For anyone who needed a reminder on how to wear a midnight blue tuxedo (or that a new Bond film is due out next month), here it is.
Daniel Craig is on pace to become the most stylish Bond of all time. And now that the latest Skyfall poster has been unveiled, he doesn’t seem to be losing any steam. We’ll assume he’s gone with a slightly undersized bow tie as not to undersell his tuxedo-pocket-sized pistol.
Minding your proportions is rule number one.
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It was a record-breaking weekend for The Master, P.T. Anderson’s latest starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix. The film brought in $728,745, which didn’t strike us as much of a big deal either, until we learned that it was only playing in five theaters this weekend.
As such, it set a new record for per-screen earnings: $145,949.
It’s damn near impossible to put Leonardo DiCaprio in a suit and make him look bad. But from the looks of this photo, snapped on the set of Scorsese’s upcoming financial industry takedown, The Wolf of Wall Street, Marty has managed it somehow. It’s hard to tell what’s worse: the button placement, that power tie or the unbridled excess of material—but it’s all another reminder of how good we’ve got it in the double-breasted department nowadays. Keep it tight, gentlemen.
Wes Anderson leaves no detail underdone.
To that end, Criterion recently culled his magnum opus on a family of eccentrics in turmoil, The Royal Tenenbaums, for each character’s literary legacy. They’ve found everything from a book of plays by Margot, to Eli Cash’s Old Custer, to the front-page news of Richie’s mid-tennis-match meltdown. And in typical Andersonian fashion, they’re thoughtfully designed Easter eggs worth a closer look.
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The world got a little less sweet over the weekend with the passing of Mel Stuart, director of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. “I saw parts of myself in him,” Stuart said of Wonka. “I had always treated my children as little adults growing up. This made us all a little happier.”
You can live in happiness, too. (Like the Oompa Loompa do-ba-dee-doo.)
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via High SnobietyUnfair Isle: Drake’s fall lookbook has landed on Selectism and it’s all rakishly on-point as usual.[Selectism]
The ’90s Epitomized: MTV has just uploaded their archive of the House of Style, hosted by Cindy Crawford and frequented by Duran Duran and Will Smith. [MTV]
Now for Some Actual Onscreen Style: GQ has edited a supercut of the 25 most stylish movies of all time. Enjoy. [GQ]
Joining Us via Satellite: If you’re not going to make it to Lollapalooza next weekend, 48 bands’ shows will be webcast. Here’s the virtual lineup. [SPIN]
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Freudian Slipcover: GQ introduces the world to J.J. Abrams’s newest starlet, Tracy Spiridakos. Followed by a brief explanation of who she is. [GQ]
On a Roll: How to properly roll your sleeve in a politely disheveled manner. [Style Girlfriend]
Beer and Khakis: 10engines has found the ultimate style icon for those who’d rather forgo shorts in summer: Bad News Bears coach Morris Buttermaker. [10engines]
He Deserves a Medal: Mickey Rourke claims to have won a footrace against Usain Bolt. At 4am. We’re inclined to believe him. [Yahoo Sports]
To the Bat Closet: On the release of The Dark Knight Rises, GQ tracks Batman’s style transformation into the slick bastard he is now. [GQ]
Seven’s the Key Number: A study on how your entire wardrobe can be completed by owning seven different shoes. [Put This On]
No More Tug of War: A roundup of 11 forgotten Olympic sports that have gone the way of baseball in 2012. [The Atlantic]
What’s His Face: Putting the names to faces of the 25 most iconic “that guy” actors. [Buzzfeed]
In this new weekly series, we peer into your summer weekend agenda and offer a few essential sundries to help you make the most of your upcoming escapade. This weekend, you’re throwing an alfresco soiree.
Let’s face it: that repurposed keg tub has served as the centerpiece of every outdoor party you’ve thrown since graduation. It’s time for it to leak weird liquid somewhere else. And since you’re already headed to the dump, you might as well toss out the wobbly coffee table, the not-supposed-to-be-blinking Christmas lights and, well, just about everything else that’s been outside for over a year. We know, you kind of like that stuff.
