Some codpieces had cute little bows on them. Some time around 1536, Hans Holbein the Younger was finessing Henry VIII's crotch. With a fine brush in his hand and a palette of watercolour paints beside ...

There really is no delicate way to open a story about a piece of horsehair-lined leather designed to cover and celebrate a man’s genitals, is there? So let’s just get on with it: The codpiece, as it ...

Sting still owns the famous codpiece that he wore in David Lynch’s 1984 film version of Dune. The musician played the role of Feyd-Rautha in the film – the nephew of and heir to Baron Vladimir ...

Originally a way to cover men’s poles in 15th and 16th century Europe, men wore codpieces beneath their doublets with no other underwear, before the ingenious sartorial invention became a piece of ...

You wouldn’t know it by looking at them thanks to the dramatically different visual style between David Lynch’s Dune and Denis Villeneuve two-part masterpiece, but Sting and Austin Butler are playing ...