I happen to be in the market for a duffel bag, and it looks like a just found one... Brooklyn locals Owen & Fred are launching a smart new collection of bags on Kickstarter. All the bags are under $100…
Bryan Cranston has emerged as one of the few Hollywood men who consistently turns it out beautifully on red carpets these days. Whether in black tie, suit and tie, or suit with no tie, he shows up with smart, well-tailored,…
Throughout my earlier and less-astute years, I wore belts with my suit trousers. Most suit trousers come with belt loops after all, and Glenn O'Brien has said that wearing looped trousers without a belt makes the belt loops look lonely…
Baz Luhrmann's deafeningly-hyped interpretation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is many things. It's excessive, it's artificial and it is, indeed, visually arresting. And it's a great study on a guy who works so tragically hard to acquire all…
Among the many things that bar me from movie stardom, one of those preventatives is the fact that I have a monkey head. Typically, movie stars have larger heads when taken in proportion to the rest of their bodies. My…
For our whole lives, we’ve been trained to believe that certain things just cost what they cost. We just accept it without questioning it. It's a model that disrespects men who may have discerning tastes but not necessarily the means. In a post-crash, post-Occupy, 99% world, it's a model ripe for disruption.
The solid black knit tie is the perfect tie. It's the no-brainer tie that goes with just about every shirt/jacket/suit combination. It's perfect with a crisp white dress shirt, a casual gingham shirt or even a good denim shirt. Of…
Winter is a pain in the ass. Whenever you go somewhere, it involves putting on layers, then taking them off, then doing it all over again when you go back home or to the office. And when you go to…
A few weeks ago, while visiting my friend George Bliss, owner of Hudson Urban Bicycles, I had the pleasure of meeting photographer Billy Powers. For 11 years, Billy was a photographer and art director at Time Magazine and is currently…
https://vimeo.com/51962571 This is by far the most concise, articulate and easy-to-follow video demonstration of how to tie a bow tie that I have come across. It was beautifully produced by The Hill-Side, a fantastic Brooklyn-based outfit for men's accessories made…