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The last time we checked in on stylishness returning to the big screen, our list of this year’s crop of promising movies ended with The Master. All we had was a short teaser then—director Paul Thomas Anderson has been patently tight-lipped about the film—but the trailer has finally been released. (All part of a calculated media rollout, which began in Cannes last year when a shadowy poster appeared with only the words “Untitled Paul Thomas Anderson Project” on it.) We finally get to see Philip Seymour Hoffman in all of his L. Ron Hubbard-ness, donning a navy double-breasted blazer and addressing a yet-to-be-revealed audience. It’s all very intriguing and creepy at the same time—especially with everyone dressed in dusty ’50s-era high-waisted slacks.
via GQReliving the Dream: GQ does a bang-up job on the oral history of the 1992 Dream Team. Those were the days. [GQ]
Today’s Game: The 2012 NBA Finals begin tonight, and for predictions Esquire turns to the experts: OKC Thunder cheerleaders. [Esquire]
Like Father: In honor of Father’s Day upcoming, Vanity Fair celebrates the five best real-life father-son movie performances. [VF]
London Neighing: From the information gathered, it seems the Olympic opening ceremony will feature Paul McCartney, a cricket team, a parade of nurses and a veritable Noah’s Ark of farm animals… [Vulture]
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The latest in our ongoing coverage of the return of cinematic stylishness, we bring you the Django Unchained trailer. As you might remember, it was the leaked screenshot of DiCaprio’s red ascot in this movie that tipped us off to the rising tide of on-screen dapperness. But now that the trailer has arrived, we’re predicting Jamie Foxx’s Django will be the sartorial star. He goes from a rough-and-tumble shearling coat to a ruggedly refined green (what looks to be moleskin) suit, and then shows up late in the trailer in a cravat’d blue velvet leisure suit that might have been lifted from the Spy Who Shagged Me wardrobe department. Mr. Tarantino, first you had our curiosity, now you have our attention.
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The new trailer for the hotly anticipated Baz Lurhmann remake of The Great Gatsby has been tearing up the Internet today—yes, we’ve got it here—and the flashing scenes of bow ties, tweed and tossed silk shirts (they’re such beautiful shirts) read like the exclamation point on an already stylish lineup of movies for the year.
For whatever reason, we’ve noticed a steep uptick in stylish movies for 2012, and we’re looking forward to watching it all play out—beginning with Moonrise Kingdom’s fastidiously dressed-up quirkiness hitting theaters this weekend. Bond promises to make a good showing, Batman’s bound to have a tuxedo up his sleeve, Gosling’s back in Gangster Squad, we’re hearing good things about The Master, and even this week’s Anchorman 2 teaser has got our leisure-suit interests piqued. We like what we see, and we’d like to keep seeing more. (Stay classy, film industry.)
As we introduced on Tuesday, the legendary Russian acting teacher Constantin Stanislavski asked new students the following question before allowing them to grace his stage: “Did you come here to serve art, and to make sacrifices for its sake, or to exploit your own personal ends?” In determining the greatest acting performances by professional athletes of all time, we considered this and many other questions: Does the athlete possess both the brawn and the tenderness required to pull off the first interracial sex scene to appear in a film? How do 14 consecutive Pro Bowl appearances translate to appearances on Little House on the Prairie? Is Hulk Hogan believable as Hurricane Spencer, the Hottest Hero of the High Seas?
And that’s when we stopped asking questions.
So without further ado, we give you the greatest thespian-athlete performances of all time.»
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We’ll admit, we’re suckers for 1940s gangster-chic. The fedoras, the wingtips, the tommy guns. So today’s release of the trailer for Gangster Squad (Ruben Fleischer’s Brolin-Penn-Gosling vehicle set for mid-October) piqued our interests to say the least. The homage to LA film noir is strong—and so is the gangster swagger. Naturally, the good guys are playing by bad guy rules, so the well-dressed-yet-sinister aesthetic is working for everyone. (Even for Emma Stone, playing the underworld siren caught behind enemy lines.)
Not to leave you hanging, the trailer’s after the jump. Enjoy.»
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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel fell to Captain America, Iron Man, Thor and the Hulk, who brought in $200.3 million over the weekend, obliterating the previous domestic three-day record held by Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2. Combined with international openings, The Avengers has amassed $641.8 million in its first 12 days. Without Spider-Man.
Today in breaking Skyfall news: Daniel Craig divulges to the Washington Post, “I’m so camp in this one, I’ve gone quite far.” (Previously, all we had to go on was this photo.) And we’re not sure how we feel about it—lest you forget, he was cast as a grittier Bond in an effort to course-correct the franchise to better fall in line with the darker, less verbose Bournes and Batmans of the new millennium. And it’s been working for him quite well.
