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“Barker Black”
12/17/07 ·

Scene

Kempt Men of the Hour: The Barker Black Boys

The Millers

Photographed by our fearless lensman, Patrick McMullan.

We’ve been keeping an eye on the dapper Derrick Miller and his brother Kirk since they started their very sharp shoe line Barker Black back in 2005. Derrick, a veteran of Ralph Lauren’s design studio, describes his personal style as “sophisticated, with a touch of fuck you.” We couldn’t have said it better ourselves. The Millers love to blend their own designs with tailor-tweaked thrift store finds—as Derrick puts it, “all the favorite things in my closet I paid less than 30 bucks for.”

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10/23/08 ·

Sale-ing

Back In Black

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As longtime fans of the steady, preppy and stylishly off-kilter Barker Black label, we’re glad to see that some of their kicks have found their way into a Gilt Groupe sale today. Here’s to Gilt for snagging the notoriously un-sale-able Barker Black. And here’s to Barker for spreading the love to the online masses. Our favorites are the ostritch toe laceups, so stay away from our size 11’s.

If you’re not a Gilt Groupe member, go here for a gratis invite and entry into the sale.

If you’re already a Gilt member, head here for your new double monkstraps.