Icon 2024 London Fog. An earl grey tea latte with a splash of vanilla makes for a delicious and popular tea latte. Big hits, big ticket prices:

As christine corton shows in her brilliant “biography” of london’s fog, from the 1840s to the 1960s, noxious smoke from domestic coal fires and factory chimneys polluted london’s atmosphere. For over 80 years, it has embodied a classic metropolitan appeal from work wear to weekend dressing.