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He was selling custom-made clothing to Hip Hop’s finest for thousands of dollars a piece, fashioned from rolls of fake Louis Vuitton, Gucci and Fendi prints imported from Korea out of his Harlem boutique during the 1980s. His name is Dapper Dan and before the likes of Kanye West and Rihanna were doing it, this [...]
That pink suit! It is by far the most dapper suit I’ve ever seen on a man (Robert Redford helped a little too). And with the highly-anticipated remake about to hit our screens, some fashion people went and did some really clever marketing. Brooks Brothers has teamed up with the men’s costume designer of the [...]
You might have heard of the Teddy Boys, a 1950s rebel youth subculture in Britain characterized by an unlikely style of dress inspired by Edwardian dandies fused with American rock’n roll. They formed gangs from East London to North Kensington and became high profile rebels in the media. But an important sub-subculture of the Teddy [...]
In the summer of 1965, riots broke out in the Watts neighborhood of southern Los Angeles. Over a six-day period, 34 people were killed, 1,032 injured and over 3,438 arrests were made. In 1966, LIFE magazine revisited the site of the worst riots America had ever seen in its history. The photo essay depicting the [...]
Female Dandyism isn’t just about donning a Pair of Brogues… In her outfits made out of animal flesh, the gimp masks and alien egg-vessels (that thing she hatched from during her 2011 Grammy performance), you wouldn’t think to describe Lady Gaga as a dandy. But if you take a closer look, you’ll discover that much [...]
Modern Man is Afraid of Dandyism. Except for a few… When you think of silk handkerchiefs, pink corduroys, tweed and double-breasted tailoring, would you associate such a style of dress with some of the poorest slums of Africa? What you’re looking at is the phenomenon of Sapeurs, a subculture of extraordinarily dressed dandies from the Congo. In [...]
I recently came upon an archive of Slim Aarons, the photographer who made his career out of
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I came across this photographer, there’s no hidden story, no lost secret as you might have
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sassy: adjective \ˈsa-sē\ impudent, lively, spirited, vigorous, distinctively smart and
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Charming eccentric or tolerated local boogyman? The townspeople of Kyjov in Czech Republic could
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Pick a bathing suit this summer that allows you to go back to being a kid again when the only thing
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Appropriately, his name was Dandy Wellington. There’s an exciting photographer on the
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What good is an iPhone if it can’t take you to Paris?! Or an iPad that can’t take you
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sassy: adjective \ˈsa-sē\ impudent, lively, spirited, vigorous, distinctively smart and
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The garden state; where gas prices are cheaper and boardwalks are longer, and also where Napoleon
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Apparently Keira Knightley and her co-stars improvised their way through this thirteen minute
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Alright, so you might have noticed I have a weakness for French real estate p0rn. [Sigh] I
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He was selling custom-made clothing to Hip Hop’s finest for thousands of dollars a piece,
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Every once in a while, a fashion brand does something that stays with you and swims around in your
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I had you at ‘Free Wine & Cheese‘, didn’t I? If you’ve been umming and
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