Nevertheless, the news reminded us of the Bond of yore: always at the ready with an innuendo-laced quip while dispatching a henchman or romancing the likes of Pussy Galore, Holly Goodhead or the fated-for-one-post-coital-pun Dr. Christmas Jones. It’s what’s defined Agent 007 for the better part of his film existence—meaning they’ve got a lot of material to lean on. So we dug up a possible sampling of what’s to come and distilled it down to…
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The new cinematic posters for Wes Anderson’s forthcoming opus, Moonrise Kingdom, have been circling the Internet today—sprinkled from site to site for whatever cross-promotional reasons—and we liked them so much that we took it upon ourselves to hunt for all seven of them. (And hit pay dirt here.) A neat trick is that each picture can be clicked for more detail—essentially making the posters miniature Wes Andersonian cross sections.
Consider this fulfilling your weekly allowance of quirkiness.
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Name 10 films about football.
You likely got to five pretty easily: Rudy, Brian’s Song, The Blind Side, Friday Night Lights, Remember the Titans, We Are Marshall, Any Given Sunday, etc. Now, do the same for baseball. If you’re like us, you got to 10 pretty quickly—and then 10 more scenes about baseball in films having absolutely nothing to do with the sport.
That’s because filmmakers are in the business of conveying messages—and those messages must be relevant and relatable to the audience.
It’s understandable, then, that over the last century, 87 films have been made about baseball. After all, the fundamentals of America’s pastime—the sacrifice, the rally, dusting yourself off, patience, the marathon vs. the sprint—are also the fundamentals of being an American gentleman.
We should emphasize, Kempt does not endorse criminal activity. A few parking tickets aside, we have spent our lives well within the social contract and abiding the due prescriptions of the law.
But sometimes, The Man just has it coming.
So for a time, it was nice having icons of freewheeling criminality like Jesse James and Pretty Boy Floyd roaming the country. They were icons of the same genial American chaos that gave us the Western—and they’re iconic enough to deserve a little dusting off…
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This snap comes from the upcoming indie Kill Your Darlings, where Daniel Radcliffe takes on the role of Allen Ginsberg, with the help of a nautical sweater and some particularly professorial frames.
We would have preferred a bit more pomade…but nobody’s perfect.
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The Oscars are just a few weeks out, and office pools are already filling up. Play it right, and you’ll come away with both a little extra cash and an excuse for watching War Horse. So to make sure you’ve got the edge, we’ve tracked down the house oddsmaker at the Wynn Las Vegas for a rundown of who’s favored. His name is Johnny Avello—and as it turns out, he’s quite the cinephile…
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Maverick, Iceman, Goose, Viper, Slider: egos writing checks that bodies couldn’t cash. If they screwed up just this much, they’d be flying a cargo plane full of rubber dog shit out of Hong Kong. The Navy called it Fighter Weapons School. The fliers called it Top Gun.
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via YHBTIThe Florentine Set: For some reason, an alarming number of well-dressed men have converged on Florence. A photo essay of the unexplained phenomenon. [Hypebeast]
A Card Game: Also, our friends at Camo set up a stunt poker game outside the main show. Nice suits. [Pitti the Fool]
High Camp: Wes Anderson’s new movie has a trailer. It involves camp, young love and willful naïveté… as you may have guessed. [Vulture]
Science!: And in the other massive press convergence, CES and LG introduce us to the blast chiller, for instantly chilling your beer. [PopSci]
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Whispers: Charlotte Gainsbourg talks double albums and Lars von Trier. [Interview]
Dressing Up: A guide to dressing up for Christmas with your in-laws. [Dreams of Perfection]
Always the Tux: … and a guide to dressing up for that New Year’s party you might be going to. [Put This On]
View from the Top: Eighteen brilliant aerial photos from Bernhard Lang, all taken from a bird’s-eye view. [Phaidon]
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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...
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is home to some of the country’s best bars and 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...
Style. The Mission’s got it. Union Square’s got it. But each of them goes about having it in a different way—the Mission rocking a more bohemian coffee shop vibe, Union Square hosting some of the best higher-fashion shops (and shoppers) on the West Coast. We rounded up a few of the most stylish folks from both. Have yourself a gander below…
Forget everything you know about Miami style. Today’s Miamian is more LeBron James than Crockett and Tubbs—as you’ll soon see in our next edition of Style Shifters…
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