While Alec Baldwin gives up on New York, I’m giving up on Hollywood. Even with all the money, privilege and access to resources, an alarming number of male movie stars still manage to get black tie wrong.
Razors, bow ties and good tailors apparently took a vacation last week, attracting what looked like a small convention of scruffy, well-pressed Tarantino gangsters…
In a few weeks, I have a work-related fundraising dinner to attend. It’s “formal” but I’m about 90% certain I’ll be in the company…
Jake Gyllenhaal. J-Gyl went vintage 007 in a beautifully-tailored, midnight blue dinner jacket with a shawl lapel and turn-back cuffs.
Over the last several modern decades, men’s style has established a handful of easy-to-follow standards for executing perfect black tie. Awards season red carpets…
As Vesper Lynd famously said to 007 in Casino Royale: “There are dinner jackets and dinner jackets. This is the latter.” While there was…
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 SKYFALL, veteran Harry Potter costume designer Jany Temime did an outstanding job suiting up Daniel Craig in his third turn as James Bond.…
Jon Hamm went Clooney-classic in Giorgio Armani – a midnight blue, two-button, single-breasted dinner jacket with perfectly proportioned peak lapels. Trend-proof evening wear that would look great in any decade.
Men’s formalwear doesn’t really change. It’s all about the fit and the tailoring. Designers have tried over the years to put their stamp on…