to make one want to vomit), and will “aim to appeal to successful professionals who divide their time between several cities”. People with no soul, in other words. Men with monogrammed wheely