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05/21/12
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Somewhere, Claudia Schiffer Is Celebrating

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Guess Who: British GQ reminds us that 20 years ago today, the world was introduced to Ms. Schiffer. Here’s the slideshow. [GQ]

’Sucker Without Stripes: Valet rounds up a handsome selection of seersucker blazers that go beyond the puckered stripe. [Valet]

Spotted: Mark Zuckerberg in a suit. With all the hullabaloo over his hooded-ness on Wall Street last week, everyone was surprised to see him looking passably well-dressed at his impromptu wedding this Saturday. (We’ll assume he hollered, “We want prenup.”) [Fashionista]

Being David Lynch: Selectism uses the iconic coif as a case study in a new series on grooming. You’ll want to have a beer handy. [Selectism]

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10/31/11
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Well Pressed

The Kempt Guide to the November Issues

If you haven’t checked your mailbox recently, we’ve got some good news. Another round of glossy style advice has arrived on the nation’s collective doorstep, and

In fact, this month’s haul was particularly interesting because of Esquire’s latest Big Black Book—a glossy tome filled with all the intricacies of style too involved for the general subscriber base. That means dark rum, exotic leathers and all manner of Italian suiting.

Of course, it’s not all good advice—so we’re stepping in to tell you what to read, what to try and what to avoid at all costs.

Here’s everything you need to know from this month’s glossy magazines…»
 

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09/20/11
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The Worst Date Movie of All Time

We thought we’d take a moment to salute Blue Velvet, on the 25th anniversary of its original wide release. The psychopaths get all the press, but it’s a more stylish movie than you remember—full of Orbison kitsch, invisi-ties and the same sense of creeping dread that fueled so much of the 80s underground. And as The Squid and the Whale reminded us, masterpiece or no, it’s still the worst date movie ever made. You can see a fond remembrance and that Orbison cover here.

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12/14/10
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January Jones is Looking More Demonic Every Day

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The Presses, Stopped: Ryan Reynolds and Scarlett Johansson, known to their friends as Scaryan, have split. Let the mourning begin. [TMZ]

The Bartenders Have Spoken: A gentleman’s guide to the egg-white cocktail. Advanced studies here. [Details]

Also, Lots of Roy Orbison: David Lynch really loves Lissie’s acoustic cover of “Bad Romance.” It makes a certain kind of sense. [Pop & Hiss]

The Artists Have Spoken: An ad agency unveils a set of commemorative plates for Prince William’s wedding. Only one of them involves eye lasers. [Creative Review]

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12/09/09
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Claudia Schiffer Defies Your Indoor Smoking Ban

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Second Hand: She better hope Bloomberg doesn’t find out about this. [Fashion Gone Rogue]

Goody Two Shoes: A charitable gift guide, for any leftover bag money you have lying around. [TBD]

Thugs and Backpackers: Harris Tweed goes in for a streetwear collab. We’re just not sure how to feel about this one. [Hypebeast]

The Who Sell Out: David Lynch tries his hand at directing ads for Christian Dior. We guess this means they’ve forgotten about this. [Telegraph]

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09/25/09
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Sound & Vision

Going Pop

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If you need a bit of piano pop and existentially troubling cinematography to tide you through the weekend, the new video from Au Revoir Simone is premiering here at noon on Sunday, and the man behind the camera is none other than David Lynch.

Which means it’s guaranteed to make you smarter.

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09/21/09
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The Lynch Effect

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It’s been centuries in internet terms, but it wasn’t that long ago that soccer moms and proto-lifehackers were buzzing about something called the Mozart Effect, which claimed extended exposure to Austrian string quartets could improve everything from spatial reasoning to IQ and SAT scores. A lot of people listened to a lot of good music, but somehow the new generation of chamber music geniuses never quite materialized…

Well, get ready for another go-round. Researchers at UC Santa Barbara and the University of British Columbia (via BehanceMag.net) have found that working your way through Kafka’s “The Country Doctor” or David Lynch’s Blue Velvet can spur creativity, just like good old Wolfgang. Apparently the absurdism shocks the brain into out-of-the-box thinking by presenting what the researchers call “meaning threat.” Which, come to think of it, is a pretty Lynchian turn of phrase…

What does it all mean? It means the next time you’re getting ready for a brainstorming session, you may want to consider a Twin Peaks marathon. The jittery, loosely paranoid feeling means it’s working. Just don’t watch it on a telephone.

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06/18/09
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Throwing a Shoe

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Hoof in Mouth: David Lynch produces predictably terrifying erotica. [Wallpaper]

Black and White: Adam Kimmel channels Andy Warhol with hip, arty results. [Material Interest]

Beck and Call: Beck launches a “record club” for re-recording classic albums, presumably just to infuriate Pitchfork. [Vulture]

Pride of the Yankees: A team shot of the 1927 Yankees pulls down $350,000 at auction. In related news, a camera phone snap of Derek Jeter just sold to TMZ for 18 cents. [Luxist]

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06/01/09
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Filmic

Dharma Bums

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These days, David Lynch mostly known for directing feature-length anxiety trips, but as anyone who’s seen The Straight Story will tell you, he’s got a hokey, latter-day Capra side as well. And it may have just found the perfect forum.

The Interview Project is Lynch’s WPA-style web project and, starting today, it will be posting a brief interview every three days for the next year. The first interview is with Jess, a Vietnam vet living on the road (they caught up with him in Needles, California) who makes for a surprisingly dissolute subject. He drops gems like “I ain’t proud of anything except just being alive” and “I’m six foot tall, so what?” at well-edited intervals, and offers a generally sobering look at life off the grid.

As far as web documentary goes, it’s among the better projects out there. And we can always use another James Agee.

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05/07/09
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Sound & Vision

Damn Good Coffee

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Bootlegging aside, the computer screen isn’t the ideal place to watch most movies. Television, on the other hand, may be just about perfect.

Twin Peaks, for instance, has been posted on CBS.com since February without much fanfare, but it’s by far the best reason to visit the site. The show is still in the running for the best thing David Lynch has ever made, and it’s a direct ancestor of heavily plotted series from The X-Files to Lost. In short, it’s worth a couple dozen hours of your time, and by putting it on their site, CBS is reminding us they had the good sense to put it on the air in the first place.

Although we shudder to think about what Mr. Lynch thinks of it all.

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Style: some people have it, and some neighborhoods really have it. To show you what we mean, we’ve partnered with Cadillac to present Style Shifters—a five-part, in-depth look at what the hippest gents in some of the country’s coolest neighborhoods are wearing now. Our intrepid photographers have roamed the streets in search of the most stylish guys around. Herewith, a few photos of what they found...

New York

Brooklyn

Williamsburg

Williamsburg, Brooklyn is home to some of the country’s best bars, coolest restaurants and, of course, some of the best menswear shops in the world. Naturally, you’ll find more than a few stylish individuals perched outside those locations (and no, not all of them are Billyburg hipsters). See what we mean below...

On The Streets: Brooklyn

  • Carl Mateo, 32 Brand Ambassador for Silly Hats Company Lives: Greenpoint, Brooklyn
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  • Michael Benin, 28 Frontend Developer of UrbanDaddy Lives: Greenpoint, Brooklyn
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  • Michael Benin, 28 Frontend Developer of UrbanDaddy Lives: Greenpoint, Brooklyn
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California

San Francisco

Mission District
May 1

Oh, and up next: we take a peak at another handsome-as-hell neighborhood, the Mission District in San Francisco. Stay tuned...

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