This is actually a revision of yesterday’s post. I have added new information and re-written several sections. After my initial post, it occured to me that I had a lot more to say on the subject, so, take another look.As someone who does not like having a lot of stuff jammed in my pockets, I…
Month: July 2007
Tom Ford, Grown Up & Dressing Well
Sorry for the delay in posting – home sick yesterday and still working toward recovery. I want to talk about Tom Ford today. Normally, I would never begin a sentence with those words; I’ve never been a big fan of Tom. It’s not personal. I just feel that his Gucci years were over the top,…
Classic Style as Environmental Activism
Yesterday, an interesting article appeared in the International Herald Tribune about how some Italians are shedding their ties in an effort to help fight global warming. Blogger David Wescott, over at It’s Not a Lecture sent me the link and declared – tongue in cheek – that focusing on style is helping to destroy the…
Paris on the Potomac
Yesterday, I visited the stunning National Portrait Gallery and American Art Museum, both of which are located in the renovated Old Patent Office Building in downtown Washington, D.C. It was a remarkable visit to an exceptional museum only recently opened after six years of construction and renovation. I know that many of my readers live…
Dressing well now an official trend (But we knew that)
Leading news outlets have confirmed something that I have noticed for a while; men are looking to dress well again. At the recent Fashion Week shows in Milan, designers made it clear that they are responding to this demand. The look for men this fall and into next spring will be, in a word, sharp….
Pink Heads for the Green
NEWSFLASH: British shirtmaker Thomas Pink has followed in the footsteps of Hermes and Canali, opening a 3,000-square-foot store in New York City’s financial district. The new outlet, located at 63 Wall Street, is steps from the New York Stock Exchange and bolsters the menswear options targeting the city’s financial professionals. In addition to a delivery…
Personal Style When No One is Looking
David Wescott over at the public affairs blog, It’s Not a Lecture, had some interesting thoughts on my recent “How to Wear a Suit and Look Good” post. He posed a sort of social science question about dressing well: essentially, does it matter what you wear when no one is looking? David has the enviable…