February 10, 2012 world of men's style / fashion / grooming RSS
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Summer Glau is Having Trouble Getting Started on Her Sand Castle

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Bowl, You Beautiful Bastard: A fourteen minute journey into the world of a lifelong bowling hustler. Fascinating stuff. [World’s Best Ever]

Facts About Money: A roundup of numbers about the dollar, including this: 90% of all paper money has traces of cocaine on it. Which explains why people want it so much. [Fast Company]

The Lighter Side: The debate over pale denim rages on. For what it’s worth, it’s okay with us. [Men’s Flair]

Obligatory Fashion Week Item: Duckie Brown’s looking pretty good these days. [The Moment]

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02/04/11
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The Lace-er Effect

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This baroque newcomer from Duckie Brown caught our eye recently. It’s called the Lace Shoe and it’s one of the first laser-etched dress shoes that we’ve come across. The process is old hat in the sneaker world (think Air Jordans) but it’s rarely seen elsewhere. Whatever the technological advancement that allowed for the transition to dress leather, we wholeheartedly approve. The result is a versatile shoe with a touch of swagger and an exponentially more detailed take on traditional broguing.

Maybe this is the start of a beautiful trendlet? We’d like to see this effect applied to some tried and true work-boots and maybe even a pair of leather gloves. Here’s hoping…

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01/14/09
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The Loafers

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Collaborations between classic masters and younger brands are thick on the ground these days—yes, Moscot, we’re looking at you—but there aren’t many as well suited as Duckie Brown and Florsheim.

Duckie Brown has been mining Savile Row-style classicism for a while now, so it’s no surprise they finally brought some real cobblers on board. The real surprise here is the subtle shifts they bring in, like adding blues and greens to the leather-dyeing palate, matching the sole rubber to the color of the shoe, and putting out a whole line of cap-toes fastened with metal studs.

Best of all, they’re pricing the bulk of the line at $295, as a gesture to modern times.

See the shoes up close»

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09/04/08
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The Usual Suspects

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Men.style’s Spring ’09 preview just went up and it looks like next year is going to be interesting. The names are all familiar—Condé Nast has clout for a reason, after all—but they all seem to be working just outside their comfort zone. Band of Outsiders shows up looking uncharacteristically yachty, Duckie Brown has a depressive moment, and Shipley & Halmos indulges their inner corporate raider. It’s good to know nobody’s getting too comfortable.

The outfit that really caught our eye was this vertical-striped number from Patrik Ervell. The stripes are a little on the carnivalesque side—coincidentally, Adam Kimmel has some matching pants—but it’s just bold enough to work, especially paired with a banker’s collar and neutral pants. Well played, sir.

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04/23/08
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Club Jackets, Pleas for Pleats and Shaking Things Up

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Shirt Shift: Artist/Bulldog dissector Damien Hirst has created a line of almost Threadless-quality shirts to go along with his collection of $80,000 jeans. The man has brass balls the size of Volkswagens. Wait. No. That’s Jeff
Koons, who also has a line of “meh” tees. [Gawker]

In The Trenches: The men of Duckie Brown discuss their experimental “treated silk” jackets. [Washington
Post]

Keef’s Closet: Self-described “minstrel” Keith Richards wears women’s shirts and, as we always believed, doesn’t “do underwear.” [Times
UK]

Club Cuts: Soho
House members can now add in-house tailors to their myriad benefits. [NY
Sun]

Crease is the Word: Don’t have pleats in trousers?
Evidently, you are not a man. [ href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/fashion/2008/04/23/efsuited123.xml">Telegraph
UK]

Posh Pack Rat: Step into the eclectic home of designer Simon Carter. [Independent
UK]

The Nau Strategy: Slick, ruggedwear Nau may supplement their internet retail with physical stores. Whoh, stores that sell clothes. What won’t they think of next? [WWD,
subsription required you cheapos]

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11/16/07
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Diesel’s Gold, Game Over, Poncho Paranoia and More

**High Octane**: A preview of Diesel’s new luxury line Black Gold [Fashion Week Daily]

**Endgame**: Pick-up artist/sociopath Neil Strauss promises to revise his bestselling The Game and then disappear from the face of the earth. [Neil Strauss Online]

**Bargain Hunting**: English moped bandits with impeccable taste raid Ralph Lauren, Lulla Bartley, Marc Jacobs and Christopher Kane. [FemaleFirst UK]

**Big Shoes Filled**: Picking up where Yves Saint Laurent left off. [Telegraph UK]

**Bag Men**: Poncho conspiracy theory. Do not try this at home. Or anywhere. [Brandish]

**Cool Cobbler**: Cool Hunting checks in with Aussie shoe maestro Tristan Blair [CoolHunting]

**Canadian Geese**: Catching up with the half-Canuck design team Duckie Brown. [Canadian Business]

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