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05/25/11
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Fanny Francois Is About To Do A Really Complicated Dive

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The Jet Has Been Set: In honor of the upcoming long weekend, Details rounds up the best summer gear to bring along for the ride. [Details]

The Wind and the Rain: A look inside the studio of the great Nigel Cabourn. [Hypebeast]

The Hobo Beat: A 19th Century drifter dubbed “The Leather Man”was exhumed this weekend, but his identity remains a mystery. Enduring style tip: for a memorable first impression, make your pants out of old boots. [City Room]

Milk and Honey: Can men breastfeed? After much investigative chafing, Slate can definitively answer “no.” Sorry, guys. [Slate]

And the NSFW version, after the jump»

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04/05/11
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Eva Green Has Just Eaten an Extremely Spicy Taco

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The Word “Sultry” Is Used: We can never see too many profiles of Eva Green. [Details]

The Jeans Remain Untouched: A detailed history of Seinfeld’s Nike collecton. We’ll come out and say it: not a stylish man. [Complex]

A Dedicated Follower of Fashion: Ray Davies of the Kinks was once shot while chasing a purse snatcher in New Orleans. Now you know. [Vulture]

Going Green: Here’s an enormous pile of fake money. Use it in good health. [Better Living Through Design]

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07/19/10
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The Biz

Vote or Die

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As you may have heard, it’s award season in the men’s style blogodome, and the fine publication DETAILS saw fit to grace us with one of the four nominations for Style Curation. To be honest, we’ve never thought of style-blogging as a competition. There’s plenty of cardigans to go around.

Having said that, we spent the entire weekend karate-chopping boulders and listening to 80s synth-rock to prepare for the intense competition ahead. Even as we write this, we’re watching Rocky IV for the sixth time.

If you haven’t dropped by the site yet, now might be a good time to throw us a vote. Every click brings us closer to sweet, sweet victory.

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03/02/10
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Liu Wen is Honored Just to be Nominated

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Greatest of All Month: Liu Wen is Fashion Gone Rogue’s model of the month. [Fashion Gone Rogue]

Don’t Call it a Comeback: Kanye returns to his first love, the barely coherent, ridiculously emotional all-caps blog rant. It’s good to have you back, buddy. [Kanye West]

Vinyl Forever: An electron microscope picture of an LP groove instantly converts us to analog. [Gizmodo]

People are Strange, When You’re a Stranger: Details guides you through America’s quirkiest sex conventions. [DETAILS]

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11/11/09
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Julia Schvets is the Outdoorsy Type

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No Schvets: Getting back to nature never looked so good. [Fashion Copious]

I’ll Be Out in a Minute: Details ponders the literature of self-pleasure. [Details]

Blimey: Michael Caine returns to the bloodthirsty British revenge picture. We can’t wait. [Movieline]

MacGuyver Lives: In the name of using every part of the produce aisle, it’s time you started polishing your shoes with banana peel. [Lifehacker]

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03/03/09
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Dept. of Corrections

The Devil’s in the Details

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If you’ve leafed through the front of this month’s DETAILS, you might have seen the usual bunch-of-stuff section titled “Investment Pieces.” It’s not a bad angle—they certainly need to address economics in some way—but they don’t seem to have told their writers about it.

The result is a few safe staples mixed into the same trend-driven stock they’ve always specialized in. Luckily we’re here to separate the wheat from the chaff…

We catalog the errors of the monthly periodical»

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12/01/08
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Dept. of Corrections

The Devil’s in the Details

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Any time a glossy unveils their New Rules for anything, you know they’re about to get themselves in trouble. And when it’s something as commonplace as denim…it can get ugly.

DETAILS’ just debuted their New Rules of Denim and, to their credit, it stops short of being a complete embarrassment. But you can tell how hard they’re working.

The problem is, denim just isn’t that hard to wear. By now, you know whether the skinny look works for you, and beyond that, there just isn’t that much to it. So to stretch it out for six slides without repeating yourself takes some real journalistic ingenuity.

