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If King of Shaves designed and manufactured vacuum cleaners, these are what we'd make. WKoHamat 08

I first sailed aboard a Mylius yacht in September 2005 in Rome. I've since kept in touch with their development, and recently their founder, Mario Sassi (ex P&G Italy) emailed me this pic of their latest beauty.

As I originally wanted to be a yacht designer (before fluffing my A Levels) then I have a lot of time for yacht design. Performance must be married with Practicality, and optimised across a wide range of conditions. Design which is pure in form, effortless in function and optimised to deliver results is imperative. WKoHamat 08

His name is Irwin Lee, and he's the UK GM of of P&G (who own Gillette).

"Trust is clean shaven" (those who remember the Norwegian brand, Ruud & Rye will smile at this phrase). R&R eventually morphed into the Lynx Three Blade Shave, then died at the Altar of Mach3. R&R made funny commercials though, see one here.

And by the way, WHAT is going on with that beard? WK0Hamat 08

If King of Shaves designed and manufactured sports cars, with an eye to the future, this would be what one would look like! WKoHamat 08

They'd be Geox shoes. WKoHamat 08

A few days ago, I uploaded a photo of a pink stretch limousine, see it here

Reason was I'd just spied the latest in 'Unnecessary Secondary' packaging for Gillette's recently launched 'Venus Breeze' system shaving product for women.

Gillette - P&G - there MUST be a less environmentally impactful way of packaging your products, surely? Or perhaps enjoying a shaving monopoly means you 'do what you do, and be damned with the consequences'.

Surely you could do more, with less? That's certainly our Mantra at King of Shaves

WKoHamat 08

Gillette Fusion Power: Smooth.
King of Shaves WKoHamat: Smoother.

Gillette Fusion Power (Mondeo with Body Kit): Left side of face & neck.

WKoHamat 08 (Aston Martin DB9): Right side of face & neck.

Judges: Tim Wright & Andy Honour
Judgement: The Ayes to the Right.
WKoHamat 08

Picture: An elated man, finally able to afford to shave later this year!

Backstory: With Gillette havnig over 90% world-wide market share, it's pretty much got a monopoly on close, comfortable shaves. And it charges for them - up to a whopping £2.50 for a Fusion Power replacment cartridge.

The Future of Shaving is Closer: Something called WKoHamat 08 is coming. Something that might take the sting out of the cost of keeping clean shaven. About time, surely - someone to challenge 'the most expensive shave a man can get'.

Pass it on ;-)
WKoHamat 08

Ever wondered why inkjet printers are so cheap to buy? Well, you find out when you come to buy the replacement cartridges. Check out this photo for my HP 450 (a 3 year old, tres simple inkjet printer) - £60 quid!

Think of HP standing for Highly Profitable, and they got all they know from Gillette, the very first company to practise this razor sharp 'our handle only fits our replacement cartridge' business model.

Another brand that follows this is Nespresso, you can only order the replacement capsules online from nespresso.com, at 50-70p each.

Clearly there is a 'fair price' to be paid to enjoy colour printing or full flavoured coffee, but maybe not quite the prices being charged here. Ditto Gillette Fusion cartridges. Retailing at £2 each, how much do YOU think they cost to make...?

And who are you paying for as part of the purchase price? Three sporting champions, already multi-millionaires. You can be a Champion yourself, or even better, a King.

The future of shaving is coming
WKoHamat 08

Flicking through yesterday's Daily Mail, I spotted a little piece on razors in their 'What's going Up, What's going Down' section. See bottom right of the scan.

Interesting. After all, do you really, REALLY need 5 blades to get a close comfortable shave - where the cost of each blade can be up to 50p (the latest Gillette Fusion Power cartridges are £2.50 apiece, each with 5 blades - or 6 if you count the 'hair trimmer'.

Earlier in the paper there was also an article on savings that could be made by drinking tap water (0.1p per litre) versus bottled (84p per litre - 840 times MORE expensive).

If King of Shaves did water, do you think we'd do Chesham's best Tap, or Expensive Evian?

Watch this space
WKoHamat 08

Are you one of the 5.7m?

This is the number of micro-personalised ads I've generated in the past 7 days, targeting people we believe deserve a better, fairer shave via our 'Slingshot' campaign now rolling on Facebook.

Want to better the best, and get the King of Shaves without the Ransom?

Talk to me. WKoHamat 08 & Slingshot

I've always voted Labour (both my parents are teachers which might partially explain it, and I certainly didn't like what happened to Britain's core manufacturing base in the 1980's) but I'm a bit stunned by their recent decision to remove the 10p in the Pound lower rate of income tax band. Make poorer people pay more? Oh yes, that's a vote winner for sure. Now, don't think I'm going for Brand Cameron yet (even though he shares his Christian name with my son) but goodness me, do Labour need some 'real world advice'.

And on this advice note, later this summer, I'll be out and about with my Megaphone exposing other cunning 'Stealth' taxes that you might not want to pay, when you find out the rich get richer, at your expense.

King of Blades. The Future of Shaving will be Fairer.

Since 1993, we've been "tough on stubble, and the causes of stubble"

Now it's time to turn our attention to harder problems...

The future of (fairer) shaving is nearly here..."things can only get better!"

WK. PL, TKoSP

To see and hear me launch our Manifesto at Speaker's Corner, London, please click here. To read the manifesto, please visit us here.