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Affordable Designer Bag: Mulberry Tony Bag
Affordable luxe rating: 4/5 Looks great for: Work I recently paid a trip to Club21 offices at COMO House Singapore where I was greeted with this gorgeous chocolate brown Mulberry Tony Bag. It looks like croc skin, feels like croc skin but it’s not croc skin. That’s great news because although it’s not croc skin, […]
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Suit Them Up: Loewe Menswear SS 2011
January 14, 2011
Style Timelessness: 5/5 (timeless) Trend worthiness: 3.5/5 (obviously creative shirt-tie-suit combinations push this up) Luxury brands often like to conjure a sense of royalty and exclusivity- “Oh.. the Crown Prince of Costa Gravas used to buy tuxedos from us”. In Loewe’s case the King didn’t just purchase the Spanish luxury atelier’s goods, he commissioned them. […]
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Affordable Men’s Luxury Watch: Dievas Reaper
January 13, 2011
Affordable luxury rating: 5/5 Look great for: Work and play (wear it to the office and beyond) 42mm with a bi-directional 24hr GMT bezel, this tribute to the General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper drone (and sharing its namesake); Dievas Watch Company’s The Reaper bears killer looks that betray its functional yet beautifully simple inner workings. Driven […]
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Men’s Style Tip: Bulgari Men’s Woven Belt for 2011
January 13, 2011
Woven belts are in but not many are painstakingly braided by master tanners from a fine Italian luxury Atelier like Bulgari. This belt makes our Curated Selection on the basis of the daring blend of blue and beige elastic rubber yarn. One belt, multiple looks and colour matching combinations, the double logo on the belt buckle […]
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Stylish Bag for Men: The Formal & Casual Bulgari Men’s Travel Bag
January 12, 2011
A real man’s bag should be ready for any situation like the man who carries it. Bow tie on, James Bond (Daniel Craig version please) is Mr. Smooth. Bow tie off, James Bond is ready for action or a bout of snogging, it’s the same blazer but two different looks. Get the drift? I always […]
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Christian Bedat on Swiss Luxury Watch Myths and Truisms
January 11, 2011
It’s a common myth that Swiss Luxury watches enjoy over 2000% profit margin. It’s more a truism than a myth. Stepping away from high end complications and mono boutiques; many brands claim 100% movements are made in Switzerland (legally, it used to be 50% of the movement. It’s now 80%) but movements only factor 4% of […]
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Words from The Monsieur: The Groom’s Wedding Speech
January 11, 2011
Thanking you all for coming. Uncle Terry, Aunty Chris, Uncle David, Aunty Aggie, Uncle Gary, Aunty Lanabelle, Aunty Valerie, Uncle Martin, Kate’s family, my mom-in-law- Janet, father-in-law Choi Boon and Uncle Albert for letting us have his beautiful daughter Rebecca as our flower girl and all the other important people without whom this wedding might […]
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Men’s Luxury Watch: IWC Portofino Hand Wound Eight Days
January 11, 2011
Mediterranean lifestyle sculpted for your wrist The Portofino Hand Wound Eight Days is the flagship of the luxury watch collection. Powered by an all new IWC manufacture movement, the 37.8mm 59210 calibre is a reminder of the days of classically dressed men and their pocket watches; updated for modern times, the movement with its large bridges […]
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Men’s Luxury Watch: Piaget Emperador Coussin Tourbillon Automatic
January 10, 2011
If thin is in, Piaget has gone absolutely anorexic (in a good way) for SIHH 2011. Setting new haute horlogerie records, Piaget’s latest luxury watch for men, the Emperador Coussin Tourbillon Automatic sets new records as the world’s thinnest tourbillon. Weighing in at 10.44 mm, thin self-winding tourbillons like Piaget’s Emperador Coussin are extremely complicated because the oscillating weight […]
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A Must Own Men’s Luxury Watch: TAG Heuer Monaco
January 9, 2011
Immortalised by Steve McQueen in 1970’s Le Mans, to me, McQueen is the sex icon that this generation has never had. Even as a straight man this legend appeals to me, the raw charisma and sheer animal magnetism of this Hollywood bad boy, outclasses and outguns present day Edwards and Jacobs (no offense to either […]
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The Monsieur 
January 14, 2011
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