Our friends at DETAILS put together another great Rules of Style with Consuelo Castiglioni, the forward thinking creative director of Marni. As I have said before, these types of Q&As are hard to do in an interesting manner, but DETAILS is on a roll. Some of my favorite bits from Ms. Castiglioni:
5. Shoes define the [...]
The August issue of GQ is out and as to be expected, it is great. Just when you thought it couldn’t get better than the Summer Dresses Summer Suits story in July they hit you with Mr. John Slattery AKA Roger Sterling cloaked head-to-toe in plaid goodness.
Men in fashionable cities like New York, Paris, Stockholm and Tokyo are getting creative with their pant length. Ray Smith from The Wall Street Journal wrote an article today discussing the trend of fashion forward men wearing their trousers rolled-up or more dramatically, hemmed short. Walking around New York, I have noticed the trend popping [...]
A new client of mine called Alexander West, has recently launched a collection of custom tailored shirts. The founder, a former banker, was perpetually chasing the perfect shirt and after several trips to Madison Avenue boutiques, he discovered that a great-fitting store bought shirt matching his body type just didn’t exist. He was then forced [...]
Last Friday, Andy from Reference Library (one my all time favorite sources of inspiration) emailed me a link to the Japanese workwear company Workers with a note saying: “You’re going to fall in love with Workers.” It was one of those moments where you see something amazing and new that opens the doors to many [...]
Inspired by Del.icio.us and FFFFOUND and JJJJound, behold ACL’s sister site The Material Review.
The TMR is the kind of purely-aesthetic reading that the internets were created for. It’s all about the pictures people! I hope you like it and if you don’t, I hope you keep that to yourself.
We just saw the pictures of the fall collection from one of our all time favorites Engineered Garments. Then low and behold a spring summer 2009 look book was in our mailbox. The new collection looks casual, comfortable and very wearable. Everything I come to expect from Engineered Garments, plus I think I own all [...]
If you haven’t been living under a rock, you would know that Mr. Shawn Carter was the headliner for the massive English music festival Glastonbury this past weekend. Paul Underwood over at Men.Style.com put together a great slideshow of fashionable festival goers rocking the wellie look — which is one of the few times I [...]
Seth Weisser & Gerard Maione — the gentlemen behind the New York based clothing company What Comes Around Goes Around — know a cool piece of clothing when they see it. When I stopped by the company’s sprawling TriBeCa office a few weeks ago, Seth and Gerard were giddy over a score of vintage Levis [...]
Who says that all clothing made in American has to be expensive. Having recently been turned onto Pointer Brand, I was shocked to see that my friend Mark ordered two jackets and a pair of painter shorts for less than $100 dollars! The Bristol, Tennessee based company L.C. King Manufacturing Co. has been making classic [...]
The new Steven Alan for Urban Outfitters collection Lark & Wolff — you know the one that isn’t supposed to be available until around July 4th — is currently available at the NoHo Urban Outfitters on Broadway. The collection looks good and I even picked up two button-down shirts for $58 each. The UO people [...]
Reader Mail seeks to answer life’s sartorial curiosities and other perplexing material issues.
Dear ACL,
What is a gentleman to do with his keys? I have two different keys for the home, two more for work, a car key, and a key to the bicycle lock. I have always kept them on a carabiner, [...]
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