This morning I saw the Autumn Winter 2008 collection from Southwick. The storied brand from Southwick, Mass. is one of the handful of companies still making suits in the United States. Just recently, the company brought in design consultant extraordinaire Mark McNairy to reinvigorate the classic New England brand. Southwick is known as the [...]
The best accessory to wear for fashion week? That’s easy, vodka rocks. New York Fashion Week is just around the corner and you are going to need to see and be seen. Even if you are practicing absence from the PR people and their editor friends, you can still make American Express think you [...]
At Your Service is a weekly round-up of helpful and interesting service journalism. Inspired by the “ultimate in service and style” Vitals magazine. I follow the media and keep you in the know. *(And yes, technically none of these are actually “charticles” but who is keeping track)
For the first installment of AYS, I take [...]
The only thing better than hiring a celebrity to wear your clothes or appear in an advertising campaign, is to have a celebrity wear your clothes, appear in an ad campaign and collaborate with the brand. When that marketing perfect storm emerges, you get Pharrell Williams’ new jewelry collection Blason. The luxury brand cum streetwear [...]
Until recently I was not much of a fan of Mid-Century Modern design. The irony of my newfound-interest in throwback American office furniture is the source - a Japanese magazine called Free & Easy. The book is essentially a How-To guide to live like a preppy American guy. They go so far as to break [...]
When I was young I loved to purge - not my lunch - but my toys and other belongings. I would stockpile everything in a closet and then on a Saturday it would hit me and I would have to get rid of all the non-essentials. Everyone has that friend that obsesses over recreating the [...]
The new preppy “it” band Vampire Weekend has been popping up everywhere (Teen Vogue, GQ…cover of yet to be released major music magazine). Pictured below is the GQ “Music” section from the February issue - can you say Glenn O’Brien! The profile (by Mr. Will Welch) might as well be the Fashion Well, only styled [...]
I have two big obsessions out of Baltimore these days.
1. Rye Rye
2. The 5th and final season of the gritty HBO series The Wire. Here are the first four seasons in four minutes to get you up to speed.
I am a total sucker for a romantic comedy. This video is pure genius.
Seeing how American Psycho has become 50% of the meager beginning of this blog…i’m going to hold off on any more references for a while.
Ever since Google decided to allow users to easily create Google Maps mash-ups, my friends and I have been creating maps to project our varying NYC obsessions for better or worse. Below is a running list of new/cool restaurants and bars to try; giving NYC restaurant snobbery a Mountain View twist.
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