The Kempt take on DETAILS’ rules»

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10/21/08
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Death, Crisis, and Man Style

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Long Live Dolemite: Ladies and Gentlemen, Dolemite is dead. [Gawker]

Econ 101: Natalie Portman and Rashida Jones respond to the economic downturn. [Funny or Die]

Tokyo Drift A Continuous Lean is going to Tokyo! [A Continuous Lean]

Man Talk: A video guide to “Man Style,” including silk underwear, air horns and gratuitous makeup. We’re still not sure this is a joke.
[BoingBoing]

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07/17/08
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Shelby Gets The Green Light, Tattoo Jew, and Miranda Gets Greasy

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Mean Green Machine: Who says hybrids have to be slow?
Not Shelby, that’s for sure. [ href="http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/07/the-worlds-fa-1.html">Wired]

No Smoking: Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Sometimes it’s a pointlessly complex electronic device. [ href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-9993462-1.html">Crave]

Kosher Ink: Seems you can still get buried in a
Jewish cemetery even if you’re tattooed. Hide your “No Fear” brand
from the world no longer. [ href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/fashion/17SKIN.html?_r=1&ref=fashion&oref=slogin">NYTimes]

Downgrade: Miranda Kerr switches from Orlando Bloom
to the greasy scuzz who first called Lindsay Lohan “firecrotch.”
Meanwhile, you are charming, polite, fresh-scrubbed, thin and alone.
[Popcrunch]

User Friendly: Man, that Mac guy gets all the
starlets—all the starlets. [ href="http://www.dlisted.com/node/27192">D-Listed]

Lady Law: Señor ACL picks his favorite men’s
style rules set down by Consuelo Castiglioni of Mari. [ href="http://acontinuouslean.com/2008/07/17/august-details-rules-of-style/">A
Continuous Lean]

Going Both Ways: See, you can become the
womenswear model you always wanted to be. Dreams do come true. [ href="http://jezebel.com/5026230/gender+benders">Jezebel]

Topping Out: British mom-and-pop store, Topshop,
continues to roll out the goods. [ href="http://pipeline.refinery29.com/news/top_of_the_world_two_new_capsu.php">The
Pipeline]

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04/17/08
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Good Idea

The Ruling Class

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Flipping through our weekly quota of glossy mags, we noticed Michael Bastian’s rules of style in *Details*. We’ve been fans of Bastian’s since he left his post at Bergdorf Goodman to pursue designing, but we couldn’t resist the chance to give his rules a little polishing.

See how Mr. Bastian’s rules stack up»

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03/19/08
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Wednesday’s Women: Tomboys, Fillies and Crazies

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Blessed Virgin: Just to clean your palette, here’s
Adriana Lima – maidenhead possibly not included. [ href="http://gawker.com/5004032/gqs-virgin-sacrifice">Gawker]

“Pull your skirt down, Secretariat, we’d rather ride Chris
Noth.” Maxim shouts what we’ve been too polite to
say. [NY
Daily News]

This is How We Do It: Menswear may change, but men
don’t – or at least not so much. [ href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/men/article3523399.ece">London
Times]

That’s “Sir Jasper” To You: Brit designer Jasper
Conran gets his O.B.E. from H.R.H. [ href="http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5gfiQyTxp3ldhLaXpoBpqi9Xl-l9g">Times
of London]

For The Boys: The Observer details this new
“urbane tomboys” trend. Funny, we’ve been dating them since the
mid-90s. [Observer]

Crazy Eyes: Meanwhile, Details accounts for
the rest of the notches on our bedpost. We still have nightmares. [ href="http://men.style.com/details/blogs/details/fatal_attraction/index.html">Details]

Cleveland Rocks: Wrath Arcane represents Mistake by
the Lake. [Plain
Dealer]

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01/23/08
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Goodbyes to Valentino, Sex, Vice and Your Old Maybach

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**Clean Sheets**: Lenny Kravitz, who has bedded about half of everyone you ever wanted to, has become inexplicably chaste. Go ahead and hate. [NY Post]

**Big Deal**: Emerging designer Alexander Wang signs with Japanese megastore Uniqlo. [Mpdclick]

**Don’t Go Away Mad**: _Vice_ founder “Don’ts” himself out of a job, trains his jaundiced eye back on the streets. [Gawker]

**Peace Out, Suckers!**: Valentino disses his fellow designers, takes his basketball, goes home. [NYMag]

**The Ride**: The Maybach in your garage is soon to be obsolete. [Jalopnik]

**Bye Week**: Perfect human Tom Brady continues to do opposition research in our fair town. Doesn’t this guy have a home or something? [NY Observer]

**Generation Gap**: Zac Efron is on the cover of _Details_ leaving us to ask, “what’s a Zac Efron?” [Details]

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